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<HEAD>Francis Groyn of Lansanor in the County of Glamorgan. And of Ford-Abby in the County of Devon E&s;q.^r 1698.</HEAD>
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<P>MEDICAMENTS For the Poor; <HI>Or,</HI> PHYSICK For the Common People.</P>
<P>Containing,</P>
<P><HI>Excellent Remedies for mo&s;t Common Di&s;ea&s;es, incident to Mans Body; made of &s;uch things as are common to be had in almo&s;t every Coun|try in the World: and are made with little Art, and &s;mal Charge.</HI></P>
<P>This Book is of admirable u&s;e for, 1. Purging Medicines, for Choller, Flegm, Melancholly, or Watry Humous. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by Sweat, Spittle, the Pallate, No&s;trils, or In&s;en&s;ibly. 4. Womens Di&s;ea|&s;es. 5. Worms. 6. The Stone. 7. Poy&s;ons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The Eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The Nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The Heart. 14. The Stomach. 15. The Inte&s;tines. 16. And for Di&s;ea&s;es of ill Conformation. 17. Or in Faulty Magnitude. 18. Or in Number. 19. Or in Scituation, and Connexion. 20. Or in di&s;&s;olved unity.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t Written in Latin, by that Famous and Learned Do|ctor,</HI> John Prevotius, <HI>Phylo&s;opher, and publick Pro|fe&s;&s;or of Phy&s;ick in</HI> Padua.</P>
<P>Tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h, and &s;omthing added,</P>
<P>By <HI>Nich. Culpeper,</HI> Student in Phy&s;ick, and A&s;trology.</P>
<P><HI>London:</HI> Printed by <HI>Peter Cole</HI> in Leaden Hall, and are to be &s;old at his Shop, at the &s;ign of the Prin|ting-pre&s;s in Cornhil, neer the Royal Excharge. 1656.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="printer to the reader">
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<HEAD>The Printer to the READER.</HEAD>
<P>I Thought it convenient to give thee notice of &s;ome Particulars to be minded in this Book.</P>
<P N="1">1. That thou ha&s;t not more in the Title Page, than is in the Book (as is too often u&s;ed by many in the&s;e times) For every one of the twenty Particulars there named, is di&s;tinctly treated on, under that Head, and &s;omtimes much more, as thou maye&s;t ea&s;ily find, if thou plea&s;e&s;t to peru&s;e the Contents be|fore the Book; by which thou maye&s;t ea&s;ily turn to the page in which each Head is treated on.</P>
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<P N="2">2 If thou meete&s;t with hard words that thou do&s;t not well un|der&s;tand, look at the end of <HI>Rive|rius</HI> Practice in Engli&s;h, and mo&s;t of them are there explained.</P>
<P N="3">3 Things that are here but briefly touched, are much more largely treated on in <HI>Riverius</HI> Pra|ctice of Phy&s;ick in Engli&s;h</P>
<P N="4">4 For the re&s;t of Mr. <HI>Culpepers</HI> VVorks that are yet unprinted, I refer thee to his VVives Informati|on and Te&s;timony, printed before this Book. I remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine, to &s;erve thee, Peter Cole.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
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<HEAD>The Contents.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>THE Beginning. <HI>Page 1</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Phy&s;icks that purge the Belly. <HI>Page 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cau&s;e. <HI>Page 4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purgers in a Flegmatick Cau&s;e. <HI>Page 6</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purgers in a Melancholy Cau&s;e. <HI>Page 9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that &s;often the Belly. <HI>Page 10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Things that mollifie the Belly in a Chollerick Cau&s;e. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that loo&s;en the Belly in a Fleg|matick Cau&s;e. <HI>Page 12</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that &s;often the Belly in a Melan|choly Cau&s;e. <HI>Page 14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lenitive Cly&s;ters. <HI>Page 15</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Loo&s;ening Suppo&s;itories. <HI>Page 16</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purgers by the Belly. <HI>Page 17</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>When Choller Predominates, what Medica|ments are Convenient for a gentle Evacua|tion. <HI>Page 19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Strong Purgers. <HI>Page 20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Violent Purgers. <HI>Page 21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Such things as purge Flegm gently when it is predominant. <HI>Page 23</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Strong Purgatives. <HI>Page 25</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Such things as Purge Violently. <HI>Page 28</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Drink. <HI>Page 30</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A mo&s;t plea&s;ing Pouder. <HI>Page 31</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Bolus. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pills. <HI>Page 32</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>When Melancholly prodominates the&s;e will Purge gently. <HI>Page 32</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Such things as purge Strongly. <HI>Page 34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Such things as purge Violently. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>What things will purge gently, when watery Humors prevail. <HI>Page 40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purging Cly&s;ters. <HI>Page 46</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sharp Suppo&s;itories. <HI>Page 48</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>For Vomiting Medicaments. <HI>Page 49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>What things move Vomit gently. <HI>Page 49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Purging Vomits. <HI>Page 51</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Such things as void Flegm &s;trongly that is predominant. <HI>Page 53</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that evacuate by &s;weat. <HI>Page 63</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that evacuate by Spittle. <HI>Page 67</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that evacuate by the Pallat. <HI>Page 72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that evacuate by the No&s;trils. <HI>Page 74</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that evacuate in&s;en&s;ibly. <HI>Page 77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dige&s;ters. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ives. <HI>Page 79</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rubificatives. <HI>Page 83</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicines that augment nece&s;&s;ary Matter where it is dificient. <HI>Page 85</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that encrea&s;e Milk. <HI>Page 86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Things that encrea&s;e Seed. <HI>Page 88</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that alter the Cau&s;e of the Di&s;|ea&s;e. <HI>Page 90</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Medicaments that prepare Choller. <HI>Page 91</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Preparatives for Flegm. <HI>Page 94</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Preparatives for Melancholly. <HI>Page 97</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that allay Acrimony. <HI>Page 98</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Scouring Medicaments. <HI>Page 101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies to &s;often hard things. <HI>Page 110</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth &s;til. <HI>Page 119</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that move the Cour&s;es. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Helps for Delivery of Women. <HI>Page 125</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies to drive out the Secundine. <HI>Page 126</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies to open the Hemorroids. <HI>Page 127</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies to force out the dead Child. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that quiet the Matttr, that is car|ried with a wrong Motion. <HI>Page 229</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that Root out the Cau&s;e that is offen&s;ive in the whol &s;ub&s;tance. <HI>Page 231</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies for Worms. <HI>Page 233</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies to break the Stone. <HI>Page 237</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that move Corruption. <HI>Page 240</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies contrary to Poy&s;on. <HI>Page 245</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies for Symptoms that are &V;r|gent. <HI>Page 257</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that alter a &s;ick di&s;temper of the whol Body and of the parts. <HI>Page 268</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Medicaments that alter the Head that is over|cooled. <HI>Page 271</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Altering Remedies for Eyes that are over|cooled. <HI>Page 274</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Arthritick Remedies, for the Joynts that are overcooled. <HI>Page 276</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies for the Nerves over-cooled. <HI>Page 279</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Remedies for the parts of breathing. <HI>Page 282</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cordials for the Heart that is over-cooled. <HI>Page 285</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Stomach-heating Remedies. <HI>Page 288</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies that alter the Inte&s;tines? when they are over-cooled. <HI>Page 293</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies of the Matrix, either over-heat or over-cooled. <HI>Page 306</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in ill Conformation. <HI>Page 310</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in faulty Magnitude. <HI>Page 350</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies for Di&s;ea&s;es in Number. <HI>Page 363</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in Situation and Con|nexion. <HI>Page 367</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in di&s;&s;olved &V;nity. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>ALL tho&s;e that were famous in the Art of Phy&s;ick, and by taking care of the health of Man gained to them&s;elves great Honor, may be &s;uppo&s;ed to have laid the fir&s;t foundation of all their glory in the Cottages of Poor Men. For &s;ince two things chiefly commend a Phy|&s;itian; skill to cure the &s;ick, and great charity to the Poor, without which there can hardly be &s;o much &s;ence of anothers mi&s;ery that can invite one carefully to lend his utmo&s;t help. The&s;e two are &s;o united, that a Phy&s;itian can hardly be approved among&s;t Rich Men and Princes, unle&s;s he hath &s;hewed him&s;elf to be &s;uch a one by his frequent Practice among&s;t the Poor: For they that abound with all tho&s;e things, the want whereof makes life to others not &s;o de&s;irable, will &s;u&s;pect the skill of &s;uch as begin, but now to Practice; and who have not been emnent by many experiments, and famous Cures, that are divulged by the Te&s;ti|mony
<PB REF="7">of the common People. And the Phy&s;i|tian alone &s;hall not ea&s;ily per&s;wade great Men, to whom he may be called, that he hath &s;eriously taken care for the Di&s;ea&s;e, but rather for his own gain and profit, who hath not &s;ometimes done his be&s;t endeavors to help poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Men, and by &s;uch a Cu&s;tome, learned to deal gently with tho&s;e that are &s;ick. And this is the Cau&s;e, that, tho&s;e who begin to &s;tudy Phy&s;ick, and by the profe&s;&s;ion of it, &s;eek for renown and much profit, mu&s;t in the fir&s;t place make it their greate&s;t care, that when by &s;tudy they have learned the precepts of Phy&s;ick, they may know how to apply it to Men of mean fortunes that are Sick; and from thence they may happily begin their fir&s;t Practice. In which bu&s;ine&s;s, a &s;mal e&s;tate is no little hin|drance to the endeavors of the Phy&s;itian, when oftentimes not only fit Nouri&s;hments cannot be afforded to &s;u&s;tain the &s;trength of Nature, but al&s;o fit Remedies for the Cure; much dear and co&s;tly Phy&s;ick fetched out of the Apothe|caries Shops, would undo the Poor and &s;o make a new addition of more mi&s;ery to the for|mer. Nature is liberal to provide for the nece&s;&s;ities of the Poor, and hath &s;ent forth many matters for Medicaments, that may be found almo&s;t every where, and with little Art may be prepared for every u&s;e. In which a Phy&s;itian ought to be as wel skilled, as he &s;hould be in Medicaments that are for the Rich as <HI>Galen</HI> writes, <HI>6. de Comp. Medicam. Per Loca. Cap. 1.</HI> E&s;pecially &s;ince tho&s;e Obvious
<PB REF="7">Remedies are not onely profitable for the Poor, But as nece&s;&s;ary for the Rich, when they are upon a Journey, if perchance they &s;hould fal &s;ick, when they are farr from Cities, and Apothecaries Shops. This Treati&s;e therefore &s;hal be concerning &s;uch Remedies as are ea&s;ie to be procured. Thus far <HI>I</HI> have followed in this Epi&s;tle the Expre&s;&s;ions of the Famous and Learned <HI>Doctor, John Prevotius.</HI></P>
<P>My intent in Publi&s;hing Books of Phy&s;ick in Engli&s;h is not to make Fooles Phy&s;itians. but to help tho&s;e that are Ingenious, Rational and Indu&s;trious, though they have not that knowledg of Tongues that were to be de&s;ired. I have and &s;hal in my Books of Phy&s;ick follow the mo&s;t Hone&s;t and Learned in that Art; But let me warn thee now (as I have often before) That there is great danger in Phy&s;ick if they be not rightly prepared and given in their due quantities. And alwaies remember, thou &s;halt give an account to God for al thy actions done <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n the Fle&s;h; Therefore when thou ha&s;t to do in what concerns the lives of Men; do nothing but what thou woulde&s;t do, if thou wert &s;ure the great and dreadful day of Judgment were to begin the next hour.</P>
<P>I &s;hal &s;ay no more but this; I am re&s;olved not to give over, until I have Publi&s;hed in Eng|li&s;h what&s;oever &s;hal be nece&s;&s;ary to make an Indu&s;trious, Diligent, Rational Man a knowing Phy&s;itian. This is the aim and indeavor of.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nich. Culpeper.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="affidavit">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>Mris.</HI> Culpepers Informa|tion, Vindication, and Te&s;ti|mony, concerning her Hus|bands Books to be Publi&s;hed after his Death.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SO great are the Afflictions wherewith our <HI>Heavenly Father</HI> hath been plea&s;ed to exer|ci&s;e me his poor <HI>Hand-maid,</HI> that I have not only lived to &s;ee my <HI>dear Husband,</HI> (the <HI>Stay</HI> and <HI>Solace</HI> of my Life) taken from me: but it hath been my hard hap al&s;o to &s;ee his <HI>Re|putation,</HI> and <HI>Memory</HI> (which will be dear to all Po&s;terity, for the Works he hath written for the Common Good of this Nation) blemi&s;hed, and Eclip&s;ed, by the <HI>covetous</HI> and <HI>unju&s;t Forgeries</HI> of one, Who, though he calls him&s;elf <HI>Na|thaniel,</HI> is far from being <HI>an I&s;raelite in whom there is no guile;</HI> who was not content to publi&s;h a <HI>Hodg-podg</HI> of <HI>indige&s;ted Col|lections,</HI> and <HI>Ob&s;ervations</HI> of my dear Husband decea&s;ed, under the Title of <HI>Culpeper's la&s;t Legacy;</HI> but to make the Deceit more taking, he &s;teeled his Forehead &s;o far, and bra&s;ed it &s;o hard, as not to be a&s;hamed to forge <HI>two Epi&s;tles,</HI> one in mine, and the other in my Husbands Name; of the penning of which, he nor I, never &s;o much as dream'd: And yet he <HI>impudently</HI> affirmeth in my Name, that my Husband <HI>Laid a &s;evere Injunction on me to publi&s;h them for the general Good, after his decea&s;e; and
<PB REF="8">that they are his la&s;t Experiences in Phy&s;ick and Chyrurgery.</HI> And in the Title of his Book, he &s;aith, <HI>They are the choyce&s;t, and mo&s;t profitable Secrets, re&s;olved never to be publi&s;hed till after his Death.</HI> All which Expre&s;&s;ions in the Title and Epi&s;tles, are as fal&s;e as the Father of Lyes; and every word in them, for|ged and feigned. And he knew well enough, that no di&s;creet, ho|ne&s;t man, that was a friend to my Husband, or me, would ever have agreed to &s;uch infamous and di&s;hone&s;t Practices; and therefore I de&s;ire all Courteous Readers of the Writings of my Husband, to take notice of this <HI>Deceit,</HI> and to a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves that it never entred into his head, to publi&s;h &s;uch an undige&s;ted <HI>Gallimoffery,</HI> under the promi&s;ing and &s;olemn Name of his <HI>La&s;t Legacy,</HI> and that <HI>whereby he gained his Reputation in the World,</HI> as the Impo&s;ter makes him &s;peak in his forged Epi&s;tle. And I de&s;ire any indifferent Reader, that hath ob&s;erved my Hus|bands lofty, and Ma&s;culine manner of expre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf in his Prefaces, and Epi&s;tles Dedicatory, whether in ca&s;e he had been minded or di&s;po&s;ed to take &s;o &s;olemn a farewel of the world, as the <HI>Forger</HI> makes him to do; whether, <HI>I</HI> &s;ay, he would have done it in &s;uch a <HI>whining fa&s;hion,</HI> and &s;o in the Stile of a <HI>Ballade|maker,</HI> as to &s;ay, <HI>And now, if it plea&s;e Heaven to put a period to my Life, and Studies, that I mu&s;t bid all things under the Sun farewel: Farewel to my dear Wife and Child, farewel Arts and Sciences, farewel all worldly Glories, adieu Readers.</HI> Cer|tainly my Husband would have been far more &s;erious, and materi|al, in &s;uch a ca&s;e, as any di&s;creet man will judg. Neither can it be thought, that in &s;uch a &s;olemn <HI>Valeduction,</HI> he could po&s;&s;i|bly forget his wonted respects to the <HI>Colledg of Doctors,</HI> to whom he did &s;o frequently addre&s;s him&s;elf, in divers of his Wri|tings.</P>
<P><HI>Courteous Readers, I</HI> &s;hall &s;ay no more touching the abu&s;e of the Book-&s;eller, only to prevent (as much as concerns me) thy being abu&s;ed for the future, know, That my Husband left &s;evey|ty-nine Books of his own making, or Tran&s;lating, in my hands, and "I have depo&s;ited them into the hands of his, and my much Honored Friend, Mr. <HI>Peter Cole,</HI> Book-&s;eller, at the <HI>Printing-Pre&s;s,</HI> neer the <HI>Royal Exchange</HI> (for the good of my Child) from whom thou maye&s;t expect to receive in Print, &s;uch of them as &s;hall be thought fit to &s;erve thee in due &s;ea&s;on, without any Di&s;gui&s;es or Forgeries, unto which <HI>I</HI> do hereby give my atte&s;ta|tion. Al&s;o my Husband left &s;eventeen Books compleatly perfected,
<PB REF="9">in the hands of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cole,</HI> for which he paid my Hus|band in his life-time: And Mr. <HI>Cole</HI> is ready and willing (on any good occa&s;ion) to &s;hew any of the &s;aid &s;eventy nine Books, or the &s;eventeen, to &s;uch as doubt thereof.</P>
<P>And if any Per&s;on &s;hall que&s;tion the Truth of any part of this Vindication, or Epi&s;tle; if they will take the pains to come to me, <HI>I</HI> will face to face, ju&s;tifie the truth of every word thereof, as <HI>I</HI> have &s;ub&s;cribed my Hand thereunto in the pre&s;ence of many Witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>I profe&s;s in the Pre&s;ence of the great God, the Searcher of all hearts, before whom Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> and I mu&s;t one day give an ac|count of all our Actions; That <HI>I</HI> have not publi&s;hed this Epi&s;tle or Vindication, out of any di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">respect to Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> (for <HI>I</HI> much re&s;pect the man, and would he glad to &s;erve him to my power) but only to cleer my Husband from the folly and weakne&s;s ca&s;t up|on him by the means above expre&s;&s;ed. And out of tenderne&s;s to Mr. <HI>Brooks, I</HI> fir&s;t tried other means of keeping, and afterwards of repairing my Husbands Credit, and then &s;tayed long to &s;ee if be would repair (in any mea&s;ure) the wrong done to my Hus|band, and my &s;elf. <HI>I</HI> de&s;ire to be</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>From my Hou&s;e, next door to the Red Lyon in Spittle-fields,</HI> <DATE>October, <HI>18. 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Servant (in, and for the Truth) Alice Culpeper.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P><HI>Mris.</HI> Culpeper <HI>did the 18. of</HI> October, <HI>&s;ub&s;cribe this Epi&s;tle in Vindication of her Husband's</HI> Reputa|tion, <HI>before Ten Witne&s;&s;es, as &s;he had done ano|ther Epi&s;tle on the ninth of</HI> October, <HI>almo&s;t in the &s;ame words with this, except neer the Conclu&s;ion.</HI></P>
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="publisher's advertisement">
<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>The Names of &s;everal Books Printed by <HI>Peter Cole</HI> in Leaden-Hall, <HI>London,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the &s;ign of the Printing|pre&s;s in Corn-hil, neer the Exchange.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ten &s;everal Books, by</HI> Nich. Culpeper, <HI>Gent. Student in Phy&s;ick and A&s;trologie.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The <HI>Practice of Phy&s;ick,</HI> containing &s;eventeen &s;everal Books. Wherein is plainly &s;et forth, The <HI>Nature, Cau&s;e, Di&s;&s;|erences,</HI> and Several Sorts of <HI>Signs;</HI> Together with the <HI>Cure</HI> of all Di&s;ea&s;es in the Body of Man. Being chiefly a Tran|&s;lation of <HI>The Works</HI> of that Learned and Renowned Do|ctor, <HI>Lazarus Riverius,</HI> Now living; Councellor and Phy&s;i|tian to the pre&s;ent King of <HI>France.</HI> Above fifteen thou|&s;and of the &s;aid Books in Latin have been Sold in a very few Yeers, having been eight times printed, though all the former Impre&s;&s;ions wanted the <HI>Nature, Cau&s;es, Signs,</HI> and <HI>Differences</HI> of the Di&s;ea&s;es, and had only the Medicines for the <HI>Cure</HI> of them; as plainly appears by the Authors Epi&s;tle.</P>
<P N="2">2 The <HI>Anatomy of the Body of Man,</HI> Wherein is exactly de&s;cribed, the &s;everal parts of the Body of Man, illu&s;trated with very many larger Bra&s;s Plates than ever was in Engli&s;h be|fore.</P>
<P N="3">3 A Tran&s;lation of the <HI>New Dispen&s;atory,</HI> made by the Col|ledg of Phyfitians of <HI>London.</HI> Whereunto is aded, The <HI>Key to</HI> Galen<HI>'s Method of Phy&s;ick:</HI></P>
<P N="4">4 The <HI>Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian En|larged;</HI> being an <HI>A&s;trologo-Phy|&s;ical</HI> Di&s;cour&s;e of the vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is &s;hewed how to cure a mans &s;elf of mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es incident to Mans Body, with &s;uch things as grow in <HI>England,</HI> and for three pence charge. Al&s;o in the &s;ame Book is &s;hewed, 1 The time of gathering all herbs, both Vulgarly and A&s;trolo|gically. 2 The way of drying, and keeping them and their Juyces. 3. The way of making and keeping al manner of u&s;eful Compounds, made of tho&s;e Herbs. The way of mixing the Medicines according to the Cau&s;e, and Mixture of the Di&s;|ea&s;e, and the part of the Body afflicted.</P>
<P N="5">5 A <HI>Directory for Midwives,</HI> or a <HI>Guide for Women.</HI> Newly enlarged by the Author in every &s;heet, and Illu&s;trated with divers new Plates.</P>
<P N="6">6 <HI>Galen's</HI> Art of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> with
<PB REF="10">a large Comment.</P>
<P N="7">7 A <HI>New Method</HI> both of &s;tudying and practi&s;ing Phy|&s;ick.</P>
<P N="8">8 A Treati&s;e of the <HI>Rickets,</HI> being a Di&s;ea&s;e common to Children; wherein is &s;hewed, 1 The E&s;&s;ence, 2 The Cau&s;es, 3 The Signs, 4 The Reme|dies of the Di&s;ea&s;e; Publi&s;hed in Latin by Dr. <HI>Gli&s;&s;on,</HI> Dr. <HI>Bates,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Regemorter,</HI> tran|&s;lated into Engli&s;h. And cor|rected by <HI>N. Culpeper.</HI></P>
<P>Medicaments for the Poor, Or Phy&s;ick for the Common People.</P>
<P>Health for the Rich and Poor, by Dyet without Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>A Godly and Fruitful <HI>Expo|&s;ition,</HI> on the fir&s;t Epi&s;tle of <HI>Pe|ter.</HI> By Mr. <HI>John Rogers,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Word of God at <HI>Dedham</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>The Wonders of the <HI>Load|&s;tone.</HI> By <HI>Samuel Ward</HI> of <HI>Ip&s;witch.</HI></P>
<P>An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the Go&s;pel of the Evangeli&s;t St. <HI>Mat|thew.</HI> By Mr. <HI>Ward.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Clows</HI> Chyrurgery.</P>
<P>Marks of Salvation.</P>
<P>Chri&s;tians Engagement for the Go&s;pel, by <HI>John Goodwin.</HI></P>
<P>Great Church Ordinance of Bapti&s;m.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Love</HI>'s Ca&s;e, containing his Petitions, Natrative, and Speech.</P>
<P><HI>Vox Pacifica,</HI> or a per&s;wa&s;ive to peace.</P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Pre&s;tons</HI> Saints &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and Satans Overthrow.</P>
<P>Pious Mans Practice in Parliament Time.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Sym&s;ons</HI> Sermon at We&s;t|min&s;ter.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Feaks</HI> Sermon before the Lord Major.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Phillips</HI> Treati&s;e of Hell.</P>
<P>&mdash; of Chri&s;ts Genealogy.</P>
<P><HI>Eaton</HI> on the Oath of Allegi|ance and Covenant, &s;hewing that they oblidg not.</P>
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<HEAD>Eleven Books of Mr. <HI>Jeremiah Burroughs</HI> lately publi&s;hed; al&s;o the Texts of Scrip|ture upon which they are grounded.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The Rare Jewel of <HI>Chri&s;ti|an Contentment</HI> on <HI>Phil.</HI> 4.11. Wherein is &s;hewed, 1 What <HI>Contentment</HI> is, 2 It is an Holy Art and My&s;tery, 3 The Excel|lencies of it, 4 The Evil of the Contrary &s;in of Murmuring, and the Aggravations of it.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>Go&s;pel Wor&s;hip,</HI> on <HI>Levit.</HI> 10.3. Wherein is &s;hewed, 1 The right manner of the Wor|&s;hip of God in general; and particularly, In Hearing the Word, Receiving the Lords Supper, and Prayer.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>Go&s;pel Conver&s;ation,</HI> on <HI>Phil.</HI> 1.17. Wherein is &s;hewed, 1 That the Conver&s;ations of Beleevers mu&s;t be above what could be by the Light of Na|ture, 2 Beyond tho&s;e that lived under the Law, 3 And &s;urable to what Truths the Go&s;pel holds forth. To which is added,
<PB REF="10"><HI>The Mi&s;ery of tho&s;e men that have their Portion in this Life only,</HI> on <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 17.14.</P>
<P N="4">4 A Treati&s;e of <HI>Earthly-Mindedne&s;s,</HI> Wherein is &s;hewed, 1 What Earthly mindedne&s;s is, 2 The great Evil thereof, on <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. part of the 19. Ver&s;e. Al&s;o to the &s;ame Book is joyn|ed, A Treati&s;e of <HI>Heavenly-Mindedne&s;s and, Walking with God,</HI> on <HI>Gen.</HI> 5.24. and on <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.20.</P>
<P N="5">5 An <HI>Expo&s;ition,</HI> on the fourth, fifth, &s;ixth, and &s;eventh Chapters of the Prophe&s;ie of <HI>Ho&s;ea.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6 An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the eighth, ninth, and tenth Chap|ters of <HI>Ho&s;ea.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7 An <HI>Expo&s;ition</HI> on the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Chapters of <HI>Ho&s;ea,</HI> being now compleat.</P>
<P N="8">8 The <HI>Evil of Evils,</HI> or the exceeding Sinfulne&s;s of <HI>Sin,</HI> on <HI>Job,</HI> 36.21.</P>
<P N="9">9 Precious Faith, on 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.1.</P>
<P N="10">10 Of Hope, on 1 <HI>John.</HI> 3.3.</P>
<P N="11">11 Of Walking by Faith, on 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.7.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Twelve &s;everal Books of Mr.</HI> William Bridge, <HI>Collected into one Volumn.</HI> Viz.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The Great Go&s;pel My&s;tery of the Saints Comfort and Ho|line&s;s, opened and applied from Chri&s;ts Prie&s;tly Office.</P>
<P N="2">2 Satans Power to Tempt, and Chri&s;ts Love to, and Care of His People under Tempta|tion.</P>
<P N="3">3 Thankfulne&s;s required in every Condition.</P>
<P N="4">4 Grace for Grace; or, the Overflowing of Chri&s;ts Fulne&s;s received by all Saints.</P>
<P N="5">5 The Spiritual Actings of Faith through Natural Impo&s;|&s;ibilities.</P>
<P N="6">6 Evangelical Repentance.</P>
<P N="7">7 The Spiritual Life, and In-being of Chri&s;t in all Be|leevers.</P>
<P N="8">8 The Woman of Canaan.</P>
<P N="9">9 The Saints Hiding-place in time of Gods Anger.</P>
<P N="10">10 Chri&s;ts Coming is at our Midnight.</P>
<P N="11">11 A Vindication of Go&s;pel Ordinances.</P>
<P N="12">12 Grace and Love beyond Gifts.</P>
<P>A Congregational Church is a Catholick Vi&s;ible Church. By <HI>Samuel Stone</HI> in <HI>New Eng|land.</HI></P>
<P>A Treati&s;e of Politick Po|wers, wherein &s;even Que&s;tions are An&s;wered, 1 Whereof Power is made, and for what ordained. 2 Whether Kings and Gover|nors have an Ab&s;olute Power over the People. 3 Whether Kings and Governors be &s;ub|ject to the Laws of God, or the Laws of their Countrie. 4 How far the People are to obey their Governors. 5 Whether all the people have, be their Governors. 6 Whether it be Lawful to depo&s;e an evil Go|vernor
<PB REF="11">7 What Confidence is to be given to Princes.</P>
<P>The Compa&s;&s;ionate Samari|tan.</P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Sibbs</HI> on the Philippians.</P>
<P>The Be&s;t and Wor&s;t Magi&s;t|rate. By <HI>Obadiah Sedgwick.</HI></P>
<P>The Craft and Cruelty of the Churches Adver&s;aries. By <HI>Mat|thew Newcomen.</HI></P>
<P>A Sacred Penegerick. By <HI>Stephen Martial.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Barriffs</HI> Military Di&s;cipline.</P>
<P>The Immortality of Mans Soul.</P>
<P>The Anatomi&s;t Anatomized.</P>
<P>King <HI>Charls</HI> his Ca&s;e, or an Appeal to all Rational Men concerning his Tryal.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Owens</HI> &s;tedfa&s;tne&s;s of the Promi&s;es.</P>
<P>A Vindication of Free Grace; Endeavoring to prove, 1 That we are not elected as holy, but that we &s;hould be holy; and that Election is not of kinds, but per&s;ons. 2 That Chri&s;t did not by his Death intend to &s;ave all men, and touching tho&s;e whom he intended to&s;ave, that he did not die for them only if they would beleeve, but that they might beleeve. 3 That we are not ju&s;tified properly by our beleeving in Chri&s;t but by our Chri&s;t, beleeving in him 4, that which differenceth one man from another, is not the improvement of a common ability re&s;tored through Chri&s;t to all men in general, but a principle of Grace wrought by the Spirit of God in the Elect. By <HI>John Paw&s;on.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Six Sermons preached by Doctor <HI>Hill.</HI> Viz.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The Beauty and Sweetne&s;s of an Olive Branch of Peace, and Brotherly Accommodation budding.</P>
<P N="2">2 Truth and Love happily married in the Church of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Spring of &s;trengthen|ing Grace in the Rock of Ages Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
<P N="4">4 The &s;trength of the Saints to make Je&s;us Chri&s;t their &s;trength.</P>
<P N="5">5 The Be&s;t and Wor&s;t of <HI>Paul.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6 Gods eternal preparation for his Dying Saints.</P>
<P>The Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI>'s Speech on the Scaffold. The King's Speech on the Scaffold.</P>
<P>The Magi&s;trates Support and Burden. By Mr. <HI>John Cordel.</HI></P>
<P>The Di&s;cipline of the Church in <HI>New England,</HI> by the Churches and Synod there.</P>
<P>A Relation of the <HI>Barbadoes.</HI></P>
<P>A Relation of the Repen|tance and Conver&s;ion of the <HI>Indians</HI> in <HI>New England;</HI> By Mr. <HI>Eliot,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Mayh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">w.</HI></P>
<P>The Hi&s;tory of <HI>Montro&s;s:</HI> and his Actions for Charles the Fir&s;t. His pa&s;&s;ions for Charles the Second King of <HI>Scots.</HI></P>
<P>The In&s;titutes of the Laws of <HI>England</HI> by <HI>John Cowel,</HI> Octavo.</P>
<P>A de&s;cription of the Grand Signiors <HI>Seraglio;</HI> or the Tur|ki&s;h
<PB REF="11">Emperors Court. By <HI>John Greaves.</HI> Octavo.</P>
<P>The reigning error Arraigned at the Bar of &s;cripture, and Rea|&s;on. By <HI>Fran&s;cis Fulwood.</HI> Octavo.</P>
<P>The &s;tate of Future Life. By <HI>Thomas White.</HI> Twelves.</P>
<P>The Royal and delightful Game of <HI>Picquet,</HI> written in French, and now rendered into Engli&s;h. Octavo.</P>
<P><HI>De copore Politico:</HI> or, The Elements of Law, moral, and politick. By <HI>Thomas Hobbs</HI> of <HI>Malm&s;bury.</HI></P>
<P>The Hi&s;tory of the Rites, Cu&s;toms, and manner of life, of the pre&s;ent <HI>Jews</HI> throughout the World. Octavo.</P>
<P>The <HI>London</HI> Di&s;pen&s;atory in Latin in Folio.</P>
<P>The <HI>London</HI> Di&s;pen&s;atory in Latin in Twelves.</P>
<P>A Poem upon the late Fight at &s;ea, between the two great Fleets of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Hol|land.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e &s;everal Books of Phy&s;ick and Chyrurgerie will &s;hortly be printed in Engli&s;h.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Riverius</HI> Ob&s;ervations, with fifteen hundred and &s;eventie other Hi&s;tories and Ob&s;erva|tions of other men.</P>
<P><HI>Riolanus</HI> Anatomy.</P>
<P><HI>Bartholinus</HI> Anatomy.</P>
<P>All the Works of <HI>Daniel Sen|nertus,</HI> except &s;ome few, not proper for Tran&s;lation.</P>
<P>The <HI>Idea of Practical Phy|&s;ick,</HI> being a compleat Body of Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>And <HI>Fernelius</HI> his Works.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>There wil&s;peedily be printed the&s;e Several pieces of Mr. <HI>Bridge</HI> of <HI>Yar|mouth. Viz.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1 <HI>Scripture Light the mo&s;t &s;ure Light:</HI> compared with, 1. Re|velations and Vi&s;ions. 2. Na|tural and Supernatural Dreams. 3. Impre&s;&s;ions with and with|out Word. 4. Light and Law within. 5. Divine Providence. 6. Chri&s;tian Experience. 7. Humane Rea&s;on. 8. Judicial A&s;trology. Delivered in three Sermons on 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.19.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>Chri&s;t in Travel:</HI> Wherein, 1 The Travel of his &s;oul. 2. The fir&s;t and after effects of his Death. 3. His A&s;&s;urance of I&s;&s;ue. 4. And His &s;atisfacti|on therein Are opened and cleered in three Sermons, on <HI>E&s;ay,</HI> 53.11.</P>
<P N="3">3 <HI>A Lifting up for the Ca&s;t-down,</HI> in ca&s;e of 1. Great &s;in. 2. Weakne&s;s of Grace. 3. Mi&s;carriage of Duties 4. Want of A&s;&s;urance. 5. Affliction 6. Temptation. 7. Di&s;&s;ertion. 8. Un&s;erviceablene&s;s. 9. Di&s;cou|ragements from the Condition it &s;elf. Delivered in thirteen Sermons on <HI>P&s;alm,</HI> 42.11.</P>
<P>His Four Sermons concerning</P>
<P N="1">1 Sin again&s;t the Holy-Gho&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 Sins of Infirmities.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Fal&s;e Apo&s;tle tried and Di&s;covered</P>
<P N="4">4 The Good and means of E&s;tabli&s;hment.</P>
<PB REF="12">
<P><HI>Franci&s;ci Tayleri,</HI> Capitula Patrum: Hebraic&egrave; &amp; Latin&egrave; edita Una cum Annotationibus &s;en&s;um locorum difficilium Ex|perimentibus.</P>
<P><HI>Franci&s;ci Tayleri,</HI> Lamentati|ones Jeremiae vatis, Denuo &egrave; fontibus Hebraicis tran&s;latae, cum Paraphra&s;i Chaldaica, Ma|fora magna &amp; parva, &amp; Com|mentariis Rabbi Shelomoh, Jarchi &amp; Aben Ezrae, &egrave; Buxtorfii Bibliis magnis ex|cerptis.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e Books of Divinity wil &s;peedily be printed.</HEAD>
<P>Mr. <HI>Burroughs,</HI> on 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.7. and 18, 19.29. And fifty nine Sermons on <HI>Matthew,</HI> 11.28, 29, 30.</P>
<P>Seventeen Books of Mr. <HI>Thomas Hooker,</HI> being the &s;ub&s;tance of many Sermons preached in <HI>New-England.</HI></P>
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<PB N="1" REF="12">
<HEAD>Mr. <HI>CULPEPER</HI>'S PHYSICK FOR THE POOR OR Common People.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Begining.</HEAD>
<P>_IN &s;etting down of Phy&s;icks that can ea&s;ily be prepa|red, the be&s;t way is to di&s;tribute &s;uch remedies as are &s;ound out, into &s;uch a Method, that every one may know readily how to bring forth the Matter which
<PB N="2" REF="13">he mu&s;t chu&s;e, to begin, or to go forward with in the cure of a di&s;|ea&s;e &s;ince therefore the remedy, which hath its indication from the cau&s;e of the di&s;ea&s;e, is found out la&s;t, but mu&s;t be fir&s;t put in execu|tion, and before al things, the cau&s;e mu&s;t be taken away, that &s;o the di&s;|ea&s;e may be over come. 7. <HI>Meth.</HI> Chap. 12. Tho&s;e Medicaments that are contrary to the cau&s;es of di&s;ea&s;es, do de&s;ervedly challenge the fir&s;t place, and they are many, as the cau&s;es are many: For &s;ome of them do impair, or weaken, and evacuate the Matter that offends; &s;ome again increa&s;e that which is wanting; and others do correct the ill quality of it; &s;ome do hinder di&s;orderly motion, or el&s;e recal re&s;t that is faulty, to its natural Station; others do root out the cau|&s;es that are Peccant, by their who<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> kind (as they &s;ay) again&s;t Nature and Sub&s;tance.</P>
<P>We &s;hal begin with &s;uch as evacu|ate, and the rather, becau&s;e that poor people by rea&s;on of ill diet, abound
<PB N="3" REF="13">with more Excrements, than the rich do: &amp; &s;o u&s;ually fal into di&s;ea&s;es from ill humors, rather than from Ple|thory.</P>
<P>Phy&s;icks that evacuate are divers, for &s;ome do &s;en&s;ibly evacuate the Matter by the Belly, by Vomit, by Urine, by Sweat, by Spittle, by the Pallate, by the No&s;trills. Others do dige&s;t in&s;en&s;ibly, and turn it into Vapors, and the&s;e take place in the Cure only after &s;en&s;ible evacuations.</P>
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<HEAD>Phy&s;icks that purge the Belly.</HEAD>
<P>Some of the&s;e re&s;pect only the im|purity of the fir&s;t pa&s;&s;ages, nor do they extend their forces beyond the neighbor region of the Me&s;entery, and the&s;e are called Lenitives; others do purge the &s;econd and third Regi|on of the Body, and are called Catharticks and Purgatives.</P>
<P>The Belly is loo&s;ned by Phy&s;icks taken at the Mouth, or ca&s;t in by Cly&s;ters, or el&s;e by Suppo&s;itories.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that are taken at the Mouth,
<PB N="4" REF="14">are of two &s;orts for &s;ome of them do &s;trongly purge the Belly, and bring forth the Excrements; others work more weakly, which are princi|pally to be u&s;ed, to keep the Belly loo&s; that the Natural Excrements of the fir&s;t Concoction may not too long be retained.</P>
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<HEAD>Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>Whey Clarified and &s;o drank from three pound, to eight pound, with|in one hour &s;pace: but it wil be more effectual, if in the fir&s;t Cup you di&s;&s;olve one dram of common Salt.</P>
<P>Un-huld Barly Water, drank with|in the time of half an hour, from two pound, to &s;ix pounds; e&s;pecially if it be boyld with Rai&s;ons and Prunes</P>
<P>The fre&s;h Juyce of the purple Violet, from one ounce to two ounces: with one cup of Barley or fountain Water.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Damask Ro&s;es, drank the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the Garden Gourd, gently
<PB N="5" REF="14">boyled with a fourth part of Ho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ey, and a little common Salt, drank from three ounces to five ounces.</P>
<P>All the&s;e mu&s;t be corrected by &s;teeping of Wormwood in them, if a weak &s;tomach chance to abound with choller.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Succory clarified, from Three ounces to five or &s;ix oun|ces.</P>
<P>Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives, boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moy&s;ture be con&s;umed, drank alone, from four ounces to &s;ix ounces, e&s;pecially in the pain of the Heart.</P>
<P>The fre&s;h Flowers, of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree, one &s;mal handful, eaten in a Sallet.</P>
<P>Musk Ro&s;es, in number, four. Eaten in a Sallet, e&s;pecially if they be yet moy&s;t with Dew.</P>
<P>Twelve &s;weet Prunes gently boy|l'd in Honey Water.</P>
<P>You may al&s;o prepare from Prunes, a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">What <HI>Rob</HI> or <HI>Sapa</HI> is, and how to mak &s;everal &s;orts thereof and the &s;everal u&s;es of them, you may ea&s;i|ly learn in my la&s;t edition of the <HI>Lon|don Di&s;|pen&s;atory</HI> in Eng|li&s;h</NOTE> Rob, like to Sapa, of &s;mal Charge, and very plea&s;ant, &s;uch as here followeth.</P>
<PB N="6" REF="15">
<P>Take &s;weet Prunes, one pound, &s;weet Cods &s;liced three ounces, Fountain Water or &s;weeti&s;h white Wine three pound, boyl them at a gentle fire, til the Matter grow thick, then &s;trayn it through a Hair Sive, &amp; then boyl it again, to the con&s;i&s;ten|ce of a <HI>Sapa,</HI> of which, for a Sufficient Purge, give one ounce and half, either by it &s;elf, or with a &s;mal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker, like an Electuary, for &s;uch as wil take it only in a <HI>Bolus,</HI> but you mu&s;t add a fourth part of Honey, that it may la&s;t &s;ome time uncorrupted, and you may give one ounce of it, or one ounce and half.</P>
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<HEAD>Purgers in a Flegmatick Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>Take red Sugar one ounce, in the broth of a Pullet, or Water of Cori|ander.</P>
<P>Al&s;o take fine Sugar, from one ounce and half to two ounces the &s;ame way.</P>
<PB N="7" REF="15">
<P>Good Metheglin not boyled, taken from eight ounces to about one pound. But the windin&s;s of it mu&s;t be corrected with &s;eeds of Annis, Fennel or Coriander.</P>
<P>Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces, adding al&s;o the &s;weet Seeds, that it may not &s;tretch out the Belly.</P>
<P>The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey, or el&s;e alone with Salt, from four ounces to &s;ix ounces.</P>
<P>The Herb Mercury, eaten like Pot-hearbs, &s;ea&s;oned with Salt and Oyl.</P>
<P>So al&s;o is the Decoction of it good from four to &s;ix ounces, adding Salt to it.</P>
<P>The pouder of both Hy&s;ops, from two drams, to four drams, with Oxymel, or about one mea&s;ure of the Decoction of it given alone, or el&s;e with Oxymel.</P>
<P>The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in
<PB N="8" REF="16">Cock-Broth, or Honey and Water, or in the Decoction of Hy&s;op or Poley.</P>
<P>Ro&s;in of the Larch Tree unwa&s;hed from three drams to five, for tho&s;e that are in years; but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills.</P>
<P>For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectu|al.</P>
<P>Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls, common Wormwood one handful, Honey one pound, Fountain Water three pound, let them boyl at a gentle fire to the con&s;i|&s;tence of Honey, then ad Hy&s;op and Poley of each one handful, the be&s;t Vineger half a pound, boyl them again to the con&s;i&s;tence of Oxymel, and then &s;train them, the do&s;e is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there are Pills ea&s;y to get and of &s;mal co&s;t, Made of wa&s;ht Aloes, which may be given from one &s;cru|ple to two drams or thereabouts. And <HI>Garzias ab horto</HI> writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled
<PB N="9" REF="16">with a little Salt, the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loo&s;en the Belly without any harm, four or five times.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Purgers in a Melancholy Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the &s;hade, about three drams in Water and Honey <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take the fre&s;h Juyce of the &s;ame Herb, from two ounces and half, to four ounces or there abouts, in Cla|rified Whey or Broth of a Pullet.</P>
<P>So the Decoction of one handful of it is good, e&s;pecially with Rai&s;ons, and a little Salt.</P>
<P>Tartar u&s;ed as was &s;aid before.</P>
<P>The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams, in Broth, or &s;ome other Liquor.</P>
<P>Of Tartar, and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria, to &s;timulate it: a very effectual Pouder is made, and it is very plea&s;ant. It is thus made.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="17">
<P>Take the be&s;t crude Tartar, one dram, or Cream of Tartar one dram &amp; half, Leaves of Senna one &s;cruple, &s;eeds, of annis, or fennel, or cinnamon half a &s;cruple, fine Sugar half a dram, mingle them and make a Pouder for one Do&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that Soften the Belly.</HEAD>
<P>We mu&s;t u&s;e the&s;e remedies that do not Purge &s;trongly, rather to hinder the retention of the Excre|ments of the fir&s;t Concoction, than for any other nece&s;&s;ary and quick Evacuations; and &s;uch are the&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>The&s;e following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs, and their Decoctions are profitable, namely, Sorrel, Atri|plex, Blites, Lettice, al kind of Sor|rel,
<PB N="11" REF="17">Mallows and the &s;talks thereof, Spinach.</P>
<P>The&s;e Herbs &s;often more, if they be boyled with Rai&s;ons, in fat Broth or &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl and a little Salt.</P>
<P>Sweet Cherries boyled, e&s;pecially with their broth and &s;princkled with Sugar.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey, from one &s;poonful to two &s;poonfuls, either taken alone or with Broth.</P>
<P>Peaches byoled and &s;prinkled with Sugar.</P>
<P>Sweet Apples byold.</P>
<P>Corinths without &s;tones, and al of that kind either taken alone or &s;teep|ed in Clarified Whey til they &s;wel, or boyled in White Wine, or Broth and &s;prinkled with Sugar, taken one ounce or two ounces at a time.</P>
<P>Sweet Prunes raw, their outward &s;kin being pulled off or boyled in Wine, and &s;prinkled with Sugar.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Pti&s;an, e&s;pecially made of hu&s;ked Barley.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="18">
<P>Barley Bread.</P>
<P>Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals.</P>
<P>The cheif u&s;e of al the&s;e, as of tho&s;e that follow, is at the fir&s;t cour&s;e or when the Stomach is empty, a|bout two hours before Meat.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that loo&s;en the Belly in a Flegmatick cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;prouts of Stone Sparagus boy|led and &s;ea&s;oned with Salt and Oyl.</P>
<P>Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel.</P>
<P>Colworts, cheifly tho&s;e that are cur|led, being gently boyled, &amp; &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl and Salt.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the fir&s;t Broth of Colworts, wel boyled and &s;ea&s;oned as before.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e the Juyce of Colworts pre&s;&s;ed out and drank in Broth, from two to four ounces.</P>
<P>Beets v&s;ed in the &s;ame manner, the white Beet is held to be more effect|ual then the Black or Red.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="18">
<P>The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld, and &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl and Salt.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Broth of Chich Pea&s;e, or Lintels with Oyle and Salt.</P>
<P>The Broth of all Salt fi&s;h.</P>
<P>New Figs very ripe.</P>
<P>Dry Figs &s;ix or &s;even &s;oaked in Milk or &s;weet Wine, until they &s;well.</P>
<P>Some al&s;o in the &s;pring time &s;trew fre&s;h Dama&s;k Ro&s;e Leaves on Figs, which Leaves they often change for the &s;pace of Fourteen dayes, and putting them, pre&s;&s;ed clo&s;e together, into a Ve&s;&s;el, they lay them up for their u&s;e: and u&s;e to Eat two or three of them before meat.</P>
<P>New Walnuts, or for the lack of them, dry Walnuts &s;oked in Water, until they be Soft, and then Eaten with Salt.</P>
<P>Branny Bread or that which is cour&s;e, which is made more effect|ual with Rai&s;ions and Senna of Alex|andria.</P>
<P>Bran alone Boyled in Broth.</P>
<P>The Decoction of Sweet Cods.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="14" REF="19">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that &s;often the Belly, in a Melancholly cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Capers</HI> &s;ea&s;oned with Salt gently Boyled, are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger.</P>
<P>The young &s;prouts of hops, that fir&s;t come forth, Boyld and &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl and Salt; they loo&s;en more effectually, if you Drink the Broth after them.</P>
<P>All kind of new &s;weet Grapes, but e&s;pecially whil&s;t the dew yet hangs on them, they are not &s;o effectual, when they are hanged up to be kept. Sweet Wine drank.</P>
<P>Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod, that is, new Wine Boyled a little.</P>
<P>To the&s;e may be referred prunes and Rai&s;ons, e&s;pecially in adu&s;t Me|lancholy.</P>
<P>Vineger is made to &s;ea&s;on Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble, after this fa&s;hion.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="19">
<P>Take Crude Tartar one dram: or Cream Tartar half an ounce: Leaves of Senna three drams, good Cinnamon, or Annis Seed one dram: the &s;harpe&s;t Vineger one pound: make infu&s;ion a natural day, and keep the Vineger for u&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been in&s;u&s;ed a whole night, is not uneffectual.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Lenitive Cly&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>Cly&s;ters are made pre&s;ently at a very &s;mal rate, to purge the Belly: of one pound, of Fle&s;h Broth, Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle, and the dregs of Sugar, of each three ounces: Common Salt one dram: mingle them.</P>
<P>It will be Cheaper, and more clen|&s;ing, if a Cly&s;ter be made of natural Salt Sea-Water, or Mineral Water, one pound: common Oyl three ounces: Or.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="20">
<P>Take the Decoction of Mercury, Mallows, Beets, and Bran, one pound: Juyce of Colworts, or Honey, or Juyce of Beets, two ounces: com|mon Salt one dram: mingle them for a Cly&s;ter.</P>
<P>If there be need of any great Loo&s;|ning, Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or &s;ix ounces: or Omit|ting the Oyl, increa&s;e the quantity, of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows, Mar&s;h Mallows, Brank-ur&s;in, and pre&s;&s;ed out &s;trong|ly.</P>
<P>If there need Cooling, the Leaves of blew Violets, Pellitory of the wall, and Barley mu&s;t be added to the Decoction.</P>
<P>If the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">what that is, &s;ee my tran|&s;lation of <HI>Riverius</HI> Practice of Phy&s;ick in the Phy&s;ical Dictiona|ry at the end of the afore&s;aid Book.</NOTE> <HI>Expul&s;ive faculty</HI> be weak you mu&s;t double, or treble, the quan|tity of Salt.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Loo&s;ening Suppo&s;itories.</HEAD>
<P>Suppo&s;itories, made of one ounce of Honey, or the dro&s;s of Sugar Boy|led
<PB N="17" REF="20">hard, adding a little Salt to it; If the Expul&s;ive faculty, be &s;luggi&s;h, do mildly &s;tir up the Belly to void out the excrements.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Roots of Radi&s;h or Beets, Cut into form of Suppo&s;itories, and &s;meered with Oyl, or Butter, with or without Salt.</P>
<P>The &s;ame is done with the &s;tem of the Colwort.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Fig turned the out &s;ide in|ward, and made like a Suppo&s;itory, anoynted with Oyl and Salt.</P>
<P>So Suppo&s;itories are made of Spa|ni&s;h Soap, or with Lard, or a Candle, anoynted with Oyl or Butter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Purgers by the Belly.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e Medicaments that draw forth the excrements, by the Belly, and are called Purgatives and Ca|tharticks, though they hardly drive forth the Humors &s;ingle, but mingled together, yet they take their Name from the Excrement that
<PB N="18" REF="21">they mo&s;t effectually purge. For which rea&s;on they may be reduced to four ranks, according to the diver|&s;ity of Humors that they purge forth: Namely to Purgatives of Choller, Flegm, Mellancholy, and Watery, or Bloody Excrements.</P>
<P>We may again divide all the&s;e &s;everally, to di&s;tingui&s;h them the better, into gentle purgatives, which purge Mildly without gripings, from the parts that are about the Liver: into forcible Purgatives, which drive forth from the remote parts, and from the hollow Vein, not with|out &s;ome trouble: and Violent Pur|gatives or furious, which draw from the furthe&s;t parts, and if they be not well Corrected, they do their work mo&s;t vehemently, and weaken the Patient. With this di&s;tinction it is an ea&s;y matter for any one to make choi&s;e of Purgatives, according to the different Scituation, and the part that is affected, and for the greater or le&s;&s;er re&s;i&s;tance of the Humor that mu&s;t be purged, and for the &s;trength or weakne&s;s of the Sick that mu&s;t endure it.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="19" REF="21">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>When Choller Predominates, the&s;e Me|dicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation.</HEAD>
<P>The wood of <HI>Amara Dulcis</HI> Boyled; from one ounce to two ounces, with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed.</P>
<P>The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the &s;hade, and cheifly at the beginning of the &s;pring; taken to four &s;cruples: it is corrected, with &s;ome aromatical Seed, and the Black Rind that is out-mo&s;t; and therefore it is dried, Boyled and brui&s;ed al together.</P>
<P>Monks Rhu-barb, or the Herb Pati|ence of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram, to one dram and an half in warm Broth, with five or &s;ix grains of Ginger or Hy&s;op.</P>
<P>Blew Violets dried in the &s;hade, are taken, from one dram to two drams: with the Broth of Chich Pea&s;e, or gar|den Pea&s;e, Boyled Moderately.</P>
<P>The great Bind-weed of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="22">Bovled; from one handful to two hand|fuls. It is corrected with &s;uch things, as bind the Stomach, cheifly with the Myrtle Berries, Ro&s;emary, and wild Ga|linga.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e Purge Strongly.</HEAD>
<P>The le&s;&s;er Centaury, in a Decoction; from two drams to three drams, in eight ounces of Water: till half be con&s;umed, adding Liquoris or Ray&s;ons to correct the bitterne&s;s; it is given in Pouder to one dram, or thereabouts, in the Decoction, of Prunes or Ray&s;ons, cheifly in Barley Water.</P>
<P>Gratiola dried, is admini&s;tred in Pouder, to one dram: in Wine or Broth, altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach.</P>
<P>When it is green, it is Boyled, from one dram and an half to two drams: &s;ome of the Succories, e&s;pecially being Boyled with it.</P>
<P>Petty Spurge, in Pouder about four &s;cruples: drank in Honey Water, with a little Vineger.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="21" REF="22">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e Purge Violently.</HEAD>
<P>Dogs Cole, the Juyce of it, whil&s;t it is fre&s;h, and the Herb fir&s;t dried in the &s;hade.</P>
<P>The &s;ame thing doth Scammony, but it is corrected with Quin&s;es, or the Smoak of Brim&s;tone, which is a new Invention, and it makes the Medica|ment gentle enough, and void of all ta&s;te; either of the&s;e being gro&s;&s;ely poudered, is &s;pread upon a brown Pa|per, and poudered Brim&s;tone is ca&s;t up|on the Coals underneath, &s;o that the Paper over it may receive the &s;moak: &s;o &s;oon as the matter begins to Melt, it is taken away and re&s;erved for u&s;e: and &s;o may Scammony be &s;afely given, from five grains to fifteen: but if it be pre|pared with Quin&s;es: ten grains are &s;ufficient; it may be given in &s;ome convenient Liquor, or made up in Pills, or Bolus.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e &s;poken of, divers purging
<PB N="22" REF="23">Medicaments, may pre&s;ently be provid|ed; concerning which we mu&s;t generally take notice, that the purgation will be made more gentle, if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the &s;ame kind, which mu&s;t be under&s;tood proportio|nably, of all other purgatives, for Ex|ample.</P>
<P>A potion to purge Choller may pre&s;ent|ly be provided thus.</P>
<P>Take Ray&s;ons half an ounce, &s;weet Prunes eight, The Le&s;&s;er Centaury two drams, Fennel Seed half a dram, Barley or common Water eight ounces, make a Decoction at a &s;oft fire, til half be con|&s;umed, &s;train it, and give it to drink.</P>
<P>If you will have a Bolus.</P>
<P>Take the Roots of patience in pou|der one dram: the flowers of the Le&s;&s;er centaury, half a dram, the pulp of Ray|&s;ons clen&s;ed from their &s;tones, or the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>what</HI> Rob <HI>is, &amp; how to make it, you may ea&s;ily learn if you Read the Tran&s;lation of my</HI> Lon|don Di&s;|pen&s;atory: <HI>under the Title</HI> Rob <HI>you &s;hall find twelve &s;everal &s;orts of</HI> Rob, <HI>by which (with di|ligence and care) you may make any other &s;ort, of</HI> Rob.</NOTE> Rob of Prunes thickned, &s;ix drams: Ginger &s;ix grains: mingle them and make a Bolus.</P>
<P>If you meet with a Patient, who&s;e Stomach abhors all Phy&s;ick, then make purging Prunes, or Currence, or Figs, if you &s;teep the &s;aid fruit in &s;ome of
<PB N="23" REF="23">the&s;e purging Decoctions, that purge Choller, &s;o long that the fruit &s;wel, and then &s;ix Prunes or three or four Figs, or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce, will be &s;ufficient for a purge.</P>
<P>So you may provide the&s;e fruit to purge any other Humors, only chan|ging the matter of the Purgative Li|quors, that they are &s;oaked in, accor|ding to the matter of the di&s;ea&s;e, whe|ther it be Blood, Melancholy or Flegm.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e gently Purge Flegm, when it is predominant.</HEAD>
<P>Agarick infu&s;ed all night, in Liquor, in which Ginger is fir&s;t &s;oaked, or Hy|&s;op or Time, or &s;ome other like hot and &s;harp Herb, and then it is dryed, As they make Agarick in
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>See the way of making, Thoches of any &s;ort, in my Tran|&s;lation, of the</HI> Lon|don, Di&s;|pen&s;atory, <HI>of the la&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Edition.</HI></NOTE> Troches: it is given, beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram, in Pills, or Bolus, or drink of Oxymel: it is infu&s;ed from four &s;cruples: to three drams: or there|abouts, e&s;pecially, in Honey Water.</P>
<P>A&s;arum of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> Purgeth every
<PB N="24" REF="24">Part of it, but the Root mo&s;t effectual; it is given in Pouder, from one dram to two drams, with Oxymel, or Water and Honey.</P>
<P>The pulp of the Seeds, of wild Saf|fron is given; from two drams to five drams or thereabout; the Emul&s;ion of them, is given in &s;weet Wine, &s;trong Wine, or Broth; it is corrected with &s;uch things as heat, and corroborate the Stomach, as &s;pike, wild Galingal, Ro&s;e|mary, &amp;c.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the Berries of Buck|thorn, or dying-thorn, wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow, is given in &s;ub&s;tance, from three drams to &s;ix drams: it is corrected with &s;weet Herbs, Seeds or Spices, e&s;pecially with Ginger.</P>
<P>The thicker Rind of the Elm Pou|dered; is given from two drams, to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine, or the Decoction of Hy&s;op.</P>
<P><HI>Radix cava,</HI> or the Root of Bulbus, Fumitory dryed in the &s;hade, is given in &s;ub&s;tance poudered one dram, in &s;ome convenient Liquor.</P>
<PB N="25" REF="24">
<P>Of the Buck-thorn, there is made a plea&s;ing Syrup two ways, and to be kept for the Poor. after this fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>Take the Juyce of the Berries of dy|ing Buck-thorn clarified two pound, clarified Honey two pound and an half, Boyle it at a &s;oft fire, to the con&s;i&s;t|ence of a Syrup, &s;traind through a wide Linnen Cloth, after wards whil&s;t the &s;trained Liquor is yet hot, ca&s;t in of the be&s;t Cinnamon in Pouder three drams: Ginger one dram and an half, mingle them and keep it for your u&s;e, Or.</P>
<P>Take of the &s;aid Juyce &s;trained, and Boyled by it &s;elf, til a fourth part be con&s;umed, one pound: clarif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Ho|ney eight ounces: Boyl them toge|ther, to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup, when they are Boyled, and taken from the fire, ca&s;t in two drams of good Cinna|mon. Give either of the&s;e, from one ounce, to one ounce and an half, in Wine or Broth of Fle&s;h, or in the Decoction of Hy&s;op, or Poley, or Time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Strong Purgatives.</HEAD>
<P>Take the Root of E&s;ula, the greater,
<PB N="26" REF="25">or the le&s;s, which is commonly the more effectual. The Root is u&s;ed, fir&s;t &s;teeped in Ro&s;e Vineger, or Vineger of Quin|ces, and then dried and kept for occa|&s;ion. If the&s;e Vinegers be wanting, common Vineger is altered, with &s;ome Stomachicall A&s;tringent, as with Ro&s;es, Barberies, wild Pomgranat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Flowers, or Quinces, the Tendrells of Vines, Flowrs of the wild Vine, or Myrtle Berries, it is given in Pouder, from &s;ix grains to twenty grains, it is In|fu&s;ed, from one &s;cruple to five &s;cruples: or thereabout, in Wine, or Metheg|lin.</P>
<P>The Rind of the Root E&s;ula of <HI>Ve|nice,</HI> is of the &s;ame nature, prepared and given the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>Garden-Broom which they cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;pani&s;h Broom, the Leavs, and Seeds, are given in &s;ub&s;tance, from one dram, to two drams: in Infu&s;ion, or De|coction; from two drams to half an ounce. It is corrected with Aromati|cal Wine, or &s;ome Odoriferous &s;toma|chical remedies.</P>
<P>Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the &s;ame effects; exhibited the &s;ame way.</P>
<PB N="27" REF="25">
<P>Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dio&s;corides; the Roots of them digged up before they flower, and e&s;pecially before the Leaves come forth, endure no boyling or infu&s;ion, the Pouder is given from two &s;cruples to two drams in Pils, or Bolus, or Lo|zenges, or alone in drink, in Wine, or Broth. The force of it mu&s;t be &s;harpned with &s;ome tart thing, as with Ginger, Hy&s;op, or Time, al&s;o it were good to ad &s;ome Antidote to correct the Wind|ine&s;s of it; as, among&s;t common anti|dotaries, are Rue, Goats Rue, or wild Angelica Root, and the purgation wil be the &s;afer</P>
<P>The Root of the yellow, wild Daffo|dil is given in &s;ub&s;tance, from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth: it is corrected with odoriferous &s;tomach &s;trengthners.</P>
<P>The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus, is given in Decoction; from one dram and an half, to three drams. In &s;ub&s;tance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half, or thereabouts; it is corrected with the Pills, or &s;eeds, of Citrons, or Orenges or with &s;pike.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="28" REF="26">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e Purge Violently.</HEAD>
<P>The yong &s;prouts of Bryony, half a handful, Boyled as Pot-Herbs, and taken,</P>
<P>The Juyce of the yong &s;prouts of the &s;ame, taken in Wine, or Broth, or the Decoction of Hy&s;op, Origanum, or Calamint, from one dram to two drams.</P>
<P>Little Cakes of Wormwood, fryed in Oyl, that is di&s;tilled from the &s;prouts of Bryony, do the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The Root of Bryony dried, and Boyled from one dram to three drams, or thereabout, or the &s;ub&s;tance from one &s;cruple to one dram, or there|abouts, may be taken in Wine, or Broth, being corrected with Wormwood, or &s;ome thing to &s;trengthen the Stomach.</P>
<P>The pulp of the wild Gourd is &s;teeped, from five to twenty grains, decocted from ten grains or thereabouts, to twenty four grains, it is corrected with &s;ome Stomach &s;trengthner, and that, by
<PB N="29" REF="26">the &s;lipperine&s;s of it, can make the De|coction &s;ooner; as Mallows, Fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">greek, and Citron Seeds, tops of Wormwood, or Cinnamon.</P>
<P>To this belongs al&s;o &s;trong Wine, as wormwood wine, that for one night hath been wa&s;ted in a hollow wild-Gourd.</P>
<P>The gourd that is Pear-fa&s;hion, doth the &s;ame, but &s;ome-thing weaker, and therefore the Do&s;e is all mo&s;t double.</P>
<P><HI>Chamelaea,</HI> e&s;pecialy the Leaves of it, are Boyled from half a dram to one dram: in &s;ub&s;tance they are taken from ten grains to one &s;cruple, it is corrected with Wormwood, and Barley.</P>
<P><HI>Thymelaea</HI> doth the &s;ame, the &s;ame way given.</P>
<P><HI>Laureola</HI> the Male, which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> cals <HI>Chamaedaphne,</HI> and the Foemal, which he calls <HI>Daphnoides,</HI> do the &s;ame, but not &s;o &s;trongly, it is Boyled from one dram to three drams: but given in &s;ub|&s;tance from fifteen grains to one &s;cru|ple, or to two &s;cruples, and is corrected the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>All the Tithymals, except that with Broad Leaves, which doth Vio|ently Purge Watery Humors, are
<PB N="30" REF="27">given many wayes; the Milk of it is given from five to twelve grains, the &s;mal Branches and Leaves, are given in &s;ub&s;tance, from half a dram to four &s;cruples, the Rind of the Root is given in &s;ub&s;tance, from one &s;cruple to one dram, but infu&s;ed from four &s;cruples, to three drams or thereabout.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e &s;undry remedies may be compounded, and be u&s;ed pre&s;ently, or be re&s;erved for u&s;e. for Example.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Drink.</HEAD>
<P>Take prepared Agarick four &s;cru|ples: infu&s;e it in three ounces of the Decoction of Hy&s;op for ten hours, then &s;train it, and add Oxymel one ounce and an half, mingle it for a draught, Or.</P>
<P>Take the Roots, of E&s;ula prepared two drams, the Leaves of <HI>Laureola,</HI> be|ing fre&s;h, one ounce, Leaves of Myr|tles, and Hy&s;op, of each one handful, Fragrant White Wine, two pound and an half, Clarified Honey, one pound:
<PB N="31" REF="27">Boyled all at a gentle fire, to a mean con&s;i&s;tence: then add Annis Seed one dram, Coriander Seed prepared half a dram, Cinnamon one dram, Boyl them again to a Syrup, &s;train it, and keep it for u&s;e. The Do&s;e is one ounce and an half to four ounces.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A mo&s;t plea&s;ing Pouder.</HEAD>
<P>Take Hermodactills, clean&s;ed from their outward Skin, one dram, Tartar, crude or prepared one &s;cruple, Ginger, &s;ix grains, fine Sugar half a dram; mingle them, and make a Pouder to be given in Wine.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>what Bolus is, &amp; the way of making them, you may &s;ee in my</HI> Eng|li&s;h Di&s;|pen&s;atory. <HI>Or the end of my Pra|ctice of Phy&s;ick, in Folio.</HI></NOTE> A Bolus</HEAD>
<P>Take agarick prepared two &s;cruples, Tartar half a dram, Cinnamon five grains, the pulp of Figs, or Ray&s;ons clean&s;ed from their &s;tones half an ounce; mingle the&s;e for a Bolus.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="32" REF="28">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Pills.</HEAD>
<P>Take Hermodactils, and Agarick prepared, of each one &s;cruple and half&punc; Ginger &s;ix grains: make a Pouder, and with Honey, or Oxymel; form it into Pills.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>When Melancholly predominates, the&s;e will Purge gently.</HEAD>
<P>Dodder Boyled, from &s;ix drams to one ounce and an half, for one Do&s;e, and it is thus corrected with Worm|wood.</P>
<P>Take Herb Dodder, one ounce, topps of common Wormwood two Pugils, or two drams, common Water ten oun|ces: let al be Boyled to the con&s;umption of half, add to them about the end; Seeds of Annis, or Fennel, gro&s;&s;ely brui|&s;ed half a dram: &s;train it for one draught; if you Boyl under half an ounce, it opens only, but purgeth not.</P>
<P>Epithyme of <HI>Greece,</HI> for there it grows naturally, may be u&s;ed in &s;ub|&s;tance,
<PB N="33" REF="28">to half an ounce, in clarified Whey, or Milk or &s;ome &s;uch cooler, in Decoction; from &s;ix drams to one ounce and an half; but it mu&s;t be Boyled moderately. The &s;low purging qua|lity it hath, is corrected with tart things, as Pepper or Ginger: In the place of it, Time may be u&s;ed, which hath the &s;ame force, and mu&s;t be &s;o prepared: but in <HI>Europe</HI> the Black Time is mo&s;t commonly u&s;ed. That which is white and grows in <HI>Syria,</HI> is more effectual, but it is better, in the Deco|ction of it, to u&s;e other Melancholy purgatives, than to u&s;e it alone, becau&s;e it Purges &s;lowly.</P>
<P>The Root of Polypode in &s;ub&s;tance, is given from one dram to four drams in Cock-broth, or Cream of Barley; it is Boyled from &s;ix drams to ten drams; it is corrected with &s;uch things as di&s;|cu&s;s Windine&s;s, and &s;uch as are a little a&s;tringent for the Stomach, as Citron Seeds, or Orange Seeds, or Corriander Seeds, or Spik of Italy.</P>
<P>The great and &s;mal Leaves of Senna are u&s;ed in &s;ub&s;tance, from one dram to two drams; they are infu&s;ed from
<PB N="34" REF="29">two drams to &s;ix; but they endure not Boyling, they are corrected with &s;weet Seeds, and other things that di&s;pel Wind. By infu&s;ion is made Senna Wine, of which half a Cup may be given, ob&s;erving the former proportion, for a ju&s;t Purge: But if it be only to loo&s;en the belly, then every Do&s;e of Wine mu&s;t contain no more then one ounce of Senna infu&s;ed but one night.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e Purge &s;trongly.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Con&s;iligo</HI> of Mathiolus, which <HI>Tragus</HI> thinks to be Black Hellebore, and <HI>Dodonaeus</HI> thinks that it is Buphthalmus, hath the &s;ame vertue, but &s;omthing Weaker, as hath Black Hellebore of the Apothecaries, and it mu&s;t be pre|pared the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>Foemale Sannicle of Fuch&s;ius, the Root of it is of the &s;ame force, and needs the &s;ame preparation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e Purge Violently.</HEAD>
<P>Purgative Antimony: and it is made &s;o
<PB N="35" REF="29">by being thrice Calcined with the dou|ble weight of Salt Peeter, at a fire not too Violent, and &s;tirring the matter con|tinually with an Iron that it burn not. It is given in &s;ub&s;tance for Children, from four grains to nine grains, and to tho&s;e that are of ripe years, from &s;ix grains to twelve grains, and to them that are hardly purged, from twelve to &s;ixteen grains; give it in any Li|quor, or in a &s;poonful of a Panatella or Pti&s;an, it will work the more ea&s;ely, if you add &s;ome Grains of cremor Tar|tar.</P>
<P>The Root of Black Hellebore pre|pared: there are divers preparations of it, whereby this Medicament maybe made as gentle as Senna, commonly the rind of the Root is infu&s;ed in the &s;tron|ge&s;t Vineger, and then is dried in the &s;hade for u&s;e. It is given in &s;ub&s;tance from one &s;cruple to about two &s;cruples; in Decoction from one dram to about two drams; in infu&s;ion from half a dram to four &s;cruples; it is corrected with &s;weet Seeds, chiefly of Daucus and Nymphya which are the proper cor|recters of it.</P>
<PB N="36" REF="30">
<P>If you would make it to Purge gent|ly, and would u&s;e it in&s;tead of gentle Purgatives, before you dry it for your u&s;e, let it Boyl a while in Vineger, for &s;o it lo&s;eth much of the force, or when it is Boyled, or infu&s;ed, as they ordinarily prepare it, do but ca&s;t away the fir&s;t Decoction or Infu&s;ion, and Pour on new Liquor to the &s;ame Root, for the &s;econd Infu&s;ion, or Decoction to be admini&s;tred.</P>
<P>Moreover, of Hellebore they prepare a double extract, one more effectual then the other.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Take Roots of Black hellebore, wa&s;ht in white Wine, and clean&s;ed from their filth, one pound: &s;lice them and infu&s;e them twenty four hours in four pound of the be&s;t white Wine, adding to it, Flowers of the Water Lillies one handful, Daucus Seed two drams, or the Root of Daucus, half an ounce, about the end, boyl them gently, that the Roots may grow &s;oft, and &s;wel; then pre&s;s them in a pre&s;s; let the Juyce be &s;trained, and purified, and thickned, &s;en&s;ibly, by a gen|tle heate; and when it is as thick as
<PB N="37" REF="30">Honey, add a fourth part of Ma&s;tick; the do&s;e is from half a &s;cruple to one &s;cruple; in Pills or Bolus.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is the more ordinary.</P>
<P>Take Roots of black Hellebore, be they green or dry, &s;o much as you plea&s;e, boyl them in eight times &s;o much water, til a third part remains, then cru&s;h out the Roots mo&s;t forcibly: add the Expre&s;&s;ion to the Decoction, and pre&s;&s;ing both of them through a double &s;trayner, thicken them toge|ther to the con&s;i&s;tence of Honey; ad|ding an eight part of Ma&s;tick: when the Juyce is thick, you may give it from &s;ixteen grains to half a dram: in Pills or Bolus.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, of Hellebore is made a purg|ing Apple, if the &s;mal Roots pre&s;erved, and dried, be &s;tuck into an Apple, and that Apple be roa&s;ted, then pul out the roots and let the Patient eat the Apple: or if the roots ly in the Apple, for the &s;pace of a Natural day being &s;tuck in, then ca&s;t away the roots and eat the Apple raw.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, of Hellebore is made an Oxi|mel, or any purging &s;yrup, if the roots
<PB N="38" REF="31">be boyled in it, but they endure great boyling: there is almo&s;t the &s;ame purg|ing faculty in black Hellebore you buy in the &s;hops, which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> cal's, black Hellebore with a blew flower, and black Hellebore that hath a greeni&s;h flower, which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> calls ba&s;tard black Hellebore; but the fir&s;t purgeth with le&s;s trouble then the latter, which therefore wants the better pre|paration, and mu&s;t be given in le&s;s quantity.</P>
<P>Of the fore&s;aid things, may be pre|pared a Syrup mo&s;t profitable and plea|&s;ant for poor people, to be kept to Purge the Melancholy Humors; thus,</P>
<P>Take Roots of Black Hellebore pre|pared three ounces, Borrage, Buglo&s;s, Fumitory and Dodder, of each one handful, Pome Citrons cut into pieces half a pound, Fountain Water five pound; let them boyl at a gentle fire to the wa&s;ting of three pound, then ca&s;t away the Herbs; add Juyce of &s;weet Apples half a pound; Boyle them again til half be con&s;umed: then pre&s;s all forth &s;trongly, &s;train them and cla|rify them; add purified Honey one
<PB N="39" REF="31">pound, Boyl all to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup; the Do&s;e is one or two oun|ces.</P>
<P>But, pre&s;ently &s;uch Medicaments may be made, as for Example, a drink.</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Senna three drams, Seeds of Fennel or Annis one dram; infu&s;e them twelve hours in the De|coction of hops, four ounces, or the De|coction of Ray&s;ons, and make it Boyl once, and then &s;train it; add
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>What</HI> Oxymel Simplex <HI>is, and how made with the vertuet thereof, you may &s;ee in my Tran|&s;lation of the</HI> Lon|don Di&s;|pen&s;atory, <HI>of the la&s;t Edition.</HI></NOTE> Oxymel Simplex (namely to open the pa&s;&s;ages and to &s;cour thick Humors) one ounce, mingle them, make a Potion.</P>
<P>A Bolus may be made pre&s;ently thus,</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Senna in pouder one dram, Tartar, Annis Seed or Cinnamon, of each one &s;cruple; the pulp of Rai|&s;ons purged from their Stones half an ounce; mingle them and make a Bo|lus.</P>
<P>Pills may be made thus.</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Senna two &s;cruples, Root of Black Hellebore half a &s;cruple, Seeds of Daucus and Cinnamon of each fix grains; pouder them and with Oxy|mel make Pills.</P>
<P>Such a pouder may be made.</P>
<PB N="40" REF="32">
<P>Take of Purging Antimony eight grains, Cream of Tartar one &s;cruple, Cinnamon and Sugar of each half a &s;cruple; mingle them, make a pouder to be given in Wine or Broth. Or,</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Senna one dram, Tartar and fine Sugar and Cinnamon of each one &s;cruple; mingle them, and make a pouder for one.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>When Watery Humors prevail, the&s;e will Purge gently:</HEAD>
<P>The Root of the white Thi&s;tle bea|ten to Pouder, is taken from one dram in Wormwood Wine, or Oxymel; or in Decoction from two drams to half an ounce, it is corrected with &s;weet Seeds or Wormwood.</P>
<P>The Root of the wonderful Herb of <HI>Spain</HI> that carryes a diver&s;e coloured flower is taken any way to two drams.</P>
<P>Wild Mercury in a Decoction one handful and an half, or Boyled as Pot Herbs, and &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl and Salt and eaten.</P>
<PB N="41" REF="32">
<P>Garden flowerdeluce, that bears a blew flower, the Juyce of the Root newly pre&s;&s;ed forth, and purefied from two ounces to three ounces, or thickned from two drams to half an ounce, chiefly in Wormwood Wine.</P>
<P>The Root of <HI>Anthora</HI> Scraped, from one &s;cruple to two &s;cruples, taken in Wine or Broth: it needs no correcter.</P>
<P>The Root of wild Cucumber dried, given in &s;ub&s;tance from fifteen grains to about half a dram, it is infu&s;ed, bea|ten gro&s;ly from two &s;cruples to about five &s;cruples, it is Boyled from two drams to half an ounce:</P>
<P>It is corrected with things that help the &s;tomach. But the be&s;t way to give it, is to infu&s;e it a night in Wormwood Wine.</P>
<P>Four Sprouts of Dwarf-elder, that have four Leaves, Boyled in Wine or Broth, and eaten as Pot Herbs.</P>
<P>The Root of the &s;ame &s;teeped in Wine, from two drams to three drams.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the flowers and fruit of the &s;ame is given from five drams to one ounce, in &s;trong Wine or Broth corrected with Wormwood.</P>
<PB N="42" REF="33">
<P>The pouder of the Seed of the &s;ame is given from half a dram to about one dram in the &s;ame Liquor.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the &s;ame thickned with Honey, to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup; is given from half an ounce to one ounce, either alone, or in wine or Broth.</P>
<P>The Elder Tree doth the &s;ame, pre|pared the &s;ame way, only there is a greater purging Quality in the Rind of the Root then in other Parts.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the wild Lettice, from three drams to about &s;ix drams, with Honey or Oxymel or &s;weet Wine, cor|rected with wormwood.</P>
<P>The Hu&s;ked Seed of the common Ricinus, the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>What Emul&s;ions are, &s;ee my Tran&s;lation of</HI> Riveri|us <HI>in the Phy&s;ical Dictionary at the end thereof.</HI></NOTE> Emul&s;ion of it, is given from one dram to three drams with wine or fat Broth, corrected with &s;ome Spice; or infu&s;ed, or lightly brui&s;ed; from three drams to &s;ix drams.</P>
<P><HI>Soldanella</HI> or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth, from one hand|ful to two handfuls, al&s;o the yong &s;hoots are eaten, as <HI>Pliny</HI> &s;aith, or the yong Tendrels, Boyled like Pot-Herbs. They are corrected with &s;tomack Cor|roboratiues.</P>
<PB N="43" REF="33">
<P>Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for u&s;e, and it is very plea&s;ant, if the Juyce of the Leaves be pre&s;&s;ed out, Clarified, and thickned, and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Ma&s;tick, or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey, and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood, the Do&s;e will be from one dram, to two drams or there|abouts.</P>
<P>The Root of the white Vine which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> makes to be the third Kind of <HI>Clematitis,</HI> Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water: it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things; namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils. The&s;e Purge Vehemently.</P>
<P><HI>Ricinus</HI> of <HI>America,</HI> it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain, or the Seed is &s;teeped all night in wine; or el&s;e drink the emul&s;ion of the Seed in Broth.</P>
<P><HI>Granum Dende</HI> of <HI>Avicennae,</HI> which Mountebanks &s;el up and down for the Seed of <HI>Ricinus</HI> of <HI>America,</HI> doth the &s;ame effect as <HI>Ricinus</HI> of <HI>America</HI> doth.</P>
<P>The Seeds of <HI>Cataputia,</HI> if they be
<PB N="44" REF="34">great are given from &s;even to ten, but if &s;mal, from eight to fifteen. Or el&s;e made into Pills or Bolus with Figs, or taken in Emul&s;ion, with Hydromel; they are very trouble&s;ome to the Sto|mach, therefore you mu&s;t drink after them, Broth altered with Wormwood, and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges.</P>
<P>Tithymal with broad Leaves, given according to all the parts of it, in the quantity, and manner afore&s;aid con|cerning the other Tithymals that Vio|lently Purge fleam.</P>
<P>Of the fore&s;aid may be prepared a plea&s;ant and profitable Syrup, to be kept for u&s;e. As,</P>
<P>Take the Roots of ordinary Flower|de-luce fre&s;h, &s;ix ounces, wild Cu|cumber dried in the &s;hade, two ounces, Roman wormwood and Origanum, of each one handful, plea&s;ant white Wine two pound and an half: make infu&s;ion for five hours, then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Con&s;umption of a third part, &s;train it; then add clarified Honey one pound, Boyl all again to the con&s;i&s;tence of a thin Syrup, add about the end, Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams.</P>
<PB N="45" REF="34">
<P>The Do&s;e of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the mo&s;t.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ently compo&s;itions may be made thus;</P>
<P>For a Potion.</P>
<P>Take the Roots of wild Cucumber gro&s;sly brui&s;ed one dram, tops of Ro|man wormwood one handful, Seeds of Annis, Fennel or Cinnamon one &s;cruple, the be&s;t Wine three ounces, infu&s;e them all night, in the morning, &s;train them; to the &s;traind Liquor add Oxy|mel Simple one ounce; mingle them for a drink. You may Leave out Oxymel if you plea&s;e.</P>
<P>For a Bolus.</P>
<P>Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams; the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram, Annis Seed half a &s;cruple, Figs half an ounce, mingle them for a Bolus.</P>
<P>Pills.</P>
<P>Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two &s;cruples, or the Roots of wild Cucum|ber one &s;cruple, Cinnamon half a &s;cru|ple, Pouder them, and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="46" REF="35">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Purging Cly&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>Purgatives that are given in Cly&s;ters are u&s;ed for a two fold end, namely, either to &s;tirr up the Faculty Expul&s;ive that is very dul, as is u&s;ed to be done in
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>the Sleepy Di&s;ea&s;es are mo&s;t excellently treated on in</HI> Riveri|us <HI>Practice of Phy&s;ick in Engli&s;h,</HI></NOTE> Sleepy Di&s;ea&s;es; as the Pal&s;ey and Dotings, and they are therefore called Tart Cly&s;ters; or el&s;e to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revul&s;ion &s;ake They are prepared the &s;ame way and in the &s;ame quantity as we &s;ayd already of lenitive Cly&s;ters. adding only to the Decoction for a common Cly&s;ter &s;ome purging Herbs; as centaury the le&s;s, or Gratiola in a Cholerick cau&s;e; the &s;prouts of wild Saffron, broom Leaves, the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth, the Roots of E&s;ula, or &s;ow Bread in a Flegmatick Cau&s;e, the Roots of Black Hellebore in ca&s;e of Melancholy; the Leaves of Dwarf-El|der, or the Elder Tree in a watery
<PB N="47" REF="35">Cau&s;e; but that they may Purge, and &s;upply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth, they mu&s;t not be ca&s;t in beyond the quantity of eight ounces; namely the &s;ame quantity that may be al&s;o taken at the Mouth, and a Cly&s;ter to Purge the Entralls, mu&s;t go before, for &s;o a Purgative Cly|&s;ter may be held in many Hours, and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Inte&s;tines. But the quantity of Medi|caments to be taken at the Mouth, mu&s;t be doubled in Cly&s;ters; becau&s;e they are not &s;o ea&s;ely brought to action by the Inte&s;tines, as they are by the Sto|mach. As for Example, to pul back and to Purge Flegm, &s;uch a Cly&s;ter may be made.</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Mallows, Beets, Ori|ganum, Chamomel of each half an handful, pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram, Seeds of Car|thamus two drams, Fountain water one pound, Boyl them to the Con&s;ump|tion of half, to the &s;traind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces; make a Cly&s;ter.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="48" REF="36">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Sharp Suppo&s;itories.</HEAD>
<P>Purging Suppo&s;itories, &s;eem to have no purgative power of them&s;elves, that is, to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Inte&s;tines, but only to &s;tir up the Belly, when it is &s;low to expul&s;ion; by which &s;tirring up, &s;ometimes by ac|cident it fals out as it doth in purgati|ves; that the excrements that ly in the Veins, and di&s;tant Parts, are thru&s;t out by the Belly, but not by the Medicament drawing them, but only by the Expul|&s;ive Faculty awakened: Whereupon &s;ometimes &s;harp Cly&s;ters &s;upply the room of a Purgative Medicine, and are more &s;afely given to any that are weak, then Cly&s;ters are.</P>
<P><HI>Sharp Suppo&s;itories</HI> are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard, adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida, Scammony, or of both Hellebors, or of the Milk of Tithymals, or E&s;ula, and
<PB N="49" REF="36">&s;ome Sharp Salt, as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre, for Suppo&s;itories.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>For Vomiting Medicaments.</HEAD>
<P>There are two &s;orts of the&s;e al&s;o, for &s;ome only Purge the Stomach, being Void of all attractive vertue, and the&s;e belong to the Rank of gentle Medica|ments; others again evacuate the &s;u|perfluities they draw to the Stomach, and are Purgatives. The former, of them&s;elves hardly provoke one to Vo|mit, unle&s;s they offend &s;ome Stomach that nau&s;eats them very much, but they need &s;ome outward help to &s;tirr them, as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat; but the lat|ter provok Vomit without any out|ward help.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The&s;e move Vomit gently.</HEAD>
<P>In a hot cau&s;e: Warm Water or Bar|ley
<PB N="50" REF="37">water, fat Broth, water and Oyl, they are all given luke-warm, from one pound to two pounds, to tho&s;e that are of ripe years, but to Children, from eight ounces to one pound.</P>
<P>In a cold cau&s;e, that is thin: the De|coction of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth, to one pound with two oun|ces of Oxymel.</P>
<P>The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves, to one pound.</P>
<P>The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten, or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity afore&s;aid:</P>
<P>The Pouder of the Root of bettony, from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel.</P>
<P>The Pouder of the Pompion Root, from one &s;cruple in the &s;ame Liquor.</P>
<P>The Decoction of Snails in hedges, in water or Broth.</P>
<P>In a cold cau&s;e and thick: the Juyce of Radi&s;h from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel.</P>
<P>Nitre from one &s;cruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth.</P>
<P>Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey, with which mingle one &s;cruple of Gin|ger, Hy&s;op or Pepper.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="51" REF="37">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Purging Vomits.</HEAD>
<P>All tho&s;e things that Purge by Vo|mit, do al&s;o move the Belly, and there|fore they are then to be Cho&s;en, when nature is more enclined to Purge up|wards; they may be brought to three ranks, as they were that Purge the Belly. Some are gentle, that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach, and with &s;mal trouble move the Stomach, others are &s;trong, and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts, and trouble the Stomach &s;omething more. Some are violent, which draw vehemently, and Evacuate matter that is very thick, or &s;uch as is contained in the remote&s;t Parts, and cau&s;e Vomit with great for|cing of the Stomach.</P>
<P>When Choller predominates, the&s;e are gentle: The Yellow rind of the Black Alder, when it i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> fre&s;h, Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams.</P>
<PB N="52" REF="38">
<P>The Seed of Garden Cre&s;&s;es Pouder|ed, drank in water from three drams to &s;ix drams.</P>
<P>Mountain dwarf-Cherry, of <HI>Ge&s;ner,</HI> which <HI>Tragus</HI> makes to be Sea-Pur&s;lain &s;wallowed down from five to eight Cherries, e&s;pecially in water or warm Broth drank after them.</P>
<P>The Root of A&s;arum draweth all mo&s;t equally, Choller and Flegm; it is infu&s;ed from two drams to five drams; the &s;ub&s;tance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams.</P>
<P>The&s;e are &s;trong. The Juyce of the Root of <HI>Mandragora</HI> from half a &s;cruple to a whol &s;cruple in Honey Wine; and we mu&s;t u&s;e it warily, for it is not with|out danger.</P>
<P>Where Flegm predominates, the&s;e Vomit gently: Agarick unprepared, from two &s;cruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel.</P>
<P>The Seed of Ba&s;tard Senna with Bladders, is given in &s;ub&s;tance from one dram, to two drams, and is infu&s;ed from two drams to half an ounce; it is corrected with &s;piced Wine.</P>
<P>The Seed of Ba&s;tard Senna with Scor|pion
<PB N="53" REF="38">Cods doth the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The flowers of Garden Broom, and the green branches &s;teeped, or Boyled; from two drams to half an ounce in Broth.</P>
<P>The Seed of Spargula poudered, from two drams to four drams, in &s;weet Wine or Broth with Oxymel.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e do &s;trongly Void Flegm that is pre|dominant.</HI></P>
<P>The Seeds of Staves-acre, about one dram &amp; an half in Pouder, with plenty of &s;weet wine: you mu&s;t drink fat Broth upon it, until you fal to Vomiting, lea&s;t if it &s;tay too long, the Stomach &s;hould be inflamed.</P>
<P>The fre&s;h Leaves of any of the Tithy|mals Boyled, with &s;weet Wine, from one dram and an half to four drams.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth, that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges.</P>
<P>White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth.</P>
<P>The&s;e Void Flegm Violently.</P>
<P>The Seed of the Pea&s;cod-Tree pou|dered, from half a dram to one dram;
<PB N="54" REF="39">the rind of the &s;ame dried, and pou|dered doth the &s;ame, but &s;omthing more weakly.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Medicaments that are com|pounded of the&s;e, are almo&s;t of the &s;ame Kind, as for Example.</P>
<P>For Choller:</P>
<P>Take Barley Water one pound, Oyl of Olives that were &s;ufficiently ripe two ounces, Root of A&s;arum in pou|der one ounce; mingle them for a drink.</P>
<P>For Flegm.</P>
<P>Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound, Oxymel two ounces, Juyce of Radi&s;h one ounce, crude Agarick two &s;cruples; mingle them for a drink.</P>
<P>If you plea&s;e to make a &s;yrup for a Vomit, it may be as this.</P>
<P>Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half; bay Leaves &amp; Tobacco Leaves of each one handful, Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Gro&s;ely poudred two drams, Common Water two pounds, let them Boyl un|til half be con&s;umed; &s;train them. In the &s;trained Liquor, infu&s;e for twelve hours, of the Roots of A&s;arum and raw
<PB N="55" REF="39">Agarick, of each three drams, &s;train them again, and clarifie it, and add to it of clarified Honey one pound, Boyl all at a gentle fire to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup; the Do&s;e of it, is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water.</P>
<P>Of the &s;ame kind is this Electuary, which is very effectual.</P>
<P>Take the Roots of A&s;arum, and crude Agarick of each half an ounce, Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams, Cinnamon one dram, Annis Seed half a dram, Pouder them to very fine Pouder, and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces, and make an E|lectuary, the Do&s;e of it is from nine drams to almo&s;t twelve drams, in any Liquor that is plea&s;ant.</P>
<P>For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant. None but &s;trong and Violent Medicaments are conveni|ent; becau&s;e the Humor being of its own nature the mo&s;t heavy, is &s;ome|thing more hard to draw upwards than other Humors.</P>
<P>The&s;e cau&s;e Vomit &s;trongly: prepared Antimony, the Flower, the Calx and
<PB N="56" REF="40">the Gla&s;s of Antimony are ea&s;ily pre|pared: but the Tincture is &s;omthing more difficult, and &s;o is the Oyl, which being precipitated into cold water pa&s;|&s;es into white Pouder, not unlike to Flower. All the&s;e are given in &s;ub|&s;tance from three grains to &s;ix grains, in a Panatella, or Pti&s;an, or &s;ome Stomach-Con&s;erve, or Aromatick Wine, cor|rected with wormwood, Ro&s;emary, and other a little a&s;tringent Stomach-remedies, they are &s;teeped from four grains to ten grains, chiefly in &s;trong Wine, or wormwood Wine. Of this is made a mo&s;t plea&s;ing Syrup, Evacuating mo&s;t ea&s;ily both upwards and down|wards, beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments. thus,</P>
<P>Take the Flowers or the Gla&s;s of An|timony, one dram and an half, the be&s;t white Wine one pound, infu&s;e it for two days, natural: &s;train it, and add to it, Honey clarified ten ounces; Boyl them to a Syrup. The Do&s;e is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout, taken by it &s;elf, or in &s;ome plea&s;ant drink.</P>
<P>The&s;e work Violently: the prepar|ed
<PB N="57" REF="40">Root of white Hellebore, or the pith pulled out, and the Root &s;teeped in Ro&s;e Vineger one day, and dryed again in the &s;hade for u&s;e: in the place of Ro&s;e Vineger, take Vineger of Quince which is better, or &s;ome other, that is altered with &s;omething that is a little a&s;tringent, and cooling for the Sto|mach, it is given from half a &s;cruple to one &s;cruple, not in &s;ub&s;tance, lea&s;t the Mouth of the Stomach &s;hould &s;uffer Convul&s;ion, but, in infu&s;ion, which is done two wayes: the fir&s;t is the way of the Antients, who did &s;tick the &s;mal Roots of Hellebore into a Radi&s;h for one night, the next day they cru|&s;hed our the Juyce of the Radi&s;h, and gave one ounce of the Juyce in Pti&s;an, or a thin Panatella may be u&s;ed in the place of it, for to moi&s;ten the Mouth of the Stomach, that it fal not into Con|vul&s;ions.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is better and more plea|&s;ant than the fir&s;t. As take half a &s;cru|ple of the Root; &s;tick it into a piece of a Quince, and Boyl it in the &s;ame, then take out the Roots, and give that for a Bolus to eat; or the Juyce pre&s;&s;ed out
<PB N="58" REF="41">of the Quince may be put into Wine, or fat Broth, altered with the Seeds of Citrons, and &s;o drink it. White Hel|lebore is made far more gentle, if the Root with the pith pulled out, after due infu&s;ion, be Boyled in Vineger, and be then dried and kept for u&s;e.</P>
<P>Where watery Humors are predomi|nant; the&s;e are accounted gentle: the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder from one dram and an half to three drams in fat Broth, altered with tops of Wormwood.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the Root of the Elder-Tree doth the &s;ame, taken in the &s;ame Do&s;e.</P>
<P>The Berries of Water-Elder taken to two drams, drink fat Broth after them, as we taught before.</P>
<P>Strong Vomiting Medicaments, the Leaves of Spurge pulled upwards, are given in the &s;ame Broth from one dram, to one dram and an half.</P>
<P>Stronger.</P>
<P>Elaterium, by rea&s;on of the bitter|ne&s;s, taken in Pills or Bolus. It is com|monly mixed with &s;ome Aromatical Pills, it may be mixed with the pulp
<PB N="59" REF="41">of a Fig with a little Wormwood, which is done by expre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The fruit o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> wild Cucumber, is given from three grains to ten grains, but that which drops out of the fruit only prick|ed is given from two grains to &s;ix.</P>
<P>Medicaments, that Evacuate by Urin, by which not only the ways of the reins and the Bladder, but al&s;o the whole body is purged, by the help of the Veins and Arteries. They are made of Diuretick Medicaments, whereof &s;ome are properly &s;o, hot and dry, and &s;harp and of thin Parts; others impro|perly &s;o, that have but remi&s;s heat, or enclining al&s;o to cold, but yet are of thin parts, which are to be u&s;ed cheifly in Feavers, or when the Reins or Liver are over heat; unle&s;s perhaps there be pre&s;ent, &s;ome corrupt Venemous matter in the veins that requires &s;peedy Evacuations, which is better and &s;ooner performed with proper and hot Diure|ticks, the cheif and the mo&s;t Obvious in both kinds are the&s;e.</P>
<P>Proper
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>what</HI> Di|ureticks <HI>are, &s;ee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">y Tran&s;lation of</HI> Rive|rius <HI>and the Dicti|onary at the end thereof.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Diureticks;</HI> A&s;paragus, prin|cipally the Root, Smallage Seed, or the common Se&s;ely, the Root and the
<PB N="60" REF="42">Seed of Carduus, the Root of Cucum|bers and the seed, common Seed, the Roots of al &s;orts of Eringos, the Roots and Seeds of Fennel, the Seeds of both Rochets, the Leaves and berries of the Bay Tree, al&s;o the Roots and the Rind, wild Mints, Turnep Seed, the Root of Prickly, Re&s;t-Harrow, Penniroyal, all the parts of common Par&s;ley, the Roots of both kinds of Radi&s;h, Mad|der Roots, the yong &s;prouts of Knee|holme, the Tendrells, and the Roots, Savory, wild Time; the Seeds are given in Pouder, from half a dram to one dram, (the &s;ame mu&s;t be under&s;tood of Medicaments that are Diureticks improperly) &s;ome are Boyled in Wine or Water, but be&s;t of all in Broth of Chich Pea&s;e: yet the pouder of the Roots is given al&s;o, e&s;pecially of tho&s;e that are of a woody &s;ub&s;tance, as of Re&s;t-Harrow, and the Bay Tree. Of the&s;e, &s;ome may be Compounded pre|&s;ently.</P>
<P>This Pouder is mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>Take the Roots of Re&s;t-Harrow two drams, the Seeds of Rochet and Bay Berries of each one dram, Cinnamon
<PB N="61" REF="42">half a dram, mingle them, make a Pouder: give one dram in Wine or warm Broth of Chich Pea&s;e.</P>
<P>It is more plea&s;ant, if it be infu&s;ed all night: then give it one Boyl, and &s;train it, ca&s;t away the Dregs, and then drink it. It will be made a more effectual remedy yet, if you put in &s;ome drops of the Liquor which comes from Salt put into a hole in a Radi&s;h, kept in a moi&s;t place til it melt.</P>
<P>To Anoint the Privities, &s;uch an Oyl is made pre&s;ently, which help the Voiding of the Urin.</P>
<P>Take Bay Leaves, Hor&s;-Mints, wild Time, Pennyroyal of each one handful, Chamomel one handful and an half, Radi&s;h Roots half an ounce, Cummin Seed two drams, common Oyl one pound and an half, white Wine one pound, make an infu&s;ion for four hours; then Boyl all til the moi&s;ture be con|&s;umed, and then pre&s;s all out, and &s;train it again.</P>
<P>A Plai&s;ter al&s;o may be made of a Radi&s;h cut, and Boyled with Leaves of Par&s;ley and Smallage and Penny|royal, then brui&s;e them all and lay
<PB N="62" REF="43">them to the Privities.</P>
<P>Improper Diureticks; Seeds of Gourds, Cucumbers, Citruls, and Me|lones (make Emul&s;ions of them,) of Mallows, Gromwel Seed, <HI>Alkekengi,</HI> Kernels of Cherries, Stones of Medlers, Shels of Filbird Nuts, the Juyce of ripe Lemmons, the Leaves and &s;talks of Straw-Berries, Maiden Hair, the Roots of both kinds of Brambles, of Gra&s;s, e&s;pecially Reed Gra&s;s, of Liquoris, C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nkfoyl, and Radi&s;h the Rind peeled off, al&s;o the Broth of red Chich Pea&s;e is profitably admini&s;tred, with a fourth part of Juyce of Lemmons, this drink is held for a &s;ecret.</P>
<P>Take the Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall three ounces, the Proth of Chich Pea&s;e four ounces; mingle them for to drink.</P>
<P>This al&s;o is &s;uppo&s;ed to be of the &s;ame kind.</P>
<P>Take Liquoris half an ounce, com|mon Water half a pound; Boyl them at a gentle fire til half be con&s;umed; &s;train it and add to it Juyce of Lem|mons one ounce; mingle them.</P>
<P>Al&s;o for a &s;peedy remedy may be
<PB N="63" REF="43">given with great profit, two ounces of the Juyce of Radi&s;h in &s;trong Wine that is hot.</P>
<P>Outwardly may be laid a common and excellent Plai&s;ter of the Leaves of Pellitory either alone, or pounded with a Radi&s;h, and &s;o fried in a frying Pan with Butter and Oyl, and laid hot to the Privities, if you can get Oyl of Dill or Camomel it is better than com|mon Oyl.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that Evacuate by &s;weat.</HEAD>
<P>The&s;e al&s;o are of two &s;orts: &s;ome are properly to cau&s;e &s;weat, which Melt the matter and turn it into Va|pours; others are improperly &s;o, which make the matter ea&s;ily convertible, and &s;o by accident cau&s;e &s;weat, and the&s;e are very convenient for the &s;mal Pox at the beginning, and for hot affects of the Skin, and hot Feavers when the motion of Nature is out|wardly inclined toward the Skin.</P>
<P>Proper for &s;weat, are the Decoction
<PB N="64" REF="44">of Garlick, of Box Wood (with which the French Pox is as ea&s;ily cured as with Guaiacum,) of Germander, great Celondine, Carduus Benedictus, Juni|per Wood, and Bays, and of &s;weet Chervil: they are given from four ounces to eight ounces or thereabouts, and they are made more effectual be|ing Boyled in Water and Honey and white Wine.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Decoction purified and thickned with a gentle heat afford plain extracts; that may be given to one dram or thereabout, or el&s; mingled with good Wine, or the Decoction of &s;ome improper &s;weating Medicaments, or made into Bolus, or Pills, and to drink after them three ounces or there|abouts, of the Decoction. For example.</P>
<P>In the Di&s;ea&s;es of the nerves and Joynts from a cold Defluxion; make &s;uch a Decoction.</P>
<P>Take Wood of the Bay-Tree, and Box Tree of each one ounce and an half, cut them &s;mal and infu&s;e them one day in five pound of common water, add Leaves of Betony, Ger|mander and Ivy of each one handful;
<PB N="65" REF="44">let them Boyl at a gentle fire til a third part be con&s;umed; &s;train it to be drank at five Times.</P>
<P>Improper Medicaments to move &s;weat. The Decoction of Camomel, Chervil, Fumitory, unhulled Barley, Millet, Lintils lightly BoyIed, Roots of Hops, Cynkfoil, Tormentil, Leaves of common Pimpernel, Scabious, and Winter Gelliflowers.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e is made a common Syrup, called the Syrup of St. Ambro&s;e, of one part Wine, and two parts of the De|coction of Millet.</P>
<P>Other Medicaments may be &s;ud|denly made, as for example; in a Cuta|neous effect, make &s;uch a Decoction.</P>
<P>Take the Leaves of Scabious and Fumitory dry, of each one handful, Roots of Hops half an ounce, Barley Water one pound and an half, Boyl all at a gentle fire to the Con&s;umption of almo&s;t the half, and &s;train it out for one draught.</P>
<P>When the &s;mal Pox appear:</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Pimpernel one hand|ful, Scabious half a handful, of the fir&s;t Decoction of Lintels one pound, Boyl
<PB N="66" REF="45">them til a third part be con&s;umed, &s;train it out, to drink at one draught.</P>
<P>The Decoctions of the&s;e are given in greater quantity, than are the Deco|ctions of tho&s;e that are properly to cau&s;e &s;weat. Namely from about eight ounces to two pound.</P>
<P>And you mu&s;t know that &s;weat can hardly be procured by the help of the&s;e Medicaments, unle&s;s the force of them be derived outwardly to the Skin by attracting Medicaments; by the bene|fit whereof, the pores of the Skin al&s;o are loo&s;ned and prepared for &s;weat: therefore about an hour and an half after the taking of a potion to &s;weat, the Body mu&s;t either be put into a dry Bath, or &s;ome hot natural or artificial Bath; or el&s; mu&s;t be wel covered with Garments; or el&s; hot Tiles mu&s;t be applyed to him, or ve&s;&s;els ful of hot Water; or the Skin mu&s;t be gently rubbed, or Cupping Gla&s;&s;es without Scarification mu&s;t be applied on divers Parts, as nece&s;&s;ity &s;hall mo&s;t require.</P>
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<PB N="67" REF="45">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that Evacuate by Spittle.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things that unloo&s;e the Stuf|fing from the ways of breathing, are called, from their office, <HI>Expectorating Medicaments,</HI> all which may be compre|hended under a tripple difference, for &s;ome are convenient for thick &s;pittle, namely inci&s;ers and &s;cowrers; others are for thin and un&s;avory &s;pittle, as dryers, and a little thickning; others again are to temper Salt &s;pittle, and to hinder the corroding of it.</P>
<P>Therefore when the &s;pittle is Mo|derately thick, a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>What</HI> Lohoch <HI>is, &s;ee the end of</HI> Ri|verius <HI>Practice of Phy&s;ick in Engli&s;h. And the</HI> Di&s;pen&s;a+tory <HI>in Engli&s;h.</HI></NOTE> Lohock is needful of water and Honey, or Oxymel, crude Honey, a Decoction of Figs, Liquoris, &s;weet Cods, Ray&s;ins; adding a quan|tity of Colts Foot, Lungwort or Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">bi|ous; for the Pouders of the&s;e Herbs may be mixed with the Oxymel, to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Lohoch, or a Soft Electuary, in which form the pouder of Iris, is u&s;ed to good profit, mixt with Oxymel.</P>
<PB N="68" REF="46">
<P>For Spittle that is very thick, the&s;e are proper: the Decoction of Oak of Jeru&s;alem, Elecampane, Hatchet-Fetch Hy&s;op, Horehound, Savory, Time, long Ari&s;tolochia, the Pouders of the&s;e are mixed profitably with Oxymel for a Lohoch, or they are mingled with Ho|ney in form of an Electuary. Or;</P>
<P>There is Compounded a &s;weet drink with Oxymel, and the Decoction of the &s;aid Herbs, as al&s;o by the infu&s;ion of them, Hy&s;op Wine is wont to be made, and Wine of Elecampane; which the Antients u&s;ed Ordinarily.</P>
<P>The common people u&s;e to make a profitable Electuary of the Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Water, (it were better to take Metheg&s;in or &s;weet Wine) and pa&s;&s;ed through a Hair &s;ieve, and then mingled with twice as much of clarified Honey, and Sod to a ju&s;t con&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e, the Pouder of Brim|&s;tone doth profit well, or the Flower mixt and taken with a rear Egg. The Seed of Nettles mixed in Lohochs, or Aqua-vitae with a third part of Sugar, made into a confection, or mixt with
<PB N="69" REF="46">Oxymel. So the Pouder of the Lungs of a Fox taken from half a dram to one dram in Wine or Metheglin, to be drunk, or mixed for a Lohoch.</P>
<P>Saffron drank in Wine from half a &s;cruple to a whole &s;cruple.</P>
<P>Sows Lice wa&s;hed in Wine, and in|fu&s;ed to one dram al night in white Wine; then pre&s;&s;ed forth and drank, the dregs being ca&s;t away.</P>
<P>The Rozin of the Larch or Firr Tree, licked or &s;wallowed down in Bolus: for a licking Medicament it mu&s;t be di&s;&s;olved in clarified Honey, for it will mingle very well with Ho|ney.</P>
<P>A mo&s;t excellent Bal&s;om may be made for this purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Take Oyl of ripe Olives (for the rich take Oyl of &s;weet Almonds) that is not rank, half a pound, &s;weet white Wine four ounces, let them Boyl til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed: then add Flower of Brim&s;tone three ounces, &s;tirr them continually and very Softly at a gentle fire; and when the Flowers are di&s;&s;olved: add Rozin of the Larch Tree or the Firr Tree, or if it can be
<PB N="70" REF="47">had, the Gum of the Firr Tree two ounces and an half, mingle them to perfection. It may be put into Lo|hochs, or taken inwardly with the fore&s;aid Decoctions or with white Wine.</P>
<P>But that the &s;pittle may come forth the more ea&s;ily, lea&s;t the Humor that is thick, &s;hould grow dry with the u&s;e of the&s;e things, it is be&s;t alwaies to add &s;ome Emollients and loo&s;ners, &s;uch as are for Lambitives and internall u&s;es, the Root of Liquoris, the pulp of Ray&s;ons, Roots of Mallows and Mar&s;h Mallows.</P>
<P>It is good to Anoint the Stomach outwardly with Butter, chiefly that which is rank; either alone or mingled with the Mucilage of Mallows and Mar&s;h Mallows.</P>
<P>An Application of a Colewort Leaf well anoynted with Putter, and &s;prinkled with Pouder of Cummin Seed, and &s;o laid hot to the bre&s;t is much &s;poken of.</P>
<P>When the &s;pittle is thin and un&s;avo|ry: the Decoction of round Ari&s;tolo|chia, Iuiubes, wild Plumbs, Golden
<PB N="71" REF="47">Rod, Penniwort, Veronica, the Juyce of &s;omewhat &s;owre Pomegranats, ei|ther by it &s;elf, or with a little Honey.</P>
<P>All &s;orts of licking Medicaments made of white &s;tarch, Gum Arabick, Tragant, all Phy&s;ical earth, with Ho|ney or Oxymel, mixing a quantity of Brim&s;tone or Mirrh, or round Ari&s;tolo|chia, or the Cream of Pti&s;an with &s;ome white Starch.</P>
<P>For Salt &s;pittle, the Decoction of Barley, Iuiubes, Liquoris, Ray&s;ons &s;weet Prunes, are convenient, and chiefly in the Decoction of the Feet and Head of a Calf, Kid or Lamb, al&s;o of Snails, and Snails of the woods.</P>
<P>Emul&s;ons of &s;weet Almonds, and of the four le&s;&s;er cold Seeds chiefly adding the Flower of &s;tarch: the Cream of Pti&s;an, or a Panatella with the &s;ame Emul&s;ions, adding al&s;o the Emul&s;ion of white Poppy Seed, when the Saltnes is urgent: the Juyce of &s;weet Prunes licked up.</P>
<P>Fre&s;h Butter licked, as al&s;o added to the Meat we eat, and Anointed on the Stomach outwardly.</P>
<P>If you plea&s;e to make a Syrup for this u&s;e.</P>
<PB N="72" REF="48">
<P>Take the Juyce of &s;weet Prunes, the Juyce or Decoction of Pur&s;lain, of each half a pound: Clarifie them, and add to them ten ounces of purified Honey: Let them boyl to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup. The u&s;e of it, is for a Lohoch, and for Syrups.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medecines that evacuate by the Pallat.</HEAD>
<P>The
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Any that de&s;ire to know ex|actly the Di&s;ea&s;es of the Head, and the cures ther|of, let them read</HI> Riverius <HI>Practice of Phy&s;icks by me tran&s;la|ted into Engli&s;h.</HI></NOTE> Head is purged three waies: By the Mouth, by the means of the Channels of the Pallat, namely, by Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">icatories, Cargari&s;ms, and Anointings of the Pallate.</P>
<P>For a Ma&s;ticatory in a hot cau&s;e, a Pa|per is good, e&s;pecially a brown Paper, figs, bitter Almonds, or Peach Kernels, Rai&s;ons, a whol piece of a Pome Ci|cron, the peel of an Orange.</P>
<P>In a cold Cau&s;e, are good, the Roots of Cyprus, Acorus, both Angelica's, Gard<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">, Ma&s;ter-wort, Seeds of Fennel, Annis, Se&s;eli, <HI>Siler montanum,</HI> Grains of Juniper, Bay-berries, and the tender Leaves.</P>
<PB N="73" REF="48">
<P>The&s;e are more violent, and are fit for extream coldne&s;s; the Leaves of Sciatica Cre&s;&s;es, Water Pepper of Hor&s;-Rhadi&s;h, Garden Cre&s;&s;es, Savory, Mountain Hy&s;op, wild Penyroyal, wild Rue, Root of Pellitory, Country Mu|&s;tard &s;eed, Mu&s;tard &s;eed, Staves-acre; which, that they may the more ea&s;ily be chewed by the Teeth, they mu&s;t be mingled with a little yellow Wax, and &s;o made into little Bals or Mor&s;els.</P>
<P>For a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tho&s;e that de&s;ire to know more fully what they are, and their u&s;e, let them read</HI> Rive|rius <HI>Pra|ctice of Phy&s;ick, and the Phy&s;ical Dictionary at the end thereof.</HI></NOTE> Gargari&s;m, which is proper only in a cold cau&s;e, are convenient, the Decoctions of Calaminth, Germander, Hy&s;op, Bay Leaves, Lavender the grea|ter, Penyroyal, wild Time, Italian Spike, which are partly gargari&s;ed, and &s;omtimes held hot in the mouth.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t violent Gargari&s;ms are made of the Decoction of Herbs, that were &s;et down for the &s;tronge&s;t Ma&s;ti|catories, and chiefly, if we put &s;ome <HI>Aqua vitae</HI> in, or &s;ome of the Confection <HI>Dia&s;inapi,</HI> which the Italians cal <HI>Mo|&s;tarda.</HI></P>
<P>For to anoint the Pallate, which Re|medies have place al&s;o alone, in a cold Cau&s;e; the &s;aid Decoctions are u&s;eful,
<PB N="74" REF="49">with honey thickened to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup.</P>
<P>Moreover, <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> or common <HI>Mo&s;tards,</HI> or &s;ome &s;oft Electuary made of the fore&s;aid things.</P>
<P>As for Example,</P>
<P>Take <HI>Bay-berries, and Juniper, of each two ounces: Mu&s;tard &s;eed, and Leaves of Savory, of each one handful: Seeds of Annis, and Fennel, of each one dram: Roots of Aco|rus, and Ma&s;ter-wort, of each two drams, pounded and &s;iefted: Mingle all with two pound of clarified Honey. Make an Electuary.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that evacuate by the No&s;trils.</HEAD>
<P>Of things that purge the Head by the No&s;trils, &s;ome of them by their acri|mony cau&s;e one to &s;neeze; and the&s;e are very fit for a very thick Humor that is pact clo&s;e in, and where the Expul|&s;ive Faculty is dull. Some again pro|voke the Humor without &s;neezing; a|mong&s;t which, &s;ome may be &s;afely u|&s;ed, even when the Head enclineth to heat; others belong only to a cold hu|mor, and head.</P>
<PB N="75" REF="49">
<P>The Pouders of all the propounded Remedies for &s;trong Ma&s;ticatories, if they be blown in, or &s;nuffed up into the No&s;trils, they cau&s;e one to &s;neeze.</P>
<P>The Decoction of Gith, or black Hel|lebore, the Juyce al&s;o of the Root of Sowbread, Briony, and Elaterium, di&s;|&s;olved in other liquid Na&s;als. The &s;ame is performed, but &s;omthing more gently, by the Root of Sowbread cut like a Tent, and put into the No&s;trils; and the Shel of an Orange candied.</P>
<P>Al&s;o without &s;neezing, the head that is over hot, may be evacuated with the Decoction, or Juyce of Mallows, or Blites, e&s;pecially the white Blites; Leaves of Betony, or Coleworts, and Barley, Roots of Beets put into the No&s;trils, e&s;pecially if it be wet in warm Water; al&s;o anointing the No&s;trils with fre&s;h Butter.</P>
<P>In a cold Cau&s;e, Decoctions are good, or the Juyce of Pimpernel, Bettony, Roots of white Beets, the great Celon|dine, Ivy of the wal, Garden Hy&s;op, Root of Flower-de-luce that is green, Marjoram, Sage, Tobacco.</P>
<P>The Indians al&s;o u&s;e to make Tents
<PB N="76" REF="50">of a round fa&s;hion, of the Roots of Sowbread, or Flower-de-luce, and to anoint them with Butter or Oyl, and put them up into their No&s;trils, or el&s;e to &s;teep them in water, when they wil not u&s;e them for &s;neezing.</P>
<P>Moreover, The Fume of the &s;aid Herbs, when they are dry, is very con|venient, e&s;pecially of Marjoram, Hy&s;op, Time, taken through a Cane; by which they take the fume of Tobacco. Er|rhines al&s;o may be made of them. As for Example.</P>
<P>In a cold cau&s;e,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Juyce of the Root of Flower de|luce made thick, the Juyce of the Flowers of Ivy made thick, of each two drams: the Pouder of Marjoram, or Time, one dram: Fre&s;h Butter half an ounce: mingle them for a Liniment, and anoint a Ten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Cotton to put into the No&s;trils.</HI> Or,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Juyce of Blites clarified by fil|tring very well, four ounces: Agarick gro&s;ly poudered one ounce: make infu&s;ion for one night, &s;train them the next day, and draw it up warm into the No&s;trils, and it will won|derfully purge the Head without any great Commotion.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="77" REF="50">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that Evacuate In&s;en&s;ibly.</HEAD>
<P>The matter the&s;e are made of is of a large extent. For all hot things by rarefying and turning the Humors into ayr, do evacuate in&s;en&s;ibly, &s;o do all dry things by re&s;training moi&s;ture, and all a&s;tringent things by pre&s;&s;ing them forth, may be reckoned in the number of the&s;e: but things that dige&s;t are properly &s;o called, which do by degrees turn the Humors into vapours: and tho&s;e that di&s;cu&s;s and do it by heaps, that di&s;&s;ipate al&s;o gro&s;s Humors: and bli&s;tering Medicaments that do both vehemently, and by violent heat re|move the matter that lieth deep, that is not &s;ufficiently attenuated, and draw it to the Skin.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Dige&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>Among&s;t the&s;e the mo&s;t obuious are: wormwood, Dill, al kinds of Smallage, Chamomel, &s;tinking Chamomel, Foe|nugreek,
<PB N="78" REF="51">Roots of Reeds, white Lil|lies, Lin-Seed, Honey, Melilot, Ro&s;e|mary, Mallows, chiefly &s;trong Wine; the&s;e may be given in Decoction, Sy|rups or Electuaries.</P>
<P>Of the &s;ame may be made Oyls, by de&s;cent, and Fomentations for u&s;e outwardly; to which the&s;e that follow may be added, that are not to be given inwardly, as the Roots or Sow-Bread, wild Cucumber, Daffodils, the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder, Elder-Tree, Allum, Nitre, Vitriol, common Salt.</P>
<P>Al&s;o outwardly may be u&s;ed alone to anoint with rank Butter, chiefly that which is Salt, and Oyl with Salt.</P>
<P>For Fomentations: the water of quick Lime, the water of hot Baths, &s;weet water that is very hot, &s;trong Ly, hot Lees of Wine, the mud of hot Baths, or the holes in the Baths, hot Sand, hot A&s;hes with or without Bran, and Salt made up in a Bag.</P>
<P>For Plai&s;ters: Snails brui&s;ed with their Shells.</P>
<P>Old Chee&s;e, with the Decoction of Salt fle&s;h, e&s;pecially Hogs fle&s;h, and beaten together for a Plai&s;ter.</P>
<PB N="79" REF="51">
<P>Bean Meal made up with Wine or the former Decoctions, adding if you plea&s;e Oyl, Oxymel or Honey.</P>
<P>Privatly to con&s;ume the Milk &s;ud|denly, and without danger, that it may not clotter in the brea&s;ts: women hold the&s;e for &s;ecrets, which either will not or cannot give &s;uck: the green Leaves of wall-Nut Trees carryed in their bo|&s;ome.</P>
<P>A Liniment made of an equal portion of Honey and Rozin, laid on con&s;tantly with a Linnen Cloath.</P>
<P>A Catapla&s;m of Bean Meal and Oxy|mel, or the Decoction of Par&s;ley, or Mallows Boyled with Vineger.</P>
<P>A Fomentation of equal parts of Par|&s;ley and Vineger, adding a little Saf|fron to it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Di&s;cu&s;&s;ives.</HEAD>
<P>Among&s;t the&s;e the ea&s;ie&s;t to provide are: the Seeds and Flowers of Agnus Ca&s;tus (by the &s;teeping whereof is made an Oyl that is very Proper again&s;t
<PB N="80" REF="52">the Cholick) Garlick, the Root of Both Angelicas and the Seed, Annis Seed, Seeds of Oranges and Citrons, and the Pills of them, al&s;o Calamint, e&s;pecially of the Mountains, Seeds of Cummin, Caraway, Daucus, Fennel, Hy&s;op, Mai&s;terwort Root, the Berries and wood of Juniper, Lavender, the Leaves and Berries of Bays, that are good for the Cholick and Pains of the Matrix, Lupins, Marjoram, dry Mints, Bazil, Origanum, Poley, Pennyroyall, Rue, Savory, wild Time, Italian Spike, Time, all which are given alone or mingled in forme of a Decoction, Sy|rup, Electuary, or the Pouder of them to one dram, may be drank in Wine, or &s;trewed upon Meat.</P>
<P>Hitherto appertain Aqua-vitae, and Old Wine which the Antients were wont to give with Pepper gro&s;ely bea|ten.</P>
<P>You may prepare, at a Cheap Rate, a mo&s;t effectual Tincture, whereof one or two drops drank in Broth or Wine doth powerfuly, di&s;cu&s;s winds, and put into a hollow Tooth that Akes from a cold cau&s;e, or but layd to it, pre&s;ently
<PB N="81" REF="52">takes away the pain.</P>
<P>And this is it:</P>
<P>Take Black Pepper beaten gro&s;ely two ounces, the be&s;t Aqua vitae eight ounces; put all into a Viol of a &s;treight Neck, and keep it wel &s;topt eight days in a hot place, and you &s;hall have a deep Red Tincture, to be kept in a Gla&s;s that is &s;topt fa&s;t.</P>
<P>If you will make an Hippocras Wine, you may do it thus.</P>
<P>Take Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each two drams, Roots of Angelica, Acorus, Ma&s;ter-wort of each half an ounce, Leaves of mountains Calamint, Lavender, Marjoram, and dry Mints of each one handful, Bay-Berries one ounce; Brui&s;e them all gro&s;ely and put them into a Cullender, and &s;train through it the be&s;t white Wine, doing it &s;o often, until the matter &s;eem to have lo&s;t its &s;ent and Acrimony; drink one or two ounces of this Wine by it &s;elf, or with &s;ome other Liquor.</P>
<P>Fomentations may be made out|wardly of the Decoctions of the &s;aid Herbs; but mo&s;t effectual are the fumes of them, that ri&s;e by quenching a Fire|&s;tone,
<PB N="82" REF="53">or a Mil-&s;tone in the &s;aid Deco|ctions. But the Decoctions are made more &s;trong in the be&s;t Wine, or &s;trong Ly, and natural brim&s;tone waters.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a bag of Millet torrefied, is very good, with the Flowers of Chamomel, and Cummin Seed, or the Leaves of Rue; by which the pains after Child|birth are mightily a&s;&s;waged.</P>
<P>Some extol the pulp of Coloquinti|da, with a third part of wormwood put into a bag.</P>
<P>This is held for a &s;ecret, to dry up the water that puffs up the Belly: A Plai&s;ter made of equal Parts of the Leaves of Rue and wormwood brui&s;ed, and made with Honey, to a Cata|pla&s;m.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a fomentation of quick-Lime quenched in brim&s;tone water of the Baths, is excellent.</P>
<P>For anoyntings: Remedies may be pre&s;ently made, &s;uch as are the Oyls made by de&s;cent from the &s;aid Herbs. For example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Bay-berries, one ounce: Leaves of Rue, one handful: Common Oyl, half a pound: the &s;tronge&s;t Wine, three ounces.</HI> The Ber|ries
<PB N="83" REF="53">being gro&s;ely beaten, and the Leaves chopt, make infu&s;ion for three hours; Boyl them til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, then &s;train them.</P>
<P>To al the&s;e, add a large Cupping Gla&s;s, with a great Flame, and &s;et it on the part that is puffed up; to which, for the di&s;cu&s;&s;ing of wind, <HI>Galen</HI> a&s;cribes a power, as it were an Inchantment.</P>
<P>Somtimes al&s;o without: di&s;cu&s;&s;ing winds are drawn out of the Body by &s;ome In&s;truments that Chirurgious u&s;e, that work &s;uddenly. So the winds are drawn forth that extend the great Inte|&s;tines, thru&s;ting in (after a Cly&s;ter given to void the Excrements) a dry Syring, and drawing it downwards.</P>
<P><HI>Hippocrates</HI> u&s;ed Smiths Bellows.</P>
<P>By the &s;ame way the winds that fil the Matrix, by help of a Syring, with a long thin Neck, may be drawn out.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rubificatives.</HEAD>
<P>They are called Rubificatives, be|cau&s;e they make the Skin extream Red.
<PB N="84" REF="54">When we have made u&s;e of dige&s;ters and di&s;cu&s;&s;ers, and cannot prevail, then we mu&s;t u&s;e Rubificatives, as in an Old Hip-Gout, and as it often comes to pa&s;s in a &s;tubborn, heavy Head-ach: The&s;e are laid to the Skin, Brui&s;ed, and made like a Catapla&s;m, either alone, or with hot Vineger; and the mo&s;t u&s;ual are the&s;e that follow: Garlick, wake Robin, Blew flower, Flea-bean, water Pepper, Sciatica Cre&s;&s;es, Hor&s;-Radi&s;h, wild Pennyroyal, Mu&s;tard, Staves-acre, common Crowfoot. Al&s;o a Plai&s;ter may be made by it &s;elf of Pi|geons, or Goo&s;s dung, or of dry Pitch melted with a fourth part of &s;ome hot Oyl, as of Rue, or Bays, and laid often on the part, and then pulled off again, until the part fir&s;t Waxeth red, then &s;wels a little, &amp; then &s;inks down again: for if it be let alone no longer than whil&s;t the part groweth red; it is ra|ther to be called a heating remedy, and &s;uch as helps the member to nouri&s;h|ment, than that which Evacuats in&s;en&s;i|bly. Wherefore on a cold, and dry Sto|mach, &amp; Limbs that are wa&s;ted with the Pal&s;ey, it is of excellent u&s;e, after due
<PB N="85" REF="54">Evacuations of the Body.</P>
<P>Thus much for Medicaments that re|&s;pect the matter peccant in quantity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicines that augment nece&s;&s;ary Matter, where it is deficient.</HEAD>
<P>Somtimes good Humors are wanting, and &s;ome things that proceed from them; al which are augmented of them|&s;elves, by the help of Nature changing good Nutriment; but they are produ|ced by accident, with the help of &s;uch Remedies as remove the things that hinder Nutriment. Therefore al the&s;e Remedies that &s;trengthen heat, and that allay the di&s;temper of the humors, and of the inward parts by heating them, encrea&s;e blood; the Catalogue of the&s;e mu&s;t be &s;ought for among&s;t things that alter: and for this rea&s;on, tho&s;e things that ingender Milk and Seed, the fir&s;t whereof is nece&s;&s;ary for the Nutriment of the Infant that is born, the latter for Procreation, do properly belong to Nutriment, becau&s;e
<PB N="86" REF="55">both of them proceed from blood; yet improperly tho&s;e Medicaments may be &s;aid to ingender milk and &s;eed, by the help whereof, the blood is more ea&s;ily and plentifully altered into the Nature of them both.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that encrea&s;e Milk.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e Medicaments are &s;aid al&s;o to encrea&s;e milk, that correct the impure blood, make it run, and &s;pread, drive it to the brea&s;ts, and draw it thither.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e correct it, that purge naughty humors which pollute the blood, and others that allay the exce&s;&s;ive qualities of the blood.</P>
<P>Such are, in a hot di&s;temper, Barley Water, and Broths altered with mal|lows, green Knotgra&s;s, and Sow-thi|&s;tles.</P>
<P>The milky juyce of Sow-thi&s;tles, and Dandelyon, mixt with Broth, and taken from two, to three &s;poonfuls, is much approved.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Pouder of Natural Cry&s;tal is
<PB N="87" REF="55">given with great profit, and is held for a Secret, taken in any of the &s;aid Deco|ctions, from half a dram to a dram.</P>
<P>In a cold di&s;temper, a Decoction is good, e&s;pecially of the tops of dry Dill in Broth, and of new Annis Seeds, or Garden Cre&s;&s;es, of Fennel, of fre&s;h Po|ley, or Leeks boyled in Water.</P>
<P>Broths altered with Dill, do &s;pread, and by a certain propriety drive it to the Brea&s;ts: So do Smallage, green Par|&s;ley, white Chiches, and all kinds of milk Trefoyl, common milk-wort, and Perewinkle, u&s;ed the &s;ame way.</P>
<P>Blood is drawn to the Paps by frequent &s;ucking, gentle rubbing, and loo&s;ening Fomentations: the be&s;t are made of hot white Wine. Al&s;o of the Decoction of Chamomel, and Dill, that are green; as al&s;o of mallows, Lin-&s;eed, Roots of mar&s;h-mallows, if they be boyled in Wine or Water.</P>
<P>If the&s;e profit not, Rubificatives mu&s;t be applied until the Brea&s;ts wax red.</P>
<P>For this purpo&s;e among&s;t the Cretians, they were wont to &s;trike and rub the Brea&s;ts with the Leaves of green Net|tles;
<PB N="88" REF="56">by the frequent u&s;e whereof, the Dugs were &s;aid to grow &s;o great, that they would yield milk enough.</P>
<P>Among&s;t the cheape&s;t Remedies, the&s;e are thought to engender much milk: Hens Eggs, white Wine, Rice boyled in milk, Grewel made with fine Wheat Flower and milk, or Pottage; al&s;o Pottage made with fine Wheat flower and white Wine, adding there|to, yolks of Eggs, and Butter: But the meat is made more plea&s;ant, if you put Sugar in the place of the Flower.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Things that encrea&s;e Sperm, or Seed.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e Nutriments chiefly &s;erve to augment Sperm, which by a Phy&s;ical force, move hot and thin Vapors, fit to cau&s;e erection of the Yard.</P>
<P>The cheap things are the&s;e: Fle&s;h of Ducks and Gee&s;e, cooked e&s;pecially with Garlick; the Brains of Calves and Pigs &s;ea&s;oned with Pepper and Salt, Beef Broth boyled with green Mints or Rochet, the Juyce pre&s;&s;ed out of the
<PB N="89" REF="56">Lungs of a Ram ro&s;ted, Swans Eggs fried with Butter, all kind of &s;hell Fi&s;h &s;ea&s;oned with Pepper, the Polypus, the Cuttle, and Crab &s;ea&s;oned the &s;ame way, Mu&s;hroms al&s;o &s;ea&s;oned with Salt and Pepper.</P>
<P>Among&s;t Pul&s;e, are the white Chich Pea&s;e, Beans, and Kidney Beans.</P>
<P>Of Fruit, are Hazel Nuts, Che&s;t-nuts, mad Apples &s;ea&s;oned with Oyl, Salt, and Pepper, &s;weet Apples and Grapes hanged up for to be eaten.</P>
<P>Of Herbs, is Garlick, yet yong and fre&s;h, Artichoaks, A&s;paragus.</P>
<P>Young Onions, e&s;pecially Scabious, Rochet, Clary, Turneps, Rape-roots, Par&s;nips, and Alizander Roots, with Pepper and Salt.</P>
<P>The&s;e are thought to be more effe|ctual; the thicke&s;t Root of all the Saty|riums, the Pizzle of a Bull, or Hart, Boars &s;tones, and of Foxes, and a Boar Pig that hath engendred, wa&s;hed in white Wine, and dried in an Oven. The Pouder of the&s;e may be drank mixed together, or el&s;e a part in white Wine to one dram.</P>
<P>This Pouder mo&s;t ea&s;ie to be provi|ded,
<PB N="90" REF="57">is mo&s;t effectual:</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Pizzle of a Bull, and Borax of the Apothecaries, of each three drams: the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tantial Root of Satyrion, two drams: Ginger, and Cinnamon, of each one &s;cruple: Saffron half a &s;cruple:</HI> Mingle them, and make a very fine Pouder; give of it in the morning, and after Supper one dram, in a little of the be&s;t Wine.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that alter the Cau&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>The Cau&s;e of a Di&s;ea&s;e is peccant di|vers waies; namely, by an open, and a &s;ecret quality. This requires Pre&s;erva|tives again&s;t Poy&s;on, that is either ori|ginal, which is corrected by Medica|ments that are cold, hot, moi&s;t, dry, or derived from the original, as thick, thin, tough, hard: Hardne&s;s comes from drine&s;s and congelation; &s;o doth acri|mony. To the&s;e are oppo&s;ed &s;uch things as make thin, &s;uch as thicken &s;uch things that cut, &s;cour, &s;often, di&s;|&s;olve clotted matter, and &s;uch as meti|gate: which things correct the fir&s;t
<PB N="91" REF="57">qualities, and thickners, thinners, and toughne&s;s that proceed from them. They are wont to be called Concocting and Preparative Remedies, becau&s;e by the allaying of the qualities that ex|ceed, the humors are the more ea&s;ily conquered by the Natural heat; and if there be any of them wholly unfit to be concocted, they are thus made fit to be driven out with more ea&s;e. Other Remedies that take away the &s;harpne&s;s and hardne&s;s, do not only &s;erve to pre|pare the humors, but to mollifie the parts that are exa&s;perated and harden|ed. Al&s;o tho&s;e that &s;cour away tough|ne&s;s, do very much &s;erve for other u&s;es, as for al foulne&s;s of the Skin, and for filthy Sores, and therefore they are to be numbered apart, after tho&s;e things that prepare the humors.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that prepare Choller.</HEAD>
<P>If Choller be thin and hot, Barley is good, Lettice, Pur&s;lain, Water-Lillies, blew Violets; the Decoctions of the&s;e,
<PB N="92" REF="58">from eight ounces, to one pound, or thereabouts.</P>
<P>The more effectual are, the Juyce of Barberries, &s;our Pomegranates, Ba&s;tard Corinths, and the Juyce of unripe Grapes wel purified, which may be ad|ded to the &s;aid Decoctions, from one to two ounces.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Remedy, is clarified Whey, with the Emul&s;ion, of one dram, or thereabouts, of white Poppy Seed, or Garden Night&s;hade, and great Hou&s;|leek added to the Decoctions.</P>
<P>In this ca&s;e, we mu&s;t forbear to give &s;weet Syrups.</P>
<P>If Choller be thick, either by adu&s;ti|on, or by the mixture of other Humors, cold attenuative Medicines are good, or &s;uch as are temperate, as Sorrel, Juyce of Lemmons, Citrons, Oranges, that are ripe, Gum, Cichory, green Maiden-hair, Endive, Strawberries, Li|verwort, Hawkweed, all the Sorrels, wild Endive, Sow-thi&s;tle, Dandelyon, four Trefoils, Seeds of Melones, Citruls, Gourds, and Cucumers; of which, E|mul&s;ions are made.</P>
<P>Of the &s;aid herbs, are made Decocti|ons
<PB N="93" REF="58">with fle&s;h Broth, or Water, to which may be added about two ounces of the Emul&s;ions of the &s;aid Seeds, or of the Juyce of Citrons, Lemmons or Oran|ges.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Juyce of Herbs clarified may be given, from one ounce to three ounces, in Broth, e&s;pecially in the win|ter Time, when fre&s;h Herbs cannot be had.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e clarified Juyces, Syrups may be pre&s;enty provided, if an equal quan|tity of clarified Honey be added to them, and &s;o Boyled to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup, it is mingled with the De|coctions from one ounce to two oun|ces.</P>
<P>Oxymel &s;imple may &s;upply the want of all the&s;e, about one ounce being put into the Decoctions, and Syrups of them al are very u&s;eful for this Humor, if there be no adu&s;tion, for which, the be&s;t thing is Clarified Whey to about two pound with the Emul&s;ion of the fore&s;aid Seeds.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="94" REF="59">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Preparatives for Flegm.</HEAD>
<P>All the&s;e heat and attenuate, and if the Flegm be very clammy and thick, they cut al&s;o and &s;cour away: the &s;ame belong to Salt flegm, it they be tem|pered with tho&s;e thing we mentioned to prepare Choller.</P>
<P>Therefore if flegm exceed not in thickne&s;s and toughne&s;s, the&s;e are con|venient.</P>
<P>For the Head, betony, Germander, Goats Rue, Marioram, Ro&s;emary, Sage, Arabian Stoechas, the Root of wild &s;et|wall.</P>
<P>For the Eys, Celondine, Eyebright, Fennel, Vervain.</P>
<P>For the nerves and Joynts, ground Pine, Juniper Berries, Hog Fennel, Primro&s;es;</P>
<P>For the Brea&s;t, Figs, Liquoris, lung|wort, Colt&s;-foot, Scabious.</P>
<P>For the Heart, Root of Angelica, holy Thi&s;tle, Caltrops, Herb Bennet, Ground-Ivy, Lavender, Pimpernel,
<PB N="95" REF="59">Scordium, the Root of Swallow wort.</P>
<P>For the Stomach: Wormwood of all kinds, cheifly the common wormwood, pills of Oranges and Citrons, Seeds or Mints.</P>
<P>For the Liver, wormwood, Agrimo|ny.</P>
<P>For the Spleen, Ceterach, Epithime, Fumitory, the rind and Root of Cap|paris, and Tamari&s;k.</P>
<P>For the Matrix, Mug-wort, Maiden-Hair, Calamint, Feaverfew, Pennyroy|all, Savin.</P>
<P>For the Reins and Bladder: Smallage, Sparagus, Fennel, Par&s;ley, Knee-holm.</P>
<P>For the whole Body, Cinquefoil, Tormentil, Oxymel, rich Metheglin.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e; Syrups may be made, or Decoctions in the Broth of a Pullet or &s;weet Wine, to which it were good to add Oxymel from one ounce to two ounces.</P>
<P>Decoctions are unprofitable for the Stomach and Inte&s;tines, becau&s;e they pa&s;s &s;o &s;oon from the affected part.</P>
<P>Therefore Oxymel only is good, to two ounces; or a Syrup made of the fore&s;aid Herbs. To which may be ad|ded
<PB N="96" REF="60">to di&s;cu&s;s winds, an Emul&s;ion of the Seeds of Citrons, or Oranges, to two ounces, or thereabouts, in fre&s;h Broth. Or after the Cu&s;tom of the Antients, Oxymel may be given, wherein the tops of Wormwood have been &s;oaked all night.</P>
<P>If Flegm be too thick and clammy, we mu&s;t never leave out Oxymel, which mu&s;t be added to Decoctions convenient, wherein mu&s;t be boyled &s;ome of the&s;e cutting Herbs, and &s;cou|ring, namely, Hy&s;op, Horehound, Po|ley, Savory, wild Time, Time, Goats Marjoram.</P>
<P>If you would make an Oxymel &s;ud|denly, which may be like Oxymel of Squils for its cutting and &s;couring Fa|culties, it may be &s;uch a one to free the Ob&s;tructions of the Bowels.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Bettony, Agrimony, Worm|wood, Fumitory, Cink foyl, of each one hand|full: Hy&s;op, Horehound, and Time, of each one handful and an half: Roots of Sparagus, Fennel, Par&s;ley, of each one ounce: Fountain Water four pound: Honey two pound.</HI> Let them boyl at a very &s;oft fire til the Ho|ney be clarified perfectly; then &s;train
<PB N="97" REF="60">them, and add of the be&s;t Vineger one pound, Annis Seeds two drams; Cin|namon and Ginger, of each one dram. Boyl al at a gentle fire to a Syrup; then &s;train al again through a wide Cloth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Preparatives for Melancholly.</HEAD>
<P>If Melancholly be not adu&s;t; Borrage, Buglo&s;s, Dodder, &s;tone fern, Maiden|hair, Liquoris, Hops, Balm, Fumitory, Harts tongue, &s;weet Prunes, are conve|nient; and to their Decoctions, Oxymel is profitably added, by rea&s;on of the Vineger that cuts the thickne&s;s of the Humors.</P>
<P>If the Humor be adu&s;t, things that prepare thick Choller are to be u&s;ed, and moreover the Juyce of &s;weet Ap|ples, which hath a peculiar prerogative here. Al&s;o it may be mixed from one, to two ounces, with the Decoctions of the &s;aid Herbs.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Syrup may be made of it, ta|king one part of clarified Honey, and two parts of Juyce of good Apples cla|rified,
<PB N="98" REF="61">and &s;o boyl them to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Liquid Syrup, to the con&s;umption of one third part.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that allay Acrimony.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things allay Acrimony, which either temper it, with a plea&s;ant moi|&s;ture, and water the matter; or el&s;e do anoint it with an Oyly, clammy &s;ub|&s;tance, whereof there is excellent u&s;e in cutting the pains of the heart, and bloody-flux.</P>
<P>The&s;e water and temper it: Foun|tain Water, or River Water, &s;weet Al|monds, Emul&s;ions of the four great cold Seeds husked, Barley Water, and the Cream of Pti&s;an made thereof, Ju|jubes, Lettice, all Milk, e&s;pecially of Heifers, and Cows, Whey, Liquoris, &s;weet Prunes, and Apples, Water Lil|lies, Pur&s;lain, Sow-thi&s;tles, the Fruit of Winter Cherries, Night&s;hade, both Hou&s;leeks, Venus Navil.</P>
<P>Of the Herbs; Decoctions, or Syrups, are made which are made more &s;weet,
<PB N="99" REF="61">and fit to temper the Humor, if you take Wine in place of Honey, and boyl it with an equal part of the Juyce of the Herbs, to a due con&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e al&s;o are compounded, Medicaments that are proper for &s;ome parts.</P>
<P>For pain of the Eyes, from &s;harp De|fluxions, a Catapla&s;m of a &s;weet Apple boyled in Milk, is good, and laid warm to the Eye.</P>
<P>For the heat of Urine, the Decoction of Liquoris is &s;ingular, either alone, or with the Fruit of Winter Cherries, ta|ken dayly, &s;ix ounces in the fir&s;t repa&s;t, when the Stomach is empty.</P>
<P>For the Gripings of the Guts, the Decoction of great Hou&s;leek in Rain Water, or two ounces of the Juyce of it in the Broth of a Chicken.</P>
<P>To the&s;e, add Lead only for outward u&s;es to anoint with, Oyls being beaten in a Mortar of Lead till they become thick.</P>
<P>The white and water al&s;o of an Egg, are very unctious: &s;o is white Starch in meats, new Butter, the fat Broth of the Entrals and the head of a Kid, Calf,
<PB N="100" REF="62">al&s;o of the feet of Hogs and Calves; old Oyl, chiefly boyled with Fountain Water till the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed. Among&s;t Herbs, are Mallows, Mar&s;h|mallows, Roots of Borrage, and great Con&s;ound; for the Decoctions of the&s;e herbs are mucilagenous.</P>
<P>It is held for a Secret for the heat of the Urine, to drink the white of an Eg with the like quantity of Juyce of Lemmons.</P>
<P>For the bloody flux, the Decoction of Mar&s;h-mallows altogether.</P>
<P>Hitherto appertains the feet of Par|tridg broyled; the Pouder whereof given to one dram, in Water of Corian|der, if a feaver be pre&s;ent, or if there be no feaver, in black Wine, will cure an old Dy&s;entery in three daies.</P>
<P>For painful Ulcers, and Clouds that are joyned with <HI>Ophthalmia,</HI> or redne&s;s of the Eyes; the Bal&s;om of Sugar di&s;|&s;olved in the white of an Eg that is hard boyled, and it is made excellent after this fa&s;hion. Put poudered Sugar into a gla&s;s that is fir&s;t wel wa&s;hed with &s;trong Vineger: then boyl it upon the Embers to a perfect redne&s;s: after that di&s;&s;olve
<PB N="101" REF="62">it by <HI>Deliquium</HI> in an Egg boyled hard, and the yolk taken out.</P>
<P>For outward Remedies; are profita|bly added, Goats and Deers Suet, fre&s;h Hogs Grea&s;e, Kids fat, (whereof with Apples, is made the common <HI>Pomatum</HI>) the Marrow of four-footed Bea&s;ts, Wax, e&s;pecially white Wax, and the Mucilages of Lin-&s;eed, Foenugreek, Flea-&s;eed, Quinces, the Roots of Mar&s;h mallows, Mallows; of all which there is a peculiar u&s;e in healing the choppings of the skin: yet the Mucilage of flea-&s;eeds, and Quinces, is given in|wardly, with inward Medicaments for pains of the Heart.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Scouring Medicaments.</HEAD>
<P>Scouring Remedies &s;eem to be con|trary to &s;uch as allay, and temper, be|cau&s;e they wipe away the clammine&s;s, and what is fa&s;t to the Parts they &s;cour off; of which kind are all &s;alt, nitrous, &s;harp, bitter things, which are good for al foulne&s;s of the Skin, foul Ulcers, and
<PB N="102" REF="63">Ob&s;tructions: But becau&s;e the matter of the&s;e, is manifold; to avoid all con|fu&s;ion in &s;o great variety, we &s;hal prin|cipally lay down here, &s;uch &s;couring Medicaments as are proper for the foulne&s;s of the Skin; and others that take away Ob&s;tructions, and purge Ul|cers, may be &s;ought for in the Title of things that open ob&s;tructions, and breed fle&s;h in Wounds, of which afterwards in the mu&s;tering up of Medicaments that re&s;pect Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>The&s;e clen&s;e the Skin weakly: Bitter Almonds, Peach Kernels, Juyce of Lemmons and Citrons, Butter, chiefly that which is &s;alt, <HI>Antale,</HI> Mother of Pearl, Bean flowers, husks, and meal, Foenugreek, Bran, unhulled Barley, Flowers and Roots of white Lillies, Leaves and Berries of Bays, Dock, the wild and the &s;harp, e&s;pecially the Root of it, Milk, and the whey of it, Litharge, Mallows, Root of Solomons Seal, Sca|bious, al Natural Baths moderately hot.</P>
<P>Of the Herbs are made Decoctions for Lotions and Baths.</P>
<P>Of the re&s;t are made divers Remedies
<PB N="103" REF="63">to beautifie the face, and take away the &s;pots; as al&s;o for Scabs and Itch.</P>
<P>To wa&s;h the face, and to make the hands white, the&s;e are &s;ingular good: Bitter Almonds, or Peach Kernels brui|&s;ed, and with milk brought to the form of a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Bean meal wrought with whey or milk to the con&s;i&s;tence of a liquid Liniment.</P>
<P>Bread of Barley meal &s;tamped with milk, boyled a little, and when it is hot, rubbed on gently.</P>
<P>Al&s;o <HI>Lac Virginis</HI> is much commended, which is made of one part of Litharge, and two parts of Vineger, they are mingled and &s;haked together, and &s;oa|ked for three hours: afterwards the Vineger being filtered, Rain water is put in, or Fountain water, in which a little Salt is di&s;&s;olved.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t excellent to beautifie the Skin, is of this kind.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Antalia, Mother of Pearls, of each equal parts:</HI> Pound them gro&s;ly, then lay them bed upon bed, with the Juyce of Lemmons, and put them in a moi&s;t place till they di&s;&s;olve; and then u&s;e
<PB N="104" REF="64">the Liquor as it is, or el&s;e di&s;tilled through a Filter, or <HI>Balneo.</HI></P>
<P>For Itch and Scabs, the&s;e are the be&s;t Unguents:</P>
<P>Take <HI>Litharge of Gold beaten and &s;ifted, three ounces: Ro&s;e Water, and common Oyl, (Oyl of Ro&s;es is better) of each four ounces.</HI> Drop in the water fir&s;t by little and lit|tle, &s;tirring of it con&s;tantly in a Morter, with a wooden Pe&s;tel, till the Pouder have drank up al the water, and be wel mingled with it; then add the Oyl by little and little, &s;tirring them alwaies til they be wel mixed. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>fre&s;h Butter two drams: the Root of the ditch Dock boyled and pulped through a &s;ieve: common Oyl, and Juyce of Lemmons, of each one ounce: Bay-berries finely pouder|ed and &s;earced, two ounces.</HI> Mingle them, and make a Liniment according to Art.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Lemmons may be left out, and yet the Compo&s;ition wil be ne|ver the wor&s;e.</P>
<P>The&s;e do moderately &s;cour for Lo|tions and Baths: Salt water, Bath wa|ter, Sea water, Nitrous water, Allum water, the Urin of a Boy that is &s;ound,
<PB N="105" REF="64">May-dew, the Juyce of &s;our Grapes, white Soap, the Decoction of Agarick, the Roots of Canes, Ivy of the Wals, Lupines, the black Vine, and of Olean|der.</P>
<P>For Oyntments, &s;erve al the Rozins, chiefly of the Larch, and Turpentine Trees, Mirrh, the inward Rind of the Elder Tree, Goats-horn burnt, Cuttle|bone burnt, new Tobacco, the Pouder of common Salt.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e, &s;ome Remedies are made, proved good by Experience, both for Scabs, and Spots of the Face.</P>
<P>For the Scab,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Leaves of Oleander, poudred and &s;ifted, two drams: common Salt, one dram; fre&s;h Butter, one ounce and an half. Mix them for a Liniment.</HI> Or,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Leaves of Tobacco, one handful; Oleander, and Bays, of each half a hand|ful, Butter, three ounces.</HI> Beat them in a Mortar, til they be al well mixed; then Melt it over the Coals, and pre&s;s it out &s;trongly. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Bay-berries, A&s;hes, Salt, of each one dram: common Oyl, three ounces: Wax two drams.</HI> Mix them for a Liniment. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<PB N="106" REF="65">
<P>Take <HI>Ro&s;in of the Larch, or Turpentine Tree, two ounces; fre&s;h Butter, one ounce: Oyl of Bays, Juyce of Lemmons, of each half a dram: burnt Cuttle-bone, or Ceru&s;s, or Litharge, one dram: common Salt two &s;cru|ples.</HI> Mix them for a Liniment. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>the middle Rind of the Elder Tree, Leaves of Tobacco, of each half a handfull: common Oyl, three ounces.</HI> Boyl them at a gentle fire until the Moi&s;ture be con|&s;umed (a &s;ign whereof is, If the Oyl poured into the fire, flame &s;ud|denly without Cracking) make expre|&s;&s;ion, and &s;train it; <HI>then add mo&s;t fine Pouder of Mirrh, two drams: Yellow Wax, one dram and an half.</HI> Mingle them, make a Liniment.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this following Stone, if it be di&s;&s;olved in &s;ome convenient Liquor, and then wa&s;h the place affected, with it, it takes away both Scabs and Itch.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Roch-Alum, one ounce and an half: Litharge of Gold three ounces, Borax of the &s;hops, Sea Salt, and white Lead, of each one ounce; the be&s;t Vineger one pound: Rain Water, half a pound,</HI> the Ceru&s;s, and the Litharge, mu&s;t be poudered and &s;ifted: then Boyl them in an unglazed Pot to
<PB N="107" REF="65">the hardne&s;s of a Stone.</P>
<P>For Spots of the face.</P>
<P>Take <HI>May dew purified by filtring, two pound: Juyce of Sour Grapes, or Lemmons, or Oranges, one pound: Roots of white Lil|lies, and Solomons Seal, of each two ounces.</HI> Make infu&s;ion for two days, in Hor&s;|dung, the Ve&s;&s;el being clo&s;e &s;topt; then di&s;til them by the heat of the &s;ame Dung, to make a Lotion for the Face. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>white Soap di&s;&s;olved into froth with May-Dew, or Vineger, two ounces: Meal of Lupins, half an ounce;</HI> mingle them and &s;tirr them diligently, and with a &s;oft fire Boyl them to a mean con&s;i&s;tence: after that, add to them, <HI>the Oyl of Peach Kernels, three ounces.</HI> mingle them and Boyl them at a gentle heat to the con|&s;i&s;tence of an Unguent; wherewith anoint the Face, and the Hands, before you &s;leep; and in the morning wa&s;h them with a Decoction of Bran.</P>
<P>The&s;e do &s;trongly clean&s;e for Baths, &amp; Lotions; Brim-&s;tone Baths, Barley, the Decoctions of Briony Root, Black-Hel|lebore, Centaury the le&s;s, Sowe wort, Elecampane Root, e&s;pecially if you add a little Salt, and Alum.</P>
<PB N="108" REF="66">
<P>For an Epitheme, the Water of quick Lime.</P>
<P>For Oyntments: Borax of the &s;hops, Nitre, Brim&s;tone, black Soap, A&s;hes of the Vine Branches, Lime wa&s;hed perfectly, the pulp of the Root of Elecampane, Oyl of Tartar.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e; remedies are compounded that are mo&s;t profitable and proved by Experience.</P>
<P>For a cru&s;ty Scab, and like to the Lepro&s;y, <HI>Amatus Lu&s;itanus</HI> &s;aith that this Unguent removes it, like to an Inchantment:</P>
<P>Take <HI>Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Vi|neger, and pulped through a Sieve, two ounces: Salt Butter, Ro&s;in of the Larch Tree, or Turpentine Tree of each half an ounce: common Salt finely poudred, two &s;cruples: Brim&s;tone one ounce.</HI> Mingle them for an Unguent. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>quick Brim&s;tone, two drams: A&s;hes of &V;ine Branches, common Salt poudered, of each one dram.</HI> Bind them in a fine Cloth and let them Boyl, in <HI>common Oyle, four ounces; Vineger, or Juyce of Lemmons one ounce.</HI> Boyl them til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, and with this matter, being
<PB N="109" REF="66">hot, anoint the part that is Scabby. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>quick Brim&s;tone, half an ounce; common Oyl, three ounces;</HI> Di&s;&s;olve it: then add, <HI>beaten Salt, and A&s;hes, finely &s;ifted, of each one dram: a little Wax:</HI> mingle them for a Liniment.</P>
<P>For a Lotion.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Roch-Alum, common Salt, and Brim|&s;tone poudered, of each one ounce: Black Soap one ounce and an half: Barley one handful; white Vineger, half a pound: common water, &s;ix pound.</HI> Boyl them til half be con&s;um|ed; &s;train them, and keep them for u&s;e.</P>
<P>For &s;pots of the Skin.</P>
<P>Take Black Soap di&s;&s;olved in a &s;trong Ly, two ounces, Borax two drams: boyl them til they be thick. Then add, the hu&s;ks of beans finely poudered, half an ounce; Oyl of Peach Kernels, three ounces. Mix them diligently til they be wel united, and make a kind of Soap.</P>
<P>In the place of the &s;aid Oyl, you may u&s;e common Oyl two ounces; Oyl of Tartar, one ounce. Mingle them, and anoint the place, morning and evening, and wa&s;h the Skin with &s;ome of the &s;aid Decoctions.</P>
<PB N="110" REF="67">
<P>Of this kind is the Sope that the Venetian Women u&s;e to deck their faces, Hair and Hands. The compo&s;i|tion is, this.</P>
<P>Take dama&s;k Sope, four ounces: di&s;&s;olve it in Juyce of Lemmons, what is &s;ufficient. Then add, Oyl of &s;weet Almonds and of Tartar, of each two ounces, let them &s;tand in the Sun and be &s;tirred every day, until they grow as thick as an Unguent. The part is anoint|ed with this; and then it is wa&s;hed with the Decoction of Barley or Bran.</P>
<P>Old &s;pots &amp; Morphew are taken off with the water of Quick-Lime made with Whey; wherewith the di&s;coloured place mu&s;t be often touched in them when the Skin comes off; re&s;tore it a|gain with Unguent of Litharge, de&s;cri|bed among&s;t weak &s;couring remedies.</P>
<P>A man of great fame u&s;ed this re|medy for a high Secret, and &s;o picked great &s;tore of Money out of the Po|ckets of great Ladies.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies to &s;often hard things.</HEAD>
<P>Though the hardned Humor may
<PB N="111" REF="67">&s;eem to be corrected by &s;oftening only, yet every hardne&s;s requires not Re|medies of the &s;ame force: For cold and dry Humors that are hardened by con|gealing, are melted with Heaters only, without any notable drivers; which things are properly called Softeners. Yet Milk and Blood when they are Clotterd, and congealed, &s;eing they fal to that by want of their proper heat, they require things that heat excee|dingly, or &s;uch as attenuate and cut.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Milk made like Chee&s;e, re|quires cold and moi&s;t things, with &s;ome Thinners of parts, becau&s;e &s;trong heat &s;eperating the Whey from the thicker part, turneth it into Chee&s;e.</P>
<P>Emollients, and proper remedies to Melt, are of two &s;orts: Some are fit for Scirrhous Humors, which are &s;omewhat &s;tronger, and di&s;cu&s;s the melted matter: Some are gentler and are fit for hardned Humors, without any &s;ingular &s;tuffing, or plenty of mat|ter: the u&s;e thereof mu&s;t al&s;o precede in Scirrhous affects, before &s;trong Emol|lients, that what is congeled may be the more ea&s;ely melted and more &s;afe|ly di&s;cu&s;&s;ed.</P>
<PB N="112" REF="68">
<P>The gentle Emollients, are, mar&s;h-Mallows, Borrage, Buglo&s;s, Brank-Ur|&s;ine, Fenugreek, Liquoris, Lin-Seed, white Lillies, Mallows, Melilot, Ray|&s;ins.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e may be made Decoctions, Syrups, Electuaries, for inward u&s;es: Al&s;o they &s;erve to make outward Fo|mentations, Unguents, and Catapla&s;ms, which are chiefly prepared with Butter, fre&s;h Tallow, but e&s;pecially of Mans Fat, and of the new Wax, the Mar|row of four-footed Bea&s;ts, the Grea&s;e of Sheeps Wool, common Oyl of O|lives wel ripe, Suet, and the Mucila|ges of Mar&s;h-mallows, Mallows, Foenu|greek, Lin-&s;eed.</P>
<P>For Fomentations &s;erve particularly, moi&s;t wool that is properly the wa&s;hing of wool, and water and oyl warm.</P>
<P>Compounds that are ea&s;ie to provide, are of this kind.</P>
<P>For an Oyntment,</P>
<P>Take <HI>Roots of white Lillies, Mallows, Mar&s;h-mallows, of each one ounce: Chamo|mel, or Dill, of each one handful: white Wine four ounces: common Oyl that comes of ripe Olives, eight ounces.</HI> Boyl them till
<PB N="113" REF="68">the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, then pre&s;s and &s;train them. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take the mucilage of Lin-Seed and Roots of mar&s;h-mallows, of each one ounce, Ox marrow and fre&s;h Butter of each one ounce, common Oyl three ounces, new Wax three drams: mingle them for an Unguent.</P>
<P>For a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Take Roots of white Lillies one ounce, Leaves of mallows one hand|ful, Boyl them gently, then melt two ounces of Butter with them, and make a Catapla&s;m. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take Roots of mar&s;h-mallows Boyled &amp; pulped through a Sieve two ounces, meal of Lin-&s;eed and Melilot, of each one ounce and an half, Roots of white Lillies half an ounce: Ox marrow one ounce, common Oyl three ounces, Decoction of mallows, what will be &s;ufficient, make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>The&s;e are &s;tronger that follow; for they are all u&s;ed outwardly, except the Saffron and the Root of &s;harp Bind-Weed, which it may be Agreeth with Judian Sar&s;a, both in kind and vertue: the re&s;t are &s;eldome given alone but
<PB N="114" REF="69">mixt with more gentle Emollients.</P>
<P>For Fomentations therefore, add Roots of bryony, Sow-bread, wild Cucumber, and Flower-de-Luce fre&s;h, with the Decoction of the&s;e; an effectual Fumigation may be prepared by quen|ching a Fire-&s;tone or a peice of a Mil|&s;tone in it. Bitumenous waters of Baths, &s;erve of them&s;elues for Baths and Fo|mentations.</P>
<P>For to anoint, Goo&s;e fat and Deers &s;uet are good, &s;o is Oyl pre&s;&s;ed out of Nuts, the Lees of Oyl, and Oyl of Peter.</P>
<P>For Plai&s;ters, take the roots of Ja|cinths, Daffodil, fre&s;h Leaves of Tobac|co, and the flowers of Flower-de-Luce.</P>
<P>By them&s;elves, the&s;e &s;erve in&s;tead of a Plai&s;ter: Bitumenous Dirt, Ox Dung, chiefly mixed with Lees of Oyl, and Old Chee&s;e Kneaded with Broth of Salt fle&s;h.</P>
<P>The&s;e Cerats they add: dry pith, Ro&s;in, Colophonia, Bitumen, Jet, Ammoni|acum, which makes a Plai&s;ter it &s;elf if it be di&s;&s;olved in &s;harp Vineger.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e may divers medicaments be pre&s;ently compounded that are effect|ual
<PB N="115" REF="69">again&s;t Schirous Tumors. For exam|ple.</P>
<P>For an Oyntment.</P>
<P>Take Sowbread and wild Cucumber of each half an ounce: white Lillies one ounce: Chamomel and green Tobacco of each one handful, Leaves of Spurge, Laurel half a handful, common Oyl one pound, white Wine four ounces, Vineger two ounces, Boyl them at a &s;oft fire til half be con&s;umed, then pre&s;s them out.</P>
<P>A Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Take a whole Onion Boyled in Vineger one ounce, flowers of Blew flower-de-luce &s;teeped in white Wine one Pugil, Goo&s;e grea&s;e half an ounce, beat them altogether and make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only, which they cal Burgundy Pitch, which they hold for a &s;ecret and prefer it before Amoniacum.</P>
<P>The&s;e di&s;&s;olve and hinder clotted Blood; Vineger, Po&s;ca, Oxymel &s;imple, the Decoction of Round Ari&s;to|lochia, Calamints, Savory, Time, the &s;hels of green Nuts.</P>
<PB N="116" REF="70">
<P>Yet the Decoctions are made &s;tronger with Po&s;ca, as the runnet of a hare drank to one dram with Water and Vineger.</P>
<P>A pre&s;ent and excellent remedy is made of a Ly of Vineger, Salt and Honey, after this fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>Take of Ly three ounces, Vineger two ounces, clarified Honey half an ounce, common Salt one &s;cruple: mingle the&s;e at a &s;oft fire, for to drink.</P>
<P>Al&s;o if Oxymel be prepared, boy|ling Honey with the fir&s;t Wine that comes forth without pre&s;&s;ing, til al the &s;cum be taken off, it will be a plea&s;ant and effectual remedy.</P>
<P>For curded Milk; gentle &s;oftners are convenient, mixt in Fomentations with Garden Smallage, mountain Smallage, cummin, fre&s;h Mint, and Rue, adding a little quantity of Vineger.</P>
<P>In Catapla&s;mes: Bean Meal, Lintels, with Oxymel or Mul&s;a, for Vineger.</P>
<P>This following Fomentation is ap|proved.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Mallows, Roots of Mar&s;h|mallows, Herbs, Garden Smallage, Moun|tain
<PB N="117" REF="70">Smallage, Roots of Fennel, of each one handful, Leaves of Bays, Flowers of Chamo|mel, of each one Pugil, common Water &s;ix pound.</HI> Let them Boyl till a third part be con&s;umed, to foment and wet the Brea&s;ts; of the re&s;t, an excellent Plai&s;ter may be made.</P>
<P>The&s;e that follow are proved reme|dies.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Turpentine often wa&s;hed in white Wine three ounces, three whole Eggs, Saffron one &s;cruple, Yellow Wax two drams.</HI> Mingle them, and make a Cerate to be Spread on a Linnen Cloth, leaving a hole that the Paps may come forth to be &s;uck|ed. Or,</P>
<P>Take <HI>Bean Meal three ounces, common Oyl two ounces, Turpentine one ounce, two Yolks of Eggs, Saffron one &s;cruple, with the Decoction of Mallows and Par&s;ley, made with Vineger what is &s;ufficient.</HI> Mingle them and make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Al&s;o fre&s;h Butter wa&s;hed very well in the Decoction of Mallows, and mingled with the Pouder of the Roots of Mal|lows or Mar&s;h-mallows, to the con&s;i|&s;tence of an Unguent, and laid on upon a Colewort leaf, is a mo&s;t excellent re|medy
<PB N="118" REF="71">for pained brea&s;ts and hardned by the Milk &s;topped in them.</P>
<P>This al&s;o is &s;ingular:</P>
<P>Take common Oyl of ripe Olives, new Wax of each, a like quantity: mingle them, then wa&s;h them wel three times in Ro&s;e water, and lay them on with a Colewort leaf.</P>
<P>The &s;ame remedies &s;erve for clotterd Milk, tempered with cold and moi&s;t in|gredients, and with a greater quantity of Vineger.</P>
<P>Yet A Plai&s;ter of Bran exceeds them, or of Barley Boyled with Vineger, ad|ding thereto a little Saffron.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Catapla&s;m of Bean Meal with the Decoction of Night-&s;hade that bears winter Cherries, made with Vineger, which is made mo&s;t effectual if you mix the Runnet of a hare with it, and fre&s;h Butter.</P>
<P>Hitherto we have &s;poken of remedies to correct the manife&s;t quality of the cau&s;es of Di&s;ea&s;es: but the hidden quality, &s;ince it is venemous, and is in tho&s;e things that are faulty in &s;ub|&s;tance, it requires remedies again&s;t Malignity, which we &s;hall &s;et down
<PB N="119" REF="71">afterwards, among&s;t tho&s;e remedies that are oppo&s;ite to the cau&s;e that is preternatural by the whole kind.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth &s;til.</HEAD>
<P>Want of motion in tho&s;e things that by nature &s;hould move at certain times, fals out principally when the cour&s;es are &s;topt, or in hard Labour in Child-Birth, or when the Secundine &s;taieth behind, as al&s;o when the blind Hemor|rhoids are bread within; the&s;e are remedied by &s;uch things as procure the cour&s;es, help Travel, drive out the Secundine, and the Child that is dead, and al&s;o provoke the &s;ecret Piles.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies that move the Cour&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things that properly move the Terms, do melt the Blood and open the Orifices of the Veins: the matter
<PB N="120" REF="72">whereof being it is of large extent, <HI>Galen</HI> di&s;tingui&s;heth it into three Ranks, Gentle, the u&s;e whereof is when the Terms are dimini&s;hed: Mean which are more fit for the Terms that are &s;topt; Forcible, &s;uch as are u&s;ed as the la&s;t remedies when other helps profit not; and the&s;e are not given inwardly, but in Pe&s;&s;aries, or infu&s;ions.</P>
<P>The Chief and mo&s;t Obvious among&s;t the gentle, are, Maiden-Hair, Red Chiches, the fir&s;t Broth of them, Cats|tails, of Walnut Trees, flowers of Stock|gelli-flowers, dried in the &s;hade, white Lillies, flowers of Balm, common Maiden-hair, Cinkfoyl, of the&s;e are made Decoctions and Syrups, chiefly with Aromatical white Wine.</P>
<P>The&s;e remedies are counted to be the mo&s;t effectual of them.</P>
<P>Take maiden-hair or common mai|den-hair half a handful, flowers of wall|flowers dried one ounce, &s;weet white Wine &s;ix ounces, make infu&s;ion for twelve hours, then Boyl them &s;oftly; till a third part be con&s;umed &s;train it, add Saffron three grains: mix all for to drink hot. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<PB N="121" REF="72">
<P>Take <HI>Walnuts that are dry but not rank, half an ounce, Broth of red Chiches four ounces, Odoriferous white Wine two ounces: Boyl al to a third part, &s;train them, and add Saffron three grains, or Cinnamon &s;ix grains.</HI> Mingle them for a potion.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the frequent u&s;e of walnuts is held to move the cour&s;es by their property, and therefore women make profitable Cakes and Puddings of Nuts, green Par&s;ly Leaves and Saffron.</P>
<P>To anoint the Hipogau&s;trium out|wardly; is made an Oyl of wall flowers, by &s;etting in the Sun, or el&s;e of Lillies: al&s;o pre&s;ently an Oyl is made by de&s;cent, of the Roots of white Lillies, and the tops of Dill and Chamo|mel;</P>
<P>The Mean are; round Ari&s;tolochia, Mugwort, all &s;pices, among&s;t which Cinnamon and Saffron are preferred, Garden dai&s;ies, double-toung, calamint, chiefly of the mountain, both the Dittanies, the Root of &s;word-flag, Featherfew, marioram, Mercury, Hor&s;e|mints, Bazil, Penniroyal, &s;avin.</P>
<P>Of which are made, Decoctions, Syrups, Electuaries, or one dram of their Pou|der
<PB N="122" REF="73">is given in white Wine that is &s;piced.</P>
<P>To the&s;e: dry remedies, as Pouders, Bolus and Pills, borax of the &s;hops is profitably adioyned, or mirrh, flowers of brim&s;tone, and Nettle Seed.</P>
<P>The Decoction of Garden Dai&s;ies dried, is held for a &s;ecret given in white Wine &s;piced.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Decoction of Nettle Seed one ounce in white Wine.</P>
<P>So is the Decoction of the Leaves of Garden Ground&s;el, plucked off down|ward, in white Wine or Broth of red Chiches.</P>
<P>Al&s;o ba&s;tard Dictamni of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> either in Decoction or in Pouder, and drank in white Wine.</P>
<P>Al&s;o one dram of the &s;owre&s;t Leaven or thereabouts, di&s;&s;olved in white Wine, and drank without or with a little Saffron.</P>
<P>So is the Seed of Nigella one dram with one &s;cruple of Cinnamon in white Wine.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this Pouder is mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>Take Borax of the &s;hops one &s;cruple, Cinnamon, Roots of round Ari&s;tochia,
<PB N="123" REF="73">Leaves of Savin and Dictamni of Crete, or Nigella &s;eed half a &s;cruple, fine Sugar two &s;cruples, mingle them, and make a fine Pouder to take at once in the Broth of red Chiches, or the be&s;t white Wine.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Phy&s;ick Wine may be made, whereof four ounces drank hot in a morning for &s;ome days together, before the u&s;ual time the Terms are wont to come down will forciblly provoke them: and it is thus made.</P>
<P>Take Hearbs; Mugwort, mountain Calamint, Penniroyal Savin of each one Pugil, Cinnamon, Annis Seed of each one dram, Saffron one &s;cruple, cut the Herbs and brui&s;e the Seeds and for twenty four hours infu&s;e them in &s;trong white Wine two pound, then Boyl them a little and &s;train them.</P>
<P>Outwardly the waters of hot brim|&s;tone Baths are convenient, al&s;o the Decoctions of the fore&s;aid Herbs, wherewith are provided Fomentations and infu&s;ions for the matrix; al&s;o fumes are made which much be u&s;ed on &s;uch as are &s;ubject to fits of the Mother, burning under them &s;uch things as &s;mel
<PB N="124" REF="74">&s;weet, which may be u&s;ed indifferently for others, by mingling &s;weet and &s;tinking things together: for &s;weet &s;mels do open the pa&s;&s;age of the Ma|trix, and &s;tinking things do &s;tir up the Expul&s;ive Faculty to Vacuation.</P>
<P>For a &s;weet &s;mel Spices are good, Bay-berries, grains of Juniper, Mario|ram, Mirrh, Roots of Dog-Fennel, Savory, Time.</P>
<P>But for a &s;tinking &s;mel, &s;erve Bitu|men, Jeat, Rue, brim&s;tone, and &s;ome ordinary Gums, but chiefly <HI>A&s;a-foetida,</HI> and <HI>Sagapenum.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly pe&s;&s;aries are &s;ingularly com|mended of Garlick Brui&s;ed with Oyl of Spik, al&s;o of the Juyce of mercury, or the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder made up with Wool.</P>
<P>For a &s;ecret are held the Leaves of the greate&s;t plants, put under the naked foles of the Feet, and worn there.</P>
<P>Violent remedies which are mingled with other remedies, either pe&s;&s;aries or internal Medicaments, are the Roots of Cuckoo-pint, and Dragons, of Briony, Coloquintida, Sowbread, both Helle|bores a Gal but chiefly of an Ox water
<PB N="125" REF="74">Pepper, and the Seed of Staves-Acre.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Helps for Delivery.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things that move the Terms do al&s;o help to deliver, but be&s;ide them, the&s;e do &s;ingularly yeeld help, the Dung of a Hawk drank one dram in white Wine.</P>
<P>The Dung of a Falcon, the &s;ame Do&s;e drank in white Wine.</P>
<P>The Te&s;ticles of a Hor&s;e that is gel|ded, cut into &s;lices and wa&s;hed in white Wine, and then dried in the &s;moak, the Pouder of it is given to one dram in &s;piced Wine.</P>
<P>The Root of Hor&s;e-toung, the Herb Motherwort, the Pouder of them is given a whole &s;poonful, or the Juyce in hot white Wine.</P>
<P>Fallopius holds it for a great &s;ecret, to take one &s;cruple of Borax of the &s;hops in the Decoction of Featherfew, or Savin.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Travail is made the more
<PB N="126" REF="75">ea&s;ie, if Women eat Snails in their meats &s;ome days before their Delivery.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Turtle Ro&s;ted, who&s;e Belly is &s;tuffed with Bay-berries, Juniper berries and Cinnamon, being eaten every other day before the time of Child-Birth.</P>
<P>But outwardly when the Throwes are upon them the Eagle-&s;tone bound to the Thigh is a help, &s;o is the Ja&s;per, and the coral u&s;ed the &s;ame way, and the Load-&s;tone held in the left hand.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies to drive out the Secundine.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things that were now pro|pounded to be taken inwardly to help Delivery, do al&s;o help to drive forth the Secundine.</P>
<P>But particularly the&s;e are good, the Decoction of Sage in white Wine, the Root of the Bay's of Alexandria, Seed of Hony-&s;uckles, the Seeds or Root of Se&s;ely of Marcelles the Pouder of them is given to one dram, in hot Wine or the Decoction of Sage, al&s;o the Pouder
<PB N="127" REF="75">of Bay-berries is effectual to one dram, taken in white Wine or water, or the Decoction of white Lillies.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this Pouder is commended.</P>
<P>Take Roots of Round Ari&s;tolochia and Mirrh of each half a dram, Pepper one &s;cruple, make a Pouder to be taken in a Decoction of equal parts of Mai|den-hair and common Maiden-hair.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the&s;e are held for approved, the Pouder of dictamni drunk in &s;ome convenient Liquor and the fore&s;aid Pouder of the Te&s;ticles of a Hor&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies to open the Hemorroids.</HEAD>
<P>If the Blind piles &s;wel, they may be opened by rubbing them with the Leaves of Borrage, of a Fig-Tree, wild Cucumber and Briony; al&s;o the inter|nal u&s;e of Aloes helps, but if the&s;e do not profit you mu&s;t &s;et on the Leeches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies to force out the dead Child.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e things that expel the Secun|dine,
<PB N="228" REF="76">force out the dead Child al&s;o.</P>
<P>E&s;pecially, vertue is a&s;cribed to Dittany, both in drink, and per|fume.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the milk of the fir&s;t litter of a Bitch being drank is very good in par|ticular.</P>
<P>Water Par&s;neps taken for a Pot-herb in meat.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Scordium drank to half an ounce with Saffron.</P>
<P>The fume of Pigeons dung, of brim|&s;tone, of the ca&s;t Skin of a Serpent.</P>
<P>Al&s;o we mu&s;t not negle&s;t in this ca&s;e &s;uch things as tied to the Thigh do ea&s;e Child-Birth.</P>
<P>Among&s;t the approved remedies the&s;e two are extolled.</P>
<P>Take mineral Chri&s;ocolla two &s;cruples, or Borax one dram, Cinnamon and Saffron of each one &s;cruple; mingle them, make a Pouder to be given in white Wine or the Decoction of Mug|wort.</P>
<P>Al&s;o take Chry&s;ocolla of the mines, or Borax half a dram, Dictamni one &s;cruple, Juyce of Savin half an ounce, white Wine what is &s;ufficient, or if there
<PB N="229" REF="76">be a Feaver take the Decoction of com|mon maiden-hair, or maiden-hair three ounces; mingle them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies that quiet the Matter, that is Carried with a wrong Motion.</HEAD>
<P>Such things as are moved preter|naturally, are quieted by revul&s;ion to the oppo&s;ite part: and tho&s;e that repel from the part that receiveth, and &s;uch as make a &s;top between the part that &s;ends, and the part that receiveth, al&s;o by things that thicken the matter that runs, and by &s;uch as bind up the pa&s;&s;ages, by which the flux is conveied.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e things intercept, which are &s;et down to prepare thin Choller, and &s;uch as by an unctious quality do a&s;&s;wage the acrimony.</P>
<P>All tho&s;e things that bind up the pa&s;&s;ages do repel al&s;o, of which we &s;hall &s;peak a little afterwards, and be&s;ides tho&s;e, all cold and moi&s;t things that by thickening intercept, of which we &s;pak before.</P>
<PB N="230" REF="77">
<P>Tho&s;e things make revul&s;ion, namely &s;uch as are called Rubificatives, reck|oned among&s;t tho&s;e things that Evacuate in&s;en&s;ibly; al&s;o Ve&s;icatories made of Cantharides, in Cerats or Plai&s;ters, or of Crow-foot, or the Roots of the le&s;&s;er Crow-foot brui&s;ed alone, and laid on for a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>The Form of a Cerate:</P>
<P>Take <HI>Whole Cantharides half an ounce, Seeds of Ammeos three &s;cruples and an half, Ro&s;in five drams, Wax two drams.</HI> Mingle them for a Cerate for four Ve&s;icatories fit for a Body that is of ripe years: for Children and &s;ofter bodies half &s;o much is &s;ufficient.</P>
<P>For a Plai&s;ter for four Ve&s;icatories:</P>
<P>Take <HI>three or four drams of Cantharides, (for a harder or &s;ofter con&s;titution of the Body) Mu&s;tard four &s;cruples, Seeds of Ammeos one dram, the &s;owre&s;t Leaven one ounce and half, the &s;harpe&s;t Vineger what is &s;ufficient.</HI> Make a Plai&s;ter.</P>
<P>The &s;harpe&s;t Vineger, is Vineger of Squils, and that which may be pre&s;ently made of the Decoction of Garlick, Wake-Robin, or red Onions: or the &s;aid Cantharides are brui&s;ed and made
<PB N="231" REF="77">up with crums of new bread, or with Figs; then moi&s;ten the matter with the &s;harpe&s;t Vineger and make a Plai&s;ter.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Bladder may be pre&s;ently ray&s;ed, by dropping on &s;calding Oyl or water, but &s;o that the matter may be &s;prinkled through a large hollow Cane, lea&s;t it &s;hould &s;pread further than is fit: or el&s;e the Oyl mu&s;t be dropped on the part that is fenced about with a Circle of Wax or &s;uch like, &s;o large as you de&s;ire to make the Bli&s;ter large.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies that Root out the Cau&s;e that is offen&s;ive in the whole &s;ub&s;tance.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e Bodies offend in &s;ub&s;tance, and are Preternatural by the whole kind, that &s;tick in the wounded part; as Worms, Stones, Poy&s;ons, Corruption; for the&s;e, are proper, &s;uch things as can draw them out, kill the Worms, break the &s;tone, Pre&s;ervatives again&s;t Poy&s;ons, and &s;uch as can remove Corruption,</P>
<P>Remedies that draw out: The&s;e
<PB N="232" REF="78">though they mu&s;t hold proportion with the Bodies that are fa&s;tned in, for which cau&s;e &s;everal remedies draw out &s;everal matters; as the Load-Stone draweth Iron, Amber draws Chaff: and &s;ome are indifferent to draw out any things contained in Wounds: namely Pimper|nel, Roots of Canes, Root of round Ari&s;tolochia, Dittany, the upper Root of Sword-flag, a Lizards Head, Bee-Glew, the Root of &s;tinking Gladdon, the middle rind of the Teil-Tree, Bird-Lime; al which are put into Plai&s;ters, either brui&s;ed alone, or el&s;e are applyed with Wine to the wound.</P>
<P>Some do attribute a wonderful force to draw forth all things that are fa&s;tned in, and that from the deepe&s;t parts of the body, to a Fox Toung pulled forth in the month of May and dried; and when you wil u&s;e it, &s;teep it in Wine until it grow &s;oft, and &s;o lay it hot to the Wound.</P>
<P>Some again a&s;cribe the &s;ame force to the fat and Skin of a Hare, prepared the &s;ame way, but it differs &s;omething from things that draw out, by the manner of application, for it draws not
<PB N="233" REF="78">things fa&s;tened in toward it &s;elf, but drives them from it; and therefore it is not laid on the mouth of the wound, but on the part again&s;t it of the &s;ame member; as if a Blow being given to the forepart of the Head, &s;ome thing &s;ticketh in it, they &s;ay it wil be driven out by laying the &s;aid matters to the Noddel.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies for Worms.</HEAD>
<P>Of the&s;e &s;ome do only kil them, and &s;ome kil them and drive them forth: of remedies that kil them, &s;ome are mo&s;t fit for broad worms; &s;ome for round worms, and &s;ome for the bots. Other things there are that are contrary to all kinds of Worms, and for their &s;ingular faculty by which they kill Worms may be &s;et down for the poi&s;ons of worms.</P>
<P>The&s;e kill broad worms; Garlick, Bay-berries, the Roots of foemal fern, the great Turn&s;ole, the Root of the Pomegranate, the rind of the Root of the mulberry, nigella Seed, Walnuts,
<PB N="234" REF="79">Tobacco, Vitriol; they are given in &s;ub&s;tance to one dram, or in Decoction; chiefly in Vineger or &s;weet Lixivium.</P>
<P>The&s;e things kil the round worms, and the Bots; Vineger, Juyce of Oran|ges, Citrons, Lemmons, Cole-Seed, Roots of Bi&s;tort, Carduus Benedictus, Roots of Gra&s;s, Bole-armoniac, Mother|wort the Herb, Cro&s;s-wort the Root, Vervius, Juyce of Pur&s;lain, Root of Divels-bit, Terra Sigillata, Tormentil, Root of Swallow wort.</P>
<P>The&s;e kil and drive them out; all kinds of Wormwood, Southernwood, bitter Almonds, Salt Bath waters, Seeds of Citrons and Oranges, Germander, white Dictamni, the Root of both Gentians, Lixivium, Lupins, Mirrh, Horehound, peach Kernels, flowers and Leaves, Rue, Scordium, brim&s;tone, nettle Seeds.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e; &s;ome remedies are &s;uddenly made that are proved by experience.</P>
<P>For example in drink, thus:</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Emul&s;ion of one dram of the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges prepared, four ounces of &s;weet Lixivium, adding &s;weet Wine two ounces.</HI> Mingle them. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<PB N="235" REF="79">
<P>Take <HI>Wormwood in Pouder one &s;cruple,</HI> Put it into an Orange that is moderate|ly dried, with a little Sugar and Vineger; Boyl it on hot Embers, then pre&s;s it out to drink.</P>
<P>The&s;e are accounted &s;ecrets; either the Tops of Eupatory of <HI>Auicenna,</HI> or of Sea Wormwood that bears Seed, given from one &s;cruple to one dram or there|abouts, in Wine or milk or &s;ome &s;uch Liquor.</P>
<P>For external remedies: are pre&s;ently provided, Epithems of Aloes and Mirrh, brui&s;ed with Vineger, or mingled with Ox Gaul; al&s;o Fomentations with wormwood, made hot on a fire-hot Tile, &amp; &s;prinkled with Vineger, or with peach Leaves &s;tamped with hot Vineger.</P>
<P>For to anoint: &s;uch an effectual Oyl may be provided.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the&s;e Herbes: common Wormwood, Carduus Benedictus, Scordium, Tobacco, of each one handful, Root of Sowbread half an ounce, Coloquintida two drams, common Oyl two pound, &s;harpe&s;t Vineger half a pound:</HI> Boyl all at a &s;oft fire, til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, pre&s;s it out; add to the &s;trained matter, <HI>Mirrh one ounce,</HI> in
<PB N="236" REF="80">Pouder: Boyl them again at a gentle fire tll the Mirrh be di&s;&s;olved, then &s;train them.</P>
<P>But the&s;e are the very poy&s;ons of worms: Harts horn, Hemp-&s;eed, or Leaves or Juyce, Corallina, or Sea|mo&s;s, the Juyce of new Elecampane, the Pouder of Earth-worms, Goats-rue, Quick-&s;ilver well clean&s;ed.</P>
<P>Al&s;o common Mercury wel prepared may be given, (I &s;ay well prepared) to one &s;cruple or thereabouts, made up into a Pill with leaf Gold.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Wine is effectual, wherein the &s;aid Mercury hath been &s;teeped al night or wel &s;tirred with it: it is well purged for this end, and made without danger if it be &s;tirred wel with the Juyce of Rue in a Gla&s;s Vial til it be perfectly white.</P>
<P>A plea&s;ant and effectual Vineger is provided; if in one pound of Vineger, there be &s;teeped two days, Tops of St. Johns-wort one Pugil, Ra&s;ped Harts-horne half an ounce, broken Cinnamon one dram, then &s;train it for u&s;e: it is taken in Sallets, or in a Spoon, with a little Suger.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="237" REF="80">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies to Break the Stone.</HEAD>
<P>Writers have &s;et down, a great many more, than are approved to be good, unle&s;s we may &s;uppo&s;e this to proceed from the diver&s;ity of the &s;tones: for &s;ome Medicaments break Stones in the Kidneys, by which the &s;tones of the Bladder is not touched, nor can al tho&s;e things that di&s;&s;olve &s;oft brittle &s;tones, and that are made of Sand, not yet compacted together, break in pieces hard &s;tones that are Glewd fa&s;t, and made of a clammy and dryed matter: again, &s;ome Medicaments break the &s;mal Stones and that are gravelly, and drive them out by their ruggedne&s;s, which can work noe effect upon the greater Stones in the Kidneys: there|fore it is worth the labour to di&s;tingui&s;h the&s;e remedies into a three-fold order: into tho&s;e that di&s;&s;olve a hard &s;tone; into tho&s;e that di&s;&s;olve a &s;oft &s;tone, and not yet fa&s;t compacted out of Sand, and into tho&s;e that drive out &s;mal &s;tones
<PB N="238" REF="81">and Gravel. Of all &s;orts the&s;e are the mo&s;t Obvious to be provided.</P>
<P>For &s;mal Stones and Gravel.</P>
<P>The &s;hells of Wood-Nuts, the Seed of Yellow Ma&s;h-mallows, or Abutylon, the Calx of the &s;hells of Eggs, the &s;tone of Spunges, the winter &s;hells of Snails, the bones of the Head of a Pike in Pouder, the &s;tone found in the Head of a Snail, Crabs Eyes, &s;tones of medlars, Mallows Seed, Golden Rod, the&s;e are given in Pouder, one dram in Broth of red Chiches,</P>
<P>For a &s;tone that is yet &s;oft and gra|velly, Ammi, Roots of fullers Tea&s;els, the Bark of Bay-Trees, Eringo Roots, Root of an A&s;h, the Root and Rind of Broom, the Seed of both Rochers of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> the Seed of the le&s;&s;er Bur|dock, wild Mints, the Seeds of Nigella and Ro&s;e Corn, the Rind of Radi&s;h, in a Decoction.</P>
<P>They are given in Pouder to one dram in the Broth of red Chiches, or &s;ome Diuretick Decoction.</P>
<P>For a &s;tone that is hardened and grown great. The Pouder of a Bears Tooth, the A&s;hes of a Calcined Gra&s;|hopper,
<PB N="239" REF="81">the Kernells of Cherries, borax of the &s;hops, Maiden hair with a trem|bling tail, the A&s;hes, and the fle&s;h, and the dried Blood of an Old Cock, Cherri|tree Gum, the A&s;hes of yong Swallows, the Juyce of Lemmons, the A&s;hes of a Hare burnt Skin and all, the A&s;hes of earth worms, Sow-lice wa&s;hed in white Wine, burnt and dried, Pimpernel, Saxifrage, the fruit of Bladder Night|&s;hade, or Alkekengi, the Root of Saxifrage, Goats Blood, al&s;o hares Blood and Foxes Blood dried, the A&s;hes of Scorpions, land Calthrops, Roots of Nettles, the Seeds of Blew Violets; the&s;e &s;ame do move powerfully, drive out Sand, and are convenient for the &s;oft &s;tone.</P>
<P>Of compounds, ea&s;ily to be provided: the&s;e are the mo&s;t approved, and are held for &s;ecrets.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Goats Blood, the Goats being fir&s;t kept in Gardens of Saxifrage for a Month, and the be&s;t Mirrh, of each half a dram, Broth of Red Chiches three ounces, Juyce of Lemmons one ounce.</HI> Mingle them to drink. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>the Blood of a Fox, taken from him
<PB N="240" REF="82">when he is alive, and white Wine, of each equal parts.</HI> Boyl them at a gentle fire in a Gla&s;ed Pot, to the form of a Fur|menty; give five ounces of it for eight days together. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Sows-Lice prepared one dram, Aqua vitae half an ounce, Decoction of red Chiches nine ounces.</HI> Pour the Aqua vitae into the Broth, whil&s;t it is hot, and take this warm &s;ix hours before meat for nine days together. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Borax of the &s;hops one dram, the Broth of Red Chiches four ounces, Aqua vitae two drams.</HI> Mingle them to drink. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Seeds of Blew Violets half an ounce, the Decoction or the Water of Veronica or Golden Rod &s;ix ounces.</HI> Make an Emul&s;ion to be given for &s;even days.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Take <HI>the Juyce of Caltrops, chiefly, that on the land, &s;ix ounces.</HI> Drink it warm by it &s;elf, or with Juyce of Lemmons, &s;o the Juyce of Golden Rod drunk for &s;ome dayes is held mo&s;t effectual.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies that move Corruption.</HEAD>
<P>Although the&s;e do not immediately
<PB N="241" REF="82">Root out matter that is preternatural by the whole kind, but do rather yeeld a&s;&s;i&s;tance to Nature that labours to concoct it: yet when the matter is concocted, that it may be more &s;oon and &s;afely purged out, they do medi|ately concur al&s;o to this work.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e things do by them&s;elves move corruption, that do maintain the heat of the part, either by the likene&s;s of their temper, or by the influence of their heat, hindering the &s;topping up of the pores:</P>
<P>Tho&s;e things do move corruption by accident, which Repre&s;s the exceeding, of the matter, and make the Blood that is mingled &s;o pliable, that it is over|come by innate heat.</P>
<P>For the parts and Con&s;titutions that are over-hot; Boyled Onions, fat Figs, Saffron, Fenugreek, Lin-Seed, the Root of white Lillies, Frank in&s;ence, are convenient. And outwardly, Goo&s;e Grea&s;e, Goats Tallow, Leaven, and all kinds of Ro&s;ins.</P>
<P>Plai&s;ters may be pre&s;ently made thus:</P>
<P>Take dry Pitch melted in Oyl what may &s;uffice, make a Plai&s;ter. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<PB N="242" REF="83">
<P>Take <HI>any kind of Ro&s;in, Yellow Wax, of each equal parts.</HI> Mix them for a Cerat, to which you may add a fourth part of Goo&s;e Grea&s;e, and &s;o make an Un|guent. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Roots of white Lillies Boyled and &s;tamped, two ounces, Meal of Lin-Seed and Fenugreek of each one ounce, Saffron one &s;cruple, common Oyl one ounce and an half, the Decoction of white Lilly Roots what is &s;ufficient.</HI> make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Leaven by it &s;elf kneaded with Goats Grea&s;e is mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>For parts and con&s;titutions that are temperate the&s;e are fit: Mar&s;h-mallows, Mallows, &s;weet Almonds, Butter, Yolks of Eggs: to which in outward Medi|caments may be added mans fat, Cocks fat, fat of Wool, Whey, Yellow Wax, Bees-glew, Wine, Wheat Meal purged from the Bran, common Oyl of ripe Grapes, that is not too Old.</P>
<P>Some living creatures &s;erve for Plai|&s;ters, chiefly yong Whelps.</P>
<P>Of the re&s;t, Plai&s;ters may be made &s;uddenly thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Wheat Meal or Crums of Bread moderately Leavened two ounces, common
<PB N="243" REF="83">Oyl one ounce; hot Water what is &s;ufficient.</HI> Make a Catapla&s;m. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Mallows one handful, But|ter one ounce.</HI> Fry them together in a frying Pan, then beat them for a Ca|tapla&s;m. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take Roots of Mar&s;h-mallows Boy|led and pa&s;&s;ed through a hair &s;ieve two ounces, Meal of Fenugreek or Wheat one ounce, two Yolks of Eggs, common Oyl one ounce and an half; mingle them and make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>This is an excellent Unguent to ripen corruption, and to break an Impo|&s;tume.</P>
<P>Take the &s;harpe&s;t Leaven and Yolks of Eggs, of each equal parts, common Oyl and Saffron of each a little, make an Unguent, and lay it on with a Cole|wort Leaf.</P>
<P>For parts and con&s;titutions that are cold, the&s;e are convenient: hot water powred on, water and Oyl, Milk, Barley Meal, quinces Boyled in Milk, Leaves of Blew Violets, and Bird-Lime of Apple-trees</P>
<P>A common Plai&s;ter is prepared of crums of bread with Milk and common
<PB N="244" REF="84">Oyl or Oyl of Ro&s;es. or.</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Mallows and Violets of each one handful, boyl them and brui&s;e them, adding Barley Meal and common Oyl or Oyl of Ro&s;es, of each one ounce; mingle them and make a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>If it fal out in re&s;pect of ill matter, that cau&s;eth the tumor, that there is need of &s;uch things as move corruption by accident, that is, of &s;uch things, that mu&s;t equal the exce&s;s of the pec|cant matter, which otherwi&s;e were convenient for hotter con&s;titutions, they wil be convenient for colder tu|mors, becau&s;e they attenuate and heat the cold, thick matter; and &s;uch as are convenient to colder con&s;titutions, will be convenient for hotter con&s;titutions, becau&s;e they re&s;train the heat of the matter.</P>
<P>Whence it is clear that tho&s;e tempe|rate remedies &s;et down, wil be mo&s;t fit for al occa&s;ions, &s;ometimes mixt with hot, and &s;ometimes with cold ingredients, as the affect that wants &s;uppuration in|clines mo&s;t to heat or cold.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="245" REF="84">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies contrary to Poy&s;ons.</HEAD>
<P>Such are properly Antidotes, that by the property of their &s;ub&s;tance, or by their whole temperament, do op|po&s;e the force of Poy&s;ons.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Medicaments are called &s;o improperly, which do vanqui&s;h Poy&s;ons by &s;ome apparent exceeding quality: &s;uch are contemperating Medicaments, that are oppo&s;ite of Poy&s;ons in exce&s;s.</P>
<P>Coolers, that are oppo&s;ite to Poy&s;ons that inflame; and heating cordials that are contrary to Stupefying Poy&s;ons that extingui&s;h heat.</P>
<P>Though there are proper Antidotes fit to be given for all Poy&s;ons, yet what is truly a kind of Poy&s;on, can be known by no proper &s;igns; whence it comes to pa&s;s that we are alwaies Ignorant of al Antidotes that are contrary to al Poy|&s;ons: the knowledg whereof may therefore &s;eem &s;ufficient both for the prevention, and cure of Poy&s;ons.</P>
<P>To make the matter more clear,
<PB N="246" REF="85">there may be a&s;&s;igned three ranks of Antidotes again&s;t Poy&s;ons; &s;ome are chiefly oppo&s;ite to Poy&s;ons that are bred in us; either from &s;ome extra|ordinary putrefaction, or &s;ome other vn&s;peakable corruption, and tho&s;e are e&s;pecially u&s;eful in Malignant Feavers and the Plague: others afford help when we have taken Poy&s;on: others do cure us when we are Poy&s;oned by Bitings, by wounds or by &s;ight.</P>
<P>Antidotes for Malignant Feavers and the plague: tho&s;e that are hot are con|venient for a cold Time and a cold con&s;titution: but cold and temperate are be&s;t in hot Time and for a hot con|&s;titution.</P>
<P>The hotter kinds are, holy Thi&s;tle, Star Thi&s;tle, the Pills and Seeds of Ci|trons, the Root of white Dictamni, Mirrh, great Chervil, Scordium, Divels|bit, Goats-Rue, Scorzonera, great Valerian, the Root of Swallow-wort.</P>
<P>The temperate are; the whole Citron, the Juyce of it, as of Oranges al&s;o and Lemmons, Borrage and Bu|glo&s;s, Bi&s;tort, Bole-armoniack, both Blew-bottles, Harts-horn, common
<PB N="247" REF="85">Pimpernel, Cinkfoil, Scabious, Tor|mentil, Terra Sigillata.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e; &s;ome Medicaments may be made cheap enough, that are not inferi|our to the mo&s;t precious Bezoarticks brought from Forrain Lands.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t; this Syrup is mo&s;t profitable, made of the whole Citron, which is temperate enough, and fit for all con|&s;titutions.</P>
<P>Take <HI>a whole Pome-Citron &s;ufficiently ripe and ful of Sap, weighing one ounce; and break it on a Grater, the Root of Scorz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nera one ounce, the Herb Scordium one pugil, Seeds of holy Thi&s;tle two drams, Water di&s;tilled out of the Juyce of plea&s;ant Apples and Sorrell of each two pound, &s;pirit of Vitriol four &s;cru|ples, or in the place of it, Juyce of Lemmons two ounces.</HI> Brui&s;e what mu&s;t be brui|&s;ed and make infu&s;ion for thirty hours, the Ve&s;&s;el being very well &s;topped; then let them Boyl gently to the con&s;umption of one third part, afterwards pre&s;s them out &s;trongly; let the &s;trained Liquor be clarified by degrees at a gentle fire, infu&s;ing alwaies &s;ome flowers of Oranges or Citrons til it be perfectly clarified; then add <HI>fine
<PB N="248" REF="86">Sugar one pound and an half:</HI> Boyl it at a mo&s;t &s;oft fire, to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Liquid Syrup, the Do&s;e is half an ounce to two ounces.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an Oxymel that is &s;omthing hotter is excellent.</P>
<P>Take <HI>holy Thi&s;tle, Goats Rue, Scabious, Buglo&s;s, Sorrel, of each one handful, Roots of Scorzonera, Tormentil and Swallow-wort of each one ounce, Fountain Water four pound:</HI> make infu&s;ion for one day: then add, <HI>the be&s;t Honey one pound and an half,</HI> Boyl them at a &s;oft fire til the Honey be well purified; having made expre&s;&s;ion and well &s;trained it, add of the <HI>be&s;t Vineger,</HI> in which the whol Citron brui&s;ed on a grater hath been &s;teeped and Boyled, ten ounces; Boyl al at a gentle fire to the con&s;i&s;tence of an Oxymel.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an effectual Vineger may be prepared, of which one or two &s;poon|fuls may be put in Broth that is altered, or taken with meats.</P>
<P>Take <HI>a whole Citron Ra&s;ped with a Ra&s;per, prepared Harts-Horn, Bole-Armoniack of a Yellow Colour, of each two drams, Roots of Bi&s;tort, Tormentil, of each one ounce, Seeds of holy Thi&s;tle one dram, Leaves of
<PB N="249" REF="86">Scordium one pugil.</HI> The be&s;t Vineger filtred, that it may cover al, about four Fingers high; brui&s;e al the ingredients gro&s;ely, and infu&s;e them in the Vine|ger, in a Vial very well &s;topt, and let them &s;tand in the Sun, or in &s;ome hot &s;tove for &s;ome days; &s;tirring the matter dayly, vntil the Color of the Vineger do not &s;eem to be changed any more; then &s;train it, and keep it for u&s;e in a Gla&s;s Ve&s;&s;el &s;topt.</P>
<P>This pouder is profitable for malig|nant Feavers</P>
<P>Take Yellow Bole-Armoniack, pre|pared Harts-Horn, Roots of Bi&s;tort and Tormentil, Seeds of holy Thi&s;tle, Sor|rel, Citron Pills, of each one dram, Camphir and Saffron five grains; mingle them for a Pouder.</P>
<P>The Do&s;e is half an ounce to one ounce, in Broth or Bolus made with Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons; it may al&s;o be put into a panada, or Pti&s;an: al&s;o the Pouder may be made up with a little Gum-Tragacanth di&s;&s;olved in Ro&s;e Water or Juyce of Citrons, made into a hard Ball like to a Bezoar|&s;tone, which being dried again will
<PB N="250" REF="87">hold its vertue the longer.</P>
<P>Outwardly the fore&s;aid Vineger wil be profitable, altered with a whole Ci|tron to &s;mel to, and for Epithems for the heart; being added to waters or Decoctions that are convenient.</P>
<P>Some &s;ay that Brim&s;tone held con|&s;tantly in the mouth, doth pre&s;erve from the Plague.</P>
<P>The&s;e things taken, are good for Poy&s;ons, be&s;ides tho&s;e we mentioned before; among&s;t things that are hot; Ammi, the Roots of both Angelicas, the Root of Anthora, Annis Seed, round Ari&s;tolochia, all &s;pices, Seeds of Cole|wort, Root of white Thi&s;tle, flowers of Clove gelli-flowers, Root of Cro&s;s|wort.</P>
<P>The flowers and Tops of heath, Root of Elecampane, Juniper Berries, Root and Seed of Lovage, Turnep Seed, Wallnuts, Root of Pulemonia, Garden Rue, Root of One-leaf.</P>
<P>The more temperate are: Water kept in a ve&s;&s;el of Serpentine &s;tone, Jvory digged up, Harts-Mu&s;hroms. The Decoctions of Acorns of the Oke Tree, Seed of St. Johns-wort, earth of Malta.</P>
<PB N="251" REF="87">
<P>The Pouder of tho&s;e afore&s;aid, may be given to one ounce in the be&s;t Wine, or in warm Vineger, or both mixt toge|ther.</P>
<P>Compounds may be diver&s;ly provid|ed as every man plea&s;eth.</P>
<P>It is a famous and Antient Antidote, that is made of a Walnut, with three Leaves of Rue, and a Fig taken every morning.</P>
<P>Al&s;o <HI>Theriaca Diate&s;&s;aron</HI> is ea&s;ily pre|pared for this purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Take Roots of Gentian and Juneper berries, (but again&s;t Poy&s;on I &s;hould prefer Bay-berries) Mirrh, Roots of round Ari&s;tolochia of each two ounces, clarified Honey two pound, make an Electuary.</P>
<P>There are al&s;o famous Pouders a|gain&s;t Poy&s;ons and the Plague, that are ea&s;ily made: as that which is called <HI>Gri&s;eus Cae&s;aris,</HI> and <HI>Saxonicus,</HI> the de&s;|criptions whereof are to be found in Wickerus <HI>Lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Antidot. Spec. Sect.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>This vineger al&s;o is good again&s;t Poy|&s;ons and the Plague.</P>
<P>Take Roots of wild Angelica dried
<PB N="252" REF="88">in the &s;hade, Juniper Berries of each one ounce, mirrh half an ounce, Leaves of Rue one pugil, Cinnamon one dram; brui&s;e all gro&s;ely, and infu&s;e them and dige&s;t them for eight days in the be&s;t Vineger, (Ro&s;e Vineger is better) one pound and an half, then &s;train it, and take every morning one &s;poonful fa&s;t|ing.</P>
<P>Outwardly they commend a Radi&s;h cut in peices, and born under the Arme-pits, provoking the Patient to &s;weat in the mean time.</P>
<P>The&s;e Oyls are famous of the great Duke, of Scorpions of <HI>Mathiolus,</HI> in the Room whereof, other Oyls not &s;o hard to make, and of as much vertue may be compounded. As,</P>
<P>Take Oyl of ripe Olives (the riper the better) three pound, white Wine &s;piced one pound and an half, Roots of Gentian, Tormentil, Mai&s;ter-wort, Swal|low-wort common Angelica, of each one ounce, tops of St. Johns-wort, Leaves of Tobacco, and Rue, of each one handful, grains of Juniper and Bay|berries of each half an ounce, make in|fu&s;ion according to art for &s;pur days in a
<PB N="253" REF="88">ve&s;&s;el very well &s;topt, then let them Boyl til the moi&s;ture be almo&s;t &s;pent, pre&s;s them out, and &s;train them.</P>
<P>Again&s;t bitings and wounds that are venemous, inward Antidotes are con|venient, mixt with cordials.</P>
<P>But outwardly the &s;ame are good mingled with attractives, that draw the Poy&s;on to the wounded part, and keep the wound open, til the venom be purged out; &s;uch are all the hotter Agents and Rubificatives, of which we &s;peak el&s;e where.</P>
<P>But properly Antidotes are, Ammi, Seed, long Ari&s;tolochia, Bdellium, both Dictamni, the Roots of both &s;word-flags, the brains of Dunghil-Cocks, Origanum, Pimpernel, Saxi|frage, Root and Seed of the Clot-Bur, Goats-Rue, Goats-beard, and the Leaves of all kinds of Scorzonera, and the Juyce of the Roots; all tho&s;e are taken in hot white Wine.</P>
<P>The Antidotes that I &s;et down a|gain&s;t Poy&s;ons taken, do almo&s;t the &s;ame thing: But this mu&s;t be generally taken notice of, that the fle&s;h of any Venemous Creature layed
<PB N="254" REF="89">to the biting or wound, that that crea|ture made, doth draw out the venom: whence it comes to pa&s;s that the Pou|der of water Serpents, but e&s;pecially of Vipers is &s;o famous, again&s;t the poy&s;on of al Serpents; and if we may beleeve report, it is good to cure and to pre&s;erve al&s;o again&s;t al venoms, &s;o that if the pouder be once taken to half a dram in &s;piced Wine; &s;ome maintain that the body is made im|pregnable again&s;t al poy&s;ons for many days.</P>
<P>This pouder is prepared three waies, and fir&s;t thus.</P>
<P>Take the Heart, the Liver, and the three fir&s;t back bones of a Viper or wood Snake, dry all in an Oven, beat them into Pouder, add the root of Mai&s;ter-wort an equal part and mingle them.</P>
<P>Secondly Vipers fle&s;h, the entrals being taken out (except the Heart and the Liver) mu&s;t be cut, and &s;ea&s;oned eight days with Salt, then put al into a Sive that is wel guarded on every &s;ide, and underneath ray&s;e a &s;weet perfume, four or five times a day con&s;tantly,
<PB N="255" REF="89">ca&s;ting on fire coles, the pouder of Myrrh, Bay-berries, grains of Juniper and Cloves, and when the fle&s;h is found to &s;mel very wel, put it into a gla&s;ed pot, wel covered with a cover of clay, and put it into a Bakers oven, and let it &s;tay there, until al the &s;ub|&s;tance of the fle&s;h with the bones can be brought into a mo&s;t fine pouder: the new Phy&s;itians a&s;cribe more vertue to this pouder than to the antient confe|ctions of Theriac or Mithridate.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Vipers fle&s;h being excellent wel wa&s;hed in white Wine, &s;aving the Heart, and the Liver, mu&s;t be gently dried that it may be beaten to pouder, and &s;o u&s;ed by it &s;elf.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e, the poy&s;on of mad Creatures hath certain Antidotes, with which, being taken for forty days to|gether, the wound in the mean while being kept open, madne&s;s and fear of water is quite driven away. The&s;e are, Madwort, the a&s;hes of river Crabs, the root of the wild ro&s;e, and common Pimpernel. They are given alone or mingled from one dram to two drams, in white Wine, they are mingled pro|fitably
<PB N="256" REF="90">with the root of Gentian.</P>
<P><HI>Galen</HI> provides his Antidote of one part of Frankin&s;ence, Gentian five parts, and ten parts of river Crabs burnt.</P>
<P>Al&s;o &s;ome report, that this pouder is proved by experience, to cure the fear of water, given in white Wine from half a dram to two drams, dayly three hours before meat.</P>
<P>Take Leaves of Polypode, Rue, Vervin Sage, Plantain with narrow Leaves, Leaves of common Wormwood, Mints, Mugwort, betony, Balm, St. Johns|wort, Centaury the le&s;s, of each equal parts, dry them in a paper and beat them to Pouder.</P>
<P>Thus far concerning remedies that oppo&s;e the principal cau&s;e of the di&s;ea&s;e, from the taking away whereof; the cure of material di&s;ea&s;es mu&s;t begin, unle&s;s there be &s;omthing el&s;e that is urgent and &s;o draws the cure to it: for that mu&s;t be pre&s;enly taken care for, neglecting the cau&s;e and the di&s;ea&s;e for a time, if that urgent thing gives no delay, but threatens the patient with &s;udden death.</P>
<P>Now the&s;e things are &s;aid to urge
<PB N="257" REF="90">immediately and by it &s;elf principally; the weakners of the vital &s;pirits, in all faintings and &s;wounings; but medi|ately and &s;econdly all vehement pains, continual watchings, all immediate Evacuations, from whence there is fear of the di&s;&s;olutions of the &s;pirits.</P>
<P>The&s;e things urging, &s;uch remedies as &s;trengthen the &s;pirits mu&s;t be &s;et again&s;t them, &s;uch as ea&s;e pain, pro|cure re&s;t, &s;tay fluxes; if the di&s;ea&s;e or the principal cau&s;e, by rea&s;on of its violence, and the weakne&s;s of the &s;ick, do &s;ometime come to be urgent; as feveri&s;h heat in an Old man, and the thickne&s;s and clammine&s;s of flegm, in an exqui&s;ite quotidian Feaver, they require no other remedies than &s;uch as are of them&s;elves contrary, concerning which we have partly &s;poken, and we &s;hall &s;peak &s;omething afterwards in the number of remedies that alter di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies for Symptoms that are &V;rgent.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e remedies that &s;trengthen the &s;pirits, do refre&s;h them al&s;o, either by accident, taking away the cau&s;es
<PB N="258" REF="91">whereby they are di&s;per&s;ed, whereof we &s;hall not now &s;peak; or of them|&s;elves, by affording matter out of which the &s;pirits may be &s;oon ingender|ed, and by Corroborating the inbred heat of the heart.</P>
<P>The heart is &s;trengthened with Cor|dials, concerning which we &s;hall &s;peak, when we &s;peak of Medicaments that are oppo&s;ite to the di&s;ea&s;e in di&s;temper.</P>
<P>They afford fit matter to be turned into &s;pirits, as al&s;o Nutriments that are of good Juyce, and thin &s;ub&s;tance, among&s;t which are plea&s;ant Wine and &s;weet &s;mels, becau&s;e they yield thin vapours next to &s;pirits, unto the heart.</P>
<P>In a hot cau&s;e, cold or temperate &s;ents mu&s;t be prepared, &s;uch as are made of Vineger, Ro&s;es, Camphir, Violets, Mirtils, the Pills of &s;weet Apples, and Quin&s;es that are grown Yellow.</P>
<P>Vineger altered with the&s;e ingredients is the be&s;t, making infu&s;ion for &s;ome hours, or gently Boyling them, al&s;o to alter the Ayr, water mu&s;t be &s;prinkled in the Chambers that is mingled with Vineger, and it is good for &s;ents to put to the No&s;e.</P>
<PB N="259" REF="91">
<P>In a cold cau&s;e, &s;mels mu&s;t be made of the flowers of Citrons, Oranges, Lem|mons, the Clove-gelli-flowers, Je&s;amin, Lillies of the Valleys, Roots of Ange|lica, Ciperus, Carden &s;etwal, Leaves of Calamint of the Mountain, Marjo|ram, Balm, Mint, Ro&s;emary, Spik, Lavender, Time, Citron Pills, Bay|berries, Juniper berries, and all kind of Spices;</P>
<P>The be&s;t is made of the be&s;t Vineger, or Wine altered with the fore&s;aid in|gredients.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the &s;mel of ro&s;ted meat is ex|cellent, &s;tuck with Cloves and Cinna|mon, as al&s;o Bread that is hot, and &s;prinkled with Malligo or &s;ome prin|cipal Wine.</P>
<P>For the &s;ame purpo&s;e may Oyls be provided with no great labour, from Spices, and very cheap, to anoint the No&s;trils &amp; the heart, if there be made, with clear common Oyl without dregs, and the Pouder of Cinnamon or Cloves, a matter like to Liquid Pitch; which mu&s;t &s;tand &s;ome days in a clo&s;e Ve&s;&s;el, and then be put into a Pre&s;s and pre&s;&s;ed forth.</P>
<PB N="260" REF="92">
<P>Such as ea&s;e pain are threefold: namely &s;uch as cure by taking away the cau&s;e of pain; proper Anodynes, which letting the cau&s;e alone, yet a&s;&s;wage the &s;en&s;e of the part; and &s;tupefactives, that wholy take away the feeling of it, or el&s;e ca&s;t the &s;ick into a &s;leep.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that cure, belong not to this place, for they are as large in extent as di&s;ea&s;es and the cau&s;es of them, by which the continuity of the part may be di&s;&s;olved.</P>
<P>Proper Anodynes are, Mar&s;h-mallows, &s;weet Almonds, warm water, Dill, green Chamomel, Fenugreek, Lin|&s;eed, Mallows, Melilot, Yolks of Eggs, fat Broth.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e, for Fomentations out|wardly, are convenient, living creatures their entrals being taken out whil&s;t they are hot, the Lungs and the kel, of living creatures, water and Oyl, grea&s;y Wooll, Sheeps Milk and Cows Milk hot, wheaten Bread moderately baked and yet hot.</P>
<P>For Unguents, Hogs fat, Hens fat, Calfs fat, Mans fat, Butter, Suet, Mu|cilage of Lin-&s;eed Mallows, Mar&s;h-Mallows,
<PB N="261" REF="92">Fenugreek, and Oyls made of the &s;aid Herbs and Seeds Boyled in them.</P>
<P>But be&s;ide common anodines, there are &s;ome others that do properly be|long to &s;ome certain parts, which there|fore may be called &s;pecifical anodines.</P>
<P>For the pain of the Head from what cau&s;e &s;oever, this Oyl is mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Juyce of Vervain very well puri|fied two pound, &s;imple Oyl of Ro&s;es one pound.</HI></P>
<P>Di&s;til it at a gentle fire of Embers, let the di&s;tilled Liquor be poured on again, and di&s;tilled again, and &s;o do three times; for the Juyce will mingle with the Oyl in&s;eparably, and in that, being warm, dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead, and anoint the Sutures.</P>
<P>For pain of the Teeth. The Oyl of Box di&s;tilled by de&s;ent is extolled.</P>
<P>For the pain of the Chollick, a &s;ure remedy is, one dram of a Mans Skull prepared, and taken with one &s;cruple of Armis Seeds, in a cold cau&s;e: but with Coriander Seed if the cau&s;e be hot.</P>
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<P>Al&s;o the pouder of the Te&s;ticles of a gelded Hor&s;e, taken to one dram, after the &s;ame fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Fig-wort four ounces, great Celon|dine two ounces, the Sponges that grow on the &s;weet Eglantine, in number four, Seed of Agnus Ca&s;tus two drams, common Oyl two pound.</HI> Cut the Roots, brui&s;e the re&s;t gros&s;ly, &s;et them in the Sun for a month, and keep them for u&s;e: Or in|fu&s;e them for eight days in a hot place; then Boyl them til the moi&s;ture be con|&s;umed, and make expre&s;&s;ion, and after that &s;train them.</P>
<P>For pain of the Brea&s;t, the Oyl of Lin-&s;eed drank two or three ounces is &s;ingular.</P>
<P>For pain of the Joynts this Fomen|tation is approved.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Mallows, Dwarf-Elder and Plantain, of each one handful, Smiths Water two pound.</HI> Boyl them to the Con|&s;umption of a third part: pre&s;s them out and &s;train them, and di&s;&s;olve in the Liquor, Salt-peeter purged with Brim|&s;tone (which they cal Salt of Prunella)
<PB N="263" REF="93">half an ounce, and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part.</P>
<P>Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do &s;tupefie, but being taken or &s;melt to, or applyed to the head, they cau&s;e &s;leep. They differ in the inten&s;ion of their quality, from properly called &s;leeping Medicaments, becau&s;e the&s;e by their moderate coldne&s;s and moi&s;ture pro|cure &s;leep, but tho&s;e by the exce&s;s of both qualities bring out deep &s;leep, and if they be u&s;ed too largely they cau&s;e Carus and Apoplexy.</P>
<P>Yet there is &s;ome degrees of the&s;e Narcoticks, for &s;ome are more gentle; the u&s;e thereof is not &s;o dangerous; &s;ome are more violent, which mu&s;t not be u&s;ed but upon very urgent pains and watchings.</P>
<P>The more gentle to be u&s;ed inwardly, are white Poppy Seed, to about one dram; but outwardly in Lotions, the Leaves of Garden Night-&s;hade and Poppy.</P>
<P>The more violent, are Hemlock, white Henbane, <HI>Mandragora, Opium,</HI> round <HI>Stramonium;</HI> Black Henbane, and long <HI>Stramonium,</HI> are be&s;t to be let
<PB N="264" REF="94">alone, by rea&s;on of the great hurt they do to the Bowels.</P>
<P>Of others, are made fit &s;ents and Loti|ous for the Feet and the Head; but inwardly, only <HI>Opium,</HI> and round <HI>Stramonium,</HI> may be u&s;ed.</P>
<P>The Seed of <HI>Stramonium</HI> is given in &s;ub&s;tance from half a &s;cruple to one &s;cruple, or thereabouts; but infu&s;ed from one &s;cruple to two &s;cruples, it is corrected with good Wine.</P>
<P><HI>Opium</HI> is given from two grains to five, corrected with Saffron, or Popper, and &s;o made into a Pill, or infu&s;ed in the be&s;t Wine. <HI>Oriental Opium</HI> is &s;omthing &s;tronger than <HI>Opium</HI> of our Country; but becau&s;e outlandi&s;h <HI>Opium</HI> is often brought to us Sophi&s;ticated, and &s;ome|times is &s;old very deer, it were better to make it pure of our own Country; Poppy, after the way that <HI>Quercitanus</HI> hath taught us. Take what quantity you plea&s;e of Garden Poppy Heads, that carrieth a red flower, &s;o &s;oon as the fir&s;t flowers appear di&s;plaied; brui&s;e them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pe&s;tle: put the matter into a &s;pacious Gla&s;s, and pour on &s;o much
<PB N="265" REF="94">of the be&s;t white Wine Vineger, til the matter be very wel wet, &amp; the Vineger &s;wim above al, two fingers breadth; let them dige&s;t for about fifteen daies, and when the Vineger grows red inten&s;ive|ly, put the matter into a Linnen Bag, and pre&s;s it out &s;trongly: what is expre&s;&s;ed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the con&s;i&s;tence of Honey, and whil&s;t it is yet hot, ca&s;t it into cold water, that it may Coagulate; then take it out and wipe off the moi&s;ture.</P>
<P>But of compounds there are two that are the be&s;t, and ea&s;ie&s;t to be provided of all that are found in &s;hops.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is of Guajnerus for outward u&s;e.</P>
<P>Take Opium, <HI>Juyce of Henbane, Juyce of Mandragora, of unripe Mulberries, Lettice, and of Ivy Tree, of each one ounce.</HI> Di&s;&s;olve the <HI>Opium</HI> in the Juyces, when that is di&s;&s;olved, wet a Sponge in it, and dry it again, at the Sun, for fifteen daies, when you would u&s;e it, dip your Sponge in warm water, and put it to the No&s;e of the Patient, this Sponge will keep its vertue for &s;ome years.</P>
<P>The other &s;erves for internal u&s;es,
<PB N="266" REF="95">namely <HI>Laudanum,</HI> which in two daies time may be made. Thus,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the extract of Saffron one &s;cruple, the extract of the &s;pecies of Diamo&s;chu two &s;cruples, extract of</HI> Opium <HI>prepared four &s;cruples.</HI> Mingle them, <HI>and with three drops of di&s;tilled Oyl of Cloves, &s;often it.</HI></P>
<P>The Saffron and &s;pecies are extracted with <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> but the <HI>Opium</HI> with di&s;tilled Vineger.</P>
<P><HI>Opium</HI> al&s;o is prepared, if it be cut thin, and dried at a gentle heat, &s;o long until it will fume no longer, and being rub|bed between the Fingers, will crumble to Pouder: the Do&s;e of this is from about one grain and an half, to five grains; it ea&s;eth pains, &s;tops long Watchings, and &s;taies immoderate and &s;harp Fluxes.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Narcoticks provoke &s;leep, but far more vehemently than true &s;leep|ing remedies do, by &s;o much as deep &s;leep requires &s;tronger means than &s;leep doth: whence it is, that when true &s;leeping Medicaments will not prevail, we are forced to u&s;e Narco|ticks or heavy &s;leeping remedies now mentioned.</P>
<PB N="267" REF="95">
<P>True &s;leeping Remedies, are, &s;weet Almonds, and the Emul&s;ions of them, all &s;orts of Milk, Garden Lettice, fre&s;h Mo&s;s of Trees, Water Lillies, great Hou&s;leek, Blew Violets, Venus Navel, and &s;mal Wine mixed well with pure Water: the Exhibition of the&s;e is &s;everal.</P>
<P>Fle&s;h Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets.</P>
<P>An Emul&s;ion of &s;weet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice; Lettice is eaten Boyled, &s;ea&s;oned with the Juyce of Oranges, or Pome-citrons, or Lemmons.</P>
<P>Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an unguent may be made to anoint the No&s;trils and the temples, &s;uddenly with Oyl. thus,</P>
<P>Take <HI>the&s;e Herbs, Lettice, Water Lillies, great Hou&s;leek, Garden Night-&s;hade, of each one handful: common Oyl eight ounces.</HI> Boyl them at a gentle fire, til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed; pre&s;s them out, and &s;train them.</P>
<P>The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the &s;hops &s;erve for the &s;ame u&s;e.</P>
<PB N="268" REF="96">
<P>All tho&s;e things &s;erve to &s;top Fluxes, which &s;tay the matter that is moved with an ill motion; by repelling it, pulling it back, intercepting it, and binds up the pa&s;&s;ages; therefore they belong not to this place.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e things that are mo&s;t proper to &s;tay Fluxes, &s;hall be mentioned in the Catalogue of a&s;tringents.</P>
<P>There remains therefore, to number up tho&s;e Medicaments that drive away Di&s;ea&s;es; the u&s;e whereof is mo&s;t fit after the cau&s;es that are urgent are taken away: now of Di&s;ea&s;es there are three general Heads; Di&s;temper, ill Conformation, and Unity di&s;&s;olved.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that alter a Sick di&s;temper of the whole Body, and of the Parts.</HEAD>
<P>Though there be eight &s;ickly kinds of di&s;tempers, four that are &s;imple, and &s;o many Compound; yet it is not nece&s;&s;ary to make eight &s;orts of altering Medica|ments.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Becau&s;e Compound di&s;tempers
<PB N="269" REF="96">are cured with &s;imples that alter, being mingled together, and &s;o as need requireth they make a Compound quality; then becau&s;e among&s;t &s;imple qualities, moi&s;ture and drine&s;s are com|monly taken away with hot or cold remedies for Excrementitious moi&s;ture is cured, both with hot things that rarefie and con&s;ume, as al&s;o by cold things that pre&s;s out, and by dry things of both kinds that &s;tay moi&s;ture.</P>
<P>But &s;ickly drine&s;s, being it pre&s;up|po&s;eth a want of native moi&s;ture, which cannot be re&s;tored with Phy&s;ick, but with Nutriment, is better cured by good Diet, and &s;ome heat re&s;tored in the part that is dried, by the benefit whereof the blood may be drawn thi|ther, and more ea&s;ily dige&s;ted. There|fore it will be &s;ufficient to &s;et down Medicaments that heat the parts that are over cooled, and &s;uch as cool the parts over heated: for both the&s;e being mingled together, it will be an ea&s;ie matter to Compound an active, temperate remedy, and which is, among&s;t the pa&s;&s;ives, moi&s;t and dry, as nece&s;&s;ity and the di&s;temper that mu&s;t
<PB N="270" REF="97">be removed, &s;hall require.</P>
<P>Moreover, &s;eeing there are two kinds of altering Medicaments, &s;ome are certain, by which &s;ome certain parts &s;eem to be mo&s;t affected; others are uncertain, which work indifferently upon the whole Body; it will be &s;ufficient to propound &s;uch altering Remedies that are certain; becau&s;e the di&s;temper of the whole Body, follows the hurt of &s;ome Principal part, the Remedies whereof bring help al&s;o to the whole Body.</P>
<P>Certain altering Remedies take their name from the part which they help: Cephalicks, are for the Head, Ophthal|micks for the Eyes, Arthriticks for the Joynts, Neuroticks for the Nerves, Pneumonicks for the parts of Brea|thing, Cordials for the Heart, Stoma|chicks for the Stomach, Hepaticks for the Liver, Spleneticks for the Spleen, Nephriticks for the Reins, Hi&s;tericks for the Matrix.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Medicaments that alter the Head.</HEAD>
<P>Hot Cephalicks, and &s;uch as are
<PB N="271" REF="97">convenient for the Head that is over cooled, the mo&s;t Obvious are the&s;e: Southernwood, Betony, Box-Wood, Calamint, Germander, Hy&s;op, Bay-Leaves and Berries, Lavender, Marjo|ram, Piony, Ro&s;emary, Garden Rue, and Water-Rue, Sage, Savory, wild Time, <HI>Stoechas,</HI> Time, Mi&s;leto of the Oak, wild Setwal Root, Water of hot Baths of Brim&s;tone drank in due or|der.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e may be made Decoctions, Electuaries, and Medicinal Wines, in the place of Confections and Con&s;erves of the &s;hops.</P>
<P>For Example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Filing of Box Wood two ounces: Mi&s;leto of the Oak cut very &s;mal, one ounce: common Water &s;ix pound.</HI> Make infu&s;ion for fiften hours, afterwards add, <HI>Leaves of Betony, Calamint, Marjoram, Sage, of each one handful: Root of Piony half an ounce: Bay Berries two drams.</HI> Make Decoction at a gentle fire, til a third part be con&s;umed; then &s;train it, and give half a pound of it at once for &s;omedaies together.</P>
<P>The Antients, in the cure of a di|&s;temper that was not very new, admi|ni&s;tred
<PB N="272" REF="98">their medicaments for about four days together, by who&s;e example we do u&s;ually proceed now.</P>
<P>Example of an Electuary.</P>
<P>Take Betony, Calamint, German|der, Marjoram, Ro&s;emary, Sage, of each one handful, Savory, Hy&s;op; of each one pugil: Bay-berries and Fran|kin&s;ence, of each two drams: clarifi|ed Honey four times as much: mingle them, and make an Electuary.</P>
<P>Give about two drams of it for many days, either before you give the de|coction, or when you go to bed.</P>
<P>Medicinal Wines are more commen|ded, made of the infu&s;ion of Ro&s;ema|ry and Sage.</P>
<P>Outwardly Lotions and droppings down, either of Brim&s;tony bath waters, or of the Decoctions of the Herbs be|fore mentioned, chiefly prepared in a Lixivium, to which you may ad roots of reed, leaves of A&s;arum, and Ivy of the wal.</P>
<P>Of the &s;ame Herbs, adding a quan|tity of Frankin&s;ence, may pouders be prepared to &s;trew on the futures.</P>
<P>Al&s;o fume of Time and Marjoram
<PB N="273" REF="98">taken by a pipe, is good, the &s;ame way that men take Tobacco.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Oyls may be made of the de|coctions of the &s;ame hearbs, to anoynt the No&s;trills, the Temples, and the Su|tures.</P>
<P>The&s;e cool what is over hot; Black-Cherries, the &s;kul of man burnt, barly, flowers of Privet, Pur&s;lain, Ro&s;es, flowers of Willows, the tendrells of Vines, and al things that procure&s;leep, of which decoctions may be made.</P>
<P>The water of Iron baths rightly u&s;ed is excellent.</P>
<P>Outwardly frontalls are made of Pa&s;ca, chiefly altered with Willow leaves, Myrtills, Lettice, Violets, Night|&s;hade.</P>
<P>Irrigations for the Head, are made of the &s;ame decoction or of warm Milk.</P>
<P>Oxyrhodina are made of Oyl of Ro|fes, and Violets with a fourth part of Vineger.</P>
<P>Sents are provided of Ro&s;es and Vio|lets. Vineger altered with the&s;e flowers is mo&s;t u&s;eful, adding a little Cam|phier.</P>
<PB N="274" REF="99">
<P>Al&s;o Oyl made by in&s;olation, of the flowers of Willows, for to anoynt the No&s;trills, and Temples, is commended.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Altering Remedies for the Eyes.</HEAD>
<P>For Eyes that are overcooled, with, or without any defluxions of thick mat|ter, the&s;e things are convenient. Great Celondine, Eye-bright, Fennel, Garden rue, Vervain, whereof are made deco|ctions and Electuaries for nece&s;&s;ary in|ternal u&s;es.</P>
<P>The u&s;e of Wine altered with Eye|bright is approved.</P>
<P>Fomentations to u&s;e outwardly are made of the &s;aid Decoctions, to which Pimpernel may well be added, &amp; Fenu|greek wel wa&s;hed, al&s;o a little Saffron and <HI>Aqua vitae.</HI></P>
<P>So a Fomentation of Sea water is good with a little Saffron in it.</P>
<P>This following Collyrium is &s;ingular, to &s;trengthen the Eyes, and to di&s;cu&s;s al clouds and &s;uffu&s;ions confirmed, al&s;o for al cold defluxions, what affection
<PB N="275" REF="99">&s;oever they have brought upon the Eyes.</P>
<P>Take Malligo Wine three pound, Wheat corns and Fennel &s;eed, of each half a handful, choice Cinnamon brui|&s;ed two drams, Cloves beaten four &s;cruples, Leaves of Rue and tops of Bays half a Pugil; make infu&s;ion for a Natural day, then boyl them at a very &s;oft fire til a fift part be con&s;umed, &s;trayn it out, ad two drams of Tutty prepared; mingle them, and when you would u&s;e it, &s;hake the Decoction and trouble it; if it be provided for a Cloud and a Pin and Web, &s;et it up in a bra&s;en ve&s;&s;el, otherwi&s;e keep it in a Gla&s;s for your u&s;e.</P>
<P>For Eyes overheat, Cephalick reme|dies for internal u&s;es are convenient.</P>
<P>For outward u&s;es a Fomentation, and frequent dropping in of warm Milk is good, wherein Frankin&s;ence &s;et on fire is quenched.</P>
<P>If the flux be very &s;harp ad the fourth part of the white of an Egg.</P>
<P>When the payn is urgent and the de|fluxion very &s;harp, put in a little of the emul&s;ion of white Poppie &s;eed, made of the &s;ame milk.</P>
<PB N="276" REF="100">
<P>Al&s;o make a Catapla&s;m of a &s;weet Apple boyled in milk and brui&s;ed, which wil &s;urely help.</P>
<P>So Fomentations of warm river water in which Frankin&s;ence hath been quen|ched &s;ometimes, are good.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Arthritick Remedies.</HEAD>
<P>For the Joynts that are over cooled, the&s;e are convenient. Chamaepytis or ground Pine, Juniper-wood and berries, Helichry&s;on, Ma&s;tich-wood, al kind of Rozins, chiefly of Turpen|tine, Sage, and the Root of pricking Bindweed.</P>
<P>Among&s;t Compound Medicaments two are excellent: the fir&s;t is the u&s;e of Turpentine for about fifteen daies, min|gled with Groundpine and made up into Polus. Thus,</P>
<P>Take <HI>Ground pine two drams Turpentine two drams.</HI> Mingle the&s;e, and make a Bolus to take at once.</P>
<P>If the Body be over moi&s;t, it will do well to mingle with them half a &s;cruple
<PB N="277" REF="100">of Troches of Vipers, or &s;ome of the Pouders of Vipers De&s;cribed; the&s;e Boles are given alone, or about half an hour before the taking of &s;ome conve|nient Decoction.</P>
<P>Another Decoction is made of the Wood of the Ma&s;tick Tree, to be taken for many daies, with a &s;lender Diet, as nece&s;&s;ity &s;hall require, as for Exam|ple.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Ma&s;tick Wood two ounces, Juniper or Mi&s;leto of the Oke, one ounce, Fountain Water &s;ix pound.</HI> Cut the Ingredients and infu&s;e them for a natural day: then add <HI>Leaves of Betony, Herb Jvy, Ro&s;emary, of each one handful.</HI> Boyl them at a &s;oft fire til a third part be con&s;umed, then &s;train it, the Do&s;e is &s;even ounces at a time.</P>
<P>Outwardly are convenient, Baths and mud of hot Baths, of Brim&s;tone and Alum.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Fomentations, of the be&s;t Red Wine altered with Herb Jvy, Dwarf-Elder, Ro&s;emary, Tobacco, and the Leaves of Mirtils, adding a little Salt and Alum.</P>
<P>Anointings al&s;o with Fox Grea&s;e.</P>
<PB N="278" REF="101">
<P>Then to &s;trengthen the Joynts, the Mother of the Wine being hot, and rubbing of them with Old Oyl and a fourth part of Salt is approved.</P>
<P>The Turks with good &s;ucces do Burn their Joynts, but it is with a gentle fire not too trouble&s;ome, for they dip a Linnen Cloath in <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> which they &s;et on fire and lay it to the Joynt, and &s;o extingui&s;h it.</P>
<P>It is approved, that the pains of the Joynts though they be Old, are either cured altogether by the u&s;e of the fol|lowing <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> or el&s;e are made far more gentle, and le&s;s frequent.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the tops and Flowers of Ro&s;emary two parts,</HI> Aqua vitae <HI>rectified three parts.</HI> Make infu&s;ion in a Ve&s;&s;el very wel &s;topt for fifty hours; then di&s;til it in <HI>Balneo,</HI> the Ve&s;&s;els being fa&s;t luted on all &s;ides. Take one dram of this Water, or one &s;poonful once every week, and every morning wa&s;h your face with it and the Joynt affected.</P>
<P>For the Joynts that are over hot the&s;e are convenient inwardly; Mens Bones Burnt, mingled with other coolers, to about one dram.</P>
<PB N="279" REF="101">
<P>Al&s;o the Decoction of the Wood of Ma&s;tick Tree, with Ro&s;es and Mirtil Leaves added to it.</P>
<P>Outwardly, <HI>Po&s;ca</HI> is good, chiefly with Ro&s;e Vineger and rain water Steeled, or with Smiths Water, altered with Ro&s;es, Vine Leaves, and Mirtils; to which with profit may be added to di&s;cu&s;s the Humor, a part of the &s;tone Prunella.</P>
<P>For to anoint; the Oyl of Ro&s;es, Mirtils and of Frogs is u&s;eful.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Remedies are pre&s;ently made by Decoction, of the &s;ame Ingredi|ents.</P>
<P>Such a Liniment will be very profi|table to a&s;&s;wage pain proceeding from a hot and &s;harp defluxion.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Oyl of Ro&s;es and Mirtils of each one ounce, the Mucilage of the Seed of Quin&s;es, Flea-&s;eed and Mallows, of each two drams, Wax wa&s;hed often in Fountain Water, half an ounce.</HI> Mingle them, and make a Li|niment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies for the Nerves.</HEAD>
<P>For the Nerves over cooled, e&s;peci|ally
<PB N="280" REF="102">the&s;e are profitable, Germander, Ca&s;toreum, the Brain of a Hare ro&s;ted, le&s;&s;er Centory, Root of St. Johns-wort, Lavender, Mirrh, Pine Kernels, Dog Fennel, Primro&s;e, Italian Spik, Sage, and Pitch-&s;melling-Trefoly.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e things, &s;ome are compounded mo&s;t effectual; but e&s;pecially a Decocti|on, &s;uch as is, that de&s;cribed for the Joynts, adding to it Germander, and Primro&s;es.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Bolus of Turpentine, with about one dram of the roa&s;ted Brains of a Hare, and about one &s;cruple of Ca&s;to|reum.</P>
<P>Outwardly the&s;e have &s;ingular u&s;e; Baths and Mud of hot Baths, that are Bitumenous and of Brim&s;tone.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Fomentations of &s;trong Wine altered with the &s;aid Herbs, adding a little <HI>Aqua vitae.</HI></P>
<P>For Oyntments, Oyls are made of the Decoctions of the &s;aid Herbs, wherein &s;ome quantity of Earth-Worms wa&s;hed in white Wine, hath been Boyled.</P>
<P>Two &s;ingular Liniments are made for the cold affects of the &s;inews, whereof the one is excellent for the Cramp that
<PB N="281" REF="102">comes of Repletion, the other for the Pal&s;ey, a&s;toni&s;hment and trembling.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is made of Stellions. Thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Stellions,</HI> five in number, or in the room of them green Lizards: in|fu&s;e them alive in <HI>Oyl of Chamomel, eight ounces;</HI> and when they are dead, let them Boyl in it, til their fle&s;h be con|&s;umed, then pre&s;s all out, to which add the third part of the dripping of a roa&s;ted Goo&s;e, that was filled with Frankin&s;ence, Lard, Mirrh and a little Saffron.</P>
<P>Another is provided of Goo&s;e Grea&s;e thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Germander, Herb Ivy, Sage, Primro&s;e, Lavender, St. Johns-wort, of each one handful, grains of Juniper half an ounce, Mirrh and Frankin&s;ence of each three drams, Ca&s;toreum one dram and an half, Saffron half a dram.</HI> Moi&s;ten the Herbs with <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> then bui&s;e them, and with all the&s;e make a &s;tuffing, to &s;tuff the Goo&s;e full withall, and &s;tick her with &s;mal &s;ticks of Cinnamon, then ro&s;t her on a Spit: gather the dripping up, and when no more will drop, cut up the Goo&s;e, and Boyl her in white Wine
<PB N="282" REF="103">for an hour, take off all the fat that &s;wims on the top, and mingle with the former dripping.</P>
<P>Some a&s;cribe &s;o much to Oyl of Earth Worms wa&s;hed in &s;trong Wine and then di&s;tilled in the Sand; that they affirm a Pal&s;ey may be cured by this only.</P>
<P>To Sinews that are over heat the &s;ame things are convenient, that were &s;et down for the Joynts, except only burnt Bones.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies for the parts of Breathing.</HEAD>
<P>The&s;e Remedies, both hot and cold, which bring forth the matter that &s;ticks in the pa&s;&s;ages of Re&s;piration, were &s;et downe in the Catalogue of tho&s;e things that Evacuate the Brea&s;t by Spittle: for the &s;ame may be fitted to corre&s;t the di&s;tempers of the Lungs, but be&s;ides tho&s;e, &s;ome things are Peculiarly good to heat and dry the Brea&s;t.</P>
<P>The Waters of hot Baths that proceed from Brim&s;tone, Drunk.</P>
<PB N="283" REF="103">
<P>Some Figs &s;teeped in <HI>Aqua vitae,</HI> until they &s;wel, Eaten when the Stomach is empty, and as one goes to bed.</P>
<P>The Decoction of <HI>Enula Campanae,</HI> Coltsfoot, Hy&s;op, Hore Hound, Lung|wort, Savory, Time.</P>
<P>The Decoction wil be the better, if it be made with an Old Cock that is &s;tuffed with the&s;e Herbs: al&s;o ful &s;weet Metheglin will be altered with the &s;ame very fitly for ordinary drink, or el&s;e make an Oxymel with them, and take two ounces every morning.</P>
<P>Al&s;o &s;weet Wine is excellent, if it be altered with Hy&s;op or Time.</P>
<P>But the u&s;e of Brim&s;tone exceeds them all, and of Turpentine, or &s;ome kind of Ro&s;in, but chiefly of the Larch, or the Firr Tree.</P>
<P>Give daily, one dram of Brim&s;tone, but e&s;pecially, that which is prepared, and brought into fine Pouder taken in a rear Egg.</P>
<P>Ro&s;in is given to two drams, which is better if it be drank hot, di&s;&s;olved in two ounces of Oxymel.</P>
<P>Outwardly are convenient, Brim&s;tony Baths, and to &s;tay long about &s;uch Baths
<PB N="284" REF="104">of Brim&s;tone, in an Aire that is ful of hot Vapours, and that have a drying force.</P>
<P>Or lay Catapla&s;ms to the brea&s;t, of Meal of Fenugreek, Melilot, Pouder of Hy&s;op, Calamint, and &s;ome Brim|&s;tone mingled with Honey, and with white Wine and Lin-&s;eed Oyl in a ju&s;t quantity.</P>
<P>To a Brea&s;t that is over-heat; the&s;e do good, be&s;ides what was &s;et down before, to expectorate Salt flegm, to drink Mineral Waters that proceed from Copper and Vitriol, as al&s;o from Iron and Steel.</P>
<P>U&s;e of Milk, unle&s;s &s;ome Di&s;tillation hinder, and the Decoction either of Red Sanders, or Ro&s;e Wood, e&s;pecially of the Root, to be drank for many daies, with a thin Diet enchning to cold, chiefly of Barley, and the four great cold Seeds,</P>
<P>The Decoction may be of this fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>Take <HI>REd Sanders, or Ro&s;e Wood, cut &s;mal, five ounces, Roots of Succory and Barley, of each half an ounce, Fountain Water Steeled two pound.</HI> Make infu&s;ion fifteen hours, then let them Boyl til half be con|&s;umed,
<PB N="285" REF="104">&s;train them to drink at twice.</P>
<P>By the u&s;e of this Decoction; hot bodies that are &s;ubject to a Con&s;umpti|on may be pre&s;erved from it, as al&s;o from Spitting of Blood that is like to follow.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the frequent u&s;e of Con&s;erve of Ro&s;es at going to bed is commended, as al&s;o taken in the morning on an empty Stomach, e&s;pecially if &s;ome drops of tart &s;pirits of Brim&s;tone be put to it.</P>
<P>For outward cooling, it is &s;ufficient to anoint with Oyl or Unguent, made of Violets.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Cordials.</HEAD>
<P>There are many Cordialls to be made of the Antidotes that are pre&s;cribed again&s;t poy&s;ons that are taken, but all that I propounded were only pre&s;erva|tives again&s;t Malignant Feavers and the Plague; but be&s;ides the&s;e, there are &s;ome that are convenient for the heart that is over cooled, as Spices of al &s;orts, Pills of Oranges, &s;weet Angelica, Mary-golds, Mountain Calamint,
<PB N="286" REF="105">Clove-gelli-flowers, the Herb Cardiaca, Herb Bennet, Lillies of the Valleys, Ground Ivy, Lavender, Balm, Mints, all &s;orts of Bazil, Root of Butter Burr, Ro&s;emary, Spik of <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Italy,</HI> Mead &s;weet.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e, Syrups may be made, De|coctions, Electuaries, al&s;o Pouders, and Spices to be &s;trewd on meats.</P>
<P>The be&s;t for this purpo&s;e are the Compounds &s;et down before, for Poy|&s;ons taken, and &s;uch as are bred in the Body and bring a Malignant Feaver.</P>
<P>Al&s;o hot Remedies to refre&s;h the &s;pirits that I al&s;o propounded.</P>
<P>So there may be a Phy&s;ical Wine provided which is of it &s;elf a great friend to the Heart, for example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Herbs, Mount Calamint,</HI> Carduus Sanctus, <HI>Scordium, Goats Rue, Lavender, Balm, Ro&s;emary, of each one handful, Roots of Avens, white Dictamni, Mai&s;ter-wort, Orange Pills, of each one ounce, Mirrh, Cin|namon, Cloves, of each half an ounce, Saffron one dram</HI> Beat them a part into Pouder, then put them into an Hippocras bag, and poure on the Pouder, the mo&s;t
<PB N="287" REF="105">plea&s;ant white Wine &s;ix pound, five or &s;ix times: of this Wine you may give about two ounces at once; if you poure on <HI>Aqua vitae</HI> &s;o, the Remedy will be more effectual, and the Do&s;e will be to one &s;poonful.</P>
<P>For outward Remedies, prepare bags of the &s;aid Herbs, and Spices, to be worn on the Region of the Heart.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Fomentations of Spiced Wines altered with the &s;ame things, alwaies adding &s;ome Saffron to make them pe|netrate the more.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Unctions may be made with Oyls made of the Decoctions of the &s;ame &s;imples, or Spiced Oyls made the &s;ame way, and you &s;hall find this in the Title of tho&s;e things that refre&s;h the &s;pirits.</P>
<P>For the Heart over heat, tho&s;e things are convenient that are more tempe|rate, that were &s;et down again&s;t Ma|lignant Feavers, and be&s;ides tho&s;e, Ivory, flowers of Willows, Mother of Pearl prepared, Mirtils, Water Lillies, the Bone of a Stags Heart, &s;weet Ap|ples, Ro&s;es, Sanders, Violets</P>
<P>Of the&s;e you have &s;ome Compounds
<PB N="288" REF="106">among&s;t the Antidotes again&s;t Pe&s;tilent Feavers.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the u&s;e of Con&s;erves of Violets or Ro&s;es will be mo&s;t profitable, with one &s;cruple of the Salt of the Mother of Pearls, for one Do&s;e.</P>
<P>The Salt is thus made, di&s;&s;olve the Mother of Pearl Burnt, in hot Water of Borrage; adding a part of Ro&s;e Vineger, then di&s;till them by filtring, and la&s;tly Coagulate them, making away al the moi&s;ture by Evaporating it.</P>
<P>Externally Epithems are made of the water of flowers of Willows, Ro&s;es, wa|ter Lillies, adding the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons, or Ro&s;e Vineger to make them penetrate, and if Camphire can be had readily, put in four or five grains of it. In&s;tead of Water you may take the Decoctions of Borrage, Bi&s;tort, Blew bottles, Water Lillies and Vio|lets with the &s;ame Juyce, with Ro&s;e Vineger.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Stomach Remedies.</HEAD>
<P>The chief heating Stomach Reme|dies,
<PB N="289" REF="106">and ea&s;ie&s;t to be got are, all &s;orts of Wormwood, but e&s;pecially the common, and the Sea wormwood, the Pills of Oranges and Citrons and the Seeds, bitter Almonds, Gentian the le&s;s, Mints, Origanum, Ro&s;emary, and all Spices, among&s;t which the be&s;t are Zedoary, Ginger, Galangal, and Pepper.</P>
<P>Of Compounds, ea&s;ie to procure, wormwood Wine and Oxymel of wormwood are approved.</P>
<P><HI>Aqua vitae</HI> altered by &s;teeping worm|wood in it that was dried in the &s;hade, adding &s;ome Spices if you plea&s;e.</P>
<P>The be&s;t Wine (&s;uch as may be made, being poured through Spices, &s;weet Seeds, or the fore&s;aid &s;imples brui&s;ed) to be taken the quantity of two drams for many daies, fa&s;ting; with one or two grains of Pepper gro&s;ely beaten.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it is good to drink the Water of hot Baths that come from Brim&s;tone; &s;uch an Oxymel is mo&s;t profitable, if you give every day one &s;poonful, or &s;ome other.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Herbs, Wormwood, Calamint, Ro&s;emary, Mints, of each one handful, Pills
<PB N="290" REF="107">of Oranges or Citrons, one ounce, Seeds of Annis and Cinnamon, of each one dram, Honey, one pound, the be&s;t white Wine, half a pound.</HI> Boyl all at a &s;oft fire til the Honey be wel clarified: to the &s;trained Liquor, add the be&s;t Vineger half a pound; Boyl them to a Syrup; when it is cold, ca&s;t in Ginger finely poudered two drams.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it it &s;ingular good to take every day in a rear Egg about one dram of Ma&s;tich in Pouder, with a little Ginger of Zedoary.</P>
<P>Outwardly, it is profitable to drop down the Water of Baths of Brim&s;tone, which, when tho&s;e waters are wanting, may be prepared of Wine, e&s;pecially the be&s;t red Wine that is altered with the &s;aid Herbs; of which al&s;o may be made Fomentations.</P>
<P>The common people u&s;e to make excellent Fomentations of common wormwood, Mints, Origanum, Cala|mint, Lavender, of each one handful, tops of Ro&s;emary, half a handful, com|mon Oyl, and Spiced Wine, of each one pound, let them Boyl at a &s;oft fire til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, pre&s;s them
<PB N="291" REF="107">out, and &s;train them, &s;o keep them for u&s;e.</P>
<P>For the Stomach over heat the&s;e are good, the Juyce of Oranges, &s;oure Grapes, Barberies, &s;harp Cherries, the fruit of Cornus, Quin&s;es, the Juyce of &s;oure Pomegranates, the flowers of the wild Vine, Hypoci&s;tis, &s;harp Apples, unripe Mulberries, &s;harp Pears, wild Plums, and the Juyce of them, ba&s;tard Corinths, Ro&s;es, Services, the Juyce of Rhus or Sumach, Sorrel, Trifoly, Goo&s;e|berries, &s;harp Wine well mingled with water.</P>
<P>You may give the Juyce or Decocti|ons of the &s;aid fruit and Herbs, with an Emul&s;ion of the four great cold Seeds.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it is very convenient to give A&s;&s;es or Goats Milk tempered with about a fixt part of &s;ome of the &s;aid Juyces, lea&s;t it change into a burnt &s;mel.</P>
<P>Moreover, to drink of Bath waters that proceed from Copper, or Vitriol, or Iron, is wel approved; &s;uch waters as are in <HI>Italy,</HI> are called <HI>Chalderianae, Lu|cen&s;es, Niceranae,</HI> and the <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin in Mount Ortho.</HI></P>
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<P>Outwardly, Fomentations may be u&s;ed, and Epithems, or the Decoction of Ro&s;es, Myrtles, flowers of wild Pomegranates, Quinces, Pomegranate Rinds, Hypoci&s;tis, the wild Vine, adding to them &s;ome Ro&s;e vineger.</P>
<P>A mo&s;t profitable Plai&s;ter may be made of the pulp of a Quince, boyled in Rainwater, or &s;teeled water, &s;prink|led with a little pouder of ma&s;tich and red Ro&s;es. In&s;tead of Quinces, you may take &s;harp Apples.</P>
<P>Oyntments may be made of Oyl boyled with the &s;aid Herbs, til the moi|&s;ture be con&s;umed, alwaies adding a little wax, wa&s;hed &s;omtimes in <HI>Po&s;ca,</HI> that the force of the Remedy may &s;tick the longer to the place affected.</P>
<P>For a dried Stomach, where there is want of inbred heat, nothing is better than milk taken for many daies, about five or &s;ix hours before meat. You mu&s;t take it by degrees from four oun|ces to &s;ix ounces or thereabouts, new milked, and with about a fourth part of Honey that it Wax not &s;oure.</P>
<P>Outwardly, Fomentations are good made chiefly of Oyls, that are not very
<PB N="293" REF="108">hot, or el&s;e received into moi&s;t Wool.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Pications are u&s;eful, made with Pitch melted with a little Oyl of Wormwood, and laid upon the part until it wax a little red; in the mean time the Stomach mu&s;t be cheri&s;hed with a yong Puppy, or your own hand, or a yong Maid lying upon it all the night.</P>
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<HEAD>Remedies that alter the Inte&s;tines.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;ame Remedies almo&s;t are good for the Intrals, as are for the Stomach, by rea&s;on of the Affinity of Parts, and Propriety of their Sub&s;tance.</P>
<P>But for the Inte&s;tines over cooled, as it fals out often in the Collick, e&s;pecial|ly the&s;e do profit: Cummin Seed, Bay|berries, Rue, and the Pils of Oranges; the Pouder of them may be given to one dram in &s;piced Wine, or an Emul&s;i|on of the Seed of Citrons, or Oranges.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t commendable is, Wine that is made Phy&s;ical with the long &s;teeping of Orange Pils, both to cure
<PB N="294" REF="109">the pains of the Collick, and to pre|&s;erve one from it, if it be dayly u&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Theriaca Diate&s;&s;aron,</HI> is excellent for the &s;ame, as it is de&s;cribed among&s;t the Antidotes; one dram of it given alone, or with &s;piced Wine.</P>
<P>The &s;ame things may be given in Cly&s;ters, in any of the&s;e forms; to which you may very wel add Oyl of Nuts, the Decoction of Coloquintida, and Turpentine, or Rozin of the Fir|tree, or Larch-tree, di&s;&s;olved in Oyl.</P>
<P>As for Example:</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Decoction of Chamomel, Bay-Leaves, Colequintida bound up in a skin, one pound: Oyl of Bays, or Oyl of Nuts, three ounces: Crude Honey, and Turpentine, of each two drams: Common Salt two drams:</HI> mingle them for a Cly&s;ter.</P>
<P>Outwardly, Unctions of Oyl of Bays, and Rue, are principal good; as al&s;o the mud of Baths from Brim&s;tone.</P>
<P>For the Inte&s;tines over heat, the&s;e things are profitable: All things that cool the Stomach, and the Liver; but the chief are Bath-waters proceeding of Copper, and Vitriol, and Iron, drank with an empty Stomach.</P>
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<P>Milk added to Cly&s;ters, and often bathing the middle <HI>Abdomen</HI> with <HI>Po&s;ca,</HI> that is &s;omthing cold; with which Re|medies the pains of the Inte&s;tines pro|ceeding from thin, and mo&s;t &s;harp chol|ler, are ea&s;ily and &s;oon abated.</P>
<P>For the Liver over cooled, the&s;e are convenient; Wormwood, Agrimony, Germander, al the Gentians, Lavender, the wood and berries of Juniper, Poley, French Spike, and Italian Spike, to which ad Spices, and the hotter Diure|ticks.</P>
<P>Among&s;t Compounds, &s;trong Wines are mo&s;t approved, made Phy&s;ical with wormwood, and Spices, &s;uch as were &s;et down for the Stomach.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Decoction of Juniper wood, is excellent, adding the tops of worm|wood, which wil be more plea&s;ant if you add a quantity of clarified Honey, chiefly if it be boyled with the be&s;t wine to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup; for by this means, divers Decoctions may be made of hot Diureticks and Spices, alwaies adding wormwood to them.</P>
<P>Outwardly, Fomentations will be good, made of &s;piced wine, altered with
<PB N="296" REF="110">the fore&s;aid Ingredients.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the mud of Baths that come from Brim&s;tone.</P>
<P>Oyntments are made with Oyls com|pounded of the &s;ame Simples by Deco|ction, &s;uch as were de&s;cribed for the Stomach.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Little bags made of the &s;ame things put into a fine cloth, and worn upon the Region of the Liver.</P>
<P>But for the Liver over heat, the&s;e are the be&s;t among&s;t Simples: Sorrel, Suc|cory, the pulp and &s;eeds of Gourds, Citruls, Endive, Liver-wort, Hawk|weed, Barley, al &s;orts of Docks, Lettice, Milk (if there be no ob&s;tructions, nor a Feaver) chiefly that which is four; pulp and &s;eeds of Apples, Pur&s;lain, wild Endive, Sow-thi&s;tle, Dandelyon, Sorrel, Trefoyl, whey of milk alone, or with an Emul&s;ion of the four great cold Seeds.</P>
<P>Decoctions are made of Herbs in wa|ter or broth, or the Juyces are pre&s;&s;ed out, which are kept til winter, both cla|rified and thickened: they are mingled from one ounce to two, with broth in winter time; but the&s;e from one or
<PB N="297" REF="110">two drams, are either mingled, or made up into Bolus, or el&s;e are di&s;&s;olved in &s;ome Liquor.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Herbs are eaten, boyled after the manner of Pot herbs, in water, or fle&s;h|broth.</P>
<P>A Pri&s;an is made of Barley, which is made the more plea&s;ant, made white with the Seed of Melones or Gourds: the u&s;e whereof is good al&s;o in a Pana|tella.</P>
<P>To al the&s;e, Natural Mineral waters may be added, that proceed from Cop|per, Vitriol, or Iron, that were mentio|ned to temper the heat of the Stomach; for there is nothing better to cool the Liver, than the orderly drinking of the&s;e waters.</P>
<P>Outwardly Epithems are convenient, of Juyces, and the Decoctions, e&s;pecial|ly of Cichory, and Sow-thi&s;tle, with an eight part of Ro&s;e Vineger, or com|mon Vineger, in which a little worm|wood and Ro&s;es have boyled.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an Oyl to anoint with, may be prepared of Violets and Ro&s;es, which would be more effectual, made with the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned,
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<P>But a bath of &s;weet water, is better than any Remedy, u&s;ed for the whol body after due Evacuations, unle&s;s a Feaver hinder.</P>
<P>For the Spleen over cooled, the&s;e are proper Remedies; Seed of Agnus Ca|&s;tus, borrage, buglo&s;s, roots and rinds of Cappars, &s;tone-fern, Dodder, root of Fern, &s;eed and bark of A&s;h-tree, Fu|mitory, the ripe berries of Ivy of the wal, Harts-tongue, the flower and root of Hops, root of water fern, Tamarisk, Time, Teucrium. The Pouder of the&s;e may be drank to one dram for forty dayes in wormwood wine, or &s;teeled wine, or Smiths water.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e may be made Decoctions &s;uddenly, Phy&s;ick wines, and Electua|ries.</P>
<P>The Decoctions of A&s;h wood are ex|cellent, and Tamarisk, Mountain Teu|crium, and Germander, e&s;pecially made with water wherein new &s;teel hath been quenched, or with Smiths water el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">rified.</P>
<P>Some make the&s;e Decoctions with
<PB N="299" REF="112">Vineger, but chiefly wherein Rai&s;ins have been &s;teeped, to dimini&s;h the Spleen that is grown too great: if Vine|ger of Squils be at hand, it were good to mix it with the Decoctions, to half a &s;poonful.</P>
<P>Wines are prepared by the infu&s;ion of the &s;ame Herbs, and they wil be better, if you add &s;teel that is prepared with Brim&s;tone, which preparation may be made &s;uddenly, as for example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Germander, Dodder, wall Ferne, Fumitory, Buglos, of each one hand|ful, Seeds of A&s;h, berries of Ivy of the Wall of each two drams, Time and Wormwood of each one pugil, Steel prepared one ounce, the be&s;t white Wine three pound.</HI> Make infu&s;i|on in the Sun or &s;ome hot place for eight daies, &s;tirring the matter alwaies once and again; then &s;train the Wine and take every day four ounces, four hours before meat, and before ordinary exerci&s;e.</P>
<P>Electuaries may be made of the &s;ame herbs, adding prepared Steel to them, or Ammoniacum, and four times &s;o much Clarified Honey.</P>
<P>Some there are that a&s;cribe a won|derful
<PB N="300" REF="113">effect to Ivy berries poudered and mingled with honey to an Elect|uary, or drank in Wine or Broth of Chich Pea&s;e to one dram for forty daies.</P>
<P>Outwardly are convenient, Fomen|tations of the Decoctions of Emollient Herbs, adding thereto the Roots of Briony and Sowbread, Ivy Leaves, and Tobacco, dwarf Elder, and wormwood to corroborate the parts, with &s;ome quantity of white wine and vineger, in the end of the Decoction to make the better penetration.</P>
<P>The Fume of this Decoction received is good, by quenching in it a piece of a &s;ire-&s;tone, or a mil-&s;tone.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Fomentations made of Hemp Yarn boyled in a &s;trong Lixivium, and being laid hot and moi&s;t to the part, are exceeding profitable.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the mud of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">itumenous Baths u|&s;ed for fifteen or twenty daies, is com|mended.</P>
<P>After Fomentations, let the parts be anointed with Oyls made &s;uddenly, by boyling together, or el&s;e apart, Sow|bread, Priony, Cappars, flowers of
<PB N="301" REF="113">Broom, Tobacco, Ivy Leaves, Colo|quintida, in common Oyl with white wine and vineger; til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, adding &s;ome wormwood, or bitter Almonds to pre&s;erve the &s;trength of the part.</P>
<P>After convenient u&s;e of Fomentations and Oyntments, apply a Cerate to the part, as that which is u&s;ual, made of Ammoniacum di&s;&s;olved in Vineger of Squils, or provide &s;omthing of the &s;ame faculty, of the pouders of the &s;aid Sim|ples, adding &s;ome little of the fore&s;aid Oyl, to a &s;ufficient quantity of the Pine|tree Rozin, or white Pitch, and new Wax.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Bee-glew is commended that is yet &s;welling with Honey, brui&s;ed by it &s;elf to the form of a Plai&s;ter, adding a little Ma&s;tich to help the &s;trength of the part.</P>
<P>To this place appertains a little bag, that is &s;tuffed with equal parts of wild Cucumer, pulp of Coloquintida and wormwood laid to the Spleen.</P>
<P>The&s;e cool the Spleen that is over|hot, the &s;ame that were propounded for the Liver; but there mu&s;t be &s;ome
<PB N="302" REF="114">temperate Attenuatives added to them; by rea&s;on of the thick Juyce the Spleen is nouri&s;hed with.</P>
<P>Such are, Strawberries, Maidenhair, Hops, Sparagus, Trichomanes, vineger, Smiths water clarified; with which Decoctions are altered, Fomentations and Epithems; not forgeting to add &s;ome wormwood to outward Reme|dies, to &s;trengthen the part.</P>
<P>The &s;ame things belong to the Reins and the Bladder, by rea&s;on of the community of their office, and nearne&s;s of the parts.</P>
<P>Therefore, for the&s;e overcooled, all tho&s;e hot Diureticks laid down in their proper place, are profitable.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Betony, Chamomel, the Root of long Cyperus, added to the Decocti|ons and Electuaries.</P>
<P>But the&s;e are judged to be better to heat the Urinary pa&s;&s;ages; water Baths that proceed from Brim&s;tone, drank, for many days together, fa&s;ting, to &s;ome pound weights; putting in &s;ome &s;mal quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel or the like Diuretick in Pouder, for the fir&s;t Cupp, or &s;ome Ro&s;in of the Larch
<PB N="303" REF="114">or Firr Tree, to about two drams, taken in Bolus, either by it &s;elf, or with &s;ome little Pouder of &s;ome of the hotter Diureticks.</P>
<P>Al&s;o white Wine of the be&s;t, altered with &s;ome of the hotter Diureticks is mo&s;t convenient for this bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P>Outwardly to &s;it in waters of Baths, that proceed from &s;ulphur is an appro|ved Remedy.</P>
<P>Fomentations of the Decoction of hot Diureticks, with hot white Wine.</P>
<P>Oyntments, with Oyl of Bays, or &s;ome &s;uch like, prepared pre&s;ently; you have an example of it among&s;t the Diureticks.</P>
<P>Catapla&s;ms are commended, made of Onions and Garlick Boyled with white Wine, and brui&s;ed, and laid on by them&s;elves, or &s;prinkled with the Pou|der of Cummin Seed or the like.</P>
<P>Cly&s;ters made with the fore&s;aid Oyl are often to be given hot, and with Wine altered with Chamomel, Bay Leaves, Penniroyal, wild Time, and &s;uch like heaters that cau&s;e Urin.</P>
<P>Add to all the&s;e &s;trong Motion, by riding, running, Walking; whereby the
<PB N="304" REF="115">Region of the Loyns is heated.</P>
<P>But for the Reins over-heat, the&s;e things profit inwardly; Decoctions of the fruit of Alkekengi, Mar&s;h-mallows, Sorrel, Barley, Lettice, Mallows, water Lillies, Pur&s;lain, Gra&s;s, Roots of Sowthi&s;tles, with the Emul&s;ions of the four great cold Seeds, or the Juyce of Lemmons.</P>
<P>Moreover Clarified Whey, with the Emul&s;ion of the four cold Seeds.</P>
<P>Al&s;o &s;teeled Milk unle&s;s &s;ome ob&s;tru|ction of the Reins hinder it.</P>
<P>Drinking of &s;harp Mineral waters, of Copper, Vitriol or Iron, &s;uch are in <HI>Italy</HI> the <HI>Lucen&s;es, Noceranae, Chalderianae,</HI> and at <HI>Padua,</HI> of the ble&s;&s;ed Virgin.</P>
<P>Al&s;o to eat Strawberries, Lemmons Melons, Citruls, Gourds, Barley, Let|tice.</P>
<P>Outwardly, doth profit, a Bath, to &s;it in of &s;weet waters, chiefly altered with Violets, Pellitory of the wal-Let|tice, Mallows, the Decoctions whereof are al&s;o profitably given in Cly&s;ters.</P>
<P>In the place of Baths, Epithems are good of warm Milk, either alone, or with the Decoction of Mallows, or of
<PB N="305" REF="115">the fore&s;aid Herbs, adding Juyce of Lemmons to them to make them pene|trate.</P>
<P>When heat is urgent; add the Leaves of Hou&s;leek, Garden night-&s;hade, and Alkekengi, and &s;ometime of white Henbane, to the Decoction.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t effectual is the Juyce pre&s;|&s;ed out of the inward &s;crapings of the gourd, either alone, or laid on with other things.</P>
<P>Al&s;o &s;udden Oyntments may be pre|pared of Oyls, wherein are Boyled, the &s;lowers or Leaves of water Lillies, Blew Violets, Dama&s;k Ro&s;es, green Frogs.</P>
<P>Upon urgent nece&s;&s;ity, (which falls out in an exqui&s;ite Diabetes) the Seeds of white Poppy, and white Henbane, out of which al&s;o Oyls are made by ex|pre&s;&s;ion, very effectual for the pur|po&s;e.</P>
<P>Apply to the Reins, and the parts about, fre&s;h Leaves of water Lillies, when the party goeth to bed, and let him wear in the day time, in the place of them, a thin plate of Lead, or a &s;imple Cerate, made of Yellow Wax, often wa&s;hed in Ro&s;e water, or the &s;aid
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<HEAD>Remedies for the Matrix.</HEAD>
<P>No cold things of them&s;elves are kindly to the Matrix (becau&s;e it is the place of generation) yet if it &s;hall &s;tand in need of them, when it is over heat, they are nece&s;&s;ary for to help it, which are &s;et &s;own to help the Reins and the Liver; only with this caution that to outward Remedies, &s;ome things mu&s;t be added that cheri&s;h the natural heat of it, and fo&s;ter its peculiar property.</P>
<P>But when it is over-cooled, the&s;e principally are convenient; among&s;t common things, Mugwort, Angelica, Calamint, the Root of long Cyprus, Daucus, white Dictamny, Nip, Leaves and Berries of bays, Lavender, Fether|few, Marjoram, Balm, Garden Mints, and wild Mints, and Greek Mints, Origanum, Poly, Penniroyal, Ro&s;e|mary,
<PB N="307" REF="117">Rue Savory, Sage, wild Time, French and Italian Spik; &s;weet Tan&s;ey, Time, and all Spices, among&s;t which the be&s;t are Cinnamon, Saffron, Ga|langa, Mirrh, Mace and Nutmeg.</P>
<P>The Pouder of the&s;e may be given, to one dram in Spiced Wine or Broth, or el&s;e Electuaries may be made of them, adding thrice as much of Clarifi|ed Honey.</P>
<P>To this end &s;erve all kind of Aroma|tical Spices, that may be had at cheap rates, of which take one dram in Wine.</P>
<P>But Decoctions and Phy&s;ical Wines are preferred before other Medica|ments, becau&s;e by rea&s;on of their moi|&s;ture they can more ea&s;ily be conveyed to the Matrix.</P>
<P>The be&s;t Decoctions are made of Pid|geon Broth, the Belly of the Pidgeon being &s;tuft with the &s;aid &s;imples, as for Example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Herbs, Calamint, Penniroyal, Balm, Mints, of each one handful, tops of Ro&s;emary and Lavender, of each one pugil, Bay-berries, Nutmeg and Galanga, of each one dram.</HI> Cut the Herbs and brui&s;e the re&s;t gro&s;sly,
<PB N="308" REF="118">and put them together within the bel|ly of a Pidgeon; then boyl them in water &s;ufficient at a very &s;oft fire, un|til the fle&s;h be perfectly boyled; then pre&s;s all out &s;trongly, and &s;train it: give two ounces of it, or thereabouts, daily for many daies.</P>
<P>Phy&s;ick Wines are made by the Infu|&s;ion of the &s;aid Ingredients, or by thrice pouring the wine upon the &s;aid pou|ders put into a long bag.</P>
<P>Women u&s;e to provide Wines by De|coction, and that pre&s;ently, but they are not &s;o effectual, becau&s;e the thinner parts are evaporated.</P>
<P>Al&s;o to drink the water of Baths from Brim&s;tone &s;ea&s;onably, doth wonder|fully maintain and correct the heat of the Matrix.</P>
<P>Outwardly do profit, In&s;e&s;&s;ions, Bath waters from Brim&s;tone, or Baths altered with the &s;aid Herbs, putting into the Matrix a hollow Pipe, that by that, the force of the Medicament may come to it.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Liquors, as al&s;o Phy&s;ical Wines are conveniently u&s;ed, conveied by injections to the &s;ecrets.</P>
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<P>Al&s;o Fumigations of Spices and &s;weet Herbs are good.</P>
<P>Pe&s;&s;aries are commended, &s;uch as may be pre&s;ently provided, Thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Pouder of Bay-berries and Rue, of each one dram, Mirrh half a dram, Juyce of Fetherfew or Peniroyal or Spiced Wine one ounce.</HI> Mingle them, and with carded Wooll or Cotton make a pe&s;&s;ary. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>the be&s;t Honey one ounce, Juyce of Mugwort half an ounce.</HI> Boyl them to a fit con&s;i&s;tence, then add Pouder of Ga|langa, or the Spices of vulgar Aroma|ticks one dram: mingle them for a pe&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Fomentations mu&s;t be applyed to the lower part of the Belly, with Spounges, pre&s;&s;ed out with mineral waters, or of the Decoctions of the fore&s;aid &s;imples, chiefly in &s;trong Wine.</P>
<P>But no Fomentation is better, than the mud of hot Baths applyed to that part for &s;ome daies.</P>
<P>Anoint the &s;ame place with Oyl of Spik, Bays, Rue, and other things made of the Decoction of the &s;aid &s;im|ples, as for example.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Herbs Calamint, Marjoram, Fe|therfew,
<PB N="310" REF="119">Mints, Lavender, of each one hand|ful, Bay-berries and Galanga, of each two drams.</HI> Pound what mu&s;t be pounded, and infu&s;e all in one pound and an half of common Oyl and half a pound of Spiced Wine for &s;ix hours, then Boyl them at a &s;oft fire till the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed.</P>
<P>Some a&s;cribe a peculiar vertue to &s;trengthen the Matrix, to Santoline, which <HI>Mathiolus</HI> makes to be Foemale Southernwood.</P>
<P>And the&s;e are the mo&s;t common and ready Remedies to alter, whereby the di&s;temper of every part, and of the whole Body may be corrected.</P>
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<HEAD>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in ill Conformation.</HEAD>
<P>Due Conformation, convenient Mag|nitude of the Similary parts, of which the Organ con&s;i&s;ts, do make the Con|&s;titution of the Organ; al&s;o convenient and fit number to which apt connexion is referred: therefore we &s;hall Recite four chief heads of faulty compo&s;ition,
<PB N="311" REF="119">namely, a Di&s;ea&s;e in conformation, in Magnitude, in number, in Scituation.</P>
<P>There are four ill accidents that befal Conformation: namely, in figure, the in&s;en&s;ible pa&s;&s;age, being open or &s;hut, Cavity or &s;en&s;ible pa&s;&s;age being enlar|ged or &s;treightened, and the &s;uperficies being &s;mooth or rough.</P>
<P>A Di&s;ea&s;e in figure hath no Remedies that are proper for it, but it is either cured with the help of Chirurgery, or with Medicaments that re&s;pect other Di&s;ea&s;es, on which it dependeth. For it is made either by faulty Conformati|on in the Womb, or violent motion in the birth, or the un&s;killful &s;wathing by Midwives, or walking when the Legs are weak, disjoyntings, and errours of the Chirurgion in curing Fractures and Luxations, which want the help of Chy|rurgery, but of tho&s;e we do not &s;peak in this place.</P>
<P>But the part brought again to its due Conformation is &s;trengthened out|wardly with Fomentations and Cerates, which are made of A&s;tringents, but chiefly tho&s;e that are hot, and &s;hall be de&s;cribed very &s;hortly.</P>
<PB N="312" REF="120">
<P>Now if the figure be &s;poiled by too great <HI>Repletions,</HI> or extream in any Emp|tines, or by &s;ome inclinations of one part toward another, by rea&s;on of a Pal&s;y or Convul&s;ion, as it falls out when the Nerves or the Tendons are cut, or from &s;ome hard Cicatrice, or great &s;welling; it is cured by &s;uch Remedies as empty, &s;trengthen the Nerves, &s;often hardne&s;s, of which we &s;pak already, al&s;o with &s;uch as refre&s;h the part that is too empty, and &s;uch as glew di&s;&s;olved unity, of which afterwards.</P>
<P>Rarity, or the opening of the in&s;en|&s;ible pa&s;&s;ages which Men cal Poro&s;ities, which in great Joy poured forth, and Diaphoretical &s;weatings, is often the cau&s;e of death, it is cured by Coolers, A&s;tringents, and Empla&s;ticks, or &s;uch as draw up the pores.</P>
<P>Such things as are mo&s;t obvious to be applyed outwardly; are the &s;prink|ling with cold water and &s;o much the more if it be cooled with Snow, or Ice, or fir&s;t altered with cold a&s;tringents, of which we will &s;peak afterwards.</P>
<P>Anointing of the Body with Oyls that are actually cold, e&s;pecially of
<PB N="313" REF="120">unripe Olives, or altered with cold a&s;tringents, as Ro&s;es, Quinces and the like,</P>
<P>Al&s;o the colde&s;t Ayr is be&s;t, that with the cold of the Ayr, the pores may be contracted.</P>
<P>If the&s;e things Suffice not, lay on Burnt Gip with cold water, as a cru&s;t upon the Body.</P>
<P>If Rarity po&s;&s;e&s;s the part, as when by rea&s;on of rarity of the yard, the &s;pirits cannot be conteined in the hollow Nerve, to cau&s;e &s;trong erection, tho&s;e A&s;tringents that &s;hall be by and by pro|pounded mu&s;t be applyed to the place affected, e&s;pecially hot, becau&s;e &s;o they &s;trengthen the more.</P>
<P>For the Den&s;ity or a&s;triction of tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, if it proceed from any matter that is impacted, hot detergents are mo&s;t convenient, and &s;uch as attenuate, which &s;hall be propounded to take a|way ob&s;tructions that come from thick matter that is impacted.</P>
<P>If it proceed from cold and drine&s;s, things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful, of which there is notable u&s;e to di&s;po&s;e
<PB N="314" REF="121">the Body to nece&s;&s;ary &s;weating, and to make the Body tran&s;pirable, which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers, and to take off all <HI>Cutaneous</HI> &s;pots.</P>
<P>Such are Baths of warm water, Fo|mentations of water and Oyl, or warm water, chiefly altered with Dill, Cha|momel, Mar&s;h-mallows, Roots of white Lillies, Lin-&s;eed, the flowers of com|mon Ja&s;min, and wall-flowers, Boyled, till half be con&s;umed.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Unction may be made with Oyl very hot, fir&s;t rubbing the part &s;oftly, or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand, dipt in the &s;ame Oyl, or &s;ome Spiced white Wine, ad|ding one half of the Decoction of Vio|lets and Mallows, in common water, if there be a &s;trong Feaver pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the rubbing it &s;elf with &s;oft Cloths, taketh away the thickne&s;s of the Skin, and Cupping Gla&s;&s;es do it more effectually, with or without Sca|rification.</P>
<P>Al&s;o for the Amplitude, or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or &s;en|&s;ible pa&s;&s;ages, a&s;tringents are conveni|ent,
<PB N="315" REF="121">which do &s;o much the more forci|bly thicken them, as the pa&s;&s;ages are &s;maller.</P>
<P>The matter of a&s;tringents is of very long extent; they may be reduced to three Ranks, where the choice of every one for u&s;e may be ea&s;ely found.</P>
<P>Some do but a little bind, the u&s;e whereof principally is to corroborate the parts, and they do bridle excreti|ons, which are not altogether unpro|fitable, yet by their quantity and con|tinuance, they may weaken the &s;trength.</P>
<P>Some do moderately bind, which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them, and to &s;tay all Fluxes that are hurtful.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, &s;ome a&s;tringents do compact the parts that are loo&s;ened, and are to be u&s;ed, when by the force of the de|fluxion, and vehemency of Evacuation, there is imminent danger; as it falls out mo&s;t commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin, and comes through pa&s;&s;ages that are very much loo&s;ened with the continuance of the defluxion.</P>
<PB N="316" REF="122">
<P>In a cold cau&s;e let &s;uch Remedies be made choice of, that bind with heat, or without any manife&s;t coldne&s;s.</P>
<P>But in a hot cau&s;e tho&s;e things will help which work by cooling.</P>
<P>And of all kinds of a&s;tringents, the&s;e will be mo&s;t ea&s;ely provided for &s;ud|den Remedies.</P>
<P>Upon a cold cau&s;e the&s;e bind a little; all kinds of Wormwood, but e&s;pecially Sea Wormwood, Egrimony, Be|tony, Coleworts wel Boyled, Coriander Seed, Cummin Seed torrefied, the Root of long Engli&s;h Galingal, the Hulls of Beans, Ma&s;tich wood; and Leaves, Garden Mints dried, Ma&s;tick, Rice dried, Ro&s;emary, Sage, common Scabious, Frankin&s;ence, Ro&s;in of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard, &s;harp Wine, or any other Wine &s;teel|led.</P>
<P>The dry Pouders of tho&s;e are given inwardly, by them&s;elves in &s;harp Wine to one dram or there abouts and &s;ome|thing more.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Decoctions of Phy&s;ick Wines, among&s;t which, the be&s;t is Wormwood Wine, or made of Ma&s;tich wood, or
<PB N="317" REF="122">Ma&s;tich, or Ro&s;emary, or Sage.</P>
<P>Al&s;o ordinary drink is profitably al|tered with the Seed of Coriander and Ma&s;tich, and the &s;aid Pouders are &s;trewed upon meat.</P>
<P>For an inveterate Gonorrhea with|out any heat of Urine, the &s;aid Ro&s;ins Boyled in Rain Water, or &s;teeled water, taken for many daies fa&s;ting, are profitable, and made into Pills to one dram, with one &s;cruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus ca&s;tus.</P>
<P>Al&s;o one &s;cruple of the Pouder of Ma&s;tich taken for &s;ome daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner, will &s;tay the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The &s;ame Pouder taken the &s;ame way, if you drink a draught of worm|wood Wine after it, &s;taies an Hepatick flux properly &s;o called, and Old fluxes of the Belly, and vomiting al&s;o that proceeds from the weakne&s;s of the Sto|mach.</P>
<P>Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives (they cal it Omphacinum) or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood, dry Mints, Ro&s;emary, or Ma&s;tick wood, or Ma&s;tick.</P>
<PB N="318" REF="123">
<P>Or Liniments made pre&s;ently, &s;uch as this following is.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Ma&s;tick in Pouder one dram, com|mon Oyl one ounce, Yellow Wax, what is &s;ufficient.</HI> Mingle them and make a Liniment.</P>
<P>Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied, and Rice dried at the fire.</P>
<P>Or moi&s;t Fomentations of &s;harp red Wine, that is altered with the &s;aid Herbs.</P>
<P>Or a Catapla&s;m of the &s;hells of Beans, dried Rice, the Pouder of Wormwood, Oyl and &s;harp Wine.</P>
<P>Of Ma&s;tick and Frankin&s;ence, Cerats are made, adding to them Oyl of worm|wood and Ro&s;in of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is &s;ufficient.</P>
<P>For long continuing defluxions of the Eys. It is good to wa&s;h the Eyes often with the be&s;t white Wine, in which Frankin&s;ence &s;et on fire, hath been thrice quenched, adding a third part of River water, if the defluxion he &s;harp.</P>
<P>The&s;e bind Moderately, Bean meal heated at the fire, eaten in meats, Che&s;|nuts,
<PB N="319" REF="123">Avens, Black Knapweed, the green &s;hells of Wallnuts, Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce, the Roots of Water-fern.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven, taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little &s;harp, is propounded by <HI>Septalius,</HI> as a great &s;ecret to cure an Hepatick flux, al&s;o it cureth the flux of Women, being taken in Aromatical Wine made Phy&s;ical with Ro&s;emary, Sage, or Mints.</P>
<P>For the hot affections of the Jaws, this doth profit &s;ingularly, the Deco|ction, or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargari&s;m, for which purpo&s;e a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified.</P>
<P>The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled, taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga, or Nutmeg, in the morning, four hours before meat, cureth vomi|tings and &s;courings that proceed from the weakne&s;s of the Stomach.</P>
<P>Avens, and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine, or bear into Pou|der, is &s;ingular good again&s;t the falling
<PB N="320" REF="124">out of the Inte&s;tines and the Matrix.</P>
<P>Ontwardly, Mill du&s;t added to Plai|&s;ters is good again&s;t Pi&s;&s;ing of Blood.</P>
<P>Earth worms in Plai&s;ters are good for the Nerves that are wounded.</P>
<P>Salt and Roch Allum, put into Deco|ctions of Red wine, are for to corrobo|rate the parts.</P>
<P>Baths of Allum and Gip, (&s;uch as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua) are good to &s;trengthen the Limbs that are di&s;tempered by long defluxions.</P>
<P>The mother of the wine hot, is com|mended to corroborate the Joynts.</P>
<P>The crum of bread to&s;ted and &s;prin|kled with &s;trong wine, and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach.</P>
<P>The&s;e bind &s;trongly, great Sanicle, Garden dropwort, e&s;pecially the Root, all the Cranes Bills. e&s;pecially Pidgeons Foot, Herb Robin, Mou&s;e-ear.</P>
<P>The Decoction of the&s;e is given, or the Pouder to one dram</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is mo&s;t effectual, and the inward Skin of Che&s;tnuts.</P>
<PB N="321" REF="124">
<P>Of the Juyce of Herbs, and the Pou|der of Roots mingled, bread may be made, baked &s;o hard as Bi&s;quet, which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats, to be taken with|out loathing.</P>
<P>Outwardly Fomentations are prepa|red of the Decoctions of Herbs, with &s;harp wine, adding &s;ome Allum to them.</P>
<P>The Juyce of the fruit of Guajacum of Padua, when it is half ripe pre&s;&s;ed forth through a Linnen Cloth, or received by a Spunge, &s;tayeth the mo&s;t de&s;perate flowing of the Hemorrhoids; therefore it may be thickned with Al|lum, and be kept for u&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Goats-dung beaten with Vineger and laid on, &s;tops all fluxes of Blood.</P>
<P>The Leaves of common Nettles bea|ten til the Juyce come forth, and put into the No&s;trills like a Tent, &s;tayeth bleeding at the No&s;e be it never &s;o Violent.</P>
<P>But in a hot cau&s;e the&s;e bind a little, Rain water, &s;teeled water, water of Mineralls of Iron, &s;uch as is the water of Padua, of the Mountain, <HI>Ortho.</HI></P>
<PB N="322" REF="125">
<P>Vineger, Po&s;ca, Root of Succory, Leaves of the Cypre&s;s Tree, dried Strawberry Leaves, Barley torrefied, of which a Pti&s;an may be made with &s;teeled water, &s;teeled Milk, Tree Mo&s;s, Mirtills, Pur&s;lain, the Clot Burr, &s;potted Ar&s;-mart, Pear Tree of the Orchards, four Prunes, the Leaves of Sloes, Pond-weed, the flowers of Ro&s;es, e&s;pecially the red, the Seed, Down. Cups and Root, the flowers and Leaves of Wil|lows, Hou&s;leek, Mullen, the Leaves and Tendrells of Vines, Venus Na|vil.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e may be provided chiefly Decoctions, amon&s;t which again&s;t in|veterate defluxions the Decoction of the Roots of Ro&s;es in &s;ome of the fore|&s;aid waters is excellent.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this drink, by certain experience &s;tayeth in one day every hot excremen|titious Bloody Flux of the Belly.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Juyce of the greater hou&s;leek and &s;potted Ar&s;-mart of each three ounces.</HI> Boyl them to the Con&s;umption of a third part, and give it in drink.</P>
<P>Outwardly may be prepared Fomen|tations, Baths, Emplai&s;ters, Epithems,
<PB N="323" REF="125">and other forms of Medicaments, as need requires.</P>
<P>The&s;e bind moderately, the Juyce of Oranges, Citrons, Lemmons not ripe, wilding Leaves, Leaves of wild Pome|granates, Barberries, Sheppards pur&s;e, the inward Rinds of Che&s;tnuts, Ci&s;tus, Dog Tree, and the fruit of it, the fruit of the Cypre&s;s Tree green or not yet ripe, flower of the Sun, Acorns and their Cups, Herb-trinity, Hypoci&s;tis, the flowers of the wild Vine, the flowers of the purple water Willow, all the Sea Lavenders, the common Blood|&s;tone, &s;our Pomegranates, Quinces, Pomegranate Rinds, No&s;e-Bleed, unripe Mulberries, Leaves of the Olive Tree, Adders Tongue, Plantain, wild Pear Tree, the fruit of the ba&s;tard Co|rinths, the Leaves of Brambles, unripe Mulberries, Sow-wort, Iron-wort, Yar|row, all Medicinal earths, the Elm, Golden Rod, and all the&s;e almo&s;t may be found in mo&s;t places.</P>
<P>The dry Pouders of the&s;e may be given to one dram, in Bolus, or drink, or &s;ome convenient liquor.</P>
<P>Decoctions may be made of the
<PB N="324" REF="126">Herbs, but the Juyces are more effect|ual, the Do&s;e whereof is from one ounce to two ounces.</P>
<P>The&s;e are held for &s;ecrets to &s;top all fluxes of Blood, the flowers of purple Loo&s;e-&s;trife to one dram, given &s;everal times in &s;harp Red Wine.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this Syrup; Take <HI>the Water of Knot Gra&s;sor Yarrow five ounces.</HI> Let the Blood-&s;tone be &s;o long in this Liquor, til the Liquor be of a colour like Blood, then add to it the Syrup of Quinces or Pomegranates one ounce, mingle them for a drink; or in the place of a Syrup put a little Sugar, to make it Penetrate, and &s;ome Juyce of Lemmons, or &s;harp Pears, or &s;ome other that is of a plea|&s;ant ta&s;t.</P>
<P>To &s;top the La&s;kes of the Belly and vomiting, make a great hollow in a Quince, or &s;ome &s;our Garden fruit, (Apples of an Iron colour are be&s;t) and fill it with white Wax, put it into a Paper and roa&s;t it in the Embers, give a peice or two of this &s;trewed with the Pouder of unripe Mulberries, a little before meat.</P>
<P>For to &s;tay Pi&s;&s;ing of Blood.</P>
<PB N="325" REF="126">
<P>Take <HI>the Decoction of Golden-Rod in Rain or &s;teeled water, four ounces, the water of the whites of Eggs two ounces, Juyce of Lemmons two ounces.</HI> Mingle this to drink.</P>
<P>For outward Remedies, Oyls are made &s;uddenly of the Decoction of Quinces, Cypre&s;s Nuts, and of the Pine-tree, and other Herbs, adding Po&s;ca to it: let them be Boyled til the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed; the u&s;e of the&s;e is for Oyntments or Unguents, with which, Litharge Boyled in Vineger may well be mingled.</P>
<P>Epithems may be made with Po&s;ca and whites of Eggs.</P>
<P>Fomentations and In&s;e&s;&s;ions of the Decoctions of Herbs.</P>
<P>Defen&s;atives for wounds, are made of Bole-Armoniack, or any other Medici|nable Earth, and the common Blood|&s;tone; being mingled and &s;tirred with the whites of Eggs to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Liniment: the Sediment of a W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">et-Stone affords matter for a Plai&s;ter to &s;tay al fluxes.</P>
<P><HI>Rulandus</HI> doth frequently extol a Plai|&s;ter of Potters Clay burnt, and Boyled
<PB N="326" REF="127">with Vineger, laid hot to the part, to &s;top Blood that forcibly runs out of any part.</P>
<P>For the Stomach a Plai&s;ter is profi|table, made of a Quince, Boyled in four Red Wine, or adding &s;ome Crums of bread to it &s;oftned in Vineger.</P>
<P>The&s;e bind &s;trongly, among&s;t the mo&s;t common Remedies, Grape &s;tones, the Kernells of the Pomegranate dryed, the flowers of purple flower-gentle, the inward Skin of wood Nuts, Chervil and the Root, great Comfrey, middle Comfrey or the great Dai&s;ey, Hor&s;tail, Galls e&s;pecially unripe, Rupture-wort, the Root of the Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce, the true Blood-&s;tone, com|mon Hares-Foot, wild Apples, unripe Medlars, the Rind of the Root of Mul|berries, money wort, Verjuyce, Juyce of Sloes, Knot-gra&s;s, the Root and Leaves of the Oak, the Bark that is be|tween the Tree and the outward Rind, unripe Services Sumach, male Sanicle, dead Nettles, Bloody-rod of <HI>Mathiolus</HI> or, female Dog Tree.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e, &s;ome are peculiarly com|mended for &s;ome fluxes, though all of
<PB N="327" REF="127">them may be u&s;ed generally where there is need of great a&s;triction.</P>
<P>For the overflowing of the Terms, the&s;e are accounted approved, the &s;hel of the Root of the Mulberry, the Root of the dead Nettle, Grape &s;tones, and Pomegranate Kernells, the Pouders of all the&s;e are given &s;everally to one dram, with Red Wine or &s;ome Liquor that is fit for it.</P>
<P>For Spitting of Blood, the Blood-&s;tone taken with Sugar of Ro&s;es to one dram, or laid in a&s;tringent potions, til it look like the colour of Blood, or put into a Bag, and beat into very &s;mal Pouder, and &s;o &s;train Wine often through it, or any other ordinary drink.</P>
<P>Again&s;t vomiting and any immoderate and inveterate fluxes of the Belly, the&s;e two Electuaries are the principle. The fir&s;t,</P>
<P>Take <HI>of the Roots of Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce, Boyled in Rain Water, and pa&s;&s;ed through a Hair &s;ive, two parts, Old Sugar of Ro&s;es one part.</HI> Make an Electuary ac|cording to art: the Do&s;e, is from half an ounce to one ounce. In the palce of Sugar of Ro&s;es let the Poor take half
<PB N="328" REF="128">&s;o much Clarified Honey, Boyled in rain water or &s;teeled water, wherein the younge&s;t Leaves of the Oak have Boy|led &s;ome time.</P>
<P>The other.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Roots of great Comfrey Boyled in the Decoction of the Root of Garden Dropwort, and pa&s;&s;ed through a Hair &s;ive, two parts, Old Sugar of Ro&s;es one part, or parts alike.</HI> Mingle them, make an Electuary, the Do&s;e is the &s;ame with the former.</P>
<P>If it be provided for Hepatick fluxes, (and it doth very happily &s;tay them) you mu&s;t add a fourth part of Comfrey, wormwood, or a twelfth part of worm|wood, Ma&s;tick.</P>
<P>For the &s;ame purpo&s;e the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent, made with red Wine, adding a little wormwood to it, if it be drank daily to two ounces or there|about, five hours before meat.</P>
<P>Other Remedies may be made for other u&s;es, as every one plea&s;eth.</P>
<P>Outwardly Crude Gip is conve|nient, mingled with Cerats and Plai|&s;ters.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Hogs dung, and A&s;&s;es dung, ei|ther
<PB N="329" REF="128">fre&s;h, or el&s;e in Pouder: by either of the&s;e, al immoderate fluxes of Blood are pre&s;ently &s;topt, if it be laid on with the white of an Egg, and blown in.</P>
<P><HI>Guainerius</HI> &s;aith, that he u&s;ed A&s;&s;es dung inwardly, and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moi&s;ture of the fre&s;h dung pre&s;&s;ed out; as a chief Remedy to &s;top immoderate fluxes of the Terms, and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood.</P>
<P>Oyl of the Dog-Tree, and the Root of the Oak made by de&s;cent, exceeds all the re&s;t by an a&s;tringent faculty.</P>
<P>Moreover, of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths.</P>
<P>Catapla&s;ms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Po&s;ca, and moderately Boyled.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an Unguent may be prepared &s;uddenly; but the Unguent of Che&s;t|nuts, and Comiti&s;&s;a may &s;upply the place thereof.</P>
<P>Take <HI>unripe Galls, Cypre&s;s Nuts, the Ker|nells of Red Grapes, Pomegranate &s;hells, the middle Rinds of Che&s;tnuts, Ma&s;tick, of each half an ounce, Oyl of unripe Olives, or of Ro&s;es
<PB N="330" REF="129">often wa&s;hed in Allum Water, one pound, white Wax three ounces.</HI> Let the dry In|gredients be beat into Pouder, and &s;teeped in the Juyce of Sloes, or unripe Services, or Verjuyce, or the Juyce of a&s;tringent Herbs, and let them be dried at a &s;oft fire; adding thereto before they Wax hard, the Oyl and the Wax, min|gling all gently by &s;tirring it.</P>
<P>If you had rather have it for a Cerate: take Ro&s;in three ounces, and Wax five ounces, to the &s;aid quantity of Oyl and the Pouders.</P>
<P>Streightne&s;s and Clo&s;ene&s;s of the Pa&s;&s;ages comes to pa&s;s five waies: by ob&s;truction, con&s;tipation, Compre&s;&s;ion, cleaving together, and by &s;inking down: whence the differences of Di&s;ea&s;es in &s;treightne&s;s are taken; which, as they differ by generation, and variety of their cau&s;es, &s;o are they taken away by diver&s;e Remedies.</P>
<P>Ob&s;truction is properly called &s;o, that &s;treightne&s;s of the Pa&s;&s;ages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature, not that are united and &s;ticking to the pa&s;&s;ages; &s;uch are Vapours and Humors that
<PB N="331" REF="129">abound too much, or that are too thick and clammy, al&s;o corruption, Clotts of Blood, and Milk, Thorns, and little Bones that &s;tay in the Throat and hin|der the pa&s;&s;age, Hares Stones, worms, dregs that &s;tick to the Inte&s;tines.</P>
<P>Corruption &s;hut up in Impo&s;tumes, is taken away by opening the Impo|&s;tume; which is done with Iron or actual fire, or by a potential Cautery; of which a little after.</P>
<P>That which &s;ticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks, of which we &s;hall &s;peak in the cure of Ulcers.</P>
<P>That which is poured forth into other Cavities, as into the &s;harp Artery, is taken away with &s;uch things as cut and clean&s;e, Clots of Blood are to be di&s;&s;olved by Remedies that are el&s;e|where &s;et down and are to be evacuat|ed by purging the Belly, al&s;o by Urin, Spittle, for the &s;ituation of the part affected, by Purgations and Diureticks, and expectorating Medicaments &s;et down before.</P>
<P>Al&s;o &s;uch Remedies as di&s;&s;olve Clotted Milk and di&s;cu&s;s it, are evident by tho&s;e things that have been &s;aid.</P>
<PB N="332" REF="130">
<P>Things that &s;tick in the Gullet, if they can be &s;een, let them be drawn out with Iron In&s;truments; if they re|move the lea&s;t from their place, by Sternutation, Coughing, or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger, or a Feather into the Throat; al&s;o by drinking plentifully, or by &s;wallowing down &s;ome &s;olid Gobbet not much chewed and la&s;tly by &s;wallowing down a &s;pounge, fir&s;t dipt in Rozin, that the thing may &s;tick to it, and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it.</P>
<P>If Hairs and other things that come from without, appear, they mu&s;t be taken out with Chirurgions In&s;tru|ments; if they be hid in the Stomach and Inte&s;tins, they are driven out by vomit or purging, as the &s;ick is incli|ned.</P>
<P>Concerning &s;uch things as Purge the Belly, and drive out the excrements, and further concerning Remedies again&s;t &s;tones and worms, and &s;uch as di&s;cu&s;s abundant and gro&s;s vapours, we &s;pake, among&s;t the Remedies that take away the cau&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Ob&s;truction from fullne&s;s, or abun|dance
<PB N="333" REF="130">of Blood, is taken away by a thin diet, that is not of the be&s;t and much Juyce; by &s;trong exerci&s;e, and much rubbing, as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body; and by &s;en&s;ible Eva|cuations, namely opening the Veins, Scarifications, Cupping with &s;carifying, Leeches.</P>
<P>Bad Humors that are many, thick and clammy, by which frequently the Me|&s;enterium, the Liver, Spleen, Matrix, Reins, and Veins and arteries of other parts are &s;topped; require Medica|ments, fir&s;t that are cutting, attenua|ting, and clean&s;ing, la&s;tly Purging.</P>
<P>Concerning Purging medicaments, we &s;pake abundantly at the beginning; tho&s;e are of another kind, that are &s;et down for to prepare gro&s;s Humors, but becau&s;e the&s;e that un&s;top the pa&s;&s;ages are of larger extent than &s;uch as pre|pare the Humors, and there is a very frequent u&s;e of them in the cure of Feavers, Hypochondriacal Melancho|ly, the cure of the Spleen, Jaundice, the want of the Terms; it wil be worth our pains, to Reckon them up more di&s;tinctly, and to &s;et them down in
<PB N="334" REF="131">three ranks, namely cold, temperate and hot, that &s;o the choice of them may be the more ea&s;y.</P>
<P>Cold Remedies that un&s;top, are con|venient in the more acute Feavers, parts that are hot, and ob&s;tructed by Humors thickned by adu&s;tion; a|mong&s;t which the mo&s;t Obvious are, Sorrel, Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are &s;ufficiently ripe, Succory, En|dive, Straw-berries, Roots of Gra&s;s, Liver-wort, Hawkweed, the Roots of all the Docks, Seeds of Melons, Pom|pions, Citruls, Cucumbers, gourds, Sow-Thi&s;tle, Garden Endive, Dandelion, four Trifoyl.</P>
<P>Of the&s;e; are made Decoctions with water or Broth, for Syrups, which will be the better; if you add an Emul&s;ion of the four great cold Seeds.</P>
<P>Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it &s;elf, but it is made mo&s;t effectual by adding an Emul&s;ion of the &s;aid Seeds, or if it be altered with opening Herbs.</P>
<P>The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a pre&s;ent Syrup, to two or three ounces, the greate&s;t u&s;e
<PB N="335" REF="131">of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments, as al&s;o of the Emul&s;ions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds, as al&s;o tho&s;e more Liquid Panadoes, and Pti&s;ans of Barley, as they are commonly called.</P>
<P>For ordinary drink, the Decoction of &s;our Trifoyl is plea&s;ant enough, of Sor|rel, Straw-berries, and Gra&s;s, which may be made more &s;harp, adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons.</P>
<P>But this is the thing that is mo&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;ary, which &s;our Roots perform, to deceive the &s;ick withall, that one &s;till calling for drink, that they make the water &s;harp, and it may be made of the colour of Red Wine.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that are mo&s;t temperate, wherein there is no notable exce&s;s, of heat or cold that can be ob&s;erved, are mo&s;t convenient for Chronical Feavers, from the adu&s;tion of Humors, which is grown cold: al&s;o for Melancholick Do&s;ea&s;es, namely for Hypochondriacal Melancholy, and &s;uch as are grown hard: among&s;t &s;imples, &s;uch are, Mai|den Hair, Waters of &s;our Mineralls,
<PB N="336" REF="132">Hops, Liquoris, Trichomanes, five Leave Gra&s;s, all which are added to the Decoctions of the other cold Ingre|dients.</P>
<P>Many more Compounds may be made for every Mans de&s;ire: for cold things mingled with tho&s;e that are equally hot, in the &s;ame proportion, do make temperate.</P>
<P>For this end, &s;ometime Clarified Whey is altered, with Egrimony, Roots of A&s;arum, Dodder, with a little worm|wood, than which, there is nothing more profitable for the affects and Di&s;|ea&s;es of Melancholy.</P>
<P>The &s;ame way may be given the Juyce of Succory thickned with the Juyce of Agrimony, and a little prepa|red &s;teel, to be taken in Bolus before any opening Decoction.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Honey and Sugar added to the Juyces and opening Decoctions of cold things, make temperate Reme|dies.</P>
<P>For this purpo&s;e e&s;pecially two com|mon Syrups do &s;erve, that are ea&s;y to be prepared, namely Oxymel Simplex, &amp; &s;imple Syrup of vineger, which con&s;i&s;t of
<PB N="337" REF="132">one part of Vineger, two parts of Ho|ney or Sugar, and one fourth part of water.</P>
<P>But the three following Remedies of this rank are the be&s;t, and ea&s;y to be made.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t Smiths Water Clarified for ordi|nary drink; with Water is made a weaker Mul&s;um, adding half as much of Honey or Sugar.</P>
<P>The &s;econd: one &s;cruple of Cremor Tartar to one dram, added to opening Broths.</P>
<P>Thirdly: prepared &s;teel, without which, Schirrous hardne&s;s, and ob&s;ti|nate ob&s;tructions will hardly be Remo|ved.</P>
<P>The u&s;e of the&s;e is manifold, and &s;o is the preparation: the mo&s;t ea&s;y, and the &s;oone&s;t made, and the be&s;t, is this.</P>
<P>Let &s;teel be beaten into thin and long Rods, or little Plates: for by putting to them a roul of Brim&s;tone they will melt, and fall into the Water that is put under them, and then they mu&s;t be ground into a mo&s;t fine Pouder; this Pouder is given from half a &s;cruple to
<PB N="338" REF="133">two &s;cruples or thereabouts, either in Bolus, Electuary or Wine.</P>
<P>The fa&s;hion of a Bolus is this.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Juyce of Egrimony, Borrage thick|ned, of each one ounce, Steel prepared two &s;cru|ples.</HI> Make them for two Bolu&s;es, to be taken a little before an opening De|coction.</P>
<P>The Electuary is thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Pouder of Egrimony, Maiden-Hair, Stone-fern, Harts Tongue, Roots of Cinkfoyl, Eiquoris, &s;teel prepared, Leaves of Senna, of each one ounce, Cinnamon one dram &amp; an half, the pulp of Ray&s;ins Boyled in white Wine, and pulped through a Hair Sive, one pound, Syrup of Apples only,</HI> or for the Poor, <HI>Oxymel &s;imple, two pound.</HI> Mingle them for an Electuary according to art, to be taken to about one ounce, four hours before Dinner.</P>
<P>It is given in Wine two waies, either drinking the fine Pouder of &s;teel ming|led with Wine, or preparing &s;teeled Wine.</P>
<P>This will be an excellent Pouder for one Do&s;e.</P>
<P>Take <HI>prepared &s;teel and Cremor Tartar of each one &s;cruple, Cinnamon half a &s;cruple.</HI>
<PB N="339" REF="133">Mingle them for a Pouder.</P>
<P>Steeled Wine will be made, if in four pound of Fragrant white Wine; you put in &s;teel prepared and Leaves of Senna, of each one ounce, Cinnamon two drams, opening Herbs, and pro|per for the part ob&s;tructed, three hand|fulls, let them &s;tand eight daies in a hot place, and &s;tirr them often; &s;train them for your u&s;e, and give two or three ounces to drink; al&s;o a mo&s;t ex|cellent &s;teeled Syrup may be prepared after this fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>Take prepared &s;teel &s;o much as you plea&s;e, pour upon it the &s;harpe&s;t vineger, that it may &s;wim above it four Fingers breadth, &amp; let it &s;tand in a hot place, un|til it hath drawn out the tincture of the &s;teel: then by inclining the Ve&s;&s;el, pour it from the grounds: and to this Sugar, or Honey Clarified, the double propor|tion; moreover half an ounce of Ray|&s;ins, and one pugil of the tops of worm|wood to every pound of Vineger, Boyl them at a genle fire to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Syrup, then &s;train them, the Do&s;e is one ounce, with a Deeoction that is proper for the part affected.</P>
<PB N="340" REF="134">
<P>Tho&s;e things that are applyed out|wardly mu&s;t be mingled of &s;oftners and di&s;cu&s;&s;ers; &s;uch are the Fomentations of the Decoction of Mallows, Mar&s;h|mallows, Melilot, Foenugreek, Dill, Chamomel, and a quantity of worm|wood, to Corroborate the part; ad|ding about the end of the Decoction, &s;ome white Wine, and Vineger to help the Penetration.</P>
<P>After the Fomentation; make an Oyntment of Oyl prepared by Decocti|on, of things afore&s;aid, &s;uch as is de&s;|cribed amon&s;t tho&s;e that &s;often hard|ne&s;s.</P>
<P>The hotter things that un&s;top, are convenient for a cold temper, and a cold time, as al&s;o for long Agues; &s;uch are the&s;e common &s;imples: wormwood, Egrimony, Smallage, Mugwort, A&s;pa|ragus, Betony, chiefly the Root of Capers, the Rind, Stone-fern, German|der, Dodder, common wild Carrot Seed, Root of Elecampane, Fennel, Rind of A&s;h, Fumitory, the common and the Yellow, Root of Gentian, Harts-Tongue, Fetherfew, white Horehound, or wild Mints, Par&s;ley, Penniroyal,
<PB N="341" REF="134">Madder, Knee-Holm, Tamari&s;k, Sa|vory, in the u&s;e whereof, tho&s;e mu&s;t alwaies be cho&s;en, that are proper for the parts affected, and are propounded among&s;t the alteratives.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Syrups and Electuaries and De|coctions are made of tho&s;e things we have &s;poken of, as the occa&s;ion &s;hall be.</P>
<P>The Decoctions are made the more effectual in the Broth of an old Cock or Pidgeon, if you can procure it.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Phy&s;ick Wines are &s;uppo&s;ed to be be&s;t, as wormwood Wine, when the weakne&s;s of the Bowels is of long con|tinuance; and of the&s;e Wines, adding half the quantity of Clarified Honey, are made Syrups that are profitable and plea&s;ing; but the Wines are made mo&s;t effectual, adding &s;teel to them, as we &s;hewed before.</P>
<P>A &s;omething ful Mul&s;um will be the be&s;t to drink, if it be altered with the Herbs propounded: as al&s;o al com|pound Oxymels made with the &s;ame for a Syrup, &s;uch as is the ordinary Syrup of the Apothecaries, made with the five opening Roots, Smallage,
<PB N="342" REF="135">A&s;paragus, Fennel, Parlley, Butchers Broom.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the u&s;e of Vineger of Squils is extolled, added to Syrups and Decocti|ons, to half a Spoonful.</P>
<P>Some there are that prefer before all the&s;e, the u&s;e of the Root of Cuc|kowpint, often infu&s;ed in Wine, and &s;til dryed again, til it hath lo&s;t almo&s;t al its Tartne&s;s.</P>
<P>It may be al&s;o added to Electuaries, but the fine Pouder of it is oftner u&s;ed, given with Wine or Broth. The fa&s;hion of it may be Thus.</P>
<P>Take <HI>prepared&s;teel and Wake-Robin pre|pared, of each half an ounce, Cinnamon one dram and an half, Fennel Seed half a dram, fine Sugar one ounce.</HI> Mingle them.</P>
<P>It is made more effectual by adding to it, one dram of Salt of wormwood: make a very fine Pouder, the Do&s;e whereof is about one dram. <HI>Or,</HI></P>
<P>Take <HI>Cuckowpint prepared one ounce, tops of common Wormwood (Salt of Worm|wood is far Better) one dram, Cinnamon one dram and an half, fine Sugar to the weight of them all.</HI> Mingle them and make a Pou|der.</P>
<PB N="343" REF="135">
<P>By them&s;elves mineral Waters that come from Brim&s;tone do open excee|dingly, and from Nitre, drank after that the whole Body hath been purged: as al&s;o common Turpentine given in Bolus, about one dram and an half, which al&s;o may be drank, If it be &s;tirred with a little of the Yolk of an Egg, and the Water of Egrimony, or Wine be put to it, by little and a little to two or three ounces, alwaies &s;tirring it, til it be perfectly white.</P>
<P>Outwardly Fomentations may be u&s;ed of the Decoctions of dige&s;tives and Emollients, adding about the end of the Decoction, white Wine and Vi|neger, not forgetting Herbs that are proper for the part affected, of which al|&s;o Oyls may be made by Decoction, for Oyntments.</P>
<P>Bucheting and droppings of Waters that proceed from Brim&s;tone are the mo&s;t excellent, and &s;uch as proceed from Pitch, and the mud of the &s;ame, applyed as they ought to be.</P>
<P>Con&s;tipation of the Cavities, is pro|perly called &s;treightne&s;s that grows from things that are bred within, and
<PB N="344" REF="136">&s;tick to the part, namely, from Tumors, Fle&s;h, a Callous, or dead Child.</P>
<P>Things that drive out the dead Child, were propounded among&s;t the Remedies of the Cau&s;e that is peccant in &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>We &s;hall treat of Tumors among&s;t the De&s;ea&s;es of augmented Magni|tude.</P>
<P>Fle&s;h and a Callous, as they are not hard to be taken away with In&s;tru|ments of Iron, when they may be &s;een, &s;o they are taken away only with Phy&s;icks, and that with much more difficulty, when they are hid within the Body: and &s;ince Fle&s;h is &s;ofter than a Callous is, it requireth more mild Remedies that either dry &s;trongly, or heat very gently; but a Callous requries, either Corroders, or &s;uch as putrefie.</P>
<P>Therefore for fle&s;h the&s;e are conve|nient, round Ari&s;tolochia Roots, Anti|mony Calcined, Roots of Black Helle|bore, burnt Allum, burnt Galls, the A&s;hes of burnt Honey, common Red Lead, A&s;hes of Roots of Gentian, Oy|&s;ter Shells, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are burnt,
<PB N="345" REF="136">Lead Calcined with Brim&s;tone, the A&s;hes of burnt Spunges; the Pouders of all the&s;e are mingled with Unguents, or infu&s;ed in Liquors.</P>
<P>The following Oyntment is appro|ved for excre&s;cences of fle&s;h; but fir&s;t of all, it takes away little fle&s;h in the urinary pa&s;&s;ages, and that without pain, if it be put on the end of a Candle, for it &s;ticks very fa&s;t, and doth not ex|coriate the parts that are &s;ound.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Honey burnt to A&s;hes, prepared Tutty, fre&s;h butter wa&s;hed, wa&s;hed Turpen|tine, Yellow Wax, of each half an ounce; burnt Allum half a dram.</HI> Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art.</P>
<P>This Pouder al&s;o is excellent de&s;cri|bed by Mercatus, <HI>Lib.</HI> 2. <HI>de recto Prae&s;i|dior. u&s;u. Cap.</HI> 7.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Verdigrea&s;e, Auripigment, Vitriol and Roch-Allum, of each equal parts.</HI> Bray them with the &s;harpe&s;t Vineger, and make them into fine Pouder, and &s;et them in the Sun in the dog daies; the Pouder being dried, mu&s;t again be made fine with Vineger poured on, and put into the Sun the &s;econd time, and this mu&s;t be done for the &s;pace of ten daies; then:</P>
<PB N="346" REF="137">
<P>Take <HI>Litharge of Gold, poudered and &s;ifted, one part: Oyl of Ro&s;es two parts.</HI> Boyl them to the con&s;i&s;tence of a Plai&s;ter; take an equal part of this, and mingle with the &s;aid Pouder for your u&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o this Pouder takes away all Ex|cre&s;cences, by Certain proof.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Shells of Walnuts, Spunges, Roots of round Ari&s;tolochia, of each equal parts.</HI> Let them be dried together in a Pot put into an Oven, that they may be beaten into Pouder; and with this Pouder &s;trew over the part affected, fir&s;t anointed with Honey.</P>
<P>The&s;e take away Callous matter, among&s;t the mo&s;t common Remedies, Orpiment, Spani&s;h Green, Quick-Lime, Lees of Wine burnt, Lees of Vineger burnt, burnt Vitriol, Oyl of Brim&s;tone and Vitriol. All the&s;e things in u&s;e, are tempered with milder Remedies, &s;ome|times in greater, &s;ome times in le&s;&s;er quantity, as need requires.</P>
<P>An Example of them in Infu&s;ion.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Decoction of round Ari&s;tolochia, Black Hellebore, Mar&s;h-mallow Roots, half a pound, Oyl of Brim&s;tone or Vitriol half a &s;cruple.</HI> Mingle it for an Infu&s;ion.</P>
<PB N="347" REF="137">
<P>For an Uncrion:</P>
<P>Take <HI>burnt Vitriol, and Allum burnt, of each one dram: fre&s;h Butter very wel wa&s;hed half an ounce.</HI> Mingle them.</P>
<P>If you add the Pouder of white Pop|py Seed, or Henbane, you make a Remedy wholly without Pain.</P>
<P>The Pouder of <HI>Mereatus</HI> u&s;ed by it &s;elf is mo&s;t effectual.</P>
<P>This is exceeding good that is more ea&s;y to provide. Work Quick-Lime with Honey, like a pa&s;t, and dry it in an Oven, that it may be beaten to Pouder, to be &s;trewed upon any Callous or &s;u|perfluous Fle&s;h, fir&s;t anointed with Honey.</P>
<P>Compre&s;&s;ion of the pa&s;&s;ages, &s;ince it comes from al things that pre&s;s upon the pa&s;&s;ages, and by any intervenient thru&s;ting either of Heavine&s;s or Exten|&s;ion, or Violent impul&s;ion, or a&s;triction, it hath no peculiar Remedies; for heavi|ne&s;s &amp; exten&s;ion, proceed from the plen|ty of matter, and are taken away with &s;uch Remedies as Evacuate &s;en&s;ibly, or in&s;en&s;ibly; of which we &s;pake be|fore.</P>
<P>Exten&s;ion from wind is removed with di&s;cu&s;&s;ers.</P>
<PB N="348" REF="138">
<P>Violent impul&s;ion frequently followes Luxations, depre&s;&s;ions, and fractures of the Bones, which are cured by Chi|rurgery.</P>
<P>Violent A&s;triction, follows mo&s;t commonly outward cau&s;es: as bands bound too fa&s;t, which mu&s;t be untied.</P>
<P>Growing together of the pa&s;&s;ages, is made by a mutual Glewing together of the &s;ides, when Nature fills up the wounds of them by the coming of good Blood thither; and this is cured only by an inci&s;ion Knife, or Iron In&s;tru|ment that can part the &s;ides that are Glewed: but after &s;eperation, the &s;ides mu&s;t be well fenced, that they may neither touch one the other, or grow together again; therefore the growing together of the inward parts is incurable becau&s;e they cannot be cut.</P>
<P>The &s;inking down of the Cavity, if it fal out by rea&s;on of Evacuation of the matter that &s;hould be contained within it, it is cured by Nutriment only to re-generate nece&s;&s;ary matter.</P>
<P>If it proceed by rea&s;on that the &s;ides of the Cavities are contracted by over|much
<PB N="349" REF="138">drine&s;s, or fal down by over|much Relaxation, it is cured by moi&s;ture, or great driers, for moi&s;t|ning, the more gentle emollients are convenient, and &s;uch as are properly called Anodines, propounded in their proper places; for drying dige&s;tives and di&s;cu&s;&s;ers are mo&s;t fit, being ming|led with a&s;tringents, the mo&s;t forcible that were &s;et down before.</P>
<P>When the &s;uperficies is too plain it is taken away with Remedies that &s;cour, and then with driers.</P>
<P>Things that &s;cour, are all &s;uch that were propounded for to prepare Flegm.</P>
<P>To take away ob&s;truction, by the &s;tuffing in of gro&s;s and Clammy Hu|mors, and to &s;cour the Skin, natural Salt waters have a kind of prerogative, and artificial waters al&s;o, and Honey added to Decoctions which are princi|pally made of bitter things, as the Roots of Gentian, Elecampane, long Ari&s;tolochia, and Centory the le&s;s.</P>
<P>For drying, things that Evacuate in&s;en&s;ibly are mo&s;t fit, being mingled with the &s;tronge&s;t a&s;tringents, of which before.</P>
<PB N="350" REF="139">
<P>When the &s;uperficies is rough, it is cured with &s;oftners, and &s;uch as are properly called Anodines, when it proceeds from drine&s;s: but particu|larly the roughne&s;s of the Throat, and the top of the &s;harp Artery, which fals out very frequently, is cured by tho&s;e things that Purge the brea&s;t by Spit|ting, which are propounded for Salt matter.</P>
<P>But if it proceed from &s;harp Biting matter that lightly Rakes the &s;uperfi|cies, it is taken away by &s;uch Medi|caments that temper &s;harp Humors, both by wa&s;hing them away, as al&s;o by &s;uppling them with a tempering vertu; of which we &s;pake among&s;t the Reme|dies that alter the cau&s;e of the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in faulty Magnitude.</HEAD>
<P>Natural Magnitude, is made faulty, either by exce&s;s or defect, when it is augmented beyond its proportion, or el&s; dimini&s;hed. The kinds of Magnitude
<PB N="351" REF="139">dimini&s;hed, are reckoned to be, Defect of Nouri&s;hment, or Leanne&s;s of all the parts, and Mara&s;mus, or a Con&s;umption of the whole Body, following a Hectick Feaver, or wa&s;ting away; for Leanne&s;s of tho&s;e that recover after &s;harp Di&s;|ea&s;es, &s;car&s;e de&s;erves the name of a Di&s;ea&s;e, becau&s;e it quickly goes away, &s;o &s;oon as the Di&s;ea&s;e on which it de|pended, is removed.</P>
<P>Of Magnitude increa&s;ed, which men call Tumors, all the differences are taken from the cau&s;e, which in general is four fold.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is a &s;olid Body according to &s;ub&s;tance, belonging to the &s;oundne&s;s of the Body, whence come gro&s;&s;ne&s;s, from overmuch fat; <HI>Hyper&s;arco&s;is,</HI> from &s;ome excre&s;cence of fle&s;h, Ruptures of the Bowels, and the Caul, when the Guts or the Caul fal down, which al&s;o makes a Di&s;ea&s;e in &s;cituation.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is a Humor, or &s;ome thing like to a Humor, whence comes that they call <HI>Phlegm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ne,</HI> from Blood, <HI>Oedema</HI> from Fleam, Ery&s;ipelus from Choller, Schirrus from Melancholy, a kind whereof is <HI>Tophus,</HI> and <HI>Struma,</HI>
<PB N="352" REF="140">Cancer, from Black choler, Carbuncle from burnt Blood; and from a watery matter like to a Humor, <HI>Hydrocephalus,</HI> &amp; the Drop&s;ie of the Abdomen, and the Matrix.</P>
<P>The third is, that which comes Preter|naturally from the Humors, as puffing up from wind.</P>
<P>The fourth is, that which growes in the whole kind Preternaturally, from a various and un&s;peakable corruption of the Humors, whence comes properly an Impo&s;tume, or little Swelling with a little Bag, namely Meliceris, from a matter like to Honey, <HI>Steatoma,</HI> from a fat matter like to Sewet, and <HI>Athero|ma</HI> from a matter like to Gruel.</P>
<P>A particular Con&s;umption, &s;uch as falls upon tho&s;e parts that are held with a Pal&s;ie and Convul&s;ions, requires fir&s;t &s;uch Remedies as can Purge out the foulne&s;s of the Body by the pa&s;&s;ages convenient: then Nouri&s;hments that can make good Blood; la&s;tly attractives that draw Blood to the part, and can &s;tirr up the heat of it and &s;trengthen it.</P>
<P>Gentle rubbings til the part wax red,
<PB N="353" REF="140">and Swel a little, will perform all the&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Baths of &s;weet water &s;omething hot, wherein Herbs are Boyled, proper for the part, to be u&s;ed til the part Swell a little.</P>
<P>Or Fomentations, and Wettings with water and Oyl, Milk, &s;weet Wa|ters, altered with Mallows, Mar&s;h|mallows, and Herbs that re&s;pect that part.</P>
<P>La&s;t of all, the mo&s;t prevalent Re|medy is pication, til the part wax red and &s;well: and the&s;e things are to be done, after concoction, before any more meat be eaten.</P>
<P>In a Con&s;umption of the Eyes, there remains no place for pications or rub|bings, but only, for Fomentations; the be&s;t whereof are made with Milk a little Saffron, or of the &s;ame Boyled with Mallows, Violets, Mar&s;h-mallows, and Fennel, or with a &s;weet Apple, brought to the form of a &s;oft Catapla&s;m, with a little Saffron.</P>
<P>A hot <HI>Mara&s;mus</HI> without a Con&s;ump|tion, which is curable, is chiefly over|come with the u&s;e of Milk and Baths:
<PB N="354" REF="141">Womens Milk &s;ucked out of the Brea&s;ts, or A&s;&s;es Milk, or Goats Milk new milked drank with a little Honey or Sugar, taking by degrees from three ounces, to &s;even or eight ounces; about five hours after the drinking of Milk, a Bath of &s;weet Water is to be u&s;ed, which mu&s;t be kept &s;omthing hot til the time the &s;ick come forth of it; and then is he to &s;tay a while til he is a little cold with it, for the uniting of heat, and retaining of Nouri&s;hment; or pre&s;ently after the Bath, the Body mu&s;t be gent|ly rubbed with the Palm of the Hand, wet with Oyl of Violets and &s;weet Almonds, &s;omthing cold. If there be a Con&s;umption the Bath mu&s;t be let alone, and the Body mu&s;t be rubbed only before meat, after the manner we now &s;pake of, and he mu&s;t apply him|&s;elf to Milk, and he mu&s;t u&s;e al&s;o &s;uch Remedies as concern the Ulcer of the Lungs. If the u&s;e of Milk be forbidden by rea&s;on of the cau&s;es &s;et down in the 5. <HI>Aph.</HI> 65. He mu&s;t u&s;e in&s;tead thereof a Pti&s;an of Barley.</P>
<P>Some hold this Pti&s;an for a &s;ecret, which is pre&s;ently provided, and
<PB N="355" REF="141">mu&s;t be taken twice a day.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Barley Meal &s;ix parts, fine Sugar one part.</HI> Place them bed upon bed in a Gla&s;ed Earthen Pot, and the fir&s;t and la&s;t bed mu&s;t be Sugar: then making a Cover of Pa&s;t, put it into the Oven after the Bread is drawn forth. And it will be baked &s;ufficiently the third time, or putting of it into the Oven.</P>
<P>For a Pti&s;an.</P>
<P>Take <HI>of this baked Meal two ounces, Broth of wood Snails, or Snails four ounces.</HI> Mingle them.</P>
<P>But for an Ulcer of the Lungs in par|ticular this is commended. Take one dram of the Pouder of Yarrow, dayly in Broth or &s;ome convenient De|coction.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a Cake of dried Folefoot taken dayly made with Butter and Sewet of a Hog.</P>
<P>Some prefer Sugar of Ro&s;es with Bole-Armoniack, or &s;ome &s;uch Medi|cinal earth, and the Blood-&s;tone u&s;ed for &s;ome months together, above all other Remedies.</P>
<P>Gro&s;s Bodies are brought lean, af|ter
<PB N="356" REF="142">fit Evacuation of the Body.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, with a thin diet, and many hot and frequent rubbings of their Body, then by the daily u&s;e of &s;ome attenua|ting and drying Remedies, among&s;t which, the mo&s;t commended are, one dram of A&s;h Keys in Broth, with half an ounce of the be&s;t Vineger, or one Spoonful of Vineger of Squills, in a good quantity of Broth before meat; &s;ome a&s;cribe the &s;ame vertue to Oxy|mel of Squils, or the Troches of Squils.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Seed of Ameos, or the Seed that is in Elder berries can do as much, taken to half a dram, drank in the De|coction of the A&s;h.</P>
<P>But the greate&s;t force lieth in the Pouder of Vipers to dry the Body, of which we &s;pake among&s;t the Antidotes, if half a dram of it be taken in Broth or Wine, four hours before meat, and &s;o much the more if the Body be lu&s;tily exerci&s;ed after the taking of it.</P>
<P>To this place belong all things that provoke &s;weat and Urin.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e Remedies take away excre&s;|cences
<PB N="357" REF="142">of fle&s;h, be they from a Callous or fle&s;h, that are Remedies of Con&s;ti|pation, of which we &s;pake before.</P>
<P>A <HI>Hernia</HI> of the Caul, can be taken away by no other means than by cut|ting, which is ful of danger, it can hardly be helped by &s;treight Ligature. But a <HI>Hernia</HI> of the Inte&s;tins is ea&s;ily Glewed together in Children and Boys, with outward u&s;e of a&s;tringents and fit Ligature. But in people that are of years, if it be Old, it is held hitherto by Phy&s;itians to be incurable, without Chirurgery: yet u&s;e, that is the be&s;t ma&s;ter of things, and Judg of Reme|dies, hath taught us not long &s;ince; that the Ruptures of men of years, and that very great ones, and of long continu|ance, have grown together by the u&s;e of Medicaments only, and a convenient cour&s;e of diet, and that within three|&s;core daies at the longe&s;t, in manly and in Old Age; but in forty daies in Yong men, and at mans &s;tature; by the help of which Remedies, Boys are cured within twenty daies: unle&s;s the falling of the Inte&s;tins into the Cods be very great, and all mo&s;t grown Habitual.</P>
<PB N="358" REF="143">
<P>And the&s;e Remedies may be Ranked among&s;t tho&s;e, that are ea&s;ie to be pre|pared, &s;ince they are compounded of a few things, and tho&s;e, not fetcht from forrein Countries, only one excep|ted,</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is this: Take one dram of the Herb Two-blade, in half a Cup of red Wine, Boyled with the Leaves of the &s;ame Plant, every morning five hours before dinner. And let the place affected, be dayly anoynted with Oyl of four Olives, wherein a whole land Hedg-Hog that is Old, hath been Boyled, with his Skin and al, til the fle&s;h be con&s;umed.</P>
<P>The &s;econd. Take for three&s;core daies one Cup of &s;trong red Wine, altered with one ounce, of Rupture-wort (the whole Herb with the Roots mu&s;t be taken, and the tendre&s;t can be got) fir&s;t brui&s;ed, and during the &s;aid time, a Spunge mu&s;t be laid to the place affected; that is fir&s;t dipped into the &s;ame red Wine, and then pre&s;&s;ed out.</P>
<P>The third. Take one dram of Pou|der, of equal portions, of Rupture wort,
<PB N="359" REF="143">Wall-Rue and A&s;paragus and Hor&s;e-Tail, in half a Cup of &s;trong Red Wine, for the time &s;poken of before; and let the place be anointed twice every day, with common Oyl or Oyl of St. Johns-wort, wherein live Lizards, by long &s;tanding of it in the Sun, are con|&s;umed.</P>
<P>The fourth. Let a Cerate be laid on, made of equal parts of Bdellium and poudered Aloes with the white of an Egg; and the &s;ame time let the &s;ick take one dram of the Pouder following in half a Cup of the be&s;t Red Wine, five hours before Dinner.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Roots of great Comfrey, Herb Ben|net, common Hedg-Hy&s;op, the le&s;s, Two-Blade, Hor&s;e-Tayl, Coriander prepared, Juyce of Ro&s;es, &s;teel prepared with Ro&s;e water, of each one ounce and an half.</HI> Mingle them, and make a fine Pouder of them all.</P>
<P>The preparing of the &s;teel is this. That the filings of Steel or Iron, be quen|ched in Ro&s;e Water, and then dryed in the &s;hade, and then again be &s;et on fire, and quenched a-fre&s;h in the &s;ame Water, until it can be poudered very fine.</P>
<PB N="360" REF="144">
<P>But in the u&s;e of the&s;e Medicaments, this rule is generally to be ob&s;erved: that a Tru&s;s be con&s;tantly worn, and the &s;ick mu&s;t take care he hold not his breath, nor u&s;e &s;trong exerci&s;e, nor eat or drink, meats or drinks that are windy.</P>
<P>Remedies for Tumors that proceed from Humors, are manife&s;t by what hath been &s;aid, &s;ince they mu&s;t be di|rected to the taking away of the cau&s;e, which mu&s;t be repul&s;ed at the fir&s;t: but in the augmentation, they mu&s;t partly repel, and partly dige&s;t; in the &s;tate, they mu&s;t dige&s;t, or if it can be, bring to &s;uppuration: but a Tumor that is very hard, mu&s;t fir&s;t be acurately &s;oft|ned, then dige&s;ted and di&s;&s;olved. Therefore &s;ome few things &s;hall here be only annexed, that are found to be proved for &s;ome Tumors, and are Re|medies ea&s;ie to come by.</P>
<P>For an Eri&s;ipulas of any part what&s;o|ever.</P>
<P>Take fine Wheat flower &s;o much as you plea&s;e, put it into a bag of thin Weaving, and lay it to the part, at any time of the Defluxion.</P>
<PB N="361" REF="144">
<P>For kibes that are Ulcerated: this is a mo&s;t excellent Unguent.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of green Tobacco, the inward, Rind of the Elder, of each one handful, Roots of the Male Daffodil &s;liced, one ounce, common Oyl one pound;</HI> Boyl all at a gentle fire, til all the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, then pre&s;s all out &s;trongly, <HI>and add Frankin|&s;ence finely poudered half an ounce, Yellow Wax &s;ix drams.</HI> Mingle them for a Lini|ment, and anoint the part affected with|in: then for Fingers that are pained, let it be rubbed &s;trongly on them til they grow very red and hot.</P>
<P>This is al&s;o good for fowlne&s;s of the Skin and for Morphews.</P>
<P>Again&s;t the &s;welling of the Feet from wearine&s;s, long Di&s;ea&s;e or contu|&s;ion.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Meal of whole Wheat</HI> (that is not &s;ifted) <HI>half a pound, pouder of worm|wood half an ounce, Ro&s;es one ounce, &s;harp Red Wine what may be &s;ufficient.</HI> Make a Catapla&s;m at a &s;oft fire: adding about the end, compleat <HI>Oyl of Ro&s;es one ounce and an half.</HI> Marke an Unguent.</P>
<P>Lay it on twice a day.</P>
<P>For hard &s;wellings not Ulcerated, a
<PB N="362" REF="145">&s;ingular Remedy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> purging of the Body: give for four daies together one dram of the Pouder of common Gladiol, which groweth mo&s;t frequent|ly among&s;t Corn, and take it in Broth altered with the Root of Pilewort, four hours before meat.</P>
<P>And lay upon the part, a Plai&s;ter of brui&s;ed new Wax, not yet purified from the Bees and the Honey: but if you cannot have it, then lay this Cerate.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Pouder of Lizards dried in an Oven, one dram and an half, Juyce of Tobac|co, Yellow Wax and Burgundy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">itch, of each half an ounce.</HI> Mingle them and make a Cerate, in the place of Burgundy Pitch, which is rare in Italy, take <HI>Colo|phonia.</HI></P>
<P>For a Cancer not Ulcerated, that is not yet come to any notable Magni|tude; nothing is better than the long u&s;ing of the Plai&s;ter of Aquapen|dente, after a &s;ufficient purging of the Body.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Meal of Millet one pound, Oyl of R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;es</HI> (worked in a Morter of Lead with a Leaden Pe&s;tle, til it become of the
<PB N="363" REF="145">colour of Lead) <HI>&s;ive ounces, &s;weet Wine four ounces.</HI> Make them to a Plai&s;ter, with a &s;ufficient quantity of the Decoction of Garden Night-&s;hade, Sowthi&s;tle, and Golden-Rod of each alike, made in pure Water.</P>
<P>For watery and windy Tumors, Re|medies propounded among&s;t things that di&s;cu&s;s, are proper.</P>
<P>An Impo&s;tume with a little bag, is not cured by Phy&s;ical means only, but the whole Bag mu&s;t be drawn forth; or if that cannot be done, after the Tumor is opened, it is to be con&s;umed, partly with putrefying Remedies, partly with eating Cau&s;ticks; of which we have Spoken already.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies for Di&s;ea&s;es in Number.</HEAD>
<P>Since that a Di&s;ea&s;e in number Wan|ting, is made to be according to the de|fect of &s;omething belonging to the complement of the Living, a Di&s;ea&s;e in number Augmented mu&s;t properly be con&s;idered, according to the additi|on
<PB N="364" REF="146">of &s;ome natural thing, that is Re|dundant in number. Yet by u&s;e and abu&s;e of names, Stones, Worms; a Pin and Web are referred al&s;o to Di&s;ea&s;es in number.</P>
<P>Remedies for Worms and Stones are to be found among&s;t the&s;e things, which re&s;pect the cau&s;e from the whole &s;ub|&s;tance.</P>
<P>For a Pin and Web, the&s;e among&s;t Remedies ea&s;ie to come by, are the mo&s;t convenient, being applyed Warm to the Eye, but e&s;pecially by the help of an Ocular Cupping Gla&s;s; that the Remedy may work longer and &s;tron|ger.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Herbs, Celondine, Fennel, Vervain Rue, of each one handful; Honey of Ro&s;es half a pound, of Rape Roots brui&s;ed two ounces.</HI> Stamp the Herbs and &s;et all mingled together in the Sun, and let them be &s;tirred daily; after forty daies pre&s;s out the Juyce, to be kept for u&s;e in a Bra&s;en Ve&s;&s;el, and drop it into the Eye by it &s;elf, or mingle it with more gentle Eye-Salves.</P>
<P>Another. Take fine poudered Sugar, Boyled in a Gla&s;s Di&s;h upon A&s;hes, til it
<PB N="365" REF="146">wax Red, likewi&s;e Vitriol purged from the dregs, and expo&s;ed to the Sun til it Wax white, of each equal parts; with this Pouder fill the hollow of an Egg Boyled til it be hard, then binding both parts of the Egg fa&s;t toge|ther, &s;teep it four daies in water of Eye-bright, or white Wine that is &s;omthing &s;weet; wherein Eye-bright hath fir&s;t been Boyled, or Seeds of Fennel or <HI>Siler Montanum,</HI> keep the Liquor pre&s;&s;ed out, in a Gla&s;s for your u&s;e.</P>
<P>Another. Take <HI>white Wine &s;omewhat &s;weet very well purged and Clarified, one pound, Fennel Seed three drams, Indian Cloves one dram and an half.</HI> Steep them for twenty four hours, then &s;train them: to which add <HI>afterwards</HI> Aqua vitae <HI>two ounces, Antimony once melted, with an equal quantity of Salt Peeter, two drams;</HI> then infu&s;e them again for two daies, then keep them for your u&s;e in a Gla&s;s Ve&s;|&s;el.</P>
<P>Another. Take the Juyce of Onions, drop it in by it &s;elf, or el&s;e allaied with a little &s;weet white Wine. It is a mo&s;t excellent Eye-Salve and which won|derfully takes away the inflammation
<PB N="366" REF="147">of the Eye, when there is any.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there is a &s;ingular Collyrium de&s;cribed among&s;t the Remedies for the Eyes, which when need is, may be made m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">e effectual, by mingling &s;ome kind of Gall with it, or of the &s;econd Collyrium that was propounded, or the Juyce of a white Onion lightly Boy|led with Milk.</P>
<P>But a Di&s;ea&s;e that is properly in number augmented, which followeth abundance of matter, and the &s;trength of the Pla&s;tick faculty is better cured by burning and cutting, than by con|&s;uming Medicaments.</P>
<P>A Di&s;ea&s;e in number deficient, if it be natural, is altogether incurable, be|cau&s;e it proceeds from want of matter, and the weakne&s;s of the forming force, al&s;o an accidental deficient, if it fal out in a Spermatical part, it is incurable; but in a fle&s;hy part &s;omtime it admits of cure. It requires the &s;ame Remedies that an hollow Ulcer doth, or a Com|pound wound, becau&s;e the part is wanting by the &s;ame cau&s;es, namely, cutting, burning, Corroding, putrefa|ction, and the like.</P>
</DIV2>
<PB N="367" REF="147">
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in Situation and Connexion.</HEAD>
<P>A Di&s;ea&s;e in &s;ituation and Connexi|on, is either Connatural, and it comes to pa&s;s, when the matter is taken away in the time of forming, or it is acci|dental, and falls out u&s;ually by rea|&s;on of three kind of cau&s;es, from Lax|ation, or disjoynting of the Continent parts, from &s;olution of unity, and Violent exten&s;ion from too much Re|pletion, or drivers.</P>
<P>The fault of the Pla&s;tick quantity admits of no cure.</P>
<P>The other three cau&s;es require the &s;ame Remedies, that a Di&s;ea&s;e in figure doth, which doth nece&s;&s;arily accom|pany a Di&s;ea&s;e in &s;ctuation.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Remedies of Di&s;ea&s;es in di&s;&s;olved &V;nity.</HEAD>
<P>Of di&s;&s;olved unity there may be a&s;|&s;igned
<PB N="368" REF="148">two chief kinds, an Ulcer, and a wound.</P>
<P>That comes from an eating cau&s;e, and &s;o mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily have joyned with it, lo&s;s of &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>A wound, is all other kinds of di&s;&s;ol|ved unity, without an eating cau&s;e; whether it be a &s;imple &s;olution of uni|ty, or with lo&s;s of &s;ub&s;tance, as in a Com|pound wound.</P>
<P>And though for the diver&s;ity of parts, often times all the&s;e things are changed (for an Ulcer in the bone is called rot|tenne&s;s, a wound fracture, when the Nerves are brok, it is called convul|&s;ion, when they are pricked, Puncture, and when the fle&s;h is brui&s;ed, men call it contu&s;ion) yet &s;til they hold the &s;ame nature, &s;o they differ not in generation; for what&s;oever Ulcer proceeds from a &s;harp and corroding matter, &s;uch as are the Humors, and &s;harp Bloody mat|ter, har&s;h Poy&s;ons, and Medicaments that are putrefactive, and cau&s;ticks, ac|tual fire, corruption, moi&s;ture, into which the &s;ub&s;tance corrupted is di&s;|&s;olved, as in a Gangrene: al other cau&s;es that di&s;&s;olve the continnity, by cutting,
<PB N="369" REF="148">breaking, Knocking, Contu&s;ion, they make a wound only taken in a large &s;ence.</P>
<P>A &s;imple wound, or &s;olution of con|tinuity without lo&s;s of &s;ub&s;tance; is cured by Glutinative Medicaments, which by drying, Binding, Sticking, force the lips of the wound together, and bind them fa&s;t: which Union can|not be made immediately in the Bones, becau&s;e of their hardne&s;s, but it is made by the means of a Callous, the matter whereof, glewing nouri&s;hments afford.</P>
<P>But fractures are fa&s;tened and con|firmed by the &s;ame glewing Remedies, of which there are two ranks, &s;uch as are moderate, and &s;uch as are forcible: tho&s;e belong to a aprt and con&s;titution that are moi&s;t, the&s;e belong to parts &amp; con&s;titutions that are more dry, and to a Bloody wound.</P>
<P>Moderate Glutinatives; the mo&s;t Obvious are: the white of an Egg, St. Peters-wort, Tut&s;ane, Yarrow, Shep|heards-pur&s;e, the fruit of Creeping-Bal&s;am, new Chee&s;e, and Glew made of it, Hor&s;e-Tail, Herb Bennet, Ci&s;tus,
<PB N="370" REF="149">Flower of the Sun, the Gra&s;s <HI>I&s;chaemon,</HI> Plum-Tree Gum, ground Ivy. The Herb <HI>Siciliana,</HI> Herb Trinity, St Johns-wort, Adders Tongue, Yarrow, Leaves of Medlars, <HI>Ophris,</HI> Plantain, wild Pears, Dama&s;k Ro&s;es, the Bramble, the Male Sanicle, Germander, Scabious, Veronica, Golden-Rod, Leaves of Elms</P>
<P>Of the&s;e, may be made vulnerary drinks: al&s;o they may be given inward|ly in other forms.</P>
<P>They are laid on outwardly either brui&s;ed, or &s;trewed on in Pouders, or pre&s;&s;ed out and dropped in, or Boyled, chiefly in &s;harp Red Wine, and their operation is helped by Ligature, by which the Lips of the wound united are held together.</P>
<P>There are &s;ome other things, where|by wounds that are &s;imple and new, are pre&s;ently joyned together, applyed by them&s;elves &amp; bound on; namely Ro&s;in of the Larch or the Firr-Tree, Pellitory of the Wall brui&s;ed the brui&s;ed Leaves of Tobacco, dry Pitch, &s;potted Ar&s;|mart, beaten Oyl made by in&s;olation, or the Leaves of Adders Tongue, or
<PB N="371" REF="149">the fruit of the Bal&s;am Apple.</P>
<P>But the chief of all, and like to a we&s;t Indian Bal&s;am, (than which to knit wounds together, there is nothing bet|ter) is the Oyl that is drawn out of the flowers of St. Johns-wort, &s;hut into a Gla&s;s, and made by heat of the Sun beams, by de&s;cent. Al&s;o Earth Worms wa&s;hed in Black Wine and beaten, are good: al&s;o among&s;t ea&s;ie to be provid|ed, may be &s;et down that they call <HI>Oleum Hi&s;panum,</HI> de&s;cribed in the five Books of Chirurgery of <HI>Aquapendente;</HI> by which in twenty four hours time, wounds are &s;aid to be healed.</P>
<P>The&s;e Glew together Violently; Lions-Foot, the flowers of flower-gen|tle, middle Comfrey, the le&s;s Comfrey, unripe Galls, all the Cranes Bills, but chiefly Pidgeons Foot, Hypoci&s;tis, Hares-Foot, Rinds of Pomegranates, Leaves of the Olive, chiefly the wood Olive Tree, Mou&s;e-ear, Knot-Gra&s;s, Juyce of Sloes, the tender Leaves of Oaks, Stone-Comfrey of Lobelius, Dog-berry Tree.</P>
<P>The way of di&s;pen&s;ing of all the&s;e is the &s;ame with the former.</P>
<PB N="372" REF="150">
<P>Outwardly, the flew of a hare burnt, A&s;&s;es dung, burnt Spunges, and brought to Pouder, and Honey Suckles u&s;ed what way &s;oever.</P>
<P>But if the part be only contu&s;ed, without any &s;en&s;ible &s;olution: corro|boratives are convenient, mixt with dige&s;ters and anodines: of this kind is Lead beaten with Wormwood, Worm|wood heated on a Tile and &s;prinkled with Vineger, bean Meal with &s;weet Wine made into the form of a Cata|pla&s;m; al&s;o Flower of Wheat together, with Black Wine, Pouder of Ro&s;es, Wormwood and Oyl of Ro&s;es for a Catapla&s;m.</P>
<P>Ar&s;mart brui&s;ed and &s;prinkled with hot Wine, Fomentations of hot Water, e&s;pecially Sea water altered with Wormwood.</P>
<P>Moreover this Liniment is the be&s;t of all to heal all contu&s;ions, which wonderfully al&s;o a&s;&s;wageth the pain of the Swoln Hemroids, and takes away the pain of the Teeth, being &s;oftly rubbed on the Gums.</P>
<P>Take <HI>common Oyl one pound, the Mar|row of an Ox Leg, Yellow Wax, Bo&s;in of the</HI>
<PB N="373" REF="150">Firr-Tree, or Pitch (vulgarly called Ro&s;e,) of each three ounces: fre&s;h But|ter four ounces.</P>
<P>Let them all melt at a &s;oft fire, and when the Marrow is melted take them off.</P>
<P>An Ulcer is either &s;uperficial, or deeper.</P>
<P>That is, either actually &s;o, when the top of the Skin is wanting, as the fret|tings in Children; or is potential, that by the force of an external cau&s;e quickly comes to be &s;o, unle&s;s it be hindered, as is burning, which if it be pre&s;ently helped there followeth no Ulcer.</P>
<P>A &s;uperficial Ulcer is cured with the more mild inducers of a Cicatrize: burnings are cured with the &s;ame when the Bladders are broken.</P>
<P>But you may keep the part unhurt, if you lay on the&s;e things that follow, in time: namely writing Ink, Liquid Verni&s;h applyed with a very &s;oft cloth: a whol Egg with Oyl of Ro&s;es, or &s;tirred together by it &s;elf; Oyl made by Decoction of the middle Rind of Elders; white of an Egg very well beaten with Vineger, adding a littie raw Allum to it.</P>
<PB N="374" REF="151">
<P>The&s;e two following Uuguents are the mo&s;t excellent; with the former, of which the parts being anointed, you may handle fire without any harm.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Juyce pre&s;&s;ed out of the Mar&s;h|mallows, Roots, and all, &s;ix ounces: Oyl of El|der four ounces, Crude Roch Allum one ounce.</HI> Boyl them at a gentle fire to a mean con&s;i&s;tence, add <HI>new Wax one ounce and an half,</HI> mingle them.</P>
<P>The &s;econd. Take <HI>common Oyl, three ounces, new Wax one ounce and an half, Yolks of Eggs ro&s;ted under the A&s;hes, in number two.</HI> Di&s;&s;olve them and mingle them, til they become like an Unguent, &s;pread it on a Cloth, and renew it twice a day.</P>
<P>Al&s;o an Unguent of I&s;ing-Gla&s;s is much commended, and of Allum <HI>Plum|beum,</HI> mingled with Vineger in equal quantities.</P>
<P>Al&s;o Juyce of Mar&s;h mallows wrought with the white of an Egg.</P>
<P>A deep wound mu&s;t fir&s;t be filled with fle&s;h, with Remedies called Sarcoticks, which do &s;cowr away the thick excre|ments of the part, and con&s;ume the thin; then we mu&s;t bring it to Cicatrize with
<PB N="375" REF="151">Epuloticks, which by their great drying, do not only con&s;ume the excrements, but the Blood al&s;o, and do harden the upper Superficies of the Ulcer, and do as it were turn it into Skin.</P>
<P>Sarcoticks, or Remedies that fil up the Ulcer, are as large, as there be differences of hollow Ulcers.</P>
<P>For an Ulcer that is very moi&s;t, re|quires Remedies that are very great driers, &s;o that &s;uch Remedies as are convenient to Skin a plain Ulcer, are nece&s;&s;ary to fil a hollow Ulcer that is over-moi&s;t, but an Ulcer that is very foul requires &s;trong clean&s;ers.</P>
<P>But this is principally to be ob&s;erved, that a&s;tringents be not mingled with great driers and &s;courers, for they will fa&s;ten the excrement to the Ulcer, and &s;o make it more deep and &s;preading.</P>
<P>Therfore there may be &s;et two degrees of Sarcoticks; the mean, that belong to a &s;oft part, and to an Ulcer that is not over-moi&s;t and foul: And the Violent, which agree to a drier part, and are fit for an Ulcer, that is very moi&s;t and foul.</P>
<P>Moreover there is no hopes to fil up an Ulcer by the help of Sarcoticks,
<PB N="376" REF="152">unle&s;s tho&s;e Impediments be fir&s;t taken away, which hinder the Regeneration of the &s;ub&s;tance that was lo&s;t, as the Flux of any matter, that is ptenan in overmuch plenty, or ill quality, the di&s;temper of the Ulcerated part, a cal|lous bred in the Ulcer, or Rottenne&s;s of the Bone, corruption or de&s;temper.</P>
<P>The&s;e things take away the Flux, namely &s;uch as evacuate; make revul|&s;ion, repel, intercept, contemperate, and corroborate the parts affected, by the faultine&s;s whereof the excrements are renewed, of which we &s;pake before in the Remedies of the cau&s;es, and Di&s;|ea&s;es of the &s;imilary parts.</P>
<P>The dictemper of the ulcerated part, is corrected by contraries, of which we &s;pake al&s;o: but in a Gangreen there is &s;o great Humidity of the part and di&s;|&s;olution of the inbred heat, that there is need of an actual or a Potential fire; but of the two, the fir&s;t works quicker, and &s;trengthens the part more.</P>
<P>For a Gangrene in beginning, or where there is danger thereof, as in great blows from great Guns, there is nothing better than the following Bal|&s;om,
<PB N="377" REF="152">if Lint be dipt into it and laid to the wound, with which al&s;o all foul Ul|cers, if there be malignity in them, are happily cured.</P>
<P>Take <HI>flowers of Brim&s;tone three ounces, complete Oyl of Ro&s;es half a pound, the be&s;t Red Wine four ounces.</HI> Let them infu&s;e for eight daies at a gentle fire, alwaies &s;tir|ring it til the Wine be con&s;umed, then &s;train it, and di&s;&s;olve therein two oun|ces of the be&s;t Turpentine. Mingle them, and keep it for your u&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o for Ulcers that proceed from thin Choller, as &s;mal Bli&s;ters, or &s;uch as eat not deep, and for an Ulcerate Eri&s;ipelex, when the Humidity of the part Joyned with Acrimony cau&s;eth great trouble in the cure; the follow|ing Unguent of Elders profits excee|dingly, for with it not only Ulcers of the &s;imilary parts, but burnings of al kinds, and almo&s;t al foulne&s;s of the Skin are cured.</P>
<P>Take <HI>common Salt and the be&s;t Red Wine of each three ounces, di&s;&s;olve the Salt in the Wine, then add of the middle Rind of the Elder half a pound,</HI> infu&s;e them for two hours, then add <HI>compleat Oyl of Ro&s;es one
<PB N="378" REF="153">pound and an half.</HI> Boyl al at a gentle fire, til the moi&s;ture be almo&s;t con&s;umed: then to the re&s;idue of the rind add fur|ther, <HI>compound Oyl of Ro&s;es half a pound, Salt di&s;&s;olved in Wine as before, half an ounce.</HI> Boyl them &s;trongly til al the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed, that the rind become dry and crumble, with this Oyl diligently pre&s;led out, Boyl Litharge of Gold prepared and &s;ifted two ounces, to which being exactly. Boyled, add the fore&s;aid Oyl, and let them Wax hot, la&s;t of all put in the following ingredients pulped through a Hair five together, namely, <HI>of the be&s;t Ceru&s;s one ounce, Lead burnt with Brim&s;tone and not wa&s;hed &s;even ounces and an half, Yellow Wax what is &s;uf|ficient to make an &V;nguent.</HI></P>
<P>A Callous is taken off mo&s;t &s;afely with a pair of Nippers, or with actual fire where it may be done; if it cannot, then it may be taken on with corroding Remedies, de&s;cribed among&s;t the means of thickning the Cavity: by the rea&s;on of this Impediment there do often remain incurable Fi&s;tulaes, which can|not be cut, nor handled fitly every way by occe&s;&s;ary Medicaments; for the&s;e the
<PB N="379" REF="153">following Bal&s;om is convenient, where|by the deep Fi&s;tulaes of the Anus and the Te&s;ticles have been often cured.</P>
<P>It is thus ea&s;ily prepared.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Cranes Bill, or Pidgeons Foot cut, two ounces, Root of Flower de Luce very well wa&s;hed three drams, Root of Black Hellebore prepared two drams, Wheat Corns one hand|ful, brui&s;e them gro&s;&s;ely,</HI> and infu&s;e them for one day, in one pound of &s;harp Red Wine; then add <HI>Oyl of St. Johns|wort and Mirtills of each three ounces.</HI> Let them Boyl at a gentle fire til the moi|&s;ture be con&s;umed: make expre&s;&s;ion and &s;train them, then add <HI>Bitumen, and Mirrh of each one dram and an half,</HI> Let them &s;tand at a &s;oft heat til they be perfectly melted, then add <HI>of Ro&s;in of the Larch Tree and Firr Tree,</HI> (and if you can get it of occidental Bal&s;am) <HI>of each one ounce.</HI> Mingle them at an ea&s;ie fire and make a Bal&s;om to be dropt into a Fi&s;tu|la, and to be put in with Tents.</P>
<P>To take away Spungy Fle&s;h that abounds in an Ulcer, u&s;e the Remedies de&s;cribed for a Di&s;ea&s;e in con&s;tipation by Fle&s;h and a Callous.</P>
<P>Yet to the&s;e add the following
<PB N="380" REF="154">Pouder to make an E&s;car, whereby Malignant Ulcers (as Malignant Scro|phalous matter, and ulcerated Cancers) if they be &s;mal, and new are happily cured.</P>
<P>Take the Root of great Serpentine, gathered in <HI>June,</HI> and cut in pieces and dried in the &s;hade, and of white Ar&s;e|nick of each one ounce, Pouder them, and mingle them, and &s;et them in the Sun til the beginning of <HI>October,</HI> in a great Bellied Gla&s;s well &s;topt, and &s;hake them often, then keep the Pou|der for this u&s;e: namely wa&s;h the Ulcer often, and foment it with a wet Linnen Cloth with Water of Water Lillies, or the Decoction of the &s;ame; the next day after &s;trew on the Pouder, making a defen&s;ative, for the &s;ame parts with &s;ome Cerate, lea&s;t the Pouder &s;pread further than it &s;hould, the e&s;car will fal out of its own accord in twelve daies, and the cure mu&s;t be ac|compli&s;hed with the &s;tronge&s;t Sarco|ticks.</P>
<P>The Bone that is under the Ulcer being bare, mu&s;t be corroborated by the &s;trowing on of Pouders, that Fle&s;h may grow upon it.</P>
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<P>And the&s;e are made of equal parts of the Root of Dog Fennel, round Ari&s;to|lochia Flower-de-Luce, Mirrh and Frankin&s;ence.</P>
<P>And if it have already contracted any Blackne&s;s, there is need of an Iron to &s;crape it off, and of actual fire; then the Pouder mu&s;t be &s;trewed on.</P>
<P>If the Bone be Rotten, it mu&s;t be taken away by In&s;truments of Iron and an actual Cautory.</P>
<P>Yet &s;omtimes it fals out by rea&s;on of the narrowne&s;s of the Ulcer, and the windings in it, that the Bone under|neath cannot be touched by Iron In&s;truments, or fire, and can hardly be perceived by the probe, in which ca&s;e &s;ome &s;harp and drying Remedy mu&s;t be poured in for &s;ome daies that the rottenne&s;s may be taken away: of this &s;ort ea&s;ie to prepare, are the Decoctions of Ari&s;tolochia, gentian, Wake-Robin, poured upon Calcined Tartar &s;hut up in a Bag.</P>
<P>The Spirit of Tartar is more labori|ous which is chiefly commended for this purpo&s;e, if it be tempered with &s;ome convenient Liquor. The impe|diments
<PB N="382" REF="155">being taken away, the u&s;e of Sarcoticks wil be afterwards profitable, or of &s;uch as fil up the Ulcer, a Cata|logue whereof now followeth.</P>
<P>For an Ulcer that is not over moi&s;t and foul, and for a part that is very &s;oft; mean Sarcoticks are convenient; namely Salt and Nitrons Mineral Wa|ters, Betony, Gentian Root, Mints, flower-de-Luce, Honey &s;uckles, Boy|led Honey, the Clot-Burr, al kind of Ro&s;ins, Scordium, Wheat, Frankin|&s;ence.</P>
<P>Of Herbs, Decoctions may be made, for wa&s;hings and infu&s;ion; al&s;o Un|guents may be made &s;uddenly, making Oyl fir&s;t by Decoction, then adding a quantity of Wax, &amp; if you plea&s;e &s;ome Honey al&s;o and Ro&s;in, or Pouders, which are e&s;pecially provided of Roots and Frankin&s;ence.</P>
<P>Al&s;o a &s;imple Pouder of Herbs may be &s;irewed upon the Ulcer.</P>
<P>For outward Remedies, add Tobacco and the Le&s;&s;er Centory.</P>
<P>The form of an outward Unguent may be of this kind.</P>
<P>Take <HI>Leaves of Betony one handful,
<PB N="383" REF="155">Tobacco half a handful, common Oyl four ounces.</HI> Cut the Herbs and Boyl them in Oyl, til al the moi&s;ture be con&s;umed: then add common Ro&s;in one ounce, new Wax half an ounce, Pouder of the Root of Flower-de-Luce or Frankin|&s;ence two drams, mingle them and make an Unguent.</P>
<P>The more forcible, and &s;uch as are proper for a &s;ordid Ulcer, and a part that is more hard, the&s;e are convenient: round Ari&s;tolochia Roots, good Henry, <HI>Colus Jovis,</HI> Horehound, Raw Honey, Mirrh, Root of Dog Fennel.</P>
<P>In outward Remedies, Chimney Soot, Blacking of Pitch, Lime very wel wa&s;h|ed, dry Pitch, Liquid Pitch mingled with Honey, the &s;hels of Periwinkles, and the &s;hels of al Sea Fi&s;h Burnt, and the A&s;hes of all Sarcotick Herbs.</P>
<P>The&s;e may be made of divers forms, as in Liniments, Unguents, Pouders, Juyces and Decoctions.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the Leaves of good Henry, and <HI>Colus Jovis</HI> lightly brui&s;ed, and laid on with the Back &s;ide, cure al Ulcers that are hard to be cured.</P>
<P>To the&s;e belong the Bal&s;am of Brim|&s;tone
<PB N="384" REF="156">di&s;cribed, which wonderfully fils up hollow Ulcers; <HI>Rulandus</HI> makes an Unguent of it, that is very much commended for all rebellious Ulcers, As.</P>
<P>Take <HI>the Bal&s;am of Brim&s;tone three oun|ces, new Wax half an ounce, Colophonia three drams, Mirrh, the wait of them all.</HI> Let the Mirrh finely poudered be &s;trewed in by degrees to al the re&s;t when they are melted and wel mingled: and let them be Boyled at a &s;oft fire, alwaies &s;tirring them with a Spatula, until they are &s;ingular well mixt, which common|ly fals out in a quarter of an hour: then take it from the fire, and let them cool ea&s;ily.</P>
<P>Yet the Plai&s;ter of <HI>Theophra&s;tus</HI> gives place neither to this Remedy nor to any other, and it is ea&s;ie to be provided, whereby Old, rotten, &s;tinking Ulcers, that are very hollow and foul are won|derfully cured, and it may be laid to all hollow Ulcers, if for Ulcers that are troubled with a &s;harp Defluxion, and very tender, it be tempered with the Unguent of Elder di&s;cribed before for St. Anthonies fire, adding a greater or
<PB N="385" REF="156">le&s;&s;er quantity, as the &s;ence of the part is more quick, and the nece&s;&s;i|ty of regenerating Fle&s;h be more or le&s;s.</P>
<P>The Plai&s;ter is this.</P>
<P>Take <HI>ten Yolks of Eggs, clear Turpentine half a pound.</HI> Mingle them with a wood|den Spatula to an oinment, in the &s;ame Ve&s;&s;el they mu&s;t be Boyled, and this wil be done in half a quarter of an hour, then add Honey to the weight of them al, &s;tirr them &s;trongly and quick|ly that they clotter not: then Boyl them at an ea&s;ie Coal fire, moving them con&s;tantly, then increa&s;ing the fire, til they become of a browni&s;h dark colour, more like to Black, then Yellow or Reddi&s;h.</P>
<P>An Ulcer and a wound, that is filled up to make an equal &s;uperficies with the &s;ound part, is healed with Epulo|ticks, or &s;uch as cau&s;e it to Cicatrize, whereof &s;ome are milder, and more convenient for &s;oft parts, &s;ome are for parts and con&s;titutions that are har|der.</P>
<P>The more violent, &s;hould they be
<PB N="386" REF="157">made u&s;e of in a &s;oft part they will make a Cicatrize but &s;o hard and Cal|lous that it may hinder the motion of the Joynt.</P>
<P>The meaner that are mo&s;t Obvious are the&s;e: Potters Earth, or white Chalk, Hor&s;e-Tail, the flowers of both Pomegranats, Ceru&s;s, Cotton burnt, the A&s;hes of Lint, Pennywort, Scuttle Bone, burnt Spunge, flew of a Hare burnt, Root of Tormentil, al Medi|cinal Earth, Litharge, and al cold things that are moderately a&s;tringent; al&s;o the cold Air of it &s;elf wil make a Cica|trize; dry forms work more &s;trongly than the moi&s;t do, therefore Pouders applyed with Lint are good.</P>
<P>But to avoid the inequality of a Cicatrize and hardners in a con&s;picuous part, it &s;ufficeth to u&s;e Liniments or Unguents.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t excellent is the Unguent of Elder already propounded again&s;t Herpes or the Wolf.</P>
<P>Other Remedies may &s;uddenly be provided of Ceru&s;s, or Litharge, with a fourth part of Oyl of Ro&s;es, or
<PB N="387" REF="157">the like, and a little Wax: Mingle therewith the Pouders that are more drying if need require.</P>
<P>The more Violent are all cold Re|medies that dry forceably, propounded el&s;ewhere, to which you may add mineral Waters, of Allum and Gip, &s;uch as is that of Padua, of the moun|tain of the Sick, the Calx of Antimony very well wa&s;hed, common Lime wel wa&s;hed, the Calx of Vitriol, Gip, the filings of Iron often &s;prinkled with Ro&s;e Water or Plantain or the like, and dried that it may be poudered: the Scales and dro&s;s of Iron wa&s;hed, Lead burnt alone and wa&s;hed, the &s;hels of any Creatures burnt &amp; wa&s;hed, all which (except Iron and other a&s;trin|ents propounded) are applyed out|wardly either in the form of a Pouder, or mingled with other more mild Unguents. Hot Baths &s;erve for ba|things and to &s;it in.</P>
<P>And the&s;e are mo&s;t of them Medi|caments that are ea&s;ie to provide, with which in any part of the world, and without the help of Apothecaries, any kind of Disea&s;e may be cured.</P>
<PB N="388" REF="158">
<P>The way, where there is need, to mingle the&s;e things readily without great provi&s;ion of In&s;truments, is not dark to be under&s;tood, and collected out of what hath been &s;aid, and is &s;cat|tered here and there through the whol Book.</P>
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