Muske tempered amongst it for thereby will the naturall heate be driuen inwardly and the vital spirits reuiued Stop also his nose and his mouth a little while for if the breath finde no vent then turneth it backe and thereby quickneth the naturall heate Secondly his armes are to be bound hard and then made loose and bound hard againe The palmes of the hands and plants of the féete are well to be rubbed with rawe clothes salt and vineger to the end that the matter may be drawen from the hart Thirdly his stomacke and about the mouth of the stomacke is also to be well rubbed whereby the naturall heate may be quickened All fragrant herbes which are hot of nature are to be holden before his nose as all kinds of Spice Muske and Amber if so be that the cause of this matter be cold But for women that do fall into swouning through the suffocation of the Mother it is another case as shall be shewed elsewhere for that all odoriferous things are hurtfull to be holden before their noses A graine of Muske dissolued in Wine and then giuen is passing good And if the patient haue vehemently closed his mouth then is the same to be broken open with a wooden sticke and his toong téeth and roufe of the mouth to be annointed with Treacle or Mithridate But if the cause be through heate then must the patient haue cold things giuen him to smell vnto as Camfer Saunders Roses and such like here before expressed And of what cause soeuer this swouning doth come yet is it alway good that there be made a great noyse about the patient and that he be called vpon by his name and blow Campher in his nose or Saunders in stead thereof these are now the commonest meanes if the swouning be procured through heate or cold that are to be vsed at a sodaine Secondly all the windowes are to be set open that then the patient may be refreshed with the fresh ayre and they are to speake very friendly vnto him Also you are to annoynt his pulse nose and temples with the foresaid things and giue him all comfortable things as is before sayd that nature may thereby be strengthened and quickned An order of life for Swouning FIrst all men that are subiect to this swouning must beware of all cloudie moyst and cold ayre and shun such like dwellings must suffer no sweate vpon the head must cast off all sweatie shirts and put on cleane he must forbeare all moyst and cold meates as Spinage Béetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Cherries hasell Nuts Abricocks Cucumbers and such like but new Figs are good for him Further he must be kept from all grosse binding meates from all that is made of dough from all Fish as Eeles Tenches and all great corpulent Fish But Crabs and small Fishes which are taken in fresh waters he may eate being a little broyled He must also eschue all old and fat flesh Chéese and such like He must vse for his drinke all cléere white Wine that is not swéete or a good old mild sort of Béere he must wholly forbeare drinking of water he must not ouercharge his stomacke with eating and drinking but chew his meate well and leaue off eating with appetite He must not sléepe after meate or at least not too long He must walke well two howres before meate yea runne vp hils for that consumeth well the moysture whereof the swouning is prouoked He must specially flye all anger sorrow vexation and other troubles of the minde as is sufficiently declared before But what medicines are to be vsed for the swouning shall be héere taught the patient must as soone as is possible take these pils following in the morning betimes Take pils of Rubarb one dragme Hiera composita one scruple make nine pils thereof with Rose water afterwards giue him this drinke following 6. daies one after another Take halfe a drag of Agaricke Hermodactili and Rubarb of each one scruple Diagridij and Sal Gemmae of each two graines Ginger Squinant Spica and Annis séede of each thrée graines Hony of Roses halfe an ounce let it stéepe one whole night in thrée ounces of water wherein Woodbinde is sodden afterwards let it séethe a walme and straine it out For to make pils take good Aloes two ounces Mastick Saffron Violets and floures of Buglosse of each halfe a scruple burnt Iuorie and Roses of each three graines Diagridion seuen graines Agaricke Turbith and prepared Asure stone of each halfe a dragme stéepe it all together with Cicorie water thrée daies long and being well stopt let it dry in the Sunne or in another warme place yet stirring it often about vntill it be méetely thicke take then a dragme thereof and make thereof seuen pils whereof euery euening you are to take one pill a certaine time long afterwards a whole yéere thorow take one pill about the fift day but if the patient be full of bloud and of sufficient strength then are you after purging to open the Liuer veine in the elbow on the left side and to let him bléede about fiue ounces For to kéepe open the body you are to vse this powder Take Epithymum rootes of Polipody Thymus Harts toong and Cuscuta of each one dragme Argall and Seny of each halfe a dragme Mace foure scruples stamp and mingle it all together take one dragme thereof at the least twice a wéeke at one time tempered with a little wine or some fresh broth it purifieth breaketh winde and clenseth the hart and stomacke Item take at the least once a wéeke as much Pieretrum as the bignes of a Pease chue the same and spet the moysture out of the mouth Another TAke a good péece of white bread mollifie it in good Muscadell or Malmsey if so be that the cause of this swouning be of cold but if it procéede of heate then mollifie the same white bread in Rose water in iuice of Pomgranats in iuice of Quinces in the iuice of Citrons or any flesh broth and so eate it Also this patient may vse conserue of Roses Burrage Buglosse and Rosemary and other things moe which shall be expressed hereafter in the trembling of the hart after that heate or cold hath the vpper hand There are yet many moe confections and cordiall things prepared which are very profitable for this purpose and do remaine described before in the discourse of the cold paine of the head where it beginneth Take conserues of Betony c. Item take Pistacia thrée ounces white Sugar sixe ounces sirupe of Roses fower ounces séeds of Basill red and white Corall Roses burnt Iuory red and white Behen of each one drag Zeduary Amber and Saffron of each two scruples Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Mace Cinnamom and Cloues of each one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold Pearles fower scruples the Pistacia stéepe being cut small thrée dayes long in Malmesey afterwards séeth the sirupe and the Sugar thicke enough and first temper
a dragme thereof doth bind much Another Take Tormentill and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie Plantaine séeds halfe as much powne them to powder and giue it in the morning and euening with old Béere Item take Trociscos de Carabe one dragme beate them to powder and make a potion thereof with Plantaine water this may be vsed the space of a whole wéeke together for that they do calme and stay the fluxe the like doth also red Corall one dragme with Plantaine water taken euery day alwayes before meales Item take burnt Harts horne and powned Nettle séede of each a like quantitie and take thereof the waight of one dragme with the water of Plantaine The iuice of Yarrow doth bind also in this disease if one take a spoonefull or twaine thereof These iuices ensuing may be decocted vnto the forme of a sirupe for to be vsed in winter time like as the iuice of broade Plantaine the iuice of Shepheards purse or Yarrow c. For this is also good the water of Elderne drunken and Galingall chewed Item if a woman do flower too much whether it be in childbirth or otherwise and that it be feared that she might bléede to death then take one dragme of red Nettle séede powned and let her drinke it with Plantaine water Some do giue chopt and boyled Poppie heads to drinke but it is not alwayes conuenient there be much safer things viz. these ensuing Take fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce bind it in a cloth hang it in a pot of wine and then drinke thereof Séeth Pimpernell in pease broth and drinke also thereof Or take dried Goates dung stamp it to powder and drinke thereof it doth not only stay the menstruall fluxes in women but also all kind of bléeding For this also is very meete red Rose water drunken Amongst clisters is this following very highly commended Take Swines bred Feuerfew Baulme Rue Scabious Rosemary flowers Southernwood Comin Siluermountain Ameos Amomum Balsam fruite Cucubes Bayberries Calmus Cassie wood Cassia Fistula and pipes of each one dragme and a halfe Dill séed Annis séedes of each one handfull and a halfe shauen Iuorie two handfuls séeth them al together by a mild fire in two quarts of water vnto the half and presse it out take twelue ounces of this decoction oile of Sesamum of Rue and of pepper of each half an ounce Indie salt one dragme Diacastoreon confection of Bayberries and Benedicta of each thrée dragmes temper them well together and minister it very warme With this following a woman is to be fumed from beneath Take Aliptae Muscatae Species Nerae of each one dragme Galliae Muscatae and red Storax of each thrée dragmes Allume one dragme and a halfe Of this powder is a dragme to be vsed at once This temperature is not easily to be made because of the manifold simples which do come therein and it is not only good for to stay the vnnaturall fluxe of flowres but is also good for the suffocation of the Matrix for that it dryeth and is good for a barren wombe and especially if the maladie procéede of cold Pessaries and such like Stamp dryed Asse dung and forme Pelsaries thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and put it into the places Another Take iuice of knot grasse and washed Shéepes wooll dip it therein and lay it on the places Item take Frankinsence Pomegranat blossomes Gals Antimonie and the iuice of Sloes of each a like quantitie bestrew the wooll with it and vse it as before For this is also good halfe a handfull of pouned Plantaine and vse it as before or make a small pessarie of the iuice of Sloes and the iuice of Pimpernell with Cotton Outwardly is this plaister ensuing to be vsed Take the iuice of Plantaine 11. ounces Rose water thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce red Corall Amber Bloudstone fine Bolus Mirtle séed Akorne cups and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce sealed earth as much as is needfull for to make it thick inough this being all beaten small and tempered togither then make two plaisters of it and lay the one before and the other behinde The plaister ex Galbano may also be vsed whereof heere do follow two sorts Plaister of Galbanum Take Galbanum thrée ounces Bdellium three quarters of an ounce stamped Feuerfew halfe an ounce and halfe a drag Mirrhe halfe a dragme melt the Gums in Vineger But if they be not cleane then wring them thorough a cloth and let the Vineger séeth away then make a plaister thereof with Turpentine The other Take Galbanum as much as you will melt it by the fire in red wine temper fine Bolus amongst it and Dragon bloud of each halfe as much as the waight of the Galbanum then make a plaister with sufficient Waxe and Turpentine Item take pouned Lentils twelue ounces Shepherds purse and Plantaine of each thrée handfuls dryed Asses dung and Goats dung of each one ounce and a halfe Frankinsence halfe an ounce Dragon bloud Mints of each one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis Licium of each one ounce fiue whites of egs Beane meale thrée ounces Gips foure ounces but steepe the Gips the space of a day in Vineger and then make a plaister thereof with the iuice of Plantaine so that it may be sodden with the meale vntill it be very thick Lastly mixe the rest amongst it and when it hath stoode a good while and is well tempered together then take it from the fire and stirre it continually about vntill it be thorow cold This plaister is to be layd ouer all the priuities and all the parts about it The same plaister doth maruellously stop the bloud of the Piles and all moysture of the Matrix of salt and tough humors for that it is oftentimes approued Item take the iuice of Plantaine as much as you will temper therein Trociscos de Carabe and then apply them as all the rest Or take Wormewood Nightshade and knotgrasse of each a like much stamp and wring the iuice out of it then temper as much Rye meale amongst it vntill it be as thicke as pap afterwards lay it ouer the nauell and ouer the priuities Another take Vineger dregs make it hot and wet a blew cloth in it and lay it thrice double ouer the priuities Before in the third part the tenth Chapter and 5. § ye haue a pretious Salue beginning Take Comin c. which is also méete for this vse There is also a Salue called De Gallia which is thus to be prepared Take Comin Dill séed Caruway Rue séed Amcos Gallia Muscata of each one drag and a halfe Epithimus one quarter of an ounce Indy salt two scrup white Rosin one ounce and a halfe oyle of Dill two ounces oyle of Roses one ounce Aloe Cloues of each 2. scrup molten waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister of it then lay it ouer the Kidneyes and ouer the priuities this salue doth
ounces then let it seeth so long vntill that the moisture be wasted away afterwards wring it out and vse it as before Some doe commend aboue all things the muscilage of Frogs to be layd warme vnto it which is thus made Take in the Spring greene Frogs before they begin to cast their sperme take out the bowels and hang them on a thred to dry in the Sunne vntill they begin to be somewhat dry then powre Sallad oyle vnto them and let them seeth meetly well together then wring them out it is especiall good for the sinewes Item take Badgers grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Frankinsence halfe an ounce Waxe as much as will suffice for to make a salue of it Or take Poplar salue two ounces small pouned Bolus and oyle of Roses of each halfe an ounce temper them together vnto a salue This ensuing is also good for it Take foure yolks of egs Saffron one dragme oyle of Roses two ounces temper them well together and vse them as before A principall good one Take Vyne Snailes as many as you will put them into a pot and lay a tin lid vpon it afterwards whelme the same pot ouer another pot and then set it ouer the fire to the end that they may rost by little and little This being done the oyle wil drop into the nethermost pot and with this oyle annoynt the hot gouts thorowly Item séeth ten egs very hard cut them ouerthwart fill the whites with pouned Mirrhe afterwards binde thē togither againe lay them the space of 15. daies in a seller or longer then will a water drop out of it which you may annoint vpon the gout as a salue In like manner fresh Cassie is also much commended with the muscilage of Fleawort for all paine of the ioynts through heate This ensuing asswageth the paine maruellously Take the séed of Fleawort two ounces seeth it in sufficient water vntill it be very slimie afterwards wring it out very hard through a cloth In this muscilage or slime melt one ounce and a halfe of Waxe Sallad oyle thrée ounces let it then séeth a good while stirring it alwayes equally about vntill it be cold Another of like force Take oyle of Walfloures two ounces oyle of swéete Almonds and oyle of Camelina of each one ounce and a halfe Butter one ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe white waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill séed Cammomill and Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce thrée yolks of Egs then temper them one amongst another and make a salue thereof Item take wheate bran two handfuls Vinecuict as much as will suffice for to make a poultesse of it Salt one quarter of an ounce let it séeth a little together and then lay it warme vpon it you shall hardly finde any thing else that doth more asswage the paine Item take Barly meale or Pease meale and pouned Roses of each thrée ounces white wine as much as will suffice for to make pap thereof then let it séeth a good while if you will you may also put a dragme of Mastick vnto it Some do séeth Bran in thrée parts of water and one part of vineger and so lay it vpon it and let it lye fiue or sixe howres vpon it This also ensuing is thought to asswage all paine whatsoeuer Take thrée ounces of vnripe Sallad oyle Saffron one dragme foure yolks of egs oyle of Roses foure ounces let the oyle séeth a good while and when it beginneth to be cold then temper the yolks amongst it stirring it alwayes well about afterwards Starch and Barly meale of each one ounce and a halfe and at the last Saffron if you will haue it more forcible then put Butter vnto it and Bdellium of each one dragme then stéepe them all together vntill the same be thorowly consumed and afterwards temper the rest with it Item take the crums of white bread stéepe them a good while in swéete milke and then seeth them together to pap now when it beginneth to coole then temper a yolke or two of egs amongst it and a little oyle of Roses and so lay it vpon the swelling and paine Some do temper Butter Ducks or Goose grease and Sugar also amongst it Another Take Plantaine séed and Linséed of each two handfuls séeth them very soft vntill all the water be almost gone then temper amongst it crums of white bread as much as you please afterwards stamp them well together and temper it with the oyle of Roses and when the paine is very great then is the iuice of cooling herbs to be tempered amongst it yea very well thrée or foure greynes of Opium and one dragme of Saffron like as the same may be very well done in the foresaid crums of white bread This also following is very good Take Cammomill and Melilot of each one ounce Mallowes and Hollyhock rootes of each halfe a handfull Fenegréeke meale Linséed meale and Barly meale of each one ounce cut the herbs small and séeth them mellow afterwards wring them out and stampe them well last of all mingle with the said meales oile of Roses and oyle of Cammomill of each fiue ounces or more then make pap therewith and lay it ouer the paine renew the same oftentimes Item séeth wheate meale and red wine to pap in fresh swéet milke for this is also good Beane meale decocted to pap in fresh sweet milke These foure oyles following be also commonly vsed for the gout to wit oyle of Lillies of Cammomill of swéet Almonds and of Walfloures with which we do commonly temper Cassie extracted with vineger like as before there is also mention made of the oyle of Poplar buds Or take pouned Henbane séed put it into a bag and let it warme well and so lay it vpon the paine Item in great outward paine take Cowmilke sixe ounces Opium halfe a scruple crums of Rye bread and these being well powdred as much as you please make a soft plaister of it In like manner you may also vse the iuice of Nightshade and of Plantaine being tempered all together or each apart By all these foresaid remedies may easily be marked that all these simple things following be especiall good for the hot Podagra as namely Nightshade Housleeke Lettice Endiue Mirtus Muscilage of Fleawort Vineger Rose water Bolus c. in the 16. Chapter and 4. § of the hot kidneys Of the cold gout or Podagra and of his paine §. 4. IF there be found with the paine of the ioynts neither rednes nor heate and the patient be of a cold nature and that one be cold in the féeling then may it easily be perceiued that the cause procéedeth of cold For this the patient is to prepare himselfe to purge with these potions following Take Sage Cowslips and field Cipers of each one handfull seeth them all together in sufficient water vntill the third part be wasted Vnto this decoction put twelue ounces of Sugar and then make a clarified sirupe of it If
pricking and shooting That which commeth of Melancholy is knowne by the great and hard swellings Of Phlegma by the whitenesse of the face and by the small paine If it be caused of many humors then is the patient heauy headed with much spettle in the mouth The paine that procéedeth of drought is thereby discerned if of windinesse then shall you perceiue much beating and stirring with it Wherefore of these inward meanes to wit of the foure humors may this impediment be caused The teeth grow hollow and ful of holes they rot the wormes do spoile them and the sinewes are weakned that at the last they fall away and are so that they may easily be drawne out How to preuent and remedy the same shall be shewed hereafter How to procure teeth in children without paine NOt without reason are we to bethink our selues how to ease the yong and tender babes of that paine and griefe which they do suffer in breeding their téeth especially if the paine continue long as it often hath bin séene that it hath continued three or foure yeeres This is for the most part caused of the debility of their nature or of wormes which do consume the moisture whereby the téeth should grow When this delay in téeth is caused through the debility and weaknesse of nature then must the child be fed with rosted birds bread dipped in brothe of flesh and such like according to the age of the child They haue also a great laske commonly with it which must be staid The mandibles where the teeth appéere are to be rubbed softly and amongst all other remedies that may be inuented for this purpose the braines of a Hare drest with the milke of a Bitch are the best If you cannot get them then take butter oile of Lillies the fat of Hens or of other birds each by it selfe or mixed all together And because that in these remedies following there be many sharpe ingredients as Orpiment Neesing wort Coperas Stauesacre Southernwood Henbane Opium and such like more of which we will make mention but little which are in no wise to be taken downe wherefore here we will admonish and shew how they ought in the greatest need with the most safety to be vsed First they are to be applyed onely to the dolorous and painfull tooth with a péece of Waxe couered about to the end it should touch but onely the place aggréeued Otherwise they might also harme the good and sound téeth The patient must also hold his mouth open and downewards that the spettle and slime might runne out neither are they to be applyed too hot or too cold If this paine procéed of cold rheumes as also of the vse of cold meates then put the patient into a warme place couer his head with warme clothes vntill he féele the warmth apparantly Afterwards annoint his head with the oyle of Cammomill of Rue of Behen of Beuercod and of Spica or in place of them with Aqua vitae thrée dayes together A hard yolke of an egge applied to the tooth is also very good and afterwards is the tooth to be washed with warme wine Or take vineger wherein Pieretrum white Mints and Marioram hath bene decocted Item take Pieretrum white Mustard séed pepper Borras and Ginger of each a like much make a powder of them and rub the teeth therewith or strew it on a litle cotton and apply it to the very roote of the tooth But before you vse any other kind of remedy take héed you purge the head very wel that you draw not downe moe humors out of it vnto the téeth the which may be effected through the pils or potions which euery where are sufficiently described After purging you may vse any one of these things following Take Mastick one ounce Sage a M. beate and boile them in eight ounces of wine or vineger vntill the halfe remaine wash thy mouth therewith Item take good white wine sixe ounces temper half an ounce of Sandaraca with it boile them together vntill one quarter of it be wasted and hold it in thy mouth warme and if you adde one drag of Philonium Romanum then wil it be so much the stronger Or take of the foresaid Philonium two drag red wine foure ounces and hold it lukewarme in thy mouth Gals decocted in vineger are also very good for this purpose In like manner Betony or Plantaine decocted in vineger or water and vsed warme Pellitory of Spaine bound vp in a cloth and chewed in the mouth draweth out much slime Take Assa foetida and Frankinsence of each a like quantity hold it on the painful tooth The decoction of Alehoofe is also very good for it Likewise the conserue of Gilliflowers of Lauander of Spikenard Rosemary wine Sage wine Item take the rootes of Sperage boile them in water and wash thy mouth often therewith Others do commend Garlicke Ginger Agrimony each by it self or mixed together and so applied to the tooth Also the water of Marioram gentle should be very good for this vse In like sort M. Tristrams water which is described in the fift chapter and first § Item take white and long pepper Cucubes Saxifrage the barke of the Mulberry trée Caper rootes and rootes of Southernwood of each a like much boyle them according to the quality of the paine in water wine or vineger tempered together or each by it selfe it is very good and confirmeth the gums Pepper Pellitory of Spaine rootes of Diptamer and Licebane chewed together or each by it selfe are commonly very commodious for the toothach These remedies following are more cooling TAke a little branch of a Cherry trée scrape off the outmost rind take the yellow rind and boyle it in wine take of this decoction in thy mouth as warme as thou canst suffer it In like maner if the rheume fall into the téeth then boyle Oken leaues in wine and hold it often in the mouth it draweth out the slime very well The water that issueth out of a Vine being cut is also very good for the toothach if it be held in the mouth Yet more remedies that are approoued TAke eight ounces of wine boyle it in halfe an ounce of Esula wash thy téeth therewith thrée times in a moneth it preserueth the téeth from paine but it is very violent and dangerous to be vsed but this that followeth is safer and better Take Roses and boyle them in milke hold them a good while in thy mouth and lay the leaues to thy téeth Take Camfere the bignes of a pease boyle it in two ounces of vineger and hold it in thy mouth it is very good for al maner of pain in the téeth Item take of a Harts horne to wit that which hath bin cast off in March cut it into small péeces and boile it in well water take the decoction into thy mouth warme repeate it thrée or foure times and after the vse of it as many men suppose the paine should not returne againe
is not here néedfull to be written In like manner that the smaller the Lights be in ones bodie the more swifter can they indeuour and bestirre themselues This noble and necessarie member is subiect to many grieuous and deadly sicknesses wherof we will speake hereafter But first of all we will begin with the Cough Of the Cough §. 1. FOrasmuch as the Cough is a messenger of all the diseases of the Lights and of the Brest and that through the grossenesse drouth moisture spettle and other excrements whereby men may easily adiudge how the brest and lights are made within therefore it is aduised first of all to write thereof The auncient Phisitions do write thus of the Cough The Cough is a naturall motion of the Lights the which by the aire and mouing vertue of the muscles that are within the Breast is méete and made for to cough vp all that which hurteth the lights The mouing and breathing in the breast is appropriated by nature as the néesing for the braines and the digesture for the stomacke But before we go any further we will speake first of the Rheume the which prouoketh the cough most of all Of the Rheume or Catarrhe which falleth vpon the Lights §. 2. HEre before in the second part the first Chapter and 4. § and afterwards in the description of the Squinancie there are written many things of this Rheume of the lights which may as well be vnderstood of the Rheume in the lungs as of the Squinancie For the perill of stifling is euen as much whether the lights were stopt or the throte were shut vp Such things happen oftentimes through a tough slimie matter which falleth out of the head vpon the lights and into the breast the which is very ill to be gotten out and there resteth and abideth We will therfore first shew by what means all such stoppings of the lights are to be remedied and cured And for that these Rheumes are more incident to children by reason of their moisture therefore we will expresse certaine necessarie things that are requisite for the said young children Take Lineséede which is beaten mollifie it in cleare honie giue it to the child to lick thereof it driueth out the slime it separateth it openeth the breast and purgeth mildly whereof giue him fiue or sixe times according as it purgeth much or little but if so be that the child will not eate any thing at all then is there no hope of health to ensue But then rost an Onion in warme ashes wring out the iuice put thereto as much Hens and Capons grease as there is iuice and temper it by a soft fire and annoint the childs breast therewith Item take Mastick Frankinsence and Citron pils of each a like much and make thereof a powder and rub the Child softly therewith aboue vpon the future of the Scull Also you may let him lâ—ke oile of swéet Almonds tempered with Sugar candie for it mollifieth the breast and looseth it These losinges following are not onely very good for children but for aged people whether the same be vsed in losinges or in forme of any confection â„ž Agarici albi â„¥ 18. Spec. Diambrae â„¥ 5. Diaâ—reos Solomonis drag 1. Spec. Diatragacanthi scrup 4. Polypodij quercint â„¥ 1. Omnia in puluerem redacta cum Saccaro incorporentur ad placitum But with men in yeares it hath another respect They that be sixteene or eightéene yeares old who are infected with this disease they shall rule themselues according to this regiment following Concerning the order of diet you haue here before in the first Chapter and 4. § and god aduice and instructions afterwards Also it is very good that the Liuer veine be opened and fiue ounces of bloud letten out Afterwards two scruples or one scruple of the pils Cochiae to be taken and to sléepe one houre after them and fiue houres after that to drinke a draught of sugred Barly water and then to eate somewhat This so done he must vse this Potion following warme in the morning Take sirupe of Endiue Honie of Roses and sirupe of Stechas of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie and of Endiue of each one ounce and a halfe tempered together But for this accident are Clisters more profitable like as these be following which are recited and put for an example Take Poppie heads small Housleeke Mallowes and Bran of each halfe a handfull Asarabacca and Betonie of each halfe so much seeth all together in sufficient water then wring it out well and take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oile of Violets and of Saffron of each one ounce and a halfe Hiera Picra and S. Thomas Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce these Clisters are you to vse before noone He may lay rosted Millet with Salt and Cammomill vpon his head and to set oftentimes cups or boxes vpon his shoulders and buttockes without picking is highly commended Or if that the partie be full of bloud then ought they to be picked Also if by nature he be subiect to the Piles then ought they to be opened by rubbing with rough clothes or Figgs leaues so also is the Oxe gall very good for them Afterwards must he be washed euery day with sharpe Ley and therefore vse conuenient Sope and let him be well dried continuing this ten dayes together but in the meane time shall he take the pils Assaiaret and refraine the cold ayre and kéepe his head well couered This Salue following is very commodious if the shorne head be annointed therewith it raiseth many blisters and thereby draweth out all the moisture from the braines and strengtheneth the head excéedingly Take one ounce of Nep Beane meale and Pease meale of each thrée ounces stamped roots of Costus and Mace of each halfe an ounce Mustard séed one dragm Pigeon dung two ounces Marioram gentle stamped thrée quarters of an ounce séeth these together in sufficient water to pappe and vse it as is said for this purpose serueth also oile of Masticke Item take oile of sweet Almonds and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Saffron one scruple and therewith annoynt the throate and the breast To this end may also this sirupe following be prepared take fiue Poppie heads with the séedes of panis diui Iohannis clensed from the kernels one ounce and a halfe Myrtle séeds halfe a dragme prepared Licorice one ounce and a halfe séeth them in a pint of water vnto two parts wring it out and straine it and put afterwards therto Sugar candy and Sugar pennets of each two ounces seeth it as thick an honie And if the rheume fall vehemently on the breast that it séemeth to strangle one then take halfe an ounce of Agaricus letting it stéepe 24. houres long in sixe ounces of the water of Venus haire afterwards wring it out and put as much Sugar vnto it as you please And seeth it to the thicknesse of Hony for your daily vse whereof is
in his breast and in all the bodie Yet do these signes alter through diuers occasions so that you must note the meate and drinke that the patient hath accustomed himselfe to vse before time How this disease is to be remedied and cured you shall find in the first part the twelfth Chapter § 8. of Madnes of Melancholia and all that is said in the third part of the foule melancholicke bloud Of the shortnesse of breathing or Pursiuenesse through wind §. 16. WHereas there is any short breath or heauinesse in the breast through wind the same will be alwaies augmented through meates and medicines that ingender wind as may well be noted through the rumbling and course of the wind in the breast and other places more For this must be vsed Rue and Penniroyall of each one ounce and a halfe Serapinum Opopanacum of each one dragme Comin one ounce and a half all this being beaten together make therof a salue with molten Waxe and annoint the breast therwith very warme This salue is also very good for all heauie breathing that proceedeth of grosse tough matter and that is impacted into the Lights for it separateth and consumeth the same What further might be done for this that may you sufficiently perceiue by all the forementioned Treatise wherein hath bene spoken of this sicknes For this short and sore breath through wind cannot be alone by it selfe but there must be with it either Cholera or Phlegma or Melancholia or bloud of all which there is sufficiently written Of the spetting bloud through some disease of the Lights §. 17. THe spetting of bloud may come of many occasions of the braines which are woont to be eased through bléeding at the nose whereof is written in the first part the eight Chapter and 7. § Secondly through any hurting or brusing of the throte or the mouth for which you are to looke in the first part the 13. Chapter Thirdly through hurting of the gums whereof we haue sufficiently mentioned in the first part also the saâ—e is sometimes caused of the Lights brest and stomacke also of the Liuer and of the mother c. This spetting of bloud do the Greeks call Hemoptoin whereof we will write at this present The cause of this bléeding may happen through falling thrusting and such like outward occasions of the breast or of any horsleach drunken through great heate or great cold strong coughs to crie loud to vomit much and vehemently through long vse of hote peppered meats or through vse of onions and garlicke through much subtil bloud through neglect of accustomed letting bloud and through some disease of the lights or when a veine chanceth to breake whereof hereafter we shall discourse in particular The signes of this spetting of bloud that commeth out of the breast or out of the Lights are that when the same procéedeth out of the breast then will there be felt great paine in the same and contrariwise when it procéedeth out of the lungs there will be felt very little paine the spetting bloud out of the breast is not so perilous as that from the Lights But when there is a veine broken opeÌ„ then runneth it most abundantly If it be caused of any other inconuenience as of impostumations bruses or hurts then commeth vp but little bloud and that full of scum When as then a sick man through haking without coughing fetcheth vp bloud it commeth from some little veines about the throate where you may easily come by it with any kinde of remedies but the patient for this disease must forbeare to eate excessiue meate and drinke by reason that thereby much bloud is engendred whereby through the superabounding in the veines the throate openeth but if he be prouoked to such bléeding through vomiting then it is a signe that it commeth from the stomacke the which is not much to be feared for that the same is to be easily preuented through letting bloud setting boxing cups opening the mother veine or opening their termes or flowers in like sort by taking some astringent things as the seedes of Sumach sower grapes and such like Item through this potion following Take fine Bolus Gum Dragon bloud Pomegranate blossoms Frankinsence of each a like much powne them togither to powder and take thereof thrée dragmes and temper it with sodden iuice of Quince peares For meate is very good Starch péeled Beanes Lentils Pease vnleauened bread Turtle doues and common Pigeons Of fruites all that binde as Medlars Seruices Quince peares Prunes Peares and such like For drinke milke wherein are quenched glowing pibble stones steeled water thicke red wine a little now and then sirupe of Poppie heads tempered with water wherein Quince kernels and Myrtle seedes are decocted It hapneth oftentimes that such spetting of bloud commeth of it selfe without any cause at all wherby the patient is neither hindred nor harmed at all and is to haue his course but if the same do chaunce through coughing which is a signe that the same ascendeth from the lights and the breast then is it to be feared that it will be Phthisis that is the coÌ„sumption which then ensueth bicause one cannot come to this place with necessarie remedies Then for this sicknesse it is best to let bloud immediatly at the first and that in the Liuer veine whereby the bloud may be deriued from the Lights Others do first of all open the Saphaea on the feete that the bloud might be drawne downwards and alwayes on the same side that it is adiudged the disease to be The third sort counsell for this disease to set boxing cups on their buttockes This being all done the patient is to be layd in a coole chamber where he may be as quiet as may be without much stirring of himselfe and must keepe from him all that might inflame his bloud as anger crying copulation laughing hot couerings hot and salt meates and drinke bathing and such like There are also no red colours to be brought in his sight Aboue all this binding is one of the principallest remedies against abundant bléeding therefore is that also here to be vsed as in other places is sufficiently taught There are ordained many mo remedies against this spetting of bloud euen as hereafter followeth whereof you may choose that which liketh you best Take Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each thrée dragmes and one scruple of yellow Amber one dragme prepared Bloudstone and sealed earth of each ten dragmes Allume two dragmes and a half flowers of Pomegranats thrée dragmes Opium two dragmes Rubarb one quarter of an ounce make thereof 18. trocisces with sirupe of Poppie heads then temper euery day one in Purslaine water and so drinke it And if this spetting of bloud be too violent then may the patient take one more at night These things following are more certaine because of the Opium Take Mumia Mastick fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each alike much being all beaten small togither make trocisces thereof with
part be sodden away in this warme water wet a sponge and lay it fiue or sixe times a day vpon the priuities Secondly set often copper cups which haue narrow mouthes vpon the belly For this is also good all that expelleth wind Of the waterish Rupture Hernia Aquosa §. 4. IF any where in the veines in the pores or in the liuer or other parts do gather some water which falleth downewards then must it at last fall into the cods but the Liuer is alwayes the most principall cause from whence all such moistures haue their beginning Therfore when as all such waterish Ruptures happen to any it is quickly to be discerned by the nauell or cods which immediatly afterwards do swell vp and séeme to be perspicuous whereto these things following are to be vsed First of all the patient must be purged for if such happen not often the matter of the sicknes will not be caried out of the body In like sort if there be not kept a good order of diet and the water be not expelled then runneth it againe downwards towards the cods whereby at length may be caused a greater harme And to purge all those humors take this drink following Take Agaricus and Hermodactili of each one drag and a half Ginger one scrup Ireos one drag Hony water foure ounces then make the Hony water warme and let the foresaid things be steeped therein 24. houres afterwards wring it well out and drinke it warme and sixe houres afterwards eate and drinke warme beere and bread vpon it But if so be this drinke through the bitternesse thereof go against your stomacke then take this ensuing Electuarium Indium thrée drag burnt copper eight graines water of blew Flower deluce two ounces temper them all together and drinke it Or take these pils Take the root of Laureola which hath bin stéeped fiue dayes in vineger one scruple Sulphur vif foure graines burnt Copper two graines Licorice Annis and Dragagant of each foure graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Roses and take them all at one time There must also be giuen to this patient those things to ease and drinke which do moue vrine whereof many are specified where we shall speake of the Dropsie Ascite but of these three things following chuse which liketh you best Take red Pease about sixe ounces two Fennell rootes let them séeth well together and take fiue ounces of this decoction or drinke fiue ounces of Broome water Thirdly take the water of Melilot and water of Smallage of each two ounces and a halfe Sugar as much as you please and drinke this a whole wéeke long A Confection to strengthen the Liuer TAke Trociscos Diarrhodon and Spec. Diacinamomi of each one drag burnt Iuory one scrup foure ounces of white sugar séeth it with Fennel water and make tabulats of it of these take one quarter of an ounce before meate When as then through the foresaid meanes the water be somewhat voided then are these plaisters to be vsed Take Masticke one ounce Cipers nuts half an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each one drag temper these togither vnto a plaister with oile of Roses This stoppeth that there can no more water run vnto it Item take Seseli Comin Cammomill and Melilot of each one ounce séeth these togither in a quart of water vntill the third part be spent and foment therewith the Rupture Then lay this plaister vpon it bounden warme to it Take roots of blew Flowerdeluce and roots of wild Cucumbers of each thrée ounces Pease meale and Beane meale of each two ounces oile of Rue and iuice of Bay leaues of each two ounces let this séeth till it be méetly thicke and so lay it vpon the ruptures and bind it warme vnto it But if this cannot be made then vse the first with Mastick and Cipers nuts The Apothecaries haue also one in vse which they call Emplaistrum ad Rupturas which is also very good and is thus to be made Take Nutmegs the iuice of Sloes Gips Comin Annis Rice Pyrola sower Dates Cipers nuts Sanicle of each one dragme and a halfe fish lime or Isinglasse halfe an ounce Bdellium two ounces but dissolue the two last in vineger and with the rest beaten small make a plaister of it Another Take Bran twelue ounces beate it very small and let it run through a séene put amongst it two ounces of beaten Comin make a plaister of it with Oxymel You may also seeth it well with white wine vnto a plaister Item take Lilly rootes one ounce Linséed meale one quarter of an ounce Beane meale one drag Comin and wild Rape seed of each one ounce Sulphur vif one quarter of an ounce Cipers nuts one dragme Bdellium molten in vineger halfe an ounce beate all that is to be beaten and let it seeth to a plaister with white wine Item take Marioram foment therewith the whole priuities or annoint it with the iuice of Yarrow take also oyle of Pepper and of Saffron of each a like much and therewith annoint the rupture But if so be that this waterish rupture be taken for a species of the Dropsie then must you looke for moe other plaisters which stand described in the treatise of the Dropsie Ascite and choose which you like best But if the water which is so gathered together must be let out then are you after the purgation to lay the foresaid plaister vpon it and open the cod yet let not the water run out all at once and being run out then lay drying plaisters vpon it It is also opened sundry wayes as with a hot yron with a thred thrust through it also with a corosiue and otherwise which we commend to the Chirurgians But if so be that you be once cured and that the same returne againe then is he to be ruled in all things like as is from the beginning hitherto prescribed Of the Rupture through Bloud or Phlegma §. 5. ALthough that out of al the humors of mans body there be specially caused foure ruptures yet notwithstanding is the same very seldom caused through Cholera In like maner also not often of blood vnlesse that such hapneth through strokes wounds fals cariage and through vse of meates which make much bloud that be very hot moist and swéet and such like These ruptures do make shew with notorious swellings with heate many humors which may easily be knowne by their féeling for at the last they will be red and beating or panting The Liuer or Median veine is to be opened of such a patient and foure or fiue ounces of bloud letten out according to the strength of the patient And the next day must he purge with this potion following first Decoctio fructuum must you make ready a decoction which the Apothecaries do call Decoctio fructuum as followeth Take figs and Prunes of each fiftéene Iuiubes and Sebestes of each twenty Hops a handfull and a halfe Endiue Purslaine and Cicory of each halfe a handfull péeled
appetite Asarabacca wine Wormewood wine are very good especially if there be any Mastick decocted in the common wine Betonie wine Gillofloure wine are very good against windines The herbe Bennet wine and Clary wine are also very good for this purpose Item take Must as much as you thinke good let it worke fowre dayes one after another then put therein a small bag with the leaues of the right wilde Vine and let them also worke togither as before whereof will be a very pleasant wine You haue the like before in the second part the sixt Chapter and 5. § of the panting of the hart through cold a spiced wine beginning thus Take Ginger two ounces c. What a vertue also the Elecampane wine hath which is very common shall be amongst other discouered in the eight part Héere haue you also some mo such like drinks for a proofe Take sirupe of Mints one ounce Cinnamome water thrée dragmes and a halfe oyle of Cloues two drops oyle of Vitrioll thrée drops temper all together The oyle of Vitrioll is very sharp and perilous as is rehersed in the description thereof Take water of Currans fower ounces temper therein as much Saffron as the bignes of a Pease drinke it lukewarme in the morning likewise also after noone and after supper it is especiall good against all paine of the stomack The wine may also be tempered with Currans water Item séeth Wormwood in wine or water and drinke it it is very good for poore folks Item in the second Part the fift Chapter and 5. § you shall haue a pectorall water beginning Take new Figs c. which also doth clense the stomacke from all excessiue humiditie In like manner doth also a forcible Capon water in the second Part the sixt Chapter and 4. § which doth strengthen the stomacke and the hart maruellous mightily Charuell water Laâ—ks spur water mixed or each apart strengthen the stomacke The vitall waters and other waters are very requisite also for this whereof many be described in the eight Part. Of sirupes which do strengthen the stomacke Sirupe of Citron péeles doth strengthen and helpe digestion sirupe of Wormwood doth make appetite sirupe of Mints is good for all diseases of the stomacke which proceede of cold sirupe of Fumitorie helpeth all obstruction Oxymel Compositum and of Squils be good to breake all tough slime Ginger and Calmus stéeped in wine or vineger are also very good if one eate a spoonefull thereof Some do put Gentian rootes vnto it for such as can away with bitternes Also twice a day you may eate sixe or eight peeled Almonds therewith to drie the stomacke and euery third day once to eate a few water Cresses tempered with wine Also if there be any new Figs to be had then eate fower or fiue in the morning fasting Amongst all these foresaid remedies there be many which may be vsed as well to the old as the new diseases of the stomacke like as each one may know for to rule himselfe thereafter What then belongeth to the order of life we haue spoken thereof at the first but if néede were whether it be of superfluous moisture binding the bodie or other debilitie of the stomack to purge then must good héed be taken of such things as be contrarie to the stomacke and might distemper it to wit wilde Saffron séed Polypodie rootes and séeds of Palma Christi which are enimies to the stomacke and accounted but Quacksaluers remedies but in this is prouidently to be dealt and after the taking of some preparatiue potions he is to vse the last mentioned Sirupes or these insuing and such like purgations Take Hiera Picra one ounce Turbith halfe a dragme Ginger one scruple and thrée ounces of the before mentioned wines Make also a potion thereof also there may be put into this a little Cinnamome for the tastes sake Another TAke of the Confection of Diacatholicon fiue dragmes Diaphenicon two dragmes sirupe of Ireos and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme Spica two graines both beaten small temper them with Decoctione Fructuum which is described before in the third Chapter 5. § wherein some Spikenard is decocted If you had rather vse pils then take pils De Agarico Hierae Picrae or Indae Item other that be lesse laxatiue and do strengthen the stomacke Take Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi Rubarbe Cinnamome Cardamome Cloues and Galingale of each one dragme Aloe one dragme and a halfe these being beaten small togither temper them with the iuice of Mints wherein Agaricus hath béene fower and twenty howers steeped of these pils may one swallow two or thrée morning and euening especially if the paine of the stomacke haue long endured These following do strengthen and asswage the paine of the stomacke Take Pillulae Alephanginae one dragme Opij and Beuercod of each one graine make fiue pils thereof with Oxymel Item take washt Aloe one scruple and make two pils thereof take them one hower before meate and especially before that he be purged Pils which will not purge but onely strengthen TAke beaten Mastick and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like quantitie set it couered close in a warme place vntill it be drie that one may make pils of it whereof euery day two howers before noone you may take one pill Now we will declare what is to be vsed outwardly for such bad stomackes for which we haue expressed many plaisters as hereafter do follow Take Pitch Rosin of each one ounce Masticke Mints and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Trocisci de Bolo and De Terra sigillata Amber Bloudstone Dragon bloud Hypocistis and Mommy of each one dragme Gallia Muscata and red Styrax of each halfe a dragme the iuice of Quinces as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it This is not only good for the stomacke but is also much better for that fluxe which cannot be stopt nor staied Another Take red Styrax Spica Squinant Wormewood Calmus Masticke of each a like much temper them with old wine and the iuice of Quinces vnto a plaister and lay it on the stomacke Item take Masticke Galingale Zeduarie Ameos Mints and Wormewood of each halfe a dragme Turpentine and Waxe of each halfe an ounce temper them with the oyle of Masticke to a plaister Or take oyle of Masticke oyle of Wormewood of each one ounce oyle of Mirtles halfe an ounce Cloues Cinnamome Galingale of each halfe a drag Lignum Aloes and Ginger of each one scruple vineger one spoonefull Waxe as much as will suffice Another Take Bayberries and Masticke of each one drag Cinnamome Lignum Aloes Cypers rootes Saunders and Cucubes of each halfe a drag Mints Wormewood and Roses of each fower scruples Spica Mace of each one scruple Gallia Muscata one drag Galingall Calmus Comin Frankinsence of each two scruples Laudanum one quarter of an ounce Rosine and oyle of Masticke as much as sufficeth to make a plaister then spread it on a peece
flowers Hyssope Betony Lauender Marierom Sage are altogither very requisite To all which you may ad Miua Cidoniorum both Treacles to wit the great Diatessaron and Mithridate are very commodious for this disease For the obstruction of the cold in the Liuer be these pils following very good and especially if there be feare of the dropsie Take Indy Spica 2. dragmes a halfe Spica Romana one drag Rubarb Agaricus Ameos of each one drag and a half Cinnamom Cloues and Squinant of each halfe a drag Aloe 5. drag make pils thereof with old wine and vse thereof as often as you wil one drag at once For this obstruction are these things following especiall good Take Couchenele beaten halfe a drag make thrée pils thereof with the iuice of Limons then take them fasting as you please Some aduise that there must be tempered amongst it the herbe Centorie and then make pils of it with the iuice of Agrimonie Potions and such like WIne is for this cold obstruction of the Liuer as in that of heate not forbidden For there be sundry wines of herbes ordained for the same viz. wine of Eiebright of Auence of Betony of Harts tong Marierom wormewood Hyssope and Asarabacca and such like which be described in the last part But if it be néedfull that the wine must be tempered then prepare a water wherein Annis Cinamom Coriander Fennell rootes or any of these were decocted you may also seeth Mallowes and Cuscuta in wine and sometimes drinke thereof Of spiced wines are some described before and hereafter which do serue for the Liuer very well For which be highly commended Cleretum Aromatites and wine of Zeduary Besides the foresayd sirupes may these ensuing be vsed to wit the sirupe of Fumitory of Wormewood and Mints And if so be that the Phlegma be very tough then all the Oxymels are fit for it vsed with water meete for the purpose Of the outward Applications TAke Agrimonie two handfuls Cammomill and Venus haire of each half a handful Cipers roots Masticke Squinant Spica of each one dragme red and white Saunders Calmus and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuory one scruple muscilage of Hollikocke rootes three ounces oyle of Masticke Spica and Barly meale of each one ounce and also a little Vineger then make a plaister of it with the decoction of Agrimonie The foresayd plaister is good for all hote and cold tumours of the Liuer and to be vsed at all times the plaister of Melilot the plaister of Bay berries and the knowen gray plaister Diachilon are all verie good for th is Schirrosity of the stomacke of the Milt and Liuer Item take Roses fiue drag Wormewood halfe an ounce Masticke fiue dragmes Indie Spica two dragmes a half Waxe one ounce oyle of Roses foure ounces and a halfe afterwards melt the Waxe and oyle and wash it with water lastly temper all other things beaten amongst it This plaister strengtheneth openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and the stomacke swageth the paine which procéedeth of cold maketh appetite and assisteth the digestion These oyles following are also maruellous good against all Oppilations of the Liuer to wit the oyle of Elder of Bay of Spike and of Wormewood tempered or each alone annoynted vpon the place of the Liuer It hapneth also verie well that through the obstruction of the Liuer the intrailes are annoyed For which you are to take the right sealed earth and temper it with Annis or Fennell Spica of Indy with Cinnamom of each a like quantity as the cause requireth vse halfe a drag of it at once with wine But of this shall be written more at large where we shall discourse of the guts In generall Oxymel is good for all oppilations of the liuer if there be any sharpnesse of the vrine with it amongst which some expert Phisitions do temper these things following which do take away the sharpnesse of the Vrine as Annis wilde yellow Mustard séede Siluer mountaine Mallowes Hollihocks Fleawort Dragagant and such like whereof we shall speake hereafter to wit in this third Part. The order of Diet. BEsides all the foresayd remedies it is necessarie that we do also write what diet this patient is to obserue First of all whatsoeuer cooleth and moisteneth is to be eschewed to wit all habitations which lie low by the water also the South wind All that here ensueth is hurtfull for him as Spinage Beetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons as also all that is made of dough Fish also is not good for him vnlesse it were seldome vsed All slimy parts of beasts is he also to forbeare as fat Trypes c. vnleauened bread fresh fruits all pottages Notwithstanding Pease pottage broth of Lentils made with Mints Parsley Spike and Galingall be speciall good He must also refraine from drinking water if it be not tempered with wine Also all grosse wine is naught for him Butter and swines suet is also not much commended But Sallet oyle is in some respectes permitted Item all kinde of milke and all that is boyled with it grosse old flesh and all that bindeth is also forbidden For his drinke he is to vse méetely strong wine which is cleare and of a good taste and is somewhat swéete He may also vse otherwhiles good warming aromaticall wine like as we haue shewed of late Vineger Veriuice Limons and Orenges must he vse with other meates but alwayes a little and rather these The Pomegranates Cinnamom Pepper Ginger Galingall Annis seede Comin Fennell and such like odoriferous things are verie meete for him In like manner also the herbs and rootes of Parsley Hyssope Thyme Marierom field Mints Southernwood Sage Basill Costus rootes yellow Rapes and all other Turneps drest with oyle he is to vse In like sort Oliues Capers Of all flesh Hens Pullets Doues Partridges Fesants field foules and sucking Kids be very good to be eaten for they may all be drest with spice and especiall good to be drest with all meates be Parsley and wild Turneps Some do commend much for this sicknes the Vineyard Snailes and of all fruits the bitter and swéete Almonds Pistacia and Currans Of a schirrous Liuer §. 5. OF this obstruction of the Liuer it doth otherwhiles waxe schirrous and hard that one may feele the same with the hand on the out side without any great trouble to the Liuer the which maladie the learned do call Scirrum and the Greekes Schroten This disease is not to be cured but at the first for when it is waxed old then it is too late These patients do some dye suddenly and some lingringly for the Liuer cannot tollerate so strong medicines as the Milt This disease is to be remedied as here ensueth This sicke person is alwayes euerie second day to take one scruple of Ammoniacum with Oxymel made into pils If it shall be néedefull his liuer veine is to be opened and afterwards he is to purge with Manna and Rubarb
of great endiue of Agrimonie Smallage and Fennell of each thrée ounces water of Parsley rootes of Smallage and Venus haire of each two ounces cleare wel water twelue ounces Sugar eightéen ounces white vineger two ounces Séeth them al togither and clarifie them well then put vnto it Squinant Spike burnt Iuorie Melon séed Gourd séedes Cucumber séede Pompeon séede and red Saunders of each one dragme Wormewood three dragmes then make a sirupe of it take at each time two ounces of it with the decoction of Pease or with Endiue water The third day after that such impostumes be knowen then is the soft pap to be layd vpon it Take Barly meale stewed Figs Dates beaten to pap and tempered all togither with oyle or Roses and Vineger For this sicknesse one must not purge at the first without great néede be But when the sicknes is at the prime or declining then are you to do the same with Manna Cassie sowre Dates and to exhibite it with the decoction of Violets Squinant Prunes and Wormewood In like manner vse loosing meate drest with Burrage Mallowes Hops and such like herbs But if the impostume be broken out and that there do come a gentle laske or scouring wherewith corruption also auoydeth then is nature to worke But in case this scouring get the maistrie then is the same to be stayed with the Trociscis de Berberis and de Terrasigillata But if these impostumes do come of thrusts or such like occasions then open a veine as is sayd already and lay this plaister following vpon it Take Mirtle seed Roses and Bayberies of each halfe an ounce Calmus Mirrhe Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron one dragme oyle of Lillies and Waxe as much as is needefull and if you feare any hardnes of the Liuer then vse the mollifying things whereof we haue spokē in the 5. § Or make this following Take Cammomill Melilot Rue Wormwood Ireos Marierom Calmus Hyssop Roses of each one ounce and a halfe Endiue Hollyhock rootes Lineséede and Fenegréeke of each one quarter of an ounce let them boyle all togither in wine and water make a sponge wet in it then lay it warme vpon it Item in the declination of the sicknesse is this plaister following to be vsed Take liquid Storax and Waxe of each one ounce and a quarter Masticke Saffron Ameos of each half an ounce oyle of Mastick and of Roses of each fiue dragmes Wine six ounces temper and vse it warme the Barly for his meate the water for his drinke is amongst other cooling things verie necessarie meate and drinke But if so be that these impostumes do proceede of cold then do they make shew with intumifactions and debilities they bring also rather heauinesse and oppression with them then paine For this take héed of letting bloud and strong Clisters but mild Clisters may be vsed and also milde purgations Amongst other is good for these Clisters Wormewood Barly field Mints Centorie or which you will decocted with a little Coloquint You may also vse well suppositories for to keepe the body soluble and to draw downe the tough and grosse slime Prepare also these Trocisks following Take Roses fiue dragmes Barberies halfe an ounce Annis Smallage seede Squinant Cassie wood and Calmus of each thrée dragmes Mastick Spike Cinnamome Asarabacca Rubarb Mather and Lacca of each one dragme beate them all togither make fouresquare Trociskes thereof with the iuice of Fennell the waight of a dragme and giue thereof one in the euening with this potion following Take the rootes of Smallage Parsly and Fennell of each one ounce séedes of Smallage Annis Fennell and Comin of each halfe an ounce Squinant Agrimonie field Cipers Germander Mather Cassy wood and Balsam wood of each one quarter of an ounce white Vineger one ounce and a halfe Hony thréee ounces séeth them all together in sufficient water clarifie it as behoueth Further annoint the place with oyle of Spike oyle of Sesamum or oyle of the séedes of Manus Christi and lay this plaister following vpon it Take the séedes of Smallage Ameos Annis and Cardamome of each halfe an ounce Squinant Aloe of each thrée dragmes Spike Amaranthus Mastick Saffron and Mirtle séed of each one dragme and a halfe Turpentine Rosen of each three dragmes Waxe as much as will suffice for to make a plaister with melt it with a little oile of Spike and of Costus and then temper the rest amongst it But if so be that you will you may take and put vnto it Oxe dung and Goats dung When the impostume breaketh that may be perceiued if the patient about the same time fall a shiuering and quaking with a swouning and vomiting and that bloud auoyd both through the stoole and the vrine then is this plaister following to be vsed and if peraduenture the opennes be not yet explete yet doth it ripen and asswage the paine and strengtheneth the Lyuer Take Barly meale Fenegréeke meale of each one ounce Linséede meale three dragmes Mill dust Elecampane roots the roots of Smallage and of Wormewood of each fiue dragmes Cammomill Melilot Violets Roses of each thrée dragmes white Lillie roots Pigeon dung Spica Romana of each one dragme oyle of Cammomill and of Violets as much as will suffice for to make therewith a plaister afterwards giue him a drinke for to cleanse him decocted of Barly and Figs or let him vse Mellicraton which is Meade Of the laske of scouring through weaknesse of the Liuer §. 8. WE haue sufficiently written thereof before in the eleuenth Chapter where we haue spoken of all manner sorts of Lasks and bloudy Flixes Of diuers things which be very commodious for all infections of the Liuer §. 9. HEre before in the 3. § is highly commended the water of Venus haire for all diseases of the Lyuer For this is also good M. Tristanis water for it doth preserue and cure the Liuer from all diseases Item take the séede of Endiue of small Endiue and of Lettice water of Venus haire and Liuerwort red and white Saunders of each one dragme seedes of Melons of Pompeons and Gourds of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuorie halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie one dragme roots of Fennell of Parsly and Smallage of each one quarter of an ounce rootes of Endiue three dragmes and a little Vineger Sugar one ounce and a halfe let them seeth all togither in three pints of water vnto the halfe This is especiall good for a stuft Lyuer which is caused through heate and also for the yellow Iaundies Many kindes of golden waters and vitall waters be also good for this and especially for cold causes Looke also in the first part the 12. Chapter and 1. § where you haue a very good powder beginning thus Take the iuice of Wormewood c. mixe it with Sugar and vse it ten dayes togither it helpeth all maladies of the Milt and Lyuer it preserueth also from the yellow
small Endiue of Agrimonie of Liuerwort of each two ounces Barly meale as much as will suffise to make a plaister withall It happeneth also very often that in this Ascite the patient is hard bound in body who if he be knowne of sufficient strength then is he to be often purged as is already said that which may be effected through sundry meanes as through Pils Potions and through Clisters whereof there be many herebefore described for the obstruction of the Lyuer and are also very requisite for this purpose and amongst the rest these following may also be vsed First let pils be made with Rubarb which be acuated with a litle Mezereo and be giuen vnto him once a weeke Also the pils of Mezereo are very good for this vse but they must be taken in hand very circumspectly for that the Mezereon is maruellous sharpe as herebefore in the introduction you may well perceiue Item Take of the foresaid Mezereon leaues which haue bene stéeped two daies and two nights before in the iuice of Quinces and Vineger dried againe half a drag make small pils thereof it expelleth water wonderfully The like haue you before in the 4. § good pils in the obstructiō of the liuer beginning Take Spica c. The iuice of wild Cucumbers or Elaterium is also good for this but it must be giuen with great circumspection for there is no man so strong that may take aboue halfe a scruple Our Phisitions do seldome take aboue foure graines at once as is amplier spoken of in the Introduction Item take clouted Goats milk thrée ounces the iuice of blew Flower-deluce halfe an ounce séeethe it on a small fire vnto the halfe or more strain it temper it in a litle Suger so take it Or take the iuice of blew Flower-deluce which is very cleare one ounce drink it with some Sugar or with some Goates milk once in euery 4. daies the daies betwéene both is he to drinke a good draught of Béere decocted with Wormewood or Wormwood powder with 2. ounces of Sugar cast into sugar plates eate therof In Italy they haue an herbe called Soldonella the iuice wherof is much vsed for the dropsie also the water powder of the herbe or in stead thereof may be vsed for the dropsie of the said blew Flower-deluce for that Soldonella with groweth neare the sea all salt places is giuen with wine wherein Rapontica with a litle Wormwood is decocted What force Wormwood hath in this disease is sufficiently shewed in the end of the 9. § Also what vertue the wild Saffron séed hath for the Dropsie looke for the same in the Introduction the like also of the éedes of Manus Christi A powder to purge withal Take beaten Ireos thrée dragmes Ginger two scruples Annis Masticke of each one scruple white sugar Candie one dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Diagridion sixe graines take one dragme therof it expelleth the water and the going to stoole very vehemently But if there be any heate withall then are these mild purgations to be vsed Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitorie of each halfe an ounce Licorice Iuiubes Currans and Wormwood of each one quarter of an ounce eight or ten Prunes Spicanardi one dragme séethe them all in whay of Goates milke and stéepe therein halfe an ounce of the shels of yellow Mirobalans for a potion Item take sixe ounces of the whay of Goates milke and fresh rootes of the Flower-deluce which be well cleansed from their shels halfe an ounce séeth the same vntill two parts remain then temper them together for a purgation Clisters as is before discoursed are also maruellous good for all such dropsies whereof certaine do follow Take Ebulus Cammomill and S. Iohns wort of each one handful Let them séeth sufficiently in water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces Sallad oyle thrée spoonefuls halfe an ounce of Hiera Pachij or Hiera Picra Salt one dragme temper them then together Item take the broth of Tripes or any other fresh flesh broth Pease pottage or any other that one hath readie in the stead of common water and in the stead of Hiera take prepared Cassie for Clisters This following doth loose more Take Mallowes Hollihockes Beetes Cammomill and the herbe Mercurie of each one handfull Seeth it in water or in any of the foresaid brothes and take thereof twelue or sixteene ounces Salt Oyle Hiera or Cassie Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxatiua of each halfe an ounce temper them together and minister this Clister very warme This following draweth from the head Take Rosemarie Betonie Cammomill and Saint Iohns wort of each one handfull Polipodie wild Saffron seede grosse beaten of each half an ounce and seeth them well This being done take as much broth and do as is beforesaid there may also be vsed in stead of common oile the oyle of Linseede If there be great griping of the belly with it then may also be vsed with the foresaid herbes Annis Fennell Caraway all together or those that one can get Take the waight of an ounce thereof beaten all together grosse Clisters are not onely good for the Dropsie but also against all griping of the belly against the grauel against the obstructions against the yellow Iaundise shoorings and such like But in case that with this Dropsie there be any scouring or red flixe then are Trociskes to be giuen to the patient of Barberies with Vineger for these Trociskes do coole supple and strengthen the liuer and stay the scouring The same do also Trocisci de Spodio de Sandalis and the iuice of Quinces and all that is made thereof Item the Conserue and confected rootes of Cicorie by reason that they a binding and cooling operation But if so be that the Ascites be without an ague and there be no rednes séene in the water then may these pils following be giuen Take prepared leaues of Mezereon and Sagapenum of each one scruple and make this to pilles with the iuice of Wormwood but giue no more at once then the fourth part onely for they expell and purge very forcibly What things do moue Vrine IN the beginning of the description of the Dropsie it is amongst other things thus declared that the chiefest meane for to cure this sicknesse is to expell vrine and to auoide the same in great abundance the which may be atchieved through these meanes following Take Rue S. Iohns woort Peniroyall Sage Marioram gentle Wormewood Licorice Annis Fennell and Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of Wine but not too long then drinke thereof in the morning thrée ounces and as much more in the euening Item take Garlicke and S. Iohns woort of each one handfull séeth them together in a pint of Wine vntill a third part be decocted afterwards straine it thorough and when you please drinke a litle thereof at one time it dryeth vp the water and expelleth the
of much cold water through much binding grosse meates as hard Chéese Cow béefe or any other hard flesh which is not well sodden or rosted salt Porke and principally of ill boyled wood Pigeons or meates which he swallowed downe not well chewed Item there be mo things which be hurtfull for this sicknes as Pease Beanes Medlars Quinces Seruises Peares Sloes and such like binding fruites For this paine of the belly is commonly more rife in haruest when fruites are found most aboundant than at any other time of the yeare These sicknesses may also be caused of cold and piercing winds as the Northren winds as also to the contrarie out of great heate and great labour and lastly through venime taken The inward causes commonly procéede from other parts as if there be any impostume present whether it be in the Bowels or in the Lyuer or in the sucking veines called Venae Mesaraicae in the Kidneys or in the Bladder or when the Bowels thorough some vapour fall downe into the priuities If so be that the cause be in the bowels thereof there be sixe to wit if the gut Ileon or Colon be too hot or too cold or be fraughted with any cold tough matter or through wind or obstructed with some hard corruption or when the bowels be full of wreathed wormes lastly this disease may also be caused through faintnesse of the expulsiue or strength of the retentiue vertue Concerning the signes they may be demaunded of the sicke persons or standers by But if there be any impostume in any other parts it may be knowne by the place affected where the impostume is The hote impostumes of the guts are discerned by the continuall agues thirst panting or beating of the same part whereas to the contrarie the cold impostumes be without great paine and without agues but onely with a kind of heauines and tumor and these commonly assaile a man that is accustomed to vse much cold and moist meates as milke fish and such like If this sicknes be caused through the obdurated corruption of the bowels then is there with it an extreame pain so that it seemeth to the patient that his bowels are cut vp and that chiefly if he haue taken before any such things as may cause these bindings and harden the filth or corruption as inward or outward heate and through vse of drie things Or if this disease come through wind then doth the paine depart from one place vnto another with a kind of rumbling and that with such stitches as if the bowels were prickt through with auls And if the same be caused of cold slime then be cold rheumes felt and such like in the bowels and that chiefly through certaine meates taken which do increase Phlegma Of the paine or griping of the guts which is called Cholica §. 3. COlon or Cholica Passio is a paine of the bowels to wit as is before discoursed of the neathermost guts which is caused when the superfluitie which nature is enured to naturally to auoyd and cast from her is stopt and hindered and if the corruption winds or wormes be not expelled as they were wont to be But the paine of the cholick cometh commonly by fits ceasing otherwhiles and then immediatly returning with great intolerable paine with heauie breath with shiuering shaking and sweating The causes of this cholick are for the most part the same with Iliaca Passio for both of these sorts of paines in the guts be matched so neare together that they may well be called sisters But there is onely this difference betwéene them both that the neathermost bowels be fat by nature and therfore may gather fatnes vnto them that by that meanes the guts are made so narrow that the hard ordure cannot passe thorough them but is vtterly hindered The signes of the Cholick be these when the ordure and winds are daily shut vp and hindred And although the stoole be furthered through Clisters or some other meanes yet is the ordure neuerthelesse hard and burnt as Sheepes dung or Goats dung whereby the naturall appetite doth abate from day to day vntill it be vtterly lost Thence followeth then so great paine and gripings about the Nauell that it seemeth that the guttes be knit or haled together with strings or pluckt asunder and bored through with bodkins As often as one stirreth him or turneth from one side to the other then doth the paine increase vehemently in this sicknes the patient is alwaies gréedie of sowre and sharpe things and hath a loathing of all that is fat Each humor whereof this paine is caused is knowne by these signes following If it be caused of Phlegma then is the same with paine heauinesse and desire of all warmth The paine is to be knowne by the féeling Old folkes and such as be flegmaticke by nature are most of all subiect to this passion Also the winter eating of much fish of much fruite and of much milke excessiue rioting and great quietnesse much going into the water and such like be to this sicknes a great cause If in case that this sicknesse be caused through heate then is there a great inflammation and with it drouth of the tong great thirst itch great heate in the vrine Chiefly if the person be young and in the Sommer time if he be chollerick by nature if he haue vsed much about the fire or much spice Or if this paine of the bowels be caused through obstruction it may be knowne by the going to the stoole and paine of the guts to wit as if the same were torne asunder and stucke thorough And if the patient would go to the stoole with great forcement then is it all to be auoyded very like to clay the which may be caused through long vse of any old meate through the patients drie complexion and through long continuing labour and with much sweating in the hote ayre Or if this Cholicke proceed through wind then is heard much rumbling in the bowels and puffing vp of the belly his excrements do swim vpon the water because they be full of wind and so much the more may one be ascertained thereof if one knew that the patient had eaten before much Pease Beanes Chestnuts Rapes Figs Must and such like windie meates or drinkes much water or much watered wine Or when this paine of the bowels is caused of any hote impostumes then doth the patient féele hote stitches he hath thirst and great paine and that alwaies in one place he hath also a red face extuberation of the eyes and restraint of the vrine But if this griefe be caused through a cold impostume for it be all these things beforementioned much féebler being caused of superfluous meates of much fish of much cold and moist herbes fruites Swines flesh and such like also the stooles be full of Phlegma Of the difference of these paines in the Guts §. 4. ABoue all those which are before discouered be these two sorts of paines in the bowels
hath an especiall propertie in deopilating of the obstructed kidneis to wit Miua citoniorum Aromatica and Oxymel of squils with other moe described before The Simples which do open these obstructions be Agarick Saxifrage Milium Solis Parsly of Macedonia or stone Parsley white Mustard séed Nettle séed red Pease porrage Fennell rootes Parsley rootes and rootes of Sperage of Smallage and of Butchers broome Spicanardi Spica romana water Cresses garden Cresses and Pingles the compounds are Diacalaminthum Electuarium Ducis and Philantropon Of the paine in the Kidneies through heate and drieth §. 4. THe signes of these hot diseases of the kidneies are such as that they may be perceiued by the heate in féeling and all cold things are welcome to the patient and hot things contrarie vnto him vnlesse the fulnesse of the bodie doth hinder and let them The patient hath also great thirst at all times and a bad stomacke his vrine is verie little and high coloured there swimmeth otherwhiles some fat vpon it and the rather in yoong cholerick and hot men with the hot paine of the kidneies is more danger than with the cold Therefore must one without all delaie proceed forward with all necessarie remedies and that much rather for that through the foresaid heate which is mixed with a tough thicke phlegmaticke matter the stone of the kidneies might easily grow wherein first the liuer veine is to be opened afterwards the Saphea and such clisters to be ministred as may clense the guts that is such as be decocted with Quinces and dates This following is to be oftentimes vsed Take Goates milke twelue or sixteene ounces melt in it Goates suet one ounce oile of Roses two ounces and vse them as the other For preparatiue potions you are to make this Take Lettice Purslaine Liuerwoort shepheards purse of each one handfull the seeds of Lettice of Purslaine Endiue Roses Butchers broome séed Barberies water Lillies burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar twelue ounces then make a sirupe of it You are afterwards to purge with sower Dates with Cassie with Manna and with Succo Rosaram Also for this like as in the paine of the kidneies through cold is néedfull a good order of diet Therefore is his dwelling to be high from the ground and not on the water but to open towards the East and the North and not towards the South or against the West His clothes are to hang loose on his bodie and not girt tight or hard Venery is also very hurtfull for this disease Out of these foresaid reasons may easily be noted that sore labor is hurtfull as to ride hard trotting horses to goe vp hils and staires and that chiefly after meate Notwithstanding moderate exercise is more commendable than to sit still vtterly vnoccupyed Also anger heauines of mind and all other motions of the same are to be eschued One must not eate too much for this sicknes is caused most of all through ouercharging of the stomack or gluttony sléeping or waking must also be moderate for to vse too much of either of them is hurtfull But one must chiefly refraine from lying much vpon his backe for thereby will the humours sincke much towards these partes therefore is the first sléepe to bee done on the right side and then finish it on the left side To his meate and drinke must bée taken some more héede he must eschue all olde and vnleauened bread olde flesh and all hearbes which make grosse humors as Béetes Colewoorts c. All hot and tarte meates as salt flesh Garlick Onions Léekes and Radishes shall he forsake In like maner must he not vse the things that doe vehemently force vrine as Fennell Parsly Smallage and such like But he may not eate bread which is light and leauened and is two or thrée daies old Hens Pullets wild Ducks yoong Pigeons Fesants Partridges c. will be his best meates but he must forsake all water foules Yoong Bucks flesh Veale Lambe young Mutton Conies Hares and wilde Swines flesh may he eate very well and especially yoong Hogs flesh is much commended for this disease The fruits and herbs are Barly pap wheaten pap Colewoorts Spinage Gourds Cucumbers Melons Abricocks greene Fennell and aboue all Sage and Betonie And in fine all that hath a saltish and opening power and not hot aboue the second degrée all sorts of Cherries and especially the kernels of the same be good for to cleanse the kidneies and to breake the stone In like manner also Hasell nuts fresh Almonds and Figs that be well dryed and Raisons be altogither much commended This patient may eate sower Apples but no swéete and also Peaches He must refraine from Peares if they be not very sweete and the stones taken out of them Pistacies Pingles and sometimes nuts be commended but Chestnuts Medlars and Seruices are hurtfull Of all milke Shéepes milke is the very best for the kidneies and next to that Goates milke but aboue all other the whay of milke But the first milke after caluing or Colostra must be eschewed except that of shéepe and goates Butter is not much commended but Sallad oile is much more requisite Cheese is vtterly to be refrained for it hath an especiall nature to ingender grauell vnlesse that it be permitted otherwhiles for custome sake and that it be Cheese of a yéere old which is drie well salted and not rotten And alwaies in the end of the mealetide of confected fruits Oliues and Rapes of Brimswicke are most healthfull and Sisarum Quinces Ginger Walnuts conserues of Pionie of Burrage Buglosse of Roses water Lillies and especially of Cicorie which do open the obstruction and clense Item Vineger the iuice of Citrons of Limons halfe sower halfe swéete Pomegranates be also verie meete for this maladie but veriuce is forbidden Of spices and séeds these are good Cinnamome Pepper Ginger Saffron Annis Caruway Louage séed Ameos Rue seed but a little of each for meates The drinke for this patient shall be white wine or light red wine which is not hard nor sower but of a good and pleasant taste The Cherrie wine doth not onely coole and moisten alone the kidneies but also the inward parts of the bodie therefore may the same be fréely drunken Preserued Cherries do also the same Thus much haue we meant to speake of the order of diet for those that be plagued and vexed with the Grauell which may be augmented or diminished according to the qualitie of the cause How to asswage the paine in the Kidneies §. 5. WE will speake now first of all of some particular things which haue a secret vertue for to conueigh the medicines into the kidneies and bladder viz. Saxifrage Milium Solis Parsley of Macedonia and stone Parsley Cantharides the rootes of Fennell Sperage and Butchers broomeseed of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Pompeons These following haue power for to coole the kidneies viz. Lettice séeds the séeds of Purslaine Endiue white
the masterie But in this it chiefly consisteth that one kéepe a good order of diet and eschue all that may cause that grosse matter as milke and all that is drest with it fresh Chéese Cow béefe Swines flesh Goates flesh Géese and all water fowles all grosse fish all other that be without skales all that is not well baked sandie or is ground with a new sharped stone Rice Pease Beanes Coleworts sower fruites vnripe apples and peares Citrons c. and hard sod egs be also very hurtfull troubled water red thicke wine Must and Béere are also to be eschued But to the contrary all light meates are to be vsed as light and hard baked bread which is a day or two old wherein Fennell Annis Caruwayes or Nardus séedes are baked Hens pullets Partridges Capons yong mutton Goats Turtle doues Doues and al wild fowles but especially Wagtailes are very méete for this sicknesse He may also eate all riuer fish which haue skales as they that are prepared with parsley in like manner also poched egges For his drinke he shall take faire white wine tempered with a little water wherein the seed of Smallage and Fennell séed is decocted Meade may also be vsed in stead of his drinke and for a medicine He may also drinke sometimes pease broth and the broth of Lentils wherewith parsley is decocted but he is not to eate the pease at all The kernels of bitter Almonds of Peach stones of Prune stones Pingles Pistacies and Raisins is he to eate in fine he must eschue all which causeth the matter of the stone to increase and vse al that cooleth the vnnaturall heate and expelleth the matter of the stone for which these things following are fit and be very good as Agaricus Hermodactili Turbith wild Saffron séed rootes of Polipodie and the smell of the wine Hellebore and also a little roote thereof stéeped a day and a night in water and the same water drunke also otherwhiles Amongst the compounded things there is Benedicta laxatiua or Inda which cleanse the Kidneyes the Bladder and Vreters of all phlegme The same doth also Cassie giuen with diureticall things and with beaten Licorice for the same drieth not onely the grauell but hindereth letteth also the growing of the stone and allayeth the heate and if so be that one giueth it him with the séede of Agnus castus or Licorice then doth it help the raines maruellously and stirreth no other humors then those whereof the stone doth grow Further there be other things moe which do cleanse the vreters or conduits of vrine and open them as the water of Hyssop of white water Mints and of Marierom of Smallage of Parsley of Betonie of Penniroial of Milium Solis and aboue al other the water of Hollihocks Of Sirupes which be most vsed are the sirupes of Hyssope de Calamintha Acetosus compositus Oxymel compositum and al other Oxymels but especially the Oxymel of Squils and for example these compounded things ensuing may be made Take Oxymel of Squils one ounce sirupe of Hyssope halfe an ounce water of Harts toong and of wild Cucumbers of each one ounce and a halfe This drinke is to be taken certaine dayes together vntill one may euidently sée in the colour of the vrine and in other signes that the disease apparently frameth it self on the better side by the which the Phisitions haue their especiall markes and signes And in case there be such matter present which may cause the stone to grow then are they prepared through the first recited waters sirupes and such like for expulsion and when now the matter is prepared then is the patient to be purged which may be done through this ensuing or such like meanes Take the confection Benedicta one ounce or one ounce and a half or somewhat lesse according to the importance of the cause then temper them together with thrée ounces of parsley water Or prepare this following which clenseth much the kidneys and expelleth the matter of the stone maruellously Take Centorie péeled with Saffron séed of each one dragme prepared Agaricus powned Hermodactili of each foure scruples Diagridion sixe graines Annis Fennell Licorice the séede of Smallage and Ginger of each halfe a scruple Sugar pennets one ounce stéepe them all together the space of foure and twentie houres in foure ounces of the water of Maidenhaire afterwards wring it out and drinke it Lastly you are to gouerne your selfe as in all other purgations This following is also much commended for to preuent the grauell Take about Saint Iohns tide Millet as it standeth and bloometh then burne it with herbe and roote and drinke thereof euening and morning two or thrée ounces with wine and then fast two houres vpon it and do so fiue or sixe dayes together it is said and also taken for to be certaine that doing this one shall be cléere and frée from the grauell halfe a yeare Against the paine of the Grauell §. 3. BVt if in this disease there happen great paine with it through which the Phisitions are much hindered that they cannot vse due remedies then do they notwithstanding aduise first of all that at the first one is to begin with things which allay the paine or at the least doe ease it for which are clisters to be vsed made of these herbes following as Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Bearefoot Pellitorie and such like with the oile of Violets with Cassie with Hiera picra or the confection Benedicta tempered amongst it Secondly when the foresaid paine is a litle swaged then are these things following to be vsed Take water Cresses Mallowes Hollihocks Mercury Parow Cinkfoile Peucedunum the herbe of Mew and Rue of each one handfull Calmus Barley of each three ounces Bran Linséede of each a little let all these séeth together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixteene ounces temper amongst it Hiera picra Benedicta and Lithontribon of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomill and of Rue of each one ounce this Clister looseth expelleth wind and also the paine Item take aftewards of the foresaid herbes but somewhat more Watercresses and a few Marigolds and make a bath thereof and let the patient in it euen vp to the nauell you are also to put some stalkes of Rapes vnto it then will it be the better Thirdly take Mallowes Hollihock roots Water cresses Cammomil Maidenhaire Linséed and Fenegrake seed of each two ounces let them al seeth in sufficient water wet a woollen clout or sponge therin and lay it continually warme vpon the place of the paine The sodden herbs are you to powne small and temper with Cammomil oile and so lay them vpon it The place of the paine is sometimes also to be annointed with these things following Take the grease of Hens of Géese Hogs grease fresh butter oile of Camelina and of Violets of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomils Waxe of each two dragmes then let them melt together by the fire But this is
not continually to be vsed to the end that the raines be not therby too much weakned inféebled After this annointing are these plaisters following to be laid vpon it which do asswage the paine and will open the conduits of vrine Take thrée ounces of Wheaten meale of Fenegréeke meale of Linseed beaten Cammomils of each one dragme and a halfe Salt one ounce then make it to a plaister with the oile of Camelina and with the oile of Scorpions and then lay it warme vpon it You shall find hereafter many things moe which allay the paine also Of those things which expell grauell and do breake the stone §. 4. IF there be any feare had of the stone or grauel or that one perceiue it already then may these things be vsed for it Take oile of Lillies of Scorpions and of Earth-wormes of each a like much annoint the raines very fat with it by the fire or by â—warme ouen And if you cannot get this Scorpion oile then take onely the oâ—her oiles Item eate euery morning 6. or 7. bitter Almonds or Peach kernels like as is counselled before There is also much commended the bone of a Hare which we call the Hares spring pouned and the same drunken with fresh broth when as any bodies raines begin to grieue him then is the red oile of S. Iohns wort estéemed to be very good for to annoint him therewith Item take 18. or 20. Peach kernels one quarter of an ounce of Raisins eate them together and drinke a good draught vpon it of pease broth sod without salt or suet for this is also much commended the Cicers or Spanish pease which haue a speciall vertue against the grauell Item take Hollihocke rootes two pound the same being made cleane powne them and séeth them in two or three quarts of water vntill the half and then straine this broth through a cloth whereof you are euery morning to drinke a good pul Afterwards vse the foresaid potion of Cicers and Peach kernels and when you haue a pound of this drinke then mixe amongst it one dragme of beaten Cinnamome and as much of the Swams which groweth on the wild Rose-branches You may also séeth Parsley rootes Sperage rootes and Fennell rootes with it and drinke often of it this is especially commended for them that would withstand the grauell Item take the rootes of Pimpernell halfe an ounce Bistorta Tormentill Polipodie rootes and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce Gentian Fenegréek Oculi cancrorum peach kernels Louage séed the séed of Smallage Pickrels bones shales of hasell nuts the séed of Mallowes and Cammomill of each one dragme make a powder therof and take thereof the waight of one dragme or one dragme and a halfe euery day The auncient Phisitions accustome to make this potion following How to make Williams potion the which they do call Williams potion Take one handfull of Alehoofe young Acorne buds halfe so much the herbe Mouse-eare a little water and wine of each a pint let them seeth together vntill about the half be sodden away then straine it through a cloth and drinke thereof in the euening and morning each time about thrée spoonefuls and euery foureséene dayes make a fresh How the wine of winter Cherries is to be prepared is amongst others dclared in the eight part it openeth the conduits of vrine maruellously expelleth the matter whence the stone and grauell doth grow very vehemently as well out of the kidneyes vreters as also of the bladder And now further to come to a right processe of the Grauell take at the first fiue ounces of fresh oile of swéete Almonds and drinke the same warme Two houres afterwards take a good draught of this potion following and afterwards as often as you will Take Mallowes with the herbe and rootes and Hollihocke leaues of each one handfull Licorice one ounce fresh Butter and cléere Honie of each two ounces seeth them together in sufficient water or in the water of Cresses and so drinke thereof as is expressed The next day one is to take this confection following early in the morning Take fresh Cassie and Benedicta of each halfe an ounce Species Iustini one dragme and a halfe temper them together and then strew them with Sugar and Licorice Hauing taken this then is the partie to take thereupon presently a good draught of the water of Cresses and through this aduice hath many a one bene released of the grauell Or take of the confection Benedicta fiue or sixe dragmes Turpentine washed in water of Mallowes one quarter of an ounce temper them al together with thrée ounces of Agrimony water and then drinke it as warme as you can it is maruellous good against the stone Necessitie doth otherwhiles require that these confections following are to be giuen to the patient Take the confection Benedicta and washt Turpentine of each thrée dragmes and a half Iewes stone which is prepared with water wherein Millet is decocted one dragme temper them all together with powned Licorice and then giue it him with Cresses water Men do also take sometimes for it halfe a dragme of prepared blood of a Bucke also which is not amisse Hereafter followeth one other necessary meane or processe Pils for the stone and first in case the stone be in the bladder then are these pils to be prepared which do vehemently breake the stone Take the fruites of Balsam Radish seed and the séed of great Smallage Some do sake for this the seede of stone Parsley Opopanacum Capers rootes bitter Almonds Saxifrage Squinanth Cipers rootes Indy Spica Cassie wood Harts tongue wild Rue Gentian Hartwort Asarabacca Cardamome Ammoniacum Serapinum Bdellium long Pepper and Calmus of each a like much the Gums are to be molten in sufficient Balsam temper the rest among them beaten small and make it into pils take of them one dragme at once with the foresaid confection of Benedicta and of Turpentine as is before rehearsed when he is purged then take Pellitorie of the wall Mallowes of each one handfull and a halfe Linseed Fenegréeke séed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull fiftéene or sixtéene Sebestes Licorice powned Millet of each halfe an ounce cut all that is to be cut and let it boile in fresh broth Take twelue or fifteene ounces thereof and temper amongst it one ounce of Benedicta oile of bitter Almonds thrée ounces slight sugar one ounce and a halfe Salt one dragme and one yolke of an egge then mixe them together and set this clister very warme And if that this purgation by reason of the vnpleasantnes of the Turpentine went against his stomacke then may he vse one of these ensuing Take fresh Cassie one ounce and a quarter oile of swéete Almonds foure ounces temper them together and drinke it Or take Electuarium de Sebesten and Cassie of each halfe an ounce Electuarium Indum one dragme and a halfe mixe them all together with Sugar if you will put therewith one
euery time a dragme or more fasting in the morning with the water of Lillies and women may drinke it with wine or any thing else in stead of Lilly water The stone which is cut out of one beaten small and halfe a dragme thereof taken euery day with the water of Saxifrage or Radish water doth also breake the stone of the bladder Item take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each ten graines Fennell seed Ameos Mirrha Annys the seed of Mallowes péeled Melon seed Pompeon séede chopt small together of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme beaten small together there is the waight of a dragme thereof to be taken with any of the foresaid waters There may also be prepared for this these pilles ensuing Take burnt glasse ashes of a Hare Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each a like much make pils thereof with the water of Saxifrage also thrée round slices of Radishes eaten euery morning be very good In like sort also the small bird the Wagtaile rosted powdered or taken as one will is maruellous good for this like as here before is specified already It is also taken for a certaine experiment if one do accustome to eate Nettles that thereby he should be freed of the stone and grauell Now we will write of certaine potions which be méete for the stone and the grauell Potions for the stone Take Turpentine which is washed with Mallowes water thrée quarters of an ounce Species Iustini two scruples Benedicta Laxatiua halfe a dragme let the Turpentine and decoction melt afterwards temper the rest with it and so drinke it as warme as you can Another Take Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Iuniper berries one ounce the barke of the Cassie thrée dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome Galmgall and Masticke of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace Cloues of each halfe a dragme spirit of Wine one pint and Malmsey three pints set them all together the space of three moneths in the sunne there to distiâ—l and of this distillation giue two ounces early in the morning or being in the bath it is a maruellous and approoued remedy Another Take Rubarbe Gâ—nger berries Cassie wood and Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one dragme Licorice fiue dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome and Cloues of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Mastick one dragme put all these together beaten in a glasse and poure thereon thrée pound of the spirit of Wine or Aqua vitae then stop it tight and set it the space of fiue dayes in the sunne stirre it all together very well then poure as much Malmsey vnto it and let it stand againe eight or foureteene dayes in the sunne stirring it euery day well about afterwards straine it and kéepe it well when as the grauell beginneth to pricke then take a spoonefull thereof euery day and you shall find amendment out of hand This same may be distilled like as the former Another Take a pint of Aqua vitae more or lesse as you will Malmsey foure ounces Sugar-candy eight ounces the water of Strawberries foure ounces Parsley water two ounces mixe them together and take a spoonefull thereof or as much as you please It is also here to be marked that you need not be afraid of Aqua vitae burnt Wine or any other strong wine for all learned do require to drinke strong wine as Vinum punicum Malmesey Muscadell and such like against the grauel or the stone yea when the paine is at the extremest yet with moderation Some that loue distillations do very much commend this potion following against the grauell Take oyle of Mace and cléere Turpentine of each ten or twelue drops Annis water and Fennell water of each one quarter of an ounce the sirupe of Licorice one ounce oile of Vitrioll thrée or foure drops then temper them well together afterwards proue it and if so be that it be not so sower that it set the téeth on edge then it is méetly and if it be not sower enough then put two drops of the oile of Vitrioll more into it It is somewhat perillous to deale with the oile of Vitriol therfore good héed is to be had and taken like as is declared in his description Take Nettle seed two ounces and a halfe poure wine vpon it and drinke thereof This wine is accounted maruellous good for the grauell and for the stone Here before is oftentimes admonshed of Beane water which is thus made The water of Beanes when they begin to be ripe or when they be in their full iuice then is onely the outtermost gréene pods or péeles to be taken where the Beanes do lie and the leaues and all their moisture is to be distilled out of them in séething water This being done then take one ounce and a halfe thereof prepared Bucks blood one dragme or foure scruples and giue the patient therof in the morning when he riseth and at night when he goeth to bed And this is he to obserue and continue so long vntill that the stone or grauell be cleane expelled and no more grauell can be perceiued this is of all auncient and latter Phisitions taken to be a famous and certaine experiment Item take womans milke about two ounces stéepe therein cut sprigs of Cipers and let them stand and stéepe the space of thrée or foure houres in a warme place and then drinke it Item take Knotgrasse halfe an ounce red Pease and peeled Melon séede of each one ounce let them séeth in twelue ounces of water euen vnto the halfe and giue thereof one ounce at once tempered with a little Sugar the meade or honywater is an especiall medicine against the grauell and the stone In like manner also wine or water wherein Harts toong and Mallowes be decocted and also of both these distilled waters Item take a good handfull of Watercresses séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe and drinke thereof morning and euening each time thrée or foure ounces and do this the space of eight or ten dayes together Some do also much commend Limons water Take the rootes of Cheruill and Saxifrage of each a like quantitie séeth them in wine and drinke oftentimes thereof it breaketh the stone and causeth well to make water Or take Maidenhaire one handfull winter Cherries and Gromell séed of each two dragmes boile them in a pint of white wine vntil two thirds remaine take three or foure ounces at once and especially after a bath the water of Larkes spurre Likewise also the water of Carduus Benedictus if one do drinke thrée or foure ounces of it is very good for the stone Item so are all these waters insuing good therefore viz. the water of Saxifrage of Pellitorie of Cinqfoile of Watercresses of Fennell of Radishes of Maidenhaire of Strawberries and of Cammomill Item take a fresh Radish
cut it to thinne round slices and poure thereon Vinum punicum or any other good wine afterwards drinke thereof sometimes a good draught You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and eleuenth § a good drinke against the grauell and the stone beginning Take Gentian c. Item take Maidenhaire Sperage Tassell leaues water Mints broade plantaine and red pease of each a like quantitie seeth them all together in water then take of this decoction fiue ounces and temper therewith two ounces of Oxymel afterwards giue it to the patient Further lay him a bed and let him sweate wel this openeth the conduits of vrine maketh altough humors thinne and expelleth them which cause the stone and the grauell Further there be diuers wines decocted and also vnsodden whereof we will discouer some Of all the most vsed are these following as the wine of winter Cherries wine of Elecampane rootes wine of Hyssop wine of Harts toong and wine of Assarabacca which is thus to be prepared Vrine of Assarabacca Take Must and to euery quart of Must halfe an ounce of Assarabacca the herbe being taken off when the roote hath bene a drying the space of two moneths Of this wine take euery euening and euery morning a good draught it forceth the vrine and the grauell it warmeth all inward parts it expelleth the Ague it is good for the Dropsie and also for the yellow Iaundies Another good Wine TAke Strawberrie leaues Pellitorie Water cresses and Gourd cresses of each a like quantitie séeth them in Wine vntill the third part be consumed then drinke thereof a meetly draught when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise This hath bene oftentimes found very good All Phisitions do conclude that all troubled and thicke Wine much and often drunken causeth the stone and the grauell speedily to grow Therefore must one alwayes beware thereof The Cherrie wine like as it by reason of the temperate nature may be vsed in all sicknesses so may the same also be occupied for this disease and especially when the Cherries with their kernels be stamped in péeces whereof it is made then doth it driue out the grauell the better We will here yet describe certaine sirupes which may be vsed with great commoditie for the grauell like as these ensuing Take the roots of Sperage of Ruscus and of grasse of each thrée ounces Harts toong with the rootes Creta marina Maidenhaire water mints Saxifrage Pimpernell and Yarrow of each one handfull red pease two ounces Vineger of Squils one ounce white Sugar and honie of each sixe ounces Lastly seeth a cleare sirupe of this and vse the same with diureticall waters Another TAke Fennell rootes parsley rootes the rootes of Smallage and of Sperage of each one handfull the séedes of parsley of fennell of Smallage of Annise of Caruway of Lettice of purslaine of small Endiue of Melons of pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers of each one ounce red and white Saunders Roses and Violets of each halfe a dragme fiue and twentie or thirtie dry prunes Harts toong Liuerwort Centorie and Maidenhaire of each two handfuls All these foresaid things séeth in sufficient water vnto the halfe and then wring them out vnto this decoction put eightéene ounces of Sugar and let it seeth againe to a sirupe and then clarifie it with the white of an egge What outwardly ought to be vsed FOr the grauell and the stone may diuers things be also outwardly vsed whereof we shall hereafter write and discourse sufficiently but we will first begin with the salue Take the fat of the kidneyes of a Weather stampe it very small and temper therewith a crusefull of the iuice of water Cresses or garden Cresses and let them seeth together this being done then straine it through a cloth and annoint you therewith In like maner is also good for all grauel and paine of the raines for the stone and the conduits of vrine and for all diseases of the bladder the precious blame or oile which in the last part of this booke is the first of all the rest that is described if one be annointed therewith For a plaister is this following to be vsed Take Hollihocke rootes with the séed Linseed figs and butter of each an ounce oile of swéete Almonds two ounces Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister and then lay it vpon the kidneyes afterwards you are also to annoint the place of the raines with the oile of Scorpions and to spout some of that oile therein Item take oile of Scorpions thrée ounces burnt sponge stones and burnt Wagtailes of each 3. dragmes Iewes stone one dragme make a salue or a plaister thereof with waxe Item in the former sixtéenth chapter and the fift § is described a plaister of Radishes which may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also good a pap made of the crums of white bread decocted with wine and a little Saffron put to it Item for to lay vpon it Take Pellitorie put some Scorpion oile vnto it oile of Cammomil and some oile of Camelina frie them all together in a pan vntill it be as thick as pap afterwards put amongst it powned Saffron and then lay it vpon the kidneyes Item take Pellitorie Spikenard Spica Romana Fennell seed parsley séed wild yellow Rape séed and Assarabacca of each one handfull powne them somewhat together and put it in a bag afterwards let it séeth in wine and lay it ouer the raines Of bathing and fomenting in the grauell AL they that can come to the warme sulphure bathes may franke and fréely vse them for these be very necessary for to breake the stone But if so be that one cannot come at them then let this following be prepared Take Hollihocke leaues Fennell parsley with the rootes Pellitorie and Linseed of each one handful put them together in a bag and séeth them in a great kettle of water afterwards let it be meetly cold without putting any other water vnto it then set the patient in it euen to the nauell as long as he can abide This is to be often vsed and so long vntill that the patient do find that the stone weareth away Another take Pellitorie Lauender flowers parsley seed Fennell séed wild yellow Rape séed seeth them all together as is aforesaid and bathe therewith The bag is also to be laid vpon the kidneyes Item take the herbe Horsetaile Mallowes wild Thyme the stalkes of Rapes put them all together in a bagge and séeth them in a great kettle with water and further let it be meetly cold of it selfe and vsed as before When one hath then bathed a certaine space then are diureticall potions and salues of the raines to be vsed made of such things as are described herebefore These are now the principallest things which of the ancient and latter Phisitions are described against the grauell and the stone of the bladder also whatsoeuer else is prescribed for the infirmities of
from the application of those remedies as may séeme méete for him wherefore it is specially aduised first to delay the paine or at the least to diminish it for the which these remedies following are especially commended All gentle Clisters easie purgations and aboue all others baths of warm◠water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Nettle rootes Gromell séeds or any such like mollifying things and Saxifrages are decocted wherein these patients are oftentimes to bathe themselues euen to the nauell Item take Colewort leaues Southernwood Rosemary pigeon dung wild Saffron séedes beaten grosly séeth them all together in water for a bath Or take Mallowes Hollihock leaues Pellitorie of the wall Southernwood Creta Marina Fenegréeke séed Hollihock séed of each two handfuls séeth them all together vnto a bath Afterwards annoint the kidneyes with the oile of Scorpions or with any of the foresaid salues With this bath may this powder following also be vsed with the decoction of pepper Take the séeds of Purslaine and of small Endiue of each halfe a dragme Dill séed two scruples Marierom halfe a scruple giue this to the patient when the paine is present Note also that these two meates be very good both for the retention of the vrine and also for the strangurie And if so be this be holpen then will the paine which is in the end of the Yard seene cease In the description of the kidneyes there may you sée many plaisters salues and oiles as that of Anodynum and others moe which are very méete for this purpose Of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue expulsiue §. 3. IF any one be hindered in the making of his water or that the same be altogither stopped without any swelling vlcer or paine of the Kidneyes it is then to be censured that the same should come through the debility of the vertue expulsiue against the which such things shall be vsed as are diureticall or that do prouoke vrine as these pils following Take the seeds of Smallage Saltpeter Madder great Smallage Iuniper berries Asarabacca Ameos Fennell Spica and bitter Almonds of each one ounce and a quarter Melons fiue dragmes Cantharides the heads and wings cut away halfe a dragme Ammoniacum one dragme and a halfe dissolue your gum in wine and mixe all the rest being beaten small amongst it then make pils of them of the bignes of peason giue thrée of them at one time These pills haue an especiall efficacie for to drie the bodie so that they are accounted very good for the Dropsie The Electuarium Ducis is also very good for this purpose if thou giue one quarter of an ounce of it with pease broth or wine which thou wilt There was not long since one cured with this remedie following who for the space of fiue dayes could neuer make his water first he tooke this clister Take Pellitorie of the the wal two handfuls Mallowes and Cammomill of each one handfull boyle them together then take of this decoction the accustomed quantitie and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie oyle of Cammomill thrée ounces Turpentine one ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce minister it warme Secondly this following was also ordained for him take Cassie and Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua two dragmes prepared Iewes stones one dragme make an Electuarie thereof with Oxymel At night he tooke two ounces of Oxymel with the water of Maidenhaire and presently after this he made water Item take foure or fiue ounces of the iuice of Pellitorie of the wall and clarifie it with the white of an egge then séeth it with sugar to a sirupe and vse three ounces thereof euery morning with the water of Mallowes or with any such like distilled liquor This done giue vnto the patient a purgation of Cassie Thirdly take Coriander séedes halfe an ounce Mallowes one handful one head of Garlicke powne them altogether and séeth them with good white wine vntill that one third part be consumed and giue him thereof thrée ounces to drinke Peach kernels and the kernels of Cherrie stones do also prouoke vrine Item preserued Pimpernell rootes Calmus and the rootes of Eringus are also very good for this purpose confected Louage séede Annis séedes Fennell séedes Caruway séedes Comin séedes and Saxifrage séedes these do expell all vrine grauell and stone Treacle and Mithridate do also cause one to make water Item the confection of Cherries with their kernels beaten in péeces and rubbe it through a strainer is also méet for this vse also halfe a dragme of dried Grashoppers is very fit and a great secret in this disease Item the stone which is cut out of a liuing bodie and vsed as before hath bene shewed in the expulsion of grauell is also very conuenient and commodious for this intent Take Tormentill Pionie Bistorta Acornes and wild Flaxe of each a like much powne them all together and take thereof in the euening and morning one dragme with wine The Spanish flies do expell vrine most violently but beware of them because they be very sharpe and exulcerate the vreters but the Grashoppers are somewhat milder Item take the rootes of Pimpernel beaten small as much as one can containe betwéene his two fingers and drinke it with wine The powned shels of Hasell nuts do the like also and the iawes of Pickerels if thou take of each of them a like quantitie But if the vrine be stopped by reason of the stone in the bladder then giue vnto the patient two small drops of the oile of Sulphur with wine or Agrimonie water or beate a Radish very small presse out the iuice of it and take halfe an ounce thereof with wine it prouoketh vrine immediatly and breaketh the stone also Item drinke in the morning thrée or foure ounces of Radish water very warme and fast two houres after it In like manner also two in the euening two houres before supper and walke after it Another Take Mallowes and Garlicke of each a little séeth them in wine vntill the third part be wasted away drinke thrée or foure ounces of this decoction at once Or take Balsamina altera and the lesser burre leaues boile them together in wine and drinke it as before Take a great Onion cut it small and Mallowes one handful boile them in wine and drink oftentimes of the decoction being warmed If a child could not make his water then take ten or twelue bitter Almonds and ten or twelue Peach kernels and two ounces of Currans stampe them all together straine them through a cloth with water like to Almond milke and giue it the child to drinke like Almond milke Amongst the herbed wines are especially commended for the prouoking of vrine the wine of Elecampane of Harts toong of swéete Marierom of Cherries of Assarabacca and of winter Cherries which are also mentioned before in the treatise of the grauell But if any one might not drinke wine at all or that he had it not
rootes of Smallage of Parsley of Sperage or of Ruscus be decocted Of the retention of vrine through some obstruction of the conduits §. 5. IF so be that it happen that this retention or painful making of water do vexe or paine a bodie and yet neuerthelesse the bladder is ful of vrine that the patient had pist any blood or matter before then are those remedies to be giuen him which do open and which do attenuate the clotted blood and corruption in the bladder and make it fluxible therfore one must first begin to wring the priuities hard that thereby the lowermost passages may be opened and the vrine may run out Now if so be that this obstruction do come of clotted blood of matter or of slime then are Sperage water Saxifrage water and Radish water especially good for it In like maner is also very good the broth of red Pease of Fennell rootes of Parsley rootes and of Smallage of each apart or boiled together Also Limon water is very much commended for this vse Item Treacle good Mithridate and most of all that which is declared in the retention of the vrine Also Salt water or this following may be spouted into the Bladder which may draw out the vrine through their sharpnes take burnt ashes of Ferne Vine ashes and lime of each a like quantitie poure as much water vpon it vntil it be couered let it stand so the space of thrée daies afterwards poure it through a tight cloth and spout a little thereof into the bladder This can also be done with the oile of Scorpions Item take the séeds of Carrots the séed of stone Parsley and of Parsley of each one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli thrée dragmes make a powder thereof and giue one dragme thereof at each time Or take the séed of Smallage of Parsley of Pionie of Broomes and of Saxifrage of each one quarter of an ounce Fennell seed Caruway and Annis seeds of each half a dragme Gromell seedes Spica Cinnamome péeled Melon séedes Pompeon séedes Gourd séedes and péeled Cucumber séed of each one dragme Licorice thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce and a half make a powder thereof and giue of it euery day one dragme with some diureticall decoction If so be that the sicke person haue no stooles then is the matter first to be prepared with Oxymella diuretico or with Oxymel of Squils and afterwards to purge with Medicamine Turbith and with Agarico or with Benedicta Laxatiua whereunto are added Hermodactyli also these ensuing clisters may be vsed Take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Cammomil of each one handfull séeth them all together in water and take twelue or sixteene ounces of this decoction Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce Cassie and Hiera piera of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Rue thrée ounces make a clister thereof For an outward application take two handfuls of Rue leaues powne them a little and frie them with butter or with oile of sweet Almonds or oile of scorpions and lay it on the priuities Another Take Dock roots as many as you please seeth them in wine frie them and vse them as before Or take wheaten bran let it séeth to pap with oyle of Nuts and vse it warme Item take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Diptamus of each one handful Fennel and Annis séeds of each half an ounce séeth them together in white wine and wring it out hard put it betwéene two clothes and lay it on the priuities You may also put the same decoction into the bladder and so apply it warme vnto it Of the first mentioned may also a bath be made whereunto diureticall medicines shal be added as Cammomill Stechas Marierom Mints the buds of Colewort stalkes Pigeon dung and let the sick person bathe therein as long as he can suffer it Another Take Colewort leaues Hollihock leaues water Cresses and garden Cresses Pellitory of the wall Clauicularis Cammomil Smallage and Parsley rootes of each three handfuls seeth them all together vnto a bath and then lay the decocted herbes vpon the priuities For a salue you are to vse Dogs grease and wild Cats grease of each one ounce Ammoniacum halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Scorpions one ounce make a salue of it with Waxe and vse it like as the other salues Or take the salue which is described in the 3. § beginning thus Take oyle of Scorpions c. Item temper Balme and oyle of Roses of each a like much with Waxe Further of all these oyles following may also salues be prepared as of the oyle of Scorpions of bitter Almonds of Lillies of the kernels of Cherries and of Pepper or one may also vse them as they be For this disease are all things meete that be ordained for the stone of the Bladder and of the Kidneyes Of the hote and scalding vrine §. 6. THere happeneth also otherwhiles such a burning with the vrine that the patient thinketh none other than that fire passeth through his yard The cause of this is that there be mixt with the vrine some hote cholerick or salt humors which make this scalding in the passage This cometh commonly of great labour of much and long walking or trauelling through heate of the Sunne through much venery through long vse of many hot meates or for that the conduits of the yard haue such exulteration within This infirmitie is indéed not to be regarded slightly for if it continue long then doth it excoriate the yard within The signes thereof be sundry to wit when the patient auoideth in his water sometimes matter small skales like bran and otherwhiles also blood These kinds of sicke persons are to beware of all sharpe salt sower and such like meates because that thereby the paine will be augmented But he shall contrariwise vse all cooling and moistening things as well boyled Barley Spinage Lettice Purslaine Mallowes Apples Melons Pompeons Gourds Prunes Peaches and Cherries c. Item Lambe Hens and Partridges drest with the foresaid herbes are the best meate for him Buttermilke and that sodden is also very good for him He is to take for his drinke Barly water Buttermilke watered wine and fresh water tempered with sirupe of Violets or sirupe of Roses Almond milke or Shéepes milke which is most méete for him if there be one dragme or two of fiue Bolus tempered amongst it Item giue him sirupe of Violets with water of Melons or if you haue it not then beate the séedes and make thereof a decoction afterwards drinke it with the other meates in the morning and euening vse this powder following Take péeled Melon séedes fiue dragmes péeled Cucumber séedes Citron séeds and péeled Pompeon séeds of each one drag and a halfe Henbane séed one dragme Sugar the waight of all the rest then temper them all together take thereof euery morning and euening the waight of thrée dragmes with Iulep of Roses Another Take péeled Melon séeds séeds of Pompeons of
it were some few dayes before her child-birth for then is it very commodious as hereafter shall be shewed more at large All maner of cold all kind of stenches all sharpe and bitter meates as Capers vnripe Oliues Radishes French beanes Lupins red pease Rue white water Mints Penniroyall and whatsoeuer else might prouoke her termes is hurtful to her Contrariwise she may vse all maner of wholesome accustomed meates and drinke good red wine or méetly strong Béere for the red wine is méeter for her than the white Item ripe fruits that are somewhat astringent and that do strengthen the stomacke are very méete for her as Quinces Peares c. if she desire any other commodious meate she shall not so strictly be kept from it but that she may vse a little of it at once But if so be that she do long for some vnnaturall and vnaccustomed meate then is she to be dealt withall as hereafter in this next § that be shewed For to strengthen her serueth the warme confection of Diamargariton for it comforteth the stomacke and the Matrix For the same purpose serueth also this wine following a litle draught otherwhiles taken of it Take Ginger Cloues of each one drag rootes of Louage Spikenard white pepper of each halfe a dragme Comin Galingall Annis séedes of each halfe an ounce red Wine thrée pints Sugar as much as you please make Hipocras If the woman be hot by nature then do lay that wine with the decoction of Currans what she ought to obserue beside this may you find euery where in the discourse of conceiued women Of the strange longing of women with child §. 6. ALbeit that this disease of this vnnaturall appetite which otherwhiles hapneth to women with child of some foule or vnusuall meates as Chalke Coales Lime earth Tarre raw flesh fish and such like which is sometimes rather an imagination and an idle or vaine conceit of some vntoward women neuerthelesse the Philosophers do alleage a certaine naturall cause thereof and affirme therewith that this vnnaturall lust doth also come sometimes vpon them which be not with child yea also that men be otherwhiles plagued with it although very seldome wherefore this longing by good reason may also be reckoned amongst the vnnaturall hungers and may be called a corrupting as we before in the eleuenth Chapter haue moued somewhat thereof and haue alwayes hitherto determimed to write somewhat thereof This vnnaturall longing do the Gréeks call Cittam the Latinists Picam and Malaciam that is a desire of bad meate and is thus described Citta is a bad action of the stomack wherein the partie is gréedie to eate vnnaturall and foule things The causes of this vnnaturall desire are very bad humors and especially Melancholia which lieth in the stomacke where the same is excitating this vnnaturall longing In women with child the matter of the termes doth cause it which cometh into the stomacke and because the same is of sundrie natures therefore do they also get diuers lusts But in those that be not with child it doth come through retention of the termes when those humors happen to ascend into the necke of the stomack or by the obstruction of the liuer or the milt whereby the said melancholicke humor doth stirre vp this vnnatural longing The same bad melancholike humors may also be burnt in the stomacke as may appeare in the quartaine ague And for to remedie this disease especially in women with child must first héed be taken to their meate and drinke Rosted Lambe Hens Pullets Partridges and all kind of field fowles are very méete for her yea also otherwhiles buckes braines and shéepes braines whether they be rosted or sod Her drinke shall be good white wine After meate shall she eate rosted Peares Hasell nuts Marmalade confected Pomegranats and Chestnuts Giue her also oftentimes Marmalade with spices which you shal find described in the last part Of the confection Diantha is euery morning about halfe a quarter of an ounce to be vsed Item giue her oftentimes the Syrupum de Montha In like maner is good for her the Mina of Quinces temper them both as much as you please and take thrée spoonefuls thereof before meate It is also much aduised for this woman that she must otherwhiles incline her self to parbrake and vomit as with cleere warme water and sirupe of Vineger wherof we wil hereafter speake more at large because that women conceiued are much addicted vnto it But in case that they incline themselues to vomit then is their stomacke to be annointed with this salue following Take Masticke and oyle of Spike of each a like quantitie Vineger a little lay this plaister following vpon it the flowers of Buglosse of Baulme of Saunders Citron pils of each a like quantitie with oile of Masticke and waxe wrought together or a bag made of the foresaid except the oile of Masticke and waxe and so layd vpon the necke of the stomacke But if it happen that they at any time desired that which might nourish them and that they were detained from it or that the same could not be gotten whereby it came to passe that they were disquieted or vexed then take presently a spoonefull of Hony scrape a little Nutmeg in it and so giue it her If so be that any man or woman being not with child were taken with such vnnatural lust they are to take these things following fasting as Oxymel compositum two ounces with water of Cipers rootes or the decoction of Cardamome or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel of squils with the foresayd water afterwards to prouoke vomit are they to vse this Hony water following wherein Mustard séede the seede of Orage of Dill Onions and Radishes is decocted For to purge take Pillulas Stomachicas or de quinque generibus Mirobalanorum which you will one dragme whereupon these confections following are to be vsed viz. Diapliris Diamoschu and Diambra The stomacke is to be strengthened with these things following Take Acorne cups one quarter of an ounce Raisins with their stones seuen dragmes Annis thrée dragmes Mirobalani Indici Bellirici Emblici of each fiue dragms prepared refuse of iron one ounce and a quarter foure quarts of wine which is somewhat strong and as much water séeth them all together vnto the half and then straine it through a cloth and let the patient drinke it out now and then in the space of eight dayes Item take Cardamome Graines Cucubes of each a like quantitie white Sugar as much as all the rest giue thereof euery morning one dragme and a halfe with luke-warme water afterwards vse the foresayd confections and annoint the stomacke and kéepe your selfe with eating and drinking like as is said before Of the vomiting in women with child §. 7. WIth this vomiting are commonly women with child oppressed vntill that they do begin to feele the milke and about the time they were wont to get their flowers or whē the childs haire beginneth
Afterwards is this potion following to be vsed at least eight daies togither early in the morning and to fast fower houres after it Take one ounce of the honie of Roses the water of white water Mints and the water of field Cypers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them togither He may also take to prepare the humour honie of Roses Syrupum de Stoechade and some of the foresaid waters The ninth day shall he swallow these pils following Take Pillularum de Hermodactilis and Foetidarum of each halfe a dragme make thereof seuen pils with the sirupe of Roses and take them early in the morning And if so be that one would take no pils then take fiue dragmes of Hieralogodion and Turbith beaten small halfe a scruple Diagridion two graines Ginger three graines temper them togither and take it so or put some distilled water vnto it Some expert Phisitions do aduise much to this Clister Take Ireas the rootes of wilde Cucumbers field Cipers Saint Iohns woort of each two handfuls seeth them all togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therewith Hieralogodion one ounce oyle of Rue thrée ounces honie of Roses one ounce the yolke of an Egge well braied Salt one dragme vse it once a day In Haruest is the patient once euery fourtéene dayes to take one dragme of these pils following Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Hermodactyli of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one dragme and a halfe Ginger Cinnamome Asarabacca Cloues and Mace of each one scrup Turbith and Epithymus of each one drag Saffron one scruple stamp each alone afterwards temper them togither and powre sufficient field Cipers water vpon it and then set it out to drie in the Sun Lastly powre more of the same water vpon it and let it drye againe to the end you may fashion Pils of it Secondly there is to be considered how that next after purging betwéene the spring and haruest the matter might be deriued towards another place and so to expell it which may be best of all done by those meanes which force vrine whereto these things following are to be vsed First the patient is to drinke about the space of fourtéene dayes euery morning fiue ounces of Asarabacca sugred or in the stéed thereof the water of Madder which is better There is also good for this both these things following Take Pease meale one scruple old Treacle halfe a dragme temper them togither with two â—â—nces of Smallage water and so drinke it and fast fiue howers after it Item take Trociscos de Eupatorio halfe a dragme Gromell séed Cinnamom and Carui of each fiue graines Benedicta laxatiua one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with two ounces of strong white wine then drinke it and fast fiue howers after it All that shall be hereafter mentioned consumeth the defluxions which be still setled in the ioynts then is the place of this disease to be rubbed softly and annoynted with this following according as the patient can suffer it Take vnripe Sallad oyle two ounces well parched salt one ounce annoint the ioints very warme with it and then wrap them in warme clothes The ioynts are to be also fomented with light red wine and vineger powred on hot stones that they may sweate well They are also to be annointed with this following Take Sagapenum one ounce Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each halfe an ounce Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce the Gum is to be dissolued in a little red Vineger and with Waxe make a salue thereof Another Take oyle of Roses and of Cammomill of each one ounce thrée yolks of egges Saffron grains temper them vse them togither After the annoynting you are to strew the powder of earthwormes vpon it and couer it close with shéepes wooll Or take oyle of Foxes oyle of earthwormes and washt Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Salt thrée dragms vse theÌ„ as before You are also to annoynt the same places with warme oile of Roses This following is also very highly commended Take Venice Sope three ounces and a halfe cut it verie thin and then let it seeth a waume or twaine in sixe ounces of the water of Fumitory afterwards you are to put vnto it the oyle of Euphorbium and of S. Iohns woort of each halfe an ounce oyle of Iuniper one ounce and a halfe oyle of Earthwormes one ounce let it then seeth vntill that the water be sodden away afterwards you are to put vnto it Mastick and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Sulfure vif Euphorbium and Pieretrum of each two drag and a halfe vse it as is aforesaid Oile of earth wormes The oyle of Earthwormes is especiall good for all paine of the ioints and for all frozen sinewes the which is made thus Take Earthwormes thrée ounces wash the same with Wine and powre vnto it twelue ounces of Sallad oyle Wine sixe ounces seeth them togither by a gentle fire vntill the Wine be sodden awaie afterwards strayne them thorough a cloth For this disease be all warme baths also requisite And if they cannot be gotten then are the same to be made by the aduice of a learned Phisition yet the most commodious time of bathing is from the middest of April to the end of May. And because that these defluxions be more manifest in the Spring and Haruest than in any other time of the yéere vnto which times we haue appropriated all these foresayd remedies therfore will we now teach what is to be done vnto it in winter For this is purging to be vsed againe and that in this maner following When as September is halfe past then are these pils to be taken once in the morning Take Pillulas de Agarico de Hermodactylis of each halfe a dragme Indy salt two graines make seuen Pils thereof with the Confection of Roses The day after is this following to be dronken the which is thus 8. or 10. daies togither to be coÌ„tinued Take the sirupe of Wormwood and Syrupum de Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce water of Hops or field Cipers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together afterwards is this following to be drunken Take the Confection Benedicta three dragmes Inda two dragmes and a halfe water of blew flower deluce two ounces temper them al together make it warme and drinke it Afterwards are the foresaid pils which be ordained to be vsed in Haruest beginning Take Aloe c. to be vsed throughout all the Winter As much as concerneth other things those remedies are to be vsed which be ordained to be vsed in Summer onely that they must be vsed in more quantitie like as it is aduised in Summer to take one dragme in Winter one dragme and a halfe so also with bathing otherwise You shall hereafter haue many sundrie things which may be vsed against the Gout or ioint diseases viz.
small Pockes in generall §. 3. CHildren are for the most part subiect vnto these diseases and also auncient folks otherwhiles And like as the same be perillous in yong children so be they more perillous in ancient people They do come also through many kinds of meanes sometimes like red spots also with waterish blisters which outwardly appeare cleane ouer ones bodie vpon the skin as big as Millet seede which at last drie away and fall off These be also to tell the troth not without great danger especially if they happen through cold not to breake out or if they haue appeared alreadie vpon the skinne on the outside and be strucken in againe for thereby do they make a narrownesse of the breast a short breath hoarsenesse disease of the throate or of the mouth and anguish of the whole bodie with great Agues The learned haue sought out the causes of this breaking out of the small Pocks Measels and such like therefore be they of opinion that one bringeth the cause of this sicknes with him out of his mothers wombe when he is borne For that because as the fruit is nourished of the finest bloud of his mothers Termes so doth the vncleanesse of that bloud remaine in the pores of the children and in other places mo which nature afterwards driueth out in due time And because that all humane creatures be through such meanes and nourishment sustained and fed in their mothers wombe therfore doth it seldome happen that any kind of people can be old without getting these Pocks or Measels wherof this cōmon false opinion is spread and growne amongst many people that all children must once haue these Pocks or Measels wherby many mothers which haue many children if any of them get the Pockes or Measels let them runne one amongst another whereby one child is infected of another and so do catch the Pocks or Measels saying besides the truth that it is better that they get them in their childhood than when they be growne in yeares But this is none other like as I haue said but a false opinion for one may be fréed of this sicknesse through a good diet There be also other causes mo concerning these maladies viz. stinking ayre which doth heate the bloud and other humors of the bodie and troubleth them Like as to be long conuersant in the warme Sunne also to ouercharge him with such meate which quickly corrupteth in the stomacke as fish and milke eaten together through much bad bloud through omitting an accustomed letting of bloud and such like causes moe The signes of these sicknesses be paine of the backe itch of the eares and of the nose which come of the vapours of the corrupt matter and are partly pestilentiall therefore they haue a frightfull sléepe and the pricking may be felt ouer the whole bodie With this they haue also a slothfulnesse in all parts rednesse of the face and of the eyes and somewhat swelling and they be so long pinched with sléepinesse vntill the Pockes do breake out vpon them euery where And although like as we haue admonished the Measels and the Pocks haue one kind of cause yet we will discourse of each apart as much as is possible Of the Measels §. 4. THis is as we haue said a common infirmitie of children and it also assayleth auncient and full growne people so that they ouer the whole bodie some lesse othersome more are besprinkled with red spots There is also great heate oftentimes with it and a pursiuenesse in the breast In this sicknes must one beware especially of cold yea of open ayre and of hot meate and drink And auncient persons are to order themselues as we shall shew in discourse of the small Pocks Common people do especially commend the Conserue of Eldern flowers and the same rubbed vpon the heated parts But what is further conuenient for this purpose you may make choice thereof according to the importance of the cause out of the description ensuing of the small Pockes what shall like you best Of the small Pockes §. 5. WHen as Children be assayled with these foresaid Measels or Pockes and they will not breake out then take oyle of Cammomill and good Wine of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter one dragme séeth it together vntill all the Wine be wasted and annoint the whole bodie with it when it is very well warmed This potion following is very good for all aged people and also for all young children Take Citron péels one quarter of an ounce sower Dates one quarter of an ounce Cicorie roots halfe an ounce the flowers of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe a handfull séeth them together in a pint of water vntill about the third part be consumed afterwards straine it and temper amongst it Sir Acetositatis Citri two ounces de Corticibus Citri de Succo Acetoso of each one ounce giue oftentimes a little of it for it is very méete and pleasant Item take Oliue leaues two handfuls Agrimonie one handfull séeth it all together in good Wine and drinke thereof euery morning thrée or foure spoonfuls it drieth vp all affluent humors But when these Pockes begin to fal away then are these means following to be vsed according to the importance of the cause Take Ceruse halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Camfere the quantitie of a Pease Saltpeter halfe a drag and two or thrée péeled Almonds wherewith you are to chafe the Camfere Afterwards temper one amongst the other and therewith annoint the place of the Pockes Or take Sallad oyle and Ceruse as before then temper them together with a little Vineger and rose-Rosewater and vse it as before Some do also aduise to take strong lye which is hereafter described against the burning of gunpowder Another sort of small Pockes which be called Swine pockes §. 6. LIke as we haue said before these kind of Pockes be much like to the other before mentioned and proceede also of the same cause sauing onely that these wherof we now write be bigger broader and also with greater anguish of the breast and of the breath therefore may all be vsed for this that is expressed for the trobled breast in the second Part the fift Chapter and 9. § aswell in old as in young people But especially is this salue following to be ordained for it Take fresh Butter oyle of sweet Almonds and Goose grease of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull Some do put vnto it halfe an ounce of Turpentine and one ounce of liquid Storax this is especiall good and also approued oftentimes Aged people be much aduised to eate none other thing but Barley pap or Oaten paps and to drinke Barley water Take fourtéene or fifteene Figs Pistacies one quarter of an ounce Fennell seede the seedes of Smallage and Lacca of each thrée dragmes Lentils one ounce and a halfe Dragagant halfe a dragme Roses Saunders burnt Iuorie and Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce
Sene leaues of each one dragme Fennell water and water of Hyssop of each two ounces make it warme and stéepe the rest the space of 24. houres in it afterwards drinke it warme in the morning early Or if so be that these melancholicke humors do bruise the Liuer most of all and the rest of the intrailes then is this following to be vsed Take Annis Spica Violet séede Cuscuta seed Sorrell séed and Masticke of each halfe a dragme Roses and the leaues of the wild Vine of each foure scruples séeth them all together in sixe ounces of water euen to the halfe take of this decoction and temper therein of the confection ad melancholiam Auicennae These be now the things whereby all such noysome humors may be diminished First it is to be considered how the grosse melancholike blood might be drawne from the vitall parts to the outside for this is very good after the vse of the former purgation that the patient do forcibly stir and exercise himselfe viz. to go a foot and to clime vp to the mountaines whereby natural heate might be prouoked and the matter consumed Secondly it is very good that he be rubbed from the necke along the backbone downewards and from the shoulders to the hands and from the thighes to the féete with hote clothes vntill the skin be very red Thirdly he shall bathe in this bath following morning and euening Take fresh or drie Fumitorie twelue ounces the Elecampane leaues Violet leaues and small Housléeke of each sixe ounces Cammomill Melilot and Spica Romana of each eight ounces séeth them together in so much water as is néedfull in this shall the patient bathe and be softly rubbed Fourthly prepare this salue following Take oyle of Sesamum sixe ounces Cammomill Dill séed Burrage flowers and Fumitorie of each one dragme flowers of Elecampane Dock seed of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all small steepe them and seeth them all together in the foresaid oile vnto the halfe afterwards annoint therewith the bodie twice or thrice a day and especially the whole backbone and also all other parts which are infected There is also vsed for this hote and blistering herbes viz. pouned wherewith the members may be rubbed whereby the bad humors be drawne outward toward the skin these herbes be Marierom Penniroyall wild Thime Nepe and Crowfoote which haue an especiall power for to draw out the melancholike humors towards the skinne changing them into water through the blisters which appeare after this chafing Some do vse Cantharides but they are too strong for they expell vrine very violently yea that the blood followeth with it and do excoriate the conduits of the vrine if the same be vsed at any one time in many places For this is also good boxing cups set on the outward members and the skin picked If so be that there be any other sorenesse or impostumation with it then haue you before in the second § how the patient is to parbrake the which is very méete for this But in these cases there is nothing better than to open the hemorrhoides which may be effected by the rubbing of fig-leaues or by the rubbing with the leaues of Comfrey also with rubbing with an hairen cloth which is stéeped in an Oxe gall There may also a small boxing cup be set vpon the fundament and when as the arsegut doth appeare and come forth then may the veines which do as then appeare be opened with a lancet and to let them bleed so long vntill that the thicke and grosse bloud do alter into cleare and thin bloud This is also to be done foure times a yeare for it is very commodious For to expell the matter of this sicknes by vrine §. 5. AFterwards it is also verie méete that this noysome matter be driuen out thorough the vrine for which you are to vse one ounce or more of the potion of Epithymo or of the water wherein Epithymus is decocted whereof the patient is in the morning and also at afternoone to drinke for that it driueth out a blacke and melancholike vrine Or take in the morning early one ounce of the iuice of Smallage Item take three ounces of the iuice of Pease or the decoction wherein Pease be boyled There is also Azure stone sodden in the water of Millet and take thereof three ounces Take Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Mirobalani indi thrée dragmes séeth them in nine ounces of Fennel water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth and wring it out hard and then drinke it The floures of Broome be also taken for this Madder Valerian and Mew of each one handfull let them séeth all together in eightéene ounces of water vnto the halfe and then drinke thereof foure or fiue ounces with powned Licorice and Gromell seed of each halfe a dragme tempered therewith Wherewith the Mouth and other parts are to be washed §. 6. TAke the decoction of Linséede foure ounces and Oxymel compositum two ounces temper them well together and wash the mouth ofteÌ„times with it alwaies twice before supper and two houres before diner You may also after the same manner chew Swines bread and spit it out againe or in stead thereof chew Agaricus which is more forcible and more safe Item prepare this gargaâ—isme ensuing Take Mirobalani Indi Violets Burrage floures and Buglosse floures of each one dragme the rootes of Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Indie salt one dragme the huskes of Sene one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together in twelue ounces of water euen to the halfe and vse it warme alwayes one houre before noone and an houre before supper to wit ten or twelue times together This ensuing is also much commended for the Leprosie if it be often washed therewith in the beginning Take Mirrhe and Sarâ—ocolla of each thrée dragmes Ireos rootes of Fumitorie of Mew and Hartwoort of each thrée quarters of an ounce blacke Helleâ—ore two ounces the séeds of Mallowes of Hollthocks of Fumitorie and the leaues of Elecampane of each thrée handfuls cut them and stampe them together afterwards let them séeth in two quarts of water vnto three pintes In like manner there is also much commended for this the golden water if that one do take a little and oftentimes thereof and do annoint the Leprosie therewith The oile of Tiles is also much commended in the beginning of the Leprosie But because the most principall cure of this Leprosie consisteth in consuming of the melancholike matter of this sicknesse and that the bloud must be well cleansed therefore will we to that end describe certaine good things beginning first with the least Whereby the bloud in the Leprosie shall be cleansed §. 7. TAke the water of Hops and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together and giue it in the Sommer cold and in the Winter warme Item Take the whay of Goates milke or of Sheepes milke and drinke thereof
And although this sicknesse when it hath long endured and is once rooted into the body be thought incurable yet neuerthelesse men must not disdaine the helpe and meanes which God the Lord hath ordained for the vse of man but pray hartily vnto him that he wil blesse them for the glory of his holy name Wherefore these rules following are to be obserued and imitated for thereby may be gathered a perfect cure of this sicknesse First it is néedfull for the languishing persons that they vse all things that may moysten and coole Secondly because these diseased persons must neither be purged nor warmed therefore the warme bath is also hurtful for thereby the heate is increased Thirdly al their meate and drinke must be cooling and moistning or at the leastwise temperate as barly pap Ptisana henbroth and Panada Fourthly the curing of this Hectica is like to that in the drouth of the stomacke whereof we haue written in the third part the second Chapter and seuenth § yet are cooling things hereto required by reason of the great heate of the Ague Fifthly if néede require that other meates are to be ministred vnto him which are not cooling as namely Wine and fresh broth yet neuerthelesse therewith are cooling things to be vsed Sixthly if the Ague proceede of any impostume or bruise of some other part then must speciall regard he had for the healing thereof and that the liuer be cooled and brought in good course Seuenthly a good coole aire is one of the principall helpes and therewith fresh linnen also that is washed in water where Roses Willow leaues or Trocisci de Camphora be steeped In like maner Rosewater is very commodious for it Eightly the smell of Campher Rose water fresh Poppie heads Roses Saunders and such like is very requisite and profitable for this patient Ninthly all cooling plaisters wherein no astringent things are intermingled are to be layd on his brest Tenthly if this diseased person desire to haue health then must he so far as is possible incline himselfe to sléepe and to all quietnesse and rest and keepe himselfe from thirst hunger pensiuenesse anger hatred and much sorrow Eleuenthly he must not sleepe vpon any thing but a mattresse Twelftly it is also maruellous good for this sicknesse to sléepe by the noise and rushing of waters or by springing fountaines It is very good to hang vp all gréene things about his bed or to sprinkle his chamber with the water wherein such herbes are or shall be sodden Thirtéenthly Goates milke or Asses milke whereof that is best of them that are fed in a medow where coole herbes grow is a most soueraigne medicine for this malady Fourtéenthly womens milke surpasseth all other milkes Fiftéenthly buttermilke is likewise very good for this sicknes Sixtéenthly to conclude for consumptions are all manner of milkes from the beginning to the ending thereof very excellent good and all good fresh henbroth sodden with Lettice Purslaine and veriuice is excéeding profitable for the patient But aboue all things speciall care is to be had that he obserue and kéepe a good diet wherefore he is to eate and drinke but little vsing alwayes such meates as do nourish wel to wit Fesants Partridges yong Quailes and such like as hens flesh Veale Mutton and Lambs broth c. wherein Lettice Purslaine and such like cooling herbes are sodden And as we haue declared before let him vse alwayes Goates milke or Asses milke and aboue al womans milke for all these are so highly commended for this disease that it is not possible to tell of any thing that may excéed them to helpe and cure this malady For if he vse any of these or any other good milke yet in such measure that he be not cloyed by taking too much thereof at once but to take it the oftener and namely betimes in the morning méetly warme or when it is new milked and that about two ounces thereof at once and then afterwards in the day time foure times more about three or foure ounces at once so that fiue draughts be taken within 24. houres His meate must be as is sayd Barley pap that is drest with fresh broth and pap of starch or that is made with grated bread and wherin also one of the foresayd herbes are sodden sometimes one of them and sometime another Pease broth wherein hens or any other thing is sodden or of it selfe is passing good The very best drinke for this disease is Barley water wherein sugar pennets is dissolued and to retaine the patients strength you are to permit vnto him thin white Wine that which is very cléere being mingled with faire water when he sitteth at meate but the mealtide being past let him drinke nothing but barly water They that are quelled with this maladie haue for the most part alwayes a very drie mouth drie toong and great thirst whereto prepare these confections following and hold them in his mouth to refresh the same therewith Take the séedes of Fleawort and Quince kernels of each thrée ounces steepe them seuen or eight houres together in luke-warme water presse out the muscilage put thereto afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces sugarcandie one ounce and a halfe starch as much as is méete for to make it in forme of a confection If you will haue it to drinke after the maner of a Iulep then leaue out the starch and put thereto the water of Purslaine and of Citruls of each eight ounces and so let it séeth a little together and lastly clarifie it with the white of an egge If one hold gréene Lettice or Purslaine in his mouth that refresheth it much You haue also in the third part the twefth chapter and tenth § and afterwards in the seuenteenth chapter and 7. § very many things which are all good against the thirst where you may haue choise of that which is best for this malady These cooling and comfortable medicines following are to be dayly vsed for refreshing and comforting namely conserues of Roses conserues of waterlillies and the sirupes of them both conserues of Cicorie In like maner also the rootes of the same in a sallad or confected are very meete for it The confected Citrons and the iuice thereof the iuice and sirupe of Orenges conserues of white Roses and all that is made thereof is for this purpose highly commended for they coole more than red Roses Secondly the kidneyes and backbone are also through this malady very much tormented with a great heate whereto is very commodious the salue of Roses wherewith he must be annointed six or seuen times in 24. houres Also it is very good to moisten the backbone often with milke and also to annoint it with oyle of Roses or with oyle of Violets Thirdly there happeneth otherwhiles to this patient that is féeble already a sore sweate which may cast the patient altogether downe which may by the foresayd meanes be hindered But if that will not helpe then besprinkle the face
ounce red and white Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe Camfere one scruple Ambra halfe a drag Muske 4. greines Paradise wood two scrup Citron pals halfe a drag Cinnamom Mace and Nutmegs of each a scrup red Storax half an ounce Laudanum one ounce beate them very small but dissolue the Laudanum with liquid Storax and then make thereof a pomander Another Take Roses Violets and flowers of Buglosse of each 2. scrup Myrrhe Calmus Nutmegs Spica of Indy Sandaraca Masticke of each a scrup Muske Amber of each halfe a scrup red white yellow Saunders of each a drag Roses 3. drag iuice of Purslaine of Oranges of each .4 ounces water Lillies parched Coriander of ech one quarter of an ounce red Coral burnt Iuorie of each half a drag sirupe of Citrons fine Bolus of each halfe an ounce Sealed earth a quarter of an ounce pown all that are to be powned except the Amber Muske set them in the Sun in a close stopped pot or on a warme furnace vntil all the iuice be dried in afterwards take foure ounces of Laudanum that is dissolued in Rosewater and vineger Turpentine washed in Rosewater as much as is néedfull for a masse and hereof make them PomaÌ„ders Item take Roses Cloues Mace Spica of Indy water Lilly flowers Violets Marioram Asarabacca Sâ—echas of each half a scrup red white Saunders red and white Corall the séed and péels of Citrons and Cucubes of each xv greines Saffron Ambra of each one scrup Camfer Frankinsence Mastick fine Bolus and Sandaraca of each halfe a scruple Paradise wood one dragme Muscus thrée greines Specierum cordialium halfe a dragme Laudanum one ounce and a halfe dissolue it in Rosewater and with the rest make a pomander Yet another at all furnished Apothecaries you may find diuers preparatiues of pomanders so that thou needest to adde nothing but Muske and Amber of the which we will describe foure sundry sorts Take Laudanum thrée ounces red Storax thrée dragmes Marioram gentle Roses Camfer red white and yellow Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe Cinnamom Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each a drag Paradise wood two scrup dissolue the Laudanum as is aforesaid and then make therof pomanders vntil such time as you wil adde some other thing to it The second is made as followeth Take Laudanum and Benzoin of each thrée drag Paradise wood and Cinnamom of each a drag and a halfe Cloues Nutmegs and Cucubes of each halfe a drag red white and yellow Saunders of each a drag Saffron a scruple powne all that is to be powned and forme thereof a pomander as before and if you list you may prepare it with Muscus Ambra and Camfere Thirdly take red Storax and flowers of Buglosse of each two scruples Cloues one dragm white and red Behen of each a scruple Paradise wood two scruples Myrrhe Calmus Nutmegs Spica of Indy Frankinsence Iuniper gum and Mastick of each halfe a dragm red yellow and white Saunders of each a drag Roses three drag Coriander a dragme and a halfe make it vp as aforesaid Fourthly take Roses two drag yellow and red Saunders of each a dragm and a halfe a scruple of Camfere Amber halfe a scrup Muscus foure greines Paradise wood two scruples Citron peels halfe a drag Cinnamom Mace and Nutmegs of each a drag red Storax half an ounce Laudanum an ounce afterwards make a pomander thereof as before Some take an ounce of pure Laudanum and cut the same as small as may be and mixe therwith powned Citron péels and their séeds of each a dragm Saffron and Camfer of each halfe a drag and tye them all together in a péece of sarsnet or if you will you may make a pomander of it tempering it with the iuice of Basill Preseruatiua or preseruatiues that defend men from the Plague §. 12. THere are also diuers things that men being in health may vse in the time of the Plague whereby they be not so soone infected of other men for the which first of all these simples are for the most part good to wit Citron séedes Scabious Pimpernell the great Rue Valerian Cicorie Sorrell and both their waters Elecampane Diptamus Gentian Tormentill Carduus Benedictus Angelica Bayberries one of these things holden in the mouth taken in powder or drunken are all especiall good against the Plague and they may be vsed in many other compositions as may be séene by these following All famous Phisitions do for this sicknesse counsell first that men should spéedily fly farre from the contagious places and returne backe againe with leysure for he that is a farre off from the Plague shall not be infected therewith euen as no man is slaine in the warres that is not present there Also it is to be noted as hath bene already said that men ought to be loose bodied and fréed from all superfluous humidities and vncleannesse Therfore those that are aboue the age of eleuen yeares are to be oftentimes purged with these common pils herafter described Also care must be taken that the heart and all other principall parts of the bodie be coÌ„forted and kept dry which may be done by the right Bole armoniack In like manner also with Mithridate and Treacle if that euery wéek or at the least euery ten dayes a dragme in waight be taken with the water of Sorrell sweating after it kéeping within dores all the day after Here is also to be noted when any one will take of this Treacle or Mithridate that he haue eaten nothing afore nor eate any thing afterwards in fiue or sixe howers But amongst all other medicins preseruatiues these last before mentioned pils beare the pricke price which are to be had at the Apothecaries called Pestilentiales Ruffi Communes de Tribus and sine Cura which the principall Phisitions haue described and commended so highly that it hath neuer bin séene that such as vsed the same orderly were killed of the Plague which also any one may at al times be the person yong or old vse without any danger for like as it is with a pot beginning to seeth it casteth vp scum and is cleansed through scumming euen so do these pils take away all superfluities and vncleannesse which is gathered together about the principall parts and preserue the bloud from all kindes of putrifaction These pilles are made in this sort Take Aloe one ounce Myrrhe and Saffron of each halfe an ounce beate them all together with good pleasant wine hereof are you to take euery weeke a dragme or euery third day thrée pils as big as a great pease and thereupon drinke a pretie draught of white wine that is delayed with Rosewater or with Sorrell water yet ought women with child to abstaine from them These pils are of great force in the time of the plague and do also driue out all superfluities of the stomacke Others take Aloe thrée quarters of an ounce Myrrhe thrée
dragmes Saffron one dragme Rubarb a quarter of an ounce prepared Agaricus one dragme Cloues Citron séedes and the péels and Spica of Indy of each a scruple Tormentill and red Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe fine Bolus thrée dragmes Camfer ten greines powne them well all together and make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons Item take the iuice of Sorrell the iuice of Buglosse and of Cicorie of each two ounces fine Bolus one ounce mixe them all together and stirre them often in 24. howers afterwards adde these things following Aloe thrée ounces Camfer two scruples Saphirs Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple Pearles one drag Citron seede a quarter of an ounce Paradise wood Basill séede Amber red Corall and Zeduarie of each eight greins Roses Violets Sorrell séede Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglosse of each half a scrup stampe them all together mingle it well and afterwards set in the Sunne or in any other warme place till all the iuice be dried away This being done then powre more iuice thereon againe and do so thrée times Now when you desire to vse hereof then make 7. pils of one drag with some Aqua composita and take hereof euery morning or euery euening one pill and that before meales These following are also highly commended Take of the common plague pilles that are herebefore described foure scruples prepared Agaricus halfe a dragme Zeduary and Angelica of each one dragme Rubarb one scruple Trociscorum Alhandali fiue greines then make pilles hereof with water of Carduus Benedictus take of these pils one drag once a wéeke thrée howers after supper and in the morning drinke a good draught of the decoction of Pease and eate somwhat three howers after Some vse these pils following Take Aloe and Agaricus of each one dragme Myrrhe and fine Bolus of each a quarter of an ounce Saffron a dragme then make pils hereof with Baulme water or water of Buglosse and so vse them as hath bene said These pils following do not purge but defend the hart and all inward parts from al bad infection take Paradise wood halfe a dragme burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one dragme Tormentill Citron séede Terra sigillata and red Coral of each halfe a scruple Sorrell seedes Diptamus and Zeduarie of each a scruple fine Bolus three dragms Species de gemmis frigidis a dragme and a halfe Lignum Balsami halfe a dragme Camfere foure greins then make hereof pils with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes These following are yet more forcible Take Paradise wood halfe a dragme Tormentill two scruples Diptamus one scruple Zeduary and Lignum Balsami of each halfe a dragme Saffron one scruple Cloues fiue greines Verueine halfe a drag burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one scruple red Corall and Sorrell séedes of each half a drag fine Bolus three ounces Species de gemmis frigidis thrée drag Camfere foure greines make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes Others that are good for the heart Take Citron séedes two dragmes Iacincts Smaragdes Doronicum and bones of a Stags hart of each one scruple Zeduarie wood of Paradise of each two scruples the rootes of fiue-leafed grasse or Cinquefoile of each a quarter of an ounce then make pils hereof with the sirupe of Citrons Of all these foresaid pils may be vsed which you please and when you please therewith to comfort the heart and defend it from all ill ayre There are also diuers Confections prepared for preseruatiues that you may vse in stead of pils to wit morning and euening whereby nature is ayded thereby the better to withstand the pestilent ayre For these take Terra sigillata white Diptamus fine Bolus Myrrhe Wormwood Rue Scabious Pimpernel Sorrel and Zeduarie of each a dragme Aristology Tormentill and Bay-berries of each a dragm and a halfe fiue or sixe kernels of Walnuts ten or twelue new Figges Mithridate and Treacle of each an ounce Saffron and Camfer of each a scruple Vnicornes horne prepared Pearles bones of a Stags hart burnt Harts horn and Smaragds of each one dragme and a halfe peeled séeds of Citrons halfe an ounce Mace one dragme powne all that is to be powned and then temper all together with sirupe of Citrons to the consistence of a confection This Consection killeth all venime of the plague and preserueth men very maruellously from her infections if they take thereof in the morning and euening to wit in winter time with a draught of Malmsey and in Summer with Rosewater But if you haue not these confections then vse that of Nuts and Rue that herebefore is described in the 11. § Another confection that is most excellent take Iuniper berries Cloues Elecampane rootes and Nutmegs of each one dragme Aristology and Gentian of each thrée quarters of an ounce Purslaine and Sorrell seedes Doronicum red and white Behen Spodium de Canna bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood red white Corall shauings of Iuorie Bayberries Mastick and Rue of each two scrup Figs Raisins and Dates of each one ounce Saffron two scruples Cinnamom and Licorice of each halfe an ounce Tormentill and rootes of Auence of each thrée dragms white Diptamus Almonds Pingles peeled Melon séede Gourd séedes Citrull seedes and peeled Cucumber séedes of each one ounce prepared Agaricus thrée quarters of an ounce the roote of Peucedanus Terra sigillata terra S. Pauli and fine Bolus of each two drag Momy and Zeduarie of each one dragme Camfer halfe a dragme Species Diatriasantalum and Diarrhodon of each two dragmes Citron peels Smaragdes of each a dragme Muscus a scruple Treacle Diatessaron and Mitridatium of each an ounce powne all that is to be powned and hereof make a Confection with sirupe of Citrons Item take conserues of Roses of Violets of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Smaragde Iacinct and Pearles of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart filed Gold Citron seedes fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each halfe a dragme powne all that is to be powned and then make thereof a confection with sirupe of Citrons Another Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse of each an ounce and a halfe Doronicum bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes Saphirs of each halfe a scruple yellow Saunders Cinquefoile and Paradise wood of each thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce wine of Granado and sirupe of Limons of each halfe an ounce ten or twelue gold leaues then mingle all together to the consistence of a confection Another that is very good and approued Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse and of Burrage of each sixe ounces Doronicum Zeduarie Basill séede Mace Saffron and Adiantum of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphirs of each a scryple Pearles one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold sirupe of Apples and of Citron peels of each two ounces Violet water three quarters of an ounce white Sugar foure ounces seeth the
each one scruple Spermaceti one drag good Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Camfer ten greines Sugarcandy one ounce then wring it out oftentimes and kéepe it stopt close Another Take drie red Rose leaues halfe an ounce flowers of Sage of Rosemary of Burrage and Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce Liriconfansy one ounce a halfe Balme Citron péeles Betonie and red Gilloflowers of each one ounce Nutmegs Mace of each one drag Cardamome Cucubes of each half a drag white yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce powne all these things very small then take a pint of good spirit of wine and put therein 2. ounces of Cucubes the stones taken out then cast them to the foresaid small beaten herbs and let them all stand to steepe in a warme place vntill that the wine hath drawne the vertue of these herbes vnto it the which wil be done in the space of two moneths You may also set it in the Sun all the whole Sommer straine it at last thorough a fine cloth You may also put vnto this Muske pretious stones Amber Perls Vnicornes horne and such like things for to strengthen the same therewith These foresaid vitall waters be especially good against all swouning against all debilitie of the braines and of the heart they strengthen also the sinewes the memorie they warme the chilled and bad digesting stomack wherin is much slime if they be taken fasting If one perceiue any losse of his memorie then is he to annoint therewith the forehead the hinder part of the head and the temples of the same They be also good against all lamenes of the Palsy they be also good against trembling shaking against swimming in the head and such like diseases But note that here will be too little burnt wine but one may take more In like manner you haue also in the 1. part the twelfth Chap. and 5. § a very good water of May Lillies This following is also an elixer of life and is thus prepared Take Rose-water 4. ounces water of Burrage and of Buglosse of each 3. ounces Manus Christi 1. ounce and a halfe prepared Pearles one drag and a halfe temper them all together and so giue it him that hath great heate of the head and of the Liuer and where as is great faintnesse of the heart This vitall water ensuing is very common at Augusta in Germany Take culled Cinnamom thrée quarters of an ounce Ginger halfe an ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Greines of each one quarter of an ounce Mace Lignum Aloes and long Pepper of each one drag Cardamome Masticke Cucubes Galingall and Calmus of each halfe a dragm Balme flowers sixe ounces Citron péeles thrée dragmes péeled Bayberries and Stechas of each one quarter of an ounce Rue Rosemarie Marioram Lauander Balme and Betony of each halfe a handfull Indy Spica and Beuercod of each halfe a drag steepe them all together in two quarts of Muscadel or in any other strong wine and let it stand so 10. or 12. hours space Afterwards distill it in seething water then are you to hang Muske and Amber of each fiftéene graines to wit in a fine cloth and then kéepe it close stopt This following is a very odoriferous water to be vsed for what one will Take the flowers of Spike and Lauander flowers of each one handfull Cloues Cinnamom Nutmegs Mace of each one dragme and a halfe Muske the quantitie of a pease then powre vnto it thrée pints of Rosewater and so set it in the Sunne There is yet another odoriferous water in the sixt part in the fiftéene chap. and 5. § which may also be vsed for diuers purposes Cinnamom water is also exhibited to sicke folkes for a strengthening and they are annointed therwith and is to be further vsed for many Confections Marchpanes and other pleasanties the which is thus to be made Take foure ounces of good Cinnamome pown it very smal and put it into an helme afterwards powre a pint of water vpon it and lute it close then distill it in seething water and that which commeth out first is whitish and strongest and is onely to be kept and the rest to be receiued in another glasse The 7. Chapter Of Hand waters TAke Lauander or Spikenard where out the water is before distilled and powre as much raine water vnto it vnill the helme be more than halfe full afterwards distill it in seething water and set it in the sunne it smelleth strong enough and it remaineth good certaine moneths For to make May cheese §. 1. TAke a new earthen pot wash it well with hote water rub it with Salt within afterwards make a hole in the bottome and put in a small tap then take fresh milked milke and rennet it like as a Chéese is wont to be rennetted and so let it stand from morning to euening then plucke out the tap that the whay may runne out afterwards put euery day a saucerfull of new milke with it according to that there is much or little in the pot stirre it well about and then let euery euening the whay run out besides al this you are to salt the milk a litle in rennetting of it How to make wafers of Sugar §. 2. WHat the Wafers be which are woont to be set vpon the table a nights is well knowne to all men thus for to confect them and to make them onely of Sugar is to be done Take faire white Sugar powned very small and sifted thorough a fine sieue make past thereof with Dragagant dissolued in Rosewater the which is to be stamped in a mortar to the end you may make thereof thin flat wafers this being done then is the same beneath and aboue to be bestrewed with well powned Sugar that it cleaue not too then wind them on a round stick lay them vpon a sieue to drie to wit in a warme place but not in the sun if you will you may also put Muscus vnto it In like maner you may take for it powned Sugar Cinnamom tempered together roule the same also vpon a round staffe with dissolued Dragagant the which being bound to the space of fourtéene dayes may remaine good and they are made like Cinnamom pipes Hony water Hydromel §. 3. HOny water or our course Meade do the Grecians cal Hydromel and the Latinists Aquam mulsam this water is to be vsed for many things and especially in Phisicke for two kinds of things the first if one will loose the belly or procure vomit then temper the same with two parts of old raine water and one part of Hony and so let it stand in the Sunne This Hony water is to be tempered with oyle if the cause require it and being lukewarme vsed for vomiting the other Hony water is to be sodden and vsed also for many kinds of things as we in this booke haue in many places declared The eighth Chapter For to make Iuleps IVleps are made after
Eies described 65 Eies paines remedied 66 Eie water for all paines of the eies 76 Eie powder 66 Eies blearednesse called Ophthalmia 67 Eies that be red 68 Eie salue 69 Eies full of heate remedied ibid. Eies full of blisters 70 Eie water of the Emperour Fredericke 88 Eies how they are defended on all sides 59 Eies hurt with the haires of the eyelids 64 Eies that itch and are sore 70 Eies that runne and water 71 Eies that runne of a cold cause 73 Eyes that do matter 74 Eies impostumed of externall causes 76 Eies that bake together in the sleepe ibid. Eies spotted 77 Eies before which Gnats or Flies seeme to swarme 80 Eies growen ouer with skins 83 Eies mistie and cloudie 85 Eies that sticke out as if they would fall out 86 Eies that are burned 87 Eies that haue had a blow ibid. Eies wherein something is gotten ibid. Eies that are best by day or by night 91 Eies that are blind 87. 92 Eies squintnesse 92 Eie beames dilation 85 Eie corners fistulaes 76. 79 Eie corners infections 66. 67 Eielids that will grow together 64 Eielids turned 63 Eielids with Warts ibid. Eielids chapped ibid. Eielids itching 62 Eielids swolne diuersly 60 Eielids description 59 Eie waters and other things diuersly prepared 72. 76. Eie water for running eies 71. 72 Eie salue for all kinde of running and mattering 72. 75. 76. Electuary of Calmus prepared diuersly 705 Electuary for giddinesse of the head 123 Electuarium de Psyllio 734 Electuarium Diaphoenicon ibid. Electuarium de Citro 326 Elecampane rootes confected 711 Electuarium de succo rosarum 735 Electuarium de Sebesten 362 Electuarium vitae 737 Electuarium de Manna 732 Electuaries moe 731. 733. 734. 735. c. Eluxation of the ioynts 536 Emperour Charles his prescriptions and rules in the Gout 546 Epithymus or Dodder prepared 11 Eryngus rootes preserued 717 Esula prepared and vsed 15 Euphorbium prepared 11 Euphorbium vsed ibid. Excoriation of the bladder 473 Extraction for al obstructions and binding of the body 398 399 Exhortation to the keepers of the infected with the plague 680 Exulceration in the Kidneyes 447 Exulcerations in the stomacke 376 F. FAces description 56 Faces rednesse 58 Faces pushes and heate ibid. Face how to cleere it 59 Fals blowes and bruises cause many sicknesses 684. Falling sicknesse Epilepsia 151 Falling sicknesse in children 152 Fat of mans body described 616 Fat 's of diuers beasts prepared 11 looke Marrowes Fatnesse her troublesomnesse to man 616 Feare and frighting 383 Feetes diseases how cured 526 Felon or Ancome of the fingers 525 Feuer burning called Causon 638 Fingers described 522 Fingers numbed 522. 523 Fingers numbed through bruises 523 Fistulaes causes and signes 568. 569 Fistulaes description 568 Fistula in the corner of the eye 79 Fistula in the gums 175 Fistula in the breasts 211 Fistula in the arsegut 316 To cause flesh to grow in wounds 601 Fleshes description 615 Fixe and red flixe 343. 352 Flood too aboundant after deliuerie of childe 517. Flowers how long they may be kept 7 Flowers in women looke Termes Flowers of women in generall 476 Flowers how to preferre them 477 Flowers obstruction how remedied 478. 479. 480. 482. Flowers excessiue course how to be stopped 484. Fluxe of seed through heat looke running of the raines Fluxe of seed in sleepe 293 Fluxe of seed through cold ibid. Fluxe white in women how to be remedied 488. Fomentations for the stomacke 334 Fractures of bones 549 Frensinesse 124 Frensinesse of blood 127 Frensinesse with a hot ague 125. 126. Friction in the falling euill 159 Fruites of all sortes how to keepe them fresh 725. Fruites increase in the wombe 503 Fruites weaknesse in the mothers wombe 506 Fruitfulnesse how it is caused in man and woman 300. Fruitfulnesse her signes 502 Fruitfulnesse in woman how furthered 296 G. GAlbanum plaister prepared 487 Galbanum plaister Galen ibid. Gals description 407 Gallia muscata prepared 342 Gargarismes for all infirmities of the mouth 164. Gargarisme for giddinesse of the head 123 Gargarisme for losse of speech 173 Gargarisme for rheumes 196 Generation members 274 Giddinesse of the head 121 Ginger prepared 715 Glisters diuersly prepared 709 Golden Egge prepared 669 Gloues how to perfume 521 Going il after the gout in the feete how to remedie it 547 Gout 527 Gouts signes ibid. Goutes rules that are to be obserued 528 529. Gout of the hands called Chiragra 531 Gout in the feete 540 Gout of the feete his preseruatiues 542 Gout of the feete how to preuent it 541 Gout of the feete or Podagra how purged 543. Gout of the feete which is cold 545 Gout of the feete his remedies 542 543 544. Gout of the hips called Sciatica 531 Grapes preserued 725 Gratia Dei plaister 566 Grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes 451 Grauels increase hindered 452 To expell grauell 454 Outward remedies for the grauell 461 Grauels paine delayed 454 Grauell remedied 454. 455. c. Griping of the heart 270 Groynes swolne 274 Gumme Amoniacke looke Ammoniacum Gums of the teeth 173 Gums bleeding 174 Gums vlcer 161 Gums fistuled 175 Gums resoluing 176 Gums putrifying ibid. Gums impostumating 173 Gunpouder burning 594 Guts paine looke Bowels paine H. HAgge or mare 150 Haires description 45 Haire to make it to grow 46 Haire made yellow ibid. Haire made blacke ibid. Haire made to curle 47 Haire that it waxe not gray ibid. Haire taken away ibid. Haire drawne out 47. 48 Haire infected diuersly 48 Haires falling out preuented 48. 49 Haire on the breasts what it signifieth 211 Hands end and vse 520 Hands description ibid. Hands how to keepe them cleane ibid. Hands how to make them sweete 521 Hands that are scabbed ibid. Hands that are chapped ibid. Hand waters or lotion for the hands 521 522 523. Hardnesse of the Matrix or Mother 495 Hartburning 334 Hearts heauinesse 271 Hearts panting or beating 263 Hearts panting through heate 264 Hearts panting through a bad stomacke 271 Hearts panting through cold 268 Hearts panting through frighting 271 Hearts oppression 260 Hearts description 256. 257 Hearts infirmities in generall 258 Headach 30 Headach Hemicrania 35 Headach Congelatio 30. 136 Headaches causes 31 Headach with an ague and a laske 33 Heahach of inanition 35 Headaches Hemicraniae and Cephalaeae cured ibid. Headaches remedies ibid. Headach of the Sunne 36 Headach of drukennesse ibid. Headach of blowes or falles 37 Headach of colde ibid. Headach of colde and an especial remedie for it 39. Headaches that be old 195 Head which is cold how to purge it 37 Head broken out 51 Head broken out healed 51. 52 Heads giddinesse looke giddinesse of the head Head veines vse in opening of it 24 Head wounded 43. 54 Hearing that is bad 107 Hearing diminished 113 Healthy how preserued from infection of the plague 654 What exercise is to be vsed of them 658 How their dwellings ought to be 656 Their gouernement without doores 660 Heate of vrine looke Vrine that scaldeth Heate of vlcers