the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
Cicorie and of Buglosse of each one ounce three mornings togither and one of the foresayd purgations after it The Oxymel is highly commended for this sicknesse These pils following are verie forcible for to auoide water take the iuice of wild Cucumbers which is Elaterium and the iuice of Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Rapontica one quarter of an ounce Aloe one dragme Diagridion one scruple Pease meale Cinnamom Spica Lignum Aloes of each halfe a scruple make pils thereof with the iuice of Smallage and giue him one dragme at once thereof at the most Now for to cleanse the head you are to vse these things following which you can get as the iuice of wild Cucumbers and of Swines bread of garden Cresses Horehound tempered with womans milke and drawne vp thorow the nose and afterwards to lye downe vpon the backs These things following do cleanse the grosse Cholera which remaineth still in the head doth take away all the yellow iaundise with them For this are verie necessarie all cooling and preparatiue potions with sirrupe of Endiue and of Purslaine tempered togither and chiefly if any obstruction of the liuer be present for which this sirrupe following is also verie fit Take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Cicorie Melilot Harts tong and Venus haire of each one handfull twentie or fiue and twentie Prunes séeds of Melons of Pompeons Cucumbers of Gourds roots of Cypresse of Capers Dragon rootes of each one dragme beate them all grosse and let them séeth togither in six and thirtie ounces of water euen to the halfe Afterwards séeth in this decoction fower and twentie ounces of Sugar or Hony and clarifie it vntill there be a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Cicorie of each a handfull wild Endiue and Priest crowne of each two handfuls séedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourds Lacca Spiknard Wormwood and the rootes of Smallage of each halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce white Vineger thrée dragmes Sugar twelue ounces and then make a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Venus haire of each two handfuls Fennell séed Parsley séede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi Spica romana of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please make thereof a sirrupe For the obstruction of the liuer in the beginning of the 4. § there is also a confection which is verie fit for this purpose Of all drinkes which this patient may drinke there is nothing more méete for this sicknesse then the whaie of milke whereof he is to drinke euerie morning three weekes togither a good draught at each time for this whaie doth clense the bloud especially if there be mixed with it the iuice of Fumitorie And the same is also good for all itches scurffes Item that the innermost skinne of a hens gissard also a Partridge dried and beaten to pouder giue him the waight of a dragme thereof in wine or Cicorie water and let the patient fast fiue howers after it Another The innermost skinne of a pullets gissard or crop and the rootes of Auence of each a like quantitie seeth them in wine the space that you would seeth an egge and drinke thereof morning and euening and fast an howre vpon it Item take fower ounces of Gentian Fennell rootes fiue ounces Smallage rootes two ounces and a halfe wash the same verie cleane and cut them in peeces let them séeth al togither with sufficient water afterwards wring them wel out through a bag and then let this decoction boyle vntil it be as thick as hony then giue therof two ounces at each time This medicine is also especiall good for all phlegmatick Agues wherewith the yellow iaundies be mixed Item for al dropsies all paine of the Kidneies paine of the wombe for all venome and it is to be giuen them that haue an Ague with any kinde of cooling water and when there is no Ague with a little Wine Some do séeth it also with Sugar the which is best of all Item there be moreouer good to drinke for this yellow iaundies the waters of Cicorie of Sorrel and of Wormewood but the iuice of these herbs be much more forcible These herbs be also decocted togither or each apart and the decoction dronken warme Item the yellow seede of the white Lilie dryed and powdred and one dragme thereof taken is an especiall thing in this disease The same vertue hath grated Iuorie After purging and the vse of all these foresayd things then may any outward things be vsed whereby to weare away the yellownes of the body and to consume it For this is also much aduised that all yellow colours are to be fixed before the patients eyes for nature doth the easier expell the yellownesse out of the bodie Also take Endiue water and Rose water of each foure ounces red and white Saunders of each one dragme temper them lay them ouer the Liuer Item vse the Saunders salue which before in the sixt Chapter in the end of the first § is described Or take a spoonefull of good Honie and boyle the same in a little pot in hot water and stirre it well about then put as much wheaten floure vnto it as you can take vp with two fingers and temper a good deale of Saffron amongst it yet more alwayes for an old man then for a young man spread of it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the Nauel when it is then dry take afresh againe And you are to continue this certaine daies togither to wit when the yellow iaundies be at the chief highest but one may not lye longer vpon it then vpon the other For bathing take wild Thyme watercresses Alehoofe Iuniper rindes Elderne floures let this séeth well togither and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones Item take Mugwort Marierom wild Thyme Iuniper sprigs of each one handfull chop them small and let them séeth in two bags then lay one vpon the belly and another behind vpon the raynes and therewith let the patient sweate Also this Lie following may be vsed for the head Take Betony Cammomill and Sage of each one handfull Marierom Spica Romana of each halfe a handfull Sene leaues thrée ounces Stechas two ounces chop all small and séeth them togither in a good deale of water and make Lie thereof it will continue good a whole moneth For this hote yellow Iaundies is good al that which penetrateth cleanseth and openeth the Liuer to wit Sorrell Endiue Nightshade winter Cherries Orage the iuice of Wormewood Venus haire roots of Cicorie and Sperage Verueine and the water of the same herbs decocted in well water and clarified with Hony or Sugar and so made into a Potion And for conclusion of this heate there is good heede to be taken whether the patient be abounding of bloud and hath full veines and also hath not bin let bloud
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
and the whole body often with this water following Take twelue ounces of Rose water one quarter of an ounce of Camfere Puâ—slaine séedes and red Saunders of each a dragme one quarter of an ounce of starch mingle them all together This drinke following is also highly commended Take sixe or seuen riuer Crabs lay them in a quart of water then cast therein a hanfull of ashes and let them stand foure houres long afterwards rub then wel therwith and wash them cleane with faire water thrée or foure times and so seeth them and take the tayles of them cut them very small and séeth them againe with a quart of barley water till they be almost consumed then straine the broth through a cloth and giue thereof thrée or foure ounces euery time to the patient to drinke when you will But if you will haue this water to coole more and nourish lesse then séeth the Crabs whole and vncut and not so long time as is aforesaid After this maner may you also dresse a Tortoyse that liueth in fresh water and is excellent good for this disease The small fishes that are taken in fresh waters are very commodious for this disease if they be taken without spice In the description of the consumption Phthisis in the second part the fifth chapter and 22. § are many kinds of remedies prescribed for this Hectica and afterwards also in the sixth chapter of the panting of the heart through heate are diuers cullises described that are very good and profitable to be drunken You may also prepare these confections following for the same take of the white flesh of a yong Hen or capon sixe ounces starch one ounce and a halfe new oyle of swéete Almonds sixe ounces fiue whites of new layd egges let the oyle starch and egges séeth together on a soft fire vntill it be thicke afterwards mingle the flesh of a Capon being chopt small amongst them and make cakes thereof whereof the patient may vse a little at each time and as often as him pleaseth which also is as good as if he tooke much at once seldome and better Or prepare this following take white Poppie séedes péeled séedes of Melons Citruls Cucumbers and of Pompeons of each a quarter of an ounce Almonds Hasell nuts Pistacies all of them shaled and Sebestes of each thrée dragmes Pingles that haue bin stéeped 24. houres before in Rose water fiue dragmes conserues of Burrage Buglosse and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one quarter of an ounce conserue of Roses fiue dragmes Manus Christi with pearles and sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce rosted Capons flesh two ounces white flesh of Hens that is stuft and drest with Buglosse Baulme Burrage and Endiue thrée ounces cut both of these small and then mingle therewith Species Diambra and de Gemmis of each halfe a dragme Doronicum Saffron Cinnamom Roses and red Coral of each fiue dragmes Species Diatriasantalon and grains prepared pearles a quarter of an ounce sugar sodden as thicke as hony as much as néede requireth for to make a confection mingle them well and vse it as aforesaid one quarter of an ounce at once There is also vsually made for this a confection of oyle of swéete Almonds starch and sugar The preserued Gourds are also wonderfull good against this vnnaturall heate Of the Ague Hectica with a paine in the breast Empyema and Phthisis §. 1. IN this compounded Ague which is placed amongst the Putridas or putrified Agues there doth appéere besides the former signes cold and a very stifnesse of cold which commeth at vncertaine times sometimes by day and otherwhiles by night and that alwayes vnstedfast which hapneth by the diuersitie of the humors whereof now the one and then the other is stirred vp and inflamed The corruption which is gathered together in the breast out of the head or out of the veines doth chiefly cause this consumption which lieth there putrified and mingled with the blood iâ— cast out and expelled and albeit that this kind of consumption and also the former be incurable yet you must be maruellous diligent by these meanes following to accomplish health is far as it is possible First therefore you must refraine and shun all things that are sharpe and salt as Mustard Radishes Onions Garlicke and such like Item all flatulent and windy things and all that is cold by nature and hard of digestion as vnsodden milke porredge of pease or beanes vnleauened and dough baked bread Veriuice and Limons c. His drinke must be good common cléere Béere or any thin red swéete Wine but he must refraine from strong wine and béere but if he cannot beare wine nor béere then giue him to drink good sugred Barley water Yong lambes flesh yong swine Muttons of a yéere old and calues are very wholsome meate for him Also Larkes wood fowles Partridges Fesants and Hares and specially riuer Crabs sod in barly water or milke are passing good Coleworts sodden stewed Barley drest with starch Calues féet sodden in vineger the lights of all beasts but chiefly of Foxes and Hogs rere sodden egs or the same drest with other meate fresh butter and chéese but little salted milke pap thrée or foure drie figs eaten before meales and sweete Pomegranates rosted in the warme ashes are all of them much nourishing After meate let him also eate thrée or foure rosted Hasell nuts and Saffron and Cinnamome in his meate measurably These confections following are also most commodious for him Take white Poppie séedes an ounce rosted flesh of a Capon foure ounces starch thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Pingles foure ounces péeled Almonds three ounces Roses thrée dragmes yellow Saunders and Mace of each a quarter of an ounce Cinnamome thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounces Lignum Aloes two dragmes and a halfe Nutmegs a dragme Amber two scruples Musk sixe graines fresh oyle of swéet Almonds foure ounces sugar which is sodden with Rose water and Baulme water as much as néede requireth for a confection mingle all these well together beaten and shread small take thereof euery morning and euening halfe an ounce euery time before meate And when as this disease falleth out of the head into the breast and that this Ague Hectica hath from thence her beginning then must special care be had for to comfort the braines which may thus be compassed First let the head be shorne bald and then vpon the naked shorne head lay this plaister following Take Laudanum a dragme and a halfe Rosin and red Storax of each thrée quarters of an ounce Masticke Roses and white Corall of each halfe a dragme Sandaraca a dragme and a halfe Mace two scruples Cloues one scruple dissolue the gum and rosin in vineger that is not too eager then mingle it all together with molten waxe and make thereof two round plaisters which you may lay thereon now one and then another Secondly take a little péece of Masticke chew the same once a day
each a drag Roses Basill Rosemarie Lauander blossomes of each halfe a drag all dried and beaten to powder and then mingle the same with the dowe of the Sope and take oyle of Spikenard and rubbing your hands therewithall then make vp the bals Also prepare or dresse the Sope in like sort as before is mentioned and then mingle therewithall these powders hereafter following to wit Lauander halfe an ounce Roses Marioram Basill of each a quarter of an ounce Ireos 3. quarters of an ounce Benzoin Styrax Calamita Stechas of each a drag Spike a quarter of an ounce and mingle them with Rose water Then annoint the temples of the head and it will giue a very sweet smell or fume and comfort the head and braine Also take of the foresaid Sope prepared in the like manner as before is specified two ounces and mixe therewithall a quarter of an ounce of Agaricke Ireos Cloues of each half a dragme Camfire a scrup Then make bals thereof in what sort you desire them Also take Venice Sope foure ounces Ireos Cloues Betonie of each thrée dragm Marioram Macis Galigan Lignum Aloes Ciperus Calmus Sandaracha of each a scrup-liquid Stirax a drag and a halfe Muske foure graines then dresse the Sope with Lauander water as before is specified Also heretofore in Chap. 1. § 2. is mentioned how the strong smell of the Sope may be taken away and made very commodious and fit for vse to diuerse purposes Here is to be noted that if the bals be for present vse then are the bags herafter mentioned not néedfull but for the bags you are to take drie Betonie a M. Borage Melilot Millet a little dried in a pan of each halfe an ounce Rosemarie flowers Stechas of each a quarter of an ounce make the bag so great as the place of the griefe and put the same therein and lay it to the place where the griefe is This following is stronger Take drie Betonie Rue of each half a M. Rosemarie blossomes Stechas of each an ounce Basill séede Rue of each halfe an ounce beate them in a mortar together and put them in a little bag and lay them to the head Millet scorched or dried a quarterne the like quantitie of salt and also as much Cammomill put them in a little bag and lay them warme vpon the head this is also very good Also take Stechas Cammomill wild Mints Marioram Bay leaues of each a handfull Sene leaues Cyprus Citron shels of each two drag Cubebs Nutmegs Cloues of each a drag Macis Spike of India Ciprus rootes Calmus of each two drag beate these together in a mortar then put the same into two litle bagges and if thou wilt haue it warmer then take Doues doung and Mustard séede of each thrée dragmes Beuer cod and Euphorbium of each a dragme Note also very specially that neither Roses nor other stopping things be put in the bags neither are these plaisters following in any wise seruiceable and although they be strong yet do they but hinder the diuiding of the matter Therefore you shall not vse the bagges in certaine houres after you haue washed it with the Sope before mentioned A powder for the head Take Nutmegs Macis Rosemarie Cloues Frankencense Marioram Lauander Stechas of each a like quantitie beate it small and rub the head well therewithall vpon the seame of the head and then couer and kéepe warme the head with a cap that the smell of the powders may the longer remaine Also take Betonie Marioram Stechas Roses of each a M. Sage Rue course Marioram of each halfe so much Rosemarie two drag Citron shels one ounce Barke of Frankencense Myrrhe Frankincense Mastix Sandaracha of each halfe an ounce Cloues halfe a drag beate them all into powder This is very good for the moist and rheumaticke head to drie it and to procure warmth Plaisters and salues Take Aloes Penniroyall Citron shels wilde Mints Sandaracha Frankencense of each halfe an ounce oile of Roses one ounce Laudanum sixe ounces beate these small in a warme mortar with a warme pestell put thereunto sixe ounces of molten waxe the other being very small beaten then spread it vpon leather and couer it ouer with red farsnet this shalt thou lay vpon the head of the partie grieued in the morning whilest he is fasting this drieth very strongly warmeth the head and comforteth the braines Another Take of the best Laudanum two ounces Maces fiue dragm Millet that is scorched or dried two drag Turpentine and oyle of Cammomil so much as shall be néedfull for one plaister and then vse the same as before is mentioned Some take foure ounces of Laudanum and Horehound in the place of Mace This plaister following is very strong and of great heate Take Beuer cod Euphorbium Pepper white Mustard séede Styrax Calamita Rue Horehound of each a like quantitie this beate all together with wine vntill it be like dowe and therof make cakes of a like waight let them drie When you will vse them rub them with oyle of Costus otherwise Balsam or Cammomill oyle vntill it be made fit for a plaister or a salue then lay it vpon the forehead for it is very good for any old or cold paine of the head but lay it not vnto the forehead onely but also drop some into the eares and it will be very warme and therefore I do not counsell you to take much thereof This is of speciall account Treacle or Mithridate with the iuice of bruised Mints make it thicke as pap and then annoint the forehead therewithall in the time of rest and principally in Hemicrania and where you find the head most cold there vse it oftenest Also take the rootes of wild Cucumbers wormwood of each two M. séeth them together with a soft fire in thrée ounces of water and as much common oyle vntill it be sodden to a third part With this moisture rub the head till it be wet and of the rest make a plaister and lay it to the place of the paine Also take of the vsuall plaister Apostolicon foure ounces make it soft with the oyle of Cammomill and then rub the place of the paine therewithall Alwaies vnderstanding that the haire is to be first cut off very close Hereunto may also of the oyle of Spikenard of Costus of Beuer cod of Cammomill and Dil be vsed of each a like quantitie and then stamping all the foresaid herbes and rootes with them Addition The hearbes and simples that are vsed in a cold head-ach are these Iris Illirica oile of the wild Oliue oile of Almonds the seedes of the chast tree bitter Almonds Lana succida water Mints the iuice of Iuie leaues Aloes Mints wild Time Melilot the leaues of Baccharis Rue Scammonie Annise Dog Fennell Git the lesser Coniza the young leaues of Anagyris Rhodia radix Hippoglossa Laurell iuice of the wild Cucumbers Galingale Nardus Italica Lauander Valerian with the roote Cinnamom Cubebs Muske Siuet Amber oile of Baies Mummie Mastick Agarick water of
with the white of an egge Lastly put thereto two graines of Muscus and one dragme and a halfe of Camfere make a salue thereof and therewith annoint the face But this following is aboue all other to be commended Take Litharge of gold which is well decocted in vineger and well cleansed bruse it very small and temper with it oyle of roses but amongst all the rest this is to be noted for a rule that the vse of this foresaid nointing is not to be done but onely at the euening For to make a cleane face §. 4. IF any one haue a dark and sad countenance he is to be purged with Hiera piera afterwards he must euery morning fasting take Gentian Wormewood bitter Almonds of each one drag beaten small together with thrée ounces of Wormwood water certaine dayes together he is to wash the face oftentimes with vineger tempered with Rose water This following is also very sure Take Litharge of siluer an ounce and a halfe Sulfure viue halfe an ounce Camfere half a drag burnt Allume half an ounce make a fine powder thereof put thereto the water of Lillies and of Liriconfansie of Beane blossoms Salomons seale of each one ounce and a halfe keepe it in a close stopt glasse and when you will vse it stirre it well about Item take Beanes as many as you will steepe them all a night in sharp vineger take off the péeles drie them in a warme place beate them to powder and put some of it in warme water when you will go to bed and wash thy face therewith It is counselled for women that if they wil haue a wel colored face to eate oftentimes course Marierom for this it is also good to drinke wine for it maintaineth a liuely colour In like maner are much commended for this purpose the Aromaticall wines that haue rosemary in them not onely to be drunken but to wash the face also with them Betonie infused a whole night in wine maketh a good colour For congealed bloud after any blowes remaining §. 5. TAke Comfrey daisie leaues of each thrée ounces Cammomil Melilot of each one ounce Beane meale two ounces boile them together and beate it to grout when you wil vse it adde oile of Roses to it Item this following is very good take Comfrey Daisie leaues of each thrée ounces Cammomill Melilot of each two ounces Saffron one drag Beane meale foure ounces fresh butter two ounces Fenegréek meale one ounce and a halfe boile the rootes in water beate them and make a plaister of it this is very good for bruised members with congealed blood it suppleth and swageth the paine put also Wormewood and Comin vnto it of each one ounce then hath it not his like How to make a good colour §. 6. TAke the roots of Cuccowpint Ceruse of each half an ounce beaten small mixe them with Rose water and annoint the chéekes with it or take the lesser thrée leafed grasse beaten rub the face therewith it maketh a faire face and a cléere skin It is also ascribed to the Mithridate that it should also beautifie the face but yong hot folkes are not to vse it The sixt Chapter Eyebrowes Eyelids with all that appertaineth vnto them IN the beginning of the description of the face in the fift chapter is shewed that the same hath his entrance at the eyebrowes therefore doth the diuision of mans body require somewhat to be written of the same This is here specially to be noted that prouident nature doth wonderfully defend the eyes not onely with these but also with other members mo from many kinds of externall accidents for first there be Cilia the haire of the lids placed on the edges of the vppermost and vndermost ey-lids which stand out before with hard and stiffe haires whereby all smal things as flies dust and such like that might fall into the eyes should be therewith withstood Afterwards are both the eyelids Palpebrae whereof the vndermost standeth very fast and the vppermost most swiftly moueth so that it couereth the eye against all that might fall into it they do thus preserue and keepe the eyes in the sléepe they couer them from the ayrie light to the end that the whole body might the more commodiously take rest Thirdly they haue aboue in the end of the forehead as is said Supercilia eyebrowes set vpon a high bulke garnished with much haire to the end that all things that might fal downe and specially the sweate which thorough his salt nature might do the eyes much harme should be kept of these as it were with a bulwarke or fortresse And in like sort haue both the chéekes also two bunches in the midst of the two sides separated defended with the height of the nose like as also the outsides both of them with hard bones preserued and prouided for called of the Anatomists Ingales the temples so that the eyes are on euery side fortified that they might lie the surer in the depth It is not néedful to speake more ampler thereof but onely to discourse of those things which are conuenient for the healing of the maladies that are incident to those members Of the swelling of the eyelid §. 1. THere do fall many maladies into the eylids as swellings impostumes blerednes and other mo which maladies also oftentimes with the falling away of the haire are augmented But we wil begin with the swelling these haue many causes first that the defluction of the eielids cometh of a grosse and tough humor their rednes itch and smart make manifest whereby they be exulcerated and the haire falling away by no meanes groweth againe as long as this disease endureth the which doth hurt the sight and the eyes This patient first of all if he be full of blood is to haue a veine opened afterwards to prepare the matter with Oxymel compositum and sirupe of Fumitory and afterwards to purge with these pils following Take yellow Mirobalan barkes halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Turbith one drag Dragagant Roses Diagridiō Sene the iuice of Fumitory temper them all together and giue thereof one dragme at once or foure scruples They do purge the burnt matter and salt flegme water baths are also very profitable for this wherein Mallowes Sorrell Docks and Verueins are decocted vsed oftentimes At night lay this plaister following thereon take Endiue Purslaine Priests crowne of each a like much beate them to pappe and temper them with the white of an egge and with a little oile of Roses you may also wet a cloth in the iuice of those herbes and so lay it thereon Item take sodden Lentils powre out the broth bray them with a little Rose water and lay it thereon like as the former Or take Lentils Pomegranate pils Roses Sumack of each one ounce beate these together and make a pap thereof with Rose water make the eyes often moist with stilled Rose water or well water wherein Sorrell is decocted Or do thus
ounce and a quarter the iuice of Celendine halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Saffron Sea-froth of each one drag séeth that which is to be sodden in raine water vnto a pap and temper amongst it al that is beaten and lay it warme ouer the eyes It is also very good to wash hands feete and face oftentimes with the warme decoction of Wormwood Melilot and of Cammomill In like maner also is the yellow powder of Rasis in the declination of this defluxion much commended which is thus to be made Take Sarcocolla fiue drag Aloe Saffron Lycium of each one drag Myrrhe halfe a drag make a powder thereof Bleared eyes of a cold cause IF this defluxion or rheume come through cold then at the first when it beginneth to fall vse this confection Take Indie Spica fiue drag Agaricus one dra and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Masticke as much as the waight of them all also make a confection thereof with clarified honie and vse thereof euery day This patient is to smell vnto all warming and drying things as Muscus Lauander Marioram Amber Betonie Styrax Calamita and such like as also vnto the pomanders that euery where in this booke are specified It is also very conuenient to chew and to eate a good deale of Fennell séede euery morning Likewise also Rue and Verueine chewed and the eyes annointed with the spettle If so be that the eyes be filled with cold moisture that floweth out of the braines for that is this following very good to be vsed Take prepared Bloudstone one quarter of an ounce Roses burnt Yuorie red and white Corall Amber yellow Mirobalans of each one drag the iuice of the sprigs of Fromboyes foure ounces temper them together and so keepe it well stopped of this iuice put daily into the eyes and annoint also the eyelids therewith This doth drie the rheume maruellous much and doth strengthen the eyes from taking any such moisture Or take the iuice of Fennell of Rue of each one ounce childrens vrine halfe an ounce Aloe thrée drag let it séeth somewhat and then straine it thorow a cloth and put a drop of the same in the eye it cleanseth drieth and sharpeneth the sight Item take Frankinsence Masticke Cipers nuts Myrrhe Aloe of each one quarter of an ounce Tutia Sarcocolla of each one drag and a halfe Dragons bloud Sumach Barberies Roses of each one scrup make them to powder or to trocisces with the iuice of Fennell and vse it with Rose water or Fennell water Item rost thrée apples clense them of the pils and kernels then temper them with the yolks of thrée new laid egges and then lay it warme to the eyes Item take Acatia Dragons bloud of each one drag fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce this being beaten together then make it to a plaister with the white of an egge and lay it round about the eyes from whence the rheume doth come you may lay it also vpon the forehead and vpon the lids of the eye but then you must leaue out the Bolus In winter time may one wash his eyes with the vrine of a man child and wine in sommer with the vrine and with Rose water that driueth away the rheume and preserueth the sight wonderfully This water following doth drie much the cold catarres Take Gummi the Muscilage of Fenegréeke séedes of each one quarter of an ounce of prepared Sarcocolla Spicanardi Myrrhe Cinnamom Aloes Beuer cod of each halfe a scrup this powdered all together small and made vp with womans milke This following drieth also much the defluxion Take an ounce of Tutia bruise it very small in a mortar put thereto 12. ounces of old sower wine powre some vpon it and bruise it well with the stamper afterwards powre wine vpon it againe afterwards let it séeth together in a copper pan When it is from the fire then temper amongst it Aloes beaten small one quarter of an ounce put two or thrée drops thereof in the eyes Then lie vpon your backe the space of two howers This discusseth the bloud also in the eyes and taketh away all sharpnesse and biting Rheumes In like manner if this defluxion do make much paine then take vnwashed shéepes wooll burne it to ashes in a close stopt pot bruise it as small as may be and mixe it with the white of an egge lay it on your forehead and on the temples of the head this swageth the catarre very quickly and abateth the paine Another Take the sower iuice of a Pomegranate séeth the same to the half scum it well fire ounces Sieff Memithe Aloe Licium Saffron of each one quarter of an ounce Hydromel half an ounce put them all together in a glasse stopped close set the same the space of foure dayes in the Sunne and vse it morning and euening it is good and approued it helpeth much the obscuritie of the eyes A plaister It is also profitable for such cold catarres to haue a plaister laid vpon the temples of the head The same is to be made thus Take Aloe Myrrhe Mirtle leaues Acatia of each one drag Masticke Frankinsence of each halfe a drag beaten small together make it to a plaister with the white of an egge and lay it as is said on the forehead and temples of the head Another Some do coūsell for to take Assa foetida one ounce Pepper one quarter of an ounce melt and séeth the Gum in vineger vntill it be thicke then stir Pepper amongst it lay it ouer the eyes but haue good regard that there come none of it into the eye it will stinke much and is very daungerous for the eye But there be other things that may be vsed for this purpose Of actuall cauterisation in the necke in all Rheumes of the head THis hath oftentimes also bene more remembred and is often vsed by the ancient Phisitions euen as many Italian Phisitions do aduise that in these cold rheumes or defluxions the necke is to be opened with an actuall or potentiall Cauterie whereof diuers may be sought in the Register and must be kept open about fortie dayes What is conuenient for purging THat is to be effected with the pils Cochiae which be sharpened with the trocisces of Alhandali also with the confection of Hiera and such like In the declination of the rheume through cold bathing is very meete to wash himselfe with vrine to drinke wine moderately to apply vnto it the foresaid sponge with the warme decoction of Cammomil Melilot Sore eyes with or without matter §. 8. THese diseases doe come commonly through outward occasions as of pricking striking or any other manner of bruising in like manner of inward causes as hot sharp and salt rheumes which do eate in and perish the pannicles of the eyes If then there be perceiued great paine with pricking beating and with moist rheumes in the eyes and the eyebrowes be fallen the eyes stand wide open the white of the eye looking red and that
strewed vpon his meate or take halfe an ounce of Eyebright one quarter of an ounce of Mace and alwaies take one scrup thereof before meate for this hath bene found to haue oftentimes holpen them that had their sight blemished Rue séede is also very good and for them that haue this passion in the eyes are the herbs rootes and séedes of Pyonie good howsoeuer they be prepared for the taking Also Treacle and Mithridate haue a speciall propertie to put away the clouds and all that swarme before the eyes Auenzoar doth write that all they which be burthened with the forementioned Cataracts or dimnesse that if they looke earnestly into the eye of an Asse thereby the defluxion should be stayed but if so be that this be true it is a wonderfull worke of nature This powder following may also be vsed for an approued thing for many haue bene holpen thereby Take Eyebright with the flowers beaten small Mace of each an ounce and a halfe siluer mountaine thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar foure ounces and a halfe make a powder thereof It is also very good that one hold his face oftentimes ouer the vapor of the decoction of Celendine Fennell and Eyebright but such like moe shall follow hereafter What these patients must refraine EVery such patient must beware of those things that make great disturbance in the head as anger calling crying aloud raging sorrow stench and from much watching because they much weaken the naturall heate But he must oftentimes let bloud and vse boxing cups But as concerning his meate there are hurtfull for him all still standing waters seafish and all fish which are taken in moorish waters to be eaten rather sodden then broyled if one should often eate of them Crabs Eeles Tenches is he vtterly to forbeare also milke and all that is drest with milke and he must not vse much vineger but only outwardly All herbes of cold and moist natures as Endiue Béetes Spinage Purslain Lettice Cucumbers Gourds and chiefly Colewoorts which darken the sight are to be eschewed and left Of all rootes are chiefly forbidden Garlicke Onions Radishes In like manner also all pottages except red pease which be called Cichelings Rice Wheate and Barley all fruites which be swéete and cold as Apples Cherries Pingles whether they be confected or not are to be refrained And he must chiefly beware of all that which prouoketh néesing and the cough There is nothing better for his drinke then cleare wine of a good tast and that is meetly strong but a little at once But they that drinke no wine or haue no wine may vse from October vnto March this following Take Verueine Celendine Rue Eyebright of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them in twelue quarts of water vntill the third part be consumed put 14. pound of honie vnto it seeth it againe vntill about the third part be sodden away alway skumming it then straine it thorow a cloth and kéepe it stopt close in a pot Now if the sicke person desire it then may wine that is méete for the eyes the fift or sixt part be tempered amongst it By this drinke hath bene perceiued much amendment and that in auncient folks who had a darke sight haue bene holpen therewith Also Hydromel which is hony water or mead is much commended for this without any addition Euery one may diminish or increase the quantitie of the hony euen as it pleaseth him best For as much as concerneth purging which is excéeding néedfull he must know to direct him according to the time of the yeare otherwise in winter then in sommer otherwise in the spring of the yeare then in haruest or fall of the leafe which were too long to rehearse at this present therfore we will recommend that to the Phisitions But there are to be commonly vsed Pilulae Cochiae de Sarcocolla Sine quibus De hiera Composita Lucis of the confections Hiera Picra Benedicta laxatiua Hiera longodion The Clisters are to be decocted with the common hearbes and tempered with one ounce of Hiera Further it is then commanded to take in winter a péece of confected Ginger in like manner also after dinner and supper to vse one of the tabulats following Take Spec. de Xylo Aloe thrée drag Diacinamomi one drag white Sugar foure ounces séeth them with Fennell water and cast Tabulates thereof of a méetly bignesse And if he begin to perceiue any clearenesse he must in the beginning of March drinke of this decoction following foure ounces alwaies foure houres before meate in the morning first take Ginger white Pepper Calmus of each one drag floures of Eyebright Balsam wood of each a quarter of an ounce thrée cleansed Hermodactils stampe them all together and séeth them in thrée pints of water vntil two parts be consumed Secondly take the iuice of Fennell common ley which is not sharpe of each two ounces Tutia prepared with the vrine of a manchild one drag and a halfe set this the space of 20. dayes in the Sun and vse it as shall be declared hereafter Thirdly take iuice of Roses one drag common ley Eyebright water of each one ounce set it as is said in the Sunne and make the eyes therewith moist euery morning and euening two houres before meate vse also the iuice of Roses alone annoint therewith the forehead and the temples of the head Before supper he is to take all the spring time a quarter of an ounce of Diacorum Fourthly take Gall Masticke sealed earth the iuice of Sloes of each one dragm Sandaraca one ounce the iuice of Roses as much as is néedefull to stéepe the same in bray it all together in a mortar vntill it be méetly thicke annoynt therewith alwaies euery third day when you go to bed the forehead and the temples of the head Fiftly take Mace Eybright of each one drag and a halfe Lignum Aloe one quarter of an ounce Fennell Comin Ameos of each halfe a drag Amber two scrup Séeth this all together in a pint of Fennell water vnto the halfe take alwaies foure ounces at once tempered with Sugar drinke thereof foure times a wéeke thrée houres before meate In the sommer you are to vse this following euery morning at the least euery second day then must you chew but not swallow a péece of Masticke and Cucubes Item take Fennell Celendine Rue the iuice of Roses of each thrée ounces Sugarcandie white Sugar of each sixe ounces Sugar pennets foure ounces of Fennell séede Licorice Violets Roses Eyebright of each one ounce Pistaces thrée drag that haue bene stéeped fiue dayes in Eyebright water and be dryed againe powne them all to powder The Sugar is to be sodden vnto a Sirupe for to make a confection thereof and take thereof euery morning about half an ounce Secondly take the iuice of Verueine two ounces the iuice of Roses of Fennell water wherein Licorice hath béene sodden of each two ounces the gall of a Pickrell one drag temper it
the eyes §. 19. IF so be that the eye through any thing that might fall therein be bruised or perished that must forthwith be holpen to the end that it do not inueterate for this it is aduised to take fresh cléere water in the mouth and spout the same into the sore eye so long vntill all that whatsoeuer be in it may be washed out Yet womans milke is more commodious sprouted into it out of the breast This may also be done with white wine for it causeth the eyes to run better and if one wring thereon then commeth that which is fallen into it with more ease out of it againe Or take a péece of white Rosen let it be made warme in the sunne or after another maner then draw it very softly on the apple of the eye then doth it remaine hanging thereon This operation or power is attributed also vnto Rubies Saphires being stroked in the eyes Roll the vpper eyelid about and wipe it with a soft linnen cloth then doth it remaine hanging on the cloth Item take Betony Celendine Eyebright Hyssope Penniroyall of each a like séeth them in méely water and wash the eyes with this whilest that it is warme How to cure the diminishing feeblenesse and darknesse of the eyes §. 20. THe sight is many times of some disease of the eyes like as in Ophthalmia is declared lessened and also enféebled as the shining of the Sunne looking glasses shining copper lightnings fire long darknesse watching the beholding of white things like as when one walketh farre in the snow cold ayre or that chalke dust or any things else come into the eyes through much looking vpon small things to let much bloud or that one doth it not if he be accustomed also through an vnchast life Further the eyes are much weakened with great laskes great labour odoriferous things and specially the Basilicon of which we are not to omit this admirable work of nature that is if one eate too much of this then will the sight be weakened where notwithstanding the iuice thereof dropt into the eyes doth strengthen the sight and drieth vp the moisture These patients must beware of all grosse meates as chéese old flesh coleworts also from ouermuch eating and drinking and from fasting Also all such diminishing of the sight is caused through great paine of the head swimming and great heate which drieth too much Also through cold moistures which obstructeth the sinewes of the sight There are thrée kinds of the weaknesse of the sight the first of all diminisheth when a thing is seene vnperfect and when it is thought to be lesse the second kind is a spoyled or corrupted sight whereas one séeth any thing otherwise then it is like as happeneth in the disease Scotoma Thirdly it is a contracted sight when one can discerne nothing by the sight like as in the blindnesse For all these aforesaid infirmities shall the patient first vse preparatiue potions and purge with the pils Cochiae or Stomachicae and also vse Clisters which draw all humors downewards Fennell séed vsed in all meates is especiall good both before and after meate then as it commonly hapneth that the féeblenesse of the eyes do proceed of a bad full stomacke which doth cause many bad vapors in the head then do the ancient Phisitions aduise that these sicke persons shall be caused to vomit for that will drie and cleanse the stomacke from all bad corruptions and intolerable moistures Also there be drying powders to be put into the eyes whereof there be many before described But if with this imperfection of the sight there be an abatement or consumption of the body like as one seeth in all those that recouer after a languishing sicknes they must be fed with good meate for that if one be fasting or hungry the paine will be the greater and more forcible Also he is to be let sleepe well and giuen wine to drinke to make the head oftentimes moist with warme water or to bath but beware that he sweate not too much In the nose and eares is he to drop the oile of swéet Almonds and besprinkle the eyes oftentimes with yong womans milke Hereafter do follow certaine medicins first a gouernement of life for that a good order of diet is no lesse of importance for this then it is in any other sicknes First of all one is aboue all the other foresaid things to abstaine from very cleere ayre vnmeasurable Venery reading smal prints or writings c. from going to sléepe with a full stomacke from all salt and strong meates from drunkennes and all that replenisheth the head If the cause be moisture then is likewise to be feared bathing much sléepe letting blood cupping and vaporous meates new Wine Beanes Pease and other pottages Lettice Vineger and Radishes much fish Peares Apples and all moist fruites especially after meate In like manner all moist darke and mistie weather smoke wind dust moist dwellings going idle vnleauened bread old and grosse flesh and all that maketh grosse blood On the contrary side there be many commodious things that strengthen the weake sight as the sight of gréene fields trées the precious stone Smaragdus greene glasse greene linnen and such like more which are to be set before our eyes to the end it may thereby be quickned In like manner also all blew colours and all other orient colours as to looke into a steele looking-glasse in the cléere water gold the starres of heauen the precious Saphir stone flowers of Borage of Eyebright and specially of Larks spurres which are chiefly commended 〈…〉 The like operations are ascribed vnto the Wine and the conserue of Eyebright and that not without reason for that they be both forcible for to strengthen the sight to make it cleere and fresh so that many old folkes through the vse of these haue continued and strengthened their sight with them They do also deopilate the obstruction of the Milt and Liuer being dayly vsed they cleanse the stomacke and withstand all agues that proceed out of the stomacke for what they serue else and how they are to be prepared the Register shal make mention Therfore hath the wine of Eybright also and the conserue of the same not their names in vaine for they haue like power in strengthening of the sight to dry the moistnes of the braines and to cléere all dark sights Further it is very commodious that one do kembe well once a day especially ancient folkes youths are to wash their eyes often with fresh water also to suffer hunger and thirst somtimes and to drinke swéet water In like manner all that is meet for the strengthening of the memory is also very fit for the sight as hereafter shall be shewed and all that is accounted good for the fiue senses as the sight the hearing smelling tasting and féeling Cléere faire ayre is alwayes good bread well raised good wine soberly drunk also light meates which fume not into the head
Pepper of each one dragme Galingall one scrup Cloues Cubebs of each one drag and a halfe powne them al together to powder and bind them in a linnen cloth let them séeth well together in two quarts of Wine stopt fast as aforesaid afterwards let it stand couered vntil it be cleare wherof you are to drink euery morning fasting and at euening going to bed a good draught and that before you shall haue annointed with the salue which shall hereafter be described The vertue of this wine is for to draw a superfluous moisture out of the head This being done then place your selfe in Somer time in the Sunne and in Winter season by the fire and kembe your haire softly a long time so that thereby the pores may be opened afterwards wash your head with the water of Rue and drink a good draught of wine and therupon eate a bit or twaine of bread that hath bene stéeped in the wine then fast so vnto the euening Your supper must also be sober your sléepe quiet and vndisturbed continue this many daies together the longer the better When now the veines be warme with kembing then annoint the head and the temples with this salue following Take white Lillies Colewoort leaues wild Baulme of each one drag powne them together put them in a pot powre therein two ounces of Sallad oile fresh butter as much as all the rest thrée spoonefuls of the spirit of wine which hath bene rectified at least foure times water of Rue of Sage of Celendine of each two spoonefuls old white wine fiue spoonefuls temper them well together set it so sixe or eight houres in a warme place then straine it through a cloth afterwards séeth the liquor vntill it be as thicke as honie and that by a small mild fire then set it in the Sunne so long till it be of the colour of Copper This salue must be alwaies made betimes and it can continue good the space of two yeares Also it behooueth to gather all the hearbes for distillation when the daies be at the longest and then may also most méetely this salue be prepared This salue must you as is rehearsed vse after that the head is purged you must annoint well the hinder parts of the head and the temples with it afterwards couer it with a leatherne cap or hat so that the head may be warme that the said salue may haue her operation the better in the bloud and braines In the euening is the head to be washed with good warme wine and one must kéepe a good diet and vse meates that be light of digestion also vse moderate drinking This order is to be kept at the first by the space of foure daies and so to continue it the space of a whole yeare euery eight weekes once two or thrée daies together The next yeare afterward you may chuse one day vpon which it is good to take Phisick and then vse this salue euery three moneths once when the Moone increaseth The third yeare it is sufficient once in twelue moneths and afterwards so long as you liue once in two yeares Of the giddinesse of the head and infirmitie of the Braine §. 2. THis disease is called of the Grecians Scotomia and of the Latinists Vertigo which is a giddinesse or swimming of the head we call it also the swimming of the head for that it séemeth that all which one séeth runneth round about or the sight faileth when he will behold any thing and he thinketh that he séeth swarming before his eyes many maruels and things which be of strange colours yea it often happeneth that his eyes be very darke and must fall to the ground like as also it somtime happeneth to a sound bodie if they run too much about or to such as looke too much downeward from a great height or vpon a quicke turning thing or into running waters This disease do they chiefly get that are woont to frequent much the Sunne and their heads haue bene ouerheated It is also caused of the stomacke if that it be ouercharged with any superfluitie whereby the mouth of the stomacke is harmed and sendeth some bad vapors towards the head which do cause this swimming or giddinesse In winter time and when the wind is southerly then are all people more subiect to this giddinesse than in drie sommer Of this giddinesse the Phisitions do make many kindes like as also it is diuers according to the nature of the humor whereof it is caused but to speake of the foresaid giddinesse when any one thinketh that all that he séeth runneth round about the sight vanisheth as he would fall to the ground the face and the eyes waxe red the veines swell the eares shew themselues great and full of bloud thereby it may easily be adiudged that it is caused through superfluous bloud in the head the which troubleth and molesteth the braines therefore is this sick person to procure presently afterwards to open the veine behind the eare and to let out thrée or foure ounces of bloud for that is a certaine remedie for this disease And further for all other spices of this swimming of whatsoeuer cause that they may procéede for if so be that this giddinesse do continue long it is much to be doubted that the falling sicknes or the dead palsey may come thereby In like maner are boxing cups vnpickt to be set aboue vpon the head in the necke vpon the shoulders and on the legs For this also are certaine lotions of the feete to be vsed made with herbes which do strengthen the head whereof before in the first Chapter 3. § for the heate of the head and in the second Chapter 12. § sundry are described But although these foresayd veines do not appeare and make shew and neuerthelesse the face were alwayes red then must the median be opened boxing cups as is sayd to be vsed to moysten the head with vineger of Roses and with oyle of Roses and to eschew all hot meates much sléepe long watching to looke from great height downwards and such like things Lintels milke kids flesh prepared with veriuice iuice of Pomegranates or with vineger rosted peares or apples after supper are very good for him of herbes Lettice and Purslaine with vineger may he also eate well for his drinke he may also temper vineger or the iuice of Pomegranates Sugar water decocted with Fleawoort or any small thin wines For purging are meete yellow Mirobalans especially if the giddinesse be caused of Cholera the which are thus to be vsed Take one ounce and a halfe of yellow Mirobalans beaten grosse séeth them in eight ounces of water at the least put thereto one ounce of sower Dates let them séeth togither vnto the halfe then temper amongst it thrée or foure ounces of sirupe of Violets or of Roses and so giue it to the patient in the morning fasting Take sixe ounces of whay lay therein to stéepe one dragme and a halfe of Rubarbe a whole night
as also to vse white prepared Mustard séede therewith For this is also very good the bloud of Turtle doues drunken This sicknesse commonly appeareth with a new and full Moone against which you are to prepare these things following Take good Treacle thrée quarters of an ounce Beuercod one quarter of an ounce and temper it with Lauander water and take it in the morning fasting But if so be there appeare any beginning of this sicknesse then do many aduise and that rightly that then the thumbe and great toe are to be hard rubbed chafed and stretched out and likewise to rub with warme clothes the necke and the backe bone downwards that the bloud may be drawne from the head and from the heart Also there must be a little Treacle thrust behind in his throate Beuercod holden in the mouth and vnder the tongue is also very good Some do also giue Beuercod and Pepper to drinke of each one drag For this is also much commended Asa foetida whether it be taken inwardly vsed on the outside or in gargarismes and if you would take the same then is one drag and a half enough with Pepper and Rue of each halfe a drag tempered with wine This is good for all diseases of the sinewes The distilled water of blacke Cherries is also much praised for this sicknesse at the first and especially if one put thereto as much Lauander water and so take thereof thrée or foure ounces at one time The common order of this sicknesse is that all remedies for this disease are applyed to the hinder part of the head and in the beginning before the fourth and seuenth or also before the fourtéenth day to vse no strong medicines but onely preparatiues And if so be that the sicke person will yéeld vnto it then it were not amisse that he drunke no other thing the first foure or fiue daies and did eate almost nought else but only hony water yea also if it be possible to suffer hunger and thirst with it The fourth day he is to haue giuen him one drag or a drag and a halfe of Treacle or Mithridate with waters méete for this disease It is also found by experience that all they that be burthened with this disease shall get great ease if they accustome to drinke euery morning thrée ounces of Rosemarie or Lauander water with three drag of the powder of Pieretrum tempered amongst it Item take the water of the blossomes of the Tillet trée of May Lillies and of blacke Cherries of each one ounce giue it him so to drinke In like manner also stilled womans milke is highly commended for it and all kinds of Aquae Compos Take â—â—ced Licorice and Annis seedes of each one ounce Elecampane halfe an ounce Pyonie rootes one drag Nutmegs one ounce Spirit of wine sixtéene ounces Hony eight ounces temper these all together and conserue them well In winter put thereto one quarter of an ounce of long Pepper vse thereof euery morning a spoonefull or twaine This is maruellous much commended for a speciall remedie Another TAke Lauander water sixe ounces water of the May Lillies thrée ounces Elixer vitae and the water of wild Poppey of each two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce and a halfe temper it in a glasse and then set it in the Sun the space of eight dayes whereof in time of néede take a spoonefull and annoint therewith the temples of the head M. Tristrams water is also very fit for this purpose Of Purging FOrasmuch as purging is very néedfull in this sicknesse therefore for example will we describe here a purgation But it is aboue all aduised that the sick body drink euery morning foure or fiue daies together fiue ounces of Rosemary water and fast foure houres vpon it Afterwards he is to take halfe an ounce of Hiera logodion tempered in two ounces of Agrimonie water in the morning and to fast fiue houres after it or to vse these pils following take Agaricus a scrup Asa foetida half a scrup Ginger twelue graines Diagridion one graine make pils thereof with the iuice of Hyssope When the patient is purged then he is to vse this potion following for the space of eight daies together Take the water of Agrimonie and of Sothernwood of each two ounces put some Sugar amongst it Other do rather aduise this following Take Calmus halfe an ounce Cowslips thrée M. Saint Iohns woort field and garden Sage Betonie Balme Rue Bay leaues of each one M. Siluer mountaine Balsame wood Balsame fruite and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice Corants Lauander flowers Amaranthus of each one ounce clarified Honie sixe ounces rayn water which is clarified with the white of an egge twelue ounces let all these séeth together vnto a sirupe Another TAke Calmus sixe ounces Sage thrée M. Stechas thrée ounces clarified hony sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces séeth them together in eightéene ounces of raine water vnto a sirupe wherof you may take one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once tempered with Sage water Also you may vse the sirupe of Stechas for all they be very commodious for this disease Afterwards take the former purgation againe or the pils of Euphorbium de Serapino de Opopanaco And if the patient by drinking of these potions do remaine bound in bodie then is he euery euening before supper to swallow one of these pils following Take of the pils of Alephanginae one drag Trocisci Alhandali Agaricus of each halfe a scrup Indie salt fiue graines whereof make sixtéene pils Clisters TAke Sage Rue Stechas Centorie Mallowes Mercurie and Bran of each halfe a handfull let them séeth all together and take twelue ounces of this decoction temper amongst it Hiera logodion halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces minister it warme But for them that haue newly gotten this dead Palsey there is to be sodden in these Clisters halfe an ounce of rootes of Brionie or of Pyonie for both these are good for the disease Powder for sauce to meate THis powder is he to strew vpon the meate in stead of spice Take pickt Cinnamom one ounce an a halfe prepared Coriander Cloues Galingall Pepper Cucubes Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Calmus two ounces Coutchenell halfe an ounce Sugar sixe ounces this is to be tempered together Another TAke Pepper two drag and a halfe Cloues Cardamome long Pepper Seduarie of each one dragm Indy Spica Mace Saffron of each one scrup Sugar as much as you please temper them well together Item about the third day is the patient before the rising of the Sun to take one dragm of Treacle tempered with the water of wild Sage This medicine is most highly commended of diuerse Phisitions Of Bathing IN this sicknesse is also bathing much commended whereof there be two kindes naturally as sea water or that is sulferish by nature Others which be prepared with herbes and such like For the herbe bath Take
there were time sufficient first to take a purgation and to take good héede whether the vrine be cleare and well coloured and then to open the Saluatella besides the little finger vpon the right hand and to let out thrée or foure ounces of bloud and after that to purge These preparatiue potions is he to take first of all take Calmus sixe ounces Ginger and Nutmegs of each one ounce clarified Honie nine ounces make a cleare sirupe thereof and giue the sicke person thereof certaine dayes together euery morning two or thrée ounces tempered with the decoction of Sage Afterwards he is to take these Pils take Pill Cochiae de Sarcocolla de Hermodactylis of each one scrup and Dysagridion two graines make thereof 7. pils with the iuice of Rue and take them early in the morning fasting and fast sixe houres vpon it for this vse are also good the pils Foetidae Will you then haue them more forcible then take two drag of the pils Cochiae prepared Coloquint and Bdellium of each one drag make pils thereof as big as a pease and if the patient be reasonable strong then giue him a drag at once Item let his head be shauen and rubbed softly with warme clothes vntill the skinne begin to be red and then annoint it with this following take the iuice of Swines bred thrée ounces Stechados Penniroyall Mints Hyssop of each one ounce beaten and one quarter of an ounce of Violets temper them all together When he hath then purged well and the matter is prepared which is done in foure daies then is he to vse euery day before meate this Gargarisme Take white Mustard séede two ounces Vineger one ounce and a halfe Hony thrée ounces séeth them all together in a pint of water vnto the halfe and skimme it well But it is here to be noted that these Gargarismes must not be vsed at the first that they make not an affluxe of the humors and the accident thereby be augmented Item take Nutmegs Pieretrum Stechados of each halfe an ounce séeth them and vse them as before You may also temper amongst it Oxymel of Squils Another Take thrée ounces of Calmus Vineger one ounce and vse it as before This contraction of the mouth sometimes also yeeldeth much spettle and to further the same and to make it runne the better make this Masticatorie Take Licebane Mastick white Mustard séede Pieretrum of each a like quantitie temper it with molten virgin waxe make small balles or pellets of it as big as Hasell nuts This is to be chewed spit out the same doth frankinsence Mastick also together or each chewed by it self Neesing NEesing is very good wherewith it might be effected you are to séeke for that in the first Register Salues ALso the nape and hinder part of the head the throate the face and the forehead are to be annointed with the oile of Costus but it were good that one made first a Cypers boord hot and bound it in a cloth and laid it so long on the neck and shoulders vntill the same parts were throughly warmed and afterwards annointed Item take the oile of Costus one ounce and a halfe oyle of Euphorbium half an ounce Mints the séede of Rue Stechas Penniroyall Lignum Aloes of each halfe a drag oyle of Beuercod one ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull besprinkle it with some Vineger of Squils and therewith annoint all the necke from the nape to the rumpe foure times in 24. houres Item take Calmus foure ounces and a halfe Ginger Nutmegs of each thrée drag oyle of Costus foure ounces wine as much as is néedfull let them séeth together by a mild fire vntill the wine be consumed straine it and make a salue thereof with molten waxe A Plaister TAke Betonie sixe ounces white water Mints field Mints Penniroyall Marioram of each one ounce and a halfe altogether greene Stechas two ounces Pease meale one ounce and a halfe Beane meale two ounces Saffron halfe a drag séeth these herbes in sharpe lye vnto grout afterwards temper the meale and Saffron vnto it also oile of Beuercod oile of Pepper and of Rue of each two ounces lay it morning and euening warme vpon the head and vpon the temples of the head where this contorsion is Another TAke Opopanacum thrée ounces Calmus thrée drag Ginger Nutmegs of each one dragme Turpentine one quarter of an ounce melt the Gum and Turpentine and temper it with the rest vnto a plaister then spread it vpon a cloth and lay it behind vpon the head vpon the necke and ouer all the nape Item Take fresh Swines bread halfe an ounce Marioram gentle seuen drag Lignum Aloes one drag and a halfe séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe but before that the patient draweth vp this into his nose he must first take his mouth full of hony or sugred water and then hold some of the said decoction in his hand and draw of it thrée times through the right nostrill and thrice also thorow the left nostrill and that one hower before supper the like also in the morning and at noone This is very requisite for health he is also euery day two or thrée howers before supper to swallow downe two or thrée cornes of Myrrhe A capitall Powder TAke Stechas Penniroyall white water Mints and Betonie of each one drag and a half Pieretrum Costus rootes Licebane of each one drag Marioram gentle powne it and temper it all together Strew therewith the vppermost part of the head rubbing it gently Also it is to be strewed thereon when he hath annointed him with the oile of Costus A Lotion for the feete IT is also very good to vse these Lotions for the féet before meate wherein Woodbind is sodden Also the féete the legs the thighes the hands the armes and face may be washed with this decoction following Take Bay leaues two handfuls Iuniper leaues thrée handfuls séeth them all together in a good deale of water vntill it smell swéete Order of Diet. THis patient is to kéepe himselfe from eating and drinking and all other things as is taught in the Palsey and Apoplexie viz. to eschew wine to drinke honie water to eate Kids or young Goates Roebucks and Hares rather rosted then boyled All his other meates are to be besprinkled with Rosemarie Sage Wormwood white water Mints garden Mints Penniroyall and Comin And albeit that hot spices are also good for him yet may he in stead thereof vse these following Take Nutmegs one ounce long Pepper Beuercod Galingall of each one scrup Seduarie halfe a drag powne all small and temper them together Item take Nutmegs Ginger of each thrée drag of the confection of Calmus thrée ounces Sugar as much as will suffice to make an electuarie this ought he to vse in the morning fasting Egges howsoeuer they be drest Rice Colewoorts and Rapes he may eate But from milke and all that is drest with it from all fruit and all that is of cold
do hinder it then set thereon two boxing cups with picking the one vpon the right brawne of the leg towards the héele the other hard by the ham but if it amend not thereby then set two vpon the shoulders Also it is very néedefull to obserue good order in eating and drinking and to refraine from wine swéete things and especially of all that engendreth bloud Some allow wine yet that which is thin white cleare and well watered drunken soberly For his meate are all fowles good which haue abode in hillie countries better than any foure footed beasts yet of these the wild are alwayes better than the tame Item new layd egs sodden reare Capers with Oxymel are good for him in the beginning of supper he is to eschew fish and especially sodden fish he is to shun all fruit except Raisons Pingles Pistacies confected Peares Quinces and such like All herbes be also forbidden him except Fennell Dill and Buglosse but Rue Sage Marierom gentle Hyssope and Rosemarie are especial good for him which are rather to be reckened for medicine than for nourishment Furthermore he is to refraine these things as the Sunne cold winds the fire the smoke incontinencie bathing wearinesse care much vexation déepe speculation and especially two howers after meate all great noise to looke from any height to looke vpon whirling things or that turne suddenly about and all that shineth much all strong sauors long sléepe especially after noone much watching and such like but méetely mouing after dinner is very good Also he must be rubbed otherwhiles from the shoulders to the brest vntill beneath vpon the legs with warme clothes And when that is done then is the head to be kemmed and wel rubbed Piony rootes worne about the necke and smelling oftentimes vnto them are also very good 15. Piony kernels péeled and drunken in honied water do much hinder and let that the vapors which might obstruct the braines should not ascend vpwards and do also strengthen the braines Confected Mirobalani Chebuli taken euery morning doth strengthen the head the braines and driue away the mare If the sicke body looke bleake in the face then it is a signe of Melancholie Therefore is he to vse the pils Cochiae oftentimes to the end he may be well purged Further he is no otherwise to order himselfe in eating and drinking than as is shewed in Epilepsi◠for that Incubus is none other than a small falling sicknesse or Epilepsia This water following is very good for to purge Take Hyssope two handfuls Currans one ounce seeth this togither in a pint and a halfe of raine water vnto the halfe take thereof three ounces of Oxymel of Squils one ounce and a halfe drinke it euery morning continuing the space of eight or ten dayes méetely warme When the body is purged then is the head also to be purged with this gargarisme ensuing Take Hyssope Currans and Oxymel sodden togither with water gargarise therewith Néesing is also behoouefull like as hath many times béene expressed In like manner may you carrie these little bals or pellets in the mouth Take Penniroyall one ounce seuen fresh Figs long Pepper one dragme Pieretrum halfe a dragme powne them all togither and make pellets or round bals of it It is also maruellous good twise a wéeke in the euening and morning to take a halfe a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate with thrée ounces of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted If this disease be caused through great cold of the head then it is to be annointed with the oile of Costus of Rue or oile of Bay But if it be caused through ouercharging of the stomacke then it is to be holpen with vomiting clisters and such like For this is also to be sought to strengthen the hart and the braines which is very conueniently done with this confection following Take red Corall Harts bones Pearles and burnt Silke of each halfe a dragme Galingale Cardamome Graines long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs cleansed Mirtle and Piony kernels of each one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Mace Saffron of each one dragme white Sugar thirtie foure ounces séeth it vnto a sirupe in Buglosse water and make an Electuarie of it In the winter hony is to be vsed in stead of Sugar whereof you are to take in the euening and morning the quantitie of a great nut and thereupon to drinke a draught of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted The confection of Diathamaron and Diambrae are also very méete for this purpose For a conclusion if so be that these foresaid remedies brought not health with them then are they once againe to be vsed At the last cast or néede there must be plaisters layd vpon the head that corrode the flesh and skin on the forehead wherin the scul is ioyned togither which is to be made with Mustard séed or Cantharides as is taught in this Chapter in the second § and in other places or to open it by an actuall cauterie Of the falling sicknesse called Epilepsia §. 17. WE name this sicknesse with sundry names And albeit that it be but one kind of sicknesse notwithstanding it séemeth by diuersitie of the names to haue some smal difference The Grecians do call it Epilepsia the Latinists Morbus Comitialis Caducus Herculeus and Lunaticus the which we haue comprehended all vnder foure kinds of Apoplexies and taught also therby that this falling sicknes as also all other is an infection of the braine This is a quicke and spéedy distraction of the vnderstanding whereby the partie is so spoyled and robbed of all his wits powers remembrance and all the vse of his members that he must suddenly and vnawares fall downe to the earth some and lye a certaine space without motion séeth not heareth not neither féeleth and somtimes also doth forcibly stir and cast him selfe about when he commeth to himselfe againe he knoweth nothing of it what is happened vnto him although there be some that know all that was done with or about them The causes of this sicknesse are diuers for that it proceedeth of the foure humors of the bodie and doth chiefly take his beginning of Phlegma next of Melancholia sometime of the bloud and seldome of Cholera This is also increased by excessiue eating drunkennesse all sauors of meates and of all things which fume vp into the head as Onions Garlicke raw fruites and such like that be of a cold and moyst nature wormes of the belly whereof the venimous vapors ascend vpwards out of the stomacke towards the head putrifaction of the detained naturall seede of obstructed termes in women like as oftentimes also happeneth to women which haue first conceiued to sit long in the Sunne with a full stomacke to eate or smell to Bucks liuers Also thunder and lightening do hurt them whereby they are wont quickly to fall as also long and much sleepe and all that increaseth Phlegma There hurteth them also who are infected with this sicknesse the South
wind cold moist countries and the smell of these fiue things following as Goates hornes which is so forcible that they that suppose to be cleane rid of this sicknesse receiuing the sewet therof must immediatly fall to the ground Item Galbanum Myrrha Benzuin and aboue all the herbe Smallage like as it is found that it hath caused one to fall only through looking vpon it therfore such persons must and are to be kept from them Youth is also more subiect to this disease than age but it is easier to be cured in young persons than in old like as shall be more at large taught hereafter The signes of one that hath the falling sicknesse are these if he fall suddenly to the earth bendeth him beateth or striketh from him loseth his vnderstanding and tometh at the mouth if thereby his vrine nature or excrements passe away then it is a signe that the sicknesse is the stronger Order of Diet. IT importeth as well young as old people in this sicknesse like as in all other sicknesses but for this sicknesse must regard be had especially of the age and youth nature custome and abilitie of the patient In common falling sicknesses is first to be eschewed all cold moist and watrie places in like sort also all meates cold of nature all that bringeth with it slime and obstructions as Dow Milke Fish Gourds Lettice Béetes Spinage Purslaine Cucumbers and fat flesh Item all strong things as Onions Garlicke Scallions Radishes Coleworts Mustard séede all that is much salted and all Spices Item fresh water all strong wine be it red or white and chiefly sweete they are very hurtfull like as is also to eate too much and to swallow downe meate vnchewed and to eate againe before the former be digested long sléepe and principally to sléepe by day he is vtterly to eschew But on the contrarie all his meates are to be drying as Mutton Partridges Pheasants all wood Fowles with some Pepper Zeduarie and Galingall prepared and alwaies rather rosted then sodden his drinke must be thin cleare small red wine but if the wine be somwhat strong then it is to be tempered with the water of Buglosse or the water wherein Betonie rootes are decocted Great motion is not fit for him but rather much rest The remedies which are to be vsed for this falling sicknesse are most of them here before where we haue discoursed of the hag or mare described which according to the importance of the cause must be vsed for old folkes which be burthened and troubled with this disease And because like as before is discouered the young children by reason of their moisture whereof they be full are more subiect to this sicknesse therefore we will first as much as shall concerne that describe these meanes and remedies following Of the Falling sicknesse in children VVIth sucking children nothing is safer to be taken than that the mother or nurse doe obserue a good order of diet eate meate that is light of digestion and that moderately warmeth that she refraine man and all that maketh grosse bloud And if she be conceiued then is the child to sucke no more at any hand before meate she is to moue and stir well and to drinke watred wine or small Béere she is to refraine and leaue all fruits and especially those that be cold and moist In fine she is not to gouerne her selfe otherwise than if she were her selfe infected with the falling sicknesse When as the child doth waxe stronger and beginneth to féede on other meate then it is to be gouerned according to the importance of his age and of his sicknes like as by this prescription and other Chapters written to this end may be seene These are alwaies the remedies which by the auncient Phisitions be commended for young childrens falling sicknesse and are found profitable Take water of Rue May Lillies of each a like quantitie giue a spoonefull thereof or more according to the bignesse of the child make péeces of Tiles hote lay chopt Rue theron sprinkled with vineger hold him that before his nose the same is also good for ancient people Temper Conserue of Violets in Endiue water or Pyony water this is very good if there be any heate mixt amongst it Make thicke Almond milke temper therein as much Sugar that it be as thicke as pappe wipe thereof in the childs mouth it nourisheth well bringeth sléepe with it and defendeth the stomacke from all foule stinking humors the water of Chickwéeke is also very requisite for this Others do commend much for this the water of Cowdung and if it cannot be had then is the Cowdung to be broken into faire water and strained through a cloth and to giue thereof halfe an ounce at least Item take the water of blacke Cherries water of Tillet blossomes of each a like quantitie giue it in the time of sicknesse or when it is thought to be at hand The fish that is called Mustella Fluutatilis or Trinca called Trisca in Latine hath two small bones lying vpon the braines which are to be dried and powdred and giuen to the child These are maruellous good but these small bones are to be taken out of an vnsodden fish for when they be sodden they haue lost their vertue It hapneth also that children when they be full of wormes do get the falling sicknes which is very dangerous against which you shall find hereafter in the third part where we shall discourse of the wormes sundrie good aduises Take young Magpies out of the nest distill water of them and giue to young children a spoonefull for the Falling sicknesse Another Take three young Magpies that cannot flie Vngula Alcis thrée drag Harts horne shauen one drag and a halfe distill them together and vse them as before it hath bene often prooued Item take Carduus Benedictus water two ounces Lauander water halfe an ounce when you perceiue that the falling sicknesse will assaile any bodie whether they be young or old then looke that you get a young hare which sucketh still take the maw out of it hang it in the aire that the milke may drie in it wherof giue to the sicke person one drag or lesse according to the importance powdred with fresh water for this are Pyony kernels good worne about the neck and also the powder thereof taken the roote sodden and dronken thereof and the powder strewed vpon the meate is also very good A good Powder TAke prepared Pearles one drag red Corall halfe a drag Miscleden one drag and a halfe prepared Amber two scrup Harts bones one drag Pyonie séede and the rootes of each halfe a drag white Sugar one ounce beaten gold sixe leaues of this powder is euery wéeke one drag to be giuen with Betonie water Sometime also halfe a dragme or a dragme tempered with a little broth A Powder TAke halfe a drag of the scull of an executed man prepared Pearles one drag Harts horne two scrup Tormentill Seduarie of each two
scrup Sugar candie one ounce and a halfe fiue leaues of beaten gold temper them all together and giue it to the sicke body with Pyonie water and such like A Confection FEtch these things following at the Apothecaries take Diapenidium at the Apothecaries thrée drag Pliris Arcoticon one drag Diambra halfe a drag Cinnamome one drag and a halfe Nutmegs Cucubes of each two scrup Ginger one drag Sugar eight ounces melt them in Pionie water and make a Confection thereof All that is before written of yong children is also to be vsed for aged people taking alwaies good héede whether the sicknesse be great or small and also with that which followeth hereafter Yet more of the Falling sicknesse BVt if so be that the Falling sicknesse doth assaile young full growne or auncient people then besides all that is already discouered this is one common and necessarie rule that euery one which is infected with this sicknesse kéepe himselfe at home in rainie weather in places which be warmed with fuming workes and fire and be also drie The chamber is to be strewed with herbes which are necessarie for the falling Euill as Rue wild Time Rosemarie of each halfe a M. powne them and make them in a bagge thrée quarters long at night lay it on both sides vnder the head If there be then any one infected with this sicknesse that perceiueth something to ascend or clime vp out of any member of the bodie towards the head then must he as soone as is possible and before that he falleth or goeth beside himself bind hard the place where he féeleth it créeping vpwards wring hard the fingers and rub the féete set boxing cups behind on the neck without picking thereby to suppresse the ascending vapors and afterwards if it may be possible for to set or minister vnto him this Clister following Take Swines bread black Hellebore Centorie fresh white Daffodill of each one drag wild Saffron séede halfe an ounce seeth this in a quart of water vntill the halfe Take 13. ounces of this decoction temper therein Hiera logodion one ounce oyle of Euphorbium 10. drag Salgemme one drag and a halfe temper all these together it is a very strong Clister for to draw the matter out of the head Set also great boxing cups on the inside of the thighes besides the buttockes and rub well his armes and legs downward Take the iuice of Swines bread the séede of Rue the Rennet of Hares mawes of each one quarter of an ounce stirre them together in a mortar blow that into his nose through a Vultures quill there haue bene before times maruels wrought thereby There is also a great noyse to be made about the patient to open his eyes and hold great light before them when he is come to rest againe then is he to purge often with these pils Cochiae or some other but vsing alwaies before certaine Iuleps thereby the more easily to take away the humor Whilest that he vseth these potions he must presently vpon it likewise also two howers before meate take and vse the quantitie of a Nutmeg of this conserue following Take Pistacies shaled which haue bene stéeped one night in Pionie water thrée ounces Doronicum Harts bones Burrage and Buglosse flowers Violets Roses of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen of each one drag and a halfe Basill red Corall of each two drag and a halfe Iacint Smaragda Saphir of each one scrup Graines Lignum Aloes of each two scrup water Lillies and Yuorie of each foure scrup fiue leaues of beaten gold Muscuâ— Ambra of each fiue graines Honie of Roses sirupe of Citron peeles of each fiue ounces Sugar thrée ounces you are to séeth the sirupe and Sugar in foure ounces of Buglosse water vntill the water be cleane consumed breake the Muske and Amber in a litle Lauander water and temper all the rest amongst it This may be also vsed whensoeuer he vseth not the other potâ—ons and so forth now the one and then the other It is also aduised to couer the place whence the disease is caused with plaisters which make blisters and to let them lie so long vpon it vntill the blisters be drawne full of water and break of themselues and runne out the which are not to be suffered to shut in ten daies to the end the moisture haue his full course for this is one of the most principall remedies that is méete for this maladie Plaisters which raise and draw blisters TAke Mustard séede Pepper and Euphorbium beaten small of each one drag Honie of Anacardio as much as is néedfull for a plaister spread this vpon a cloth the bignes of a Doller and lay it on the place where you desire But this ensuing is generally vsed Take Cantharides heads and wings broken off one quarter of an ounce Honie of Anacardio and sowre dowe of each one drag strong vineger as much as is néedfull for to temper it together lay this vpon it as is said when the blister is full open it with a needle with a thréed in it and leaue the thréed behind that thereby the humidity may be let out Item take blacke Sope quicke Lime of each one quarter of an ounce mixe them together A Stronger TAke Cantharides prepared as before quicke Lime of each a like quantitie temper them with the iuice of Daffodils some do burne it with iron or gold When as these blisters haue run enough they are to be healed with this salue Take Aristologie Ireos Myrrhe Frankinsence Sarcocolla of each one drag oile of Roses foure ounces Waxe as much as is néedfull make a salue thereof For this also is aduised to set boxing cups with small picking vpon the same place And if the patient before the sicknes assailed him were grieued with any kind of vomiting with griping and panting of the heart and came thereby to fall then is the vomiting or casting to be furthered by all manner of meanes Take blew flower de-luce rootes one ounce Aristologie halfe an ounce Centorie garden Mints Wormwood Rue Sage Hyssope Polypodie Mallowes Mercurie of each a M. Siluer mountaine Ameos Dill séede wild Rape seede and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Pionie seede and a little Bran séeth these all together in a good deale of water of this decoction you are to take 14. ounces temper therein one ounce and an halfe of Honie salt one quarter of an ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce oyle of Rue two ounces make a Clister thereof For to Purge HAlfe an ounce or one ounce of Hiera Picra taken oftentimes is very conuenient But it is better to vse first some preparatiue potions which are thus to be composed Take blew flower de luce roots or Ireos Pyonie roots Fennell rootes and Aristologie of each one ounce and a halfe prepared Squils one ounce garden Mints and Wormwood of each one handfull and a halfe wild Thyme Miscleden wild and tame Sage and Rue of each one M.
gargarize with the decoction of Figs Fennell séeds and séedes of Lillies The rootes of the blew Flower deluce prouoketh the gummes to bléede much whereby the paine is asswaged The decoction of Agrimonie tempered with Allume is approued to be very méete Of this matter looke into the first § where you shall find many good remedies for this purpose Of the Fistula in the gummes WHat a bad accident this Fistula is shall be shewed in the fift part for it appeareth in this place as in all other places with salt and sharpe deflurions you shall cure them with those remedies that haue bene described before in the infections of the toung and putrifaction of the gummes so that at this present time I purpose not to write much of it Take Gals one ounce Myrrhe halfe an ounce make them into powder and strew it on the sore Wash thy mouth often with Vineger of Squils or take Gals Roses Lentils Acorne cups Bedegar blossoms and péeles of Pomegranates of each a like much boyle them all in water if it procéed of a hote cause but if of a cold then boyle them in wine If the Fistula be déepe and the gums corroded then take the blossomes of Pomegranates plume Allume of each a like quantitie make them into powder strew it once in three howers vpon the sore For this serue also the blossomes of Pomgranates boyled in Vineger and Honie and the mouth washt with the decoction Amongst diuers other dentifrices this that followeth is the safest Take calcined Allume Plume Allume blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Ireos Pieretrum Sumach Barbaries Gals Acorne cups and Dragon bloud of each a like much make a powder of them This powder may also be tempered with vineger and honâ— and wash the mouth therewith it is very good for all manner of exulcerations of the mouth When the Fistula is mundified to the bottome then are you to vse incarnatiues Others do commend the vse of actuall and potentiall cauteries but they are nothing commendable but at the last need and in the greatest extremitie Of the wasting away and consumption of the Gums TAke Cinnamome one ounce Frankinsence Roses of each two drag Dragon bloud thrée drag bestrew the gums therewith very often Take Myrrhe Masticke shels of pine apples Date stones burnt Harts horne and Iuorie blossomes of Pomegranats Roses Dragon bloud of each a like much vse it as before it confirmeth the téeth Take Pease meale make it into little cakes with honie and drie them vntill you can powder them againe take of this two dragmes Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke of each two drag Aristologie and Ireos of each one drag rub the gums therewith Of the mollification of the Gums FOr this infirmitie are all those remedies very méete that shall be prescribed for the wagging or loosenesse of the teeth For a conclusion ALthough the gums were altogether corrupted and black yea although all the téeth were loose yet these remedies following haue done wonderful much good Take Worm-eaten Gals Sumach Myrtle séedes Acorne cups and Plantaine seede of each one drag white Vitrioll plume Allume of each one drag and a halfe yellow séedes of Roses and refuse of Cloues of each two drag and a halfe beate them all grosly and let it boile in a sufficient quantitie of water when it hath sodden a good while then ad forty young buds of the Mulbery tree and so let them séeth vntill the halfe part remaine Wash thy mouth often with this decoction afterwards thou maist strew this powder following vpon thy gums Take Mastick Sandaraca iuice of Sloes Hippocystis of each one scrup prepared Tuâ—ia one drag white Vitrioll foure scrup make them into powder Of the Teeth §. 8. MAn hath for the most part 32. téeth although some there be that haue but 28. or 30. and they are differing in forme First there are foure aboue and as many beneath that are sharpe and broad therewith to cut and diuide the meate as it were with a knife for the which cause they are called of the Latinists Incisores they haue but one roote onely Afterwards there are on each side of the former foure more aboue and below which are broad aboue and thin below and for that they are called by the Grecians and Latinists Dog téeth because they be most like vnto the téeth of Dogs they haue but one long roote and are made to breake that which the former haue as yet not sufficiently broken Thirdly there are aboue and beneath on both sides commonly twenty téeth albeit that some haue but sixtéene and others but sixe on each side which are called in Latine Molares that is grinding or chéeke téeth Their office is to grind and chew whatsoeuer the former téeth haue not as yet sufficiently broken and chewed Those that are in the vppermost mandible are fastned vnto thrée rootes the lowermost onely vnto two although that sometimes it befalleth that the two former of them haue thrée rootes The Philosophers do write that the foremost téeth are ingendred of a pure and superfluous moisture of the scull the middlemost of a reasonable good humor and the very hindermost of a grosse humiditie of the foresaid scull The paines and griefes of the téeth are diuers insomuch that amongst the Phisitions there are accounted twelue or thirtéene kinds of them of the which we shall speake hereafter These infirmities haue all of them sundry causes to wit outward and inward which difference we purpose also to obserue Of the paine in the teeth through outward causes THis is caused through the continuall vse of sower and astringent things as vnripe fruites through much picking of them with pins and other stinking things that remaine in them also through fals blowes and thrusts sharpe wind too hot or too cold meates but especially of those that be drest with hony which causes must be knowne and inquired of the patient thereby to order and gouerne himselfe Of the paine in the teeth through inward causes THis kind of toothach is of diuers sorts and it hath also sundry causes First if it procéed out of the head or braine then is the patient not without some paine in the head out of which there falleth continually great store of slime If this paine be caused of the mandibles and teeth that doth manifestly appeere But if one doubt which tooth might first haue prouoked this pain then let the patient bite somewhat betwéene his téeth first betweene two then betwéene two more and so from tooth to tooth vntill you come to the tooth it selfe where the paine resteth By this meanes also you may know whether the paine be in the sinewes or no because the other téeth be nothing painfull If it procéed from the stomacke then is there paine felt in the same after which doth insue vomiting and especially of a sower and stinking matter If it be procured by the blood then may it be knowne by the heate and rednesse If of Cholera then is the paine with
are hard of digesture and their fat is windie Other parts are much easier of digestion and warmth of nature reasonable fat flesh is easie to be digested the wings or pinnions and the legs are good for him at noone being sodden and at night are good rosted but fryed in a pan is not for his dyet All fowles as Capons Cocks and chiefly Hens wild and tame Pigeons which are not fully feathered and haue béen killed a day or twain before and are well drest these may he eate franke and fréely Yong Peacocks Geese Ducks shall he also refraine or at least eate of them very seldome and that rosted Of all wild birds these are good for him Partridges Fesants and small birds as also Stares Finches Nightingales Larkes Sparrowes Snites Dishwashers and such like by reason that all their flesh is much drying Swallowes Magpies and Woodpigeons are not to be vsed Quailes shall he also abstaine from in regard they are hurtfull for the stomacke and breed loathsomnesse No kind of fish is to be vsed but in case that he wil eate them then let them be hard broiled to wit Roches Pikes Gugeons Perches and such like and they will hurt the lesse if they be drest with Parsley and Mints and they are alwayes better broyled or fried than sodden and stued also the salt fish is better than the fresh The Eele the Tench and the Creuets are also forbidden Likewise Milke and all that is drest therwith but he may eate â—eare egs out of their shels or poched but hard egs are naught Of all manner of Pottages there is onely allowed of Panicum red Pease and Rice The herbes that are commodious for this must be in operation drying and warming as Sage Fennell Mints wild Thyme Rosemary Marierom gentle Basill Dill. Contrariwise he must forbeare Lettice Endiue Spinage Cherries and all that are cold and moyst In like manner also Radish Léekes and Onions after what manner soeuer that they be drest shall he forbeare Rapes or Turneps haue much superfluous moisture therefore are not to be vsed but Oliues and Capers are good for him He must auoid all cold and moyst fruits parched Hasell nuts Almonds Figs Raisins Pinapple kernels Pistacium may he vse without danger All meates that are betwéene sower and swéete in like manner that which is drest with Ginger Annis seede Fennell Parsley Saffron Cinnamom Nutmegs and Mace are very commodious for him and the rather if they be swéetened with hony than with Sugar Item a Sallad made of Parsley Mints wild Thyme Vineger is very profitable for him His best drinke is hony water or Meade Cinnamom and Licorice wine amongst which are to be tempered some of the foresayd waters And if he will néedes drinke wine without mingling it at all with water then is to be taken as is said a thinne and pleasant white Wine the which ought to be drunken delayed with steeled water Lastly is the patient after meales to vse somwhat that closeth the stomacke that the vapors ascend not into the head as prepared Coriander toasted bread rosted Quinces or such as be confected with hony In the morning fasting to go or walke on foote or to ride a horsebacke softly is very commodious for these Rheumes And if the patient be not so strong then may one vse in stead thereof to rub him with warme clothes euen as is oftentimes afore sayd and after meales to kéepe himselfe quiet two or thrée howers Of watching and sleeping THis patient must wholly forbeare sléeping on the day time vnles he be otherwise distempered and must forbeare it at the leastwise two howers after meate first he must lay himselfe on the right side and then on the left side and not on the backe for how hurtfull the same is hath bene shewed sufficiently before The heate of the sunne and of the fire must he auoid and forbeare lowd calling and speaking And to conclude touching these cold and stifling rheumes we will tell how they are to be preuented the which may be effected through these meanes following And for that this disease proceedeth of a cold and moyst stomacke and braines all things measurably warme and dry are good for it as these confections following These Species Diatrion piperion Aromaticum Rosatum of each halfe a drag Mace one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom one drag and a halfe Sugar three ounces sirupe of Roses fiue ounces the Sugar and the sirupe séeth till they be méetly thicke afterwards mixe the other spices amongst them in a mortar take euery day foure houres before meales as much as a Nutmeg And this must you continue a moneth together and afterwards three times a weeke as long as you please Or make this confection to be vsed after meate and take thereof thrée dragmes at one time Take Species Diâ—mbrae de xylo Aloe of each one drag and a half Violets Water Lillies Sorrel seedes and Endiue seedes of each one scrup Sugar foure ounces seeth it in water of Violets and make Manus Christi of them A plaister for the stomacke TAke Laudanum and Rosin of each fiue drag prepared Corall and Yuorie small Endiue seede and Purslaine seede of each one scrup The two first you shall dissolue in sharpe vineger and put thereto molten waxe as much as is néedfull and thereof make a plaister or twaine for the stomacke and weare them all the winter vpon it When these rheumes are a diuiding then must you prepare a drie bath as hereafter followeth Take a sweating tub make it méetly wet with wine and rose-Rosewater afterwards haile the same ouer a glowing fire till that it be through drie then make the same wet againe with a sponge or cloth as before and do this so long vntill that the tub be through hot and then set the patient therein and couer the tub ouer with clothes which must stay vpon the hoopes yet holding his head without and let him sit so sweating one houre or twaine Hote Rheumes §. 2. AS in the beginning is generally treated of rheumes so are there also declared certaine causes of the hote rheume therefore it is néedlesse to rehearse the same again These rheumes are much prouoked through idlenesse through sléeping a daies through superfluous eating and drinking Also if the head be too hot couered great labour ouerheating of himselfe and such like The signes and tokens that one hath the rheume are these to wit the face is red mixt with bleaknesse or pale colour great heate in the nose with itchings when as the mouth and the throate are full of bitternesse and sharpnesse And if the head be hote in feeling the which rheume is thus to be cured First it hath not bene a little disputed of amongst the learned whether a veine must be opened or not but for the most part they affirme it some would open the head veine other the median and some the Liuer veine But this letting of bloud must be effected according as the rheume falleth more on the
successors do conclude that there be two kinds of Pleurisies to wit a right and a bastard Pleurisie Of the true Pleurisie hath here bene spoken the bastard Pleurisie is called that which is opened on the outside But we will in these and moe other subtill descriptions not vse many circumstances First there are many causes of these Pleurisies The outward causes may be vnnaturall heate or cold much exercise Northern winds euen as these sicknesses do raigne more in winter than sommer superfluous drinking of cold water or wine carying of heauie burthens falling straining striking and after great heate to come suddenly into the cold as also by drinking much Must The inward causes proceede by repletion of the whole bodie and alwaies most aboue all other humors through Cholera afterwards of bloud thirdly of Phlegma and very seldome of Melancholia In like manner wind may bréede this false Pleurisie the which may hereby be knowne to wit through anguish of the side without coughing or with some small cough and if the place be wrung or touched then will it cause paine that so swelleth otherwhiles and rankleth that it breaketh out outwardly or that it must be opened on the outside The true tokens of the Pleurisie you heard out of Galens owne words but that it may be knowne of what humors it procéedeth is to be marked by these words following in that of Cholera the vrine is yellow and thin the pulse hard swift and continuing the pain is great and pricking the whole body yellowish the spettle mingled with a little rednes there is much thirst approching with bitternesse of the mouth and no sléep with diuers other accidents moe which Cholera commonly causeth But if the Pleurisie do procéed of bloud then is the vrine red and thicke the spettle ruddie the veines full the pricking paine is not so big but there is drouth and anguish with it the mouth is alwaies swéete the forehead and eyes are alwaies heauie the patient is young of yeares and full of bloud The tokens of Phlegma are when the spettle is white when the paine is not too great when there is but little thirst and much sléepe therewith the vrine is bleake slow pulse and other signes moe that Phlegma accustometh to bring with it The Melancholia causeth the spettle to be a little leaden coloured wherewith is no sorenesse or continuall paine In like sort there are certaine tokens of life or death The signes of death are these when no remedies will helpe and all accidents as paine pricking shortnes of breath daily increase and contrariwise it is a token of life when all they diminish Commonly the stitch in the left side is more perillous than that in the right side for that it is nearer the hart But to come to the remedies then will we first take in hand the Pleurisie which procéedeth of heate and of bloud Of the Pleurisie of heate and bloud §. 6. WHen as any bodie getteth a pricking paine about the ribs in the side with a cough and an Ague then must he first vse this Clister following Take 16. ounces of broth wherein a Lambes head or Calues féete be sodden Put therein one ounce of flight Sugar the yolke of one Egge two ounces of Sallad oile Salt one dragme and a halfe temper them all togither If néede be to make a strong Clister Take Pompeon seede Cucumber séede and Gourds of each half a handfull Purslaine seede Lettice seede powned togither of each one dragme Mallowes Béetes Violets and Mercurie of each halfe a handful seeth them togither in sufficient water euen to the halfe part then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therein oyle of Violets three ounces Electuarium de Psyllio two ounces Cassia and Tho. Sugar of each halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce and set it warme In like manner it is needeful to let bloud with speede Therefore is the liuer veine to be opened and that like as all learned and also Galen himselfe teacheth in the same side where the paine is for this helpeth very soone and the other very slowly But Rasis maketh this difference If that the patient be full of bloud then first must the vein be opened in the side where there is no paine and that not onely once but also oftentimes euen as the sicknesse doth require and the maladie doth continue the which may be fortie dayes continually But if there be great weaknesse or any other occasion at hand that one durst not open the veine then at the least set cups or boxes vnder the paine with much pricking as the cause importeth And after letting bloud thē annoint the place of the paine or Stitch with oyle of Cammomill oyle of Dill or with this salue following the which is stronger Take oyle of sweede Almonds oyle of Violets and vnsalted Butter of each one ounce Althea salue halfe an ounce muscilage of Hollihocks and of Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is needefull annoint the place therewith where the stitch is and afterwards lay this plaister thereon Take rosted Hollihocke rootes three dragmes Violets and Cammomill of each one quarter of an ounce Barley meals three quarters of an ounce Temper them togither with the oyle of Cammomill and Violets as much as is needefull for a plaister and lay it warme on the place of the paine It swageth the paine and the stitch that proceedeth of hote Cholera Another that is also verie good TAke dry Violets red Saunders Barley meale the seedes of Mallowes Bran Cammomill and Melilot of each a like much powne all that is to be powned make it with oyle of Cammomill and Waxe to a plaister And if therewith the paine do not cease and swage then put Beane meale Fenegreeke meale and Linseede meale vnto it of each one quarter of an ounce and one Fig or twaine and vse this so long vntill the paine as may seeme to the eye be delayed and swaged and vntill the spettle auoyd more easily The order of diet ALbeit that the abstinence from eating and drinking is very highly commended of all old Phisitions who haue commanded for the first three or foure dayes onely Barley water to be vsed yet is the custome of our countrey and nature not to obserue it so strictly but according to their command to keepe all possible abstinence is very good aduice yet in such manner that nature aswell through such great abstinence as by reason of the sicknesse it selfe be not ouerthrown Others do prescribe as followeth If the sick body the first or second day do cough vp no flegme then is he to be kept with Barley water onely But if he hath bene purged and let bloud then shall he at noone drinke Barley water or the decoction of red Pease At night he is to be fed with the crum of white bread that is steeped in sugred Almond milke and after it to drinke a good draught or twaine of Almond
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireâ—â— Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composâ—â—e But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ„ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
Cinamome and Fennell are baked Of flesh is to be chosen good Mutton Veale Lambe Kids Hares Conies Roe buckes and the lungs of a Foxe Of Foules these are very commodious Hens Pullets Capons yong Pigeons Phesants Partriches Blackbirds wild Ducks rather boiled than rosted Also there be good for him Broths Coleworts Parsly Fennell Mints Sage and Hyssop which are to be vsed often but Turneps and Spinage very seldome drie Figs Raisins and Currans eaten before dinner and supper are much commended And his meate is to be drest with Fennell séedes Annis seede Comine Carawayes Pepper and such like things moe Pease porredge Beane broth is also good for him to vse likewise Raisins decocted in Almond milke or Goates milke To haue his meate drest with Sugar and honie is very good Vineger or Veriuice tempered with any kind of Spice as Saffron Ginger Nutmegs Cloues Cinamome or Cardamome In stead of Sallad oile is fresh Butter Barrows grease and Goosegrease good for him Further all that be grieued in the breast shall occupie much these hearbs in their drinks and otherwise as Venus haire Hyssope Horehound Elecampane and Saffron For his drinke Wine is not vtterly forbidden but he may drinke some small draughts and that the oftener Swéet and pleasant Wine is most wholesome for him tempered in the Sommer with Well water and in Winter with decocted water notwithstanding that good swéete red Wine were as good But if the patient will not gladly drinke Wine then is this meade following to be prepared for him Take three quarts of the water of Cinamome and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Hyssope one dragme seeth it so long vntill the fourth part be sodden away then put thereto twelue ounces of honie and seeth it againe till the third part be sodden away skumme it and then let it runne through a cloth Of all wines the Renish wine is most commended brued a little with water for it fumeth not into the head but hasteneth towards the bladder and caryeth the matter with it Sweet Limons Pomegranates and Quince peares being well sugred are also permitted for the appetite but Marmalade strengtheneth much the breast and lights This is then the order to be obserued in this sicknesse chiefly when as it proceedeth of flegme and not for any short time but the same is stil to be continued for as we haue alreadie shewed this sicknesse is of long continuance and perillous so that if one do his very best therein yet it is in young persons very hard and in old folkes almost vnpossible to be cured And although there be many sicknesses of the breasts like as is alreadie rehearsed and shall be yet againe spoken of hereafter yet is there no euidenter meanes for to know whether the Lights be infected or fraighted then through the Cough and by that which is cast vp in coughing It is also to be noted whether the breathing be vneasie slow and wheasing c. For the troublesomnesse of the paine and of the fetching vp of the flegme do bewray the matter which causeth the disease and vlceration of the Lights therefore must all Phisitions looke diligently vnto it for when the matter is knowne then is it easily to be discerned whereof this griefe in the breast is caused This may suffice for this present Of the breast oppressed with Phlegme §. 11. WHen any such sicknesses do light vpon men then must they be knowne and discerned as is alreadie recited therefore we will write first of Phlegma as of the most common infection of the breast In this sicknesse is first the Basilica to be opened in the right arme letting out foure or fiue ounces of bloud and afterwards this drinke following to be vsed Take tenne or twelue Figs Dates Smallage seedes Fennell seedes Venus haire Hyssope and Horehound of each fiue dragmes seeth them together vnto about the half take about three ounces thereof and temper therewith this Confection following and take such once in euery three dayes or once in euery foure fiue or sixe dayes for it exceedingly expelleth the superfluous matter from the breast Take the iuice of Licorice Hyssope and Venus haire of each tenne dragmes Pepper bitter Almonds Aristologie Cresses séedes and Nettle séede of each three dragms Hony as much as is needefull for to make a confection the Hony must be boyled and clarified But aboue all it is to be aduised that after letting bloud he take one dragme or foure scruples of Pillulae de Agarico which are much commended for this sicknesse Or vse these pils following Pillulae de Hiera compositae Aurearum of each two scruples make therof seuen or nine pils with sirupe of Roses and take therof twaine early in the morning and fiue houres after that take a draught of leane Hen broth and then one houre afterwards breake your fast The next day take in the morning this preparatiue Syrup de Bizantijs de Calamintha de Glicyrrhiza of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie of Violets and Balme of each one ounce temper them all together and drink thereof eight daies long fasting When this is done then take this purgation following Take Electuarij Indi two dragmes De Psyllio half an ounce temper them all together in a little warme wine and drinke it in the morning early Some do counsell also that after purging héede be taken that one vomite with beaten Mustard séede and Honie for that doth vehemently expell the matter off the stomacke And if that you perceiue the matter be to be cast vp then take the water of blew Flower de luce Hyssope and Marioram of each one ounce water of Folefoote two ounces Sugar halfe an ounce temper and vse them euery morning for the space of one whole wéeke afterwards take thrée ounces of new Cassie and water of Folefoote wherein two scruples of Rhapontica and Spica halfe a scruple were stéeped drinke it warme and fast sixe houres after it This vnguent following may also be vsed euery day annointing the belly warme therwith couering it with a peece of warme fur Take oyle of Saffron oyle of Cammomill of each thrée quarters of an ounce Ducks and Badgers grease of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron half a scrup white Pepper Ireos and Rue of each one quarter of an ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull thereof to make an vnguent or salue Here is also to be noted that all sowre and egar things and all that is drest therewith as sowre Pomegranates Orenges Limons and such like are very hurtfull In like maner is also grosse sowre wine and Sallad oyle very hurtfull These pils following are to be prepared Take good pot Aloe thrée dragmes Agaricus and the roote of Polypodie of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one drag Spica Ginger and Indie salt of each halfe a scruple beate them all together and steepe them in the iuice of Roses and of Endiue of each two ounces keep it in a warme place stirre it
Purslaine water for this is also good Trocisci de Carabe and of Terra Sigillata Now follow certaine confections and such like wherewith the cause of this spetting of bloud will be taken away for the which this following is a certaine remedie Take a dragme of Egshels beaten small and temper it with halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Poppie heads or sirupe of Iuiubes temper also with it the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple and so take it if you had rather drinke it then mixe it with some Purslaine water Item take conserues of Roses and Violets of each one ounce the cōfection of Triasandalon thrée ounces prepared red Corall Purslaine séede broad Plantaine seed of each one quarter of an ounce temper them togither with Rose water Or take the spices of cold Dragagant cakes halfe an ounce yellow Amber prepared red Corall Bloudstone fine Bolus Plantaine seedes and Housleeke of each one dragme a halfe Gumme broad Plantaine séede of each halfe a dragme Mastick Frankinsence of each thrée graines Raisins one ounce white Sugar as much as is néedefull Purslaine water and Rose water of each two ounces séeth therewith the Sugar vntill it be as thicke as Hony and temper the rest being beaten small amongst it Item take Pingles one ounce Currans one ounce and a halfe beaten Licorice halfe an ounce Ginger one drag Cinnamome two drag as much Sugar as the rest seeth them with the water of Plantaine and temper the rest being chopt and beaten amongst it Take Henbane seedes tenne graines prepared Corall one scruple two or thrée ounces of Plantaine water temper them together giue it him to drinke put also therto the tabulats of Diatragacanthum the confection of Diacodion Looch de Portulaca each alone or tempered to a confection with the sirupe of Myrtles the red losinges are also to be holden in the mouth that stand described with other Treacle or Mithridate do maruellously withstand the spetting of bloud if there be taken of them one dragme and a halfe tempered with Vineger and Purslaine water The confection of Foxe lights described here before in the 12. § are also highly commended aboue all other remedies Against all clodded bloud in the breast be it of any wounds or otherwise you are to drinke this take field Cypers stampe it small and lay it 24. hours to stéep in Scabious water wring it well out and drinke oftentimes thereof warme Item take the herbe Horsetaile beate it to powder and drinke thereof euery time one drag with Plantaine water twice a day This powder may you also cast vpon the meat and a little Bloudstone mixed amongst it Item take prepared Bloudstone mixe it with water or iuice of Purslaine and swallow it downe for this stone hath a special force to stanch bloud like as experience bringeth with it Or take two scruples of prepared Bloudstones and temper it with the renning of a young Déere and make pils thereof and hold them awhile in your mouth Item take Iuiubes Sebestes Dragagant Gum of each one quarter of an ounce Annis séede and seedes of Hollihockes of each one drag one quart of steeled water séeth these together to the third part whereof the patient is to drinke foure times a day Item take sirupe of Poppie séedes of Iuiubes and Myrtle séede temper them together or take each alone make a drinke thereof with water wherein Quince or Myrtle séede is boyled Another Take Myrtle séede broad Plantaine seede both beaten small of each one dragme temper them with Purslaine water and drinke it treatably Or vse this following in this manner also take beaten Lupins one quarter of an ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragm tempered with Purslaine water and drinke it as is said Betonie laid in Wine is also many times approued in the spetting of bloud There may also salues be vsed outwardly vpon the breast yet here is to be noted that it is very commodious for the spetting of bloud but for the cough very hurtfull therfore this following is rather to be vsed take oile of Roses or Myrtles of swéet Almonds iuice of Prunes of each a like much and make thereof a salue with molten waxe Item take beaten Frankinsence temper it with the white of an Egge and lay it on the breast Or take the iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis Dragon bloud blossomes of Pomegranats Gals Mastick and Roses of each foure scruples Turbith fine Bolus of each one dragm oile of Roses of Myrtles of Masticke of each halfe an ounce the white of an Egge well beaten and Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue The black Tabulates described in the second part the second Chapter and 2. § shal the patient hold vnder his tongue And if this be desired to be more forcible then is it to be prepared as herafter followeth take Dragagant Plantaine séeds a little parched and Gumme of each half an ounce Bloudstone the yellow seedes of Roses fine Bolus sealed earth Amber and red Corall of each one dragme muscilage of Fleawoort seed tempered with Purslaine water as much as is needfull for to forme therewith these trocisces vse them as is said It is also needfull that the body be purged For which this sirupe following may be vse◠Take Myrtle seede and the seede of Butchers broome Roses blossomes of Pomegranates the yellow seedes of Roses Acorne cups Gals iuice of Sloes and Hippocistis of each halfe an ounce white Saunders Quinces and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Dragagant Gum fine Bolus and Dragons bloud of each one drag and a halfe sealed earth and Masticke of each three drag Frankinsence white Poppie seede of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone halfe a drag the iuice of Plantaine and iuice of Quinces of each sixe ounces You must straine and scum the iuice then powre thereto as much raine water as will serue to seeth it together and make thereof a sirupe with Sugar whereof giue one ounce and a halfe tempered with thrée ounces of Purslaine water during certaine daies early in the morning This sirupe doth not loose but stoppeth much rather and stancheth bloud For the purging vse these pils de Agarico two scrup Cochiae one scrup make thereof seuen pils Or make the sirupe of Roses laxatiue with Rubarbe in an astringent decoction and Purslaine water wherein the shels of yellow Mirobalanes be decocted and this is a soluble and good purgation it cleanseth well the bloud But if the cough be with it then against night giue him a pill of Cynoglosso and let him hold one in his mouth by day For a broken Veine in the Lights or breast §. 18. THe signes of a broken Veine in the Lights are as is alreadie said if the bloud be suddenly spet out or powred out by heapes and that cleare cleane bloud and not clodded then is present remedie to be looked for before it turne to an impostume or that the bloud be congealed and turned into matter For if so
be that there be neglect thereof then is there danger of neuer more to be holpen And if so be that such forcible bloud will not be stayed then are you to open out of hand the Liuer veine in the arme of the same side where you thinke that the veine of the Lights is broken and then to let no more but two or three ounces of bloud And if you perceiue that there is any Cholera run out with it then is the bleeding of the nose not bad for the same But if this wil not helpe then is the head veine to be opened betweene the thombe and the first finger and let out about two ounces of bloud There is good for this to purge choler with Cassia soure Dates Manna and such like To draw the bloud downward the patient is to be rubbed softly with warme clothes in the outward members also to set great boxing cups vnpickt on the top of the buttocks and if the piles could be made bleede that will do it much good Salues TAke beaten Gals Acornes Butchers broome seedes and the iuice of Sloes of each halfe an ounce Myrtle séede séedes of Plantaine and of Purslaine of each thrée drag Dragagant Gum Isinglas Glew of each fiue dragmes Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Starch Mill dust of each one ounce Saffron one drag séeth it in red wine which is somewhat mild and make pappe thereof and lay it vpon the breast and renew it once euery foure and twenty houres And in case that the pap cleaue hard on the breast then must you lay a fresh thereon Item take Sorrell water water of Balme Cicorie and Rose water of each sixe ounces Trociscos de Spodio de Rosis of each two scrup red and white Behen Doronicum Harts bones and Pearles of each one scrup Malmsey halfe an ounce temper it together and seeth it a little then dip a foure square wollen cloth in it and lay it lukewarme ouer the left breast in like manner one more on the same side of the backe bone and refresh it euery day once For stanching of bloud there are many sundrie remedies described in the first part the eight Chapter in the 7. § where we haue spoken of the bléeding of the nose yet is there here cammanded to be vsed if néede require these things following Take Henbane seede and white Poppie séedes of each fiue drag sealed earth and red Corall of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone one drag and conserue of Roses foure ounces temper them all together and make a confection thereof Vse a little thereof and that with great héed For this also may be taken the oile of Rosin distilled with Ireos and prepared Sulphur two ounces Ireos one drag beate it together very small and vse thereof euery day three or foure graines Yet it is to be vnderstood that this is not to be done but after all the foresaid things as letting of bloud and such like Afterwards it is very good once in eight daies to take one quarter of an ounce of Turpentine with a little Ireos rowled with powder of Licorice This following is to be laid vnder the tongue Take cold Dragagant tabulats two ounces prepared Bloudstone Amber Glew red Corall and Pearles of each one dragme temper them all together with Looch de Papauere as much as all the rest and hold at all times therof in the mouth the bignes of a Beane Order for meate and drinke IT is very néedfull in this disease to obserue a certaine order in eating and drinking therefore he is to feed with that which cooleth measurably which thickneth the matter and draweth it together From the first day to the fourth the sick body is to be kept soberly afterwards is his meat to be drest sod with one of these things following as Dragagant Gum or a little cleane Glew or a pappe of Starch of Mill dust or at the leastwise other meate strewed therewith Pap of Goats milke that is prepared with pibble stones or stéele is good for him Sodden Calues féete or Lambes feete Pullets broth or Capon broth drest with Isinglas are very commodious for him There may also sometimes a péece of a Tench or an Eele with other intrailes of fish be sodden in other meates for it is certaine that those things for this sicknesse are very commodious In like manner are the Lentils sodden with Wheate and drest for this sicknes very méet for this is also fit Iuiubes Dates Barly thick milke fresh Cheese all kind of flesh wherein is little bloud as Wood Pigeons turtle Doues and Partridges prepared with binding things as with Quinces Barberies Raspes and such like If this spetting of bloud be caused through heate then dresse his meate most with Lettice Purslaine Gourds Melons Daisies Shepheards purse and such like For his drinke this following is very good Take twelue ounces of very good Hony foure pints of water that is twice stéeled with steele being well sodden together temper amongst it Dragagant and Gum of each one drag and a halfe Saffron one scrup let it seeth againe vntil the third part be sodden away But if one will not drinke thereof alone then is good red wine to be tempred amongst it But let him drink what he will if Isinglas be sodden in all his drinks or the powder thereof be mingled amongst his drinke it is the better He may also otherwhiles take a draught of Rose water or Purslaine water Raine water is commended aboue all other sorts of drinks if a veine be broken in the breast and chiefly if there be a little fine Bolus or burnt Iuorie tempered amongst it This following is praised for a precious and an approued powder Take the seedes of Plantaine Butchers broome seeds and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag prepared Pearles red Corall Amber Blondstone and Dragon bloud of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus three quarters of an ounce Dragagant Gum and Frankinsence of each three drag temper and beate it together You are to take one scruple of this powder with Purslaine water foure times a day one houre before breakfast one houre before supper and likewise two houres after For congealed bloud §. 19. WHen it is thought that after the veine is stopt in the brest there is yet stil a little clotted bloud behind then are these things to be vsed thereto For which is fine Treacle highly commended if thereof be taken one dragme or a dragme and a halfe with three ounces of water wherein Licorice and Venus haire haue bene sodden Or take old Treacle one drag one ounce of Vineger two ounces of Rosewater temper it together and giue it him For this is also good the water of Larks spurs billet coles one quarter of an ounce beaten smal and giuen to drinke in Vineger is a generall medicine for all clotted or brused bloud So is likewise the renning of all young beasts especially good for all clotted or brused bloud If then any body
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
each one ounce birdlime thrée ounces Gips two ounces Rosin 18. ounces make thereof a plaister with the iuice of Celendine Item take Pitch one ounce Litharge of gold red and white waxe Iewes lime Ammoniacum and Galbanum of each one dragme and a halfe Birdlime one ounce Turpentine washt with vineger both kinds of Aristology Gals of each two ounces and two scruples of Cipers nuts Myrrhe Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Gips of each one ounce Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce Dragon blood and Momy of each halfe an ounce mingle them well together to a plaister Another Take the gum of Cherries dissolue it in Sallad oile put thereto Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much melt it and boile it to a plaister Yet another Take Gum Dragagant Masticke fine Bolus Dragon bloud Isinglas and common Glew of each one dragme Frankinsence one dragme and a halfe Iewes lime halfe an ounce Pitch and Momy of each one dragme and a halfe Tar one quarter of an ounce First melt the Pitch then adde the Glew and Tar and temper then the other things amongst it beaten small When it is cold then annoint your hands with oile of Roses and worke well this salue This following is taken for a secret Take Dragon bloud half a dragme Myrrhe Sarcocolla Opopanacum Brimstone Amber Mastick and Comfrey of each two dragmes and a half Mirtle séed yellow Mirobalans of each two dragmes the bark of Pineapples and Cipers nuts of each foure scruples foure or fiue garden Snailes out of their houses Dragagant dissolued in red vineger one dragme fish lime molten in vineger also as much as is needfull for to make the foresaid things to a plaister afterwards dry it by a small fire Sixe houres after drinke thrée ounces of this water following Take Comfrey Tormentil of each one quarter of an ounce Codwoort Sengréene Cinqfoile Mugwoort and herb Trinity of each two handfuls Garyofillata Verbascum and broad Plantaine of each two drag and a half Roses Horsetaile of each halfe a handful cut and powne it grosse and put thereto red seething wine and Aqua vitae of each sixe ounces or so much as wfl couer it well let it so stand fouretéene houres afterwards straine it through and wring it out make it swéet with sirupe of Mirtles But if so be that thrée ounces be too strong to drinke at once then is he to take but one or two and this potion may be tempered with somewhat else A plaister called De pelle Arietina Hereafter follow thrée kinds of plaisters De pelle Arietis which is commended aboue all other plaisters as a certaine remedy Take pitch two ounces Litharge of siluer Ammoniacum Galbanum Mastick of each one ounce white and red waxe Iewes lime Aloe and both Aristologies of each one ounce and a halfe Birdlime fine Bolus of each three ounces Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine which is washt wel in vineger prepared earth wormes Comfrey Sengréene of each two ounces and a halfe halfe a Rams skin made cleane from the haire and wool and cut smal the blood of a red bearded yong and healthful man sixe ounces prepare them al together as herafter followeth Take the cut rams skin let it séeth to tough slime then wring it out hard and temper amongst it common glew and fish lime or Isinglas of each one ounce and a halfe afterwards let it séeth well together You must dissolue the gum in vineger and you must powne all that is dry in like maner also the gréene roots herbes and earth wormes to pa◠you must worke the birdlime amongst the blood till that it dry and the plaister waxe hard then are you to preserue this plaister in a glasse stopt tight The second Take Pitch Waxe Iewes lime both the Aristologies Earth wormes prepared Turpentine and Aloe of each one quarter of an ounce Litharge of gold Ammoniacum Opopanacum Galbanum Bdellium Sagapenum Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each thrée drag Birdlime Bloudstones Dragon bloud Frankinsence Gips and Myrrhe of each thrée drag mans bloud thrée quarters of an ounce and the fourth part of a Rams skin séeth this to lime and straine it through and dissolue the Gum therein séeth it all together and mixe the rest amongst it The third Take Pitch Aloe Henbane Aristology Behen Saffron and Chickwéed with red flowers of each two ounces white Waxe and Iewes lime of each one ounce a half Litharge of gold Galbanum Ammoniacum Momy Opopanacum Mastick Cipers nuts Dragon blood of each one ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces and a halfe Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine of each two ounces and a half birdlime and mans blood of each twelue ounces temper these with the glue or muscilage of a shéepes skin and of sodden Hollihock rots Many haue bin cured only herewith You haue also before in the second part the first Chapter 1. § a plaister which beginneth thus Take Pitch hafe an ounce c. the which is also very good for this purpose But note before that you lay the plaister vpon the rupture rub it with water that is distilled out of a shéepes skin when the wooll is off Item some other things more to lay thereon Take the iuice of Sloes séeth it in water and lay it on the rupture and bath the same therwith it healeth without cutting For yong children in stéed of this plaister are pultises also to be made as herafter followeth Take meale of Lupins and burnt linnen of each a like much and make with wine a pap or pultis and lay it betwéene two fine clothes vpon the rupture A milder plaister for children Take Beanes as many as you please and steepe them in warme water péele them and let them dry againe afterwards stampe them to powder and take thereof two ounces small filed Oken wood one ounce Comfrey sodden treatably in wine and then stamped thrée ounces let all this séeth méetly thick and spread it on a cloth and lay it thrée times a day on the rupture and a nights but one time and let it be well fastened with a trusse do this foure or fiue wéekes space vntill the rupture be cured and the skin pretty strong Another Take Consolida Saracenica Gariophilata Plantain Fennel Sanicle broad Plantain and Pauls betony of each one handful chop all small and let the plaister séeth vntil it be thick then lay it on the rupture and tie it as behooueth It hath bin told before in the first Chapter how wonderful good this herbe Perfoliata is for all ruptures which oftentimes hath bin by experience found and approoued Here follow some salues Take womans milke 16. ounces Badgers grease Capons grease Harts suet and Comfrey of each two ounces the innermost rind of a Cherry trée cut small one ounce and a half let it séeth so long as a hard egge straine it hard through a cloth and therewith annoint the rupture foure wéekes long morning and
euening trusse vp the rupture as behooueth and keepe the patient lying still on his backe Badgers grease is also speciall good for all ruptures Hereafter are yet more sundry salues described which are very good for this kind of rupture and some potions whereof the first is before described beginning thus Take Comfrey c. Item take broad Plantain Hounds toong of each half a handfull Comfrey Daisie roots of each half an ounce Mirtle seeds thrée drag blossoms of Pomegranats Bay berries a drag and a half Ladies mantle Sanicle Consolida Saracenica and Agrimony of each one handfull seeth them all together in wine and water of each one pint vnto the halfe straine it and put thereto sugar at each time one ounce Item take Sengréene Consolida Saracenica red Béets herbe Benet Fennell Knotgrasse and Pauls Betony of each one handful boile them all in wine and drinke of it twice a day but not at night An old body must continue with it twelue wéekes and a child sixe wéekes Some adde vnto it Ladies mantle and Sanicle Item take the roote of the long Consolida one or twaine Consolida Saracenica with the roote Hounds toong with the roote of Pauls Betony and rootes of Polipody of each a like much chop it very small put it in a bag and put thereto thrée pints of wine and distill it through a glassen helme take therof in the morning early a good draught at afternoone and in the euening when you go to bed againe yet at all times warme Some do make this potion yet stronger and put halfe an ounce of Perfoliata vnto it Watercresses one ounce and a halfe Cicory rootes one quarter of an ounce and a pint of red Wine Or take Comfrey Consolida Saracenica Auens Ladymantle of each a like much let it séeth together with good wine in an earthen pot and drinke thereof betweene meales Another If so be that the Rupture be not yet a yéere and a halfe old then take two pints of small wine in an earthen pot and put thereto Pirol◠S. Iohns woort and Strawbery leaues of each one handful stop the pot close and let the same seeth vntil the second part and drink thereof morning euening méetly warme This must also be continued two or thrée moneths space till that he be cured Now follow some Confections and such like Take Calmus and Comfrey of each one ounce Solomons seale rootes Horse tayles of each halfe an ounce cut them all small and let them séeth together in sower wine vntill it may be stamped to pap and then temper it amongst this powder following Take Cipers nuts one scruple small chopt Hares haire halfe a scruple Masticke red Corall Momy Sealed earth Cinnamom of each fifteene graines and Cassia woo◠two scruples Lastly take foure ounces of clarified Hony and temper it to a Confection thereof may be taken euery day one dragme or a drag and a halfe with wine wherein Cipers nuts are decocted Item take Corna as many as you please seeth them in red wine and straine them Then take thereof eight or twelue ounces and seeth the same with sixe ounces of Sugar méetly thicke and then mingle therewith Hares haire cut it as small as may be one scruple great and small Comfrey and Tormentill of each two scruples herbe Trinity halfe a drag Horse tailes Consolida media rinds of Pine apples and the séeds of Butchers broome leaues and rootes red Sarifrage of each one ounce and a halfe Iewes lime one ounce Hyssop one ounce and a halfe Hares haire cut small three quarters of an ounce Gals and Cipers nuts of each one quarter of an ounce rootes of Solomons seale wild Cucumber rootes of each one ounce rootes of Sperage one ounce and a halfe Numularia one ounce temper them all well together with hony and sugar as much as is needfull and take thereof euery euening and morning the quantity of a Walnut in wine Otherwise these things following are counselled much to be vsed Valerian euery day one dragme taken in wine Cressy seeds also in wine but the same must not be vsed oftentimes Item Shepherds purse cut small and decocted in wine In like maner also the herb Cardopatium To foment the Rupture also with these things following is very good Take Daisie leaues with red flowers and Consolida Saracenica of each a like much Pauls Betony Perfoliata Pyrola and Watercresses Harts toong Cicory Sanicle wild Thyme Cardopatium and the herb of the same of each halfe so much chop it small and make thereof two bags séeth them in water and lay first one bag and then another fomenting the Rupture euery time six or seuen houres long After that the Rupture must be trussed againe as before This water may last good three dayes long in the winter time Item take Rue Agnus Castus Marierom and white Mints of each one handfull Annis séed Fennell seed Rue séed and Siluermountaine of each one dragme Cammomill Melilot of each two ounces stamp it all together and let it seeth in a quart of water vntill the third part be sodden away foment therewith the Rupture This is also good for the Hernia Aquosa the waterish Rupture whereof we will hereafter speake more at large Of the Ruptures that fall downe into the Cods §. 2. NOw we will speake of the breaches or ruptures that fall downe into the Cods whereof the causes are diuers as it standeth here before declared in the fourth § that they may therefore be holpen by sundry remedies shall hereafter appéere Of the Rupture through wind §. 3. THe causes of this kind of Rupture may procéed of meates which are windy as certaine pottages milke and all that is drest with milke all doughy meates and vnleauened bread sweet Wine braines and marrow of beasts Such must beware of cloudy ayre and all moist dwellings all heauinesse of the mind and he must eschew sleepe Further sodden fish moist fruites great riotting much exercise immediatly after meales continuall vse of all moyst meates are hurtfull for this disease For to cure these Ruptures it must be endeuored to driue out the winds for the which at the first this clister is very requisite Take Comin Annis Caraway Fennell and Ameos of each one drag Rue one handfull and a half séeth these together in a quart of water vntill the halfe take twelue ounces of this decoction oile of Rue of Bay of each one ounce and a half Indy salt and Sal gemmae of each halfe a drag Tho. sugar one ounce and a half make a clister thereof and minister it once a day Secondly is the patient euery morning to take seuen houres before meat one drag of Mithridate with two ounces of the water of Rue This is a diuine medicine to expell wind and to take away the occasions thereof There may a goodly be vsed outwardly and to take thereof a pint Sulphur vif beaten two ounces graines halfe an ounce beaten grosly this so sodden together vntill the third
be requisite for this intent Take Trociscos de Spodio Rubarb and winter Cherries of each one scruple beate them all small and make thereof with Agrimony water sixe or seauen pils take them euery morning with Smalladge water Item take Mirtle seed and Nut blossomes of each one dragme Amber Zeduary of each one scruple beate and temper them all togither and part them in fiue equall parts This plaister following is also to be prepared Take Annis Comin Cresses séede parched togither and Frankinsence of each thrée drag the iuice of Wormewood one ounce and a halfe Rose water two ounces strong Vineger one ounce beaten Cypers nuts as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister with it these being made then lay it warme vpon the Liuer and Stomacke and vpon the parts adioyning You may also vse this salue following Take oyle of wild Roses one ounce and a halfe oyle of Spica one ounce Mastick and Rubarb of each one dragme a little Waxe melt the same in the oyles and when it beginneth to coole mixe the rest with it Item take Spec. Triasantali one dragme fine Bolus Trociscos de Spodio of each halfe a drag Mastick one scruple oyle of Wormewood of Capers of each half an ounce a little Waxe make a salue of them But if this scowring do procéede of heate then are cooling and binding medicines to be vsed for it like as herebefore in Lienteria where it is sufficiently discoursed Triasantali Diapenidionis of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall and prepared Coriander of each halfe a dragme Quince kernels Sorrell séede Raisin stones of each one scruple Cinnamome Frankinsence of each fiue graines Conserue of dry Roses one ounce Rose water two ounces white Sugar nine ounces seeth the Sugar in the foresayd water and make a confection of it Item take old conserue of Roses and Marmalade of each one ounce sirupe of Mirtles as much as sufficeth for to make therewith a Confection Another Take the Species of Diarrhodon Abbatis prepared Wolues liuer and Rubarb of each halfe an ounce Sugar which is clarified with Rose water as much as you please make a confection thereof or cast Tabulats of it You are also to mixe amongst it as much burnt Iuorie as you please Or take at the Apothecaries the confection called Diacracoma or Diacurcuma and Currans of each one ounce Rubarb prepared liuer of a Wolfe of each one dragme burnt Iuorie halfe a dragme Philonium Persicum one dragme Syrupi de Byzantijs as much as is needfull for to make therewith a Confection then take alwayes therof about the third day one quarter of an ounce or a little more at once This following is also very good Take old conserue of Roses foure ounces Marmalade two ounces prepared Coriander one dragme Nutmegs halfe a dragme confected Mirobalans Chebuli one ounce cleansed Pistacies halfe an ounce Almonds thrée dragmes beate them all small togither and then make a confection of it with the iuice of Quinces sirupe of dried Roses doth commonly stay all scowrings Take cleansed rootes of Burres and séeth them vntill they be mellow afterwards fry them in Butter and eate them Item take a Nutmeg be it great or small let it sweate well in hote ashes and eate it as it is or strew it vpon a rosted Partridge or some such like thing Or take a Turtle Doue prepare it and fill it with new Waxe with Mirtles Butchers Broome seede let it then be rosted by a mild fire and afterward eate it it bindeth maruellously It is also required by expert Phisitions that new layd Egs are to be fryed in Waxe Other do take an Eg and rost it vpon a hote tyle and strew vpon it the powder of Nutmegs But if it be not giuen at due time then doth it bring more dammage than commoditie This powder following are you also to prepare Take Species Aromatici Rosati one drag Cinnamome one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples Roses and red Corrall of each one scruple Sugar foure ounces Item take parched Cresses séed and Masticke of each one dragme giue him this with the sirupe of Quinces Some do giue Cresses séede alone with the sirupe of Quinces We will now recite certaine Potions Take Mirtle séede one drag giue it him with raine water or Plantaine water thrée ounces and let him drinke it Or take Liuerwort one handfull Endiue rootes Fennell Smallage Butchers broome Sperage and Parsley of each two handfuls Agrimony halfe a handfull Currans one ounce cut all that is to be cut and let it be sodden in Pullet broth or water vntill that the third part be wasted then drinke therof a cruse full and temper amongst it halfe a drag of prepared Foxe lights Item take Tormentill one dragme giue the patient to drinke thereof foure or fiue times in red Wine Or take the rindes of a Peare trée one handfull a good pinte of red Wine let them séeth togither so long as one may séeth an hard Egge and drinke a good hartie draught of it very warme But for his accustomed drinke he may prepare this following Take about 50. Sloes powre vpon it about a good halfe pinte of séething Wine afterwards couer it close let it be cold togither this being done then powre all togither into thrée pintes of Wine and drinke thereof a good draught A rosted Quince peare eaten early in the morning is also very good Some do say that one must drinke Béere or Wine which hath stoode a while vpon Bolus For this is also stéeled water good wherein is slaked Stéele Iron Gold Siluer or pibble stones yea all the patients meate is to be drest with it Item take of the pizzle of a Hart as much as you please shauen or grated smal and put it in your drinke Item take a dried Otters liuer beate it to powder and drinke thereof the quantitie of a Beane with warme Milke or with red Wine it is sayd that it is tried Likewise is commended Plantaine decocted in Vineger and the broth being drunken The water also of Oaken leaues doth stop much being drunken warme The like doth also the iuice of Sloes with the stones of Raisins being beaten togither and the water distilled thereof and drunken You haue also in the first part the first Chapter and 3. § a good water of the crums of burnt bread which is especiall good for this scowring or laske This plaister following is also especially commended for this Take broad Plantaine xij ounces the leaues of the Pomegranate trée Comfrey Daisies the leaues of Palma Christi of each two ounces being all gréene the séede of Butchers Broome Gals Mirtle seede of each one ounce prepared Coriander one ounce sealed earth halfe an ounce Dragon bloud one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces Saffron halfe a drag Mace thrée drag Gum Dragagant both parched of each halfe an ounce first beate the leaues and séeth them in three pintes of water then put vnto it three ounces of
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
laxatiue potions like as this Wine following Take Sene leaues two ounces Tymus and Epithymus of each one ounce and a half flowers of Burrage and Buglosse of each thrée handfuls Harts tong and rootes of Cicorie of each two handfuls Rosemary Stechas of each one handful Roses and Balme of each thrée handfuls these are to be put drie and flixed into a litle Runlet and powre fiftie quarts of Must vpon it and then let it stand and clarifie when as néede doth require then may you take a good draught of it before meate Item drinke Pullet broth wherein Prunes are decocted and to eate the Prunes is very commodious But this broth relaxeth better when it is boiled with Currans and much Sugar In like manner new Whay well salted and drunken warm doth loose but better if it be sodden with Prunes In like manner also are you to take Wormewood Hony and Sugar according to the abilitie of the person séeth this together in water and drinke a good draught thereof Item take Sanicle with the rootes séeth it well and drinke of it the quantitie of foure ounces tempered with Hony of Roses If so be that pilles can not be vsed then take foure ounces of water wherein Mallowes were before decocted and dissolue Sugar therein or Hony of Violets and so drinke it Or take Linséede Hops Burrage al together or each apart decoct them to a potion this looseth also The same doth also one ounce of Polipodie and halfe an ounce of Fennell séedes decocted together Item take conserue of Eldern one ounce or one ounce and a half dissolue it in fresh broth one pound and drinke fasting a good draught thereof Fumitorie and Goats milke boyled together doth not onely loose the belly but also cleanseth the bloud The decoction of Charuill and of Larkes spurres do also open the bodie Item the decoction of Coleworts of Béetes and of Lentils in euery of these are you to temper the quantitie of an hasell nut of fine Turpentine and to drinke it warme which is also good for the excoriation of the guts The decoction of Creuises and of all other fishes are also very good for relaxation but swéet oyle of Almonds is most commodious for this purpose more sure and most pleasant being taken with Sugar It asswageth all griping of the belly and of the breast which oyle is thus to be made Oyle of Almonds Take Almonds as many as you please make them clean beate them small rost them a litle on hote ashes or on a small fire stirring them alwaies about put them afterwards very hote into a strong bag which is made wet in Rosewater and presse it out forcibly then haue you a fine and cleare oyle whereof may be vsed for aged folkes foure or sixe ounces tempered with course Sugar for children and also for the first borne each according to his age Thicke or puddle Wine doth not onely bind the bodie but doth oppilate also the Liuer the Milt and the Kidneys this do they which drinke much of it therefore it is to be refrained Of all laxatiue medicines and potions Manna is not the basest but is highly commended aboue all other things for it is one of the blessedst medicins like as is mentioned more at large in the Introduction This Manna is ministred diuersly according to the abilitie of the person like as water of Burrage fresh broth and such like You may also giue of this Manna to yong children The vse of Cassie to each one according to his age be it in their Drinke Milke or Pap. In like manner is Cassie also a very notable and laxatiue medicine euen as is shewed herebefore at large in the introduction for it is much more commodious to be taken after the forme of a conserue than in any kinde of potion by reason that there must be put vnto it so much moysture thus will we heere prescribe for an example how the same is to be vsed Take the rootes of Polipody chopt small one ounce seeth them in the water of Burrage eight ounces and dissolue therwith one ounce and a half or two ounces of Cassie letting all that is black be washed cleane off and then drinke this warme it looseth very gently Héere before in the first part in the first Chapter and 3. § you haue a good mead of Sene leaues for children and other persons very necessary to be vsed yet this following may be prepared Take Sene leaues half an ounce Ginger and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Licorice thrée dragmes séethe them all together in sixteene ounces of water euen to the halfe drinke the one halfe in the morning and the other halfe in the euening Also there be certaine Sirupes vsed for the loosing of the bodie whereof the chiefest is the laxatiue sirupe of Roses which is before described in the first part Also there is made a sirupe of Sene leaues as hereafter followeth Take right Endiue Sirup of Sene leaues Cicorie Agrimony of each halfe a handfull Venus haire Harts toong of each halfe so much seedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers Gourds of each one dragme wild Saffron séede Polipody rootes seeds of Endiue Cicorie and Licorice of each two scruples Barly one ounce winter Cherries Windweed of each one quarter of an ounce Fearne rootes Smallage Fennell and Sperage of each halfe an ounce Currans three dragmes sixe or seauen Prunes floures of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quarte of water almost vnto the halfe wring it well out and then lay to steepe in this decoction one ounce of Sene leaues prepared Agaricus half an ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce When it hath stoode so one night and is wroong out then temper with it Syrupum Capillorum Veneris which is the sirupe of Venus haire the sirupe of Violets of each one ounce white Sugar thrée ounces let this séethe by a soft fire vnto a sirupe lastly put more vnto it halfe a dragme of beaten Cinnamome and one scruple of yellow Saunders and so kéepe this sirupe vntill that you will vse it Of this sirupe you may boldly giue one ounce or an ounce and a halfe or more vnto all delicate persons yea to women also with child and that with fresh broth or any distilled water for it is very safe Another Syrupe Take Endiue Liuerwort Venus haire all greene of each one handfull red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Melon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Pompeon seede and Burrage of each halfe an ounce Sene Epithymum of each one ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme Ginger one dragme Sugar twelue ounces dissolued in Endiue water make a sirupe of it like as is taught in the first part the first Chapter and 6. § Hony of Roses looseth also very well especially that which is made of the iuice of Roses euen as it
Sugar water must be his drinke In fine such kind of sicke folke must be kept very sober for that is the best medicine for this sicknesse Of the impostumes of the stomacke which be of a cold nature §. 30. IF so be that this impostume of the stomacke do procéede of a cold and moyst cause which may quickly be perceiued through the small paine the bad digestion of the stomacke small Ague little thirst and much spettle then is the patient to be holden very sober in meate and drinke and beware of vomiting and purging but at the first must be giuen him one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of these Trociscis following Take Squinant Cassie wood Rubarb and Calmus of each thrée drag Saffron Myrrhe Costus Annis and Pepper of each one dragme Bdellium three dragmes Masticke one quarter of an ounce Ammoniacum one dragme forme Trociscos of it with vine euict Afterwards you may vse this plaister following Take Cammomill Melilot of each one ounce Fennell Roses Cipers nuts and the leaues of each halfe an ounce Fenegréeke meale oyle of Cammomill and oyle of Roses of each one ounce temper them together vnto a plaister Or make this plaister following Take Cammomill Melilot Preists crowne Penniroyall and Dill of each halfe a dragme VVormwood and Spikenard of each three dragmes Masticke one quarter of an ounce oyle of Roses foure ounces make a pap of it with the muscilage of Hollihocke rootes But when this disease is increasing and at the chiefe then put Ammoniacum Opopanacum dissolued in wine and liquid Styrax vnto it of each halfe a dragme Hens and Goose grease of each one ounce oyle of Spica sixe ounces and make a plaister of it This is forcible to maturate all Impostumes For this is also good the plaisters de Meliloto and the blacke Diachylon For the common man take oyle of Wormwood and Goates dung temper them vnto a plaister Or take oyle wherein Wormwood hath bene decocted Mallowes boyled in Mutton broth and drest with butter Now for to expell this cold matter this Sirupe following is to be vsed Take Mints Wormwood Venus haire being all gréene if they can be gotten of each thrée handfuls Roses one ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce Cipers nuts Spikenard of each one dragme hony of Roses twelue ounces then make a sirupe of it like as in the first part in the first chapter and § 6. is taught giue thereof euery morning and in the euening before supper halfe an ounce with the decoction of Mints and Masticke For a purgation he is to take one ounce of Hiera Picra tempered with thrée dragms of Cassie and Sugar or dissolue it with the foresaid decoction and then drinke it Afterwards the patient is to take euery third day this prescribed Laxatiue Héede is also to be taken therein when as the impostume in the stomacke will breake out which may be well perceiued hereby to wit if there be great paine about the place where the impostume is Likewise when the patient doth eate sower and harsh things if in going to the stoole or in any thing that he vomiteth there be séene any corruption Item if there come any stench out of the stomacke and that the paine diminisheth somwhat after he hath vomited for this the stomacke is to be cleansed well in Sommer season with Barly water and that in the mornings especially and at afternoone taking euery time fiue or sixe ounces Or take water wherein Gum and Licorice haue bene decocted For this is Whay also very requisite He is two howers afterwards to take one quarter of an ounce of this powder following tempered with foure ounces of the iuice of Quinces or sirupe of the same in water wherein Butchers broome séede Mirtle séede and Purslaine séede haue bene decocted In the winter must the stomack be also clensed at the same time with Barly water wherein Hyssope Squinant Honie or hony of Roses were decocted and thereupon to vse this powder following Take Roses blossomes of Pomegranates and Amber of each halfe an ounce fine Bolus three quarters of an ounce mixe them well together being beaten small This patient may also weare this plaister ensuing vpon his stomacke Take fine Bolus Momy Myrrhe Masticke and Aloe of each halfe an ounce Pitch or Rosin as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister Of exulcerations in the stomacke §. 31. WHat difference there is betwéene the impostume and the exulceration of the stomacke we haue sufficiently declared in the 29. § therefore haue the learned by good reason written of these two kinds of diseases seuerally As much as concerneth the exulcerations the which the Latinists do call Vlcera they grow otherwhiles of the impostumes and chiefly if they be hote For if the same be not thoroughly healed then doth this exulceration follow The same be sometimes caused through cholericke and sharpe rheumes which fall out of the head into the stomacke and there then through their sharpnesse do excoriate the stomacke like as the same happeneth oftentimes to the Lights Also these vlcerations may be caused of some sharpe and corroding meates like as through the excessiue vse of Mustard or the séeds much salt and such like For if there come of this sharpnesse into the stomack then doth the same gnaw and corrode it Now for to speake of the signes of it the disease it selfe sheweth some doth demonstrate vnto others the place If there be a pricking paine present then doth it cast out the meate back againe as a thing which is noysome vnto it so that it cannot stay in the stomacke whereby also the retentiue vertue is enféebled Item if the patient do take any sowre meate or drinke then doth the paine increase which would not haue hapned if he had vsed milke butter or any other swéete meate Item if one do smell any kind of stench through the belching with drouth of the mouth and thirst which procéedeth out of the stomacke then it is a token of an exulceration in the stomacke Item for that this exulceration is so neare the heart there do come also great swounings ach of the head and the losse of vnderstanding But the signes which do manifest the place of the vlcer are these namely when the necke of the stomacke is excoriated then doth the patient feele paine in the swallowing down and especially if it be any thing which is sowre or sharpe that he swalloweth which pain he féeleth also euen to the point of his shoulder blade but chiefly in the mouth of the stomacke and pit of the heart Item if the disease be in the mouth of the stomacke which is very sensible then is the paine greater and especially if one do swallow downe any sharpe and salt meates whereby the breath also will be much indamaged and hindered But if the disease be in the bottome of the stomacke then doth one féele no paine in eating and drinking but after that it is receiued some signes likewise
a long continued sicknesse that there doth follow a very great hunger but they are to haue no hard or grosse meates giuen them as Béefe great fishes vnleauened bread or such like because that their digestion is as yet very féeble whereby they might easily fall againe into a new disease but then are they to be kept with subtill meates as with fat Pullets Capons Fowles Butter and such like and all vnnatural and vnmeasurable eating is to be withstood and repugned as much as is possible Of the Cow hunger which is called Bulimos THis vnnaturall and insatiable hunger Bulimos is as much to say with the Grecians as a very great hunger which name the successors haue somewhat altered and haue made thereof Bulismos And it is thus described Bulimos which is a hunger of the members whereby the stomacke is satisfied And this is also a great disease of the stomacke which taketh his beginning from the stomack it selfe But it is contrarie to Dogs hunger in these things following to wit although they haue both of them an insatiable lust and desire of meate yet with the Dogs hunger is not onely a desire but also the feeding it selfe but in the Cow hunger it chaunceth that the patient who hath lately eaten is moued immediatly to eate againe where neuertheles all lust to eate and to cast it vp is taken away But there is no such hunger in the stomack which is to be satisfied with a bit but in the inward parts which be desirous of meate without interceasing and when the stomacke is against her will ouerburdened and cloyed then will it be ouermuch disordered and out of quiet or square for to discharge her dutie of digestion Secondly in the Dogs hunger the vertues of the stomacke and other parts be for a while strong and able but in this Cow hunger are they withered and weake And because that such sicknesse is caused as well through heate as through cold therefore must we seuerally write thereof The greatest occasion of this Bulimia is when winter time is the stomack is cooled too much with cold then driueth the humors towards the stomacke out of the veines in the inward parts filling them therwith spoiling the appetite and also depriuing the stomacke therewith of all her force and vigor in the meane while the other parts remaine emptie and hungry desiring much their foode and sustenance Hence then this insatiable hunger doth procéede so that this is properly an hunger of the members and is no hunger at all of the stomacke If so be that then any one as is said be so extreamely cooled and although there come such a lust of feeding vpon him yet it is very quickly slaked This disease bringeth otherwhile such a quaume with it that the patient is caused to cast out some tough slime or corruption and then will all outward members which be defrauded of their nourishment be enfeeled impotent ouer cold and the pulse very small The sicke person hath soure belchings from the stomacke and a fowle smatch in the mouth The vrine is bleake likewise the ordure blacke coloured thin and also otherwhiles hard because that the patient can eate very litle or nothing at al. Now then whether this disease be caused or not through great cold of Winter time or cold slime of the stomacke the patient is certaine dayes together to take morning euening a draught of Oxymel Compositum or of Squils with water wherein Galingale is decocted afterwards he is to vomit and purge with Mirobalani Chebuli Bellirici and Emblici The like also with the pils Foetidae stomachicae or with these following Take Turbith Agaricus of each one dragme Spica and Ginger of each one dragme temper them together and take one dragme of it at once and afterwards he is to vse this confection following namely Diamoschu Diambra Trionpipereon Diacymino Diagalanga and that especially after purging All his meate must be also drest and strewed with spice and also be rather alwaies rosted then boyled Rue water drunken is also very necessarie but chiefly good old wine which is somewhat binding by nature Before dinner and supper the stomacke is to be well annoynted with the oyle of Masticke and of Spike tempered together Also to bath in water wherin Wormwood Melilot Cammomill and Butchers broome hath bene decocted What is more to be vsed for this looke in the same Chapter in the 5. § which remedies be most fit for it These kind of patients are also to be sprinkled oftentimes with Rose water or faire Well water vpon their bodies and their faces that the naturall heate may be driuen inward and the inward members may be strengthened They are also to hold oftentimes spice before their noses and to vse it in their meate His wine must be alwaies strengthened and enabled with Cinnamom Pepper Cloues and with Spica and with them and with vineger is he to sprinkle a hote stone and to receiue the vapor of it The chamber is to be fumed with Lignum Aloes or with Muscus Ambra blacke and white Frankinsence Laudanum Masticke Galingale with Citron péeles and Orange peeles Gallia and Alipta Muscata with each alone or with which you please But if this disease come through heate then is this vnnaturall hunger of the members caused of the resolued humors of the veines other members which passe into the stomacke and there oppresse the stomacke with lothsomnes and irksomnesse of feeding But they are to wash their mouth very often with a litle Oxysacchara or with veriuice Likewise also to vse Iulep of Roses with a litle Camfere or sirupe of Roses mixt with Saunders For this is also meete all cooling things and especially them that haue a binding operation whereof there be many discouered in the same Chapter and the 6. § Afterwards the patient is to be purged with Mirobalans with Rubarbe or sowre Dates stewed in the decoction of Prunes as also with Hiera Picra or sirupe of vineger tempered with the said decoction Afterwards he shall vse the confection Rosata Nouella or Triasantalon His meate must be drest with veriuice and with Butchers broome séedes and strewed with odoriferous cooling things For his drinke he is to take good cleare wine delayed meetly well with water It is also good for this patient that he bath in water wherein Roses Mirtle séede and Endiue be decocted and afterwards annoint the stomacke euen to the nauell with the oyle of Mirtle and oyle of Roses wherein is a little vineger tempered In like manner may he irrigate the members from on high with Rosewater or cold Well water Of the swouning Hunger called Syncopalis THe third vnnaturall hunger hath his name as is said of the swouning which it bringeth with it and the same commeth commonly after the first described Bulimo or such like sicknesse for that the naturall powers are very faint and debilitated Also because this hunger is so neare vnto the hart that it cannot tolerate such debilitie euen
Another Take Endiue water six ounces water of Liuerwort thrée ounces séedes of Gourdes Melons and Cucumbers slightly beaten with the pils of each two dragmes Venus haire two handfuls and ten or twelue winter Cherries let these seeth all togither in sufficient water vntill that a third part be decocted in séething put one quarter of an ounce of red Saunders afterwards strayne it thorow a cloth and séeth in the same decoction thrée ounces of Sugar and then make two Potions of it they do coole cleanse and strengthen the Lyuer the Kidneys and all the intrailes maruellous much Item take of a gréene Gourd set it in an Ouen when the bread is taken out a good while afterwards make a hole in the bottome and receiue the water which shall run out vnderneath then put as much Endiue water vnto it and make a Iulep of it as you thinke meete The wine of Pomegranates is very good for this in like manner also Buttermilke for all diseases of the Lyuer is highly commended Venus haire one ounce and a halfe or two ounces taken in the morning and euening cooleth openeth and easeth all diseases of the Lyuer In the moneth of Iune is the water thereof to be distilled Note also that whereas there is a great heate of the Lyuer present there must one refrayne from drinking Wine and also from all drinks wherein is Hony admixed But he is to vse all that cooleth Make also this Iulep following Take the water of Buglosse Venus haire and of Endiue of each nine ounces the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces white Sugar foure ounces and a halfe seeth all these togither vnto a potion Or take Iulep of Roses mixe them with Endiue water and cleare well water Although for great heate we haue forbidden Wine yet neuerthelesse Cherrie wine is permitted bicause it is of a temperate nature and doth moysten the Lyuer and also cooleth and therefore these patients are to haue otherwhiles at their desire a draught of it This confection following is also to be vsed to wit Triasantali Diarrhodon without spices conserue of Roses of Violets preserued S. Iohns Grapes or Ribes Barberies and Peaches preserued the conserue of water Lillies doth also coole much Also the conserue of Cicorie with the rootes and preserued Grapes are good for this purpose Or haue this confection following prepared Take péeled Melon seede Cucumber séede Gourd seede peeled Pompeon seede of each thrée quarters of an ounce séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and Sorrell of each one quarter of an ounce Pine nuts which haue bene stéeped foure howres in Rose water one ounce Sugar eight ounces or as much as you please seeth the Sugar with Rose water and then make loosinges of them Now for to keepe an open body these pils are to be prepared Take one dragme of Rubarb burnt Iuorie one scruple make nine pils thereof with the sirrupe of Roses and take them in togither at one time Other Pils for the obstruction of the Lyuer caused through Phlegma which falleth out of the head into the brest and lyuer If you wil let the sicke person take these pils two howres before he go to bed Take pils De Hiera Composia two scruples and let the sicke person sit the next day in a bath of water Take also sometimes one dragme of these Trociscis following to wit De Berberis De Camphora De spoâ—â—to and De Sandalis with water of Endiue and make pils thereof We will also heere repeate those things which are to be vsed outwardly Take Roses red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere halfe a dragme beate them all to powder Vineger foure ounces or more temper this togither wet a cloth therein and lay it vpon the Lyuer when it is dry then make it moyst againe in the same Or take the iuice of Nightshade and Endiue water of each thrée ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Vineger one ounce red white Saunders and the seeds of Citrons beaten of each one dragme tempered and vsed as beforesayd Item take one quarter of an ounce of strong wine foure ounces of Nightshade water one ounce and a halfe Saffron fiue greynes mingle them well togither and then lay it with a cloth ouer the whole Lyuer Another Take Endiue water six ounces Rose water and Nightshade water of each three ounces water of Wormwood two ounces the iuice of Lettice and of Calmus of each one ounce and a halfe red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper them well and then apply it vnto it Another which is yet stronger Take water of Endiue and of Sorrell of each six ounces water of Burrage of Buglosse of each foure ounces Species de gemmis Frigidis thrée dragmes Diarrhodon Triasantalon of each one dragme a halfe red Corall halfe a dragme Camfere one scruple temper them and vse them as the other Or take Roses red and white Saunders Wormewood Squinant burnt Iuorie and Spica of each a like much beate them all to powder when as you will vse it then temper halfe an ounce with Sorrell and Endiue waters of each foure ounces Item take the water of Nightshade of Endiue of Liuerwoort of Sorrell and of Wormewood of each foure ounces Species Triasantali Diarrhodon burnt Iuory of each halfe a dragme Saffron one dragme Vineger two ounces temper them and vse them as the other Another which is temperate Take water of Buglosse of Cicory of Balme of each six ounces Spec. de gemmis temperatis one dragme Saffron one scruple Vineger one ounce Malmsey thrée ounces temper them all togither But it is to be noted that these cooling things must be vsed with discretion that they do not coole the breast too much prouoke a Cough the which might easily be procured Here follow now plaisters and such like TAke Barly meale thrée ounces Roses one dragme white Poppy séede halfe a dragme the iuice of Wormewood and of Nightshade of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger half an ounce make pap thereof with the oyle of Roses Or take white Poppy séede one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Wormewood thrée ounces the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Vineger one ounce and Barley meale as much as sufficeth This plaister is also highly commended Take dryed Violets thrée quarters of an ounce Roses two dragmes and a halfe Spica and Masticke of each one dragme and a halfe Cammomill Venus haire Barley meale Hollihocke roots of each ten ounces Squinant Cipers roots and Calmus of each one dragme make a pap thereof with well water and lay it euery day ouer the Liuer The common plaister of Saunders which is to be found at the Apothecaries is also very good for this vse For a salue Take oyle of Roses of water Lillies and Spica of each halfe an ounce Roses burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce red white Saunders seeds of Plantaine and of Purslain of each one dragme Spica Agrimony of each one quarter
same Likewise soure Grapes held long in the mouth do quench thirst also Or if the same be brused into ones drinke like as is more amplyer admonished in the beginning of this Booke Of the yellow Iaundies a sicknesse of the Liuer §. 11. THis sickensse is called of the Grecians and of all learned for the most part Icteros and in Latin Morbùs regius Arquatus Aurigo Suffusio fellis and of many Icteria This is such a sicknesse whereby that the Cholera or Gall doth spread it selfe very yellow ouer all the body and appeareth with other spots or staines Therqfore is this first to be noted that there be three kinds of Icters or Iaundies the yellow the gréene and the blacke The yellow is caused through yellow Cholera the gréene out of light gréene Cholera and both proceede from the Liuer but the black is caused through black melancholick bloud of some disease of the Milt albeit the same may also be caused of the Liuer The causes of these sicknesses are taken to be sundry and especially of the yellow and greene Iaundies as of the hot season by great labour or great exercise great heat biting of venemous beasts the vse of much heate sweete fat meats and inward impostumes Al which causes do so obstruct the Liuer that such matter like as behooueth cannot be conueyed into the follicle of the Gall whereby it is inflamed which the obstruction and heat may and doth come to passe in the veines and in all parts of the body whereby the bloud is spoyled and conuerted into a greene or yellow colour The cause of the blacke Isteria is an obstruction in the Conduits of the Liuer to the Milt or in the conduits of the milt to the stomacke a feeblenesse of the expulsiue or attractiue vertue be it of the milt or the liuer Item through the vse of much melancholicke meate In fine it may also be caused through great heate of the whole body which enflameth the bloud or through great cold that doth congeale the bloud and maketh it blacke The first two signes are abating of the liuely colour yellownesse in the white of the eyes ouer the whole body and of the vrine the pulse is feeble the patient thirstie léeseth appetite his meates will be bitter and readie to vomit Item if the patient be also yong cholericke of nature hath done great labour and eaten much hot meate then do they altogither confirme that it is a perfect Icteritia The blacke Icteritia is to be knowne by her black spots The Milt is commonly hard This sicknes is then short beneath The vrine is browne ruddy and a slime in the bottome The sicke person is alwayes heauie and fearefull without cause like as all melancholicke persons are wont to be Thus then to speake briefly of this yellow Iaundies they do alwayes come with heate and with an Ague or also without any of them both therefore we will first speake of the hote Iaundies Item first of all if so be that there be an Ague with this sicknesse then is the sicke person to drinke Barly water with the iuice of Lettice and of Nightshade for it cooleth vnnaturall heat whereby the yellow Iaundies is caused There be also al kind of cooling herbs to be giuen him to eate as Endiue Lettice Sorrell c. drest with Veriuice or Pomegranat wine His drinke must be well watred thin wine or common small béere Héede must also be taken at the first whether it be not néedfull to purge the partie and if néed require then is the same to be done in this manner ensuing Take Cuscuta and Hoarehound of each one handfull Endiue water twelue ounces and as much white Rhenish wine let them séeth togither vntill two parts remaine then wring it out and take foure ounces of it temper one ounce of the sirrupe de Bizantijs with it you may put Sugar to it if you will and drinke thrée or foure mornings therof one after another Another which is more forcible Take Horehound Cuscuta of each two handfuls Endiue water halfe a pinte Wine one pinte let them séeth togither and hang two dragmes of Rubarb in it wring it often out then take foure ounces of it and temper therewith one of these siirupes following Syrupum de Bizantijs de Duabus Radicibus or Oxymel one ounce and vse them as is before sayd For to purge you may after the sayd potions vse these cooling medicines Take common conserues of Prunes and Cassie of each thrée dragmes confection of Psyllio two dragmes and one scruple De Succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with thrée ounces of water of Cuscuta and one ounce of the hony of Roses or take Hiera Picra thrée quarters of an ounce Diaphoenicon one quarter of an ounce sirrupe of Cichorie with Rubarb halfe an ounce and Endiue water as much as you will The Rubarb is not ordained for this but by good reason because it is forcible at the beginning to take away the yellow Iaundies For this are all medicines good that be described not long ago in the 3. § for the heate of the Liuer But if the heat after purging will not yet ceasse then giue the patient euery day one or one and a halfe of the Trocisks de Camphora tempered in one ounce of wine or the confection Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis but before the foresayd things be vsed you must first vse these pils following Take Earth wormes washt with wine or burnt to powder in a pot as much as you please and put as much Rubarb vnto it or halfe so much and make pils thereof giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe at once according to the age of the partie mixed with Oxymel Also you may giue this patient of this foresayd pouder one dragme without Rubarbe It is also an approoued medicine that twentie or thirtie earth woormes be boyled in the water of Sperrage of smallage and of Parsley and to take often a spoonfull of this decoction Item take of the pouder of burnt earth woormes rootes of Smallage and of Parsley of each a like quantitie giue thereof to women and yong children to each according to his age it driueth the yellow iaundise very forcibly through the veine and in like manner also the dropsie For this you haue another in the second part in the third chapter and 7. § And to returne to purging if so be that the pils be more acceptable then take washt Aloe one dragme or fower scruples and vse it after the foresayd potions which be good and safe But if so be that the obstruction of the liuer be not opened by it then is this medicine following to be vsed Take sirrupe de Bizantijs prepared with Vineger one ounce and a halfe water of Cuscuta of Harts tong and of Cicorie of each one ounce drinke it certaine times one after another or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel with water of Cuscuta of
and giue therof one dragme at once they ease very spéedily the paine For this is also very good Benedicta Laxatiua or Hiera Picra one ounce Hiera Picra magnae halfe a dragme Turbith and Ginger of each one scruple then mixe them together with a good draught of wine But in case that in this cholick the purging medicins will not helpe and the sicknes still increaseth then make these suppositories following and if so be that these suppositories will not sufficiently relaxe then are clisters to be vsed which are the very best and safest remedies for the cholicke which one can deuise therefore we will here rehearse some of them and begin first with the mildest But note alwaies which is good in all clisters that are to be vsed for the cholicke that the herbes and all that is to be vsed with them are to be decocted in such broths wherein Calues heades Lambes heads and feete be boyled for these broths be very requisite for all obstructions of the bodie Take Cammomill Hollihocks and Mallowes of each one handfull Fennell Annis Caraway of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in wine or water Take fiftéene or sixtéene ounces of this decoction and dissolue therein fresh Butter and Sallad oyle of each two ounces a halfe or thrée ounces with the yolke of an Egge temper them well minister it warme Item take one pound of Linséede oyle and vse it very warme for a Clister Or take Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Mercurie Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one handfull fiue or sixe Figs cut Annis Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Branne one handfull seeth them all together in sufficient water Of this decoction you are to take fiftéene or sixteene ounces and then temper amongst it Hiera Picra and Cassie of each one ounce oyle of Rue three ounces and then make a Clister thereof Another Take Mallowes Hollihockes Mercurie and Bearefoote of each one handfull ten or twelue fat Figs powned Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one ounce and a half Dil séed one ounce Bran halfe a handful oyle of Sesamum and Hony of each one ounce and a halfe Sal gemmae one dragme Cassie and Hiera Picra of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them all together in sixtéene ounces or more of the foresaid decoction vnto a Clister You haue before in the eleuenth Chapter and the 21. § a Clister of Malmsey which is also conuenient for this vse Item take the iuice of Parietarie and the iuice of Wormewood of each sixe ounces one Nutmeg Peach kernels beaten very small halfe a dragme make them all together warme and minister thrée of these Clisters in one day Another Take Annis and the séede of Pellitorie of each one quarter of an ounce Pellitorie leaues one handfull séeth them all together in Wine and take thereof fiftéene or sixteene ounces melt Butter therein and Linséede of each two ounces then temper them together When the patient hath auoyded this Clister then let him afterwards drink fiue or sixe ounces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and that tempered with Sugar Item take oyle of Rue twelue ounces fiue or sixe Léekes heads stampe them and seeth them in the oyle then straine it through a cloth and vse the oyle for a Clister Item take Pellitorie Centorie Marioram and field Mints of each one handfull Annis Comin and péeled wild Saffron seede of each one dragme Polipodie rootes Turbith and Radish séede of each halfe an ounce Sal gemmae one dragme temper all this into a Clister as is abouesaid You are also to obserue here that these and such like Clisters shall be ministred but onely when other remedies wil not auaile Item oyle of Cammomill is more precious then common oyle but if Cammomill cannot be gotten then is oyle of Linséede to be vsed in stead of it Also hereafter do follow sundrie remedies against all paine of the guts which serue also very well for the Phlegma Certaine Potions for the cold Phlegma TAke the rootes of Smallage Fennell and Parsly rootes of each two ounces Annis Fennell Caraway Parsly and Smallage séeds of each one ounce Radish two ounces make a decoction of this and drinke thereof adayes oftentimes as warme as you can suffer it Also once or twice a day drinke a spoonefull or twaine of Rose hony tempered together with the foresaid potion Item séeth an old Cocke vntill the bones fall from the flesh and in this broth séeth Polipodie rootes the séedes of Dill and of Annis and drinke otherwhiles a good draught of it Also you may oftentimes with the waters and séedes of the foresaid rootes foment the place where the paine is and afterwards annoint the place with oyle of Rue wherein Annis séedes are boyled Some do highly commend the oyle of Sulphur viz. to drinke in the winter one droppe or twaine with Muscadell wine or with vitall water It will maruellously helpe and expell all gripings in the guts of a cold occasion Item the confected Elecampane rootes and confected Pimpernell rootes do asswage all paines of the bowels which procéede of cold In like manner the confected Ginger doth warme and strengthen all inward parts and so doth also the rootes of Eringus when it is confected Amongst other Conserues there be also méete and commodious the conserues of Piony and Rosemary of Hyssop of Spikenard and after purging the Confections of Trion pipereon Diacalamentha and such like Of the paine in the guts through wind §. 7. THe third cause of these paines in the bowels are winds If then this paine do come of no obstruction and yet neuerthelesse one féele cumbling in the belly heareth the paine run vp and down in the belly and if the paine do come by fits and there abateth againe against this be those remedies to be vsed that do expell wind For which the Confection of Bayberries is so highly cōmended that it is thought that her like cannot be found At the Apothecaries they cal this Electuarium de Baccis Lauri and it is thus prepared Take drie Rue one dragme Ameos Comin Nardus séede Louage séede Marioram Caraway bitter Almonds long Pepper Daucus seede white Mints Pepper Calmus Bayberries and Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Sagapenum halfe an ounce Opopanacum one dragme all these being powned together and molten then make a confection of it with clarified hony and giue the patient thereof the quantitie of an hasell nut with a draught of wine Marmalade with spices is also very méete for this purpose Item in like sort be both the sorts of Treacle and Mithridate for that they do wast wind and be good for all cold diseases of the intrailes Item there is also fit for this vse the confection of Horseradish which shall hereafter be expressed These confections following are also very commodious viz. De Cumino Diatrion pipereon Diagalanga Dianisum Diacalamintha Diapliris Aromaticum rosatum and after them a good draught of Wine If you desire
may also a cooling plaister be laid vpon the belly whereof there be diuers discouered against the heate of the stomacke and the Lyuer yet must alwaies some Cammomill Wormwood and such like be tempered amongst it For a cooling you may also take preserued Ribes or any such like as in the eleuenth Chapter § 6. is shewed Of the paine of the belly mixt with grauell §. 11. FOr this disease is much aduised to take thrée dayes one after another a good draught of the water of Elderne flowers which helpeth maruellous well Item take the iuice of Pellitorie eight ounces oile of Rue two ounces séeth the dung of a Dog in it which hath eaten nothing but bones straine it thorough and vse it for a Clister It is also much aduised for to take for purgation halfe an ounce of Diaphoenicon and Sebestes one dragme and a halfe Philonium Romanum one scruple Species Iustini halfe a scruple temper them all together and drinke it and then a little fat broth after it But how easily an error is committed in distinguishing the paine of the guts from the paine of the raines and the paine of the grauell it shal hereafter be declared where we shall speake of the grauell Of the paine in the bellies of young children §. 12. WE haue here briefly shewed of the oyle of swéet Almonds which is to be tempered with Sugar and may be giuen boldly to new borne children for the paine of the belly This is alwaies found to be good The water of Larks spurres is also good for the same as well in old folkes as in young children For a small Clister take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Pyrola of each halfe a handfull Melilot and Rosemary of each halfe so much séeth them in a pint of water and then take of this decoction litle or much according to the bignes of the child Hony of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Cammomill two ounces Salt halfe a dragme temper them all together Item take vnto small children alwayes a spoonefull of the water of black Cherries in their pap for it asswageth the paine Oyle of Nutmegs annoynted about the Nauell and a warme cloth laid vpon it and in like manner the oyle of Scorpions is also very commodious for this infirmitie Also Chickweede fried in oyle and applyed warm on the belly Also take Mints Mallowes fried in fresh Butter or Cammomill and Wormewood of each a like much cut them all together méetly small and put them in a little bag then make it meetly warme in hote wine wring it well out and so lay it ouer the childs belly Item cut an Onion very small frie it in oyle and bind the same vpon the Nauel of yong children and old folkes Albeit that it be not now our intent to write much of Chirurgerie yet neuerthelesse we can not let this escape viz. if any be wounded in the belly that his bowels issue foorth and then happen to swell that they cannot be put backe into the body then warme them with warme milke or wine After that may the Chirurgion well know what he hath to do Of the Wormes in the belly §. 13. FIrst of all there is not any thing more certaine than that in mans bodie like as in stinking kennels in chéese and in stinking flesh worms do grow and that out of a putrified matter But in man do they chiefly procéed through vnaccustomed meates that cannot be digested also of surfetting and ouercharging of the stomacke Item through bathing and vse of venery with a full stomacke through eating of fresh Beanes of salt fish that is without scales through Swines flesh and such like things moe Also these wormes do grow by eating much fruite Therefore haue children most annoy thereby about haruest These wormes do ingender sometimes in the stomacke and otherwhiles in the bowels and some suppose that they onely grow in the blind gut but they which haue somewhat more carefully beheld them do write that the long Wormes do ingender in the vppermost bowels and the small like vnto chéese Magots onely in the arsegut and in the middlemost guttes should round wormes ingender called Ascarides Some do take it otherwise In fine we will let them dispute thereof for they do accord herein that there be three sorts of wormes which may grow in mans body like as is shewed before And to the end that somewhat be discoursed of these kinds of wormes The long ones be knowne to be in yong children through their gnawing in the bowels through a small dry and troublesome Cough Moreouer they do awake suddenly out of their sléepe sometimes with an outcry afterwards they do quickly hold their peace and haue an vnequall pulse Also they haue vncertaine Agues with coldnesse of the outward members which accidents do happen vnto them without any cause thrée or foure times a day Such children haue an vnnaturall desire of meate they let out their toung gnash with their téeth sweate about the eyes they be gladly quiet they be also very quickly angrie and snappish or testie on them that do awake them and as now they be ruddie and immediatly bleake againe they talke in their sléepe be frighted in their dreames and do lye very vnquiet When they awake they do then rub their nose the eyes sinke into their heads they will be very hard fauoured in their face they féele great paine in the belly they haue much fome and spittle their mouths will be drie yet more by day then by night and their breath stinketh much In like maner it happeneth very well that they auoide the wormes at the nose at the mouth and through stooles but amongst people in yeares there be besides these signes such an extreme paine of the belly also that they cast their hands and féete from them like as it were a collicke And as they come into their stomacke then do they get a great wambling and loathing of all meates And when one forceth himselfe to eate yet can he not swallow the meate but must cast vp againe presently the meate which he hath taken their ordure is very stinking their belly swelleth on high like as if it were full of wind These be now the signes of the long wormes which signes though they be not alwayes apparant yet neuerthelesse this disease may be knowne by some of these The broad wormes be as well in them that haue no Ague as in them which be troubled with lingring Agues they do also bring some of the foresaid signes with them and especially these will be knowne as well through the great gnawing in the stomacke as through the vnmeasurable desire of meate And although they haue eaten inough and do not by and by eate againe yet then do they séele that gnawing and biting againe as before They will be also very leane and dry of bodie But this is the very surest signe that the patient doth auoid through the stoole small things like to the kernels of Gourds It is
also found that some not estéeming this gnawing of the wormes and taking no aduice for it that the guts be bitten asunder and that the wormes are got into the hollownesse of the belly whereof doth follow afterwards a great calamitie as madnesse the falling sicknes dogs hunger swouning paine of the belly obstruction or binding of the body and lastly a painefull and bitter death Therefore is this disease not to be accompted small but rather men are betimes to vse all requisite remedies for it But if the worms be not in the bowels but in the stomack and in the mouth of the stomack then be they commonly vomited vp they that be in the bowels are rid and dispatcht through the stoole Of the third kinde of wormes which kéepe themselues in the Arsegut shall immediately hereafter be discoursed I haue therefore the longer discoursed of this for that it is a common disease amongst children and common families whereby common housholders might know their right difference afterwards we will write of the remedies seruing for these common sorts of wormes but aboue all there be prescribed by the learned certaine common rules of them The first is that the lower the wormes be in the bowels whether they be there growen or descended out of the stomack thither so much the bitterer and stronger must the medicine be which is giuen from aboue because that she may not lose her vertue through so long a passage Secondly the wormes Ascarides are not so easily killed through Phisick as other wormes therefore must stronger remedies be vsed for them Thirdly to preserue himselfe frō wormes he is to beware of all such meates as do increase Phlegma and to purge out the same in aged folks like as we shall speake more at large thereof Fourthly the first intention of the Phisitians is to kill the wormes afterwards to expell them least that through their stench they do infect the hart the stomack and the whole bodie Fiftly as soone as one perceiueth the wormes then must he indeuor to expell them and so to frée himselfe from great distresse Sixtly all remedies which be hote in the third degrée are very fit for this purpose if there be not a strong Ague or impostume with it Seuenthly if one will expell the wormes through any meate or drinke then is the same to be done with an emptie stomack and fasting Eightly the wormes are most fittest to be killed through hote and very bitter things as to the contrary through sweete and fat things they are fed and sustained Ninthly all they that haue the wormes may be fed two dayes with sweete and fat things but the third day when they be hungrie and emptie are bitter things to be giuen Tenthly if one take any thing to kill the wormes then must the belly and the stomack be annoynted or plaistred on the out side with astringent and bitter things Eleuenthly if so be that the wormes be in the vppermost guts or in the stomack then will they be more easily killed and expelled through that which is taken at the mouth But if they be in the nethermost guts then are they killed with Clisters Suppositories But if in the middlemost guts are to be vsed both these remedies The order how a man may preserue himselfe from wormes ALl those that are to be preserued from wormes are of thrée sorts as children which do yet suck children of the age of fouretéene yéeres Now for to free the sucking children the Nurse must eate all light meates and refraine from all Fruit Fish and Milke but especially from ouercharging her selfe with any kinde of meates The children which do not suck must be kept after the same manner and be restrained from all that is slimy and also beware of Fruit and especially of those which be not ripe and those that be wormeaten for they also ingender wormes in the belly The youths and people in yéeres are to be kept likewise as we haue said Also twice or thrice a yéere phlegme ought to be prepared in them with Oxymel of Squils or Compositum or with the sirupe of Calamintha and such like Afterwards they are to take Hiera Picra with the decoction of Polipodie rootes Mirabolani Chebuli of a little Colomint for to purge They are also to vse rather rosted meate then sodden They must eschue all grosse and fat meates for thereby do the wormes grow especially Also he must eate euery day a little Mustard séed But if so be that the wormes be present then must one looke to kill and expell them by all meanes for which purpose these hote things following be fit viz. Wormewood Bay leaues Peach kernels Rue white Mints bitter Costus Centorie Horehound Lupins Annis Smallage séed parched Nardus seed Mints Elecampane rootes dry Bayberies Southernwood Comin Cresses séed Caruway bitter Almonds Diptamus Penniroyall Gals of old beasts and chiefely Oxe gals or Wolfs gals the common Wormeséed Cinnamome Gentian the rootes of the femall Fearne and Agrimonis of all which foresayd things one dragme or a dragme and a halfe is to be taken in winter time with wine and in Sommer with some cooling waters and that chiefly with Purslaine and Endiue water These things following do not only kill the wormes but also expell them forcibly to wit Aloe rootes of blew Floure de luce the iuice of wilde Cucumbers Agaricus Coloquint wilde Saffron the fresh iuice of Elecampane rootes Turbith and Rabarbarum One may vse some of these foresaid things if there be no Ague with it Cold simples which doe kill the wormes are these viz. prepared Coriander Butchers Broome seede Hypocistis sealed earth Purslaine séed seeds of Endiue and of Lettice the iuice of Plantaine rinds of Pomegranats sowre Pomegranats Oranges and their séed Citron séed burnt Harts horne Asses milke all that is sowre bread infused in vineger Broome séeds Colewoort séed dry Plantaine séeds of Orage and vnripe Sallad oyle a good deale of it taken at once You may boldly take these things where as heate and the Ague is And further to speake of the compounded things we will first of all take the things in hand which may be vsed inwardly and in heate Take the sirupe of vineger one ounce and a halfe temper it with Endiue water and Purslaine water and drinke this certaine dayes together alwayes fasting Item take the seeds of Butchers Broome sealed earth Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof certaine daies together thrée or foure ounces at once Or take Grasse-rootes and Butchers Broome séed of each one ounce séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof as before Another Take eightéene or twentie Sebestes Purslaine séed one dragme Grasse rootes and Millet of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces Veriuice and the iuice of Pomegranates of each two spoonfuls let them seeth together and skumme
them well But if you haue not this iuice then take in steed thereof goâ— Vineger Item take prepared Coriander and the séed of Smallage of each one dragme an a halfe calcined bones of a Stags hart thrée quarters of an ounce red Corall one dragme Cinnamome halfe a dragme Calmus halfe a scruple prepared Perles halfe a dragme Diptamus Ammoniacum filed Iuorie and burnt Silke of each two graines eight or ten Bayberies Sugar thrée quarters of an ounce make a fine pouder of it and giue one drag of it more or lesse Burnt Harts horne alone two or thrée dragmes giuen with Meade doth maruellously kill the wormes Or take burnt Harts horne one dragme Pyonie séed Smallage séeds Coriander Cole woorts seed Nardus séed séeds of Plantaine and of Endiue of each halfe a dragme Diptamus one scruple red Saunders Corall and Pearle of each sixe graines Sugar as much as all the rest make a subtile pouder of it Another Take filed Iuorie which is a little parched one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one dragme and a halfe Diptamus one dragme and halfe a scruple Sealed earth one dragme temper them al togither Item Take Rubarbe Basill séed Plantaine séed Pomegranate pecles Caruway Butchers broome seeds Carduus Benedictus séed filed Harts horne filed Iuorie of each halfe an ounce rindes of Mulberrie rootes Colewoort séed Citron seed and rindes of Willow trees of each three dragmes Purslaine seed and Diptamus of each two scruples red Corall and Pearles of each one scruple make a pouder thereof and then giue one dragme or twaine of it viz. in winter when there is no ague with wine but in sommer and when there is an ague with Oxycrato Item Take burnt Harts horne one dragme prepared Coriander and Aloe of each halfe a scruple beate them all togither and giue it him with the sirupe of Vineger or grasse water In like manner is also especiall good for this the leaues of Smallage one dragme or take the seeds of Purslaine one dragme Muscus fower scruples red Corall and prepared Coriander of each one scruple Orage seeds one dragme make a pouder of all these and giue thereof with strong wine or with water wherein grasse rootes and Agrimonie haue beene decocted each time fower graines Another Take Orage seeds one dragme Wormeseed which is Semen one dragme and a halfe Grasse rootes flowers of Hyssop Southernwood of each halfe a dragme Licorice fower scruples Cinnamome and Diâ—â— seed of each halfe a scruple stamp each a part and afterwards mixe them togither and at the last put halfe a scruple of Muscus vnto it then giue thereof from three or sixe graines vnto halfe a scruple with warme grasse water Item Take the seeds of Orage of Purslaine wilde Thyme and Marierom of each halfe a dragme Wormeseed three dragmes Licorice and Lupines of each one scruple Muscus halfe a dragme Ambra halfe a dragme mixe them all togither and giue one dragme and somewhat more at one time with Grasse water Another Take the seeds of Plantaine and Wormeseed of each one dragme or somewhat lesse according to the age and giue thereof as before Item Take Plantaine séed calcined Harts horne and Wormeseed of each a like quantitie vse it as the other Or if you will make a confection then take burnt Harts horne one dragme prepared Coriander Pyonie séed the séed of Smallage Nardus séed the séeds of Plantaine and of Endiue of each halfe a dragme Diptamus halfe a scruple red Corall Sanders and Pearles of each fiue graines Sugar one ounce and a halfe then make Tabulats thereof with Grasse water Then take about one quarter of an ounce at once You haue before in the second part the third Chapter and seauen § of the hardning of the breast and in the third part the second Chapter and eleuenth § a preparation of earth woormes into pouder against the yellow Iaundise whereof may a drinke or confection be made But if the guts be distended and the heate not ouer great then lay this plaister following vpon the belly Take Linséed meale and Beane meale of each one ounce and a halfe Woormewood one handfull Aloe thrée quarters of an ounce and make a plaister of it with Meade or with the oile of Wormewood But if there be a small ague with the wormes then may be giuen to people in yéeres each according to his age Treacle or Mithridate for both of them do kill the wormes and expell them Item Take the séeds of Sophia one dragme calcined Harts horne and Pomegranate péeles of each halfe a dragme Diptamus Cloues Rubarbe of each one dragm Wormeseed halfe a dragme Saffron fiftéene graines Sugar nine ounces Séeth them all togither in Wormewood water or in Grasse water and then make Tabulats thereof or take Wormeséed one quarter of an ounce Knotgrasse and white Diptamus of each two scruples burnt Harts horne Peach leaues of each one scruple Rubarb one drag make them all togither into a subtile pouder and giue thereof one dragme or twaine at once But if you will haue a confection then take thereto thrée ounces of Sugar decocted in water of Knotgrasse and giue thereof from halfe an ounce vnto a whole according to the age of the patient Item other moe which be Laxatiue Take parched Rubarbe and Wormeseed of each one dragme prepared Pearles one dragme and a halfe burnt Harts horne one dragme Sugar sixe ounces make a Confection of it as before Or take Wormséed halfe a dragme Comin one scruple Cinnamome two scruples burnt Harts horne halfe a dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Sugar one ounce and a quarter make loosings thereof and giue about one quarter of an ounce of it Item take Cinnamome burnt Harts horne Centorie and Gentian of each one dragme Rubarbe one scruple Sugar sixe ounces decocted with grasse water make also loosings thereof They be very good and they be altogither easie The séeds of Rue should also be very good for the Wormes like as also is the vineger of Rue and the common good vineger Take in like maner the flowers of Feuerfew as much as you can gripe betweene two fingers and vse it fasting This hereafter ensuing may be vsed for children of three yeres of age Take white Diptamus Wormeséed Carlina and Rubarbe of each a like quantity poune them to powder and giue each time one dragme thereof more or lesse with wine according to the importance of the cause whereupon you are to vse for children the salue of Orenges which shall be described hereafter and after that this potion ensuing Take Rubarbe two scruples Carlini one scruple pouned small with Wormewood water In like sort also be very meete these pils following Take Gentian Mirrhe Diptamus Wormewood Mints and filed Harts horne of each one dragme Turbith halfe a dragme Agaricus one quarter of an ounce Sal gemmae one dragme Ginger and Cinnamome of each two scruples Aloe as much as the rest then make pils of it with the
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
beforesaid But if there be any impostume or vlcer of the kidneyes with it that may be séene by the matter and blood therefore haue you hereafter all that is requisite for the pissing of matter If any man pisse matter §. 12. THe pissing of matter must proceede out of the bladder kidneyes or some of the vppermost parts as from some vlcer of the sides vlcer of the lights the liuer c. the which may procéede from some outward causes as of blowes falles wounds strong diureticall medicines and such like The inward causes may be vncleane impostumes vlcers superfluous tough and grosse humors wind or stone which do settle there and make some excoriation The signes of these accidents may be perceiued easily by the paine of the same place and by the declaration of the patient This infirmitie is thus to be holpen Take peeled Melon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede and Pompeon seede of each one ounce and a quarter fine Bolus Gummi Arabicum Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each fiue dragmes Opium one dragme and a halfe the seede of Smallage one dragme make Trociskes thereof with the muscilage of Quince kernels and giue the sicke folkes euery day the waight of one quarter of an ounce with the sirupe of Poppie heads For this is also to be vsed consolidating and mundifying things as hereafter followeth Take péeled Melon séed the seed of Hollihockes and Nightshade of each halfe an ounce bitter Almonds Pompeon seede fresh Maiden haire Ireos and Licorice of each halfe a dragme make a confection thereof with Sugar or with cleare honie For mundification are also fit Barley water meade the decoction of figs of Horehound and Maiden haire decocted with milke Now for to heale you are to take great and small Comfrey of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke and fine Bolus of each one dragme parched Rubarbe the iuice of Sloes and Mirtle seede of each halfe a dragme Indie Spica halfe a scruple Sugar as much as you please make a confection thereof This sirupe following may also be prepared Take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Maidenhaire and Hounds ribbe of each two handfuls peeled Melon séede Pempeon séede Cucumber seede and Gourd séede of each one dragme white Poppie séede Hollihocke seede and muscilage of Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each thrée dragmes Rubarbe Roses of each one ounce and a halfe white Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it The Trocisci de Alkekengi which is of winter Cherries are surpassing god in this disease and not onely for this but also for all other diseases of the kidneyes giue one dragme thereof or one dragme and a halfe with Goates milke or Plantaine water Also for this disease is Hony water to be spouted into the yard and when the patient hath kept it in a certain season and pist it out againe then is this following to be vsed Take Ceruse Sarcocolla Gum Frankinsence Opium Dragon blood of each halfe a scruple temper it with foure ounces of womans milke and spout one ounce thereof at one time through the yard In like manner shall he drinke Radish water and water of Horse radish or spout it in For this must also this order obserued to wit that he now vse consolidating then againe mundifying things and do alter them according as occasion serueth Item take oile of Roses two ounces oile of Myrtle and the iuice of Plantaine of each one quarter of an ounce Trociscorum de Terra sigillata de Carabe of each one dragme Vineger one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue This salue for the pissing of blood and water is to be rubbed on the place of the Kidneyes and also round about the priuities aboue and beneath begin rubbed well in and then well couered with warme clothes Of outward vlcers of the Kidneyes §. 13. THese vlcers outwardly in the Kidneies are wont to be cause if one lie vpon his backe then are the places of the Kidneyes red and do come to exulcerate Now when this is perceiued then is there a plaister to be made with the meale of Millet and with Pannick meale and be laid thereon and then are you to strew it with Willow leaues and to moisten the heated place with cold Rose water or to lay any cooling things vpon it These salues following are also méete for this viz. salue of Ceruse Poplar salue Sanders salue other cooling salue of Galen vine leaues stéeped in Rose water and thinne beaten Led also which is full of holes worne vpon the raines Item take oile of Roses tempered with a little vineger and laid often vpon it If that there do then appeare bladder or blisters which do breake open then are they to be cured with cooling salues and dried vp with the salue of Ceruse or Album coctum All these foresaid sicknesse and diseases are the true messengers of the most grieuous disease of the Stone or grauell of the Bladder and the Kidneyes whereof we will hereafter further discourse and write But we will first of all prescribe a briefe order of diet for all them that be infected with these terrible diseases as the paine of the Kidneyes impostumes and vlcers The ordre of diet §. 14. ALl meates of milke or wheate meale of the crums of bread barley paps oaten paps are very commodious for this disease In like manner all field fowles which are to be eaten as Partridges Phesants Doues Turtle doues Kids and yong mutton if it be vtterly without an Ague but if so be that there be a great heate with it then is he to vse Melons and Peaches which be very ripe Hasell nuts Almonds Pistacies Pingles and such like may he also eate Item yong hens rere egges hen-broth wherein purslaine Lettice Melon séede Pompeons Gourds Cucumbers or any other cooling things haue bene sodden all riuer fish that haue scales frayed are to be tolerated Gréene herbes as Orage Mallowes purslaine and Lettice are also very méete for him His best drinke were indéed Barley water but if he will drinke Wine and so there be no Ague with it then may he drinke good thicke red Wine tempered with water Asses milke is maruellous good for him and if the same cannot be gotten then may one take Goates milke It is before admonished that euery such patient is to beware of all sharpe hote bitter and swéete things and chiefly of all fruite whether they be gréene or dried The seuenteenth Chapter Of the Grauell Sand or Stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder THis stone or grauell hath his principall ofspring in the Kidneyes in the Bladder and seldome in the hollownesse of other inward parts as of the Liuer c. The cause of it is commonly by inheritance like as the Gout or Podagra the Leprosie and other moe Also these disease do come through a weake Stomacke and Liuer that ingender much tough and grosse slime
the masterie But in this it chiefly consisteth that one kéepe a good order of diet and eschue all that may cause that grosse matter as milke and all that is drest with it fresh Chéese Cow béefe Swines flesh Goates flesh Géese and all water fowles all grosse fish all other that be without skales all that is not well baked sandie or is ground with a new sharped stone Rice Pease Beanes Coleworts sower fruites vnripe apples and peares Citrons c. and hard sod egs be also very hurtfull troubled water red thicke wine Must and Béere are also to be eschued But to the contrary all light meates are to be vsed as light and hard baked bread which is a day or two old wherein Fennell Annis Caruwayes or Nardus séedes are baked Hens pullets Partridges Capons yong mutton Goats Turtle doues Doues and al wild fowles but especially Wagtailes are very méete for this sicknesse He may also eate all riuer fish which haue skales as they that are prepared with parsley in like manner also poched egges For his drinke he shall take faire white wine tempered with a little water wherein the seed of Smallage and Fennell séed is decocted Meade may also be vsed in stead of his drinke and for a medicine He may also drinke sometimes pease broth and the broth of Lentils wherewith parsley is decocted but he is not to eate the pease at all The kernels of bitter Almonds of Peach stones of Prune stones Pingles Pistacies and Raisins is he to eate in fine he must eschue all which causeth the matter of the stone to increase and vse al that cooleth the vnnaturall heate and expelleth the matter of the stone for which these things following are fit and be very good as Agaricus Hermodactili Turbith wild Saffron séed rootes of Polipodie and the smell of the wine Hellebore and also a little roote thereof stéeped a day and a night in water and the same water drunke also otherwhiles Amongst the compounded things there is Benedicta laxatiua or Inda which cleanse the Kidneyes the Bladder and Vreters of all phlegme The same doth also Cassie giuen with diureticall things and with beaten Licorice for the same drieth not onely the grauell but hindereth letteth also the growing of the stone and allayeth the heate and if so be that one giueth it him with the séede of Agnus castus or Licorice then doth it help the raines maruellously and stirreth no other humors then those whereof the stone doth grow Further there be other things moe which do cleanse the vreters or conduits of vrine and open them as the water of Hyssop of white water Mints and of Marierom of Smallage of Parsley of Betonie of Penniroial of Milium Solis and aboue al other the water of Hollihocks Of Sirupes which be most vsed are the sirupes of Hyssope de Calamintha Acetosus compositus Oxymel compositum and al other Oxymels but especially the Oxymel of Squils and for example these compounded things ensuing may be made Take Oxymel of Squils one ounce sirupe of Hyssope halfe an ounce water of Harts toong and of wild Cucumbers of each one ounce and a halfe This drinke is to be taken certaine dayes together vntill one may euidently sée in the colour of the vrine and in other signes that the disease apparently frameth it self on the better side by the which the Phisitions haue their especiall markes and signes And in case there be such matter present which may cause the stone to grow then are they prepared through the first recited waters sirupes and such like for expulsion and when now the matter is prepared then is the patient to be purged which may be done through this ensuing or such like meanes Take the confection Benedicta one ounce or one ounce and a half or somewhat lesse according to the importance of the cause then temper them together with thrée ounces of parsley water Or prepare this following which clenseth much the kidneys and expelleth the matter of the stone maruellously Take Centorie péeled with Saffron séed of each one dragme prepared Agaricus powned Hermodactili of each foure scruples Diagridion sixe graines Annis Fennell Licorice the séede of Smallage and Ginger of each halfe a scruple Sugar pennets one ounce stéepe them all together the space of foure and twentie houres in foure ounces of the water of Maidenhaire afterwards wring it out and drinke it Lastly you are to gouerne your selfe as in all other purgations This following is also much commended for to preuent the grauell Take about Saint Iohns tide Millet as it standeth and bloometh then burne it with herbe and roote and drinke thereof euening and morning two or thrée ounces with wine and then fast two houres vpon it and do so fiue or sixe dayes together it is said and also taken for to be certaine that doing this one shall be cléere and frée from the grauell halfe a yeare Against the paine of the Grauell §. 3. BVt if in this disease there happen great paine with it through which the Phisitions are much hindered that they cannot vse due remedies then do they notwithstanding aduise first of all that at the first one is to begin with things which allay the paine or at the least doe ease it for which are clisters to be vsed made of these herbes following as Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Bearefoot Pellitorie and such like with the oile of Violets with Cassie with Hiera picra or the confection Benedicta tempered amongst it Secondly when the foresaid paine is a litle swaged then are these things following to be vsed Take water Cresses Mallowes Hollihocks Mercury Parow Cinkfoile Peucedunum the herbe of Mew and Rue of each one handfull Calmus Barley of each three ounces Bran Linséede of each a little let all these séeth together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixteene ounces temper amongst it Hiera picra Benedicta and Lithontribon of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomill and of Rue of each one ounce this Clister looseth expelleth wind and also the paine Item take aftewards of the foresaid herbes but somewhat more Watercresses and a few Marigolds and make a bath thereof and let the patient in it euen vp to the nauell you are also to put some stalkes of Rapes vnto it then will it be the better Thirdly take Mallowes Hollihock roots Water cresses Cammomil Maidenhaire Linséed and Fenegrake seed of each two ounces let them al seeth in sufficient water wet a woollen clout or sponge therin and lay it continually warme vpon the place of the paine The sodden herbs are you to powne small and temper with Cammomil oile and so lay them vpon it The place of the paine is sometimes also to be annointed with these things following Take the grease of Hens of Géese Hogs grease fresh butter oile of Camelina and of Violets of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomils Waxe of each two dragmes then let them melt together by the fire But this is
dragme of Iewes stone and make it to a drinke with Millet water then doth it expell the better After this are you to come to the things which do breake the stone easily open the passages of vrine For to atchieue this then is the body first of all to be purged and afterwards are these following and elected remedies to be vsed By what meanes the stone to be broken To breake the stone is this following very forcible Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe ashes of Scorpions one scruple ten graines of good Treacle burnt and prepared glasse one dragme then séeth Radishes Saxifrages winter Cherries in water or wine and take foure ounces of this broth or as much Beane water and make the foresaid a potion and vse it fasting in the morning In case that for all this the paine remaineth induring then take scraped Licorice and Currans of each one quarter of an ounce pouned Millet Maidenhaire of each halfe an ounce séeth them together in water of Agrimonie Pellitorie or Cammomill water take of this decoction two ounces and a halfe Spec. Lithontribi one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum two scruples good wine two ounces Sugar one ounce then temper them all together vnto a potion and drinke it three houres before meate Item take prepared Bucks blood one dragme and a halfe Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Wine wherin Radishes be decocted foure ounces then make a potion of it Further it is necessary that the stomack be strengthened and the hot matter of the kidneyes expelled for which is méet also the foresayd Clister if there be put vnto it one ounce of Cassie more Or vse this following Take twelue ounces of Linséede oyle oyle of bitter Almonds sixe ounces Hens grease foure ounces or in stead of that as much fresh Butter two yolkes of Egs then mixe them all together and minister it warme You may also giue vnto the sicke body oyle of swéete or bitter Almonds of each three ounces and a halfe or more to drink for it is found that the same taken by the mouth hath more asswaged the paine than the which hath bene vsed in the Clisters It is in like sort found to be very good that the place be fomented with these things following where the paine is and after that annointed Take Cammomill Maidenhaire Linseed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull séeth them all together in white Wine and water then make a sponge wet in it and lay the same wrung out very warme vpon it For the annointing may many things be vsed or like as hereafter followeth Take oyle of Scorpions one ounce oyle of swéet Almonds and Butter of each halfe an ounce muscilage of Linséede of Fenegréeke of each fiue dragmes Saxifrage one dragme and a little molten Waxe temper them all together The last and highest meane for the intollerable paine is that the Harcotica be vsed which be things that take away all sence and féeling thus Take the first described decoction and put therein of the confection of Lithontribon two dragmes Philonium Romanum one dragme oile of swéete almonds one quarter of an ounce good white Wine two ounces mingle them all together and giue thereof to drinke Will you then make a Clister of it then take of the foresaid decoction about two ounces oyle of swéete Almonds foure ounces Philonium one dragme Wine thrée ounces and then minister it like as is accustomed These two proceedings in this sicknes I thought good to described thus at length that euery one might know how to chuse of the medicines following what is most needfull for him First we will describe all such things which are to be eaten and may be vsed in the bodie and first of all beginning with the confections Take sponge stones Hollihocke séed Millet and Medlar stones of each halfe an ounce prepared Buckes blood one dragme Iewes stones and Gromell seede of each one scruple great and small Endiue séede and Pykes bones which be vnsodden of each half a dragme Sugar as much as of all the rest but the Sugar decocted with the water of winter Cherries and then make Tabulats thereof and take of them euery time halfe an ounce Or take Pomate stone Iewes stone and burnt glasse of each one dragme and a halfe prepared Bucks blood thrée dragmes Gromel seed half an ounce beate them all smal together Sugar as much as all the rest doth weigh make with the water of winter Cherries or the water of Mallowes tabulats of it and take halfe an ounce at once thereof Item take foure ounces of Pistacies stéepe them two dayes and two nights in the water of winter Cherries take off the péeles and chop them very small Gromell séeds halfe an ounce rootes of Cinqfoile Harts toong wild Thime Rue séed of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces then seeth it with the water of Saxifrage make Tabulats of it and vse them as before Another Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe the iawbones of Pickrels two scruples Iew stones and Sponge stones of each halfe a dragme Melon seed Hollihocke séed Licorice the seed of Smallage Cucubes of each one scruple Sugar two ounces and a halfe make a confection thereof with the water of Mallowes Fennell seed and Comin raw or confected and eaten be good for all diseases in the kidneyes of the stone and grauell The confection of Iustini or Lithontribon as they be prepared at all wel furnished Apothecaries are also maruellous good for this vse In like manner also bitter Almonds confected and eaten expell the matter whence the stone doth grow This following is also a very sumptuous Confection Take burnt glasse and burnt Grashoppers whereof the féete and wings be cast away of each thrée dragmes the ashes of a burnt Hare and preared Buckes blood of each one ounce Plantain seed Starch the seed of Butchers broome of each two dragmes and a halfe Sirupi Acetosi Compositi thirtie ounces Sugar pennets 24. ounces then make an electuarie thereof This foresaid confection doth clense all slimie matter and grauell it breaketh the stone and openeth all conduits of vrine if one take euery morning the space of foureteene dayes three dragmes with the water of Gromell or Radish water The Confection of a calcined Hare is thus to be prepared The electuarie of a calcined Hare Take Iewes stone and Sponge stones of each one dragme the powder of a burnt Hare one quarter of an ounce Spec. Lithontribon one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces make thereof with Saxifrage water tabulats or a Confection This foresaid Electuary prouoketh vrine and clenseth all the vreters of all slime and grauel and expelleth also all windes take thereof two or three dragmes with the water of Sperage betimes in the morning and also before both the meale tides Item take yellow wild Rape seed Comin Balsam wood Parsley seed sweet Costus rootes Calmus Annis Asarabacca Fennel and Cinnamom of each one dragme
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
then is it by no meanes to be stayed if thereby be not feared a great debilitie Thirdly if so be that women be full of blood and this fluxe come too abundantly then is the Basilica veine to be opened thereby to withdraw the blood Fourthly in case that it be perceiued that red Cholera or any other mixed moistured were cause of this fluxe then is the same moisture or humor to be purged with appropriate medicines yet mingling alwaies amongst it some binding and comforting things Fiftly iniection is also very needfull for this disease or some such like instruments to be vsed whereby the medicine might be brought into the womb Sixtly if any astringent things may be brought into it through any instruments then may they help much better and a great deale sooner than those things that be giuen by the mouth Seuenthly because that with this menstrual fluxe not onely the vertue digestiue but also the whole bodie is weakened therfore are they to be sustained with light meate as with yolkes of egges with yong flesh and broth of the same and such like Sometimes also with water wherein the seed of Butchers broome is decocted or tempered with water of Sorrel Eightly it is also good to set great boxing cups vnder the breasts vnpickt Ninthly this fluxe of the termes is not to be stopt so long as one seeth that the woman hath her liuely colour and doth remaine strong and healthie but as soone as one perceiueth that her strength fadeth away then be all meanes to be sought for to stop it Tenthly if one desire to purge any of the foure humors and to separate it from the cleane bloud then may that best be effected by vomits for that thereby the matter is deriued to another place and stay their course that they fall not downewards Eleuenthly these women are to abstaine from all heauie labour and from all that maketh the blood fluxible and thinne By all these forementioned propositions may be clearely séene and marked that if any desire to cure or remedy this disease that these women must leade an easie life and kéepe themselues quiet They must also liue in such a place where it is not too hote nor too cold They must also eschue all thinne and waterish meates viz. from fruite except all that which bindeth in like manner also from all meate which cause any kind of heate But all kinds of rosted fowles and all that maketh grosse blood as Rice Wheate and Lentils be good for them They must also beware of ouercharging them with meate or drinke whereof the causes be declared in the seuenth rule and afterward to put in practise these remedies following according to the importance of the cause Thus for to speake first of the things which inwardly are to be vsed hath bene spoken of before and also what order of diet or gouernement of life is to be obserued But in case that any do desire any ampler declaration of it then let him looke the seuenteenth Chapter and 17. § where is spoken of the red or bloudie flixe which also is most méete for this vse But for this menstruall fluxe may this Confection following be vsed Take the Species Triasantali and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dragme prepared fine Bolus two scruples Bloodstone washed in Plantaine water and make tabulats thereof Or vse this powder following Take Species Triasantali one dragme and a halfe Diarrhodon Abbatis one dragme De Gemmis Frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe washed Bloodstone one dragme prepared Bolus halfe a dragme Shepheards purse two scruples Roses Corall of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please then make a powder of it Item take prepared Bolus one dragme sealed earth two scruples Tormentil half a dragme Bursa Pastoris one scruple Species de gemmis frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles one dragme Rubins Pomegranates Smaragdes Iacints Saphirs of each halfe a scruple Roses red Corall Saunders of each one scruple Sugar thrée ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in broth or strewed in meate The confection of the refuse of iron is also very profitable to be vsed for this disease especially if so be that the lesser remedies will not helpe Another Take conserue of Roses two ounces Bloodstone Trociscos de Carabe de terra sigillata and de Spodio of each one dragme make a powder thereof and temper them well together afterwards take euery time thereof about one dragme Take conserue of Roses sixe ounces conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce of the fiue precious stones aboue mentioned of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme make an electuary thereof Another Take of the driest conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe red Corall one dragme Bistorta Trociscos de Carabe and prepared Bolus of each half a drag prepared Bloodstone two dragmes make an Electuarie thereof with the sirupes of Mirtles Item take conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserues of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles two dragmes and a half Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples red Saunders one dragme then temper them all together with the sirupe of Mirtles vnto a confection The blacke confected Cherries are very good for this vse in like manner also the preserued Barberries Item hold a roote of Galingall long in your mouth and chew the same small It is is also a common aduice which is not to be despised that tosted bread should be steeped with red Wine and powned Nutmegs strewed vpon it and so eaten Item take fine Bolus which is well washed Masticke yellow Amber prepared Coriander and Dates of each a like quantitie then take thereof at each time halfe a dragme with a rere egge This powder ensuing is also maruellous good Take prepared Bloodstone thrée dragmes red Corall one dragme and a halfe Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme stampe all that may be stamped very small and strew your meate therewith Item take powned Horstaile leaues one dragme and bestrew your meate with it You may also drink of this powder following one dragme lesse or more with the water of Plantain Take of the first budded Harts horne burne them in a potbakers ouen throughly to white chalke and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with red wine or Plantaine water You shall also find hereafter many sundrie powders and waters to drinke described Take egshels whence yong chickens haue beene hatched and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie temper them together and drinke thereof the waight of a dragme with Vineger or Wine The part within the Walnut taken
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
to grow then haue they it most grieuous Also it is the more troublesome for that as then all strange lustes do come vnto them Neuerthelesse it oftentimes hapneth not long after they haue conceiued that they as then are most inclined vnto it It is also otherwhiles commodious for them as we haue shewed before But if so be that it do get the mastery and that thereby the foode be drawne away from the fruite then must one do his best for to strengthen the stomacke and to remedie the vomiting for which there be many remedies in the eleuenth chapter and eleuenth § described against the debilitie of the stomacke out of which may easily be chosen what is méet for women with child but especially these things following be aduised for safe things as the sirupe of Raspes Marmalade and sirupe of Quinces which the ancient Phisitions do so highly commend if a woman with child do vse the same much then wil the fruit be subtiller and whiter Annis Fennell Coriander whether they be confected or not are good against vomiting Item take a hard sodden egge and kéepe it very warme vpon the mouth of the stomacke For this is also passing good the sirupe of Veriuice When a child is weake in his mothers wombe §. 8. FOrasmuch as there is no doubt that the conceiued children be also sicke in their mothers body therefore it is no small question how they are to be holpen For séeing all sicknesses are knowne through féeling and sight the which cannot be done by children in their mothers wombe for this cause this matter is troublesome to the Phisitions But amongst other signes whereby it may be knowne whether the child be sicke in his mothers body or no it is the very certainest if that the woman with child haue her termes oftentimes and much for that there can follow none other thereof but a debilitie of the child because that his sustenance and nourishment is taken and drawne from him Secondly when the milke runneth from women with child then is it a sure token of the debilitie of the child also that the child is not strong enough for to draw his nourishment vnto it Thirdly if a woman do get a strong scouring then is it much to be doubted of a mischance but it dependeth specially on two things vnder which al other accidents be they how they wil are contained which is heate and cold by which all the rest may easily be adiudged First for to write of the debilitie of the child through heate and dryth is the mother to be purged of Cholera viz. with this following and such like Take conserue of Prunes without any other addition halfe an ounce warme whay of milke thrée ounces giue it vnto her in the morning betimes and let her fast vpon it the space of fiue houres Or take prepared Cassie one ounce with foure ounces of Sorrell water or Barley water If you will haue it stronger Take two ounces of Manna temper them together in thrée or foure ounces of whay and vse it as before Or if you wil you may stéepe in the former a dragme of Rubarbe and wring it out well or halfe a dragme of Rubarbe beaten to powder giuen without stéeping All these medicines be very safe for the child and the mother Concerning the order of diet it is to be cooling and moistening as with Lettice Béetes c. like as is oftentimes admonished Also Barly water and Barly paps are to be vsed the fresh is to be drest with vineger and veriuice with the iuice of Limons and such like that she eateth Afterwards she is to drinke euery morning a good draught of whay in sommer colde and in winter warme Or take water of Endiue and of Violets of each two ounces Or if you will haue that which cooleth more take sirupe of Roses of Endiue of each halfe an ounce Succorie water two ounces temper them together These things following are yet more forcible than the former Take sirupe of Vineger half an ounce sirupe of Citrons one ounce Buglosse water and water of Sorrell of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together You may also drinke one ounce of the conserue of Violets tempered with thrée ounces of Endiue water The clisters with those things which force vrine and blood and also all things which cause vomiting must be forborne But if it be néedfull that one purge more then shall the former suffice But these thrée things are especially to be shunned One must also do his best for to defend resist all bad properties and to strengthen the same which may be done in this maner following to wit that the woman euery day thrée or foure times do drinke halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Limons with Barley water it cooleth and quencheth thirst Item take water of Citruls and of Violets of each sixe ounces water of Sorrell twelue ounces red Saunders Roses burnt Iuorie and séed of Sorrel of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger thrée spoonefuls temper them all together and make a cloth wet therein afterwards lay it beneath on the priuities and behind on the rump Also take then one ounce of small cut Pompeon péeles oile of Roses and of water Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe small fresh Housléeke one ounce temper them all well together and annoint the foresayd places with it thrée or foure times a day But if this debilitie do come through cold and moisture then is this thus to be remedied Take Buglosse water the séedes of wild Saffron grosse beaten Agaricus and Hermodactils of each one scruple Cinnamom Ginger Roses and prepared Coriander of each foure graines let them stéepe together one whole night afterwards wring it out and drinke it in the morning early Another Take the water of Feuerfew and of Balme of each one ounce and a halfe Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce white sugar halfe an ounce temper them together and let them stand the whole night afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as the other For this is also a good order of diet to be obserued wherefore these patients are to vse nothing else but that is warme and drie of nature And she is to boile in all her meates Sage Mints Rosemary and such like which haue no nature of opening Their drinke is to be méetly strong red wine tempered with a little stéeled water for it hath power to strengthen all the inward norishing parts and all veines One must also deuise how to amend and clense these bad humors which is thus to be effected Take Sage water foure ounces Miua of Quinces one ounce then mixe them all together Item take Sirupum de Myrto one ounce water of Baulme wherein Masticke is decocted thrée ounces temper them together and so giue it her to drinke A better Take Miua Citoniorum aromatica one ounce water wherein Mirtle séed is decocted thrée ounces temper them to a potion There may also be vsed
thereon the space of eight dayes at the least twice a day if it be vsed immediatly after that the Féete be frozen then doth it cleanse the same and healeth it presently Cornes on the Toes Touching Cornes which come vpon the Féete so it is that in the middest of the same there groweth a small black or white callositie like as it were a wart the which through his hardnes maketh so great a paine that one can hardly treade or go vpon it Whereto some of these remedies ensuing may be vsed Take the gall of a Pickerell and bind it vpon it or annoint it therewith Item make a plaister of red sealing Waxe and lay it thereon Others do go somewhat tougher to worke with it and do take yellow Arsenicke which is Orpiment Copperas and Allume of each a like quantitie and temper it vnto a salue with hony and annoint it therewith Or they do take one quarter of an ounce of Galbanum and let it steepe so long in vineger vntill it be as soft as salue and lay the same so long vpon it vntill the cornes weare away But this following is oftentimes found to be good so that the whole Corne falleth away therby and is also very safe Take of the plaister Diachilon magnum and Pitch which is Shoomakers Waxe of each a like much make a plaister of it spread it on a cloth and lay it vpon it the space of thrée or foure dayes beneath on the plants of the Féet and go vpon it afterwards take fresh againe so long vntill they be throughly whole You shall find mo other good things in the first Part where we do discourse of warts which be also very commodious for this purpose The third Chapter Of the paine in the Ioynts in generall NExt to the forementioned diseases sicknesses which the armes hands legs and féet be subiect vnto there be diuers moe and much stronger diseases than the former in the ioynts which be also very néedfull to be described But we will aboue all discourse generally of them and diuide this matter into two parts wherof the first part is called by the learned Gutta wherein shall be shewed all the causes signes orders and other things which be commonly requisite for all paines of the ioynts The second part shall we comprehend vnder a generall Gout or Arthritis vnder which is contained all paines of the ioynts for most famous Phisitions do seuerally write of them and afterwards we will speake of thrée other sundrie Species of the Gout which onely light vpon certaine places of the bodie as Chiragra Ischia and Podagra All sorts of Gouts may manifest themselues in whatsoeuer part of the bodie they will yet are they so like one another and so allyed together that many learned men haue written of thē all vnder one and haue onely excepted Ischia to be another kind which error grew on this foote for that all the sorts of it do after one and the same manner paine all the ioynts of the bodie Neuertheles we will as much as is possible and as much as the cause requireth make a seuerall declaration of each by it selfe Of the Gout in generall called Gutta §. 1. LIke as we haue before admonished so do the learned comprehend all diseases and defluxions which do fall into all the ioynts vnder the name of Gutta which is a passion or paine of the ioynts which falleth into them and the sinewes of mans bodie by some humors or wind from aboue or from the next adiacent place or which is caused through bad disposition of the whole bodie This grieuous paine may also be caused sometimes through a fracture of a bone through wrenchings through great stirrings with a full belly through fals blowes thrusts through eluxations and through great outward heate or cold by which meanes all the ioynts are weakened For this also helpeth much all cold and waterish meates if the same be long vsed as fruite great fishes and especially if they be without scales swines flesh water fowls and such like To be idle and to liue without any exercise Also excessiue venery especially after that one hath eaten drunken Obstruction of any accustomed course as of the Pyles of any open vlcers of detention of the termes and such like whereby nature was accustomed to cleanse her selfe Item it is also found by experience that some do inherite this disease from their auncestors In fine there be two principall causes whereby these kinds of diseases be prouoked as first of all the shew of these defluxions Secondly the increasing of these defluxions from aboue Thirdly féeblenesse of the members which receiue this superfluitie The signes of the Gout are manifest of themselues to wit if one féele great paine and that at sundrie times on the places where these defluxions do fall otherwhiles with swelling and sometimes without swelling and whether this procéed of heate or cold that may be perceiued by féeling If it then come through any outward cause that may be demaunded of the sick persons themselues or if it come through any repletion of the body that appeareth by the signes of the veines grosnesse of the body fulnes of the pulse sloth of all the members by the diminishing of vnderstanding or memorie losse of appetite and by the féeblenesse of the sight If this disease be caused through bloud then it is commonly in fat repleated bodies with paine of the head with great vnlustines with vnquiet sléepe with diminishing of the vnderstanding with wearines with rednes of the whole bodie and the vrine there is also heate with it panting and swelling and that in the place infected especially if one haue liued sumptuously Item all cold things are welcome vnto him and all warme things painfull and if they be vsed too long also hurtfull Yet this the rather in young persons being full of bloud by nature and if he dwell in a hote countrie If this disease be caused of Phlegma or of cold humors then is there neither panting nor great paine with it but remaineth for the most part in one place without remouing hitherwards or thitherwards neither is there also any great rednes or heat with it and for the more certaintie that the same is caused through Phlegma if the same be so found in an old person in winter time after that he hath eaten much cold and moist meates and drinks or hath much and long frequented water Also all warme things be acceptable vnto him and all cold things noysome If so be that this disease procéed of Cholera then is there a strong heate with it that one can hardly suffer it in the féeling also a great pain without swelling with drought distention With this will the patient also perceiue a bitternes of the mouth And these things will be the rather confirmed if the patient be young and cholericke by nature or if it be sommer time also being hote and dry weather c. This paine of the ioynts
ounce then let them séeth againe vntill all the moisture be consumed Lastly put vnto it small brused siluer skumme which is sifted through linnen and Sealed earth of each halfe a dragme Mini two dragmes and a halfe Waxe as much as will suffise for a plaister this plaister is not onely good for all Eluxations but also for all fractures of bones for it swageth all paine and strengtheneth the sinewes Item take a young oaken pole and shaue off the outwardmost rinds afterwards the white these white rinds are to be sodden in Beere and then a woollen cloth made wet therein and so laid warme vpon it If you haue no beere then take wine or water Of the extenuated or withered Limmes §. 2. WE haue before declared in the description of the pain of the hips or Sciatica that after eluxation of the ioynts if the same continue long the legs come quickly to extenuate and afterwards to be lame Now for to remedie these accidents will we here discouer certaine things which it cannot otherwise well be but that both these diseases extenuation and leanenesse must depend one vpon the other for that because the veines be bereft of their due nourishment the sinewes and the tendons be stiffened then must necessarily ensue thereof such infirmities Therefore will we discourse of each apart as much as néed requireth and concerneth the lamenesse It is a disease if there be any contracture of the hands armes legges ioynts or any other part or be so lamed and numbed that he cannot vse his ioynts the which may also grow of many kind of causes of Apoplexia of the Pocks of the Cramp such like of all which hath bene spoken before and shall be written of hereafter but we will only discourse how that these diseases are to be preuented procéeding of other causes Take Mallowes Cammomil Sage Horehound and Verueine of each one handfull Iuniper branches with the gréene berries two handfuls powre fiue or sixe quarts of water vnto it and séeth them so long as Calues flesh this may be vsed the space of thrée dayes afterwards may a fresh be made First take Foxe grease two ounces Capons grease one ounce melt them together stirring them alwaies about When it is now molten then put halfe an ounce of Balsam oyle vnto it and let it be cold When as both these things be readie then be the lamed limmes to be fomented in some vessell fit for that purpose If so be that the lamed part cannot lye whole therin then is he to be caused to sweate aboue the warme vapor being couered all ouer powring the hot decoction now then vnto it This bathing or fomenting is to be done euery day two times although the first second or third fomenting do not sufficiently ease yet is the same not to be neglected for that the alteration and ease commeth not before the fourth or fifth day When as one hath sufficiently bathed then is the sweate to be stroken off with the flat of the hand and to let the part drie of it selfe When as then this fomenting is thus effected and whilst that the place is still warme and drie take of the foresaid salue of the bignes of a Pease and rub it behind in the neck vpon the backbone from one shoulder to the other but warme the hands oftentimes and so rub the salue well into it Thirdly rub also both the elbowes from the hands and likewise also both the knées cleane ouer beneath and aboue at last also the toes beneath and aboue with as much alwaies of the foresaid salue as the quantitie of a pease rubbing it therein When as this is now so done then is the patient to rest the space of halfe an hower after it He may also once in ten or fourtéene daies go into a sweat bath but not to tarrie aboue one howre in it and he is the same day to omit the fomentation but like as is said one is to procéede with the annoynting and resting This order is also to be pursued foure fiue or sixe wéekes vntill he can go againe or vse the rest of his ioynts by this meanes haue many men found great ease Here do follow many moe other bathes and salues to wit that men are to bath the space of ten dayes in decocted Ebulus leaues and that so long as nature may abide it Afterwards vse this salue following Take the grease of the iuice of Alpes Goats sewet and Badgers grease of each a like quantitie make a salue of it with Waxe and therewith annoint the nummed limmes morning and euening Or take Sage Marioram Saint Iohns woort Hollihocke leaues and the roote of each two handfuls Elecampane rootes one handfull séeth them all together as is said For to make a precious salue you must haue readie a good fat Goose and rost the same as if one will eate it then take good héede that there come no water vnto it with the necke and the intrailes do therewith what you please You must haue also readie with it a young sound and fat Cat which is thrée moneths old being a male Cat kill him and flea him the head and intrailes being cast away chop it small stamp it afterwards in a mortar and adde vnto it thrée ounces of Barrowes lard cut it very small Rosin Frankinsence Waxe of each one ounce and a halfe stop these all together into the Goose and stop it tight that it fall not out again and then let it rost by a mild fire set a dripping pan vnderneath it for to receiue the fat that droppeth off reserue this fat being cold and annoint therewith euery day in a warme place the lame and withered members in like manner also the swollen and all that haue any paine the extenuated and withered ioynt will increase and grow againe and al paine shall be asswaged therby The Goose is to be well kept to the end neither man nor beasts happen to eate it Another salue Take the marrow of a hail gelding which died through any mischance or in the warres as much as you please Harts sewet halfe so much melt them together by a mild fire and then powre Aqua vitae vpon it wring it out afterwards very warme thorough a cloth and then annoint therewith the diseased place morning and euening both these be maruellous good and also very méete Item take the grease of a Beuer of a Vultur and of a Badger of each half an ounce Sage Penniroyall and Hollihocke rootes with the leaues of each one handfull seeth well the herbs and stampe them to grout then temper the molten grease amongst it and annoint the lame place with it Take oyle of Tyles and oyle of Almonds each alone or tempered together and annoint therewith the members The Mithridate and both the Treacles do bring the lamed members to right againe and to their former force being as wel applyed outwardly as taken inwardly but especially these oyles following be good for it viz. oyle of
Iuniper of Nutmegs of Pepper and blew Floure deluce Item take a young Foxe make him cleane and chop his flesh very small afterwards distill out the water and put therein one dragme of small brused Camfer then put it into a glasse stopt well and so leaue it fiue daies in the earth where as Ants haue their abode Last of all annoint you therewith in a warme bath afterwards vse this salue following Take a yong Foxe made very cleane and burnt to ashes take therof the halfe and temper therewith one quarter of an ounce of bruised Camfere oyle of Balsam halfe an ounce Dogs grease two ounces and a halfe Snakes grease one dragme and a halfe melt these salues all together and annoint you therewith after bathing Both of these foresaid salues are to be vsed against lamenesse through heate and cold for that they be of a temperate nature and of the same nature is this also ensuing Take Rice as much as you will steepe it a day and a night in a sufficient quantitie of Goats milke afterwards distill it like as all other waters This being done distill it ouer againe and make oftentimes the lame members moist in it Of the extenuated or withered members especially §. 3. FOr as much then as we be entred into this matter therefore will we not discourse of the same seuerally Albeit this extenuation of the members may rather be named of their occasions then of the Sciatica alone notwithstanding we wil not here discourse of the consumption Hectica Apoplexia or of the Pockes but onely of the extenuation of some parts whether it be of the Sciatica or of any other cause whatsoeuer for which these salues following be good Take wild Cats grease Harts sewet Beares grease Swines grease the marrow of Neates feete Hony Dogs grease and Badgers grease of each a like quantitie séethe all together with wine vntil the same be throughly wasted afterwards powre it thorough a cloth and annoint the withered limmes with it Item take Beuercod one ounce long Pepper one quarter of an ounce oyle of Waxe of Cammomill and of Beuercod of each halfe an ounce Waxe one ounce make a salue thereof Or take Sage Mallowes Nettles with the rootes Cammomill and sprigs of Iuniper of each one handfull fresh Butter and Dogs grease of each three ounces chop the herbes and séeth them to grout that one may wring them thorough a course cloth then put the greases vnto it and let it séeth againe together vnto a salue When as now you will vse the same then are you first to go vnto a sweat bath and afterwards your selfe to be annointed before a warme fornace or fire vpon the place of the disease twice a day but you are to vse the sweate bath but thrice a weeke and do this the space of fourtéene dayes This foresaid salue is good for all scabbines The salue Dialthaea is fit for this same disease wherof there be foure kinds described in the third Part the fourtéenth Chapter and 4. § This ensuing is also very requisite Take liuing Crabs and Earthwormes of each a like quantitie dry them in an ouen and then stamp them to powder afterwards temper them with as much Swines grease and make a salue thereof For this are also good two precious Bâ—lsam oyles whereof the one is described in the second Part the sixt Chapter and 4. § and the other in the eight Part beginning Take Myrrha elected c. Item there is yet more good for this oyle of Tyles and oyle of sweet Almonds This ensuing is also accompted for sure and is many times proued Take Earthwoormes put them in an earthen pot stopt with a couer on the top that the Ants may runne in and out then set it so in the earth where the Ants abide the space of three or foure dayes and there will ingender a water of it with this water annoint the withered limmes very warme this should be certaine and approued In case also that the withered members be oftentimes rubbed with distilled Calues-gather water which is described before then shall one find amendement But if this lamenesse and extenuation be caused through heate which happeneth seldome then haue you a bath for it which shall be prescribed against the Podagra Item the salue also of Earthwoormes of Cassy and other things moe be meete for this intent therefore it is néedles to write here any further of it but this foot water following is especially ordained for it Take Feuerfew Stechados and Cowslips of each one handfull and a halfe the rootes of Eringus and Mallowes of each two handfuls Mather Hartwoort of each one handfull and a halfe Peucedanum halfe a handfull cut them all grosse and let them séeth together afterwards wash the féete and the lame hands with it You may also vse a sweate bath for that strengtheneth the lame ioynts very much Of the hardnesse of the Ioynts §. 4. THere cometh sometimes also a hard swelling in the ioynts whereby they lose their motion and bowing for which these plaisters ensuing made hard or soft are to be vsed Take the grounds of the oyle of Violets which lye beneath in the pot two ounces two ounces of the oyle of Lillies oyle of white Camelina and oyle of swéet Almonds of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron one scruple Badgers grease one ounce white Waxe one quarter of an ounce Rosin as much as will suffise Item Take the plaister of Oxycroceum Sagapenum Opopanacum and Ammoniacum of each halfe a dragme Rosin thrée quarters of an ounce white Waxe thrée drag the gums are to be dissolued in sharpe Vineger then put the plaister Waxe and Rosin vnto it If there be any hard byles with it then take Ammoniacum one ounce and a halfe Pieretrum and Euphorbium of each one dragme Saltpeter halfe a dragme make a plaister thereof with Waxe and Rosin Herewith wil we now conclude the third sort of the gout and come to the fourth sort which is the chiefest The eight Chapter Of the Gout or Podagra in the Feet THe fourth sort of the Gout as we haue admonished at the first is the wel knowne Gout of the feet Podagra in which we also containe the Gout of the hands Chiragra for that vnder these two sorts of Gouts there is no great difference but that the one doth manifest it selfe in the hands the other in the féete and this kind of Gout is thus described Podagra is a defluxion which very painefully assaileth the sinewes with heate and cold wherewith also the parts adiacent the ioynts and the legs be plagued with swelling and paine As much as concerneth the name of this disease which the Latinists haue taken from the Grecians this name Podagra is nougth else but a snare wherewith birds be catched by their séete and therefore is this disease of the Gout likened vnto this instrument for that it doth catch men by the féete and holdeth them caught therewith The Poets do also call this
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be
we will further write and make mention The causes of this quartaine Ague are euen as abouesaid first the melancholike blood time of the haruest and after that the winter for that at these seasons these humors are not onely stirred but also augmented more vehement and durable so that otherwhile they endure vntill winter whereas to the contrary the same are shorter in Sommer and the rather if the nature of the countrey be inclined that way and the time of the yeare otherwhiles is such that it ingendreth foule bloud whereby then such and other Agues are caused Wherefore good héede must be taken to all these foresayd things and in like manner whether the patient be not of a melancholicke nature and hath not vsed before to eate such kinds of meates whereof this melancholicke blood is ingendred or increased as bread of Millet Lentiles Beanes Chestnuts salt chéese salt fish Béefe Hares Harts Cabbages and such like Item all other things that inflame the blood as Garlicke Cresses pepper Mustard strong and spiced wines burnt wine and all kinds of hot spice or fruites but especially great labour trauell in the heate of the Sun long anger great sorrow and long former Agues whereby the bloud and other humors are burnt and putrified and are altered by the great heate into Melancholiam before they be expelled whereof you haue further instruction in the description of Melancholy and of the stomacke Item haue speciall care whether the Milt of the patient be not swolne or haue any other infirmitie Or whether the patient haue before had no erratick Ague for that the quartaine Ague neuer commeth alone but commonly alwayes after another Ague You must alwayes mark wel whether the vrine be white thin and waterish in these things as also in the pulse and cold doth it altogether differ from the tertian but regard not you the vomiting of the gall for that is the onely nature of the tertian ague but if you find by the motion of the pulse or otherwise after that the Ague is gone or if there be any signes of the ague then is there no doubt at all but that it is a quartaine ague Now to cure this Ague we will first of all shew you certaine rules and for the first if the pulse be forcible and beateth swiftly the water be red and grosse the patient be yong and full of bloud then shall you not omit but open the Basilica or Milt veine on the left hand but if the bloud be red and cléere then stop it againe but if it be thicke and black then let it runne and that so long as the parties strength be able to beare it Secondly if so be that the patient haue not much blood let him then not bléede at all Thirdly you must not giue to any that is taken with the Ague any strong purgation at the first by reason that all melancholicke humors are very tough and grosse and the same may not be purged in the beginning but mild purgations must be vsed and gentle Clisters Fourthly all meates and drinkes that are prepared dayly for the patient shall be laxatiue that he may alwayes haue some vacuation Fiftly against such time as the Ague approcheth the patient must at any hand refraine foode that nature thereby may worke the better on the matter of the Ague also the easier expell and withstand it Sixtly he may not bathe vntill the Ague begin to decrease Seuenthly he must forbeare all fruites by reason of their grosse moisture that lightly doth putrifie and may prouoke obstructions Eightly these patients must take héede of the cold aire and settle themselues in temperate dwellings Ninthly they that haue any obstruction in their veines are to vse such meates and drinkes that warme and moisten Tenthly because that this humor is compact and the state thereof a great while after it beginneth the patient is not to be kept ouersparingly but let him be cherished with meate that he may retaine his force and strength and expect the statum of the disease Eleuenthly for this kind of sicknes you must not giue him any ouerhot and dry things for feare that the ague be not thereby doubled prolonged and altered into a continuall ague Twelftly you are not to vse ouercold remedies because they do thicken and harden the matter wherefore â—uld meanes are alwayes to be vsed and taken Out of these foresaid rules it is easily to be vnderstood that no strong medicines are to be vsed in the beginning of this Ague except one sée that there is great store of blood at hand at which time the Median may be opened in the right arme Also if the blood be blacke and thicke as it happeneth to be of such that haue a diseased spléene then may one let it runne the longer but if it be red and cleane then must it be presently stopt The ordinance and gouernement of his life must be such that he feede not vpon any thing that prouoketh or bréedeth wind but vse all meates that ingender good blood and kéepe the bodie open and soluble and if any defect be hereof then must a mild clister be ministred Also he shall forbeare swines flesh and all meates that are slimie and hard of digestion and of all that which might make the body cold and drie His drink must be thin white wine his meate all maner of field fowles but no water fowles fish of light-digestion and not slimie salt meates and mustard may he also vse Also he may sometimes vse the confection Diatrion pipereon or Diaspoliticon and although the patient did drinke eeuery day a little pepper with water it were not amisse This patient shall not wholy forbeare from riding from walking and from baths if he hath bene accustomed to it yet is the bath not very good for him If this quartaine ague be not very strong nor yet continue long then can it not hurt if the patient vpon his frée dayes do execute his affaires and businesse But about the time as is supposed that the Ague is come to the highest state then must the patient féede very moderatly yea more sparingly than euer before keeping himselfe very quiet and annoint the belly with such things as may keepe the body open and soluble and also vse such things as prouoke vrine wherof you shall find good instruction at due time and place And as soone as one perceiueth that the humors begin to auoid then are those things to be vsed that expell melancholy and that not once but as often as néede shall require Also to prouoke him to vomit and that after meate and if néed be let him take a little black Hellebore therewith to ease and further the vomiting But they that cannot vomit must be purged Treacle is also passing good for them yet it is to be noted that none of these foresaid things may be vsed before the sicknesse be at the highest for thereby might of a single quartaine ague be made a double and lastly of
sirupe and Sugar with water enough till it be as thicke as Hony and afterwards temper the spices therewith then beate it well together and put thereto Rubarb one quarter of an ounce that hath bene steeped foure and twenty howers in Malmsey Lastly adde thereto Muske and Amber of each foure greines this being done mingle them all together and keepe it safe being well stopt in a glasse Item take Mithridate and Treacle that at the least is ten years old of each half an ounce Citron seede and fine Bolus of each halfe a dragme Rose water with the which Muscus is dissolued as much as is needfull for a confection hereof may you vse euery day one dragme Also that are sound and whole as also those that are infected may vse the waight of a quarter of an ounce of this confection following morning euening without any daunger Take Iacincts Granadoes Smaragds Saphirs Pearles bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood of each halfe a dragme red and white Saunders red and white Corall burnt Iuory Tormentill fine Bolus Terra sigillata Camfer small filed gold of each one scruple beate them all together very small and then take Sugar sixe ounces that is sodden with Rose water to a sirup then temper it so thicke as you will haue it with sirupe of Citrons Men may vse also otherwhiles in stead of this confection two or three dayes together of this drinke following which also is a wonderfull preseruatiue against the plague and may be vsed as well of young as of old folke yea also of young children and women with child Take fine Bolus a dragme and a halfe beate it to fine powder and drinke it with white wine and Rosewater very warme in the morning and eight daies after you must take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate in the winter with wine and in the summer with Rosewater These foresaid medicines are not onely good against the plague to come but also against that that hath alreadie infected And forasmuch as those foresaid confections are made of many costly things that may be too deare for the common people for this cause haue we of purpose described the confection of Nuts and Rue which they may vse in stead of these Or take the kernels of Nuts Rue and Iuniper leaues of each a like quantitie powne them all well together and with Vineger make thereof a confection whereof euery morning you may take the bignes of a Nutmeg In like manner may one also prepare this following take eight and twentie or thirtie Nut kernels and forty or two and forty Figs Wormwood Rue Scabious and Sorrel of each half a M. Aristologie two dragmes and a halfe Tormentill Pimpernel and white Diptamus of each one dragme fine Bolus halfe a dragme red and white Corall Sorrell seedes of each halfe a dragme Citron séedes one dragme Iuniper berries thrée dragmes chop and stampe all that must be stampt and hereof with clarified Honie make a confection hereof may one take at one time the bignes of a Walnut Also make another which is called the confection of Iuniper berries as followeth Take Nut kernels Iuniper berries of each two ounces beate them wel together put thereto foure ounces of clarified Honie and temper with it Cinnamom Ginger Mace and Cloues of each a dragme white Diptamus Tormentill Zeduarie Citron peels Rue Carduus Benedictus and S. Iohns woort of each a quarter of an ounce Cardamome Paradise wood blacke Coriander Angelica white and red Behen fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each a drag then mingle them all together If the quantitie of Nut kernels Iuniper berries and Hony be too little then may you take twice so much And for the common sort it is also excellent good that euery morning he do take eight or ten Iuniper berries that haue bene steeped in Vineger Now follow certaine powders that preserue men from the Plague but as hath bene said before great regard is to be taken in time of the plague that the heart may be defended from al pestilent infections as much as is possible To this end are all the bouesaid medicines also many powders confections cordiall waters and other such like as herafter follow prescribed Take Rubies Granats Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphires of each half an ounce white and red Corall and shauings of Iuorie of each three quarters of an ounce shauen Harts horne and Sorrell séedes of each halfe an ounce prepared Pearles a quarter of an ounce Saffron ten greines beaten gold foure leaues mingle them all together Item take prepared Rubies Saphirs Iacincts Emrodes and Pearles of each halfe a dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie shauen Iuorie Vnicorns horne Diptamus Zeduary Cinnamom and Tormentill of each two scruples Doronicum Aristology red white and yellow Saunders Citron péels and Sorrell séedes of each halfe a dragme Saffron two scrup white Amber one scruple red and white Behen of each two scruples and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces and a halfe mingle them all together and then take halfe an ounce thereof euery time These following do the Apothecaries call Species liberantes that are very much esteemed and much vsed at Ausburg by reason they defend the heart and all inward parts very maruellously against all venimous ayre they are made in this manner Take prepared Bolus and sealed Earth of each thrée quarters of an ounce Tormentill Sorrell seede séede of Endiue péeled seedes of Citron and prepared Coriander of each three dragmes red white and yellow Sanders prepared Pearles red and white Corall yellow Amber shauen Iuorie bones of a Stagges hart that hath bene stéeped a while in Rosewater red and white Behen Doronicum Cardamome Mace Paradise wood Cinnamom Saffron Zeduarie and Cassie wood of each a dragme Emrodes Saphires Granates and silke Wormes nests chopped as small as may be of each a scruple Camfer fourteene greins Muske and Amber of each sixe greines Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each a quarter of an ounce beate all very small and mingle it together ye shall giue one dragme of this powder in the winter with wine and in summer with Sorrell water The Emperours powder against the Plague Take Pimpernell Gentian Tormentill Dragon Rue Wormwood Nut kernels prepared Granats and Iuniper berries of each a like much make them into powder and vse it vpon a tosted péece of bread If you will make a confection of this powder then put thereto Rose vineger and Treacle as much as shall suffise Another powder Take fine prepared Bolus one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Tormentill and white Diptamus of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell Angelica and Gentian of each a quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander thrée dragmes Saffron Sealed earth Citrō péeles red and white Behen red Corall yellow Saunders shauen Iuorie prepared Pearls of each a quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie Paradise wood and bones of a Stags hart of each two scruples Granates Saphires Iacincts Emrods and Rubies of each halfe a dragme Spike
and naturall strength be maintained for the which this water following is ordained for the common sort of people which not onely strengtheneth but also driueth out the sweate Take new distilled water of the kernels of Nuts foure ounces powdered Verueine one dragme good Treacle two scrup Saffron seuen greines then mingle it all together and so giue it warme It profiteth much also that the patient alwaies haue in his hand odoriferous things wherewith the heart the braines and all inward parts may be comforted and the bad vapors taken away for the which this Pomander following is very commodious Take red white and yellow Saunders and Roses of each one dragme Saffron and Campher of each one scruple Muske and Amber of each fiue greines then make hereof a Pomander with Dragagant that is dissolued in Rosewater and then bind it in red sarsnet as is before mentioned Of these Pomanders as well hote as cold of nature are herebefore diuers described where we haue treated of the preseruation of the healthie And these sweating patients must not abstaine from meate for that the emptinesse of the stomacke is very hurtfull for them and what meate and drinke is good for them that shall be shewed hereafter If the sicke person be so weak and féeble that he may not be let bloud nor purged then giue vnto him this drinke following that shall do him good Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Coral Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and Verueine of each one dragme beate them all very small together and take therof one quarter of an ounce good Treacle one dragm iuice of Scabious foure ounces Vineger halfe an ounce But if you cannot get the iuice then take the water of Nut kernels and let him drinke it warme yet in winter giue him wine in stead of these waters The next day giue to the patient fine Bolus tempered with as much conserue of Roses and foure ounces of Scabious water after it Sometimes also must the common pils be vsed There is also to be made this cordiall confection as followeth Take prepared Rubies Iacincts Granats Smaragdes fine Bolus Pearles bones of Stags hart fine filed gold and small filed Vnicornes horne of each one scruple raw silk that is cut very small Roses Amber Citron péels and shauen Iuorie of each halfe a dragme white Sugar dissolued in the iuice of Limons as much as you please séeth the same as thicke as honie and mingle the rest amongst it to a confection Giue this to the patient two or thrée dragmes with fresh broth for it strengtheneth maruellous much all the vitall parts it resisteth all vapours and breaketh the force of the Ague In like manner there are cordiall waters to be outwardly applyed whereof some shall be shewed hereafter Take Rosewater sixtéene ounces water of Endiue Buglosse Nightshade Baulme and of Sorrell of each eight ounces Vineger and good white Wine of each thrée ounces red white and yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Corall and Roses of each one dragm burnt Iuorie Saffron and Camfere of each halfe a dragme then mingle them all together and so wetting in it a double cloth lay it ouer the heart Or take water of Buglosse and of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Roses Wormwood Grasse Baulme and of the wild Vine leaues of each two ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum a dragme and a halfe Saffron eight greines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Paradise wood yellow Saunders Basill séed red and white Behen Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce Malmsey fiue ounces put them all together Item take the water of Buglosse of Scabious Violets and of Burrage of each sixs ounces Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued eight ounces Specierum Cordialium one ounce and a halfe Camfere halfe a scruple white Corall foure scruples prepared Pearles a dragme and a halfe beaten Gold eight leaues Malmsey foure ounces Note that you must temper the water and the Malmsey together and when you haue taken twelue ounces of the same then must you take a dragme of this powder and mixe with it and vse it as is before rehearsed Another Take Sorrel water and Carduus Benedictus water foure ounces Vineger of Gilloflowers one ounce Species de gemmis frigidis a quarter of an ounce Saffron two greines Camfere fiue greines Malmsey halfe an ounce temper them all together When as these cordiall waters are laid on the heart then may you annoint the sicke bodies left breast pap with this salue following Take one ounce of the best Treacle iuice of Limons and of Vineger of each halfe an ounce Saffron and Camfere of each one scruple then mingle them together and spread it on a cloth or on a red crimson clout This following is stronger Take good Treacle two ounces Rubarbe and Carlina of each one drag and a halfe old oyle of Oliue twelue ounces forty or 45. Scorpions powne all that is to be powned and then let it séeth in water in a pot alone fiue or sixe houres long afterwards straine it through a cloth and first annoint the heart the pulses and the temples of the head Afterward he must be annointed vpon all outward signes or sores of the Plague and at the last round about the necke and this annointing must be done once euery sixe houres very warme the chamber must also be kept fumed and continually sprinkled We haue also made mention herebefore in the sixt part the second chapter and tenth § and shortly after in the Ague Hectica of many things wherwith sicke folkes are to be comforted and reuiued What is to be done after sweating §. 5. WHen as the patient hath sweat is wiped and laid in fresh bedding then do some counsell to giue him out of hand one dragme of fine Bolus to wit with Rose water if a great heate be adioined or with wine if without heate and that not at one time onely but euery day but it importeth very much whether you haue the right fine and orient Bolus or not for there are many kinds of earths vsed in stead of it Further let him take immediatly after his sweating to wit thrée mornings one after another of these sirupes following for the cooling of these hote agues to warme the same first in hot water and in case that he afterwards féele a sweating againe then let him forthwith continue in his sweate if he can abide it Take sirupes of Limons one ounce sirupe of Citrons halfe an ounce water of Carduus Benedictus of Sorrell and of Burrage of each one ounce mixe them all together for a potion And if so be that after the vse of these thrée potions the patient should be purged which in this ague is seldome néedfull then must it be done with this following Take of the common plague pils ten greins lesse than a dragme and ten greines of Agaricus Rubarbe one scruple then make hereof small pils and giue them all
soeuer they drinke it it disturbeth their heads and maketh them drunken For this purpose may these things following be vsed to wit iuice of Quinces or raw Quinces well chewed and the iuice taken downe likewise the iuice of Citrons and Limons or of their sirupes do hinder drunkennes Hony is also much commended if it be taken after much drinking of wine for thereby wil the vapors of the wine be so driuen downwards that it cannot weaken the vnderstanding nor the braines Bitter Almonds confected Conserues of Gilloflowers after that you haue drunken much do preuent drunkennesse In the old time men did make a Garland of Saffron flowers and did weare it on their heads the same vertue is ascribed to the blew Violets And it is said that white Colewoorts cut into Sallads and the same eaten or the séeds therof chewed in the mouth shold hinder drunkennes for the iuice of Colewoorts or the pith of the stalkes doth stay the vapors of the wine from ascending into the head The precious stone Amethist shold also preserue men from drunkennesse But for to defend and preuent all contagions that procéed of drunkennes we wil adde some things more First he must be vrged to vomit with Oxymel of Squils with Radish seede with a feather dipped in oyle and put into the throate and thereupon he must fast and sléepe and after he awaketh againe you must froth his members to wit his hands and féete with warme water wherein is sodden Roses Cammomill and a little salt and tempered with some oyle of Violets wherby the vapors may be drawne downwards Item lay a cloth vpon the head that is made wet with the iuice of Cucumbers Purslaine or in any of their waters the patient must kéepe himself herein very sober and vse light meats Colewoorts Lentils young Pullets and young Pigeons drest with the iuice of Limons and Pomegranates the prepared and confected Coriander is also very good and sléeping thereuppon vntill that all the wine be digested which may be séene by the concoction of the vrine It chaunceth oftentimes that drunken folkes haue great thirst which if it commeth not through the abundance of wine then giue them faire fountaine water to drinke and sower fruites to eate You haue also an especiall thing in the first part the twelfth Chapter and fourth § which is good for drunkennesse and thirst after drunkennes There is also a great difference in drunkennes and that according to the nature of them that are drunken He that is sanguine doth sing daunce laugh and is merrie he may be compared to children that soone laugh and for the most part know not why nor wherfore and when as a long time they haue bene merrie then begin they to sléepe till they haue slept it out The cholericke man is in his drunkennesse angry raging clamorous addicted to fighting and will not be corrected nor admonished of any body one cannot bring them to bed they haue much babling and are much bragging The Phlegmatici they will be wearie lazie sléepie and kéepe themselues quiet The Melancholici are sorrowfull bewaile sometimes their sinnes their friends disease and that is the greatest imperfection of their drunkenes they are therein like to the Apes but in this they are all alike that they stammer with their toung they réele and tarrie not by their right wits How hurtfull also drunkennes is doth appeare in many places of this our booke of Phisicke where we admonish all men to refraine it and that not onely of this vnmeasurable drinking whereof we now make mention but also where all expert Phisitions do forbid wine And we will for a conclusion adde this to the rest that the Rape wine and Béere wine drunken after meate doth make one more drunken and sléepie than any other kind of Rhenish wine And it is a common opinion that watered wine doth sooner insect the head than pure wine But this is to be vnderstood of grosse and thicke wine which by the putting to of a little water is the more subtiller whereby the vapour sooner fumeth into the head You haue also many remedies before in the first part the first Chapter and eight § that are commodious for the paine of the head through drunkennes The 20. Chapter Of Frighting and Feare LEt no man wonder that we speake of Frighting amongst other sicknesses for it is not onely found by experience that through many sorts of distemperature of the bloud many sundry sicknesses are prouoked but also a sudden death it selfe whereof commeth not onely the aforementioned but also thereby is caused an inestimable feare and faintnes of â—art whereby they become most vnfit for all worthy and knightly proweâ—â—e and are depriued of all counsell and indeuors Of this faint hartednesse and feare the Philosophers do write that the same for the most part do raigne and dwell in the hart of such as are of a cold nature which being sodainly and hastily set vpon their subtillest bloud runneth with such a streame to the inward parts of the bodie and towards the heart that it séemeth that the naturall heate shold be suffocated whereby cometh such bleaknes and quaking yea somtimes swonnings debilitie of the sinewes and muscles that it makes frighted persons very féeble and weak wherby also the motions of the muscles are so disturbed that both ordure and vrine slides from them their teeth chatter for cold they are thirstie and the whole bodie shiuering and shaking For this are two principall and also certaine remedies euen as Horatius saith to wit that one should build a wall of stéele about him that is shall alwaies haue an vpright conscience that cannot accuse him of any misdealing Secondly that he feare God and haue righteousnes alwaies before his eyes which medicins do so frée men of all frighting that like as Dauid saith it will alwaies go well with him and know for certaine that God of his goodnesse hath with his holy Angels as it were a strong towre compassed him round about wherby he will defend him But the faintnes of heart is also to be holpen with naturall medicines Note therefore that when the bloud through frighting is stirred and runneth towards the heart as it indeed hapneth then must of necessitie the trembling and quaking follow after it for which you haue in the second part the sixt Chapter and seuenth § a very good Elderne water many other things described When a woman with child especially is frighted then do some bid that there should be taken a quarter of an ounce of clarified hony and therewith some scraped Nutmegge and so eate it all together Wine moderatly drunken maketh the fearfull and faint-harted men stout and couragious And it is a common custome if any be sore frighted that he be admonished to make water and if there be any that after such frighting can come hardly to himselfe and fell into a swoune then is he to vse those things that strengthen the hart for which there are many
not séeth long that they do not breake and get a bad tast They haue the same power as the Barberries The ripe Grapes are to be confected like as we haue written of Peares Of that which commonly keepeth all fruites fresh §. 44. AL that is laid in Honie whether it be Flesh Fruite and Plants or any other thing doth remaine a long time before it spoile therefore haue dead carkasses before time bene powred full of Honie If you haue then any Fruite Fowles Venison or any other such like things that you will kéepe good the space of a yeare or any Plants or Flowers and such like throughout the winter then looke into M. Tristrams water whereof all auncient Phisitions haue had a good opinion The same also do all vitall and golden waters which follow immediatly hereafter The sixt Chapter Of the golden and vitall waters and Elixers of life THese kinds of potions and artificiall waters are ordained most to this end for that they should strengthen the most principall parts of the bodie as the head and the heart to kéepe it from debilitie and swouning especially if the same procéed of cold Thus we will describe some of them whereof there be two which the auncient Phisitions call golden waters for their especiall vertues Take fine Sage seuen ounces Nutmegs Cloues Ginger and Greins of each halfe an ounce Cinnamom péeled Bayberries and Beuercod of each one ounce Spikenard one dragme péeles of Citrons one quarter of an ounce temper them all together grossely beaten then powre two quarts of wine vpon it and so let al together stand the space of fourtéene daies stopped close stirring it well about euery day Afterward distill it in water in an Helme luted well and tight This water doth kéepe all manner of meates by their naturall tast and vertue it expelleth all bad humors of the bodie it maketh all wine cleane and of a good tast if one temper a little amongst it annoynted outwardly vpon one or vsed It is very good for all inward parts as the Stomack the Spléene the Lyuer and the Lights It is also good for all bruses and to annoint the bruses with it In like manner it is good for all falles for all byles and all paines of the head It is good namely at the first against all Dropsies against the Palsey and also against all venime If one haue any thing in the stomacke that he cannot digest then will it be consumed thereby it maketh a good memorie and withstandeth the Leprosie it healeth all scabbines and also all vlcers if one drinke it or lay it vpon them Another Take Lauander flowers Hyssope and Sage of each foure ounces cut them very small Nutmegs Ginger Cinnamom and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Greines two drag beate all small afterwards powre vpon it thrée quarts of the best wine and set it the space of fourtéene daies in the Sunne stopped very close Thus may you vse the first Item take good Malmsey two quarts and stéepe these things ensuing in it being stopt very close and then set it in a dunghill which lyeth in the East the space of thirty daies afterwards distill it as is before said Take fine Sage with the flowers of each halfe an ounce Burrage flowers one ounce one Orange Rue thrée dragmes Rosemarie thrée ounces and a halfe Rosemarie flowers half an ounce the toppes of Marioram gentle foure ounces the flowers of Buglosse thrée quarters of an ounce red Roses two ounces and one quarter Hyssope halfe an ounce Carduus Benedictus halfe an ounce Ireos thrée dragmes Camfere thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Perls halfe a dragme oyle of Spike and liquide Storax of each halfe a dragme powned Cinnamom foure ounces Galingall thrée dragmes long Pepper and Greines of each halfe an ounce Cucubes and Cardamome of each one ounce and a quarter Zeduarie thrée dragmes Ginger one ounce beate this all together grosse Here is to be noted that there will be too little wine and that fréely there may thrée or foure quarts of wine be taken for it Now followeth here a water called the elixer of life and is thus made Take Cinnamom and Cloues of each one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs one ounce red Roses ten handfuls white Roses as many Hyssope two handfuls Lauander flowers seuen handfuls powre vnto it a quart of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of nine daies and distill it afterwards as is said before Now for to distill a common vitall water is thus to be done Take Cinnamom one ounce and a halfe Ginger one ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Greines of each halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes Mastick Mace and long Pepper of each two dragmes Sage sixtéene ounces Cardamome Cucubes and Galingall of each two dragms and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce Balme thrée dragmes Citron péels thrée quarters of an ounce Rue Bayberries and Stechas of each halfe an ounce Rosemarie Marioram Lauander and Betony of each thrée quarters of an ounce Spica and Beuercod of each one dragme stéep it in thrée quarts of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of ten daies then distill it like as is taught of the other Some haue also an especiall water which is called Aqua spiritualis for that it strengtheneth much the vitall spirits Take the herb Lauander with the flowers and Liriconfancie of each two ounces Rosemary flowers and Betonie of each thrée dragmes Sage and Marioram gentle of each one ounce Balme halfe an ounce Hyssope Mints the greater Pimpernell Tormentill Rapontica Angelica and Bistorta of each one quarter of an ounce Piony rootes and of Valerian of each one dragme Auence and Iuniper berries of each half an ounce Bayberries and Beuercod of each one drag cut the rootes and powne them grosly The herbs are you to take drie and to cut them small and then put them in a glasse which is narrow aboue afterwards powre fiue pints of the spirit of wine vpon it and stop it tight then set it the space of eight dayes in the Sunne or in another warme place and distill it afterwards as is said in the beginning In all that which is distilled out are you to lay in steepe Ginger and Galingall of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounce Cucubes one quarter of an ounce Cardamome and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Greines one scruple Citron peeles one quarter of an ounce Pomegranate péeles halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes and white Mustard séede of each one scruple Saffron halfe a dragme Indie Spica one scruple Annis halfe an ounce Fennell one quarter of an ounce Treacle one ounce Turpentine thrée dragmes prepared red Corall one dragme Manus Christi with Pearls halfe an ounce conserue of Roses one ounce clarified Hony foure ounces then powne it all grosse that is to be powned and so let it stand the space of foure daies in a warme place afterwards you shall distill it and then temper amongst it Muscus and Ambra of
Cloues Bayberries Mace and Cucubes of each one drag the séede of Sorrell of Purslaine red and white Behen and Doronicum of each halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes red and white Corall scraped Iuorie Masticke Spica and Campher of each one scruple burnt Iuorie one dragme powne them all grosse and then powre vpon it tâ—e clarified iuice of Burrage and of Balme of each sixe ounces the iuice of Oranges three ounces let it stéepe certaine daies together stirring it oftentimes about to the end it do not stink afterwards you are to distiâ—l it in seething water then doth it first of all yeeld a water but as soone as you perceiue that it begins to get another colour and that it beginneth to drop slowly then augment your fire and receiue your oyle in another receiuer keepe it well stopt at last set it the space of 20. daies in the Sunne This oyle is somwhat ruddie and smelleth very well so that if one put a drop in a great deale of well water then getteth it a sauour accordingly This oyle doth purge very mildly if one giue halfe a dragme thereof more or lesse according to the qualitie or importance of the patient This oyle is most méetly giuen with goates milke it is also especial good against the Quartana if the patient haue gouerned himselfe well before in his order of dyet In like manner it is also good in all other Agues which the Phisitions do call Putridas it killeth and driueth out the wormes if it be giuen with Purslaine water or with wine This oyle is also especiall good giuen once euery sixe daies against the Pockes it is also good against the rheumes against the paine in the head Cephalalgia against the giddinesse and against the paine of the kidneys it obstructeth womens termes and the fluxe of humane seede It is good against the gout of the féete if once euery fourtéene daies two or thrée drops of this oyle be giuen with the decoction of field Cipers It is also very good against all running Fistulas against all vlcers and against the canker also for all diseases of the places in women and of the matrix if one iniect half a drag thereof with the decoction of Feuerfew it prouoketh also fruitfulnesse The water that commeth out before the oyle hath his vertue also for that it prepareth all humors which cause any sicknesse in the bodie if one once or twice a day take thereof halfe an ounce at each time with thrée ounces of Endiue water Oyle of Roses §. 55. AFter the common fashion is this oyle of Roses prepared and is very méete for diuers matters It is made of Rose buds as the oyle of Cammomill This oyle cooleth much and hath an astringent vertue it is good for all manner of heate of whatsoeuer occasion that the same may be caused vsed outwardly or in clisters inwardly and it strengtheneth also the ioynts which be annointed therewith like as they be ordained for it throughout the whole booke This oyle is made very seldome of white Roses and it cooleth also more than that which is made of red Roses Oyle of Saffron 56. THe oyle of Saffron is not vsed by vs but yet is prescribed in some places of this Booke Oyle of Sandaraca §. 57. THis oyle is also vtterly vnknowne it is but once prescribed in this booke Oyle of Sulphur §. 58. THis oyle of Sulphur is an Alchimisticall oyle and is made in diuers manners some do put one quarter of Amber vnto it other do put Petroleum vnto it In Italy do they take Sulphur vif and powre the vrine of a manchild vnto it so bury it in horse dung and afterwards distill the oyle out of it But after these two maners following is this oyle chiefly made Take 5. pounds of smal beaten Sulphur and temper oyle of Tiles amongst it afterwards lute the helme very tight and and at the first make a small fire afterwards increase it There is gotten out of the foresaid 5. pounds of Sulphur no more than about one ounce of oyle this oyle must with great prouidence be giuen to wit in winter time two drops with vitall waters or Malmsey and in sommer time with Endiue water This oyle doth asswage all griping of the belly whether it be in the vndermost or in the vppermost guts as also all paine of the stomacke which procéedeth of wind and cold humors the same may also well be vsed outwardly It is likewise very good annointed in the childrens mouthes when they haue the canker or any stinking vlcer in the mouth Further warts 〈◊〉 also taken away with it and it maketh the téeth white To make the other oyle of Sulphur Take Sallad oyle and powre therin a good deale of smal powned Sulphur let it stand so long vpon the fire vntill that all the sulphur be cleane melted stirring it well about then are you to quench gloing péeces of coales in it vntill the oyle be thoroughly sunken into the tyle stones This being done powne these stones and put them alone in the helme the rest that ouerfloweth and also the Sulphur is to be done away and then distill further all that is put into the helme The first oyle that cometh out of it doth appeare somwhat bleake in the helme and when it beginneth to be white then set another receiuer vnder it This oyle séemeth to guild if it be annointed vpon Iron or vpon any other thing Oyle of blew Flower-deluce §. 59. THis oyle is to be made like the oyle of Lillies but it will be somewhat strengthened through the rootes it is somewhat strong but it asswageth all paine and melloweth all swellings it is especiall good against all hardnesse of the ioynts it warmeth the Matrix driueth away the crampe and taketh away all paine and sissing of the eares lastly it doth withstand the canker of the nose Oyle of Scorpions §. 60. BEcause that we God be praised haue no Scorpions in Eugh therefore is the oyle brought vnto vs out of Italy and is made thus Take tenne or twelue Scorpions cast them in twelue ounces of oyle of bitter Almonds and so set it fiue or sixe wéekes in the Sunne afterwards straine it and kéepe it for to vse This oyle breaketh the stone of the bladder and of the rains and it driueth the same also out if it be annointed vpon the raines and vpon the priuities or if it be iniected into the bladder lastly it is also good for many other things moe c. Oyle of water Lillies §. 61. THis oyle is made as wel of the yellow as of the white water Lillies but vnripe Sallad oyle is taken for it and it is made as the oyle of Violets The oyle of the white water Lillies hath also the same vertue with the oyle of Violets but that it is somewhat colder but not altogether as cold as that of Poppy heads wherfore these oyles are commonly tempered with other oyles according to the qualitie of the disease
out of it then powre it againe in the body by all that which remained therein to the end it may be soft againe and in this manner distill it seuen times togither Other be of opinion that as often as it is distilled that then it is to be set againe in horse dung Some suppose that it ought to be but thrée times distilled and that at the most put the dry feces into a Retorte and distill it with moderate fire and then will it yéeld a stinking oyle Afterwards powre oftentimes water vnto it and distill this oyle as many times with the water vntill it loose her sauour or stench This water is to be giuen in three or fower times a yéere each time one ounce but not aboue three or fower drops of the oyle Each one may beléeue this as far as he will Concerning all other drinks as Béere Claret wine Aromaticall wines Barley water Iuleps Almond milke Meade and such like of them we haue written elsewhere In the end of this booke we will admonish and discourse of moe other herbed wines The second Part of this Chapter of certaine powders for Meate WE will not here admonish of any powders which be seruiceable méete for any sicknesses but we will only speake of them that are vsed for pleasure and for to warme the stomacke or that may be strowed vpon wine sops as this ensuing Take elected Cinnamome one ounce and a halfe Ginger thrée ounces Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each thrée drag poune all verie small togither Sugar as much as you please and according as that you desire to haue it strong Item take Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace Greines and Cloues of each halfe a drag Sugar as much as you please Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace and Greines of each halfe a drag prepared Coriander and red Roses of each two scrup Sugar as much as you please but not too much These powders be very good vsed as well at meales as afterwards Another take blacke white and long Pepper of each halfe a drag Thyme Annis and Ginger of each fiue greines Sugar fiue ounces then temper them altogither This is speciall good for all cold stomacks The third part of this Chapter of Trociskes TRociscus is a Gréeke name and is as much to say as a round shiue or round Cake like as these Trocisci be made but the Apothecaries doe commonly make them now adayes fower square and about the waight of one dragme which is of small importance These Trociskes be made diuersly whereof be many mentioned in this our booke whereof wée will onely describe the name and force of them that be too troublesome to make to the end the same may be asked for at the Apothecaries when there is vse for them Trocisci de Absinthio of Wormewood §. 1. THese be ordained onely against the obstruction of the Liuer and be described in the third Part the twelfth chapter and 4. § Trocisci Adulphi §. 2. THese doe take their name of the Sulphure like as you may finde written in the second Part the fift chapter and fiftéenth § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke §. 3. THese Trociskes are found prepared at all Apothecaries to the end that the bad qualitie of the Agaricke may be taken away thereby The manner to prepare them is described in the Introduction Their vse shall you finde in the Table vnder the name Agaricke Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint §. 4. THe preparation of these Trociskes is also described in the Introduction of this booke for to strengthen other purgations with it like as stands admonished in the Register vnder the name of Coloquinte Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries §. 5. THese be also troublesome to be made they be good for all diseases of the Raines and the bladder and for Dysuria Looke further in the Register vnder the name of winter Cherries Trocisci de Berberis of Barberries §. 6. OF the iuice of Barberries take one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuory Lignum Aloes Sorrell seede Masticke Gallia Moscata and Indy Spica of each one ounce Gum thrée dragmes Roses fiue dragmes and Rose water as much as is needefull for to temper them togither You shall find their vse vnder the name of Barberies Trocisci de Bolo Armeno §. 7. THese Trociskes be in no vse but they are aduised to be vsed for a cold stomacke Trocisci de Camphora of Camfere §. 8. FOr that these Trociskes be very much vsed therefore we will describe the same Take Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuory and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce péeled séedes of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers Dragagant Saffron Gum and Indy Spica of each one dragme yellow Saunders two dragms and a half Lignum Aloes Cardamome Starch and Camfere of each two scruples white Sugar and Manna of each thrée dragmes then fashion them with the Muscilage of Fleawort which is made with Rose water These Trociskes be very good against all hot Agues against all inflaming of the blood and Cholera against a bad stomacke and bad liuer and also against thirst which is caused thereby they be also good against the yellow Iaundies against the Consumption and against the dizzines of the head like as you may further perceiue in the Register vnder the name of Camfere Trocisci de Capparis of Caper rootes §. 9. THese Trociskes be very seldome made They be good against the hardened Milt like as you may further reade in the same place of the hardened Spléene Trocisci de Carabe of Amber §. 10. TAke a quarter of an ounce of yellow Amber burnt Harts horne parched Gum burnt Corall Dragagant the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Masticke Lacca parched blacke Popie séede of each two scruples Frankincense Saffron and Opium of each halfe a dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the slime of Fleawoort These Trociskes stop the blood out of whatsoeuer place it should flowe as womens termes the Piles and excessiue making of water it healeth also all inward exulceration viz. of the Liuer and of the Lights looke further in the Table of Amber Trocisci de Chelidonia of Chelidony §. 11. THese Trociskes are vsed alone in this booke for fowle flesh in vlcers Trocisci de Corallis of Corrall §. 12. THey be very troublesome to be made and be very seldome vsed they be onely good against the Piles Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrimony §. 13. TAke the iuice of Agrimonie and Manna of each one ounce Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie thrée dragmes and a halfe Indie Spica thrée dragmes Rubarbe Asarabacca and Annis of each two dragmes and a halfe poune them verie small to powder and temper them togither with water of Cuscuta then dry them in the shadow These be especiall good for all obstructions of the lyuer and of the spléene and also
the Matrix Betonie wine §. 5. THis Wine is made of browne Betonie as all other herbed wines be it is especiall good against all belching and wambling of the stomacke it withstandeth the ouerflowing of the gall it is many times approoued in a cold Matrix and against all suffocation of the same it strengtheneth all inward parts it warmeth and healeth also the same it openeth the obstructions it consumeth all cold humors it expelleth all venemous matter by the vrine by the stoole and in like manner also the yellow Iaundise and if the same be oftentimes vsed then it is very requisite against the falling sicknesse against the Sciatica against the sicknesse of the lights and against the Consumption It is also very necessary against the cough against short breath and it expelleth also all agues which do come out of a foule stomacke The same power haue the red Gilloflowers like as the same be also a kind of Betonie whereof hereafter we will speake further This wines vse and operation you shall find described in other places moe Burrage wine §. 6. WE haue admonished before of the description of the Conserue and Sirupe of Burrage how there is small difference betwéene this herbe and the Buglosse wherefore also both these herbes may be taken for this wine like as we haue taught before or the iuice of the same may also well be vsed with this wine which wine doth driue away all poyson from the heart it cleanseth the blood it maketh merry it refresheth the vitall spirit it driueth away all pensiuenesse and all bad thoughts it is also very necessary for all them which do fall easily into any swouning and is of a full temperate nature c. Wine of Asarabacca §. 7. THis wine and other moe be prepared against the grauell like as in the third part the 17. Chapter and 4. § is described and you shall further find in other places moe for what it is more commodious Wine of Framboyes §. 8. THis wine is made like as the wine of the whole Grapes is made it hath the nature of the same berries it is much commended in the Plague and Squinancie but if one put none other wine vnto it then is it not very pleasant wherefore it is not commaunded to be vsed in any other places of this booke Wine of Harts toong §. 9. THere be two kindes of Harts toongs viz. the Ceterach which is the right Harts toong and the long Harts toong which is hairie about the stalkes they may be taken both together and to make this wine as all other wines it is not very pleasant of taste but it is of great force for that it openeth and strengtheneth the Spléene it is good against all poyson of Snakes and being drunke warme it asswageth all crampes and scowring of the belly it taketh away the yellow Iaundise and also obstructions of the liuer it is also very good for all them which be vexed with the stone and with the grauell it is also good against all melancholy and expelleth the quartaine Ague it consumeth all clotted blood which is caused in the brest through fals it openeth also the conduits of vrine and healeth all diseases of the same For what this wine is further meete that is to be found described in other places of this booke Wine of Hyssope §. 10. THis herbe is hot and drie by nature which vertue the wine also hath wherefore it is good for all old persons for it warmeth all inward parts it asswageth the cold and moist cough it is also good against the falling sicknesse for when the same is vsed often and long then doth it take away the same and that especially in yong folkes It is also good for the breast and the lights for it warmeth the same and consumeth all tough slimie matter and also all agues which may spring out of the same it openeth the pipes of the lights and it maketh a cleere voice for it cleanseth the breast and healeth all anguishes of the same it taketh away the shortnesse of breath and is especiall good against the Dropsie like as is admonished and described in moe other places of this booke Winter Cherrie wine §. 11. THis wine is also made like as the wine of whole Grapes it is very much vsed against the stone the grauell and is also especiall good for all them which can hardly make water Cherrie wine §. 12. VPon the riuer of Rhene and euery where else all wines which be made of red or blacke Cherries are called Cherrie wines and they make the same as hereafter followeth Plucke the Cherries from the stalkes and poune them in a stone morter with stones and all and then poure red or white wine vpon it but this wine will be very small wherefore it is prepared after another maner with whole Cherries as followeth Lay in a vessell of béechen or hasell chips as many as you please and then one part of Cherries vpon it and so further vntill it be full like as we haue said and taught of the wine of Grapes fill then the vessell ful of wine and so let it lie thrée or foure dayes then shall it be sufficiently coloured This wine is of a good tempered nature is very requisite in sommer time in great heat for to asswage therwith thirst to moisten the inward parts It openeth also the liuer it expelleth vrine especially if the kernels with the stones be broken in it for these kernels expel the grauell Some do hang spices therein which cannot be good because his nature is altered therby Looke into the table of the Cherries Lauender wine §. 13. THere is but little made at once thereof in a small vessel whereof may not be drunken long There is a long bagge hanged in it with Lauender flowers and interbastated or quilted to the end that not all the flowers fall in a heape This wine is especiall good for a colde head and for moist braines for the giddinesse for the falling sicknesse and such like diseases Of Malmsey §. 14. ALbeit that this wine be tempered neither with herbes nor with spices but by nature and of it selfe is a noble and pleasant wine which is brought vnto vs out of Grecia and other countries adiacent yet shal it neuerthelesse not be against our purpose because that the same is very much vsed in Phisicke that his power and vertue be shewed at this present looke for it in the second part in the sixt chapter and in the third part the 11. chapter and 14. § Wine of Marierom §. 15. THis wine is prepared as all other herbed wines are it strengtheneth the braines and warmeth all inward parts it is very good for all them which be inclined to the dropsie it asswageth the paine of the belly it expelleth vrine and moueth womens termes it is a very good potion for to warme the head and to strengthen the memorie as you find described in diuers places of this booke
kept faire and cleane and suffereth no foule flesh to grow in them but healeth them it cureth also all scald heads if the same be washed with it If any one would go to sea then is he to drinke certaine dayes before some of this Wine for that thereby shall he be fréed of the sea sicknesse Moreouer this Wine is an especiall preseruatiue against the Plague and against all venemous ayre if one take a good draught thereof before that such patients be visited it bringeth also sléepe with it and taketh away heauy dreames But by reason the cōmon people haue not alwayes this wine in a readinesse the iuice of Wormwood may be tempered amongst Wine and be vsed in stead of the Wormewood wine This Wine is méete for many moe other diseases like as may be read here and there in this booke Wine of Zeduarie §. 29. TAke in the beginning of winter one barrell and a halfe of Must let it séeth softly like as is described of Elecampane wine afterwards put it into a cleane vessell and then put these spices following vnto it Take good Cinnamome one ounce Zeduary halfe an ounce Cloues one quarter of an ounce Ginger Galingall greines and long pepper of each one dragme poune them all together grosse to the end that when the power of the Zeduary is gone the spices may drie and take out the Zeduary of it and put fresh vnto it if so be that you desire to kéepe this wine long then is the same to be filled vp with decocted wine and not with common wine This wine hath the same efficacie and power with all aromaticall wines and may also be vsed in stéede of them How the infirmities of all Wines are to be amended §. 30. WE are here not to write too largely how all the infirmities of wine are to be amended but are to commend that to the wine sellers by reason that thereof diuers books are written for amendment of all wines doth serue very wel M. Tristrams water which is described in the first part the fift Chapter and 1. § In like maner also all golden and vitall waters which before in the eight part and sixt Chapter are described if there be poured a little of them in wine which is dead or low and stirred well about Item in the moneth of May you are to take a branch of a yong gréene trée shaue off the vppermost rindes and lay them the space of thrée dayes in fresh water afterwards wash them well and then poure fresh water againe vpon them This being done let them lie the space of thrée dayes wash them well againe and then drie them in the shadow If you haue now any wine wich beginneth to be dead then take thrée or foure of these rindes all of a length and bind them to a thred and hang them in the wine it will thereby be very good and cléere There be here and there described diuers sorts of wines which be prepared for sundrie sicknesses and parts of mans bodie viz. for the Head for the Liuer for the Milt for the Heart and for the Raines c. each one may looke for them in their places for which they will vse them Herewith we will in the name of God finish this our Booke of Phisicke and commend the same vnto our most true Father through Iesus Christ our Lord the most true Phisition of all our diseases that he will most graciously extend his blessings ouer it Amen The end of the eight and last part of this Booke The first Table containeth all the names of all diseases accidents and infirmities Also all maner of Compositions Conserues Confections Electuaries Sirupes Iuleps Trociskes Pilles Potions Salues Plaisters Oyles Baulmes Waters and Aromaticall Wines with diuers other things more which are mentioned in this Booke A. ABortus abortion 508 Abricockes how preserued 715 Accidents that may follow after child birth 518 Accidents caused through paine in the hippes 536. Accidents diuers in the Plague 673. 674. c. Aegilops 76 Afterbirth how to expell 516 Afterthrowes how to be eased 517 Agaricus prepared 12 Agaricus vsed ibid. Agues description in generall 622 Ague of one day called Ephemera 623 Ague pestilentiall 668. 673 Ague quotidian 642 Ague quartaine 643 Ague Hepialos 624 Ague Hemitritea 633 Agues wandering 624 Ague Hectica 646 Agues continuall 627. 628 Ague Tertian exquisite 634 Ague Tertian bastard 637 Ague burning called Causon 638 Ague called Synochus 640 Ague Synochus of putrifacted bloud 641 Ague Hectica with an vlcer in the breast 649 Ague Marasmode 646. 651 Ague long lingering 652 Aire conuenient for the sicke of the Plague 679. Alcola and clifts of the tongue 171 Alipta muscata prepared 342 Allume calcined or burnt 8 Almonds confected 710 Almonds swolne 163 Almond milke prepared 739 Aloe how to know it 8 Aloe prepared 8 Ammoniacum prepared 8 Ancome looke Fellon Appetite vnsatiable to meate 38 Appetite lost looke hunger lost 334 Appetite lost in hot Agues 631 Apples preserued 718 Appoplexie 134. 159. 160 Aprecockes preserued looke Abricockes Aqua Iohannis 163 Armes description 519 Armepits description and stench ibid. Arseguts canker looke Canker Arseguts descent or procidencie 302 Arseguts description ibid. Arseguts impostume 304. 314 Arseguts itch looke itch of the Fundament Arseguts paine 304 Arseguts relaxation 303 Arteries description 604 Artificiall Baulme 706. 707 Ascension of the Matrix 489 Asthma pursiuenesse 238 B. BAcke and backe paine 211. 212 Bagge to be vsed in the falling sicknesse 156. Bags to be layed vpon the stomacke 330. 334 Barley water 45. 219 Barley parched in broth 349 Baulme precious to comfort the heart 263 Barrennesse description 295 Barrennesse through cold and moistnesse 298 Barrennesse through dryth 297 Barrennesse through heate 296 Barrennesse through ouermuch fatnesse 297 Barrennesse through superfluitie of blood and obstruction of the termes 299 Bathes so sweating 611 Baulmes prepared 706 Baulmes diuersly prepared 707 Beards description 116 Beards falling out preuented 48. 117 Beards growth procured 117 Beeres description 709 Belching vp of Gall or boyling in the stomacke 369. Bellies paine of all manner 428 Belly bound or obstructed 424 Biles of the Pockes 580 Biles looke Tumors Nodes c. Binding in the body 360 Birth how to aduance 514 Birth vntimely 508 Birth vnnaturall called Mola in the mother 500 How remedied 501 Birth her signes 515 Bladders description 465 Bladder or necke of the bladders infection 473. Bladders necke impostume ibid. Bleeding before and after what ought to be done 23. Bleeding too much how to be preuented 23. 607. Bleeding at the nose 98 Bleeding at the nose remedied 99 Bleeding at the eares looke eares that bleede Bleeding of the gummes looke Gummes that bleede Bleeding of the piles remedied 306. 308 Blindnes looke Eyes that are blind Blisters how to draw them 155 Bloud not to be drawne fasting 23 Bloud in the Leprosie how to be cleansed 588 Blouds nature 605 Bloud when to be drawne 21 Bloud letting signes of the
care must be takē to diminish this Cough neuerthelesse to beware not to hinder altogither the coughing vp of the phlegme for the which looke here before the 4. and 5. § and also afterwards Fiftly the patient must obserue a good rule of liuing whereof hereafter followeth a good instruction Sixtly meanes must be made to take away the spetting of bloud whereof is at large discoursed in the 17. § Seuenthly and lastly care is to be had to lengthen the sicke bodies short breath for this looke into the 12. § of Asthma what is further néedefull for this sicknesse shall follow hereafter First there are here expressed foure principall things as well fitting the patient for foode as for remedie to wit Hony conserue of Roses Crabs that are taken in fresh waters Figs and certaine other fruits As much as concerneth the Hony of Roses it is alway more forcible than the common Hony because that it expelleth phlegme and matter pierceth and cleanseth therefore is Hony accompted a safeconductor of all other medicines which are commodious for this sicknesse But if so be that there be with it a vehement heate and putrifying Ague then in the stead of the same Hony is Hony water to be vsed for which cause some say that the Hony is not to be vsed in this sicknesse alone without scumming for if the same be not scummed and do not séeth it is hurtfull and causeth the Laske The second is the conserue of Roses through which onely some preserue themselues and prolong their life and if through vse of this the body chaunceth to be stopt then is sirupe of Hyssope to be vsed and if the same be too hote then are Trociscos de Camphora and cold Tabulats of Dragagant to be vsed Thirdly are the Crabs which must thus be prepared Take fresh water Creuets as many as you will séeth them so long in well water vntill they may be pluckt in péeces then cut off the féete and skins take off all the shels and wash them well in Ley that is made of Vine-ashes afterwards séeth them very mellow in Barley water the patient must eate the Crabbes and drinke the water Fourthly there are good for this disease in stead of Phisick Raisins Figs Pingles Pistacia Currans Sebestes and Iuiubes But for this we will discouer moe other remedies amongst which is chiefly commended Asses milke and if the same cannot be gotten Goats milke is to be taken in the stead thereof also bread sopped therein is to be eaten and if that may be he is to vse no other drinke sugred but if that cannot be then is he to vse therewith some sugred Béere yet is it no counsell to vse the Milke if therewith be any putred Ague Here is also to be noted that womans milke surpasseth all other milke but be it what milke that it may be yet must the same be drunken new milked for all milke very quickly taketh an alteration and corruption But if all manner of milke be lothsome to the partie then prepare him this potion Take Ireos one quarter of an ounce of Hyssop and gréene Venus haire if it may be gotten of each one handful péeled Barly thrée ounces Melon seede Cucumber séede Gourd séede Pompeon séede séedes of Verbascum Fenegréeke Iuiubes and Sebestes of each halfe an ounce Licorice and Raisins of each one ounce white Sugar nine ounces Hony three ounces seeth it all together except the Sugar and the Hony in a sufficient quantitie of raine water according as you will haue it strong let it seeth to the second part when it is strained then put the Sugar and Hony vnto it let it séeth awhile and clarifie it And if so be that after the vse of milke there follow a small Ague then shall he in stead of Milke vse Barley water or a thin Barly pap for that clenseth the brest and cooleth the same and expelleth phlegme but as soone as the Ague goeth away then may you returne to the vse of the Milke The rule of liuing FIrst they that haue the consumption are to chuse all such dwelling places where it is alwayes cold moyst and chiefly where he is troubled with the Ague situated to the North east and on the water But if he cannot get the same then must his chamber be often sprinkled with faire water and if he be of ability then is the chamber to be sprinkled in the place of common water with stilled water of Violets water Lillies Cucumbers Gourds Pompions mingled or each by themselues or strew the chamber with Violet leaues water Lillies Vine leaues and with other cold herbes The chamber may also be fumed with these fumigations following which are made of water Lilly flowers Lettice seedes and Purslaine seeds beaten together He must not couer his head too warme Secondly almost all exercise and trauell is hurtfull principally when as yet his head is full of humors therefore shall he refraine all labour and be still and take his rest Thirdly he must beware that he do not ouer eate himselfe and it is more commodious to eate oftentimes and a little at once than for to eate once or twice a day very much and so it is also with his drinke He must also beware and refraine to eate with hunger and that which he eateth must he chew very well wheron many do thinke but little that do either hate or smally estéeme their owne liues In like sort must he eate to expell all the superfluitie of the stomacke or bowels If there be any such thing in the stomacke then must it be taken away by stooles for vomiting is very hurtfull for this disease but Manna or Cassia are to be vsed herein But if the going to the stoole be hardened in the Bowels then must this Clister be ministred Take Mallowes Béetes Violet leaues and small Woodbind of each a handfull séeth them together in sufficient water take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces oyle of Violets and of white Sesamum of each one ounce and a halfe fresh Butter three quarters of an ounce Sal gemmae foure scruples or one quarter of an ounce of common Salt minister it only in the morning Fourthly his sléepe must be seuen or eight houres long and not at all but at the least one houre after supper he must shunne sléepe a day times and is to sléepe halfe sitting and not to lie vpon his backe nor on his face Fiftly he must beware of anger of calling aloud and of all that will impact the phlegme in the breast as of sorrow feare fright and aboue all things of Venerie for there is nothing that more abateth the nourishment of the body then the same but he must by all meanes possible indeuour himselfe to be merry and of good cheare As much as concerneth the sixt to wit meate and drinke for that you haue this common rule as that his bread be of good white Wheate and baked well rising also if the same be drest with the water of
Folefoote it were very commodious Of fleshes are good for him fat Pullets Hens Capons and all field fowles as Phesants Partridges c. Also young Kids Calues Hares rosted Pigs Foxe lights and the sewet of all these beasts All water Fowles wild Pigeons and Géese are forbidden him But this meate is specially commended take Almond milke when he hath a strong Ague and where there is no Ague take Goats milke and seethe crums of white bread to a thin pap and let him eate thereof and such like pappes made with Wheate meale Barly meale or Millet meale sweetened with Sugar or Sugar pennets amongst which one may temper some white Poppy seedes All fish are permitted for this sicknesse and chiefly all riuer fish Crabs haue also a speciall propertie vertue and secret operation against this maladie And if one cannot get Crabs then take in the stead of them garden Snailes and let them with their houses boile with Hyssop and Fennell then take them out and bestrew them with Sugar or frie them with Butter as it liketh the patient best for they cause the flegme to arise and moisten the bodie all hearbes that moisten and coole are good for this disease yea it behoueth that all the patients meate be drest with the same as namely with Beetes Lettice Spinage Burrage Purslaine Melons and Shepheards purse which haue a speciall operation for this sicknes in cooling and moistening But Colewoorts and Turneps must he forbeare Rice sod in water wherein 24. houres before wheaten Bran hath bene stéeped may he well feede vpon for through the Branne doth the water get a cooling and moistning operation So is there also good for this sicknesse red and white Pease notwithstanding that they be warme and drie in the first degree which warmth and drouth is taken away by dressing For amongst all kind of pottage there is nothing more requisite than this for the Lights But the auncient Phisitions do much commend stued Barly Pusanam of all other pottages for it is light of digestion slipperie and looseth the phlegme very well it altereth also the bad drie and aguish complexion And albeit that Barley is hote and drie in the first degree yet all such drouth is taken away through the moisture wherewith it is boyled whether it be sodden and drest in water Almond milke or some fresh broth for it is familiar to the stomacke cleanseth the same quencheth thirst putrifieth not in the stomacke for these vertues is Barly commended of all auncient and later Phisitions that are expert in phisicke So do they also commend Otemeale which hath almost the same vertue and is like to the Barly but is not so common in vse yet are the right Oatmeale paps very good so are paps also of Beane meale of Lentils of rough bearded Wheate of Starch drest with Almond milk or the broth of Hens as occasion shall serue Aboue the foresaid fruits the Hasell nuts are tollerated and allowed of yet but few least they spoile the stomacke vnsalted Chéese is very good for him but old Chéese is highly forbidden and albeit euen as is sayd milke is for meate tollerated yet is not Butter nor Hogs grease neither Sallad oyle commendable for this disease neither yet any meates which are drest with much fat Oyle of swéete Almonds and oile of Walnuts are accompted for the best because that the other stuffe the head all salted fish and flesh are hurtfull like as be vineger veriuice and such like and especially if there be salt in it but if any of these be vsed then delay the sharpnesse with Sugar but swéet Pomgranats and Citrons well Sugred may he vse well enough Hony is not good in his meate although the same vsed after another manner be good and profitable euen as is here before expressed He must beware of all spice vnlesse they be drest with some other cooling hearbes as with Violet leaues Purslaine Spinage Lettice Endiue and such like But Saffron is much commended for this disease for it strengtheneth the hart the breast and clenseth the lungs White Wine is good for his drinke if it be cleare and somewhat swéete but the sowre and hard wine harmeth him if so be that the Wine do not fume into the head then let him drinke it by it selfe but if it be heady then temper it with sodden water or the water wherein Licorice Buglosse Elecampane Folefoote leaues and such like are decocted this must be his drink at meales but if he drinke betwéene meales then is he to drinke sugred Barly water Here haue you now the second time a description of the sixe vnnaturall things the which the Phisitions do call Res non naturales like as the same are before set downe in the description of Asthma Here do follow many remedies for this disease TAke the tailes of fresh water Crabs sixe ounces prepare and dresse them as is before instructed the seedes of Endiue of Sorrell of small Endiue and of Lettice one dragme and a halfe Pingles that haue bene stéeped one night in Folefoote water two ounces stampe chop them all together and séeth them with foure ounces of Sugar Hony to a Confection There is also another Confection made of Crabs Looch de Cancris called Looch de Cancris as followeth Take the tayles of good fat fresh water Crabs foure ounces Raisins the stones taken out two ounces 30. Iuiubes Licorice two ounces Venus haire Tassell leaues Hounds toung and Dill of each one quarter of an ounce séeth this all together in sufficient water to the halfe part then wring it out and put thereto sirupe of Poppy heads and white Sugar of each foure ounces and when it is well clarified and decocted to the thicknesse of Hony then put vnto it sirupe of Licorice Almonds chopt small and Gourd séede of each halfe an ounce séeds of Mallows and Quinces of each one quarter of an ounce Purslaine and white Poppie séede Dragagant Gumme and Starch of each one drag powne all these small together Species Diamoschu and Diambra Another Looch of each one dragm temper them all well together Item this Looch ensuing may also be prepared for this the which is very good for the consumption the drouth and heate of the throate Take Licorice sliced Raisins without stones of each one ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes ten or twelue séeth them all together in two quarts of water that there remain not aboue the eighth part then straine it through a cloth and put thereto fiue ounces of sodden wine Sugar pennets two ounces and so let it seeth thicke together whereof the patient is to take twice or thrice a day and likewise in the night treatably a small spoonefull at once for this are also good Looch de Pino De Farfaria and Looch de Papauere To these foresaid confections is this following highly commended Take the iuice of Pimpernell of Bistorta or powders of the same of each halfe an ounce conserue of Roses one ounce and a
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
then may he drinke Meade or Hony water which is also very good What sirupes and other things might be vsed for the prouoking of vrine that hath sufficiently bene shewed before in the discourse of the grauell But Oxymel compositum and the sirupe of Vineger are for this vse very highly commended Clisters are of no small force in this disease but especially when they be made with Benedicta and the oile of Scorpions Amongst the outward remedies are the forementioned bathings the especiallest and the most highly commended Hereafter follow the descriptions of salues and plaisters Take a sliced Radish séeth it to pap and temper amongst it the oile of bitter Almonds and the oile of Scorpions with a little waxe then spread this very thicke vpon a cloth and so lay it vpon the priuities Item take Turpentine oile of Scorpions and of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie and a little molten waxe then temper them together and therewith annoint the whole priuities Another Take the oile of Scorpions of Costus of Lillies of Dill and Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce Pellitorie of the wall and Saxifrage beaten of each one dragme Comin thrée dragmes waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue For this you may also vse the balmes and oiles which are described in the eight part like as shall be shewed there more at large Here before in the affluxion of the humane séede is also admonished that the nauell is to be filled with a little old suet either of an Oxe or of a Hart the which is also an expert remedie for the making of water but that is oftentimes to be vsed The oile of S. Iohns wort should also expell vrine if one be annointed warme with it If now there be any bodie which cannot make water then cut two great Onions and put a spoonfull of Caruways vnto it poure then thereon some Sallad oile afterwards frie them all together and spread it on a cloth two handfuls broade and méetly long and so lay it as before vpon the priuities as warme as can be suffered do this sixe or seuen times together it helpeth euidently Item take Pellitorie of the wall frie it in oile and so lay it warme on the priuities Some do write that the fat of Conies annointed on the priuities on the kidneies should maruellously expell vrine Likewise also the oile of Bayberries of Cammomil of Scorpions The detension of the vrine of what cause soeuer it be caused this ensuing is good for it take liue or dead wood lice lay them ouer the priuities before then plucke ouer the foreskin these Cony fat are by some very highly commended also the foreskin is to be put ouer the annointing with cony fat This ensuing is also highly commended for women when they cannot make water Take fled Goates horne and Maidenhaire of each a like quantitie make them to powder and strew them on a new hot tile put this into a close stoole and set the woman vpon it then sprinkle wine â—n the tile to the end she may receiue the vapor beneath this is to be done twice or thrice a day according as the obstruction of the vrine is great But if this maladie séeme wholy to get the maistery then take the water of picked Plantaine make Almond milke with it and drinke thereof twice or thrice a day it is also especiall good And if so be that the sharpnesse of the vrine had made any excoriation then annoint the place with the oile of Egges And if a woman with child cannot make her water then is she to take yellow Rose seeds and seeth them in wine when the paine is somewhat asswaged then giue thereof to drinke afterwards make a little oile of Lillies warme and annoint therewith the Raines and ouer all the belly Item take Sage and Wormewood of each one handfull Rie meale one spoonefull seeth them all together and let the woman sitting on a close stoole receiue of the vapor You haue also in the fift Chapter and 1. § somewhat else which is also méete for this purpose Of the retention of vrine through falles or blowes §. 4. IF the retention of the vrine come of any outward cause as of fals or of blowes then must good héed be taken if so be that therby any coagulated or clotted blood not onely in the bladder but also in any of the inward parts came to putrifie like as in the stomacke in the breast and elsewhere then may great sorrow and trouble procéed of it yea death it selfe for that there follow great faintnesse after it great weaknesse of the whole body and the pulse will be so small that one can scarse féele it And to remedie the same is the Liuer veine of the sicke person to be opened and the brused place irrigated from on high oftentimes with warme water wherein Cammomill Melilot and Roses be decocted Afterwards is the sicke person to be annointed with this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe and Masticke of each one dragme oile of Roses one ounce oile of Dill halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull But if the paine will not abate and cease and that it appeare that the bruise will come to an impostume and heate and an ague sticke vnto it then open the Saphea If the patient be bound then are milder clisters and purgations to be vsed and the patient is to kéepe himselfe as sober in eating and drinking as may be possible the space of two dayes and afterwards to diet himselfe like as one that hath an Ague is wont to do The place is to be fomented with the foresaid herbes and thereupon to annoint it with warme oile of Violets and with oile of Cammomill The bladder is softly to be wrung from the top euen to the priuities also an Oxe bladder may be filled with this decoction following laid vpon the priuities Take Mallowes Cammomill Rape leaues Melilot Violet leaues and Linséede séeth them together and make a felt or sponge wet in it and lay it warme vpon it You may also make a bath for the loines thereof putting thereto some Hollihocke rootes Onions Garlick and Colewort leaues powned all together séeth them and wring them out well then put them in a bag which hath a hole in the middle to put the yard therein and that he may lie vpon it Item take Wormwood put it in a bag séeth it in wine and wring it well out then lay it vpon the priuities as is expressed and admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe to pisse oftentimes This ensuing is not only good foor the clotted blood in the bladder but also for all other places of the body be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Wormewood Fennell Smallage the séed of the yellow roote red Storax péeled Melon seed and Radish leaues of each a like quantity make a powder of them and giue thereof betwéene one and two dragmes with Asses milke or with water wherein Fennell rootes and the