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A28315	Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3112; ESTC R13219	116,672	169

Patient thereof three times a day viz morning afternoon and at night and every morning about an hour after they have taken the diet drink you must give the Patient water grewel or broath made with either the same herbs or other herbs which are suitable to the Cure according ●nto their virtues and numbers How to extract the Spirits of Plants and Herbs If the Patient be weak and must take smal quantities then you must do as followeth having collected the herbs together suitable to the cure shred them small with the addition according as in the decoction aforesaid and put them into a limbeck still and put into it a quantity of bear or ale with some white-wine muskadel and brandy to make it proportionable unto the quantity of liquor and herbs before expressed viz. a good handful of herbs with the additions unto two quarts or better of liquor this will keep a long time There is yet another way to extract the Spirit as followeth Take the herbs with the additions being shread small and bruised put them into warm water and put some berm unto it let it work three dayes as doth bear and then distil it in a limbeck still if you desire to have it strong you may put brandy or Spirit of Wine unto it and put fresh herbs to it and still it over again The way to make Syrups Take the Roses herbs or flowers and bruise them put them into a convenient quantity of fair water my usual dose is about three pints of water to a pound of flowers roses or herbs let the water be hot and let it stand with the herbs or flowers in it about twelve hours then strain it and infuse more of the same herbs or flowers and heat more water and put unto it you must sometimes infuse the roses herbs or flowers whole without bruising to make it have the smell of the plant The more of the roses herbs or flowers you do infuse into the liquor the stronger it will be and the oftner you do infuse the better The last infusions I usually boil and then gently strain it and to every pint of liquor add a pound of the best Sugar at the least you must cimber it over the fire until it be a Syrup you may know when 't is enough by cooling some in a spoon when 't is made you must keep it in glasses or stone pots bound over onely with paper or such like you must not stop it close with cork least it break the glass Concerning Lohochs or Lambatives the making and use Having made your election of such herbs which are of virtue to cure such inward defects required shread and boil them by way of decoction and when you have strain'd it put twice its wait of honey or suger and so boil it to a Lohoch which is somewhat thicker than a Syrup if the grief be of flegme then honey is best These lambetives are usually taken with a liquorish stick And are most usually taken for inflamations and ●ulcers in the lungs Coughs Asthmaes and difficulty of breath and such like infirmities Concerning Pils their making and use All kinds of Pils are made onely by beating the substantial matter into a powder and so with syrup or little gum Tragacanth dissolved in distilled water made up into Pils They are usually taken at night If it be one●y to cause the Patient to go to stool the next day then so much alloes as will heap on a two pence for a strong body or less for a weak body mixt with a little mirrh and saffron will be enough these Pils are also good for the head and stomach There are many forts of Pil● made for several infirmities as you may find in the London Dispensatory unto which I shall refer you I confess I seldom use any Pils except what I haue mentioned for I find the Astrological way of cure by herbs doth if rightly applyed cure all distempers and griefs whatsoever loosen the body and alay any pain of the head and the like as you shall find in this book yet sometimes when the patient is bound in body and the destemper requireth a decoction made of such herbs which are commonly heating and so for the most part binding such as are palpetations convulsions palsies● apoplexies and such like Then I usually give the Patient Pils at night made as aforesaid if need require Concerning Glysters If the Patient be much afflicted in the belly and Guts or is very costive in body as sometimes it will fall out more especially when the grief requireth herbs heating and binding to work their cure then I usually apply Glisters and ointments made of such herbs which are antipathetical to the afflicting Planet But most especially such herbs which are good to comfort the heart to expell poison and cleanse the Guts Also you must be careful that the herbs be gathered at the right planetary hours not omitting their numbers which he longeth to each Planet When you have gotten the herbs together shred them small and boil them in milk together with such seeds and roots which are good to expell winds about a pint and a half of milk boiled until it be near half wasted will be enough for any reasonable man or woman after its boil'd and strain'd I usually put into it three or four spoonfuls of sallet oyle and a spoonful of hony or course sugar And so give it the Patient blood warm But my usual way is first to give the Patient a suppository made of Sal-Gem to bring them first to stool by which means I find the Glyster worketh the more effectual upon the humour offending For many times if no suppository be first given the glisters will not stay by reason the Patient cannot keep them in their body Concerning Fumes If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of superfluous moisture then fumes are proper to be used by reason they have a drying quality provided they be made antipathetical unto the afflicting planet you must shred bruise and dry those herbs plants or roots which you intend to use and so bring them into powder and when you intend to fume their heads put some of this powder upon hot coles and let the Patients hold their heads over it twice a day is enough viz. morning and evening They must be careful to keep their head and feet warm Concerning Suffumigations If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of great drought be it hot or cold drought you must make choice of such herbs according unto their vertues and numbers which are antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet shread them small and boil them either in strong bear ale or strong maulted water and while it is hot let the Patients hold their head over it and be careful they take no cold afterwards Concerning Cataplasms Cataplasmes are oft-times used to help cure Agues and sometimes to apply unto the feet to draw from the head and more especially in such infirmities and defects wherein

as I have elsewhere expressed with the reasons thereof Here followeth some notable Philosophical Secrets worthy our Knowledge How by the Magnet of ones Body to extract a Spiritual Mummy whereby to cure most Diseases incident unto the body of Man It being done either by seminaion or transplantation hereof into a growing vegitable as followeth THe Magnet of ones body is the Dung or Excreement which must be dryed seven or nine days in the shade and kept from wet This Magnet thus prepared must be laid unto that part of the body which doth naturally evacuate by sweat from the vital or natural part of the body defective But if we make a general medicine then the Magnet must be applyed unto all parts which doth naturally evacuate by sweat This Magnet must be so prepared that we may transplant the same when the Moon increaseth and if she apply from that planet which is Lord of the Ascendant of the patient or from the planet afflicting unto one of the fortunes 't wil work the stronger provided that the fortune which the Moon applyeth unto be antipathetical unto the afflicting planet as if Mars be the afflicting planet then let the Moon apply unto Venus if Saturn afflicts then unto Jupiter if the Lord of the ascendant or the afflicting planet be a fortune then let the Moon apply unto the other fortune the manner how to transplant the imbibed Magnet whereby to cure by semination is as followeth Take the imbibed Magnet and mix it with a reasonable quantity of earth and then sow in it such seeds of herbs which are proper to cure the infirmity which this book will sufficiently instruct you in let the earth thus mingled be placed in as fruitful a place as conveniently you can that it may grow the better you must sometimes more especially when the Moon is in Conjunction Trine or Sextile of the Sun or one of the fortunes mix the patients water with some of their excrements and so water the seeds but you must not do it too often once a week will be enough for fear you should destroy the seed for the rain and other fertile waters will be most proper and natural to make it grow There is yet another way by me used which is to take the imbibed earth prepared as aforesaid And having a plant which either by sympathy or antipathy is most rational to cure the infirmity taken up clean with its root place it into the imbibed earth and so water it as aforesaid Both ways are effectual to cure if rightly ordered Lastly when you find that by semination or transplantation the grief is changed into a 〈◊〉 we must do as followeth If the disease be dry and of a combust nature as the yellow jaundies or the like then you must take the herbs or plants with its earth and cast them into running water If the disease be of moisture then burn the earth and plants If the grief be aiery then hang the earth and plants in the smoke to dry and the Patient will be firmly cured How to Cure any Swelling Sore S●irrhous Tumor or Warts TAke the flesh hand or any part of any man that is newly dead with it rub or stroke any place defective and then bury it As the dead mans hand or flesh perisheth or wasteth in the earth so the swelling sore or schirrous tumor or warts will fade away and the Patient be recovered The reason in Philosophy is thus as the northern property is an enemy to southern heat so by his contact it causeth all unnatural things growing to fade away in changing the vegetating nature growing touched into the mortifying nature dying How to work the same Cure by Herbs or Plants TAke Arsmart or Adders-tongue gather it at the hour of Mars the Moon increasing let Mars be in Trine or Sextile to Venus or the Moon applying from Mars to Venus or from Venus unto Mars steep the herb or weed first in fair water until it be well moistened then apply it unto the place defective until it be warm after which bury the plant or weed and as it perisheth in the earth so the Patient will recover How to Cure an Atrophy or wasting Limb. BOre a hole in a Willow-tree with an augur unto the pith save some of the bored stuffe and apply it unto the limb or Member of the body defective at the new of the Moon 24 hours then take the paring of the nails with some hair and the scraping of the skin from the limb or member of the body defective put all these into the hole of the tree and stop them up close with a peg of the same wood do this when Saturn is weak the Moon increasing the fortunes in some friendly Aspect to the Moon in fruitful Signes also a hole bored in the root of a Hazel-tree and ordered as aforesaid the bark being taken off and laid on again and then covered with earth will do it How to cure the hot or cold Gout BOre a hole in an Oke to the pith then take the bored stuff and apply it to the Limb or member defective three days before the change of the Moon then take the pairing of the nailes and hair of the Limb or Member defective and put it together with the bored stuff into the hole of the tree and stop it up close with a peg of the same wood do this when Saturn is weak if the Gout be of cold or when Mars is weak if the Gout be of heat and let the Moon be in Trine or Sextile to Venus if the Gout be of heat or unto Jupiter if the Gout be of cold you must be sure to stop it up close and semon it up from air How to Cure a Plague-Sore and draw forth the venemous matter TAke a living Chick and apply the Fundament of the Chick unto the Plague-sore it will draw forth the Venom kill the Chick and cure the Patient Also a dryed Toad macerated in Vinegar and laid to the soar will draw forth the venemous matter and cure the Patient How to cure the Hernia or Rupture BOre a hole in an Oak to the pith but first so take off the bark that it may glutinate and grow lay on the bored stuff to the place defective three days and nights before the new Noon then take some hair from the privy parts together with the pairing of the nailes and the boared stuff and put them into the Oak and so stop it up with a pegg of the same tree then lay on the bark and with tree-wax or tempered clay or paste seament and daub the place up from air And as the bark doth glutinate and grow the Hernia or Rupture will close also a hole bored in the root of a Hazel-tree will do it being ordered as aforesaid and kept close covered with earth this is best done in the spring quarter by reason the bark will glutinate and close the better Here followeth two pretty Secrets in Philosophy How to

the Nerves and arteries are concerned being laid to the pulse neck and other parts of the body as occasion is offered I commonly use them in convulsions appoplexies palpitations and such like distempers The way to make them is thus you must make choice of such herbs according unto their virtues and numbers which are good to cure the grief as you shall find in this book shread them small and pound them in a mortar with a quantity of white Salt and a few raisons honey a litle Venus turpentine or burgelary pitch to make it hold together you must lay it on hot Concerning Oyntments Those Oyntments which are made heating must be made with sallet-Oyle and those Oyntments which are cooling must be made with either neats foot oyle or sweet lard I usually put into both a little sheep suet so make it thick the way to make each kind is as followeth And first of the oyl heating having by the rules in this book made choice of such herbs according unto their virtues and numbers which are proper to cure the desect shread them small and bruise them well in a morter then put them into a convenient quantity of oyl imagine unto two handful of herbs about a pint of oyl If you cannot stay to make it by reason of your present occasions then set it over the fire keeping it close covered and when it s near crisp strain forth the oyl and if you desire to make it very strong then shread more herbs and bruise them and boil them in the same oyl again until it be crisp and so strain it and keep it for your use But if you desire to make it strong and have convenient time to do it then bruise the herbs and put them into the oyl and set them in the Sun for a week or two then strain it and infuse more herbs and at length boil them until they be crisp and having strain'd it keep it for your use If you intend to make a cold oyl then infuse the herbs being shread and pounded as foresaid into sweet-lard or neats-feet oyl you may take some of each and make it after the same manner as you did the hot oyl aforesaid If these ointments be used about wounds running sores or ulcers then ●twill be convenient to dissolve half an ounce of turpentine in two ounces of oyl by the heat of the fire more especially if you use the hot oyl thereunto otherwise not for every cure for the most part is antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet except the afflicting Planet be very strong in the heavens for then you must in some measure comply as I have else where in this book expressed Concerning Bathes or Fomentations Bathes are used either in case of hot or cold swellings sometimes for aches ulcers wounds burnings or scaldings and such like having by the rules in this book made choice of such herbs and plants which are necessary for the cure cut them small and boil them in strong maulted water My usual way is to boil the water and mault together about three or four pints of mault to seven or eight pints of water when the liquor is strong strain it from the mault and put the herbs into the liquor and so soon as it boils take it from the fire you must bathe or foment the place grieved warm with the bath and then immediately use such oyntments as are proper for the cure and so by swath or otherwise according as the grief is make it up I commonly use the same herbs in the bath which makes the oyl once a day being at evening is my usual time to do it Of PVRGATIONS When you give a Purge let the Moon be in a watry sign or let a watry sign ascend and let the Moon be aspected by any planet which is direct if swift in motion and under the earth the better But by no means let the Moon be aspected of any retrograde planet for then the Patient will be apt to vomit Secondly If you desire to purge any humour or element predominant do as followeth Let the planet be weak which is of the nature of the element offending And let the Moon apply unto or be in Trine or Sextile with that planet which is of contrary Nature as instance Mars who ruleth choler being by nature hot and dry Now if you desire to purge choler then let Mars be weak and let the Moon be applying unto Venus and if you desire to purge melancholy which is under ♄ then let ♄ be weak and the Moon applying unto Jupiter And if you desire to purge flegm let Venus be weak the Moon decreasing and applying to the Sun by Trine or Sextile aspect And if to purge blood let Jupiter be weak and the Moon applying unto Mercury You must do the like in purging any other parts or members of the body by observing what planet hath predominancy over it as instance Saturn ruleth the spleen Jupiter ruleth the liver and lungs Mars the gall Sol the heart Venus the reins and vessels of generation yet notwithstanding if any planet which owns the infirmity be Lord of the ascendant of the Patient and if he be strong its the better but let the Moon apply by any friendly aspect unto a fortune and if she be in the sign which represents the part of the body grieved its the better Of the manner of purging the Body If the body require a strong purge be sure to eat no supper but if any let it be light of digestion and take it early before you go to bed Also before you go to bed take a little aloes in the pap of an apple so much as will heap on a single peny but not bruised too small or otherwise take two or three small pils made suitable to the humour offending and if the Patients body be much bound take either a suppository made with Sal-Gem or a glyster to open and prepare the body before the physick works Take the purge in the morning early and let the Moon be in a watry sign or else let a watry sign ascend as is above expressed take either water-gruel or thin broath about an hour after and likewise after every stool and fast at the least six hours after I mean from meat or any other diet How to Purge the Heal or remote parts When you intend to purge the head or remote parts of the body you must give the patient ●●ls made up in a hard form for the longer it remaineth in the body the better it works upon the remote humours offending How to purge Choler That which purgeth Choler gently is peach-flowers blew-violets damask Roses cent●ury But I chiefly use aloes and Rubarb provided the body be strong else not How to purge Flegm and water Elder-buds elder-flowers broom-flowers flower-de-luce roots hyssop Spurg dwarf-elder orri but I chiefly use bryony-root or jallop the body being strong How to purge Melancholly Pollipodium sumitory white and black Hellebore dodder