Crato mixes it with Sugar and gives it 5. The feathers are used in a fume against the rising of the womb 6. The egges are given to cure the running Gowt XXV Perdix a Partridge IS very lascivious and lives long 16 years eating the buds of Hasle and Birch grasse and green corne Whence in Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. Marrow 3. The bloud 4. The Liver 5. The gall 6. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh eaten increaseth the seed and milk and provokes venery 2. The marrow as also the brain is said to cure the Jaundise being drunk 3. The gall is preferred before others for the diseases of the eyes 4. The bloud is anoynted upon eyes bloud-shot and newly wounded 5. The liver dryed at the fire and powdered resists the Evill and is accounted a singular Antidote against a Fever if it be often taken in water of Milfoyle 6. The feathers serve against the suffocation of the womb the fume put to the nostrils for asswaging the Colick and other pains and discussing them used by way of fomentation and with Mint and Sothernwood in a bag are a familiar remedy for Children to mitigate the pangs of the belly XXVI Pica the Pie. The vertues THis Bird is very much commended against the dimnesse rednesse and pain of the eyes eaten or made into powder and put into the eyes or any way applyed It is good for these that are mad Epileptick Melancholick the ashes used Preparat The Antepileptick water of Magpies which is thus prepared Take seeds and roots of Peony and of Pellitory of Spain of each one dram of Aristoloch the long 3 drams of Misselto of the Oak half an ounce of Castor one dram and as much of flowers of Stechas of Lilly of the valley one scruple and half of Cowflips of Peony of each six drams of Lavander and Rosemary of each 5 drams Sage Marjoram Bettony Hysop of each half an ounce Cinamon Clouds Graines Nutmeg Cubebs of each one dram and half When they are all severally beaten into a grosse powder and cut let them be infused in 3 pounds of the water of Lilly convall a pound and half of the water of the flowers of Luiden one pound of water of Primroses then adde thereto young Pies in number 12. which must be bruised the greater feathers cast away and added to the said infusion after steeping let distillation be made in B. M. The vertues It is a notable Cephalick and Antepileptick water The Dose one or two spoonfuls XXVII Struthio an Ostrich IS a Bird very great forain famous for its chylifick quality In Physicall use are 1. The tunicle of the ventricle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The inner coat of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and wonderfully breaks the Stone 2. The fat is good for nervous parts mollifies the hardnesse of the milt asswages the Nephritick pains anoynted XXIII Turtur the Turtle IN use are 1. The whole Turtle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Turtle agrees with the Pigeon in vertues but yet is specially commended in the Dysentery and chiefly in staying the flux of the terms Whether the ashes of a burnt Turtle or the extract thereof be given the Dose 4 or 6 grains or the Turtle deplumed and bowelled be roasted with Mastick in its belly and rose Vinegar sprinkled upon it while it is in roasting in lieu of Butter and afterward be dryed in a close pot and be made into powder and one spoonfull given every morning 2. The fat gathered from it while it is in roasting is anoynted on the kidneys belly breast groyn c. N. Some that are Gowty perswade themselves that the fits are driven away and the Gowt prevented if they nourish Turtles in their Chambers XXIX Upupa the Lapwing IS a melancholick Bird most nasty living on Wormes found in dung-hils In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh and its decoction helpes the Colick by a propriety of its own taken 2. The feathers are said to asswage the Head-ach applyed XXX Vultur a Vultur IS a Bird excelling in the animal faculties chiefly in smelling In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The fat The vertues 1. The flesh is judged to be good for the diseases of the head Epilepsie Hemicrany and the like The decoction is accounted to cure the diseases of the skin 2. The fat is good for the sinews 3. The brain helps the weaknesse of the head anoynted or put into the nostrils 4. The gall is said to take away the Epilepsie taken with wine 5. Of the feathers they fable that if they be put under the feet they powerfully provoke the birth 6. The dung provokes the birth by its stench The End of the Second Classis The Third Classis OF FISHES I. Anguilla an Eele IN medicinal use from this we borrow 1. The fat 2. The head 3. The bloud 1. The fat is good for wounds begets hairs anoynted in the disease Alopecia restores hearing dropped into the ear asswages the Hemroids 2. They say that the head of an Eele cures warts if the bloudy head wherewith the warts are touched be buryed in the earth that it may putrefie 3. The bloud as yet warm is said to mitigate the pain of the Colick taken with Wine N. Some say that the Wine wherein Eeles are suffocated makes men abstemious if the Wine be drunk II. Barbo a Barble IS a fish very commendable in Kitchens It is not in Physical use except the egges are taken of some countrey people to provoke vomit and stool which they do very violently III. Blatta Bizantia IS the shell or covering of a fish called Conchylium smelling like Castoreum N. 1. Conchylium is the species of long Shell-fishes which breeding in lakes where Nard doth grow feed on it whence the shell smells like Castor N. 2. Some confound the Conchylium and the Purple fish but absurdly for that is of the kinde of long shell-fishes this of the round The vertues Inwardly taken it loosens the belly softens the milt and discusses vitious humors Outwardly by fume it stirs up women oppressed with the suffocation of the womb and Falling-sicknesse In other things it performs what other shells of Shell-fishes do IV. Cancer a Crab. IN use are 1. The whole meat of the Crab. 2. The eyes 3. The shell The vertues 1 Crabs cool moysten asswage pain fix the raging spirits Therefore are they of chief use in the heat and pain of the head and reyns bruised and applyed in form of a Pultise in the Quinsie a Gargarism is made of the juyce of Crabs and also inwardly the juyce may be given In an Atrophy inwardly the juyce is used with water or juyce of Celandine outwardly a playster may be made of Crabs bruised the liver of a Calf Oyl Olive and Oyl of Bay They draw darts out of the body bruised and applyed they are good in St. Anthony's fire and burnings 2. Crabs eyes cool dry cleanse discusse waste
vertues Honey is accounted hot and dry in the second degree the white is thought lesse hot It nourisheth cleanseth openeth is good for the lungs moves Urine cures the Cough resists putrefaction Outwardly it discusseth the dimnesse of the eyes and helps other diseases of them A caution 1. Because honey is easily turned into Choler it is not so profitable for the liver or hot bodies 1. Crude honey puffes up the belly provokes Cough and causeth nauseousnesse N. Honey according to Galen is the juyce of heavenly dew gathered of Bees according to Paracelsus it is a certain rosinous thing of the earth transplanted into a vegetable kinde by the vertue of the Planets and heavenly influences and gathered from hence of Bees and further digested Hence it varyeth 1. For the variety of Plants in which respect that is accounted best of Bees living among Roses or Lillies 2. For the diversity of the influence So honey is best which is made in the Spring and Summer the year being clear and wholesome It is called of Quercetan dew or heavenly Mâ—nna and from hence he prepares his Philosophicall Vinegars Preparat 1. Clarified honey Take honey as much as thou wilt powre a quantity of water thereon as much as the honey or twice as much or thrice as much if it be very impure or if free from impurity without adding any thing boyl it and skim it with a spoon N. If by this means it be not sufficiently purified it may be done with whites of egges to every pound one white N. 2. Conrad Kunrath disallowes the aforesaid clarifying of honey because by it the better spirits wherewith it is very much impregnated vanish into aire therefore he appoints this Take Virgin honey not set to the fire together with the Combes put it into Hippocrates his sleeve and hang it in a warme place of the Sun or in a stove made hot with watery vapors that the honey may flow thorough 2. Distilled honey Whence 1. Water of honey Spirit and Oyl Take one pound of honey adde thereto salt or flints bruised or sand three ounces others adde chips of Juniper wood distill it by a Retort by degrees and there goes out a white water then a yellow with Oyl as also a spirit which may be rectified divers times Others draw out first a water in a gourd by B. M. to the honey remaining in the gourd they add sand or calcined flints broken in pieces and distill by a Retort a yellow water with Oyl these they digest divers times 5 or 6 dayes then they distill them and at length separate the oyl swimming about from the water N. 1. Some think but not rightly that this yellow water is the Menstruum of Franc. Auton N. 2. Sand is added or flints or glasse that the fervency to which honey is most inclinable may be prevented which others do by putting in little bags full of sand N. 3. Some powre the water first drawn upon new Honey and rectifie it The vertues Both the white and the yellow water heal Cataracks and white spots of the eyes they are good for making hair grow They serve for drawing out the tincture of Coralâ— Inwardly they unlock obstructions moves urine wasts the stone The Oyl which burnes like Aqua vitae hath admirable vertues chiefly if it be circulated some dayes with spirit of Wine for that spirit of Wine separated again there remains a sweet Oyl and of a most pleasant tast very good for wounds by gunshot and running sores It is also singular for mitigating Podagricall aches it discusses the blemishes of the face with Oyl of Camphire 2. The Compound Oyl of Honey Take Honey 2 pounds Vitrioll Calcined one pound spirit of Wine rectified half a pound Tartar one pound distill it by a Retort first there comes forth phlegm then the spirit Force it 20 hours The vertues It asswages the ach of the Gowt if the place affected be therewith anoynted 3. Vinegar of honey Take of the best honey one part River water 8 parts boyl them to the half afterward hang therein the seed of Rocket in a cloth and set it in a hot place or the Sun till they be hot It becomes by little and little very sharpe Vinegar which may be distilled The vertues Besides other uses it dissolves flints and other stones even without any precedent calcination 4. Tincture of Honey Beguinus extracts the tincture out of raw honey pasted with sand and gives it to the consumptive for nourishment 5. The Quintessence of honey Take Honey with the Combes as much as thou wilt draw a water in B. M. then let there remain the water in a boyling B. M. 5 dayes then secondly pour water thereon and extract according to art the Tincture and being decanted purifie it by digestion and setling at length distill the Tincture in B. M. to drynesse the distilled is called the element of air the remaining essence fire Thirdly out of the feces burnt to ashes the Oyl first taken out by descent or a Retort if it seem good extract the salt with common water after the usuall manner and purifie it very well it is called the element of earth Fourthly now joyn all together and distill them in ashes by an Alembeck cohobating them so often untill all be volatile and transcend the Alembeck so thou hast the Quintessence of honey The vertues It may be in lieu of a Panacea The Dose 3 4 5 grains c. 6. The Elixir of Honey Take Honey purified through Hippocrates his sleeve draw the Water Oyl and Salt The Salt drawen moisten by course with its own water then with the Oyl untill it hath drunk up all and there be a coagulation The vertues It hath the same vertues with the Quintessence of Honey 6. There are sundry Medicines in Shops which own Honey both as the basis as the kinds of Hydromels and also a means of preservation as many syrups c. 3. Wax holds in a manner a mean betwixt heating cooling moistning and drying yet so that it inclines to heat It is of parts in some respect thick and emplastick and therefore digests ripens c. N. It is so usuall in shops that scarce thou canst finde an Emplaster of which it doth not afford the consistence Preparat 1. Oyl of Wax is distilled out of a gourd or a glasse Retort by ashes or sand mixed either with bricks made into powder or with calcined flints or with ashes or sand that the Oyl may more easily ascend The vertues It is diuretick and is given inwardly The Dose 3 4 or 5 drops Oyl of Wax of a good odor and colour Is made if it be rectified upon fresh pieces of wax by a fire of ashes Of it is made 2. A vulnerary Balsome By a menstrual infusion of the flowers of St. Johns Wort and the rose of Comfrey 3. The Magistery of Wax Is made of it being dissolved in spirit of Wine and filtered that it remain in the paperlike Butter which being sweetned
the circumcised Forest. in Chirurg 17. The bones are used of some for the strengthning of the bowels and driving away the Epilepsie Preparat 1. A water called The water of all flowers is distilled in Balneo M. or out of ashes in the Spring or May of the fresh dung of a Cow feeding on herbs Hence there also comes an oil The vertues It cools dissolves it is used inwardly in the Colick the inflammation of the Kidneys suppression of Urine Fevers c. Outwardly it is applyed on pained places as abovesaid it is also commended against cancrous Ulcers c. 2. A water of the bloud is made in May in Balneo M. The vertues It mightily mitigates the Gowt 3. The Decoction of the milt of an Ox is thus made Take the whole milt of an Ox or Cow cut into pieces one ounce of Cinamon grossely beaten half an ounce of Cloves two drams of Saffron white Wine or Malmesey as much as is sufficient put all into a capacious glasse which being well covered must boyle 24 hours in a very hot Balneó M. untill the milt be boyled into very little bits and there remain a great quantity of broth excellently boyled and most fragrant The vertues This is a proper medicine for the hardnesse and obstruction of the milt and suppression of the flowers in Women The dose 4 ounces continuing 4 or 5 dayes when the flowers used to flow Quercetan 4. The extract of the milt of an Ox. N. Crollius Takes the milt of a young Ox cuts it into thin slices infuses it a few dayes in spirit of wine essentificated with Myrrhe afterward he dryes it in the aire then according to art extracts the essence thereof with spirit of Wine and for the more efficacy addes a few drops of the distilled oyl of Angelica The vertues It dispatches the obstructions of the milt and provokes the flowers in Women The dose one scruple in some proper water N. It may fitly be dryed in an Oven 5. The oyl of Butter 6. The tincture of the gall of a Bull. Take the gals of Buls dryed leasurely in the sun then extract the tincture with spirit of wine The vertues It is a most excellent beautifying medicine procuring miraculously a most pleasant whiteness It is anointed on the place and suffered to remain three or four dayes so that they expose not themselves to the air then let it be washed off with the water of the flowers of Beans Water-lillies or Knot-grasse and the like Hartman VI. Bubulus the Buffle IS like to an Ox in figure and nature yet greater and more cruell and black of colour Of which in Physick and Chirurgery we have 1. Horns and hoofs 2. Tallow and dung c. The vertues 1. The horns and hoofs cure the Cramp a ring made thereof worn on the finger or toe 2. The suet and the dung hath the vertues of the Oxes c. Preparat The extract of the liver of the Buffle is made after the same manner that the extract of the milt of the Ox is N. It is accounted more excellent if the proper salt extracted out of the Caput mortuum be mixed with it The vertues It is of the same use with the extract of the milt of the Ox but more efficacious The Dose is also the same Hartman VII Bufo the Toad THere is a very great Antipathy betwixt Toads and Spiders if a Toad be set under a Spider she presently descends with might and force to destroy him In Physicall use are 1. Toads themselves 2. The Toad stone 1. Toads are dryed in the air being thrust thorow the head or neck and being dryed are kept for use The vertues Though a Toad be a venomous and abominable Animal yet shuns it not Physical practice and that both inwardly and also outwardly A certain Hydropick man despairing of recovery used the powder of Toads by which he experimentally found that the waters were vented by the urine and he beyond all hope attained his health Petraeus in Nosolog Wierus in Observat The Dose half a dram N. I allow of a lesse quantity Outwardly a Toad is applyed to biles a little infused in Vinegar to draw out the venom which it so well performs that it swels with the venom so attracted to it it is an ingredient in Amulets ordained for driving away contagious aire By certain experience it stayes bleeding at nose if it be applyed behind the ears of it self or be kept in the hand to grow warm or put under the arm-pits or appended to the neck The same is the ashes or powder reported to do sprinkled on the place affected Applyed on the kidneys it is said to drive out by urine the intercutall water tyed to the navill it draweth back and restraineth hysterick fluxes applyed to the soles of the feet it is thought to help the diseases of the head and heart the Phrensie and Fevers 2. The Toad-stone is like a bubble of water hollow on one part and convex on the other of a dark pale colour sometime black white which is better green of divers colours N. They are found in the fields yet others affirm that they are bred in the heads of old Toads which live among brambles and bushes and thorns but the greatness of some of them disswade me from giving credit to this opinion The vertues It is commended as a Soveraign remedy against the Plague and poison Yea some affirm that those who wear it are safe from poison and that by gentle rubbing it disperseth swellings occasioned by venomous beasts and drawes away all poyson Caspar Baubin de lap Bezord cap. 3. N. This stone is said to change its colour and to sweat when a poysoned cup is present Preparat 1. Amulets of divers descriptions The ashes of a Toad a Toad burnt cures involuntary pissing arising from the tearing of the neck of the bladder hanged about the neck Observat Henr. ab Heer 18. 2. The powder is made by only rubbing whereby Toads very well dryed are brought into powder N. I had rather have Toades burnt to ashes 3. Salt may be drawn out of Calcined Toads and be used in lieu of the powder in the Dropsie The Dose to grains iij c 4. Simple Oyl of Toads Take living Toads in number three or four boyl them one hour in two pounds of Oyl Olive strain it and keep it for use The Vertues It is very highly commended in cleansing the spots of the face morphew and other affects or inveterate Ulcers by the spotted signature the Toad is judged to avail against spots it is to be anointed every day once N. I would prefer spotted Frogs 5. The compounded Oyl of Toads Take Oyl of Sheeps feet as much as you will let it boyl with Sulphur powdered till it become a red Oyl then let the Sulphur be separated from the Oyl into which while it is as yet hot let Toads be put and suffocated and after pressing out distilled The Vertues It is most excellent in digesting
scruple or half a dram 4. The compound Magistery or essentificated spirit of the skull is made if with the acid liquor Oyl or volatile salt there be joyned the fixed salt drawn out of the dead head and afterward be digested and united together in ashes for a Philosophicall moneth The vertues It is Antepileptick whose vertues far exceed ordinary Antepilepticks 5. The Oyl is made by distilling the bruised skuls in a Retort there comes forth an oyl and a volatile salt N This vulgar Oyl in shops is uncorrected but it were better to rectifie it with spirit of Wine The Dose from 4 grains to 6. 6. The Volatile salt is gotten by the same labour with the Oyl 7. The extract or tincture of the skull Take 2 or 3 skuls grossely beaten digest them 14 dayes and cohobate them with spirit of Juniper or Sage powred 4 or 5 fingers high infuse them in a viall with a long neck very well joyned in B. V. 12 13 or 14 dayes then presse them very strongly through a presse and there will come forth a red oyly liquor strain it and abstract it in B. V. to the consistence of Sapa or Rob. The vertues This extract digested and perfectly purifyed is to be carefully kept as a pretious treasure against the Epilepsie The Dose half a scruple to a scruple with its proper sublimated water 8. The extract or gelly of Theophrastus Take the filings of the skull digest them with spirit of Wine saged 15 dayes then distill it in a Retort and having infused them 15 dayes cohobate 3 times at length circulate 5 or 6 dayes and the spirit of Wine being separated in B. M. keep the essence which will be like Rennet The Dose 5 or 6 grains daily VII The Vsnea of the skull i. e. the mosse growing on the skull of one slain and exposed to the air is very astringent And it is of great use in staying every flux of bloud as of the nose put in N. 1. Some affirm that the Mosse holden in the hands like a charm stayes all bleeding N. 2. There growes also upon other bones laid in the air a certain Vsnea which some account inferiour but it is found by experience to have also a great power of astringing The Vsnea of the skull enters the Composition of the Sympathetick or Magnetick oyntment VIII Of the brain are made 1. The spirit of Mans brain called the golden water Take the brain of a young man not 24. years old healthfull kild by a violent death with all the membrains arteries veins and sinews with all the marrow of the back bone bruise them and upon them powre of Cephalick waters flowers of the Linden Peony Betony Black-cherry Lavander Lilly Convall chiefly Diaphoretick in acute diseases as much as is sufficient to 4 or 5 fingers height leave it for a time afterward distill it by Cohobes out of the calcined feces draw the Salt which after joyn with the spirit and keep all carefull The vertues It is accounted a notable Antepileptick The Dose from one scruple to 4. N. Of the brain of an Alce in like manner may an excellent Antepileptick be prepared 2. Oyl of the brain Mingle with the substance of the brain some common Salt and distill it by a Retort of glasse in sand The vertues It is also an excellent Antepileptick and very much comforts the head N. Almost the whole substance of the brain may be brought to Oyl then there is little Salt to be expected 3. An Antepileptick water Take of mans brain 3 pounds water of Lilly Convall of Lavander of primrose of Malmesey of each three pounds let them stand in infusion 5 dayes and be then distilled in B. M. IX Of mans gall is made an extract with spirit of Wine which dropped into the ear wonderfully helps deafness X. The heart helps the Epilepsie dryed and given And these are the medicines taken from Man which the straightnesse of an Epitome would give leave to describe he that desires more at large may finde plenty in Authors Daniel Berker hath written a whole Treatise thereof XXIV Lepus the Hare IS a very fearfull creature and fruitfull engendering at any time Whence we have many medicinals 1. The ashes of a Hare 2. The head 3. The eye 4. The bloud 5. The lungs 6. The brain 7. The heart 8. The liver 9. The gall 10. The kidneys 11. The testicles 12. The matrix 13. The rennet 14. The ancle-bone 15. The fat 16. The dung 17. The hairs Their vertues 1. The ashes is made of a whole Hare burnt that is best which is taken in the spring or of the whole skin incinerated It is a most excellent medicine in the Stone The Dose to one scruple and half dram or dram It cures also shedding of hair and kibed heels N. Laurenburg calcines not the Hare but cuts off the head and dryes it in a pot in an Oven and useth the powder 2. The head helps the shedding of the hair the ashes anoynted with honey whitens the teeth the ashes in Dentifrices 3. The eyes of a Hare taken in March are good for hard travell in childe-birth drives out the mole and secundine dryed with pepper without any compression and applyed on the crown of the head that the pupill may touch the crown 4. The bloud anoynted cures the diseases of the skin of the face as pimples and the morphew rosted it stayes Dysenteries and Celiack purging it breaks the stone 5. The lungs help those that are troubled with sighing It is also said to cure the Epilepsie seasoned with brine and dayly eaten with Myrrhe for a moneth it cures kibes applyed 6. The brains rubbed on the gums of Infants facilitates their toothing mends the trembling members rosted and eaten 7. The heart is said also to cure the Epilepsie used as the lungs to ease the pains of the womb the powder taken in speciall manner to cure the Quartain cut into three parts and generall evacuation having gone before a third part drunk in the beginning of three fits every time 8. The liver stops the flux of the belly and helps the Liver-grown 9. The gall is an excellent Ophthalmick and Odontalgick medicine 10. The kidneys and testicles are given to those that are troubled with the Stone dryed they further conception taken after the termes they help involuntary pissing 11. The Testicles free from the incontinency of urine help the diseases of the bladder conduce to conception powdered and taken 12. The matrix in like manner conduces to conception dryed and taken after the terms 13. The Rennet disperseth congealed bloud helps conception after the termes applyed on the Matrix with Butter but being drunk it kils the childe drives away the Epilepsie c. N. That is most excellent which is taken before the young have tasted any other thing but the Mothers milk 14. The little bone of the ancle is commended against gravel the Colick Epilepsie and the throwes in childe-bearing powdered and taken N. The same
till they may be powdered the powder must be made into Trochisces with water of dissolved Tragac. adding a little Oyl of Almonds Let the dryed Trochisc be again powdered and again formed and that 4 times it is good in the stone They mix them in Oyntments The Dose two scruples VIII Cimex the Punie IS a little worm broad and flat ruddy stinking abominably very noysome in their bitings by which they suck out bloud The vertues The later use them to provoke urine putting living ones into the yard Diascorides puts dead ones and powdered I have seen them powdered viz. 3. and given with good successe to expell the birth and secundine Diascorides is the author that if 7 of them inclosed in the hollow of Beans be swallowed before the fit are curable for the Quartane They by the smell drive away the suffocation of the Matrix IX Eruca a Palmer-worme IS an Insect commonly known deriving its originall either from the excrements of plants or egges of Butter-flies There are as many species of them as of plants N It is subject to the like metamorphosis that the Silk-worm is and at length becomes a Bâ—tter-flie X. Formica a Pismire or Ant IS an Insect of a wonderfull providence whereby she diligently gathereth provision for a yeâ—r in the Summer full-moons she resteth in the new-moons if needfull she dryeth what she gathereth bites off the ends of the dryed seeds lest they should bud again and so made fit for continuance she layes them up Having engendred in Winter they bring forth little worms now and then apt to be changed into egges and in the Spring after iâ— Ants. Old age makes them winged but not long to live They are accounted better which live under rosin-bearing trees and smell tart It is best to gather the moon decreasing or in the new moon In medicinall use are 1. The Ants. 2. The egges 3. The heap The vertues 1. Ants heat and dry provoke venery The acid smell doth wonderfully refresh the vitall spirit The greater are said to cure Manginesse Leprosie and pimples powdered with a little Salt and anoynted 2. The egges are good for dulnesse of hearing being rubbed on the cheeks of children they mend their hairinesse 3. The hillock or Ant-hill heats and dryes and strengthens the sinews Wherefore it is used in the Palsie Gowt Hysterical passions Cachexie and the like used in a lotion Preparat 1. The Oyl of the infusion of Ants the winged are best in common Oyl 40 dayes The vertues It provokes venery 2. The distilled water called water of Magnanimity Take Ants the greater are best two handfuls spirit of Wine as much as is sufficient digest them in a close vessell untill they be putrefied and turn into a liquor Then distill them by B. M. and aromatize it with a little Cinamon The vertues It heats very much it cuts It s chief use is in an Atrophy whether thou use it inwardly or outwardly 3. The liquor is made in an oven after the manner of liquor of wormes The vertues It is an excellent Ophthalmick medicine for the Cataract of the eyes XI Gryllus the Cricket IS a winged Insect of the kinde of Locusts like to Grashoppers an inhabitant of hearths and dry grounds making a stridulous singing The vertues It is commended for provoking urine the ashes used Against the weaknesse of the sight the juyce pressed and dropped in it mitigateth the tonsils rubbed on XII Hirudo the Horse-leech IS an Insect living in marishes long like a worm it is bred of putrefaction The lesse are preferred before the greater as lesse hurtfull and of these which are distinguished with lines on their backs Nine great ones are able to kill an Horse by sucking his bloud Whence they are called Horse-leeches The use They serve for sucking out of bloud and therefore agree with cupping-glasses N Before their application they are to be kept in clear water that they may be well purged then the place being rubbed with Salt of Niâ—er and anoynted with bloud or Potters clay they are to be applyed When thou wouldest have them removed sprinkle on them a little Salt or ashes or burnt lime XII Lacertus the Lizard IS an Insect of a known shape varying in colour an enemy to Toads and Spiders N. If a Lizard be dissected both parts are moved a while and if they meet grow together again Some say that if their eyes be pulled out they will grow again which also Pliny confirmeth of the tail cut off They live in caverns of the earth rubbish of wals and other rough places they eat Grashoppers Snails Crickets Bees N. The green and great kinde of Lizard is preferred before the rest but because in these Countreys it is lesse usuall we here describe the common Lizard The vertues It draws out of the body darts glasse c. cut or bruised with Salt and applyed especially the head it makes hairs to grow again the flesh anoynted with the sat or the ashes applyed it heals the biting of Scorpions It is commended likewise for the Rupture of Infants if they be bathed in the decoction of a Lizard for the easie pulling out of teeth the powder of a water Lizard rubbed thereon N. Some say that the powder of a Lizard dryed anoynted on the gums makes teeth to be drawn out without difficulty or pain and without instruments Preparat The infused Oyl is made of the infusion of living Lizards in number 7 in a pound and half of common Oyl The vertues It is commended for amending the rednesse of the face anoynted XIV Locusta the Locust IS an Insect unknown almost to no Nation for the mischief it brings by biting Hearbs and Corne and by burning the earth with its touch and spittle They are bred of the Summer coming on of the feture of the former year not unlike to an honey combe from thence there arise little worms having the shape of an egge inclosed in a very thin earth or membrane which being cast aside the Locusts come forth and fly away They are of severall sorts as some great little and very little wanting wings some green yellow blackish or of divers colours c. The vertues They help the difficulties of Urine by the fume especially which trouble Women Diascorides Some say that if hung about the neck they cure the Quartane XV. Lumbrici terreni Earth-wormes ARe Insects commonly known both bred and also nourished by earth They are preferred before the rest whose necks are girt with red rings The vertues They are very Diuretick Diaphoretick Anodyne they discusse soften open Obstructions encrease milk glew up wounds and sinews cut They are of speciall use in the Apoplexie Convulsion from the signature and other diseases of the sinews and muscles in both the kinds of Jaundies Dropsie wormes of children Colick but chiefly they profit in that Scorbutick Gowt called the running Gowt They may be used inwardly and outwardly Inwardly they are used either wholly bruised and newly strained