50 Scorpions in B. M. and continue so long till a perfect fermentation be made then let all be strained through a cloth and the Oyl be kept The vertues It mightily mitigates Nephritick pains outwardly applyed N. This is that bloudy Nephritick Oyl of the great Duke which Pona describes but addes not the Dose XXIV Teredo the Wood-worm IN use is the putrefaction or meal of Wood-worms The vertues It dryes wherefore it is happily sprinkled on moist and flowing Ulcers and in this respect it is very ordinary with our Countrey women in drying the excoriations or gallings of Infants THE END A PERORATION TO THE READERS FOr your ease and benefit I have digested the two Alphabetical Tables following the former containing the several Animals mentioned in the Treatise the other manifold Diseases whereunto Mankind is obnoxious referred to their Cures whence we have sentiment of the goodness of our God who for Man whom he loveth out of Man and other his Creatures over whom he hath given him dominion hath provided store of Medicines easie to be had easie to be made easie to be applyed Now to further your knowledge I beseech you to study the preparations of Minerals and Metals and not neglect the virtues and signatures of Herbs and Plants that encreasing in these accomplishments the earth may be full of knowledge as the waters that cover the Sea so shall all due honour be given to the Physitian and in the sight of great men he shall be had in admiraton for the Lord hath not only created him for good uses but also Medicines out of the Earth to heal and take away pain and he that is wise will not abhor them as many do with whom I often converse who are very sedulous in procuring medicines for their Cattel but remain averse from all in themselves Doth God take care for Oxen and not for men O ye of little faith c. T. Batesonâ— The first Alphabetical Table containing the several ANIMALS A. THE Asse page 5. B. The Badger page 79. The Barbel page 111. The Bear page 84. The Bee page 155. The Beetle page 155. The Bever page 24. The Blatta page 112. The Roe Back page 23. The Buffle page 11. The Bull or Cow page 6. C. The Calf page 83. The Carpe page 114. The Cat page 26 27. The Cheeslips page 141. The Cock page 96. The Coney page 35. The Cow vide Bull. The Crab page 112. The Crane page 99. The Cricket page 149. The Crow page 94. The Cuckow page 95. The Cuttle page 130. D. The Dentalium page 122. The Dog page 13. The Duck page 89. E. Earthworms page 152. Eele page 111. Elephant page 35. Elke page 2. F. The Shell fish page 116. The Kings Fisher page 88. The Fly page 153. The Fox page 85. The French Fly page 144. The Frog page 72. The water Frog page 127. G. The Gloeworm page 146. The Gnatsnapper page 96. The Goat page 16. 19. 20. 22. The Goose page 89. The Grashopper page 145. H. The Hare page 62. The Hart page 28. The Hauk page 87. The Hedgehog page 38. The Heron page 91. The Horse page 36. The Horsleech page 149. The House Ichthiocolla page 223 K. The Kite page 101. L. The Lamb page 1. The Lamprey page 126 The Lapwing page 109. The Lark page 88. The Lizard page 150 The Locust page 151. The Louse page 154 The Lucy page 124. The Lynx page 66 M. The Man page 39. The Mole page 78. The Moschius page 66. The Mouse page 68. The Mule ibid. O. The Ostrich page 100. The Oule page 103. The Oyster page 126. P. The Pagrus page 132. The Palmer worm page 247. The Partridge page 106. The Peacock page 105. The Mother of Pearl page 125. The Perch page 127. The Pigeon page 93. The Pismire page 146. The Punye ibid. The Pye page 107. Q. The Quail page 95. R. The Raven page 94. The Rhâ—noceros page 73. S. The Salamander page 155. The Scincus page 157. The Scorpion ibid. The Serpent page 73. The Sheep page 70. The Silkworm page 143. The Snail page 33. The Sparrow page 104. The Spider page 141. The Stockdove page 104. The Storke page 91. The Sturgeon page 131. The Swallow page 100. The Swan page 103. The Swine page 76. T. The Tench page 132. The Titmouse page 104. The Toad page 12. The Tortoyse page 131. The Trout page 133. The Turtle page 108. The Tyke page 154. V. The Viper page 80. The Vnicorn page 83. The Vulture page 109. W. The Wagtail page 102. The Whale page 115. The Wolfe page 64. The Woman vide Man The Woodworm page 159. The End The Second Alphabetical Table containing the Diseases incident to the Body of Man A. AChes to ease Page 44. 86. 89. 140. Alopecia vide Falling away of the Hair Anthonies Fire Page 113. 128. 154. Apoplexy Page 24. 25. 49. 51. 93. 152. Astma Page 36. 42. 51. 54. 84. 113. 131. 142. B. Baldness Page 78. Beauty Page 34. 47. Biles Page 12. 33. 96. Biting of Dogs Page 16. 40. 47. 95. 113. 156. Biting of venommus beasts to heal Page 47. 68. 77. 89. 96. 101. 150. 157. 158. Birth dead to expel Page 5. 36. 37. 41. Bleeding to stanch Page 4. 6. 12. 18. 34. 37. 39. 48. 60. 64. 72. 77. 93. 96. 129. 130. 141. 144. To heal Burnings Page 8. 48. 72. 113. 114. 128. C. Canker to cure Page 47. 70. 100. 114. Carbuncles Page 41. 51. Catarrhes vide Rhewms Chapt hands to heal Page 34. 40. 99. Chapt lips Page 90. 98. Cholick pains to asswage Page 9. 14. 15. 18. 21. 25. 27. 31. 33. 37. 38. 40. 41. 32. 64. 65. 67. 71. 77. 88. 89. 93. 97. 98. 99. 101. 103. 104. 105. 106. 109. 111. 113. 114. 116. 126. 131. 142. 145. 152. 158. Consumption Page 5. 19. 33. 34. 36. 48. 54. 65. 70. 113. 148. 154. Convulsion Page 38. 66. 85. 86. 90. 143. 152. Corns to kill Page 68. 72. 77. Corruption Page 56. Cough to cure Page 33. 36. 37. 52. 65. 68. 90. 94. 97. 125. 136. 140. Cramp Page 4. 11. 66. D. Deafness to help Page 91. 99. 111. 148. Dolour to ease Page 46. Dropsie to help Page 12. 13. 14. 18. 33. 38. 40. 42. 47. 65. 90. 123. 152. Dysentery Page 15. 19. 23. 31. 32. 36. 57. 63. 64. 68. 71. 93. 94. 108. 113. E. Ears pain Page 7. 8. 25. 42. 64. 70. 71. 77. 90. 128. 133. 142. 156. 158. Kings Evill Page 4 5 22. 40. 78. 90. 106. 142. Excoriations Page 159. Diseases of the Eyes to remedy Page 5. 26. 34. 40. 41. 42. 63. 65. 67. 75. 84. 85. 87. 91. 92. 95. 96. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 105. 106. 107. 114. 124. 125. 126. 130. 132. 136. 137. 142. 149. 154. Epilepsie Page 41. 4â— 46. 48. 49. 58. 59. 61. 63. 64. 84. 94. 95. 100. 102. 105. 107. 109. 110. 115. 128. 132. F. Face Page 128. 129 151. Falling sickness Page 1. 2. 3. 5. 7. 9. 15. 21. 25. 26. 37. 47.
the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
9 are said to move Urine 2. The whole hering salted is laid to the soles of the feet to derive humors from the head and to mitigate Feverish heat The ashes are used for breaking the Stone it is made as that of Crabs 3. The brine or pickle is the broth wherein the Hering or other fish is kept It serves for Clysters in the Sciatick and Dropsie it cleanses stinking ulcers restrains the Gangreen disperser strumes and is good against Quinsies anoynted with Honey X. Huso Ichthiocolla IS one of the greatest sort of fishes 24 foot in length weighing 400 pounds grisly without bones except those in the head withoutscales c. It is a fish ordinary in Danubius swimming out of the Sea into Danubius for the desire of sweet waters It furnisheth us with Fish glew white in colour made of its skin intestines ventricle fins and tayl after this manner The said parts being cut into very thin pieces are steeped in a sufficient quantity of water then they are boyled to the consistence of a pultise with a gentle fire and are malaxed into a masse before they be cold The vertues It dryeth filleth up and in some respect mollifies Wherefore it is used in glewing plaisters N. It is also used to jelly broth of the same with Sugar-candy is boyled a transparent and yellow kinde of glew which melted in the mouth is used to glew papers together it is called Mouth-glew XI Lucius a Lucy N. SOme confound a Lucy and a Wolf which though it may be granted in respect of the name seeing both are ravenous fishes as the Land-wolf yet are they really distinguished for the Wolf of the Antients is a Sea-fish of a different shape from the Lucy In medicine are used 1. The gall 2. The heart 3. The mandible 4. A little bone crosse-like 5. The grease 6. The egges The vertues 1. The gall is said to drive away the Fever if three in number be taken Outwardly it serves for the spots of the eyes dimness and other diseases 2. The heart is eaten against the fits of Fevers N. Some command to swallow the heart the Lucy as yet alive and to throw the Lucy again into the River 3. The mandible dryes cleanses therefore is it given in the Pleurisie as a specifical remedy it profits also as the rest of the bones of the head in the stone in the whites and hard labour of women Outwardly the ashes stay fleeting humors synoviam mundifies inveterate wounds dryes the Hemroids 4. The bone of the form of a Crosse taken out of the head of a Lucy is commended of some against the Epilepsie taken N. It is accounted of some a singular amulet against charms 5. The fat or grease is a vulgar medicine and is anoynted on the soles of the feet and breasts of Infants for Revulsion of Catarrhs and to asswage the Cough 6. The egges are fit to move the belly and vomit and for this cause they are used of the common people in stead of medicine Preparat The water of the gall distilled cures the eyes XII Mater Perlarum Mother of Pearls IS a species of Shell-fishes taking their name from Pearls which are oftener found in them then in other The vertues Besides the common vertues of Shell-fishes some attribute a Cordial vertue to this but let them see with what successe Others make a medicine against the Fever of this after the manner which we have described above concerning long Shell-fishes XIII Mustela a Lamprey WHence are in Medicinal use 1. The liver 2. The ventricle 3. The backbone The vertues 1. The liver hanged in a glasse and exposed to the heat melts into a yellow liquor very good for the dimnesse and spots of the eyes 2. The ventricle is commended very much against the diseases of the womb but chiefly it is said to expel the secundine and to help the Colick drunk 3. The back bone powdered is said to cure the Falling-sicknesse XIV Ostrea the Oyster IS a Shell-fish of the kinde of round ones The vertues Oysters move pestilential botches from their place and draw all the poyson to themselves but they are to be tyed to that part of the arm where the axillarie vein runs if it be in the arm-pits but if it possesse the groyn the lineaments of the thigh which the vein of the thigh describes N. The Shells may be used in stead of other shells XV. Perca the Perch IT is understood of the River Perch to distinguish it from that of the Sea In use are stones found in the head near the beginning of the back-bone These agree in vertue with the rest of shelly-stones and are used in wasting the Stone and cleansing the Kidneys Outwardly in dentrifrices and drying of wounds XVI Rana Aquatica the Water Frog THat is best which is found in clear Rivers and Springs and is green For the red Frog rubeta and that which lives in Pools is condemned as pernicious The Earth-frog is inferior to the Water-frogs and those which are spotted are accounted venomous In medicinal use are 1. Frogs themselves 2. The heart 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The fat 6. The sperm The vertues 1. Dioscorides accounts Frogs as an Antidote against the poyson of all Serpents if they be eaten with Salt Oyl or Butter and their broth supped they are also good against the tendons It brings a loathing of Wine if the Wine in which a living Frog hath been drowned be drunk a living one applyed on a pestilential botch till it dye doth draw out the poyson A whole living one is used against the heat of burning Fevers asswages the pain of the joynts and quenches St. Anthonies fire applyed either alive or bruised it helps the Tooth-ach boyled and used in a Gargarism N. If it be applyed to the pained belly it is said that the disease presently passes into it 2. The heart of a Frog tyed to the spine of the lick of a Fever mitigates the feverish chilnesse some apply it to the region of the heart to asswage the heat of burning Fevers 3. The liver dryed and powdered in the accesse of Quartanes and other Fevers is taken with good successe Crato gives it in water of Milfoyl N. They commend the livers of green Frogs living in Fens as a specifick medicine against the Epilepsie They order it to be in the Conjunction of the Luminaries the Moon in Cancer 4. The gall peculiarly helps the eyes and is said to cure the Quartane made into powder and given to half a dram 5. The fat put into the ears cures the pains thereof 6. The sperm cools thickens asswages pains cures the scabbinesse of the hands if they be washed with it in March. It kills Impostumations under the nayls and the wilde fire it helps Erisypelas and burnings and other inflamations applyed on the place It cures the rednesse of the face the flux of the terms and Hemroids put into the Matrix or Fundament N. A linnen cloth often wet in
this sperm and dryed is kept for use others put the same sperm in a pot under the earth till it be turned into water Preparat 1. The ashes sprinkled stays the flowing of bloud of wounds and nosthrils It restrains the Bloudy flux of the womb by fume it is with liquid pitch anoynted on Alopecies Inwardly it stayes a Gonorrhea one dram taken 2. Distilled water of Frogs Is made of living Frogs taken about the end of March or beginning of April by an Alembeck 3. The distilled water of the sperm Is made by an Alembeck of the sperm gathered in March N. 2. They use to adde Salt Vertues They are manifest from the precedent besides which it is a notable medicine for the bladder ulcerated from the acrimony of humors It is also good to beat back and stay the issue of bloud and rednesse of the face it cures Tetters Erisypelas and Gangrene 4. The Oyl Is made by boyling Frogs with common Oyl or Oyl of Roses 5. The compound powder of the sperm Take good Myrrhe male Frankincense of each two ounces Saffron powdered half a dram Camphire three drams powder all and mingle them miosten this powder with the distilled water of the sperm of Frogs twenty or thirty times yet so that the former be always dryed of its own accord then keep it for use N. The sperm is to be gathered about three dâ—ys before the new Moon in March then it stinks not and is to be distilled in B. M. The vertues It is a chief remedy against bleeding of the nose throat womb because by its coldnesse it coagulates the bloud It helps also if it be dissolved with Vinegar and applyed on Erisypelas and hot Gowts It likewise stays the bleeding of wounds it kills Impostumation under the nayls The Dose 4 5 6 7 8. grains N. 1. If the bleeding arise from the corruption of the bloud it is no ill medicine because it drives away rottennesse but in the diseases of the womb for the Myrrhe and Saffron I had rather use another N. 2. When Frogs and their sperm or Snayls Worms and Crabs are to be distilled they are to be inclosed in a clean linnen cloth and hanged in the middle of the vessel otherwise the waters will partake of the stench and in the same linnens will remain the powder of the said creatures very well prepared to which for the better correcting of it instill some few drops of spirit of Wine and dry it again or extract the tincture with the said spirit of Wine N. 2. Fabricius de Gangr commends the powder as good against malign ulcers and to restrain all inflamations XVII Sepia the Cuttle IN Physical use are 1. The Cuttle bone 2. The black humor 3. The egges The vertues 1. The bone dryeth cleanseth powdered or burnt to ashes it cures the spots moles the moist scab it is good for the eyes the ashes put in with Honey it helps the swoln gums in dentrifices it is a remedy for the Asthmatick taken it stays the running of the reins it expels stones it moves urine the powder taken to the quantity of a scruple 2. The black humor found within a bladder in the body is said to move the belly taken 3. The egges cleanse the reins and ureters move the terms and urine XVIII Sturio the Sturgeon IS a fish set with pricks on the back and belly loving both fresh and salt waters of a great bignesse The vertues The bones of the Sturgeon are commended in the running Gowt used As also in discussing the pains of the Colick XIX Testudo the Tortoyse IS a creature living as well in the water as on land of the kinde of shell-fishes having a shell-buckler on his back In medicinal use are 1. The shanks 2. The bloud 3. The gall The vertues 1. The shanks are used for a most approved Amulet against the Gowt Take a male Tortoyse he is known among other things from the difference of his tail and a litttle slit under the inner shell when the Moon shall be in the wane before she be joyned with the Sun Let his shanks be cut off he being alive and being sowed in bags made of a Kids skin let them be tyed to the patients members so that the right shank of the Tortoyse answer to the right thigh of the patient and the left to the left and in like manner the right shank of the former leg be applyed to the right arm and the left to the left 2. The bloud of a Sea and Land Tortoyse in inward medicines is given for an Antidote to 2 drams The bloud of a land Tortoyse is used against the Hectick new and raw to an ounce being dryed it is commended against the Epilepsie 3. The gall is good for the eyes XX. Thymallus called Pagrus IN use is the fat or grease The vertues It cleanseth the spots and web of the eyes melted in the Sun and mixed with Honey it takes away the spots of the skin and fills up the pits remaining after the Small pocks anoynted XXI Tinca the Tench IS a slimy fish loving Fenny waters and muddy it is bred both by propagation and also of its own accord It loves the Lucy In Physical use are 1. The whole fish 2. The gall The vertues 1. The whole fish cut into two parts is laid upon the pulses of the hands and soles of the feet to mitigate the heat of Fevers or to divert the pestilential venom In like manner it is used in the pain of the head and joynts Living Tenches one after another applyed on the navel and liver until they dye are said to cure the Jaundise for they attract the yellow colour I have seen a Tench burnt to ashes especially the skin with successe given in the whites of women 2. The gall is commended against the diseases of the ears 3. In the head it hath a stone as the Carp which may be used for the same diseases that the stone of the Carp is XXII Truta the Trout IS a fish very much used in kitchens and much commended In use is the fat which is anoynted on the chaps of the fundament The End of the Third Classis The Fourth Classis OF INSETCS I. Apes the Bee IS an Insect that makes honey living both on the dew of herbs and also of the honey made of that dew In medicine we use 1. The Bee 2. The Honey 3. The wax 4. Bee-glew 1. Bees dryed and powdered restore hair on Alopecies anointed therewith 2. Honey is to be chosen yellow transparent pleasant in smell and tast neither thick in consistence nor very thin but in every part united the white is next to the yellow which is not to be contemned if the rest of the signs be not wanting which betoken its goodnesse But in the choice of honey shun the combe full of Spider webs that which is called Virgins honey is best of all that is it which young and tender Bees make being of colour white and yellow The