Muske tempered amongst it for thereby will the naturall heate be driuen inwardly and the vital spirits reuiued Stop also his nose and his mouth a little while for if the breath finde no vent then turneth it backe and thereby quickneth the naturall heate Secondly his armes are to be bound hard and then made loose and bound hard againe The palmes of the hands and plants of the féete are well to be rubbed with rawe clothes salt and vineger to the end that the matter may be drawen from the hart Thirdly his stomacke and about the mouth of the stomacke is also to be well rubbed whereby the naturall heate may be quickened All fragrant herbes which are hot of nature are to be holden before his nose as all kinds of Spice Muske and Amber if so be that the cause of this matter be cold But for women that do fall into swouning through the suffocation of the Mother it is another case as shall be shewed elsewhere for that all odoriferous things are hurtfull to be holden before their noses A graine of Muske dissolued in Wine and then giuen is passing good And if the patient haue vehemently closed his mouth then is the same to be broken open with a wooden sticke and his toong téeth and roufe of the mouth to be annointed with Treacle or Mithridate But if the cause be through heate then must the patient haue cold things giuen him to smell vnto as Camfer Saunders Roses and such like here before expressed And of what cause soeuer this swouning doth come yet is it alway good that there be made a great noyse about the patient and that he be called vpon by his name and blow Campher in his nose or Saunders in stead thereof these are now the commonest meanes if the swouning be procured through heate or cold that are to be vsed at a sodaine Secondly all the windowes are to be set open that then the patient may be refreshed with the fresh ayre and they are to speake very friendly vnto him Also you are to annoynt his pulse nose and temples with the foresaid things and giue him all comfortable things as is before sayd that nature may thereby be strengthened and quickned An order of life for Swouning FIrst all men that are subiect to this swouning must beware of all cloudie moyst and cold ayre and shun such like dwellings must suffer no sweate vpon the head must cast off all sweatie shirts and put on cleane he must forbeare all moyst and cold meates as Spinage Béetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Cherries hasell Nuts Abricocks Cucumbers and such like but new Figs are good for him Further he must be kept from all grosse binding meates from all that is made of dough from all Fish as Eeles Tenches and all great corpulent Fish But Crabs and small Fishes which are taken in fresh waters he may eate being a little broyled He must also eschue all old and fat flesh Chéese and such like He must vse for his drinke all cléere white Wine that is not swéete or a good old mild sort of Béere he must wholly forbeare drinking of water he must not ouercharge his stomacke with eating and drinking but chew his meate well and leaue off eating with appetite He must not sléepe after meate or at least not too long He must walke well two howres before meate yea runne vp hils for that consumeth well the moysture whereof the swouning is prouoked He must specially flye all anger sorrow vexation and other troubles of the minde as is sufficiently declared before But what medicines are to be vsed for the swouning shall be héere taught the patient must as soone as is possible take these pils following in the morning betimes Take pils of Rubarb one dragme Hiera composita one scruple make nine pils thereof with Rose water afterwards giue him this drinke following 6. daies one after another Take halfe a drag of Agaricke Hermodactili and Rubarb of each one scruple Diagridij and Sal Gemmae of each two graines Ginger Squinant Spica and Annis séede of each thrée graines Hony of Roses halfe an ounce let it stéepe one whole night in thrée ounces of water wherein Woodbinde is sodden afterwards let it séethe a walme and straine it out For to make pils take good Aloes two ounces Mastick Saffron Violets and floures of Buglosse of each halfe a scruple burnt Iuorie and Roses of each three graines Diagridion seuen graines Agaricke Turbith and prepared Asure stone of each halfe a dragme stéepe it all together with Cicorie water thrée daies long and being well stopt let it dry in the Sunne or in another warme place yet stirring it often about vntill it be méetely thicke take then a dragme thereof and make thereof seuen pils whereof euery euening you are to take one pill a certaine time long afterwards a whole yéere thorow take one pill about the fift day but if the patient be full of bloud and of sufficient strength then are you after purging to open the Liuer veine in the elbow on the left side and to let him bléede about fiue ounces For to kéepe open the body you are to vse this powder Take Epithymum rootes of Polipody Thymus Harts toong and Cuscuta of each one dragme Argall and Seny of each halfe a dragme Mace foure scruples stamp and mingle it all together take one dragme thereof at the least twice a wéeke at one time tempered with a little wine or some fresh broth it purifieth breaketh winde and clenseth the hart and stomacke Item take at the least once a wéeke as much Pieretrum as the bignes of a Pease chue the same and spet the moysture out of the mouth Another TAke a good péece of white bread mollifie it in good Muscadell or Malmsey if so be that the cause of this swouning be of cold but if it procéede of heate then mollifie the same white bread in Rose water in iuice of Pomgranats in iuice of Quinces in the iuice of Citrons or any flesh broth and so eate it Also this patient may vse conserue of Roses Burrage Buglosse and Rosemary and other things moe which shall be expressed hereafter in the trembling of the hart after that heate or cold hath the vpper hand There are yet many moe confections and cordiall things prepared which are very profitable for this purpose and do remaine described before in the discourse of the cold paine of the head where it beginneth Take conserues of Betony c. Item take Pistacia thrée ounces white Sugar sixe ounces sirupe of Roses fower ounces séeds of Basill red and white Corall Roses burnt Iuory red and white Behen of each one drag Zeduary Amber and Saffron of each two scruples Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Mace Cinnamom and Cloues of each one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold Pearles fower scruples the Pistacia stéepe being cut small thrée dayes long in Malmesey afterwards séeth the sirupe and the Sugar thicke enough and first temper
the force of the vertue expulsiue which is knowne before by certaine impotency and trouble of these parts But if the same grow through outward accidents that must be vnderstood of the patient And to cure this infirmity first it is to be knowne that albeit this disease procéedeth for the most part through heate yet notwithstanding the same may be caused through cold therefore we will here first write of the running of the Raines which commeth through heate Of the Fluxe of seed or running of the Raines through heate §. 1. THis fluxe of séed is as it hath bin sayd felt with some griefe All cold things are acceptable to the patient and hot things do put him to paine as to a man which is superabounding in seed doth this fluxe of Sperme bring not any feeblenes he waxeth not thereby leane at all but if such come through heate of the seed then feeleth he also heate itching and griefe this must first of all be begun with a good order of diet And first he must chuse for his dwelling a place and ayre which is neither too hot nor too cold neither too moist nor too dry It is also not conuenient for him to stirre or go much neither to ride but rest and sleepe is highly commended for this infirmity and not too long but a little and that oftner Déepe speculations sorrow vexation fright feare and especially all veneriall thoughts must he eschue All purgations and that which abateth the body are very hurtfull and if need require the same is easily to be effected through vomits sweates and Clisters For vomiting take water wherein Radishes haue béene sodden thrée ounces sirupe of Vineger one ounce and a halfe giue the patient this warme after that he hath eaten sundrie meates For to prouoke sweate take Barly water thrée ounces strong Wine two ounces giue it him very warme and let him sweat The clister must be thus prepared Take Beets Violet leaues Nightshade Tassell leaues of each one handfull let them seeth well together and take twelue ounces of this decoction Tho. sugar one ounce and a halfe yolkes of Egs oile of water Lillies and of Roses of each two ounces salt one dragme and a halfe the clister must be set in the euening before meate In eating and drinking must be eschued all that nourish wel except there be great féeblenes approching whereof ought most of al to be aduised Also he must eschue al that prouoketh venenery as all sharp hot meates spices fat and windy meates but much rather may he vse all that are contrary to these as water wherein Lentils are sodden and Waterlillies tempered in al his meates and drinkes also conserues of the same Prepared Coriander is also good be it of what maner soeuer they be eaten These things haue a speciall property to expell incontinency In like sort also Purslaine Endiue Cicory and Lettice But Lettice seed excelleth all these if one eate much thereof it stayeth also excéedingly and spéedily the running of the Raines Item oile Oliue and Nightshade are very good for this All these foresaid things is such a patient to vse continually meetly sower vineger Oranges and the iuice of Pomegranats may he also vse otherwhiles and herewith eate shéepes feet and other beasts feet Fish that are taken in fresh waters are also good for him with vineger and other sower things and dressed with sallad oile All sea fish shall he forbeare Concerning flesh there is good all kind of Venison water Fowles and in fine the flesh of all Déeres that be not fat but in good plight For his drinke must he haue red cléere and pleasant Wines and if he desire to haue them watred then take thereto water wherein Coriander Lettice Purslaine and that which is yet better Gum of Araby and dried Waterlilly flowers haue béene decocted And that we forget not the venerious and lusty women it is specially aduised that for them shall be made a potion of the iuice of Betony and Cicory tempered together with vineger Item yet more against concupiscence of man and woman that are hot of nature may plaisters be made Take Henbane Opium Camfere the muscilage of Fleawoort Purslaine séed and oyle of Poppy seed make a plaister thereof and annoint or lay it vpon the kidneyes Yet must this plaister by reason of the extreme coldnes be vsed prouidently Also to go bare footed is good likewise for this and they that be full of blood are to be let blood These things following do much drie the naturall séed to wit Rue and Agnus castus wild Mints Comin and morsels made thereof But chiefly if one do take the séeds of the premisses with vineger Item take Dill séed thrée dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séed of each half an ounce drinke thereof euery time one dragme and a halfe with the water of Lentils Item take Rue séed and Henbane séed of each one quarter of an ounce Roses and flowers of Pomegranats of each thrée dragmes make thereof a powder and giue thereof to drink one quarter of an ounce at one time with water or watered wine But to returne to the léesing of the Sperme it is not amisse to write what is inwardly to be vsed for it First then shall this confection following be necessary for it Take Comfrey roots thrée ounces cleanse them and cut them small pilled Pompeon seed and Waterlillies of each one dragme the iuice of Licorice two scruples prepared Corall fine Bolus Mirtle séed and Roses of each ten graines Gum halfe a dragme beate them all small except the roots and make thereof a powder séeth the rootes in red Wine and stamp them to grout then temper the powder amongst it and put thereto the sirupe of Citron pils and of Orenges as much as you please and then let it séeth together againe to a confection Take euery morning one spoonfull thereof before breakfast Item temper the Conserues of Roses with Marmalade as much as you will or take either apart Another Take prepared Bolus one quarter of an ounce Conserues of Roses thrée quarters of an ounce temper and vse thereof euery time one dragme Or take a whole new layd egge sodden and sugred A famous Sirupe for heate TAke Purslaine séed Lettice seed and Waterlillies of each one ounce prepared Coriander rootes of Waterlillies of Dandelion and of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce Camfere halfe a dragme or fiftéene Iuiubes Dates eight dayes steeped in vineger and chopt small two ounces Rue séeds mountaine mints and parched Comin of each one dragme séeth these all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe then straine it through being very hard wroong out put more thereto twelue ounces of the iuice of Quinces Sugar six and thirty ounces and let them séeth all together and clarifie them Lastly cast a little Mints into it whereof shall be taken two ounces with thrée ounces of Purslaine water it is very precious and approoued For this is also good these sirupes following
of much cold water through much binding grosse meates as hard Chéese Cow béefe or any other hard flesh which is not well sodden or rosted salt Porke and principally of ill boyled wood Pigeons or meates which he swallowed downe not well chewed Item there be mo things which be hurtfull for this sicknes as Pease Beanes Medlars Quinces Seruises Peares Sloes and such like binding fruites For this paine of the belly is commonly more rife in haruest when fruites are found most aboundant than at any other time of the yeare These sicknesses may also be caused of cold and piercing winds as the Northren winds as also to the contrarie out of great heate and great labour and lastly through venime taken The inward causes commonly procéede from other parts as if there be any impostume present whether it be in the Bowels or in the Lyuer or in the sucking veines called Venae Mesaraicae in the Kidneys or in the Bladder or when the Bowels thorough some vapour fall downe into the priuities If so be that the cause be in the bowels thereof there be sixe to wit if the gut Ileon or Colon be too hot or too cold or be fraughted with any cold tough matter or through wind or obstructed with some hard corruption or when the bowels be full of wreathed wormes lastly this disease may also be caused through faintnesse of the expulsiue or strength of the retentiue vertue Concerning the signes they may be demaunded of the sicke persons or standers by But if there be any impostume in any other parts it may be knowne by the place affected where the impostume is The hote impostumes of the guts are discerned by the continuall agues thirst panting or beating of the same part whereas to the contrarie the cold impostumes be without great paine and without agues but onely with a kind of heauines and tumor and these commonly assaile a man that is accustomed to vse much cold and moist meates as milke fish and such like If this sicknes be caused through the obdurated corruption of the bowels then is there with it an extreame pain so that it seemeth to the patient that his bowels are cut vp and that chiefly if he haue taken before any such things as may cause these bindings and harden the filth or corruption as inward or outward heate and through vse of drie things Or if this disease come through wind then doth the paine depart from one place vnto another with a kind of rumbling and that with such stitches as if the bowels were prickt through with auls And if the same be caused of cold slime then be cold rheumes felt and such like in the bowels and that chiefly through certaine meates taken which do increase Phlegma Of the paine or griping of the guts which is called Cholica §. 3. COlon or Cholica Passio is a paine of the bowels to wit as is before discoursed of the neathermost guts which is caused when the superfluitie which nature is enured to naturally to auoyd and cast from her is stopt and hindered and if the corruption winds or wormes be not expelled as they were wont to be But the paine of the cholick cometh commonly by fits ceasing otherwhiles and then immediatly returning with great intolerable paine with heauie breath with shiuering shaking and sweating The causes of this cholick are for the most part the same with Iliaca Passio for both of these sorts of paines in the guts be matched so neare together that they may well be called sisters But there is onely this difference betwéene them both that the neathermost bowels be fat by nature and therfore may gather fatnes vnto them that by that meanes the guts are made so narrow that the hard ordure cannot passe thorough them but is vtterly hindered The signes of the Cholick be these when the ordure and winds are daily shut vp and hindred And although the stoole be furthered through Clisters or some other meanes yet is the ordure neuerthelesse hard and burnt as Sheepes dung or Goats dung whereby the naturall appetite doth abate from day to day vntill it be vtterly lost Thence followeth then so great paine and gripings about the Nauell that it seemeth that the guttes be knit or haled together with strings or pluckt asunder and bored through with bodkins As often as one stirreth him or turneth from one side to the other then doth the paine increase vehemently in this sicknes the patient is alwaies gréedie of sowre and sharpe things and hath a loathing of all that is fat Each humor whereof this paine is caused is knowne by these signes following If it be caused of Phlegma then is the same with paine heauinesse and desire of all warmth The paine is to be knowne by the féeling Old folkes and such as be flegmaticke by nature are most of all subiect to this passion Also the winter eating of much fish of much fruite and of much milke excessiue rioting and great quietnesse much going into the water and such like be to this sicknes a great cause If in case that this sicknesse be caused through heate then is there a great inflammation and with it drouth of the tong great thirst itch great heate in the vrine Chiefly if the person be young and in the Sommer time if he be chollerick by nature if he haue vsed much about the fire or much spice Or if this paine of the bowels be caused through obstruction it may be knowne by the going to the stoole and paine of the guts to wit as if the same were torne asunder and stucke thorough And if the patient would go to the stoole with great forcement then is it all to be auoyded very like to clay the which may be caused through long vse of any old meate through the patients drie complexion and through long continuing labour and with much sweating in the hote ayre Or if this Cholicke proceed through wind then is heard much rumbling in the bowels and puffing vp of the belly his excrements do swim vpon the water because they be full of wind and so much the more may one be ascertained thereof if one knew that the patient had eaten before much Pease Beanes Chestnuts Rapes Figs Must and such like windie meates or drinkes much water or much watered wine Or when this paine of the bowels is caused of any hote impostumes then doth the patient féele hote stitches he hath thirst and great paine and that alwaies in one place he hath also a red face extuberation of the eyes and restraint of the vrine But if this griefe be caused through a cold impostume for it be all these things beforementioned much féebler being caused of superfluous meates of much fish of much cold and moist herbes fruites Swines flesh and such like also the stooles be full of Phlegma Of the difference of these paines in the Guts §. 4. ABoue all those which are before discouered be these two sorts of paines in the bowels
thereon the space of eight dayes at the least twice a day if it be vsed immediatly after that the Féete be frozen then doth it cleanse the same and healeth it presently Cornes on the Toes Touching Cornes which come vpon the Féete so it is that in the middest of the same there groweth a small black or white callositie like as it were a wart the which through his hardnes maketh so great a paine that one can hardly treade or go vpon it Whereto some of these remedies ensuing may be vsed Take the gall of a Pickerell and bind it vpon it or annoint it therewith Item make a plaister of red sealing Waxe and lay it thereon Others do go somewhat tougher to worke with it and do take yellow Arsenicke which is Orpiment Copperas and Allume of each a like quantitie and temper it vnto a salue with hony and annoint it therewith Or they do take one quarter of an ounce of Galbanum and let it steepe so long in vineger vntill it be as soft as salue and lay the same so long vpon it vntill the cornes weare away But this following is oftentimes found to be good so that the whole Corne falleth away therby and is also very safe Take of the plaister Diachilon magnum and Pitch which is Shoomakers Waxe of each a like much make a plaister of it spread it on a cloth and lay it vpon it the space of thrée or foure dayes beneath on the plants of the Féet and go vpon it afterwards take fresh againe so long vntill they be throughly whole You shall find mo other good things in the first Part where we do discourse of warts which be also very commodious for this purpose The third Chapter Of the paine in the Ioynts in generall NExt to the forementioned diseases sicknesses which the armes hands legs and féet be subiect vnto there be diuers moe and much stronger diseases than the former in the ioynts which be also very néedfull to be described But we will aboue all discourse generally of them and diuide this matter into two parts wherof the first part is called by the learned Gutta wherein shall be shewed all the causes signes orders and other things which be commonly requisite for all paines of the ioynts The second part shall we comprehend vnder a generall Gout or Arthritis vnder which is contained all paines of the ioynts for most famous Phisitions do seuerally write of them and afterwards we will speake of thrée other sundrie Species of the Gout which onely light vpon certaine places of the bodie as Chiragra Ischia and Podagra All sorts of Gouts may manifest themselues in whatsoeuer part of the bodie they will yet are they so like one another and so allyed together that many learned men haue written of thē all vnder one and haue onely excepted Ischia to be another kind which error grew on this foote for that all the sorts of it do after one and the same manner paine all the ioynts of the bodie Neuertheles we will as much as is possible and as much as the cause requireth make a seuerall declaration of each by it selfe Of the Gout in generall called Gutta §. 1. LIke as we haue before admonished so do the learned comprehend all diseases and defluxions which do fall into all the ioynts vnder the name of Gutta which is a passion or paine of the ioynts which falleth into them and the sinewes of mans bodie by some humors or wind from aboue or from the next adiacent place or which is caused through bad disposition of the whole bodie This grieuous paine may also be caused sometimes through a fracture of a bone through wrenchings through great stirrings with a full belly through fals blowes thrusts through eluxations and through great outward heate or cold by which meanes all the ioynts are weakened For this also helpeth much all cold and waterish meates if the same be long vsed as fruite great fishes and especially if they be without scales swines flesh water fowls and such like To be idle and to liue without any exercise Also excessiue venery especially after that one hath eaten drunken Obstruction of any accustomed course as of the Pyles of any open vlcers of detention of the termes and such like whereby nature was accustomed to cleanse her selfe Item it is also found by experience that some do inherite this disease from their auncestors In fine there be two principall causes whereby these kinds of diseases be prouoked as first of all the shew of these defluxions Secondly the increasing of these defluxions from aboue Thirdly féeblenesse of the members which receiue this superfluitie The signes of the Gout are manifest of themselues to wit if one féele great paine and that at sundrie times on the places where these defluxions do fall otherwhiles with swelling and sometimes without swelling and whether this procéed of heate or cold that may be perceiued by féeling If it then come through any outward cause that may be demaunded of the sick persons themselues or if it come through any repletion of the body that appeareth by the signes of the veines grosnesse of the body fulnes of the pulse sloth of all the members by the diminishing of vnderstanding or memorie losse of appetite and by the féeblenesse of the sight If this disease be caused through bloud then it is commonly in fat repleated bodies with paine of the head with great vnlustines with vnquiet sléepe with diminishing of the vnderstanding with wearines with rednes of the whole bodie and the vrine there is also heate with it panting and swelling and that in the place infected especially if one haue liued sumptuously Item all cold things are welcome vnto him and all warme things painfull and if they be vsed too long also hurtfull Yet this the rather in young persons being full of bloud by nature and if he dwell in a hote countrie If this disease be caused of Phlegma or of cold humors then is there neither panting nor great paine with it but remaineth for the most part in one place without remouing hitherwards or thitherwards neither is there also any great rednes or heat with it and for the more certaintie that the same is caused through Phlegma if the same be so found in an old person in winter time after that he hath eaten much cold and moist meates and drinks or hath much and long frequented water Also all warme things be acceptable vnto him and all cold things noysome If so be that this disease procéed of Cholera then is there a strong heate with it that one can hardly suffer it in the féeling also a great pain without swelling with drought distention With this will the patient also perceiue a bitternes of the mouth And these things will be the rather confirmed if the patient be young and cholericke by nature or if it be sommer time also being hote and dry weather c. This paine of the ioynts
proceedeth very seldome or also neuer through melancholy if it be not mixed with some subtill moisture then is there very litle paine with it and also litle help◠for it whatsoeuer is done vnto it for the place of this disease will be hard remaineth blacke without any rednes And it hapneth not but in old folkes about winter c. If this be caused of wind then is it swollen thicke without great paine which oftentimes remoueth from the one ioynt to the other and the patient hath vsed much meate and drinke before which do ingender wind If there be any humors mixed amongst these winds then must it be considered and passed vpon the forementioned signes whereby will very soone be perceiued what humor hath mixed it selfe amongst these winds according to which euery one may know how to dispose and gouerne himselfe Like as then hitherto in diuers places certaine common rules haue bene made so will we procéed here also whereof the first is For as much as the Goute Arthritis Podagra and such like appeare most of al in haruest by reason of the fruite eaten the whole sommer therfore must all fruits be eschued Secondly for as much as venery is so hurtfull for this disease and increaseth it very much the same is to be refrained as much as is possible Thirdly a quiet idle life sleepe by day time do hinder that the superfluitie cannot be consumed To the contrary too great stirring and exercise whereby the members be ouer heated are also oftentimes the cause of this paine of the members therefore is the same as much as is possible to be eschued Fourthly all Wine and especially strong wine is very hurtful for all them that be plagued with the Gout Fiftly all rioting and drunkennes make bad digestion whereby also the paine of the Gout is augmented Sixtly they that be hote of nature and addicted to the Gout are to refraine from all phlegmaticke meate which is drest with sundry things and also from all meate which doth make Cholera and bloud for that when these two humors come together then do they bring grosse and vndigested defluxions in the ioynts whereof then the Gout is caused Seuenthly there be some through purging letting of bloud that are fréed from this disease which may most commodiously be done in the spring of the yere Eightly the aire hurteth them much that be troubled with the Gout Ninthly all great grosse fishes and especially Eeles be hurtfull for the Gout Tenthly sucking Pigs all water fowles and old Hens are especially hurtfull to the lower members Eleuenthly milk and wine eaten together be very noysome for all members and very hurtfull for the head Twelfthly the drinke which is taken without thirst bringeth much hurt to the body Thirtéenthly like as great surfetting with meate is very hurtfull for all the ioynts euen so doth a moderate diet refresh them Fourtéenthly the going too much or wearie walking hanging downe of the legs especially presently after meate is very hurtfull for the ioynts Fiftéenthly to lie vpon the back is also hurtful Sixtéenthly anger is enemy to this disease Seuentéenthly the great sensibility of the ioints especially of the féet cannot suffer any paine The foresaid seuentéene rules are only ordained for this purpose to frée one from the Goute but as much as doth concerne the meanes whereby these ioynts are to be strengthened and preserued that the same do not receiue those defluxions whereon dependeth the principall meanes to frée one from it are in these rules following to be obserued Eightéenthly it is very requisite that the féet be often bathed in Allum water Nintéenthly Sage decocted in Béere and the same drunken oftentimes is commended as it were a very secret medicine and receipt which hath an ineffable operation in all diseases of the ioynts Twentithly Almond floure Cammomill Myrrhe Melilote and Roses be very commodious for the ioints Calmus and ground Iuie haue an especiall vertue for to strengthen all the ioints the same doth also the Indian Nut kernell One and twentithly Verueine laid fresh vpon the féet and so worne is very good for the Podagra These things following do strengthen much the sinewes The roote Behen and his oyle doth warme the contracted sinewes in like manner also Bdellium and Calmus laid vpon it with oyle of Citron péeles of Cammomill of Beuercod Cypers rootes Cassie wood and Cypers also oyle of Costus and such like oyles are maruellously praised commended for the sinewes and Centorie in clisters Item feet water made of the ashes of a Bay tree For a salue the mother of Sallad oyle is good and the dregs of the oyle of Lillies and of all other oyles which be warme by nature Opopanacum is also much commended but Pyretrum and Pepper aboue all other to warme the sinewes For this be also drie swéete bathes good or naturall Sulphur bathes After purging is Treacle and Mithridate much commended in all cold Goutes drunken with wine wherein Sage hath been decocted But as much as concerneth the curing of these ioint diseases it is not needfull to discourse any further of them bicause that we hereafter will write of this matter at length Therefore we will proceed in the name of God The fourth Chapter Of the Goute in the Ioints Arthritis THe second description which speaketh commonly of the paine in the ioints whereof we haue briefly admonished before is that which the Latinists do call Morbum articularem the Grecians Arthritim which is as much to say as the paine of the ioints or an inflammation of the ioints which procéedeth from within the bodie and the Tendones be annoyed hurt and pained In fine it is none other than a dispersed Podagra ouer the whole bodie the which at one time commeth behinde in the neck another time in the shoulder blades then againe in the back bone and in the hands in the fingers and in the elbowes the which also sometimes créepeth into the nethermost ioints as in the legs the knées in the feet and toes And although in this disease like as also in other diseases more there be many sundrie remedies sought by many sundrie carefull Phisitions according to the qualitie of the cause and place of the paine therfore is there but one generall rule to be obserued First how one shal be preserued from this disease Secondly how that the same is to be cured and taken away altogither And bicause the time of the yéere importeth not a little therein therefore is choise to be made of it In summer the matter is thus to be handled This kind of patient in the beginning of summer is to be purged with that which ensueth Take Agaricus one dragme Sugar one ounce Hermodactils one dragme and a halfe water of field Cypers thrée ounces make the water warme and stéepe the rest fower and twenty howers in it afterwards wring it hard out and drinke it warme in the morning and then fast sixe howers vpon it
bitter Almonds or the iuice of this herbe with bitter Almonds and with wine In like maner also if one be annointed with the oyle thereof then doth it preserue him against the biting of Snakes Hares rennet is very forcible against the venome of Snakes and also for moe other things Heath Erica is much commended against the venome of snakes Harts horne hunteth them also away through his smell The round and long Hartwort the waight of two dragmes drunke with wine or tempered with vineger and layd thereon is also much commended Dogs garlicke that groweth in vineyards is also very forcible against the venome of Snakes Cleuers haue also a speciall force against Snakes and their venome if one drinke the waight of a dragme of them Melilot hath this nature also that it is sayed that there was neuer séene a Snake to haue come neare this herbe In like manner the seede of it is much commended being taken with wine Garlicke driueth away all snakes through his sauour and smell it is also very good against all venemous stingings of beasts and if one mingle it with bread and hony then may it be eaten for that intent Coleworts with Barly meale layed thereon or the iuice thereof tempered with vineger and Fenegréeke seede is also very commodious Corne mints do also driue Snakes away The dung of all foure footed beasts tempered with wine and layed thereon is also commended Crabs that are caught in fresh water and in the sea are also very commodious for this as we haue admonished in other places moe Wilde Thyme hath also great vertue for it when the leaues thereof be drunke with wine and the smoake thereof driueth them also away All pickle of sallt fish is also highly praised for this vse as hath bene taught elsewhere The rootes of Louage with Barly meale or tempered with wild Baulme and layd thereon is also very commodious Bayberries tempered with wine and drunken is good against all cold venome Eringus the waight of a dragme drunken tempered with water and layed thereon is also good A liue Mouse applied to the place hath a speciall vertue for to draw out the venome howbeit Hens Pullets and Frogges are also very commodious for it as we haue oftentimes shewed before Must drunken is an vtter enemy to Snakes so is all sodden and falsified wine How forcible Nuts be not onely against snakes but also against all venome if one vse them with Figs and Rue we haue oftentimes declared before Oleander which the Gréekes call Rhododendron is maruellous for his leaues are venome to all fourefooted beasts and yet a medicine for men against the venome of Snakes sodden with Rue in wine Earewaxe rubbed on the bitting asswageth the paine out of hand Pionie rootes whereof there are two sorts are both of them good for this purpose Pepper is for all cold poisons measurably vsed taken for a speciall medicine euen as we haue declared in other places moe Pistacies are also very good against all poison That Rue is good against all venome and against the biting of snakes we haue already said in many places The rennet of Faunes that die in their dams bellies is commended to be maruellous forcible for it For this is likewise commended the Madder Radishes sodden with water and vineger and layd thereon are accounted very good Great Centorie which is called Rapontica the waight of a dragme of it giuen with wine The water of Larkes spurres is sayed being drunken to be good against the biting of all venemous beasts if the biting be washed with it The same is also to be vsed against the Plague The iuice of white water Mints a quarter of an ounce drunken with thrée or foure ounces of wine and the biting washed therewith is much commended The séedes of yellow Rapes or Turneps and also the rootes and the herbe caried about one will preserue him from the biting of Snakes and if any body be bitten then must the séed with the grease of any birds be stamped and layd theron The séed of the common Rapes is very good against venome being taken in the stead of Treacle Salt is very good against all poison Sugar is to be tempered with oyle and layed thereon Swines bread hath a great vertue against all venome as we haue admonished in moe other places The iuice of Scabious is also taken to be very good against all venome of Snakes and Scorpions The thrée sorts of Dragons do driue away all venemous beasts if one carrie the roote about him It is also good being drunken for them that are bitten of them Léekes are also good when they are tempered with Vineger Mustard seed is to be mingled with vineger and applied thereon They flie from the fasting spettle of man and if they get it in their mouth they must die thereof Southernewood strewed on the place where the Snakes haunt or where fume and smoake thereof is driueth them away Also Southernwood is good against all venome being taken inwardly and applied outwardly Codwort which in Latine is called Aster is also for this highly renowmed Styrax Calamita as the sent thereof is very acceptable to all men so contrariwise there is nothing that Snakes may lesse abide Tamariscus is good against all poison Woodlice albeit they be lothsome wormes neuertheles they are aboue all things commended of the renowmed Phisitions against the poison of Snakes and also against all other poison If the venemous Snakes euer come to sent or smel the leaues or wood of Iuniper then créep they away they are also good against all venemous beasts Lysimachia is also commodious for all these things The iuice of Onions applied to the biting of a Snake and tempered with Hony is very good against venome The Gnats that plague beasts and men with their sting in sommer and in like manner all plants are depelled by the smoke of Pomegranate péeles and of Galbanum also by the smoke of Nardus séed and Lupins But forasmuch as through the grace of God we haue no Scorpions here in England nor in Dutchland therefore it is no great need to write much thereof by reason that all that is written against Snakes is also requisite for the same yet cannot we conceale this miracle that the Scorpions themselues are a remedie against their owne poison if the same be beaten and layed theron or if they be rosted and eaten In like maner you haue their oyle and other their vertues moe described here and there throughout this whole booke Spiders are wel knowne beasts whereof there are many sorts described by the auncient phisitions which as they do differ in fashion colour and in weauing ther webs so they do also differ in poison Albertus doth describe eight kindes of them which we haue all here in this countrey Some do liue by catching of Flies others by catching of water wormes and small fishes Some also are enemies to the Toade and Snake for that it hath bene séene that such Spiders
flowers ibid. The 27. § Tamariske wine ibid. The 28. § Wine of Wormewood ibid. The 29. § Wine of Zeduary ibid. The 30. § how that the infirmities of all wines are to be amended 790 The end of the Contents of this Booke A very meet and necessarie introduction for the better vnderstanding of all such things as are handled in this present Practise of Phisicke The Contents of the Jntroduction THE miserie of mans life caused by sinne hath constrained vs to thinke on such meanes by the which the diseases that daily are incident vnto it might be eased which truly by the mercie of God and Phisickes rule at length haue bene found out The profite and necessitie whereof together are iust causes why Phisicke may thorowly be praised And because the sicknesses are manifold and the bodie of man also diuided into many and sundrie parts members but principally into foure the Head the Breast the Belly and the external or outward parts Euery Maladie hath her due remedie also where when how and in what sort euery remedie is to be gotten gathered and kept likewise if any superfluitie were in it how and what is to be separated from it what regiment or order is to be obserued in Purging Letting of bloud Cupping or fastening of Horsleaches Then is shewed the due and true vse of the Aire of moouing and quietnes of waking and sléeping of meate and drinke At length also are expounded the weights and measures which are vsed in Phisicke Of the manifold miseries and calamities of mankind The first Chapter THe innumerable miseries calamities dangerous diseases and sores which the life of man is daily and hourely subiect vnto hath euen from the beginning of the world vntill this day mooued nay rather constrained diuers learned men to examine and trie whatsoeuer the earth and nature her selfe hath yéelded by that meanes to find ease for the disease and wretchednesse of mankind Some Philosophers there be that wholy haue employed and applyed themselues to amend and heale the infirmities of the mind haue extolled vertue aduaunced honestie and planted reason in the heart of man they haue also set foorth vice in a most vgly shape so to feare men from it and to induce them to leade an honest vertuous life But because all this was grounded only vpon the reason of man and altogether without a sure foundation it hath pleased God of his infinite mercies to supply the wants by his spirit in the holy Scripture and there to teach whatsoeuer is necessarie vnto a vertuous and honest life yet is the nature of man by sin so ouertaken by the first fall so ouer-reached so wrapped and rooted in iniquities that at no time in him any goodnesse either is or may be found Others there are that haue taken no lesse paines in séeking out the meanes to cure and help the innumerable maladies accidents sicknesses and sores of the bodie and therefore are forced to trie and approue all the creatures of God as Rootes Herbes Flowers Fruites Stones Woods Mettals all liuing beasts yea euery element each by himselfe to find out the hidden vertues and properties and to know to what vse they might rightly be applyed This was the first finding and foundation of this noble science of Phisick and hath bene from time to time by diuers and sundrie experience of the old Phisitions diligently obserued truely taught and written and at the last also imparted vnto vs and shall be reserued vntil the end of the world The wretchednesse of mans life And indeed if we behold our owne wretchednesse we shall euidently perceiue that we in the whole course of our short life in this world are as it were swimming in a boysterous and bottomlesse sea where waue vpon waue vncessantly couereth vs and is readie to swallow vs vp where we are tossed too and fro not finding any place to rest our foote or frée our head from water and albeit at length with much ado we do from stormie seas arriue on shore yet there we find as many thistles and thornes calamities and miseries about vs which do pricke and plague vs on euery side vntill our miserable flesh at the last returne whence it began to the dust and wormes meate This it is that the Prophet Esay acknowledgeth when he saith What is man All flesh is grasse and all the glorie thereof is as the flower of the field Behold the grasse withereth and the flower falleth away for the breath of the Lord bloweth on them And Dauid sayeth What is man that thou art so mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him Man is as it were nothing his dayes passe away like a shadow With many such like sayings in diuers places of his Psalmes And in very truth if we rightly waigh our estate what is our life so long as we remaine on earth more then a continuall anguish and paine labour feare sorowe and alas altogether troublesome Wretchednesse of new-borne babes Behold our wretchednesse euen from the houre of our birth we are brought foorth not onely in perill and danger of our selues but hazarding also our mothers life But granting that happily we are borne yet are we not able in any wise or any way to helpe or aide our selues but are as it were thrust headlong into an euerlasting and terrible prison for we are no sooner come to the world but presently we are fettered and bound both hand and foote then must we eate and drinke what others commaund we must sléepe and awake when others will there lye we wrapped in our owne filth then do we abide paine in the belly gnawing of the wormes ach of the gums and téeth neither can we which is the greatest miserie of all complaine and shew our paine and griefe but lye wéeping and wailing euermore Beside all this how long créepe we vpon all foure not hauing vse of leg or hand how long liue we before we chat or prate any whit at all Thus without hand without foote without tong yea without any ioynt that doth his dutie aright liue we though not séeming to liue some yeares together and thus we spend infancie in miserie Afterward comming peraduenture a little further what followeth more than stripes and blowes braulings and chidings of the parents schoolemasters and ouerséeers till at the last if so it please God to preserue vs we with no smal sorrow care and trouble of our parents leaue childhood and enter into youth But now alas with much trauell and paine being come to youths estate Of youth we are in ten thousands of perilles both of bodie and soule for now we grow wanton and lasciuious stubborne and obstinate towards our parents vicious and vngodly in the sight of God as by experience daily we find and see and néede not any further proofe What sorrowes and cares after all these bring mans yeares with them great labour and paines taking do they againe require to maintaine himselfe his wife
this purpose Of the scales of the head of the beard and eyebrowes §. 7. THe Latinists do call the scales of the head Furfures which is bran well knowne of all people and are very common in al mens heads They grow there through a hot complexion and when they abound much aboue custome then were they wont to be messengers of leprosie They that haue them so excessiue do get them through a licentious life and surfetting in eating and drinking through incontinencie strong wine much vse of garlick onions and mustard whereby the blood is burnt to ashes For this must one begin with purging like as in all drie itches shall be expressed But if the person haue much bloud then is he to be let bloud if not then are to be vsed neesing powders gargarismes and boxing cups are to be set on the shoulders and necke and afterwards these things Seeth Mallowes or Venus haire in water wash therewith the head and face and alwayes rub well the head or boile fennell séed Licorice Fleawort Lupins Hollihocke rootes take out the muscilage as shall be taught hereafter and temper them with the iuice of Melons Item take Nuttrée wood or Nut shels burnt to ashes put them in the ly and wash you therwith Item take Charuill Southernwood make a lie thereof with a little vineger Item burne Hay flowers to ashes and poure ly vpon it Item take Elecampane rootes and infuse them a good while in ly Or take Storkes bill let it séeth in water and foment well the scales therewith that they be well frothed and afterwards lay the herbes on the top of it and they will weare away Will you yet haue stronger things then take the gall of a Bull Coloquint Sal Alcali Boras of each one drag Gals pils of Pomegranates and their blossomes of each one scrup and temper them together Item take narrow Plantaine Henbane séeds and salt of each a little séeth them in water and rub the scales therewith the same also doth Aqua vitae with Brimstone amongst it Heretofore in the second chapter § 1. you haue a bag for ly which beginneth Take Spica c. you may vse the same also for the scales and put therto two ounces of Orenge péels whereof some of the white is cut away For to draw the muscilage out of the séedes and rootes the Apothecaries do call the slime drawne out of all séeds and rootes Muscilagines it is much vsed in this matter and is thus prepared Take rootes and séeds chop and stampe each according to the qualitie How to make the slime or muscilage of seeds root seeth them vntil the liquor be very slimy muscilaginous this being done poure it al together into a long bag that is piked beneath and bind it hard to a staffe afterwards take two little boordes and fasten the said bag betwéene them wring it hard from aboue downewards then runneth the slime or muscilage out of it receiue it in a cleane porrenger and after this fashion wring or presse out all the slime that will come forth For to driue away Lice and Vermine §. 8. Lice THis lothsome and especially to children troublesome worme hath his most abode in the foresaid haire of the head and they do grow through moisture of the flesh or to speake properly of a grosse and moist vapor that fumeth out at the pores and through naturall warmth becometh outwardly a Louse and receiueth also a vital spirit and is altered into a litle worme with sixe feete increasing and seeking their meate in the place of their generation therefore are children and women more plagued then men that are drie by nature and be much lesse hurtfull to yong children then to full growne persons yet they haue this commodity thereby that they that haue most lice be wholly fréed from the headach Their cause The cause whence they are ingendred may be ouermuch eating and small digesture or eating of meates that be very moist as diuers fruites and especially figs and chestnuts also ouermuch carnall copulation vncleane clothes and such as are worne ouerlong Their remedies Now that one may be rid of this vermin annoint the head with the broth of Salt fish with the iuice of Alehoofe the iuice of Fumitory mixt with Vineger take Gentian and séeth it in ly and wash the head therewith Take Bay berries or if you haue them not the oile of Bay Vineger powned Bay berries burnt Harts horne seeth them together in water or ly and wash the head therewith Salues Take halfe a pound of Barrowes grease mixe and temper amongst it one ounce of Quicksiluer and one ounce of the oile of Bay Licebane and white Hellebore of each halfe an ounce Salgem one dragme and a litle vineger temper them all together and therewith annoint the head and put a kercher on the head and in the morning wash the head with lie Another Take Barrowes grease halfe a pound beaten Liuer foure ounces Wolues bane and white Hellebore rootes of each halfe an ounce oile of Bay one ounce temper amongst it one ounce and a half of quicksiluer so wel that one cannot sée it salt one drag vse a litle thereof for it is strong Item take vnprepared Coriander séeth it in water wash therewith the head and all places where there are any lice and wash the clothes in like maner it driueth away lice and fleas you may also try the same with Coriander leaues Crab-lice Against Crab-lice you are to vse all the former things They grow of a stinking matter that nature expelleth through the hairy skin as in the eybrowes beard priuities they are most plagued with them that eate many kinds of meates vse small exercises and much bathing For to consume this vncleane matter he is to be purged with Pillulae Cochiae and to vse oftentimes gargarismes with the sirupe of vineger and a litle mustard séed and to wash the place with Allume water and salt water or that wherein Stauesacre is decocted Iem take Stauesacre and Allume of each one drag beate them together temper it with hony and annoint therewith Others do take Salarmoniac Aloe and Borras amongst it and in stéed of hony vineger of Squils also the white of a rosted egge is commended for it wrapt vp in a cloth and held as hot vpon the place as may be suffered This being done thrée or foure times they will fall away Lice in childrens feete Somtime yong children haue also lice growing in their féet for them take new laid hen egs let them be sodden hard cut the white in péeces in the breadth beate then the yolks and with fine linnen rags lay it on the feet and then the white vpon it and so being well bound certaine houres the lice will créepe to the white of the egge The Lowsie euill Phthiriasis a miserable sicknesse §. 9. EVen as we haue written of the Lice so we wil adioyne thereto the Lowsie euil which
the Grecians do cal Phthiriasis This is a wonderful and terrible sicknes that a man should be eaten vp with such baggage worms and so bereft of his life It hapneth that these worms do bréed of moisture of a mans flesh and begin commonly in the eybrowes and in some scabs or among some scurfe therein when they do breake of themselues or are opened Then do lice créepe out and so by little and little out of the whole body with such danger that very skilfull Phisitions haue inough to do therewith and yet neuerthelesse are these medicines following ordained for the same Take the iuice of Fumitory Borage Germander of each two ounces Mirobalam Chebuli Indi Citrini of each foure scrup blacke pepared Hellebore one quarter of an ounce prepared Agarick half an ounce Aloe three quarters of an ounce Epithymum Sene leaues rootes of Polipody of each one ounce powne all that is to be powned and temper them with the iuice if it be too soft let it dry and forme a lumpe or masse thereof take one drag and make siâ—e pils of it of the which you are to take twice or thrice euery weeke two at one time an houre before supper Prepare this ly ensuing Take Aristology Swines bread of each half an ounce of Gentian Rhapontica of each three drag Centory one quarter of an ounce seeth these things in ly and wash therewith Item take Ireos halfe a ounce Squils one ounce Centory halfe an ounce Mirtle seed one ounce Cloues three quarters of an ounce bitter Almonds foure ounces Vineger as much as is néedfull let them seeth together stopt well in a glasse in water by a soft fire about the space of foure houres afterwards wring it out wel with this oile annoint the pushes or scabs whence the lice do issue and bréed A salue Take Iuniper berries powned well one ounce of sallet oile thrée ounces of white wine one ounce and a halfe seeth them together til the wine be consumed afterwards wring it out then take two ounces of Barrowes greace Elecampane rootes rosted vnder the ashes one ounce and a halfe Litharge of gold one ounce prepared Quicksiluer one ounce and a half temper them and annoint the scabs therewith but beware of the eyelids that you do not annoint them therewith In this lousie euill is commaunded to mortifie the Quicksiluer as hereafter followeth How to prepare mortifie Quicksiluer take wild Ferne and the roots thrée M. Limons and Oranges cut in péeces of each three drag seeth them in water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cleane cloth and temper the quicksiluer wel amongst it There are other meanes more to kil the quicksiluer like as hath bene shewed in the other salues for Lice Of the bad sore Scurfe or Scall of the head and such like §. 10. AS through the vnnaturall moisture of the head Lice do grow so doth there come thereof bad sores or scals of the head as is séene in children which are full of moisture And although these scabs are for the most part alwayes an expulsion of nature whereby children are cléered from other accidents and noisome diseases for which cause they ought rather to be prouoked then healed neuerthelesse heed must be taken that this breaking out come not to grow old and to be changed into the bad sore or scall the which is not to be holpen in people of yeeres nor yet in yong children therefore will we here write somewhat thereof Of a Scald head THis is a detestable disease to wit the sorenesse or scals of the head with scurfe spoile and falling off of the haire with much itch stench and lothsome mishape or ilfauorednesse the one sort are drie the other are moist neuerthelesse all are to be cured after one maner At the first doth this bad sore appeare small and little but if they be not quickly looked vnto then runneth it forthwith from the one side of the head to the other vntil the whole head be ful the causes are drie burnt humors or moisture and putrified blood If it come only of Phlegma then yéeldeth it moisture whereof we wil make further mention If it be dry and old then do all the learned conclude vpon it that it is incurable and although it should heale in continuance of time and through much aduise and with trouble neuertheles must not one cease therefore And to this end are these things following acknowledged to be good for the same First it is needfull to begin the cure with a good order of diet wherein neuerthelesse there is no certain order to be made because that this disease is incident to yong children albeit somtimes also to people in yéeres wherein great difference is to be made But generally to eschue all things which maketh heauy melancholike and flegmatike bloud whereof are many instructions giuen in many places of this booke First of all a full growne man must alway apply himselfe as hereafter followeth Aboue all he must beware of strong and sharpe wines and as is said from all melancholike meate as cheese coleworts salt flesh and such like and must rather vse them that be light of digestion and make good blood as fowles that haunt high grounds rere egs Borage sweet fish of fresh waters He must also oftentimes purge according as the person is and as the sores be great and noisome If a mans age wil permit it the the patient be abounding in blood which may be perceiued by the greatnesse of the veines it is aduised to open the head veines in both armes likewise the veines in the forehead and behind the eares Neuerthelesse some do suppose that the two last mentioned veines are not often to be opened To the end one might recouer haire for which this blood is requisite vpon the places where it is red and raised and sheweth bloody are horse-leaches and boxing cups to be set and plaisters to be applied that do raise blisters whereof shall be more spoken in time If there be any disease where haire groweth there must it be shorne off twice a wéeke and alway before there be laid any salue vpon it the haire must be cleane shorne away and be also wel rubbed with course linnen and afterwards annoint it ouer with the iuice of onions or of radishes These are now the beginnings of the cure First of all must the grosse burned moisture be attenuated and prepared for expulsion the which is to be effected with Oxymel of Squils called Compositum and is described in the second Chapter § 6. for which also doth serue the sirupe of Fumitory The melancholike and flegmatike humors are to be purged with the pils Cochiae and if one haue strong folks in hand he may vse thereunto Epithymum Coloquint and prepared Hellebore yet a man is alwayes to be aduised herein by a learned Phisition And for example in a dry scall Take prepared black Hellebore one drag Sene leaues Epithymum of each one
of Eybright of Celendine of each halfe an ounce Serapinum one drag dissolue this gum and temper it all together Item take gréene Agrimonie stampe and temper it with the white of an egge make towe wet therein and lay it vpon the eyes To set boxing cups on both shoulders is also very commodious for this infirmitie womans milke letting of bloud Roses and Fennell with Tutia sodden Fenegréeke and egges sodden warme and layd vpon the eyes is also much commended Hote Blisters and pricking in the Eyes THese are caused thorow moysture which setteth it selfe in the white of the apple of the eye and there rankleth The blisters are sometimes great and sometimes small white red darke and also blacke with paine and pricking according as the matter is The déeper the greater they be and the more hurtfull and daungerous to be cured because of the noblenesse and tendernesse of this member But this in the beginning is alwaies good for it Take Licium Saffron of each halfe a drag Acatia or the iuice of Sloes one scrup mixe this with Rosewater and drop a little in the eyes he must also be let bloud and purged But this foresaid water for the eyes must be dropped into them with the white of an egge and whilest the disease is in Augmento or the increase then take Fenegréeke Linséed of each one quarter of an ounce Melilot one quarter of an ounce séeth it in faire water and wash the eyes oftentimes therewith let a drop thereof drop otherwhiles into the eyes that ripeneth draweth out the corruption and swageth the paine When as the blister is broken out then heale it like other sores of the eyes Item take the fat of the fish Tymalus and annoynt it on the apple of the eye it is very strong therefore it is better for horses then for men But this following is more surer take the crumme of white bread make it wet in water but it is stronger in womans milk and lay it on where it is drie make it wet againe or take a fresh This confection following is very good for all heate of the eyes swelling and pricking take Eyebright Fennell Cinnamom of each thrée drag long Pepper Mints Mace Marioram Verueine Calmus Rosemarie of each one drag and a halfe Sugar pennets thrée ounces white Sugar fiue ounces with the Sugar séeth these iuices following of Roses of Verueine of each two drag the iuice of Fennell that is well clarified fiue ounces the iuice of Celendine of Rue of each one ounce and a halfe let them séeth so thicke as a sirupe afterwards temper amongst it the rest well beaten Item take young Endiue stampe and temper it with the oile of Violets or rather the oile of Roses annoint therewith the hote corners of the eyes and the eyelids the same taketh away the paine and swageth the heate If that will not helpe take the meale of Lintels Sumacke séede Roses Pomegranate kernels powned together and tempered with vine cuicte vse this as the rest Item if this helpe not then must the head veine in the forehead be opened or in the corners of the eyes which you will which doth void away the sharpe matter that setleth in the eyelids In like manner purge alwaies with such medicines which expell the Cholera and salt matter It is also good to bath other whiles and to sweate moderately whereby the sharpe daefluxion is delayed or in stead of sweating may you foment the eyes with a spunge made wet in luke-warme water Lastly it is very good to wash the eyes with water of Fennell of Celendine of Verueine and of Eyebright mingled together one amongst another Itch and Scabs of the Eyes §. 6. THese biting drie scabs of the eyes do otherwhiles manifest themselues on the lids of the eyes so that one cannot forbeare but to rub them the which doth the eyes and face great hurt making the same more hotter and redder This defluxion is a salt matter which is sharpe and pricking Against this he must first reframe from rubbing of the eyes eate and drinke soberly purge choler open the head veine and also lay thereon outwardly at the first fresh water or Rosewater two or three daies afterwards he must foment and wash the eyes with the decoction of Mallowes Violet leaues Celendine and Verueine or with Rosewater also alone If then of this or any other occasions there come any swelling to it then looke to that which is ordained for red and hot eyes Watering or running Eyes §. 7. IT is manifest that the mattering of the eyes doth procéede of many occasions as of mirth sorrow weaknesse of the retentiue power and superfluous moisture of the braines that falleth vpon the eyes like as of thrusts stripes sharpe winds smoke cough sharpe sauors of Onions Saffron c. all the which do perish the eyes so that the eyes do stand as if the eyelids were newly pluckt off or that a Cataract had bin couched in them or as if they had suffered any other disease the which also happeneth if any body drink too much wine wherefore that many may afterwards bewaile the miseries of drunkennes what concerneth the outward causes those may be learned of the patient himselfe But if this running of the eyes be caused through any disease of the braines and not through heate then doth the patient alwaies feele some heauie puffing vp of the veines in the forehead and in the temples of the head and this defluxe is for the most part alwaies augmented by the neesing This running or watering is very strong falling as well into the eyes as into the nose with a sharpnesse in the throate But if this defluxion be through heate then is the humor so hote that through the heate it bites open the eyelids which cause the haire to fall out of the eyelids yea that the heate may be perceiued through féeling with the hands But if it come through cold then are all things contrarie to all these that we haue now spoken of Now the remedies of these running eyes be these They that be caused of outward causes may be easily remedied that is by taking away of the cause of this defluxion but as much as doth concerne the inward causes where heate is the cause it is specially aduised that the bodie be purged sometimes with Pils Cochiae Aurea with Succo Rosarum or with Pils of the fiue kinds of Mirobalans And it is not enough that this and the letting of bloud be once performed but oftentimes to wit in the beginning in the augmenting and in the standing still of the disease that thereby the sicknesse may be throughly holpen The order of Diet. FOr this must all drying things be vsed and all moist attenuating meates and drinkes eschewed like as Lentils Colewoorts Lettice Purslaine salt fish and flesh Milke Chéese Onions Scallions Garlicke and all that fumeth into the head some forbid to eate in the euening When it is caused through heate he must smell to Roses
strewed vpon his meate or take halfe an ounce of Eyebright one quarter of an ounce of Mace and alwaies take one scrup thereof before meate for this hath bene found to haue oftentimes holpen them that had their sight blemished Rue séede is also very good and for them that haue this passion in the eyes are the herbs rootes and séedes of Pyonie good howsoeuer they be prepared for the taking Also Treacle and Mithridate haue a speciall propertie to put away the clouds and all that swarme before the eyes Auenzoar doth write that all they which be burthened with the forementioned Cataracts or dimnesse that if they looke earnestly into the eye of an Asse thereby the defluxion should be stayed but if so be that this be true it is a wonderfull worke of nature This powder following may also be vsed for an approued thing for many haue bene holpen thereby Take Eyebright with the flowers beaten small Mace of each an ounce and a halfe siluer mountaine thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar foure ounces and a halfe make a powder thereof It is also very good that one hold his face oftentimes ouer the vapor of the decoction of Celendine Fennell and Eyebright but such like moe shall follow hereafter What these patients must refraine EVery such patient must beware of those things that make great disturbance in the head as anger calling crying aloud raging sorrow stench and from much watching because they much weaken the naturall heate But he must oftentimes let bloud and vse boxing cups But as concerning his meate there are hurtfull for him all still standing waters seafish and all fish which are taken in moorish waters to be eaten rather sodden then broyled if one should often eate of them Crabs Eeles Tenches is he vtterly to forbeare also milke and all that is drest with milke and he must not vse much vineger but only outwardly All herbes of cold and moist natures as Endiue Béetes Spinage Purslain Lettice Cucumbers Gourds and chiefly Colewoorts which darken the sight are to be eschewed and left Of all rootes are chiefly forbidden Garlicke Onions Radishes In like manner also all pottages except red pease which be called Cichelings Rice Wheate and Barley all fruites which be swéete and cold as Apples Cherries Pingles whether they be confected or not are to be refrained And he must chiefly beware of all that which prouoketh néesing and the cough There is nothing better for his drinke then cleare wine of a good tast and that is meetly strong but a little at once But they that drinke no wine or haue no wine may vse from October vnto March this following Take Verueine Celendine Rue Eyebright of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them in twelue quarts of water vntill the third part be consumed put 14. pound of honie vnto it seeth it againe vntill about the third part be sodden away alway skumming it then straine it thorow a cloth and kéepe it stopt close in a pot Now if the sicke person desire it then may wine that is méete for the eyes the fift or sixt part be tempered amongst it By this drinke hath bene perceiued much amendment and that in auncient folks who had a darke sight haue bene holpen therewith Also Hydromel which is hony water or mead is much commended for this without any addition Euery one may diminish or increase the quantitie of the hony euen as it pleaseth him best For as much as concerneth purging which is excéeding néedfull he must know to direct him according to the time of the yeare otherwise in winter then in sommer otherwise in the spring of the yeare then in haruest or fall of the leafe which were too long to rehearse at this present therfore we will recommend that to the Phisitions But there are to be commonly vsed Pilulae Cochiae de Sarcocolla Sine quibus De hiera Composita Lucis of the confections Hiera Picra Benedicta laxatiua Hiera longodion The Clisters are to be decocted with the common hearbes and tempered with one ounce of Hiera Further it is then commanded to take in winter a péece of confected Ginger in like manner also after dinner and supper to vse one of the tabulats following Take Spec. de Xylo Aloe thrée drag Diacinamomi one drag white Sugar foure ounces séeth them with Fennell water and cast Tabulates thereof of a méetly bignesse And if he begin to perceiue any clearenesse he must in the beginning of March drinke of this decoction following foure ounces alwaies foure houres before meate in the morning first take Ginger white Pepper Calmus of each one drag floures of Eyebright Balsam wood of each a quarter of an ounce thrée cleansed Hermodactils stampe them all together and séeth them in thrée pints of water vntil two parts be consumed Secondly take the iuice of Fennell common ley which is not sharpe of each two ounces Tutia prepared with the vrine of a manchild one drag and a halfe set this the space of 20. dayes in the Sun and vse it as shall be declared hereafter Thirdly take iuice of Roses one drag common ley Eyebright water of each one ounce set it as is said in the Sunne and make the eyes therewith moist euery morning and euening two houres before meate vse also the iuice of Roses alone annoint therewith the forehead and the temples of the head Before supper he is to take all the spring time a quarter of an ounce of Diacorum Fourthly take Gall Masticke sealed earth the iuice of Sloes of each one dragm Sandaraca one ounce the iuice of Roses as much as is néedefull to stéepe the same in bray it all together in a mortar vntill it be méetly thicke annoynt therewith alwaies euery third day when you go to bed the forehead and the temples of the head Fiftly take Mace Eybright of each one drag and a halfe Lignum Aloe one quarter of an ounce Fennell Comin Ameos of each halfe a drag Amber two scrup Séeth this all together in a pint of Fennell water vnto the halfe take alwaies foure ounces at once tempered with Sugar drinke thereof foure times a wéeke thrée houres before meate In the sommer you are to vse this following euery morning at the least euery second day then must you chew but not swallow a péece of Masticke and Cucubes Item take Fennell Celendine Rue the iuice of Roses of each thrée ounces Sugarcandie white Sugar of each sixe ounces Sugar pennets foure ounces of Fennell séede Licorice Violets Roses Eyebright of each one ounce Pistaces thrée drag that haue bene stéeped fiue dayes in Eyebright water and be dryed againe powne them all to powder The Sugar is to be sodden vnto a Sirupe for to make a confection thereof and take thereof euery morning about half an ounce Secondly take the iuice of Verueine two ounces the iuice of Roses of Fennell water wherein Licorice hath béene sodden of each two ounces the gall of a Pickrell one drag temper it
as also to vse white prepared Mustard séede therewith For this is also very good the bloud of Turtle doues drunken This sicknesse commonly appeareth with a new and full Moone against which you are to prepare these things following Take good Treacle thrée quarters of an ounce Beuercod one quarter of an ounce and temper it with Lauander water and take it in the morning fasting But if so be there appeare any beginning of this sicknesse then do many aduise and that rightly that then the thumbe and great toe are to be hard rubbed chafed and stretched out and likewise to rub with warme clothes the necke and the backe bone downwards that the bloud may be drawne from the head and from the heart Also there must be a little Treacle thrust behind in his throate Beuercod holden in the mouth and vnder the tongue is also very good Some do also giue Beuercod and Pepper to drinke of each one drag For this is also much commended Asa foetida whether it be taken inwardly vsed on the outside or in gargarismes and if you would take the same then is one drag and a half enough with Pepper and Rue of each halfe a drag tempered with wine This is good for all diseases of the sinewes The distilled water of blacke Cherries is also much praised for this sicknesse at the first and especially if one put thereto as much Lauander water and so take thereof thrée or foure ounces at one time The common order of this sicknesse is that all remedies for this disease are applyed to the hinder part of the head and in the beginning before the fourth and seuenth or also before the fourtéenth day to vse no strong medicines but onely preparatiues And if so be that the sicke person will yéeld vnto it then it were not amisse that he drunke no other thing the first foure or fiue daies and did eate almost nought else but only hony water yea also if it be possible to suffer hunger and thirst with it The fourth day he is to haue giuen him one drag or a drag and a halfe of Treacle or Mithridate with waters méete for this disease It is also found by experience that all they that be burthened with this disease shall get great ease if they accustome to drinke euery morning thrée ounces of Rosemarie or Lauander water with three drag of the powder of Pieretrum tempered amongst it Item take the water of the blossomes of the Tillet trée of May Lillies and of blacke Cherries of each one ounce giue it him so to drinke In like manner also stilled womans milke is highly commended for it and all kinds of Aquae Compos Take â—â—ced Licorice and Annis seedes of each one ounce Elecampane halfe an ounce Pyonie rootes one drag Nutmegs one ounce Spirit of wine sixtéene ounces Hony eight ounces temper these all together and conserue them well In winter put thereto one quarter of an ounce of long Pepper vse thereof euery morning a spoonefull or twaine This is maruellous much commended for a speciall remedie Another TAke Lauander water sixe ounces water of the May Lillies thrée ounces Elixer vitae and the water of wild Poppey of each two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce and a halfe temper it in a glasse and then set it in the Sun the space of eight dayes whereof in time of néede take a spoonefull and annoint therewith the temples of the head M. Tristrams water is also very fit for this purpose Of Purging FOrasmuch as purging is very néedfull in this sicknesse therefore for example will we describe here a purgation But it is aboue all aduised that the sick body drink euery morning foure or fiue daies together fiue ounces of Rosemary water and fast foure houres vpon it Afterwards he is to take halfe an ounce of Hiera logodion tempered in two ounces of Agrimonie water in the morning and to fast fiue houres after it or to vse these pils following take Agaricus a scrup Asa foetida half a scrup Ginger twelue graines Diagridion one graine make pils thereof with the iuice of Hyssope When the patient is purged then he is to vse this potion following for the space of eight daies together Take the water of Agrimonie and of Sothernwood of each two ounces put some Sugar amongst it Other do rather aduise this following Take Calmus halfe an ounce Cowslips thrée M. Saint Iohns woort field and garden Sage Betonie Balme Rue Bay leaues of each one M. Siluer mountaine Balsame wood Balsame fruite and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice Corants Lauander flowers Amaranthus of each one ounce clarified Honie sixe ounces rayn water which is clarified with the white of an egge twelue ounces let all these séeth together vnto a sirupe Another TAke Calmus sixe ounces Sage thrée M. Stechas thrée ounces clarified hony sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces séeth them together in eightéene ounces of raine water vnto a sirupe wherof you may take one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once tempered with Sage water Also you may vse the sirupe of Stechas for all they be very commodious for this disease Afterwards take the former purgation againe or the pils of Euphorbium de Serapino de Opopanaco And if the patient by drinking of these potions do remaine bound in bodie then is he euery euening before supper to swallow one of these pils following Take of the pils of Alephanginae one drag Trocisci Alhandali Agaricus of each halfe a scrup Indie salt fiue graines whereof make sixtéene pils Clisters TAke Sage Rue Stechas Centorie Mallowes Mercurie and Bran of each halfe a handfull let them séeth all together and take twelue ounces of this decoction temper amongst it Hiera logodion halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces minister it warme But for them that haue newly gotten this dead Palsey there is to be sodden in these Clisters halfe an ounce of rootes of Brionie or of Pyonie for both these are good for the disease Powder for sauce to meate THis powder is he to strew vpon the meate in stead of spice Take pickt Cinnamom one ounce an a halfe prepared Coriander Cloues Galingall Pepper Cucubes Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Calmus two ounces Coutchenell halfe an ounce Sugar sixe ounces this is to be tempered together Another TAke Pepper two drag and a halfe Cloues Cardamome long Pepper Seduarie of each one dragm Indy Spica Mace Saffron of each one scrup Sugar as much as you please temper them well together Item about the third day is the patient before the rising of the Sun to take one dragm of Treacle tempered with the water of wild Sage This medicine is most highly commended of diuerse Phisitions Of Bathing IN this sicknesse is also bathing much commended whereof there be two kindes naturally as sea water or that is sulferish by nature Others which be prepared with herbes and such like For the herbe bath Take
wind cold moist countries and the smell of these fiue things following as Goates hornes which is so forcible that they that suppose to be cleane rid of this sicknesse receiuing the sewet therof must immediatly fall to the ground Item Galbanum Myrrha Benzuin and aboue all the herbe Smallage like as it is found that it hath caused one to fall only through looking vpon it therfore such persons must and are to be kept from them Youth is also more subiect to this disease than age but it is easier to be cured in young persons than in old like as shall be more at large taught hereafter The signes of one that hath the falling sicknesse are these if he fall suddenly to the earth bendeth him beateth or striketh from him loseth his vnderstanding and tometh at the mouth if thereby his vrine nature or excrements passe away then it is a signe that the sicknesse is the stronger Order of Diet. IT importeth as well young as old people in this sicknesse like as in all other sicknesses but for this sicknesse must regard be had especially of the age and youth nature custome and abilitie of the patient In common falling sicknesses is first to be eschewed all cold moist and watrie places in like sort also all meates cold of nature all that bringeth with it slime and obstructions as Dow Milke Fish Gourds Lettice Béetes Spinage Purslaine Cucumbers and fat flesh Item all strong things as Onions Garlicke Scallions Radishes Coleworts Mustard séede all that is much salted and all Spices Item fresh water all strong wine be it red or white and chiefly sweete they are very hurtfull like as is also to eate too much and to swallow downe meate vnchewed and to eate againe before the former be digested long sléepe and principally to sléepe by day he is vtterly to eschew But on the contrarie all his meates are to be drying as Mutton Partridges Pheasants all wood Fowles with some Pepper Zeduarie and Galingall prepared and alwaies rather rosted then sodden his drinke must be thin cleare small red wine but if the wine be somwhat strong then it is to be tempered with the water of Buglosse or the water wherein Betonie rootes are decocted Great motion is not fit for him but rather much rest The remedies which are to be vsed for this falling sicknesse are most of them here before where we haue discoursed of the hag or mare described which according to the importance of the cause must be vsed for old folkes which be burthened and troubled with this disease And because like as before is discouered the young children by reason of their moisture whereof they be full are more subiect to this sicknesse therefore we will first as much as shall concerne that describe these meanes and remedies following Of the Falling sicknesse in children VVIth sucking children nothing is safer to be taken than that the mother or nurse doe obserue a good order of diet eate meate that is light of digestion and that moderately warmeth that she refraine man and all that maketh grosse bloud And if she be conceiued then is the child to sucke no more at any hand before meate she is to moue and stir well and to drinke watred wine or small Béere she is to refraine and leaue all fruits and especially those that be cold and moist In fine she is not to gouerne her selfe otherwise than if she were her selfe infected with the falling sicknesse When as the child doth waxe stronger and beginneth to féede on other meate then it is to be gouerned according to the importance of his age and of his sicknes like as by this prescription and other Chapters written to this end may be seene These are alwaies the remedies which by the auncient Phisitions be commended for young childrens falling sicknesse and are found profitable Take water of Rue May Lillies of each a like quantitie giue a spoonefull thereof or more according to the bignesse of the child make péeces of Tiles hote lay chopt Rue theron sprinkled with vineger hold him that before his nose the same is also good for ancient people Temper Conserue of Violets in Endiue water or Pyony water this is very good if there be any heate mixt amongst it Make thicke Almond milke temper therein as much Sugar that it be as thicke as pappe wipe thereof in the childs mouth it nourisheth well bringeth sléepe with it and defendeth the stomacke from all foule stinking humors the water of Chickwéeke is also very requisite for this Others do commend much for this the water of Cowdung and if it cannot be had then is the Cowdung to be broken into faire water and strained through a cloth and to giue thereof halfe an ounce at least Item take the water of blacke Cherries water of Tillet blossomes of each a like quantitie giue it in the time of sicknesse or when it is thought to be at hand The fish that is called Mustella Fluutatilis or Trinca called Trisca in Latine hath two small bones lying vpon the braines which are to be dried and powdred and giuen to the child These are maruellous good but these small bones are to be taken out of an vnsodden fish for when they be sodden they haue lost their vertue It hapneth also that children when they be full of wormes do get the falling sicknes which is very dangerous against which you shall find hereafter in the third part where we shall discourse of the wormes sundrie good aduises Take young Magpies out of the nest distill water of them and giue to young children a spoonefull for the Falling sicknesse Another Take three young Magpies that cannot flie Vngula Alcis thrée drag Harts horne shauen one drag and a halfe distill them together and vse them as before it hath bene often prooued Item take Carduus Benedictus water two ounces Lauander water halfe an ounce when you perceiue that the falling sicknesse will assaile any bodie whether they be young or old then looke that you get a young hare which sucketh still take the maw out of it hang it in the aire that the milke may drie in it wherof giue to the sicke person one drag or lesse according to the importance powdred with fresh water for this are Pyony kernels good worne about the neck and also the powder thereof taken the roote sodden and dronken thereof and the powder strewed vpon the meate is also very good A good Powder TAke prepared Pearles one drag red Corall halfe a drag Miscleden one drag and a halfe prepared Amber two scrup Harts bones one drag Pyonie séede and the rootes of each halfe a drag white Sugar one ounce beaten gold sixe leaues of this powder is euery wéeke one drag to be giuen with Betonie water Sometime also halfe a dragme or a dragme tempered with a little broth A Powder TAke halfe a drag of the scull of an executed man prepared Pearles one drag Harts horne two scrup Tormentill Seduarie of each two
drie or of some cold qualitie of the Breast that the bloud which shold alter into Milke be dryed out Likewise both these infirmities may also be cause of some infection of the liuer yea and sometimes of the whole bodie that if their complexion be too drie that then the increasing of Milke is not to be effected but of pure bloud Item the want of Milke may also be caused through want of meate or by the vse of such meates as make much bloud as if they be cold and drie Much bléeding be it by what meanes soeuer it will and the bad digesture of the stomacke and Liuer sore labour or if the child sucke too little may be a cause of the want or scarcitie of Milke The signes of this infirmitie are euident and apparant as when the Breasts are wrong and the Milke doth not issue foorth Also if the child haue not enough to sucke Item whensoeuer that the mother which giueth sucke be fretting by nature be leane be not long since recouered of some long sicknes sweateth much and is without all exercise But if the infirmitie do procéede of bad meates and drinkes it is then good counsell that they do eate good wholesome meate that is light of digesture as Hens Partridges Capons young Mutton Egs brothes of good flesh and drinke good wine Some women are accustomed to increase their milke that they drinke a good draught of milke wherein Fennell séede hath bene stéeped But if the infirmitie be through too much bléeding by what means soeuer that the same come to passe then are you to preuent the same through méete and necessarie remedies as is sufficiently shewed in their proper places But if the women be of a hot nature as full of Cholera then are they to drinke Barley water and Almond milke and to eate Cocks Hens and Partriges drest with Lettice also to vse coole fruits and their séeds fish of running waters Burrage Spinage Goates milke Cow milke Kids flesh and Lambe sodden with veriuice they are also to refraine from wrath and sorrow and to be alwaies merrie But if these mothers that doe giue sucke be flegmaticke of nature and haue lacke of Milk then is their foresaid meate to be drest with Saffron Cucubes or Cinnamome and other spices also to eate it being sodden with Fennell rootes and seedes Pistacia and Pine apple kernels Whether the maladie do then procéed of heate or not it is alway néedefull that the stomacke be comforted for the which these things may serue as Annis and Fennell feedes confected but chiefly Caraway and Comin also confected To eate Fennell séede gréene helpeth also greatly for the augmentation of milke Likewise Caraway séede Annis and Fennell séede sodden in water are very commodious for this purpose also to eate gréene Marioram fasting in the morning is much commended for the same And I cannot here pretermit to rehearse diuerse other remedies moe that are prescribed of others for the increasing of milke like as hereafter may appeare Take tenne earth woormes wash them in Wine séeth them in flesh broth straine them and in the morning giue thereof a draught to drinke It is also holden for certaine that if these Wormes be dried and beaten to powder and if you giue to the patient halfe a dragme to drinke in flesh broth that thereby the milke will be much increased For this also you may take this Plaister following Take Parsley rootes and the hearbes Déeres sewet of each halfe an ounce red Storax thrée dragmes new oyle of swéete Almonds thrée ounces Barley meale one ounce and a halfe let the rootes séeth well and stampe them to pap and then mingle the rest amongst it and lay it warme vpon the Nipples for it increaseth the milke Item take beaten Annis séedes two dragmes and a halfe temper them with the broth of Colewoorts and giue it to the partie to drinke when she goeth to bed Item take Barley water séeth therein gréene Fennell and Dill make it swéet with Sugar and drinke thereof at your pleasure The like doth Linséede sodden in the broth of fresh meat and drunken Some beléeue that if a woman do drinke a dragme of fine powdered Christall with Hony or Barley water that therby the milke will maruellously increase Some impute the like operation to be in the prepared Saphire stone if the same be tempered with water and the breasts wetted therwith I account neither of them good but they that will may trie them for the cannot be hurtfull Against the superfluitie of Milke §. 5. IT commeth oftentimes to passe when women haue lien in that their Breasts doe happen to swell through the aboundance of milke and do bring mo inconueniences with them namely that sometimes the whole bodie thereby wasteth for the greater abundance there is of milke so much the more bloud is thereby consumed if it be not suckt out then doth it clod and cougeale hardneth and turneth at the last with great paine into an impostume The causes herof are superfluous bloud much eating and drinking and especially such kinds of meates as ingender bloud Therefore must the same be in the beginning preuented and those kinds of meates refrained and to eate and drinke but little And in case there be much superfluous bloud then in the mother veine to be opened that therby the bloud may be drawn downwards Otherwise there be two meanes to take away this superfluous bloud The first meane is through the vse of Rue and chiefly of wild Rue with their séeds Basil and Comin stampt together if one take of them euery day one quarter of an ounce the same drieth the milke The herbe Rapistrum is very forcible for the same the which may appeare in Swine for when they eate of this herbe then are they rid and quit of all their milke whereby the Pigges are constrained to sterue You may also lay these hot things on their Breasts But these following are more sure Take Rosin as much as you thinke good temper it with the Creame of milk spread it on a cloth and lay it lukewarme ouer the Breasts Item take eight ounces of Hony and two pints of water let them séeth well together and scum it well and then wet therein a thréefolded cloth and lay in on the breasts and when it is cold take another this driueth away the Milke Item take Chickwéede let it séeth in Goates milke or in water lay it ouer the Breasts Also the water of Knotgrasse or Venice sope water are both very good vsed as before Item take one drag of Saffron eight ounces of Malmsey wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Breasts as aforesaid Item take gréene garden Mints stampe them and mixe them with oyle of Roses and do as before And for this purpose is the oyle of Mints also very good Item take Beane meale mingled with vineger and sodden to a pap or grout tempered with oyle oyle of Roses to a plaister and lay it on the Breasts Take Beane
good Take Mugwoort Melilot and Cammomill of each one handfull and a halfe Melilot séedes heated in a panne foure M. the hearbes and flowers chopt small mixe them all together in a little bagge and lay them warme vpon the backe bone vse it often and that fasting Afterwards annoint the backe bone with this salue Take oyle of Spike oile of Lillies of each halfe an ounce oyle of Cammomill and Dill of each one ounce Saffron Lauanderspike Madder and Agrimonie of each one dragme Mastick and Squinant of each one scruple Wa◠as much as is requisite for to make a salue Item séeth Nep in your meate which draweth the noisome and grieuous matter out of the necke it driueth also away all paine in the shoulders and back bones maruellously if it be stewed in the said broth In like manner take Siluermountaine séede séeth it in water and drinke thereof twice or thrice a wéeke euery time thrée or foure ounces for it is very good against all wearinesse and paine in the backe and reines Annoint the backbone with Beares grease Also the oyle of a Foxe is effectuall against all paines of the backbone reines kidneys and Gowt the which is thus to be prepared Oile of a Fox Vncase or fley off the skinne of a young Foxe take out his bowels and cast him in fountaine water and sea water or salt water Put thereto thrée pounds of Sallad oile Salt thrée ounces When it is almost sod then put vnto it Dill and Thymus of each twelue ounces let it séeth together till the flesh fall from the bones and when all the water is sodden away then straine it The oyle of Brickes which is described in the first part is also passing good for this either by it selfe or when it is tempered with some other things Of the paine in the backbone that procéedeth from the kidneys of the grauell and other things moe shall be spoken elsewhere Of the crooked Backe §. 2. THere are thrée sortes of this The first doth come before the second behind and the third groweth on the left or right side Children are more subiect to this disease then aged folke by reason that their bones be féebler easier to be wrested wrung out of their naturall place This happeneth of inward and outward causes The outward be falles blowes stripes ill handling of young children racking and such like bad dealing with yong tender children The inward causes do come of the Crampe contraction of the sinewes abundant wind rheumes smellings such like that setle themselues in the backe bone and do thrust and wrench awrie the yong weake bones The signes of the Crampe that commeth through great inanition is manifested and apparant by the consumption and faintnesse of the whole body The signes of the windinesse are if the patient that hath the crooke Backe haue much griping and contractions in the Backe If there be any impostume approching then is there great paine in the backe or in some certaine place of the same with a strong Ague and vehement pulse But if there be but one of the Backe bones wrested out of his place then must it néedes follow that the Ribs which are fastned therein be also drawen ouerthwart whereby the body must be crooked and the shoulder blades raised the which maketh an vnhandsome breast and vncomely body as daily experience teacheth vs. Now to preuent this mischance betimes it is first counselled for all yong folks and children as followeth so that at all times according to the age as much as is possible euery one may know how to frame himselfe thereafter Take Comin Caraway Fennell and Annis séedes of each two handfuls Rue séedes thrée handfuls Bran sixe handfuls make it all togither very warme in a pan on the hot ashes put it then all togither into a dry bag lay it vpon the place where the paine is and when the place is wel warmed then annoint it with this salue following Take muscilage of Fenegreek and of Linséed of each one ounce oyle of white Camelina oyle of swéete Almonds oyle of blew Flower deluce of each one ounce and a halfe Plaister de Muscilaginibus which in the first Part the sixt Chapter and seuenth § is described foure ounces melt this with Waxe as much as is néedful Lastly adde vnto them two scruples of Saffron do this foure dayes togither Afterwards must the crooke Backe be bounden togither with bolsters and other things as néede shal require and renew the binding euery morning Or else without putting the child to paine do this sixe dayes one after another and this being done returne to the laying on of the bag and annointing with the foresayd salue which shall be also vsed foure dayes togither afterwards lay this plaister following vpon the Backe bone and shoulder that is wrenched Take of the foresaid plaister de Muscilaginibus two ounces Oxycrocei plaister one ounce and a halfe spread these vpon a cloth or leather and lay this plaister thereon bind it very carefully as aforesaid and let it lye so sixe daies without opening of it The Oxycrocei plaister is also good for this by it selfe and profitable which you may also find alwayes ready at the Apothecaries like as is here described after three manner of wayes The plaister of Oxycroceum is thus prepared Take Waxe Pitche Rosin Saffron Oxycroceum of each one ounce and a halfe Turpentine Galbanum Ammoniacum Myrrhe Frankinsence and Masticke of each half an ounce Vineger one ounce dissolue therein the Ammoniacum and Galbanum then séeth them so long vntill they become thicke and vntill that the vineger be sodden away then melt herewith the Waxe Pitche and Turpentine but the Masticke Frankinsence and Myrrhe shall you temper herewith first beaten small when this is mingled all togither then strew the Saffron therein and mingle them al togither very well Item take Ammoniacum Sagapenum Galbanum of each halfe an ounce Pitch foure ounces Rosine Waxe of each sixe ounces Masticke Frankinsence Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Turpentine thrée ounces and Saffron halfe an ounce and make it vp as aforesayd Oxycroceum Vigonis TAke eight ounces of Sallad oyle Hollihocke rootes the lesser Consolida rootes of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe Frankinsence of each one dragme Roses one dragme and a halfe you are to cut and séeth the herbes and rootes in red wine and water vntill halfe be consumed straine them hard out and in this decoction boyle the oyle put thereto also Buckes suet two ounces afterwards séeth it againe so long vntill all the moysture be sodden away then put thereto thrée ounces of Lytharge of gold Bolus sealed earth of each two ounces red Lead one ounce and a quarter Waxe one ounce and whilest it is hot ad vnto it two ounces of Turpentine Masticke one drag and lastly whilest it is soft put thereto one ounce a halfe of powned Saffron as is afore sayd This last is maruellously vsed of the Chirurgians They
leaues Linséede and Fenegréeke of each one handfull and a halfe séethe them in broth wherein hath béen sodden a Lambes head then take twelue ounces of this decoction oile of Violets and swéete Almonds of each one ounce the marrow of Calues bones Duckes grease Hens grease and swéete Butter of each thrée dragmes Tho. Sugar one ounce all this being made then set it warme In like maner may this salue be coÌ„tinually vsed Take oyle of swéete Almonds Ducks grease and swéete butter of each one ounce the iuice of Mercury fower ounces séethe these togither till the iuice be throughly sodden away with this oyntment annoynt from the Nauell downewards vnto the Hips in the euening when you go to bed This Clister may be vsed both in cold and hot causes of the panting of the Hart. Now as concerning the order of life especiall care must be â—aken that he be not ouercharged with eating and drinking In the beginning of this sickenes Barly paps are very commodious Also Hens or Pullets drest with Vineger or Veriuice In fine he ought not to order himselfe in this sicknes then according to the custome of other hot diseases It is very good to séethe or stéepe in his drinke Burrage or Buglosse with the flowers He must refraine from all clowdie cold and moyst ayre his bed and his chamber shall he hang and strewe with Willow leaues Roses water Lillies and Vine leaues and that principally when it is hot weather Also he must beware of all windy and flatulent meates as Milke Pottage Honie fruit and especially grosse slimy meates as those made of dough grosse fish vnleauened bread old Chéese Chestnuts and such like In like manner also from all sharpe and heady things as Onions Garlicke Radishes Léekes and such like All grosse wines are naught for him and water also decocted with Licorice Of the panting of the Hart through cold §. 5. WHen as there is no Ague with the panting of the hart then is it a signe that the same procéedeth of cold which is caused for the most part of a watery Phlegma whereby the breath is hindered yea sometimes is stuffed with such force in the breast that it séemeth that they will stifle This hath also a slow inconstant Pulse with an heauy breath and sluggishnes of the whole body and mind and with an ill fauoured colour of the face This is to be remedied as hereafter followeth Take water of Baulme water of blew Flower deluce and Agrimony of each one ounce and a halfe and a little Sugar and then drinke it fower or eight mornings togither very warme But if the patient cannot goe to stoole then is this Purgation following to be giuen him Take Electuarij Indi one ounce De Succo Rosarum halfe a dragme temper this with thrée ounces of good wine and giue it him in the morning betimes And if the body be bound at the time when the foresaid drinke is to be vsed then must the patient take alwaies one hower or twaine before supper one or two of these pils following Take Pillulae de Sarcocolla one dragme Alephanginae one quarter of an ounce make thereof fower and twenty pils with the iuice of Roses Also he must drinke this euery morning Take Treacle or Mithridate one drag or one and a halfe according as you thinke best and temper this with good wine Some do aduise that at the first yea forthwith you do giue with wine one dragme or a dragme and a halfe of these Tabulates following Take Masticke Indy Spike Lignum Aloes Cinnamome Cloues Cardamome and Citron pils of each one drag and a halfe Muske halfe a scruple make a powder thereof and giue it him as aforesaid But the principall things seruing to this panting of the hart we will briefly expresse to wit all that is warme of nature and smelleth swéete as Amber Muske Saffron Lignum Aloes red Styrax Cloues Citron pils Nuts Cinnamom Marierom gentle Basill Spike of Indie Baulme Burrage red and white Behen Doronicum Zeduary Cardamome Rosemary and Basill séede Of all these things are made confections powders other compositions as shall appeare hereafter Of compounds these are commonly made at the Apothecaries as Diambra Dianthon Diathamaron Laetificans de Gemmis calidis Aromaticum Rosatum de Xylo Aloes Diapliris and confected Citron pils Here followe certaine Electuaries for to vse inwardly Take Masticke Cinnamom both kinds of Basill Mints Marierom gentle and long Pepper of each a like much when you haue ten dragmes of this powder then mixe therewith prepared Pearles red Corall Amber burnt silke red and white Behen and Indy Spike of each halfe a dragme afterwards mingle it with Honie vnto an Electuary wherein Mirobalans Chebuli be put This is good not onely for the panting of the hart swouning and for faintnes of the hart but also for a cold and féeble stomacke for it strengtheneth the same excéedingly This must also be noted Nota. when any confection is to be made wherein there is no certaine quantitie of Honie then are you to take alwaies for one ounce of powder thrée ounces of Honie and then mingle them well togither Item take the flowers of Burrage Buglosse Rosemarie red and white Behen Saffron Doronicum Lignum Aloes Licorice and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Sugar thrice as much as the other make a powder thereof whereof the patient is to take a scruple at the least at meale tides Conserues of yellow Violets are very much vsed and also highly commended for this panting of the hart You haue also before in the first Part the twelfth Chapter a good stomachicall powder in the first § which serueth for this purpose Item there is in the 5. § a water of Lillies of Conuallies Also in the eight part many sundry waters of life hot of nature which are for this very commodious Confected Nutmegs do strengthen all inward members and consume all superfluous humors Conserue of Buglosse Burrage Marierom gentle Rosemarie Cowslips Cicorie mingled with other or each of it selfe do much strengthen the hart In like manner are good for this all Pomanders which are hot of nature and are to be sought for in the Register and those are speciall good wherein Muske and Amber are put Item steepe the space of certaine howres Baulme in Malmesey and besprinkle therewith a hot brickbat and then receiue the vapor into the nose There may also be laid outwardly cordiall waters vpon the left breast which are thus to be prepared Take Baulme water Buglosse water of each sixe ounces Vineger one ounce Cloues one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme Muske halfe a scruple lay it with a cloth vpon the left breast Some do vse the iuice of the herbes when they be setled in stéede of their waters which are also very forcible Item take Buglosse water and the water of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Rose water and
each one ounce birdlime thrée ounces Gips two ounces Rosin 18. ounces make thereof a plaister with the iuice of Celendine Item take Pitch one ounce Litharge of gold red and white waxe Iewes lime Ammoniacum and Galbanum of each one dragme and a halfe Birdlime one ounce Turpentine washt with vineger both kinds of Aristology Gals of each two ounces and two scruples of Cipers nuts Myrrhe Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Gips of each one ounce Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce Dragon blood and Momy of each halfe an ounce mingle them well together to a plaister Another Take the gum of Cherries dissolue it in Sallad oile put thereto Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much melt it and boile it to a plaister Yet another Take Gum Dragagant Masticke fine Bolus Dragon bloud Isinglas and common Glew of each one dragme Frankinsence one dragme and a halfe Iewes lime halfe an ounce Pitch and Momy of each one dragme and a halfe Tar one quarter of an ounce First melt the Pitch then adde the Glew and Tar and temper then the other things amongst it beaten small When it is cold then annoint your hands with oile of Roses and worke well this salue This following is taken for a secret Take Dragon bloud half a dragme Myrrhe Sarcocolla Opopanacum Brimstone Amber Mastick and Comfrey of each two dragmes and a half Mirtle séed yellow Mirobalans of each two dragmes the bark of Pineapples and Cipers nuts of each foure scruples foure or fiue garden Snailes out of their houses Dragagant dissolued in red vineger one dragme fish lime molten in vineger also as much as is needfull for to make the foresaid things to a plaister afterwards dry it by a small fire Sixe houres after drinke thrée ounces of this water following Take Comfrey Tormentil of each one quarter of an ounce Codwoort Sengréene Cinqfoile Mugwoort and herb Trinity of each two handfuls Garyofillata Verbascum and broad Plantaine of each two drag and a half Roses Horsetaile of each halfe a handful cut and powne it grosse and put thereto red seething wine and Aqua vitae of each sixe ounces or so much as wfl couer it well let it so stand fouretéene houres afterwards straine it through and wring it out make it swéet with sirupe of Mirtles But if so be that thrée ounces be too strong to drinke at once then is he to take but one or two and this potion may be tempered with somewhat else A plaister called De pelle Arietina Hereafter follow thrée kinds of plaisters De pelle Arietis which is commended aboue all other plaisters as a certaine remedy Take pitch two ounces Litharge of siluer Ammoniacum Galbanum Mastick of each one ounce white and red waxe Iewes lime Aloe and both Aristologies of each one ounce and a halfe Birdlime fine Bolus of each three ounces Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine which is washt wel in vineger prepared earth wormes Comfrey Sengréene of each two ounces and a halfe halfe a Rams skin made cleane from the haire and wool and cut smal the blood of a red bearded yong and healthful man sixe ounces prepare them al together as herafter followeth Take the cut rams skin let it séeth to tough slime then wring it out hard and temper amongst it common glew and fish lime or Isinglas of each one ounce and a halfe afterwards let it séeth well together You must dissolue the gum in vineger and you must powne all that is dry in like maner also the gréene roots herbes and earth wormes to pa◠you must worke the birdlime amongst the blood till that it dry and the plaister waxe hard then are you to preserue this plaister in a glasse stopt tight The second Take Pitch Waxe Iewes lime both the Aristologies Earth wormes prepared Turpentine and Aloe of each one quarter of an ounce Litharge of gold Ammoniacum Opopanacum Galbanum Bdellium Sagapenum Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each thrée drag Birdlime Bloudstones Dragon bloud Frankinsence Gips and Myrrhe of each thrée drag mans bloud thrée quarters of an ounce and the fourth part of a Rams skin séeth this to lime and straine it through and dissolue the Gum therein séeth it all together and mixe the rest amongst it The third Take Pitch Aloe Henbane Aristology Behen Saffron and Chickwéed with red flowers of each two ounces white Waxe and Iewes lime of each one ounce a half Litharge of gold Galbanum Ammoniacum Momy Opopanacum Mastick Cipers nuts Dragon blood of each one ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces and a halfe Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine of each two ounces and a half birdlime and mans blood of each twelue ounces temper these with the glue or muscilage of a shéepes skin and of sodden Hollihock rots Many haue bin cured only herewith You haue also before in the second part the first Chapter 1. § a plaister which beginneth thus Take Pitch hafe an ounce c. the which is also very good for this purpose But note before that you lay the plaister vpon the rupture rub it with water that is distilled out of a shéepes skin when the wooll is off Item some other things more to lay thereon Take the iuice of Sloes séeth it in water and lay it on the rupture and bath the same therwith it healeth without cutting For yong children in stéed of this plaister are pultises also to be made as herafter followeth Take meale of Lupins and burnt linnen of each a like much and make with wine a pap or pultis and lay it betwéene two fine clothes vpon the rupture A milder plaister for children Take Beanes as many as you please and steepe them in warme water péele them and let them dry againe afterwards stampe them to powder and take thereof two ounces small filed Oken wood one ounce Comfrey sodden treatably in wine and then stamped thrée ounces let all this séeth méetly thick and spread it on a cloth and lay it thrée times a day on the rupture and a nights but one time and let it be well fastened with a trusse do this foure or fiue wéekes space vntill the rupture be cured and the skin pretty strong Another Take Consolida Saracenica Gariophilata Plantain Fennel Sanicle broad Plantain and Pauls betony of each one handful chop all small and let the plaister séeth vntil it be thick then lay it on the rupture and tie it as behooueth It hath bin told before in the first Chapter how wonderful good this herbe Perfoliata is for all ruptures which oftentimes hath bin by experience found and approoued Here follow some salues Take womans milke 16. ounces Badgers grease Capons grease Harts suet and Comfrey of each two ounces the innermost rind of a Cherry trée cut small one ounce and a half let it séeth so long as a hard egge straine it hard through a cloth and therewith annoint the rupture foure wéekes long morning and
§. 7. HEreof we haue in the beginning of the 4. § made mention how that it is none other but an intumefaction of the veines through blood for in the cods are many veines that compasse them all about This tumor or rupture procéedeth of melancholick blood to which do help sorrow vexation of the mind many fantasies and grosse meates whereof the melancholik blood is ingendred like as also of grosse red wine salt flesh pottage of Beanes and Lentils and all that is drest with sharp vineger Such a patient is to rule himselfe no otherwise then is taught in the fleshy rupture but that he must not vse any of the corroding salue but in stéed thereof vse the plaisters De Muscilaginibus and especially those that be made with Opopanaco Serapino Bdellio and Ammoniaco For this is also good bathes which are Sulphurish Copperish and warme by nature And to speake the truth this species of rupture is not to be holpen but with great paines and continuance of time Of the terrible Rupture called Buris §. 8. THis rupture commeth also through melancholick blood which not only falleth downe into the cods but also infecteth them wholly so that beyond all measure it commeth thereby to swell yea will be black and cold and sometimes without any vlceration But if so be that there come vnto it any hard swellings which afterwards breake out and yéeld much matter then may the same be wel taken for Elephantiasis yet if so be that the swelling be not so big and hath neuertheles the foresaid signes then is it to be taken for the right Hernia Oscenae which some do call Ossealis which altogether descendeth into the cods This disease will be cured like other hard swellings or as hereafter followeth Take beane meale thrée ounces Cammomill muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Annise séed Fenegréeke séed and Raisins without stones of each halfe an ounce temper them with yolks of egs These things following are good for plaisters as Cumin Nightshade Beane meale Cammomil Melilot oile of Lillies Cow dung crums of Rie bread and moe other things aforesaid But if so be that the hardnesse wil not weare away but inclineth to maturation then must the same be opened and healed as other impostumations The plaister Diachilon is good to be vsed at the first and the gum Ammoniacum by it selfe for that they either consume or maturate the swelling in short space There is also good for this Beane meale Fenegréeke meale Lilly roots Colewoort leaues and figs as much as you please sodden together and then powned and so layd vpon the griefe Also this rupture is to be oftentimes annointed with the oile of Cammomill Lillies and Spike and chiefly when there is no speciall heate therein It is also to be noted that it is not good if it be knowne that the Cod is full of matter or corruption to leaue the same long therein lest that the testicles thereby might also spoile and putrifie For this is this rule to be obserued to the end that in time the melancholike humors might be drawne out and purged away to wit to open the Liuer veine on the left side The next day must he take half an ounce of Catharticum Imperiale with Violet or Waterlilly water Now for to cause the matter to discusse and consume take sixe or eight dayes one after another these potions following Take Violet water Lettice water and Hop water of each one ounce sirupe of Citron pils one ounce and a halfe take this warme early in the morning Of the Ruptures whereby the Bowels do fall into the Cods §. 9. THe eight and last sort of ruptures is here aboue mentioned in the title The descending of the bowels or rim is oftentimes very sodainly and otherwhiles very slowly But howsoeuer the same come yet for all that can it not be without paine and chiefly if it be touched the inward causes are none other then wind which cléerely appeareth hereby if the patient hold vp his breath long the rupture will be the greater and in breathing out the smaller The outward causes are sufficiently expressed in the treatise of the Ruptures of wind and of the Nauell For to helpe this disease before all things diligence must be had that the bowels which are descended may be brought againe into their place And for to compasse this take hold on the cods vnderneath and treatably thrust it vp Take also a great boxing cup set it aboue the priuities or hard by and let it draw a good space The patient must also lie higher with his buttockes than his body that the bowels thereby the easier may returne into their due places If there be any great paine approching then first of all looke to swage the same and chiefly with clisters which are thus to be made to wit the decoction wherein Linseed Fenegreeke and white Sesamum seeds beaten grosly haue bene boyled and therewith butter and oyle of Violets be mixed Item take Hens and Cocks broth and oyle of Sesamum of each sixe ounces Sal gemmae halfe an ounce or a little lesse temper them together and minister this Clister meetly warme Another Take twelue ounces of swéet Wine fresh butter and oile of sweet Almonds of each two ounces Benedicta lax halfe an ounce temper them all together for a clister Further the whole Cods with all parts that are adioyning are to be wel fomented or bathed What waters are to be taken for it you haue them set downe before in the end of the first § beginning thus Take Rue c. Yet another in the fourth § beginning thus Take Seâ—eli or Siluer mountaine séed c. In one of these warme decoctions wet a great sponge and lay it ouer all the priuities which being done then let the rupture be softly shooued backe Afterwards must you lay this plaister following ouer it and bind it as hard as may be abidden and suffered Take Cipers rootes two ounces Mill dust three ounces Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce fish lime or Isinglas one ounce and a halfe Dragagant Gumme Momy and burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce Dragon blood Sagapenum Sealed earth and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes the meale and powned rootes shall you séeth in two third parts of water and one third part of red vineger vntill it be thicke inough then mixe molten Waxe amongst it as much as is needfull stirre it with dissolued Gum well together vntill it be cold You haue also before in the discourse of the Nauell and vpper Rupture many good plaisters which are good for this vse But if so be that the rupture be large and al that is falne downe be much then lay the plaister thereon which is described in the treatise of the vpper rupture in the beginning of the 1. § for it is singular good also for this kind of rupture Make a plaister thereof after the forme of a shield whereof the narrowest end may passe vnder the cods betwéene the legs and the
the iuice of sowre Quinces two ounces of red and white Saunders prepared Coriander red Corrall and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Wormewood halfe a handfull wherewith you may foment and put the decocted herbs in a bag and so apply them to the stomacke Of the debilitie of the stomacke through drought §. 7. WHeresoeuer is any weakenes of the stomacke caused through drought whereof hath béen spoken at the first it causeth great thirst drought of the tongue and falling away of the whole bodie as also contrarywise they finde ease when they finde moyst things In this disease is the patient to drinke Milke and Barly water for the same do coole moysten and cause the body to increase againe In like manner he is also to be fed with moystning herbs as Lettice Mallowes and such like also with Veale Lamb Riuer fish Egs drest with Wine are also good for him for that they yeeld good nourishment Item there be very good and commodious Pullet broths drest with cooling herbs Capon waters Marchpanes and other things moe which before in the Consumption or Phthisi in the second part the fifth Chapter and 22. § and afterwards in the sixt part of the Ague Hectica are expressed all which be prepared for to moysten He shall also oftentimes bathe before meales and after meales but a good while after His drinke must be small Wine Rest is good for him and much motion is hurtfull he is further to rule himselfe in all things as for the Consumption and as is taught for the Ague Hectica But in case there strike great heate into it then vse the salue of Roses and Saunders the cooling salue Galeni oyle of Roses of Violets and waterlilies and such like But this plaister following is highly commended Take new sliced Gourds Purslaine and Willow leaues of each two ounces white Saunders one quarter of an ounce Camfer one drag Rose water as much as is néedfull temper them and lay them vpon the stomack you may lay also a bladder of cold water vpon the stomacke But this is héere to be noted that the cooling things must be laid vpon it in such manner that the places adiacent about it to wit the Midriffe the Liuer and the Milt may not thereby be harmed and lose their naturall action for which it is also aduised that when the same is perceiued that the same place be annoynted with warme oyle Of the skalding in the throate and of the hartburning §. 8. ALthough this hartburning be caused diuersly yet neuerthelesse doth the same come alwayes for the most part through heate or through ascending vapors through strong Wine dronken Spices fat meates and such like against which these things insuing are to be vsed to wit conserue of Betonie Gillofloures and the wine of both these also the first stomachicall medicine described aboue in the 5. § Item Marmalade and preserued sowre Peares Some do hang about their neck for this disease the herbe Agrimony Other do hold in their mouth the stone in the Carps head Other do eate fiue or sixe Peach kernels or bitter Almonds vpon it c. of which euery one may choose that which liketh him best Of Inappetencie or lost appetite and whereby it may be remedied §. 9. OF all the foresaid debilities of the stomacke like as also in all diseases incident vnto it the Appetite commonly is taken away except the infirmitie of the vnnaturall hunger Yea there is sometimes such loathing of meates therewith that they cannot abide to smell them The causes thereof are diuers the first is heate wherein the patient hath very small desire to eate but great list to drinke with drouth of the toong and loathing of all warme things If it be mingled with Cholera then is there alwaies bitternes with it with a wambling Or if so be that there be any Phlegma with it then doth the patient alwayes finde some kinde of brackishnes in the mouth Secondly this may also be caused through cold whereby the constringent vertue and taste of the stomacke are destroied These are the signes small thirst much spettle and other filth about the mouth of the stomacke the patient doth féele heauines or pinching Other whiles he parbraketh some Phlegma be it sweete or sower he shall feele it in the mouth All warme things are welcome vnto him cold things go against his stomacke This disease may also be well caused by eating too much cold fruit or by drinking of water Thirdly the hot Agues do also take away the appetite Fourthly impostumes of the stomacke of the liuer and of the milt which be not without an Ague These may be perceiued by swelling and paine of the same parts whose remedies are taught in the description of the selfe-same members Fiftly this is also caused through a tough slimie matter which lieth in the mouth of the stomacke and there doth take away the appetite The signes of them are these if one do cast vp againe all that he hath taken be it sower swéete hot cold like as Oliues such like And albeit they do remaine in the stomacke yet do they make great paine and dissension Sixtly there appeereth a certaine debilitie of the retentiue power in the flesh in the small veines in the muscles and other members whereby as behooueth they cannot draw their nourishment vnto them so that the stomacke may also thereby beare the lesse meate The signes whereof are these the patient is méetely desirous of meate but when the same is set before him then can he eate but very little of it Seuenthly it is sometimes caused for that melancholie very slowly or nothing at all hath his course towards the mouth of the stomack which was woont there to excitate appetite to meate which may well be perceiued hereby if he be giuen to eate sower meates by which meanes the appetite partly returneth againe The cause may also be wormes whereof shall be spoken hereafter Ninthly it may well happen for that the Melancholie too abundantly runneth towards the mouth of the stomacke whereof the signes be vomiting of melancholike humors sowernes of the mouth black colour of the face debilitie of the stomacke and hart The tenth cause is when women begin to beare whereof the signes be sufficiently knowen Eleuenthly the ouerhot time and aire may likewise cause the same like as doth also excéeding cold and much watching which causes and signes may be learned of the patient and demanded of them that do tend him Twelfely through great vexations of the mind as anger sorrow care anguish great ioy desire of Venerie which cannot be obtained as well as that which may be obtained Thirteenthly this lost appetite may be caused through any corruption in the stomack which may be perceiued through stench of the breth or through the ordure This is also otherwhiles caused by reason of the scowring called Diarrhaea with intolerable stench There be also many mo causes but the abouesaid shall be sufficient vnto vs for
both procéed out of one kind of cause Of the swelling or puffing vp of the stomacke §. 26. IF the swelling or puffing vp of the stomacke be caused of wind that is easily perceiued through the forementioned reasons But because that it may also happen very well through impostumation and other occasions and that the same is to be outwardly séene and knowne therefore are we here to adde vnto this somewhat thereof When as then any wind doth sticke in the stomacke that will passe neither vpwards nor downewards then will it of necessitie puffe vp the stomacke and extend it with great perplexitie and if the same procéede through any impostumation one may well perceiue the same outwardly what then the causes and signes of these winds be that is sufficiently discoursed in the forementioned third part and 25. § But as concerning the impostumation we will shortly hereafter speake of it and if so be there be any maladie of the Milt with it then looke into the description of the infirmities of the same and mixe the same things with it which do serue for it Of the paine of the stomacke through Phlegma §. 27. IF so be that the paine of the stomacke do come through Phlegma and with a salt humor then is the patients mouth salt and hath also heate and thirst with it And in case the same be caused of any other kind of Phlegma then is there no thirst with it but only anguish and drouth and one may know by the tong the tast of the matter which causeth this paine Or is the Phlegma much abounding then wil the appetite be lost with other causes moe whereof we haue spoken already For this is first counselled to take Oxymel of Squils with the decoction of Hyssop that afterwards he is to be vrged to vomit with Mustard Hony salt fish Radish Garlick or vse this decoction Take Squils two ounces séedes of Orage thrée ounces Radishes foure ounces Vineger two ounces and a quart of water let these séeth together vnto the halfe at least When you haue eaten before two or thrée slices of a Radish then drinke two ounces of this decoction tempered with one ounce of Sallad oyle and a short time after sée if you can cast vp somewhat But if the stomacke be not therwith sufficiently clensed one may perceiue by it to wit by reason that thereby followeth not any ease at all Then be these sirupes following to be prepared Take Mints Wormwood Hyssop Venus haire all gréene if so be that they be to be gotten of each a handfull Parsly rootes Fennell rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell Ameos Licorice Corans Vineger of each one ounce Hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces make a cleare sirupe of it For this is Oxymel of Squils also good As it is needfull in all other sicknesses that the Phlegma be purged so it is also néedfull in this as thus Take Burrage and the flowers of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Annis one ounce Licorice Corans of each two ounces rootes of Polipodie halfe an ounce séeth them al in water so long that there remaine about fiue or sixe ounces then stéepe therein one ounce of the rinds of Mirobalans Chebuli whilest that the decoction is still hote and so let it stand all night in warme ashes afterwards straine it out and take thrée or foure ounces of this decoction and put thereto halfe a dragme of Turbith and one scruple of Ginger and then giue it him early in the morning or giue to the patient of the purging Marmalade like as it is described in the last part of this booke For this is also to be giuen thrée or foure dragms of the rotules of Diaphenicon or the Electuarium or Diasena But if in case he had rather take pils then let him vse some of these following to wit Stomachicae De Aloe lota and Cochiae afterwards must the stomacke be warmed with all kind of spiced Wines as Hippocras and such like Also with losinges of Diatrion pipereon Diagalanga c. Item confected Ginger Annis Comin and Mints mixed or confected with Sugar All his meates are to be strewed with Ginger with Cloues Galingall Pepper and Cinnamome and they are also to be drest with it This confection following is maruellous good for all féeblenesse cold bad digestion of the stomacke and also against all hoarsenes Take Comine which hath bene stéeped in Vineger and is dryed againe fiue dragmes Annis Smallage seede dryed Mints Marioram gentle Calmus Rosemary Marioram and Penniroyall of each three dragms Spica Cloues Cardamome Nutmegs of each one quarter of an ounce long and common Pepper of each two dragmes and a halfe Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe temper them together and make a subtill powder of it and afterwards with Hony into a confection The Trocisci de Rosis do hinder the matter that it runne not againe after purging towards the stomacke If that halfe an ounce of it be taken with Wine it comforteth asswageth the paine and very much assisteth digestion Item annoint the stomack with the oyle of Spike Masticke or oyle of Wormwood For a Plaister may be vsed that which is described before in the 5. § beginning thus Take Masticke thrée ounces c. If there be great cold approching then giue the patient one dragme of Mithridate or Treacle with wine wherein Annis and Wormewood haue bene decocted Of the paine at the stomacke through Melancholia §. 28. THis paine of the stomacke bringeth with her together with the foresaid signes a sowre smatch also vpon the tongue great desire or longing for meate but without digestion with disquietnes lasks and vomiting which do commonly come all together For these kinds of maladies do people come commonly to be wonderfull féeble and voide of might for that the hart which is nearest vnto it cannot tolerate this ouerlading and burthen Thus then to remedie these grieuous melancholick humors which do sinke into the stomacke these sirupes following are to be vsed Take Burrage rootes Parsly rootes and Fennell rootes of each one ounce and a halfe the inner part of Squils one ounce Mints Hyssope Harts tongue Venus haire being all gréene if they can be gotten of each one handfull Fennell séede Annis séede Cuscuta Licorice Corans Vineger of each one ounce Hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces make thereof a sirupe Another Take Licorice and Raisins of each one ounce flowers of Burrage Buglosse Fennell Annis Fennell rootes and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Ginger one quarter of an ounce Honie and Sugar of each sixe ounces make foorthwith a sirupe of it or in stead thereof vse Oxymel of Squils with water of Burrage which taketh away the belching of the stomacke For to purge this following may be vsed Take water of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce Licorice and Corans of each one ounce Thymus and wild Thyme Polypodie rootes of each halfe
of an ounce Masticke two scruples Waxe as much as is needefull for to make a salue of it Item take oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Violets and of Spica of each one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce Roses burnt Iuory Squinant red and white Saunders of each halfe a dragme Camfere two scruples then make a salue of it with molten Waxe The Saunders salue described before in the sixt Chapter and first § Also the cooling oyntment and that of Roses are maruellous good for this disease Yet another Take the oyle of bitter Almonds and white wine of each a like quantitie stéepe Cicorie in it Wormewood Cammomill and Agrimonie and chafe it warme vpon the place of the Liuer Another which is very forcible Take the salue of Saunders and the cooling oyntment Galeni of each one ounce and a halfe oyle of Roses one ounce If it be too soft then make it as hard as you will with Waxe It is also necessary to obserue therein an order of dyet If with this heate of the Liuer there be an Ague then is he to be kept as one that hath an ague that according to the importance of the cause like as may be discerned in the sixt part Generally Lettice Purslaine Veriuice and Cucumbers are very good for him with Vineger and other meates moe that may be drest with them And although the inflammation were without an Ague and yet there be some dry itch and scabs with it then be the foresayd herbs very wholesome for him In like maner also Pullets Hens Partridges small birds Kids Mutton Veale drest with Vineger Veriuice Orenges or Limons Barley pap and Oaten pap are also very fit for his meate The Vineyard Snailes are also very good for them The fishes that be takē in cleare grauel waters drest with Parsley and vineger may he very well eate Melons Almonds Peaches stued Peares and Apples Cherries Strawberries and Raisons a little of each eaten are also very good Wine is altogither repugnant to this disease yet being well watered or Cherrie wine may he drinke in some respects moderately Also all grosse meates are very hurtfull for him as vnleauened bread grosse flesh Chéese Milke Starch Rice and in fine all that bindeth is hurtfull for the liuer But Buttermilke is not ill for this maladie Of the obstruction in the Liuer through cold §. 4. IF so be that the oppilation of the Liuer be caused through cold then is the whole body bleake and lead coloured and chiefly the face the toong the lippes and the vrine is not coloured the pulse is slow there is little thirst slow digesture lead coloured and white excrements that stinke not much All warme things are very méete for the patient but colde things are vtterly against him first if this obstruction be without an Ague but in case that it continue long then must an Ague ensue by reason that the bloud putrifieth in the Liuer But if there be any humors with this cold that is to be perceiued by the thicke water also by the moisture and thinnesse of the ordure by the smal thirst slow pulse by the swelling of the eyes and of the face softnes of the flesh and loathsome colour whereby they do come quickly to the yellow Iaundies or Dropsie With this commeth also oftentimes a laske or scouring swelling of the eyelids of the fingers of the toes all outward members If so be then that these signes chaunce to be or may be perceiued then may easily be adiudged that this maladie doth procéede through cold causes The patient is for this aboue all other things to be purged and the flegmaticke matter is to be expelled for which this preparatiue sirupe ensuing is to be vsed Take the rootes of Parslie and of Fennell one ounce and a halfe the rootes of Smallage one ounce Agrimonie Venus haire and Harts tong of each one handfull Mace Cuscuta of each two ounces Licorice Currans of each one ounce white Vineger one ounce Honie Sugar of each six ounces make a sirupe of them vntill there do remaine about fiftéene ounces clarifie it For this is also good the sirupe of Eupatorio of Acetosa Diarrhodon de Bizantijs and Acetosus Compositus Item take Fennell roots the roots of Parsly of Smallage Sperage Butchers broome of each halfe an ounce Agrimonie one ounce Annis Fennell Cuscuta of each three dragmes Harts tong Venus haire herbe Bennet of each a handfull Vineger one ounce Sugar as much as you will and make a sirupe of them And of one of the foresaid sirupes you are to vse certaine dayes one after another euery day two ounces at once This being effected then the patient to be purged with this purgation following Take flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of each one ounce and a halfe Spica one scruple Agaricus and Polypody rootes of each halfe a dragme let them séeth togither and put vnto it one dragme of Turbith You are to giue him about foure ounces of this decoction Or take Pillulas de Agarico or such like which purge the flegme Whē the patient is well purged thē is he to vse some of these Trocisks following dissolued in water of Wormwood to wit de Rhabarbaro de Absinthio and de Eupatorio Amongst the Confections these are good Diacostu Diacalamintha Dianisum Diacyminum Aromaticum rosatum Diagalanga Dialacca and such like Item take Pistacia two ounces stéepe thē two dayes in warme water of Agrimony chop them afterwards small and séeth two ounces of Sugar in two ounces of Agrimonie water which is méetely thick Then temper the Cuscuta and half an ounce of Cinnamom with it wherof make losinges thē take therof morning and euening at least one quarter of an ounce Hereafter now follow confections and other things which one may eate Take one pound of well washt Currans when they be dried méetely wel then temper therewith one ounce of beaten Rubarb and eate therof when you will a good sponfull at each time then kéepe it close stopt This is very good for all diseases of the Liuer and chiefly to preuent the yellow Iaundies Another Confection Take the muscilage of Hollihock rootes 12. ounces clarified Hony 12. ounces Licorice 9. dragmes Betony Balme of each thrée drag Cuscuta rinds of Tamariske of each half an ounce Annis Couchenel of each one quarter of an ounce Ginger one drag prepared steele two ounces a halfe one dragme of the muscilage of Hollihock roots you must seeth the Hony to the thicknesse of Hony then temper the rest amongst it and vse it after you haue well stirred your selfe walked or run Annis seeds confected be good for cold obstructions all old disease of the Liuer Item Comin and Caruway haue great power to heate a frozen Liuer and to open all her obstructions Also bitter Almonds confected or otherwise Likewise Elecampane roots Calmus Eringus Nutmegs Walnuts all of them confected Item conserue of Eiebright of Fumitory of Elderne
small Endiue of Agrimonie of Liuerwort of each two ounces Barly meale as much as will suffise to make a plaister withall It happeneth also very often that in this Ascite the patient is hard bound in body who if he be knowne of sufficient strength then is he to be often purged as is already said that which may be effected through sundry meanes as through Pils Potions and through Clisters whereof there be many herebefore described for the obstruction of the Lyuer and are also very requisite for this purpose and amongst the rest these following may also be vsed First let pils be made with Rubarb which be acuated with a litle Mezereo and be giuen vnto him once a weeke Also the pils of Mezereo are very good for this vse but they must be taken in hand very circumspectly for that the Mezereon is maruellous sharpe as herebefore in the introduction you may well perceiue Item Take of the foresaid Mezereon leaues which haue bene stéeped two daies and two nights before in the iuice of Quinces and Vineger dried againe half a drag make small pils thereof it expelleth water wonderfully The like haue you before in the 4. § good pils in the obstructiō of the liuer beginning Take Spica c. The iuice of wild Cucumbers or Elaterium is also good for this but it must be giuen with great circumspection for there is no man so strong that may take aboue halfe a scruple Our Phisitions do seldome take aboue foure graines at once as is amplier spoken of in the Introduction Item take clouted Goats milk thrée ounces the iuice of blew Flower-deluce halfe an ounce séeethe it on a small fire vnto the halfe or more strain it temper it in a litle Suger so take it Or take the iuice of blew Flower-deluce which is very cleare one ounce drink it with some Sugar or with some Goates milk once in euery 4. daies the daies betwéene both is he to drinke a good draught of Béere decocted with Wormewood or Wormwood powder with 2. ounces of Sugar cast into sugar plates eate therof In Italy they haue an herbe called Soldonella the iuice wherof is much vsed for the dropsie also the water powder of the herbe or in stead thereof may be vsed for the dropsie of the said blew Flower-deluce for that Soldonella with groweth neare the sea all salt places is giuen with wine wherein Rapontica with a litle Wormwood is decocted What force Wormwood hath in this disease is sufficiently shewed in the end of the 9. § Also what vertue the wild Saffron séed hath for the Dropsie looke for the same in the Introduction the like also of the éedes of Manus Christi A powder to purge withal Take beaten Ireos thrée dragmes Ginger two scruples Annis Masticke of each one scruple white sugar Candie one dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Diagridion sixe graines take one dragme therof it expelleth the water and the going to stoole very vehemently But if there be any heate withall then are these mild purgations to be vsed Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitorie of each halfe an ounce Licorice Iuiubes Currans and Wormwood of each one quarter of an ounce eight or ten Prunes Spicanardi one dragme séethe them all in whay of Goates milke and stéepe therein halfe an ounce of the shels of yellow Mirobalans for a potion Item take sixe ounces of the whay of Goates milke and fresh rootes of the Flower-deluce which be well cleansed from their shels halfe an ounce séeth the same vntill two parts remain then temper them together for a purgation Clisters as is before discoursed are also maruellous good for all such dropsies whereof certaine do follow Take Ebulus Cammomill and S. Iohns wort of each one handful Let them séeth sufficiently in water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces Sallad oyle thrée spoonefuls halfe an ounce of Hiera Pachij or Hiera Picra Salt one dragme temper them then together Item take the broth of Tripes or any other fresh flesh broth Pease pottage or any other that one hath readie in the stead of common water and in the stead of Hiera take prepared Cassie for Clisters This following doth loose more Take Mallowes Hollihockes Beetes Cammomill and the herbe Mercurie of each one handfull Seeth it in water or in any of the foresaid brothes and take thereof twelue or sixteene ounces Salt Oyle Hiera or Cassie Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxatiua of each halfe an ounce temper them together and minister this Clister very warme This following draweth from the head Take Rosemarie Betonie Cammomill and Saint Iohns wort of each one handfull Polipodie wild Saffron seede grosse beaten of each half an ounce and seeth them well This being done take as much broth and do as is beforesaid there may also be vsed in stead of common oile the oyle of Linseede If there be great griping of the belly with it then may also be vsed with the foresaid herbes Annis Fennell Caraway all together or those that one can get Take the waight of an ounce thereof beaten all together grosse Clisters are not onely good for the Dropsie but also against all griping of the belly against the grauel against the obstructions against the yellow Iaundise shoorings and such like But in case that with this Dropsie there be any scouring or red flixe then are Trociskes to be giuen to the patient of Barberies with Vineger for these Trociskes do coole supple and strengthen the liuer and stay the scouring The same do also Trocisci de Spodio de Sandalis and the iuice of Quinces and all that is made thereof Item the Conserue and confected rootes of Cicorie by reason that they a binding and cooling operation But if so be that the Ascites be without an ague and there be no rednes séene in the water then may these pils following be giuen Take prepared leaues of Mezereon and Sagapenum of each one scruple and make this to pilles with the iuice of Wormwood but giue no more at once then the fourth part onely for they expell and purge very forcibly What things do moue Vrine IN the beginning of the description of the Dropsie it is amongst other things thus declared that the chiefest meane for to cure this sicknesse is to expell vrine and to auoide the same in great abundance the which may be atchieved through these meanes following Take Rue S. Iohns woort Peniroyall Sage Marioram gentle Wormewood Licorice Annis Fennell and Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of Wine but not too long then drinke thereof in the morning thrée ounces and as much more in the euening Item take Garlicke and S. Iohns woort of each one handfull séeth them together in a pint of Wine vntill a third part be decocted afterwards straine it thorough and when you please drinke a litle thereof at one time it dryeth vp the water and expelleth the
Vineger or a Sallad with Sorrel and Parsly And for a conclusion we are to say somewhat more for opening the skin in this Dropsie therby to let out the water The which the learned do permit at the last when the patient hath his legs and priuities full of water that the same be then opened with a Lancet thereby to let out the water but not much at once But in truth this is a slender helpe and féebleth the sicke more then it doth strengthen for inwardly as much water hath a course vnto it as may be letten out Other do open the legs with Cantharides The third sort do cauterise the belly two or thrée fingers broad beneath the Nauell so that there as much as may be they do draw ouer and open the skin and that chiefly in Ascite where it ought most to be vsed We will also note at this present that because oftentimes before the hote Euphorbium hath bene remembred the same is not to be vsed but in the greatest extremitie euen as his nature and operation are at large described in the Introduction The thirteenth Chapter Of the Gall. WIthin the middest of the Lyuer is a bladder established by nature wherein is kept and gathered all bitter and sharp humors which are separated from the bloud which humors the Grecians do call Choleram the Latinists Bilem and we call the Gall. The nature of this humor is described after thrée kinds of waies to wit light gréene Cholera yellow Cholera and lastly black Cholera like as before is sufficiently shewed This black choler by reason of her colour is also called of the Grecians Melancholia and is cold drie sharpe and heauie and also none other then dregs and yeast of the grosse bloud for it is nothing else but a yellow Cholera that is Oxymel burnt whereby the yellow and gréene Cholera are easily altered into black Cholera How this blacke Cholera doth make men mad and raging in the first part in the twelfth Chapter and 8. § is sufficiently declared and also shall be taught hereafter It happeneth either through extremitie of heate or cold that the black Cholera appeareth rather in the winter and the yellow Cholera in sommer time For when as the conduits which do carie those superfluities into the Gall are obstructed then is the yellow Cholera dispersed through the whole bodie with the rest of the bloud which causeth the yellow Iaundise and otherwhiles by reason of their sharpnesse and heate a certaine Ague Or if it get wholy the vpper hand then doth it cause many kinds of ill and sharpe exulcerations wherof we are to write more at large in other places Thus for to remedie this Cholera and the foresaid Ague thereby is this generall rule prescribed by Galen At the first it hapneth otherwhiles that the Gall doth send her superfluitie to the stomacke whereby the digestion is hindred and spoyled and the patient getteth great infirmitie for this there is no fitter meane to exonerate him thereof than by vomiting and that chiefly when one is fasting Contrariwise is the Melancholia which through her heauinesse descendeth downewards to be purged through the stoole which may be most commodiously effected through Clisters afterwards through sweating and through the vrine And how this ought to be put in practise is sufficiently declared before in the Dropsie and yellow Iaundise In like manner it is especiall good to bath in swéete water for thereby will both the said cholericke humors be moystned and cooled if it be done in due time This patient is also to forbeare Wine euen till the declination of the sicknesse And when the sicknesse beginneth to decline then is he to vse small watered and but a litle wine All meates that moisten and coole are good for these Aguish folke if the same be soberly vsed These herbes following may also be drest in his meate as Orage Béetes Sorrell Mallowes Lettice Gourds Also Barly paps which is Ptisana and fish which is caught in grauelly waters All Fowles are good for him which haue a soft and tender flesh or the pinions of the grosse and hard fowles The braines and feet of Swine small birds and rere sodden 〈◊〉 be good but chiefly the yolkes which are more nourishing and lighter to be digested He may vse all fruites that remaine not long in the stomacke but he must refraine Hony Mustard salt and sharpe meates This may suffise of the Gall of her bladder nature of the tertian Ague which is caused by it Of which Ague amongst other shall be further written in the sixt part The sicknesses besides which be caused through Cholera shall be described more at large in their due places The fourteenth Chapter Of the Milt or Spleene THis third part of mans bodie containeth also in it the Milt which the Grecians do call Splen and the Latinists Lien a knowne and necessarie part of mans bodie It hath his place in the left side ouer against the Liuer and the Gal next of all to the stomack And if this were not found in the left side but in the right side like as the same before time hath bene séene then is it reputed to be against nature This Milt is fastened to the backe with certaine sinewes where the ribs do take end and with one end it stretcheth to the Lyuer in the right side Her substance and essence is a tender and soft flesh like to a sponge yet to be compared to the Lights it is so much harder and faster as she is softer and tenderer then the Liuer She hath also many veines and arteries whereby she draweth easily vnto her the grosse melancholicke humors out of the Lyuer by which she is fed and sustained She is different in colour to the Milt of beasts for it is blacke gray of forme long and thin and of all fourefooted beasts there is none which more agréeth with the Spléene of a man then that of a Hog The office of this Milt is none other but to cleanse the liuer from all melancholick humors and that is brought to passe through the said veines whereby she draweth vnto her the same grosse humours where she keepeth and retaineth the cleanest and driueth from her the rest through certaine passages and conduits which if it be not performed the spléene is so weakned that it cannot perfectly draw vnto it the same melancholicke humors and then there proceede out of it diuers melancholick sicknesses as namely heauinesse of mind desperat madnesse and such like This disease of the spléene hath his certaine and outward signes as when one is sorowfull then doth he commonly feele paine about the Spleene where melancholie hath her residence Yea there is also written thereof beleeued by many that if men were depriued of their spléen then they should thereby loose all their laughing and that their laughing and mirth doth augment according to the increase of the spléene Also the foresaid feeblenesse of the Milt causeth exulcerations swellings leaprie
them one amongst another but first of all annoint your hands with the oyle of Barberries Another Take the muscilage of Fenegreeke and of Lineséede of each one ounce the grease of Hens Geese and Duckes of each thrée ounces washt Butter Swines grease Neates féet oyle of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Tamariscus Willow leaues Harts toung the middle rind of the Ash trée Capers rootes Rue leaues and Nep of each one dragme oyle of Capers one ounce and a halfe a litle Waxe and Vineger then make a plaister or salue of it Item take an Onion cut off a peece at the top and make it hollow within and fill it with oyle of Lillies and let it rest vncouered in the ashes so long till it haue soked vp all the oyle afterwards stampe it and lay it warme ouer it All these plaisters following are also good for it as namely De Meliloto Diachilon magnum De Muscilaginibus and others Take of the plaister De Muscilaginibus two ounces Ammoniacum dissolued in Vineger and Marcasite beaten small of each fiue dragms temper it on the fire and spread it on a leather cut after the fashion of a halfe Moone and so lay it warme vpon the spléene it is very good and approued We haue promised herebefore to describe the salues of Dialthea It is also made after sundrie fashions like as we shall also teach here Take cleane Hollihock rootes eight ounces Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each foure ounces Sallad oyle sixtéene ounces Turpentine halfe an ounce Rosin one ounce and a halfe the rootes and also the seedes shall you steepe three dayes and three nights in a quart of water the fourth day seeth them so long vntill they yeeld from them a thicke tough slime or muscilage wring them hard out and take eight ounces thereof and seeth it with the oyle vntil all the moisture be decocted Afterwards put the Turpentine Rosin and foure ounces of Waxe vnto it When all these things be molten and well tempered then take it from the fire and stirre it well about vntill it be cold The second Take eight ounces of faire sliced Hollihocke rootes Linseede and Fenegreeke seed of each foure ounces stampe them and wring them thorough as before then put vnto it foure ounces of Barrowes grease two beaten Onions one ounce and a half of Gummi Arabicum and let them seeth all together vntill that all the moisture be decocted afterwards take foure ounces of molten Waxe and then temper them together and stirre it well about vntill it be through cold The third Take faire cleansed Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces choppe it very small and powre two quarts of water into it sixe ounces of Linseed three ounces of Fenegreeke seed and three ounces of Lilly rootes then powne them all together and when they be boyled to a tough slime or muscilage then straine them thorough a cloth and take twelue ounces of it and séeth the same with 24. ounces of Barrowes grease vntill the iuice be all decocted afterwards put vnto it foure ounces of Waxe Fenegreeke meale two ounces Galbanum dissolued in Vineger Gummi Hederae and Turpentine of each one ounce But if you cannot get the foresaid Gum then take three ounces of Turpentine temper them all together as before this salue is good for all swellings for the shrinking of the sinewes for all tumors of the breasts it looseth phlegme asswageth the Cough and all stitches in the sides as also the paine in the Raynes of the grauell and is good for all extenuations The fourth and last Take fresh Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces Linseede and Fenegreeke seede of each sixe ounces Squilles three ounces Sallad oyle 24. ounces yellow Waxe sixe ounces Turpentine Gummi Hederae and Galbanum of each one ounce and a quarter Colophonia and Rosin of each three ounces powne all that is to be powned and let it steepe together three dayes in water afterwards seeth them all together and straine them thorough a cloth and then take foure and twenty ounces of the muscilage thereof and let them seeth all together on a soft fire with the foresaid oyle vntill all the moisture be decocted afterwards put Waxe vnto it and then a little of the Gumme and lastly the Colophonie and Rosin When it is boyled ynough then stirre it well about and let it coole Of the Melancholia and moisture of the Spleene §. 5. FOr as much as the Spléene as is said is the true receptacle of the blacke and melancholicke bloud therfore reason requireth that we should write of what nature the same is whereby other things may also be discerned which be incident to the Milt First we haue in the first part the 12. chap. and 8. § described many kinds of causes of Melancholy and in other places moe especially in the beginning of the former § and taught of the Milt of her beginning causes what hurt might procéede thereof to wit if the same got the masterie that there may follow not onely heauines of mind frighting and such like but also it might depriue the whole body of his liuely colour and cause also black vlcers leaprie the canker quartaine agues and such like and lastly all manner of distraction of the mind raging madnes and inhumane beastlinesse Therefore because this booke euery where maketh mention of them it is not néedfull to discourse more at large thereof at this present But we will onely describe certaine remedies which be fit for it Wherefore it is first to be noted that all preparatiue and purgatiue things are to be vsed that the matter may be auoyded through going to the stoole and not through vomiting by reason that these melancholick humors are very ponderous and heauie and will not be expelled but onely downwards Before we then come to any particular remedies we will first discouer what simples there be that do prepare these melancholicke humors and whereby the same may be expelled viz. Burrage Buglosse Thymus Epithymus Capers rootes Tamariscus Harts tong good Wine bathing in swéet Water Licorice Currans Polipody rootes grasse Chamedryos Cuscuta Asarabacca Gentian Lupines Fumitorie Calmus Spicanardi Agnus castus bitter Almonds Cicorie Rosemarie Radish séede Burnet sea Crabs and aboue all a chearefull courage or light hart The compounded medicines are Oxymel of Squils hony of Roses sirupe of Vineger Sirupus acetosus compositus de Fumo terrae and other moe But chiefly this following is to be prepared for it Take Cicorie Rosemarie Burnet Hops Cincfoile Endiue with the roots Fumitorie the rootes of Buglosse Burrage flowers Liuerwoort Chamedryos field Cipers Capers rootes Tamariscus rootes and Harts toung with the roots of each two ounces Prunes and Sebestes of each twentie or fiue and twenty Sene leaues Cuscuta Thymus wild Thyme and Fennell of each halfe an ounce Licorice Raisins Stechas of each two ounces Séeth them all together in thrée pints of water euen to the halfe adde to this decoction being strained Buglosse and the iuice of
halfe Salt one ounce Hiera Picra fiue dragmes the iuice of Léekes one ounce Of this decoction take not aboue eight ounces and make of it a Clister The sixteenth Chapter Of the Kidneyes IN the left side right vnder the Milt in the bodie of all beasts is the one Kidney placed and the other in the right side a little higher so that otherwhiles it doth touch a great part of the Lyuer The Kidney which lyeth in the right side is also in all beasts somewhat greater and fuller than that which is in the left side and is not couered with so much fat For because it is hoter than the left therefore doth it consume the same fatnes which groweth through moysture like as it is very néedfull for there is no part which sooner waxeth fat than the Kidneies Both of them be made fast very strongly to the back bone They haue sundry veines from the Lyuer whereby they draw bloud with water and also some part of the gall vnto them separating the same bloud from the water and keeping as much of the bloud as sufficeth for their sustenance collecting also the water together in their concauities like as in a pot which the gall dyeth yellow and then through the Conduits Vreters whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descendeth into the Bladder and from thence is eiected by the yard These Conduits or Vreters are whitish hard somewhat fleshy and of the nature of the Bladder whereby they may not suddenly be brused through the sharpnes of the vrine or through some other occasions The substance of the Kidneyes is of a tight well compacted flesh fashioned partly round and not vnlike to Oxe kidneyes the greatnes excepted These Kidneyes be also through many causes and sundrie sorts of sore diseases infected which the Grecians do call Nephrites which is paine of the Kidneyes But this paine of the Kidneyes doth come of many causes as of impostumes with heate and cold of the grauell and the Stone and further of many diseases and sharpnes of the vrine whereof we will hereafter directly write and discourse But héere before we goe any further we will make a generall declaration thereof First the learned do deuide all diseases of the Kidneyes into thrée principall sorts to wit if they be subiect to any bad complexion whether they haue it of themselues or be compounded with other diseases Secondly if they be not as they ought to be by nature If they from the time of their birth be too great or too small or fraughted and laden with grosse tough slyme which do oppilate and stop vp the conduits that do descend into the Bladder Thirdly there may be also impostumes and vlcers These thrée things may be very well compounded together whereby diuers diseases and paines of the Kidneyes may be caused The causes of these foresayd diseases may be as well outward as inward The outward may be blowes falles vnaccustomed exercise hard riding much going a foote great heate or cold about the Kidneyes to drinke puddle water to carie vnused packs excessiue lecherie long vse of diureticall meates and drinkes The inward causes are a bad complexion as if it be too hote or too cold too dry or too moyst the putrification of naturall seed or sperme impostumes and other paines of the Kidneyes The signes be apparant of themselues and to be knowne by the paine of each place as if the same be small meane or great This doth otherwhiles appeare through pissing bloud or the water which is like bloud euen as there were flesh washed in it But if these diseases assaile one with heate or cold therefore we will also according to our custome discourse a little of it and comprehend them in two especiall points Of the paine in the Kidneyes through cold and moysture §. 1. THe signes of the cold diseases of the Kidneyes are they which haue neyther heate nor thirst nor great paine and their water is not high coloured but is much in quantitie because the same could not be wasted through vnnaturall heate which Ague winter and the grauell augmenteth For these diseases must first a good dyet be kept All grosse slimy hard meates and all cooling things are to be eschued as Endiue Lettice Cicorie Spinage and Béetes c. vnlesse there be some hote things drest with them as Parsly Fennell Comm and such like Fish that he sodden are not good for this neither that which is drest with dough or milke Cheese is also herein forbidden Also cold cleere water thicke red wine and all fruits which make grosse bloud as Peares Apples Quinces Chestnuts Dates and such like In all other things he may direct himselfe according to his old custome but he must not swallow downe his meate gréedily nor vnchewed that the stomack be not cloyed Great exercise immediatly after meate is hurtfull vnto him He is to kéepe himselfe quiet one howre and a halfe after meate at the least without sléepe Also all moyst and cold dwellings are to be shunned like as néere to the earth or such as be vnder it or do lye néere vnto the water But he is to prouide himselfe of good clothes and of a good dry chamber He must forbeare all sorrow vexation anger lying long vpon the back riding and such like Concerning the remedies héed is first to be taken whether the Kidneies be obstructed but if so be that this be and that the patient be yong full of bloud and strong then is the Median veine to be opened on the right foote and to let out aboue foure ounces of bloud And afterwards this Clister following is to be set according to his age Take Béetes and Colewoorts of each one handfull boyle them as is accustomed then take thereof about sixteene ounces and temper in it Benedicta Laxatiua and the confection of Bayberies of each one quarter of an ounce course Sugar and Cassie halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and of Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together and then minister this Clister one houre before supper This foresaid Clister is alwayes to be vsed euery other day according to the abilitie of the person After letting bloud or after the second vse of Clisters then may this purgation following or such like be vsed Take the confection De Psillio and Sebeste of each two dragmes and a halfe temper them in thrée or foure ounces of the decoction of Parsly rootes and fast after it at the least fiue houres Or if you had rather haue pils then is the patient to take the pils Foetidae one scruple de Hiera Composita two scruples make fiue or seuen pils thereof and take them early in the morning Immediatly after purging is the patient to vse this following one whole wéeke or twaine alwayes betimes in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Calamintha halfe an ounce Fennell Annis and Wormewood water of each one ounce
beforesaid But if there be any impostume or vlcer of the kidneyes with it that may be séene by the matter and blood therefore haue you hereafter all that is requisite for the pissing of matter If any man pisse matter §. 12. THe pissing of matter must proceede out of the bladder kidneyes or some of the vppermost parts as from some vlcer of the sides vlcer of the lights the liuer c. the which may procéede from some outward causes as of blowes falles wounds strong diureticall medicines and such like The inward causes may be vncleane impostumes vlcers superfluous tough and grosse humors wind or stone which do settle there and make some excoriation The signes of these accidents may be perceiued easily by the paine of the same place and by the declaration of the patient This infirmitie is thus to be holpen Take peeled Melon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede and Pompeon seede of each one ounce and a quarter fine Bolus Gummi Arabicum Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each fiue dragmes Opium one dragme and a halfe the seede of Smallage one dragme make Trociskes thereof with the muscilage of Quince kernels and giue the sicke folkes euery day the waight of one quarter of an ounce with the sirupe of Poppie heads For this is also to be vsed consolidating and mundifying things as hereafter followeth Take péeled Melon séed the seed of Hollihockes and Nightshade of each halfe an ounce bitter Almonds Pompeon seede fresh Maiden haire Ireos and Licorice of each halfe a dragme make a confection thereof with Sugar or with cleare honie For mundification are also fit Barley water meade the decoction of figs of Horehound and Maiden haire decocted with milke Now for to heale you are to take great and small Comfrey of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke and fine Bolus of each one dragme parched Rubarbe the iuice of Sloes and Mirtle seede of each halfe a dragme Indie Spica halfe a scruple Sugar as much as you please make a confection thereof This sirupe following may also be prepared Take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Maidenhaire and Hounds ribbe of each two handfuls peeled Melon séede Pempeon séede Cucumber seede and Gourd séede of each one dragme white Poppie séede Hollihocke seede and muscilage of Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each thrée dragmes Rubarbe Roses of each one ounce and a halfe white Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it The Trocisci de Alkekengi which is of winter Cherries are surpassing god in this disease and not onely for this but also for all other diseases of the kidneyes giue one dragme thereof or one dragme and a halfe with Goates milke or Plantaine water Also for this disease is Hony water to be spouted into the yard and when the patient hath kept it in a certain season and pist it out againe then is this following to be vsed Take Ceruse Sarcocolla Gum Frankinsence Opium Dragon blood of each halfe a scruple temper it with foure ounces of womans milke and spout one ounce thereof at one time through the yard In like manner shall he drinke Radish water and water of Horse radish or spout it in For this must also this order obserued to wit that he now vse consolidating then againe mundifying things and do alter them according as occasion serueth Item take oile of Roses two ounces oile of Myrtle and the iuice of Plantaine of each one quarter of an ounce Trociscorum de Terra sigillata de Carabe of each one dragme Vineger one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue This salue for the pissing of blood and water is to be rubbed on the place of the Kidneyes and also round about the priuities aboue and beneath begin rubbed well in and then well couered with warme clothes Of outward vlcers of the Kidneyes §. 13. THese vlcers outwardly in the Kidneies are wont to be cause if one lie vpon his backe then are the places of the Kidneyes red and do come to exulcerate Now when this is perceiued then is there a plaister to be made with the meale of Millet and with Pannick meale and be laid thereon and then are you to strew it with Willow leaues and to moisten the heated place with cold Rose water or to lay any cooling things vpon it These salues following are also méete for this viz. salue of Ceruse Poplar salue Sanders salue other cooling salue of Galen vine leaues stéeped in Rose water and thinne beaten Led also which is full of holes worne vpon the raines Item take oile of Roses tempered with a little vineger and laid often vpon it If that there do then appeare bladder or blisters which do breake open then are they to be cured with cooling salues and dried vp with the salue of Ceruse or Album coctum All these foresaid sicknesse and diseases are the true messengers of the most grieuous disease of the Stone or grauell of the Bladder and the Kidneyes whereof we will hereafter further discourse and write But we will first of all prescribe a briefe order of diet for all them that be infected with these terrible diseases as the paine of the Kidneyes impostumes and vlcers The ordre of diet §. 14. ALl meates of milke or wheate meale of the crums of bread barley paps oaten paps are very commodious for this disease In like manner all field fowles which are to be eaten as Partridges Phesants Doues Turtle doues Kids and yong mutton if it be vtterly without an Ague but if so be that there be a great heate with it then is he to vse Melons and Peaches which be very ripe Hasell nuts Almonds Pistacies Pingles and such like may he also eate Item yong hens rere egges hen-broth wherein purslaine Lettice Melon séede Pompeons Gourds Cucumbers or any other cooling things haue bene sodden all riuer fish that haue scales frayed are to be tolerated Gréene herbes as Orage Mallowes purslaine and Lettice are also very méete for him His best drinke were indéed Barley water but if he will drinke Wine and so there be no Ague with it then may he drinke good thicke red Wine tempered with water Asses milke is maruellous good for him and if the same cannot be gotten then may one take Goates milke It is before admonished that euery such patient is to beware of all sharpe hote bitter and swéete things and chiefly of all fruite whether they be gréene or dried The seuenteenth Chapter Of the Grauell Sand or Stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder THis stone or grauell hath his principall ofspring in the Kidneyes in the Bladder and seldome in the hollownesse of other inward parts as of the Liuer c. The cause of it is commonly by inheritance like as the Gout or Podagra the Leprosie and other moe Also these disease do come through a weake Stomacke and Liuer that ingender much tough and grosse slime
the masterie But in this it chiefly consisteth that one kéepe a good order of diet and eschue all that may cause that grosse matter as milke and all that is drest with it fresh Chéese Cow béefe Swines flesh Goates flesh Géese and all water fowles all grosse fish all other that be without skales all that is not well baked sandie or is ground with a new sharped stone Rice Pease Beanes Coleworts sower fruites vnripe apples and peares Citrons c. and hard sod egs be also very hurtfull troubled water red thicke wine Must and Béere are also to be eschued But to the contrary all light meates are to be vsed as light and hard baked bread which is a day or two old wherein Fennell Annis Caruwayes or Nardus séedes are baked Hens pullets Partridges Capons yong mutton Goats Turtle doues Doues and al wild fowles but especially Wagtailes are very méete for this sicknesse He may also eate all riuer fish which haue skales as they that are prepared with parsley in like manner also poched egges For his drinke he shall take faire white wine tempered with a little water wherein the seed of Smallage and Fennell séed is decocted Meade may also be vsed in stead of his drinke and for a medicine He may also drinke sometimes pease broth and the broth of Lentils wherewith parsley is decocted but he is not to eate the pease at all The kernels of bitter Almonds of Peach stones of Prune stones Pingles Pistacies and Raisins is he to eate in fine he must eschue all which causeth the matter of the stone to increase and vse al that cooleth the vnnaturall heate and expelleth the matter of the stone for which these things following are fit and be very good as Agaricus Hermodactili Turbith wild Saffron séed rootes of Polipodie and the smell of the wine Hellebore and also a little roote thereof stéeped a day and a night in water and the same water drunke also otherwhiles Amongst the compounded things there is Benedicta laxatiua or Inda which cleanse the Kidneyes the Bladder and Vreters of all phlegme The same doth also Cassie giuen with diureticall things and with beaten Licorice for the same drieth not onely the grauell but hindereth letteth also the growing of the stone and allayeth the heate and if so be that one giueth it him with the séede of Agnus castus or Licorice then doth it help the raines maruellously and stirreth no other humors then those whereof the stone doth grow Further there be other things moe which do cleanse the vreters or conduits of vrine and open them as the water of Hyssop of white water Mints and of Marierom of Smallage of Parsley of Betonie of Penniroial of Milium Solis and aboue al other the water of Hollihocks Of Sirupes which be most vsed are the sirupes of Hyssope de Calamintha Acetosus compositus Oxymel compositum and al other Oxymels but especially the Oxymel of Squils and for example these compounded things ensuing may be made Take Oxymel of Squils one ounce sirupe of Hyssope halfe an ounce water of Harts toong and of wild Cucumbers of each one ounce and a halfe This drinke is to be taken certaine dayes together vntill one may euidently sée in the colour of the vrine and in other signes that the disease apparently frameth it self on the better side by the which the Phisitions haue their especiall markes and signes And in case there be such matter present which may cause the stone to grow then are they prepared through the first recited waters sirupes and such like for expulsion and when now the matter is prepared then is the patient to be purged which may be done through this ensuing or such like meanes Take the confection Benedicta one ounce or one ounce and a half or somewhat lesse according to the importance of the cause then temper them together with thrée ounces of parsley water Or prepare this following which clenseth much the kidneys and expelleth the matter of the stone maruellously Take Centorie péeled with Saffron séed of each one dragme prepared Agaricus powned Hermodactili of each foure scruples Diagridion sixe graines Annis Fennell Licorice the séede of Smallage and Ginger of each halfe a scruple Sugar pennets one ounce stéepe them all together the space of foure and twentie houres in foure ounces of the water of Maidenhaire afterwards wring it out and drinke it Lastly you are to gouerne your selfe as in all other purgations This following is also much commended for to preuent the grauell Take about Saint Iohns tide Millet as it standeth and bloometh then burne it with herbe and roote and drinke thereof euening and morning two or thrée ounces with wine and then fast two houres vpon it and do so fiue or sixe dayes together it is said and also taken for to be certaine that doing this one shall be cléere and frée from the grauell halfe a yeare Against the paine of the Grauell §. 3. BVt if in this disease there happen great paine with it through which the Phisitions are much hindered that they cannot vse due remedies then do they notwithstanding aduise first of all that at the first one is to begin with things which allay the paine or at the least doe ease it for which are clisters to be vsed made of these herbes following as Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Bearefoot Pellitorie and such like with the oile of Violets with Cassie with Hiera picra or the confection Benedicta tempered amongst it Secondly when the foresaid paine is a litle swaged then are these things following to be vsed Take water Cresses Mallowes Hollihocks Mercury Parow Cinkfoile Peucedunum the herbe of Mew and Rue of each one handfull Calmus Barley of each three ounces Bran Linséede of each a little let all these séeth together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixteene ounces temper amongst it Hiera picra Benedicta and Lithontribon of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomill and of Rue of each one ounce this Clister looseth expelleth wind and also the paine Item take aftewards of the foresaid herbes but somewhat more Watercresses and a few Marigolds and make a bath thereof and let the patient in it euen vp to the nauell you are also to put some stalkes of Rapes vnto it then will it be the better Thirdly take Mallowes Hollihock roots Water cresses Cammomil Maidenhaire Linséed and Fenegrake seed of each two ounces let them al seeth in sufficient water wet a woollen clout or sponge therin and lay it continually warme vpon the place of the paine The sodden herbs are you to powne small and temper with Cammomil oile and so lay them vpon it The place of the paine is sometimes also to be annointed with these things following Take the grease of Hens of Géese Hogs grease fresh butter oile of Camelina and of Violets of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomils Waxe of each two dragmes then let them melt together by the fire But this is
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâ—agora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegâ—t crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
The heate augmenteth with pricking vntill that it breake out whence then issueth a blacke gréene matter and otherwhiles like as it were wine lées and sometimes like to water the which stinketh none otherwise than as it were a carren and corrodeth more and more for that is the nature of cankers The signes of these vlcerations be paine pricking panting of the mother and issue or descent of purulent matter according to the qualitie of the vlcer But if it be caused through any outward occasion that may be vnderstood of the sicke person her selfe Or if it come through sharpe bloud then is the paine sharpe pricking with great heate and ague Or if it be caused through Phlegma then is the paine not too great the place anguished and impaireth slowly If there run any cleere blood out of it with white corruption then is there a small veine broken in the impostume If the matter be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then is it a signe that this disease is caused through long retentiō of womens termes If this impostume be caused of Cholera then doth gréene matter run out of it The signes of the canker haue we discouered before In these kind of vlcers and cankers in the wombe do the learned prescribe certaine rules whereof good héede is to be taken First in case this vlceration be very moyst then are drying things to vsed for it Secondly if there be with the vlcer a venemous quality adioyned then is this the most principall meanes of healing that the venemous quality may be taken away Thirdly that such kind of meate and drinke be vsed as do cleanse and make good blood which is most commodious for to clense the vlcers of the wombe for thereby wil the venemous matter be best of all taken away and drawne forth Fourthly these vlcers haue no néed of maturatiues for that thereby the venemous matter increaseth Fiftly the Phisition must vse such things as do dissolue and drie and lastly incarnatiues Sixtly if this vlcer can be séene then is the same to be refreshed with cleane and fine clothes continually And now to begin with some medicines Héede must first of all be taken of a good gouernement of life so that all that one doth eate drinke or vse according to the abilitie of the patient without the making of any heate may be drying things and commonly such things be ordained for this purpose as are warme in the first degrée but strongly drying Quietnesse in this disease is better than motion Hereby may it easily be marked and vnderstood that all cold and moist meates be hurtfull for this patient viz. Fish Crabs milke and all that is drest with milk much pap fat and such like be naught for her Their most commodious drinke shall be a thin red and hard wine which is very drying and discussiue the same may be tempered with water wherein Mastick two kinds of Consolida if so be that nature can abide it and Feuerfew be decocted Secondly concerning the other phisick if that nature may abide it the veine on the right foote is to be opened against euening yet is good regard to be had to the swouning for that the letting of blood in the neathermost parts do bring more debilitie with it than that of the vpper parts After the letting of bloud this potion following is to be giuen vnto her two mornings together Take Benedicta Laxatiua halfe an ounce Agaricus one scruple Ginger and Graines the iuice of Feuerfew two ounces and a halfe temper them together and afterwards she is to gouerne her selfe euen as the order is after purging Thirdly giue her this potion ensuing the space of certaine dayes together vntill that the vrine appeare of a good colour and very cleane Take Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Syrupus de Bysantijs and sirupe of Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce Louage and Agrimonie water of each one ounce Cicory water two ounces this is to be drunken early in the morning they may also sléepe well vpon it and fast foure houres after it This being done minister vnto her Pillulas Benedictas foure scruples or one dragme and a half fourmed with the iuice of Mugwort You may also temper one dragme of it with the foresayd water and drinke it and if so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take Pillulas de Opopanaco and de Hiera composita of each halfe a dragme make pilles thereof as is beforesaid With this purging one must diligently haue regard whether this vlcer or canker be so neare in the necke of the Matrix that one may come to it with the hand likewise if the matter do stink to the end that according to the qualitie thereof might be knowne what medicines should be vsed but be it howsoeuer it will Hony water is alwayes good for it You may also cleanse the disease therewith where the vlcer is and afterwards spread thereon this salue following Take Aloe Dragonblood Mirrha Sarcocolla and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie Duckes grease as much as is néedfull for to make a mild vnguent of it But this following is stronger Take oyle of Feuerfew flowers and of Saffron of each halfe an ounce oyle of Walflowers especially if there be great paine with it two ounces Sarcocolla Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one dragme Turpentine thrée quarters of an ounce Muscus one graine white waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue afterwards séeth them all together in foure ounces of the iuice of Smallage vntill all the iuice be consumed then annoint therewith a pessary made of cotton and put it into the place and refresh it oftentimes it is very commodious for it and found oftentimes good But if this disease be very déepe inwardly then doth néede require that the bodie be cleansed with necessary things to wit with Hony water and afterwards vse the pessaries which be described in the fifth Chapter and 2. § beginning thus Take Duckes grease c. and renew them foure or fiue times a day or make this following Take Smallage Feuerfew and Mugwort all together or each alone stamp them together make a pessary thereof and annoint it with Hiera Picra You may also take the iuice of these foresaid herbes and make a cloth wet with it and lay the same vpon the backe the hips and on the hithermost part of the back-bone For iniection this following is ordained Take Hony water seeth therein Ireos and Wormewood or séeth Agrimonie in Barley water and temper clarified Hony or hony of Roses amongst it If so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take sixe ounces of wine burnt Allume Verdigrease of each halfe a dragme temper them together and let them stand so fiue houres afterwards iniect it This following is also good and chiefly to dry the vlcers and to draw them together Take Gals Pomegranat pils and the blossoms and Allume let it séeth together with a litle Agrimony and if you think that
Confected Quinces Marmalade and all that may be made of Quinces except that there be no spices with it if the disease be with heate For this be things also good which shal shortly after be ordained for the Gout Podagra If so be that there be no speciall heate with it and that wine may be vsed without any great danger then is it his nature that it strengtheneth all outward members if the same be moderatly drunken Amongst herbe wines are these following much commended for it viz. of Rosemarie of Wormwood of Sage and of Clarie all which not onely drunken but also the ioynts annointed with it or the vapor thereof receiued into the diseased ioynts do also strengthen the same When one is come to his former health then must one looke to it and also beware and take héed frō all those things which are wont to cause those kinds of defluxions into the said ioynts To which end you may looke all the rules in the first Chapter which be described in the first § Take good Turpentine the quantitie of a Beane or in stead of that Opopanacum or Sagapenum which you will in the like quantitie There is very méete in like manner if one take early in the morning halfe a scrup of Lignum Aloes with an ounce of the water of field Cipers It is also much aduised to take twice euery wéeke one dragme of good Mithridate or in steade thereof one Mirobalan Chebuli chewed and eaten or one day Mithridate and the other day one Mirobalan All these foresaid things be not onely commodious but also very safe Let this suffice now generally spoken of the ioynt disease Arthritide and we will now proceede with the Chiragra The fifth Chapter Of the Gout in the hands Chiragra FOr the second sort of the Gout will we describe the Chiragra the which we do properly call the hand Gout But because that betwixt the Gout of the hands and that of the féete there is none other difference but that the one commeth in the hands and the other in the feete therefore will we here referre vs to the Gout of the féete where we will thoroughly discourse of these two kinds of infirmities The sixt Chapter Of the Gout of the Hips Ischia commonly called Sciatica BEfore in the first Chapter and first § in deuiding the sorts of the Gout and in the description of Gutta is this kind Ischia taken for the third sort the which of the Phisitions that do not well vnderstand the Gréeke spéech is called Scia and Sciatica This Gout of the hips is a long lingring paine and especially when it commeth into the bones of the hips notwithstanding that it doth otherwhiles appeare in the vppermost parts which is caused of a cold moisture that falleth downe from aboue And because that her grosse toughnes cānot easily be cōsumed but much rather augmented from day to day and made worse then falleth it at the last into the knées the legges into the féete and so out at the toes The same tough humors do cause also oftentimes through their great grosse and tough sliminesse that the hip bones be eluxated although otherwhiles they returne againe to their naturall places and that when the ligaments of these ioynts through this waterish moisture happen to be loosed or resolued and afterwards waxe hard againe and shrinke vp as before But if this foresaid hip bone be long eluxated then doth it come easily to passe that thereby the whole leg commeth to extenuate whereof then a meere impotencie or lamenesse might follow so that this disease afterwards very hardly but by actuall cauterization may be holpen whereby the matter may be drawne out with cautery which when one is minded to vse it is to be done beneath the knées in the Calues and that in the leg so diseased But before and ere we come to the remedie we will first prescribe a generall rule how to gouerne himselfe in his order of diet which not only in this but also in other sicknesses according to the importance of the cause and place may be diminished augmented and altered This that followeth here is ordained for them in whose bodies all grosse cold tough and flegmaticke humors tempered with Cholera do abound But these must first eschew all cold ayre low dwellings and especially they which do lie neare the water side The windowes of his dwellings are also to open against the South and East if it be faire weather and the rest remaine shut And if so be that the time of the yeare wil permit it then is his chamber to be alwaies kept warme with a continuall fire and to be hang the stone wals with Tapestrie or to let it be wainescoted or fenced with boords In like maner he is also to kéepe his head well from cold and to beware of great exercise especially if he féele any paine and that so long as any paine is instant and vntill the ioynts be strengthened What concerneth further the meate and drinke one is to kéepe himselfe therein moderatly and to vse all such sorts of meates and drinks which do yéeld small sustenance or nourishment and be méete rather to make one leane than fat and especially if there be any debility of the stomacke or any wambling with it He is also to chew his meate well and to eschew the varietie of drinkes Otherwise he is to vse those meates which be warme and drie and that are drest and strewed with any drying and warming things as with Pepper Salt Cinnamom Nutmegs Fennell Parsley Annis Hyssope Mints Thyme and such like things moe His bread must be a little more than common bread leauened and salted He is also to eate no other flesh but Hens Pullets Pigeons Fesants and all kind of field Fowls yet for the most part rather rosted than sodden Veale and Mutton is also very healthie for him Amongst herbes be Colewoorts Fennell yellow rapes c. very good for him but all cold herbes must he eschew or at least vse them very seldome litle and being alwaies tempered with some warme herbes red Pease Lentils and Rice drest with fresh flesh may he eate Amongst fruits there be none that be more requisite than Figs Raisins Hasell nuts Almonds such like The swéet odoriferous Grapes be not much forbidden him He is also to be restrained from butter as much as is possible because of her slime and moist nature but rather in stead thereof to vse the oyle of swéet Almonds Sallad oyle or oyle of Walnuts Vineger Veriuice Limons Oranges or their iuice be not much commended and if one will euer vse them then must some other warming things as Salt Pepper Cinnamom be tempered with it in eating of other meats All fish doughie meates be very hurtfull vnto him The best drinke that he can drinke is Hony water which may be prepared as followeth Take twelue quarts of water and one quart of Hony let them séeth together vntill eight quarts remaine if
vlcers saith Galenus be these which are wont to be vsed for the corroding Erisypelas wherefore we may write so much the lesse thereof But if it be perceiued that it begin to putrifie then temper sealed earth and fine Bolus with Vineger together and spread it round about the vlcer and also in it But if this wil not help then be the corners round about the vlcers to be scarified or lanced and also to set boxing cups and horse leaches thereon which may suck out the bad bloud and this plaister following is also to be laid vpon it Take Pease-meale or Beane meale and sall temper all together with the sirupe of Vineger and lay it as a pap vpon it the scarificed place must also be washed twice a day with Vineger and then to annoint this salue following ouer it Take Assa foetida Nettle séed and Hartwort rootes of each halfe an ounce Verdigrease one quarter of an ounce temper it with vineger to the thicknes of Hony and annoynt therewith the whole disease and the places about it And to the end that these vlcers may not corcode any further then take Verdigrease Allume Hony of each a like quantitie and vse it as is before said The selfesame taketh away all bad flesh sustaineth the new flesh But in case that through these foresaid things the rotting ceassed not but dayly did corrode more and more and the stench increased then shall you strew thereon this powder ensuing to wit pouned Hartwort and Gals of each a like quantitie Or take Dragagant and Coperas tempered together with vineger and if so be that this foresaid do not profit then are the edges yea the whole accident to be cauterised with corrosiues or hot yrons then take the rootes of Celendine vnsleckt lyme Eoperas Mirthe Hartwort and Verdigrease of each alike quantitie tempered with the iuice of Plantaine or pouned Orpiment alone tempered with the foresaid iuice When as then the corosiues haue done their worke and the crustes or stakes be yet hard then must they be annointed with fresh butter vntill they do fall away of themselues and afterwards those things to be vsed which are wont to ingender skin and flesh The other sort of these vlcers is Herpes miliaris whereof we haue admonished before Some do call it Formica that is the Ant. This vlcer is also of sundry natures and that according to the nature of the humor whereof it is caused It is also comprehended in thrée sorts or species the one which runneth hither and thither which is caused of a subtile moysture and is also quickly consumed the second that créepeth forward hither and thither which is very hurtfull the third is of a grosse and hot Cholera which entreth somewhat déeper into the flesh and is mixed with some Phlegma and thence commeth the Formica miliaris which is hotter and harder to be cured Out of all these foresaid reasons be the signes apparant and before sufficiently rehearsed and discouered Now for to remedy this accident is this the briefest way that first of all be prescribed to the patient a good order of dyet like as is done in the Agues For purging is he to vse sower Dates Cassy Epithymum with Rubarbe stéeped in Endiue water or whay of milke If it be Herpes miliaris then take Diaturbith Further you are to take Gals Pomegranate pils and fine Bolus of each a like quantity afterwards temper it with Rose water and a little Vineger and then annoint it thereon with a feather Item take the heads of salted fish rost them in an earthen pot vpon the fire vntill they be almost burnt and then mixe them with strong wine spread it vpon the disease or take shéepes wooll and frie it vntill it be blacke then poune it and temper as much Rose water amongst it vntill it be thicke and annoint therewith the foresayd accident cleane ouer twice or thrice a day and then lay a white or blow cloth vpon it There be yet diuers other sorts of impostumes and vlcers which be of the same nature differing in names and causes but because we do comprehend them amongst the forementioned therefore will we omit them and especially because they may all be cured and holpen with these foresaid remedies Of the hard Tumor Scirrhus §. 4. BEfore we come to the third corroding vlcer namely the Canker we must first of all admonish of this tumor which the learned do call Scirrhus of some Schrosis whereof we haue also made mention before in the third part the twelfth chapter and the fift § and that by reason that this Scirrhus hath great alliance with the Scirrhus of the Liuer This Scirrhus is of two sorts and both those are of the vnnaturall tumors of the body whereof one is so hard that it yéeldeth at any hand yea it is without paine and féeling which is also accompted for incurable This swelling is of colour like lead or ashes and is caused onely through Melancholy the which is as it were dregs of all humors The second hath but a little sense and also some paine for it procéedeth out of Melancholia and Phlegma which be tempered togither and is of colour like to the other The same may also be cured but not easily as before we haue sufficiently written in the first chapter and 11. § This foresaid hardnes may be well caused of some former impostume which is not well clensed or healed whereas the corruption remaining doth clod and harden The difference betwéene this Scirrhus and the Canker is that in the compasse of the Canker there is heate beating and opening of the veines whereof there is none with this Scirrhus for that Scirrhus is without heate without paine and without any sense or feeling and also incurable But forasmuch as this Scirrhus doth appeare as well in other places of the body to wit in the liuer milt and stomacke c. and that we haue written sufficiently in sundry places thereof therefore it is not néedfull for to discourse here any further of it but to procéede with the Canker Of the Canker §. 5. THis corroding vlcer which is taken to be a kind of Fistell hath her name of the sea Crab which men call in Latine Cancer which the Italians call Granizo and the Grecians Carcinoma not onely for that it créepeth hither and thither but also like as Galenus witnesseth for that many times this Canker hath béen séene and especially in womens brests in all sorts like vnto the sea Crab for the veines do reach into the Canker being filled with blacke blood no otherwise but as they were the feet of the sea Crab. This Canker is in the beginning very easie to be healed but if it grow old and hath rooted in too long then hath it neuer béen seene that the same could be healed without incision The cause of this Canker is a superfluity of melancholicke humors Other do suppose that it is caused of melancholicke humors which be burnt
the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
found vnequall Whenas the cold auoideth then by and by followeth the heat which is shorter than the cold continueth longer because of her slownesse and by reason of her toughnesse whereby this Ague commeth to her state very slowly and declineth very sodainly so that it hapneth therein as if one lay gréene wood vpon the fire where the moisture withstandeth and suppresseth the heate and remaineth so long without burning till all the moisture be consumed and then sodainly burneth away as long as there remaineth any wood The occasion of this Ague is outwardly cold and moist aire the long vse of cold and moyst meate as fish fruite and such like and vnaccustomed idlenesse to bathe much in swéete waters and great rioting Item if the body be ouercharged with ouermoyst and slimie humors that putrifie in the bodie go out of the veines and send stinking vapors towards the heart whereof an Ague might ensue This Ague is also very easily by her signes to be knowne from the Tertian Ague for it beginneth not by and by after the first day with cold but beginneth by little and little also the pulse altereth not as it doth in the tertian Ague The patient complaineth of no great heate of no short breathing neither of any great thirst His vrine is like vnto the vrine of such as haue new gotten the quartaine Ague not knowing of any sweat at the beginning but in time doth he perceiue it so that these signes are so manifestly differing from the tertian Ague that they seeme to haue no communion at all Also one may perceiue by this patient that the heate is somewhat mixt with a vapor which appéereth outwardly also the pulses of this Ague be much fainter than the tertian or quartaine agues The toong is moist and he is quickly prouoked to vomit wherby he casteth vp much filth and in like manner is the going to the priuie cold by nature moist vndigested waterish and full of vapors The vrine is white and thinne and otherwhiles thicke and troubled and the whole body full of waterish humors All bodies that liue in quiet are fat and moist haunting dayly riotousnesse and surfetting much bathing in fresh waters and such as haue their habitations néere to moist places are most of all subiect to this disease To conclude this ague long enduring is not without perill of life Now to remedie and cure this Ague the better you must aboue all obserue these rules following First this patient is to vse that which warmeth and attenuateth the humor Secondly if the patient can hardly cast or vomit then it is a signe that the tough phlegme of the stomacke must be incided Thirdly you are in the beginning of the Ague to force the patient to vomit whereby the matter or humor might partly be abated Fourthly these inciding and attenuating medicines must be vsed from the beginning to the very ending of the maladie yet now and then as the Phisition thinketh méete Fiftly all kind of Agues in the beginning do accord with these thrée things to wit that the nature be brought through easie meanes to be laxatiue to prouoke vomit and moreouer to vse such things that do incide and attenuate the matter and expell vrine Sixtly forasmuch as the debilitie of the stomacke and of the liuer is an occasion of many filthy humors therefore néede requireth that you séeke to comfort and open the same and also the spléene Seuenthly for that this Ague from the beginning till it come to the highest state requireth much time therefore you are to consider of the patient accordingly and to giue him much or little meate Eightly one must in the beginning of the Ague and likewise as often also as it assayleth kéepe the patient awake and that so long til it begin to decline that the expulsion of the humors be not thereby hindered Ninthly he is not to be fed so long as the fit of the Ague endureth but a good space before and afterwards vnlesse that some debilitie and weaknesse require the contrary And how these Agues are by medicines to be cured that is before in the fift part the twentith chapter sufficiently taught and expressed whereby euery one may gouerne himselfe and especially these pils here following are to be prepared for these phlegmaticke Agues Take the rinds of Mirobalani Chebuli Rubarbe Cinnamome Cardamome and Cloues of each a dragme Aloe thrée dragmes beate all these together very small and with the iuice of Mints wherein a dragme and a halfe of Agaricus is stéeped then make pils thereof and euery morning and euening take halfe a drag at once You are also to receiue a potion that is described in the third part the twelfth chapter beginning thus Take Gentian c. You are generally at the first to vse alwayes for these Agues Oxymel and other things moe that prouoke vrine as hath bene taught in the third part the eighteenth chapter This patient is also to vse none other meate than such as doth separate the tough phlegme and expelleth it In like manner when the Ague is at the state then must care be had for the mouth of the stomake like as there are therefore diuers medicines ordained in the description of the stomack in the third part the eleuenth chapter Vomiting is for these Agues passing good for thereby will many slimie humors be expelled And how to prouoke vomit you may search and find in the first Register The tenth Chapter Of the Quartaine Ague Quartana WHen as these Quartaine Agues are mixt with other Agues then hath she her beginning of Melancholy as the Quotidian Ague of Phlegma And because the blacke melancholicke blood hath his residence in the Milt it will commonly be felt in the same place at the beginning This ague is as her cause is cold and dry Albeit the same humors are very grosse cold and heauy yet doth their cold nature not appeare forthwith to wit in the beginning or the first day but by little and little as it ingendreth so that the cold when the Ague is at the highest doth not otherwise shew it selfe than it doth vnto such as are stiffened by extreame cold in the hard winter and it is to be likened by a stone muskle or bone which lying in the fire and being hot you cannot well know the heate till you feele it So fareth it also with melancholicke humors when they happen to kindle then remaineth there no moisture till they be cleane burnt and therefore are they the longer before they kindle than any other for that as is said the corruption commeth to kindle by little and little By the foresaid occasions it commeth to passe also that the pulse beateth very slow faint and longsome yea in yong folkes so very faint that they may be likened to old folkes for as this Ague beginneth to increase and attaine to the highest then will the pulse be the more swifter and forcible yet not so strong as it is in the Tertian Ague whereof
we will further write and make mention The causes of this quartaine Ague are euen as abouesaid first the melancholike blood time of the haruest and after that the winter for that at these seasons these humors are not onely stirred but also augmented more vehement and durable so that otherwhile they endure vntill winter whereas to the contrary the same are shorter in Sommer and the rather if the nature of the countrey be inclined that way and the time of the yeare otherwhiles is such that it ingendreth foule bloud whereby then such and other Agues are caused Wherefore good héede must be taken to all these foresayd things and in like manner whether the patient be not of a melancholicke nature and hath not vsed before to eate such kinds of meates whereof this melancholicke blood is ingendred or increased as bread of Millet Lentiles Beanes Chestnuts salt chéese salt fish Béefe Hares Harts Cabbages and such like Item all other things that inflame the blood as Garlicke Cresses pepper Mustard strong and spiced wines burnt wine and all kinds of hot spice or fruites but especially great labour trauell in the heate of the Sun long anger great sorrow and long former Agues whereby the bloud and other humors are burnt and putrified and are altered by the great heate into Melancholiam before they be expelled whereof you haue further instruction in the description of Melancholy and of the stomacke Item haue speciall care whether the Milt of the patient be not swolne or haue any other infirmitie Or whether the patient haue before had no erratick Ague for that the quartaine Ague neuer commeth alone but commonly alwayes after another Ague You must alwayes mark wel whether the vrine be white thin and waterish in these things as also in the pulse and cold doth it altogether differ from the tertian but regard not you the vomiting of the gall for that is the onely nature of the tertian ague but if you find by the motion of the pulse or otherwise after that the Ague is gone or if there be any signes of the ague then is there no doubt at all but that it is a quartaine ague Now to cure this Ague we will first of all shew you certaine rules and for the first if the pulse be forcible and beateth swiftly the water be red and grosse the patient be yong and full of bloud then shall you not omit but open the Basilica or Milt veine on the left hand but if the bloud be red and cléere then stop it againe but if it be thicke and black then let it runne and that so long as the parties strength be able to beare it Secondly if so be that the patient haue not much blood let him then not bléede at all Thirdly you must not giue to any that is taken with the Ague any strong purgation at the first by reason that all melancholicke humors are very tough and grosse and the same may not be purged in the beginning but mild purgations must be vsed and gentle Clisters Fourthly all meates and drinkes that are prepared dayly for the patient shall be laxatiue that he may alwayes haue some vacuation Fiftly against such time as the Ague approcheth the patient must at any hand refraine foode that nature thereby may worke the better on the matter of the Ague also the easier expell and withstand it Sixtly he may not bathe vntill the Ague begin to decrease Seuenthly he must forbeare all fruites by reason of their grosse moisture that lightly doth putrifie and may prouoke obstructions Eightly these patients must take héede of the cold aire and settle themselues in temperate dwellings Ninthly they that haue any obstruction in their veines are to vse such meates and drinkes that warme and moisten Tenthly because that this humor is compact and the state thereof a great while after it beginneth the patient is not to be kept ouersparingly but let him be cherished with meate that he may retaine his force and strength and expect the statum of the disease Eleuenthly for this kind of sicknes you must not giue him any ouerhot and dry things for feare that the ague be not thereby doubled prolonged and altered into a continuall ague Twelftly you are not to vse ouercold remedies because they do thicken and harden the matter wherefore â—uld meanes are alwayes to be vsed and taken Out of these foresaid rules it is easily to be vnderstood that no strong medicines are to be vsed in the beginning of this Ague except one sée that there is great store of blood at hand at which time the Median may be opened in the right arme Also if the blood be blacke and thicke as it happeneth to be of such that haue a diseased spléene then may one let it runne the longer but if it be red and cleane then must it be presently stopt The ordinance and gouernement of his life must be such that he feede not vpon any thing that prouoketh or bréedeth wind but vse all meates that ingender good blood and kéepe the bodie open and soluble and if any defect be hereof then must a mild clister be ministred Also he shall forbeare swines flesh and all meates that are slimie and hard of digestion and of all that which might make the body cold and drie His drink must be thin white wine his meate all maner of field fowles but no water fowles fish of light-digestion and not slimie salt meates and mustard may he also vse Also he may sometimes vse the confection Diatrion pipereon or Diaspoliticon and although the patient did drinke eeuery day a little pepper with water it were not amisse This patient shall not wholy forbeare from riding from walking and from baths if he hath bene accustomed to it yet is the bath not very good for him If this quartaine ague be not very strong nor yet continue long then can it not hurt if the patient vpon his frée dayes do execute his affaires and businesse But about the time as is supposed that the Ague is come to the highest state then must the patient féede very moderatly yea more sparingly than euer before keeping himselfe very quiet and annoint the belly with such things as may keepe the body open and soluble and also vse such things as prouoke vrine wherof you shall find good instruction at due time and place And as soone as one perceiueth that the humors begin to auoid then are those things to be vsed that expell melancholy and that not once but as often as néede shall require Also to prouoke him to vomit and that after meate and if néed be let him take a little black Hellebore therewith to ease and further the vomiting But they that cannot vomit must be purged Treacle is also passing good for them yet it is to be noted that none of these foresaid things may be vsed before the sicknesse be at the highest for thereby might of a single quartaine ague be made a double and lastly of
and the whole body often with this water following Take twelue ounces of Rose water one quarter of an ounce of Camfere Puâ—slaine séedes and red Saunders of each a dragme one quarter of an ounce of starch mingle them all together This drinke following is also highly commended Take sixe or seuen riuer Crabs lay them in a quart of water then cast therein a hanfull of ashes and let them stand foure houres long afterwards rub then wel therwith and wash them cleane with faire water thrée or foure times and so seeth them and take the tayles of them cut them very small and séeth them againe with a quart of barley water till they be almost consumed then straine the broth through a cloth and giue thereof thrée or foure ounces euery time to the patient to drinke when you will But if you will haue this water to coole more and nourish lesse then séeth the Crabs whole and vncut and not so long time as is aforesaid After this maner may you also dresse a Tortoyse that liueth in fresh water and is excellent good for this disease The small fishes that are taken in fresh waters are very commodious for this disease if they be taken without spice In the description of the consumption Phthisis in the second part the fifth chapter and 22. § are many kinds of remedies prescribed for this Hectica and afterwards also in the sixth chapter of the panting of the heart through heate are diuers cullises described that are very good and profitable to be drunken You may also prepare these confections following for the same take of the white flesh of a yong Hen or capon sixe ounces starch one ounce and a halfe new oyle of swéete Almonds sixe ounces fiue whites of new layd egges let the oyle starch and egges séeth together on a soft fire vntill it be thicke afterwards mingle the flesh of a Capon being chopt small amongst them and make cakes thereof whereof the patient may vse a little at each time and as often as him pleaseth which also is as good as if he tooke much at once seldome and better Or prepare this following take white Poppie séedes péeled séedes of Melons Citruls Cucumbers and of Pompeons of each a quarter of an ounce Almonds Hasell nuts Pistacies all of them shaled and Sebestes of each thrée dragmes Pingles that haue bin stéeped 24. houres before in Rose water fiue dragmes conserues of Burrage Buglosse and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one quarter of an ounce conserue of Roses fiue dragmes Manus Christi with pearles and sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce rosted Capons flesh two ounces white flesh of Hens that is stuft and drest with Buglosse Baulme Burrage and Endiue thrée ounces cut both of these small and then mingle therewith Species Diambra and de Gemmis of each halfe a dragme Doronicum Saffron Cinnamom Roses and red Coral of each fiue dragmes Species Diatriasantalon and grains prepared pearles a quarter of an ounce sugar sodden as thicke as hony as much as néede requireth for to make a confection mingle them well and vse it as aforesaid one quarter of an ounce at once There is also vsually made for this a confection of oyle of swéete Almonds starch and sugar The preserued Gourds are also wonderfull good against this vnnaturall heate Of the Ague Hectica with a paine in the breast Empyema and Phthisis §. 1. IN this compounded Ague which is placed amongst the Putridas or putrified Agues there doth appéere besides the former signes cold and a very stifnesse of cold which commeth at vncertaine times sometimes by day and otherwhiles by night and that alwayes vnstedfast which hapneth by the diuersitie of the humors whereof now the one and then the other is stirred vp and inflamed The corruption which is gathered together in the breast out of the head or out of the veines doth chiefly cause this consumption which lieth there putrified and mingled with the blood iâ— cast out and expelled and albeit that this kind of consumption and also the former be incurable yet you must be maruellous diligent by these meanes following to accomplish health is far as it is possible First therefore you must refraine and shun all things that are sharpe and salt as Mustard Radishes Onions Garlicke and such like Item all flatulent and windy things and all that is cold by nature and hard of digestion as vnsodden milke porredge of pease or beanes vnleauened and dough baked bread Veriuice and Limons c. His drinke must be good common cléere Béere or any thin red swéete Wine but he must refraine from strong wine and béere but if he cannot beare wine nor béere then giue him to drink good sugred Barley water Yong lambes flesh yong swine Muttons of a yéere old and calues are very wholsome meate for him Also Larkes wood fowles Partridges Fesants and Hares and specially riuer Crabs sod in barly water or milke are passing good Coleworts sodden stewed Barley drest with starch Calues féet sodden in vineger the lights of all beasts but chiefly of Foxes and Hogs rere sodden egs or the same drest with other meate fresh butter and chéese but little salted milke pap thrée or foure drie figs eaten before meales and sweete Pomegranates rosted in the warme ashes are all of them much nourishing After meate let him also eate thrée or foure rosted Hasell nuts and Saffron and Cinnamome in his meate measurably These confections following are also most commodious for him Take white Poppie séedes an ounce rosted flesh of a Capon foure ounces starch thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Pingles foure ounces péeled Almonds three ounces Roses thrée dragmes yellow Saunders and Mace of each a quarter of an ounce Cinnamome thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounces Lignum Aloes two dragmes and a halfe Nutmegs a dragme Amber two scruples Musk sixe graines fresh oyle of swéet Almonds foure ounces sugar which is sodden with Rose water and Baulme water as much as néede requireth for a confection mingle all these well together beaten and shread small take thereof euery morning and euening halfe an ounce euery time before meate And when as this disease falleth out of the head into the breast and that this Ague Hectica hath from thence her beginning then must special care be had for to comfort the braines which may thus be compassed First let the head be shorne bald and then vpon the naked shorne head lay this plaister following Take Laudanum a dragme and a halfe Rosin and red Storax of each thrée quarters of an ounce Masticke Roses and white Corall of each halfe a dragme Sandaraca a dragme and a halfe Mace two scruples Cloues one scruple dissolue the gum and rosin in vineger that is not too eager then mingle it all together with molten waxe and make thereof two round plaisters which you may lay thereon now one and then another Secondly take a little péece of Masticke chew the same once a day
signes to be found than age as are to be séene in very old folkes Now to come to the remedies of this kind of consumption this patient shall vse as néere as he may all warme and moist things He must often bathe himselfe in fresh warme water and vse many moystening clisters as the broth of Lambes heads of tripes of Hens and the like for these are very commodious for him because they moisten the bowels and refresh and nourish the liuer But you must put hereto neither salt nor any spice that they be not too sharp and may be held in the longer You must also take for this Clister not aboue sixe ounces of broth at once but in foure and twentie houres you are to minister thrée or foure Also the rubbing or bathing of the externall parts after meales is greatly commended and as Hony in the Ague Hectica is very hurtfull so is it in this disease Marasmode very commodious Further all light meates are passing good for him that are not slimie as fresh broth reare egges with a thinne and pleasant wine being measurably vsed and such like Item all the salues plaisters and other things which are prescribed for the Feuer Hectica may also be vsed in this sicknesse But for these diseases speciall héed is to be taken of cold and of all things as in any way consume the radicall humiditie Those that wil haue any further declaration of this infirmity let them reade that which hath bene said in the description of the consumption or feuer Hectica The thirteenth Chapter Of the long lingring Agues THe long continuing of Agues dependeth vpon thrée kinds of causes First when any one hath an outward sore which hardly will be cured Secondly if the patient or the Phisition euer mistake or kéepeth some bad order Thirdly this is also procured by some outward occasion as by the time of the yeare by continuall raine by the nature of the countrey by the vnhailnesse of the dwelling place by great care and troubles of mind But when it is knowne that there are none of these foresaid occasions then must it of necessitie depend on the fourth cause that is on a grosse tough and slimie humor If therefore you will haue remedy against the continuing of Agues then must you cure and take away the foresaid causes with their contraries For that these long continuing Agues are commonly caused by an obstruction of the liuer whereto these things following are principally good to wit sirupus Diarrhodon de Cichorio de Lupulis de Eupatorio de capillo Veneris Oxymel compositum de Bysantijs de Radicibus Item the decoction of Adiantum Harts toong Agrimony Wormewood Endiue Cicorie of all or of some of them The common pestilentiall pilles called Ruffi and Rubarbe Cassie Hiera picra conserue of Prunes Agaricus and sirupe of Roses laxatiue are also excellent good Item you must boile also Parsly roots with your meate the wine shal be mingled with water wherein Cinnamome Annis séed Coriander and Fennell rootes are sodden You must annoint the liuer with the salue that is described in the third part the twelft chapter and third § beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. in which place you shall find many moe other remedies against the obstruction of the liuer through heate and cold For the liuer being deopilated and opened then will the long lingring Ague be easily mitigated The fourteenth Chapter Of swellings that follow after the Ague IT commeth oftentimes to passe that some haue their féete swolne after the long continuing of an Ague then vse a bath to sweate in and take one ounce of the distilled water of Cammomill flowers which hath bene drawne onely out of the yellow séedes of the flowers You must boyle in the water of this bath Sloe leaues and therewithall bathe and sweate In the bathing you shall forbeare from drinke but this bath is more commodious after some phlegmaticke Agues than after any hote Agues and what order of diet is to be obserued after a lingering Ague when the patient beginneth to recouer hath beene sufficiently shewed and declared in the third Chapter and the twelfth § The fifteenth Chapter Of the Plague THis most noisome terrible and perillous malady of the plague is called of the Gréekes Epidemia and of the Latinists Lues Pestis and Pestilentia which last name we also vse This malady is described by Galen after this manner The Plague is a sicknes that doth infect all or at the least very many men and is caused of the venemous ayre Or thus The Plague is a disease that either spéedily killeth or soone forsaketh a man And where such sicknesses get the vpper hand there distresse and misery aboundeth for it hath bene seene by experience that it hath made away men cattel and fowles of the aire yea many thousands of fishes in the waters and that not onely villages and townes haue bene depriued thereby of all their inhabitants but also great cities and countries haue by the same bene made desolate The causes of the Plague §. 1. OF the naturall causes of the Plague there are as many opinions amongst the Philosophers as there are causes that procure it as namely of venemous vapors of the earth that are infected by some earthquakes or if a countrey be hot moyst full of stenches full of lakes or still standing waters and cloyed with stench of dead bodies as it oftentimes befalleth after great wars and slaughters but especially is the aire infected as is abouesaid through sinne whereby it may diuersly be venomed Also when the aire is warme and moist and that it doth raine much in time of heate with a Southerly wind whereof we will not at this present make any further discourse but they that desire to haue any ampler description hereof may reade ouer the Philosophers and other learned Phisitions But howsoeuer this is the most certaine cause of this sicknesse that God the Lord for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse to wit idolatrie incredulitie and ingratitude hath vsed this Plague and many afflictions moe as hunger warre and shedding of blood to punish the foresaid sinnes and transgressions These are his rods and scourges euen the ministers of his wrath to chastice the wicked world as through his Prophets he hath foresaid and threatned the world and as both holy Scriptures and heathen writers testifie that it hath afterward ensued accordingly Signes of the Plague to come §. 2. FIrst it is a certaine signe that the aire is infected and that a plague is to be expected if in the end of the sommer there appeare Comets or any other impressions which men cal flakes of fire starres that fall or shoote and such like in the element which proceede of vapors that are drawne out of the earth into the aire and there are kindled whereby both men and cattell are infected Secondly when any vnaccustomed heape of beasts are séene as of Frogs Toades Grashoppers Mice and Wormes which oftentimes
some sinople or mine of the quicksiluer Sandaraca Auripigmentum which is Orpiment they are for the most part al of one nature that they torment the intrailes with an intolerable paine and in case that there be no remedy had for the same in time then doth it kill him We will also adde to the former the yellow red and white Ratsbane or Arsenicum For this is commodious all that expelleth venome abateth his sharpnesse and looketh the belly whereof there is much written before The iuice of Hollihockes and of Mallowes is speciall good for it by reason that they are both of them mollifying For this also you are to giue him a potion wherein Linséed and Rice are sodden or Milke tempered with Hony water must he drinke vnmeasurably In like maner also all fat flesh broth Quicksiluer is called in Gréeke Hydrargyron which is Water siluer and in Latine Argentum viuum we call it in this country Quicksiluer and is of Plinie called a venome excéeding all other venomes It doth also manifest the same in mans bodie not onely taken inwardly but also annointed ouer the outside That it is such a poison not only of the blood but also of the venemous pocks and of other maladies moe as you may see and reade before in diuers places of this booke Some do say if one drinke it it presently runneth though the body but if any such thing happen yet notwithstanding there remaineth somewhat thereof behind in the body that doth hurt the same and the intrailes For the remedie of this poison one must drinke much milk and then vomit it vp againe or in stéed thereof Wormwood wine or water wherein Smallage the seeds of Clary and Marierom or Isop are sodden For this is also very requisite small filed gold which doth draw the Quicksiluer vnto it in a wonderful maner as by experience may daily be séene at the goldsmiths and other how quickly it cleaueth to the gold and when it is warme it mingleth it selfe with the gold where neuertheles al other things that are cast vpon it are expelled from it and swim on the top of it and letteth them not fall to the bottome There may also be well vsed against the venom of Quicksiluer al that standeth written against the litharge of gold Further it is wel knowne to all the world that there is no stronger venom than the Mercurius sublimatus like as all Chirurgians and Pockmasters do find by experience when as they do vse the same in any vlcer How one shal prepare the litharge of siluer Plinie doth teach the same diuersly we wil here admonish of his poison when the same is drunken then doth it make in the body in al the intrailes not only an anguish but also an extreme pricking paine it pierceth the inward parts by his waight it stayeth vrine it swelleth the body and procureth a leaden colour When as the patient hath vomited exceedingly then are you to giue him wine to drink with the séeds of Clary sodden in it Myrrh wormwood Isop seeds of smallage pepper Ligustrum or dried pigeons dung The fourth Chapter Of the venomes that come of Beasts WHat great commodities Almightie God hath giuen vnto vs in Beasts is sufficiently knowne vnto all the world and the same is to be séene in the foresaid parts of this booke and in diuers medicines For behold what is more base and lesse estéemed than the Earthwormes that bréede in the stinking dunghils and also liue therein neuertheles they are vsed in grieuous sicknesses both inwardly and outwardly with great good The venemous Scorpions and Vipers are wholsome medicines against venom and other diseases and yet moe such like whereof one might write whole bookes as the books of all Phisitions and Philosophers do testifie yea it hath bene found oftentimes that the ordure of some beasts hath holpen in deadly sicknesses But to the contrary there are foure little beasts not fearefull but hurtfull against which hurts and harmes there are here very good remedies taught to defend preserue one from them For what is a more friendlier beast towards men than the Dog What beast is more obedient and can be lesse without the companie of men Yet it is not vnknowne to all men how hurtfull and perilous the biting of a mad dog is for if there be not presently very good remedies vsed against it then will the same man be mad also and all other men that shall be bitten by the sayd mad man Wherefore we will in this fourth Chapter speake of certaine venemous beasts and wormes whereof we by the grace of God in regard of the South countries haue but a few in Germanie Wherefore we will omit Basiliscus Amphisibaena Cerastes Dipsades and such like venemous beasts moe which are to be found onely in Africa and admonish of those that are knowne of vs and adde vnto them the remedies that are requisite against their venome The first are the Ants or Pismires which truly are prouident and laborious little beasts whereof we will not here describe the nature but will discourse so much as serueth to our purpose Then it is found that men through their pissing feele in their skinne the which is more greater than is the stinging of Nettles for the place thereof swelleth They annoy also thereby all herbes and trées And for to driue away the same from thence you are to take Cowdung and temper it with vineger and therewith annoint the body of the trée or take Pitch or Rosin for it They shunne also the smoake of Brimstone and the fume of Marierom in such sort that thereby they forsake their holes Some affirme the same also of Cicorie or that is better to be beleeued of Esula which herbes and the smoke of the sulphur doth not only hunt them away but also killeth them These Ants and their egs are also vsed in phisicke When as any man is stung of Bees Waspes or Hornets then doth he not onely complaine of great paine and heate but also of great swelling of the place where he is stoong whereto you may vse this following most commodiously Make a plaister of Linseede meale and salt tempered with vineger or stampe Hollihocke leaues and lay them moist thereon You may also do the same with the flowers of Baulme The same doth wild and tame Rue the milke of new Figs salt fish and the pickle of the same Item sea water when the place is often moistened therewith Take Treacle or Mithridate as big as a hempe séede and annoint it thereon or if you haue nothing else then take the moist earth out of the garden and annoint it therewith It is said that if one be once bitten of a scorpion that then neuer afterwards neither Bée nor Waspe will bite him The same is also written of the wormes that grow on Coleworts when they are tempered with oyle and annointed therewith This is also worthy to be thought vpon that when one beareth any odoriferous things that
then the Bées are the readier and gréedier to sting the same partie than otherwise Although that there be no Cantharides or Spanish flies in Germanie yet are they common at all Apothecaries They are also very much vsed of the Chirurgions and of other as may be séene before in many places but by reason that some most vnprouidently take the same in hand and also will vse them inwardly therefore cannot I conceale their poison These Spanish flies bréede of the Caterpillers or little wormes of the Figge tree Peare trée Fir tree and Rose trée c. and when one drinketh them then follow there afterwards all maner of painfull symptomes for that one may feele from the mouth euen to the neck of the bladder a sharpnesse and great exulceration and he supposeth that he alwayes smelleth pitch the right side swelleth inwardly the vrine will hardly voyd and passeth away with blood and in going to the stoole there auoydeth the scrapings of the bowels like to them that haue the bloudie flixe They lie in great smart are also féeble and impotent The head swimmeth so much that otherwhiles they fall to the earth vntill at the very last they are bereft of their vnderstanding And to remedy these grieuous accidents there must be giuen to the patient Sallad oyle or some such thing to drinke for to bring him to vomit and when this is done then are you to minister vnto him a clister that is sodden with Rice Hollihocke rootes Fenegréeke Linseed Mallowes and such like If one may get the right Nitrum then is it very commodiously vsed with Oxymel our Salt-peter is not the right Nitrum whereby the rest that remaine sticking in the stomacke and in the bowels might be washed off and expelled Afterward you are to giue him wine and sodden Must to drinke wherein is sodden Pingles or Cucumber séede This may also be effected with milke or hony water and in like maner also Goosegrease and sodden wine There is a pappe of Barley meale to be layed vpon the swolne place made with hony water It is also to be noted that at the first there must no plaister be layd thereon for that will do more hurt than good When all hath bin done that is abouesaid then are you to annoint the body with oyles that be warme by nature and then to bathe after it so that thereby al that may hurt the body might be drawne out You must also sée that the patient haue alwayes a loose body He may eate Cockrels yong Buckes or Kids and Swines flesh that is very fat And he shall also seeth Linséede with it for that mollifieth and dampeth the eagernesse of the poison He shall drinke excessiuely swéete wine The rindes of Frankinsence and sealed earth the one or the other the waight of a quarter of an ounce taken with Must is also much commended Item there is good for it the decoction of Penniroyall Item Orage stamped Rue and the iuice of the same drunken with wine In like maner also Cow milke that is described in the third part the twelfth chapter and 11. § beginning thus Take Gentian c. But aboue all these are the Antidota good as also both the Treacles the Mithridate Alexipharmacon and such like It hapneth also oftentimes that the people that trauell through the countrey do vnawares drinke an horsleach which according to the olde wont without interceasing sucketh bloud within the body but if it remaine hanging within the throate thou may it be seene But when this hapneth then must good héede be taken that you venter not to get it out with any tongs or other things for that commonly they leaue their téeth sticking in the flesh whereby afterwards grow grieuous impostumes and it booteth not thereto that they be cut off they leaue not therefore their sucking and if they fall deeper into the body and come to hang at the mouth of the stomacke that is easie to be knowne by their drawing Thus for to cure this accident he is to drinke pickle of fish or any other salt water holding it in the mouth and to gargarize therewith Item Angelica sodden with Béetes Further take Rue séeth it in vineger and drinke it or hold it in the mouth according to the place where the worme is fastened Or take Vineger that is heated with a glowing iron melt butter therein and giue the patient to drinke of this vineger For this is also very good the meale of Lupins tempered with water and the same holden in the mouth The Woodlice are a filthy stinking vermine neuerthelesse they are said to be good against all venome which if they be burnt and the fume of them receiued they cause the Horsleaches to fall off The Flea is a vile troublesome and blood thirsty litle beast which vexeth both man and beast To driue them away or to kill them there is no fitter meanes than that you keepe the chamber alwayes very cleanely sprinkle it with water and swéepe out the same cleane for that they do grow of drie dust Item you may also vse these things following Séeth Coriander in water and therewith besprinkle the chamber and also let the linnen be washed therein This same driueth also lice away yet note that of late was written of the Coriander that thereby the head take no hurt Item take Coriander wilde Thyme séede of Tribulus aquaticus and Elderne leaues séeth them in water enough and besprinkle the chamber therewith this driueth away and killeth the fleas The same vertue is ascribed to the smoake of Penniroyall and the powder of Rue strowed in the chamber and all those things that may be vsed for Lice and Wood-lice The Italians and other nations moe haue a minde to eate Frogges which other nations doe abhorre but we will disswade all the world from them and specially such as bréede in stinking pondes and waters and are dunne which are not like the right frogges for they prouoke a swelling of the whole body with a bleake and yellow colour like vnto the Hollie tree thereupon followeth a short stinking heauie breath hoarsnesse and effluxion of the naturall séede Now then for to remedie this mischance you must let the patient vomit mightily and drinke ouer much wine For this also may you giue him of the Cipers roote beaten a quarter of an ounce Further you are then to admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe mightily to run and walke much or take some other exercise in hand thereby to sharpen the body and he shall bathe euery day We haue said before that there is no more perillous venome than that of a mad dogge And concerning the madnes of a dog it is most perillous in hot times as when the Sun entreth into Leo to wit in the moneths of Iuly and August which thirtie dayes we do not only call the dog daies of the Dog star but also for that dogs in those daies are most inclined to madnes and then hurt men most of all
Resina is a common name for all gummes but because that rosin is dayly in vse it is called resina the other gums are named with additions wherfore whensoeuer you find rosin in any composition then shall you vnderstand the resina pinus Rubarbe in Gréeke Rhaeon barbaricon and Rhaeonbarbarum Rhaeumbarbarum Rhasceniticum Rhemusceniticum and Radix barbarica Rubie there are sixe kindes of it the first and most precious is the Carbuncle which is cleare fierie and perspicuous aboue all other gemmes it is called in Gréeke Apyrotus and Anthracites in Latine Carbunculus The other kinde of Carbuncle is the rubie a well knowne precious stone and it is called Carbunculus Amethystizon in Gréeke Anthrax Amethystizon and Pyropus and at the Apothecaries Rubinus this is next the the Carbuncle and very much vsed The third kind is the Granate The fourth kind is somewhat paler than the other former kinds it is of a light red colour it is called in high Dutch Ballas in Gréeke Astrios or Asterios of Augustine in the 21. booke de ciuitate Dei Aster of the Druggists Balagius Ballasius Pallasius Pallenaea gemma Ballenaea gâ—mma Carbunculus candidus and Spinalus The fifth kinde is of a yellowish red and light in colour it is called in Gréeke and Latine Lychnis Lychnites Carbunculus giluus and Carbunculus pallidus The sixth kinde is called Carbunculus alabandicus and Lapis alabandicus Amongst all these kinds are onely the Rubie and the Granate in vse for phisicke Rue in Gréeke and Latine Peganum Rhyte and Ruta There are foure kindes of it to wit two tame and two wilde the two tame kindes are so like that they can hardly be distinguished if one looke not well vpon them and they are vsed without any difference one for the other The first kinde of wild Rue is called Rue of the mountaines of Dioscorides Ruta montana or Rhyte montana this is most like to the garden Rue but that it is much lesse it groweth here and there on the hils in Italy but with vs it is set in gardens The second kind of Rue groweth in diuers places of Germany of it selfe and it is also otherwhiles set in gardens it hath longish leaues a strong and vnpleasant smell and white flowers out of which three square heads do grow that containe the seede somewhat bigger than those of the common Rue and by the name of wilde Rue is this commonly vnderstood The other wild or mountaine Rue is only called Rue this last kind is called in gréeke Peganon agrion of Galen Moly Aâ—mala Harmalâ— and Besasa but Moly is another plant with Dioscorides and Hippocrates The Herbarists do call this wild Rue with Dioscorides Ruta syluestris Auicenna and the Arabians do call it Alharmel Armel and Harmel Some vnskilfull Phisitions do take Hemlocke for Harmel or Ruta syluestris and so do they follow their blinde leaders Mathaeus Syluaticus and Iacobus Manlius that haue composed the Lumen maius and haue translated Harmel for Cicuta and haue expounded Armel to be the wild Rue all which is most false for it is most true that Armala and Harmala of the Greekes and Alharmel Alarmel Armel and harmel of the Arabians is one and the same plant to wit wild Rue which Galen doth call Moly wherefore these fellowes doe lie falsly and shall not be able to make answer for it hereafter that they do mixe the séedes of Hemlocke in the pillulae foetidae and aggregatiuae in stead of the séedes of wild Rue thereby not only deceiuing the people but hurting and spoyling them so that great héede ought to be taken in all places where these pilles are prepared with the seede of Hemlocke in stead of the seede of wild Rue which I could not omit at this present to shew and make knowne to the Reader for to vse venome in stead of Rueseede is no small errour S. SAffron in Gréeke and in Latine Crocus Crocum and Cynomorphus of the Magicians Sanguis Herculis of Serapius and Auicenna Sahaferam It is called barbarously Saffranum The very best Saffron that is to be had in Europe is the Dutch Saffron which is set about Vienna and Spier in Germanie Sage in Gréeke Elelisphacos and Crosmis in Latine Saluia of Apuleius Corsaluium There are foure kindes of it two tame and two wilde the first is called great Sage or broade Sage in Latine Saluia maior The second kinde is the lesser or eared Sage in Latine Saluia Cruciata Saluia Auriculatae Saluia minor Saluia Acuta and Saluia nobilis The third kinde is the first of the wilde Sages which Theophrastus calleth Sphacelus it groweth commonly among Chestnut trées and vpon woody hils it hath greater rougher and more wrinkled leaues than the great garden Sage hath and it looketh as if it were withered with dryeth it hath a prettie blew flower The fourth kinde is the second wild Sage which is knowne to diuers by that name and is called Saluia Syluestris Saluia Bosci Boscisaluia Scorodiana Scordiana of Cordus Scorodiana By Sage without any addition shalt thou vnderstand the garden Sage Saint Iohns wort Hypericon Perforata and Fuga daemonum of the Herbarists Ruta Solis herba Solis it is a common and wel knowne herbe hot and drie by nature Saint Iohns bread in Gréek Xylocerata or Xylocaracta at the Apothecaries and of Actuarius Carrubia Others do call it panis diui Iohannis it is the fruite of a trée longish and swéete and hath certaine kernels within it Sal Armoniac it is called Sal Armoniacus or Sal Harmoniacus and at the Apothecaries Sal Armoniacum This Salt was wont to be digged out of the Sandes in Africa and was thence brought vnto vs which now a dayes we want But there is another chimicall Salt made of pisse and other things vsed in stead of the former the which of many vnskilfull men is taken and vsed as wel inwardly as outwardly for the right Sal Armoniac but woe to them that take it inwardly But because that we cannot get of the right Sal Armoniac any more we may vse in this place the stone Salt or Salt of the mines which is a kinde of the true Sal Armoniac and hath also the same vertue and operation I would with no man to vse the common Sal Armoniac inwardly Sallamander in Gréeke Molge in Latine Salamandra it is a very venemous worme like to a great Euet with blacke and yellow spots it liueth commonly in the water and poysoneth the same Salt Sal. There are foure kindes of it the common salt is called of Cato Sal popularis The second called Sal Marinus is made of the Sea water in English bay Salt The third kinde is Sal palustris The fourth is stone salt Sal Fossitius Sal Crystallinus or Sal Montanus Saltpeter Nitrum Niter and Sal Petrae the Arabians doe call it Baurach it is a kinde of naturall Salt Some doe falsly vse the common Saltpeter for it which is a great deceit Sanicle in
regia Paeonia Pyony Rosa pumila a field rose Rosa rubra a red Rose Rosa sancta Paeonia Pyonie Rosa Syriaca a Muske rose Rosa Trachinia Plinij Rosa rubra the red Rose Rosa vulpina a yellow Rose Rosago Nerium Oleander Rosarum apices the yellow séede which is within the Rose Rosata nouella a Confection of Roses so called Rosea arbor Rhododendrum Oleander Rosella Herbariorum Papauer erraticum wilde Poppie Rosimarinum siue Rosimarinus seu Rosmarinum Coronarium Rosemary Rosmarinum Coronarium Rosemary Rosmarinum Mauritanorum Sticas Arabica French Lauender or Lauander gentle Rostrum Ciconiae Storks bill Rubia Erythrodanum Madder Rubia tinctoria siue tinctorum seu rubia Infectoria a kind of Madder Rubinus Gemma a Ruby or precious stone Rubrica armenia Bolus armenius Bolearmoniacke Rubrica lemnia Rubrica sigillata Terra lemnia Terra sigillata Sealed earth Rubus the Bramble Blackberry or Bryer-bush Rubus Ceruinus Rubus Idaeus a kind of Bramble Ruella Polygonum minus a kinde of Swines grasse Rucula Aquatica siue Rucula marina Rocket Ructus a belching or breaking of winde vpward Rumex Sorrell Rumex aquaticus siue palustris Hydrolapathum a kind of water Sorrell Rumex palustris vide Rumex aquaticus Rumex satiuus Rhabarbarum Monachorum Monks Rubarbe Patience Rupertiana Herba ruperti Storkes bill Ruscus a certaine rough and pricking shrub so called Butchers broome or Pettigrewe Ruta Rue Ruta montana a kinde of Rue so called Ruta muraria Adiantum candidū Venus Maiden or our Lady hayre Ruta syluestris wild Rue Ruta solis Hypericum S. Iohns woort Rutinalis Spondylium Beares foote or Beares clawe S. SAbina Sauina the herbe called Sauine Sacchar Saccharon vel Saccharum Sugar Saccharum Cantium Candum siue Candidum Sugar candie Saccharum Cibale common kitchen Sugar Saccharum Canariense Canary sugar Saccharum Christallinum white Sugar Candye Saccharum finum seu refinatum siue Saccharum Valentinum fine Sugar Saccharum Maltanum siue Melitaeum kitchin Sugar Saccharum Maderiense siue Mederiense a kind of Sugar so called Saccharum Miscellaneum a kinde of Sugar Saccharum Ponidium a kind of Sugar so called Saccharum Tabartzet Arabum Saccharum purissimum albissimum Saccharum finum fine Sugar Saccharum Thomasinum siue Thomaeum Saccharum rubrum officinarum S. Thomas Sugar Saccharum seu Conserua florum Caryophyllaeae a conserue of Gillofers Saccharum florum Lauendulae a conserue of Lauander flowers Saccharum florum Melissae a conserue so called Saccharum Buglossatum a conserue of Buglosse Saccharum Borraginatum conserue of Borage Saccharum florum Hyssopi conserue of Hyssope Saccharum florum Nymphaeae conserue of water Roses Saccharum florū Pseudonardi conserue of Spike Saccharum florum Persici a conserue so called Saccharum Rosatum conserue of Roses Saccharum florū Rosemarini conserue of Rosemarie Saccharum Saluiatum conserue of Sage Saccharum Trifolij accidi conserue of Cuckoes bread Saccharū florū verbasculi cōserue of Cowslips Saccharū violarū Iosaccharō cōserue of Violets Sacerdotis virile Arum Cuckopit Sacra herba Verbena Verueine Sagapenum Serapinum officinarū a certain kind of stinking gum growing in Syria which the Apothecaries call Serapinum Saggina Italorum Sorgum an herbe so called Sahafaran Arabum Crocus Saffron Sal Ammoniacus siue Sal Hammoniacus a kind of Salt the which hath heretofore bin digged out of the sand in Africa and hath bene brought hither which as yet is vsed amongst vs. Sal Armoniacum officinarum a certaine compounded Salt of the Alchymists the which of some men haue falsly bene taken for the right salt of Africa and is called Salarmoniacke Sal Christallinus Sal natiuus Sal Fossitiuus fine and cleare or Christall salt Sal fusilis melting Salt Sal gemmae officinarū Sal gemmeus christal Salt Sal Indus a kind of Sugar Sal marinus sea Salt Sal popularis common salt Sal palustris sea salt Sal saxeus stone salt Sal Absinthites Wormwood salt Salicharia Lysimachia Dioscoridis siue salicaria lutea yellow water Willow or loosestrife Salicaria cornuta Herbariorum a kind of water Willow Salicaria punicea siue purpurea Lysimachiae Plinij seu salicaria Spicata Herbariorum a kind of browne Loosestrife or water Willow Saliua syderum Plinij Manna Hony dew or Manna Saliunca spica Celtica vide Spica Celtica Salix Itea the Sallow trée Salix Amerina salix Marina sea Sallowe trée Salix marina vide salix amerina Saltus leporis an herbe so called Saluatella the Liuer veine Saluia Elelisphacos Sage Saluia auriculata saluia acuta saluia minor saluia nobilis saluia cruciata the lesser or eared Sage Saluia acuta vide saluia auriculata Saluia Boschi seu Boschi saluia Herbariorum wild Sage Saluia cruciata vide saluia auriculata Saluia maior great Sage Saluia syluestris wild Sage Saluiauita siue saluia vitae Adiantum album Venus Maiden or our Lady hayre Sambucus Elder or Bometrée Sambucus Aruensis sambucus humilis siue sambucus pumila Ebulus wild Elder Sambucus humilis vide sambucus aruensis Sambucus pumila wild Elder Sampsucus Mariorana Marioram Sanamunda Auence Sanctonicum officinarum Santonicum a kind of Southernwood Sandaracha Graecorum Auripigmentum rubeum red Arsenicke Sandaracha Vitruuij minium secundarium Sinople red Lead or Vermilion Sandaracha Arabum Gummi Iuniperi Sandarax the gum of a Iuniper trée Sandarax Arabum vide sandaracha Arabum Sandalum sandalus the spice called Saunders Sandalum album white Saunders Sandalum Citrinum officinarum sandalum slauū yellow Saunders Sandonicum officinarum santonicum a kind of Southernwood Sanguinalis mas Polygonum mas the male Knot grasse Sanguinalis foemina Polygonum foemina the female Knotgrasse Sanguinalis minor Ruella Knotgrasse the lesser Sanguinaria Knotgrasse Sanguinaria mascula the same Sanguinaria foemina the female Knotgrasse or Horsetaile Sanguinarius lapis Haematites the Bloudstone Sanguis Draconis Lachryma Draconis Dragons bloud Sanguis Draconis herba an herbe so called Sanguis Herculis Apuleij Centaureum magnum great Centorie Sanguis Herculis Dioscoridis Crocus Saffron Sanguis milui Apuleij Scordiū a water Léeke Sanguisorba the herbe Burnet Sanguisuga a Horseleach Sanies vini Wine lées Sanicula Diapensia Sanicle Sanicula Alpina Herbariorum  Sanicula cathartica Herbariorum Sanicula foemina  Sanicula foemina vide Sanicula cathartica Sanicula quinque folia siue sanicula vitiginea Herbariorum  Sanicula maior Alchimilla  Sanicula vitiginea Herbariorum vide sanicula quinque folia Sanilum Scammonium Scammonie Santalum Santalus Saunders Santalum album white Saunders Santalum Aromaticum Santalum flauum yellow Saunders Santalum machosiri vel mazahari seu marchazari Arabum santalum flauum the same Santalum machazari Arabum vide santalum machozari Santalum machazari vide santalum machosiri Santalum odoriferum santalum flauum  Santalum rosaceum santalum rubrum red Sanders Santalum rubrum vide santalum rosaceum Santalum spurium santalum adulterinum Pseudosantalum bastard Saunders Santonicum Absynthium Santonicum siue marinum sea Wormwood Santolina