morning or at other times when the brain is benummed or when the birth is to be provoked The UTILITY is remarkable to empty the brain of gross vapours and slime from the fore-parts of it and is profitable in lasting and sleepy affections to expel the birth having first taken medicines to that purpose it powerfully draws from the tunicles of the brain and is profitable in affections of them proceeding from cholerick humors The altering Errhine I call that so which is used to cure divers affections of the nostrils and this is also three-fold liquid soft solid T is Compounded 1. Either of convenient Juices drawn out of Leaves with water or some fit Liquor to 6 or 7 ounces in which afterwards is dissolved Honey or some convenient syrup to an ounce and a half or two ounces and sometimes a powder to half an ounce Or of some fit decoction to the quantity of a Clyster in which also is dissolved honey or some proper syrup to two or three ounces 2. Or in the form of a Liniment of fit things as above 3. Or in a solid form viz. of a Turund as they cal it of a powder chiefly of binders and dryers to three drams viz. for one and the white of an egg some fit juice or honey to make them up withal make them up into a Turund or Pyramidfashioned Tent adding if you will the hairs of an Hare and put it up in the nostrils The VSE and FORM is as that of the purging Errhine yet the use of this may be at any time and particularly when they go to bed let them put in one in the morning another The VTILITY is great in particular affections of the Nose as in the Ozena Polipus Ulcers stench bleeding to which Turunds are used in the form of a Liniment CHAP. IX Of Suffiments or Fumes SVffiments differ from Adoraments or sweet-scented perfumes in this because the last cast their scent without fire but Suffiments do not part with theirs without the touch of fire And this is twofold one for pleasure another for health sake and either of these may be dry or moyst that is called a Fume or suffiment this is rather to he called a vapor The Suffiment for pleasure This is chiefly dedicated to grace the Court and for pleasures consisting of sweet-scented things and is either dry or moyst The dry is COMPOUNDED 1. Either in the form of a Powder the matter of which is either well-scented Gums as Stirax and Benzoine chiefly and also roots as Acorns c. Barks as of Citrons Orenges Woods as Lignum Aloes Leaves as Margerom c. Cephalical flowers and spices as Mace Cloves Cinnamon c. Also Camphire Musk Amber-greece Civet c. Of these more or fewer As to the quantity the Dose of the whole may be from one ounce to two ounces according as the things are costly but if it be for the perfuming the head-cloathes it may be prescribed to four ounces of the cheaper sortâ— Therefore of this quantity viz. one ounce two ounces let there be of gums half an ounce or four drams of powders three drams c. or of each alike parts Ambergreese Musk Civet as you think fit 2. Or in the Form of Troschischs the aforesaid powder being made up with gum-fragrant dissolved in a fit water make Troschischs c. of the weight of one dram so let them be dryed 3. Or in the form of Cypress Birds as they call them of sweet Gums three ounces the aforesaid powders half an ounce or six drams Charcoal of Willow-wood two ounces or three ounces with Gum-tragant dissolved or Labdunum melted q. s make Cypress birds Caldles for Fumes c. Musk and Amber-greese may be added at your pleasure The USE and Form of the Powder â„ž c. Make a powder to be cast on bright Charcoals to perfume Chambers or cloaths Of the Troschischs this â„ž c. make c. cast one or two on the coals so for the birdlets â„ž c. light one of them for a fume for the chamber The VTILITY though they seem onely intended for pleasure yet seeing they consist of precious cephalical and cordial simples they cannot but cherish the brain heart and spirits of them and drive away malignity The moyst is at this day usually prepared and they cal it a Cassolete 'T is COMPOVNDED best of Gums as Storax Benzoin to two ounces and if you wil of some of the powders to two or three drams these are all dissolved in some sweet water as of Roses and then Cassolets made for a long use like paste and dryed at the time of using them a Cassolete is sprinkled with some sweet water and then heated over the fire it breaths forth a very fragrant perfume and to make it the more delightful you may add gr 3 or 4 of Musk. The Vtility is the same with that of the dry one Suffiment for Health That Fume that is addicted to the conservation of health is from its effect two-fold one strengthening the principal parts and refreshing the spirits almost of the same things as that for pleasure The other altering as drying the brain cleansing the Lungs moving the courses helping suffocation c. From the forme 't is also two-fold dry and moist The DRY in general is made of things which breathe forth a Fume and that wel-sented as Ladanum Storax Benzoin c. as aforesaid and sometimes ill-sented as Galbanum assa Foetida Castoreum c. the use of which is from beneath in affections of the Womb 't is also made of the powders of things serving to the scope as of Roots Woods c. therefore in general 't is made of gums and powders But in special 't is compounded first in the form of a powder of the aforesaid things from one to two ounces according as the use is to continue long or short and particularly let there be of gums 2 ounces of powders half an ounce c. sometimes more sometimes less as you think fit Note that in the affections of the Womb are usually taken among the powders Gallia and Alipta Moscata and sometimes the powders of strengthening electuaries to one dram And sometimes a Fumigation or Suffiment is made only of Tobacco cast on coals or else of the smoke taken by a pipe or tunnel it purgeth the head and brain wonderfully from cholerick and phlegmatick excrements 2. Else in the form of Troschischs see before The VSE and FORM of the Powder â„ž c. Make a powder of which cast c. on bright coals and if it be for the head receive the smoke at the mouth or else smoke the headclothes with it if it be for the diseases of other parts springing from thence as the Phthisis c. if it be for the breast receive it with open mouth if it be for the Womb and other cavities receive the smoke by a tunnel as also thorow a hollow stool if it be for paines of the joynts fume wel
cotton c. and apply it But of the Troschischs ℞ c. Make Troschischs see before The VTILITY is as is said either to strengthen or alter diversly usually to dry the brain and consume Catarrhs strengthen for Phlegm contained in the breast in divers affections to dry the ulcers of the lungs of Tobacco Coltsfoot Brimstone c. to provoke or stop the courses of fit things as also to stay the Fluxes of the belly as the dysentery against fits of the mother of ill-scented things to the superior and sweet scented things to the inferior parts to dry and strengthen the womb and help conception for Ulcers of the ears nose mouth lungs womb c. for the French Pox of Cinnaber as is usual whose fume received in a close place cures that filthy disease by a spetting Flux and all affections depending thereon as Ulcers pains And t is usually made in the form of a powder or Troschisch as ℞ Cinnaber one ounce and a half Gum balf an ounce four dram of a strengthening powder two drams three drams make a powder or else with turpentine make Troschischs The MOYST Suffiment is otherwise properly called a vapor and is made of a liquor fit for the purpose sending forth a vapor by the help of boyling it T is COMPOSED 1. Either of a simple liquor as vinegar wine Aqua vitae or Rose water c. Note that sometimes red hot flints are quenched in the vinegar for the discussing of hard Oedematous swellings as also red hot tyles to be quenched in vinegar and the vapor received as is usual in the time of the pestilence 2. Or of the decoction of fit simples to be prescribed in the quantity of the fomentation or according to the ampleness of the part Therefore in affections of the ears a third part of that will suffice The VSE and FORM ℞ c. make a decoction whose vapor let them receive in affections of the womb and others also thorow a hollow stool and a leaden Pipe or Tunnel see the Insession in affections of the ears by a Pipe or Tunnel which they vulgarly call an EMBOIE The UTILITY is great especially in affections of the Womb in staying or provoking the courses of mollifiers and attenuators in the dysentery of binders in divers affections of the Anus or Fundament in stopping and easing the Hemorrhoids they are also prescribed for affections of the ears and eyes In general they may be used to dry binde relax mollifie discuss open c. CHAP. X. Of Odoraments or Perfumes THey are prescribed partly for delight partly for health but chiefly to alter the brain refresh the animal spirits to put away ill sents and infectious ayre for the increasing the vigour and spirits of the heart also the sent of them being attracted with the breath into the Lungs and thence to the heart They are made of sweet smelling things and are either dry or moist Dry Perfumes These are Compounded 1 In the forme of a powder see the suffiments but the quantity of this is to be limited according to the manner of using it if it be for the greater baggs 't is best to use the Violet or Cipreos powder but for the lesser sort two or three ounces wil serve yet so that the quantity of the gums be diminished see above which in a box bored ful of holes or otherwise you may hold to the nose in a little knot or bagg of silk 2. Or in the form of a Pomander of the powder aforesaid in Suffiment for pleasure to one ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces adding Musk Ambergreese Civet to grains 6. half a scruple or a scruple as you please And 't is made up either with Gum tragant dissolved in Rose water so make two Pomanders to be carried in the hands or which is better let them be incorporated with Ladanum dissolved so make a Pomander which anoint with some sweet oyl Note also that t is better for your Musk Ambergreese Civet not to go into the Composition but to wipe the outside of it over with them dissolved as also with oyl of Cinnamom Cloves c. alone or mixt and to renew them often 3. Or in the form of Globulets or beads made of the same masse as the powders are but the proportion of it must be according to the quantity you intend to make to which the Apothecaries to increase the quantity of them add willow charcole finely powdered 4. Or in the form of a perfumed sope for the washing of the hands and head of Venice sope or other white sope to 4 ounces sweet powder six drams and if you wil Musk or Ambergreece gr 3 4 c. with a sufficient quantity of Rose water incorporate and make bals great or little The VSE let the sent of them be often snuffed up but the scope is onely to cleanse the hands and head from filthiness c. The VTILITY is expressed at first Moist Perfumes They are Compounded 1. in the form of sweet water and this is either simple as Orange-flower water to 3 ounces of which you may add of Musk or Ambergreese gr 2 or 3 The Compound is made of Odoriferous things liquid as rose-Rose-water Orange-flower water c. 4 ounces Cinnamon water one ounce and dry things as of sweet powders to 2 3 or 4 drams and if you wil some few grains of Musk and Ambergreese 2. Or in the Form of a Liniment which now adayes they cal sweet balsam of white wax often washed and melted one ounce of some convenient chymical oyls one dram and if you wil Musk Civet Ambergreese some few grains or more coursly of half an ounce of sweet powder wax 3 drams oyl of Ben or of sweet Almonds q. s so maken Liniment adding Musk Ambergreese c. to some few grains The VSE of the water is to wash the hands beard and hair of the head chiefly The use of the Balsam and its utility is the same as that of the dry perfume the hand also may be lightly smeared and the inside of the nostrils to avoid stenches to comfort the brain and heart and the spirits of both CHAP. XI Of the Scute IT is in general a topical Medicine for the stomack made in the form of a Scutcheon which seeing it is usually made both of plaisters and baggs custome hath so far prevailed the strengthening bagg is often used for the Scute 'T is COMPOVNDED therefore 1. in the form of a bagg of the powders of heating stomachical stomachical things observing these rules in every thing that are set down for your Quilt Caps from whose Form it onely differs in the use so that 〈◊〉 the proportion of the powder be also two ounces 2. Or in the form of a Plaister of the mass of some stomachical plaister as Empl. de Mastiche 2 ounces and of some stomachical powder to half an ounce to which also are sometimes added wel sented gums to 2 drams and are all made up with
and those which are new weighty and full which if it be shaken doth not rattle or sound shining without and ful of fat pulp within Neither is it to be drawn til to be used for after 't is kept in it groweth sowr The Qualities As to the first qualities Cassia is very near temperate for Avicen lib. 2. ch 197. writes that it is temperate in the active qualities but that in the passive it doth somewhat moisten Serapio lib. Simp. ch 12. makes it altogether temperate Mesues cap. 6. Simpl. writes that it a little inclines to heat Ant. Musa in exam simpl says it is hot and moist in the first or beginning of the second degree As to the second qualities it lenifies mollifies and loosens purgeth choler and phlegme and makes the blood pure As to the parts and affections 't is dedicated to the Brest Lungs Liver Reins and bladder and is therefore profitably used in the Pleurisie burning Fevers hot distemper of the Liver heat of the Reins and bladder and also in the stone in the running of the Reins or Gonorrhea proceeding from a sharp matter or cholerick sperme As to the age and Sex 't is safe for all ages and very profitable for Women with child Correction of it Besides the aforesaid commodities Cassia hath this discommodity that 't is very windy maketh so slippery and is of slow operation hence it is hurtful for them that are troubled with windinesse and that have a weak moist stomack and less commodious for them that are of a loose belly and is hurtful for the Ulcers of the Reins and bladder and little helps them that are of a costive nature unless these defects of it be correrected But it is corrected as to its windiness with halfadram or a dram of the seeds of Annise Fennel Citrons as it over-moistens or relaxeth wth the powder of the bark of Myrobolanes Reubarb Ciâ—amon Mastick but chiefly Coriander seed prepared and as to its sloth in working 't is to be quickened with two drams or half an ounce of some purging Electuaries or Tablets The Dose 'T is given for the most part to children from three drams to half an ounce to those of ripe age an ounce an ounce and a half two ounces to those that are with child or weak one ounce if Cassia with the cane be taken the dose is the same But the most usual dose of Cassia is from half an ounce to an ounce The manner of giving it Cassia is taken either in the form of a bole or a potion if it it be taken in the form of a bole the basis is Cassia to an ounce or an ounce and a half as need requires correctors being added or things respecting the part affected to half a dram or a dram or things that quicken it to two or three drams more or lesse and so with q. s of Sugar is made a bole as for example in affections of the breast â„ž of Cassia newly drawn one ounce more or lesse Flower of brimstone or some other pectoral powder to a scruple or half an dram the seed of Annise or some other corrector two scruples with sugar make a bole In burning Fevers â„ž c. of Cassia one ounce the seeds of Citrons powdered one dram with sugar make a bole In affections of the Reins and Bladder 't is prescribed of Cassia six drams Turpentine washed in pellitory-Pellitory-water two drams with powder of Liquorish sugar q. s make a bole so according to the indication may be adjoyned those things that suppresse the effluvium of the seed as Coral Mastick Oriental bole Troschisch of Amber to half a dram or two scruples and so with sugar make a bole 't is a most excellent Medicine if the faculty of Cassia is to be acuated â„ž of Cassia six drams or half an ounce some purging Tablets or Electuaries as Diaprun solutive or Electuar de succco Rosar two or three drams Coriander seed prepared 2 scruples with sugar make a a bole In those that are of a loose constitution other purgers are added that are indued with a strengthening binding faculty as to 1 ounce of Cassia take an ounce of Reubarb or the barks of Myrobolanes and half a dram of some of the correctors so with Sugar make a bole But if it be taken in the form of a potion some Liquor is to betaken in which the Cassia is to be dissolved This Liquor is either a distilled water as of Sorrel Endive Succory or some decoction of fit plants as for example take of Cassia an ounce a half which dissolve in q. s of Liquor make a potion Of late at Paris they have began to use Cassia in infusion which way is of all the best because Cassia in the form of a bole is ungrateful through its extream quantity and if it be dissolved in a fit Liquor it renders the potions too gross therefore 't is much better if Cassia be infused in some conveniet Liquor in some hot place and a q. s of the in fusion strained be dissolved in other things c. or if need be some other may be joyned and so given as for example in burning Fevers â„ž Sorrel water as much as you wil in which infuse of Cassia newly drawn an ounce and a half or lesse in q. s of the strained Liquor dissolve two drams of Electuary of the juice of Roses more or lesse make a potion MANNA The Kinde THe word Manna is a doubtful word for somtimes 't is taken for the Manna of Frank-insence which is nothing else then the smal corns of frankinsence broken off in carriage or else 't is meant of a dew condensed in this latter sense I here understand it Of this there are diverse differences taken from the Provinces but that which is usual in the shops is that which is brought out of Calabria which is gathered in Calabria by the Inhabitants about the dogg-dayes upon the leaves of the Ash and the wild Ash which is two-fold Manna in grains which is as it were in smal grains and the Masticine Manna which consists of the greater grains like Mastick The first is called Manna of the leaves because 't is gathered from the leaves the other is called Manna of the body because 't is taken off from the greater boughes And this Manna is altogether celestial i. e. falling from the very region doth settle on the leaves and doth not proceed like Gum out of the tree as Altimarus and the Monks that have commented on Mesues have written for it fals not onely on the leaves of trees but also on the Meadows so that the mowers cannot untangle easily their sickles from the grasse by reason of the Manna dissolved on them with the heat of the Sun but the reason why 't is onely gathered from the Ash and wild ash called Ornus is because the Ash hath some occult quality whereby it doth thicken and coagulate the Manna which from other trees drops off like Honey on
Fruits in six times their quantity of Water 7. Concerning Clarification note that if we desire the decoction the stronger it is not to be clarified therefore they do il who boyl it again and clarifie it with the white of an Egge because by that means the virtue and essence wasteth it should therefore be thus appointed first it should be placed in Balneo Mariae or in a pot wel stopped over warm ashes so is the virtue preserved and the dregg and residence which otherwise would make it apt to putrifie wil settle to the bottom and the thin liquor clear in the upper part as if clarified may be kept for use 8. Concerning the Form of PRESCRIPTION these few things are also to be noted that fit words in prescribing forms and ingredients ought to be observed by an Artist lest he be derided or seem unskilful therefore these following things are wont thus to be prescribed â„ž Of the common or opening or diueretical roots macerated a night in white Wine for cold obstructions or for them whom Vinegar hurts or Vinegar c. Liquorice shaved and a little bruised c. The Bark of the roots of Capers c. The middle Bark of Ash c. The middle Bark of Tamarisk which three Barks are alway prescribed by the Montpellians in Obstructions and Melancholy affections The leaves of Borage Bugloss Dandelion Sorrel Cichory Endive with the roots or with the whole c. The tops of Fumitory Hops Mallows Hysop Wormwood Pontick or the tufts of it c. Whole Barley where you would cleanse and open huld Barley where you would lenifie and in the affections of the Brest The seeds of Melons and Gourds cleansed or the kernels of the seeds of Melons and Gourds c. Red Vetches c. Juniper berries c. Pippins pared and cut in slices N. 1 2 3. Raisins of the Sun picked and stoned c. Dates cleansed from their strings c. Fat Figgs or new Figgs c. Sweet Prunes c. Kernels of Pine Nuts washed c. Make a Decoction in Barley-water perfectly boyled c. CHAP. II. Of Julebs THis Medicine used chiefly for alteration unknown to the antientest Greeks is the invention of the Arabian so called because it is made of sweet and pleasâ—nt things the word Julep or Juleb signifying in the Persian tongue a sweet potion but the latter Greeks after the manner of the Arabians cal it Julapium and Jolabion which words yet remain among Physitians although the thing it self be grown out of use This is found two-fold among Authors one of the Antients another of modern Writers The Juleb of the Antients is wholly different from ours but simple consisting of some juyce distild water insusion of Barley or the decoction of one thing and sugar most commonly made for present use as was usually the Juleb of Roses otherwise called Alexandrinus or Regis most famous against thirst and heat But the Julep of modern Writers which is at this day every where prescribed retains the name of the Antients not the form and is every where called a Julep although some very late Writers cal it a syrup or Seraâ—ium as to this day some Italians do perhaps because a syrup is the basis of Juleps but at Montpâ—llier they are called Juleps But a JULEP is a fluid Medicine composed of an appropriate Liquor and Syrup and sometimes Sugar mixed together without boyling for 〈◊〉 or five doses either to prepare or alter humors otherwise or to strengthen the body Hence this altering Medicine may be judged twofold either it prepares the humors for purgation as the praepotions of the ancient Greeks which were fore running potions of general purgations which may therfore rightly be called a concocting potion or else alters the humours without any scope or intention of purging as also the spirits and other parts of the body hither appertain a strengthening and Cordial Julep In this three things are to be considered the Composition the use and the benefit In the Composition two things chiefly are to be weighed 1. An appropriat Liquor of which it is to be made 2. What things are to be dissolved in it In the Liquor two things are to be regarded the quality and quantity In relation to the Quality either there is prescribed a single distilled water regarding both the affection and the affected part which is most frequent especially in the winter time for the defect of Herbs either for a Julep to prepare the humors or alter them any other way or strengthen the faculties of the body Or else a distilled water and a juyce together which is most usual for a Cordial and strengthning Julep Or else a decoction for simple potions to be prescribed in half the quantity of an Apozem and almost in the same manner which is often to be put in practice for the concoction and alteration of humors But the quantity for every dose of Liquor is to be prescribed to three ounces or four ounces so that when the Julep is prescribed for 3 or 4 doses the quantity of the Liquor for the whole Julep should be eight ounces or twelve ounces if for 3 doses to twelve ounces or sixteen ounces for four doses having in the interim regard to the age and growth of the body for 4 ounces wil hardly be sufficient for great bodies unless it be powerful in virtue or strong in taste We must mark that when distilled waters and Juyces are prescribed together sometimes they are prescribed in equal quantities sometimes the Juyce sometimes the water exceeds each other two or three ounces but you must observe that when the Juyce that is added is sowr or sharp one ounce or two ounces will be enough for a Julep of two doses Things to be dissolved are considered in respect of their quality and quantity A to their quantity either it is sugar alone which is seldom seen or some appropriate syrup respecting both the affection and part affected which is generally received every where Besides these sweetners some other thing is alwayes to be dissolved in a Julep sometimes therfore there is dissolved 1. In a preparing Julep if you prescribe it of a decoction like apozems the same things that are dissolved in altering Apozems as aforesaid for this kinde of Julep is as it were a pretty Apor zem 2. In a Cordial or strengthning Julep either some cordial Confection and that alone as confectio Alkermes de Hiachintho especially where we are to strengthen in fluxes of the belly smal pox Worms or Treacle in contagious times Or eâ—se some Cordial powder alone and that either simple and this again arematical as Saunders or not aromatical as is usual in the smal Pox as of Harts-horn Ivory Coral-Pearls Vnicorns horn and also in other malignant humors in the Worms as also Coralline among them c. Or compound as the powder of some elect â—ary of the shops as species of Diamargariti frigidi c. as your indications
compleat the whole dose taking the greater quantity of this or that or equal parts as you see fit The USE is for 1 dose only according to the present necessity at any time of the day or the disease And this is the usual FORM of RESCRIBING ℞ c. viz. the Liquor in which dissolve c. so make a potion to be taken at such or such an hour Mark this that because some Cordials are dissolved in the potion they may be prescribed in the said form or else without the straining after dissolution 't is usual to prescribe all the ingredients adding only Make a potion The UTILITY 'T is very effectual against divers affections of the heart as Swooning panting c. malignant affections poysons and when it is to be strengthened being made weak by the violence of diseases as also when the virtues of it and al other principal parts are dejected they are through the continuance of the whole disease to be assisted and restored being weakned to be strengthened and confirmed being exhausted to be recruited An altering Potion THat is to be called an altering Potion which is under a Liquid form not allotted either to purge hurtful humors or comfort the strength of the body oppressed so it be to alter any way or evacuate so it do it not by purging as in expelling the stone of the Reines c. prescribed for one onely dose to be taken by the mouth at one time The COMPOSITION of it is the same as of the corroborating potion viz. of a Liquor fitted for your present intention either a distill'd water only or else some Juyce or decoction being added to it and some convenient powder to be altered according to the variety of your indications and a proper syrup serving to the intention of the Physitian al which are prescribed in the dose after the same manner as the strengthening potion as you may perceive by one or two examples following A somniferous potion restoring and corroborating the strength exhausted by over-watchings ℞ Water of red Poppyes water Lilles and Lettuce of each two ounces syrup of white Poppy one ounce syrup of Violets half an ounce Consectio Alkermes half a dram Make a potion to be taken at the time of going to sleep A Potion for the Worms and also Cordial Take the water of Purslane and grass of each two ounces Confection of Hyacinth half a dram powder of Earthworms dryed one scruple Coralin and the shavings of Hartshorn of each one scruple syrup of Lemons one ounce So make a potion A potion to hasten delivery of a Child Take Hypocras made by the infusion of Cinnamon and Dittany in white Wine four ounces or five ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce Corfectio Alchermes one dram Saffron half a scruple syrup of Mugwort one cunce So make a potion CHAP. IV. Of Syrups DIvers simples there are Herbs Roots Seeds Fruits Flowers and others or the Juyces of them which cannot be had alwayes when need requires them especially in winter and autumn that decoctions infusions or other Medicines may be prepared of them for a present use or else they cannot be preserved sound without loss of their virtues so long a time or if they may yet the urgency of the affection or other inconveniencies do not alwayes allow such leisure as to attend the preparing of Medicines of them in divers forms or til the virtues of them may be sufficiently extracted from hence appears the necessity of syrups for the divers virtues of Plants thus kept and preserved by the benefit of Sugar or Honey in the form of a syrup are alwayes ready for use in every pressing necessity to serve for the various scope of the Physitian and are preserved sound without any depravation having joyned with them a grateful taste so that syrups are as it were a certain preserving of a medicinal Liquor Juyce decoction or infusion in which is retained the efficacy of the Medicines But a syrup is the invention of the Arabians and was scarce known to the antient Greeks we read of only mention made of Oximel and cute in Galen and Hypocrates after whose example the Mauritanians have a lorned their pharmacentick art with a various collection of syrups the modern Greeks as Actuarius cals it Scrapium Some derive this name from the Greek others from the Arabick but this is little considerable Whatsoever it is though at this time it be taken either properly for that which I shal describe and for that which is extant in the shops or improperly for a decoction preparing humors or an Apozem as Rondeletius and Jeubertus have written as an altering Julep for the Italians at this day cal a Julep Serapium perhaps because a syrup is the basis of a Julep yet at Montpelier A SYRUP is a fluid form of a Medicine made of a decoction Juyces or an infusion preserved with Sugar or Honey boyled to such a consistence that a drop on a marble or plate may not spread abroad prepared either to alter or purge It is of two sorts an altering syrup as was the syrup of the Antients and this hath been revived by our latest Physitians and a purging syrup The altering Syrup The definition of an altering syrup is to be sought among those things which we have said before in the altering Apozem as also the differences there set down But for the clearer method use and prescription sake it is two-fold Officinal and Magisterial The officinal or usual is that which is publickly extant 〈…〉 in the Apothecarys shops of which I 〈…〉 in the use of it and in respect of the prescribing of it many things occur necessary to be known hereafter to be rehearsed And this diversly divided as wel in relation to its virtues as its composition The differences taken from the virtues are considered either in general hot cold moist dry temperate Or in special in respect of the humors and other parts of the body In relation to the humors it alters either in the first qualities to which belong according to the diversity of the humor that which alters concocts digests prepares either choler phlegm melancholy or blood or in the second qualities in which number are contained those which cut attenuate incrassat cleanse binde or in the third qualities hither are referd those which cause easy coughing lenifie expectorate provoke Urine break the Stone provoke the courses condense the parts expel poyson and corroborate In regard of the parts which they properly respect some are Cephalical others Cordial c. which you may seek among the store of Physical remedies here I shal only propound the division of the Officinal syrups according to their composition and faculties onely considered generally because other things more appertain to the physical magazeen withal intending to give a Catalogue of the more usual sort because some are here in use which in other places are grown obsolete and so on the contrary neither is there the same number in use every where
quantity 't is taken to a spoonful or a spoonful and an half or two As to the time if it be for strengthening the animal faculty 't is best after meat or at going to sleep if for the vital at any time when need requires for the natural either before with or after meat The Vtility is to preserve the vigor of the principal parts to restore the strength wasted by diseases Hence it is that the use of these candied confections is wholly restorative rather helping nature and the strength than regarding the disease which neverthelesse is not to be neglected therefore these candied confections are made heating cooling binding c. the use of them is frequent in the hypochondriacal affection panting of the heart consumption of the lungs weaknesse of the stomack and liver c. THE THIRD SECTION Of the First Book OF THE SOLID FORMES OF MEDICINES CHAP. I. Of Paste-royal and morsels THere is also an invention of modern Writers which in consistence resembles Pineolates or Paste of Pine kernels made of divers things wrought together like paste from whence its name and of sugar dissolved in some convenient liquor and boiled to the height of Tabulets this is made into boles or morsels like Conserves of Roses dried hence it is called morsels which being leisurely dried are kept for use and are somtimes gilded and this is called Paste-Royal for the Soveraign virtues it hath in affections of the brest lungs and in extenuated bodies In this also three things are to be noted Composition Vse and Vtility As to the Composition 't is made two wayes 1. Either without the flesh of living creatures as shall be said of bechical fruits and seeds only and sugar These fruits are for the most part blanched Almonds washed soaked and bruised the kernels of Pistaches and pine nuts washed also in a fit water as of violets or roses They are usually prescribed to the quantity of four ounces The seeds are the four greater cold seeds usually huld and bruised to which when sleep is to be provoked the seeds of white poppy and lettice are added Let these be prescribed to the quantity of two ounces or two ounces and an half The sugar is to be chosen white dissolved in a fit liquor the quantity of it is usually set down q s yet it should usually be double the proportion of the rest 2. Or else this paste is made restorative with the flesh of the tortoses of the wood washed and boyl'd in barley water the head and tail being left out and this is afterwards called Testudinate paste or paste of Tortoses or with the flesh of Crawfish Capons and Partridges or else to these are added the fruits aforesaid seeds and powders mentioned in the Candies and sugar dissolved in Rosewater usually in this proportion Of flesh three or four ounces Fruits three ounces Seeds one ounce an ounce and half And let one dram of powders answer to every ounce of the rest and of those that are precious a lesse quantity Sugar is mentioned q. s Somtimes Ambergreece and Musk are added in small quantity to some few grains somtimes also the paste is covered over with leaf gold The VSE the manner is either by it self or in broth The Dose or united quantity is to half an ounce or an ounce the morsels in numb one or two The divided quantity 't is to be taken often with meat and in your meals The time is expressed The FORME â„ž c. make a confection in morsels and somtimes 't is added like pineolate so let it be used The VTILITY the paste that is not nourishing is good for divers affections of the lungs and brest to incrassate lenifie cleanse or expectorate c but the restorative paste both in the same and the consumption for them that are extenuated and weakened by the ulcer of the lungs it nourisheth drieth and thickneth rheumes therefore the use is wholly restorative regarding also the affections from whence that lack of nourishment and dejection of the strength proceeds CHAP. II. Of a Pandaleon THis invention of the Arabians and latter Physitians is a medicine dedicated to the brest and lungs made of pleasant ingredients agreeing with the Lohoch to the same purpose differing only in form in which it resembles Tablets From them also it differs in this because they are made up in a certain shape but this when the sugar is sufficiently boiled and the ingredients mixed with it is poured into a box and there suffered to harden and at the time of using it a bit is taken out with a knife or spoon c. Therefore it is a medicine solid like Tablets kept in a box like a cake made of powders bechical conserves and sugar dissolved and made into a Tablet consistence appointed for the same uses as Lohochs are And in it three things are to be noted Composition Vse and Vtility The COMPOSITION is two wayes 1. Either of bechical powders simple or compound several or mixed and sugar dissolved in a fit liquor boiled in or neer this proportion that to half an ounce of the powder there may be four ounces of sugar dissolved or else q. s 2. Or of thoracical fruits and seeds powders of electuaries sugar dissolved after these proportions Of fruits two drams seeds an ounce powders three drams sugar q. s Note that conserves may somtimes be added to three drams or half an ounce The VSE the manner is to contain it in the mouth that it may leisurely melt and may gently be swallowed down and used frequently The quantity let a bit of this be taken from a spoon or the point of a knife The time is the same with that of the Lohochs The FORM â„ž c. make a Pandalcon in a convenient box of which c. The VTILITY is the same with that of the Lohochs from which this differs only in form and that this for the most part consists of the pleasantest things CHAP. III. Of Marchpane and Pineolates MArchpane is a most pleasant confection of latter writers nourishing much convenient for people that are leane and for affections of the lungs instead of sweet meats 'T is compounded of blanched Almonds three ounces Pistaches cleansed one ounce stamped in a marble mortar with a little rose-rose-water adding half a pound of white sugar make a paste which make into little cakes to be baked gently in an oven till they begin to be coloured yellow and are a little hardened other pleasant things may also be added as Cinamom c. A PINEOLATE is made to the same end of equal parts of pinekernels and sugar dissolved of which are made morsels adding musk for the better grace if you will but this is to be injoyned by the Physitian not else to be usually prescribed CHAP. IV. Of Tablets THat which they were wont to call the solid electuary is otherwise called from its flat shape a Tablet and because the sugar of which they are made when it is boiled and flatted
til they leisurely dissolve and are dedicated to the cough and affections of the windpipe and breast These are COMPOVNDED of a powder of lenifying thoracical simples as powder and juyce of Liquorice gum dragant Arabick Starch Penidies Sugar White Poppy-seeds c. to one ounce or two ounces as need requireth or the time you use them be long or short And that powder is taken with a sufficient quantity of muscilage of gum dragant drawn with Roserwater or with the muscilage of Quince-kernels c. or with a pectoral syrup and made into Troschischs or pills The VSE and FORM â„ž c. with the muscilage c. make a masse out of which make pils to be dissolved on the tongue of which let him frequently hold one under his tongue til it dissolve of it self and be leisurely swallowed The VTILITY is as above to ease the cough the roughness of the Wind-pipe and Jaws help hoarsness of the voice and facilitate spitting Hither belong the Lupine fashioned Troschiscks which are held in the mouth to stay rheums But those Pills that strengthen or alter any way are commodiously swallowed down in the affections of the stomack proceeding from its crude flatuousness and those which communicate with it as the head especially or those that are neerly adjacent as the Liver c. those made of appropriate strengtheners are convenient in the affections of the head by the continuance of them in the stomack especially if they be taken after meat for so the fuming quality of them ascends and so they conduce to the affections of the eyes against the dimness of sight made of eye medicines or ophthalmicks Or else they are given at going to bed such are the sleeping officinal Pills as those of Cynoglosse which are every where prescribed to stay and dry up rheumes and to provoke sleep and hither Laudanum may be referred as most used to gr IV. or V. they are prescribed also for fluxes of the belly of strengtheners and binders to be taken both before and with meat as also against the imbecility of the Liver Gonorrhea Vlcers of the Reins and Bladder Stone and divers affections of the womb But they are COMPOVNDED of a convenient powder serving to the scope of the Physitian as the affections shall suggest and that prescribed to half an ounce five or six drams which is to be made up with a convenient syrup The VSE as to the quantity of one dram of the mass are made six Pills of which two are taken once or twice a day As to the Time they may be taken morning and evening before after or with meat as aforesaid in the Candies As to the Manner they are swallowed down and if it be for affections of the lower parts as affections of the Liver Bowels Reins Bladder Womb a little of some convenient Liquor should be drank after them that thereby the Medicinal virtue might be conveyed to those parts the sooner to good purpose The VTILITY is enough spoken of before CHAP. VI. Of Troschiscks THey are otherwise called Circulets and little Cakes by the Greeks and Pastils by the Latines and of some Orbicles It is a solid and hard form of Medicine in the forms of Lupines made of divers powders into a paste with some convenient liquor which made into little round Cakes are dried and kept And these are either officinal or magisterial And both of them either internal or external The officinal internal ones are either Purgative as Agaricus troschisatus trosch of Alhandal trosch de violis Or altering either without Opium as trosch of Vipers of Squils Cipheos Hidecroy or with Opium as trosch de alkekengi for the reins and bladder of Amber for the Womh Or Cordial as gallia Moscat alipta matosc Or pectoral as Bechici albi nigri Or opening as trosc Diarrhodon and of Rheubarb for the Liver trosc de Lupatorio of Wormwood and de lacca for the Liver and Spleen trosc of myrrh for the Womb. Magisterial as they were formerly most usual so are they now scarcely at all prescribed unlesse for fumings for which they are frequent as shall be said or for coughs and defluxions as the pils Sublinguales before mentioned they are also made usually for the ulcers of the bladder and reins sharpness of the water and to stop fluxes of blood seed and the belly both to binde and open and they may also be made to strengthen â—n summ they are prescribed instead of powders as more effectual because in this form the medicinal quality doth not so easily vanish but is preserved by this means commodiously They are COMPOVNDED of a convenient powder of divers things taken in a convenient Liquor and mixed til they come to the form of pills or a paste out of which they make little round cakes which being marked with your mark are to be dryed in the shadow and to be laid up for use and these are made to the weight of 1 dram 1 dram and a half 2 drams 3 drams at most according to the virtue and efficacy of the ingedients but the powder of which they are made is to be chosen out of divers parts of vegetables especially such as are easily powdered as also of gums that are powderable as Cherry gum Styrax gum Tragants and also juyces thickened as Acacia Hypocistis and generally out of all things eâ—sie to be powdered As to the quantity this sort of powder may be prescribed from an ounce to an ounce and half and two ounces according as your use of them shall continue but most commonly an ounce and a half wil suffice That which these are made up withal is either thin as wine water distilled water the juyce of herbs or clammy as the muscilage of gum dragant or Arabick drawn with a convenient water As to the quantity they are prescribed q. s The VSE and form â„ž c. Make Troschischs as bigg as Lupines of the weight of c. let them be dryed in the shadow when you use them break one or two according to their efficacy and weight dissolve it in a fit Liquor let it be used either inward or outwards for they are prescribed as is said for both internal and external uses yet note that those which are for fumings are not to be dissolved as neither are those called Hypoglottides The VTILITY is sufficiently expressed for in this form may be kept both Alterers strengtheners For Troschischs are rather invented to preserve the virtue of the powders entire than that it should be any otherwise a useful form of a medicine for we do not use them whole but dissolved first in a convenient Liquor except the Hypoglottides and these for Suffumigaâ—ions But this form is most profitable because powders especially the cordials and others that consist of a thin essence easily exhalable by this means retain their virtues against the injury of the ayre nor wil suffer them to be diffused and as it were centers them and so produceth a more
add water to 4 ounces As to the quantity 't is said of wine s q. or of each a like quantity The VSE as to the manner the head is wet with it in the sun-shine in a clear day and if you can a quiet warm place afterwards the head is to be throughly dryed with sponges soaked in Aqua vitae and lastly 't is to be covered diligently with dryed locks of hemp wel fumed with suffumigations The time let it be washed in the morning two hours before dinner the belly being first evacuated The Form â„ž c. Make a decoction wash the head c. The VTILITY is great after purging where the relicks of the matter imparted is to be dissipated consumed as also where the head is to be strengthened and they are for the most part addicted onely to the cold distempers of the head and brain they may also be prepared for other uses as for outward affections of the head as tetters dandruff lice filth made of the sharpest sort of cleansers with urine and lye alwayes adding cephalical-herbs The lotion for the feet Is compounded of the decoction of simples hot or cold made either in water or Lye as is fittest for the purpose the ingredients of the decoction should be in the same dose as for the cephalical lotion But note that as to the quality of the ingredients because this is usually instituted to provoke sleep the cooling cephalical simples are to be chosen and that the heads of white Poppy in number 4 may wel be added Note also that where you would dry heat and strengthen and in the swelling oedematous or phlegmatick affections of the leggs Salt and Allum may be profitably mingled with it to four ounces and Quicksulfure to two ounces The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a lotion for the feet morning or evening before meat or before sleep if it be to procure it The VTILITY is either to mend their own proper affections trembling of them to cal down the humours from the higher parts if they are made of heating cephalical medicines also to ease weariness or which is most generally the use of them to provoke sleep in the raging heat of Fevers and fervency of the brain CHAP. III. Of a Fomentation IT is called a Fomentation because it doth foment and cherish the parts to which it is applyed by the heat it is applyed withall for all Fomentations are in action hot seldom any cold And it is two-fold moist and dry The moyst Fomentation The moyst one is a Liquor fit to be applyed to divers parts by the help of Limons sisters Sponges serving to diuers intentions And this is again two-fold simple and more compound The SIMPLE Liquor that is wont to be prescribed for a Fomentation as to its quality is either hot or warm water when we would relax in pains that come from over-much fulness or Wine when we would discusse and strengthen or wine and water together where we would do both at once or either temperately or milk in great paines or oyl common or other where we would mollifie in relation to the paine and digest as to the scope or water and oyl Vinegar and water or Vinegar of Roses in hot affections or Lee of Vine-ashes in cold affections if we should digest and dry strongly As to the quantity that is to be defined by the long continuance of the use of it and the bigness of the part to be fomented so for the eye 4 ounces wil suffice for the stomack one pint or a pint and a half for the short rib-region and belly as is usual in obstructions three pints The Compound is made of the decoction of various kindes of simples parts of plants and a convenient Liquor in which we must consider quality and quantity As to the quality of the matter there are prescribed roots leaves fruits seeds flowers sometimes all together where a greater quantity is to be prepared sometimes some few only As to the quantity it is various according to the diversity of the parts As for example for the eyes it may be prescribed to the dose of a potion or the fourth part of the Apozem for four ounces wil suffice or six at most for the stomack half the proportion of an Apozem or something more for the whole belly the whole dose of the Apozem The Liquor in which the decoction is to be made is simple water or water and wine together sometimes milk where you would lenisie Lye where you would digest Smiths water where binde c. according to the scope as to the quantity t is prescribed q. s Note that sometimes the decoction being made and strained divers things may be added as white wine in obstructions of the bowels to one pint or a pint and a half sometimes Vinegar in affections of the spleen to 6 7 or 8 ounces for penetration sake Aqua vitae for the stomack to two or three ounces and to strengthen also or appropriate oyls to 4 ounces half a pint c. and it is generally the use in practice to prescribe them after the use of the Apozem in obstructions of the bowels as â„ž of the decoction prescribed for the Apozem three or four pints add to it of wine c. make a somentation for the belly The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a fomentation with which let the part affected be fomented with a doubled linnen cloth shreds or a sponge wet in it and a little wrung out again or else use a hoggs bladder half ful of the Liquor morning and evening so as it cools apply another by turns Note that in the fomentation of the belly under the short ribs 't is usually said let the short-ribregion be fomented in the morning 2 or 3 hours before dinner or else before supper for three or four dayes changing often the fomentation lest it cool too much and it is usually prescribed after the fomentation to be anointed with such an oyl liniment or unguent hot The Use is after general purgations otherwise whe need requires The UTILITY is large so that there is hardly any part which as it may be fomented shal not receive very much benefit from it it is used to the eyes affected both for the pain and inflammation of them c. Also against obstructions of the spleen and bowels c. against the pains of divers parts to provoke the courses for the cholerick affections of the reins inflammations of the reins it rarifies the skin that the humours contained may be the better digested attenuated dissolved when they are thin and when hard mollified it turns things to vapours and helps much by its gentle heat hence it is used in pains to relax mollifie digest dry binde strengthen heat and also sometimes to cool but then there is rather to be used an Epithem as in cholerick inflammations The dry Fomentation So I cal from the effect that fomentation and baggs which are
the sight discussing and rarifying and that in white wine often in water sometimes the urine of a boy Childe being added to two ounces The VSE and FORM of the decoction â„ž c. make a decoction in c. for a suffumigation let him receive the vapor or fume of this to his eye either through a narrow-mouthed Pot or a Tunnel other vents being closed morning and night long from meat for so many days as there is need afterwards let the eyes be fomented with a spunge dipped in the decoction or with little bags filled with the ingredients which let be applied warm by turns for a quarter or half an hour The VTILITY is expressed it may also be made to binde as in the dilation of the apple or pupil of the eye of convenient things and in the running of the tears but the first use is most frequent These for a vaporous Collyrium The LIQVID one is absolutely called a Collyrium though antiently Collyriums were properly dry in the forms of Troschischs which they dissolved in a fit liquor at the time of using them But t is COMPOVNDED diversly 1. Either of a distilled water alone simple or compound The simple may be prescribed either one two or more to four ounces make a Collyrium The Compound which is magisterial and chiefly addicted to digest discuss cleanse sharpen the sight and take away suffusions and is to be prescribed by the Physitians and is made in relation to its quality of things that sharpen the sight leaves seeds as also Cephalical heating things as leaves seeds spices as Ginger Pepper sometimes adding Gall the Vrine of a Young Boy White Wine Honey c. As to the quantity let there be of sight sharpning leaves M. six or M. eight seeds one ounce a half or 2. ounc Cephalical leaves M. 2. spices half an ounce six drams Gall two ounces Urine lib. half or lib. 1 2. Honey lib. half Wine lib. 2. The FORM â„ž c. Let them steep eight days in a glass vessel in a warm place or horse dung afterwards distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water in a glass bottle and keep it for your use which is as that of others 2. Of Juices onely and chiefly of Leaves clarified and infused into the eyes or applyed with linnen raggs wet in them 3. Or of a Decoction onely of Leaves Seeds Flowers fit for the purpose to be prescribed in the quantity of a potion for four ounces wil suffice for a Collyrium 4 Or of an infusion onely of metalline things as of Antimony 1 dram in 4 ounces of water which is admirable to clarifie the sight so also gr 1.2.3 of Vitriol in Rose or Fennel water is admirable against the redness and pain of the eyes Or else made of proper vegetables infused either in a distilled water Juices or a decoction c. to 4. or 6 ounces the Liquor afterwards being strained and filtrated is to be kept in a glass for use 5. Or of a distilled water Juice Infusion Decoction 2 3 or all of these together mixed according to your intention to 3 or 4 ounces 6. Or other liquors are used alone according to your scope as VVine VVater whites of Egges in paines c. 7. Or some convenient powder made of proper eye medicines added to the aforesaid Liquor several or mixed As to the quantity of the powder 1.2 or 3 drams is to be the most those that are strong should not exceed 1 dram so with 4 5 or 6 oun of Liquor make a Collyr um Note also 't is best to strain a Collyrium for the roughness of the powders unless it be to scoure The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Collyrium a few drops of which 2 or 3 is to be dropped into the greater corner of the eye or and besides which seems best to me apply a Linnen cloth dipped in the same Liquor to the eyes and change them often so let it be as it were a fomentation or an Epitheme Or when the Liquors are gentler let the Patient lie forward and apply the Collyrium in a cup fitted to the eye so that it may as it were bath the whole eye The VTILITY of the liquid moist one chiefly is to cool and quench the burnings of the eyes to drive away paines and inflammations in the beginning afterwards to discuss them also to repel and stay rhewms to dry and consume teares to cleanse off any filth from them to sharpen the sight and discuss gross humors Thus much for the liquid Collyrium Here follows The COLLYRIUM like Honey 't is so called because 't is of the consistence of Honey and that three-fold in the form of a Liniment a Pultis and a Cataplasme The Liniment fashion Collyrium is made 1. Either of the powder of some fit things made into an Alcohol and a fit thing to embody it withal which is various according to the scope as a fit Muscilage honey butter oyntment of Roses c. according to your indications As to the quantity let the whole composition be an ounce viz. of powders 2 or 3 drams and half a ounce or six drams of that with which they are imbodied 2. Or without a powder of the muscilage of fit seeds as of Quinces c. but the former way is the more usual The Cataplasm and Pultis is for the most part made onely to ease paines and that of two ounces of the crumbs of white bread soaked in q. s of milk to which is added sometimes the muscilage of Fleawort to half an ounce Opium gr 2 c. 2. Or of onely the pulp of a Pippin softened at the fire or boyled in Milk to two ounces 3. Or of both together 4. Or to repel of the pulp of Quinces boyled to two ounces 5. Orchiefly to discuss after the manner of cataplasmes of the muscilage made of the residence of the sight-sharpening decoction bruised and driven through the strainer see the vaporous Collyrium The VSE and FORM of the Liniment â„ž c. Make it like a Liniment with which anoint the corners of the eyes that it may leisurely penetrate to the inward parts Or else it may be applied with a pencil to the eye-lids at the place affected Of the Cataplasm â„ž make it like a Pultis or a Cataplasme lay it on a fit linnen cloth wet in a fit liquor and apply it The VTILITY of the Liniment is special where we would help the affection of the eye-lids or cleanse to which purpose t is most usefull and also to dry it may profitably be used to discusse and for pains but then it is better in the form of a Pultis Collyriums are made in this form that by this means the powders sticking the longer may work more effectually on the part and if there be any sharp medicines they are thus allayd The Cataplasm and Pultis are used only to ease pain they may nevertheless be applied to discuss and repel as aforesaid Thus far of
fragrant wine 3. For the biting of a mad dogg the Antidote of Galen of one part of Frankinsense 5 parts of Gentian and 10 parts of the ashes ofa Crawfish the dosefs from half a dram to a dram or two drams in wine Or else outwardly 1. The Alexipharmacal things mixed with things that draw to the skin 2. The flesh of any venemous creature applyed to the sting or the bite The Second SECTION OF THE FIRST PART OF The First Book OF MEDICINES respecting the Causes offending in quantity A Type of this Section Medicaments respecting the morbifical cause offending in quantity are either Preparers Of the humors otherwise called Digestives Of the body called otherwise Openers Or Universal Evacuaters as Purgers viz. those thaâ— are properly so called Vomitories Diureticks Sudorificks Preparers of the Humors or Digestives THese are those digestives that correct the fulness of the humors either in first or second qualities that any way hinder concoction by contrary qualities and by this meanes do as it were prepare them partly to help nature in the concoction partly to procure the more commodious evacuation by the succeeding purge and of this preparation is meant that Aphorisme 22. Sect. 1. These are threefold for some prepare Choler some Phlegme others Melancholy Preparers of Choler CHoler in respect of the first qualities because it is hot and dry requires those things that are cold and moist but in relation to the second qualities because some is very thin as that which is yellow other of it thick and gross either by adustion or by mixing with gross humours as the Vitelline Leek-colourd Aeruginous and azure colourd the first sort is to be thickned this last to be attenuated therefore alterers of Choler are two-fold some thickeners others attenuaters Concerning which note this that although all of them are not moist yet because they are cooling they abate the heat and prevent any farther driness and so by accident do moisten Thickners of Choler The Roots of Bugloss Plantain Leaves of Purslane Plantain Lettice Garden Nightshade great Housleek Seeds of Quinces Lettice Mallows white Poppies Plantain Fleawort Flowers of water Lillies Violets red Poppies Roses Mallows Fruits Jujubes Quinces Pomgranates Peares sweet Apples Sebestens Gums Tragant Arabick Juices of the leaves and fruits before rehearsed in this table starch Waters of the leaves and flowers aforesaid Syrups of the leaves flowers and fruits aforesaid usual in the shops as also the syrup of white Poppy seed Conserves of the flowers of water Lillies violets red Roses Mallows Species or Powders of Diatragacanthum Frigidum Diamargaritum Frigidum Diapenidium Pulvis Haly. Elect. Diacidonium without spices Rob. As of English Corans Cherries Sloes c. Attenuators of Choler Roots of Sparagus Sorrel Succory Grass Leaves of Sorrel all the capillary herbs viz. black or common Maydeehair yellow Maydenhaire wall Rue or white Maydenhair Cetrach Endive Succory Sowthistle wild Endive Dandelion gum Succory Liverwort wood Sorrel Harts-tongue Seeds Of Sorrel Endive Barley the four great cold seeds Flowers Of Succory Endive Fruits Oranges Limons Citrons Melons Pompions soure Prunes soure Cherries Corans Barberries Gums Camphere Clarified juyces of the Leaves and fruits before rehearsed also verjuyce Waters Of the Herbs aforesaid whatsoever you can have Syrups Also of the Leaves and Fruits aforesaid which are extant in the shops Conserves Of Succory Sorrel Citron Species Diatrion-Santalon Preparers of Phlegm PHlegm in relation to its first qualities is either cold and moist as the insipid sour and glassie and these are to be corrected with heaters and dryers or is heating and drying as the salt phlegme and that is prepared as choler mixing with the others those things also which respect phlegme but in relation to the second qualities all phlegme is gross rough and glutinous therefore to be corrected by attenuaters cutters and cleansers Roots The five opening roots viz. the roots of Sparagus Parsley Fennel Smallage Kneeholm Acorus Angelica Birthwort Ciperas or English Galangale Calamus Aromaticus Elecampane China Galingale blew Flower de luce Masterwort Liquorice Piony Salsaparilla Valerian Zedoary Leaves of Wormwood Agrimony Betony Calamint Germander field Cipres Fennel Hysop St. Johnswort Bayes Marjoram white Horehound Mints Balm wild Marjoram Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Sage Savory mother of Time Time Seeds the four greater and lesser hot seeds and of Carduus benedictus Corianders Citrons Lovage Pyony Silver-mountain Nettles Mustard Fruits Barberies Juniper berries Nutmeggs Figgs Flowers of Rosemary Lavender Centaury the lesse St. Johnswort Lavender Lilly of the vallies Sage French Lavender Barks and woods of Guajacum Sassafras barks of Citrons Oranges Spices all in general Rosins Myrrh Mastick Storax Frankinsense Things taken from animals Hony Musk Castor Things of the sea Ambergreese Amber Waters of the aforesaid things which you can find ready at the shops Aqua vitae Aqua coelestis Imperialis Theriacalis or treacle-Treacle-water Syrups of Wormwood Byzantinus Maydenhair syrup of the preserving of the roots Acorus and Citron peels condited and of Condite Ginger syrup of Hysop Mints Hony of Roses Oxymel simple and of Squils syrup of Horehound of the two or five opening roots syrup of Lavender cotton Preserves and Condites the Roots of Acorus Elecampane Ginger Emblick Myrobolanes Nutmeggs Walnuts barks of Citrons Oranges Olives pickled Conserves of the flowers of Rosemary Lavender cotton Sage Wormwood Powders Aromaticum Rosatum Caryophillatum Dianthos Diambrae Diamoscam dulce Diarrhodon abbatis Confections Aurea Alexandrina Treacle Mithridate Troschischs of Wormwood Gallia and Alipta moschata of Maudlim Distill'd oyls of Anniseed Cinnamon Cummins Cloves Orange peels Fennel-seed Nutmeggs Rosemary Marjoram Amber Preparers of Melancholy MElancholy is two-fold either adust which because 't is very hot dry and gross requires coolers moisteners and attenuaters therefore we must here have recourse to the table of the attenuaters of choler but chiefly the juice of fragrant apples as Pippins and Pearmains c. incommended of which may be made a syrup or else not adust and is called the melancholy juice which by nature is cold dry and grosse and therefore is to be prepared with things that moderately heat moisten and attenuate The matter of these follows where note that if any among them be dryer then is fitting such things are to be temper'd with moisteners Roots of Coocoo-pits prepard Bugloss Elecampane Ferne Polipody of the Oak Satyrions the 5 opening roots Liquorish which is always to be prescribed to temper the drinesse of others Barks of Citrons the roots of Capers the middle barks of Ash Tamarisk Elder Leaves of Borage Bugloss Brooklime Dodder Centaury the less Maydenhair Fumitory Hops Balm Cresses Harts tongue Time Seeds the four greater hot seeds of Smallage Agnus Castus Basil Carduus Benedictus Citrons Dodder Cresses Parsley Flowers the four Cordial Flowers see the premonitions flowers of water Lillies to temper the dryer medicines of Marigolds Broom Walflowers Tamarisk Elder Saffron Fruits Capers Raisins of the Sun Corans Gums Ammoniack Lack. From Animals the shel
the grasse benerth The Election That is to be chosen that is white new not more then a year old for that which is red or brown is too old round whose grains being broken are not spnngy nor ash'coloured but solid and white The Qualities According to Avicen and Mesue 't is temperate to Averrhoes 't is hot and moist it opens mollifiers smooths gently moves the belly draws forth choler and purgeth watrish humors chiefly dedicated to the wind-pipe and breast hence it is profitably used in hectical Fevers and to quench thirst 't is lesse useful in burning Fevers for its sweetness for which reason it easily turneth into choler 't is safely given both to Women with child and children The Correctors Because it is flatulent 't is corrected with a little Cinnamon Ginger or Aniseed and because 't is slow of operation 't is usually quickened with syrup of Roses solutive or some gently purging decoction some add two three or four grains of Diagridium The Dose Is from an ounce to two or three ounces but commonly to an ounce and a half and to children one ounce Mesues appoints from six drams to fifteen but perhaps he meant the best sort of Masticine Manna The form of giving it 'T is given iâ— the form of a potion dissolved in the broth of a Chicken in which 't is scarcely perceived or in VVhey or in some decoction or in a convenient water In the Cholick with oyl of sweet Almonds to which a little Malmsey should be added sometimes t is prescribed to be eaten down TAMARINDS The Kind T Is a fruit of a certain kind of Indian tree which the Arabians have referred to the kind of dates as if it were the fruit of a wild Datetree because t is called the Indian date for Tamar in their language signifies Date But they have not properly called this fruit Dates as if the tree were of the kinds of Dates or like a Date tree but more respecting the similitude of the fruit which also contain little stones in them as Dates do then which they had found no fitter name but the pulp of this Fruit onely is in use the stones being to be cast away The Election Those Tamarinds are the best that are fat and pulpy brown sharp and soft from whence they were called Oxyphaenica The Qualities They are cold and dry in the second degree as Mesues writes and that to the height as Brassavolus and as Avicen saith in the third they mitigate humours too much burnt especially choler they move the belly and purge choler therefore are profitably used in vomitings to quench thirst in madness and for those that are obstructed hydropical sick of the Jaundies and Spleen-sick they also prevent all exulcerations of the skin hapning through too much torrifying of the blood as the Scabs Leprosie Frâ—ckles and Ring-worms The Correction They hurt by their coldness a cold stomack and are of slow operation and are therefore corrected with Mace Mastick Cinnamon and Spiâ—enard and are quickened with whey of Goats milk Juice of Fumitory or Hops Manna or Cassia The Dose Is from one ounce to two and three ounces which varies according to the manner of giving them The manner of giving them They are given either in the form of a bole or potion if in the form of a bole then the masse of them is first to be washed with a pestle after driven through a hair sieve placed over steeming hot water and afterwards adding correctors to the proportion as is said in the Cassia with Sugar make a bole But for the most part Tamarinds are not given alone but to half an ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds is added one ounce of Cassia then adding Correctors as is said in Cassia make a bole the form of a potion is used either in an infusion or a decoction The infusion is made thus they are steeped in Endive water three hours afterwards make an expression and give the strained Liquor with Sugar The decoction is made thus â„ž of Tamarinds one ounce boyl in it ten ounces of VVhey or some other broth altered with Hops or Fumitory til two ounces be wasted strain them thorow a thick cloth take of the strained Liquor two five or six ounces with Sugar make a potion The Dose of the decoction and infusion is the same viz. from â„¥ ii to â„¥ v. or â„¥ vi JUYCE of ROSES Roses used in the Shops are white red damask either common or musked The Kind This is the juyce drawne forth of the damask Roses or else from the musked white ones not the common ones wherewith rose Gardens abound but either of the damask or musked Election The juyce of the musked Roses and damask Roses is to be preferred before the juyce of other pale Roses and the juyce of Roses full blowne is better then that of the buds The Qualities This juyce is hot and dry in the first degree though Roses themselves be cold in the first and dry in the second degree the reason according to Mesues is because the juyce is here separated from the earthy and cold substance It discusseth cleanseth opens purgeth choler and yellow watrish humors and moves the courses gently therefore not to be given to women with child 'T is good for the liver and heart and is used in obstructions of the liver and pantings of the heart as also in cholerick Feavers for it purgeth humours that cause these diseases it strengthens the bowels by purging them and there is no malignity in it The Dose and manner of giving it 'T is given from â„¥ i. to â„¥ ii with sugred water or according to Mesues with whey or honey giving â„¥ i. of the juyce of Roses with â„¥ ii or â„¥ iii. of whey but now with us is prepared an infusion of damask Roses and of that is made syrup of Roses solutive simple called Muchard and compound also honey of Roses solutive and out of the juyce is prepared Electuary of the juyce of Roses but this is of red Roses RUBARB The Kind 'T is called Rubarb by an Antonomasia figuratively and is a famous root of a barbarous people in the East Indies or of some Province of Barbary called the Trogloditick but very ill so esteemed For as Garcias ab horte Lib. 1. c. 37. and Linscot Par. 4. Ind. Orient Cap. 29. there is no Rubarb in India but onely in China where it growes from whence it is carried to Ormur through Tartary and thence into India and againe by the Westerne Tartars into Turkey and so to Venice from whence the other Kingdomes of Europe are stored with it This Root was unknown to Galen and Dioscorides and therefore diverse think amisse that this is the Rhapontick of Dioscorides and Galen and so confound that with our Rubarb For the Rheum of Dioscorides hath no purging quality and besides wants the markes of the true Rubarb for Rubarb is in substance compact weighty and brittle bitter in tast and sharp in smell of a
body You may safely give of that infusion ℥ ss or ʒ vi nay in a strong body you may give the whole ounce prescribed so the liquor be cleared from the powder Compounds are stibiated tablets eaten to ʒ i. or dissolved in a fit liquor as baume water c. also this following infusion ℞ the roots of Briony and Sowbread ana ℥ iii. of white Hellebore ℥ vi diligently cleansed powdred and dryed in the aire pour to them aq vitae to the eminency of two fingers breadth above the powder let them infuse some few dayes in B.M. then distill them and let that which remaines in the bottome be again dryed and powdred pouring to it again the former water do this three times dip the tip of a feather in this liquor and then slice it about in a glass of wine and give it to drink it provokes vomit suddainely DIURETICKS Those are called Diureticks which evacuate the watrish humours of the body by Urines and they are two fold some properly so called others improperly Those which are properly Diureticks are for the most part hot and dry in the third degree of thin parts and which easily penetrate to the veines and there melt and dissolve the blood and seperate the watrish part from the thicker much like the turning of milk when it curdleth from whence that which is grosser returneth to it selfe with the rest of the blood but that which is serous is drawn by the proper faculty of the reines Such are Rootes of Smallage Asarum Calamus aromaticus all the thistles of Ciperus or English Galangal of Dancus of town cress sennel cammock parsly radish madder kneeholm saxifrage valerian Leaves of Wormwood Smallage Betony Mountain Calamint Dittany of Creet Bayes Cresses Parsly Penny royall Savory mother of Time Flowres of Chamomill and broome Barkes the middle bark of broom bayes radishes Seedes of Anise Smallage Cardamomes Chervill red Cicers or Italian pease Cubebs Daucus Fennel Juniper berryes of Lovage Groomwell Parsly Paliurus of some called Christs thorne silver mountain seed and nettle seed Fruites bitter almonds figs. Spices Cassia Lignea Cinamon Rozins Turpentine both of Firre and Larch that is both Venice Turpentine and common Liquors White Wine Animals Cantharides to gr ii or iii. but with these conditions that they be given 1 after all other things have been tryed 2 they are to be given whole ex 11 simplic 3 never to be given alone but with some fat broath altered with mallowes Marsh-mallowes Locusts or Grashoppers given to ℈ ii Goatesblood Officinall waters as of fennel smallage and the herbs aforesaid Syrrups of the five roots of the two roots of radishes compound Species as Lithontribon of Nicolaus Conserves of the flowres of broome bettony wormwood Those are called improperly Diureticks not which melt the blood but those which by a certain tenuity of parts drive the wheyish part of it to the wayes of the Urine and so provoke it and have either a remisse temperate heat or else incline to cooling and these we use in hot affections where we may feare least the hot Diureticks by too much drying the blood should rather stay the Urine or else are such as only lenify the passages of the Urine as Marsh mallows mallowes liquerish and such like lenifiers which are very improperly called Diureticks Of the former sort are the Roots of Sparagus Sorrell Eringo strawberries grasse narrow docks Leaves of Sorrell tops of Sparagus Maidenhaire Rupturewort Pellitory of the wall Seedes The four greater cold seedes seedes of sorrell Alkekengie or winter cherries barly Fruites Strawberries Cherry kernels Medler stones Lemons Pompions Cowcumbers Goards Juyces Of Lemons Pellitory Gums Camphere This may better be referred to those properly called Diureticks before Officinall things as Waters Of Sorrell grass barly pellitory Syrups Of the juyce of Sorrell Maiden haire Lemons Troschiscks Of Camphere of Alkekengie of Saunders Chymicall things Sal prunellae from ʒ ss to ʒ i. with water adding some pleasant syrrup as of violets Out of those Diureticks divers formes of remedies both inward and outward may be composed SUDORIFICKS They are so called which evacuate the whole body by sweating of the Greeks they are called Hydroticks the nature of these is very agreeable with the Diureticks for heat being thin and subtle insinuates it selfe far into the body and humours which it attenuates and dissolves into evaporations but they also open the pores of the body from whence the vapours of their owne accord breath out and are condensed into a sweat The same matter doth after move both sweat and Urine Urine if the raines be hot and the skin thick sweat if the raines be cold and the skin thin such are these Rootes Of Smallage Angelica Burdock China Fennel Hops Parsley Burnet Cinquefoyle Salsa parilla Tormentill or Setwell Zedoary Woodes Box Guaicum Ginger Sasafras Leaves Carduus benedictus Maiden haire Germander Celandine the greater Chervill Fumitary Burnet Scabiosse Damesviolet Flowres Of Camomell Seedes Barly Millet Lentiles Juyces Rob. of Elder berryes and Danewort Earths Terra sigillata especially in the plague and infectious diseases Parts of animals Harts horn Bezar stone Chymicall things Salt of Wormwood Ash Scabiosse to gr x. xii rather to ℈ i. with water of Carduus benedictus and Scabiosse Antimonium diaphoreticum to gr iv or vi with a fit conserve Compounds Out of those divers things may be composed but potions especially those made of decoctions are preferred before all or else of infusions or of sudorificall things dissolved in a fit liquor and although they should be taken in a bole or other forme yet it is best to drink downe a potion after it hither is referred the syrrup called of St. Ambrose which consists of millet boyled in two parts of water and one of wine Officinall things are the waters of Carduus benedictus Chervill Fumitory Elder flowres also Treacle Mithridate and others as electuary de ovo and such like THE FIRST BOOK THE FIRST PART THE THIRD SECTION Of Medicaments respecting the cause that offends in motion The Type of the Section Medicaments respecting the morbificall cause offending in motion are in regard of the matter that is flowing Thickeners of the part receiving Repellers to which you may add Emplasticks of the wayes by which it flows Intercepters of the wayes by which it flows Binders Thickeners by the Latines Incrassantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which render thin and fluxible humours thicker and so less apt to flow such as are those which in the active qualities are cooling or temperate without any acrimony of a grosse and earthy substance by the commixture of which the thinner sort of humours acquire a thicker substance by much as water by the mixture of durt becomes clay as to the matter of Thickners because they agree in quality with the Repellers Binders Emplasticks gluing and scar breeding or wound closing medicines and with the thickeners of choller before mentioned therefore they
these following Leaves of Lettice Sengreen Dill. Seedes of Lettice the four greater cold seedes white Poppy seeds Fruites Sweet Almonds Peach kernels Waters of Violets water Lillies Lettice Purslane Nightshade Roses Syrups of Violets water Lillies Poppies Cowslips Conservâ—s of Violets water Lillies Cowslips Candied things Stalkes of Italian Lettice Candid Juyces of Lettice â„¥ iii. of the juyce of Lettice is a deadly draught therefore be wary water Lillies night shade Species Diamargariton frigidum powder of Haly diatrion santalon Tro chiscks Gordonii Oyles To anoynt the forehead remples and soles of the feet oyle of violets water Lillies sweet Almonds Dill Willowes Mandrake Frogs Poppyes Roses Marrowes of the thigh bones of calves harts Vnguents Populeon out of all which divers remedies to procure sleep both internall and externall may be prepared Stoppers of Blood by the Latines Sanguinem sistentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that stay or stanch blood flowing out of the veines or arteries whether opened by relaxation of the orificies or by corrosion or violent breaking or cut as in a wound and this other medicament can performe besides caustick medicines which stop it by inducing a crust or escara instead as it were of a stopple and that divers wayes viz. i. by an emplastick quality for such as are of a grosse and clammy substance they stop and fill up the orifices of the veines Secondly by a cooling binding drying vertue or lastly by some other propriety or occult quality The Matter of all which is this following Rootes of Cumfrey Cinquefoyle Rubarb torrefied nettles Barkes of Pomegranates Pine trees Leaves of Plantain knot grasse horsetaile periwinkle burnet both sorts â—ursan nettles willowes ducks meat lettice purslain night shade both the sengreens bramble buds Flowres Balaustines Citrines Fruites Quinces sowre peares services medlars bramble berries mulberries unripe of sumach unripe gals burnt gals that are suddainly quenched in vinegar or sowre wine Juyces and liquors Acacia Hypocistis Aloes vinegar vinegar with water called Posca verjuyce cold water juyce of gourds purslain sowr wine Rosins Frankinsence myrrh mastick rosin rubbed Fernel 5. M. M. 3. Gums Sanguis draconis Sea things Corall Amber Sponge burnt Animals their parts and excrements Glue Mummy both inward and outward white of an egge spicers web especially it it be such as is full of the fine flowr of mils or bakehouses clots of blood dryed Spodium mode of Ivory hens feathers burnt haire of horses and men burnt bones burnt to a fine powder Stones Bloodstone Schistus Jasper plaster of paris washed Earthes Common earth 8 Simpl. bole terra sigillata Flowre of wheat beanes starch Sootes Soot scraped from the oven mouth or off a brasse pot foot of Frankinsence or Mastick Minerals Litharge Cerusse white Tutty Vitriol Alum Refreshers of the spirits by the Latines spiritus reficientic by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I intend not to speak here of such things as remove the causes that oppresse the spirits or of them that by accident restore them nor of those which strengthen the heat of the heart for they are to be referd to the Cordials but only of such as with their gratefull sent or vapours suddainly restore the spirits whose Vse is in swounding and faintings such are the Rootes of the true Acorns Angelica Avens Ciperus blew flowre deluce of Florence Barkes and Woodes of Citrons Oranges lignum Aloes Saunders especially the yellow Leaves of mountain Calamint Hysop Lavender marjerome baume mints bazill rosemary penyroyall mother of time time Flowres of Oranges clove gilleflowers Citrons Jasimine Lilly of the vally limons all sorts of spike roses purple violets Berries of Juniper Bayes Fruites ripe Quinces fragrant apples Spices Cloves Cinamon Mace Rosins and Gums Styrax Camphere Excrements Musk Civet Waters and Vinegars Water of Cinamon Citron and Orange and Limon flowres of Lavender Jasemine and roses vinegar of strong wines of clove gilleflowers of roses Sweet Oyles as of Cinamon Costus Nutmegs Spike Camphere Jasemine Cloves oyl of Balsome of Citron peeles and such like Note that in women such fragrant things are not to be held to the nose least it should cause fits of the mother but rather ill sented things as Caster Rue c. THE SECOND BOOK Of the particular matter of Physick SECTION I. Of Remedies belonging to the head The Type of the Section Remedies dedicated to the head are either dedicated to the brain as Cephalicall things purgers of the head as Errhines Sternutatories Apophelegmatismes Eyes as opthalmicall things which are either sharpeners of the sight anodines or easers of pain repellers digesters cleansers Eares as Oticks ro ear medicines Teeth as teethish medicines Cephalicall medicines by the Latines Capitalia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are properly called cephalicall medicines that have a virtue to preserve or restore the naturall heat and vigor of the brain and which strengthen it being first cleansed from the anoying filth that molests it The Vse of which as also of all other strengthening medicines that have their denomination from the part is both before diseases beginning and in them and also after they are removed but most usually after generall purgations to restore strength to the parts from whence they have their name of strengtheners least they should againe heape more vitious humours and by that meanes occasion new affections or conduce to the return of the old And although the faculty of these strengtheners seeme something occult yet hath it either heat or coldnesse joyned with it by whose helpe the relicks of a cold or hot distemper are removed together with the other operation so that in speciall cephalicall things are twofold hot in cold affections of the brain cold in hot affections of the brain and also the dry as those things that are proper for mitigating deliriums The hot are these Internall Rootes of Birthwort which is famous in the falling sicknesse that proceeds from the womb calamus aromaticus Acorus and Galingale for winedinesse of Male pyony against the falling sicknesse and vaine feares also misle of the oake florentine â—reos English Galingale Zedoary Leaves of Betony Marjerome for windinesse narrow leaved sage Centaury the lesse to strengthen the nerves rosemary for the trembling and palsy bayes mirtles for catarrhes mountain calamint lavender primrose bazill savory hyssop baume wild marjerome Barkes and Woodes Barkes of Citrons guiacum â—asaphras lignum Aloes Seedes of Coriandeâ—â— Fennel silvermontan Berries of Juniper bayes mirtles graines of kermes seeds of Piony and Nigella Flowres of Sâ—aechas of Arabia which are as it were the life of the braine and nerves most sefull in the swimming of the head falling sicknesse and melancholy lillies of the vally cowslips line tree spikenard centaury the lesse betony of rosemary mellilote chamomill Fruites Anacardines but warily because they burn the blood Spices Nutmegs Cubebs gr v. swallowed every day Cardamomes Mace Cloves Cinamon Ginger and Pepper for a moyst brain Rosins Frankinsence
before said in the purging decoction which is also a received practice And the use of this is as those before either to infuse boyl or dissolve purgers in I â— INFUSION as to infusion you must understand that here by that word is meant the maceration or steeping of any thing in a fit Liquor wherby it's virtue loosened from its earthy body is conveyed after the manner of tinctures into the liquor which impregnated with those virtues is called an infusion or dilution In it two things are considerable 1. The purgers that are to be infused and 2. The Liquor in which they are to be macerated In both the quality and quantity are to be regarded The things to be infused in respect of their quality may be al purgers as Senna Agarick c. except Manna and also Aloes and Coloquintida for their bitterness for at this day in Paris they often infuse Cassia Fistula In relation to their Quantity if the infusion only should be sufficiently purging without dissolving any other either simple or compound Cathartick in the strained Liquor they ought to be prescribed in a larger quantity than if they were given in substance yea in a double proportion if they are the stronger sort or in a treble quantity if they are the gentler sort adding also their proper correctors to a four-fold proportion if strong or to a six-fold quantity if weaker The Liquor as to the quality is either simple as common water which draws forth the virtues of things but slowly or some certain distilled water especially in hot affections Whey of Milk in Melancholy the broth of flesh and Aqua vitae which is indued with a wonderful faculty of extracting the virtues dissolving the spirits and operating substance of things and attracting it to it self in which it surpasseth all others and therefore chiefly to be used for cold affections and infusions to correct Phlegme and Melancholy a smal portion of it being mixt with the Liquor of the iâ—fusion White Wine is next in praise for extracting and inbibing the virtues of things w'h is most fit in cold affections if you make the infusion in it and water of each a like quantity or otherwise you may find some other convenient Liquor Or else compound as some of the aforesaid decoctions The Quantity is not determined but left to the discretion of the Apothecary is prescribed by the Physitian with q-s. that is a sufficient quantity But although in general the infusion of Catharticks be so used as is said that of all or either you may excusedly prepare an insusion for purges to better purpose than when they are boyled as is said in the Apozem yet more specially of late iâ— is grown in use only to have two kindes of infuâ—â—ons for the Liquor of a purging potion which as most usual are wont to be generally prescribed 〈◊〉 An infusion of Rhoubarb alone to one dram or a dram and a half correctives as Cinamom or Spikenard being added to gr 6 or helf a scruple in cold persons or else in hot tempers yellow Saunders to half a scruple for the liquor of a Cholagogue potion as also for a Phlegmagogue 2. Or the infusion of Rheubarb from 〈◊〉 dram to a dram and half 2 scruples of Agarick being newly made into trosches being added with his correctors for a phlegmagogue potion or where Phlegme and Choler are mixed together An infusion is usually made in the distill'd waters of Endive and Succory as in Châ—l rick people or Plant ain water if a flux of he belly be present it may also be made either in an altering or purging decoction or some of the afore-mentioned or in some other approprâ—â—t Liquâ—r III. A DECOCTION and INFUSION together are very usual when it shal be prescribed let such purgers with their Correctors be infused in s q. of some of the above-mentioned decoctions to which purpose are Rheubarb and Agarick only usually admitted so at this day it is most usual and frequent to have the decoction oâ— Senna rescribed to be mixed with the infusion of â—heubarb alone or Agarick according as the indications require a potion purging either Phlegme Melancholy or adust choler IV. Any other LIQUOR that can satisfie the intention of the Physitian is sometimes taken to make a purging potion and dissolve Cathâ—rticks in as for example any of these as Diacarthamum and may be prescribed to half an ounce or six drams to be dissolved in such a water or broth and to be made into a potion and this is chiefly useful when sometimes as in a sudden case through the urgency of the affection or the shortness of time or want of leisure or for other inconveniences decoctions or infusions cannot be prepared As to the quality of the Liquor some distilled water respecting the part affected and humor that is to be evacuated is to be chosen or broth so we usually prescribe Manna to be taken in broth either simple of flesh or else of a chick alter'd with cooling herbs for the cholerick so for phlegm a tablet of Diacarthamum is usually prescribed with them or else white Wine with which the root Mechoacan and Jalop which of late is come in use for the same things that Mechoacan is used are usually taken in substance to one dram or one dram and a half after they have slightly infused for phlegmatick and serous humors or else Whey of Milk or Mead but this matter is treated of thrice before As to the quantity the dose of the liquor in which the things are to be dissolved varies much according to the age of the Patient for to Boyes two ounces wil suffice to Youths three ounces to elder people four or five ounces at most because seeing they require a greater quantity of purging Medicines to be moved with all unless you dilute them with a considerable quantity of Liquor your potions wil be too thick and ungrateful Things to be DISSOLVED are considered either in quantity or quality In relation to the quality there are dissolved 1. Purgers viz. when the Liquor of the potion is little or not enough purgative which because it usually happens there are for the most part alwayes purgers dissolved in it 2. Alterers viz. tweetners which are alwayes to be dissolved in it for the better relish sake Purgers that are to be dissolved in it are either simple or compound Simples are Manna Cassia which are usual in purging choler gently as also to lenifie the affections of the Breast and Reins or hard dry viz. in the form of powder as usually the powder of Rheubarb in the spitting of blood dysentery or other flux of the belly c. Mechoacan for phlegmatick and waterish humors and the root of Jalopâ— which of late is used in the room of Mechoacan Compounds are either officinal or magisterial Officinal or the purgers of the shops are either syrups as syrup of Roses solutive of Succory with Rheubarb of Fumitory compound De pomis Regis Sabor
here is to be noted that those which have a star at their beginning fixed to them are at Montpelier of the more usual sort The altering Officinal syrup is compounded either 1. Of Juyces only and this is either temperate as syrup of the juyce of * Borage of h Bugloss * Bizantines of Mesue of Fumitory simple * Oxymel simple Or Cooling as simple Syrup of * Vinegar and Oxy saccarum syrup of Verjuyce of the juyce of Sorrel Alexandrinvs or Julep of Roses of the juyce of Citrons Barberries * Quinces of the juyce of Succory Endive Pomegranates both sowr and sweet of Limons of Apples of red Corans of Violets Or heating as simple Syrup of Betony Miva of Quinces though moderately especially the aromatical Oxymel of Squils though moderately 2. Of INFUSION and this also is cooling as syrup of water Lillies simple h. of red * Poppyes and of dryed Roses 3. Of a DECOCTION and this is either Cooling as syrup of * Succory compound of * Jujubes yet moderately of white Poppy h. Or heating as syrup de Althea of Fernelius of Bettony compound of the barks of Citron of Calamint of * Hysop of * Horehound of the two roots of the five roots of * Staechados of Colts foot h. 4. Of infusion made in Juyces and Decoction together and is either Cooling as Oxysaccarum compound syrup of Purshine h. Or heating as syrup of Wormwood * Mints Oxymel compound Or some other Liquor and a decoction and is either temperate as syrup of * Maidenhair and of Liquorice which is moderately hot or heating as syrup of Mugwort V. Or a decoction and a Juyce and this is either temperate as Bizantinus compound or cooling as syrup of Vineger compound but moderately of Endive compound of Mirtles of water Lillies compound or heating as syrup de Eupatorio or Maudiens of Fumitary compound But as from this division of the syrups you may perceive how these altering syrups are affected in the active qualities so must you note also that all of them are drying in the passive qualities unless such that have the letter h. annexed which moisten and humectâ— but how they severally are appropriated to divers parts and to concoct divers humors you must find in the Materia medica A magisterial syrup is that which is prepared for present use according to the various scope of the Physitian composed of either more or fewer of the precedents The division and differences of it are to be sought from what I have before said in the officinal syrup and in the altering Apozem In it three things are to be considered the composition the Use and the Utility In the COMPOSITION four things are to be regarded the matter or Liquor of which it is made the things to be dissolved in it the clarification and aromatization The matter is to be weighed both in quality and quantity The consideration of the matter is two-fold Remote viz. the several parts of simples spoken of in the Apozem and neer which is three-fold Decoction Juyce and sometimes infusion prepared divers wayes of the aforesaid ingredients of which I must next treat 1. The decoction of which the syrup is to be made is the same with the decoction of the altering Apozem made and prescribed by the same reason of the same things after the same manner and form of which I shal say no more in this place 2. The Juyce is drawn out of Leaves Fruits and flowers bruised and pressed and so effectually purified is used with better Fruit and to more purpose than the decoction whether it be to strengthen or alter any way And this 3 several wayes is used in the making of a syrup 1. Either it is taken merely either of one only thing or drawn from divers and that either of Leave as of Borage Bugloss Hops in melancholy people of Sorrel Succory Endive in the cholerick c. and so in the rest according to the diversity of the directors or of Fruits as of Limons in the cholerick of Apples in the Melancholy and is exactly to be purified from the feces by a gentle heat whereby they settle down at the bottom else they may afford occasion of corruption 2. Or else for the greater efficacy or some other reason arising from the indications other things are boyled usually three pound or four pound of the clarifled Juyces is taken to prepare the syrup and those things that are to be decocted in it which must respect the part affected or humor are to be prescribed to half the quantity that is set down for an Apozem 3. Or else more profitably specifical and proper ingredients are onely infused to the same intent as Roots Seeds Flowers Spices and usually for the quantity of a pound and a half or two pound of a Juyce for a syrup are prescribed two ounces or 3 ounces of things to be infused according to the several efficacy of the ingredients 3. An infusion sometimes is taken or used for the siquid subject of a syrup and is to be prepared of ingredients fit for the intention of very forcible virtues and for the most part are spices the reason of which you may find before in the purging Potion In relation to the quantity the usual proportion of a decoction clarisied Juyce or infusion for a syrup is a pound a pound and half or 2 pound at most according as we intend the use of it shal be more rare or frequent or of shorter or longer continuance Things to be dissolved in the aforesaid syrups either to preserve them the longer or for tastes sake are considered in relation to their Quality there is therefore dissolved in it 1. either sugar which is convenient for all both hot and cold affections and more acceptable to the sick or sometimes Honey in cold affections of the head and breast or when you would more effectually heat cut cleanse or when natural heat languishing is to be revived 2. Or else together with the sugar some officinal syrup but then the quantity of sugar is to be lessened for a syrup is but sugar dissolved then sugar is only prescribed q. s. 3. Besides some of the aforesaid sweetners that are perpetually dissolved in it there are also dissolved especially in that syrup that is prepared of a decoction and sometimes in those prepared of infusions some clarified Juyces of Leaves or Fruits and other Liquors as Vinegar Wine c. to mâ—ke them the more effâ—ctual as is afore-said in the altering Apozem in which place see more In respect of the quantity sugar is dissolved in equal proportion with the liquor of this see in the animadversions following so also is Honey when used in syrups to five ounces or six ounces but then sugar to a sufficient quantity only Juyces to six ounceâ— more or less according to the quantity of the infusion or decoction Clarification and Aromatization see of them before in the Apozem The USE and FORM of prescribing In the use of a
are best taken at the time of going to sleep these to expectorate in the morning those to quench thirst when they are dry any others as neer as may be when the stomack is empty As to the magisterial syrup the use of it is either by it self or else diluted with some fit water or other Liquor simple or compound broth and is taken after the same rules as the officinal And this is the USUAL FORM of PRESCRIBING 1. If it be made of a decoction â„ž c. viz the ingredients of an altering Apozem make a decoction in c. take of the strained Liquor c in which dissolve c. make a syrup wel boyled clarified and aromatized with c. keep it in a glass safe let him take of it one ounce an ounce and half or two ounces by it self or with c. at such an hour so often in a day c. see more above 2. If of a Juyce without any other mixture â„ž of the Juyce of such a thing bruised newly pressed out wel clarified c. in which dissolve c. So make a syrup 3. If of a Juyce in which other things are boyled or infused â„ž of the Juyce newly pressed out and clarified of c. in which dissolve c. So make a Syrup 4. If of an infusion â„ž c. let them be infused in c. of such a Liquor take of the liquor strained and gently pressed out c. dissolve c. The Utility of a syrup in general is sufficiently declared above whether officinal or magisterial for it is instituted to conserve divers virtues of plants with which decoctions Juyces expressed and infusions prepared of them are plentifully fraught that they may be the readier at hand and fit for use without loss of their natural efficaâ—y The efficinal also more specially serves for the making up of divers forms of Medicines so is it added to Apozems Juleps and Potions for taste sake anâ— also to add to their virtues so also is it â—â—ken to make up opiats pils preserves Lohochs Troscischs into a convenient form or consistence and for the uniting of a compound Medicine and preserving of it But the magisterial syrup as of old so at this day and hath been chiefly in request of late to prepare both humors and the body and is very necessary to precede a prosperous purgation of which see in the altering Apozem and is very useful also to alter the body or parts of it divers ways both by correcting the distempers of them and tempering the peccant humours of this see also in the altering Apozem In summ against al internal affections or causes that ingender them and to alter and strengthen the parts afflicted by them any proper and specifical Medicines suggested by the indicantia or things from whence you take directions what is to be done may be reduced into the form of a Syrup so that the utility of it is of large extent against any affections dropsie plague c. but 't is fittest to be prescribed when you would continue your altering for some time or must cherish the strength continually when otherwise that labor must be fain to be renued often with the trouble of a new prescription of some Apozem Julep or potion hence it is most profitable in long diseases and affections and chronical distempers of the parts which have taken such rooting that there must be a continual alteration to remedy them yet because some usual syrup is to be had that hath the same virtue unless you think its virtue less effectual or decayed or that it consists not of those things which your specifical indications require or that you hope to compose one more powerful prescribe them but seldom A Purging Syrup YOu must seek the definition and division of a purging syrup according to the variety of the humors in the chapter of the Apozem A Syrup is two-sold officinal and Magisterial The officinal is here chiefly divided both in respect of the composition the chiefest of their virtues as you may see in the following table The ofâ—â—cinal purging syrup is compounded either of A decoction made A juyce and purgeth Melancholy as Syrup of Fumitory compound Water purgeth Melancholy as Syrup de Epithymo Water purgeth Choler as of Succory compound Water purgeth Mixt humours as Diasereat A juyce purgeth Melancholy as syrup de Pomis Regis Sabor Infusion in Water purgeth Choler As Syrup of Roses solut Syrup of Violets each made with 9 infusions sy rup of Peach flow Phlegm As Honey of Roses strained The definition and division of a magisterial purging syrup may appear out of what is aforesaid In it three things are to be considered Composition Use and Utility In the Composition four things 1. The matter whereby 't is made purgative 2 The things that are to be dissolved in it 3. Clarification 4. Aroma ization The matter of which 't is made is either remote and this in regard of its quality are the purging simples with their correctives either boyled or insused or neer and thus the matter is two-sold either a purging decoction or a purging in usion A purging Decoction is nothing else then the decoction of a purging Apozem made of the same things both alterers and purgers varied according to the intention of the Physitian to be prescribed after the same manner and order and upon the same conditions as is before specified This only is to be marked concerning the dose or purging Medicines that the Montpelier Physitians for a syrup do usually double the quantities of purgers prescribed for Apozems but 't wil suffice if you take onely the same quantity or if I might perswade you the double quantity 〈◊〉 it matters not if it be the treble for so it wil be contracted into the lesser dose and be taken with the less nauseousness to the patient so that you exactly finde out the true dose and not measure it according to the usual proportion see the use It is also to be noted that when fit juyces are to be used the purgers may be boyled in 4 ounces or 5 or 6 with their correctors How a purging infusion is to be prepared is said before in a purging potion and from thence easie to be collected but how to prefer'd before a decoction see in the animadversions Things that are to be dissolved in the decoction or infusion are also considered in quality and quantity Concerning the quality there is dissolved either sugar or sometimes Honey or else together with the sugar some officinal syrup and that either altering or purging Besides those sweetners that are perpetually dissolved for its preservation there are frequently to the aforesaid purpose dissolved 1. Some fit Juyce and that either altering as of Leaves Fruits c. according to the indication see in the Apozem or purging as the juyce of Roses especially in the Spring time against choler of Fumitory or Hops for Melancholy 2. The compleat
her endeavour the more easie by these means which we often do also without giving a vomit by thrusting the finger down the throat or a feather dipt in oyl But those which work only by their quantity and move the excretive faculty by their warm moisture fatness are not profitable when that that is to be vomited up either is not in the stomack but in the adjacent parts or else are contained in the more remote parts or if in it are fixed in the tunicles of it or are not prepared so that they cannot be shaken out without a greater and more violent motion for then 't is better to use the compounds In the COMPOUND Vomitory two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which 't is made 2. The things to be dissolved in it The MATTER of a Vomitory is two-fold Liquid and solid The liquid matter or liquor with which I defined a Vomitory and which is for the most part used either provokes vomit or doth not provoke it That Liquor which doth provoke vomit is either a decoction or an infusion or sometimes water or a distiâ—led Liquor As to the VOMITING DECOCTION in it three things are to be regarded 1. The matter or ingredients whereby it becomes a vomitory 2. The Liquor in which these things are boyled In either of these we must see to the quality and quantity The matter or ingredients as to their quality are diverse parts of vomitive simples and those moderate for the strongest sort seldom are put into decoctions as Roots Barks Leaves and sometimes Seeds and Flowers of which 2 3 or four should be prescribed together As to their quantity those moderate vomitories are prescribed almost as those of Potions that is that they make in all one ounce two ounces or three ounces at most but particularly if one or 2 of these following be added with others or should be prescribed of themselves it should usually be in these following doses The root of Asarum to one dram two drams or three drams The middle Bark of a Walnut-Tree to 1 dram or two drams The roots of Pompions dryed to two drams and half an ounce The flowers of Broom to two drams or three drams or so many pugils As to the quality of the Liquor in which they are boyled you may take very commodiously fair water or where the humors are also to be cleansed from the stomack Barly water or some decoction where they be dry sharp and hot or Mead where gross clammy humors are to be attenuated cut and cleansed or Oxymel made with water in either case or fat and lenifying broth where the acrimony is to be temper'd whether it be of the humors-or poysons taken or of sharp violent vomits so also water and oyl in the aforesaid case which are therefore chiefly convenient because they are reckoned among the gentler vomitories The quantity of the liquor is usually let to the judgment of the Apothecary yet you may prescribe it having regard to what is said before in the Apozem and potion only observe that because for the most part they take eight ounces of Liquor for a vomiting potion those moderate vomitories should be prescribed to double the quantity A Vomiting Infusion in relation to the quality of the things to be infused is most commonly prepared of the strongest sort of vomitories which are more rightly infused then given in substance or decoction as those two most famous for their vehemency in working white Hellebor of the Antients and Antimony of modern practicers and although to the same purpose we may take also the moderate vomitories as Asarum Radishes Pompion roots dryed the middle bark of Walnuts c. yet because there cometh no danger from them either given insubstance or decoction they are to be prescribed onely in decoction but in these stronger 't is better only to give the infusion which communicates onely its spiritual virtue without any quantity of the substance which might make the operation last the longer or irritate the excretive faculty too much Therefore two things chiefly serve to prepare an infusion of white Hellebor of old most famous not only in rebellious and desperate affections but also in the sleighter sort but now scarcely used in the greatest and then with caution which being prudently had you may infuse it from half a dram to one dram and a dram and half in broth adding withal one scruple of Cordials for correctors In the place of this you may give an Apple made hollow a little then filled with the root of white Hellebore and roasted afterwards the Hellebor being taken out give it to eat So also the root of a Radish stuck thorow with slices of it then roasted and eaten But in the place of Hellebor as it is now generally used take Antimony the other growing out of date neither let it trouble you that it hath hitherto been rejected by the unexperienc'd for 't is far safer than the other and finisheth its operation without any manner of suffocation convulsion or danger of other vehement symptomes to the same purpose some use Antimony crude some its Vitrum and some the regulas of it but 't is better to chuse that preparation of Antimony which they cal Crocus Metallorum because so prepared 't is spoiled of its fetid sulfur which otherwise may be the cause of great symptoms To the same end take Antimony so prepared to 1 scruple or half a dram or rather half a scruple or gr 12 infuse it in three ounces or 4 ounces of white Wine over hot embers strain the liquor thorow a brown paper and give it Of the same Crocus is made that water commonly called Aqua benedicta instead of the aforesaid Crocus you may infuse the vitrum to one scruple or rather to gr 12. in any fit Liquor As to the quantity of the things to be infused what is said before wil. serves or these stronger if you would use them which are moderate you may prescribe The root of Asarum from one dram and a half to three drams and half an ounce The roots of Pompion dryed from one dram to three drams Nettle seed from one dram to half an ounce The bark of Walnut to 3 drams and half an ounce But 't is better to use the Antimony before spoken of As to the DISTILLED Liquor it is seldom prescribed by a Physitian except distilled Vinegar of late by the vulgar brought into Physical use which being most violent in workings is to be used with caution and that in strong people only and it is prescribed two wayes either distill'd alone out of a leaden stil or else as it is in use by the Women of Montpelier they take a Loaf hot out of the Oven infuse it in two or three pound of Vinegar and so distil it the use of this Liquor as also of the former is to give three ounces or four ounces in Fevers and chiefly Agues that are of long continuance either before or in the
confirm the virtues of the principal parts as those which are made of spices to strengthen And this is as the purging Wine in respect of its composition either simple or compound In respect of its essect either altering the body humors or spirits in the first second or third qualities or else strengthening Moreover 't is made either without sweetning or spicing and is simply called a Medicinal altering Wine or else is seasoned with such things and let often run thorow a Hypocras bagg as above and is called a Claret or Hypocras although these names belong to such as are made for pleasure In it three things are to be weighed the Compo only sition the Vse and the Vtility The COMPOSITION is the same with that of the purging Wine either 't is made with Must when the use is to continue long for the altering of chronical and stubborn affections one simple medicament dryed or of more respecting the affection humor and part affected with a particular propriety or else with wine defecated But what ought to be the proportion of the must and dryed ingredients is before declared in the purging wine yet you may add because altering wines may be taken in a larger quantity and ought to be so a greater quantity of wine then in the former to ten times or a 11 times the quantity of the ingredients But the quantity both of wine and ingredients is to be limited by the dose that is to be taken either greater or less by the short or long contiance of its use Lastly by the quality of the simples either weak or effectual as that which spices in art to it We have said before that this sort of Wines when they are passed thorow a hypocrass bagg and sweetned are called clarets Hither also belongs that which is otherwise called Hypocras absolutely which is also corroborating composed of divers spices pleasant both in smel and taste as of Cinamom Ginger Grains of paradise Cardamomes Pepper infused to two drams in one pound of claret Wine for some hours afterwards strained thorow a Hypocras bagg divers times adding sugar s q. viz two ounces or three ounces but ' â—is generally maâ—e Iess compounded of Cinamom only but if in stead of sugar the Wine be relished with hony 't wil be vere profitable in cold affections where vvine alone is hurtfull as in the Palsey c. the honey working most effectually and this is called Oenomel or honied Wine and also Mulsum which the Ancients used much made of one part of honey and two or three parts of VVine Spices also being added if need required either to the quantity of half a part or to one fourth part or one fifth part The USE contains these two questions how much and when As to the time when it may be given every day or every other day or interposing a longer time according as the disease requires 1 two or three hours before dinner As to the quantity or dose that is moderated according to the quality and quantity of the ingredients and the divers proportion of the wine they are infused in as when the ingredients infused In it three things are to be considered Composition Vse and utility In the COMPOSITION also three 1. The matter of which stamped the milky juyce is drawn forth of 2 The liquor with which it is milked out 3. Things to be dissolved in it In all these the quality and quantity are to be considered The MATTER in relation to its quality are both fruits as Almonds viz the sweet blanched and also seeds viz. the 4 greater cold seeds of which emulsions are every where usually made To these are sometimes added both fruits as the kernels of pine nuts in affections of the breast or where we would moysten and also restore as in Hectick and also seeds as usually of white poppy Lettuce and Purslane when we would either-provoke sleep or cool more effectually or thicken thin hot humors and temper their acrimony In respect of their quantity both fruits and seeds are in general prescribed from one ounce to three ounces but in special there may be of fruits an ounce and half or two ounces of seeds one ounce or an ounce and half The LIQUOR with which this milky substance is drawn forth in relation to his quality is either fair water or some simple distill'd water or usually the decoction of whole Barley especially where we desire to cleanse or ptisan that is the second decoction of huld barly after the first wâ—ter is thrown away or else the decoction of liquorice where we would lenifie or the decoction of other pleasant things tending to the same purpose In regard of the quantity for every particular dose three ounces or four ounces wil suffice hence because Emulsions are for the most part prepared only for three doses for 't wil not be kept longer without corrupting you may prescribe 9 ounces or one pound Things to be DISSOLVED in relation to their quality are sometimes Sugar alone or as it is generally received some fit Syrup pleasant to the taste that may moisten lenifie and cool as Syrup of Violets and Maidenhair Sometimes to make it the more pleasant there is added some Rose-water They also which dissolve Manus Christi made and with Pearls do very wel As to the quantity of sweetners one ounce or an ounce and half at most wil serve for one dose an ounce or an ounce and half of rose-Rose-water wil serve for the whole Emulsion and a dram of Manus Christi for every dose The USE in it three things are to be considered the manner how the quantity how much and the time when As to the manner 't is taken either by it self in the form of a drink or else 't is often prescribed 3 ounces or 4 ounces of it with the broth of a chick altered with appropriat things As to the quantity the dose is apparent by what is already said As to the time when 't is taken morning and evening and if it be prescribed to procure sleep then at the time of going to sleep The FORM of prescribing â„ž c. let them be beaten in a marble Mortar pouring to them by little and little c. in the strained Liquor dissolve c. so make an Emulsion for three or 4 doses to be used as aforesaid The UTILITY an Emulsion is not only prescribed to lenifie and asswage the affections of the Breast and Lungs especially the hot and dry the burning of the Reins and Bladder sharpness of Urine and Gonorrhea as they usually wil have it but to other uses also against thirst and to temper heat in any hot diseases and therefore is most peofitable in burning continual Fevers to temper the drought of them that alwayes accompanieth such diseases therefore are they very usual in the Hecticks and to provoke sleep and alter in Fevers or any hot distempers instead of Apozems Generally 't is used to lenifie cool and moisten CHAP. VIII
Of Almond Milk THis differs not much in colour and taste from an Emulsion only 't is usually thicker than it This is two-fold one more liquid being a milky substance drawn out of Almonds like the Emulsion as aforesaid another thicker made thick with boyling of which at present And this is a restorative Medicine somewhat thinner of substance than syrup much like Milk hence 't is called Almond Cream Almond milk drawn and sweetned with Sugar prepared both to alter and nourish CHAP. IX Of Barly Cream THat which we from the matter it is made of call Barly cream the Antients from the manner of preparing called Ptisan which was a meat made of barly huld and baked for the Greek word signifies to hull and bark and water usually we cal this barly cream but our ptisan is a drink And though it be seldom prescribed yet 't is COMPOUNDED either after the grosser manner of barly cleansed and boyled which is given together with the broth adding sugar as you list but this is only convenient for sound people Or else that which is truly barly cream of huld barley two ounces let it boyle in fair water over a gentle fire then cast away the water and boyl it is a new water four or five houres with a gentle fire then pulp the barly thorow a strainer sweeten it with one ounce or ounce and a half or two ounces of sugar and after let them be a little boyled The VSE anciently it was wont to be the meat of feverish people but now a dayes 't is given for the most part neer sleeping time and then if they are troubled with over-watching there is added to it little of the emulsion prepared with white poppy seeds The UTILITY of it is much in fevers in which it is an alimentory medicine cooling cleansing nourishing much breeding good juyce it moystens and is best for affections of the breast hecticks CHAP. X. Of Milk and the whey of Milk MIlk also happens to be prescribed but chiefly in the phthyfick and disentery and that with some caution both in the sort of milk and also in the dose and manner of giving it Asses milk is chiefly commended in the hectick because it restores radical moysture and is of good juice Cows milk is the fattest and fullest of butter sheeps milk is fullest of cheese Goats milk moderate between all best for persons extenuated As to the USE DOSE and manner of PRESCRIBING 't is this â„ž of Asses milk when you would cool cleanse but Goats milk when you would nourish four ounces of sugar or honey left it corrupt or grow sowr in the stomack one ounce and this for the first dose for the second dose increasing one ounce to five ounces so proceeding til you come to ten ounces or twelve ounces and then decreasing again by the same degrees til you are returned to the same quantity let it be taken 4 hours before meat neither sleeping nor moving the body violenly after the taking of it But the use of milk is never to be begun til the body be very wel cleansed The UTILITY 't is chiefly prescribed for those that are hectical for it fattens restores in the use of it we must have a care that the body be not impure for in a cold stomack it sowres in a hot it turns to a nidorousness from whence comes Head-ach it is not therefore profitable for them that are Feverish or have their short rib-region puft up but 't is very commodious in the dysentery both to lenifie and also cleanse and heal the Ulcer especially if it be chalibeated and you give a good quantity of it morning and evening with one scruple of Terra sigillata four hours before any meat The WHEY OF MILK is not nourishing but medicinal and evacuates both serous and adust humors if it be liberally taken it cools and is good in those that are Feverish and in the heat of the Liver and Reins in summer time but most profitable in Melancholy and affections proceeding from it as the Leprosie Scabbiness c. especially if Fumitory be steeped in it This is the USE and manner of PRESCRIBING â„ž VVhey of Milk let it be strained boyled both because it is windy as also that any thing of curdiness in it may be separated and settled then steep in two pound of it for one night one handful of Fumitory of Succory m. ss when 't is strained add to it an ounce or an ounce and half of Sugar but the second day two ounces are to be added more so every day increasing til you come to three pound afterwards on the contrary decreasing til you come to one pound Otherwise let one pound serve every day for a moneth together steeping in it the same quantity of Fumitory adding to it when 't is strained one ounce of Sugar and in Melancholy people as much of the Cider or juice of pippins Otherwise 't is used for fevers and heats to eight ounces with sorrel steeped in it and that in the morning four hours before meat that they more hang in it tyed in a ragg 2 drams or more of yest or Leven and add to it half a dram or two scruples of spices to every pound and so according to the quantity of Hony The USE and UTILITY it is prescribed for the ordinary drink in cold affections and especially the phlegmatick and where the abstaining from VVine is advantagious or where the use of it is hurtful as in the Palsey or when we desire effectual virtues powerful both to alter cold humors and strengthen the natural heat it also wonderfully preserves from putrefaction But as it is convenient for them that are of cold complexion and for old men so is it hurtful for those that are feverish cholerick or hot of temper because it soon turns into choler and grows bitter as we may finde in boyling it over-much or by keeping it too long therefore Hippocrates forbiâ—s it to them that are very cholerick or that have great spleens in which it is too suddenly drawn into the body from hence it is that it is the cause of crudities and incredible windiness of the intrals it is also according to Hippocrates diuretica wonderfully cleansing and driving forth sand 〈◊〉 or gravel The Winish performs this more sorcibly and like Malmsey powerfully concocts cold humours expectorates â—â—enâ—thens the stomack and concoction discusseth windiness concocts crudities as also doth the commoner sort according to Galen it wonderfully loosens humors in the breast and is good for them that be asthmatick The Medicinal Mead is easily prepared of the simple by boyling dryed simples in it respecting the part to which it is destined and of those such as are most pleasant let them be boyled after it is clear scum'd let them be for example four handfuls of Herbs boyl them and strain the LIquor from them in which infuse for two or three hours half an ounce or six drams of spices
The Vtility is great and the virtue of it specifical besides what is afore-said in taking away diseases especially cold ones and those of long continuance as the Palsey c. CHAP. XII Of Sugred Water and Barly Water SUGRED WATER is a more sweet and pleasing drink than Mead and is almost as effectual in those in whom we abstain from the use of Mead for fear of heat and is chiefly convenient for them that are abstemious It is made of Fountain water clarified at the fire 12 parts and sugar one part more or less to your palate You may aromatize it with Cinnamom or in fevers with Saunders to 3 drams or half an ounce so let them use it for their ordinary drink PTISAN was a meat of the Antients which we now call barly Cream Our ptisan is a drink fit broth for the healthy and Feverish and when heat is either present or imminent and where Wine is forbidden And this is made divers wayes according to the desire of them that take it Either it is made simply of whole Barley and fountain-water to one part of Barly ten fifteen or which is better twenty parts of water as 't is generally made in the shops which is to be boyled to the consumption of five parts and til the barly swel much Nicholaus therefore directs ill to boyl it to the consumption of fifteen parts unless it be for meat and such like is vulgarly ealled in the shops Barley water and decoction of Barley Or else Liquorice Raisins of the Sun the roots of Grass or Sorrel and other things according to the palate of him that takes it are boyled in it though in smal quantity but 't is seldom now a dayes prescribed by the Physitian The UTILITY it moistens cools cleanses yeilds little nourishment but such as is fit for cholerick and sanguine people and for them that are in fevers or have hot affections of the Liver Stomack or Reins Note that Barly water or that which we now cal Ptisan consists of whole barly one part of water twenty parts boyled til the barly swel and the cream of Barly til it be bursted but that which we cal Barly cleansed and boyled is boyled til it go into a pulp represents the Ptisan of the Antients and if it be pulped thorow a hair strainer 't is called the juyce of Barly CHAP. XIII Of Dyet-drink BY this name of Diet we do not so much understand the regulating of the six things not natural as divers decoctions made of usual sweating Medicines through the whole use of which because an exact and accurate way of living temperately is to be observed from hence it is that these have been absolutely called by the name of Diet. But that which we understand by the name Diet is a decoction of one of the usual sudorifical Medicines or more made in a fit Liquor prepared either to alter simply or evacuate insensibly by transpiration or sensibly by sweat Therefore a Diet-drink is to be accounted two-fold altering and evacuating The altering Diet-drink ALthough these four usual sweating Medicines seem to be destined only for provoking sweat yet are they often prescribed with very good success in divers affections without sweating hence it is that I cal it an altering Diet-drink In this three things are to be considered the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION three things also the matter of which 't is made the Liquor and the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality is two-fold 1. Some of the common Sudorificks as Guaiacum China Sassafras and Salsaparilla 2. Divers alterers as roots leaves seeds flowers c. respecting the affection the humor offending and part affected But in special that matter is chosen diversly according to the variety of the parts in which the affections that are to be removed are inherent For in altering and removing powerfully phlegmatick and inveterate affections we usually take Guaiacum China or Salsaparilla either alone or mixed together with fit alterers as aforesaid But in affections of the breast as the stuffing Ulcer and putrefaction of the Lunâ—s in which now a dayes such an altering diet is usually prescribed and is every where called the pectoral decoction we chuse either China alone or else there is sometimes added to it Salsaparilla or Sassafras together with alterers appropriated to the breast So that from what is said before an altering Diet drink may be reckoned two-fold 1. Not pectoral insensibly consuming the phlegmatick affections of divers parts 2. Pectorel viz. a decoction of China sometimes Salâ—apâ—rilla being added prepared of pectoral seeds and fruits such is only now a dayes prescribed As to the quantity those sudorificks in a diet-drink not pectoral are prescribed either alone or mixed to six ounces more or less according as the time age and region shal further require but alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers either all or some of them are to be added to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem aforesaid But in a pectoral Diet-drink whose basis is China this if alone is added to one ounce if other things aforesaid be joyned to it then to two drams or three drams of these they usually take six drams of China Of alterers pectoral fruits are added to an ounce and a half or two ounces pectoral seeds to an ounce or an ounce and a half and if as sometimes in the Phthysis the flesh of Craw-fish or tortoises be added 't is to an ounce or two ounces The LIQUOR in relation to its quality in an altering Diet drink not pectoral is common water or some other fit liquor as before in the Apozem chiefly Mead because these sorts of decoctions for the most part respect cold affections and humors In a pectoral Diet-drink also either common water or decoction of Barly is taken but with this proviso that the China be infused in this Liquor for some hours then let it be put up together with the pectoral fruits and seeds in the belly of a chick or hen then let them boyl in the aforesaid Liquor til all be boyled to pieces As to its quantity take 10 or 12 pints or q. s as is required to boyl it throughly Things to be dissolved as to their quality in a diet-drink not pectoral are sometimes syrup or sugar and are prescribed to be dissolved together with the aromaticks as in an altering Apozem In a pectoral drink sugar of Roses is generally prescribed yet it may be also some fit syrup As to their quantity they are dissolved to an ounce or an ounce and a half in every dose The USE in it mark three things the manner the quantity and the time The decoction not pectoral as to the manner indrinking is to be taken without sweating As to the united quantity or dose it is to be taken to four ounces or six ounces as to the divided quantity it is to be used ten or fifteen dayes As to the time this
sort of alterer ought to be taken in the morning The pectoral drink also as to the manner is taken without sweat As to the dose six ounces also and is to be continued also for fifteen dayes The Time also is the morning And this is the FORM of PRESCRIBING In a decoction not pectoral â„ž c. make a decoction keep it in a glazed vessel for four or five morning doses which the body being first purged let him continue for ten or fifteen dayes in the mean time observing a moderate and drying diet and for his ordinary drink let him use the second decoction of the aforesaid ingredients which is called a Bochette But in a pectoral one â„ž China or other thing infuse them in c. of water then put them in the belly of a chick together with the fruits c. boyl it til it be all to pieces adding at the latter end of the decoction the leaves c. viz. the preparers straine all with a gentle pressure in one pound of the strained liquor dissolve c. for two doses to be given in the morning keeping his bed two or three hours after without sweating let him continue this fifteen or 20 or 30 dayes the body being first purged with Manna which is to be repeated once in fifteen dayes in the mean time living temperatly and using the second decoction of China or small mead for his ordinary drink The Utility is remarkeable in all long-lasting affections when your scope requires the attenuating resolving or otherwise insensibly consuming that collection offilthy humors that foments this sort of chronical affections as also to rarifie the wayes and passages by which they are to be digested and to prepare them powerfully for expurgation neither is it safe to use them with sweat as in the Asthma and Phthysis especially in which now a dayes this sort of diet is onely prescribed in which affections 't is pernitious to use either purgers or Sudorificks Neither can we consume or evacuate those humors that are the fomenters of such affections any other way An evacuating Diet drink SVch as is now a dayes for the most part only prescribed is here understood which consumes and empties the morbifical causes by sweat And this is two-fold one only sweating the other is also purgative The sweating decoction is now only properly called a Diet-drink and is as I said before that which visibly consumes the Antecedent and conjunct causes of diseases by sweatings In this three things are to be marked the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which this sort of decoctions are made 2. The Liquor in which they are boyled And in either of them both the quality and the quantity The matter in respect of the quality is either sudorifical or also altering both at once sometimes As to the sudorificks 't is compounded either of Guaiacum and its barkonly or only China seldom of Salsaparâ—lla alone and hardly ever of Sassafras alone Either of Guaiacum as the basis with sometimes one sometimes two of the others mixed with it according to the divers intentions of the Physitian or else that the too much heat of Guaiacum might be allayed yet retaining the same benefit of sweating Or of China as the basis with Salsaparilla or Sassafras where the scope is to heat less yet it dries as much and consumes vitious humors equally As to the alterers it is most profitable with the aforesaid to add divers altering simples towards the end of the decoction that may be appropriated to the humor and part affected whereby the Diet-drink becomes famous or else they are added to this end only to correct allay the heating and drying quality of the Guaiacum lest it too much inflame the Liver and for this are used Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits Flowers either more or less As to the quantity sudorificks prescribed alone or mixt should be allotted to one ounce or an ounce and a half for every dose and because a sweating diet-drink is usually prescribed for 4 doses only four ounces or six ounces ought to be prescribed which quantity may be lessened or augmented according to the variety of the tempers age strength time of the year constitution of the disease Country c. But the alterers when they are added to them should be prescribed to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem and as to their order they should be set after the sudorificks this is every where to be observed that in the decoction of Guaiacum you are to add Liquorice and Raisins of the Sun ana an ounce or one ounce and a half The LIQUOR in relation to its quality is prescribed to be fountain-water As to the quantity although by the precepts of art in the decoction of Roots and Woods it ought to be eight times so much as of the things to be boyled yet because in the decoction of these sweating drinks much of the Liquor useth to be wasted it ought to be twelve times their quantity so that to one ounce of Sudorificks should be one pint of water and then to be boyled til half be wasted which is the most usual manner it may also be prescribed to a pint and half and then boyled til two thirds be wasted The USE as to the quantity eight cuâ—ces of this sort of decoction may be given As to the manner let it be drank warm covering the body with many clothes more than is wont As to the time 't is best in the morning sometimes though seldom 't is repeated at evening in very strong and phlegmatick bodies abounding with excrementiâ—ious humours The FORM OF PRESCRIBING is after this example of Guaiacum â„ž the shavings of the wood of Guaiacum four ounces the bark of the same two ounces let them be infused in six or nine pints of fountain water twenty four hours over warm embers the Vessel being close stopped then boil them with a gentle fire of fresh charcoal without smoak till half be wasted afterwards run them throrow an hypocras bag but if you desire the decoction the stronger presse them out gently sweeten the decoction with three ounces or four ounces of Sugar and aromatize it with a dram and a half or two drams of Cinnamom but this sweetning and aromatizing may better be omitted in those that are lesse curious palated so keep it in a glazed vessel for your use let him take of this decoction eight ounces warm in the morning covering him warmer than usually and let him sweat as he can reasonably endure it Note that when Alterers are prescribed wiâ—h the sudorificks it may be appointed in the form thus towards the end of the decoction adde such things c. â„ž the remainders of the decoction aforesaid viz. when no other simples are added to it add if you wil an ounce of some of the aforesaid sudorificks fresh infuse them in 12 pints of founta in water eight or twelve
above declared in the form of the sudorifical diet-drink otherwise it is to be prescribed and prepared of fresh ingredients one ounce or two ounces of the same or some other sudorifick being added over and above let all be infused twelve hours in twelve pints of water as above solet them be boyled onely to the consumption of a third or fourth part let them be strained thorow an Hippocras bagg and rellish it with half a pound or a pound of sugar or else season it to your palate and aromatize it with three drams or half an ounce of Cinnamom so make a secondary Decoction or a â—ochete to be kept in glass bottles for your ordinary drink Or else 't is made for present use either in regard no diet-drink hath been prescribed before out of whose residence this may be prepared or because perhaps it was composed of other simples both alterers and purgeâ—e whose virtues are not needful in this kinde of ordinary drink then is it to be prepared of some one or more of the suborificks prescribed to two ounces or two ounces and a half after the same manner as is above-said so make a Bochete to be used as is said The USE FORM and UTILITY are already sufficiently declared CHAP. XV. Of Cock-Broth THe reason of the name is plain this was the invention of the Antients and is much confirmed by the use and practise of late Physitians But this DECOCTION of a Cock is a broth prepared either to alter or purge of an old Cock together with some certain sudorificks and also alterers and sometimes also purgers From hence this sort of decoction is two-fold altering and purging The altering Cock-borth IN the altering broth are considered chiefly the matter and the Licuor and in both of them the quality and quantity As to the matter in respect of its quality an old COCK is taken as it were for the basis Then either his belly is filled with these following things or else they are added neer the end of the decoction and they are usually these sudorificks as China Salsaparilla Sassafras either alone or mixed in the Asthma and Hypochondriacal melancholy they are chiefly prescribed as also to them alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Fruits more or less As to the quantity Sudorificks are prescribed to two ounces but the alterers much like their quantity in the altering Apozem or somewhat less The LIQUOR as to the quality is alwayes fair water As to the quantity q. s The USE as to the quantity the dose is six or eight ounces As to the time 't is to be taken in the morning continuing the use of if fifteen dayes or the space of a moneth And this is the FORM â„ž an old decrepit red Cock or of four or five years old that hath been tired with coursing and beating pul off his feathers whiles he is alive then strangle him and take out his bowels let his belly be filled with the Sudorificks fruits and seeds as aforesaid then sew it up and boyl him in a glazed pot with a sufficient quantity of water til the flesh be consumed and wholly fal from the bones but when the broth is scum'd at first add the roots c. and towards the end of the decoction add the leaves and flowers c. boyl them til there remains about three pints of broth straine it and presse it out strongly and keep the decoction in a glass bottle in a cold place taking off all the fat when it is cold Take of this broth from one pint to eight ounces in the morning adding if you wil especially in the affections of the breast sugar or some fit syrup to an ounce continuing it fifteen dayes or the space of one moneth The UTILTY of it is much in stubborn obstructions hence it is that it is generally prescribed in the hypochondriacal melancholy for which purpose there is usually prescribed for this sort of broth the â—â—ots of Parsley Succory Grass Sparagus the leaves of Ceterach Baume Bugloss Burnet Agrimony Frâ—its as Corans and sometimes China and Sassâ—fras wood it is also used in any other durable obstructions of the intrals as also in the affections of the breast especially the Asthma to which China is added with fruits â—dedicated to the breast and in arthritical pains with wood of Sassasras and for paleness of the face c. The purging Cock-broth IT differs not from the former except that beside the aforesaid ingredients there are also added purgers and for the most part these of Senna Polypody Carthamus and two ounces or two ounces and a half Agarick one ounce as much Epithymum which are shut up in the belly of the duck and is prescribed to be made a decoction to two pints in which dissolve if you wil four ounces of sugar and to be aromatized c. for 4 morning doses thus to be used every moneth And the hypochondriacal melancholy obstructions of the bowels Gout and Cholick but 't is very seldom used for the Asthma or difficulty of breath CHAP. XVI Of the Restorative distilled liquor WHere the sick are extreamly weakned either by the violence or length of the disease or some extreame evacuation they very hardly digest any meat to repair their lost spirits or else through nauseousness they refuse all yet ought the strength both to be preserved and restored wherefore the late Writers have invented a way to preserve them by liquors distilled out offlesh that hath both good and much nourishment This from the effect is called the distilled Restorative as also sometimes from the matter 't is made of they call it Capon-water This DISTILLED RESTORATIVE distilled water or Liquor thus drawn by a still imbued with the nourishing virtue of the flesh chiefly of Capons and with the Medicinal virtues of divers conserves powders waters and Juyces is chiefly prepared to restore lost and decaying strength And in this three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION two things chiefly the matter of which 't is made and the things 〈◊〉 be dissolved in it As to the MATTER 't is commonly the flesh of a Capon or Hen or else of two Partridges cut in the middle cleansed from the fat bones washed in some Cordial Liquor as Rose-water white Wine c. to this they take mingle with it â—ivers Conserves Preserves Cordial powders to little purpose leaves of Gold c. and sprinkle all with a convenient Liquor and distil it in balneo Mariae but because by this means the nourishing quality of the flesh is very smal or none in the distilled water and this manner also is reproved the thing is to be more accurately performed which wil be done if you boyl the aforesaid flesh to a perfect pap and thence strain forth the broth and with it mix the aforesaid things and distil them The matter of this sort of distillation is twofold nourishing and Medicinal the nourishing matter as to the quality usually one Capon
is chosen it may also be a Hen and that either alone or else one Partridg may be added or a shank of veal as also if this distilled Liquor be prepared to restore one that is either hectical or phthysical there may be prescribed the flesh of a tortoise that lives in the woods either one or two so the things of froggs are also prescribed This nutritive matter is boyled in s q. of water and according to the medicinal quality required divers parts of plants as they also use to do in altering broths as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers c. and for the most part those that are the most grateful in smel and taste and which do most respect the affection it self the cause of that dissipation of the strength and that neer the quantity they are prescribed for the altering Apozem or somewhat less by which means you see to the restoring of the strength and the alteration that is to be made both together When all things are boyled to pap so that the flesh fals from the bones the broth is strained and the relicks strongly pressed forth and when 't is cooled the fat that is congealed in the top of it is to be taken away And this broth the neer matter of the future distilled Liquor which is to be prepared of three or four pints of it and eight or tenounces of some fit cordial waters with which afterwards are mixed four five or six ounces of conserves or fit Preserves and sometimes confections are taken as Alchermes in the greatest weakness and also treacle when there is malignity to three drams or half an ounce or the powders of cordial simples or officinal electuaries as Diamargariton frigidum to half an ounce or an ounce where 't is less pretious and this is to be constantly noted that Pearls fragments of pretious hones bole Armoniack terra sigillata and leaves of gold are added in vain because this gentle sort of distillation by Balneo Mariae can draw no virtue or spiritual essence from them seeing they wil scarce part with any for a greater heat and that in a dry stil though they have been diligently prepared for it The aforesaid things mixed are put into your glass body are afterwards distil'd in that manner which they cal Balneo Mariae Note also that if you desire the virtue of Ambergreece or Musk these to gr 5 6 or half a scruple may be tied up in a thin linen ragg and so tyed to the snout of the almebick that the Liquor as it distils may pass thorow them and take their virtues along with it which in this manner are more certainly extracted than if you mixed them with the other things the distilled Liquor is to be kept in a glass bottle in a cool place Things to be DISSOLVED though seldom used are sometimes prescribed and are fit cordial juyces as Juyce of Limons Juyce of sowre Pomgranats and that profitably to three ounces four ounces according to the quantity of distilled liquor although they may also be mixed with the broth and waters before distillation The VSE as to the manner this sort of distilled liquor is either used alone of it self out of a spoon or dissolved with other broths Panadaes As to the quantity one two or three ounces may be taken As to the time when you please and that 3 or 4 times a day or oftner The FORM is â„ž the flesh of one of the best Capons or Hens or with other flesh as is said slit in halves and taken from the bones or onely from the fat put it into a pot glazed with s q. of water boyl them towards the end adding the roots c. i. e. the alterers when all are boyled to a pap strain them and press them hard then having taken off the fat as aforesaid take of this broth four pints or five to which add c. viz. the conserves c. distil all in B. M. let the Liquor distilled be kept in a glass bottle in a cold place of which let him take c. by it self out of a spoon â— The UTILITY is the same with other Analepticks or restoratives viz. suddenly to restore and as it were patch up the strength and spirits exhausted either by the length of the disease famine or over much evacuation to recreate the languishing condition of the principal parts much used in many affections both of the heart and other parts not onely in the hoâ— but also cold epidemical malignant and continual fevers hâ—cticks and consumptions of the Lungs In fine 't is useful when the vigour of the parts extreamly languishing can digest no stronger forme of nourishment and yet ought necessarily to be refected from hence we conclude that these distill'd restoratives are rather to recruit the strength spirits than firmly to nourish the body CHAP. XVII OF Brothes BROTHS are also often prescribed by Physitians to this end that by altering we may also nourish and that the virtue of the Medicinal things might be the more eagerly received by the parts themselves under the form of nourishment and thereby might be the less trouble som to them And these are either altering or restorative Altering broths are made diversly according to the scope of the Physitian most frequently with a chick As at Moutpelier they usually prescribe the broth of a Chick alter'd with heoatical leaves and roots and also with cooling things in fevers 'T is not particularly prescribed by Physitians only commanded let them use the broth of a Chick alter'd with such leaves c. either 2 3 or 4 in the morning or else also in the evening and this is most usual in hot diseases Restorative broths prepared to restore lost strength which are otherwise from this manner of working and from the consumption wherein they are much used called Consumption broths these are made of a fat Hen or Capon the bowels taken out out in pieces boiled in a glazed pot or an alembeck close stopped lest any thing breath forth to a perfect pap these are all strained and the juyce pressed forth Lastly when it is cold the fat taken clear off and this Liquor is kept in a glass bottle for your use in a cold place in this broth sometimes other things are dissolved viz in each pound of it three ounces of white-Wine if your scope require it or other cordial liquor two ounces of Sugar one dram of Cinnamom and confection Alchermes lot them warm til the suuar be dissolved then strain them and keep them for your use They labour in vain which only for vainâ—glory add to these Consumption broths the leaves of gold for they do no good The USE is the same with the distilled restorative And the UTILITY is also the same only these Consumption broths are great nourishers and restore and nourish the solid substance of the body THE SECOND SECTION Of the First Book OF THE SOFT FORMS OF MEDICINES CHAP. I. Of a Bole ABOLE is a form of
other things are joyned with it either chiefly to make it penetrate or give it the more efficacy and this is most commonly white wine for the heart Vinegar for the Liver so also for its greater virtues there are usually added the juyces of Fruits as of Limons or else of Leaves proper for the affection Sometimes the Liquor is a very liquid decoction of appropriate things but seldom As to the quantity 't is usually prescribed to one pint or 15 ounces therefore if water be prescribed it should be to such a quantity but if other liquid things be added let this be the proportion of water 8 ounces of Juyces from two ounces to three of Wine or Vinegar from half an ounce to an ounce The Powder as to its quality is either simple of Cordial or Hepatical woods barks chiefly also of flowers seeds c. or compound of strengthening electuaries and sometimes aromatical troschischs As to the quantity to every ounce of liquor one scruple or half a dram of powder wil suffice so that to the whole proportion half an ounce or 6 drams may be prescribed so that not above a dram or two of the species of Electuaries may be taken The things of mean consistence in relation to their quality there is sometimes besides the liquor and powder of which an Epithe me alwayes consists a strengthening Opiate or cordial confection as Alchermes prescribed to one dram or two drams The VSE as to the manner it is applyed with a scarlet cloth or some soft linnen dipped in it gently pressed forth and applyed warm and when it either grows cold or dry 't is to be renewed several times and continued thus a quarter or half an hour twice a day No quantity for each time is set down The time is in the morning and evening if the affection be cold or it be in winter otherwise it is to be used 4 times a day if hot or it be summer and note this diligently that if the strength be extream weak after the use of a liquid one the solid one should be prescribed The FORM of prescribing â„ž c. Make a liquid Epitheme to be kept in a glass at the time of using it take a scarlet cloth c. The VTILITY 't is generally used to corroborate and also to cool seldom to heat for this purpose the solid form is more effectual it is prescribed against the hot distempers of the heart and Liver as also to strengthen and resist malignity if there be any suspition of it their use is chiefest in Fevers in the Summer time Note that liquid Epithemes may be applyed to the whole breast profitably in burning and hectick severs composed of moyst and cooling waters or decoctions prescribed in a greater quantity as also in the burnings of the head Phrensie c. see Rose-vinegar They are also sometimes applyed to the testicles in extream heats for by their communication with the whole body the very habit of the body and the blood is cooled therefore it is most profitable in the bleeding at nose or otherwise and to this purpose they use a mixture of vinegar and water to the same end sometimes cooling things are applyed to the hand-wrists against the heat and fervency of the heart so also to the fieriness of the face c. in summ every thing comprehended under the name of an Epitheme may be used to any part inflamed or beset with a hot affection though the word Epitheme be properly understood of a thing in relation to the heart or Liver The solid Epitheme That is called so that is not fluid like water though they are prescribed of a diverse consistence as wel a soft as otherwise In it note three things Composition the Vse and Vtility As to the COMPOSITION 't is made divers wayes 1. Either and this is most usual in the form of an Opiate made of conserves of flowers powders of electuaries but seldom of a simple powder and of Confections as aforesaid with a fit Liquor distilled water simple or compound an appropriate juyce c. As to the quantity in general it scarce exceeds four ounces but in special let there be of conserves three ounces confections three drams powders one dram or two at most 2. Or else in form of a liniment especially in hot affections of the heart as also in cold they may also be used in affections of the Liver of oyntment of Roses ceratum santalinum c. two ounces fit conserves half an ounce six drams to cordial powders half a dram or two scruples 3. Or of See what Pipio signifies for it is not a Pippin a Pippin cut in two in the middle and is most usual which let bestrewed with one dram of the powder of some cordial Electuary or two drams of the powder of ordinary Epithemes Hither may be referred Puppies and Kittens cut in halves to be applyed to the head chiefly in the declination of Phrensies sprinkled with a digesting and strengthening powder of the flowers of Roses Chamomil berries of kermes and such like to half an ounce The VSE as to the manner let the solid one in the form of an Opiate be extended on a scarlet cloth wet in a convenient Liquor and gently pressed and then be applyed warm to the region of the heart and that either after the use of the liquid one or otherwise also The time is indifferent it may be renewed twice or thrice a day The FORM appears out of the composition â„ž c. make an Epitheme c. The utility of a solid form like an Opiate is chiefly to strengthen and heat as also that in form of a Liniment and that made with a Pipio see before they may also be made to cool of Conserves in the form of a Liniment but that form is chiefly used and most profitable for the Liver In general they are made to alter strengthen where the strength is much wasted CHAP. II. Of Lotions THe reason and definition of the name is clear for it is as it were a particular kinde of Bathe dedicated chiefly to the head and feet hence I account it two-fold Cephalical and for the feet The Cephalical Lotion Is COMPOVNDED of a decoction of Cephalical simples in which two things are to be considered the matter and the Liquor in these the quality and quantity The MATTER in relation both to quality and quantity there is taken of roots to two ounces or three ounces of Leaves from four handfuls to eight seeds from one ounce to two flowers pug 4. Note that sometimes spices are added to half an ounce or six drams and when you would dry powerfully unmelted brimstone half an ounce and when the head is to be particularly purged after general means you may add Senna leaves to one ounce white Agarick half an ounce The Liquor as to the quality is either a Lye made of Vine ashes or the ordinary Lye of Barbers adding white wine if you wil or to the wine
chiefly prescribed to dissolve from whence they are usually called discussing baggs of which hereafter CHAP. IV. Of the petty Bath THis is between a Bath and Fomentation larger than this lesser than that whose use it when a fomentation cannot cover the whole part from which it doth not differ otherwise either in matter or utility so that it is a half bath in which the sick set from their thighs their knees and leggs being lifted up Or else from the bottom of their feet up to their Navel or stomack from whence the Greeks and Latines cal it by names that signifie a setting in and if the incession be in an open stool they cal it a Vaporary which is chiefly dedicated to the affections of the lower parts of the belly and is called a SEMIOVPE or half bath because it is not a whole Bath but a bathing tub onely half ful and is COMPOVNDED of the same things a Fomentation is to double the quantity of the Apozem or to half the quantity of a bath so that there is nothing else worth marking The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a Decoction for a half bath in which let the sick set from the feet to the Navel morning and evening long from meat having first had a stool to be continued three or four dayes according as there is need warm without sweating let him stay in it about two hours the moisture being vviped off let him rest in his bed the place affected being anointed if you wil with a fit Liniment Note that in the affections of the Anus Womb and bladder chiefly the matter of the half bath may be applyed to the part affected in a bagg on which let him set The UTILITY is the same with the Fomentation but chiefly to be used in affections of the parts contained in the belly or lower region when for divers reasons we dare not bath the whole body and is most commonly to ease pain which is most usual in nephritical affections made of convenient mollifiers to help the Hemorrhoids sweld with pain the difficulty of Urine also for the paines of the leggs hips of things that mollifie ease pain in affections of the bladder and difficulty of making water 't is most admirable as also in mending the affections and distempers of the Womb either provoking or stopping the courses in all affections of the Anus to mollifie the Belly ease paines of the colick c. A VAPORARY which otherwise is called a setting over is prepared when they set not in the Liquor but the VAPOVR from whence it is called a Vaporary or suffumigation is received through a hollow stool with a hole cut in the seat setting a pot ful of the hot decoction underneath which being cold another is set hot in the place The MATTER and dose of it for the decoction is as in the fomentation to be prescribed in the quantity of a Clyster or something greater The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction the steam of which let him receive thorow a hollow stool a pot being set under of the hot decoction c. The UTILITY it is used only for affections of the Womb and Anus for paine and divers distempers Hemorrhoids to provoke the courses they may also be prescribed for divers defects of the bladder See the moist Suffumigation CHAP. V. Of a Bath IT was most usual of old among the Romans for pleasure but now a dayes only used for the recovery of health and resisting of diseases what it is is manifest but it is two-fold the Aery Bath which they call a hot house of which hereafter and the watrish Bath when the parties setting in a tub are washed and this is called a Bath viz. the washing of the whole body for the most part for hot and dry distempers of the whole body seldom for cold ones for which purpose the Stove is most convenient And it is two-fold simple and compound The simple is usually only water a little warmed chiefly in Hecticks where there are lean and dry bodies which this tempers by its gentle moisture and with it also alters the distemper to this also is sometimes added Oyl Butter or Milk to moisten the more as also in the pain of the Kidnies and Convulsion or else of Milk only for the richer sort of people to the same purpose or Milk and water or oyl alone in paines of the sinewy parts and Reins convulsion through drought pricking and stitches suppression of Urine c. or water and Oyl to the same end The Compound is made of a decoction in which are to be considered the matter liquor and sometimes the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality and quantity are Roots from three lib. to 5 or 6 at most Herbs in number 10 or 12 of each M. 3 4 or of 6 7 or 8 of each a bundle seeds from 4 ounces to one pound sometimes Fruits to a pound and a half Flowers 4 c. ana P. 4 c. The Liquor as to quality and quantity is sweet or fair water q. s for a bath Sometimes there are dissolved or added to the decoction and that profitably to the various scope of the indications those things mentioned in the Fomentation in a three or 4 fold proportion so usually for the Hectical is added oyl and butter ana lib 3. white Wine lib. 4. as also sometimes at the latter end of the Decâ—ction in cold affections in which a bath is very rare The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a Decoction for a bath which let him enter into morning and evening when the meat is gone out of the stomack or else when need requires as in paines having first been at stool warm without sweating let him continue in it from one to two hours according to his strength then after his egress from the Bath wipe off the moisture anoint the region of the Liver Reins with a cooling Oyntment which is usually prescribed The UTILITY is for outward affections of the skin as the scabbiness drought and 〈◊〉 of it c. as also for internal affections and especially a bath of fair water most convenient for the Hectical and lean people because it moisteneth and withal mends the hot distemper they are also convenient in the diary Fevers as was generally the practise of Galen for it relaxeth and openeth the pores by which that which is offensive may be easily excluded and are also good for the heat of the Liver and every distemper but especially the hot onely the moist one is usually remedied and better by the hot house as also the cold one which fitly resists the morbifical cause They are also made to heat and strengthen as generally to help Conception of Hysterical simples to procure the menses of opening mollifying simples appropriated to the Womb against obstructions of the bowels Dropsie Cholick Stone in the Kidnies weariness of relax ingmollifying things Lastly in every affection
things as the finest flower and binding things as bole Sanguis Draconis Acacia mixed with Vinegar and the white of an Egge and applyed to the forehead against bleeding at nose or to stop the course of humours flowing to the eyes In our usual Frontal we consider three things Composition Vse and Vtility 'T is COMPOUNDED 1. in a dry form which is properly a Frontal as to its quality 't is usually of the flowers of Violets Roses water Lillies white Poppy seed and Lettice seed As to their quantity the flowers use to be prescribed to 3 or 4 pug the seeds to half an ounce Note that sometimes to these are added to strengthen and discuss flowers of Cammomil and Melilot ana p. half the seeds of Coriander and Dil ana half a dram Note also that sometimes these Frontals are made onely of the leaves of Lettice and Henbane to 2 or 3 handfuls bruised and sprinkled with oyl of Violets and Vinegar or sometimes one handful of these are added to the former 2. Or else in a moister form and that 1. in the form of a Liniment of Vnguentum Populeon or of Roses to 6 drams oyls of Violets c. half an ounce or of Unguentum Populeon only 2. In the form of a Cataplasm of Leaves Flowers Seeds as aforesaid adding a little oyl and Vinegar to it The USE and Form of the dryer sort is â„ž c. bruise them and fold them up in a thin linnen cloth make a Frontal which either moistened with the vapor of Vinegar and sprinkled with it is to be applyed to the forehead and temples at the hour of sleep That of the Liniment is â„ž c. Let them be anointed on the forehead and temples at the houre of sleep and after four or five hours let it be wiped off and renewed That of the Cataplasm â„ž c. Make it like a Cataplasm which foulded between a doubled Linnen cloth let it be applyed to the forehead and temples The UTILITY is chiefly to cool against the burnings of the head as in Fevers and the Frensie to procure sleep in long wakefulness which in those affections do much prey on the strength and trouble the minde also to repress vapours in Fevers sometimes to repel and for paines of the head c. CHAP. II. Of an Oxirrhodine SOme refer this to the Epithemes some to the Embrocations taking its name from Vinegar and Oyl of Roses yet seeing 't is a form of Medicine which seems wholly dedicated to the head I wil adjoyn it for the liquid Frontall 'T is Compounded 1. Either more simply of four parts of Oyl of Roses and one of Vinegar beaten wel together so that the whole composition do not exceed 8 ounces or lib 1. at most 2. Or more compound of oyl of Roses and other cephalical oyls with Rose vinegar and cooling cephalical waters to this proportion of oyls 4 or 6 ounces Vinegar 2 or 3 ounces Waters 4 ounces let them be beaten wel together 3. Or instead of waters with Juyces of the same things prescribed in the same quantity The Vse and Form c. beat all wel together let Linnen clothes dipped and wet with this mixture be applyed to the head forehead and temples changing them often The VTILITY 'T is excellent in the frensie and diliniums or ilness of head to repel thin humours and vapours from the head and in burning Fevers where you fear an alienation of the mind CHAP. III. Of a quilt Cap. THis is dedicated to the cold and moist affections of the head 'T is Compounded in relation to its quality of cephalical simples wel sented either roots dryed leaves flowers woods spices as Cloves and Cinnamon c. seldom of seeds and of gums as Benzoin and sometimes Styrax because easily powdered Musk and Ambergreese may be added for the richer sort And this is their usual proportion of roots one ounce dryed Leaves two or three handfuls which may also be prescribed by weight to half an ounce 6 drams flowers to p. 2 3 which may also be appointed by weight to two or three drams or half an ounce gums to one or two drams Musk half a scruple or a scruple c. so that the whole composition do not exceed three or four ounces Note that some wil add those sweet powders which we cal Violet powder and Cyprus powder to half an ounce The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make a powder which mix with fine cotton or sleivesilk so bast it and quilt it between two silks and make a quilt to be worn on the head or sewed to the inside of the Cap sometimes two are prescribed and then the quantity of the powder is to be doubled and 't is said make two Caps of which let him wear one in the night and the other sowed to his cap for the day and when they grow fatty with sweat c. let them be left off and new ones made The VTILITY is famous in cold affections of the brain moist ones also from whence spring divers diseases of the nether parts but they are chiefly prescribed after general purgings to draw a way the relicks of the morbifical matter for cold and lasting affections of the head it self for Catarrhs to retain consume and stop all defluxions to cherish the animal spirits and to strengthen the head and brain therefore they ought to be medicaments of thin parts that they may the easier penetrate the skul least it should either receive or ingender new impurities c. CHAP. IV. Of a Collyrium IT is a topical eye-Medicine addicted particularly to the affections of the eyes called a Collyrium by the Greeks from its virtue to stop rhewmes And it is two-fold the moist which is now onely called a Collyrium and the dry properly called Seife by the Arabians The moyst Collyrium This is twofold the Liquid which in form of a Liquor is dropped into the eyes and the grosser which is anointed on of the consistency of honey or a Liniment But vapors are not said to be any of the sorts of a Collyrium which seeing they are nevertheless prescribed in affections of the eyes I will first speak of them so that I shall aecount a moist Collyrium threefold one like vapors another as liquor the last like honey The vaporous is not so much a form of a Collyrium as of a Medicine preparing the humors and eyes that the vertues of other things may be received to the better purpose as in suffusions spots c. It is also prescribed by it self to discuss which is altogether the best way as also when the sight is to be cleared c. T is COMPOSED or made 1. of the breath of ones self or another as of a boy having washed his mouth and chewed fennel seed c. breathed into the eyes which is often to be done and continued sometime as need requires 2 Or else may be prescribed a decoction to the quantity of a Clister made of leaves seeds flowers sharpening
the moyst Collyrium here follows the dry The dry Collyrium This useth to be prepared two ways in the form of powder and of a Troschisck The POWDER is made of simples levigated into a very sine powder aad is properly called by the Arabians Seife It is COMPOVNDED of Ohpthalmical simples reduced to a very subtle powder called Alcool to be prescribed to half an ounce or one ounce at most The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Grind it on a stone with some convenient liquor to a most subtle Alcool after dry it of which let gr two or three be blown into the eye through a small quill after it let the eye-lid be gently rubbed for some space or else that Alcool may be mixed with some convenient Liquor and so made into a Collyrium or of it may be made a Liniment as aforesaid The VTILITY is great and chiefly to cleanse off spots suffusions c. if powder only be blown in as also to cicatrize or heal or if it be dissolved in Liquor as is said it may be for divers uses though this be less usual TROSCHISHS are usually made without saying in Troschischs of the Alcohool of divers powders to six drams or one ounce at most which are made up with a convenient Liquor See Troschischs The VSE and FORM â„ž c with c. make Troschischs as big as Lupines or Pastills to the weight of one dram dry them in the shade grinde one of them dissolve it with the aforesaid things to make a Collyrium or Liniment The VTILITY they may be for any intention seeing that these Troschischs are onely a convenient form for preserving the virtues of the medicines but they are generally used to dry and cleanse c. and for the inflammation of the eyes with Opium as trosch albi Rhafis which also are prevalent for the redness to digest inflammations diminish scars and other intentions of like sort In this form fit powders may be kept vvhich are ready at hand for use either in a Linniment or Collyrium or a powder according to the variety of the scope of which before CHAP. V. Of a Gargarism T Is a Liquid Medicine dedicated to the affections of the Mouth Gums Jaws Larinx and sometimes of the head by gargarizing as they cal it washing of the Jaws and top of the throat without swallowing it down 'T is Compounded of VVATERS and things to be dissolved The waters are distilled in quantity to a pint or a pint and a half The things to be dissolved are alwaies some fit syrup to three or four ounces sometimes according to the scope Diamoron Dianucum Honey to one ounce and a half or two ounces also sometimes some juice convenient for the affection as Vinegar Verjuice in repellers to 2 or 3 ounces 2. Or of waters and Juices chiefly cooling of the first sort 8 ounces of the latter 4 with the aforesaid things that are to be dissolved 3. Or which is usual of the decoction of divers parts of plants according to your scope more or fewer neer the proportion of a Clister made in a fit liquor in lib. 1. or lib. 1 and a half in which let the aforesaid things be dissolved The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Gargarisme with which wash the mouth often an hour before dinner and supper or else at any time if need be cold if to repel warm if to digest The VTILITY is various according to the variety of the affections to repel in the beginning of inflammations for every hot distemper of the mouth for defluxions to cleanse to digest in inflammations for the il savour of the mouth for divers affections of the Jaws and mouth Sometimes though seldom 't is made to draw phlegm out of the head of the decoction of cutting cleansing cephalical things of thin parts but mastcatories are better for this CHAP. VI. Of an Apophlegmatisme IT is a sort of the Caput-purgiums or head-purgers as also is the Errhinum dedicated to the phlegmatick affections of the braine to draw forth forth flegme from it from whence it hath its name as for that which some do in calling them Masticatories 't is abusively for there are liquid Apophlegmatismes yet 't is of late received for a practical use because the solid form of an Apophlegmatisme is the the more vsual so that by the word Apophlegmatisme they simply understand a Masticatory as you may easily perceive But be it as it wil 't is two fold dry and liquid This Form of Head-purging Medicines is properly called a Masticatory but commonly called also an Apophlegmatisme 'T is COMPOUNDED or prescribed 1. Of fit phlegm-purging simples see the matter as usually Pellitory of Spaine c. steeped a night in an ounce or two of Vinegar which let him chew in the morning 2. Or else of the powder of the aforesaid sharp things of thin parts to 3 drams or half an ounce which is mixed with wax q. s Or else with only Mastick others do otherwise but wax is most convenient for so the powder holds the firmer together 3 Or the aforesaid powder is included in a thin but strong linnen cloth and is tyed in a knot for which usually one ounce of Mastick is taken for a basis and 2 or 3 drams of other sharper things these are prescribed make them into little knots c. The USE and FORM of the second manner â„ž c. with c. make pellets or spetting balls or globulets like great pils or troschischs in the form of Lupines hazzle Nuts c. of the weight of 2 scruples one dram c. Make chewable cakes of which let him chew one and rowle it up and down his mouth every morning when his stomack is empty and that for half an hour holding down his head often spitting out that that dissolves from the pellet after let him wash his mouth with warm water wine c. that the relicks remaining may be washed often away it may also be reiterated two hours before supper The VTILITY 't is singular after general evacuations for the particular purging of the brain it draws away the relicks of phlegmatick humors especially from the brain and chiefly from the center and foremost ventricles of it as also from the adjoyning parts to it it also purgeth the parts neer the mouth as gums jaws teeth in the ach of which 't is usual mouth throat and whethersoever the heat of it it can diffuse it self Lastly it melts cuts and draws forth plegm and is excellent in cold and inveterate affections of the brain The liquid Apophlegmatisme It is like the Gargarisme which may be called the purging gargarisme 'T is Compounded of the Decoction of Cephalical things that attenuate and cut whether roots leaves seeds flowers neer the quantity of a gargarisme adding also things that draw forth phlegme to an ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces made in wine or Mead. Note that it may be made more purgative by adding in the decoction Senna
Pessary is others will have it signifie a node or pencil 't is invented for Virgins sake who for shame or modesty refuse a Pessary or for Women who cannot admit them as when they have Vlcers Whatsoever is the reason they are COMPOVNDED in the manner of a Node or Pencil and are very soft of fine locks of cotton or wool moistened either with some fit juyce or oyntment or other things aforesaid the quantity of which is scarce limited generally a flock of VVool is prescribed to be imbued with q. s of such a thing Such are made for fits of the Mother a flock of cotton being sleightly rubbed with Givet or Musk dissolved in nard oyl as above The VSE is as of Pessaries The VTILITT in Virgins is the same as of the other in VVomen they are made for Ulcers in the neck of the womb and paines of it CHAP. XIII Of a Suppository T Is a topical Medicine used to the fundament or anus three or four inches in length slender and round like a smal candle of old in the form of an acorn from whence they were called of the Greeks Balanoi at this day t is commonly called a Suppository chiefly to move the belly to stool and for some other afsections And 't is either simple or compound The Simple This is made either of the stalk or root of Beets Colewort or Marshmallows the outward rind peeled of to which is added sometimes salt to augment the provocative virtue rubbed on the outside so smoothed over with oyl they are put up also of the stalk of a Leek anointed with butter or white sope sharpned like a suppository also honey alone boyled to a hard consistence for so it becomes more sharp The Compound This is made of Honey as the basis boyled til it wil not stick to the fingers then adding powders to it neer this proportion as to one ounce you may add one dram or 4 scruples of powder at the most according as the powder is lighter in weight or stronger in operation which quantity wil serve for two or three suppositories But the Honey is boyled by it self or with fit juyces to irritate or for other purposes of which let there be an ounce or an ounce and a half The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make suppositories one of which let be put up first being anointed with oyl or butter when need requires so that if they be purgative once or twice a day wil suffice if onely to alter they may be used oftener if they consist of Narcoticks for paines let them not stay too long lest they induce a Palsie and therefore thy use to be fastened to a thread that they may be drawn forth at pleasure neither ought they often to be used The UTILITY in general is two-fold either to provoke the expulsive Faculty to stool oâ— else for the proper affections of the Anus and streight gut The Belly is to be moved with a suppository either when the age of the Patient wil not receive a clyster as in sucking children or in humorous people whose custom and waywardness wil not admit of one as usually in Virgins also when clysters put up work not as in the cholick is seen or when purging Medicines taken down do not move as they should or when the dung staies in the belly only for want of irritating or when it is so hardened in the streight gut that you cannot put up a clyster And lastly when the expulsive Faculty is unmindful of his office and sluggish Also to revel or withdraw when humours tend wholly up to the head and midrise or otherwise when for revulsion sake they are to be drawn down or purged forth as generally in cold and sleepy affections of the head in which the expulsive faculty benummed is by this means excited or also when Clysters offend the sick c. And bsides this scope of purging they are made for the proper affections of anus and streight gut of honey as the basis and other matter serving to the intention after the manner aforesaid so to open the hemorrhoids with sharp things to stop them with other fit things also for Tenesmus Ascarides Ulcers the Relaxation and Palsie of the Sphincter and pains with appropriated powders mixed with honey in the aforesaid proportion And mark that concerning the matter of laxative Suppositories some are gentler as the simples afore recited for infants others stronger which consist of Salt Mouse-dung purging powders simple as Aloes Agarick Senna or compound as usually Hiera Piera and also other strong things the use of which is chiefly in the sleepy affections as Sal Gem Sal Ammoniack Salt Peeter and Purgers simple as Coloquintis or compound as Hiera diacoloquintida to half a scruple or one scruple also if for pains opium be admitted t is to be done warily for fear of a Palsie and you should scarce ascend to half a scruple CHAP. XIV Of a Clister IT signifies a washing from the Greek word Elyzo and in Greek is called Clyster and from its being injected Enema from Eniemi to inject in general it signifies any Lotion or Injection into any part but particularly that which is injected by the fundament And this may be accounted threefold purging altering and strengthening A Purging Clister Is COMPOVNDED of a fit liquor in which together with honey sugar and oyl are dissolved divers purgers and therefore so many things are to be considered in the composition but chiefly two the liquor of which t is made and the things to be dissolved in it The Liquor as to its quality is either the common decoction for Clisters usual in the shops or a Magisterial decoction prescribed according to the urgent occasion and intention of the Physitian of convenient things and is either Altering or Purging The Altering which is most usual is composed of fit mollifying things heating or cooling according to the intention of roots leaves seeds fruits flowers neer this proportion as of roots two or three ounces leaves four handfuls seeds six drams or one oune or an ounce and a half at most fruits pa. eight flowers pugil three If you would make it purgative you may do it by adding for phlegme of Carthamus seed bruised 6 drams or one ounce Agarick tied up like a node in a ragg 3 drams Elect-Turbith 2 drams for Melancholy 1 ounce or 6 drams of Senna Polipody an ounce which is very rare all which are to be added after the roots and are prescribed to be boyled after the seeds also all these are boyled in a convenient liquor or in water only But this is rare to boyl in purgers because purgers are afterwards dissolved in it which wil be sufficient As to the quantity of the Liquor it varies according to the age of the party very much for 3 ounces wil serve for a child of 4 or 5 moneths old if one bigger 5 or 6 drams for people of ripe age usually lib. 1. for great men lib. one and a half But
oppressing the natural heat CHAP. XV. Of divers Injections BEsides those Injections that are made into the fundament others also are prescribed for divers parts of the body as into the Ears Womb Bladder Yard Vlcerous cavities especially Fistuloes and are by a general name also called Clisters Of that into the Ears They are COMPOUNDED 1. Either of oyls only or juyces waters decoction fit for the purpose according to the variety of the affections 2. Or of 2 or 3 or more of the aforesaid mixed together in which sometimes things serving to a diverse scope are dissolved but in a small quantity and these which are almost liquid themselves As to the quantity of liquid things Of Oyls half an ounce an ounce or six drams wil suffice according to its efficacy and the continuance of its use Juices VVaters Decoctions one or two ounces either several or mixed according also to their efficacy and the use wil be enough As to the quantity of things to be dissolved it must be smal because of the exquisite sense and smalnesse of the part if they be powders half a scruple or a scruple if fat things two drams Honey half an ounce c. wil be sufficient at most The USE and FORM â„ž c. drop into the ear two or three drops according to the faculty of the Medicine and sometimes the ear is to be filled with the Liquor but a little after holding down the head it is to be cleansed as chiefly when we use the Decoction If it be Oyl only some few drops are poured in after the ear is stopped with perfumed cotton especially if it be a cold affection The UTILITY 't is chiefly used for inflammations Ulcers noyses deafnesse Worms and other particular affections of the Ears See the Magazeen Physical Of that into the Womb. They are otherwise called hysterical Clysters and the pipe by which they are injected into the Womb is by the Greeks called a Metrenchite and the medicines from that Metrenchiticks They are COMPOUNDED 1. In relation to their quality as of the decoction of roots leaves c. in the quantity as for a Clyster of wch liquorstrained take 3 or 4 ounces make an Injection yet they reserve one pint for many Injectons Note that thus is made the Injection simply but sometimes and that usually other things are added diversly according to the scope as is said in an altering Clyster and that to half or a third part of the quantity of that 2. Or of the juice of Herbs clarified 3. Or of distilled waters 4. Or of some other simple Liquor See the Clyster 5. Or of those mixt together so that 3 or 4 ounces may suffice for an injection in which if any things serve to the same intention you may dissolve them in the aforesaid proportion The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make an injection into the Womb by a Metrenchite or Womb Clysterpipe The VTILITY may be for divers affections of the Womb as inflammations ulcers paines windiness to heat cool to provoke the courses or stay them bring down the after-birth for the falling out of the Womb and to cleanse it from divers impurities see for matter among the hysterical things in the following physical Magazeen or other tables Of those for the Yard and Bladder These are Compounded of a convenient liquor as hath been often said simple or compound See the altering Clyster they are also made of Emulsions as in the running of the Reins sharpnesse of the Urine c. As to the quantity three ounces or four ounces wil suffice Note that in this sometimes nothing sometimes honey chiefly or some fit syrup is to be dissolved to an ounce and sometimes the powders of divers things but ground to an exact Alchool to a dram a dram and a half or two drams The VSE â„ž c. Make an injection by a syringe sometimes when the way to the bladder is stopped 't is prescribed to be done by a Catheter The VTILITY 't is chiefly to cleanse both slime sticking to the orifice of the bladder and also filth from Ulcers for paines exulcerations excrescences of the flesh c. for heat and inflammation as usually in the virulent Gonorrhea and dry Ulces c Of those for Vlcerous Cavities and Fistula's They are COMPOVNDED of a fit Liquor proportioned to the largenesse of the Fistula in which are dissolved fit things and that somewhat plentifully where we must imitate other particular Injections viz. to the quantity of the Liquor and things to be dissolved The VSE make an injection by a Syring The VTILITY for the lessening of the callous or hardness of Fistulaes but chiefly for cleansing them to breed flesh and cicatrize matter for which you may see in his proper place God be praised FINIS An Appendix of the doses of Purgers given in substance of which there is frequent use in the treatise of the Composition of Medicines Cholagogues or Medicines purging Choler The gentler sort Cassia from half an ounce to an ounce and a half and two ounces Manna 1 ounce 2 ounces 3 ounces Tamarinds 1 ounce 2 ounces 3 ounces Juice of Roses one ounce one ounce and a half two ounces Moderate Purgers Aloes one dram two drams two drams and a half Rheubarb one dram one dram and a half two drams Citrine Myrobolanes two drams three drams half an ounce five drams The vehement sort Scammony gr six fifteen one scruple Paulus Etius to one dram Mesues gr 12. Melanagogues or Medicines purging Melancholy The gentler sort Senna 2 scruples 1 dram 2 drams some to three drams Polipody of Oak 2 3 drams half an ounce Epithimum 2 3 drams half an ounce The more violent sort Black Hellebore gr 15. half a dram two scruples Mes one dram Lapis Armenius lotus half a dram a dram a dram and a half unwasht a dram only Lap. Lazuli lotus half a dram a dram and half Mesues from two drams to two drams and a half Phlegmagogueâ— or purgers of Phlegme Gentle Carthamus soed a dram half an ounce six drams Moderate Agarick 2 scruples 1 2 drams Violent Turbith 2 scauples 1 dram 4 scruples Mesues 3 handfuls from one dram to two Hermodactils 2 scruples a dram a dram and half Mes a dram and half to three drams Mechoacan 2 scruples a dram a dram and half or two drams at most Jalap 2 scruples 1 dram 4 scruples at most Coloquintis gr 6.15 one scruple Dioscorides to two scruples Opopanax to halfe dram and a dram Sagapene half a dram and a dram Euphorbium gr 3 8 12. Hydragogues or purgers of Watrish humours Gentle as of dwarf Elder or Danewort The Seed one dram The Bark two drams The Juice half an ounce six drams So Elder in the same manner Vehement Soldanella a dram a dram and a half two drams Juyce of Ireos half an ounce 6 drams 1 ounce Elaterium gr 6. half a scruple gr 15. Esula prepared the same Mechencan and Jalap Of these see in the
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine Detergentia IN general they are so called which by their joyning with humours that are either tough and clammy sticking to the body or fixed as it were in it do scour them away and in their passage take them with them they may be in nature hot or else cold in the actives but the hot are the most effectual in the passives they are dry and something of thick parts by which meanes they make some stay and consequently by tugging and as it were shaving off the tough humors til they yeild they afterwards take them with them and carry them forth But in special according to Galen 5 Simpl. 12 these cleansers are two-fold cleansers or scoures and unstoppers the first cleanse the parts of the skin and are of a certain kinde of nitrous and thin substance the last free the internal cavities from stoppages and as shal be said in its proper place do not differ from the preparers of humours in which place also they are to be sought for Here therefore I wil onely propound the matter of the cleansers the use of which is to purge and cleanse the superficies both of the skin and cavities and also Ulcers from filth that is apt to grow in them Roots of Smallage both sorts of Birthworts Cuckoopits wild Cowcumbers Dragons Ireos Gentian Plantain Solomons seal Leaves Of Wormwood Smallage Pimpernel male and female Agrimony Germander Centaury the lesse Celandine Beets Horehound Plantaine Seeds Of Nettle Plantane Smalage Orach Flower Of Linseed Fenugreek seed red Vetches Lupines Barly bitter Vetches Beanes hither also may be referd Bran. Juices Sugar Aloes Wine Tartar all Lyes and Lac Virginis Excrements of Animals Urine Gal whey of Milk Honey Rosins Turpentine Frankinsence Myrrh Minerals Alom Vitriol Verdegrease white Vitriol Tutty salt Peter Orpment brass burnt Spodium of the Greeks Borax both natural and factitious Oyls Of bitter Almonds Turpentine Tartar Oyntments Ung. Apostolorum Egyptiacum sope especially the black Of Allayers of Acrimony Grae. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine acrimoniam retundentia These are those which abate the acrimony of the humours and the exasperated sense of the part either by their emplastick quality or by their temperate moisture of the Emplasticks in their proper place the Epicerasticks or Allayers simply spoken are these Roots Of Marsh-mallows Mallows Licorice Leaves Of Mallows water Lillies Housleek Purslane Lettice Seeds Of Barley huld white Henbane Lettice Flax white Poppy Rice Fruits Jujubes Raistns sweet Apples sweet Prunes Sebestens sweet Almonds Pine nuts Juices and Liquors Almond milk Starch Barly water fat broth Milk of Sowthistles Creame of Barley juices of the leaves of Nightshade and winter Cherries Excrements of Animals Whites of Eggs Butter all Milk whey of Milk Parts of Animals Calves head and foot also Lambs head and the broth Muscilages Of the seed of Fleawort Quince kernels of the seeds and roots of Marshmallows of Linseed Mallows seed and of the roots of Borage Oyls Of Olives violets sweet Almonds of the seeds of gourds by expression of white Henbane and white Poppy seed oyl of Lead Oyntments of Roses Album camphoratum Syrups Of Violets of Apples of Marshmallows according to Fernel Syr. of Liquorice Jujubes Poppyes Purslane Divers officinal things Pulp of Cassia Diacodium Diapenidium sugar-candy of Violets Julep of Violets Honey of Violets Of Alexipharmacal Medicaments Grae. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lat. Venenis Resistentia Of these some are common which resist all poysons generally others proper which onely oppose some peculiar sort of poyson of the common sort in this place to which for the most part we have recourse especially if the sort of poyson taken be unknown of which in respect of the diversity of the poyson not of their use some are internal which have a peculiar use in the plague malignant Fevers and poysons taken inwardly Others external which cure the bitings and stingings of venemous creatures Internal Roots Angelica Anthora Snakeweed Cresswort or Gentian the less white Dittany Elecampane both sorts of Eringoes viz. common and sea greater Gentian Masterwort Lovage Burnet Saxifrage Vipers grass Sentinel or Tormentil Swallow-wort Barks and woods Lignum aloes all the Saunders Barks of Citrons Leaves Of Wormwood Dittany Cinquefoil viz. the greater creeping Cinquefoil garden Rue Goats rue Scabious Scordium or water Germander greater Valerian Mede sweet Pauls bettony Seeds Of Annise Sorrel Carduus Benedictus Citrons Corianders Juniper berries Grains of Chermes seeds of St. Johnswort Turneps Basil Pimpernel Saxifrage Purslane Flowers Of Borage Bugloss Clove-July flowers the flowers and tufts of heath Diascorid flowers of Marigolds Cetaury the less St. Johns wort water Lillies Rosemary red Roses Violets Fruits Oak Acorns Walnuts Citrons Oranges Spices Cinnamon Cloves Mace Nutmeggs Cardomomes all sorts of Pepper especially the long Zedoary Juices Citrons Oranges Rosins and Gums Myrrh Camphire Benzoin Parts and excrements of Animals Flesh of Pheasants Castor curd in the read of a young Hare Mummy Musk Unicorns horn Ivory bone of a Staggs heart new budding Harts-horns Bezar-stone Earths True bole Armonack true terra sigillata Precious stones Corals Pearls Rubies Emeralds Jacinths Saphires Topaz Things of the sea Ambergreese Amber Confections Treacle Mithridate Confect de Hyacintho Alchermes Elect. de ovo Lon. Treacle Compound waters VVater of Angelica the greater composition Bezoar water cold cordial water of Saxony Gilberts water water of Petasitis compound aq Protheriacalis water of Scordium compound Treacle water both that distild and that by infusion Condited things Barks of Citrons Myrobalans Insuper the roots and stalks of Angelica the roots of Burnet and Zedoary walnuts green Nutmeggs Eringo-roots Conserves Of the flowers of Borage Bugloss Violets red Roses water Lillies Rosemary Marigolds of the flowers of Oranges Clovegilly flowers Sage flowers Scabious flowers of the tops of Carduus benedicius Balm leaves of Rue c. Species or powders Aromaticum Rosatum de Gemmis Diambrae Triasentalinum Dianthos Diamoscum Diascordium red Pannonick powder of Saxony Powder of Crabs claws compound Magisterial cordial powder Magisterial Bezar powder Species of Confectio liberantis temperate cordial powder Troschischs Trosch alexiterii c. Out of which may be prepared divers magisterial antidotes waters extracts candied Confections Tablets powders c. READER TAke notice that these additions where you see these two Commaes at the head of the line were not in the Latine wherefore seeing it defective most in this head where it should have been most large I added them but shal not exceed the limit of the Latine book hereafter External As those which are used for venemous bitings c. and are either given inwardly 1. The aforesaid Alexipharmacal things mixed with Cordials 2. The powder of Vipers which is prepared of the flesh of the Viper the heart and liver being left out washed in white wine and dryed gently in an oven til it may be powdered then mixing it with other alexiterial things the dose is half a dram or thereabouts in
reddish brown colour without within of a yellowish red colour somewhat near the colour of the inside of a Nutmeg and when it is either steeped or chewed it gives a yellow die Rhapontick on the contrary is not solid or compact but porous not weighty but light not brittle but tough not bitter but sharp to tast neither sented nor coloured like Rubarb Neither ought the Monks Rubarb or horse dock of Dioscorides to be confounded with ours for this hath not the faculties of the genuine Rubarb The Election That Rubarb is to be chosen which comes neerest the aforesaid markes The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the second degree as Mesues writes which cannot be understood simply and without distinction for according to the same Mesues Rubarb consists of a twofold substance one grosser and binding which is watrish and earthy another thinner which is aery and fiery and for this duplicity of substance it hath a mixt temperature and per consequence mixt faculties for by reason of its thin substance it hath a faculty of purging choler and phlegme and of opening obstructions but by reason of its grosse substance it also by purging binds If you respect the parts it is chiefely addicted as a remedy for the liver which it very much comforts from whence it is by some called the treacle of the liver as to affections it is convenient for all that rise from obstructions as Jaundise Dropsy swelling of the Spleen longlasting putrid Feavers stichy paines of the sides by reason of its thin substance but by reason of its grosse and binding substance it is good for the lientery dysentery spetting of blood and to stay bleeding wheresoever it be also for any part broken or bruised and inward bruises but it is hurtfull for them that are troubled with the sharpnesse of Urine which this increaseth because it is diureticall and soon seekes the bladder It may be given safely at any time even to them that are recovering out of diseases The Correction It s slownesse is corrected with Cinamon or Squinanth to ℈ s or ℈ i. or spikenard to gr iii. iv for ʒ i. of Rubarb but you must abstaine from this last in people that are with child and in Feavers and in those which easily vomit Some correct it with mastick but it is better first to sprinkle it with aq vitae afterwards to infuse it in convenient liquors The Dose In substance Mesues gives it from ʒ i. to ℈ iv in infusion from ʒ i. s to ʒ iii. and now a days none give it in substance beyond ʒ i. or ℈ iv In infusion we very seldome give beyond ʒ ii never beyond ʒ iii. The manner of giving it 'T is given either in substance or infusion or in a decoction In substance when the indication is to bind after it and when it should bind more forcibly it ought also to be torrified But in an infusion or a decoction when our mind is more to purge for by steeping the purgative faculty being in the thinner substance is transplanted into the liquor but the binding and earthy substance remaines The substance of it is given divers ways 1 In forme of Pils so there are divers officinall Pils that have Rubarb in them as pillulae aggregativae pill de tribus pill sine quibus pill de rhabarb of Mesues 2 In forme of a potion dissolving the powder of rubard in a fit liquor a broth whey of Goates milk some convenient distilled water as of Plantain Smallage Endive white wine adding correctors and sometimes syrrup of roses solutive as for example ℞ of the liquor ℥ ij more or lesse of Rubarb ʒ i. or ℈ iv of correcters ℈ s or ℈ i. syrrup of roses solutive ℥ i. Make a potion 3 In form of a bole by mingling the powder of it with Cassia Raisins Figges sugar of Roses c. or with the juyce of Roses or syrrup of Roses solutive so with a little Cinamon and Sugar make it into the consistence of a bole which we suffer to fermentate a little in the heat of the Sun 4 In the forme of lozenges for children ℞ of Rubarb ℈ i. and with Sugar q. s dissolved in a convenient water with which make lozenges which children will easily eat 5 In the forme of little cakes also for children kneading it up the honey boyled to a consistencie for cakes 6 In the forme of a marmelade mingling the powder of Rubarb with marmelade in the boyling of it up Or else take a Quince slit it in halves take out the coare and fill up the cavities with the powder of Rubarb Senna Carthamus or Agarick then joyn them together wrap them up in a wet paper and rost it in an oven or chimney till it be pap then loosen or open it throw away the medicine and eat the pulpe The infusion of Rubarb is also diversly given 1 and that commonly Rubarb with its correctors is infused in s q. of a convenient liquor as ℥ ii or ℥ iij. which after is strained from it and this strained liquor is taken or else in it is also dissolved syrrup of Roses solutive to ℥ i. or electuary of the juyce of roses ʒ i. ʒ i s and so make a potion 2 In the forme of Cakes for children by taking the infusion and adding fine flower or crumbs of bread with which mixed together make a past of the which are made Cakes 3 Or else after this manner for those that are more delicate ℞ of rubarb powdred q. v. infuse it in aq vitae enough to lye above it four fingers breadth in B. M. four days then pour of this coloured liquor and pour in another new one as before thus do till the liquor will be no more coloured then distill all those infusions mixed together till the extract remain in the bottome as thick as hony and to every ℈ i. will suffice ℥ of the juyce or extract that remains adde ℈ ij of the oyle of Cinamon For infants and women with child it is a precious and harmlesse medicine the Dose is ℈ i. with a spoonfull of wine The Decoction of Rubarb is made by boyling Rubarb out of hand with its correcters in s q. of some fit liquor afterwards pressing it out with strained liquor is taken or else over c. above may be dissolved in it syrrup of Roses or electuary of the juyce of Roses as aforesaid A LOES The Kind Aloes is a thickned juyce of a certaine Plant which Dioscorides describes lib. 3. cap. 21. which in the shape of its leaves resembles the greater Housleek and because of its long lasting green it is by divers cal'd sempervivum marinum i.e. sea liveever but commonly sea sengreen there are two kinds of it one Aloes Caballina or horse Aloes so called because it is used by Farriers to purge horses asses and mules the other is Aloes Hepatica or liver-coloured Aloes because it is condensed and coloured like a liver the best fort of which is
that that is usually called Succotrine so called not from the citrine coloured juyce as Fuchsius l. 1. de comp Medic. c. de aloe will have it but from its native place viz. the Island Succotra Therefore some make the Succotrine a particular difference of it selfe distinct from the hepatick but they differ only in the degree of goodnesse The Election Aloes Succotrine is rather to be chosen for the Caballine is only the dregs and sedement of Aloes and the Hepatick is not so good as the Succotrine but the marks of the best Aloes are taken from the substance weight colour smell tast in all which severally some conditions are to be required the substance of it ought to be solid and firme as the liver is yet easy to be broken or melted if it be put into water not sandy but fatty and smooth in weight it should be light and by how much the lighter so much the better it is for the lightnesse sheweth that sand is not mixed with it of colour it should be browne somewhat yellowish and redish also something transparent for that which is thick and dark is older then the rest the smell should be good inclining a little to the sent of myrrh the tast according to Galen should be somewhat astringent but extreamly bitter The Qualities It is hot in the second degree remisly or the first intensly and dry in the third according to Galen though according to the same Author it is not of a simple but a mixed nature for it doth a little bind though it be very bitter As to the second qualities inwardly taken it hath a faculty to open the orifices of the veines and cleanse the parts it passes through Therefore it is to be avoided by them that are apt to bleed either at mouth belly or womb therefore hurtfull for them with child it purgeth choler and grosse phlegme choler by a similitude of substance but phlegmatick and grosse humors by its cleansing quality but its purging quality reacheth not beyond the liver it empties onely from the first veines Galen 8. comp med local in mentioning Hiera As to the parts it is chiefely addicted to the stomack if any thing else be as Galen sayes and Mesues gives it the prerogative above all other purgers Cardan in con-medic affirms the contrary in strengthening the stomack It is profitable also for the head that is affected by sympathy from the stomack and for the eyes and liver As to the affections and diseases it is profitably used in nauseousnesse crudities wormes jaundise ill habit or cachexia sorenesse of the eyes troublesome sleeps so they be without a Feaver As to the temperatures it is best for cold and moyst ones but for the drye as cholerick young people old folkes or those that are leane or hecticall it is hurtfull unlesse it be when there is a great collection of moist excrements in them therefore also it is hurtfull for either stomack or liver that is hot and dry or cold and dry and it is very cantiously to be used to them that are Feaverish The Correction There are three things in Aloes which want correction 1 because it is slow of operation 2 It is anastomaticall or opening of the orifices of the veines too much 3 It is but weake in operation The first inconvenience is corrected by adding spices that are of thin and sharp essence as Mace Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon Spikenard Calamuâ— aromaticus Cubebs Squinant Saffron The weaknesse of operation is corrected by Ruffus by adding Turpentine or some other sharp rosin but Mesues mingles other purgers with it as Coloquintis Turbith c. And moderne Writers wash it in the decoction of Rubarb or the infusion of roses and thus make it the stronger The second fault of it is corrected by mingling with it Mastick Gumtragant Bdellium and such like or else by washing it in Endive or Succory water because these simply being cold and moist take away a great part of the medicinall substance from it by that washing The moderne Physitians take away all offence from it by these following preparations 1 Some prepare it thus â„ž Aloes lib. i. rose vinegar 2 parts rose water part 1. of both these s q. boyl all three or four boyles together then strain it and presse it forth let that which is strained be boyled over a gentle fire alwayes stirring it till it come to the former consistence of the Aloes then keep it for use 2 Others infuse Aloes Succotrine in certaine juyces as of Borage Bâ—glosse Violets red Roses Carduus benedictus Fluellen field Cipress Chamomell either single or mixed together taking to lib. s of Aloes lib. j. s of the juyces or more afterwards straining them and boyling them to the due thicknesse 3 Others imbibe the powder of Aloes with Whey juyce of Roses Endive and so dry it again in the sun or in an Oven or B.M. when it is dâ—yed they put to it a new juyce and dry it as before thus they proceed also a third and fourth time or oftner Lastly they pour the same juyce anew to it and bring it to a convenient consistence or else dry it altogether and lay it up for use 4 Lastly others prepare it in forme of an extract â„ž of Aloes Succotrinâ— q. v. pour to it spirit of Wine or Endive or Sorrel water q. s. let them steep in B.M. till the liquor be coloured then separate it by gently pouring it off and pour a new liquor to it iterate this so often till the liquor that is put to it will be no more coloured then strain or filtrate all these liquors together and reduce them to the consistencie of an extract either by exhalation or distillation then keep it for your use The Dose Is from Ê’ i to Ê’ ij Mes. infused from Ê’ i to Ê’ iii. to wit when you intend it to purge but if it be only to loosen the belly it is given from ℈ i to Ê’ i. due consideration being had The Forme It is given first in the Forme of a potion steeped in the decoction of some of the aforesaid spices and strained out but this forme is usually refused for its extream bitternesse unlesse it be in sleepy affections to stir up the nummed faculties 2 In forme of an electuary as hiera picra Galen taking Aloes with its correcters and with honey boyling it to the consistency of an electuary let there be of Aloes three parts of the correcters one part hony three times so much as of all the powders 3 In the forme of Pils and that most usually so all Pils of the Shops almost have Aloes in them but Pils are diversely made of Aloes according to the various preparation of the Aloes But if it be corrected and prepared after the manner of the Antionts there are taken of it two parts of correcters one part so with a fit juyce or liquor make aâ—masse of Pils so are made the Pils of washed Aloes of an unknown Author of
use But the true preparation of Scammony is done with the juyce of Limons clarified in which it is dissolved in B. M. and whilest it is yet hot it is strained through a linnen by which meanes the grosse and impure substance that doth nothing but hurt is separated Scammony thus prepared and corrected is called Diagridium The Dose The Dose of prepared Scammony i.e. of Diagridium is from gr vi to xii and ℈ i. Mesues from gr v. to xii Dioscorides and Ruffus to ʒ i. Paulus and Aelius to ℈ ii But perhaps the Scammony of the Greeks was gentler then ours not adulterated as now a days with the juyce of Spurge therefore it is better to follow the dose appointed by Mesues then that of the Greeks so that the lowest Dose be to gr v. vi the middle Dose to gr xii and the highest to gr xv or ℈ i. The manner of using it Diagridium is used in the forme of a potion bole electuary pils powder Dioscorides gave it in forme of a potion with fair water or water and hony But now a dayes it is neater used with oyl of sweet Almonds or syrup of Roses solutive and some convenient distilled water as for example ℞ of syrrup of roses solutive ℥ i. Diagridium gr vii more or lesse with succory water s q. make a potion The Bole is made of gr x. or xii of Diagridium with conserves of roses to ʒ ii and the chymicall oyl of cloves three or four drops a most pleasant purge It is used in form of an Electuary in the Electuary of the juyce of roses and transparent diacidonium purgative the Dose of both which is ʒ iii. yet the Electuary of the juyce of roses is never given by it selfe but dissolved in some convenient distilled water in the forme of a potion There is also made a pleasant electuary of the jelly of apples to twice the weight of the sugar to which boyled up to a just consistence there is added the infusion of Scammony in this proportion that ℥ i. of the electuary may receive ʒ i. of the infusion then boyling it up to the consistence and make an electuary like clear Marmelade the dose is ʒ iii. And this infusion of Scammony is made in aq vitae which afterwards is filtrated through a gray paper 'T is used in the form of Pils in many masses of Pils of the shops also it may be made into magisteriall Pils of a certain proportion of diagridium as gr viij ix xii with a fit juyce or syrrup Lastly the powder is thus composed out of Diagridium ℞ of creme of tartar ℈ ij or ʒ i. of Diagridium gr vii or more according to your indications mix it and make a powder to be taken in broath THE SECOND CLASSIS OF PURGERS IN WHICH ARE CITED THE PHLEGMAGOGVES OR PURGERS OF PHLEGME CARTHAMUS The Kind IT is the seed of wild or bastard Saffron whose kernell is onely used to purge withall and therefore in prescriptions it is commonly set downe the kernel part or middle of Carthamus bruised The Election That seed is best that is white plain thick and full whose kernel is fat and unctuous and husk thin The Qualities Mesues saith it is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Galen and Paulus say it heats in the third degree if it be used outwardly it purgeth phlegme and watrish humours it wonderfully discusseth windinesse and therefore is profitable in the cholick and dropsy it is addicted to the breast and lungs but is nought for the stomack The Correcters It is corrected for its hurting the stomack with stomachicall things as Anniseed Cinamon Galingale Mastich and the like but as to its slow operation by adding sharp things as Cardamomes Ginger Sal gem The Dose Is from ℥ s to ʒ vi and ℥ i. in infusion The manner of using It is seldome given unlesse in composition especially the Diacarthamum of the shops either in a liquid or solid consistence But by Mesues both by his owne and others judgment 1 In the form of Pils making a mass of ʒ x. of the kernelly part of Carthamus and ʒ i. of Cardamomes of which make Pils like pease and give ʒ v for one dose 2 In the form of a honyed syrrup viz. of an oxymel The kernelly part of Carthamus being tied up in a thin cloth and soaked in oxymel of squils whilst it is a boyling by which meanes it is made solutive 3 In the form of a bole ℞ of the Medulla or kernelly part of Carthamus ʒ xii pinidies ʒ iv Cardamomes and Ginger ana ʒ i. with honey make pils like wall-nuts of which let him take one or two at a time 4 In form of a potion the same Medulla being boyled in cock broath to ℥ s or thereabouts and afterwards the broath drank downe A GARICK The Kind and Election It is a Fungus or excrescence growing to the trunck of the Larch tree taking its name from Agaria a country of Sarmatia in which the best did grow yet now the best is had from the Dolphiny in France and from the mountaines about Trent as also in Rhetia Vindelitia and Noricum Countyes of Germany The marks of the best Agarick are included in the distick following Agarick's best that 's soon broke shining white If much goes to a pound for then 't is light That which is black weighty or wormeaten is discommended and that part of it that growes next the Tree The Qualities It is hot in the first dry in the second degree it cuts attenuates cleanseth openeth and discusseth it purgeth phlegme especially that which is gross and tough and both the sorts of choler from the brain nerves muscles organes of the senses back-bone brest lungs stomack liver spleen reines womb joynts it also resisteth poysons And therefore perhaps it is called by Democritus the medicine for the family because it hath some influence on all the parts of the body and takes away their obstructions and any disease thence arising and is safe for all ages but let women with child avoid it for it provokes the courses and is apt to cause abortion The Correction Two faults are to be corrected in Agarick 1 The slowth in working 2 The lightnesse or levity of it whereby it floates in the stomack and provokes vomiting and sticking to the intrals it moves defluxions and as it were pricking and fretting them breeds gripings which fauls of it are diversely corrected by Mesues but the best way is to make it into troschiscks with s q. of white wine or Malmsey wherein Ginger hath been steeped The Dose and manner of taking it The powder both of that in troschiscks and the other is given from ℈ ii to ʒ i and ʒ ii but in decoction or infusion from ʒ ii to ℥ s ʒ v It is given both in the form of a potion pils and bole In the form of a potion if the powder of Agarick especially the troschiscated be dissolved in a convenient liquor
stomachicall things as Cinamon Aniseed Fennel seed c. The Dose In substance is from gr xv to Ê’ s ℈ ii Mesues gives to Ê’ i. In infusion it is given from Ê’ ii to Ê’ ii s Some give it to â„¥ s but then they ascend by degrees from Ê’ i first so likewise in the decoction The manner It is given either in substance infusion or decoction The substance is given 1 in form of powder taking black Hellebore to ℈ ii Ginger Mastick red Roses Cinamon Aniseed ana gr iv mingle it and use it in broth for children take but ℈ i. 2 In the form of pils making pils of the aforesaid powder with a convenient syrrup 3 In the form of Lozonges as is said in Senna and Rubarb 4 In form of a Marmelade as is said in Rubarb The infusion The infusion of Hellebore is made 1 The common way with some fit liquor decoction meade or barly water c. as hath been often said 2 In form of an extract where is to be noted that for the Menstruum or liquor for extraction some will take Aniseed water adding the due correctors some will take only rain water without correctors because they have found that its purging quality is acuated and made stronger by the admixtion of them The Dose of this extract is from ℈ i to Ê’ s The Decoction is also made two wayes 1 And commonly in a convenient liquor as other purgers 2 In a Helleborated apple an apple is stuck full with the sprigs of the root of black Hellebore and some cloves then wrap it up in a paper wet with cold water and so it is roasted under the ashes then drawing forth the hellebore and cloves the apple it selfe is to be eaten with sugaâ— LAPIS ARMENUS The Kind This is not only brought out of Armenia but is also found plentifully in the silver mines of Germany of which is made the coâ—ouâ— for Painters The Election That is best which is between sky colour and green not sandy yet friable The Qualities It is hot and dry in the second degree it purgeth melancholy and cureth the same affections that black Hellebore doth The Correction It is corrected being finely powdred by often washing in cordiall waters as borage roses buglosse c. iterated so often that the water thence receives no more either colour or tast The Dose Of that which is washed is from Ê’ s to Ê’ i. and Ê’ i s of the unwashed to Ê’ i. 'T is taken all the same wayes that Lapis Lazuli is LAPIS LAZULI The Kind Lapis Lazuli Lyaneus or Cerulcus which we call azure hath so great an affinity with the Armenian aforesaid both in their originall and faculties that one may easily be used for the other The Election That Lapis Lazuli is chiefly to be chosen which is distinguished by its golden spots or in the breakings and flaws of which appear little glitterings of gold and therefore it was called by Mesues Lapis Stellatus or the starry stone The Qualities It is hot in the second and dry in the third degree and hath the same virtues as the Armenian stone but something weaker It is Corrected as that also The Dose Is from Ê’ s to Ê’ i and Ê’ i s Mesues saith from Ê’ ii to Ê’ ii s The manner of using it 'T is Vsed 1 In the form of Pils as â„ž ℈ ii or Ê’ i of Lopis Lazuli prepared and with Cinamon Ginger Camphere ana gr vi with some convenient juyce or syrrup make Pâ—â—s 2 In form of a powder by taking the powder of this finely ground and with some certain spices give it either in broath or other liquor 3 In form of a bole mixing the aforesaid powder with conserves of Borage 4 In the form of Cakes and Lozonges but then the stone is to be ground to an alcool least the powder being coarse grate in the teeth 5 In form of a potion taking the powder in sweet wine 6 In any convenient break-fast meat Note it is alwayes to be reduced to a very fine powder THE FOVRTH CLASSIS OF PURGERS IN WHICH ARE HANDLED THE HYDRAGOGVES OR PURGERS of WATRISH HUMOURS ELDER and DANEWORT The Kind DAnewort and Elder are alike in the leafe flower and fruit of the plant and differ according to Dioscorides only in the bignesse of it for Danewort is a smaler elder or chameacle i.e. field elder commonly dwarse elder but Elder it selfe is a Tree of either of these the middle bark and seed and the juyce of the roots and leaves are in use to purge watrish humours The Dose Of the seeds of their berries is Ê’ i. of the barke Ê’ ii of the juyce â„¥ s or Ê’ vi they are corrected with Cinamon The Vse The seed is used in powder given in strong wine or wormwood wine or in the decoction of Chamepitis or field Cipres in gouty affections the bark is steeped or boyled in wine to Ê’ iii but its purging quality decayes in the boyling according to Dioscorides the juyce is taken to â„¥ i. in broth altered with wormwood as also the juyce thickned with hony fometimes Cinamon water is added but for the most part it is not given by Practicians alone but mixed with other things SOLDANELLA This is the Sea Colewort Dioscorid whose leavs and juyce are in use The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the second degree some say the third it is an admirable remedy to purge watrish humours yet so that there be always some choler mixed with it But because it is offensive to the stomack it is to be corrected with Cinamon Ginger c. The Dose is from Ê’ i to Ê’ i s Ê’ ii of the juyce â„¥ 〈◊〉 The leavs are Vsed 1 In a pickle of vinegar and salt six mouthfuls or bits of which do wonderfully purge waters in the Dropsie sometimes also it is boyled in broath like garden Cabbage 2 In powder adding if you think fit Rubarb and Cubebs which is given either in broath or some other breakfast or else is made into Lozenges for hydropicall children 3 In decoction as other things adding fit correctors 4 In Pils but then a lesse quantity of this is to be taken and other quickeners added least through the lightnesse of the powder the Pils be too many in number But the juyce is given with Rubarb in form of an infusion which purgeth watrish humours profiâ—ably The Juyce of IREOS This juyce is pressed out of the root of the Ireos or Flowrdeluce of our climate but most usually out of that which beares the blew or purple flowr and it is hot and dry in the third degree and purgeth yellowish waters powerfully but is not safe for children old folks or women with child for in these it moves the courses for the others it is too strong 'T is corrected wâ—th Cinamon The Dose is from â„¥ s to Ê’ vi and â„¥ i. 'T is used to be taken first in a little wine with some Cinamon or else in
broath in which hath been boyled raisins Cinamon and Spikenard 2 In form of a syrrup if the juyce clarified be boyled up with sugar the Dose of it is â„¥ ii ELATERIUM It is the juyce of the wild Cowcumber thickened and made into troschiscks The Election The oldest is the best which being held neer the candles puts out the light and before it put it ouâ— makes it sparkle upwards and downwards The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the third degree it purgeth waters or any thing else and as other gentler things purge water out of the veines this draws it forth from the cavity of the belly beyond the veines The Correction 'T is corrected because it is fretting and anastomaticall and hurts the principall parts with milk gum tragant and bdellium and fit strengtheners as Cinamon species diarâ—hodon abbutis and other cordials The Dose Is gr vi ℈ ss to gr xv at most divers will not easily give above gr v. 'T is uâ—ed first in pi's as â„ž of some easy gentle pils such as pils de tribus with Rubarb Aloephanginae of hiera c. Ê’ ss or ℈ ii of Elater um gr v. or x. make pils for thus the unbridled violence of the Elaterium is restrained 2 In form of an extract extracting its essence according to art with spirit of wine that hath had saunders steeped in it or diam argariton frigidum and to every ounce of this essence thus extracted adde of the chymicall oyles of Cinamon and Nutmeg and ℈ i. The Dose Is ℈ ss with some convenient liquor or else it may be made up in the form of Pils ESULA or SPURCE The shops comprehend all the sorts of the tithymals under the name of Esula because it is manifest that all of them purge watrish humours But as there are divers Authors some take one thing some another some use the spurge called Ciparissia others the sweet Spurge of Tragus others that called Platyphyllon or broad leafed Spurge others leafed Spurge called Peplus others the greater Spurge or Pityusa of Dioscorid which is now out of use The Qualities It is hot and dry in the third degree it purgeth phlegme and choler but most especially watrish humours and that from the remote parts 'T is corrected with Cinamon Nutmeg Tragant Muscilage of Fleawort but it is the best way to steep it four and twenty hours in vinegar juyce of Purslane or juyce of Lemons The Dose Of the bark of the root is from gr vi to ℈ ss gr xv of the juyce or milk of it from gr iii. to vi or vii 'T is used all those wayes that any purge hitherto mentioned is or can be used but chiefly there is prepared of it an extract according to art whose dose is to gr xv And thus far of Purgers properly so called now follow the Vomitories VOMITORIES Those Medicaments are so called which do evacuate derive or revell all hurtfull things from the stomack and surfettings of meat and excrementitious humors of other parts and expell them by force and violence at the mouth And this they do either by a manifest quality as relaxing the superiour mouth of the stomach whereby the retentive faculty being weakned the expulsive faculty of the stomack being irritated either by the abundance or acrimony of the humours expels whatsoever is contained within its verge upwards the nether parts contracting themselves to forward that motion and these we use when there is nauseousnesse and desire of vomiting together with a bitternesse of the mouth and a pain or oppression about the short ribs such are sallet oyle faire water warmed butter and all fat and oyly things Or else they do it by an occult quality by which they rather purge upwards then downwards the Matter of all these to be reduced to a practicall use are usually divided into gentle moderate and violent vomitories The Gentle Simples Faire water or Barly water warmed drank plentifully to a quart or more broath of flesh that is fatty drunk in a good quantity oyl Olive warmed given to â„¥ iv or vi butter melted and hot Compounds Meade largely taken water and oyle called Hydraeleon to â„¥ viii or â„¥ x. simple Oxymell with warm water syrrup of Vinegar with warm water new figs eaten drinking after them a draught of warm water The Moderate Rootes of Orach Asarum from Ê’ i. to ℈ iv in infusion from Ê’ i ss to Ê’ iii. and â„¥ ss of Betony made into a potion with Meade as Dioscorid the roots of Garden Cowcumbers Maudlins Avicen Gesner lib. 2. epist 11 fol. 63. of Melons bulbes of Narcissus or Daffodils roots of Pompions powdred from ℈ ii to Ê’ i. in infusion from Ê’ i to Ê’ iii. and radish roots Barkes The middle bark of Wal-nut trees to Ê’ i. in infusion to Ê’ iii. and â„¥ ss but chiefly the catlings of the Tree called Juli dryed in an oven Seeds of Dill Orach garden Cowcumbers Rocket Radish from Ê’ iii. to â„¥ ss of Nettles from Ê’ ss to Ê’ i. in infusion from Ê’ i. to â„¥ ss Flowers of Dill of Walnuts viz. Catlings as is aforesaid in the Barks given to Ê’ i. in wine to them that have the cholick or stone Juyce of Radish to ounce two The shavings of ones own nailes drank in wine E'ectuaryes Diasarum Fernel lib. 7. Meth. whose dose is Ê’ iii. in Barly water honied water or whey The Violent Roots of Spurge Sowbread Danewort hedge hysop to ℈ i. but in infusion from Ê’ i. to Ê’ i ss or Ê’ ii white Hellebore infused in broath chiesly to Ê’ ss Ê’ i. or Ê’ i ss at most adding cordiall things to ℈ i. but it is to be given very warily the roots of Cresses Barkes of the roots of Danewort and Elder Seedes of Spurge Cataputia ten or twelve cleansed from their husks bruised and given in a reare egge these are profitably given to them that have drank poysons or love potions the seeds of broom from Ê’ ii to â„¥ ss of Cresses of Palma Christi Flowres of Danewort Broome Fruites Nux Vomica Juyces of sowbread vinegar distilled with the crumbs of rye bread to â„¥ iii. it is a most strong medicine in agues Chymicall things Vitrum antimonii of any sort infused to ℈ i. rather gr vi or vii c. in a fat liquor Mercurius vitae prepared to gr v. at most with ℈ i. of some fit pils Antimony prepared which if it be rightly used is a famous and safe vomitory Concerning whose preparation and manner of using it because there are divers opinions of the chymicks extant I shall give my opinion for that which they call Crocus Metallorum which is the best of all ℈ i. of which infused in Malmsey fourteen dayes in a warm place stirring the wine every day afterwards keep it for your use The Dose of this wine is from Ê’ i. to Ê’ i ss taken out of a spoon It is a famous remedy both in Feavers and other diseases that have been deeply rooted in the
are to be sought in those Tables Repellers by the Latines Repellentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are those which prohibit the flux of a humour into any part or else do represse and drive back that which is already fallen into the part so it be not yet fixed in it They are of a cold nature and some of them are moreover dry and of an earthy substance which are most powerfull and are properly such Others are watrish and moist and these are more gentle for by howmuch the thicker substance and more condensed any of the first qualities are inherent in by so much the more effectually it operates The prime use of them is to prohibit both the beginnings and increase of inflammations The secondary use is in any sort of flux of humours proceeding either from Plethora or Cacochymia yet note that those things which are the more powerfull may easily be known by their harsh and austere tast The Rootes Of Slooe tree of Cinquefoyle of Snakeweed and Tormentill Barkes Of the root of Mandrake of an Oake neere the root rinds of Pomegranates Leaves Of Mastick Cipresse Brambles nightshade plantain mirtles vine-twists sumach oake-leaves prinet hen-bane housleek Venus navel-wort purslane lettice endive cichory knotgrass mouse eare ducks meat horstaile pear-tree leaves Seedes Of Fleawort Plantaigne Mirtles Roses Flowres Of red Roses Balaustines or the flowr of wild Pomegranates Cytines or the flower of the manured Pomegranate Fruites Quinces Services Berberryes Cornelians Cypresse nuts Mirtles Green gals Medlers wild peares Juyces Acacia Hypocistis Verjuyce Vinegar juyce of Pomegranates Lemons and unripe Mulberries Excrements of animals Whites of egges Minerals Alum Vitriol Cerusse Lead Salt Tutty Earthes Bole armeniack Terra sigillata Gums Sanguis draconis Waters Of the leaves before recited which soever of them are in use in the shops rose water Oyles Of roses mirtles quinces sower grapes of mastick wood of mastick Oyntments Unguent Comitissae Galens cooling oyntment oyntment of Populeon of bole armenack Playsters against the rupture of mastick Emplasticks the same name is kept both in Greek Latine and English THey are so called which being spread on the poares of the body cleave very fast to them i.e. they daube fill and stop the poares As to the Qualities of them they are hot in the actives without any acrimony or corroding but in the passive qualities some of them have altogether a grosse and earthy consistence drying without biting and some of them have over and above an aery or watrish humour by which meanes they cleave too and are clammy The Vse of these is in stopping all manner of defluxions and bleedings especially at the nose and in drying moyst wounds and Ulcers that are fomented by the defluxion Secondarily also to ripen or suppurate for they fill the pores of the skin and keep in the heat by which meanes swellings are the easier ripened Such are these following which are prescribed chiefly in the form of a Plaister Cataplasme or Pultis Rootes Of Marsh mallowes Lillyes Mallowes Cumfrey The Leaves Of Vervain-Mallowes Mallowes Purslane Seedes Of Fenegreek Lupines Sesamum Fruites Raisins of the Sun Figges Pine nuts steeped in water Gums Arabick Tragant Sanguis Draconis Mastick Frankinsense and its barke Parts and excrements of animals Mummy Wax whites of egges new fats marrow of fourfooted beasts new butter new cheese Oesipus lambshead hogs feet calves head and feet Spodium made of Ivory Earthes Bole armenack terra sigillata Flâ—wry parts of seeds or meale of wheat starch fine flowr beane flowre Muscilages Of all sorts Minerals and metalline things Alum Litharge cerusse stibium or antimony burnt lead cadmia or the condensed fuligo in the boyling of brasse tutty lime Stones Blood stone plaster of Paris lapis calaminaris Rosins All of them pitch Sea things As Corall snailes amber Oyles All that are temperate Oyntments Album Rhasis ung nutritum diapompholigos the red drying oyntment Intercepters or Defensives They are commonly called defensives which by their cold binding faculty stop the passage of the humours so that they cannot fall into the part They differ from the Repellers only in respect of the place to which they are applyed for the repellers are applyed to the part affected but the intercepters are applyed to the wayes or passages by which the humour fals to it Therefore the matter of the intercepters is the same with that of the Repellers Binders by the Latines Obstruentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AND commonly Binders under the generall signification comprehend under that word Repellers Condensers Thickeners and strengtheners of the parts But more strictly in this place it signifies such medicines as strengthen the larger passages of the body and that as it were bind them round about to set a difference betwixt them and the condensers which only strengthen and bind up the small pores of the skin and other parts and as it were make them solider Binders are according to Galen 5 simpl facult c. 14. cold and dry and of a grosse substance The Vse of these are in stopping the fluxes of the belly dysentery catarrhes and in staying the force of any humour or any sensible way of excretion as the veines of the womb and all other fluxes Such are these following with which you should always mingle things something heating and strengthning the parts Rootes of Snakeweed or bistort the greater cumfrey tormentill rubarb torrified Barkes Of myrobalanes pomegranates frankin sence acorne cups Woodes As Saunders Leaves Of Plantaines the greater knot grasse horsetaile shepheards purse mouseare mirtle Flowres Of balaustines roses Seedes Of sorrel purslane mirtles plantaine white poppy roses stones of raysins of the sun rice Fruites Quinces peares services cornelians medlars pomegranats English Corans berberries unripe mulberries cipress nuts gals Juyces and liquors Starch acacia hypocistis juyce of quinces verjuyce sowre wine chalibeated milk and ironed milk Animal things Hartshorn burnt Ivory Mummy Gums Tragant Mastick to Ê’ i. sanguis draconis Stones and Earthes Blood stone terra figillata bole armenack Metalline things Alum Iron Crocus Martis Sea things Corall Amber Pearles Waters Of Roses Plantane Purslane knotgrasse sorrell Syrrups Of quinces dryed roses pomegranats mirtles conserve of quinces Condites Preserved Quinces and cornelians Conserves and Confections Old conserves of roses diacodion philonium new treacle Troschiscks Of rubarb spodium and Amber THE FIRST BOOK THE FIRST PART THE FOVRTH SECTION Of Medicines respecting the cause offending in rest or quietnesse The Type of the Section The matter fixed in a part is emptied by medicines which relax Insensibly as discussers Insensibly as consumers Insensibly as drawers either by a quality manifest or occult as those that extract peculiar things or sensibly under the forme of thin water as the blisterers or sensibly under the forme of natter or corruption as suppurators or sensibly under the forme of natter or corruption as openers or breakers of impostems Relaxers by the Latines
Stavesacre Treacle-mustard Sesely Silvermontan Fruits Figs Raisins bitter Almonds Juniper berries Bay-berries Gums Mastick Ammoniack Myrrh Animal things Castor These Simples as to their use are either chewed as is usually the roots of Pellitory of Spain steeped all night in Vinegar to ℥ i. or else a powder made of the aforesaid things to ʒ iii. or ℥ s is taken with s q. of wax and made up into Troschischs as big as Lupines one of which is chewed in the mouth and so rolled up and down a reasonable while Opthalmicks or Eye-Medicines called by by the Latines and Greeks Opthalmica THey are called so in general which are used to heal diverse affections of the Eyes and are divided chiefly into three Classes The first contains the Oxidorcicks or Medicines that sharpen the sight The second contains those Medicaments that are for the inflāmation of them either in the beginning as Repellers and Anodynes or easers of pain or else in the state and declination as Digesters or Discussers the third includes the Cleansers that are used in the Ulcers Spots Suffusions and such like affections of the Eyes Oxidorcicks or Sharpners of the Sight Internal Roots Of Fennel Celendine the greater Avens Valerian Leaves Of Eye-bright Celendine Fumitory Fennel Vervain Rue Clary Seeds Silvermountain seed Rape seed Radish seed Fennel Carraway seed Clarified Juices Of Fennel Vervain Eyebright Marjoram Rue Distilled Waters Of Eyebright Vervain Celandine Fennel Rue Wine Of Eyebright On the contrary these hurt the Sight Radishes Garlick Onions Mustard and Cresses Externall Oxidorcicks or Quickeners of Sight Water of Hony if the dimnesse proceed from the thicknesse of the tunicles distilled Waters of the aforesaid sight-sharpning simples mixt together adding Gall and the Urine of a Boy under age white Wine and Hony Antimony to ʒ i. infused in ℥ iv of Water The Juices aforesaid dropped into the Eye the Juice of Rocket and of flowring Willow that which drops out at a cut in the Bark Anodynes or Easers of Pain Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort of white Poppy seeds where you would also Lenifie of Quince seed where you would also bind Waters Of Roses of pickings of Roses of Plantain Nightshade Housleek Purslain Womens milk white of an Egg beaten with water Sweet Apples roasted under the Embers or boiled in Milk juice of Apples Crums of Bread steeped and boiled in Milk adding a little Saffron to gr iv or v. White Troschises of Rhazis where there is great pain And in vehement pain Opium to gr ii in liquid Colliriums Repellers Waters Of Roses Mirtles Plantains Violets Purslain Nightshade Juices O◠Quinces sowr Apples Pomegranates white of an Egg. Muscilage Of Quince seed pulp of Quinces boiled in some binding Water as in the Water of stalks or pickings of Roses Discussers Decoctions Of Fenngreek Camomile Melilot Fomentations and Vapors Of the same things together with the Oxidorcicks before named Waters Of Eyebright Aqua vitae ¶ Of Fennel Celendine Rue with a little white Vitriol or salt peeter in it Animals their parts and Excrements Womans milk the blood of Pigeons and turtle Doves the feathers of young Pigeons that are full of blood drawn forth and pressed into the Eyes the gall of Fishes Gums Sarcocal fed with milk Rosins Myrrh and Frankincense Juices Aloes Verjuice where there is also a burning joined with the others And lastly Saffron Cleansers Some are gentle without biting the use of which is in the declination of Inflammations as Sugar-candy Hony juice of red Roses Antimony washed Cadmia Pompholix or white Tutty gray Tutty Skuttle-bone Pumice-stone Lead burnt and washt Others are stronger and joined with a biting the Vse of which is chiefly in Suffusions Skins and sometimes in Ulcers as gals of Fishes which are the gentler of four-footed Beasts which are moderate and of Birds which are the strongest to which add the gall of Vipers and Serpents Note that the gall of Partridges is the strongest of all and that of Hens is the gentlest Juices Of Fennel Quinces Celendine blew flowred Pimpernel Urine water of Hony compounded with the Oxidorcicks Others are the strongest of all as Vitriol burnt Verdigrease white Vitriol a liquor of which made with the whites of Eggs is excellent in the inflammation Itch and rednesse of the Eyes crude Antimony Oticks or Ear-Medicines by the Latines Auricularia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are Remedies that help the Hearing and are two-fold Internal and External The Internal are the Cephalical Medicines before rehearsed which alter consume or discusse the Humor contained in the inward cavity of the Ear whether they be hot if the Malady come from cold and grosse Humors or cold if the cause of the Deafnesse proceeds from hot Humors which useth to happen in acute Diseases after the Crisis the matter of the Disease being sent to the Ears External also are two-fold Hot and Cold. The Hot are these following Waters Aqua vitae simple or compounded with some of the other Cephalical things made in white Wine this cuts cleanseth digests any slimy Humor And to this purpose there are infused the roots of Radish Leeks Onions Sowbread white Hellebore Castor Saffron salt Peeter Cows gall besides the Cephalical things ¶ Crato commends Carduus benedictus infused in Spirit of Wine and then distilled for a singular Experiment See Crato Ep. 59. Decoctions made of the same things in Aqua vitae simple Vinegar or Vinegar of squils Juices Of Onions Leeks Radishes Rue Ash Common Oyls As of bitter Almonds Spikenard Distilled Oyls These following besides the Cephalical Oyls aforesaid of Sage Rue Cummin seed Carraways Fennel seed Bay berries Spike Animols The fat of an Eele that drops from it whilest it is roasting dropped into the Ear for is mollifies and relaxeth by reason of its fat substance attenuates and discusseth partly by the quality it obtains from the fire but chiefly by that it gets from Bay leaves wherewith it should be stuck full when it is laid down ¶ To these may be added the fat of an Hedgehog prepared after the same manner and Woodlice which some call Monks pease others Cheeslogs powdered and mixed with somu auricular Oyl and dropped into the Ear. Suffumigations made of the like things as are before spoken of Musk wrapped up in wool or cotten and put into the Ear. ¶ Civet is much more forcible especially if you add to it a drop or two of Oyl of Cinamon or Cloves The Cold are these Oyls Of Water-lillies Roses Violets Womens milk warm from the brest Juice or liquor of Vines which distils from the branches cut in the Spring Decoctions of Cooling things as Roses Mallows Violets Willow Lettuce Water-lillies ¶ Plantain Endive Straw-berries Purslain Odonticks or Teeth-Medicines THey are so called that strengthen the Teeth and by cleansing them from the filth whiten them these are a fit matter for Dentifrices and they are these following Of Plants the stalks of Burnet Pellitory of the wall
Beets Maidenhair Leaves of Mirtles Mastick tree wild Olives Penniryall wild Marjoram Hysop Mints Sage Rosemary either several or many of them mixt burnt and reduced to ashes Of Animals Skuttle bone Crabs eyes all sorts of shels and the shels of Land snails Harts horn Of Stones Pumice stone Sponge stone Alablaster Chalk all of these most exactly powdered or if that cannot hand somly be let them be first burnt and then powdered Stones of Dates Mirobalanes Olives Cypres nuts Medlars burnt Sea things Coral Sea froth Amber Earthy juices Common salt salt Gemme Alum salt Peeter melted on a Tile-shard and burnt sal Alkali or the salt they make Glasse of and the fattinesse that swimmeth on the top when it is dissolved in water called Glasse grease Tartar of white Wine crusts of Bread burnt To these are to be added the powders of Spices as of Lignum aloes and other odoriferous Plants the root of Ireos Musk Amber greece and for the strengthning of the Gums Mastick Frankincense Mirrh ¶ And to those that will resolve to endure the taste there is no better thing then Aloes dissolved in Claret wine THE SECOND BOOK SECTION II. Of Remedies of the BREST The type of the Section Remedies of the Brest respect either the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Bechical or Expectorating Medicines Pneumonical or Medicines that alter the distemper of the Lungs Brest as Breeders of Milk Driers of Milk Cordials by the Latines Cordialia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that are either proper for strengthning the Heart resisting malignity or encreasing the Spirits such are all the Alexipharmacal internal medicines before rehearsed except that there the hot are confusedly mixed with the cold which in the use of them are to be distinguished but besides those these following are profitable which are not there cited The Hot Cordials Roots Of Doronicum or wholsom Wolfs-bane Zedoary Cinquefoil Avens Butterbur Barks Of Oranges and Citrons Leaves Of Carduus benedictus Sage mountain Calamint Motherworts ground Ivie Mints Bazil Rosemary Flowers Of Sage Lilly of the vally Spikenard Rozins Frankincense Storax Benzoin Animals Mummy Silk Sea things Amber Waters Of Carduus benedictus Balm scabiosse Sage Cinamon Treacle water ¶ Angelica water the greater composition Aqua Petasitis or water of Butterbur compound Bezoar water Gilberts water Scordium water compound Aqua Imperialis Aqua Mariae Oyls Of Cloves Cinamon Saffron Condited things Citron barks roots of Scorzonera or Spanish Vipers grasse Troschischs Of Gallia Moscata Alipta Moscara Trosch Alexiterii Species or Powders ¶ Bezoardicus Magistralis Cardiacus Magistralis temperate cordial Species Powder of Crabs claws compound Diamoscum Species of the Electuary Rosatae Novellae See the Alexipharmacal Medicines before Cooling Cordials Roots Of Sorrel Buglosse Leaves Of Sorrel wood Sorrel Borage Buglosse water Lillies Mirtles Seeds Of Quinces Plantain Fruits Sowr Cherries fragrant Apples Quinces sowr Pomegranats Flowers Of Willow ¶ The four cordial Flowers Clove Gilly flowers Juices Of Sorrel Roses and the Fruits aforesaid Stones Garnets Rubies Minerals and Sea things Gold Silver Coral Pearls mother of Pearls prepared Waters Of Roses Violets Buglosse water Lillies Sorrel Cheries Syrups Of Vinegar Pomegranats Limons Verjuice of the juice of Sorrel Violets Roses Quinces water Lillies Apples Currans Oxisaccarum Conserves Of Roses ¶ Borage and Buglosse flowers Clove Gilly flowers of wood Sorrel Condites Lemons preserved Barbaries Currans sowr Cherries preserved ¶ Quinces Pippins Oranges without the peels Borage roots Species Diamargariton frigidum Treschischs Of Spodium Camphier Vnguents Of Roses of Sanders Expectoraters by the Latines Expectorantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are such Medicines as render those things or Excrements contained in the Lungs fit to be purged out by coughing and are called Bechicks from their manner of evacuating by coughing for the Greek word Bex signifies a Cough from whence comes Bechicus They are otherwise called procurers of spetting and Anacatharticks as also from the part that is to be evacuated they are called Thoracicals and Expectoraters and they are of two sorts according to the variety of Excrements viz. attenuaters and thickeners the first expectorate by attenuating cutting and cleansing the grosse Humors the others by thickening and also lenifying Where is to be noted that if any thing among the attenuaters seems too sharp it is to be tempered with the lenifiers least the Cough be too much irritated or least the grosse Humor by too much using them be hardned The matter of the Attenuaters Roots Of both the Birthworts marsh Mallows Angelica Cuckoo-pits Enulacampain Ireos Squils Onions Ginger Leaves Of Maidenhair Calamint ground Ivie Hysop Tobacco both for a Syrup and suffumigation wild Marjoram Penniryal Jerusalem Cowslips Horehound Catsfoot or mountain Cudweed Scabiosse Sundew or Ros folis Coltsfoot Seeds Of Annise Coleworts Carthamus Fennel Cresses Massilian Seseli Silvermountain of Nettles Berries Of Bays Juniper Flowers Of Rosemary Camomile Scabiosse Saffron from ℈ s to * Never exceed ℈ s for it causeth faintnesse by over mollifying ℈ i. Fruits Bitter Almonds dried Figs Capers Rosins Myrrh Turpentine Animals Hony Fox-lungs prepared to ʒ s ʒ i. Chymical things Flowers of Brimstone made either into a Loach or Tablets oyl of Brimstone a few drops of which use to be mixed with the Lohochs Waters Of Carduus benedictus Hysop Coltsfoot Scabiosse Syrup of Maidenhair Hysop Horehound Coltsfoot of Catsfoot simple Oximel Oximel of squils ¶ Syrup de Erisimo botruos Conserves Of Enulacampain Maidenhair Rosemary Flowers of Coltsfoot Flowers Powders Dia Ireos Solomonis and simple Diacalamintha Lohochs Of Fox lungs ¶ Sanum expert Lohoch de Farfara or Coltsfoot de Passulis External things Oyls Of bitter Almonds Ireos Camomile Oyntments Resumtivum Dialthea Pectoral Plaisters Filii Zachariae The matter of the thickning lenifying things Roots Of Liquorice Holihocks Seeds The four greater cold feeds white Poppy Lettuce Mallows Barly Rice Flowers Of water Lillies Violets red Poppy Fruits Sweet Almonds Dates Jujubes Pine kernels Phistick nuts sweet Prunes Raisins Sebestens Juices Of Liquorice Starch Penidies Opium with caution Animals Butter Marrows new drawn Waters Of Violets red Poppy water Lillies Syrups Of Liquorice Jujubes water Lillies red Poppies Violets white Poppies Hony of Violets ¶ Diacodium simple and compound Syrup of the Muscilages Conserves Of Violets water Lillies Powders Of Diatragacanthum frigidum and Diapenidium Pneumonicks or altering Medicines for the Lungs THey are those that are used to correct the distemper of the Lungs the matter of which is the same with that of the Expectoraters among which to heat the Brest the most excellent is flower of Brimstone given to * Rather to ℈ i. ʒ i. in a soft dressed Egg also ʒ ii of Turpentine dissolved in ℥ ii of Oximel Outwardly the Sulpherous natural Baths But to cool the Brest the use of sowr things of Milk red Saunders in the beginning of a Consumption and to prevent the spetting of Blood will suffice Also Conserves of
Roses made sowr with a little oyl of Vitriol used often morning and evening at going to bed See for others amongst the Expectoraters Encreasers or Breeders of Milk THey are so called properly or unproperly they properly breed Milk that cause much and good Blood such are Meats of much and good nourishment and temperate Medicines for of such things Milk is the material effect They improperly breed Milk which are endued with a moderate cutting quality whereby they render the Blood fluid and move it to the Dugs that it may there be converted into Milk of which this present Discourse is Where note that some certain of them do force the Blood as it were to the Dugs Some are external some internal The Internal The Leaves of the true Macedonian Parsley of Dill Smallage water Parsnips Polley all of them must be green Poligalaor Milkwort Lettuce in hot tempers for in cold ones it diminisheth milk Green Seeds Of Annise Fennel Rocket Nigella Juices Of Gourd Dandelion blew Goats-beard Ptisane or thick Barley broth Powder Of Christal made very fine and given to Ê’ i. in a fit Liquor Lac Lunae given to the weight of Ê’ i. External things Mollifying simples as the Roots of marsh mallows the Leaves of Dill mallows Seed of Flax flowers of Camomile mixed with the aforesaid Leaves and Seeds for a Fomentation Also Rubifiers if other things will not avail See Rubifiers Things drying Milk THose things diminish Milk that either by their vehement coldnesse thicken the Blood or by their too much heat discusse and dry it up or else by a propriety of substance hinder the breeding it Such are either Internal and those either Hot as Bazil Rue Calamint Sage Agnus Castus or cold as Purslain Housleek Gourds * This should rather have been referred to the heaters for it resists Milk by drying and consuming and is withall hot as appears by its aerimony and small Camphier or external as a Cataplasm of the hot things aforesaid boiled in Oyl 2. Linnens dipped in Verjuice and applyed 3. Smallage stamped with Vinegar and applyed 4. A sponge dipped in the Decoction of Cummin or Coriander seed made with sharp Vinegar and applyed 't is the secret of some people ¶ I have seen this very succesfully and speedily done by a Midwife only first fomenting the Dug with Vinegar and afterwards applying a Plaister of Diachilon simple which was suffered to lye on two or three dayes this prevented any hardnesse that otherwise might have happened THE SECOND BOOK SECTION III. Of Remedies of the inferior Cavity viz. The BELLY The Type of the Section Remedies of the inferior Cavity or Belly are properly these viz. for the Stomack Stomachical things Intrals chiefly above other parts are used Discussers of windinesse Killers of Worms Liver Hepatical things Spleen Splenetical things Kidneys or reins Nephritical-things and those either lenifiers cleansers brekers of the Stone Bladder cistical things Testicles encreasers of Seed diminishers of Seed Womb Histerical things and those either strengthning the Womb. or moving staying the courses Stomachical Medicines THey are called Stomachicals which by a peculiar faculty alter those humors that are contained in the stomack and also help together with it the Concoction and other functions of the stomack and strengthen it of which some are hot some cold and both these must not be too much opening or diuretical but somewhat astringent The Hot. Roots Of Calamus aromaticus Cvpresse Galingale greater Gentian or Felwort Zedoary Barks Of Oranges Citrons Woods As Lignum Aloes Leaves Wormwood Betony Mint wild Marjoram Rosemary Sage Seeds Of Annise Citrons Cummin Fennel seeds of Chermes Flowers Of Bettony Sage Fruits Bitter Almonds Peach kernels Gums Mastick Ê’ s given with a little Ginger or Zedoary in a rear Egg. All Spices especially Ginger and Pepper swallowed whole Sea things Ambergreece Amber Waters Of the Leaves aforesaid of Cinamon Aqua vitae spirit of Anniseed ¶ Spirit and water of Wormwood the greater composition Aqua Mirabilis Imperialis Mint water distilled with Wine D. Steevens his Water Distilled Oyls Of Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon mace Cummin seed Amber ¶ Especially Oyl of citron and Orange Barks Syrups Of Wormwood mint Bettony ¶ Of citron peels of cinamon Conserves of the Flowers of Wormwood Bettony sage ¶ Of the tops of Mint and Balm of Roses with Mithridate Condites Citron peels Acorus Condite Nutmegs Walnuts Ginger condited Confections Alcherms mithridate Treacle ¶ Diacorum Diacinnamomum Electuary of Bayberries Electuary of Sasafras Species or Powders Aromaticum Rosatum Diagalanga Diacidonii cum speciebus ¶ This last had been fit among the confections not here To these add Aromat cariophillatum Species Elect. Rosatae novellae Diatrion Piperion Diaspoliticum Dianisum powder of the roots of Cuckoopits compound Troschischs Of Wormwood Rubarb Gallia moscata External are Oyls Of Wormwood mint mastick Nutmegs by expression of Nard ¶ Distilled Oyls of Wormwood Amber Nutmegs Mace Emplasters Of Bay berries stomachale Galeni stomachicum magistrale Cold things for the stomack Roots Of sorrel sâ—ccâ—ry Plantain Leavâ—s Of sorrel Endive sowthistle succory the five capillary Herbs Dandelion and the Leaves of mirtles Seeds The four greater and the four lesser cold seeds mirtleberries Barley Flowers Of succory red Roses Cytines or flowers of Pomegranats Woods All the saunders Fruits Barberries Quinces Pomegranats Cherries medlars services strawberries Citrons all the mirabolans especially ¶ Prunelles currans Raspes Juices Of the Leaves and Fruits aforesaid also Acacia Hypocistis Gums Camphier adding Binders with it ¶ Camphier taken in any considerable quantity offends the Stomack and Head especially if nothing be joyned with it Faculties of Camphier to allay that fumous acrimony wherewith it is fraught which is so searching and fiery that it rather dissolves Nature with the heat then cools otherwise then by accident being outwardly applyed Sea things Coral Waters Of Roses Plantain ¶ Of Quinces Brambleberries Succory Syrups Of Verjuice of the juice of sorrel of Quinces Pomegâ—anats mirtles rob of Quinces juice of Oâ—anges Preserves Cherries Quinces Currans Barberries sowr Grapes preserved ¶ Oranges and Lemons preserved without their peels Goos-berries Raspes Species Diatrion sanralon Diarrhodon abbatis Diamargariton frigidum Troschischs Of Camphier Spodium Maudlins ¶ Trosch of Saunders Barbaries External Coolers Oyl of Mastick wood of Quinces of Mirtles of Roses omphacine Oyntments Unguentum Rosatum Orange flower oyntment Unguentum sumach KILLERS of WORMS Called by the Latines Vermes necantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose are called Killers of Worms which the Worms abhor either for some manifest quality as sharpnesse bitternesse sowrnesse which tasts are loathsom to them or else such as by an occult quality are destructive to them Where note that without a Feaver we may use the hotter sort but in a Feaver them that are lesse hot i. e. sowr ones or else things mixed with such Roots Of Birthwort Swallow-wort Alkanet Snakeweed white Dittany Gentian the greater Crosswort Fearn male and female Carline Thistle
Enulacampain Devilsbit Tormentil Zedoary Rubarb Madder Burdock Butterbur Barks Of the roots of Mulberries Capers Leaves Of Wormwood Pontic and sea wormwood Time Mints Rue Dandelion Polly Asarina of Matthiolus Savine Horehound Calamint Tansie Arsmart Peach leaves Carduus benedictus Goats rue Flowers Of Century the lesse Hops Hysop Seeds Wormseed Lupines of Coleworts Corianders prepared Purslane Citrons Oranges Grach Dill Hedisarum or French Honysuckle Pseudomelanthium or St Katherine flower Nigella or Fennel flower Cresses garden and wild Rocket of Turnips Lovage Hops Sorrel Hemp Leeks Barberries Gums Of Juniper or Vernish Myrrh which is a Rosin Animals Shavings of Harts horn and Ivory powder of earth Worms the cochal bone of an Ox Unicorns horn Earths Bole armoniack Terra sigillata Minerals Brimstone salt Peeter Quicksilver given to ℈ s ¶ Pewter filed small Sea things Coralline red Coral ¶ Amber Juices Of the aforesaid things of Limons Purslane Verjuice Waters Of Wormwood Gentian Grasse Purslane sea Radish Perwinkle Rue Mints of the flowers of Sloe tree Endive Succory Condites Orange and Citron peels Syrups Of Wormwood Endive Succory of the juices of Citrons Oranges Barberries Currans Sorrel Bizantinus ¶ Syrup of Succory with Rubarb Syrup of Peach flowers of the juice of St. Johns wort of wood Sorrel Syrup of Rubarb augustan Syrup of Reses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of the juice of Scordium Conserves Of Peach flowers Clovegilly flowers Orange and Citron flowers Oyls Of Olives bitter Almonds Peach kernels of Vitriol one two or three drops Confections Treacle Mithridate ¶ Treaclediatessaron London Treacle Diascordium confect de Hyacinth Elect. Amarum Magistrale utrumque Powders Diaspoliticum Diacalaminth compound Dialacca Purging powders Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro Warwick powder Mercurius dulcis Salts of Wormwood Centory Broom c. External things Oyls Of Wormwood Rue Coloquintis i. e. of Coloquitis infused in Oyl and boyled Oyl of Bayberries ¶ Oyl of Myrrh Savine Sicionium Oyntments Unguentum de Arthanita Oyntment for the Worms of the Augustan Physicians Gall applyed to the Navil or anointed on the Belly ¶ The Oyntment called in the London shops Vnguentum amarum or the bitter Oyntment is worth them all Note that the chymical Oyls of any of the aforesaid simples are used both inward and outward if there be no Feaver DISCUSSERS of WIND Called by the Latines Dicutientia and Sarminativa by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose simples are so called which are of the like nature with the Diaphoreticks before mentioned they differ not in faculty but in the intention and use The Vse of these is in pains of the Chollick and griefs of the Womb. Roots Of Angelica Galingale Masterwort Indian spikenard Barks Of Oranges speciall in curing and preserving from the Chollick Leaves Of Bayes Calamint wilde Marjoram Dill Majoram savory Rue Pennyrial Hysop mint Bazil Time wild Time Seeds Of Annise Fennel Carraways Cunimin Daucus Bishopsweed Parsley Agnus castus Angelica Oranges Citrons Flowers Of Camomile Centory the lesse for Wind in the short Ribs Region Fruits Bayberries appropriated to pains of the Cholick and Womb Junipeâ— berries Spices Mace saffron Cloves Ginger Cinamon Pepper Animals Castor ¶ Wolf guts dryed Waters Of Cinamon Aqua vitae and Waters of the Leaves aforesaid Distilled Oyls Of Anniseed Fâ—nnel seed Carraways and Camomile which is the best Electuaries Of Bayberries Treacle Treaclediatessaron to Ê’ i. in white Wine Species Diacumini Diagalingal of Rosata novella External things Oyls Of Wormwood Dill Rue Mints Bays oyl made by infusion of the seeds and flowers of Agnus castus this is admirable in the Collick Plaister of Mellilate Cataplasms and Bags made of the aforesaid Leaves seeds flowers are most profitable in the Collick A great Cupping glasse with much flame set upon the tumisied place and in the Collick applied to the Navil it easeth pain as it were an inchantment as Galen affirms Hepaticks or Medicines for the Liver called by the Latines and Greeks Hepatica THey are so called which correct the distemper of the Liver and hinder its obstructions to which 't is very apt or else which help it when 't is come to passe and withall do a little binde its substance that the spirit and heat of the Liver as of a principal part may be preserved Such are those that cut and cleanse without vehement heat and that are withall somewhat binding ¶ These also are either hot or cold internal or external The hot internal Roots Of Cypresse Enulacampain Calamus aromaticus Rubarb sulpherwort ¶ Sharpdock Roots Leaves Of Wormwood Agrimony Germander field Cypresse Fumitory Hops white Horehound Mints Bettony squinant Rosemary Seeds The four greater hot seeds Flowers Of Rosemary Century the lesse Spikenard Spices Cloves Ginger Nutmegs Fruits Fistick nuts Raisins Waters distilled of the aforesaid-Leaves and flowers Syrups Of Wormwood Agrimony Bettony Byzantinus of Fumitory Mints of the 2. and 5. Roots Condites Acorus Walnuts Nutmegs ¶ Eringo Roots stalks of Burdocks Confections Treacle Methridate Diacrocuma Conserves Of the flowers of Rosemary Sage Wormwood Enulacampain Species and Powders Aromaticum rosatum Diarrhodon abbatis Laetificans Galeni ¶ Dialacca Troschischs Of Wormwood Maudlins Dialacca rubarb External hot things Oyls Of Wormwood Spikenard Mastick Mints Nutmegs by expression ¶ Of Myrrh per deliquium of bitter Almonds Oyntments Dialthea Martiatum and of Mostick Cataplasms of the aforesaid Herbs and Seeds with Wine Cooling Hepatical Medicines All those things that are contained in the Table of the cooling stomachical things may also be reckoned of this number amongst the coolers of the Liver to which adde these following which are lesse agreeable to the stomack but very profitable for the Liver Roots Of Kneeholm Sparagrasse Leaves Of Agrimony Strawberries Ducks meat Grasse Seeds Of winter Cherries Flowers Violets Waters Of Agrimony Syrups Byzantinus of the 2. and 5. opening Roots where there be lasting Obstructions Externall Oyls Of Roses Omphacine or of unripe Olives of water Lillies Oyntments Unguentum Rosatum Refrigerans Galeni Ceratum santalinum Epithemes of the distilled Waters and Spices is most usual Splenetick things by the Latines Splenetica by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are of the same kind as the hepaticall medicines according to Galen only they are more powerfully attenuating and opening and lesse binding by reason of the grosenesse of the excrements of the spleen They are two fold hot for naturall melancholly and cold for the correcting of burnt choler The Hot. See the Table of the preparers of naturall melancholly to which adde these following Rootes of a both one thing see Seroderus Calamus Aromaticus Birthwort asarum bryony radishes the true a both one thing see Seroderus Acorus * these are two severall plants or * these are two severall plants galangall the greater Ireos squils hops Leaves of betony calamint St. John's wort Germander Rue Pennyroyall Seedes of Madder Ash keyes Fruites Ivv berrynes Spices Saffron Cinamon Minerals Steele prepared ¶ Chymicals Tartar vitriolated creame of Tartar Tartarus
chalibeatus Crocus martis ¶ Liquors Vinegar of squils ¶ spirit of wine tartarisated lye of the ashes of tamariske and broome ¶ Syrups Oxymel simple and of squils ¶ syrup of ammoniack of epithimum ¶ Conserves of the flowres of tamarisk of broom Condites The roots of Acorus condited Species Diacurcuma Dialacca Distilled oyles of Cummin Cinamon Vitriol ¶ of the barkes of citrons of tartar by deliquium The Externall are Oyles of Capers tamarisk wall flowres rue bitter almons Vnguents de Althea ¶ Vng splanchnicum and Vng splanchnicum magistrale oyntment of the juyces commonly called vng è succis Emplasters de mucilaginibus Diachilon cum gummis ¶ de ammoniaco and the compound plaster of Melilot ¶ And other magisteriall oyntments wherin gum ammoniack bdellium and the powders of Ireos Asarabeck and sowbread should be prescribed and divers other formes made for present use of the aforesaid things especially rue cresses nettles mustard centaury the lesse asarum and sowbread Cold splenetick things These are to be sought out of the Table of the attenuaters of choller which also are convenient for burnt choller gathered in the spleen to which add narrow leaved docks and these external topicall things Oyles of violets water lillies Vnguents refrigerans Galeni oyntment of roses cerecloath of saunders sharp vinegar ¶ juyce of hemlock vinegar of hemlock Animadversion Sweet things by themselves are hurtfull to the spleen but added with other things are good conveighers Pythagoras when he was scandald by a certain fellow recited this metaphorically sharp and bitter things help them that are splenetick but sweet things hurt them And this is now become a practicall rule Nephriticall things i. e. Medicines appropriated to the reines or kidneys by the Latines Nephritica id in etiam Greâ—è ut etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 NEphriticall medicines are three fold divided according to the structure office and peculiar affections of the reines to which they are subject 1 Lenifiers the use of which in the scalinesse and roughnesse of the reines as also in the heat and sharpnesse of the Urine 2 Cleansers the use of which is in the obstruction or suppression of the Urine either by the stone mucilaginons matter or sand these are comprehended under the Diureticks 3 Lithontripticks or breakers of the stone the use of which is in crumbling and diminishing the stone that it may the more easily be expelled The cleansers are to be sought in the Table of the Diureticks with which they agree only there they have a more generall use here a particular one wherefore I shall here only recite the lenifiers and the Lithontripticks The Lenifiers Rootes of marsh-mallows liquerish grasse sparagus eringoes Leaves of Plantain common maiden hair Pellitory sorrel lettice mallowes water lillies purslain sowthistle Seedes of marsh-mallowes cotton mallowes flax fenugreek four greater and four lesser cold seeds of plantain fleawort white poppy â—lowers of violets chamomill water lillies red poppyes Fruites Sweet almons jujubes sebestens fistick nuts raysins sweet prunes dry figs apples Gums Tragant of the bitter almon tree cherry tree camphere Animals Butter Milk Whey Juyces of Licorice almon milk barly creame Chymicall things * Sure these are not lenifiers spirit of vitriol sal * Sure these are not lenifiers prunellae Waters of the leaves in the table aforesaid Syrups of violets jujubes water lillies apples of marsh-mallowes by Fernelius ¶ syr de mucilaginibus of water lillies compound Conserves of violets water lillies ¶ mallow flowers ¶ Condited things Lettice stalkes condited the flesh of goards and melons condited Species of diatragacanthum frigidum dia penidiâ—m ¶ pulvis hali troschisch gordonii trosch of saunders trosch of camphere bechicinigri alkekengy Electuaries somewhat purging Diacatholicon Lenitive elect passularum pulp of Cassia altering Electuaries Diaspermaton antidotus analeptica ¶ Oyles of sweet almons camphere ¶ Vnguentum potabile Externall Lenifiers Oyles Violets water lillies ¶ of poplars oyle of wall flowres chamomill â—asmine ¶ Vnguents Oyntment of roses refrigerans Galeni ¶ of orange flowres anodynum dialthea resumptivum ¶ Lython tripticks oâ— breakers of the stone SOme medicines that break the stone doe it by a manifest quality of cutting and cleansing without any extraordinary heat as Galen lib. 5. simpl c. 13. doth affirme for such medicines doe easily passe through narrow exile passages very far and so by insinuating it selfe and peircing all the parts dissolve its continuity but too much beat doth the more concoct and harden the stone that is already gathered together Others doe by their asperity as it were shave and scale the superficies and by that meanes diminish the stone Others are thought to do the same by an occult property to which the Author of that treatise of the knowing and curing the affections of the reines gives little confidence but be they as they will I will here propound the matter of them all that are used by authors in breaking the stone except only those that are to be found among the Diureticks which are to be joyned with these following as the use of them shall require where note that those that are marked with a star are the most excellent Roots of Birthwort a By Pliny's description it is teasels by others it is englished corne marigold or chrysanthemum damasonium elecampain dropwort galingale acorus bastard rubard Ireos lovage saxifrage burnet pyony sea radish brambles nettles squils Leaves of southernwood hares eare the capillary herbs germander field cipres coleworts celtick hard Roman chamomil ground Ivy wild marjerome polly hyssop fluellen oake and willow leaves scordium all seed teasel golden rod dead nettle of Fuchsius for the stone in the bladder Barkes of Acorns the middle bark of hazell Flowres of larkespare Seedes of dill caâ—away cummins silver montan bishops weed macedonian parsly corianders sampier I think he meanes that by tretamarina kneeholm bazill radish St. John's wort ladyes thistle ash nigella cresses burnet lupines broome small burdock Fruites bay berryes peach kernels Ivy berries the spongy dog or wild rose ¶ Juniper berries Spices Ginger lignum aloes red saunders nutmegs mace cloves pâ—â—pe carpobalsamum or balsam berries cubebs spike squinant saffron which also add a gracefull relish to the medicines Gums of cherry-trees plum-trees wallnuts vinces arabick tragant elemi Olibanum bdellium Rosins of the Larch Tree Firre Tree true Turpentine Animals blood of a Goat prepared taken to Ê’ i. in wine hares blood Ashes of earthworms of hedge hogs of an asses liver feathers of wild pigeons of a whole hare burnt with the skin flesh and haire or else the skin of it daubed with its blood burnt reed sparrowes burnt ashes of scorpions cheese logges or wood-lice or monkes pease beetles hares kidnyes powders of a Man's skull of the warts and hoofes of horses of the cocall bones of a hare Ivory pikes jaw craw fish the stoppings of snailes shels in the winter egge shels crabs eyes mouse dung stones voyded by Urine from a man
Cinamon bay and juniper berries eaten every other day before the time of lying in the after-birth of an Ewe dryed and given in powder Juyce of Scordium given to â„¥ ss with Saffron to provoke the birth Minerals Native Borax is excellent to provoke the birth given to ℈ i. in liquor Waters of the aforesaid herbs which are usuall in the shops Briony water compound Syrups of Mugwort horehound Bettony ¶ Of the juyce of St. Johns wort of Mercury of the juyce of Scordium Distilled oyles of Castor Savin Cinamon myrrh ¶ Ambâ—r Mugwort Rue Turpentine Sulphur Troscâ—iscks of Myrrh to Ê’ i. in the forme of pils ¶ Troschischi Hysterici Externall things Oyles of Lillies Chamomill Wall flowres Stones The stone Aetites tyed to the thigh provokes the birth so doth a Loadstone held in the left hand The Gall of an Oxe pulp or powder of a wild Cowcumber and Coloquintis in Pessaries Animals Thee hoofe of an Asse fumed provokes the birth and afterbirth Stoppers of the Courses BEcause these are very near the same with the binders expounded above in the first Book Part. 1. Sect. 3. therefore the matter for such medicines is to be sought in the Table of Astringents or Binders Strengtheners of the Wombe Rootes of Snakeweed Calamus Aromaticus Costus Cyperus Galingall Leaves of Bettony Marjerome Sage which two are eminent Rosemary Baume Nigella Flowres of Marjerome Rosemary Sage Fruites Juniper Berries Bay Berries Animal excrements Musk Civet Ivory Sea things Amber Corall Ambergreece Mother of pearle Rosins Storax Benzoin Frankincense Mastick Spices Nutmegs Cloves Mace Spikenard lignum Aloes Waters of Bettony Marjerom Baume Sage Syrups of Bettony Baulme Oyles of Amber Cloves Mace Nutmeg Condites Acorus condited Walnuts and Nutmegs preserved Myrobalans and Satirion roots condited Opiates Triphera magna both with and without Opium Treacle Methridate ¶ Diascordium Alchermes Diacinnomomum Tripheia masor Species Aromaticum rosatum Diambra Diamoscum ¶ Species diacurcuma Dialacca Diagalanga Diacalaminth Dianisum Externall things Oyles of Nutmeg by expression of Nard of myrtles ¶ Oyle of Costus Mints Mastick Quinces Castor of St. Johns wort Moschaeleum Oyntments Vnguentum comitissae Martiatum Mastichinum Sumach Plasters Promatrice ad herniam of mastick ¶ Cerecloath of Galbanum Emplast Caesaris de crusta panis Diaphaenicum utrumque Metropropiolicon ¶ Note that to the best of these some adde the more strengthening provokers of the courses THE SECOND BOOK THE FOVRTH SECTION Of the Remedies of the LIMBS Arthriticall things or things appropriated to the joynts Latine and Greeke called Arthritica THey are called Arthriticall medicines which are destined to the strengthning of the sinewey and membranous parts of which the joynts are composed The Vse of which is both to prevent and cure the severall sorts of the Gout They are twofold Internall and Externall the matter of the internall things is the same with the cephalicall things whether you understand this of the hot cephalicks in a cold defluxion or of the cold ones where it proceeds from a hot cause for there is the same reason for the sinews as for the head but particularly these following are appropriated to the joynts Externall or topicall medicines for the joynts are usefull either in the beginning of the Gout as to mitigate both the heat and pain or else in the end to dissipate the reliques of the impacted matter least it turn to a stony indissoluble hardnesse The matter of each particular is this The chief Arthritical internal Medicines Roots Of Achorus Elecampain Ireos Cinquefoil Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Gentory the lesse St Johns wort Bettony Sage Woods Sassaphras which is excellent Flowers Of red Roses ¶ Sage Rosemary Stechados Animals Castor ashes of Harts horn a Man's skull Sea things red Coral burnt Spices Indian Spikenard Rosins Of all sorts especially Turpentine Juices Opopanax Conserves Of field Cypresse in a cold Cause of red Roses in a hot Cause External things mitigating the heat pain Leaves Of Nightshade Plantain marsh Mallows Henbane both sorts of Housleek Mallows Pellitory Danewort Elder Ducks meat Flowers Of Roses Juices Vinegar Phlegma or insipid water of Vïtriol whites of Eggs Vinegar with water Sal Prunellae dissolved in red Poppy water Gums Camphier Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort and Quinces ¶ of marsh Mallow roots Pulp of Cassia Waters Of Roses Nightshade Plantain red Poppy Oyls Of Violets water Lillies Roses Oyl of Man's blood called the Elixar of Man Oyntments Unguent of Roses Populeon External things dissipating the relicts of the Humours and pain Roots Of Elecampain Sowbread Briony Coloquintis Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Cresses Centory the lesse Nepe Pennyroial Danewort St Johns wort Rosins Mastick Bdellium Turpentine * Rather Roots Fruits Hermodactils Thickned Juices Ammoniack Opopanax Fuphorbium Animals Castor Fat 's Of a Cat Badger Fox Bear Serpent Oyntments Martiatum Dialthea Oyls Of Tiles Castor Turpentine St Johns wort Hony Wax Ireos Foxes Euphorbium which is to be used warily and of Elder Plaisters Of Frogs of Vigo of the Mucilages Mellilote Oxicrocum To these are numbred those which strengthen the Sinews called by the Latines Nervos Roborantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Roots Of Acorns Eringo Masterwort Sulpherwort or Hogs Fennel Rhaphontick Costus Woods Sassaphras Misle of the Oak Leaves Of field Cypresse Hysop Lavender Marjoram Cowslips Rosemary Sage the three sorts of Spike viz. Indian nard Celtick and Italian wilde Time Goats marjoram Fruits Anacardines Pine nuts Berries Of Juniper Kermes ¶ Bayes Spices Cinamon all the Peppers Ginger Mace Nutmegs Cloves Cardamomes Rosins and Gums Myrrh Venice Turpentine with the Powder of field Cypresse Opopanax Sagapene Animals The Brain of a Hare roasted Castor given to ℈ i. in Pils Conserves Of Rosemary Cowslips Sage Eringo Bettony Confections Treacle Methridate Confectio Anacardina ¶ Diacorum Powders Diagalanga Pleresarconticon ¶ Dianthos Diamoscum dulce Pulvis Antilyssus Waters Of Lavender Sage Marjoram Treacle water ¶ Sp. of Lavender compound of Matthias Piony water compound Aqua Imperialis Spirit of Castor Syrups Of Bettony compound of Chamepitis or field Cypresse of Staechados External strengthners of the Sinews Fat 's Of Vipers Foxes Stags Men. Oyls Of Tiles Wax Camomile St Johns wort earth Worms Nutmeg by expression Turpentine Foxes Vipers Costus oyl of Peeter Dill Ricininum of Rue ¶ Of Mace by expression oyl of Amber chymical Baths Those which are sulpherous nitrose bituminous aluminous and let the drippings of these fall on the beginning of the Back bone also the mud or slime extracted from them may be applied profitably to the part affected Grease Of a Goose that drips from it whilest it is roasted being filled with Frankincense Myrrh Bdellium Mummy c. Aqua vitae poured on the part helps much Fomentations and Bathings Of Mugwort Fleabane Calamint Rue Camomile Sage Dill field Cypres wild Marjoram St Johns wort salt Peeter common Salt Cataplasms Of the same Cold strengthners of the Sinews They are the same with the
cold Cephalicks or Head Medicines To which add Among the Seeds Barly among the Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatrion santalon and among the external things Mucilage of Fleawort Vine leaves Vinegar Rose water chalibeated water and natural Iron Baths An APPENDIX of Remedies for BVRNINGS REmedies for Burnings according to Fernelius l. 6. M. M. cap. 20. are three fold Some ease the inflammation and draw forth the fire Others hinder the rising of Pustles and ease the pain Others mitigate the ulcerated and painfull parts and by moderately drying heal the sore Of the first sort are 1. All things that are cold in the first degree which extinguish the inflammation as are those Juices and Liquors Water Vinegar Water with Vinegar white of an Egg juice of Housleek Lettuce Nightshade Endive Plantain Purslane Distilled Waters of the aforesaid Herbs Earths Any that is next hand but chiefly the Cimolian Bole armoniack dissolved in any convenient juice water or oxycrat i. e. water with vinegar and anointed on the place Minerals Ceruse Allum dissolved in water or with the white of an Egg Dioscoride used to anoint the place with writing Ink dissolved in water Gums Camphier 2. Some certain hot things that call out the fire as Leaves of Cookoopits Leeks rubbed on the place Elder and Danewort applied in the same manner Roots Onions bruised with Salt and laid on the Burn the Root of Kingspear boiled in Oyl and the juice anointed helps both Chilblains and Burnings Of the second sort are these Remedies following Leaves Of Privet Sage Mirtles made into a Searcloth or Salve with Hogs fat and applied also the same green stamped up with Hogs grease and onely laid on the leaves of Mallows and horned Poppy used the same way Glue mollified in warm water Dioscord The Leaves of mircles burnt and the ashes mixed with the white of an Egg. Salt Peeter with oyl of Roses or oyl of Eggs. Waters Of mullen Plantain Nightshade Roses adding sometimes red Saunders and a little Camphier The juice of Fennel and white Wine with cold water poured on the part that is burnt Of the third sort are these Oyntment of Lime washed which is compounded of Lime washed and oyl of Roses or Butter adding other things as you please as Ceruse Camphier mucilages Oyl of St Johns wort with washed Lime is effectual in any Burn though of Gun-powder Vnguentum album of Rhasis or of Ceruse See more in Fernelius in the aforesaid place I have only added these as a finishing Complement to fill up the empty pages ¶ Note that without this methodical proceeding I will undertake a Burn or Scald may be healed onely with the Oyntment of Stramonium or Thorn-apple described in Gerard's Herbal in the Chapter of Stramonium make two sorts of that Oyntment one onely of the Leaves and Apples bruised boiled up with Hogs grease and another by adding a little Turpentine and Wax as he there shews When the Burn or Scald is now made apply the first for two dayes till the fire and inflammation be fetched out then apply the other twice a day till it be whole and if you see it fit to skin the sore take Vnguentum rubeum Desiccativum or de Cerussa and heal it up With these any curable Burn will be healed speedily and safely Gerard healed one burned with Lightning See his own words in the aforesaid place GOD be Praised The Treatise or Tract of prescribing the forms of Remedies contains two Books one of Internal Medicines Liquid Apozemes Juleps Potions Syrups Vomitories Medicinal Wines Emulsions Almond Cream Barley Cream Milk and Whey Mead. Sugred water and 〈◊〉 Diet Drinks Cock broth Distilled Restoratives Broths Soft Boles Opiates Lohochs Preserves Solid Paste royal or Morsels Pandalcon Marchpane and Pineolate Tablets Pills Troschischs Powders another of Externall Medicines Common to many parts Epithemes Lotions Fomentations Half Baths Baths Stoves Embrochations Liniments Unguents Oyntments Searcloaths Plaisters Spanadrape Cataplasm Rubifiers Deopax Vesicatory Sacculets Proper to certain parts Frontals Oxit redinum Caps quilted Collyriums Gargarisms Apophlegmatisms Dentifrices Snifting Medicines Suffumigations Perfumes Scutes Pessary Nascale Supposâ—tory Clister The Matter of PHYSICK is either Universall respecting The Morbificall cause offending in Qualityes manifest As in the first Alterers Second as if in Grosnesse Attenuaters Cutters Thinness Thickners Hardnes Mollifiers Dissolvers of clotted things Clamminesse Cleansers Sharpnesse Mitigaters Occult are Alexipharmacals or Resisters of Poyson Quantity are either Preparers of the Humors as Digestives of the Body as Openers Universal Evacuaters as Purgers Vomitories Diureticks Diaphoreticks Motion and are in respect of the matter flowing Thickners part receiving Repellers and Emplaisticks wayes by which it flowes Intercepters Binders Rest which is to be evacuated either insensibly by Discussers Consumers Attracters by quality manifest occult as extracters Watrishnes by Blisterers matter by Ripeners Breakers of Imposthumes The chief heads of Discases which are either similar as Distemper which if simple 't is cur'd by alterers material by emptiers and alterers Organical which are either in the Streightness of the in sensible passages which requires Rarefiers but in the insensible requires Openers Too much dilation of the Pores insensible requires Condensers or Thickners sensible requires Binders Over-growing of the parts as Stopping of the Cavities by excrescence of flesh and are cured by Cathereticks Exuberancy of the parts either in greatnesse or number and are cured by Chyrurgery Continuity dissolved and is either simple and requires Agglutinaters and vulnerary things Or Continuity dissolved and is either with losse of the substance of the part and requires Sarcoticks and Epuloticks Symptomes that are most common and most urgent as Pain to which we use Anodynes if not great Narcoticks if violent Over-watching to which Hypnoticks or sleepy Medicines Bleeding to which stoppers of Blood Swouning to which Restorers of the spirits or particular respecting Medicines dedicated to Head which are either Brain To strengthen it as Cephalicks Purge it as Errhines Sneezing Powders Apophlegmatisms Eyes as Opthalmicks which are either Sharpners of Sight Anodynes Repellers Digesters Cleansers Ears as Oticks or Ear Medicines Teeth as Odonticks or Medicines for any affection of the Teeth Brest either for the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Expectoraters Alterers of the Lungs Dugs as encreasers of Milk dryers up of Milk Belly either to the Stomack as Stomachical things Intrals or Guts as Discussers of Wind. Killers of Worms Liver as Hepatical Medicines Spleen as Spleneticall Kidneys as Nephritical Medicines which are either Lenifiers Cleansers or Breakers of the Stone Bladder as Cystical Medicines Stones as encreasers of Seed diminishers of Seed Womb as Hysterical Medicines which are either Strengthners Purgers as movers of the Courses stayers of the Courses Limbs and Joints as Arthritical Medicines internal Hot as the Cephalicks Cold as the Cephalicks external in the beginning as mitigaters of heat and pain end of the Gout dissipaters of the relicts of the Humors imparted in the parts Place this Table at the end of