of a Chesnut-colour It flowers at the Latter End of May or Beginning of June and grows frequently in Sandy and Gravelly Pastures When the Seed is ripe the Superficies withers immediately the Root remaining in the Ground Our Country-people eat the Root raw but when it is pill'd and boyl'd in fresh Broth with a little Peper it is pleasant Food and very nourishing and stimulates Venery Being mix'd with Medicines it helps those that spit Blood and void a Bloody Urine Egglentine or Sweet-Bryer in Latin Rosa silvestris odora It needs no Description its curious Smell will not let it be unknown The Virtues of the Flowers are much the same with Garden-Roses but more astringent wherefore they are of excellent use in Fluxes of the Womb. The Fruit of it is much commended for its Lithontriptick Virtue The Heads when they are ripe contain a Pulp of a pleasant acid Taste which without doubt is very useful in Fevers and to provoke Appetite The Conserve of it is commonly kept in the Shops and is very good for the hot Scurvy and for Spitting of Blood The Root is good for the Biting of a Mad Dog a sort of a Sponge grows from the Branches when they are broken or hurt which is of a reddish Colour which laid on the Pillow disposes to Sleep The Ashes of it cure the Heat of Urine and kill Worms Take of the Conserve of Hips and Wood-Sorrel each one Ounce Conserve of Berberies half an Ounce Cream of Tartar one Dram make an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Limons Take the quantity of a Nutmeg thrice a Day This is good in Fevers Elder in Latin Sambucus Martin Blockwitz wrote a whole Book of the Virtues and Use of the Elder the Title of it is The Anatomy of the Elder The inner Bark of the Elder purges watery Humours wherefore it is good in Dropsies The tender Leaves boyl'd in Wine is likewise very good for the same purpose and more convenient for weakly People The inner Bark applied to Burns takes out the Fire The Flowers discuss mollifie and dissolve and are Sudorifick and Anodine Vinegar wherein the Flowers have been infus'd is very agreeable to the Stomach and excites Appetite and it cuts and attenuates gross and crude Humours The Berries are Alexipharmick and Sudorifick The Spirit drawn from the Berries provokes Sweat and therefore good in Fevers The Wine made of the Juice of them or the Juice mix'd with White or Rhenish-Wine does much Good in Dropsies The Seeds cleanse and purge violently by Vomit and Stool A Decoction of the middle Bark with Syrup of Poppies promotes Sweat But note That Narcoticks mix'd with Sweating Medicines do much provoke Sweating For Swellings in the Feet take of the Leaves as much as is sufficient boyl them in Oyl with Salt and foment them with it In St. Anthony's Fire a Fomentation is frequently used made of two Parts of elder-Elder-water and one of Spirit of Wine This is commonly us'd in London with good Success My Father makes an Ointment of the Red-Lead-Plaster and Oyl of Elder which he frequently uses for Burns And I have found it very successful also in other Inflammations Elecampane in Latin Helenium Many Leaves long and broad come from the Root and bend towards the Earth they are acute at both Ends above of a pale Green under hoary indented about the Edges They have short Foot-stalks from the Centre whereof the Stalks rise sometimes one sometimes more they are streight hairy and reddish five or six Foot high with some Leaves thereon compassing them about at the Lower Ends they are branched towards the tops and bear great large Flowers like those of our Marigold of a Golden Colour The Root is very thick without brown within white and of an Aromatick Taste and smells sweet and pleasantly especially when dried It grows in moist Meadows and Pastures but it is not common It flowers in June and July The fresh Root being candied or dried and powder'd mix'd with Hony or Sugar is very good in a Difficulty of Breathing an Asthma and an old Cough Being taken after Supper it helps Concoction It is also commended as an excellent Preservative against the Plague Being taken in the Morning it forces Urine and the Courses Half a Pint of White-wine wherein the slic'd Roots have been infus'd three Days taken in the Morning fasting cures the Green-sickness A Decoction of the Root taken inwardly or outwardly applied is commended by some for Convulsions Contusions and the Hip-Gout The Roots boyl'd in Wine or the fresh Juice infus'd in it and drunk kills and expels Worms Wine that is every where prepar'd with this Root in Germany and often drunk wonderfully quickens the Sight Elecampane distill'd in common Water yields a Volatile Salt that smells and has the same Virtue with Salt of Harts-horn Take of the Roots of Elecampane well cleans'd from the Fibres as much as you please boyl them in Water till they are salt and pulp them through a Sieve whereof take one Part and of Hony two Parts boyl them to the Consumption of the Moisture This is a Preservative against the Plague Take of the Roots of Elecampane Oris and Liquorish each one Dram of the Flowers of Sulphure two Drams Hony a sufficient quantity to make an Electuary Oyl of Sulphure ten Drops make a Linctus This is good for an inveterate Cough Elm in Latin Vlmus The Leaves the Branches and the Bark are astringent The Leaves cure Wounds And rub'd with Vinegar they are good for a Leprosie The Bark boiled in Fountain-water almost to the Consistence of a Syrup and the third part of Aquavitae mix'd with it is an excellent Remedy for the Hip-Gout if the Part affected be fomented with it before the Fire The Water in the Bladders upon the Leaves clears the Skin it being wash'd with it and it betters the Complexion It helps Burstenness in Children Clothes being wet in the Water and applied but a Truss must be kept on also Take of the Bark of Elm six Drams of the Root of Liquorish half a Dram of Raisins of the Sun ston'd number twenty of Red Roses two Pugils boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a Pint and an half dissolve in it of Hony of Roses and Simple Oxymel each two Ounces make a Gargarism Endive in Latin Endivia The Root is fibrous and full of Milk The long broad Leaves like on the Earth they are like the Leaves of Lettice sometimes indented about the Edges The Stalk is two or three Foot high smooth channel'd empty and has many Branches and is crooked being cut it yields a Milk The Flowers come from the Wings of the Leaves they are Sky-colour'd and like the Leaves of Wild-Succory It grows in Gardens 'T is Cooling and the Water of it is used in Fevers and Inflammations Eringo or Sea-Holly in Latin Eringium marinum The Roots are very long and spread much they have an Aromatick Taste The Leaves are placed
the Light of this Bark They put it into a cleft Stick which serves for a Candle-stick and so they see how to use their Three-teeth'd Spear for killing Fish In Alsatia the best Hoops are made of Birch The Leaves are hot and dry cleansing resolving opening and bitter For which Reason they are of no small use in a Dropsie and the Itch and the like The Bark is Bituminous and is therefore mix'd with Perfumes that are to correct the Air. The Fungus of it has an astringent Quality upon which Account it stops Blood miraculously This Tree in the Beginning of Spring before the Leaves come forth being pierced yields plentifully a sweet and potulent Juice which Shepherds when they are thirsty often drink in the Woods Tragus Helmont Charleton and others commend the Virtue and Efficacy of this Liquor and not undeservedly for the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder for Bloody Urine and the Strangury This Tree begins to yield its Juice about the Middle of February and sometimes not till the Beginning of March. Tragus also commends it for the Jaundice Some wash their Faces with it to take off Spots and to beautifie Dr. Needham cured Scorbutick Consumptions with it He used to mix with it good Wine and Honey Rennet infused in the Juice preserves the Cheese from Worms says Tragus The Juice of Birch cures Warts and Pimples in the Face if it be washed with it in the Day time Morning and Evening and permitted to dry on The Greater Bistort or Snake-weed in Latin Bistorta major The Stalks are sometimes more than two Foot high small smooth and jointed at the Top whereon are Ears of Flowers of a Flesh-colour and being unfolded they consist of five small Leaves with Tufts of the same Colour in the middle The Seed is brown or almost black and triangular The Leaves are smaller than those of sharp-pointed Dock above of a dark-green Colour below gray The Root represents a crooked Finger is red and very astringent 'T is common in the Meadows and Pastures about Sheffeild in Yorkshire and in several other Places of that County It grows also plentifully in some Meadows about Tamworth and Fasely in Warwickshire It cools and dries The Root of it is very astringent harsh alexipharmick and Sudorifick 'T is chiefly used to take off Vomiting and to prevent Abortion and the like The Powder of the Root mixed with Conserve of Roses does wonderfully stop Spitting of Blood and the Bloody Flux and other Fluxes It stops the Courses when they are immoderate The Powder sprinkled upon Wounds stops the Blood Take of the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil each one Ounce of the Leaves of Meadow-sweet Burnet Wood-Sorrel each one handful of Burnt Harts-horn two Drams of Shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory each two Drams Boyl them in three Pints of Fountain-water to two add towards the End three Ounces of Red Roses strain them The Dose is six Spoonfuls often in a Day Vpright Blite in Latin Blitum erectius It has a red and single Root with some small Fibres It roots deep in the Earth if the Place be agreeable to it otherwise it is fibrous The Stalk is nine Inches high channell'd smooth solid sending forth many Branches near the Earth longer than the very Stalks The Leaves are plac'd sometimes opposite to one another but oftner alternately Their Foot-stalks are an Inch long smooth and not so frequent as in other Blites The Leaves resemble the Leaves of Wild-Marjoram but they are somewhat bigger from the Wings whereof and from the Extremities of the Branches come forth small purple Flowers in Clusters The Seed is small and black It grows plentifully upon Dung-hills in Hop-grounds and upon fat Earth It mollifies cools and tastes insipid Blue-Bottles in Latin Cyanus The Root is woody and fibrous It has many Stalks a Foot and an half or two Foot high they have Angles are hoary and divided into Branches The lowermost Leaves have sharp Jags like Scabious or Dandelion the other are long and as broad as a Blade of Grass and have Nerves that run along them They are Sky-colour'd or whitish The Flowers come from little Heads that are compos'd of Scales they consist of little jagged Horns and are commonly of a Sky-colour sometimes white or of a light red or purple The Seed is contain'd in the little Head of the Flower The whole Plant tastes dry and somewhat nauseous and has no good Smell It grows commonly among Corn. The Flowers and the distill'd Water are useful for Inflammations of the Eyes and for the Blearedness of them The Juice of the Flowers distill'd is good for putrid Ulcers The Powder of it taken inwardly is very effectual in the Jaundice The Flowers infus'd in Spirit of Wine or in common Water impart their Colour to the Liquor and they also colour Sugar very curiously as do the Flowers of Succory and the like Borrage in Latin Borrago 'T is very cordial and the Flower is one of the four Cordial-Flowers The distill'd Water and the Conserve of the Flowers comfort the Heart relieve the Faint chear the Melancholy and purifie the Blood This Herb is suppos'd to be Homer's Nepenthe by the Juice whereof mix'd with Wine he was wont to expel Sorrow The Water of it is good for Inflammations of the Eyes and for all Fevers as is also the Conserve of the Flowers The Conserve of the Flowers mix'd with Wine is said to open Women's Obstructions To chear the Heart Take of the Conserve of Borrage-Flowers one Ounce of the Confection of Alkermes two Drams mix them The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg two Hours after Meals drinking a Glass of Canary presently after it Box-tree in Latin Buxus This Tree is always green and full of Branches The Bark is white and rough The Substance of it is very hard and yellow and very heavy and without Pith. It has many Leaves they are smooth more obtuse than the Leaves of the Myrtle firm and sometimes concave and which is worth Observation they are double They smell pretty well but taste ill A great many of these Trees grow on Box-hill near Darking in Surrey 'T is seldom used in Physick The Oyl drawn from the Wood is much commended for the Falling-Sickness and Pains in the Teeth 'T is said the Decoction of the Wood cures the French-Pox as well as Guiacum 'T is chiefly used by Turners For the Pain of the Teeth drop two or three Drops of the Oyl upon a little Lint and stop the hollow Tooth with it and it will soon give Ease Bramble in Latin Rubus The Ancients attributed many Virtues to almost every part of this Plant. The Leaves the Buds the Flowers and the Fruit are astringent but the Fruit before it is ripe is very astringent wherefore it is good for Vomiting and all Fluxes 'T is good for Sore Mouths and is commended by some for the Scurvy and not without Reason for in quality and figure 't is like the Cloud-Berry of
Diuretick It provokes the Courses and is Lithontriprick It quickens the Blood when coagulated and disposes to Sleep 'T is used outwardly with great Success for the Cholick and Obstruction of Urine Used in Caraplasms it discusses Tumours and Clodded Blood like Solomon's-Seal 'T is chiefly us'd for Swellings and Hardness of the Paps Take of the Roots of Charvil Knee-holm Polypody of the Oak of each one Ounce of the Leaves of Water-Hemp Agrimony of the Oak of Jerusalem of Maiden-hair and Ground-Ivy each one Handful of the Seeds of Bastard-Saffron one Ounce of the Roots of Florentine-Flower-de-luce half an Ounce of the Seeds of Danewort five Drams of the Root of the Sweet-smelling Flag half an Ounce boyl them in two Quarts of Fountain-water to the Consumption of a third part then strain it and add one Ounce and an half of Sena and two Drams of Agarick Mechoacan and Turbith each half an Ounce of Yellow-Sanders one Dram and an half of the Roots of Lesser Galanga one Dram boyl them in a close Vessel two Hours then strain the Liquor and add two Ounces of the best Hony clarified with the White of an Egg make a purging Mead The Dose is six or eight Ounces twice or thrice a Week This is proper in a Dropsie of the Breast Cherries in Latin Cerasus Cherries when they are fresh loosen the Belly but when dry they bind Those that are sweet purge but they are offensive to the Stomach Sharp and harsh Cherries are Binding The distill'd Water of sharp Cherries and the Cherries themselves extinguish Feverish Heats and quench Thirst and create an Appetite And preserv'd with Sugar they are very grateful to the Stomach and reckon'd by the Women the best Sweet-Meats but by reason of the Abundance of their Moisture they cannot be kept long The Decoction of dried Cherries is excellent in Hipocondriack Diseases and many have been cur'd by this Remedy alone Sweet Cherries are peculiarly good for Diseases in the Head the Falling-sickness Apoplexy and Palsie A Lord that was seiz'd with an Apoplexy and was speechless three Days recover'd his Speech by takeing Spirit of Cherries In Stammering and other Vices of Speech wash the Mouth often with the Spirit of Black-Cherries for they are very Cephalick and do much strengthen the Muscles of the Tongue and the Spirits design'd for their Use The distill'd Water of sweet Black-Cherries is much commended and us'd for Children's Convulsions Take an equal quantity of this Water and the Water of Lime-tree-flowers The Dose is an Ounce or two Ounces according to the Age of the Child Wines and Potions are prepar'd of Cherries several Ways either by Distillation or Infusion or by mixing Sugar with the Juice and fermenting it In Italy they prepare a Potion with fresh Cherries which they call Marasco they drink it before it ferments 'T is sold there in Taverns in the Summer-time and is counted a good cooling Liquor The Oyl drawn from the Kernels in a Press is said to take Spots and Pimples from the Skin by anointing it And 't is reckon'd good for the Gout and Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder The Gum of Cherries diluted with Wine cures inveterate Coughs quickens the Sight and provokes Appetite 'T is counted also Lithontriptick drunk in Wine Some when they eat great quantities of Cherries swallow the Stones to prevent Surfeits which is a vulgar Errour for many times they lie long in the Stomach and do much hurt The Livers of Sparrows grow very big at Cherry-time The following Sorts of Cherries are much esteem'd here in England viz. The May-Cherry the Duke-cherry the Arch-Duke-Cherry the Flanders-Cherry the Red-Heart-Cherry the Carnation and the Amber-Cherry the Bleeding-heart and the Naples the Purple-Cherry the Black Orleance and the common Black-Cherry Luke Ward 's Cherry the Cluster-Cherry the Dwarf-Cherry and the Morello-Cherry Chesnut-tree in Latin Castanea It is a great and stately Tree as thick as an old Oak so very large sometimes that three Men with their Arms extended can scarce encompass the Trunk of it It has many Branches the small Twigs are of a Crimson Colour It has a smooth Bark spotted and blackish and sometimes of an Ash-colour but chiefly the Extremity of the Branches And when the Tree is young the Wood of it is strong and lasting but yet it bends with a Burthen and cracks much in the Fire and its Coals are soon extinguish'd It has large Leaves about two Inches broad and in length about five they are thin wrinkly and indented like a Saw with many transverse Veins sticking on the Back extended from the Middle-rib that is most remarkable Long hanging Buds precede the Fruit having yellow Tufts The Cups are prickly and like a Bur within they are hairy and as soft as Silk They contain two or three Nuts some but one ending sharp from a broad Basis they are about an Inch long flat on one side and bellying out on the other and are in shape something like the Heart The Nut is white solid and hard sweet and palatable especially when it is roasted It chiefly grows on Mountains and Rising Grounds There are Abundance of them in Italy where the People that live on the Mountains eat little else They bud at the Beginning of Spring and soon after flower The Fruit is ripe about the Latter End of September The good Nuts are known from the bad by putting them in Water for if they are sound and good they sink but if otherwise they swim We in England make of this Wood Bedsteads Chairs Tables Chests and other Furniture for Houses In some Places beyond Sea they make Bread and Frumenty of the Flower of the Nuts but such sort of coarse Diet is no way pleasing to the English who God be thanked have Plenty of wholsom Food and great Abundance of all things necessary They are either boyl'd whole in Water or roasted on the Fire or fry'd In Italy the Gentry and Citizens roast them under Ashes and having pill'd them mix a little Sugar and Juice of Oranges or Limons with them and so eat them for a Second Course But which way soever they are prepar'd they are windy and injurious to the Stomach and Head and to those that are subject to Cholical Pains and the Stone The Nuts are astringent and consequently do good in Fluxes of the Belly and for Spitting of Blood They are said to be good for Coughs being eaten with Hony fasting As also is an Electuary prepar'd with the Flower of them and Hony An Emulsion of Chesnuts made with the Decoction of Liquorish and a few White Poppy-seeds is good for Heat of Urine Chick-weed in Latin Alfine It cools and moistens moderately upon which Account it is good for Inflammations and against Heat either taken inwardly or outwardly applied as Purslan and the Lesser House-leek 'T is counted good for such as are in Consumptions and wasting Conditions Birds that are kept in Cages are much refreshed by this Herb when they loath their Meat
God who has dealt so bountifully with this Nation in giving the Kings of it at least from Edward the Confessor downwards if not for a longer Time an extraordinary Power in the miraculous Cures thereof This our Chronicle has all along testified and the Personal Experience of many Thousands now living can witness the same 'T is also useful in Cancers and Eating Ulcers The Powder of the dried Root applied to the Piles dries them up A Dram of it taken inwardly expels Worms The Water distill'd from the Root cures a Red Face An excellent Ointment is made of this Herb for curing the Itch It is composed as follows In May take the Herb with the Root and well wash'd and cleans'd beat them in a Mortar keep the Juice in a Glass well stop'd for a Year and when you would prepare the Ointment take of the Juice of Wax and Oyl equal parts and boyl them to an Ointment For the King's-Evil make the following Plaster Take one Pound of Lard melted over a moderate Fire then take of the Leaves of Fig-wort Hound's-tongue the Flowers of White Arch-Angel and Fox-glove cut them small and boyl them in the Lard Do the same three or four times till the Ointment be of a deep green Colour then add two Ounces of Turpentine and an Ounce of Verdigrease and a sufficient quantity of Wax and Rosin strain it and make a Plaster spread on Leather and apply it to the Part affected Filberd in Latin Corylus sativa The Nut is very pleasant but if many of them are eaten they occasion the Head-ach Wind in the Stomach Loosness and the Bloody-Flux Hoops are made of the Branches And Painters use the Coal of it to delineate Gun-powder was made of the Coals before the Coals of Alder were found more commodious for that Use Firr-tree in Latin Abies They say it grows plentifully on the Mountains in Scotland But I suppose the Tree that grows commonly there is that which is called by skilful Botanists Picea for that which we plant in our Gardens for the Firr-tree is the Picea as appears by the Characteristick Notes of the Picea for the Cone is slender and long and hangs downward and the rigid and prickly Leaves encompass the Branches disorderly Theophrastus says 't is propagated only by the Seed and that the Cutting off the Tops causes it to wither and die the same Year But we find by Experience that the Branches do not only grow but take Root and in time become Trees The Rosin of it is twofold First Liquid which comes from young Firr-trees This the Shops fasly call Venice-Turpentine Secondly Dry it is like Frankincense Thirty three stately Trees of this Kind make a fair Appearance on a little Hill near Waryton in Staffordshire two Miles from Newport The Branches and Tops are infus'd in Diet-drinks for the Scurvy with very good Success Sweet-smelling Flag in Latin Calamus aromaticus Officinarum It was first observ'd by Doctor Thomas Brown in the River Yare near Norwich It grows also spontaneously in other Parts of England viz. near Hedley in Surrey and in Cheshire 'T is easily known by its sweet Smell 'T is hot and dry 'T is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Courses Liver and Spleen and in the Cholick it also provokes Urine The Root of it candied tastes very pleasantly and is grateful to the Stomach The Turks usually chew it in a Morning to prevent Contagion of corrupted Air. The Tartars carry it about with them and will not drink Water unless this Root has been infus'd in it Flax in Latin Linum sativum 'T is sown in the Fields The Oyl is chiefly in use for Medicine 'T is taken inwardly in a Quinsie Pleurisie Consumption and Cholick Outwardly used it mollifies hard Swellings and eases Pains it asswages the Swellings of the Belly Printers Ink is made of this Oyl and Lamb-black Purging or Wild Dwarf Flax or Mill-mountain in Latin Linum silvestre catharticum It has a small white woody Root and some Fibres It sends forth little Stalks that creep a little and then rise an Hand high or higher they are small jointed and reddish branchy at the top and bending downward The lower Leaves are roundish and have an obtuse Point the upper on the Stalks are plac'd by Pairs opposite to one another there are many of them they are small and half an Inch long smooth and without Foot-stalks The Flowers have five white Leaves and are placed on small Foot-stalks The Taste of the whole Plant is bitter and nauseous It flowers at the Beginning of June It grows commonly in dry and hilly Pastures The whole Herb infus'd in Whitewine for a whole Night over hot Ashes purges strongly Watery Humours Take of Purging-Flax one Handful of Sweet-Fennel-seeds two Drams boyl them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water to six Ounces add two Ounces of white-White-wine make a purging Potion Marsh-Flea-bane or Bird's-tongue in Latin Coniza palustris The Root is thick and spreads much sending forth hollow and crested Stalks three Foot high with many Joints and Branches bearing two long Leaves at each Joint which are indented about the Edges green on the upper side and grey or woolly underneath At the tops of the Stalks and Branches stand many small yellow Flowers together like those of Rag-wort The Seeds when ripe fly away with the Wind. It grows in the Fen-ditches and on the Banks in the Isle of Ely but not very common It grows chiefly near Stretbam-Ferry The Herb being spread under-foot or burnt in any Place will as it is believ'd drive away venomous Creatures and Fleas and kill Gnats wherefore 't is called Flea-bane Some prepare an Ointment of the Root and Leaves for the Itch. Flix-weed in Latin Sophia Chirurgorum It is two or three Foot high It has many hard woody Branches they are round and a little hairy The Leaves are cut small like Roman-Wormwood it tastes somewhat acrid The Flowers are many small and yellowish The Pods succeed the Flower they are about an Inch long and very small The Seed is very small and brown The Root is white It grows in stony and gravelly Places and on Stone-Walls and in untill'd Grounds A Dram of the Seed is very good for a Loosness And not only the Seed but the whole Herb is commended for the Fluxes of the Belly and the Bloody Flux 'T is used in Plasters for Wounds and sordid Ulcers In Yorkshire they use the Seed to expel Gravel with good Success Common Purple Flower-de-luce in Latin Iris vulgaris The Root hang'd in Wine or Beer preserves the Beer sweet and imparts a pleasant Taste and Smell to the Wine like Rasberries 'T is much us'd by Bakers to prepare Leaven for Wheaten Bread Many Virtues are attributed to the Root of this Plant by the Ancient and Modern Writers they are briefly describ'd as follows By Schroder 't is chiefly us'd for Coughs Difficulty of Breathing Obstructions of the Courses and Children's Gripes Being outwardly applied it
takes off Spots from the Skin Mix'd with Hellebore and Hony 't is much used in Powders for the Hair It cures the Dropsie and Jaundice Take from half an Ounce to one Ounce and an half of the Juice this is commended in a Dropsie to purge away the Water A Gentlewoman cured many Hydropical People by this Juice alone She gave four Spoonfuls of it daily in the Morning fasting in six Spoonfuls of white-White-wine The Yellow Water Flower-de-luce in Latin Iris palustris lutea It grows almost every where in Marshy Places and upon the Banks of Rivers Whether it be hot or cold Botanists do not agree but almost all allow it very astringent and the Taste of it confirms as much wherefore it is commended for the Bloody-Flux and other Fluxes of the Belly and Womb And it stops Blood and therefore is useful to prevent the Bloody-Flux and Bleeding The Sick must have it hang'd about him So that it is plain that the Apothecaries were in a great Errour formerly when they used this Root which has quite contrary Faculties for the Root of the Sweet-smelling Flag The Highlanders in Scotland make excellent Ink with this Root infus'd or a little boyl'd in Water twenty four Hours by rubbing a white rough Stone upon a Knife or a piece of good Steel in it for some Hours Fluellin or Male-Speed-well in Latin Veronica maâ— It creeps with Twigs on the Superficies of the Earâ—h and sends down Roots from the Joints These little Stalks or Twigs are small round long hairy and jointed The Leaves are placed by Pairs one opposite to another at the Joints they are hairy and indented about the Edges they taste bitter and acrid The Flowers come forth spiked from the Wings of the Leaves compos'd of four small Leaves of a deep Sky-colour with Threads of the same Colour in the middle The Seeds are contain'd in small Receptacles like Shepherd's-purse The Flowers consist really of one Leaf only for tho' they seem several yet they are all entire at the bottom It grows plentifully on dry Places and on Heaths in Gravelly Sandy and Sunny Places A large quantity of the Decoction of it used for some Time cured a Woman of the Stone in the Kidnies which she had been troubled with sixteen Years The Lesser Spiked Fluellin or Speed-well in Latin Veronica spicata minor The Root grows awry and is fibrous The Stalk is upright sometimes four Inches sometimes a Foot sometimes two Foot high or higher Those Leaves that are placed at the Joints are narrow and sharp hairy and a little indented they are larger at the Root The Stalk ends in a long Spike full of Sky-colour'd Flowers flowering by degrees first the Lower then those that are at top when they are faded little long Threads remain 'T is Vulnerary and Sudorisick 'T is chiefly used in Erosions and Obstructions of the Lungs and Spleen in the Cholick and Consumption for the Plague and the Itch. 'T is of excellent use in Cleansing Wounds being outwardly applied and for hard Swellings of the Spleen Purple Fox-gloves in Latin Digiâ—alis purpurea vulgaris 'T is sometimes four Foot high The Stalk is as thick as the Thumb angled hairy reddish and concave The Root is fibrous and bitter The Flowers are placed on a long Spike they are placed on short hairy Foot-stalks and hang downwards each of them has a little sharp Leaf joyn'd to it they are like a Taylor 's Thimble without they are of a Crimson Colour except in the lower Part which by the mixture of some White is of a Flesh-colour they are purple also within but in the lower Part they have some white Spots To the Basis of the Flowers grow white or purple Threads The Leaf is oblong and ends sharp hairy and indented about the Edges above of a dark Green below hoary Those that are at the Root are placed on long Foot-stalks those on the Stalks are set disorderly and there are many of them The Cup of the Flower consists most commonly of five Leaves The Margin of the Flower is divided into five pieces It delights in Sandy Ground It varies the Flower and is sometimes white but very rarely 'T is Vomitive The Country-people in Somersetshire purge and vomit the Sick in Fevers with it 'T is very good in the Falling-sickness if you take two Handfuls of it with four Ounces of Polypody of the Oak and boyl them in Beer and then drink it For some have been cured by this Decoction that have had the Falling-sickness above twenty Years and that use to have two or three Fits every Month. But this Medicine must be given only to strong People for it purges and vomits violently Being bruised and applied to the King's-Evil or the Juice of it made into an Ointment does much good Some confide very much in the Flowers in King's-Evil-Swellings They put a great many into May-Butter and set them in the Sun Others mingle them with Lard and put them under Ground for forty Days they spread the Ointment on a Cloth and apply them to the Swellings and purge every sixth Day and in the mean while use continually a Decoction of the Herb Robert With the thinner part of the Ointment they anoint the Red Part of the Swelling the thicker they use on Cloth A large quantity of this Ointment ought to be provided for sometimes it is a Year and more before the Cure is perfected Tho' the Ulcers should grow larger at first you need not be discourag'd for when the Ointment has dried up all the Humour the Ulcers will heal and skin This Ointment is chiefly of use in moist Ulcers of the King's-Evil Fumetory in Latin Fumaria It purges Choler and purifies the Blood and is much used for a Leprosie the Itch and other Diseases of the Skin 'T is likewise commended for the French-Pox It opens Obstructions of the Liver and cures the Jaundice It is much used in Whey in the Spring-time 'T is also good for the Scurvy The Juice or Water of it dropped into the Eyes cures Dimness of Sight Being mix'd with Treacle it is good for the Plague An Ointment made of the Juice of Fumetory and of sharp-pointed Dock and a little Vinegar and Hony cures the Itch. Take of the Conserve of Fumetory and Wormwood each one Ounce of the Conserve of the yellow Peel of Oranges and Limons each two Ounces of the simple Powder of the Root of Wake-Robin of Yellow Sanders of Alloes-wood of the Root of Capers each one Dram and an half of Crabs-eyes one Dram of Salt of Wormwood two Drams of Syrup of Fumetory a sufficient quantity make an Electuary The Dose is the quantity of a Walnut twice a Day This is good for the Scurvy G. GArlick in Latin Allium 'T is hot and dry and Alexipharmick 'T is used outwardly and inwardly in the Flatulent Cholick the Worms for the Plague with Vinegar and for the Stone and for the Cough The Common People use it frequently boyl'd in
or spreading Roots The Way to make Bird-lime Pill as many of this sort of Trees as you have occasion for in June or July boyl the Bark seven or eight Hours together in Water till it is tender When it is boyl'd make an Heap with Fern strowing a Lay of one and a Lay of the other This sort of Position the Chymists call Stratum super stratum and mark it thus S. S. S. Let it ferment a Fortnight or three Weeks then take it out and beat it in a Mortar till it may be kneeded like Dough then wash it in Water it will soon be clean And so you will have pure Birdlime The Prickles of the Leaves boyl'd in Posset-drink wonderfully ease the Cholick and Pains in the Bowels With this a Gentlewoman cured her self and many others when other Medicines would do no good Common Hony-suckle or Wood-bind in Latin Periclymenum It heats and dries much 'T is Splenatick and very Diuretick 'T is chiefly used in an Asthma and for a Cough It dries moist and sordid Ulcers It cures Scabs and other Diseases of the Skin It helps Difficulty of Breathing and hastens Delivery and expels Gravel The distill'd Water and the Juice of it is in use The Leaves also are frequently used in Gargarisms but some think they are too hot and acrid for such an Use Hops in Latin Lupulus They preserve Beer and make it more wholsom and better tasted and render it Diuretick Beer purges the Blood is good in the Jaundice and for Hypochondriack Diseases But whether it expels Gravel or generates it is much disputed by some They that commend it for the Stone argue from its being hot and Diuretick They that condemn the use of it in the Stone say that it makes the Fits worse and that Ale on the contrary mitigates the Pain Besides they say that the Stone is much increas'd in England since the use of Hops But I agree with those that approve and commend the use of it in Beer for the Beer is thereby render'd more agreeable to the Stomach and promotes the Concoction of the Meat the better Nor does it avail any thing that Physicians forbid the use of Beer in the Stone and prescribe Ale for they do so only to lessen the Pain for which Intention Ale is very proper by reason of its Smoothness but it does no way conduce towards the Eradicating the Disease or Removing the Cause but rather promotes the Growth of it by its being clammy and apt to stick to it And it plainly appears by Mr. Graunt's Observations on the Bills of Mortality that fewer die of the Stone in London since Hops were so much used than before The Buds of Hops eaten in the Spring-time being first boyl'd and butter'd purge the Blood and loosen the Belly and open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Take of Black-Soap and fresh Hops each two Handfuls of Blue-Currants a quarter of a Pound beat them and mix them and apply them to the Wrists to cure a Quotidian-Ague White Hore-hound in Latin Marrubium album It has a single woody Root with many Fibres It has many Stalks a Foot high or higher they are downy four-square branchy and have many Leaves on them two opposite to one another at each Joint they are roundish wrinkly and indented and are placed on pretty long Foot-stalks The Flowers are whitish and very small they encompass the Stalk at the Joints and have short Foot-stalks or none at all Four Seeds joyn'd together succeed each Flower The Smell of the whole Herb is strong and somewhat offensive It grows near High-ways and amongst Rubbish The Juice of it mix'd with Hony is good for those that have Coughs and are Consumptive The Powder of it kills Worms Take of the Syrup of White Hore-hound two Ounces of Oyl of Tartar per deliquium one Scruple mix them Let the Sick take often of it a Spoonful at a time This is excellent in the Jaundice The Tops of it infus'd in Wine and drunk three Mornings is good to provoke the Courses and to expel the Secundine and to strengthen the Stomach and to cure an ill Habit of Body A Conserve of the Flowers made with Hony and an Ounce of it taken in the Morning for forty Days cured a Nobleman of a Scirrhus in his Liver when Chalybeats and other Medicines would do no good Horse-tail in Latin Equisetum The Root is small black jointed and creeping and has many small Fibres arising from the Joints It springs up with Heads somewhat like Asparagus which grow into hard rough hollow Stalks joynted at many places one within another At every Joint grows a Bush of rusty hard Leaves resembling an Horse-tail At the Tops of the Stalks come forth small Catkins like those of Trees 'T is very astringent and therefore is used to cure the Whites and Fluxes of Blood one Dram of the Powder of it or four Ounces of the Decoction of it in Wine being taken Night and Morning Three Spoonfuls of the distill'd Water taken two or three Mornings cures Bleeding and Ulcers of the Reins and Kidnies Outwardly applied it cures Wounds even when the Nerves are cut For Ulcers of the Lungs drink three Ounces of the Decoction made in Water or two Ounces of the Juice Morning and Evening A Dram of the Powder taken in three Ounces of plantane-Plantane-water Morning and Evening for some Days is commended for a Consumption Great Hounds-tongue in Latin Cynoglossum The Root is thick black without white within it smells worse than it tastes it has an odd sweet Taste The Stalks are about three or four Foot high they are divided into many Branches The first Year the Leaves are long and somewhat broad The second Year when it bears a Stalk they are sharp and pointed hoary soft and downy and stink The Flowers are of a sordid red Colour divided for some time into five pieces the Flowers and Seeds most commonly bend to one part and each is placed on a Foot-stalk an Inch long which has no Leaf The Leaves grow alternately to the Stalks without Foot-stalks It grows commonly amongst Rubbish and in Fields not cultivated It flowers in June It cools and dries 'T is used to stop Blood a Loosness a Gonorrhaea and Catarrhs An Ointment made of the Juice with Hony and Turpentine is much commended for old Fistulous Ulcers The Pill made of Hound's-tongue is compounded in the following manner Take of the Roots of Hound's-tongue dried of the Seeds of White Hen-bane and of Opium prepar'd each half an Ounce of Mirrh six Drams of Olibanum five Drams of Saffron Castor and Storax Calamite each one Dram and an half The Roots of Hound's-tongue the Seeds of Hen-bane and the Castor must be all powder'd together but the Myrrh the Saffron and the Olibanum must be powder'd a-part the Opium must be sliced small and dissolv'd in Rose-water afterwards you must add the Powders and with Syrup de Stecade make a Mass The Dose is one Scruple 'T is
frequently used in Catarrhs and to cause Rest House-leek or Sin-green in Latin Sedum magus vulgare It does not grow spontaneously in England but it is commonly sown on Houses 'T is very Cooling and Astringent 'T is used inwardly in Bilious Fevers for it quenches Thirst and moderates the Heat the Juice of it being mix'd with Sugar Rags dip'd in the Juice or distill'd Water of it and applied to any Inflammation of the Body especially in the Frenzy are very beneficial The Juice of it cures Corns and Warts For Ulcers of the Matrix and Urinary Passage take of the Juice four Ounces and one Ounce of Litharge and the Yolks of two Eggs rub them a long time in a Leaden Mortar then make Application In Fevers when the Tongue is dry and chap'd dip a Leaf of it in rose-Rose-water and apply it to the Tongue and repeat it often Take of the Juice one Spoonful of white-White-wine two Spoonfuls mix them together drop one or two Drops into the Eyes and apply a double Linnen Rag dipped in the same This is good for an hot Distillation on the Eyes Hyssop in Latin Hyssopus 'T is hot and acrid It attenuates opens and cleanses 'T is chiefly used in Diseases of the Lungs 'T is frequently applied outwardly to remove Blood that is setled in the Eyes A Bunch of it being boyl'd in Water and applied hot to the Eye is also very good for Bruises I. JAck-by-the-Hedge or Sauce-alone in Latin Alliaria It sends forth Stalks round channel'd and solid small and somewhat hairy three or four Foot high The Root is small woody and white and stinks like Garlick The Leaves are first round like Ground-Ivy but much larger but soon afterwards they are a little pointed and indented about the Edges they are of a pale Green and smooth and set on large Foot-stalks the Smell and Taste of them is not so strong as Garlick they are placed at a great distance upon the Stalks Disorderly upon the tops of the Stalks and Branches are many whitish small Flowers consisting of four small Leaves upon very short Foot-stalks in the midst whereof are Tufts of a Colour betwixt Yellow and Green The oblong and blackish Seed is contain'd in long Cods that are angl'd and divided by a Membrane that has two Valves It grows in Hedges and Ditches Country-people use it in Sauces When it is green it provokes Urine when dry it expels Poyson Being boyl'd in Wine or mix'd with Hony it cures old Coughs 'T is excellent for resisting Putrefaction Upon which Account the Herb it self beat up with Hony and the Juice boyl'd till it is thick are put into Cataplasms for Gangreens and other putrid and malignant Ulcers The Seed applied to the Bottom of the Belly cures Mother-fits The Seeds rub'd and put into the Nose provokes Sneezing and purges the Head The Herb boyl'd in Oyl and Water and taken inwardly relieves Asthmaticks Some boyl the Leaves in Clysters for the Cholick Nephritick Pains and the Stone 'T is like true Scordium in Virtue and Smell Fabricius Hildanus says he often found the Juice very good for Gangreens And none need wonder why the Ancients especially the Arabians substituted this Herb for Scordium not for that Scordium was unknown to them but because they found in a manner the same Virtues in this Plant. Besides Scordium does not grow in many Regions and so it must be had dry and obsolete whereas this Herb grows almost every where White Iessamin in Latin Jasminum album The Flowers are chiefly used to perfume Gloves The Oyl of it heals mollifies and opens and is used in Contractions of the Limbs and the like Iew's-ear in Latin Fungus sambucinus It grows to the Trunk of the Elder-tree Being dried it will keep good a Year Boyl'd in Milk or infus'd in Vinegar 't is good to gargle the Mouth or Throat in Quinsies and other Inflammations of the Mouth and Throat And being infus'd in some proper Water it is good in Diseases of the Eyes St. Iohn's-wort in Latin Hypericon It has a woody Root that is much divided and hath many stiff woody round reddish Twigs two Foot and an half high or higher and divided into many Branches The Leaves grow by Pairs opposite to one another and have no Foot-stalks they are smooth and full of Holes which may be plainly perceiv'd if you hold them up against the Sun they taste dry and astringent with some kind of Bitterness At the top of the Stalks and Branches grow yellow Flowers of five Leaves apiece with yellow Tufts in the middle which being bruis'd yield a bloody Juice After the Flowers come small round Heads wherein are contain'd small black Seeds It grows in Hedges and among Bushes 'T is an excellent Diuretick and Vulnerary Herb. A Decoction of it cures Tertian and Quartan-Agues It stops Spitting of Blood and expels Gravel A Tincture of the Flowers is excellent in a Mania And the Flowers infus'd in Spirit of Wine kill Worms The Compounded Oyl of the London-Dispensatory is much us'd and is made in the following manner Take one Pint of White-wine of the Tops and Flowers and Seeds of St. John's-wort four Ounces bruise them and infuse them three Days in a Pint of old Oyl of Olives in the Sun or upon a gentle Fire and then press it Note they must infuse in a Glass well stop'd There must be a second and third Infusion in the same Wine After the third Infusion boyl it till all the Wine is in a manner consum'd then strain it and add three Ounces of Turpentine and one Scruple of Saffron then boyl it a little and put it up for Use This is excellent for Bruises and Aches For Spitting of Blood Take of the Leaves of St. John's-wort Hart's-tongue Speed-well Mouse-ear and Ground-Ivy each one Handful of the Roots of Chervil and fresh Nettles each one Ounce boyl them in three Pints of Fountain-water to two add an Ounce and an half of Raisins of the Sun ston'd of Liquorish two Drams of the Byzantine Syrup two Ounces clarifie them with the White of an Egg and make an Apozem Take four or six Ounces twice or thrice a Day for a Month. Iuly-flowers in Latin Caryophyllus They are Cephalick and Cordial The Syrup is chiefly used and is made in the following manner Take of fragrant July-flowers the White being cut off one Pound pour on them a Quart of Spring-water and let them stand all Night then strain the Liquor and being gently warm'd dissolve therein four Pounds of the whitest Sugar without boiling it and make a Syrup Iuniper-tree in Latin Juniperus It spreads it self near the Ground The Leaves are like the Leaves of Furze but not so large nor so prickly they are always green they are stiff and smooth above they are seldom an Inch long and are very narrow The Branches are divided into many Twigs The Berries are many round and twice as large as Pepper when they are ripe they are blackish they taste
Custom and eaten loosen the Belly and provoke Urine but they make it smell ill A Decoction of the Root drunk relieves those that make Water difficultly and those that have the Jaundice and others that are afflicted with Nephritick Pains or the Hip Gout But the frequent use of Diureticks occasions Ulcers in the Bladder Spatling or White Poppy in Latin Behen album The Root is woody thick and white The Stalks are two or three Foot high or more small round smooth and jointed and divided into Wings at the top At every Joint are two Leaves opposite to one another like Campian but smooth very acrid and bitterish with a certain Sweetness The Flowers are white or of a light Purple Colour It grows amongst Corn. 'T is commended for Fomentations and Sweating-baths The Juice takes off Inflammations of the Eyes and eases the Pain of them The Seed purges Flegm and is used in the Falling-sickness Male Speed-well in Latin Veronica mas supina vulgatissima It creeps upon the Ground and sends down Roots from the Joints The Stalks are small round long hairy and jointed The Leaves are set by Pairs at the Joints they are hairy and indented about the Edges they taste bitterish and acrid The Flowers are placed upon a Spike they are compos'd of four light purple Leaves The Seed is contain'd in small Husks like Shepherd's-purse It grows plentifully in dry Pastures and amongst Heath 'T is Vulnerary and Sudorifick 'T is used in Obstructions of the Lungs and Spleen for the Cholick Consumption Plague Wounds and Itch. A large Dose of the Decoction taken for some time expell'd a Stone from the Kidny of a Woman that had been there sixteen Years A Woman that had been barren seven Years conceiv'd by taking the Powder of it in the distill'd Water of the Herb for many Days The Syrup of it is of great use in Diseases of the Lungs One that had an incurable Ulcer in his Leg found present Ease by dipping Rags in the Water and applying them for it took off the Inflammation and all the Symptoms that accompanied it One that had a Fistula in the Breast and had used several Medicines in vain was cured by the inward use of this Water Scabby Children have been cured by Rags dip'd in this Water and press'd out and applied over the Scabs when other Medicines would do no good But it is convenient for the Nurse to take Fumatory in Whey at the same time Common Spignel in Latin Meum It has sometimes one sometimes many Roots above nine Inches long From the Sides of which grow most commonly oblique Roots which are pretty long of a dark brown Colour without white within it smells like a Parsnip but more Aromatick It has several long Stalks of Leaves as small as an Hair they are placed thick on both sides of the Stalk they smell well It has also round stiff Stalks like those of Fennel but much less they are channel'd empty and branchy and have Umbels of white Flowers on them like Dill. The Seeds are large great and channel'd It grows plentifully in Westmorland near Sidleberg It expels Wind and forces Urine and the Courses and is used for Mother-fits for the Gripes Catarrhs and to help Expectoration 'T is an Ingredient in several Compositions in Treacle and many other Those that have vow'd Chastity must not use it for it is a great Provocative to Venery And it causes the Head-ach Spinache in Latin Spinachia 'T is much used in the Kitchin 'T is good in Fevers and it loosens the Belly It cools and moistens and is good in a dry Cough Spindle-tree in Latin Euonimus 'T is a little branchy Tree or rather Shrub eight or ten Foot high The Suckers are of a pleasant green Colour and the young Branches are four-square the Wood is whitish it has divers Branches The Leaves are oblong sharp and indented Soon after the Beginning of Spring the pale Flowers come forth they are compos'd of four Leaves After the Flowers come forth red Berries divided into four parts and in each is a white hard Seed The whole Tree has a strong and unpleasant Smell 'T is common in Hedges Three or four of the Berries vomit and purge Women use the Powder of the Berries to kill Lice Spleen-wort in Latin Asplenium The Root consists of Capillary Threads that are blackish and Perennial The Leaves are many but not a Finger long they are placed upon short Foot-stalks they are somewhat fat above and downy under and cleft like Polypody they are seldom an Inch broad It grows frequently in the West upon old Walls viz. about Bristol and the Stones at St. Vincent's Rock c. 'T is called Spleen-wort because it is effectual in curing Diseases of the Spleen 'T is chiefly used for Swellings of the Spleen for Spitting of Blood and a Loosness Outwardly used it cleanses Wounds and Ulcers One Dram of the Golden Powder on the Under-side of the Leaves with half a Dram of White Amber powder'd drunk in the Juice of Purslain or Plantain relieves those wonderfully that have a Gonorrhaea Straw-berry in Latin Fragraria The Fruit cools and moistens The distill'd Water of it comforts the Heart purges the Blood and cures Ulcers of the Mouth and is good in a Quinsie the Mouth being gargled with it 'T is Diuretick and expectorates Those that are troubled with hot Pushes in the Face or a dry Itch in the Body should take two Spoonfuls of the Water every Morning The same quantity at the same time is good for those that have the Stone for it cools the Reins and expels Gravel A Decoction of the whole Herb is very good for the Jaundice Take of the Waters of Wood-Sorrel of the whole Citron of Strawberries each four Ounces of the Syrup of the Juice of Citron one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearls one Dram make a Julap Take four Spoonfuls three or four times a Day This is good in Fevers to attemperate the Blood Succory in Latin Cichoreum The Root is as thick as the Thumb and full of Milk It has many Stalks which are round and hairy The Stalks of the Wild Succory are crooked and sometimes four Foot high The Branches at top are much divided Some of the Leaves are cut deep like Dandelion others are whole or but little indented Those on the Stalks are placed alternately without Foot-stalks they are long and end acute and are hairy on both sides The Flowers are blue sometimes white and reddish many come out together from the Wings of the upper Leaves The whole Plant is very bitter 'T is counted cold by some Authors but its bitter Taste argues Heat 'T is Diuretick It attenuates and cleanses 'T is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and for Fevers The Water distill'd from the blue Flowers is an excellent Remedy for Inflammations and Dimness of the Eyes The Leaves boyl'd and eaten with Vinegar cure a Gonorrhaea The Flowers of this Plant open and shut at Sun-rising
in Emulsions with other Seeds for a Pleurisie The tender Leaves the Prickles being cut off are boyl'd with Pot-herbs and eat very well 'T is kept in Gardens and is used in Sallets and the like Take of the Water of Ladies-Thistle ten Ounces of Eratick Poppy-water three Ounces of the Syrup of the same one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearl one Dram mix them Take six Spoonfuls every fourth Hour This Julap is used in a Peripneumonia or Inflammation of the Lungs The Blessed Thistle in Latin Carduus Benedictus The whole Plant is very bitter except the Root This Thistle was called Blessed or Holy for its excellent Virtues It was sent out of India to Frederick III. Emperor tho' it was afterwards found to grow of its own accord in Europe The Decoction of it is best 'T is commended for the Falling-sickness for Giddiness in the Head and Deafness also for the Cholick for the Stone in the Kidnies and for the Hip-Gout But it is chiefly prais'd for its Virtue against the Plague either taken inwardly for Prevention or to cure it by provoking Sweat or outwardly applied to break the Buboes Our People use it commonly in Posset-drink to promote Sweating And by taking a large quantity of it they cleanse the Stomach by Vomiting There is scarce any thing better for curing Putrid Ulcers A Woman whose Breasts were quite consum'd by a Cancer was restor'd to Health by the distill'd Water of it and by sprinkling the Powder of the Leaves on the Ulcers A Girl that took Poyson was cured by the use of this Water when Treacle and other Alexipharmicks would do no good 'T is also much commended for the Scurvy Take of Carduus-water compounded and Scordium-water each three Ounces Treacle-water two Ounces make a Julap Take six Spoonfuls every sixth Hour This is good in the Plague Thorn-Apple in Latin Stramonium An Ointment made of the Juice of the Leaves and Lard is very good for Burns and Scalds The Seed powder'd and taken in Beer occasions Madness for twenty four Hours Thieves give it to those they intend to rob And Wenches give half a Dram of it to their Lovers in Beer or Wine Some are so well skill'd in Dosing of it that they can make Men mad for as many Hours as they please Thorow-wax in Latin Perfoliata The Root is single white and woody and tastes sweet It has one small stiff smooth round channel'd concave jointed Stalk a Foot or two Foot high of an Aromatick Smell when it is cut or broken The Leaves are almost oval smooth and bluish Little Nerves run obliquely from the Centre of the Leaf to the Circumference of it The Stalk passes through the Leaf which is divided into Branches at top whereon stand Tufts of small yellow Flowers The Seed is small and blackish The Decoction of the Herb in Wine or the Leaves powder'd are given for Ruptures and Contusions 'T is also used for the King's-Evil for Fractures and an Erysipelas Throat-wort in Latin Trachelium The Root is white and sweet The Stalks are three or four Foot high or higher about the thickness of the Little Finger they are channel'd hairy and purplish The Leaves are placed alternately on the Stalks they are hairy and like the Leaves of Nettles the Under are placed on long Foot-stalks the Upper on short ones The Flowers are like a Bell and of a bluish Colour The whole Plant especially the Root is astringent and drying and therefore the Decoction of it is good to be used at the Beginning of Ulcers and Inflammations of the Mouth and Tonsils and for other Diseases that require astringent Remedies Wild Thyme in Latin Serpyllum It grows on Hills and dry Grounds 'T is hot and dry It forces the Courses and Urine 'T is Cephalick Uterine and Stomachick 'T is good for Spitting of Blood and Convulsions and for Gripes Outwardly applied it cures Head-aches and Giddiness and disposes to Sleep Toad-flax in Latin Linaria lutea vulgaris It creeps much with white hard woody Roots It has many Stalks a Foot or two Foot high they are smooth and bluish they have many sharp narrow Leaves plac'd disorderly they are branchy at top The yellow Flowers are placed on a Spike at the top of the Branches each on a short Foot-stalk The Seed is round The whole Plant tastes bitterish and a little acrid A small Glass of the distill'd Water with a Dram of the Powder of Ground-Elder mix'd with it evacuates Urine powerfully in a Dropsie The Water also purges by Stool and cures the Jaundice but especially the Decoction of the Herb in Wine which also opens Obstructions of the Liver The Water or the Juice drop'd into the Eyes cure Inflammations and Redness of them Rags dip'd in the Water cleanse Ulcers And the Juice takes off Spots from the Face Take of the Herb and Flowers a sufficient quantity boyl them with Lard till it is very green and make an Ointment When you use it mix a Yolk of an Egg with it This is good to take off the Pain of the Piles Tobacco in Latin Nicotiana It resists Putrefaction provokes Sneezing is Anodyne Vulnerary and vomits Being smoak'd it stops Catarrhs disposes to Rest takes off Weariness and suppresses Mother-fits and is a good Preservative against the Plague A Gargarism of it cures the Tooth-ach and dissolves Tumours of the Uvula A Bath of it or the green Leaves applied cure a Leprosie the Itch and Lice It heals Wounds and cleanses Ulcers and cures Burns The Smoaking of Tobacco strengthens the Stomach helps Concoction and gently moves the Belly But it is not good for People of an hot Constitution The Pain of the Teeth is cured by stopping those that are hollow with Calcin'd Tobacco For the Palsie Take the green Leaves and infuse them in Malaga-Wine and rub the Parts well with it after Sweating This is the best outward Remedy for a Palsie A Nobleman that was extreamly fat was reduc'd to an ordinary Size by chewing Tobacco which also does good in an Asthma 'T is of great use in Camps where there is many times Scarcity of Victuals and Cholicks and the like The Fume of Tobacco blown up into the Bowels is a most effectual Clyster in the Cholick It also cures Mother-fits and Fainting being blown upon the Matrix The Greater Tooth-wort in Latin Dentaria major The Root is soft white and juicy and consists of many Scales The Stalk is about as thick as the Little Finger nine Inches high or higher round and juicy easily broken cover'd with a thin Membrane and full of a juicy Pulp It has some Membranaceous Ears like Leaves placed by Intervals It has many gaping light purplish Flowers that hang on short Foot-stalks The Seed is round 'T is excellent for Ruptures for inward Wounds and for Diseases rising from Defluxions two Drams of the Powder being taken in Broth for forty Days together Tormentil in Latin Tormentilla The Root is sometimes as thick as the Thumb sometimes it grows streight sometimes
Species of Hyera Picra one Ounce of Canary-wine one Pint keep them close stopped in a Glass and shake it every Day till it is deeply tinctur'd let it stand till it is clear Four or five Spoonfuls more or less may be taken at a time according to the Strength of the Body It strengthens the Stomach quickens the Appetite opens Obstructions and purges Choler Flegm and Melancholy Pulvis Thuraloes is made in the following manner Take of Frankincense one Dram of Aloes half a Dram make it of the Consistence of Hony with the White of an Egg when you use it mix with it Hare-down apply it to the Wound and bind it on This is frequently used to stop Bleeding Amomum It heats dries and is astringent It disposes to Rest takes off Pain Being applied to the Fore-head it concocts and discusses Inflammations and the Tumour called Meliceres Mix'd with Basil and applied it relieves those that are bitten by Vipers it cases those that have the Gout it takes off Inflammations of the Eyes The Decoction of it is also good in the Stone of the Kidnies and the Gout 'T is mix'd with Antidotes and Precious Ointments and that was the chief Use the Ancients made of it Take of the Seeds of Angelica skin'd one Pound and an half of Sweet Fennel and Liquorish each four Ounces of Raisins ston'd one Pound of the Leaves of Mugwort and Balm each four Handfuls of Carduus and Penny-royal each two Handfuls of the Seed of Amomum four Ounces of Milk and Wine six Quarts distil them according to Art This is a Prolifick Water Anacardium Occidentale Cajou dictum 'T is called by some Cajou or Cassu-tree From the Fruit of it is press'd out a Liquor which being duly fermented becomes Vinous and Intoxicating The Fruit roasted is much better than Chesnuts and tastes as pleasantly as Almonds When it is raw it cannot be eaten safely for it takes off the Skin of the Mouth and occasions great Pain it being very acrid and rough But when Water or Wine with a little Salt is mix'd with it the Acrimony is much abated and it becomes very palatable It strengthens the Stomach and helps Fermentation and takes off Vomiting and Nauseousness The Indians use them being a little toasted to provoke Venery The Juice of it stops a Loosness and cures a Diabetes The Oyl of it is much used by Painters and makes a very lasting Black It also cures the Itch and other Vices of the Skin It grows plentifully in Malabar Anacardiums or Malacca-beans in Latin Anacardium The Arabians say that Anacardiums are hot and dry to the fourth Degree and that they are of a Caustick Nature and will exulcerate the Skin and take off Warts But Experience contradicts them They strengthen the Brain and Animal Spirits and dry and heat gently They comfort the Stomach They are counted by all an excellent Medicine to quicken the Memory It groweth in many Parts of India Anime Gummi 'T is two-fold Oriental and Occidental The Occidental is the Tears or White Resin of a Tree growing in New-Spain 'T is somewhat like Frankincense it has a pleasant and sweet Smell 'T is not so clear and shining as the Oriental The chief use of Anime Gummi is External in cold and painful Diseases of the Head and Nerves for Catarrhs and Flatulent Diseases also for Diseases of the Joints the Palsie Contusions and the like 'T is mix'd with Plasters for the same use Anise in Latin Anisum The Seed is chiefly used the Herb it self but rarely and the Root of it never It heats dries is Cephalick Epatick Pneumonick and Stomachick 'T is used for Wind in the Stomach a Cough and the like 'T is more agreeable to the Stomach than any other Medicine that is used to expel Wind it has less Acrimony and is sweeter The Ancients extoll'd it wonderfully for a cold and moist Stomach wherefore they used it in Pains of the Head proceeding from the Stomach for Watchings and a Loosness occasion'd by Crudities It provokes Urine and stimulates Venery 'T is baked with Bread and candied and so used It expels Wind and cures a Stinking Breath The Oyl of it is used against Wind and for a Cough proceeding from a cold Cause Anise-seed-water is good for those that are Short-breath'd and that are troubled with Heart-burning Heurnius says That the Powder or Decoction of it is better in the Cholick and Difficulty of Urine than the Oyl which they are to take notice of that value nothing but Chimical Preparations A Scruple of the Seed powder'd grosly is good for the Gripes in Children In Flatulent Hickups let the Sick always chew the Seed The same is good for the Cholick Take of the double Flowers of Camomile thirty Handfuls cut them and beat them and infuse them in five Quarts of camomile-Camomile-water and eight Quarts of Spanish Wine mix'd twenty four Hours press them out and infuse again twenty Handfuls of the Flowers as before press them out infuse again a third time twelve Handfuls of the Flowers add two Ounces of the yellow Pill of fresh Oranges two Ounces and an half of the Leaves of Roman Wormwood Centory Penny-royal Wild Marjoram of the Seeds of Dill two Ounces of the Seeds of Annise Fennel Caraways Cummin Blessed Thistle Mary's Thistle each one Ounce and an half of the Berries of Lawrel and Juniper each half an Ounce of Nutmegs three Ounces having digested them a sufficient time distil them according to Art Two or three Spoonfuls of this Water may be taken at a time for the Cholick and Wind in the Stomach Take of the Flowers of Brimstone one Part of Oyl of Annise-seeds four parts digest them till the Brimstone is dissolv'd and till the Balsam is red This is called Balsam of Sulphure annisated 'T is good for Coughs and Obstructions of the Lungs and Consumptions If the Sick hath not a Fever five or six Drops may be taken at a time mix'd with Sugar The following Electuary was frequently used by Dr. Coish who was an excellent Practitioner and a Man of good Reputation in London Take of Annise-seeds finely powder'd of the Powder of Liquorish each three Drams of the Flower of Sulphure one Dram and an half with two Ounces and an half of the best Hony make an Electuary to which add fifteen Drops of Balsam of Sulphure and ten Drops of Oyl of Annise-seeds This is excellent for Coughs and at the Beginning of Consumptions Take two Drams of it in the Morning and at Bed-time Balls for Colds in Horses are made in the following manner Take of the Powders of the Seeds or Fenugreek Annise Cummin Bastard-Saffron Elecampane of the Leaves of Colt's foot and Flower of Sulphure each two Ounces of Juice of Liquorish dissolv'd in half a Pint of White-wine one Ounce of Oyl of Olives and Hony each eight Ounces of Januen's Treacle twelve Ounces of Oyl of Annise-seeds one Ounce mingle them all together and with a Pound and an
they are best boyl'd and when they are green as are Pease and Beans but they are windy They provoke Venery they cleanse open incide digest provoke Urine and lessen the Stone but they hurt the Bladder when it is ulcerated They gently move the Belly The Broth of them doth good in the Jaundice A Decoction of them kills Worms moves the Courses expels the Child and breeds Milk In Cataplasms they cure the Swellings under the Ears called Parotides and Inflammations of the Testicles and Malignant Ulcers We most commonly make use of them only in Difficulty of Urine But Practitioners should take care that they do not use them too often to those that have Ulcers in those Parts They are sown every where in Italy Spain and France Take of the Root of Liquorish four Scruples of Marsh-mallows Grass and Rest-harrow each half an Ounce of the Berries of Winter-Cherries number Twenty of Red Chick-pease four Ounces of Currants one Ounce of the four greater Cold Seeds one Scruple of Barly two Handfuls boyl them in the Water of Winter-Cherries Rest-harrow Strawberries and Flowers of Beans each one Pint and on half to the strain'd Liquor add four Ounces of the Syrup of Marsh-mallows A Person that was grievously afflicted with the Stone in the Bladder was much reliev'd by taking of this Decoction daily for the space of seventeen Weeks Cinnamon in Latin Cinnamomum The Diversity of the Nature of this Tree is wonderful for from the Bark of the Root is distill'd Camphir and its Oyl from the Bark of the Trunk Oyl of Cinnamon from the Leaves ' Oyl of Cloves from the Fruit an Oyl like the Oyl of Juniper mix'd with a little of Cinnamon and Cloves Of these is boyl'd up a fat thick Oyl like Wax fit to make Plasters Ointments and Candles 'T is hard and clear and of a fragrant Smell The Inhabitants use it in Ointments to ease Pain but they dare not make Candles of it for none are permitted to use Candles besides the King of the Country The Leaves of it smell more like Cloves than Cinnamon The Bark of the Root given in a Decoction or the Powder of it taken with Sugar and Hony is good for a Cough The Bark of the Twigs used in a Decoction is good for the Wind. The same given in Powder with hot Water eases the Pain of the Belly and stops a Flux arising from Cold. Our People use it successfully boyl'd in Milk or Posset-drink to stop a Loosness A Decoction of it in Red Wine stops an immoderate Flux of the Courses The Juice of the Leaves given with Sugar and Pepper do good for Pains of the Belly and the Flatulent Matter of the Reins The Powder of the Leaves with Sugar are good for Giddiness of the Head As also are the Flowers taken with Sugar in cold Water The Oyl which is drawn from the Bark of the Root hath many excellent Virtues 'T is very good in all Paralytick Diseases being used outwardly in time 'T is a present Remedy for the Gout presently asswaging the violent Pain of the Parts as soon as they are anointed with it It doth also good taken inwardly 'T is also of excellent use taken inwardly for curing an Asthma and other Diseases of the Lungs 'T is also good to correct the Malignity of Fevers It forces Sweat and is very proper to be used in Gangrens Mortifications and Malignant Ulcers for Pains of the Limbs of the Belly and of the Eyes and for Tumors of the Members proceeding from Cold and Flegmatick Humours It restores the Sense of Parts that are stupified 'T is good for Rheums The Oyl of the Bark of the Tree is good for Diseases of the Stomach and for the Gripes The Water of Cinnamon is counted Cordial The Oyl of the Leaves is good in the Cholick and very proper in the Palsie Cinnamon is good for all Obstructions and for Diseases of the Breast Oyl or Essence of Cinnamon and its Aetherial-water is made in the following manner Bruise four Pounds of good Cinnamon and infuse it in six Quarts of hot Water leave it in digestion in an Earthen Vessel well stop'd two Days pour the Infusion into a large Copper Limbeck and fitting a Receiver to it and luting close the Junctures with a wet Bladder distil with a pretty good Fire three or four Pints of the Liquor then unlute the Limbeck and pour into it by Inclination the distil'd Waters you will find at bottom a little Oyl which you must pour into a Viol and stop it close distil the Liquor as before then returning the Water into the Limbeck take the Oyl you find at the bottom of the Receiver and mix it with the first Repeat this Cohobation until there rises no more Oyl then take away the Fire Tincture of Cinnamon is made in the following manner Take what quantity of bruised Cinnamon you please put it into a Matrass and pour upon it Spirit of Wine one Fingure above it stop your Matrass close and set it in Digestion in Horse-dung four or five Days the Spirit of Wine will be impregnated with the Tincture of Cinnamon and become red separate it from the Cinnamon and after it is filtrated keep the Tincture in a Viol well stop'd 'T is an admirable Cardiack it fortifies the Stomach and rejoyces all the Vital Parts It may be used like cinnamon-Cinnamon-water in a little smaller Dose cinnamon-Cinnamon-water is made in the following manner Take of bruised Cinnamon a Pound and an half Spanish Wine a Quart infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four Hours then distil them in a Limbeck draw off three Pints of Strong-water sweeten'd with Sugar and keep it for use 'T is good in a weak Stomach and is Cordial Syrup of Cinnamon of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the best Cinnamon beaten a little three Ounces infuse it three Days in hot Fountain-water afterwards distil it in B. M. take a Pint of this Water of Clarified Sugar boyl'd over a gentle Fire to the Consistence of Tablets have a Pound Make a Syrup The Cinnamon-tree and the Cassia-tree seem to be the same The Cinnamon-tree grows as commonly in the Island of Zeiland in the Hedges and Woods as the Hazel-tree doth in our Country and the Inhabitants value it no more for they commonly make Fires of it and cut it for any common use Common Cinque-foil or Five-leav'd Grass in Latin Pentaphyllum Vulgatissimum 'T is Vulnerary and Astringent It stops Fluxes of the Belly Bleeding at Nose and the Hemorrhoids 'T is good for Spitting of Blood and a Cough 'T is also commended for a Palsie a Consumption the Gout and Jaundice 'T is also reckon'd good for the Stone and Erosions of the Kidnies for Ruptures and Fevers 'T is used outwardly for the Eyes when they are inflam'd the Juice of it being drop'd into them And also for Loosness of the Teeth and putrid Gums It cleanses also malignant Ulcers The Astringent Virtue of it is
Ounces dissolve it with the Heat of a Bath in a Pint of the Juice of Barberries clarified it must be put into a Matrass well stop'd and having digested it three or four Days pour off that which is dissolv'd and pour on more Juice as before and so proceed till all the Coral is dissolv'd add a Pound and an half of Sugar to one Pint of this Juice and boyl it gently to a Syrup in B. M. Compound Syrup of Coral is made in the following manner Take of Red Coral ground fine upon a Porphyry-stone with a little rose-Rose-water six Ounces of the clear Juice of Limons freed from its Flegm in B. M. sixteen Ounces of the clear Juice of Barberries eight Ounces of sharp white-White-wine Vinegar and of clear Juice of Wood-Sorrel each six Ounces mingle them and put them into a Viol stop'd close with a Cork and a Bladder shaking it daily till it hath digested eight Days in a Bath or Horse-dung then filtrate and take of it a Pint and an half and of the Juice of Quinces half a Pint of Sugar of Roses twelve Ounces mingle them make a Syrup according to Art in a Bath adding of Syrup of Gillyflowers sixteen Ounces keep it for use Syrup of Coral is very cooling 'T is good in Fevers for Fluxes the Running of the Reins the Whites in Women and for Spitting of Blood Coral grows plentifully in Spain and Catalonia sometimes the Branches of it are so large as to weigh three or four Pounds Coral-tree in Latin Arbor Corallii Sheaths for Swords and Knives are made of the Root of it The Leaves powder'd and boyl'd to the thickness of an Ointment cure Venerial Buboes and asswage the Pain of the Bones Rub'd and applied to the Temples they ease the Head-ach and cure Ulcers The Cork-tree in Latin Suber The Bark of it rub'd in hot Water stops a Flux of Blood The Ashes of it do the same But it is chiefly used to Anchors for Ships and for Fishing-Tackling and to stop Bottles In some part of Spain they make Tiles of it to cover their Houses It grows in Spain and in some other Places Costus It heats much forces Urine and the Courses and is good for Diseases of the Womb. Half an Ounce of it taken in a proper Liquor is good for the Biting of Vipers It stimulates Venery and expels broad Worms by reason of the Bitterness that is in it Cotton in Latin Gossipium 'T is commonly used to line Clothes to keep out the Cold And there is no sort of Flax so soft and white as it is As to its use in Physick being burnt it stops Bleeding especially Wounds The Marrow of the Seed wonderfully relieves those that are subject to Coughs and Difficulty of Breathing It increases Seed and is a Provocative to Venery The Oyl of the Pith of the Seed takes off Spots from the Skin The Down fired and put under the Nostrils prevents Mother-fits It grows in the Island of Crete betwixt Jerusalem and Damascus where there are whole Fields Sown with it Couhage or Cow-itch in Latin Phaseolus Zurratensis The Bristles of the Cods occasion violent Itching Indian Cress in Latin Nasturtium Indicum The Flowers of it smell and look very pleasantly in Sallets 'T is good for a weak and cold Stomach and for Wind. It grows in Peru. Crown-Imperial in Latin Corona Imperialis It came from Constantinople but it grows now frequently in our Gardens here in England and flowers in April and sometimes in March if that Season of the Year be warmer than ordinary The Turks use the Drops in the Flower to make them vomit And some use them to hasten Delivery Cumin in Latin Cuminum The Seed of it resolves and discusses Wind and therefore is good in the Cholick for a Timpany and a Vertigo Taken in Sweet Wine it relieves those that are afflicted with a Difficulty and Heat of Urine Boyl'd with Figs in Wine it cures a Cough and cleanses the Breast 'T is conveniently baked with Bread for it helps Concoction and dissipates Wind. But the frequent use of it in a large quantity renders the Countenance pale It cures a Stinking Breath The Chymical Oyl of it is excellent for Wind and Uterine Diseases An Empirick had mighty Success by pouring some Drops of it upon a Toast and applying it to the Navel 'T is sown in abundance in the Island of Melita The Plaster of Cumin of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the Seeds of Cumin of Lawrel-berries and Yellow Wax each one Pound of Rosin of the Pine two Pounds of common Rosin two Pounds of Oyl of Dill half a Pound mingle them and make a Plaster 'T is good for Windy Ruptures and the like Cubebs in Latin Cubebae Cubebs are like Pepper and sometimes a little larger They heat and dry They strengthen the Stomach when it is oppress'd with Wind or Flegm They purge the Breast by carrying off clammy and gross Humours They releive the Spleen and expel Wind and cure cold Diseases of the Womb. Being chew'd with Mastick often they strengthen the Brain and draw Flegm from the Head Being infus'd in Wine they provoke Venery and heat the Stomach they cleanse the Urinary Passages and expel Gravel from the Reins and Bladder They are an Ingredient in the Compound Spirit and Water of Worm-wood of the London-Dispensatory Sweet Cyperus in Latin Cyperus longus The Root of it is Stomachick and Uterine 'T is chiefly used in provoking Urine and the Courses It takes off Crudities of the Stomach and cures the Dropsie at the Beginning and the Cholick and cures a Stinking Breath being chew'd in the Mouth Being bruis'd and boyl'd or infus'd in Oyl and applied to the Reins it expels Gravel and provokes Urine If the Roots are powder'd and mix'd with Hony and Sugar and a little Wine and boyl'd together and then cut into Slices and infus'd in Broth they taste like Candied Ginger The Twigs and Roots dried in the Sun and sprinkled with Vinegar and beat to pieces perfume Clothes The Spanish and Italian Women use the Roots of it so prepar'd for Perfumes One Dram of the Powder of the Root with a Spike of Lavender hastens Delivery and expels the Secundine Take of the Roots of Elecampane Sweet-smelling Flag and Cyperus each half an Ounce of the Leaves of Mint Sage Marjoram Calamint and Wormwood each half an Handful of Cyperus-nuts Myrtles Galls and Balaustians each one Dram of Red Roses one Pugil boyl them in equal parts of Smith's Water and Red Wine to a Quart in the strain'd Liquor dissolve one Ounce of Salt and Allum foment the Region of the Pubis and Perinaeum hot Morning and Evening This is commended for an Incontinence of Urine D. DAte-tree in Latin Dactylus 'T is astringent and is used for Fluxes of the Belly and the Whites It stops Bleeding and cures Wounds The Fresh are more astringent than the Dry but they occasion the Head-ach and if many of
them all according to Art and then add to each Pound of this Confection two Ounces of Venice-Treacle and Mithridate This is the Orvictan so much cried up by some G. GAlangal in Latin Galanga major The Root of it is good in all Cases wherein Ginger is used and it is wont to be candied like Ginger It provokes Appetite as Capers and Olives do The fresh Root of either of them cut into Slices is boyl'd with Flesh and Fish for the same purpose 'T is also eaten raw with Oyl Salt and Vinegar with Fish and Flesh to help Concoction 'T is used in the cold Diseases of Men and Beasts 'T is Cephalick Cardiack and Stomachick It strengthens the Stomach and takes off Sowr Belching Being chew'd in the Mouth it discusses Wind and cures a Stinking Breath It does good in the Cholick heats the Reins and provokes Venery Candied with Sugar it is good for cold Diseases of the Head and Nerves It cures the Head-ach and eases the Pain of the Limbs 'T is good for the Palpitation of the Heart used with the Juice of Plantane The Powder of it taken in good Wine or Balm-water or in the Juice of Borrage cures Fainting proceeding from a cold Cause The Germans use to give it to those that are about to be Let Blood to chew it in their Mouths to prevent Fainting It grows spontaneously in Malabar and Java Galbanum 'T is a fat Juice but cannot be dissolv'd with Oyl in Water it may 'T is of a middle Nature betwixt a Gum and a Resin for it will burn like Resin and dissolve in Water like a Gum. 'T is of a yellow Colour and of a soft Substance like Wax It tastes bitterish and acrid and smells very strong The chief use of it is to mollifie and digest 'T is used inwardly to provoke the Courses to hasten Delivery to expel the Secundine and a dead Child 'T is also outwardly used in Child-bearing for the Courses for Mother-fits and for Giddiness The Fume of it is good in the Falling-sickness for Mother-fits and for Fainting and the like 'T is said by some of the Ancients that he that washes his Hands with a Solution of it may safely handle Serpents But the Truth of it may be well doubted Take of Galbanum and choice Myrrh each one Dram and an half of Castor sixteen Grains with a sufficient quantity of the Balsam of Peru Make twelve Pills of each Dram Give three at Bed-time drinking upon them three or four Spoonfuls of compound-briony-Compound-Briony-water Continue the use of these Pills thirty Days These Pills are very proper in Hysterick Diseases Take of Galbanum dissolv'd in Tincture of Castor and strain'd three Drams Tacamahaca two Drams mingle them make a Plaster to be applied to the Navel This Plaster is very proper in Hysterick Diseases 'T is an Ingredient of several Plasters of the London-Dispensatory as of the Plaster of Ammoniacum Barbarum Magnum of the Plaster of Cinnabar and of the Compound Diachylon of the Plaster of Mucilages of the Divine Plaster and some others The way to purifie it is to dissolve it in Vinegar then passing it through a Cloth all the Moisture is to be evaporated away over the Fire By this means it is cleans'd indeed from Straws and some other Impurities that are contain'd in it But then part of its Volatile Spirits is evaporated at the same time and in them consists its greatest Virtue while some others are fix'd by the Acid which always hinders the Motion of Volatiles Wherefore I would never advise this Purification I had rather after chusing it as clean as may be only powder it in a Mortar to mix it with what may be thought fit for tho' there should be some little Straws in it they would never be able to alter the nature of the Remedy or diminish its Virtue so much as does the Destruction of its Volatile Salts by the Vinegar But because it is too moist to be powder'd you must first cut it into little Slices and dry it in the Sun 'T is a Tear of the Herb called Faerula Common Great Gentian in Latin Gentiana major The Root of it which is chiefly used is Alexipharmick 'T is used in the Plague and other Contagious Diseases for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and the like 'T is good for a Dropsie Mother-fits Weakness of the Stomach the Worms Agues and for the Biting of a Mad Dog 'T is frequently used outwardly to dilate Ulcers and to make Issues run The compound-Compound-water of Gentian of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the Roots of Gentian cut one Pound and an half of the Leaves and Flowers of the Lesser Centory each four Ounces infuse them for the space of eight Days in six Quarts of white-White-wine and then distil them in B. M. This Water is a good Preservative against Ill Air and and Contagious Diseases It opens Obstructions of the Liver strengthens the Stomach creates an Appetite and helps Digestion 'T is good for the Jaundice and opens Women's Obstructions The Extract of Gentian is also much in use The Root powder'd and made into an Electuary with Conserve of Orange-peels and Conserve of Hips strengthens the Stomach creates an Appetite and expels Wind and helps Concoction Ginger in Latin Zinziber It grows in all the Provinces of India 'T is candied green in India and is good for Old People and such as are cold and flegmatick and for such whose Stomachs do not concoct well especially when it is fresh candied 'T is also good for Viscid Flegm of the Lungs The Indians use the Leaves of Ginger in Broths and for the Kitchin They also use the Roots of it green with Oyl and Salt mix'd with other Herbs Fresh Ginger is reckon'd by them an excellent Remedy for Cholical Pains and for the Caeliack and Lientaerick Passions 'T is also good for long Diarrhaea's proceeding from Cold and also for Wind and the Gripes and the like But it is to be noted that they who are of a hot Constitution ought not to use it whether they are sick or well for it inflames the Blood and opens the Orifices of the Veins But Ginger and Pepper are more used in the Kitchin than in Physick 'T is mix'd with purging Medicines that are strong to correct them It cleanses the Lungs and Stomach strengthens the Brain and clears the Sight when it is dulled by moisture It strengthens the Stomach and is mix'd with Antidotes 'T is an Ingredient in the Cardiack Syrup of the Cardiack Julep of the London-Dispensatory Goards in Latin Curcurbitae It quenches Thirst provokes Urine lessens Seed and extinguishes Venery 'T is used in Meats prepar'd in the following manner They boyl the inner and white Substance with the unripe and soft Seeds afterwards they cut them small with Onions and boyl them with Salt and Butter and then they are much like Headed Cabbage cut and boyl'd They are very good for lean People The Italians cut
of strong Cinnamon-water and soon after if the Vomiting be stop'd let him take the Jesuit's-powder For Infants whose tender Age can scarce bear this Remedy in any other Form at least so much of it as may be sufficient to cure the Disease I prescribe the following Julap Take of black-cherry-Black-Cherry-water and rhenish-Rhenish-wine each two Ounces of the Jesuit's-powder three Drams of Syrup of July-flowers one Ounce mingle them and make a Julap give a Spoonful or two according to the Age of the Child every fourth Hour till the Disease is cured dropping into every other Dose if there be a Loosness a Drop or two of Liquid Laudanum As to Diet let the Sick eat and drink what his Stomach craves Summer-Fruits and cold Liquors only excepted and let him drink Wine moderately for his ordinary Drink by which alone I have recover'd some whose Bodies by reason of the frequent Returns of the Ague have always eluded the Salutiferous Virtue of the Bark The Disease being taken off all manner of Evacuations are carefully to be avoided for the gentlest Purge nay a Clyster only of Milk and Sugar will be apt to occasion a Relapse But this excellent Bark does not only cure Agues 't is also frequently used by the best Physicians for Continual Fevers in the Gout and for Hysterick Diseases and the Fever that accompanies Consumptions commonly called the Hectick Fever the Bark being given in Infusion and sweeten'd with Syrup of Rasberries But if with an Hectick Fever the Consumptive Patient be also afflicted with a Loosness which commonly ends the Tragedy the following Pills are of excellent use Take of the Lemnian Earth half a Scruple of Bole-Armoniack twelve Grains of the Pill de Stirace one Dram and an half of the Jesuit's-powder half an Ounce of Syrup of July-flowers a sufficient quantity make fourscore Pills let him take five every six Hours during the Loosness dringing upon them seven Spoonfuls of the following Julap Take of the Aqua-lactis Alexiteria twelve Ounces of Cinnamon-water hordeated three Ounces of Dr. Stephens's Water and Epidemick-water each two Ounces of Diacodium three Ounces The following Medicine is commended for a Consumption Take of the Peruvian Bark one Ounce of the Balsam of Tolu three Drams of Cochinel one Scruple boyl them in a Pint of Carduus Benedictus-water strain it and add of Syrup of Rasberries and Epidemick-water each two Ounces Take four Spoonfuls twice a Day Some adp to the Infusion of this Bark the Lesser Centory Wormwood Charvil Juniper-berries the Bark of the Alder-tree Saxifrage Salt of Tartar and divers other Ingredients but the Basis of all is the Peruvian Bark the rest of the Ingredients do no great Good Tincture of the Peruvian Bark is made in the following manner Put into a Bolt-head four Ounces of good Bark grosly powder'd pour upon it Spirit of Wine four Fingers high above the Matter fit to it another Matrass in order to make a double Vessel lute well the Junctures and place your Vessel to digest in Horse-dung or in a Vaporous Bath four Days stir it from time to time the Spirit of Wine will load it self with a Red Colour unlute the Vessels filtrate the Tincture through Brown Paper and keep it in a Viol well stopped 'T is a Febrifuge to be given in Agues three or four times a Day after the Fit and to be continued for a Fortnight The Dose is from ten Drops to a Dram in some proper Liquor as in centory-Centory-water Juniper wormwood-Wormwood-Water or Wine If you put new Spirit of Wine to the Matter which remains in the Matrass and set it in Digestion as before you will draw more Tincture but it will not be so strong as the other wherefore you must give it in a larger Dose Extract of Peruvian Bark is made in the following manner Put to infuse warm twenty four Hours eight Ounces of Peruvian Bark in a sufficient quantity of distill'd Water of Nuts afterwards boyl the Infusion gently and strain it make a strong Expression of the Residence put it to infuse in new Water of Nuts boyl it and strain it as before mix together what you have strain'd let them settle and decant the clear Liquor and evaporate it in a Glass or Earthen Vessel set in a Sand-heat unto the Consistence of thick Hony It has the same Virtues as the former The Dose is from twelve Grains to half a Dram in Pills or dissolv'd in Wine Sir Robert Tabar was the first that found out the true Dose or Quantity of it for curing Agues for he did not stand upon Scruples but gave Drams and Ounces of it and so it answer'd his End and render'd him and the Bark famous Being once requir'd by some Physicians to desine what an Ague was he answer'd That an Ague was a Disease that he could cure and they could not 'T is to be noted that the Bark when it is old is as effectual to cure Agues as when it is fresh and in one respect much better for the Purgative Quality which is observ'd to be in the fresh Bark goes off in time Spon in his Book of Observations Sur les Fievres les Febrifuges says That by diligent Search he had found that the Peruvian Bark did not come from the Trunk or Branches but from the Root for he had tried some of the Bark of the Trunk and Branches that was sent to him and it was not at all bitter Which Observation may be of some use to those in our World who endeavour to find a Succedaneum for it I says he have made some Trials in this Matter The Bark of the Root of the Peach-tree is very rough and a little bitter upon which Account it is undoubtedly very proper for a Loosness The Bark of the Roots of the Ash is also rough and pungently acrid by reason of abundance of Salt contain'd in it which gives it its Febrifuge Virtue Lastly The Bark of the Roots of the Black-Cherry-tree is rough and bitter and therefore the Powder of it given in a Quartan-Ague lessens the Fits but does not quite take them off Yet says he I do not question but that it will cure Fevers being given orderly and in a due quantity Florentine Iris in Latin Iris Florentina The Root of it hang'd in Wine or Beer keeps the Beer sweet and imparts a pleasant Smell to the Wine and makes it taste as if Rasberries were mix'd with it 'T is also much used by Bakers to make Leaven for Wheaten Bread Many Virtues are attributed by Ancient and Modern Authors to this Plant. 'T is chiefly used for Obstructions of the Lungs for a Cough Asthma Obstructions of the Courses and for Children's Gripes Outwardly used with Hellebore and Hony it cleanses the Skin from Spots 'T is frequently used in Sweet Powders for the Hair 'T is also good for the Dropsie and the Jaundice it purges Water powerfully The Juice of the Root is given for this purpose from half an Ounce to an Ounce and an
half A Gentlewoman cured several People of Dropsies only by giving the Juice of this Root She order'd them to take four Spoonfuls every Morning in six Spoonfuls of white-White-wine An Ounce of the fresh Juice has been used with good Success in a desperate Obstruction of the Belly It purges Flegm Water and Choler But it is now-a-days only used for Dropsies Take of the Roots of Florentine-Iris and Hermodactiles powder'd each six Drams of the Plaister Oxycroceum and of the Mucilages each two Ounces of the Resin of Pine one Ounce mix them and moisten them with Oyl of Worms and make a Plaster This is used for the Gout Take of the Roots of Florentine-Iris twelve Ounces of the Wood of Rhodim two Ounces of the Leaves of Marjoram three Drams of Cloves one Ounce of Limon-peel five Drams of Cyperus-root one Ounce of Sweet-smelling Flag six Drams of Damask-Roses four Ounces of Red Roses two Ounces of Benzoyn Styrax and Calamit each one Ounce of Labdanum half an Ounce make a gross Powder This is a sweet Powder and is very proper to sprinkle amongst Clothes to preserve them from the Moth. If all the aforesaid Ingredients are distill'd with Strong Beer in a common Still six Grains of Musk being tied up in a Rag and hang'd in the Receiver you will have a Perfum'd Water that is very fit for Funerals Jujubs in Latin Jujubae They are moderately hot and moist They attemperate the Sharpness of the Blood and are good for Diseases of the Breast and Lungs for Coughs Difficulty of Breathing for Diseases of the Reins and Bladder and for Heat of Urine The Syrup of Jujubs of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of Jujubs number Sixty of the Flowers of Violets five Drams of Liquorish rasp'd and bruis'd of the Leaves of Maiden-hair and of French-Barly each one Ounce of the Seeds of Mallows five Drams of the Seeds of White Poppies Melons Lettice and of Quinces and Gum-Tragacanth tied up in a Rag by themselves each three Drams boyl them in three Quarts of Fountain-water till half is consum'd strain it and clarifie the Liquor and with two Pounds of White Sugar make a Syrup 'T is a good cooling Syrup and proper for Coughs Pleurisies and for Ulcers of the Lungs and Bladder 'T is an Ingredient in the Lohoch Sanans of the London-Dispensatory and of the Pectoral Decoction K. KErmes or the Scarlet Oak in Latin Ilex Coccigera This little Tree grows on stony Hills about Monopeliar and in other Parts of France and in Italy But Clusius says it does not every where bear the Grains of Kermes for he says they are only to be found in those Regions which are near the Mediterranean Sea where the Sun shines very hot and not always there neither for when the Shrub grows so big as to bear Acorns the Kermes will not grow on it and therefore the Inhabitants burn them up when they are about four Years old that young ones may come in their Room which afterwards yearly have the Grain of Kermes sticking to them on the Branch like small Peas of an Ash-colour These Grains are counted by Philosophers and Botanists the Spurious or Excrementitious Fruit of the Scarlet-Oak only But the learned and ingenious Dr. Martin Lister found such kind of Grains growing in England upon the tender Branches of Cherry-trees and supposes that they are not Excrescencies but the Work of some Insect for receiving as in a Nest its young ones The Grains serve for two Uses for Medicine and for Dying of a Scarlet Colour They are astringent and are used successfully for Wounds and wounded Nerves They are also of good use to prevent Miscarriage and used by the Physicians of Montpeliar for sudden Accidents and Acute Diseases as for an Apoplexy Palsie and the like They are also used for the Palpitation of the Heart for Fainting and for Melancholy The Confection of Kermes of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the Juice of fragrant Apples and of the sweetest Water of Roses each one Pint and an half of the Syrup of the Grains of Kermes one Quart of Sugar one Pound boyl them almost to the Consistence of Hony then take it from the Fire and while it is hot add two Drams of Amber-Grease cut small and dissolv'd with some Drops of Oyl of Cinnamon which being well mix'd add the following things powder'd of choice Cinnamon and the best Wood of Aloes each six Drams of prepar'd Pearl two Drams of Leaf-Gold one Dram mix them according to Art The Syrup of Kermes mention'd in making Confection of Kermes is made in the following manner They beat the Grains in a Marble Mortar and pulp them through a Sieve and mix them with an equal quantity of Sugar this they call Conserve And by adding more Sugar Raw Silk the Juice of Apples and Rose-water they make a Syrup L. LArk-Spur in Latin Consolida Regalis The Juice of the Flowers and the distill'd Water clear the Sight and strengthen it And some say that looking always upon it does the same wherefore they take care to hang it always in sight 'T is successfully used in Vulnerary Potions a Decoction of the Flowers in Wine with a Dram of Saffron opens Obstructions Lead-wort in Latin Plumbago Plinii It cures Horses when they are galled and prevents Worms breeding in the Sores being bruis'd and applied Lignum-Aloes It heats and dries and comforts all the Bowels especially the Heart and Womb. It recreates the Vital and Animal Spirits and therefore is good for Fainting It kills Worms 'T is used frequently in Cordial Epithems Being chew'd in the Mouth and the Mouth wash'd with a Decoction of it it cures a Stinking Breath 'T is used for Perfumes and being dried and powder'd and sprinkled upon the Body it smells well A Dram of the Root taken inwardly removes superfluous Humours from the Stomach strengthens it and mitigates the Heat of it It eases the Pain of the Sides and Liver and does good in the Bloody-Flux and for the Gripes A piece of this Wood with the Gum sticking on it was presented to the Royal Society by the Honourable Mr. Boyle It tasted just like the Wood and the Colour of it was like pure Succotrine-Aloes 'T is said that a Milk flows from this Tree which is so virulent that if it chance to drop into the Eyes it occasions Blindness and if it fall upon any other part of the Body it causes Blisters and an Inflammation The true Lignum-Aloes grows in Malacca and in the Island Sumatra Take of Labdanum and Mastich each two Drams of Lignum-Aloes Storax-Calamit Cinnamon and Turpentine each one Dram of Myrtles and the Roots of Cyperus each half a Dram of the Juyce of Mint and Horse-tail extracted with Red Wine a sufficient quantity Make a Plaster to be applied to the Region of the Pubis and Perinaeum for an Incontinence of Urine Lignum-Colubrinum 'T is commended for expelling Poyson the
of Venice-Treacle and one Dram of Mithridate and four Ounces of strong Angelica-water mingle them The Dose is one Spoonful at a time for Preservation against the Plague and three at a time to cure it Pitch in Latin Pix 'T is the Resin of the Pine of the Firr-tree and some other Trees which is distill'd by Fire and boyl'd to a Consistence Pitch used in the manner of a Plaster pulls up Hairs by the Roots It mollifies suppurates discusses Swellings and incarns Ulcers Tar cures the Mange in Cattel and their Wounds and Ulcers and keeps the Fly from them In Norway they use Tar that is made of the Firr with good success in Malignant Fevers they mix it with Beer and drink it And they count dry Pitch a present Remedy for the Gout But the chief use of Pitch is for Shipping Lamb-Black is nothing but the Smoak of Pitch they that make it have Rooms that keep in all the Smoak and so they collect it Take of Liquid Pitch and of the Balsam of Tolu each twenty six Grains of Chios-Turpentine one Scruple with Powder of Crab's-eyes make a Mass whereof make Midling-Pills take three in the Morning and at Bed-time drinking upon them six Spoonfuls of the following Julap Take of hysop-Hysop-water one Pint of ground-ivy-Ground-Ivy-water six Ounces of the Tincture of the Balsam of Tolu one Dram and an half of White Sugar-candy a sufficient quantity These Pills are good in a Consumption The Plane-tree in Latin Platanus Orientalis Vera. The tender Leaves boyl'd in Wine and used in the manner of an Ointment stops Fluxions on the Eyes The Bark boyl'd in Vinegar is used for Pains of the Teeth but now-a-days it is not used in Physick The Lord Bacon that excellent Man whom all the World admires planted several of these Trees near Verulam Poley-Mountain in Latin Polium Montanum It provokes Urine and the Courses is good for Dropsies and the Jaundice and the Biting of Venomous Creatures 'T is an Ingredient in Treacle and Mithridate Sylvius commends it much for the Falling-sickness because it abounds with a Volatile Salt Pomegranate in Latin Malus Punica sive Granata It grows in France Italy and Spain The Apples are reckon'd to contain a good Juice that is agreeable to the Stomach but it yields little Nourishment Pomegranates with respect to their Taste are distinguish'd into Sweet Acid and Vinous The Sweet and the Syrup of them is used for Cronical Coughs and a Pleurifie but it is not good in Fevers because it occasions Wind and increases the Heat The Acid are cold and Astringent and Stomachick wherefore they and the Syrup of them are used to quench Thirst for Fevers the Running of the Reins for Ulcers of the Mouth and the like The Vinous are of a middle Nature betwixt Acid and Sweet they are Cordial and Cephalick and chiefly used for Fainting and Giddiness and the like The Juice is press'd out of these Apples for the aforesaid Uses and being fermented and clear'd is call'd Wine The Flowers are very astringent wherefore they are frequently used for Fluxes of all kinds The Powder of them being sprinkled upon Ulcers soon Cicatrises them and cures Ulcers of the Mouth The Bark is of the same Nature with the Flowers and is used to tan Leather and to make Ink instead of Galls A Decoction of it in Wine taken inwardly kills Worms especially those which are call'd Ascarides The Kernels cool and bind especially those of the Acid Apple In short the Flowers the Bark the Kernels and the Leaves are proper where there is need of Binding Syrup of Pomegranates of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of White Sugar a Pound and an half of the Juice of Pomegranates clarified a Pint make a Syrup in B. M. Caesalpinus says that the Juice press'd from the Pomegranate and the Peel of it purges yellow Choler But this must be understood of the Sweet Apples Take of Pomegranate-peel half an Ounce of Red Roses two Pugils boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Cow's Milk in half a Pint of the strained Liquor dissolve half an Ounce of Diascordium Make a Clyster This Dr. Sydenham commends much in a Loosness to stop it Potatoes in Latin Battata They are boyl'd or roasted under Ashes and eat better than our Turnips They grow in the New World and the neighbouring Islands from whence they were brought to Spain and from thence to other Parts of Europe Mock Privet in Latin Phillyrea The Leaves of it are astringent and a Decoction of them cures Ulcers of the Mouth And being taken inwardly it provokes Urine and the Courses Mock-Privet is much used to make Hedges in Gardens and is planted in Walks Psylium in English Flea-wort It grows commonly about Montpeliar and in Italy It evacuates yellow Choler and by its Mucilage blunts the Acrimony of the Humours and is therefore commended in a Dysentery and the like But it is suppos'd to be offensive to the Stomach and occasions Faintness if it be taken often For Pains proceeding from Inflammations of the Eyes Take of the Mucilage of the Seed of Flea-wort and Quinces made in Plantane and Rose-water each one Ounce and mix'd with five Grains of Camphire in the White of an Egg drop it into the Eyes When the Palate Uvula or Tongue are excoriated Purslain or Flea-wort-water does good Violent Pains of the Head proceeding from an hot Cause which other Remedies could not mitigate have been happily eas'd with an Epithem made of the Mucilage of the Seeds of Flea-wort extracted in Rose-water and mix'd with a little Vinegar Take of the Mucilage of the Seeds of Flea-wort or of Quinces extracted with the Water of Lettice or Roses half an Ounce of Syrup of Violets Limons or Pomegranates one Ounce and an half mingle them Let the Sick take a little by Intervals and hold it in his Mouth This is good for an Heat Drought or Foulness of the Tongue or Jaws Pulsatilla 'T is a Vulnerary Herb. The distill'd Water of it is excellent for cleansing and curing Wounds The Root of it is much commended by some for a Preservative from the Contagion of the Plague and against Poysons and for the Biting of Venomous Creatures two Drams of it being taken in Wine 'T is also mix'd with Antidotes But Tragus says that the Root dried provokes Sneezing and that being chew'd in the Mouth raw it evacuates Flegm Which argues that it is not gentle nor sweetish as Matthiolus says R. COmmon Reed in Latin Arundo Vallatoria The Root of it boyl'd in Water or Wine and taken inwardly provokes the Courses and Urine The Decoction of it in Wine takes off the Scurf from the Head the Head being wash'd therewith The green Leaves bruis'd and applied cures St. Anthony's Fire and other Inflammations Reeds are strowed in the Chambers of those that have Fevers to keep them cool The Juice of the Root mix'd with an equal quantity of Hony and Goat's Suet takes off the Spots
the Branches is of a brownish Colour and spotted and yellowish within and tastes bitter and unpleasant The Wood is white and full of Pith The Leaves are broad round and nervous and somewhat like the Leaves of the Hasel-tree they are indented green shining and clammy It bears short brown Aglets like the Beech or Birch-tree It grows near Water The green Leaves of this Tree applied to Tumours discusses them and takes off Inflammations Being put into Travellers Shooes they ease Pain and remove Weariness A black Colour like Ink is made with the Bark of Alder rubb'd off with a rusty Iron and infus'd in Water for some Days Some use it to dye Black Alder in Latin Alnus nigra baccifera 'T is a small Tree which sends forth many streight Twigs from the Roots about three Yards high of the thickness of the Thumb divided into tender Branches The outward Bark is brown but sprinkled with Sky-colour'd Spots which being taken off another appears of a Saffron-colour The Substance of the Wood is clear and easily broken nigh the middle 't is brownish and has a great deal of Pith. The Leaves are somewhat round and end in an obtuse Point and are of a shining dark-green Colour The Flowers are small and palish The Berries are first green then red and at last black and of an unpleasant Taste 'T is often found in moist woody Places The yellow and middle Bark beaten with Vinegar cures the Itch in a few Days The inward Bark especially of the Root purges Watery Humours for which Reason 't is good in a Dropsie But it ought to be dried in the Shade because when it is green it occasions Vomiting And the Decoction of it ought to stand two or three Days before 't is used Alexanders in Latin Hippocelinum It has a thick Root that is white within it smells sweet and tastes acrid and somewhat bitter The Stalk is above a Yard high full branchy channell'd and somewhat red The Leaves are larger than the Leaves of Marsh-Smallage and the Pieces rounder They are of a deep Green they taste sweetish and like Garden-Smallage It has Tufts or Umbels of white Flowers The Seed is thick black and channell'd 'T is frequently used in Broths in the Spring-time to cleanse the Blood and strengthen the Stomach The Root pickled is a good Sauce Half a Dram of the Seeds powder'd and taken in White-wine provokes Urine Angelica in Latin Angelica The Herb it self but especially the Root and Seed are hot and dry It opens and attenuates and is Sudorifick and Vulnerary It moves the Courses hastens Delivery is good for Mother-fits and in malignant Diseases and for the Plague and it expels Poison The Root of it is allow'd by all Physicians to be very cordial and Alexipharmick For Preservation against the Plague the Root infus'd in Vinegar is to be held frequently to the Nose or chew'd in the Mouth For the Cure Take one Dram of the Powder of the Root alone or half a Dram mix'd with a Dram of Venice-Treacle every sixth Hour to provoke Sweat The Root or the Stalks candied are reckon'd very good being eaten in a Morning to prevent Infection They are also useful in cold Diseases of the Lungs and take off a stinking Breath Lozenges to be held in the Mouth in the Plague-time Take of the Extract of the Roots of Angelica and Contra-yerva each one Ounce of Extract of Liquorish three Drams of Flowers of Sulphure sublim'd with Mirrh five Drams of Oyl of Cinnamon eight Drops of fine Sugar twice the weight of all the Ingredients with the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth made in Scordium water make Lozenges See Dr. Hodges for the Prevention of the Plague in his Book of the London-Pestilence p. 231. Apple-tree in Latin Malus The English Apples being accounted the best in Europe I will mention particularly those that are most esteem'd amongst us First Those that are soon ripe and soon decay The Gineting the Margaret or Magdalene the King-Apple the Aromatick or Golden-Russeting the Flax-Apple the Spice-Apple the Summer-Queening the Gono-farther or Cat's-head the Good-Housewife or Bontradue the Giant-Apple the pome-Pome-water the Summer-Pearmain the Kirton-Pippin or Holland-Pippin 't is called Broad-eye in Sussex the Orange-Apple the Summer-Belleboon the Paradise-Apple the Famagusta the Codling the Costard-Apple the sops-in-Sops-in-Wine Secondly Winter-Apples and such as last long The Winter-Queening the Quince-Apple the Winter-Pearmain the Nonesuch the the Pealing the Leather-Coat the Winter-John the Pome-Roy the Lording the Julyflower-Apple the Pear-Apple the Greening Lones-Pearmain the Green-Russeting the Red-Russeting the Winter-Fillet or Violet the Winter-Belle or Bonne the Oaken-Pin the John-Apple or Deux Ans the Westbury the Winter-Reed the Flower of Kent the Winter-Chesnut the Maligar-Apple the Short-Tart the Pelmell the Thrift the Winter-Clary the Fig-Apple Thirdly The Apples that are best for making Cyder The Redstreak the Bromsberry-Crab the Golden-Pippin the Gennet-moil the Westbury-Apple the White and Red Mast-Apples the John-Apple the Vnder-Leaf the Winter-Fillet Elliots Stocken-Apple Bitter-Scale Claret-Wine-Apple Arrier-Apple Richards or Grange-Apple Coling-Apple Olive-Apple Fox-Whelp Pippins and Pearmains mix'd the Gilliflower The Vertues of Apples are various according to the different Tastes of them Those that are sowre and harsh are astringent and therefore are good in Fluxes of the Belly And when they are roasted they are proper Food for those that have Fevers Sweet Apples are somewhat hot and loosening Such as are a little acid are agreeable to the Stomach and chear the Heart Rotten Apples take off Inflammations and Swellings of the Eyes The Core of an Apple cut out and a Dram of Frankincense put in and roasted with the Apple and eaten opens Obstructions of the Lungs and is good for Difficulty of Breathing The same applied outwardly to the Side eases the Pain of it 'T is best to eat Apples two or three Hours after Meals The Altering Syrup of Apples Take of the Juice of fragrant Pippins two Quarts of the Leaves of Garden and Wild-Bugloss of the Flowers of Violets each one Pound boyl them in B. M. and clarifie them add seven Pounds of fine Sugar and a Pint of Rose-water boyl them to a Syrup One Ounce of this Syrup taken Morning and Evening is good for melancholy People The Purging Syrup of Apples Take of the Juice and Water of fragrant Pippins each one Pint and an half of the Juice and Water of Borage and Bugloss each nine Ounces of the Leaves of Oriental Sena half a Pound of Anise and Fennel-seeds each three Drams of Dodder of Crete two Ounces of White Agarick and the best Rubarb each half an Ounce of Ginger and Mace each four Scruples of Cinnamon two Scruples of Saffron half a Dram Infuse the Rubarb with the Cinnamon a-part in White-Wine and Juice of Apples each two Ounces Infuse the rest of the Ingredients except the Saffron in the Waters above-mentioned the next Day pour on the Juices and put them on a gentle Fire take off the Scum and
the Alps which is a Specifick for this Disease and therefore we need not charge Children so strictly not to eat them They do indeed occasion Children's Heads to be scabby but it is because they eat immoderately of them And so any other Fruit would produce the same Effect A pleasant and generous Wine may be made of the Juice of the Berries press'd out and fermented with a little Sugar A Syrup made of the Juice is very good for Heat of Urine 'T is most commonly prescrib'd in Gargarisms to cure Sore Mouths Take of Bramble-tops of the Leaves of Columbine Cyprus and Sage each one Handful boyl them in two Quarts of Water wherein Iron has been quench'd till one is consum'd Add Allum one Dram and an half Hony of Roses one Ounce Make a Gargarism wherewith wash the Mouth often in a Day White Briony in Latin Brionia alba The Root is as thick as ones Arm white and fungous of a bitter and acâ—id Taste It sends forth pliant Twigs channell'd and somewhat hairy which spread themselves far and wide by the help of their Tendrels and climb up every thing that is near The Leaves are like Ivy-leaves but larger they are hairy and green The Flowers joyn'd together come out of the Wings of the Leaves and are of a whitish Colour It grows frequently in Hedges It purges strongly Watery and Phlegmatick Humours 'T is proper for the Diseases of the Spleen Liver and Womb for it opens the Obstructions of those Parts It drains the Water of Hydropical People by Vomit and Stool It provokes the Courses helps Delivery cures the Suffocation of the Womb and the Asthma Juglers and Fortune-tellers make wonderful Monsters of this Root which when they have hid in the Sand for some Days they dig up for Mandrakes and by this Imposture these Knaves impose on our Common People Conserve of White Briony-Roots taken twice a Day to the quantity of a Nutmeg for a long time cures the Falling-Sickness and Mother-Fits A piece of the Root put into the Pot the Sick drinks out of does the same The compound-Compound-water of Briony is most in use I have used this Composition that follows with excellent Success in Women's Obstructions and it is undoubtedly much better in Hysterick Diseases than the common Compound-water of the London-Dispensatory Take of dried Briony-Roots beaten to a gross Powder two Ounces of the Leaves of Rue and dried Mugwort each half a pound Savine dried three quarters of an Handful of Featherfew Cat-mint and Penny-royal dried each half an Handful of the fresh yellow Pill of one Orange of Mirrh half an Ounce of Castor two Drams of the best Nants-Brandy one Quart Put them into a Glass and let them infuse six Days in warm Ashes then strain the Liquor off and keep it in a Glass-bottle well stopped The Dose is half a Spoonful to be taken in three Ounces of Penny-royal-water sweetned with Sugar Morning and Evening The Lees of Briony called in Latin Foecula Brioniae are made after the following manner Take what quantity of the Roots of Briony you please slice them and press out the Juice this being kept in Vessels unmov'd will in a few Hours depose the Lees or Foecula which being separated by pouring the Water away gently must be dried in a Glass-Vessel They are used in a Dropsie Common Brook-Lime in Latin Anagallis aquatica It grows commonly in little Brooks It heats and moistens moderately 'T is chiefly used in the Scurvy it powerfully expels the Stone of the Kidnies and Bladder it provokes the Courses and expels a dead Child Outwardly applied it cures Inflam'd Tumours and St. Anthony's Fire 'T is much of the same virtue with Water-cresses only not so strong Country-people cure Wounds with Brook-lime mix'd with a little Salt and a Spider's Web and applied to the Wound wrapp'd about with a double Cloth Brook-lime boyld in Water applied to blind Piles has presently eas'd the Pain when other Medicines would do no good Fabricius says he knew a large Ulcer that possess'd almost the whole Leg and reached almost to the Bone was cured in a Scorbutical Person only with Brook-lime boyl'd in Beer and applied twice a Day But it is most commonly used inwardly to cure the Scurvy Take of the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses and Scurvy-grass each half a Pint of the Juice of Oranges four Ounces fine Sugar two Pounds make a Syrup over a gentle Fire Take one Spoonful in your Beer every time you drink Broom in Latin Genista 'T is common in Sandy and barren Grounds It flowers at the Latter End of April 'T is Splenetick Nepthritick and Hepatick It expels the Stone and purges Watery Humours upwards and downwards by Stool and Urine Wherefore it is of great use in Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery And in the Dropsie and Catarrhs the Flowers the Seeds and Tops are in use The Leaves the Branches and Tops boyl'd in Wine or Water or the Juice of them are good in a Dropsie and all Obstructions of the Kidnies and Bladder for they partly purge watery and superflous Humours by Stool and partly by Urine One Dram of the Seed does the same The Flowers when they are green are commonly pickled and make an agreeable Sauce for they provoke Appetite and force Urine The Ashes are most in use and frequently commended in the Dropsie Take of the Ashes of Broom one Pound infuse them cold in two Quarts of Rhenish-Wine adding to it half an Handful of Common Wormwood Take four Ounces of the clear Liquor in the Morning at Four in the Afternoon and in the Evening every Day Broom-rape in Latin Orobanche 'T is two Foot high or more the Stalk is streight round and hairy pale or yellowish or brownish whereon are Leaves that are narrow and longish if they may be called Leaves for they seem rather the Beginning of Leaves They soon fade and Flowers succeed them which are on a Spike like the Flowers of Orchis but at a greater distance they are of a dull yellow Colour The Root is round and scaly and tastes very bitter The Flowers smell pretty well The Herb candied or the Root is of excellent use in Diseases of the Spleen and for Melancholy An Ointment made of it with Lard is good to discuss hard and Scirrhous Tumours Butcher's Broom in Latin Ruscus or Bruscus 'T is a Foot and an half high and sometimes three or four Foot high It has many tough Branches and is full of Leaves and they are like the Leaves of the Myrtle they are ridged nervous and prickly they have no Foot-stalks they are hard and strong and taste bitter At the Middle of the Leaf is plac'd a small Flower on a very short Foot-stalk When first it rises it represents a little Bunch of small Needles but being open'd three little broadish Leaves appear A round Fruit succeeds the Flower that is larger than the Berries of Asparagus 't is reddish and sweetish Under the Skin of it lie
Common-Garden Clary in Latin Horminum The Stalk is two Foot high and higher about the bigness of the Little Finger four-square stiff and hairy and full of white Pith. The Leaves are large hairy and whitish very much wrinkled from a large Basis they end by degrees in a blunt Point they are somewhat indented about the Edges They are plac'd on long Foot-stalks especially the lower which come out of the Earth those of the Stalks are placed by Pairs opposite to one another The Flowers are set upon long Spikes on the top of the Stalks and Branches they are compos'd of many Whirls they are of a light blue Colour The Seed is pretty large and smooth and of a brownish Colour The Root is single and woody and consists of many Fibres The Smell of the whole Plant is very strong the Taste is bitter It grows in Gardens It flowers in June or July Wine fermented with it is very agreeable to a cold Stomach 'T is also good for barren Women and for those that are troubl'd with the Whites The Herb powder'd and applied to the Nostrils provokes Sneazing and cures a Catarrh and purges the Head A Decoction of it in Water provokes the Courses and expels the After-birth Cakes made of it are reckon'd good to strengthen the Reins and to stimulate Venery The Musilage of the Seeds is proper for Diseases of the Eyes 'T is also said to be good for the Falling-sickness and Mother-fits The Seed put into the Eyes takes away Motes Cloud-berry Knot-berry or Knout-berry in Latin Chamamorus It rises up with slender brownish Stalks not a Foot high set with four or five large Leaves one above another at several winged winged Joints each of them divided into five parts and each of them pretty much indented and jagg'd rough and as it were crumpled Each of them is plac'd on a long Foot-stalk which at the Joints have two small pieces like Ears set thereat Every Stalk has one Flower set at the top of it consisting of five roundish pointed Leaves of a dark purple Colour after which follows a large Berry like a Mulberry of a reddish Colour when ripe and is of a sowrish sweet Taste The Root creeps much and far shooting forth small Fibres at the knotty Joints whereby it is fastned in the Ground and from thence divers new Stalks shoot 'T is said that in Norway they have so great an Opinion of the Virtues of Knot-berry for curing the Scurvy and such like Diseases that they remove their Scorbutick People to a neighbouring Island where only such inhabit and there they are forc'd to abide till they recover their Health and having no other Provision allow'd them they feed on these Berries whereby they are infallibly cur'd within a few Days But this sort of Remedy can be only us'd in Summer-time Clowns-all-heal in Latin Panax Coloni It has a jointed creeping Root it bunches out The Stalks are five or six Foot high somewhat reddish hairy rough and four-square and empty The Leaves are placed at the Joints by Pairs opposite to one another they are sharp hairy soft except the Rib of the Under-side which is reddish and a little rough they are indented about the Edges they have a strong Smell and bitterish Taste The Flowers are spiked and consist of several Whirls each of them is hooded and purplish The Lip is of several Colours in the Cup of the Flower which is short and divided into five acute Pieces The Seeds grow four by four black shining and triangular It grows in watery Places and near Rivers Our Gerard wonderfully extols the Efficacy of this Herb in curing Wounds He beats it up with Lard and applies it to the fresh Wound A Syrup made of it is an excellent Remedy for Hoarsness Colâ—y-flower in Latin Brasica florida This has the same Virtues with the Common Cabbage Common Colts-foot in Latin Tussilago The Leaves are roundish have many Angles and are like Butter-Bur-leaves but much lesser under whitish above green with a little Cotton upon them which may be easily rub'd off with the Fingers From the same come several Stalks an Hand and sometimes nine Inches high concave reddish and have Cotton on them and little Leaves much unlike those that come from the Root namely long sharp thin and without Foot-stalks plac'd alternately and press'd to the Stalk Each of them sustain a yellow Flower consisting of abundance of small Leaves The Roots are small and white and creep much The Flowers and Stalks wither soon but not in a Day or two as some have said upon which Account it has been supposed to have neither Flower nor Cup. It grows in watery Places The fresh Leaves are applied outwardly to hot Ulcers and Inflammations but being dried are pretty acrid and hot The Fume of them receiv'd into the Mouth through a Tunnel and swallow'd down or smoak'd in a Tobacco-pipe is good for a Cough Difficulty of Breathing and an Ulcer of the Lungs A Syrup prepar'd of the Leaves is good for the same Use Mr. Boyle says That the Leaves powder'd with Saffron and Amber and smoak'd in a Pipe have cur'd a Consumption The whitish Down which grows to the Root being cleans'd from it and wrapped in a Rag and boyl'd a little in Lee adding a little Salt-Petre and after dried in the Sun makes the best Tinder Take of the Leaves of Colts-foot Ground-Ivy Maiden-hair Harts-horn rasp'd Water-Hemp Agrimony of each one Handful of the Roots of Charvil and Butcher's Broom each one Ounce of the Seeds of Bastard Saffron of Sweet Fennel-Seed each half an Ounce boyl them in three Quarts of Fountain-water to the Consumption of half adding towards the End three Drams of Liquorish and two Ounces of Raisins of the Sun ston'd and six Jujubes or three Ounces of the best Hony clarified Make an Apozem The Dose is four Ounces hot twice or thrice in a Day This is good for Coughs Columbine in Latin Aquilegia The Seed candied is commended for Obstructions of the Bowels and for Giddiness One Dram of the Seed powder'd and taken in Wine with Saffron cures the Jaundice if the Sick keep in Bed and sweat The distill'd Water of it discusses inward Tumours expels Poison and eases the Gripes The Seed of it finely powder'd and taken in Wine helps Delivery If the first Draught does not do the Business repeat it But it is most frequently us'd in Gargarisms to cleanse the Teeth and to cure the Scurvy and Ulcers of the Mouth and Jaws Take of the Leaves of Columbine two Handfuls of White-Pepper one Dram boyl them in a Quart of Posset-drink till half is wasted Make a Gargarism Great Comfrey in Latin Consâ—lida major It grows in moist and good Ground The Root is thick and full of Sprigs and very clammy and taste insipid The Stalks are two Foot and an half high and higher a Finger thick empty hairy and rough The Flowers are many together upon the Tops of the Stalks and Branches of a
The Flowers are of a pale-yellow Colour Its Seeds are small round and blackish four most commonly in every Husk The Root is very small and full of Fibres or Threads which spread much in the Ground It grows amongst Bushes and in Hedges It dries is astringent and one of the chief Vulneraries inwardly taken or outwardly applied Drunk in Wine it is good for Ruptures It also expectorates Viscous Humours The Common Creeping Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus pratensis The Root has many white Fibres The Leaves are placed upon very long Foot-stalks and have three Divisions and are most like the Leaves of Smallage they are cut in deep and indented about the Edges hairy on both sides of a dark-green Colour and sometimes spotted with white It has many small Stalks round hairy and concave that creep on the Ground and send down Roots from the Joints by Intervals The Flowers are placed upon long Foot-stalks they have five Leaves are yellow and shine as if they were varnish'd Many Seeds succeed the Flowers all joyn'd together make a a Bur They are black when they are ripe It grows in moist Grounds This Sort is not at all acrid and therefore may be applied to the Body without Danger The German-Women eat them in April when they are tender with other Herbs Round-rooted or Bulbous Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus bulbosus The Leaves and Flowers are like the former It differs from it in these six Things 1. The Root is bulbous 2. The Stalks are upright and do not creep at all 3. The Leaves upon the upper Stalks are cut into smaller and longer Jags 4. The Leaves of the Cup when the Flower opens are turn'd back to the Foot-stalk 5. It flowers earlier Lastly The Heads of the Seeds are a little longer and each Seed not prickly at the top as is every Seed of the Creeping Crow-foot There are other Differences but these may suffice for the Distinction of them This grows every where in Pastures and is too frequent there This is called Devil's Crow-foot by Tragus Beggars make Soars upon their Flesh with this Plant to move Compassion The Water of the Root or the Infusion made in Spirit of Wine is praised in the Plague The Root of it burns violently and therefore must be used only externally 'T is of excellent Use for eating down and drying up hard Tumours It takes off long Warts and the like Camerarius says That if the Root be kept dry a Month it becomes sweet Nicholas Chesneaw commends the Juice of Crowfoot I suppose he means the Bulbous in Head-aches which says he wonderfully moves the Pain when it possesses a little Space Chuse that Sort whose Leaves are like the Leaves of Anemony and bites the Tongue when chewed beat the Leaves of it in a Marble Mortar and having applied a Plaster with an Hole in it as is made use of in the Application of a Caustick put it on the pain'd Part and apply the Leaves beaten with the Juice in them in the Hole of the Plaster and then put another Plaster over to keep them in and in the spaee of two Hours it will open the Skin especially if the Herb be gather'd in a Place where the Sun shines Note The Hair must be shaved and you must take care not to apply it near the Eyes He mentions many Observations of the Cure of the Head-ach by this Medicine He used it in the Gout with the same Success A Priest says he that had kept his Bed three Years with the Gout and was not able to walk was cured by applying Crowfoot to the Part most pained after the Manner above-mention'd One that was seized with the Plague and was in great danger was cured by two Issues made in the Groin with the Leaves of Crow-foot he having a Bubo there Ivy-leav'd Water Crow-foot in Latin Ranunculus aquaticus or Hederaceus albus The Stalks of it are round solid lie along and are jointed from the Joints whereof the Plant spreads it self much by many white Fibres The Leaves are placed at the Joints with pretty long Foot-stalks they are triangular and somewhat like Ivy-leaves they are smooth shining and sometimes have a black Spot upon them The Flowers grow on the Stalks opposite to the Leaves they are small and have five sharp Leaves The Cup is divided into five parts and is white An Head of Seeds succeed the Flowers of the bigness of the common Vetch The Seeds are not sharp It grows plentifully in Brooks and Ditches that have Water in them especially on Sandy Ground The following Medicine is excellent for the Scurvy and Dropsie Take of the Tops of Alder Ivy-leav'd-Water-Crow-foot and Sage each one Handful infuse them one Night in white-White-wine and drink the Infusion Cuckow-pintle in Latin Arum It has a Tuberous Root and sends its Fibres every way into the Earth The Leaves are oblong triangular smooth at top and shining below and have sometimes black Spots upon them The Taste of the Root and Leaf is very biting The Stalk is about an Hand high on the top whereof the naked Pestel comes out from a long membranaceous Sheath and is oblong and of a dark-purple Colour The Berries are of a Vermilion Colour The Roots when they are young yield a Milky Juice The Root especially of that which is spotted green or dry taken to the quantity of a Dram is an excellent Remedy for Poyson and in the Plague Some add to it the like quantity of Treacle The Root boyl'd and mix'd with Hony cures all Flegmatick Humours of the Breast and is good for an Asthma It cures Ruptures and provokes Urine Women use the distill'd Water of the Root to beautifie their Faces but the Juice of the Root set in the Sun is much better The dried Root is an excellent Medicine for the Scurvy and is full as effectual in cold Diseases of the Spleen and Stomach especially for Wind. The Country-People about Maidstone in Kent use the Herb and Root instead of Soap The Compound-Powder of Wake-Robin is as follows Take of the Roots of Wake-Robin powder'd two Ounces of the Roots of Sweet-smelling Flag Pimpernel and Saxifrage each one Ounce of Crabs-eyes half an Ounce of Cinnamon three Drams of Salt of Wormwood and Juniper each one Dram Make a Powder Cucumber in Latin Cucumis The Seed of it is one of the four greater cold Seeds It cleanses opens and provokes Urine 'T is frequently used in Emulsions for Pleurisies and the Stone in the Kidnies The Flower of it is reckon'd good to clear the Skin 'T is generally reckon'd that the Substance of Cucumber is cold and moist and of an Excrementitious Juice and therefore to be used only by those whose Stomachs are strong But I says Schroder tho' my Stomach is not very strong having liv'd a Sedentary Life have eaten plentifully of Cucumbers for many Years as long as they are in Season and fit to eat yet never received the least Injury or Inconvenience by them though I
Week and is clear drink of it for your ordinary Drink This is frequently used for the Scurvy and is an excellent Diet-drink The Dock called Monk's-Rubarb or Garden-patience in Latin Hippo-lapathum 'T is sometimes as high as a Man The Stalk is channel'd and reddish above it is divided into many Sprigs The Leaves are a Foot or a Foot and an half broad and pointed of a dull green Colour The Root is thick long and has many Fibres and of a Saffron-colour The Leaves come out in March and it flowers about June The Root purges Choler and watery-Humours Take of the dried Root one Dram of Ginger one Scruple Those that use it for Rubarb take a double quantity The Root expels Gravel Take Dock-roots prepar'd and Polypody each one Ounce Sena ten Drams Rubarb six Drams Monks-Rubarb five Drams Yellow Sanders two Drams Salt of Wormwood and Scurvy-grass each one Dram cut and bruise them and put them into a Glass with snail-Snail-water and white-White-wine each one Pint and an half stop the Glass and set it in a Cellar twenty four Hours Take six Ounces of it or more according as it works every Morning This is good for the Itch. Dodder in Latin Cuscuta This fawning Parasite and ungrateful Guest hugs the Herb it hangs upon with its long Threads and reddish Twigs and so closely embraces it that at length it defrauds the hospitable Herb of its Nourishment and destroys it by its treacherous Embraces It has no Leaves The Flowers are placed thick at several Distances or Intervals Each of them consists of four small acute Leaves that are thick and full of Juice This Plant has no need of a large Description for it is distinguish'd from all other Plants by having no Leaves nor Root when it is grown up consisting only of long Threads by which it encompasses the neighbouring Plants and sucks away their Nourishment Upon which Account the Country-people in Sussex call it Hell-weed or The Devil's Guts And so much for the Vices of this Plant. 'T is suppos'd to participate of the Plant it adheres to So that which grows to Broom is reckon'd Diuretick that is counted moist which sticks to Flax that astringent which climbs Madder that which grows on Nettles is very Diuretick 'T is hot dry and cleansing It opens Obstructions and purges Melancholy is of good use in the Itch for the Black Jaundice and Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen But that which grows on Nettles is prefer'd before all the other in Physick Take of Dodder of Thime and of Rubarb each one Dram and an half of Sena three Drams of Yellow Sanders half a Dram of Coriander-seeds two Scruples of Salt of Wormwood half a Dram of Celtick Spike one Scruple infuse them in a close Vessel all Night in four Ounces of White-wine and Water of Apples To five Ounces of the strain'd Liquor add six Drams of Syrup of Dodder of Thyme and two Drams of Aqua-mirabilis mingle them and make a Potion For those that are difficult to purge add a Dram or two Drams of the Fibres of Black Hellebore infus'd in Vinegar This is an excellent Purge for melancholy People Common Drop-wort or Filipendula in Latin Filipendula It has many Roots black without and white within The Fibres of it are bulbous It has many Leaves at the Roots they are long wing'd and indented almost like Burnet-Saxifrage The Stalk is most commonly single upright nine Inches or a Foot high or higher channell'd branchy with a few Leaves on it The Flowers are placed on the top of the Stalk in a Tuft they smell sweet and are white they consist of seven Leaves Eleven or twelve Seeds more or less are placed in the form of a Star It grows in Meadows and Hilly Pastures The Root attenuates and is somewhat astringent A Decoction of it provokes Urine and expels Gravel It cures the Heat of Urine and takes off the Difficulty of it The Powder of the Root and the Juice of it is commended by some in the Falling-Sickness 'T is excellent for the Whites and the immoderate Flux of the Child-bed-Purgations The Dose is one Dram of the Root in Wine It also cures the Bloody Flux and Ruptures Common Dove's-foot or Crane's-bill in Latin Geranium Columbinum vulgare It has several small round pale-green Leaves cut in about the Edges like Mallows They are placed upon long reddish hairy Stalks lying on the Ground among which rise up two or three or more reddish jointed slender weak and hairy Stalks with some such like Leaves thereon but smaller and more cut in It has many very small bright red Flowers of five Leaves a-piece after which follow small Heads with small short Beaks pointing forth as all other Sorts of this Kind of Herbs have 'T is very Vulnerary either outwardly applied or taken inwardly It stops a Flux of Blood and resolves coagulated Blood It cleanses Wounds and Ulcers It expels Gravel and eases the Pain of the Cholick The Powder of the Root and Leaves taken in Wine is very effectual for curing Ruptures The Dove's-foot callet Herb-Robert and in Latin Geranium Robertianum has the same Virtues with this above-describ'd Dragons in Latin Dracontium 'T is easily known being speckl'd like a Snake It flowers in July 'T is hot and dry astringent and of an acrid Taste 'T is something of the Nature of Cuckow-pint 'T is good in Coughs Catarrhs and Convulsions The Leaves are good for Ulcers and Venomous Bitings The distill'd Water is good in the Plague and Pestilential Fevers Take of Dragon-water and Wood-Sorrel-water each four Ounces of Compound-Scordium-water two Ounces of Treacle-water and Bezoartick-water each one Ounce of Prepar'd Pearl one Dram of Syrup of Gillyflowers two Ounces of Spirit of Vitriol twelve Drops make a Julep The Dose is three Ounces often in a Day This is used in the Plague Duck's-meat in Latin Lenticula palustris This grows in standing-Standing-waters and is full of shining round Leaves green above and black below They are joyn'd together with white small Threads It often covers all the Water it grows in 'T is Cooling and good in Inflammations It also cures Children's Ruptures An Infusion of it in white-White-wine cures the Jaundice infallibly six Ounces of it being taken every Morning for nine Days Ducks feed upon it very much E. EArth-nut in Latin Bulbocastanum The Root is Tuberous white and solid with small Fibres at the Bottom and Sides It has a sweetish and pleasant Taste It grows deep in the Ground The Leaves are cut more sharp than the Leaves of Parsley The Stalk is single round channel'd with one Leaf growing to it Most commonly before it divides it self into Branches at every Division of the Stalk a Leaf is plac'd much more cut than those that rise from the Root The Flowers are white and very small This is one of the Umbeliferous Plants so called because they sustain their Flowers by long Foot-stalks in a Circle The Seeds are small and somewhat long
of a fungous Pith. The Leaves that come from the Roots and those that grow on the Stalks are placed alternately on long Foot-stalks and sometimes they have none at all or very short ones Those that are at bottom are almost an Hand 's breadth and about twice as long but here in England they are not so long nor so broad The uppermost are of a dark-Green hairy on both sides and indented about the edges The Flowers are many and grow on the tops of the Stalks and on peculiar Foot-stalks arising from the Wings of the Leaves they are yellow and at last turn into a kind of Down It grows commonly upon Heaths and in Hilly Woods and Groves It flowers in August The Flowers sometimes vary 'T is an excellent Wound-herb either taken inwardly or outwardly applied 'T is Lithontriptick and Diuretick Two Drams of the Powder being taken in White-wine hot every Morning 'T is very cleansing and drying 'T is good in the Obstructions of the Bowels and for those that are inclin'd to a Dropsie and for stopping all Fluxes of the Womb or Belly and inward Bleedings Goos-berry-bush in Latin Grossularia It loves cold Places It flowers in April the Fruit comes forth in May and is ripe in June and July The Fruit is very agreeable to the Stomach Being boyl'd in Broth before they are ripe they do good in a Fever They provoke Appetite and stop the Fluxes of the Belly They also cure a Gonorrhea and the Whites They are outwardly applied for Inflammations and St. Anthony's Fire But before they are ripe many of them must not be eaten for they occasion the Cholick and Gripes Wine is made of them when they are ripe in the following manner The Berries being put into a Tub they pour upon them a sufficient quantity of hot Water and then covering the Vessel very close they let them stand three Weeks or a Month till the Liquor is impregnated with the Juice and Spirit of the Berries then they draw it out and put it into Bottles with Sugar which they keep close stop'd till the Liquor is well mix'd and fermented with the Sugar and so it becomes a generous Wine Goose-grass or Cleavers in Latin Aparine This Herb beat up with Lard cures the King's-Evil The distill'd Water stops the Flux of the Belly and is good in the Jaundice The distill'd Water or the Herb cut small and boyl'd in a sufficient quantity of Wine and drunk is an excellent Remedy for the Stone and Gravel The Herb dried with the Spleen of a Calf in a Furnace is accounted very excellent for Tumours of the Spleen and Hypochondriack Winds Take of the Leaves of Cleavers Plantane and Brook-lime each four Handfuls bruise them and pour upon them three Ounces of Aqua Lumbricorum and three Ounces of Aqua Raphani Composit then strain them This is to be taken twice a Day at Eight in the Morning and Five in the Afternoon This is good in a Dropsie Groncil or Grouncel in Latin Lithospermum The Root is about the thickness of the Thumb woody and Perennial and has some Fibres on the Sides It has many Stalks two or three Foot high streight firm round rough and branchy It has many Leaves plac'd disorderly they are long narrow and end in a sharp Point and have no Foot-stalks Those that are at the top of the Stalks and Branches are broader and shorter and of a deeper Green The little Flowers are placed on short Foot-stalks and come from the Wings of the Leaves they are white and consist of one Leaf divided into five blunt pieces The Cup is hairy and consists of five narrow Jags Four Seeds succeed each Flower they are of an Ash-colour very hard and look as if they were polish'd It grows near Hedges in dry Grounds near High-ways and in Bushes It flowers in May and June The Seed of it cleanses the Reins and provokes Urine breaks the Stone and expels it Two Drams of the Seed or more may be given at a time Matthiolus prescribes it for Women in Labour in a Woman's Milk Ground-pine in Latin Chamaepytis vulgaris 'T is a small Plant of the breadth of an Hand and rarely above an Inch or two Inches high The Root is long woody and single The little Stalk is round hairy and somewhat red near the Earth in other Places green inclining to a yellow as also are the Leaves which are placed at small Distances at the Knots by Pairs opposite to one another they are hairy and resemble the Claws of a small Bird they taste and smell like Pitch and Rosin The Flowers proceed from the Wings of the Leaves are yellow and have a broad Lip divided into two parts the Upper has red Spots instead of an Hood they have Threads of a light Purple The Seeds are placed in little Cups four and four in a Rank and they are three-square The Tube of the Flower bellies out and serves instead of a Seed-vessel It grows in Till'd Grounds but is rare in England It strengthens the Nerves incides opens and is Diuretick and provokes the Courses It expels a dead Child and the After-birth and works so powerfully that Women with Child are wholly forbid the use of it because it occasions Miscarriage Boyl'd in Wine or powder'd and made into Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine does much Good in a Dropsie Outwardly used it cures Ulcers by cleansing them and taking off the Hardness Take of Ground-pine and Worm-wood each two Handfuls of Scurvy-grass ten Handfuls of Mountain-Sage six Handfuls six Oranges sliced put all into a Pye made of two parts of Barly-meal and one of Rye bake it and after shred it all small then put it into a Bag and hang it in five Gallons of Midling Ale After six Days drink of it for your ordinary Drink This was used with excellent Success to a Person that was afflicted with the Gout and Scurvy Groundsel in Latin Erigeron This grows every where in the Fields and Gardens and in Courts too frequently all the Year The Juice of the Herb taken in Beer or a Decoction of it with Hony vomits gently Outwardly applied it is good for the Inflammations of the Paps and for the King's-Evil 'T is very probable that it may be useful against Worms for Farriers use it as a present Remedy for the Botts H. HArt's-tongue in Latin Phillitis It has many black Capillary Roots It has six eight or ten long Leaves nine Inches or a Foot long and about two Inches broad of a curious shining Green above below streak'd with small and somewhat long brownish Marks The Bottoms of the Leaves are a little bowed on each side of the Middle-rib It smells strong and tastes rough It grows in moist stony and shady Places especially on Mountains and in Wells and Caves It grows in great Abundance by Walberton near Arrundel in Sussex 'T is used chiefly in Swellings of the Spleen for the Flux of the Belly and for Spitting of Blood Outwardly
is used outwardly in Baths for the Womb and the Itch. Cats tear it to pieces when it is first set in Gardens unless it be cover'd with Thorns but when it has flourish'd a while they do not injure it nor that which is sown according to the following Rhime If you set it The Cats will eat it If you sow it The Cats can't know it Nettle in Latin Vrtica 'T is Diuretick and Lithontriptick Eaten with Pot-herbs it loosens the Belly expels Gravel and promotes Expectoration The Buds are used in Broths in the Sprin-time to purifie the Blood The bruis'd Herb or the Juice put up the Nostrils stops Bleeding at the Nose It does good in Putrid and Malignant Ulcers and discusses hâ—â—d Swellings The Seed is Diuretick and provokes Vâ—nâ—â—y and is used in Diseases of the Lungs Take of the clarified Juices of Nettles and Plantain each six Ounces of Aqua lactis Alexiteria four Ounces of Cinnamon-water hordeated three Ounces of White Sugar a sufficient quantity mingle them make a Julep Take four Ounces Morning and Evening daily for three Days This is commended for Bleeding at the Nose Oyl of Roses or Juice of Nettles cures the Stings of Nettles presently Woody Night-shade or Bitter-sweet in Latin Solanum lignosum It sends forth small woody brittle Twigs five or six Foot long that encompass any thing that is near others lie on the Ground The Bark of the young Twigs is green but the Bark of that which is old is rough and whitish without within it is very green having a Pith in the middle The Leaves are placed alternately they are somewhat broad long and pointed with two small Leaves or rather pieces of Leaves at the bottom of most of them At the Tops and Sides of the Branches come forth many Flowers they consist of fine narrow and long Violet-purple colour'd Leaves The Berries are red when they are ripe soft and full of Juice of a bitter unpleasant Taste The Root is fibrous It grows in Hedges near Water commonly 'T is said to provoke Urine and to be good in a Dropsie and for the Jaundice The Juice of the Leaves says Parkinson purges much The Leaves are used outwardly with good Success in Inflammations and itching Tumours of the Hands and Feet Take four Handfuls of the Leaves cut and four Ounces of Flax-seed powder'd make a Cataplasm with Lard apply it hot This asswages Tumours and cures great Contusions Nipple-wort in Latin Lampsana It has a white single Root with Twigs and Fibres The Stalk is two or three Foot high or higher round hairy reddish concave and branchy The Leaf is like the Leaf of South-thistle The Flowers are small and yellow The Seed is oblong blackish and a little crooked The whole Plant being cut yields a bitter Milk It flowers in June and July and grows frequently in Gardens 'T is reckon'd good for the Nipples when they are sore O. OAk-tree in Lat. Quercus The whole Oak is astringent but especially the Bark A Decoction of it is given for the Bloody-Flux and for Spitting of Blood The Acorns are Diuretick The Water distill'd from the Leaves of a young Oak cures the Whites Those that Cut for the Stone use a Bath made of the Bark to heal the Wound Galls grow on Oaks but not in England The best Ink is made in the following manner Take of Galls four Ounces of Copperas two Ounces of Gum-Arabeck one Ounce beat the Galls to a gross Powder and infuse them nine Days in a Quart of Claret set it near the Fire and stir it daily then put in the Copperas and the Gum and when it has stood a Day the Ink will be fit for use Take of the Water of Oak-buds and Plantain each three Ounces of Cinnamon-water hordeated and Syrup of dried Roses each one Ounce Spirit of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it pleasantly sharp Take six Spoonfuls Morning and Evening This is good for an immoderate Flux of the Courses Oats in Latin Avenae They dry and are somewhat astringent When Corn is dear poor People live chiefly on Water-gruel And it is indeed very proper Diet for Sick and Well and yields a good Nourishment The Common-people in the North and in Wales make Bread of Oats and eat no other and no People in the World enjoy more Health nor live longer And without doubt this sort of Bread is most wholsom tho' it is not pleasant Beer is also made of it Flummery is made of Oat-meal boyl'd in Water to a Gelly 'T is eaten hot being cut into Slices and put into Milk or Beer or into white-White-wine and sweeten'd with Sugar 'T is an excellent Diet for weakly People Our Physicians scarce order any Diet but Water-Gruel in Acute Diseases The Meal is used outwardly in Cataplasms for it dries and digests moderately In the Cholick Oats fried with a little Salt and applied hot in a Bag to the Belly gives great Ease if the Gutts are not stuffed with Excrements if they are a Clyster must first be given A Bath made of Malt-flower Hops and Oat-straw is much commended for those that are afflicted with the Stone for it wonderfully mitigates the Pain and forces away Urine and many times the Stone too Onion in Latin Caepa Onions are hot and flatulent They are proper for those that abound with cold viscid Humours in whom they procure Sleep help Concoction and prevent sowre Belchings They open Obstructions force the Courses and Urine and promote insensible Transpiration But they injure those that are Cholerick they especially disturb their Heads and cause troublesom Dreams and offend their Eyes Old Women cut a raw Onion and infuse it in Water all Night and the next Morning give the Water to Children to kill the Worms with good Success A large Onion hollow'd and fill'd with Venice-Treacle and cover'd and then roasted under hot Ashes and applied the outward Skin being pull'd off in the manner of a Cataplasm mollifies effectually hard Swellings and opens them A raw Onion pilled and applied presently with a little Salt cures Burns if the outward Skin is not ulcer'd for it draws out the Fire and prevents Blisters Orpine in Latin Telephium 'T is Vulnerary and Astringent 'T is chiefly used for healing Ulcers of the Bowels occasion'd by the Bloody-Flux for Ruptures and Burns 'T is excellent for Easing Pain both in fresh Wounds and old Ulcers The Herb roasted under Ashes and mix'd with Lard cures Fellons P. HErb Paris True-Love or One-berry in Latin Herba Paris The Root is small knotted and creeping The Stalk is pretty thick round and solid and about half a Foot high reddish near the Earth green above It has four Leaves set directly one against another they shine under above they do not they are somewhat like the Leaf of Night-shade but broader It has one Flower like a Star compos'd of four small narrow long pointed Leaves of a yellowish green Colour having four other lesser Leaves lying between them The Berry is of a
black purplish Colour full of Juice and of the bigness of a Grape having within many white Seeds The Berries and Leaves are Cooling and Drying The Berries are used inwardly in the Plague and Malignant Diseases and upon being poyson'd The Leaves are used outwardly in Pestilential Buboes and other hot Tumours and in old Ulcers Parsly in Latin Petroselinum The Root and Herb expel Wind provoke Urine and the Courses and open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and are good in the Dropsie and Jaundice The Seed is good for the same Diseases and for an old Cough and against Poyson The whole Herb outwardly applied dissolves hard Tumours and dries away Milk being applied to the Breasts Take of Parsly-seeds three Drams of Winter-Cherry-berries N. vi boyl them in a Pint of Milk and make Posset-drink Take six Ounces at a time sweeten'd with an Ounce of Syrup of Marsh-mallows This is good in the Stone Parsly-piert in Latin Percepier The Root is woody small and has a few small Fibres It has many small round hairy Stalks about an Hand high The Leaves are roundish divided into three Parts and are deeply jagged somewhat like Dove's-foot tho' less and hairy they are placed alternately the lower Leaves have Foot-stalks the upper have none at all or those that are are very short above they are of a light Green below they are whitish The Flowers are so small they can scarce be seen And the Seed is very small It delights in Sandy and Fallow Grounds and amongst Corn. It forces Urine violently and expels Gravel a Dram of the dried Herb being taken in White-wine It may be also eaten raw as a Sallet or pickled and eaten in Winter for Sauce Garden Parsnip in Latin Pastinaca latifolia sativa The Root is very nourishing and palatable It fattens and is a Provocative to Venery It opens attenuates and cleanses Cow Parsnip in Latin Sphondilium The Root is white and single and grows deep in the Earth of a sweet Taste and somewhat acrid It has a great Nerve within The Leaves that come from the Root are placed on long hairy Foot-stalks they are long and large and deeply cut about the Edges The Stalk is single round channel'd and about four Foot high The Flowers grow in Tufts they are white and consist of five Leaves It grows in moist Pastures and near Hedges The Root is Emollient and asswages Tumours The Seed is excellent for Hysterick Fits Peach-tree in Latin Malus Persica The Fruit has a sweet and pleasant Smell and refreshes the Spirits The Leaves boyled in Beer or Milk kill Worms and expel them The Water of the Flowers takes Spots from the Face The Syrup is a very proper Purge for Children and is made in the following manner Take of the fresh Flowers one Pound infuse them a whole Day in three Pints of warm Water then press them out add the same quantity of Flowers five times to the same Liquor and infuse them as before then add two Pounds and an half of Fine Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup The Pear-tree in Latin Pyrus Pears are agreeable to the Stomach and quench Thirst But they are best baked Dried Pears stop Fluxes of the Belly The following Pears are most esteem'd in England The Bon-Christien Summer and Winter the Butter-Pear the Green-Bury the Violet the Dove the Great Musk Amadot Rounselet Messieur Jean Great Sovereign Blood-Pear Windsor-Pear Green-field-Pear Dionier Great Bergamot Virgalous Roshea Red-Catharine Double-flower'd Pear Pease in Latin Pisum All sorts of Pease are windy and therefore are injurious to all that have windy Stomachs and are troubled with Spleen-wind Raw Green Pease are good for the Scurvy Pellitory in Latin Parietaria It cleanses and cools 'T is used for the Stone and Difficulty of Urine and for Coughs and in Clysters for Pains in the Belly Womb and Reins 'T is outwardly used for Tumours St. Anthony's-fire and for Burns Take of the Juice of Pellitory three Ounces of the Juice of Limons and Oyl of Almonds each half an Ounce mingle them Take it Morning and Evening for two Days This is good for the Stone in the Kidnies Penny-Royal in Latin Pulegium 'T is used to provoke the Courses and to help Delivery 'T is good for Coughs for the Gripes the Stone Jaundice and Dropsie A Spoonful of the Juice given to Children is an excellent Remedy for the Chin-Cough For an Hoarsness take six Ounces of the Decoction of it sweeten'd at Bed-time The fresh Herb wrap'd in a Cloth and laid in a Bed drives away Fleas but it must be renewed once a Week Peony in Latin Paeonia The Roots and Seeds of Male-Peony are much used in Physick They are used for Diseases of the Head and for Obstructions of the Courses and Child-bed-Purgations and to ease the After-pains The Roots are hang'd round the Neck to cure the Falling-sickness The Compounded peony-Peony-water and the Syrup of it are much in use The Compounded Water is made in the following manner Take of the Leaves of Lillies of the Valley fresh one Pound infuse them in four Gallons of Spanish Wine Take of the Flowers of the Lime-tree half a Pound of Peony-flowers four Ounces infuse them two Days then distil them till they are dry in B. M. in the distil'd Water infuse two Ounces and an half of the Roots of Male-Peony of White Dittany and Long Birth-wort each half an Ounce of the Leaves of Misleto of the Oak and Rue each two Handfuls of the Seeds of Peony ten Drams of Rue three Drams and an half of Castor two Scruples of Cubebs and Mace each two Drams of Cinnamon one Ounce and an half of Prepar'd Squills three Drams of Rosemary-flowers six Pugils of Stechas and Lavender each four Pugils of Betony July-flowers and Cowslips each eight Pugils add four Quarts of the Juice of Black-Cherries and distil them in a Glass The Syrup is made in the following manner Take of the fresh Roots of both Peonies at Full Moon each one Ounce and an half slice them and infuse them in white-wine for the space of a Day of Contrayerra half an Ounce of Sermountain six Drams of Elk-hoof one Ounce of Rosemary with the Flowers one Handful of Betony Hyssop Wild-Marjoram of Ground-pine and Rue each three Drams of the Wood of Aloes of Cloves of the Seeds of the Lesser Cardamoms each two Drams of Ginger and Spikenard each one Dram of Stechas and Nutmegs each two Drams and an half infuse them warm a Day in three Quarts of the distill'd Water of the Roots of Peony boyl them to four Quarts strain it and add four Pounds and an half of Fine Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup Pepper-wort in Latin Lepidium The Root is of the thickness of a Finger or thicker 't is white it has an acrid hot Taste it creeps in the Earth It has many Stalks about four Foot high round smooth and full of Pith they are branchy and less than the Little Finger and are cover'd
with a gray Powder that is easily rub'd off The Leaves are long broad and end sharp they are smooth fat and of a dull green Colour they are plac'd alternately and are indented about the Edges Those that come from the Root and are at the bottom of the Stalks have long Foot-stalks The Flowers are very small they are white and consist of four Leaves they are placed on very small Foot-stalks It grows near the Banks of Rivers but it is rare The Leaf is acrid and hot The Herb bruised and applied cures the Hip-Gout Boyl'd in Beer it hastens Delivery 'T is commended for a Leprosie Take of Garden-Scurvy-grass-leaves and of the Leaves of Rocket and Pepperwort each six Handfuls of the Roots of Sweet-smelling Flag the Lesser Galangal Zedoary Florentine Iris Elder and Wake-Robin each four Ounces of the Winteran-Bark and Jamaica-Pepper each three Ounces of Juniper-berries four Ounces of Cloves Ginger and Nutmegs each one Ounce bruise and cut them and pour on them four Quarts of Rhenish-wine distil them in a common Still and mix all the Water together Take three Ounces Night and Morning This is commended in an Anasarca Periwinele in Latin Vinca per vinca It spreads it self much by its Twigs that creep on the Ground The Root is fibrous many small round green and jointed Twigs root again by Fibres that come from the Joints The Leaves grow out of the Joints by Pairs opposite to one another like the Leaves of Lawrel but much less they are sharp stiff and smooth and hang on short Foot-stalks above they shine and are of a deep green Colour they taste astringent and bitterish below they are of a lighter Colour The Flower is placed on a Foot-stalk that comes from the Joints two Inches long one Flower on one Foot-stalk 'T is like the Jessamine-flower in shape and is of a Violet-colour A Milky Line runs from Bottom to Top through all the Jags A forked Cod succeeds the Flower and contains oblong Seeds It grows in Hedges and Ditches 'T is a famous Vulnerary 'T is used in Fluxes of the Belly for Dysenteries the Piles Bleeding at Nose and for Wounds with Fluxion 'T is used outwardly for Overslowing of the Courses for Loosness and Pains of the Teeth The Leaves of this Herb put upon Paper that will easily receive Moisture and sowed to it with fine Flax betwixt and perfum'd with Frankincense cured a Scrophulous Tumour in a short time which continued obstinate under the Use of other Remedies for the space of a whole Year Male Pimpernel in Latin Anagallis mas It has a white single Root with small Fibres The Stalks are an Hand or half an Hind high four-square smooth encompass'd by two Leaves opposite to one another they are placed by Intervals and without Foot-stalks the Underside of the Leaf is spotted with many dark-brown Specks The Flowers come out singly from the Wings of the Leaves and are placed upon oblong Foot-stalks and are divided almost to the bottom into five sharp Pieces resembling so many Leaves The Cup is also compounded of five acute Pieces The Seminal Vessels are almost spherically round they are pretty large and full of Seeds The whole Plant has an acrid Taste It grows in Gardens and Fields It flowers late about the midst of Summer 'T is moderately hot and dry 'T is counted Vulnerary and is used inwardly and outwardly It does much good in the Plague being boyl'd in Wine But the Sick must go to bed and must be well cover'd as soon as he has drank a moderate Draught of it that he may sweat A Woman cured many that were troubl'd with a Pin and Web in their Eyes with the distill'd Water of it In a Consumption and for Purulent Spitting let the Sick drink every Day Morning and Evening twelve Spoonfuls of the distill'd Water mix'd with an equal quantity of Red Cows Milk and sweeten'd with Fine Sugar This is an approv'd Remedy 'T is frequently used for the Gripes of New-born Children It also moves the Courses Willis commends the Decoction of it as a Specifick for Madness The Pine-tree in Latin Pinus The Bark and Leaves cool and bind wherefore they are good in Dysenteries and Fluxes of the Courses A Decoction or Infusion of the Tops in Beer or some other proper Liquor is reckon'd very good for the Stone of the Kidnies and Bladder and for the Scurvy and Diseases of the Breast The Nuts have a delicate Taste and are good for Coughs and Consumptions and for Heat of Urine They increase Milk and provoke Venery Plantain in Latin Plantago 'T is a Vulnerary Herb. 'T is used in Fluxes of the Belly for Spitting of Blood Running of the Reins involuntary Urine and for immoderate Fluxes of the Courses 'T is outwardly used to cleanse and heal Wounds and Ulcers The Juice by it self or mix'd with the Juice of Limon is an excellent Diuretick Half a Dram of the Seeds taken daily in Broth or in an Egg is good to prevent Miscarriage Take twelve Handfuls of Plantain-leaves six Ounces of the fresh Roots of Comfrey press out the Juice of the Leaves and beat the Roots in a Stone-Mortar mix the Roots and the Juice and with a sufficient quantity of Sugar make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg Night and Morning This is an excellent Remedy for Spitting and Vomiting Blood Take of Plantain-water two Ounces of Rubarb powder'd two Scruples of yellow Myrobalans powder'd one Scruple Syrup of dried Roses half an Ounce mix them and give it in the Morning two Hours after let some Broth be taken This is excellent for an immoderate Flux of the Courses Plum-tree in Latin Prunus There are several Kinds of them the Sowre bind the Sweet move the Belly The Electuary of Plums called Electuarium Diaprunum is made of Damascenes in the following manner Take of fresh and ripe Damascenes one Hundred boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water till they are soft then pulp them through a Sieve boyl an Ounce of Violet-flowers in the Liquor gently then strain it and add two Pounds of Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup then add a Pound and an half of the Pulp above-mention'd of the Pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds strain'd and dissolv'd in a small quantity of the Liquor each one Ounce boyl it again stir it continually adding the following Powders Sanders Red and White Rubarb of each three Drams of Red Roses Violets of the Seeds of Purslain of Endive and Barberries of Gum-Tragacanth and the Juice of Liquorish each two Drams of the Greater Cold Seeds each one Dram Make an Electuary according to Art This Medicine is cold and moistening and good in Fevers Polypody in Latin Polypodium The Root is reckon'd among Purging Medicines but it purges very gently 'T is very proper in Obstructions of the Mesentery Liver and Spleen for the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Diseases 'T is generally used in Decoctions with other purging Medicines Take of the Root of Polypody of the Oak
The Red Rose is astringent and bitter It comforts the Heart and strengthens the Stomach It cures the Whites and an immoderate Flux of the Courses It stops Eruptitions of the Blood and Fluxes of the Belly A Decoction of it is used for the Head-ach and Pains in the Eyes Ears Throat and Gums The distill'd Water of it is Cordial and refreshes the Spirits The following Medicines are made of Red Roses 1. The Vinegar of Roses which mix'd with the distill'd Water is good for Redness or Inflammations of the Eyes and is used to bathe the Temples in the Head-ach and to procure Sleep 2. Aromaticum Rosatum which is Cordial 3. Conserve of Roses which is much in use for stopping Catarrhs and Running of the Reins and Fluxes of the Belly 'T is made in the following manner Take of Red Roses one Pound they must be gather'd in a dry Season before they are quite spread clip off the yellow Bottoms beat them well in a Stone-Mortar till they come to a Mass like a Pulp then add two Pounds of White Sugar beat it with the Roses till it is well mix'd then put it into a Pot cover'd only with a Paper and let it stand in the Sun a Fortnight or three Weeks stirring it once or twice a Week Take of Conserve of Red Roses Vitriolated four Ounces of the Electuary of Sassafras one Ounce of Olibanum powder'd one Dram of Diacodium a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening This is excellent for stopping Tickling Coughs 4. The Tincture of Roses made in the following manner is commended for a Rheumatism Take of dried Red Roses one Ounce of warm Water three Pints of Spirit of Sulphure or Vitriol one Dram and an half infuse them six Hours to the strain'd Liquor add half a Pound of White Sugar Take a Draught twice or thrice a Day 5. Strain'd Hony of Roses which is good to wash the Mouth and Throat when they are sore or any other Part. 6. Sugar of Roses which is good for Coughs 7. Syrup of dried Roses which is much in use and is indeed an excellent Medicine It comforts the Heart reâ—â—â—â—s Putrefaction and stops Fluxes of all sorts 'T is made in the following manner Take two Quarts of hot Water infuse in it half a Pound of Red Roses dried in the Sun the next Day press it out and with two Pounds of Sugar make a Syrup 8. Oyl of Roses 9. Electuary of Roses 10. Ointment of Roses Of Damask-Roses are made Syrup of Roses Solutive a distill'd Water Aloes Rosat and Hony of Roses Solutive The Syrup is much in use and is made in the following manner Take of hot Fountain-water two Quarts of fresh Damask-Roses as many as the Water will contain infuse them in a close Vessel twelve Hours then press it out and heat the Liquor again and put the Roses in as before and infuse them again and so do three or four times increasing the Quantity of Roses as the Liquor increases then add to six Parts of the Liquor four Parts of Sugar and make a Syrup according to Art It purges gently It may be taken from one Ounce to four Hony of Roses Solutive is also Purging and Opening and is often given in Clysters and so is the Syrup See Eglantine or Sweet Briar Rosemary in Latin Rosmarinus The Leaves the Flowers and Seeds are in use They are Cephalick Uterine and proper for the Nerves They are chiefly used for Diseases of the Head and Nerves for Apoplexies Palsies Falling-sickness and Giddiness They quicken the Sight and help the Memory and cure a Stinking Breath They are used for the Whites and Jaundice And they comfort the Heart and open Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Womb. The Herb burnt corrects the Air and renders it wholesom in the time of a Plague A Decoction of it in Water taken before Exercise cures the Jaundice The Seed taken in Wine does the same The Tops of it infus'd in Wine or Beer and taken daily cure the Palsie and other Diseases of the Nerves The Flowers dried and taken in a Pipe like Tobacco are good for a Cough and Consumption The Chymical Oyl of it taken in a proper Decoction has cured many Tertian Agues Four or six Drops are the Dose A desperate and long Diarrhaea has been cured with Rosemary-wine The Queen of Hungary's Water is made of Flowers infus'd in Spirit of Wine Rue in Latin Ruta It digests and cuts clammy and gross Humours It expels Wind and is a Preservative against the Plague and other Malignant Diseases It quickens the Sight and suppresses Venery It does good in a Pleurisie It strengthens the Stomach and cures the Cholick and the Biting of a Mad Dog It also provokes the Courses and Urine 'T is used outwardly for the Biting of Serpents for Carbuncles and to drive away the Fits of Fevers For an Epilepsie take of the Juice of Rue one Ounce and an half an Ounce of Oxymel of Squills mix'd The distill'd Water of it is much in use for Hysterick Fits and Uterine Diseases Rupture-wort in Latin Herniaria It covers the Ground with many Branches which rise from a small Root the Branches are round and full of Joints It has small Leaves lesser than those of Thyme they are of a yellowish green Colour and of an acrid Taste It has abundance of small yellowish Flowers 'T is good for the Biting of a Viper It wonderfully cures Ruptures a Dram of the Herb in Powder being taken several times or a Decoction of the Herb in Wine S. SAffron in Latin Crocus The moderate use of it is good for the Brain It renders the Senses brisk It shakes off Sleep and Dulness and chears and strengthens the Heart It concocts the Crude Humours of the Breast and opens the Lungs and frees them from Obstructions And it is such an effectual Remedy for the Breast and Lungs that it sometimes revives Consumptive People when they are in a manner worn out 'T is frequently used in Faintings for Apoplexies in the Jaundice and for Obstructions of the Liver in the Plague and other Malignant Diseases 'T is also good in an Asthma mix'd with Oyl of Almonds It provokes Urine and the Courses and hastens Delivery Half a Scruple or a Scruple at most infus'd in Canary-wine is very effectual in the Jaundice 'T is much used to drive out the Small Pox but undoubtedly it does many times much hurt by inflaming the Blood and occasioning Frensies and making them Flux But you may see at large the Mischiefs of hot Medicines and Methods by Dr. Sydenham's Treatise of the Small Pox and Measles which I translated several Years ago Tincture of Saffron is made in the following manner Take of Saffron two Drams of Treacle-water eight Ounces digest them six Days and strain out the Tincture and keep it close stop'd for use Sage in Latin Salvia T is counted very wholesom and therefore the Leaves are eaten in the Spring with
and Sun-setting whether the Heavens are clear or cloudy The Roots of Succory the middle Bark of the Elder the Twigs of Bitter-sweet Wormwood and the Roots of Sharp-pointed Dock cure a Dropsie and Obstructions with expedition and expel Wind. Syrup of Succory with Rubarb is much in use and is an excellent Purge for Children and is made in the following manner Take of Whole Barly of the Roots of Smallage Fennel and Sparagus each two Ounces of Succory Dandelion Smooth South-thistle and Endive each two Handfuls of Garden-Lettice Liverwort Fumatory and the Tops of Hops each one Handful of Venus-hair White Maiden-hair Spleen-wort Liquorish the Seed of Winter-Cherry and Dodder each six Drams boyl these in six Quarts of Fountain-water till two Quarts be consum'd strain the Liquor and put in six Pounds of White Sugar boyl it a while then add six Ounces of Rubarb and six Drams of Spikenard put into a Bag which must be infus'd a while in the hot Liquor then strain it and boyl it to the Consistence of a Syrup Succory-water is also in use Sun-dew in Latin Ros solis Many Leaves come from a small fibrous Root they are placed on long Foot-stalks that are hairy above they are almost round like an Ear-picker a little concave and of a pale-green Colour with a small red Fringe round them they have always a Dew on them in the hottest Day From the middle of the Leaves rise up two or three round small reddish Stalks of an Hand or half a Foot high they have no Leaves on them It has many whitish Flowers placed one above another on short Foot-stalks Oblong Seminal Vessels in shape and bigness like Wheat succeed the Flowers they are full of Seeds It grows plentifully in Sir William Goring's Park near Petworth in Sussex and in many other places Botanists differ about the Virtue of this Plant Some commend it for a Consumption the Plague-wounds and the Falling-sickness But others with good Reason forbid the inward use of it for it is so Caustick that being put on the Skin it will cause Ulcers 'T is very injurious to Sheep for it burns up their Lungs and gives them a deadly Cough Upon which Account it is called the Red-Rot A Strong-water made with it was formerly much in use Many superstitious Things are reported of this Plant which I designedly omit T. TAmarisk in Latin Tamariscus 'T is excellent for Diseases of the Spleen A Decoction of the Bark stops the Courses and an immoderate Flux of the Hemorrhoids It settles the Teeth when they are loose and eases the Pain of them and is good for Ulcers of the Mouth for the Leprosie Itch and other Ulcers for Melancholy the Black-Jaundice and a Dropsie occasion'd by an hard and obstructed Spleen Take of Steel one Ounce of the Middle-bark of the Ash Tamarisk Roots of Capers each half an Ounce of Sassafras and Juniper each six Drams of the Roots of Elecampane Angelica Galangal Sweet-smelling Flag each two Drams Shavings of Harts-horn Ivory Yellow Sanders each three Drams the Leaves of Wormwood Ground-pine Spleen-wort Dodder Balm Germander each two Pugils the Flowers of Bugloss Borage Scabious Broom each one Pugil of Cinnamon half an Ounce Cloves Ginger Mace Nutmegs each two Drams beat them grosly and pour on them two Quarts of White-wine and infuse them in a Glass well stopped in B. M. three or four Days strain it and take four Spoonfuls every Morning This is good for Melancholy and Pains in the Stomach Common Tansie in Latin Tanacetum 'T is Vulnerary Uterine and Nephritick 'T is used for the Worms the Gripes and the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder for Obstruction of the Courses Wind and a Dropsie The Juice of it applied to the Hands and Feet cure the Chaps of them Scabby Ulcers and the Itch. A Conserve of the Leaves and Tops resists Putrefaction purifies the Blood and opens Obstructions One was cured of an Obstinate Dropsie by the Decoction of it Take of the Conserve of Tansie Fumatory Wood-Sorrel each two Ounces of the Compounded Powder of Wake-Robin three Drams of Ivory Crabs-eyes and Coral prepar'd each one Dram of Yellow Sanders powder'd and of the Wood of Aloes each half a Dram of Salt of Steel one Dram of Salt of Wormwood one Dram and an half of the Syrup of the Five Opening Roots a sufficient quantity make an Electuary Take the quantity of a Chesnut Night and Morning This is good for the Scurvy and to strengthen the Blood Tarragon in Latin Dracunculus hortensis 'T is used frequently in Sallets to correct cold Herbs and the Crudities of them 'T is good for those that have cold Stomachs It procures Appetite and expels Wind. It provokes Urine and the Courses and opens Obstructions Being chew'd it evacuates Flegm and so eases the Pain of the Teeth 'T is also Sudorifick Teasel Fuller's-Thistle or Venus's Basin in Latin Dipsacus The Roots of it boyl'd in Wine cure Ulcers of the Fundament called Rhagades and Warts The Water that is receiv'd in the hollowness of the Leaves is good for Inflammations of the Eyes It also takes off Spots from the Face and beautifies it Boyl'd in Wine it purges by Urine But Cloth-workers use it chiefly Dwarf-Carline Thistle in Latin Carduus acaulis The Leaves lie on the Ground in a Circle they are of a green Colour and very prickly they are cut in deep and are hairy they have either no Stalks at all or but one an Inch or an Inch and an half high The little Heads are oblong and not at all prickly The Flowers are purple The Root is as long as the Little Finger and has some thickish Fibres and grows awry 'T is of a reddish Colour especially within and tastes somewhat Aromatick It grows commonly on Hills and in dry Places and on Stony Grounds on the Downs in Sussex 'T is Alexipharmick and Sudorifick It prevents and cures the Plague if it be taken in time 'T is Diuretick and good in a Dropsie Philip Melancton when he was afflicted with Hypochondriack Pains used this Herb and commended it much Milk Thistle or Ladies-Thistle in Latin Carduus Mariae The Leaves have white Spots they are long and broad and very prickly The Stalk is channel'd downy and five or six Foot high and is divided into many Branches The Brush is so prickly that it cannot be handled The Root is long and thick It grows frequently in Hedges and Ditches 'T is supposed to have the same Virtue with the Blessed Thistle called commonly Carduus But it is oftner used in the Kitchin than for Medicine The Decoction of it is used with good Success in Obstructions of the Liver of the Bowels and of Urine wherefore it is good in the Jaundice for the Dropsie and the Stone in the Kidnies The distill'd Water of it cures the Diseases of the Sides 'T is chiefly used outwardly in Eating Ulcers Rags being dip'd in the Water and applied to the Sores The Seed is frequently used
the Bark on gently move the Belly two or three being taken at Bed-time The Tree tap'd in the Spring yields a great quantity of Liquor but it is not so pleasant as that of the Birch-tree 'T is said to be peculiarly proper for Obstructions of the Courses The Nuts being infus'd in Water till the Skin of the Kernels comes off then infuse them two Days in Aqua vitae Take two or three of them daily in the Morning fasting for ten Days before the usual time of their Flowing The Oyl of the Nut mix'd with Oyl of Almonds is excellent in the Stone two or three Ounces of it may be taken inwardly at a time See Mr. Boyl of Specifick Remedies pag. 163. Wall-flower in Latin Leucoium luteum It grows every where on Walls The Flowers are cordial and good for the Nerves They ease Pain provoke the Courses expel the Secundine and a dead Child The Conserve of the Flowers the distil'd Water and the Oyl made of the Flowers by Infusion are in use for Apoplexies and Palsies The Oyl is very Anodine in Wounds and Inflammations of the Nervous Parts Way-faring-tree in Latin Viburnum It sometimes spreads much tho' it is not high The Wood of it is fungous and pithy The Branches are about a Finger thick and four Foot long or longer The Bark is of a dark-gray Colour but the Bark of the Branches is whitish The Leaves are somewhat like the Leaves of the Alder they are broad longish and thickish and indented about the Edges they are hairy and white like Meal especially below The Flowers are placed in Umbels and smell like the Flowers of Elder they are white and consist of five Leaves The Berries are first green then red and lastly black they are sweet and clammy Some Country-people eat them It grows commonly in Hedges The Leaves and Berries are dry and astringent They are used for Inflammations of the Throat and Almonds and for the Relaxation of the Vvula and to settle the Teeth when they are loose and also for Fluxes of the Belly A Decoction of the Leaves makes the Hairs black and prevents their falling Wheat in Latin Triticum The Juice of it is good to take off Spots The Flower mix'd with Bean-shell-water takes out Wrinkles from the Face A Cataplasm made with Water and Oyl and the Flower takes off the Hardness of the Breast and ripens Swellings The Bran cleanses the Hands and makes them soft and white Common Whitlow-grass in Latin Paronychia vulgaris It has a small fibrous Root and many Leaves that lie on the Ground they are scarce an Inch long they are pointed hairy sometimes green sometimes reddish and a little indented and taste somewhat astringent at first afterwards acrid It has sometimes one sometimes two or three Stalks or more they are round and about an Hand high and sometimes not so much they have no Leaves on them but they have many little white Flowers which consist of four Leaves they have small flat Pouches It grows on Walls and Houses Rue Whitlow-grass infus'd in Small Beer and drank for some Days cures King's-Evil-Swellings without any sensible Evacuation See Mr. Boyl of Specifick Remedies pag. 155. Take of Whitlow-grass half an Handful fry it with Flower and an Egg Take it in a Morning fasting for two Days This cures the Whites Winter-cherry in Latin Alkekengi The Berries are Diuretick Nephritick and Lithontriptick They are also good for the Jaundice they may be either infus'd in Wine or boylâ—d in Posset-drink or powder'd and taken in any Liquor One that took eight of the Cherries every Change of the Moon was cured of the Gout tho' before he was miserably afflicted with it Take of Chios-Turpentine two Drams of the Balsam of Tolu half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of the Troches of Alkakengi make Midling Pills Take four at Bed-time These Pills are good for the Stone in the Kidnies Winter-green in Latin Pyrola Five or six of its Leaves lie on the Ground they are like the Leaves of a Pear they are thick of a dark Green smooth and shining above The Foot-stalks are near an Hand long The Stalk is nine Inches high and angled and has on it some small sharp Leaves and a Spike of fine white Flowers consisting of five Leaves The whole Plant tastes bitter It grows in the North near Halifax 'T is an excellent Vulnerary Herb either taken inwardly or outwardly applied Woodroof in Latin Asperula 'T is divided into many Joints The Root is small and creeps on the top of the Earth sending down Capillary Fibres The Stalks are small four-square an Hand or nine Inches high The Leaves are placed on the Joints like those of Madder they are larger than Cleaver-leaves and of a lighter Green they shine a little and are a little hairy The Stalk is divided at the top into two or three Branches upon which the Foot-stalks sustain the little Flowers that smell sweet and are compos'd of four small Leaves The Seeds are small and very hairy and in shape like a Kidny they stick to the Clothes as the Seeds of Clevers do It grows in hilly Woods and among Bushes It flowers in May. 'T is used for Obstructions of the Liver and Gall-bladder and to cool an hot Liver It procures Mirth as they say being put into Wine and gives it a pleasant Taste for which Reason 't is frequently used among the Germans Common Wormwood in Latin Absinthium vulgare It strengthens the Stomach and Liver excites Appetite opens Obstructions and cures Diseases that are occasion'd by them as the Jaundice Dropsie and the like 'T is good in long putrid Fevers it carries off vitious Humours by Urine it expels Worms from the Bowels and preserves Clothes from Moths The Juice the distill'd Water the Syrup the fixed Salt and the Oyl of it are used but the Wine or Beer seems to be the best It strengthens the Stomach creates an Appetite opens Obstructions and provokes Urine The Simple Water is more Languid and of less Virtue The fixed Salt if it be wholly separated from the other Parts by the force of the Fire differs nothing in my Opinion neither in Taste nor Virtue from the Fixed Salt of any other Plant. A Scruple or half a Dram of the Salt according to the Strength and Age of the Sick taken in a Spoonful of the Juice of Limon scarce ever fails to cure Vomiting Green Wormwood bruis'd and mix'd with Lard and applied cures Tumors of the Kernels of the Throat and the Quinsie THE Exotick or Foreign PHYSICAL PLANTS AC ACacia It grows in Egypt The Juice of it press'd from the Cods before they are ripe or from the Flowers or Leaves is used to strengthen the Eyes and to take off the Inflammation of them and to cure Ulcers of the Mouth and Ears and for Chaps of the Lips The Juice reduc'd to a Powder after it has been wash'd in a Decoction made with the Juice or the Leaves or Flowers and sprinkl'd on
Leaves of Ground-Ivy Colt's-foot Oak of Jerusalem each three Pounds Hysop Rosemary Penny-royal Horehound of each one Pound and an half of the Roots of Elecampane and Liquorish each one Pound and an half of Florentine-Orris twelve Ounces of Figs sliced three Pounds of the best Saffron of the Seeds Annise and Sweet-Fennel each half an Ounce of Spirit of Wine five Quarts of Fountain-water four and twenty Quarts infuse them and distil from a Limbeck twelve Quarts Take as I said one Pint and an half of this Pectoral-water and boyl the Ingredients above-mention'd in it in a Circulatory Vessel well stop'd and placed in hot Sand for some Hours strain it and add a sufficient quantity of White Sugar to make a Syrup This is excellent for Coughs and Consumptions and for the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder Balsamum de Chili is good for Pains that proceed from Cold or Wind. It helps Digestion creates an Appetite and strengthens the Stomach 'T is good for Ulcers in the Kidnies Womb Lungs or Breast It stops Spitting of Blood is good for Coughs and an Asthma and other Diseases of the Lungs 'T is useful in Diseases of the Head and Nerves as Apoplexies Lethargy Palsie Convulsions and the like It cures Bursten Bellies and kills Worms and expels Gravel It cures Deafness being drop'd into the Ear. 'T is good for a Fistula and Ulcers for Bruises and Aches of the Limbs It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and provokes Women's Courses It grows in America in the Province of Chili Balaustians in Latin Balaustia They are the Flowers of the Wild Pomegranate some of them are as big as a Damask-Rose others much less They corroborate the Stomach are drying binding cooling and astringent They stop Catarrhs a Loosness the Bloody-Flux a Gonorrhaea and the like They settle the Teeth when they are loose and cure Bursten Bellies They are brought from Turky and Spain and some other Places Take of the Roots of Bistort Tormentil of Pomegranate-peel each one Ounce of the Leaves of Plantane Knot-grass Shepherd's-purse and Horse-tail each one Handful of Cypress-Nuts Balaustians Pomegranate Myrtle and Shumach each one Ounce boyl them in Smith's Water and rough Wine strain it and make a Fomentation This is a good astringent Fomentation Balaustians are also an Ingredient of the Syrup of Myrtles in the London-Dispensatory Bdellium It mollifies discusses opens and cleanses But it is to be noted when it is fresh it mollifies most powerfully when it is old it discusses and cleanses best 'T is chiefly used inwardly for a Cough and an Ulcer of the Lungs and to expel Gravel and to provoke Urine and the like Outwardly used it discusses Hardness and Knots of the Nerves Take of Bdellium Gum-Ammoniacum and Opoponax each two Drams dissolve them in White-wine strain them and boyl them then add of the Confection of Hamech and Diaphoenicon each two Ounces of the Catholicon Duplicatum half an Ounce of Faetid Pill two Drams make an Opiat of which take half an Ounce adding to it twenty Grains of Mercurius dulcis Continue the use of it several Days together and it will take off the Hardness and Swelling of the Spleen Bear's-breech in Latin Branca Vrsina 'T is one of the five Emollient Herbs 'T is used chiefly in Clysters and other Paregoricks of whatsoever kind they are and most commonly in Pultises The Roots made into Pultises and applied are good for Burns and Luxations Being taken inwardly they force Urine and stop a Loosness They are good for Consumptive People and such as spit Blood and for Contusions It grows in Italy and Sicily 'T is one of the Ingredients of the Majesterial Water of Worms in the London-Dispensatory which is made in the following manner Take of Worms well cleans'd three Pounds of Snails with their Shells cleans'd two Gallons beat them in a Mortar and put them into a convenient Vessel adding of the Leaves of Stinging Nettles with their Roots six Handfuls of Wild Angelica four Handfuls of Bears-breech seven Handfuls of Agrimony and Betony each three Handfuls of Common Wormwood two Handfuls of the Flowers of Rosemary six Ounces of the Roots of Sharp-pointed Docks ten Ounces of Wood-Sorrel five Ounces of Turmerick of the Inner Bark of Barberries each four Ounces of Fenugreek-seed two Ounces of Cloves powder'd three Ounces of Hart's-horn grosly powder'd of Ivory powder'd each four Ounces of Saffron three Drams of Small Spirit of Wine four Gallons and an half after they have been infus'd four and twenty Hours distil them in Glass Vessels in B. M. The first four Pints that distil is to be kept by it self and is called the Spirit The rest is called the Majesterial Water of Worms Benjamin in Latin Benzoinum It attenuates 'T is hot and dry 'T is used for Coughs Rheums and Obstructions of the Lungs It comes from Sumatra Surat and several other Places Flowers and the Oyl of Benjamin are made in the following manner Take an Earthen Pot high and narrow with a little Border round it put into it three or four Ounces of clear Benjamin grosly powder'd cover the Pot with a Coffin of Paper and tye it round about under the Border set the Pot into hot Ashes and when the Benjamin is heated the Flowers will sublime take off the Coffin every two Hours and fix another in its place stop up quickly in a Glass the Flowers you find in the Coffins and when those which afterwards sublime do begin to appear Oyly take the Pot off the Fire put that which remains into a little Glass Retort and fitting a Receiver to it distil in a Sand-heat a thick and fragrant Oyl until no more comes forth and there will remain in the Retort nothing but a very spungy Earth The Flowers are good for Asthmatical Persons and to fortifie the Stomach The Dose is from two Grains to five in an Egg or in Lozenges The Oyl is a Balsam for Wounds and Ulcers Tincture of Benjamin is made in the following manner Take three Ounces of Benjamin and half an Ounce of Storax powder them grosly and put them into a Pottle-Matrass half empty pour upon them a Pint of Spirit of Wine stop your Vessel close and set it in warm Horse-dung leave it in Digestion for a Fortnight after which filtrate the Liquor and keep it in a Vessel well stop'd Some do add to it five or six Drops of Balsam of Peru to give it a better Smell 'T is good to take away Spots in the Face A Dram of it is put into four Ounces of Water and it whitens like Milk This Water serves for a Wash and is called Virgin 's Milk Take of Fat Ammoniacum dissolv'd in Vinegar of Squills one Ounce of Extract of Aloes half an Ounce of Crystal of Tartar one Dram of Myrrh and Saffron each half a Dram of Mastich Benjamin and Salt of Ash-tree and Wormwood each one Scruple with Oxymel of Squills make a Mass for Pills The Dose is half a Dram
the Vvula and strengthens the Stomach it being outwardly used in a Lotion A Dram of it powder'd may be taken inwardly in hot Wine or it may be boyl'd in Water 'T is reckon'd a Specifick for Ulcers of the Bladder A Woman evacuated a Stone almost as big as a Walnut which had occasion'd an Ulcer of the Bladder and of the neighbouring Parts by using Camel's-Hay and the Roots of Cypress Take of the Tops of Roman-Wormwood three Drams of Hore-hound and Rosemary each two Drams of Red Roses two Pugils of the Flowers of Camomile and the Leaves of Laurel each half an Handful of Orange-Pill and of Sweet Wood of Aloes each three Drams Cypress-roots Camel's-Hay and Spikenard each half an Ounce make a Decoction with two parts of the best Wine and one part of Agrimony and wormwood-Wormwood-water foment the Region of the Liver with it with a Spunge press'd out of wormwood-Wormwood-wine This has been used in a Dropsie Camphir in Latin Camphora Camphir was unknown to the Ancient Grecians It began first to be taken notice of by the Arabians Whether it is hot or cold is not agreed on by Authors The Ancients counted it cold because it extinguish'd Venery and cured Inflammations of the Eyes and for that being put upon Burns it seem'd as cold as Snow But Modern Physicians affirm 't is hot on the contrary Their Arguments for it are the great Inflammability of it its penetrating Aromatick Smell and Acrid Taste its readiness to evaporate by reason of the Tenuity of Parts Which Opinion indeed seems most probable for the contrary Arguments are easily answer'd For if it should be granted that it suppresses Venery it doth not therefore necessarily follow that it is cold for so doth Rue and the chaste Tree and the like Yet Breynius saith it doth not extinguish Venery For says he it hath been observ'd that many who have been employ'd in purifying Camphir daily have had many Children And then tho' it be of use in many Diseases that require Cooling as in Inflammations of the Eys and Erysipelas Fevers and the like yet they say Cooling in these Cases by this Medicine is not per se but per accidens much in the same manner as the Inflammation of a Member burnt is drawn out by the Heat of the Fire or the Flame of a Candle or as by the immoderate use of Pepper the native Heat is driven out and is less within and so the Body becomes cold Some mention other Ways whereby these things may be perform'd which I omit partly because they are not satisfactory and partly because it is not clear whether Camphir doth good in these Diseases or whether it be injurious Camphir resists Putrefaction and Poisons upon which Account it is frequently used in the Plague Malignant Diseases and Putrid Fevers balm-Balm-water wherein Camphir hath been extinguish'd doth good in Mother-fits 'T is most frequently used outwardly in cooling Epithems Frontals and Paregoricks And for the mixing of it with them 't is wont to be dissolv'd with the Spirit of Wine or rubbed with Oyly Kernels or Seeds Camphir dissolves in Spirit of Wine presently and swims upon the top of the Spirit in form of an Oyl Camphir is mix'd with Wash-balls to smoothen and beautifie the Skin A small quantity of it used outwardly or inwardly disposes to Sleep But if it be held to the Nose frequently it dries the Brain and causes Watching Camphir is reckon'd by the most learned Men and not undeservedly among the strongest Alexipharmicks It wonderfully resists Putrefaction and repels and corrects the putrid Vapours of a corrupt Member But it is to be used cautiously in violent Pains of the Head and Stomach Camphir is dissolv'd in Spirit of Wine and this Dissolution is called Spirit of Wine Camphoriz'd 'T is good for the Apoplexy and Hysterical Diseases 'T is also found to be of excellent use for the Tooth-ach a little Cotton being dip'd in it and put into the aching Tooth The Oyl of Camphir is made in the following manner Powder grosly three or four Ounces of good Camphir put it into a Matrass and pour upon it twice as much Spirit of Nitre stop your Vessel close and set it over a Pot half full of Water a little heated stir it ever now and then to help forward the Dissolution which will be finish'd in two or three Hours and then you will find the Camphir turn'd into a clear Oyl which swims above the Spirit separate it and keep it in a Viol well stop'd 'T is used for the Caries of Bones and to touch Nerves that are uncover'd in Wounds This Oyl is nothing but a Dissolution of Camphir in Spirit of Nitre for if you pour Water upon it to destroy the force of the Spirit it returns into Camphir as before Of all the Resins this is the only one that can dissolve in Spirit of Wine Take of Volatile Salt of Hart's-horn two Grains of the Majesterial Cardiac-powder six Grains of Camphir and Cochinel each four Grains of Venice-Treacle one Scruple of the Aqua Coelestis a sufficient quantity Make a Bolus This is good in Malignant Fevers Take of Camphir and Borax each one Dram of White Sugar-candy five Drams of White Vitriol one Scruple powder them very fine and mingle them by degrees with half a Pint of Sweet-Fennel-water This is an excellent Water for Rheums and Inflammations of the Eyes a Rag being dip'd in it and applied often on the Eye-lids 'T is gather'd from more Trees than one It distils Drop by Drop from a great Tree much like a Walnut-tree in the Island Borneo in Asia Little Cakes of it are likewise brought out of China but that is not so good It must be chosen white transparent clean friable without Spot and such as is hard to quench when once lighted Camphir is compounded of a Sulphur and a Salt so very Volatile that it is very hard to keep any time and it always loseth something let it be never so closely stop'd Cancamum See Gummi Anime Canela See Cinnamon Capers in Latin Capperis They are brought to us in Pickle and are frequently used for Sauce for Roast and Boil'd Meat and for Fish They quicken the Appetite promote Concoction and open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Lobelius says the Biggest Capers are better than the Least Perhaps he means the Fruit which is sometimes pickl'd and is called Long-Capers But now-a-days they are not used in England It is said that they who eat Italian Capers daily are not troubled with the Palsie nor Pains of the Spleen They are good for the Hip-Gout and Bursten-Bellies They provoke the Courses draw Flegm from the Head and cure the Tooth-ach Being boyl'd in Vinegar the Bark especially of the Root softens the Spleen when it is hard Being taken inwardly or outwardly applied it provokes the Courses cleanses Ulcers and dries doth good in the Gout digests hard Tumours it also kills Worms Take of Oil of Lillies and of Capers each
each two Ounces of Mercury one Handful and an half of Jujubes and Sebestenes each number Twenty five of Maiden-hair of Violets and of Barly cleans'd each one Handful of Damask-Prunes and Tamerinds each six Drams of Liquorish half an Ounce boyl them according to Art in five Quarts of Water to the Consumption of a third part then strain them out hard In part of the Liquor dissolve of the Pulp of Cassia and Tamerinds and of fresh Prunes and of Violet-Sugar each six Ounces in the other part of the Liquor dissolve two Pounds of fine Sugar Lastly add an Ounce and an half of the Powder of Sena and two Drams of the Powder of Annise-seeds for every Pound of the Electuary and so make an Electuary according to Art It cools and purges gently An Ounce or an Ounce and and half may be taken at a time Cassidony See Stoechas Cassummuniar To give a Description of the Herb its Place its Growth whether it bears any Flower or Seed is not in my power having receiv'd no Account along with it from my Brother Factor to the Honourable East-India Company Only thus much is most certain 't is a Plant esteem'd even by Princes themselves some part of what I have being taken out of the King of Golconda's Garden one of the greatest and wealthiest Princes in India And the Priests who are the Brackmannes of the Pythagorean Sect of Phylosophers do many and great Cures with it for which they are much esteem'd not only by the Natives but also by Foreign Merchants that reside there the English themselves preferring them before their own Country-men when they labour under those Diseases that reign in the East-Indians They are very excellent Botanists admirably skill'd in the Nature and Use of Plants and having an extraordinary Variety of them have improv'd Galenical Physick to a very great heighth I do not understand that they are acquainted with any of the Chymical Ways of separating the pure from the impure Parts nor are they acquainted with the use of Minerals But as they are nourish'd by the Product of the Earth so they are cured by the Off-spring thereof Not feeding upon any Animal kill'd for their use fearing they should eat some of their Ancestors because they hold a Transmigration of Souls This Root tho' it might serve to Aromatize their Diet and is certainly a good Stomachick yet they use it only Medicinally and that in so homely a Way as is becoming such plain and simple Men unacquainted with the Confectioner's or Apothecary's Art They cut the Root transverse or cross-ways and having so done they dry it in the Sun with great Care and when they have Occasion to use it they grind it betwixt two Stones adding Water to it after the manner of Painters grinding their Colours Being reduc'd hereby to the Consistence of an Electuary they administer two or three Drams of it at a time to their Patients As to its Qualities 't is moderately hot and very astringent It consists of very fine Parts wrap'd up in and tied to an Earthy Matter and may be reckon'd amongst Aromata or Spices It exceedingly recruits the Animal and Vital Spirits and may well be imagin'd to be Aperitive By the Experience I have had of it I find it admirably to agree with the Animal Spirits and a proper Remedy against their Irregularities With Spirit of Wine I have drawn a good Spirit from it and with the remaining Faeces made a very good Extract and conceive its Extract made with Fountain-water may be better than the Powder in the Bloody-Flux for which it is an excellent Remedy The Spirit is good to mix with Cordials It is a very good Medicine outwardly used and will lay Scents better than any thing yet found out 'T is much commended by Doctor John Peachie of Gloucester who wrote this Account of it for Apoplexies Convulsions Fits of the Mother and the like He used to foment the Head with the Spirit and to give inwardly the following Medicine Take of Cassummuniar powder'd two Ounces of the Conserves of the Flowers of Betony one Ounce make an Electuary according to Art with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Peony Let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg thrice a Day drinking upon it four Ounces of the following Julap Take of the Waters of the Flowers of the Lime-tree and of Black-berries each half a Pint of the Compound Spirit of Lavender three Ounces a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Peony mingle them He says many have been cured of Head-diseases by this Medicine Mr. Marlow in King-street near Guild-Hall an excellent Apothecary and a curious Man shew'd me Cassummuniar and confirm'd the Use and Virtues above-mention'd China 'T is good for the French-Pox which some say it cures without observing a strict Diet in a short time and with pleasure wherefore it is much esteem'd by the Indians Garsia wrote a whole Book of the Virtue and Use of this Root 'T is most commonly used in Decoctions and one or two Ounces is sufficient for nine Pints of Water 'T is good for all Diseases that require Sweating 'T is used in the Palsie for Pains in the Joints the Hip-Gout the Gout Scirrhous and Edematous Tumors and for the King's-Evil It strengthens the Stomach when weak eases inveterate Pains in the Head doth good for the Stone and Ulcers of the Bladder cures the Jaundice and Humoral and Windy Ruptures 'T is a great Provocative to Venery And Fallopius says Men grow fat by the use of it The Turks who love to have their Wives in good Case diet them with a Decoction of this Root Take of the Roots of China three Ounces Sarsaperilla six Ounces Saxifrage one Ounce of Nephritick Wood two Ounces of Harts-horn and Ivory rasp'd each half an Ounce of White Sanders half an Ounce of the Roots of Parsly Grass Knee-holm each one Ounce of Liquorish two Ounces of Dates ston'd number Six of Caraways and Coriander-seeds each three Drams infuse them in seven Quarts of Fountain-water boyl it according to Art and Aromatize it with Woody Cassia This is used for the French Pox. Take of the Roots of China two Ounces of Sarsaperilla six Ounces of all the Sanders each three Drams of Saxifrage ten Drams infuse them in four Quarts of Fountain-water for twelve Hours and then adding of the Leaves of Agrimony two Handfuls of the Leaves of Speed-well three Handfuls of Scabious one Handful of the Seeds of Sweet-Fennel and Caraways each three Drams of Raisins of the Sun ston'd six Ounces boyl it to the Consumption of the third part strain the Liquor and use it for your ordinary Drink This is much used in the King 's Evil. China grows plentifully in China and in Malabar and in many other places Chiches or Chich-pease in Latin Cicer sativum Chich-pease are three-fold White Red and Black The Ancients commonly fed upon them as do the Italians now at this Day They eat them raw as well as boyl'd but
in each Cloth to put the powder'd Cloves into set a small Earthen Cup upon each Glass of these Cloves let it stop so â—â—â—ly that it may suffer no Air to enter between its Brim and that of the Glass fill the Cups with hot Ashes to warm the Cloves and distil down to the bottom of the Glasses first a little Flegm and Spirit and after that a clear and white Oyl continue the Fire until there falls no more separate the Oyl in a Tunnel lined with a Cornet of Brown Paper and keep it in a Viol well stop'd Some Drops of it are with Cotton put into aching Teeth 'T is likewise good in Malignant Fevers and the Plague The Dose is two or three Drops in Balm-water or some appropriate Liquor You must mix it with a little Sugar-candy or a little Yolk of an Egg before you drop it into the Water otherwise it will not dissolve in the Water I have given you this Preparation to serve upon an Emergency when you want in haste the Oyl of Cloves You must only use hot Ashes to warm the Cloves if you desire White Oyl for if you give a greater Heat the Oyl turns red and besides a great part of it will be lost You must also take care to lift up the Cup from time to time to stir about the Powder Some do dissolve Opium in Oyl of Cloves and use this Dissolution for the Tooth-ach they put one Drop of it into the aching Tooth and it soon takes off the Pain The Spirit of Cloves which is made at the same time the Oyl is made is a good Stomachick It helps Concoction comforts the Heart and increases Seed The Dose is from six Drops to twenty in some convenient Liquor Cloves grow spontaneously in the Moloca-Islands Those that are good are black solid and weighty smell well are hard to break and bite the Tongue much and when they are broken their Liquor sweats out They may be kept five Years in a temperate place Coccus Baphica See Kermes Cockle in Latin Pseudomelanthium It grows every where amongst Corn and Flowers in June and July It cures the Itch and heals Wounds ann Fistula's and stops Blood But the Virtues of it are doubted by some Yet Sennertus commends it in Stopping of Bleeding Coco-Nut-tree in Latin Palma Coccifera A Liquor is drawn from this Tree called Suri which intoxicates like Wine It hath a pleasant sweet Taste An hot Water or Spirit is drawn from it by Distillation Sugar also and Vinegar is made of it Fine polish'd Cups tip'd with Silver are made of the Bark of it The Liquor or Wine is very good for Consumptions and excellent for Diseases of the Urine and Reins A Milk is drawn from the Kernels beat and press'd without the help of Fire which is very good for killing Worms eight Ounces of it being taken in a Morning with a little Salt The Liquor contain'd in the Kernel extinguishes Thirst cures Fevers clenses the Eyes and the Skin purifies the Blood purges the Stomach and Urinary Passages relieves the Breast tastes pleasantly and yields a great Nourishment 'T is said of it that it is Meat Drink and Cloth Chocolet is made of it It grows in the Spanish West-Indies and laste an hundred Years Coculus Indus 'T is uncertain where these Berries grow but the chief use of them is for catching Fish a Paste being made for them of White Flower and the Powder of the Berries For the Fish by eating of this Paste become giddy and stupid and so are easily taken But it is questionable whether Fish so taken may be safely eaten perhaps if they are gutted as soon as they are taken and boyl'd they may be eaten without hurt A Person who went to buy Cubebs of an Apothecary had these Berries deliver'd to him by a Mistake and when he had taken not above four of them he was presently seiz'd with a Vomiting the Hiccups and Faintness But a Vomit being presently given him he recover'd within an Hour Coffee in Latin Caova The Decoction of it strengthens a cold Stomach helps Concoction and opens Obstructions of the Bowels and is good for cold Tumors of the Liver and Spleen It heats the Womb and frees it from Obstructions Upon which Account the Egyptian and Arabian Women use it frequently But it is most taken notice of for removing Drowsiness But tho it be so commonly used and so very proper and effectual in some Cases yet in other Cases perhaps it may be hurtful or at least not so beneficial For it is commonly observ'd that Coffee-drinkers are often very lean and become Paralitick and impotent as to Venery But indeed in most Diseases of the Head as for Giddiness Head-aches Lethargies Catarrhs and the like Coffee is often used with good Success by those that are of a gross Habit of Body and of a cold Constitution and whose Blood is watery their Brains moist and their Animal Spirits dull for being taken daily it wonderfully clears the Spirits and dissipates those Clouds of all the Functions But on the contrary they who are of a thin Habit of Body and an hot and melancholy Constitution ought by all means to forbear Coffee And besides those that have but weak Spirits or are subject to a Trembling or Numness of the Limbs ought not to drink Coffee tho' they are afflicted with the Head-ach Nor ought they who are subject to the Palpitation of the Heart 'T is reckon'd good in a Scorbutick Gout and for the Gravel The Goodness of Coffee chiefly depends on the exact roasting of it Bernier says there were only two Men that knew how to roast them right in Grand Cayro For few know the manner and degree of Torrifaction for if they are never so little over or under-roasted they are spoyled Coffee is adulterated with burnt Crusts of Bread roasted Beans and the like 'T is commonly boyl'd in Copper or Tin-Pots but Earâ—hen are best for it for it is probable that Metals too often impart something of their Substance to the Liquor It hath been observ'd that upon Distillation a Pound of good clean Coffee the Vessels being well luted hath yielded four Ounces and an half of Flegm with a little Volatile Spirit mix'd with Salt and two Ounces and five Drams of a thick black Oyl which being rectified became yellow the Caput mortuum weighed about four Ounces so that about a fourth part evaporated notwithstanding the Vessels were so closely cemented Upon which we may reasonably conjecture that Coffee contains many Particles that are Volatile and Penetrative whereby it is probable it keeps Men waking Many that have been very subject to Nephritick Pains have been cured by taking Coffee often Women use it to cleanse the Teeth One that was seiz'd with a violent Cholera and painful Convulsions from an Internal Cause was cured in a short time by taking a great quantity of Coffee which was retain'd in the Stomach when the Tincture of Opium Mint-water and the like were
it into pieces and boyl it in Broth. It tastes well and yields a laudable Juice and we suppose it is a convenient Diet for Feverish People for it cools and mollifies 'T is much of the same Virtue with Cucumber The fresh Leaves applied to the Breasts of Women in Child-bed lessens the Milk The Seeds are reckon'd among the four Greater Cold Seeds For Redness of the Face Take of the Kernels of Peaches four Ounces of the Seeds of Goards two Ounces make an Oyl of them by Expression wherewith anoint the Face Menstruous Women by only looking on young Goards kill them But this seems fabulous Canary Grass in Latin Phalaris It grows as well in Spain and France as in the Canaries The Seed and the Juice of the Herb and the Leaves taken inwardly are commended for Pains in the Bladder Common Dog Grass or Couch-Grass in Latin Gramen caninum 'T is a tall Grass sometimes four or five Foot high It expels Gravel Silvius says that Sheep and Oxen that are troubled with the Stone in the Winter-time are freed from it in the Spring by eating Grass Cotton Grass in Latin Gramen Tomentosum It grows in marshy and watery places and is easily known by the Cotton on it 'T is very astringent and is used for making Candles and the like Oat Grass in Latin Gramen Avenaceum 'T is found in May in the Hedges and narrow Ways Tragus says a Decoction of it in White-wine used for some Days is an excellent Remedy for the Worms in Children Guaiacum in Latin Lignum sanctum In curing the French-Pox there is no Medicine better or surer than the Decoction of Guaiacum for if the Cure be manag'd as it ought and the Decoction be taken in due time 't is a certain Cure for this Disease 'T is also good in a Dropsie for an Asthma the Falling-sickness for Diseases of the Bladder and Reins and for Pains in the Joints and for all Diseases proceeding from cold Tumors and Wind. The Spaniards learnt the use of it from the Indians For a certain Spaniard having taken the Disease from an Indian Woman was much afflicted with Venereal Pains and having an Indian Servant who practis'd Physick in that Province he gave his Master the Decoction of it whereby his Pains were eased and his Health restored And by his Example many other Sapniards were cured So that in a short time this way of Cure was known all over Spain and soon after every where else The Pox that is the Disease of the West-Indians ininfected the Europeans in the following manner In the Year 1493. in that War of the Spaniards at Naples with the French Columbus return'd from his first Voyage which he had undertaken for the Discovery of the New World and having found some Islands he brought thence Men and Women to Naples where His Catholick Majesty was Having then made Peace with the French King both the Armies having free Intercourse and Ingress and Egress at pleasure the Spaniards had first Conversation with the Indian Women and the Indian Men with the Spanish Women And then it crept afterwards into Italy and Germany and lastly into France and so over all the World At first it had many Names The Spaniards thinking they were infected by the French called it the French-Pox The French supposing they got it at Naples called it the Neopolitan Disease And the Germans thinking they receiv'd it from the Spaniards called it the Spanish Disease But others more properly termed it the Indian Malady for from thence it first came The Way of preparing this Decoction together with the Method of taking it is as follows Take of the Wood cut small twelve Ounces of the Bark of it beaten two Ounces infuse it in six Sextaries of Water in a large Earthen Pot twenty four Hours the Pot must be close stop'd boyl it with a gentle Fire to the Consumption of four Sextaries of the Water when it is cold strain it then put upon the same Wood eight Sextaries of Water and boyl it to the Consumption of two Keep it a-part The Way of giving it is as follows The Sick being purged according as his Physician shall think fit he must be put into a warm Chamber and let him go to bed in the Morning and take ten Ounces of the first Water hot and being well cover'd he must sweat two Hours then being well rub'd let him change his Linnen and put on his Clothes well warm'd four Hours after give him Raisins and Almonds with Bread twice baked whereof let him eat moderately and drink as much as is sufficient of the Second Water Eight Hours after he hath eaten let him take again ten Ounces of the first Water hot and let him sweat two Hours and be cleansed from his Sweat as before an Hour after the Sweat give him the Almonds and Raisins and the Bread twice bak'd for his Supper and let him drink of the Second Water Let him observe this Method for the first fifteen Days unless his Strength be much impair'd for if so he must be allow'd a roasted Chicken besides the things above-mention'd Those that are weakly and cannot bear so strict a Diet must be allow'd also a roasted Chicken after nine Days But if the Sick be so very weakly that he cannot bear at all the fore-mention'd Diet he must eat Chicken sparingly at the Beginning increasing his Meals by degrees After fifteen or sixteen Days purge with ten Drams of the Pulp of Cassia or some such Medicine and on the same Day let him drink of the Second Decoction On the Seventeenth Day let him return to the Method above describ'd let him take Morning and Evening the Water of the First Decoction sweat and be dieted as before only instead of a Chicken let him eat half a Pullet and towards the End somewhat more Let him continue the same Diet to the Twentieth Day at which time being well cloath'd let him walk about his Chamber afterwards purge him again and let him continue the use of the Decoction forty Days more and let him observe an orderly Diet and abstain from Women and Wine But if he nauseate the Decoction let him drink Water wherein Annise and Fennel have been boyl'd let him eat a small Supper and to be sure let him forbear Flesh then This Method some think will eradicate the worst sort of Pox But others hold there is no other Way of curing it when it is deeply rooted than by the use of Mercury The incomparable Chyrurgeon Mr. Wiseman mentions it frequently in his excellent Treatise of the French-Pox Take of Guaiacum four Ounces of the Bark of the same two Ounces of Sarsaparilla eight Ounces of the Wood of Saxifrage one Ounce and an half of the Shavings of Hart's-horn and Ivory each six Drams infuse them all Night in ten Quarts of Fountain-water then boyl them in a Vessel close stop'd to the Consumption of a third part add at the End of the Leaves and Roots of Soap-wort
Hardness of the Spleen Gum-Tragacanth It flows from the Root being cut That which is brought to us is glutinous white or yellow and of a sweetish Taste The Water wherein it is infus'd becomes clammy and mucilaginous It opens Obstructions and attemperates Acrimony It is used in Medicines for the Eyes and for Coughs and Hoarsness and Distillations in a Linctus with Hony A Dram of it being dissolv'd and taken in a proper Liquor mix'd with Burnt Hart's-horn and a little Allum eases the Pain of the Kidnies and Erosions of the Bladder 'T is good for the Bloody-Flux in Clysters And dissolv'd in Milk or Rose-water it takes off Redness of the Eyes and stops sharp Distillations on them A Mucilage is made of it in Water to form other Medicines for instance Troches 'T is an Ingredient of the Syrup of Hysop of the London-Dispensatory which is made in the following manner Take of the Roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel Liquorish cut each ten Drams of Jujebs and Sebestians each fifteen pair of Raisins cleans'd one Ounce and an half Figs and fat Dates of each number Ten of the Seeds of Mallows Quinces and of Gum-Tragacanth tied up in a Rag each three Drams of Hysop moderately dried ten Drams of Maiden-hair six Drams all being prepar'd infuse them twenty four Hours in eight Pints of Barly-water then boyl them in B. M. and strain them out hard to the clear Liquor add six Pounds and an half of Fine Sugar make a Syrup in B. M. It corroborates the Breast and Lungs and is excellent for Coughs H. HEdge-Hysop or rather Water-Hysop in Latin Gratiola 'T is an excellent Remedy to purge Watery and Cholorick Humours which it draws from the most remote Parts and evacuates them by Vomit and Stool and by consequence must be of good use in a Dropsie for the Yellow Jaundice and for Pains of the Hips It may be taken in Powder or green in a Decoction But because it works so violently it ought to be corrected with Ginger Sal Gemma Cinnamon or the like 'T is very bitter and kills Worms and carries off the Matter occasioning them Being bruis'd and applied it cures Wounds quickly It grows in Germany and Italy and some Parts of France Heliotrope in Latin Heliotropium majus The Herb cures Warts being rub'd upon them 'T is very effectual in a Carcionoma and for Gangrenous Ulcers and King's-Evil-Swellings The Leaves sprinkled with Rose-water and applied to the Head ease the Pain of it A Decoction made of the Leaves and Cummin expels Gravel and kills Worms Hermodactyls in Latin Hermodactylus Botanists do not agree about Hermodactiles of the Shops Some say they are the Roots of Colchicum Others deny it And the more Learn'd and Skilful make them to be different things Take of Hermodactiles powder'd half a Dram of Aloes-Succotrine one Scruple of Powder of Cummin six Grains make Pills according to Art Or Take of White-wine three Ounces of Hermodactiles powder'd two Drams of Powder of Ginger one Scruple mingle them and let them stand in Infusion all Night strain it and add an Ounce and an half of Syrup of Betony and make a Draught Maggravius mentions these Pills and this Potion amongst his Phlegmagoges Plaster of Hermodactiles of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the Plaster called Diachalcitis eight Ounces of Burgundy-Pitch melted and strain'd four Ounces of White Venice-Soap and New Yellow Wax each three Ounces of Butter of Oranges one Ounce of the Seeds of Cummin and Hermodactiles each one Ounce and an half of the Leaves of dried Wormwood of the Flowers of Camomile and of Florentine-Orris each half an Ounce powder fine those Things which are to be powder'd and make a Plaster according to Art Hypocistis or Rape of Cistus in Latin Orobranche It grows from the Roots of all the Sorts of Cistus 'T is very effectual for all Fluxes as of Blood the Fluxes of Women and for Celiack and Dysenterick Diseases 'T is also good to strengthen any Part. 'T is now-a-days prepar'd in the following manner They beat the fresh Flowers and press out the Juice and thicken it in the Sun and keep it for use Take of Conserve of Roses and of the Roots of the Greater Comfrey each two Ounces of Seal'd Earth Bole-Armoniack Dragon's-Blood Red Coral of the Lapis Hematites and Troches de Carrabe of each one Dram of Hypocistis the Grains of Kermes and the Seeds of Plantane each one Scruple with equal parts of Syrup of Poppies and Myrtles make an Opiate of which take the quantity of a Nutmeg Morning and Evening drinking upon it a little plantane-Plantane-water This is used for Voiding of Blood by Urine J. JAlap in Latin Jalapium The Root of it is like Mechoacan but it is cover'd with a black Bark and is brownish within It comes to us sliced from India It tastes gummy but not unpleasant 'T is stronger than the common White Mechoacan for it purges Watery Humours better A Dram of the Powder of it may be given at a time The Purgative Quality resides in the Resin Resin or Magistery of Jalap is made in the following manner Put a Pound of Jalap grosly powder'd into a large Matrass pour upon it Spirit of Wine Alcoholiz'd until it be four Fingers above the Matter stop the Matras with another whose Neck enters into it and luting the Junctures with a wet Bladder digest it three Days in a Sand-heat the Spirit of Wine will receive a red Tincture decant it and then pour more upon the Jalap proceed as before and mixing your Dissolutions filtrate them through Brown Paper put that which you have filtrated into a Glass-Cucurbite and distil in a Vaporous Bath two thirds of the Spirit of Wine which may serve you another time for the same Operation pour that which remains at the Bottom of the Cucurbite into a large Earthen Pan fill'd with Water and it will turn into a Milk which you must leave a Day to settle and then separate the Water by Inclination you will find the Resin at bottom like unto Turpentine wash it several times with Water and dry it in the Sun it will grow hard like common Resin powder it fine and it will become white keep it in a Viol. It purges Serosities 'T is given in Dropsies and for all Obstructions The Dose is from four to twelve Grains mix'd in an Electuary or else in Pills The Resins of Turbith Scammony and Benjamin may be drawn after the same manner If you use sixteen Ounces of Jalap you will draw an Ounce and six Drams of Resin You must observe to give the Resin of Jalap always mix'd with something else that may separate its Parts for if it be taken alone it will be apt to adhere to the Membrane of the Intestines and so cause Ulcers by its Acrimonious Quality Moreover Apothecaries should observe to mix it in a little Yolk of an Egg when they would dissolve it in a Potion for it sticks to
the Mortar like Turpentine when it is moisten'd with any Aqueous Liquor It may be likewise incorporated with some Electuary and then it easily dissolves Twelve Grains of this Resin work as much as a Dram of Jalap in substance But I have always observ'd in my Practice that the Powder of Jalap works better and surer than the Resin Take of Lenetive Electuary two Drams of the Cream of Tartar half a Dram of Powder of Jalap two Scruples make a Bolus with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Buck-thorn add three Drops of Oyl of Juniper This purges strongly Watery Humours For weakly People use the following Medicine Take of Lenitive Electuary one Dram of Cream of Tartar half a Dram of Powder of Jalap one Scruple of Rubarb powder'd ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses Solutive and three Drops of Oyl of Juniper ' make a Bolus Ierusalem-Artichoak in Latin Battata Canadensis It frequently grows in Gardens here in England The Root of it tastes well and is eaten with Butter and Ginger and sometimes baked in a Pye But however it be dress'd it is windy and offensive to the Stomach The Iesuit's-Bark in Latin China-China Arbor Febrifuga Peruviana Pulvis Patrum or Pulvis Cardinalis A noted Merchant and an honest Man who liv'd many Years in Peru and publish'd an Account of this Tree written in Italian says it grows in Regno Quitensi in a peculiar Place which the Indians call Loca or Loia The Powder of the Bark given in a due quantity is the most certain and safe Remedy for the Cure of an Ague The incomparable Physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham called it the only Specifick for Agues Says he treating of the Cure of Agues When I had found the Inconveniences that proceed from Evacuations and well weighing the Matter I suppos'd that Jesuit's-Powder would be the most certain Cure And indeed I can truly affirm notwithstanding the Prejudice of the Common People and of some few of the Learned that I never found any Injury by the use of it nor can imagine any only they that have used it a long time are seiz'd sometimes with a Scorbutick Rheumatism but this happens rarely and when it does 't is easily cured by the following Medicines Take of Conserve of fresh Garden-Scurvy-grass two Ounces of Wood-Sorrel one Ounce of the Compound-water of Wake-Robin six Drams with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Oranges make an Electuary Take two Drams of it three times a Day for the space of a Month drinking upon it six Spoonfuls of the following Water Take of Garden-Scurvy-grass eight Handfuls of Water-cresses Brook-lime Sage and Mint each four Handfuls the Bark of six Oranges of bruised Nutmeg half an Ounce infuse them in six Quarts of Brunswick-Mum distil them in a common Still and draw off three Quarts of Water Being called to a Patient that has a Quartan-Ague suppose for Instance on a Monday and if the Fit be to come that Day I do then nothing only to encourage the Patient I tell him he will have no more Fits than that To which End I give the Bark in the following manner on Tuesday and Wednesday Take of Jesuit's-powder one Ounce make an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of July-flowers or of dried Roses to be divided into twelve Parts whereof let him take one every fourth Hour beginning presently after the Fit is off drinking upon it a Draught of any Wine But if the Patient can take Pills best Take of the Jesuit's-powder one Ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of July-flowers make Pills of a moderate bigness whereof let him take six every fourth Hour But it is less troublesome and full as good that an Ounce of this Powder be mingled with a Quart of Claret and that eight or nine Spoonfuls of it be taken at the same times above-mention'd On Thursday which is the Fit-day I order nothing because most commonly no Fit comes then the Relicks of the Feverish Matter being put off by the usual Sweats which come towards the End of the preceding Fit carry it off and the Provision for a new Fit being intercepted by the repeated Juice of the Powder on the Days betwixt the Fits But lest the Ague should return again eight Days exactly from the time wherein the Sick took the last Dose I give the same quantity of the Powder namely an Ounce divided into twelve Parts according to the Method above-describ'd But tho' the Repetition of it once does very often cure the Disease yet the Sick is not wholly out of Danger unless his Physician repeat it the third or the fourth time at the same distances above-mention'd especially if the Blood has been weaken'd by fore-going Evacuations or if the Patient has unwarily expos'd himself to the cold Air. But tho' this Remedy has no Purgative Quality in it yet by reason of the peculiar Temper of some Bodies it often happens that the Sick is as violently purg'd by the use of it as if he had taken some strong Purge In this Case it is necessary to give Laudanum with it and therefore I order ten Drops of Laudanum to be put into Wine and to be taken after every other Dose of the Powder if the Loosness continues The above-mention'd Method cures also Quotidian and Tertian-Agues But tho' Tertian and Quotidian-Agues seem wholly to intermit after a Fit or two yet many times they appear like Continual Fevers and there is only Remission of the Fever on the Days the Fit should intermit especially when the Sick hath been kept abed altogether or has been punish'd with an hot Method and Medicines that are design'd to drive out the Fever by Sweat In this Case we must lay hold of the least Remission and give the Powder every fourth Hour left whilst we attend on the Fit there should not be time enough for the Powder to work upon the Blood But seeing there are some that cannot take the Bark neither in the form of a Powder nor of an Electuary or Pills I give to these an Infusion of it made in the Cold I infuse for some time two Ounces of the Bark grosly powder'd in a Quart of Rhenish-wine and four Ounces of the said Infusion seems to contain the Virtue of one Dram of the Powder and because it is not unpleasant nor does oppress the Stomach it may be taken as often again as any other Form of this Medicine namely till it has cured the Ague Sometimes it happens that before this Disease forms it self into Regular Fits the Sick by reason of continual Vomiting cannot contain the Bark in the Stomach in what Form soever it is taken In this Case the Vomiting must be first stopped before the Bark is given To which End I order that six or eight times in the space of two Hours the Sick take one Scruple of Salt of Wormwood in one Spoonful of the Juice of Limons fresh press'd out afterwards sixteen Drops of Liquid Laudanum in a Spoonful
Wood Bark and Root mix'd together is given for this purpose but the Root is best It grows in Malabar Lignum-Molucense 'T is found in the Molucca's and is kept in Gardens and is so much esteemâ—d by the Inhabitants that they will not let a Stranger see it The Seed of it is used to catch Birds they mix it with boyl'd Rice and lay it out for the Birds to eat it and as soon as they have tasted it they fall asleep and are stupid and if they eat greedily of it it kills them To rouse them that are asleep they dip their Heads in cold Water and so they recover The Wood reduced to Powder with a File and taken inwardly or outwardly applied expels Poysons It cures the Biting of Vipers and Serpents ten Grains of it being taken in Rose-water It also cures Wounds made by poysonous Arrows The strongest Man must take but half a Scruple of it When it is used for Purging the Party that takes it must make but a small Supper the Night before It purges all Humours but especially gross clammy and melancholy Humours 'T is good for long Quartan-Agues and for Continual Fevers for the Iliack Passion the Cholick Wind a Dropsie and for Gravel and for Difficulty of Urine for Pains of the Joynts a Scirrhus and the King's-Evil It kills all sorts of Worms and restores lost Appetite Acâ—sta observ'd the great use of it in inveterate Pains of the Head an Hemicrania Apoplexy Noise of the Ears the Gout and for Diseases of the Stomach and Womb and for an Asthma If it work too much let the Party drink a Draught of a Decoction of Rice Lignum-Nepbriticum It comes from Countries that are moderately hot as is Mexicana 'T is used for Diseases of the Reins and for Difficulty of Urine And the Water of it is good for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen The Water of it is made in the following manner They cut the Wood small and infuse it in clear Fountain-water and keep it in the Vessel till all the Water is drunk then they put on fresh Water and so they repeat it as long as the Wood will tincture the Water In the space of about half an Hour the Wood imparts a light Sky-colour to the Water which grows deeper in time 'T is also good in Fevers and for the Cholick Take of Sarsaparilla six Ounces of China three Ounces of Saxifrage one Ounce of Nephritick Wood two Ounces of Hart's-horn and Ivory rasp'd half an Ounce of White Sanders half an Ounce of the Roots of Parsely Grass Knee-holm and Eringo each one Ounce of Liquorish two Ounces of Dates ston'd number Six of Caraway and Coriander-seeds each three Drams infuse them in seven Quarts of Fountain-water boyl it according to Art and Aromatize it with the Wood of Cassia Limon in Latin Malus Limonia Limons are more acid than Oranges or Citrons and therefore it is probable the Juice is colder 'T is proper for all those Uses that Citron is but it is not so effectual against Poysons yet is it more powerful in hot Diseases it quenches Thirst and lessens Feverish Heats The Juice of it is very proper to lessen the Stone and to cleanse the Urinary Passages The Syrup of the Juice of Limons is good for the Stone and Obstructions of the Kidnies It quenches Thirst is used in Burning Fevers and it strengthens the Heart and Stomach It restrains the Effervescence of Choler and is used with good Success to stop Vomiting the Hickups and to take off a Burning Fever The Peel of Limons as well as of Oranges is candied with Sugar for Sweet-meats and the small ones are also candied whole for various Uses The distill'd Water of Limons as well as of Citrons is reckon'd an excellent Cosmetick Secret Letters are writ with the Juice of Limons which may be read when they are held to the Fire The Juice imparts a curious Purple Colour to Conserve of Roses or Violets 'T is also much used to change Colours or to fix them For Nephritick Diseases Take of the Wood of Oak rasp'd one Ounce of Fountain-water three Quarts of the Juice of Limons four Ounces infuse them twenty four Hours upon hot Ashes and afterwards boyl it to the Consumption of a third part strain it The Dose is six Ounces 'T is excellent for an hot Intemperies of the Liver for Ulcers of the Reins and for Heat of the Urine but especially it evacuates salt viscid Flegm from the Reins and Bladder the Cause of Heat of Urine and Strangury Limons are brought to us from Spain and Italy Liquid-Amber 'T is the Resin that flows from a vast Tree that hath Leaves like Ivy-leaves The Indians call it Ocosolt When the Spaniards first enter'd into those Parts where these Trees grow they call'd them Spice-bearing Trees 'T is much used in Physick It heats strengthens resolves and is Anodine It comforts the Brain the Head being anointed with it and cures all sorts of Pains proceeding from a cold Cause It strengthens the Stomach procures Appetite and helps Concoction Much of it is used to perfume Gloves 'T is good in all cold Diseases to resolve Tumors to open Obstructions of the Womb to asswage the Tumors of it and to provoke the Courses Some cut the Wood in small pieces and boyl it and take off the Fat which swims at top and sell it for true Oyl And this is sold by some Apothecaries for Liquid-Storax M. MAce in Latin Macis 'T is the Covering or the Nutmeg and is very Aromatick and full of much Spirituous Heat and is therefore good for cold Diseases 'T is much of the same Virtue with the Nutmeg but because its Parts are finer it works more powerfully and is more penetrative Mandrake in Latin Mandragora 'T is Male and Female It grows spontaneously in hot Countries as Spain and Italy and the like in Woods and shady Places Mandrakes are reckon'd amongst Narcotick Medicines Some have question'd whether the Apple of it were wholesom or no. But Faber Lynceus Botanick Professor at Rome a very learned Man and of good Reputation says that both the Pulp and the Seed may be safely eaten Now seeing the Apples of the Mandrake are fit to be eaten and smell well why should we seek for any other Interpretation for the Hebrew Word Dudaim which Reuben brought to his Mother Leah And seeing it was the Opinion of the Ancients that the Seeds of the Mandrakes purged the Womb 't is very probable that Rachel knowing this Virtue of them desir'd the Mandrakes that her Womb being purg'd she might be render'd capable to conceive and to bear Children as well as her Sister Leah and her Maid Zilpha The Bark of the Root which is brought to us from abroad especially from Italy is Narcotick but it is seldom used inwardly 'T is outwardly used for Redness and Pains of the Eyes for an Erisipelas hard Tumors and the King's-Evil Manna The best comes from Calabria It sweats out of the Branches and
rest and make Troches with the Juice of Mug-wort They move the Courses with ease in such as use to have them with pain a Dram of them being taken in some proper Liquor 'T is an Ingredient in the Elixir proprietatis which is made in the following manner Take of Myrrh Aloes and Saffron each half an Ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified ten Ounces of Spirit of Sulphure by the Bell half an Ounce first draw a Tincture from the Saffron in the Spirit of Wine by digesting of it six or eight Days then add the Myrrh and Aloes grosly beaten and the Spirit of Sulphure digest them in a long Viol well stop'd for the space of a Mouth stop the Viol close and shake it often pour off the black Tincture from the Faeces let it stand quiet a Night then pour it out and decant it so often as you find any Faeces at the bottom 'T is hot and dry Stomachick and Anodine Uterine and Alexipharmick Two Drams of it will purge It cures Tertian Agues and is an Universal Medicine fit for all Ages for Men Women and Children It alters evacuates and strengthens when you do not design Purging The Dose is six or twelve Drops in Wine or Beer Tincture of Myrrh is made in the following manner Put what quantity you please of good Myrrh powder'd into a Bolt-head and pour upon it Spirit of Wine four Fingers high stir the Matter and set it in Digestion in warm Sand two or three Days or until the Spirit of Wine is loaded with the Tincture of Myrrh then separate the Liquor by Inclination and keep it in a Viol well stop'd It may be used to hasten Delivery and to bring down the Courses also for a Palsie Apoplexy Lethargy and for all Diseases that proceed from Corruption of Humours 'T is Sudorifick and Aperitive The Dose is from six Drops to fifteen in some proper Liquor 'T is commonly used in outward Applications or mix'd with Tincture of Aloes to dissolve cold Tumors for Injections and a Gangreen Tho' Tinctures of Myrrh are daily drawn in Wine yet the best that can be prepar'd is with Spirit of Wine because this Menstruum receives the more Oyly or Balsamick Part of the Myrrh Some use to evaporate this Tincture to the Consistence of an Extract but then they lose the more Volatile Part of the Myrrh wherefore 't is better to use the Tincture as above describ'd Oyl of Myrrh per deliquium is made in the following manner Boyl Eggs until they be hard then cutting them in two separate the Yolks and fill the White with Myrrh powder'd set them on little Sticks plac'd conveniently on purpose in a Plate or Earthen Pan in a Cellar or some such moist place and there will distil a Liquor to the bottom of the Vessel put it out and keep it for use This is call'd Oyl of Myrrh 'T is good to take away Spots and Blemishes in the Face applied outwardly Myrrh is a Gummy Juice that distils from a Thorny Tree of a middle heighth by Incisions that are made into it This Tree grows commonly in Ethiopia and Arabia The Ancients were wont to collect from the same Tree a Liquor that fell from it without Incision which is called Stacten 'T is a liquid Gum and it is probable has more Virtue than common Myrrh because it is the more spirituous part which filtrates through the Pores of the Bark N. CEltick Nard in Latin Nardus Celtica It heats and dries provokes Urine strengthens the Stomach and discusses Wind. 'T is frequently used in Lotions for the Head It grows frequently upon the Alpes Spike Nard in Latin Nardus Indica sive Spica Nardi 'T is much of the same Virtue with the former 'T is Hepatick is good for the Jaundice and the Stone in the Kidnies Nard-Oyl is made in the following manner Take of Spike-Nard three Ounces of Marjoram two Ounces Wood of Aloes Sweet-smelling Flag Elecampane Cyperus Bay-leaves Indian Leaves or Mace Squinanth Cardamoms of each one Ounce and an half bruise them all grosly and steep them in Water and Wine of each fourteen Ounces Oyl of Olives four Pounds and an half perfect the Oyl by boyling it gently in a double Vessel It heats attenuates digests and binds moderately and is good for cold and windy Diseases of the Brain Stomach Reins Liver Spleen Bladder and Womb. True English Stinking Dead Nettle in Latin Galeopsis The Juice of it given with Vinegar is good for Hemorrhoids and takes off Warts and discusses hard Tumors A Decoction of it or the Powder of the Herb is commended for Diseases of the Spleen Nigella The Seed is chiefly in use It expectorates increases Milk and provokes Urine and the Courses 'T is good for the Biting of Venomous Creatures and is reckon'd Specifick for Quotidian and Quartan-Agues 'T is used outwardly in Epithems and the like for the Head-ach and to dry Catarrhs An Oyl is press'd out of it which many ignorant Apothecaries use instead of Nard-Oyl For Catarrhs and a Coriza use the following Nodulus Take of the Seeds of Nigella toasted of Tobacco Storax and Calamint each one Scruple of Amber-grease two Grains mingle them and tie them up in a Rag let it be often held to the Nostrils For the Recovery of Smelling Take of Roman Nigella a sufficient quantity powder it and mix it with old Oyl in a Mortar leaning the Head back and the Mouth fill'd with Water let the Party snuff some of it up into his Nostrils Take of the Roots of Sow-bread and of Esula each one Dram of the Seeds of Roman Nigella half a Dram with a sufficient quantity of Hony make a Pessary for the Falling of the Womb. 'T is an Ingredient of the Syrup of Mugwort of the London-Dispensatory Nutmeg in Latin Nux Moschata The Tree grows commonly in the Island Banda situated near the Equator 'T is somewhat Astringent is Stomachick Cephalick and Uterine it discusses Wind helps Concoction mends a Stinking Breath prevents Fainting does good in the Palpitation of the Heart lessens the Spleen stops a Loosness and Vomiting provokes Urine and quickens the Sight Nutmeg is of great use in the Bloody-Flux and other Fluxes for it has all the Virtues necessary for a Medicine fit for these Diseases The Oyly Substance of it defends the Guts from sharp Humours and eases the Pain the Aromatick Quality consisting in the Airy Spirit penetrates the Noble Parts and comforts them the Earthy Part binds dries up Ulcers and Cicatrises them Candied Nutmegs are used in all cold Diseases of the Head for a Palsie and other Diseases of the Nerves and Womb besides they are counted Cordial They have been used to be brought many Years candied from the Indies and are used for Sweet-meats and Banquets Delicate People eat the outward Bark when it is green and they prefer it before the Nut for it has a curious Smell and is very agreeable to the Stomach but it has been found by Experience that the
frequent and excessive use both of the Nuts and Bark occasions Sleepy Diseases for they are very Narcotick Upon which Account what Tavernier relates is not improbable namely That when these Nuts are ripe the Birds of Paradise flock together to the Molucca-Islands to eat them just as Thrushes flock to France at the time of the Vintage but they pay dearly for their dainty Food for when they have eaten greedily of them they are seized with a Giddiness and fall to the Ground as if they were drunk and when they lie on the Ground the Ants eat off their Legs And Lobelius mentions an Observation of an English Lady with Child that long'd for Nutmegs and eat twelve of them upon which shew grew delirous or was rather intoxicated but having slept a good while and Repelling Medicines being applied to her Head she recover'd The Wounds of a Soldier were soon cured by eating Nutmegs Wedelius also commends them for curing of Wounds John Bauhinus having drunk cold Water too freely on the Apennine Mountains was seiz'd with violent Pains in his Bladder and his Scrotum was swell'd with the Wind tho' he never was bursten'd before or after and when he thought he should have died by reason of the Violence of the Pain his Fellow-Traveller gave him Nutmegs and he eat four of them presently and by the Blessing of God was freed of his Pains Nutmegs chew'd and swallow'd do much good for a Palsie of the Parts that serve for Swallowing An Oyl express'd from the fresh Nuts beat and made hot in a Frying-pan is good for the Gripes and Nephritick Pains being taken inwardly in some hot Liquor Children's Navels being anointed with it when they are grip'd are eas'd thereby 'T is also good for Pains of the Nerves and Joints proceeding from Cold. The Temples being anointed with it it disposes to Rest The best Nutmeg is that which is weighty Oyl of Nutmegs is made in the following manner Take sixteen Ounces of good Nutmegs beat them in a Mortar until they are almost in a Paste and put them upon a Boulter cover them with a piece of strong Cloth and an Earthen Pan over that put your Cloth over a Kettle half fill'd with Water and set the Kettle upon the Fire that the Vapour of the Water may gently warm the Nutmegs when you find upon touching the Pan it is so hot that you cannot endure your Hand upon it you must take off the Boulter and putting the Matter into a Linen Cloth take its four Corners and tie them quickly together put them into a Press between a couple of warm Plates set the Pan underneath and there will come forth an Oyl which congeals as it grows cold press the Matter as strongly as you are able to draw out all the Oyl then keep it in a Pot well stop'd This Oyl is very Stomachick being applied outwardly or else given inwardly The Dose is from four Grains to ten in Broth or some other convenient Liquor This is call'd Oyl of Nutmegs by Expression which is an Ingredient in the following Apoplectick Balsam Take of Oyl of Nutmegs by Expression two Ounces Oyl of Rosemary Marjoram Sage Thyme Hysop and Angelica each one Dram Oyl of Cinnamon half a Dram of Oyl of Amber half a Scruple of Oyl of Rhodium one Dram of the Oyl of Rue Limons Oranges and Cloves each one Scruple of Peruvian Balsam half an Ounce of Tincture of Benzoin of Civet Chymical Oyl of Nutmegs of Tincture of Cloves each half a Dram of Amber-grease two Drams of Musk one Dram put all the Oyls together in a Glass for use the longer they have been mix'd the better they are Then take ten or twenty Drops and grind them with the Oyl of Nutmegs half an Hour then drop the same number of Drops as before get up the Mixture together with a piece of Horn or with a Knife then let it stand two Hours to ferment then put thirty Drops of the Oyls more to it and grind it with the Mixture half an Hour cover it with a Paper and let it stand all Night in the Morning grind it with the Balsam of Peru for half an Hour then warm a Brass Mortar and Pestle and cut or scrape into it your Amber-grease add to it thirty Drops of your Mixture of Oyls grind them together for a quarter of an Hour then add thirty Drops more of the Oyls afterwards put it out on one side of the Stone and on the other side put the Musk mix it by degrees with the Oyls and Amber-grease till it be all dissolved then put to it the Civet and grind it with the Musk and Amber-grease for a quarter of an Hour mix all by degrees with the former Composition and ferment them two Hours then put it up and keep it for use Take of Alabastrian Ointment and of Ointment of Roses each two Ounces of Opium one Dram of Saffron one Dram of Oyl of Nutmegs one Dram mingle them and make an Ointment anoint the Temples and Forehead with it 'T is good for the Head-ach Take of Saffron powder'd two Scruples of the Ointment of the Flowers of Oranges and of Oyl of Sweet Almonds each one Ounce of Oyl of Nutmegs by Expression half a Dram mingle them and make an Ointment Anoint Children's Breasts in Colds and other Diseases of the Lungs with this Ointment Nux Vomica 'T is Narcotick and Virulent and worse than Opium Being powder'd and mix'd with Meat it kills Cats and Dogs O. OAK of Jerusalem in Latin Botrys The Herb powder'd and mix'd with Hony is good for an Ulcer of the Lungs It provokes the Courses and expels a dead Child Take of this Herb of Hedge-Mustard and of Nettles each two Handfuls of Colt's-foot one Handful and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water in B. M. to a Quart of the clear Liquor strain'd add the Juice of Turnips par'd and boyl'd in Fountain-water change the Water twice and when they are soft press out the Juice gently add of this Juice having clear'd it self by standing one Pint fine Sugar three Pounds boyl it to a Syrup in B. M. when there is occasion to use it Olive-tree 'T is a Tree of a moderate Bigness it grows slowly and lasts long some say two hundred Years It grows in Italy and France and other Places Tho' Olives when they are ripe are black and taste acrid bitter and nauseous yet the Oyl that is press'd from them is most commonly Pellucid and a little yellowish It tastes sweet and pleasant but that which is freest from Colour and Taste is reckon'd the best The Leaves of Olives cool dry and are astringent They are chiefly used outwardly for Fluxes of the Belly of the Courses for an Herpes and the like and with Medicines for the Eyes So great is the use of the Oyl both for Meat and Medicine that it would take up too much time to mention all Galen Dioscorides Pliny and others both Ancient and Modern
have treated largely of it One was ask'd when he was above an Hundred Years old by what Means he kept up the Vigour of his Mind and Body He answer'd By taking Wine inwardly and by using of Oyl outwardly Cardan mentions three Things which prolong Life Milk Hony and Oyl But he does not mean that the Oyl should be used outwardly but be taken inwardly with Meat Aristotle said that Oyl and Salt should be always had in Readiness for that they much conduced to a long Life The best Oyl for the Recovery of Health is that which is made of Olives before they are ripe and then 't is call'd Omphacinum Of this they make Ointments and many other Compositions Oyl of Ripe Olives is hot and moistens moderately The Old is hotter than the New It mollifies digests is vulnerary and loosens the Belly an Ounce of it being taken in hot Beer It takes off the Dryness of the Breast cures the Gripes opens the Urinary Passages cleanses and heals them when they are sore 'T is outwardly used for Clysters and hot Tumours and the like Mix'd with warm Water and taken inwardly it vomits and therefore is used against Poysons Schroder says that in Westphalia they usually give Oyl daily with hot Beer to those that are wounded and they take so much of it that their very Sweat smells of it A Toast dip'd in Oyl and well moisten'd with it and taken daily in the Morning keeps the Body open All sorts of Insects being besmear'd with Oyl die presently The Reason is plain for it stops the Pores whereby they breath Oyl cleanses the Hands from Pitch and Clothes when they are pitch'd Opium-seed White of Poppies in the First Part this Herbal Opium is a Tear which distils of it self or by Incision of the Heads of the Poppies 'T is found frequently in Greece in the Kingdom of Cambaia and the Territories of Grand-Cairo in Egypt There are three Sorts of it the Black the White and the Yellow The Inhabitants of those Countries keep this Opium for their own use and send us only the Meconium which is nothing else but the Juice of the Poppy-heads drawn by Expression which is not near so good as the true Opium The best Opium comes from Thebes or else from Grand-Cairo Chuse it black inflamable bitter and a little Acrimonious It s Smell is disagreeable and stupefactive Extract of Opium is made in the following manner Cut into Slices four Ounces of good Opium and put it into a Boult-head pour upon it a Quart of Rain-water well filter'd stop the Boult-head and setting it in the Sand give your Fire by degrees then increase it to make the Liquor boyl for two Hours strain it warm and pour it into a Bottle take the Opium which remains undissolv'd in the rain-Rain-water dry it in an Earthen Pan over a small Fire and putting it into a Matrass pour upon it Spirit of Wine to the heighth of four Fingers stop the Matrass and digest the Matter twelve Hours in hot Ashes afterwards strain the Liquor and there will remain a Glutinous Earth which is to be flung away evaporate both these Dissolutions of Opium separately in Earthen or Glass-Vessels in a Sand-heat to the Consistence of Hony then mix them and finish the drying this Mixture with a very gentle Heat to give it the Consistence of Pills or of a solid Extract 'T is the most certain Soporifick that we have in Physick It allays all Pains which proceed from too great an Activity of the Humours 'T is good for the Tooth-ach applied to the Tooth or else to the Temple-Artery in a Plaster 'T is used to stop Spitting of Blood the Bloody-Flux the Flux of the Courses and Hemorrhoids for the Cholick for hot Defluctions of the Eyes and to quiet all sorts of Griping Pains The Dose of it is from half a Grain to three Grains in some convenient Conserve or else dissolv'd in a Julap Those that accustom themselves to the use of Opium must increase the Dose of it or else it will have no Effect on them Helmont's Liquid Laudinum is made in the following manner Take of Opium four Ounces cut it into Slices dry it in a gentle Heat then take a Quart of the Juice of Quinces mix one quarter of the Juice with Opium rub it very well in a Glass-Mortar let it dissolve as much of the Opium as it will bear decant it off and pour on as much more fresh Juice rub it as before continue so doing till the Opium is dissolv'd but keep out a little of the Juice to mix with four Spoonfuls of Yeast then put it to the rest of the Liquor and place it in a wide-mouth'd Glass cover'd with Paper in the first Degree of Heat on a degestive Furnace to ferment let it continue four Days or so long as it ferments when it has done fermenting take it off the Furnace and decant it from the Faeces that which will not decant filter through Paper then add to this Tincture an Ounce of Saffron two Ounces of Cinnamon half an Ounce of Nutmegs and half an Ounce of Cloves the Cinnamon and Nutmegs must be powder'd grosly set it on the Degestive Furnace again in the same Degree of Heat and let it stand three or four Days then filter your Tincture through Paper and put it into a Cucurbite put on an Head and Receiver draw off half that which remains in the Cucurbite you must filter it again lest any Dregs should remain at the bottom Put it up in a Glass for use Oranges in Latin Malus Aurantia The Nobility and Gentry in England value the Trees much and keep them in their Gardens for a fine Shew and some of them bring Fruit to Maturity but by reason of the Coldness of our Climate the Product is no way suitable to the Charge They are kept in Houses in the Winter-time to defend them from the Injuries of the Weather But they grow in great abundance in Sicily Italy and Spain and in other Places The Flowers are much esteem'd for their good Smell which they retain a long while The distill'd Water of them is also very fragrant and is not only pleasant but useful too against the Plague and Contagious Diseases The Spaniards give it to Women in hard Labour with a little Penny-royal-water The Bark is more bitter and therefore hotter than the Bark of Citron Being candied it kills the Worms in Children It also strengthens the Heart and Stomach and is good for those Diseases Citrons are prescrib'd for The Juice is not so sharp as that of Limons or Citrons yet it is cooling and tastes pleasantly It creates an Appetite and extinguishes Thirst and therefore is of good use in Fevers Oranges are excellent for curing the Scurvy The Oyl press'd out of the Bark is of a fiery quality as will appear to any one that shall press the fresh Juice near a Candle for the Drops like Dew that fly out will flame and crackle just
as if the Powder of Sulphure were flung upon the Flame Some think that the Bark so press'd into the Eyes clears the Sight Neck-laces and Bracelets to number the Prayers are made of small Oranges that fall off and they smell very pleasantly The Seeds kill the Worms in Children The Seeds being set in the Earth little Trees spring for a Year which are eaten in the manner of Sallets they taste very pleasantly and strengthen the Stomach and create an Appetite For the Worms Take an Orange bore an Hole in it and press out the Juice then fill it with equal parts of Oyl of Flax the Juice of Wormwood and Rue adding a little Treacle and Flower of Lupins and let them boyl a while Anoint the Pulse the Temples the Nostrils and the Navel with this Linament and you will find wonderful Success Conserve of Oranges is made in the following manner Take what quantity you please of the yellow Peel of Oranges beat them well in a Stone-Mortar and add thrice the weight of Fine Sugar beat it up to a Conserve This is good for a cold Scurvy and for Pains and Wind in the Stomach Syrup of Oranges is made in the following manner Take of the Juice strain'd and clarified by standing one Pint of White Sugar clarified and boyl'd up to the Consistence of Tablets two Pounds let it just boyl up and so make a Syrup Orange-water is made in the following manner Take of the yellow Peel of half an Hundred of the best fresh and well-colour'd Oranges infuse them four or five Days in three Quarts of Sack and two Quarts of Nants-Brandy put a Pound of Loaf-Sugar into it to sweeten it Orchis It heats and moistens and tastes sweet 'T is chiefly used for a Provocative to Venery it comforts the Womb and helps Conception Take of the Salt of Satyrion half a Scruple in Malaga-Wine often after the Flux of the Courses This has made many Women fruitful Diasatyrion of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following manner Take of the Roots of Orchis three Ounces Dattes bitter Almonds Indian-Nuts Pine-Nuts Fistich-Nuts Ginger candied Eryngo-Roots candied each one Ounce of Cloves Galangal Long and Black Pepper each three Drams of Amber-grease one Scruple of Musk two Scruples of Penids four Ounces of Cinnamon and Saffron each half an Ounce of Malaga-Wine three Ounces of Nutmegs Mace Grains of Paradise each two Drams of Ash-tree-Keys the Belly and Loins of Scinks of Facticious Borax and Benzoin each three Drams of the Wood of Aloes and Cardamoms each two Drams of the Seeds of Nettles Onions and of the Roots of Avens each one Dram and an half mingle them and make an Electuary according to Art with two Pints and an half of the Syrup of Ginger preserv'd This Electuary is frequently used for a Provocative to Venery Oyster-green or Sea-Wrake in Latin Fucus Marinus All kinds of Wrake cool and dry and are good for Inflammations being used fresh P. PAnax-Herculis This Herb being cut especially in the Root the Juice flows out in the Summer-time which is call'd Opopanax 'T is good for Wounds It mollifies digests discusses Wind purges thick and clammy Flegm from the remote Parts from the Head Nerves and Joints The best is yellow without and white or yellowish within it tastes very bitter and smells strong 't is of a fat Consistence dissolves easily in Water and is light and friable The Roots of Panax-Herculis are good for all cold Diseases of the Breast for Pains of the Stomach and Obstructions of the Bowels for Diseases of the Reins Bladder Womb and Breast They are good for Pains of the Head Giddiness the Falling-Sickness Convulsions the Palsie an Asthma for Coughs the Jaundice and a Dropsie They expel Wind provoke Urine and the Courses hasten Delivery and expel Gravel A Decoction of them is good for the Hip-Gout Take of Opopanax one Dram of Spike-Nard powder'd half a Scruple of Diagridium four Grains with Syrup of Staecha's make Pills These Pills purge Flegm Pellitory of Spain in Latin Pygrethrum 'T is reckon'd an excellent Remedy for the Palsie of the Tongue and Loss of Speech The Root is very biting and hot Being chew'd in the Mouth it cures the Pain in the Teeth Round Black Pepper in Latin Piper Rotundum Nigrum It grows in most of the Provinces of India especially Malaca Java and Sumetra There is so much of it in those Places that it serves the whole World The Plant is so weak that it cannot stand by it self and if it has no Tree to climb upon it falls to the Ground like Hops White Round Pepper in Latin Piper Rotundum Album There is no difference betwixt the Plants as there is none betwixt the Vines that bring White and Red Grapes All sorts of Pepper heat provoke Urine concoct and discuss being taken inwardly and used outwardly they take off the Shaking Cold Fit of Agues and are good for the Biting of Venomous Creatures Pepper hastens Delivery and is suppos'd to hinder Conception being applied after Copulation 'T is good for Coughs and all Diseases of the Breast Mix'd with Hony 't is best for a Quinsie It takes off the Gripes being taken with the tender Leaves of Laurel It draws Flegm from the Head being chew'd with Raisins and it excites Appetite and helps Concoction Mix'd with Pitch it discusses King's-Evil Swellings and is good for Cold and Crude Stomachs There is a great difference betwixt Taking of it whole and in Powder for the Powder causes the Hickups and inflames all the Bowels They therefore that take it to help their Stomachs should swallow it whole And it is best to season Bak'd Meats with Whole Pepper for when it is powder'd it sticks to the Coats of the Stomach and occasions in some Constitutions the Heart-burning and the Hickups 'T is used outwardly in Gargarisms and Sneezing-Powders It takes off the Pain of the Teeth and asswages the Swelling of the Uvula and is good for cold Diseases of the Nerves Pepper and the Oyl of it is mightily commended for Quartan-Agues by several good Authors Oyl of Pepper outwardly used is an excellent Rememedy for a Palsie Not only the Berries which are properly call'd Pepper are so biting but also the whole Plant. The Indians use Long Pepper in Ointments for Pains of the Members proceeding from Cold and against Poysons and for Giddiness of the Head Catarrhs and Dimness of Sight with good Success The Common Sort of People in India use when their Stomachs have been a long while weak to drink Water wherein a good quantity of Pepper has been infus'd And they draw a very fiery Spirit from fresh Pepper which they use for the same purpose Pepper with a cluster'd Tail and Long Oriental Pepper have much the same Virtues with these describ'd Take of Malaga-Sack three Pints of Rue Ginger and Long-Pepper cut each two Drams of Nutmegs one Dram boyl them to the Consumption of a third part strain it and add two Drams
from another neither of the two will prove at all sweet The Oyl alone is insipid upon the Tongue because it makes little or no Impression upon the Nerve that serves for Tasting but when the Acid is entirely mix'd with it the Edges of this Acid do serve for a Vehicle to the Oyl to make it penetrate and tickle superficially the Nerve whereby the Sense of Tasting is produced The Acid therefore being alone does become incisive and pricks the Tongue by its Edges but when they are dull'd and blunted by the Ramous Parts of the Oyl then they have another sort of Determination and can no longer pierce the Nerve of Tasting but with a great deal of Tenderness and Gentleness Cask-Sugar is sweeter than finer Sugar because it contains more viscous or fat Parts which remain the longer upon the Nerve of the Tongue And this makes us sometimes prefer the first as to Use before the other Sugar-Candy is better for Coughs than common Sugar because being harder it requires a longer time to melt in the Mouth and besides it keeps the Breast moister than the common Sugar Spirit of Sugar is made in the following manner Powder and mix eight Ounces of White Sugar-Candy with four Ounces of Sal-Armoniack put this Mixture into a Glass or Earthen Body whose third part only is thereby fill'd fit an Head to the Body and place it in a Sand-Furnace joyn a Receiver to it and lute well the Junctures with a wet Bladder give it a small Fire for an Hour only to heat the Vessel then increase it to the second Degree there will distil a Liquor Drop by Drop and towards the End there will rise white Vapours into the Head increase your Fire still more until nothing more comes forth let the Vessels cool and unlute them you will find in the Receiver seven Ounces of a brown Liquor that smells ill and also a little black Oyl that sticks to the Sides pour it all together into a Glass-Body and having fitted to it an Head and Receiver and luted the Joints distil in Sand six Ounces of a very Acid Spirit that is clear and agreeable to the Taste and without any Smell 'T is good against Gravel and the Dropsie and for a Loosness and the Bloody-Flux The Dose is eight or ten Drops in Tincture of Roses or the like That which remains in the Body after Rectification is a Fetid Oyl which may be outwardly used to cleanse old Ulcers Melassoes or the Hony of Sugar are used to make Aqua-vitae and they yield a strong Spirit It has been reported that some Brewers make Ale in a great measure with Melassoes but if they do it is an abominable Cheat for they are not near so wholesom as Malt. Take of Brown or Red Sugar four Spoonfuls of common Salt as much as will lie on a Three-pence of Cow's-Milk one Pint let the Milk just boyl up dissolve the Sugar and the Salt in it strain it This is a Clyster and generally speaking serves as well as the best to empty the Bowels Swallow-wort in Latin Asclepias It grows in Germany Italy and France The Root of it is very Alexipharmick and Sudorinick 'T is chiefly used for the Plague and other Contagious Diseases for Obstructions of the Courses for the Palpitation of the Heart a Fainting and a Dropsie 'T is also commended for the Stone 'T is used outwardly The Flowers the Roots and the Seeds cleanse Sordid Ulcers 'T is good for the Biting of Venomous Creatures for Ulcers of the Paps of the Breasts and the like T. TAmarinds in Latin Tamarindi They grow in Arabia Foelix and in the East and West-Indies They correct the Acrimony of the Humours purge Choler and restrain the Heat of they Blood they cure Fevers and the Jaundice and take off the Heat of the Stomach and Liver and stop Vomiting The Turks and Arabians when they go long Journies in the Summer-time carry Tamarinds with them to quench their Thirst In Pestilential and Putrid Fevers Water wherein Tamarinds have been infus'd sweeten'd with Sugar is a proper Liquor to drink for it extinguishes Thirst and cools much Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce of Sena two Drams of Rubarb one Dram and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water to three Ounces of the strain'd Liquor add of Manna and Syrup of Roses Solutive each one Ounce Make a Purging Potion This is a good Cooling Purge and works well Take of Tamarinds half an Ounce of Sena two Drams of Rubarb one Dram and an half boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water to three Ounces of the strain'd Liquor add of Manna and Syrup of Roses Solutive each one Ounce of Syrup of Buck-thorn half an Ounce of the Electuary of the Juice of Roses two Drams mingle them make a Potion But this must be given only to strong People I have found by Experience that this purges when nothing else will 'T is good for a Dropsie and the Running of the Reins Tea or Thee This Shrub grows in Japan and China The Price varies according to the Largeness of the Leaves and so great a difference is there in the Price that one Pound of the best Tea is sold for more than an hundred Pounds of another Sort. The Goodness of it is known by the fragrant Smell of the Leaves It smells somewhat like Hay mix'd with a little Aromatick Smell 'T is of a green Colour and tastes sweet with a little bitter It purifies the Blood prevents troublesom Dreams expels Malignant Vapours from the Brain takes off Giddiness and the Head-ach especially when it proceeds from Over-eating 'T is good in a Dropsie for it provokes Urine very much It dries up Rhumes of the Head corrects the Acrimony of the Humours opens Obstructions of the Bowels and strengthens the Sight for the People of Japan use it as the only Remedy for Weakness of the Sight and Diseases of the Eyes whereunto they are much subject It corrects Adust Humours cools an hot Liver and softens an hard Spleen It keeps People wakeful especially those that are not used to drink it It renders the Body brisk chears the Heart drives away Fear and takes off the Gripes and suppresses Wind. It strengthens the Bowels quickens the Memory and sharpens the Wit It prevents the Stone And a Person that travell'd in Japan and made it his Business to enquire about the Stone there could not find one Person that had the least Symptom of it either in the Bladder or Kidnies And it is moreover a Provocative to Venery it strengthens the Stomach and is very good for Gouty People Christ-thorn in Latin Palivrus The Root and Leaves are Astringent they stop the Flux of the Belly and digest and cure a Phyma The Fruit is so inciding that it is said to lessen the Stone of the Bladder and to remove Excretions of the Breast and Lungs The Seeds bruised are commended for a Cough and the Mont peliar-Physicians use them for Gravel
into the Brain where it quickens its Motion and produces a certain Gaiety of Mind But now tho' Wine moderately taken is so profitable for the Functions of the Body yet it causes many Mischiefs when it is used to Excess for the Spirits rising in great Abundance do circulate in the Brain with so much Celerity that they soon confound the whole Oeconomy And indeed every one knows that a Continuations of Debauches does at last render a Man dull and stupid that Apoplexies Palsies Gout Dropsie and a long Train of many other Diseases are the usual Consequences of Intemperance Spirit of Wine is made in the following manner Fill a large Bolt-head with a long Neck half full with Brandy and fitting an Head and Receiver lute close the Junctures set your Bold-head upon a Pot fill'd half with Water to distil in a Vaporous Bath the Spirit which separates from the Flegm and rises pure continue this Degree af Fire until nothing more distils Thus you will have a Deflegmated Spirit of Wine at the first Distillation It serves for a Menstruum to a great many Things in Chymistry Half a Spoonful of it is given to Apoplectical and Lethargical Persons to make them come to themselves Likewise their Wrists Breast and Face are rub'd with it 'T is a good Remedy for Burns if applied so soon as they happen And it is good for Cold Pains for the Palsie Contusions and other Maladies wherein it is requisite to discuss and open the Pores Spirit of Wine Tartariz'd in made in the following manner Put a Pound of Salt of Tartar into a long Glass-Body pour upon it four Pints of Spirit of Wine prepar'd as above place your Vessel in Sand and cover it with an Head to which fit a Receiver lute well the Junctures with a â—et Bladder and give it a gradual Fire which continue until three parts of the Spirit of Wine are risen then remove the Fire and keep this Spirit in a Viol well stop'd It has the same Virtues as the other but is more subtile The Liquor that remains in the Body may be evaporated and a Salt of Tartar got as good as before The Queen of Hungary's Water is made in the following manner Fill a Glass or Earthen Cucurbite half full with Rosemary-flowers gather'd when they are at best pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Wine to infuse them set the Cucurbite in a Bath and joyning its Head and Receiver lute close the Junctures and give it a digesting Fire for three Days after which unlute them and pour into the Cucurbite that which may have been distill'd re-fit your Limbeck and increase the Fire so as to make the Liquor to distil Drop by Drop when you have drawn about two Thirds of it put out the Fire let the Vessels cool and unlute them and put the Water so distill'd into a Vial well stop'd 'T is good in a Palsie Lethargy Apoplexy and for Hysterical Diseases The Dose is from one Dram to two 'T is likewise used outwardly for Burns Tumours Cold Pains Contusions Palsie and in all other Cases wherein it is requisite to revive the Spirits Ladies use to mix half an Ounce of it with six Ounces of lilly-Lilly-water or bean-flower-Bean-flower-water and wash their Faces with it Wine like all other Liquors that use to ferment grows sowr by the Dissolution of its Tartar in a second Fermentation This Dissolution is commonly made when upon the Wine 's going to decay some of the more subtile Spirits are lost for the Tartar taking their Place fixes the rest of the Spirits which remain in the Wine so that they can act no longe Vinegar is made by setting Wine in some hot place or by keeping it too long or by exposing it to the Sun Vinegar is frequently used in Physick and Food Pickle and Sauces are made of it It excites Appetite and promotes Concoction 'T is used in Physick to allay Feverish Heats and to prevent Putrifaction to cut Flegm and Glutinous Humours that they may be render'd thereby fitter to be expectorated Outwardly used it cures the Itch an Herpes and the like but it is injurious to the Nerves and Nervous Parts It also makes the Body lean There is a memorable Story of a General in the Belgick Wars who about the Middle of his Age grew so very fat that he was forc'd to have Bandage for his Belly and finding himself grow more and more unwieldy every Day and unfit for his Business he left off drinking Wine and drank Vinegar the rest of his Days by which Means his Belly asswaged and he was lessen'd in weight Eighty seven Pounds Christopher A Vega says he saw three People that were hang'd or suffocated so much that Froth came out of their Mouths restor'd to Life by Vinegar and the Powder of Pepper and Penny-royal For Crusty Stinking Ulcers of the Head which Children are commonly troubled withal and sometimes grown People Take of Ginger three Ounces boyl it in sharp Vinegar and Butter of each half a Pound till the Vinegar is consum'd then beat it into an Ointment with Butter and anoint the Sores with it Morning and Evening and it will cure them in four or five Days In the London-Dispensatory are the following Sorts of Vinegar Rosemary-Vinegar Clove-Vinegar Rose-Vinegar Elder-flower-Vinegar Vinegar of Squils and Treacle-Vinegar The Vapour of Vinegar is very proper in the Plague Vinegar is distill'd in the following manner Put six Quarts of strong Vinegar into an Earthen Pan evaporate in a Bath about a Quart and pour that which remains into a Glass or Earthen Cucurbite and distil it in a strong Sand-heat until there remain at bottom nothing but a Substance like Hony keep this Vinegar well stop'd Many call it Spirit of Vinegar It s principal Use is to dissolve or precipitate Bodies 'T is sometimes mix'd in Cordial-Potions to resist Putrifaction The Dose is half a Spoonful 't is mix'd with Water And this Oxyorate is used to stop Hemorrhagies taken inwardly and to asswage Inflammations applied outwardly Tartar is that which is found sticking to Casks of Wine like a very hard Stone sometimes white sometimes red according to the Colour of the Wine it comes from White Tartar is to be preferr'd before Red because it is purer and contains less Earth Both one and the other are had in great Abundance in Languedoc and Provence but the best White Tartar of all is brought out of Germany Crystals of Tartar are made in the following manner Boyl in a great deal of Water what quantity of White Tartar you please until it be all dissolv'd pass the Liquor hot through Hippocrates's Sleeve into an Earthen Vessel and evaporate about half of it set the Vessel in a cool place two or three Days and you will find little Crystals on the Sides which you are to separate evaporate again half the Liquor that remains and remit the Vessel to the Cellar as before there will shoot out new Crystals Continue doing thus until
you have got all the Tartar Dry the Crystals in the Sun and keep them for use The Crystal of Tartar is Purgative and Aperitive 'T is good for Hydropical and Asthmatical Persons and for Tertian and Quartan-Agues The Dose is from half a Dram to three Drams in Broth or some other proper Liquor Salt of Tartar is made in the following manner Take four Pounds of good White-wine-Tartar beat it fine make it up in Half-pounds in several Sheets of Brown Paper dip them in Water place them in the midst of a Charcoal-Fire cover them over therewith let the Fire burn out you will find at the Bottom Tartar calcin'd in black Lumps take the Tartar thus calcin'd beat it grosly put it into a Pipkin or Iron Pot full of Water set it over the Fire and let the Water boyl till half is consum'd then take it off and let it settle decant it as clear as you can pour on a little more Water upon the Faeces and let it boyl then decant it as before taste the Water whether it be salt and proceed as before Do so as long as you find the Water tastes salt afterwards filter all the Liquor pour'd off through Paper and boyl it up to a Salt Tartar Vitriolated is made in the following manner Put into a Glass-Body what quantity you please of Oyl of Tartar made per Deliquium which is nothing but the exposing Salt of Tartar for some Days in a Cellar in a wide Glass-Vessel till it turns to a Liquor Pour upon this Dissolution of Tartar by little and little Rectified Spirit of Vitriol there will be a great Effervescency Continue to drop more in till there is no farther Ebullition then place your Cucurbite in Sand and evaporate the Spirit with a little Fire there will remain a very white Salt keep it in a Vial well stop'd 'T is a good Aperitive and is also a little purgative 'T is given in Hypochondriacal Cases in Quartan-Agues King's-Evil and in all other Diseases wherein it is necessary to open Obstructions and to force Urine The Dose is from ten to thirty Grains in some proper Liquor W. WInteran-bark in Latin Cortex Winteranus It turns up in Pipes like Cinnamon but is larger and thicker of a light yellow Colour and of a very hot biting Taste It comes from Nevis Antego Montferrat and other Places 'T is Cephalick and Stomachick but the chief Use of it is for the Scurvy Take of the Conserve of Scurvy-grass Roman-Wormwood and Fumatory each two Ounces of the Powder of the Winteran-Bark and of the Roots of Angelica and Wake Robin each two Drams of the Species of the three Sanders one Dram and an half of the Powder of Crab's-eyes one Dram of Salt of Wormwood two Drams with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of the Bark of Citron make an Electuary This is good for the Scurvy Indian Woad or Indico in Latin Glastum Indicum The Root is given in Decoction for the Stone and against Poysons 'T is supposed that Indico is proper for the Jaundice Z. ZEdoary in Latin Zedoaria 'T is an hot and dry Root it discusses Wind is good for the Biting of Venomous Creatures It stops a Loosness suppresses Vomiting and is good in a Windy Cholick 'T is used now-a-days by Physicians against the Contagion of a Pestilential Air and for Hysterick Fits Take of the Roots of Zedoary of the Seeds of Daucus of the Roots of Lovage each two Ounces of Red Myrrh and Castor each half an Ounce of the Roots of Peony four Ounces of Misleto of the Oak gather'd when the Moon is past the Full three Ounces pour upon them two Quarts of feverfew-Feverfew-water and half a Pint of Spirit of Wine digest them three Days and afterwards distil them The Dose is one Spoonful either by it self or with some proper Water This is used for Hysterick Fits THE English INDEX A. Pag. ABele-tree See Poplar Acacia 195 Alcali 198 Adder's-tongue 1 Adder's-wort See Bistort Agarick 196 Agnus Castus 197 Agrimony 2 Ague-tree See Sassafras Alcost See Costmary 52 Aldertree 3 Black Alder ibid. Ale-hoof See Ground-Ivy Alaxander's-foot See Pellitory of Spain Alexanders 4 Alleluya See Wood-Sorrel All-good See English Mercury Almond-tree 198 Aloes 200 Amee See Bishop's-weed Amomum 207 Anacardium Occidentale ib. Anacardiums 208 Angelica 4 Animae Gummi 208 Annise ibid. Apple-tree 5 Apricock-tree 8 White Arch-Angel 8 Stinking Arrach 9 Arsmart 10 Artichoke 11 Asa-Foetida 210 Asarabacca 11 Ash-tree 12 Avens ibid. B. BAlsam-tree 211 Peruvian Balsam 212 Balsam Copaiba 213 Balsam of Tolu ibid. Balam of Chili 215 Balaustians ibid. Barbery-tree 13 Barly ibid. Gardan-Basil 14 Wild Basil ibid. Baulm 15 Bay-tree ibid. Bdellium 215 Beans 16 Bear's-breech 216 Bear's-foot 17 Beech-tree ibid. White-Beet ibid. Sea-Beet ibid. Benjamin 217 Ben-Nut 218 Wood-Betony 18 Bil-berries ibid. Birch-tree 19 Birth-wort 219 Bishop's-weed ibid. The Greater Bistort 20 Bitter-sweet See Woody Night-shade Bitter-Vetch 221 Black-berries See Bramble Black-wort See Comfrey Vpright Blite 21 May-Blossoms See Lilly of the Valley Blue-Bottles 22 Borrage ibid. Box-tree 23 Brake See Fern. Bramble 23 Brazile-wood 221 White Briony 24 Common Brook-lime 25 Broom 26 Broom-Rape 27 Butcher's-Broom ibid. Buck-bean See Marsh-Trefoil Buckram See Cuckoe-pintle Butter-flowers See Crow-foot Buck-thorn 28 Bugle 29 Bugloss 30 Bur-dock 31 Burnet 32 Butter-bur 33 Butter-wort 34 C. CAbbage 34 Sea-Cabbage 35 Field-Calamint ibid. Calf's-snout 36 Camel's-Hay 222 Cammock See Rest-Harrow Camomile 37 Camphir 222 Cancamum See Gum Animae Canela See Cinnamon Capers 225 Caraways 38 Cardamoms 226 Wild Carrots 39 Carthamus 226 Cassia 227 Cassidony See Staechas Cassummuniar 230 Catmint See Nep. Celandine 39 The Lesser Celandine 40 The Lesser Centory 41 Chaste-tree See Agnus Castus Common Wild Chervil 42 Cherries 44 Cheese-Renning See Lady's Bad-straw Chesnuts 45 Chick-weed 47 Chiches 233 China 232 Cinnamon 234 Cinquefoil 236 Citrons 237 Cloud-berry 48 Cloves 240 Coccus Baphica See Kermes Cockle 242 Coco-nut-tree ibid. Coculus Indus ibid. Coffee 243 Colly-flower 49 Coloquintida 245 Colt's-foot 49 Columbine 50 Comfrey 51 Contrayerva 246 Coral ibid. Coral-tree 249 Sea-Coralline 52 Cork-tree 249 Cornel 52 Costmary ibid. Costus 249 Cotton ibid. Coubage 250 Cowslips 53 Indian-Cress 250 Garden-Cress 53 Water-Cress 54 Cross-wort 55 Creeping Crow-foot ibid. Round-headed Crow-foot 56 Water-Crow-foot 57 Crown-Imperial 250 Cubebs 251 Cuckow-pintle 57 Cucumbers 58 Wild cucumbers 59 Cudweed ibid. Cummin 250 Currant-bush 60 Sweet Cyperus 251 Cypress-tree 60 D. ENglish Daffadil 61 The Greater White Daisies ibid. The Lesser Daisies 62 Dandalyon ibid. Danewort 63 Darnel 64 Date-tree 252 Dill 64 Dittander 65 Dittany of Crete 252 Sharp-pointed Dock with curl'd Leaves 66 Sharp-pointed Dock ibid. The Dock called Monk's Rubarb 67 Dodder ibid. Common Dove's-foot 69 Dragons ibid. Dragon's-blood 253 Common Drop-wort 68 Duck's-meat 70 E. EArth-nut 70 Ebony 254 Egglentine 71 Eildber See Jack by the Hedge Elder 72 Dwarf-Elder See Dane-wort Elecampane 72 Ellebore 255 Black Ellebore 256 Elm 74 Endive ibid. Eringo ibid. Euphorbium 257 Eye-bright 75 F.