The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of debilitie of the stomake and weaknes of the braine. And diuers times it doth come by corrupt humors, the which be in the stomake. And other­while it doth come by repletion, & otherwhile by ouer much and wilful fasting, but as for fasting, that rule now a daies néede not to be spoken of, for fasting, praier, and almes déedes of charitie, be banished out of all regions and pro­uinces, & they be knocking at Paradise gates to go in, we­ping and wailing for the Temporalitie and spiritualtie, the which hath exiled them.

A remedy for them the which doth abhorre their meat thorow debilitie and sicknes.

¶ Whosoeuer he or she be, the which doth abhorre any mea­tes or drinkes, let them vse to eate y ^e confection, de aromati­bus, the confection of xiloaloes, & all oderiferous and redolēt sauours doth comforth the stomake, the heart and the braine, for this matter looke in the Chapiter of the stomake, or sto­machus.

The cause of Abhorsion.

Abhorsion doth come many wayes. Fyrst it may come by ventositie and lubricitie of humours in the matrix. Or it [Page 8] may come by a great feare or by extreame thought, or by ex­treme sicknes, or death, it cometh also by a stripe or a stroke, or a fal. Also it may come by receptes of medicines, or by ex­treme purgacions, pocions, and other laxatiue drinkes, of the which I dare not to speake of at this time, least any light woman shuld haue knowledge by y ^e which wilful abhorsiō may come of the multitudenes of the flowers of a woman.

A remedy for Abhorsion.

I do aduertise euerie good woman to beware of al maner of thinges aboue rehersed. And to beware what medicines they doe take: except it be of & by the councell of expert doc­tours of phisicke.

If it do come of the lubricitie of humours in the matrix, vse Yeralogodian.

If it come of the multitudenes of the flowers, take of the iuice of saint Iohns wort, & of the iuice of plantein, of either like porciō, & drink it with red wine & wine elegāt .ix. dayes.

If it come of ventositie. Take of Anis sedes, of Fenel sedes, of zeduall, of eache the weight of .xii. d. of Comin séedes the weight of .iii. d. of Organū, of Calamintes, of eche the weight of .viii. d. make fyne pouder of all this, & drinke of it with white wine, or stale ale .ix. daies, morning & euening. And let boyes, folishmen, and hasty men, the which be maryed beware how that they doe vse their wiues when they bée with child. And let women the which be with child beware of any occasion that should make Abhorsion.

For Achante, looke in the Chapiter named Spina.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmytie doth come thorow great humiditie and moystnes in the head, it may come also of a melancoly hu­mour, or of a salt humour.

A remedie.

Take the gall of a Bull, and mixe it with vineger, and a­noynt the head, or els take of blanched Almons, & grind thē small, and mix them with white wine, and wash the heade v. or .vi times. Or els take of Mellilote thrée vnces, of Fenu­gréek, ii. vnces, of black sope an vnce, séeth this in water or wine, and wash the head .v. or vi. times.

For Acrochordones, looke in the Chapter of Analipsia.

For Achinodis orexis, looke in the Chapiter named Ca­nina appetencia.

For Adustio, looke in the Chapiter named Combustio.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie commeth to man, after his complexion, by superabūdant humours, or by lying with infectious persōs hauing the sayd infirmitie, or by ariditie or drinesse of coler or melancoly, the which doth ingender a dry skabbe, which is the worst amongst all the kindes of skabbes.

A remedie.

Take Mercury mortified with fasting spettil .iii. vnces, in­corporate it with the oyle of Bayes, & anoynt the body. Or els take Mercury mortified .iii. vnces, of y ^e pouder of Brim­stone .ii. vnces, of the pouder of Enula campana .ii. vnces, cō ­fect [Page 9] this together with Barowes grece & anoynt the body oft.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow a reumatike humour mixt with corrupt bloud, or it may come with a strype, or hurt done in that place.

A remedy,

First if it do come of reume or corrupt bloud, purge reume and bloud, as it doth appere in the Chapiters Reuma et san­guis. If it do come otherwise, be let bloud in a vayne named Mediana, and vse locall medicines, as waters to mundifie the place, and than vse salues sanatiue

For Aegineta, looke in the Chapiter named Estara.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie commeth thorow grosse and rauinous fée­ding, or els by corruption of bloud mixt with fleume.

A remedy.

First purge fleume and clense the bloud, as it appeareth in the Chapiters of blud and fleume. Then make maturacions, and after that make incision, or els a corsiue, than abstract [Page] with plaisters abstractiue y ^e corrupt matter, as it appeareth in the Chappiter of Vlcus or Vlcera.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment commeth of corruption of bloud and de­bilitie of nature, and faintnesse about the heart.

A remedy.

Take Cordialles & restoratiues, and clense the bloud, as it appeareth more plainely in y ^e Chapiter of Sanguis. And for this matter vse the sirupe of Fumitory and the confecton of Fumitory.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmytie doth come by defaulte of nutritiue vertue. And it may come by vsing to much of Venus actes in youth.

A remedy.

Take y ^e rootes of Gencian made in fine pouder. Or take the iuice of Gencian iii. vnces. mix it with white vineger, and wash y ^e face or place oft with it. Or els take a skarlet cloth and rub the face or place with Mandragor leues. And to bed­ward annoynte the face with oyle of y ^e Ashe keyes. Or els take the rootes of Madder .iii. vnces, stampe it with white vyneger, and rub the face or place with it.

For Alchites, or as some say Alsclites, looke in these words in the Chapiters named Astites and Hidroips.

For Albernalieth, looke in the Chapiter named Polipus.

For Alaxos ligmos, looke in the Chapiter named Singultus.

For Alsoach, looke in the Chapiter named Singultus.

For Alburlo, looke in the Chapiter named Argemita.

The cause of this Apostumacion.

This impostume doth come of a Reumatike humour mixt with corrupt bloud hauing a recourse to the eye.

A remedy.

Take of the water of Roses, & of the water of Plantaine, of eche an vnce: of Tutrie prepared a dram & a halfe: of the flowers of Mirtilles, an vnce & a halfe, of the leaues of house­like or Syngrene, halfe an vnce, of Camphyre a drame & a halfe, of the white of Egges .iii. beate all this together in a morter, and put of the confection in the corner of the eye vp­on the impostume.

For Albugo, looke in the Chapiter named Argemita.

Alcola, is a Barbarous word, looke for it in the Chapiter of aphtis or aphtas.

And for Almusagari, looke in y ^e Chapiter of Almusat for both the words hath one signification.

And for Albugo, looke in the Extrauagantes in the ende of this booke.

For Albaras, looke in the Chapiter named Alopecia.

Albatin is a sinew the which doth grow out of y ^e middle of the spondils, ioyning to the pillicles of the kidnes.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie doth come of reume, or els taking of a va­perous humour coniunct with reume.

A remedy.

First purge reume as it doth eppere in y ^e Chapiter named Reuma. And once or twise a weke take of y ^e pilles of Cochée And beware of drinking of wine or of other hotte drinkes. And vse a good dyet, and sit not vp to late, and vse some la­bour or manuall occupatiō to sweat at the browes, except it be in a time of infection, or whan any vniuersal sicknes is in a coūtre, then open not the poores, neither by labour nor tra­uell, neither by bathes, neither by stuphes nor such like. And as I doe shew my mind for this infirmitie. Aboue all other thinges let euerie man beware of the premisses, rehersed in the time whan the pestilence, or the sweating sicknes, or fe­uers, or agues doth reigne in a coūtrey. For these sicknesses, be infectious, & one man many infecte another, as it doth ap­pere in the chapiters named Scabies, morbus Gallicus. And specially in the dietary of helth, wherfore I would that eue­ry man hauing this booke, shuld haue y ^e sayd dietary of helth with this booke, considering that the one booke is concurrant with the other.

Blohosos is a bone in the back.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of the heat of the stomake and of the corruption of the braine, for the skin of the head wil stincke thorow the vaporing of euil & corrupt humours. Al­so this infirmitie doth come diuers times of the defaulte of humiditie or moist humours. And then the skurfe is like ote­mell, but some looketh whitish, and other blackish.

A remedy.

First drinke no hot wines, nor eate drye meate, nor lepe­rous fyshes. Than shaue the head and berd, and anoynte the head with the grece of a Fox. Or els wash the head with the iuce of Béetes .v. or .vi. times, or els stamp Garlik and rub the head with it, & after that wash it in vineger, do this .v. or vi. times. Or eles make ashes of Garlike & temper it with hony & anoynt the head. If it do come thorow any opilaciōs, anoint the head with the oyle of bitter Almons, or with the oyle of woormwod, or with the oyle of Spicnard, & such like oyles. If it do come otherwaies, y ^e oyle of Myrtilles is good, or the oyle of Galles, or the oyle of Walnuts, or the oyle of Mayden haire.

The cause of this infirmitie.

Most commonlie a Carbocle doth come in the time when the pestilence doth raigne, or els when the ayer & the bloud is putrified and corrupted. This vlceration and infirmitie [Page] most cōmonlie doth bréed in y ^e emūctory places, there where the thrée principall members hath their purging places the which be vnder the eare or throte, or els about y ^e arme holes or brest, or els about the secrete partes of a man or woman, or in the share, or thigh, or flanke. And of Carbocles there be foure kindes. The first is blacke. The second is redde. The thyrd is of a glasse or a gréenish colour. And the fourth is of aswart or dim colour. The blacke colour commeth of me­lancoly and of a venemous matter. And therfore it is dange­rous. The red colour of y ^e carbocle cōmeth of a corrupt bloud. The glasse colour cōmeth of coler, & the swart colour com­meth of coler adusted. And if the carbocle do appere, & after that doth returne to y ^e body againe, commonlie it is an euill sygne. And if the sicke person do vomit & be sompnouent or sléeping. And y ^e pulces subuerted, & cold sweats with altera­cion of colour, with a vehement agew, it is a signe of death.

A remedy as much as I can tell.

Before the sore be fixed, take purgacions according to y ^e age & strenght of the persō, & be let bloud with y ^e coūcel of a doc­tour of phisicke, & as it is specified in the dietary of health, & if the sore be fixed, lay this plaister to it. Take of Doues dūg thrée vnces, stampe it with vineger & lay it ouer y ^e sore. And to breke the carbocle take of Dasies halfe an vnce, of Canca­rides the weight of .ii. d. stamp this together & lay it on the head of y ^e Carbocle. Than take salues to draw out y ^e corrup­cion, & otherwhile mūdifie the sore-with the iuice of smalage. For this matter looke further in y ^e Chap. named Epedinua.

For Ambustro, which is a scalding, looke in the Chapter named Combustio.

For Amor, a sicknes, looke in y ^e Chapters named Hereos.

For Ambustio meretricis, looke after the Chapter named Anastropha.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come thorow reume, the which doth discend from the head to the roote of the tongue, & otherwhile it doth come by heat of the stomake, the which doth vapour vp to the roote of the tongue, and it may come of drinking to much of hot wines and strong ale.

A remedy.

First vse gargarice, and then take sternutacions, & purge the head & the stomake with piles of Cochée. And beware of late drinke and eiull dyet, as surfeting & drinking of hotte wines and strong ale, for Omne nimium vercitur in vicum.

The cause of this infirmitie

Many Auctors in diuers matters be of sundry opiniōs, but for this matter I doe say, that for as much as it is one of the kindes of the falling sickenesse, it doth take his ori­ginall of a reumatike humour, opylating the celles of the braine, and the braine so opilated and stopped, the pacient li­ueth pitifully vnto the time that nature hath remoued the cause.

A remedy.

For this matter a great circumspect must be had. First in the dyet of the pacient for the pacient not onely in this kind [Page] of the falling sicknesse, but in all other kindes must abstein from white meates, & befe, hart flesh, and venison. And they must beware of clyming vp to high places, they must eat no Salades, Garlike, Ramsons, Onions, Chybolles, or Scali­ons, or such like things: y ^e pacient must refraine frō eating of water foules, & frō eating of y ^e fatnesse of fish, as Eles Cō ­ger, and Salmon, or such like. And then vse the séedes & the rootes of Piony aswel in meates & drinkes, as to weare the roote and séedes about the necke, & purge oft the head, and do as it is specified in the Chapiter named Epilepcia.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of grosse and euill humours.

A remedy.

First with a paire of sissers cut of the heades of the wartes, and then rub them with garlike and bay salt stamped both together, do this sixe or seuen times. And lay ouer them a little plate of lead. For this mater looke in the Chapiter na­med Tuber.

¶ Anthus is a croked elbow, the Barbarous word is na­med ancha.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie doth come of a salt waterish humour.

A remedy.

First vse a precise diet, not to eate contagious meates, than vse stuphes, and easy purgations, as it appeareth in the die­tarie of Health.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come thorow great repleciō of meates and drinkes, or els it commeth thorow the malyce of the sto­make, or of lubrysation of the intestines or intrayles.

A remedy.

First mundifie the stomake with pilles of Cochée. And con­fort y ^e stomak with Dyagalanga, & vse odoriferous sauours, & good meates & drinkes, and haue a mery heart, for penci­fulnes doth hurt the stomake.

For Anciloglossi, looke the Chapiters of Balbucientes, and in Mogilali.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come when an harlot doth hold in her breth, and clapse her hands harde together & toes in like maner. And some harlot doth stand ouer a chafinge dyshe of cooles, into the which she doth put brimestone and there she doth perfume hir selfe.

A remedy.

If a man be burnt with a harlot & do medel with an other woman with in a day, he shall burne the womā that he doth meddle withall. If one be burnt let them wash their secretes two or thrée times with white wine, or els with sacke and water. And if the matter haue continued long go to some ex­pert Chierurgion to haue help, or els the gottes will burn and fall out of the belly.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come from the brayne or els from the stomake, or els frō the lōges, if it do come from y ^e longs, looke in the chapter named Asthma, if it do come out of the head, reume which is putryfied & corrupted, infectynge the braine is the cause, and if it doe come by or thorow y ^e throte, it doth come of putrified humour of the stomake or els of corruption of the longes.

A remedy if this impediment come of the brayne.

First purge the head and braine with a gargarice, or with pillpul, Elphangine. And then vse y ^e Electurari de Gēmus, or a confection de Musto, or Tiriaca diatesserō, for this mat­ter [Page 14] looke in the Chapter named Asthma.

A remedy if this impediment come of the stomake.

First purge the stomake with Yerapigra galem. Than take of Cloues the weight of vi. d. of Ligni Aloes, the weight of viii. d. of Galingale, the weight of vi. d. make pouder of this & drink of it morning & euening, as much as an Hasel nut. And vse to chew in the mouth a cloue without maces in the morning and after dinner and to bedward.

A remedy to pal or make sweete the breath, which way so euer it doth come.

First in y ^e morning eate or swallow ii. or iii. cloues, & kepe betwixt y ^e gummes & the chéekes ii. cloues, or els do as I sayd before. Or els take of Sauery an vnce, of Galingale halfe an vnce, of the wood of aloes a qurter of an vnce, make pouder of this, and eate or drinke a porcion in the morning, & a litle after diner, & as much to bedward.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of Reume ascending from the head to the thro [...]e. And it may come of vaporous humours, discending from the stomake to the throte.

A remedy.

Thrée things is requisite to help these infirmities: The first is letting of bloud in a vayne named Cephalica. The second is to purge y ^e head with the pilles of Cochée. And [...]he thyrd is to vse gargarices, & to vse Clysters. And than let the paciēt for a space absteine frō meat, except it be of the broth made of a chiken, & let the patiēt take Ydormel or Oximel. And take a little péece of porke or bacon, or els a little péece of a sponge, and encinet it in oyle Oliue & tie about any of these thinges a strong thred & let y ^e pacient swallow in this matter and by & by pul it out againe and be sure of the thred that he that shall do this feate in holding fast the thred, doe pull it out againe quicklie.

The cause of this Mutabilitie.

This mutabilitie doth come thorow wauering & incōstant wittes, lacking loue & charity to God, to a mans owne selfe & to his neighbour regarding more other sensualitis, or prodi­galitie, couetis or lucre, thē the wealth & profit of the soule. Yea, y ^e mynd of man is so occupied about worldly matters & busines, that God and the soule of man is forgotten, by the which great daungers foloweth.

A remedy.

Fyrst let euerie man reconcyle himselfe in and to God, and not to set by the world, but to take the world as it is, not being parmanent no abyding place, but to liue as one shuld dye euerie houre. And if a man haue this memory, he will not be mutable, nor set by the world, but constant hauing euer a respect to god his creatour, & to his neighbour which is euery man wheresoeuer he dwell.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a venemous matter, & other­while [Page] it doth come of interial cause, or of an exterial cause. The interiall cause doth come of some euil humour, the exte­rial cause doth come of some venemous stinging of a worme

A remedy.

If it do come of an euil humour, eat Triacle & make a salue or a plaister of triacle & laye vpon the place. Or els take the white of a rawe egge and put in salt to it & beat it wel togither and make a plaister.

For Antiades, looke in the Chapiter named Glandule and Cherade.

A remedy for falling out of the fundement.

First beware of taking cold in that place. And beware of costifnes. And kéepe the ars & buttokes warme. And sit not on y ^e could earth, nor vpon stone or stones, nor vpon no harde thing, but take somewhat vnder the buttockes, but onelie for falling out of the longacion, or ars gut, but for al other infirmities that may be in the longation ingendred.

For falling out of the longacion.

Take of Myrtilles .iii. vnces, of Iuneper cut in smal péeces iiii. vnces, séeth it in water and wash the place. And after that make a perfume of Iuneper & sit ouer it. Or els make a perfume of Benguin, Myre, or Frankensence. Or els take [Page 8] the inward rine or barke of an Oke, séeth it in water with Galls & washe the place, & drink of Galbanū with stale ale, and lay the substance of it to y ^e nauel, it is good for the falling of the moder. And for these impediments in a mans funde­mēt or ars, it is good to anoint y ^e place with oyle of linsedes

The cause of this infirmitie.

This byle, or vlceracion in the palat or rough of the mouth, is ingendred of a hote stomake, fuming and méeting with reume at the vnels in the rough of the mouth, and that is the cause of this impediment.

A remedy.

First qualifie the hote and the vaparous fumositie of the stomake, & the reume the which doth discend out of the head to the vnels, as it doth appere in the Chapiters named Sto­machus, and vnele. And whosoeuer that will haue helpe for the mouth, or for the tongue, or for the eares, for the téeth, for the nose, for the eyes, or for any dolour or payne, the which may be in these parts or places, let them vse otherwhile sternutacions, and pilles of Cochée. And once or twise a mo­neth, let them vse gargarices to exhaust and drawe out the reume out of the head, y ^e which reume is the cause of many infirmities in mans bodie, as it doth more largelyer appere in the Chapiter named Reuma.

For Anathomia, looke in the Introduction of knowledge.

For Apepsia, looke in the Chapiter named Gruditas.

The cause that a man hath lost his appetyde.

The cause of lesing of a mans appetyd is that the stomake is repleted with euil humours. And it doth come either tho­row sicknes, or els it commeth of to much drinking in y ^e mor­ning, or els it doth pronosticate sicknes to be with in short tyme.

A remedy.

First refraine early drinking, than purge y ^e stomak with pills of Cochie, and vse to eate the confection de aromatibus, and so is the sirupe of Wormewood good for that matter.

A remedy for women that haue vnlawfull lustes

I haue knowen y ^t such lustes hath bene put away by smel­ling to the sauour of their owne shoes, when they be put off. In such lustes it is best y ^e womē haue their desire if it may be gotten, for they shall neuer take surfect by such lustes.

The cause of this infirmytie.

This infirmytie doth come of a cold humour, the which doth opilate or stop the ventrycles of the brayne, and doth fill the celles of the head. And some say it is a cold and a grosse Apostumacion that lyeth in the hinder part of the head.

A remedy.

First purge the head, & vse this sternutacion. Take of Eliborus albus, of Peper, of Castory, of each .ii. drames, make pouder of it, and blowe or snuffe a little in the nosethryles. And vse clisters and fricacions with salt & warme vineger. And vse Oximel diuretike, & Oximel squilitike, & purge the matter with Yeraruffi, or els with Yeralogodian. And the medicines y ^e which doth serue for Epilepsia, which is named in English the Falling sicknes, or the foule euill, will, serue for this sicknesse

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ All apostumacions do come by corrupt bloud, or els by cō ­geiled fleume, or fleume vnnaturall. Or els by coler, or els by melancoly. If the impostume do come of corrupt & infecti­ous bloud, then the impostume is named Hegmon. And if it come by congeyled or vnnaturall fleume, the impostume is named Zimie, & some do name it Zumma. And if y ^e impo­stume do come by coler, y ^e impostume is named Herisipula. And if y ^e impostume do come of melancoly, or coler adusted, thē the impostume is named Cancri or Scliros. Yet there be many other impostumes y ^e which do come of mixt humours, as the botch & byle, and such like. These impostumes that be interiall and can not be séene, be more periculus thē they the which a man may sée and féele. For this matter and for a re­medy, looke in the proper names of the impostumes, and spe­ciallie in the Chapter named Suffocacion or Suffocacio.

The cause of this impediment.

The cause of this impediment commeth of superab undāce of Citryne coler and euill humours.

A remedy.

Vse pilles of Mesereon .ii. times in a wéeke. And beware of eating of broiled meates, of fried & burnt meates, & of all maner of meates that is dried in y ^e smoke, & of crusts of bred of pie crustes, & cake bread, & sodden bread & sower drinke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of reume, and of corrupt blud, the which doth distill out of the head of the eyes.

A remedy.

First purge reume, as it doth appere in the Chapter named Reuma, & than make a plaister with the white of .ii. egges, & beat it well together, & than put to it a little hony, and after that put to it flexe or two, & to bedward lay it ouer thy eyes, & let it lye al night, & in the morning wash the eyes w ^t cold water, & a fyne clout, do this .iii. nightes one after an other.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie either it doth come of corrupt bloud, or els of a fleumatike humour, or else of a colericke humour, if it do come of blud or of reumaticke fleume, y ^e place wil swel & be red, & the veine wil be ful, if it do come of coler, y ^e place doth not swell greatly but is dry, & the place wil pricke & burne.

A remedy.

First beware of contagious meates & drinkes, as new ale, new bere, read wine, new hot bread, oysters, Eles, muscles, samon, dog fysh, raye or thornebacke, fresh befe, water foules, goose and ducke, & such like, be not costiue, & vse gētil purga­cions, & beware of ryot & late drinking, & taking of cold on the feete, or going or ryding wet shodde or booted. Than vse stupes, & these oyles if the matter come of cold humours, the oyle of Walnuts, Oleum vlpinum, Oleum philosophorum, and Oleum de lapide gagatis. If y ^e matter do come of heate, than is good Oleum de Ranis.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This impediment doth come by a stripe or a blow or some other casuall hurt by some euill chaunce, or els of some euil humour, loke for this matter in the chapter named Macula. [Page] in the Extrauagantes.

A remedy.

Take the white of .ii. egges, and beate it too a waterish spume, than put in tow, & .iii. nights one after an other lay such plaisters ouer the eye or eyes, & in the meane space hāg ouer the eye or eyes a grene sarsenet, & plonge the eyes in cold water.

The cause of this infirmitie.

The pushes which be drye commeth of coler adusted, and they the which be moyst, doth come of corrupt bloud mixte with fleume.

A remedy for dry pushes.

Take of Camomil an handfull, of Fenugreke an vnce, of Rose leues an handfull, seth this in white wine & wash the head .v. times at night. Or els take y ^e oyle of Linsede .ii. vn­ces and anoynt the head .vii. times.

A remedy for the moist pushes or whelkes.

Take the rust of yron the which doth lie about y ^e smithes handfile ii. vnces, of Brimstone an vnce, of the pulpes of co­lequintida halfe an vnce, beat this together and put it into a pinte and a halfe of white vineger, and wash the head thrée or foure times with it. Or else take Arsneke and mortifie it ii. vnces, mixe it with grece and with the oyle of Bayes, and anoint the head thrée or foure times.

The cause of the breeding of such worms.

Such wormes be engēdred of coler or of flegmatike hu­mours.

A remedie.

The vsage of eating of Garlike doth kill all maner of wormes in a mans belly, as it doth more largelier appeare in the Chapter named Lumbrici. Or else take of the iuyce of Lauander cotten & put to it the pouder of wormeséede, & drink it thrée times euerie morning fasting, & drinke not an houre or two after.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doeth come of a venemous matter as by some melancolie humour, or by stinging of a venemous [Page] worme or serpent.

A remedy.

First take y ^e dregges of wine & mixe it with an vnce of the pouder of roch Alome, & wash & scoure y ^e place with it, than take of y ^e bran of beanes, & the bran of barly .ii. vnces, of the séedes of Nettles made in pouder an vnce, mixe this together with y ^e iuice of wormewood & hony, & make a plaister. Or els take y ^e oyle of Roses .iiii. vnces, of waxe .ii. vnces, incorporate these together: and whā it is cold, put to it .v. vnces of ceruce that is washed. Than take of y ^e pouder of Henbāe séedes the weight of .xii. d. of black popy sedes made in pouder y ^e weight of .xii. d. & make emplaisters of this & lay thē to y ^e sore place. Also for this matter is good Vnguentum egiptiacum.

For Asse, looke in the Chapter named Nicta lopis.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of superabundance of water in the belly. For looke as the Timpany commeth of wind, so doth this sicknesse come of abundance of corrupt water.

A remedie.

First vse Trocis. de lacea, & vse purgaciōs & clisters & suppo­sitors. And if it be ouergrowne there is no remedy without incisiō or cutting y ^e belly. And in this matter ther must be of coūsel expert phisiciōs & chirurgiōs, y ^e which be expert in in­cision. And after y ^e to wash the guttes in white wine, & than to stich vp y ^e place againe & to minister salues according to the matter: & let the pacient vse a precise diet in meates and drinkes. First not to drink no new ale, nor new béere, nor sy­der. Also the patiēt must refraine from eating of new bread, & sodden bread. Also to abstein frō al maner of white meats, specially hard chéese, & in no wise to eate any sort or kinde of nutes. Also y ^e paciēt must not eate no maner of fruits, nor no other thing y ^e which ingēder wind: also y ^e paciēt must abstein [Page 20] from al kind of shewes & potages. Also not to eate fresh béefe & al other stirring meates, as all maner of waterfoules as wel wild as tame. And y ^e paciēt must abstin from eating of Eles, samō, fresh heirīg, dog fish, ray, thornbacke, & other such like fishes. Also salt meates is not good, & no more be beanes & pesō for any man or womā hauing this aforesayd sickenes

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either by Viscus or tough fleume being in y ^e pips, or els by some apostumaciō in y ^e pipes, or els ther is some fault in the lunges that the lunges is putrifyed.

A remedie.

A cōfectiō of muske is good. Also loch de pino, loch de squilla, loch alfesceta be good, & so is y ^e sirupe of Isope, & the sirup of Calamīt. For I haue practised these things, & haue sped wel. First I haue made a ptisan vnder this maner. Take of Enula cāpana rotes, picked & made clene, & cut in slices .vii. vnces of y ^e rots of fenel washed, & y ^e pith pulled out .vi. or .vii. vnces, of Anes sedes half a pound, of figs halfe a poūd, of great resōs y ^e stōes pulled out a quartrō of a poūd, of Isop iii. good hand­fuls, of barly clensed .v. hādfuls, seth al this together in .ii. ga­lōs of rūning water, to halfe a galō, & xv. daies I haue giuē to my paciēt morning, noone, & neight .ix spōefuls at a time, and at the xv. dayes end I haue giuē pilles of Cochée, & af­ter that I haue ministred Diasulfur, and haue made many whole. Also the confection of Philoni, of the first inuencion is good: And so is to anoynt the stomake with y ^e oyle of Phi­losophers, named in latin, Oleum philosophorum: And be­ware of Nuttes, Almons, Chéese, and milke, and cold, & the pilles of Agaricke is good for this sicknesse.

For Athoromata looke in the Chapter named tubercula.

For Ascelle, looke in the Chapter named Fetor assellarum.

For Atrabilis, looke in the Chapter named Cardiaca passio.

For Auditus, looke in the chapter named Aures.

For Auriga, looke in the chapter named Hictericia.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of corrupcion of the braine, and by opilacions, and euill humours.

A remedie.

If there be any paine in the eares, the oyle of bitter Al­mons is good, and so is oyle of Béene.

If there be any ringing or noyse in the head, looke in the chapter named Tinnitus aureum.

If there be any ventositie in the eares, instil into y ^e eares the oyle of Nardine.

If there be any deafnesse in the eares, looke in the chap­ter named Surditas.

If there be pushes or whelkes in the eares, looke in the chapter named Pustule.

If there be wormes in the eares, looke in the chapter na­med Vermes.

If any Apostumacion be in the eares, the oyle of bitter Almons is good.

If ther be any other impediments in the eares, you shall finde it out in the chapters of this booke.

Put nothing into the eare that is colde, but let it be a little warme.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come thrée maner of wayes, one doth come by nature. The other doth come by humiditie of the senewes of the tongue, and the third commeth to be in the companie of a stutter or stamerer.

A remedy.

First as stutting that doth come by nature, it can not be hol­pen, except it be reformed in youth by some discrete tutor. If it do come with being in the company of a stutter or stame­rer, a man must refraine the companie of a stutter. If it doe come by the humiditie of the senowes, this is the remedie. Take Basil an handful, of Couselippes an handful, séeth all this together in white wine, & drinke of it morning, none, & night, thus continue xv. daies. Or else take vi. or vii. figges, or vi. or vii. faire grains of Castorie, beat this together with clarified hony: and then diuers times put the quantitie of a Nut vpon y ^e tongue, & vse thrée times a wéeke of gargarice.

For Barba, léesing of the haire of the beard, looke in the chapter named Alopecia.

For Basilica, looke in the chapter named Principal veine or Mediana.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This impediment doth come of a colde stomake.

A remedie.

In this impediment I do aduertise al men and women, first to vse odoriferous & redolent sauours, as Amber de Grece, Storax, Calamint, Lignum Aloes, Cloues, Lapdanum, and Nutmeges. And to this reuocate inordinate appetid. I wold that a Cockerell or a pullet might be sodden or rosted, & w ^t butter and vineger asperged, with the premisses, & to drink to it Muscadel or Basterd, or Elegant, but in any wise sée that the body be not constupated, so y ^t the paciēt may haue dayly a naturall egestion, other by course of nature, or elss by suppositors, or else by some other easy purgacions.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of reume disending from the head to the throte. And some say it is a reume discending frō the head to the chéekes or throte. And some do say it may come by opilacions.

A remedy.

For this matter first purge fleuem, vse gargarices, and ster­nutacions, & vse pilles of Cochée, & vse to drink buttred ale, or butred béere, & for a space which is to say, iii. or iiii. daies, kéepe the pacient warme, that he do not come into the open ayre, and let there be a good fyre where the pacient is.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of late drinking or surfetinge disorder or diet in drinking of wine strong ale or béere out of due time.

A remedy.

First vse temperance in drinking to late, than take of the a­shes of wylowes, and mix it with vineger & wash the place. Or els take of the bran of Cocle and myxe it with y ^e iuice of Radish, and wash the place. Or els take of the pouder of Radish mixe it with vineger and wash the place with a fe­ther, or a fine linnen cloth.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of reume distilling from the head to the aforesayd places, it may come of corruption of bloud. And ther be two kindes, the one is naturall, the other is ac­cidentell, naturul bocions cōmonly children hath, & so hath yong persons that be full of reume, accidentall bocions com­meth to age, or by mischaunce.

A remedy.

First eate no Nuts, nor hard chéese, nor fresh biefe, and vse the medicines, the which be in the Chapters named Sephi­ros and Scrophule.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a venemous matter ascending out of the stomake méeting with reume that would discend or distill out of the head. And the one ascending & the other discending, & méeting both together, vehemently doth cause the vapors to breake out, and doeth make apostumacion.

A remedie.

First for this matter Flebothomie is verie good, and so be purgacions of pilles of Fumitorie, and the pilles of Cochée. Also the sirupe of Numfer is good to take of it, morning & euening. And the medicines the which be in the Chapter na­med Vndimia, be good for this impediment.

The cuase of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come vnder this maner, grosse féeding doth make grosse humours, and grosse and corrupt humours doth make many diseases, speicially it doth ingender this a­forsayd infirmitie.

A remedy.

If this infirmitie doth come of a pestiferous matter looke in the chapter named Carbūculus. If it do come of no pestife­rous matter. First take a clister, or a suppositor, or some easy purgacion. And after y ^t take of oyle oliue an vnce, mixt with bay salt, and lay it ouer the sore. And after that if it doe not breake, make an incisiō or a corosiue. And then vse salues w ^t tētes attractiue. And y ^e matter abstracted which is the cause of the anguishe or paine, then I do say as the Philosopher doth say. Deficient causa defecit effectus, that is to say, take away y ^e cause, or els the cause lacking, the effect is to no pur­pose. Or els take the matter as thus. Take away the cause of y ^e sicknes. And y ^e sicknesse can do no harme, but health shal folow. And the cause not takē away of the infirmitie, y ^e sick­nesse must nedes remayne and continue in the body, or els in some perticuler member it must remayne or rest.

The cause of this impediment.

This infirmitie doth come thorow euill, slacke, or slow digestion.

A remedy.

Vse the confection of Alkengi, and kéepe a good diet, and be­ware of drinking late, & drink not before thou do eate some­what, and vse temperate drinkes, & labour or exercise y ^e bo­dy to sweat. I was in this infirmitie, and by great trauaile I dyd make my selfe whole, more by labour than by phisicke in recytes of medicines.

A remedy.

First kepe the féete from colde, & then take of oyle of netes féete & put to it a little oyle of Turpentine anoint the héeles diuers times & ofte. Or take of Fenel .ii. handfuls, of smal­age .ii. handfuls, of Malowes .iii. hādfuls, séeth this in wine or dregges of wine, & put therto Dere suet, & wash y ^e heles ofte.

For Calculus, looke in the Chapter named Nefresis.

The cause of this opilation.

Ther is nothing that doth opilate or stoppe these canes or pypes, so much as viscus fleume doth.

A remedy.

First eate no maner of fyshes nor sinewes, the which will [Page 24] adhere or cleue to the fingers in y ^e eating, drinke no redde wine, nor thick or muddy ale or béere, specially if it be new, eate no new bread, nor Almons, nor Nuttes, nor white meates nor tostes. And for this matter either eate Garlike or else Locsanum de pino. And a Ptysane is very good, & thā take a dram of pills of Cochée, or else some equiuolent pur­gation, and beware of to much venerious actes.

For Cacexia, looke in the Chapter named Tacecia.

The cause of this infirmitie

¶ This infirmitie doth come of a melancoly humour, or of a Coleryck humour adusted, or it may spring of an hurt or a harme taken, and not loked vnto betime, doth fystle and festure.

A remedy.

If the bone be blacke there is no remedy, but to cut of the bone flesh and all, specially if it be the arme or legges, if the bone be not putrified, first scour y ^e cankerous place thrée or .iiii. dayes with white wine. After that take burnt lead & mixe it with the oyle of Roses, and anoynt the place diuers times & vse pilles named Pillule Inde. And after that take of white Popy an vnce, of Opium and Henbane, of either of them a dram, of Gūme arabick halfe an vnce, of the oyle of Roses .iiii. vnces, incorporate this together and anoint the Canker ofte. Or else vse the oyle of Iuneper. Or else take of Terre sigillate, of boole Armoniake of eche an vnce, of Ce­ruce of Muscilage, of either halfe an vnce, compound al this together with y ^e iuyce of Letuse, & the water of iuice of house leke, and vse Yerologodion, and the confection of Hamech.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of melancoly humour if it be blacke. And if it be greene it doth come of cytrine colour.

A remedy.

¶ In this matter purge coler and melancoly. And for this matter Flebothomy is good, if so be strength & age wil per­mit it, & take of hony halfe a pint, the white of .iii. raw egges, of barly an handful, incorporat this together & make a play­ster. Or els take of Rapes .iii. vnces, stamp them together with hony and playsters.

The cause of this infirmitie.

There be two kindes of this infirmitie, the one doth come of a melancoly humour, ascending from the splene to the ori­fice of the stomake, or els it may come of a colde distempe­raunce of the stomake. The other kind doth come thorow a hot liuer, and a hot stomake. And thus shall you know the one kind frō the other if it do come of a melancoly humour, a man shall haue a running stomake to eate whatsoeuer he can get. And when y ^e stomake is ful repleted, then it is trou­bled, and then the pacient is prouoked to vomittinge.

And after that the stomake is so euacuated or emptye, [Page 25] then the pacient doth fall to eating againe. There is another canine appetide, which is, when a man is euer hungry & is neuer satisfied, nor is not wel but whē he is eating or drin­king, ignorant men will say that such persons hath an eaton in the belly.

A remedy for the first impediment.

First purge melancoly with Diasene & the stomake, & thē vse to eate fat meates, as Goose, Pyg, and such like, & drinke good drinkes. And if it do come of Fleume, let the matter be digested w ^t Organū & Calamint, & with Anis séedes, & Fe­nel séeds, & purge the matter w ^t Yerapigra or such like. And vse to eate meates y ^e which ingēder fleume, as potage made of milke and appels and such lyke.

A remedy for the second impediment.

First rectify the Liuer & stomake frō their caliditie or heat, and vse grosse meates, as Bese, Beanes, hard egges, tripes, podings, & such like, & anoint the backe & the stomake with oyle of Myrtilles, or the oyle of Roses, or the oyle of Su­macke. And for this impedimēt vse no sauces, specially sowre sances that doth prouoke an appetyde.

For Camo looke in the Chapter named Combustio.

A remedie.

If y ^e haire be eaten with wormes, take a pint of white wine & stampe .iii. heades of Garlyke with .ii. handfuls of worme­wood & boyle al together and wash the head. Or els an oynt­mēt named Psilotiū. Or els desolue an vnce of Aloes caba­lin in a pinte of wine and wash the head ii. or .iii. times.

To make haires to grow and that they shall not fall.

Take of the oyle named in latin, Olium costinum, & anoint the head with it ofte.

To make haires to fall.

Take of arsnecke an vnce, of vnstaked lyme halfe an vnce, myxe this together with vineger, and washe or anoynt the place diuers times. Or else take of the oyle of Henbane, of the oyle of Mandragor of each halfe an vnce, compound this with the bloud of a backe or a flytter mouse, and anoynt the place.

A remedy for all these premisses. except dronkennesse.

First vse in all thinges temperaunce, and an order in all thinges, rule the body that it fall not into infirmities, and purge the head oft with gargarices and with shernutacions, with pilles of Cochee, Pillule aggregate Peraviora Galeni, or Yeralogodian ruffi, or Yeralogodian, & Aqua, mel is good.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of corruption of the ayre & the breth & filth the which doth come from men as many men to be together in a little rome, hauing but little open ayer.

A remedy.

The chiefe remedy is for man, so to liue, and so to do, that he deserue not to be brought into no prison. And if he be in prison, either to get friendes to helpe him out, or els to vse some perfumes, or to smell to some odoriferous fauours, and to kéepe the prison cleane.

For Cardiaca looke in y ^e Chapter of veynes named Me­diana.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of collor adusted, mixt with cor­rupt bloud and reume, for reume is the cause of many in­firmities.

A remedy.

First mudifie the place with white wine & roche alome, & then if ther be any dead fleshe, corode it with Aqua ardēs or with Aqua fortis, and than take of hony halfe a pint, of the white of .iiii. egges, of barly bran, an hādful, incorporat this [Page 27] together and make a plaister, or els do as you shal finde in many places of this booke of other kindes of Cankers.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of euill humours the which be in the celles about the heart, it may come also of to much sweating. Also it may come of imbecilitie or weaknes of the body. And it may come of grossnes of bloud, or of melancoly if it do come of an euil humour in y ^e celles about the heart, either it doth come of grosse bloud, or of a colericke humour. And then is there about the heart trembling with heat, the which causeth thyrst, & déepe fetching of wind if it do come of imbesilitie or of melancoly, then the pacient is in feare, in dulnesse, and sorowe.

A remedy.

For this matter vse maces in al maner of meates, & vse the confection of Aromatibus, and purge euil humours, and vse myrth and mery company, & beware of pencifulnesse.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a colde humour perturba­ting the brayne.

A remedy.

First purge rume, and kéepe the féete warme, & vse ster­nutations and gargaricies.

Caros as some men say is a surfet.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of cold rume, the which doth molest and trouble the braine and head, that it doth depriue one of his wit, & doth fall to the ground, & can not moue nor stere, for as one is takē so shal he lye, other while open eyed, & otherwhile close eied. And although y ^e eies be opē yet one shal not sée, heare, nor speake, nor scarse draw any wind in or out y ^t can be perceiued, for one shal lie as he were dead for a space

A remedy.

First purge rume which is y ^e chiefest cause of the infirmitie, and thē vse the dyet y ^e which is specified in y ^e Chapter named Analepsia. And in any wise let not the person or pacient be in feare, nor let him resort where there is great cōpany, as in market places, churches, scooles, & great mens houses, for such thinges doth induce al the kindes of the falling sicknes. And so it doth if y ^e pacient be vnder a vaute, or a church, y ^t is vau­ted, or any other close house, specially if there be any Char­cole or sea cole burned & hath no vent, but that the fume of it do enter into the body, the pacient wll fall, for this matter looke in the Chapters named Epilepsia and Analepsia.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a rumatike head, & super­abundance of fleume.

A remedy.

¶ First purge reume, and diminish fleume, and vse not to much drinking of wine and strong ale.

For caroli, looke in the second booke named Extrauagants.

For cartilago, looke in the Extrauagantes in the ende of this booke.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a grosse & a waterish humour, the which doth lye before the sight, letting a man to see clere­lie, for he can not deserne a farre of a crow from a man, nor a beast from a bush, and of one thing, he shall sée two things, although it be but one thing.

A remedy.

First beware of any thing the which should fume into the head, as wine, Garlike, Onions, the fatnesse of fish, and such like. Then vse gargarisacions and sternutacions, as I haue rehersed in this booke in many Chapters. And beware of costiuenes, and vse purgacions to purge the head and stomake, as pilles of Cochée and such like.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of reume, the which doth distill from the head into the stomake, and otherwhile it doth make Suffocacions.

A remedy.

For a Catarue is good Dyacodion & the syrup of Popy, and sternutaciōs & gargarices be good for this matter. And if ther be any suffocacions which by strangulacion doth folow a Catarue, vse to eate Dianucū, y ^e which in gréeke is named Diacordon, and Pillule contra catarrhes be very good, and beware of costiuenes, and therefore vse the aforesayd pilles. Carm be .v. small spondylles, the which be v. small bones in [Page 29] the back bone.

For Catastropha, looke in y ^e Chapter named Anastrupha

For Cathesia, looke in the Chapter named Cacecia or Cacexia.

For Cathoca, looke in the Chapter named Catalepsis.

For Causos, looke in the Chapter named Febris ardens. Cauterisacio, is Cauterisacion, y ^t is to say, burning or se­ring with a hot yron or scale of golde.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either by extreme labour or by surfeting, or of the corruption of the ayre, or by some ex­treme heate, or els by extreme colde, or drinking of hote wines.

A remedy.

First beware of all thinges the which doth hurt the head, as Garlyke, Onyons, Chibolles, wine, stooping down with the head, extreme labour and such like, and beware of surfeting and dronkennesse, and purge the head with gargarices, and sternutacions, and purge the heade, and the stomake twise a wéeke with pylles of Cochée or such like.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of extreme heate, or else of extreme cold, or of some maliuolus humour.

A remedy.

First sée that the pacient be not costiue. And then vse all ma­ner of thinges the which is rehersed in the Chapter named Cephalargia. And beware of vsing to much venerious actes, specially in sommer.

For Cephalica, looke in the chapter named Mediane & Vene.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment may come of a fall or a broose, or by a stripe, it may also come of some interiall sicknesse, or some exteriall disease.

A remedy.

First the Chirurgions must know how the Skul was bro­ken, and then shaue the head, & make incision of the skin, to sée aparently the Skul, then mundifie the place with white wine warme. Then take of Mirre an vnce, of Aloes Apa­ticke, two drams, of Sarcocol, of Frankensence, of Sanguis draconis, of Mader, of eche the weight of two d. incorporate all this together, and in Sandil lay it vpon the place, & after that doe as you doe in other fractures.

The cause of this inflacion.

¶ The cause is, when the poores be opened out or aboue all naturall courses, it doeth let in subtyll wind, the which doth make inflacion, or els the poores opened, coldnesse descending from the brayne, is reuerberated into the ventricles of the brayne agayne, & maketh inflacion which is a periculus pas­sion, & doth put a man in peril and ieopardie of death, for the which is good the confection of Muske, & diatesseron and the electuarie of Gemmis, and pilles of Elephangyne is good to purge the brayne, & Oximell squilite compound, is good for opilacions of the brayne. And to know whether a man be in­fected with this infirmitie or not, one may know it by these signes, inflacion or swelling will be about the temples, and the head or face they wil swell and be redde, and the pacient shall not well heare, and an agùe wyll be concurrant with the infirmitie.

A remedie.

Fyrst vse sternutacions & gargarices. And purge the heade with pilles of Elephangine, & vse the medicines the which be rehersed in this Chapter in the cause of the inflacion of the brayne.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a salt humour.

A remedie.

For this matter gargarices be good to bring the humours another way, that it haue no recourse to the eyes, for if the salt humour haue a recourse to the eyes, it wil make a man blere eyed, beside this aforesayd impediment.

For Chinanchi, looke in the Chapter named Angina.

The cause of the breaking of the ciphac.

The ciphac, is broken thorow a great lift, or a fall, or a broose, or by great crying, or extreme halowing, or by leping into a laddel, or otherwise leping or strayning a mans selfe.

A remedie.

For a remedy for this infirmitie looke in the Chapter na­med Ruptura.

For cirsocella, looke in the Chapter named Ramex.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of reume & euil diet. And there be two kindes of the gout in the hands, the one is confirmed & can not be made whole, for if it do come by kinde, so that the ioyntes be broken, the sicknesse is vncurable. The other the which is not confirmed may be made whole.

A remedy.

Take of Coleworts .iii. handfuls, séeth it in a little lye with thrée sponefulles of vineger, & halfe a sponeful of salt, stampe all these together and make a plaister. Or els take Triacle & make a plaister of it, and lay it to the place. And marke that if y ^e matter do come of a hot cause, minister hot medicines. And if it do come of a [...]old cause, minister no hot medicins, but colde medicines, & let the pacient beware of eating and drynking of those things that be ouer hot or ouer colde.

The cause of this naturall copulation.

This naturall copulacions doth come of thrée causes. The fyrst is y ^t whan god had made man, beast, fyshe & foule, & all other thinges that doth ingēder, he byd them to increase and to multiply the world or the earth. The second cause is, that naturally euery male desireth copulacion with his make, for the Philosopher sayth. Euery like desireth to haue one like to him, for and if any copulacion be had with vnlike, then is engendred a monstrous thing. The thyrd cause is, that euery thing bearing or hauing life, desireth his make except man, for a man hath reason, in whom grace may worke aboue na­ture, and if grace do not worke aboue nature, for carnall co­pulacion a man may liue chaste, aswell in youth as in age. And an olde man to fall to carnal copulacion to get a child, he doth kill a man, for he doth kill himselfe, except reasō with grace do rule him. But oft times in this matter olde men doe dote, for it is hard to get out of the flesh, that is bread in the bone. And further more I do say. Quid multum con­iunt diu viuere non possum, for it doth ingender diuers infir­mites, specially if venerious persons vse carnell copulacion vpon a full stomake.

Medicines for a man which can not doe the acte of matrimony thorow impotency.

The elctuary de Aromatibus, and a confection of ginger is good for this matter. Also a confection made of the stones of a Fox, and the electuary of Aleschof is very good for this mat­ter, and so is the confection of Alharif, and the second confecti­on of the stones of a Fox. For the making of these thinges & many other things in this booke, the Poticary must do it, or else any other man shall marre all that he doth go about, & the medicines shall not take none effect, except the matter be well ordered and truely made.

Medicines to helpe a man or a woman to haue children.

First a man must know whether the fault be in the man or in the woman. If the fault be in a man it doth come thorow weaknes or debilitie of nature, or for lacke of erection of the yerde, let such men vse restoratiue meates and drinkes, & vse good diet, and vse no venerious actes after a full stomake. If the womā be in y ^e faut, it doth come of lubricitie of humors in the matrix or place of concepcion. For this matter looke in the Chapter of concepcion. Furthermore this is good to make a woman to conceiue. Take of Mandragor aples, confect thē with Rose water & Sugar roset, and take a porcion of it .ix. daies. And héere is to be noted for maried men that Aristotle sayth Secondo de anima, that euery perfect thing is, whā one may genarate a thing like to himselfe, for by it he is assimi­led to the immortall God. Auicene de naturalibus, glorified naturall procreacion. And for this cause God made man and woman to increase & multiply to the worldes ende. For this matter looke further in y ^t Extrauagāts in y ^e end of this booke

Medicines to kepe a man or woman low of corage.

To kéepe one low, is the vsage of eating or of drinking of vineger, or smelling to it, & so daly vse Rewe & Camphire for this mater is good to smel to. And Tutsane otherwise na­med Agnus castus, & Singrene otherwise named house like, and strong purgations, watch and study, and all bitter and soure things doth mittigate or swage the corage of man, for this matter looke in the Chapter named Priapismus.

For contorcio oris, looke in the Chapter named Tortura oris.

For Columella, looke in the Chapter named Gargarion.

The cause of this infirmitie

¶ This infirmite is engendred of ventositie or wind, the which is intrused or inclosed in the goute named Colon and can not get out. And otherwhile it cometh of a Colerike hu­mour the which doth dry vp a mans egestion or order.

A remedy.

First beware of costiuenes, & beware of colde, & of eating of cold meates and fruites, and al maner of meates that hony is in. And vse Clysters and suppositors, or some easy or gentle purgacions, and kéepe the belly warme, & be not long fasting, and vse Diaciminum, or the confection of the first inuencion of Philonii, & the oyle of Lyllies, and so be Pillule feride minores.

A remedy to purge coler.

Coler adusted doth purge, y ^e pilles of Lapidis lazule, and so doth Yeralogodion ruffi, & the confection of Hameth. And to purge citrine coler is good y ^e cōfection of Manna, & the pilles [Page 33] the which be good against colerike feuers & pillule pfilij. And to purge grosse & viscus coler, vse Sirupus acetosus. And it is good for red coler, & for al superfluous coler, vse the pilles na­med Pillule scomatrice, pilles of Turbith, or pilles of Colo­quintida, & so doth Sirupus acetosus laxatiuus, & so doth the cōfectiō made of Fumiterre, this must be don of a Poticary, y ^e which hath y ^e practise of al matters, for I nor no man else cannot in their maternall tongue expresse y ^e whole tearmes of phisicke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come for lacke of perfect digestion, for a man shal exonerate or discharg by egestiō & vomet both his body & stomake in an houre, vpward and downeward.

A remedie.

First beware of cold, & eating of colde meates and liquid meates, as of all kinde of Potage, sewes, posset ale, ale brues, and caudelles, and euerie thing that is laxatiue, as plomes, appels and such like. And comfort the stomake with the con­fection of Aromatickes, and vse Cordialles and rosted meate and broyled meates.

The cause of good and euill colours.

A good colour commeth of a good complexion, and an euill colour doth come of an euill complexion, as by sicknesse or a sodein feare, or anger, or malice, or by extreme heat or colde, and by great labour or dronkennes, and such like causes.

A remedy.

First I doe say that phisicke can not helpe none of all these impedimentes, except it do come by sicknes. And the most of the other doth come by nature, & that thing that nature doth giue to man, no Phisicion can take it away, how be it in di­uers infirmities many & expert Phisicions may mitigate the paine for a time, but they can not clerely take it away, for this matter looke in the Chapter named Cutis, and vse good meate, bread and drinke.

For Collum, which is y ^e necke of man, looke in the second booke named the Extrauagantes in the end of this booke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment of burning doth come two waies, either it doth come by burning of fire, or els by burning of a womā thorow carnall copulacion. And Ambustio which is to say scalding, doth come by hot and sething licour, as water, lye, oyle, wort, and such like.

A remedy for burning with Fyer.

Take the white of a rawe egge & beat it with an vnce of the oyle of Roses, than put to the iuice of Houseleke an vnce, of Nightshade, of Plantaine, of eche of them half an vnce, of the rust that is vnder the handfyle of a smith ii. vnces, compoūd al this together & wash the place oft. And than take Populiō and ad to it a little of the of oyle Roses, as much of the iuice [Page 34] of Plantaine, & incorporate all together & make plaisters. Or els take the oyntment of Ceruse, & the oyntment of Se­ricine named in latin Vnguentum scricinum. And popilyon is good, and such other like.

A remedy for scalding with water.

Take of the iuice of Houseleke & incinet a linnē cloth in it & lay it vpon y ^e place. Also boyle Armoniake & camphire is good whē it is desolued in y ^e oyle of Roses, & lay vpon the place. The water of purslaine and Myrtils, Ceruse & the white of raw egges, & such like be very good for all maner of scalding.

A remedy for burning of or with a woman.

Ignorant persons that be burnt of an harlot, as sone as hée hath don his carnall and filthie concupicence, let him wash al his secret places with white wine thrée or foure times, as sone as the matter is done, least at length the guts fal out of the belly. And if he get a dorsor, or two dorsors & a ryder, let him looke in the Chapter named Ambustio meretricis.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of superabundance of humours, specially of reume and other corrupt humours mixt with it, the which doth cause immoderate and vnnaturall sléepe.

A remedy.

¶ First purge the head, and after vse sternutacions, and drinke not late, and vse a good diet and surfyt not, and lay the head high.

The cause that a woman can not conceaue.

¶ The cause that when the séede of man is sowne & the place of conception is lubrifact and can not reteine the séede but doth slip away from the woman, there can not be concep­cion, therefore let the matrix or place of conception be kept in a temperance, neither to moyst nor to drye, neither to hot nor to cold. And that the woman haue the due order of her termes, and if the man or woman be fat, let them eate pepper in their meates and drinkes, and vse purga­cions.

A remedy.

¶ Let barren women vse to eate in pouder the matrix of an Hare, or drinke y ^e pouder of the stones of a Bore, with wine. And let hir kepe an order in hir meates and drinkes, & vse no venerious actes after a full stomake. Looke for this mat­ter in the Chapter named Embrico.

For condolamita, looke in the Extrauagantes.

For coniunctiua, looke in the Chapter named Oculus.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ The cause of this impediment Aristotle doth shew in his Metheor, that it doth come of a cold watreish humour, the which as I doe thinke, doth lye in the hinder part of the braine.

A remedy.

¶ First purge that watrish humour with Clissers, than make frications or rubbinges with the hand of man vppon the forhead, and vse gargarices and sternutacions, & anoynt the head with the oyle of Lyllyes.

To comfort the heart.

There is nothing that doeth comfort the heart so much be­side God, as honest myrth and good companie. And wine moderately taken, doeth letificate and doeth comforte the hearte, and good bread doeth confyrme and doeth stablyshe a mannes heart. And all good and temperate drinkes the which doeth ingender good bloud, doeth comfort the hearte. All manner of cordialles and restoratiues, and all sweate or dulcet things doeth comforte the heart, and so doth maces & ginger, rere egges, and poched egges not hard, theyr yolkes be a cordial. Also the electuarie of Cittons, Rob de pitis, Rob de ribes, Diambra, Aromaticum mustatum, Aromaticum ro­satum, and so is Electuarum de gemnis, and the confection of Xiloaloe, and such like be good for the heart.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment may come to a man iii. maner of waies, either it doth come by nature, or els accidētal, by some strok, or stripe, or brose, or fall, or els it doth come by an humour, the which doth opilate or stoppe the Organs of hearing.

A remedy.

It doth come by nature, y ^t is to say, that one is borne def, there is no maner of remedy, but onely God to do a miracle. It it come accidentally, as by a stroke, a stripe, a brose, or a fal, or such like, & that by it the Organs of hearing be closed vp, there is no remedy but only God, if it do come of an hu­mour there is remedy, as thus. First put nothing into y ^e eare except it be warme as bloud. Than take the gall of an Hare & mixe it with the grece of a Foxe, & with blacke wol instill it into the eare. Or els take the fatnes of a balson ele and in­tinct blacke woll into it, & put it into the eare. Or else take of the iuyce of Wormewood & temper it with the gall of a bul, and intinct blacke woll into it, and put it into the eare.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of ventositie or wind the which is intrussed and inclosed in a gout named Ilia, & doth ascend diuers times to the heart, and will cause a man to vomit.

A remedie.

First beware of cold, and be not long fasting, eate no cold meates, nor no meate y ^e hony is in, beware of eating of pe­tages and of fruites, and of all other things the which doth ingender ventositie, for this matter looke in the Chapter na­med Illiaca passio.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come either by nature or els by grose feding, or els by great drinking & y ^t doth make a great bellie.

A remedy.

It doth come by nature there is no remedy, if it come by grosse feding, or great drinking, vse muche Peper both in drinkes, and vse purgacions and laxatine meates, and vse labour & exercise the bodie in opē ayre & tēperate weathers.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of reume the which doth distill from the head to the nose, or nosethrilles. And this reume is ingendred thorow imperfite digestion, and thorow fumosi­tie or vaporous humours. And diuers times it is ingendred of colde taken in the féete, and it may come of late drinking or surfeting.

A remedie.

For this matter labour and fastings is good. And sternuta­cions or nesings is good. And to cause nesing, take of Elibo­rus albus & make pouder of it, & snuffe it into y ^e nose, or take a rish or a straw & tickle it within the nosethrils, & beware of drinking of wine, and of surfeting, and vse warme meats for a space.

For Coxa, looke in the Extrauagants in y ^e end of this booke

For Coxendrix, looke in the Chapter named Sciatica.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of an euil diet, eating & drin­king late, or taking to much meat or drink, or eating of raw or contagious meates, or taking euill drinkes drinking.

A remedy.

For this matter nothing is so good as abstinence, & to bée­ware what a man doth eate and drinke, and what dyet he doth kéepe, there doth mo persons dye by surfeting, than by the swearde or killing, or hanging, wherefore I aduertise euerie mā that no sensualitie ouercome him. And after a ful stomake that which is hard of digestion, drinke two or thrée draughtes of wine specially Sacke. And with meate drinke [Page 37] no wynes, except it be Gascone wyne, or Renishe wine, or French wines. And after a surfet eate no meate, nor drinke little or nothing vnto the time the stomake be euacuated. And for this matter vometing is a perfite medicine, so be it that age and strength will permit it.

For craneum looke in the Chapter before cerebum.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either by strayning or by brosing, or by some putrified humour.

A remedy.

¶ Take the fatnesse of a Cony and anoynt the cod and the stones, and than wrap the cod in a Conyes skin, do this ix. times, and labour not for ix. daies.

For crines, looke in the Chapter named capillus.

For cronea, looke in the Chapter named Oculus.

The cause of this impediment.

These impedimentes doth come many waies. First if the skin be white it doth come of fleume, and if the skin be red, [Page] it doth come of bloud, and if the skin be blacke, it doth come of blacke coler, & if the skin be tawny or glase it doth come of coler adusted, & if it be grasse or gréenish, it doth come of melancholy and colde humours.

A remedy to mundify the skin.

The confection of Hamech is good to purge & to clense the skin, & so is Trifera mustata, or Diamorosion, oile of beanes is good, & so is the oile of the yolkes of egges, or the oyle of Iuneper, the oyle of wheate, or the oyle of ashe kayes.

The cause of these wormes.

These wormes cōmeth thorow corruptiō & abūdāce of fleme

A remedy.

Eate Garlike with meates dayly for ix. daies, and that doth kill all wormes in a mans body. Aloes cicotrine is good to kil wormes, & so is wormeséed, if it be vsed & dronke with milke or malmesy. For this matter looke in the Chapters named Lumbrici and Vermes.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of intemperance of the ven­tricles of the stomake & the belly, or thorowe inflamacions, or els an euil liuer may be she cause.

A remedy.

First purge the stomake with pilles of Cochée or such like, & vse to eate grene ginger. Diagalanga is good for this mat­ter, & so is Ipocras and Serke, & other odoriferous wines, [Page 38] & all maner of odoriferous sauours for this matter is good.

The cause of this payne.

This payne doth come either by an humour discēding out of the head to y ^e téeth or gūmes, or it may come by coroding or eating of wormes, or it may come of corrupcion lying & being vpō & betwixt y ^e téeth, or it may come by drinking of hot wines, eating of hot spices, or eating of hot appls, peares, and such like, or it may come of a hote liuer or stomake.

A remedy.

First purge the head with pilles of Cochée, & vse gargarices. And if it doxome of any cold cause, chew in the mouth diuers times the rote of Horehound. And if it come by wormes make a candel of waxe with Henbane séedes and light it & let the perfume of the candle enter into the tooth & gape o­uer a dish of colde water & than may you take the wormes out of the water and kill them on your naile, the worme is little greater than the worme in a mans hand. And beware of pulling out any tooth for pul out one & pull out moe. To mundifie the téeth, wash them euerie morning with colde water and a litle Roch alome.

Dia is a notable worde in Gréeke, and the Grecians hath vsed & doth vse to set this word Dia before al their notable wordes, as wel in Phisicke as musicke, as it shall appeare in the Chapter of Musicke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of imbecilitie of the raynes of the backe & of the secret members of man or woman, and it may come of caliditie or heat of the raynes, & the backe, it may come of lecherie, and of labour, and such like.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with Manna and Cassia fistula. And than drinke cold water & by and by vomet it vp againe. And than take of Coriander preparated, of Spodium, of Coral, of Carabes, of ech an vnce, confect this with Whay, and vse to drink of it diuers times in a day. If it do come through im­becilitie or weakenes of the back, vse Clary stewed with a crekerel, or fry Clary dipt first in the yolkes of egges, and vse restoratiue meates & drinkes. If it do come by weaknes of a mans priuie member, vse to eate in the morning ii. or iii. rere egges, & put into them the pouder of red nettels & suger. If it do come of heate in the backe, vse to anoynt the backe with the oyle of Newniser, or the oile or iuyce of Sē ­grine, otherwise named Houseleke, or such cold thinges.

The cause of this payne.

Diuers times of great pleasure doth come great payne, as we sée daylie that thorow ryot and so seting, and sensuali­tie doth come diuers sickenesses. Also with sport & play, ta­king great heat, or taking of extreme colde doth ingender diseases & payne. Also for lacke of pacience many mens and womens mindes be vexed and troubled.

A remedy.

¶ If a man will exchewe many paynes and dolours, let him liue a sober life, and distemper nor disquiet the body by any excesse or sensualitie. And let him arme himselfe with pacy­ence, & euermore thanke god what soeuer is sent to man, for if aduersitie doe come, it is either sent to punish man for sin, or els probaciō, & with sorow vse honest mirth & good cōpany. For Demoniaci, loke in y ^e secōd booke named y ^e Fxtrauagāts.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie doth come of a salt & malicious humour. For this matter looke in the chap. named fluxus in y ^e Extrauagāts.

A remedy.

Take of Suger roset made of drie roses, of Trisādal, of each an vnce and a halfe, mixe this together & eate it with mea­tes, or drinke it with drinkes, but y ^e best remedy y ^t I could finde is, to take thrée handfulls of sainct Iohns wort, and as much of Plantaine, and as much of Cressis, and séeth this in a galon of rayne water, or read wine to a pottel, and straine it, and put to it two vnces of the pouder of Synamon and drinke of this drinke warme.

Didimes be two little skinnes the which doth compasse the [Page] stones and doth hold them hanging, & thorow them certain veynes and artures doth passe, by the which the séede of man is conduced to the yerde.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of some euill humour the which doth passe or goe by the hart or brayne, and doth cause them to moue from the humour. And this a man may know by rising of the pulses.

A remedie.

Vse no contagious meates and drinks, specially such meates and drinkes as be vaporous, the which shuld perturbe either the hart or the brayne, than sée that the belly be not constu­pated or costiue, and vse Cordials & dregges to break wind. And in any wise beware of euill sauours, and vse Aroma­tike fumes and sauours.

For Digma, looke in the Chapters named Morfus.

The cause of weake digestion.

The weaknes of digestion, either it doth come of debilitie of the stomake, or els it may come of superabundance of vn­naturall fleume, or els coler, or to much calyditie or heat in the stomake may be the cause.

A remedy.

If vnnatural Fleume be y ^e cause, vse to eate of Diacitoni­ton. And if it doo come of heat in y ^e stomake, vse Diarodon. And if it doo come of Coler vse the sirupe of wormewod with Diaromata, or Diarodon. Also these things be good for the stomake that is weake. First is Aromaticum rosatum, Ma­ius, Dyambra, Diaciminum and Diatriompiperion.

To make the handes and fingers to looke white.

¶ Wash the hands twise or thrise a wéeke with water som­what warme, & put to it wheten bran, or y ^e bran of Beanes, and as it is specified in the Chapter named Pulchritudo.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impedimēt doth come of viscous fleume the which is in the pipes or organs y ^e mans breth doth enter in & out, and the wind doth enter straiter inward and outwarde.

A remedy.

¶ For this matter a Ptisane is good preparatiue, vsing it .xv dayes, & after y ^e take pilles of Coche, & than vse Loc. de pino.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either of vnnatarul coler, either els of a salt fleume, either of asperite of the bloud, either of a melancoly humour, or els by some appostumacion of y ^e liuer, either els by y ^e recepts of euil medicines, or els it doth come by vlceration in the bowels the which excoriate the guttes. Also it may come of a great strayning of y ^e body, the which doth hurt the inward partes, breaking a veine thorow the which vlceration of bloud doth issue from the body, with the egestion of a man, or els it may come of coler & melancoly, & than the egestion or séege will be blacke.

A remedy.

¶ First beware of coldnes and of labour, and vse not to eate of meates that be laxatiue, or doth ingender ventositie. Thā take of Ipericon otherwise named saint Iohns wort, an hād full, of Plantaine water iii. vnces, or els of Plantaine leues iii. handfulls, séeth this in rūning water, and drink at mor­ning, noone, and at night ix. sponefulls. Or els rost iii. or .iiii. egges vnto the time the yolkes be blewe & hard, thē crimble them into a pint of red wine, and than put to an vnce of the pouder of Cynamon, and boyle all together, and than drinke it in the morning, at noone, and at night to bedward, and doe this ix. dayes, and drinke but a little, & beware of posset ale, milke, butter, and fruite.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come many waies, first it may come by the colike & the stone, or y ^e grauel, stopping the condites of y ^e vryne, or els an impostume, or a lompe of a flesh may grow or be ingēdred in y ^e condites of y ^e vrine, or els it may come of [Page 41] congelacion of bloud, or of matter the which doth stop y ^e con­dities of the vrine, or else of long holding of the water.

A remedy.

First let euery man and woman beware of long holding of their water, or cōstraining of their egestiō, let y ^e body be dis­charged that nature wold expell, & thā take y ^e grece of a Co­ny & anoint the backe & the coddes & the yerd. If it be a wo­man let hir anoint the back & priuie place. And be it man or woman let them lay ouer their secrets a Conis skin, & for this matter these thinges be good. Triacle, y ^e oyle of Balme, the oyle of Scorpions, Mitredatum, & Aurea Alexandrina, so be it that with this sicknes, a feuer be not cōcurrant with it, and in this matter beware of costiuenes and euil dyet.

For Dipsacos, looke in the Chapter named Diabetis.

The cause of these impediments.

These impedimentes in the backe doth come either by na­ture, or els they may come accidentally, if it come by nature it doth come by kind, if it do come by kind there is no reme­dy. If it do come accidentally, as by mischaunce or fortune, or sicknes, they may be holpen, so be it that y ^e infirmitie or the impediment be not veterated or of long continuance.

A remedy.

Clary is good for the back, and the pilles named Pillule ag­gregate maiores, & Pillule de Serapino, & pillule de Oppo­ponaco. And these oyles be good for y ^e backe. Oleum de pipe­ribus. Oleum vulpinū, Oleum Philosophorū, & Cerotū an­dromachi is good. And I haue proued these oyles to be good for the backe, the oile of Nardine, or y ^e oyle of Alabaster, and [Page] the oyle of water lillies, in hot causes, y ^e oyle of popy is very good, in cold causes, the oyle of Lillies, & the oyle of Mastix, or the oyle of musterd is good for the back. Also vse scications and then anoynt the backe with the oyle of Lillies.

Diuramator is the latin word. In english it is a pillicle or a skin y ^e which is within a mans skul compasing y ^e braine, it may be perced and hurt, and diuers times there is no ieo­pardy in it, but for a more suretie take of colifony y ^e weight of xii. d of Mirre, Aloes, & mastix, of eche the weight of .iiii. d. of Sarcocol, of Saffron, of euery one the weight of .ii. d. cō ­pound them and insandle lay it ouer the place.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of corrupt fleumatike hu­mours, the which be putrified, the one taking the more, and the other the lesse, and the neuter consisteth in the middle.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with pilles of Hermodactils, or with Pillule feride. Thē excoriat the skin, & maturate the matter, and than abstract them out with the instruments of Surgery, and after that incarnate the place, and so skin it and for this matter in the healing and skinning, Melliote and water of Cresses, and Hony is very good, and so is Gal­banum desolued in a little of the iuice of Fenell.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either by weaknes of the braine, or els by some great hurt in y ^e head, or of to much riot.

A remedy.

If it do come by an hurt in the head, there is no remedy but paciēce of al partes. If it do come by debilitie of y ^e braine & head, drinke in y ^e morning a dish of milke, vse a sirupe na­med Sirupus Acetosus de prunis, & vse laxatiue meates and purgations if néede do require, & beware of superfluous drin­king, specially of wine and strong ale, and béere, and if any man do perceiue y ^t he be dronke, let him take a vomit with water and oyle, or with a fether, or a Rose mary braunch, or els with his finger, or els let him go to his bed to sléepe.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of abūdance of corrupt humours.

A remedie.

First maturate the matter, and than either by incisions or els by Corosiues make an issue, & thē with tentes & salues to make the impediments whole, as it doth appere in the Chapter named Vulnus.

The cause of imperfite egestion.

Who so euer he be that doth eate little meate, & is a small drinker, his egestion can be but little, but they the which can eate their meate and doth lacke egestion, can not long liue without infirmities.

A remedy for costiuenes.

First let no man restrayn his egestion, when that he is prouoked to it. And if he be constupated let him vse Suppo­sitors or Clisters, or some gentle purgacions, as Mercury, Polipody, Sene, Cassia fistula, Turbithe, Reuberbe, Rapū ­tica, Aloes cicotrine, and such like, and without councell of a doctour of Phisicke. Beware of Colloquintida, of Asaraby, Opinum, Scamony, Catapuce, Aloes oabalin, Aloes epaticum, and such like. And let euery man beware, specially weake men how that they do take any pilles or porcions of any ig­norant person, except he doe know how, whan, & what time medicines, specially purgations ought to be ministried.

A knowledge in egestion.

¶ If the meate doe come from a man as in a maner he did eate it, the stomake is weake, and the bowels be lubricated, and it is an euill signe. If the egestion doe not stinke, it is an euill sygne. If the egestion do looke lyke the earth, it is a signe of death. If the egestion doe looke lyke leade, it is an euill signe. If the egestion be blacke as ynke, it is an euil signe. If the egestion be blacke and adusted, and doth looke lyke shepes tretles, there is abundance of coler adusted, and payne in the splene. If the egestion be yelow, and eating no Saffron before, the body is repleted with coler and cytrine water. If the egestions haue straynes of blod, there is impe­dimentes in the lyuer and in the bowels. If the egestion be [Page 43] bluddish, ther is vlceracion in the guttes. If the egestiō looke lyke the shauing of guttes, beware then of an extreme flyxe and debilitie of y ^e body. If a man be to laxatiue it is not good, for in such persons can be no strength, but much weakenes. If a man be not costiue and can not haue a natural egesti­on once in a day, he can not liue long without sicknesse.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow great heat of the sun.

A remedie.

Take the oyle of Tarter and anoynt the face. For this matter looke in the Chapter named Pulchritudo.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a melancoly humour, and may come of a grosse and viscus fleume.

A remedy.

First purge the cause with pilles of Fumitory, or with Diacatholicon, and then cotidially as the paciēt may beare, vse stuphes wet and dry, and exhaust no bloud, and after the stuphes anoint the ioynts with the oyle of Turpentine, and Netes foote oyle, and vse Hiarodon abbatis.

There is an other infirmitie named Elephancia, which is a swelling in the féete and legges, and the cause doth come as the other Elephancy doth, wherefore the matter must be first purged, and after that vse cere clothes attractiue.

For Elmita, looke in the Chapter named Lumbrici.

The cause of this matter.

The cause of this, is carnall copulation betwixt man and woman.

To preserue this procreation, looke in the Chapter named Conceptio.

Vse good meates and drinkes, and let such women haue their lustes, and beware of abhorsion.

The cause of this sicknesses.

Sicknesses doth come many wayes, as by surfeting & euil dyet, & to company with infectuous people to eate & drinke, or colly with thē, & it may come by the punishmēt of god.

A remedy.

If god send the sicknes I know no medicine. If it do come other wayes, either it is hot or colde sicknesses. If it be a hot sickenes, vse the electuary of Roses. If it be a colde sicknes, vse, Diacalamint, & anoynt the body with the oyle Benedict, or with the oyle of Nardine. If it doe come of a melancoly humour, a decoction made of Epithemie is good.

For Emig [...]anes looke in the chapter named Hemigranea.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impedimentes doth come of rume distilling from the head to the brest, couering Diafragma.

A remedie.

First make a Ptisan with hoore hound, and Enula campana rootes and Yspoe, & so forth after the comon making of a pty­saine, and after that vse the pilles of Cochée, and anoynt the brest with the oyle of Lawry mixt with butter.

For Enterocela, looke in the Chapter named Ramex.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come thorow some vlcerous matter in the brest or in the lunges.

A remedy.

First if age, time, and strength will permit it, let the paci­ent be let bloud in a veine named Sophena, and abstract a little bloud out of Cephalica. And then after that let them vse to eate milke or whay, & certaine times let thē eat Tria­cle, & let them y ^e which hath this passion beware of great la­bour or lifting, & venerious actes or straining of thē selues, & let them vse to drinke y ^e iuyce of the waters of Plantaine & saint Iohns wort, or vse Purslain to [...]ate it or drink y ^e iuice or water with suger. Also for this matter is good Spodium, Carabies, Roses, Coral, Saunders, Sanguis draconis, Saf­fron, [Page] Myrre, Sumacke, Coriander, Boole hermoniacke, Ma­stix, Storax, Calamint and such like.

For Empirema, looke in the Chapter named Empima.

For Emoroides, looke in y ^e chapter named Hemorchoides

For Emprosthotonus, looke in y ^e Chap. named Spasmus.

For Epatica a veyne, looke in the Chapter of veynes na­med Mediana.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment [...] come of a vaporous humour or fu­mositie rysing out & from the stomake to the braine, it may come also thorow surfeting and dronkennes, & lying in the [Page 45] bed vpright, it may come also of a reumaticke humour sup­pressing the brayne, and the humour discēding doth pertur­bate y ^e heart, bringing a man sleping into a dreame, to think that the which is nothing is somewhat, & to feele that thing that he féeleth not, & to sée that thing that he séeth not, with such like matters.

A remedy.

First let such persons beware of lying vpright, least they be suffocated, or dye sodenly, or els at lēgth they will fal in­to a madnes, named Mania, therefore let such persons kéepe a good dyet in eating & drinking, let them kéepe honest com­pany, where there is honest myrth, and let them beware of musing or studying vpon any matter, y ^e which will trouble the braine, & vse diuers times sternutacions with gargari­ces, and beware of wines and euery thing the which doth ingender fumositie.

If it be a spirite. &c.

I haue read as many mo hath done, y ^t can tel if I do wryt true or false, there is an herbe named Furga Demonum, or as the Grecians do name it Ipericon. In english it is named saint Iohns wort, the which herbe is of that vertue that it doth repell such maliciousnes or spirites.

A remedy for heate in the Liuer.

If the liuer be hote, paine and heate is felt in y ^e right syde, and for it open the Epaticke veine, and exhaust of it .ij. or .iii. vnces of bloud, if age and strength will permit it, and vse to eate Diarodon with the Sirupe of Roses. And for the heat of the Liuer is good Liuerwort, thrée kindes of Saunders, Dandelion, Southistle, Endiue, Cicory, and such like.

If the Lyuer be opilated.

If the liuer be opilated the face will swell, & paine will be in the right syde, wherfore clisters be good, and the confec­tion of Fumitore. Also this is good for the liuer, y ^e confection of Galingale, and y ^e confection of Xiloaloes, also Pillule sco­matice, and Pillule aggregate, be good to mundify the lyuer. Al [...] Emplastrum stomaticum, and Sirupus de thimo, and if the liuer be inflamed I haue shewed a remedy, & if the liuer be weake, a plaister made of wheate is good, with Diale ni­con, and so is Emplastrum Andromachi.

For Epatica passio, looke in the Extrauagantes in the ende of this booke.

For Epenictides, looke in the Chapter named Aegineta.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie doth come either by the punishment of God, either else of a corrupt and contagious ayre, and one man infected with this sicknes may infect many men, this sicknes may come also with the stench of euill dirtie stretes, of Channelles not kept cleane, or standing puddles, and stin­king waters, of seges, and stinking draughtes, of shedding of mans bloud, and of dead bodyes not déepely buryed, of a great company being in a little or small rome, or cōmon [Page 46] pissing plases, and of many such like contagious ayres as be rehersed in the Dietary of health.

A remedy.

The chiefest remedy that I do know, is for euery man to submit himselfe to God, & than to amend our liuing, & to flée farre from infectious plases, and not to goe into the cō ­pany of thē which be infected, or do resort to infectious per­sons, and to beware of the clothes, or any other thinge that doth perteine to such infectiue persons. Then vse a good dyet in eating and drinking, and vse perfumes in your chambers and houses, goe not abrode in y ^e open ayre, late in the night, nor rise not early in y ^e morning, let the sunne haue domini­on ouer the groūd, to waste & consu [...] all cōtagious mis [...] and ayres, or you aryse, and than aryse and [...] wh [...] doth giue health to all men, and follow my [...] this matter, as I haue shewed in the Dietary of healh.

For Epiplocela looke in the Chapter named Ramex.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie is engendred either of a reumatike hu­mour, or els of a grosse and a cold winde, or else of a me­lancoly humour the which is bred in the hinder part of the head, or else of euill humours abounding in the stomake, the [Page] which doth vapour and fume vp to the braine, opilating the v [...]t [...]l spirites Galen saith it is a cold humour the which doth epilate the celles of the brayne, vnto the time that nature hath remoued the cause. There be three kindes of the falling sicknesse, y ^e first is Epileptia, the second is named Analepsia, and the third is named Catalepsia. They y ^e which be enfec­ted with Epilepsia, in their falling shall fome at the mouth, and this is the common falling sickenes, and they the which hath Analepsia, when they doe fall they shall defyle them selues and not fome at the mouth. And they the which hath Catalepsia, whether they be taken open eyed, or halfe closed, for the time they shall sée nothing, as it shall appere in the Chapter named Catalepsis.

A remedy.

Vse the confection of Diamusti & Tiriaca diatesseron, Sirupus de sticades, Acetum squiliticum, Oximel squilliti­cum. Also the oyntment of Philosopher be good for the thrée kindes of the falling sicknes, and other while purge the mat­ter with Yerahermetis, and vse the diet as is specified in the Chapter named Analepsia.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of euill dyet, or els of an euill humour procéeding from the liuer, or drinking late, or else of some venemous worme.

A remedy.

¶ First refrayne for the occasion of it, and touch not the matter, and it will goe away within two dayes, if you nyp or touch it, for one wheale you shall haue two.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of ventositie or of sower hu­mours in the stomake.

A remedie.

If it do come of vētositie or fleume. For it is good confectiō de acetosis. If it do come of a sower humour in the stomake, then is the confection of Galingale good, Diaciminum and the simple Oximell squilit.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of some salt humour, or els cor­rupt bloud myxt with reume.

A remedy.

First purge the head, and after that vse gargarices, and be­ware of eating of Garlike and Onions, and such things as is not good for the eyes or head.

For Erisipulas, looke in the Chapter named Herisipulas. ¶ Eschara is y ^e scabbe or crust that lyeth on a sore that com­meth of burning made of some instrument by the industry of some Phisition or Chirurgion.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a salt fleumatike humour or else of adusted coller, or melancoly.

A remedy.

¶ Take of the leues of Colewortes thrée handfuls, stamp it and temper it with hony, and make a plaister, and lay it to the place. Or else take Corianders séedes in pouder, and cō ­pound it with oyle Olyue, and lay it to the place, & drinke this drinke. Take of Sumacke halfe an vnce, séeth it in rayn water, or in white wine, and drinke it warme.

For Esthisis looke in the Chapter named Sensus.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of a corrupt melācoly humor, or els it doth come of some venemous matter corruptīg y ^e flesh.

A remedy.

¶ In this matter must be vsed Cauterisations, and to clense the place or places the water the which doth deceuer golde from siluer, & then vse the medicines y ^e which be in the chap­ter named Escara. In this matter a dyet must be vsed, the pacient must refraine from contagious meates & drinkes, as new ale, new béere, hot wines, new bread, except it be .xxiiii. hours hold. Also the pacient must eate no fresh béefe, nor no maner of waterfoules, be they wilde or tame, or if they doe vse the water with vnclouen féet. Also Eles, fresh Samon, shel fishes, as Oysters, crabbes, & Crauices, & such like. Al­so [Page 48] dogge fish, Ray, Thornebacke, & such like, be good for any man that hath this impediment, or any other sicknesse & dys­ease, and beware of venerious actes, and looke that they bée laxatiue, and costiue, that hath this infirmitie or disease.

For Etica passio, looke in y ^e Chapter named Febria hectica.

The cause of these impedimentes.

This impediment doth come of a melancoly humour or els of an angery or a fearefull heart, or els of a pēcifull mynde, or a fearefull dreame.

A remedy.

¶ For this matter is nothing so good (beside god) as is the cō ­fection of Muske, and otherwhyle vse Secamabine, and be­ware in any wise to lye vpright, and not to go to bed with a full stomake, and if the pacient do grone in the sléepe, awake him leysurably.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impedimentes may come of corruption of y ^e bloud, it may come of corrupt Ayre, & one man may infect another, most cōmonly this doth happen or come vnto yong persōs.

A remedy.

Fyrst and chefely kéepe y ^e pacient warme, and in no wise let him goe or stand in the open ayer, drynke no drynke but [Page] that it be turned out of the cold, eate nothing but cheken or Mutton stewed for fiue or sixe dayes. Also roche, whytings, playse, or such like is good to féede of, beware of new ale, or béere and wine, and vse to eate Triacle or Metridatum.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie may come many wayes, as by ry­ding, [Page 49] or going, or great labour, or by some sore, or by skal­ding or burning, or els by fleying or pulling of a mans skin from him.

A remedy.

Anoynt the place with vnguentum serisinum, or wash the place oft with the water of Roch alome, and then cast vpon the place the pouder of a Post, and if once wil not, wash the place with the water of Roche alome, wash the place then with white wine, and vse the fine pouder of a Post, & there is nothing will skin so soone as it wil do. Peraduēture some persons reading this booke, specially this matter will laughe me to scorne, but for all that for skinning of a place there is nothing shall skin so sone as it will do if it be vsed, except the place be to much vlcerated, but for a mans yerd & other secret places, I haue proued this pouder to be y ^e most best. Looke for this matter in the Extrauagants.

A remedy to mundify the face.

To clere, to clense, & to mundify the face, vse stuffes and bathes, & euery morning after keyming of the head, wipe the face with a Skarlet cloth, & wash not y ^e face oft, but ones a [Page] wéeke anoint y ^e face a little ouer with the oyle of Castine, & vse to eate Electuary de aromatibus, or y ^e confection of Ana­cardine, or the sirup of Fumitory, or y ^e cōfection of Manna, & do as it is written in the Chapter named Pulchritudo.

For Fastidium, looke in y ^e Chapter named Abhominacio stomachi.

For Fauces, looke in the Chapter named Branchos, & in the Extrauagantes, in the ende of this booke.

For Fatigacio, looke in the Chapter named Lassitudo, and in the Extrauagantes, in the end of this booke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow great humiditie in the head, or it may come of a salt humour.

A remedy.

First shaue or cut away the haires of the head. Then take of Ceruse, of Soote of y ^e chimney, of Vineger, of ech an vnce, compound this together with the oyle of nutes, and anoynt the head, or els take of Doues dung .ii. vnces, of Chalke halfe an vnce, of pouder of Muster sedes an vnce, of Mastix halfe an vnce, confect or compound all this with y ^e oyle of Nutes and viniger, and anoynt the head .iii. or .iiii. times.

The cause of the Epihimer Feuer.

This feuer doth come by inflacion of the spirites vital, na­turall, & animal, if this feuer doth come of the vitall spirites, it doth come thorow anger, or wrath, thought or sorow, or els of extreme heat, or cold, if it do come by the spirites na­turall, it doth come by great hunger or thurst, or els by ea­ting or drinking of hot meates or drinks, or els of breaking of a dyet, or by surfeting, or by repletion, eating diuers [Page] meates & drinking sundry drinkes, laxes, & costiuenes, great abstinence, watching, and wearines of riding or going, & ve­nerious actes, in such like may be the occasion of this feuer.

A remedy.

The chiefest remedy is for euery man to order and rule him selfe in a temperance, and neither for friend nor foe, to eate nor to do the thing the which he doth know by experience should hurt him, and thē vpon this Ephimer feuer, no other feuers will folow nor spring.

The cause of this feuer.

Euery quotidiane is ingēdred of a salt fleume or of a swéet fleume, or els of sower fleume. If it be ingendred of a salte fleume, the pacient shal be in great heate, and wil be thursty. If it be come of swéet fleume, the paciēt wil be sompnolēt, dull and heuy, and his stomake will abhorre meates and drinkes, hauing tast or talage to comfort y ^e palat of y ^e mouth. If it do come of sower fleume the pacient shall haue paine in the stomake, and euer is disposed to vometing, and the colde­nes of the feuer will be great, & the heat little.

A remedie.

First purge salt fleume, and vse a Ptysan. And if it doe come of swéet fleume, Diacalamint with Oximel squilit. And if it do come of sower fleume, vse Diatriapiperiō with water diuretike.

A pendex to the aforesayd Chapter shewing of a feuer interpolate.

FEbris interpollata be the latin words. In english it is na­med an interpolate feuer. Interpo­late feuer And there be thrée kindes, sim­ple, double, & treble. A simple interpolate feuer doth infest a man once in a day. A doble interpolate feuer doth infest a [Page 51] man twise a day. And a trible interpolate feuer doth infest a man thryse a day. For a remedy looke amongest the xx. kindes of feuers as they be here before & after specified.

The cause of this impediment.

This feuer doth come of coler, and it doth differ from a fe­uer causon, for a feuer tercian doth operate, or worke his ma­lice in the veynes, & the feuer causon doth worke his malice in the concauitie of the liuer & the lunges, & about the heart.

A remedy.

The medicines the which doth helpe the feuer causon, will helpe a feuer terciane. First purge coler, and three or foure houres before the fit doth come. I do thus. I cause a man to lye in his doublet, and a woman in her wast cote then doe I cause them to put on a payre of gloues, & with two garters I do bind the wrestes of the armes and doe lay theyr armes and handes into the bed, & do cast on clothes to bring them to a swete before the fit do come thrée or foure houres, & out of Gose quilles one put into an other, they doe take theyr drinke, because they shal take no ayre into the bed, then I do giue them first an ale brue, & suffer them to drinke as much Posset ale as they will, & whan the burning do begin, I do withdraw the clothes, and thus I do thrée courses, and haue made many hundred whole, but their good daies I doe not suffer them to goe in the open ayre.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment or Feuer doth come of melancholy, or els of coler adusted, & if the blacke Iawnes be concurrant with it, it is a difficile sickenes to make one whole.

A remedy.

First purge melancoly, and vse the pilles of Inde once or twise a wéeke, & take oft of the Sirupe named in latin Si­rupus de thimo, and for the heate, and for the inflacion of all maner of Agues, or feuers, vse the infection of prunes, and a Iulib of violets. And in all maner of feuers, first purge the cause, for euery Feuer either doth come of the malice of blud or of fleume, or of coler, or els of melācoly. It may come also of mixt humour, & do as I haue rehersed in a feuer tercian.

Febris acuta et continua, al is one, and that thing that wyll helpe Sinochos, will helpe this.

An other feuer.

Sinoch feuer.There is an other Feuer named Febris Sinocha the which doth differ from the Feuer Sinochos. For this feuer Sino­cha hath interpolacion that is to say, some rest or interpola­ciō. And there be thrée kinds of the feuer Sinochos, which be to say, Homothena, Augmastica, Epamastica, & how a man shall know the one from the other.

Febris Homothena.

Hemothē feuer.He that hath this Feuer hath a dimme & a swart vryne.

Febris Augmastica.

Augmast­ick feuer.Whosoeuer hath this feuer hath a blewish vrine or water.

Febris Epamastica.

Epamast­ick feuer.Whosoeuer hath this feuer hath a red bright vrine, and the [Page 52] feuer will increase, & it will not in Augmastica, for the wa­ter is thicke in the bottom, and that doth signify health.

The cause of these feuers.

These feuers doth come of abundance of bloud, or els of pu­trified bloud. And thē the skin wil be dankish, & all the body wil be out of temper, y ^e face wil swell, y ^e eies will be redish, & the veines wil be ful, & the vrine wil be red with great spūe

A remedy.

First if age, time, & strength wil permit it, be let bloud in a veyne named Mediana. And if the pacient be dry or thursty, A dormi­tary. vse the electuary of prunes, with the sirup of Acetose. And if y ^e pacient can not slepe, make a dormitary. Take of the leues of hēbaine 2. handfulles, of y ^e leues of Mādragore an hādful, stamp both together, & put them in a cloth & lay it to y ^e tem­ples, & forehead, Fomen­tacion. or els take a scarled cloth & intinct it into y ^e oile of Roses & vineger, & lay it ouer the head, or els take fow & perfume it with frankensence, & lay it hot to the heade & tēples, & morning and euening vse this fomentacion to the féet. Take of violet flowers or leues ii. handfuls, of Roses leaues, of malowes, of either of them ii. hādfuls, of barley 3. handfuls, seth al this in running or rayne water, & thē make this Epithime. Take of the iuyce of nightshad halfe a pint, of red saunders, & white saunders an vnce of Camphire ii. epithime. drāes of Roses leues an vnce, of rose water as much as wil suffice, cōpound al these together with a blewe or a scarlet cloth, lay it to the right side. And if the feuer do cause cōstu­pacions, vse Clisters or els suppositors. And if age, time and strēgth will permit it, open a voyne named Mediana, and exhaust an vnce or two of bloud as the paciēt is of strength. If it be a man, take a veyne in the right arme. And if if be a woman open the veyne in the left arme, & vse this dyet, eate no grosse or contagious meates, A dyet. and abstayne from drynking of newe ale, new hiere and wine, eate no eles Egges, nor fresh Samon, nor shall [...], nor the fishe the which doth adhere to the fingers.

The cause of this feuer.

¶ This feuer doth come of coler, and doth differ but little from a feuer tercian, considering that the matter is in the concauitie of the lyuer, & therefore the feuer Causon is more vehement and sharp then a terciane, and the mouth of the pacient hauing the feuer Causon is verie drie, and the vrine is as red as fyer.

A remedie.

First purge coler with Cassia fistula, & extince y ^e thirst with the sirup of Violets or Roses, or with the water of Goordes, and rub the wrestes & the hands with the water that prunes be sodden in, & do as I haue written in the feuer tercian.

The cause of this Feuer.

This feuer may come many waies. It may mome by the feruent heate of the sunne, and the ayre, it may come by in­ordinate labour, or by great riding, or great labour in going, it may come by surfeting or cōtagious meats eating, it may come by to much drinking, specially drinking of hot wines, it may come by disordering of a mans vsage, that he hath ben accustomed to do, it may come by disordering of any of the foure humours, aswel by steps as by excesse of meate or drinke as by labour, wherefore if this feuer take any prin­cipall humour, as bloud or fleume, coler or melancholy, then this feuer doth take of other names of feuers, as it appea­reth here among the feuers.

A remedy.

Fyrst vse good diet, and eate good meate, & little at a time, drink no wines, vse temperate drinking & drink posset ale, made with cold herbes sodden in it, go not in the open ayre, vse to drink of a Ptisane, or els take of the iuice of grapes, of the water or iuyce of sorell, or y ^e iuyce of pome Garnades, of ech half an vnce, of white vineger a quarter of an vnce, of suger plate iii. vnces, boile this together ouer a soft fire, & lay it vnder the toūge diuers times, & take some of it inward.

The cause of this feuer.

This feuer doth come of vehement heat, the which thorow inflacions doth cause whels & scabs to be in & about y ^e mouth.

A remedy.

First qualifie the heat of the liuer and the stomake, with cold herbes, as the complexion of the pacient is of, giue no churlish herbe nor medicine to a gentle complexion, or to them the which hath ben with meats & drinkes laciuiously educated, let euerie cōplexion haue medicines ministred ac­cording to their nature, education, and strength, & for this feuer policy must be taken for the safety of health, among other feuers rehersed and shalbe expressed.

The cause of this feuer.

This feuer doth come of a colerick humour mixt w ^c fleume.

A remedie.

First purge coler & fleume as it is specified in the chapters of Coler and flume, and vse a good diet, & beware of open [Page] ayre into y ^e time the pacient be whole, & sweates in a mans hed be good, for this feuer, and al other feuers taken before the feuer doth come.

The cause of this feuer.

This Feuer doth come of a grosse fleumaticke matter cau­sing the interial partes of the body to burne, and the exter [...] ­all partes of the body to be cold, opilating the poores, y ^e which doth prohibite that the fume can not be desolued, and this feuer causeth the pacient to be thrystie, and the tongue to be rough and out of taste.

A remedy.

First purge grosse fleume with the sirupe acetose, & after y ^e take a drame & a halfe of the pilles of Sarcocoll, & the pilles of Coloquintida, & do as it is written in the feuer tercian.

The cause of this Feuer.

This feuer doth come of a hot colericke humour mixt with corrupt fleume, causing the inward parts of the body to bee colde, and the outward partes to be hot.

A remedie.

First purge the superfluite of Coler with Pillule stoma­tice, & before the first or y ^e secōd course come, sweat iii. or iiii. houres, & go not in the open ayre, and kepe a good dyet, and vse in the sweat to drinke posset ale, or els a Ptisane.

The cause of this feuer.

¶ This Feuer doth come of the dragges of melancoly, or of the iuyce of melancoly, the which iuyce is putrified or not putrified, if it be not putrified either it is vniuersall, or els it is perticuler, if it be perticuler it is in a perticuler member, if it be in the whole body, it doth ingender the blacke Iawnes, if it be in a perticuler member it doth in­gender an impostume named Scliros, and there will be a peyne in the splene, and the pacient wil be cold, & oft yeane or gape, if this feuer be putrified, either it is vniuersall or els particuler, if it be vniuersall it doth ingender the feuer quartayne, if it be perticuler it doth ingender Feuer quar­tayne, if it be perticuler it doth ingender feuer quartaine not vehement nor perticulus.

A remedy.

First purge melancoly with the pilles of Inde, & the pilles of Sebely, and the piles made of Lapides lazule, and than looke for a remedy in the Chapter of the infirmities preno­minated, specially in this Chapter named Febris quartana.

The cause of this feuer.

These feuers doth come of two causes. The one doth come by the indencion or thickenes of bloud, and the other doth [Page] come of colour & fleume not naturally, and if any of these fe­uers do cōtinue in a mā, at length they wil come to a feuer.

A remedy.

If it do come of intencion of the bloud. First purifie the bloud, as it doth appeare in the Chapter named Sanguis, if it do come of coler & fleme, purge coler & fleume, as it doth appeare in the Chapters named Colera & Flegma, and vse suppositors and clisters, and vse boxing betwixt the shoul­ders, & certaine times exhaust bloud out of the veynes na­med Cephalica, Mediana, Sophena, and Cardiaca, in porci­on as the pacient is of age and strength, and vse this sirup. Take of Endiue, & of Letuse of ech an vnce, of the flowers of water Lillies, and of the flowers of Lillies, of eche halfe an vnce, of the iuyce of pome Garnades two vnces, make a sirupe of this and eat it, and this is good for al hot Feuers.

The cause of this feuer.

This Feuer may come many waies. First it may come by to much medling with a woman, or els thorow long con­tinuance of some sickenes, or els it may come by extreme labour, or els thorow debility of some of the principal mē ­bers, y ^e arters, sinewes, and veynes. And there be thrée kindes of this feuer. The first is a vehement heat the which is in the bloud, y ^e which bloud doth run in the artures and veines, heating the heart & the other members. The seconde is an ardēt heat inflaming the principall members thorow the caliditie of the bloud. The third doth arify and drye vp the naturall humidity in man.

A remedy.

First qualyfie the heat of the bloud with cold herbs sodden in posset ale, or vse a Pitisane & vse the confection of Ana­cardi [...]e, and troces of Camphire, and a decoction of Mayden haire is good, and vse a good diet, & take restoratiue meates & drinkes, or els take y ^e confection made of stones of a Fox, Locsanum, troces of Camphire or y ^e oyle of swéete Almōs.

The cause of this Feuer.

This feuer doth come many wayes, either by infection of the ayer, or one man infected doth infect an other, as it doth appere more larglier in the Chapter named Epidimia.

A remedy.

For a remedy looke in the Chapter named Epidimea, and in the Dyetary of health.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This feuer doth come naturally, or els by euill & slouthfull brynging vp. If it do come by nature, then this feuer is vn­curable, for it can neuer out of the flesh y ^t is bred in the bone, if it do come by slouthfull brynging vp, it may be holpen by diligent labour.

A remedy.

There is nothing so good for y ^e feuer lurden as is Vngentū baculinum, that is to say. Take a sticke or wan of a yeard of length & more, & let it be as great as a mans fynger, and [Page] with it anoint the backe & the shoulders well, morning and euening, & doo this .xxi. daies, & if this feuer will not be hol­pen in that time, let thē beware of wagging in y ^e galowes, & whiles they doo take their medicine, put no Lubber [...]wort into their potage, & beare of knauering about their heart, and if this will not helpe, send them to Newgate, for if you will not, they shall bring them selfe thether at length.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This great displeasure may come to a womā many waies, by great sicknesse, or extreme thought, by a fall, or a stripe, or such like.

A remedy to expell a dead childe.

¶ First giue to the woman a purgation, or els two purgaci­ons, as she is of strength & able to bere it. Then make a suf­fumigation after this maner: Take of Malowes thrée hand­fulles, of March, of Camomyl, of eche of them two handfuls, of Fenugreke thrée vnces, séeth al these together in a galō & a halfe of fayre water, and y ^e water being séething hot let the woman sit ouer it in a close chayre or stoole halfe an houre and more, & after let that the Midwife doo hir dewty.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come diuers wayes, if it do come out of the mouth or nosethrylles, either it doth come out frō the head or stomake, or by some rotten to the, if it do come from the arme holes, it doth come of ranknes of bloud.

A remedy.

Vse euery morning and after meate to eate foure cloues, and kepe one cloue in the mouth, and clense the bloude, as it doth appere in the Chapter named Sanguis, looke specially in the Chapter named Anhelitus.

The cause of this fleume.

Aristotle sayth that fleume is the superfluitie of meates that is not digested. And I do say that fleume is substance of the meates and drink that be digested, of the which is en­gendred bloud, which is the lyfe of man, for without bloud no man can lyue.

A remedy.

Yeralogodion doth purge fleume, and so doth pilles of Tur­byth, or pilles of Euforbium, or pilles of Sarcocol, or pilles of Coloquintida, & pillule Stomatice, or pilles of Serapyne doth purge diuers fleumes, & pilles of Coche doth purge the head and the stomake, & the Sirupe of Fumitory doth purge grosse and viscus fleume, & a decoction of Alhasce is good for all fleumatike men, & let al Fleumatike persons beware of eating of raw aples, & of cold taking in their féete, and of late drinking, & late sitting vp, & let them not rise to early in the morning, for they must haue much sléepe.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of abūdance of corrupt bloud, or else of a melācoly humour, if it do come of abūdance of cor­rupt bloud, it is named Herisipula, & if it do come of melan­coly, it is named Sephitos, which is an intollerable payne.

A remedy.

For both of these matters phlebothomy & purgatiōs is good, if strēgth, age, & the time will permit it. And after y ^e if it doe come of Melācoly, take of oyle Oliue an vnce, of whetē brā an handfull, cōpound both together, & make a plaister, purge the matter with pilles of Inde, & with Pillule Lucis of both kindes, & the pilles made of y ^e Lazule stone, & pilles Sebely. And if it do come of abundance of corrupt bloud, vse the cō ­fection of Anacardine, & make a plaister with the white of v. egges, & of the oyle of roses, & with tow make a playster.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a dry humour, of a march wind or els of some other hot cause, or hot windes.

A remedy.

Take of the oyle of swéete Almons an vnce, and anoint the place. And any of these thinges folowing is good, the pouder of the rines of pome Garnades, the mary of a Calfe, or of a Hart, the fatnes of a Capon, goose, or ducke, and such like.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie is ingēdred either by a wound or a sore, or by corruptiō of some euil humours, & it may come by nature.

A remedy.

First open the orifice of the Fystle, & then mūdifie it with white wine, in y ^e which seth two vnces of y ^e pouder of Yreos, or els mūdifie it with y ^e iuice of Plantaine, w ^c Boole armo­niake, or els take of Aristology that is roūd, of Phētaphilō, of ech an vnce, make pouder of them, & mix the pouder with Hony, & thē make tentes and put them in to the Fystle, and thā take the egestion of a man, & burne it, & make pouder of it, and with the pouder of pepper, lay the substance ouer the Fystle. Also vnguentum egipciacum doth mūdifie a fistle, & Yeralogodion rufie doth purge y ^e matter, & Diaphenicō doth make whole the infirmitie, and the oyle of egges is good.

Fistula cimbalaris is a pype in the throte the which doth moliorate a mans voyce or brest.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This impediment doth come of a melancoly humour the which doth discend to the longacion or fundement.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with the confection of Hameke, or with y ^e pilles of Lapides lazule, or with Yera ruffini, than take of y ^e pouder of a dogges hed burnt, & mixt it with y ^e iuice of Pimpernel, and make tentes & put into the foundement.

The cause of these infirmities.

These infirmities doth come of diuers humours, he that is rūning doth come of coler, he that doth corode or eate, doth come of coler adusted, and the last doth come of melancoly mixt with salt fleume.

A remedy for the first.

First purge the cause, and then for the first take the electuary of the iuyce of Roses, aswel interially as exterially & vse it.

A remedy for the second.

The cause purged, than take the confection of Hamechin­terially and exterially.

A remedy for the third.

Fyrst take of the pilles aggregated, and of the pilles of Fumytory, of either of them a dram, and take of Houseleke, and of the flowers of Newnifer, otherwise named water lil­lyes, and of Letuse leues, of either of them an handful, bray them together with white wine and make a plaister of it, and vse it.

Furfur or Furfures, is named dandruffe Dādruffe or skurfe, or little seales like to otmele or bran, the cause and the remedy you shall finde in the Chapter named. Acor.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie doth come of a melancoly humour, and otherwhile it may come of a fleumaticke matter, conuerted to hardnes.

A remedie.

First purge y ^e matter with Diaturbyth or with Yera ruffi­ni, & after that vse the medicines the which is in the Chap­ter named Scrophule.

For Frenisis looke in the Chapter named Frenitis.

For Formiculus looke among the kindes of impostumes, the which is ingendred of an euill and grosse bloud.

The cause of Myrth.

¶ Myrth commeth many wayes, the principall myrth is when a man doth lyue out of deadly sinne, & not in grudge of cōscience in this world, and that euery man doth reioyce in God, and in charitie to his neighbour, there be many other myrthes and consolacions, some being good & laudable, and some vytuperable, laudable myrth is one man or one neighbour to be mery with an other, with honestie & vertue, with out swearing or slaundering, and rybaldry speaking. Myrth is in Musicall instrumentes, and ghostly and god­ly singing, myrth is when a man liueth out of debt, and may haue meate and drinke and cloth, although hée haue neuer a pany in his purse, but now a dayes he is mery that hath Golde and siluer, and ritches with lechery, & all is not worth a blew poynte.

A remedy.

I do aduertise euery man to remēber that he must dy, how, whan, and what time he can not tel, wherfore let euery mā amend his life and commit himselfe to the mercy of God.

For Gala, looke in the Chapter named Lac.

For Gangina, looke in the Chapter named Tubercula.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either by nature, or by some humour or sickenes, or els of some brose, or a stripe or suche like thinges.

A remedy.

If it do come by nature, the impediment is vncurable. If it do come of an humour or sickenes or a brose, take of the oile of Lillies, & of the oile of Castory, of either an vnce, & anoint the backe or shoulders, and drinke Oximel compound, &c. For Gingine, looke in y ^e Extrauagants in y ^e end of this booke.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ The cause of hard Carnelles commeth of colericke hu­mours, & the soft carnelles doth come of corrupt bloud mixt with fleume.

A remedy.

Take of Figge leaues two handfuls, of burnt lead halfe an vnce, stāp this together & make plaisters, & lay it to y ^e place,

The cause of these kyndes.

If it be against nature, the diuill & mans wretched mind is the cause. Alas what pleasure should any wretch haue to meddle with any brute beast, or to pollute him self wilfully, I knowe no remedy for this but great repentance, for the vengeance of God hangeth ouer the heades of them that so doth. For this sin Sodome and Gomor did sinke to hell so­denly. If polutions do come to any man thorow sickenes, or of abundance of nature, if it be not wilfully done nor no de­lectacion had in it, it is no sinne. If it do come sleping or wa­king, thorow imbecility and weakenes, hauing no delectaci­on nor pleasure, nor consenting to sinne, it is no offence, if it do come sleping, of any foule dreame, and no delectacion or pleasure had before nor after, it is no sinne.

A remedy.

I [...]it do come naturally, those that be vnmaried let them marry. If it do come otherwise vse Flebothomy & vomites, vse also the sirup of Roses, of Mirtilles, of Nuniphar, or wa­ter of Lillies, or Melōs, or vse to eate Letuce, or Purslaine, and for this matter Camphire is good mixt with Opinum & Henbaine in the oyle of Roses compound.

The cause of these impedimentes.

This impediment doth come of heate of the liuer, and vn­temperance of the stomake.

A remedie.

Take of Lymons or of Oranges .v. or vi. slyce them and eate them, and than vse to eate stewed prunes & clense the tounge, that it be not furred with filth, with sage leues and Alome water.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of an inflamacion rising out of the stomake, or els it may come of a hot & a corrupt bloud.

A remedy.

First for this matter vse gargarices and sternutacions, and than vse pilles of Cochee to purge the head and the stomake, and wash the mouth with Rose water in the which Roche Alome is disolued in, and vse this foure or fiue times.

Guidegi be veines vpō the which great artures be cituated For Genu looke in the extrauagants in the end of this boke. For G [...]ter loke in the extrauagāts in the end of this boke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of winde and cold, and emp­tines of the guttes, & it may come by nature, and to vse lōg fasting in youth.

A remedy.

First be not long fasting, beware of cold, desolue winde by dragges & easy purgacions, & beware of eating of potage, & other sew, & of fruites, & of cold herbes, & colde meates, & any thing that hony is in, & kepe the belly laxatiue and warme. For Gutta taken for the gout, looke in the Chapter named Gutta in the Extrauagantes.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come of euill dyet, and a hot li­uer, or disordering a mans complexion in his youth, watch­ing and sitting vp late.

A remedie.

First kepe good diet in meates & drinkes, drinke no wine, féede not of fresh béefe, eate no shel fishes, beware of Samō and Eles, & egges, and qualifie the heate of the liuer & the stomake with the confection of Acetose, and than take this oyntment, take of Bores grece two vnces, of Sage pouned small an vnce and a halfe, of quicke siluer mortified with fa­sting spettle an vnce, compound al this together, & morning & euening anoint the face, and kepe the chamber .vii. dayes, or els take of burre rootes and of Affodil rootes, of either ii. vnces, of white vineger two vnces, of Auripigment. 2 drās, of Brimstone a drame, make pouder of al that, y ^t should be made pouder of, than put altogether, & let it stād 24. houres, and after that anoint the nose and the face.

For Gurgulio looke in the Chapter named Gargarion.

For Granosa looke in the Chapter named Gargarion.

The cause of Dulnesse.

Dulnesse commeth many waies. First it may come by na­ture, it may come of to much studying or musing vpon one matter, it may come of dronkennesse and great surfeting, it may come of studying of supernatural things, or of matters that mans wit can not comprehend, & such studying or mu­sing doth bring many men to diuers inconueniences, and at length they do fall mad, or mischiefe them selues.

A remedy.

First vse mirth in measure with honest company, study nor muse not to much vpon one matter. If a man loue no good company, then let him recreate or refreshe his minde with some manuel operacion. And for this matter let him looke further in the Chapter named Memoria.

Halohonis is named a bone in the backe.

The cause of this impediment.

This infirmity or impediment doth come of malicious hu­mours [Page] in the maw and intrayles, or it may come of a cole­ricke humour.

A remedy.

Take of the pouder of Sumacke an vnce, cōfect it with ho­ny, & make a suppositor and drinke bdellium, and make fu­migaciō with it. Or els take of Bole armoniake, of Terra sigillat, of Sanguis draconis, of either an vnce, of Carabe, of Aloes cicortine, of either halfe an vnce, confect this together with the white of an egge, or two, and suppositarely vse it, and drinke of Millifoly with the pouder of a little Carabe.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of reume & windes intru­sed in the head and can not get out but by medicines.

A remedy.

First purge y ^e head with gargarices & sternutaciōs, & other while vse Yerahermetis or pilles named Pillule hollāde, & anoynt the temples with y ^e oyle of Nardine, or with y ^e oyle of euforby, or y ^e oile of Laury, a plaister made of mustard is not worst to lay to the temples, & beware of to much vene­rious actes, & refraine from eating of Garlike, of Ramsons, of Onions, of Chibolles, and such like. And wyne, strong ale, & strong béere is not good for this matter, and aboue all thinges beware of costiuenes for constupacion, and kéepe not the head to hot nor to cold, bue in a temperance, & vse no potage, nor new ale nor béere, nor hot nor new bread, ex­cept [Page 62] it be .xxiiii houres olde, as it doth more plaine appeare in the Dietary of helth.

For Hectica passio, looke in the Chapter named Febris hectica.

For Heper, looke in the Chapter named Paralisis.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of amours which is a feruent loue, for to haue carnal copulacion with the party that is lo­ued, and it can not be obtayned, some be so folish that they be rauished of their wittes.

A remedy.

First I do aduertise euery person not to set to the hart that an other doth set at the hele, let no man set his loue so far, but that he may withdraw it betime, and muse not but vse mirth and mery company, and be wise and not folish.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie most commonly doth come of Coler.

A remedy.

Take of Rose water, & of plantaine water, of either of them halfe a pint, of white wine as much, put this together and wash the place oft. Or els take of red wormes the which do [Page] come out of y ^e earth & bray thē in a morter, & put to them a little vineger & make plaisters. &c. Or els take of the flowers of Camomil, of Rose leues, of Violets, the weight of either of thē an vnce, of Mirtilles, of Sumacke, of either of them an vnce & a half, seth al this in white wine & make a plaister & lay it to the place, or els take y ^e ointment of Ceruse, I haue taken houselike & haue stamped it with a litle Cāphire and haue put to it white wine and haue laid it to the place, and haue healed the pacient, and the oile of Roses, or the oile of Violettes bee good for this impediment, mixt together with the white of egges and the iuyce of Plantayne.

The cause of these impediments.

These impedimentes be ingendred in the codde, either of a grosse fleshey humour, or of a grosse waterish humour, or els of windy humour.

A remedy.

If it do come of a fleshey humour or matter. First purge the matter with Diaturbyth, & mollify the codde with Pul­tesos, and with the oile of Spike and Diaquilon, and after that make incision, and if any of the stones be perished, pu­trified and corrupted, cutte away the stone with the Hernia, and than take Mastix, of Sanguis draconis, and Draga­gant, of either halfe an vnce, beate it & searce it, and com­pound it with the white of ii. egges, and with a fine linnen cloth make a playster, and lay it on the wounde, and whan this hath sucked out the corrupsion lefte behynde, than [Page 63] make the paciēt whole with any salue y ^t will incarnate the flesh & make whole the skin, & stablish and knit the veynes & sinewes that the stone hang by. If the Hernia do come of a watrish humour, first anoynt the cod with the oyle of Lyl­lies, & then make incision, & draw out the water, & with tēts attractiue, & gētle salues minister. &c. If it doo come of vētosi­tie or windy cause, vse clisters & suppositors, that the pacient may be laxatiue, and desolue Bdelium in vineger, & with a fine linnen cloth make a plaister to the codes, & vse to eate diuers times of the electuary named Diapoliticon.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of putrified bloud, and of coler, or els by corrupt bloud onely, or of coler onely, and Lupus or Lupie is ingendred of a fleumaticke matter, the which doth make a difference.

A remedy.

Trose de Arsenico is good, and if it come of bloud, exhaust ii. or iii. vnces of bloud, & more if néede shall require, & that age, time and strength will permit it. If it come of coler, as it ap­pereth in the Chapter named Colera, and if it be Lupte, cut of the heades of them and rub them with bay salt and Gar­like stampt together, and lay ouer them a plate of leade.

The cause of this infirmitie.

The cause of the yelow Iaunes doth come of red coler mixt with bloud, or els as I haue had experience, y ^e yelow Iaunes doth come after a great sicknes or a thought taken, y ^e which hath consumed the bloud, and then the skin and the exterial partes must néedes turne to yelownes, for lacke of bloud, co­ler hauing the dominion ouer it. The blacke Iaunes doth come of coler adusted, or els of melancoly, the which putrifi­eng the bloud doth make the skin blacke or tawny, & com­monly the body leane, for y ^e body or flesh is arifyed & dryed vp. The grene Iaunes doth come of yelow coler myxt with putrified fleume, and corruption of bloud.

A remedy.

First for y ^e yelow Iawnes, take of Iuory made in smal pou­der halfe an vnce, of Turmarycke thrée quarters of an vnce, of English saffron the weight of a groate, compound al this together and drinke of it a porcion of the pouder morning & euening with stale ale. And for y ^e blacke Iaunes, first purge Melancoly, as it doth appere in the Chapter named Melan­kyron. And for the grene Iaunes, or the grene sicknes, looke in the Chapter named Agriaca, which is the grene Iawnes.

For Hiocianum, looke in the second booke named the Ex­trauagants, in the ende of this booke.

For Hidrocela, looke in the Chapter named Ramex.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of abūdance of reume in the head and with coldnes there taken.

A remedy.

First exchew coldnes, and than vse sternutacions & garga­rices, than purge reume, & vse labour an stuphes wet & drye, and sée that the body be laxatiue, and vse Clisters, & beware of contagious meates and drinkes, and specially beware of ale, new wine, and new béere.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come when that Asthma and Disma be ioyned together.

A remedy.

Fyrst vse a Ptisane, & than take an easy purgation, & kéepe the belly warme & laxatiue, and vse Lucsanum de pino, and beware of eating of hard chese and nuttes.

¶ For Histera puiux, looke in the Chapter named Isteri­chi puiux.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a colde reume mixt with a melancoly humour and fleume. It may come by a folish feare when man is by him selfe alone, & is a frayde of his owne shadow, or of a spirit. O what say I, I shuld haue sayd, afrayd of a spirit of the buttry, which be peryllous beastes, for such sprites doth trouble a man so sore that he can not dyuers times stand vppon his legges.

All this notwithstanding, without any doubt in thundering & in lightining, & tēpestious wether, many euil things hath béene sene & done, but of al these aforesayd things, a whorle [Page 65] winde I do not loue, I in this matter might both write and speake, the which I will passe ouer at this time.

The second cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a faint heart, and of a feare­full minde, and of a mans folysh conceyte, and of a timerous fantasy.

A remedie.

First let euery man, woman or childe, animate them selfe vppon God, and trust in him that neuer deceued man, that euer had, hath, or shall haue confidence in him, what can any euill spirit or diuell doe any man harme, with out his will. And if it be my Lorde Gods will, I would all the diuels of hell did teare my flesh all to peeces, for gods will is my wil in all thinges.

The cause of the humours.

God made them in man, when he made man, & he did make man perfect of foure humours, in true porcion, but after that thorow sensualitie man did alter his humours or com­plexion, setting them out of order and frame.

A remedy.

To purge humours, vse Acetum squilliticum, and pilles named Pillule agregate, the greater Pillule fetide. &c. And to disolue humors, the which doth come to the sinewes, vse Pillule euforbij, and such like.

The cause of this impediment.

The impediments of the Hipecunder doth come either of ventositie, or els of some euill humour there lying & being, it may come of the impediments of the splen, or the impedy­ments of the liuer, or els of some Appostumation and some such lyke thinges.

A remedy.

If this matter do come of ventositie, vse Mellicrat conditie & the decoction of Alhas. If it do come other wayes, vse the sirupe of Eupatory. And if it do come of the splene, or of the Lyuer, looke in the Chapters named Splen and Ephar.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a vaprous vētositie or wind intrused vnder the skin and can not get out, it may also be in many other members.

A remedy.

The remedy of this infirmitie doth much rest in the rectifica­cion of digestion, that is to say, the meate the which a man doth eate, be not of ventositie ingendring winde, and than vse purgations, scarificaciōs, boxing, flebothomy, & stuphes. And for this matter the medicines the which doth serue in the Chapter named Tromos, is good for this impediment.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come of the corruption of bloud, or of coller adusted

A remedie.

Take of houselike two handfuls, stamp it and mix it with the iuice of Plantaine, & make a plaister of it, and lay it to the place infected, or els take of the iuice of Smalage halfe a pint, of the bran of Barly thrée handfuls, mixe this together with a little Hony and make a plaister, or els take of ducks meat which be little gréene things the which doth lye vpon water thrée handfuls, of Violet leues an hādfull, stamp this together with a little of the oyle of Roses & make a plaister.

For Ignis sacer looke in the Chapter named Heresipulas.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ This infirmitie doth come of a corrupt and venemous humour.

A remedy.

First take of Triacle or els of mitridatū .iiii. or .v. times, thā take easy purgations, as y ^e pacient is able to receiue, & after y ^e vse Seuphes & bathes, & flebothomy, as nede shall require.

For Illica passio, looke in the Chapter named Cordapsis.

The cause of these infirmities.

These infirmities doth come vnder this maner. First by ly­ing with any scabious person, by euill drinkes drinking, & eating of euil and naughty meates, & diuers times it doth come after a greate sicknes. And if the scabbes be dry, it doth come of melancoly, & if they be wet, & water issuing out of them, it doth come of putrified fleume or els of corrupt blud.

A remedy.

First if it be dry scabbes, purge melancoly w ^t Pillule lucis & Pillule Indie. And if it do come of y ^e corruption of blud or putrified fleume, purge y ^e body with pills stomaticke. Pilles of Sarcocol, & pilles of Serapion, & after y ^e anoint y ^e boby w ^t y ^e oyle of Tarter, or els take of dock roots .iii. or .iiii. hādfuls bruse thē & séeth thē in vineger, & wash the body, or els take of the pouder Yreos thrée or .iiii. vnces, of the bran of beanes two handfuls, myx this with hony & white wine & wash the body. Or els this is the best to kill all kindes of scabes, take of y ^e oyle of Bay thrée vnces, & mixe it with an vnce of mor­tified Mercury, the which is mortified with fasting spittle [Page 67] and anoint y ^e body thrée times, & the oyle of egges, and the sirupe of Fumitory is good for this infirmitie. And for this matter looke in y ^e Chapter Psora, and Scabies and Lichen.

For Incubus, looke in the Chapter named Ephialtes.

The cause of this impediment.

THis impediment doth come, or is ingēdred many waies as by rumatike humours, corruption of bloud, or by the admixtion of euill humours. And where many doctours in phisicke, doth hold diuers opinions in this infirmitie, saying that inflacions doth differ from Apostumacions, considering that all inflations doth appeare exterially, and Apostumaci­ons most commonlie be interiall, I do say, al inflacions and Apostumacions be nuters, for they may be as wel exterial, as interiall.

A remedy.

Take of the dung of a Gote thrée vnces, of Yreos two vn­ces, make pouder of it, compound this together with clarifi­ed hony, and make a plaister, & take an easy purgation made of y ^e coddes of Sene, or els take of Cassia fistule two drams, or seth of Polipody thrée drames in stale ale clarified, and stampe it and drinke it.

For Intellectus looke in the Chapter named Memoria.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come many wayes, either by opi­lacion or stopping of the stone, or some grosse humour, or els thorow some euil humour growing in y ^e condite of the vrine, or els it may come thorow long retencion, or long holding in a mans water.

A remedy.

Take of y ^e sedes of Gordes thrée drams and they made in pouder, drinke it with white wine or renish wine or renish wine. Or els take halfe an vnce of Parcely séedes, and of Geate stones a drame, make fine pouder of it, & drinke it with white wine.

For Ischiadici, looke in the Chapter named Sciatica passio.

For Isophagus looke in the Chapter named Isophagus

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come of ventositie and coldnes ta­ken, this sicknes in women is named the suffocation of the matrix.

A remedy.

For a remedy looke in the Chapter named Melon and Matrix.

The cause of the diseases of the ioyntes.

The diseases of the ioyntes doth come either by colde ta­king, or els by some strayne or broose, it may come by the pockes or by the gout, or other diseases lyke to these.

A remedy.

¶ If it do come of colde, purge the matter with Yera pigra, and Yera hermetis. If it do come of heat, take the Electuary of the iuice of Roses, and then vse Locall playsters, and a­mong all other things a hot Cowtorde is not the worst.

The cause of Chappes.

¶ Chappes in a mans lippes, may come of a sharp or bitter winde, or it may come thorow heat of the liuer and stomake.

A remedy.

¶ Anoint thy lipps with the oile of swéet Almons. And for this matter looke in the Chapter named Fissure.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a salt humour in the head, discending out of the head to y ^e eyes. Also to go or to ride a­gainst a sharpe wind wil cause teares or water to come out of the eyes, sorow, care or paine, wil cause one to shed tears, vnkindnes of a man to displease God in offending or dis­pleasing him, wil cause man, womā, & childe, to wepe & shed teares, for the which the grace and mercy of god is sufficiēt.

A remedy for salt humours the which doth desend to the eyes.

Fyrst vse to drinke the water of the iuice of Betony, & vse to take Gargarices liquid & vnliquide, and otherwhile take of the pilles of Coche to purge the head and the stomake.

For Lapis, looke in the Chapter named Lythasis, & Ne­phresis.

For Latus, looke in the Extrauagantes in y ^e ende of this booke.

The cause of Curding of womans milke.

Womans milke Mylke. is curded thorow euil digestion of meats and drinkes, and thorow opilacions, and otherwhile it doth come for lack of exhausting, or sucking, or drawing out the milke when it should be drawen.

A remedy.

For this matter looke in the Chapter named Mamil, & if there be any appostumacion there, exhaust some bloud the contrary syde in a vaine named Cardiaca, & kéepe the brests warme, and vse a good moderate dyet, eating no meate the which doth ingender grosse and corrupt humours, and here springeth the original of them whose arme holes doth stink, for it doth come of grosse and superfluous humours, as well in man as in woman.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of to much labour, or els it doth come of debilitie & weakenes, or of great sluggishnes, not lust to labour.

A remedy.

First vse moderate labour, and then take good meates & drinkes, and lye in a soft and easy bedde, & drinke posset eie to bedward. And further for this matter, looke in the Chap­ter named Fatigacio in the Extrauagantes.

Lacerti is the latin word. In english it is named lacertes which be bones, & some say it is little straines y ^e which doth come from the head to the necke, & to the eares & the face.

Lacuna it is a little hole in the roufe of the mouth.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either by the caliditie of the sun, or els by the corruption of y ^e Ayer, or by some interiall cause in reteining some superfluous humour.

A remedie.

First be let bloud of a veyne named Cephalica. And if the Fracles do go ouer all the body, be let bloud in a veyne na­med Mediana, and then purge the body with Pillulis aureis and Yera pigra, and than wash y ^e body with the water that these things folowing is soden in, the bran of Barly, of beanes, of Fenugrek, & put in violets & an vnce of y ^e oile of bitter Almons and such like, & anoint the place or places.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie is engēdred of a viscus humour or rume, and it may come of a strype or some great broose.

A remedie.

For this matter purge the head and the stomake with y ^e pilles of Cochée, & vse Gargarices, and after that vse Coli­ces, but I would counsel euery man not to meddle with it if it be veterated and olde. &c.

The cause of these infirmities.

This infirmitie doth come either by kinde, or els a [Page] child conceiued when the mother is menstrumous, it may come also of putrified coller and melancoly.

A remedie.

If this infirmitie do come by nature or kind, or by any menstrous humour there is not remedy, but onely God and pacience. If it doe come of a venemous humour, as a melāco­ly humour or such lyke, purge the humour, as it is specified in y ^e Chapter named Melancolia, and vse stuphes & bathes, and purgations, & vse the diet & the medicines, as is speci­fyed of Lignum vite, or Guaicum, and beware of grosse mea­tes eating, and of repletion.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of lubricitie, of slyding of the meate out of the stomake, the mawe and guttes without perfect decoction or digestion.

A remedy.

Drinke of raine water v. or vi. draughts in a day, or els take of water cresses, & stamp thē, & drinke y ^e iuice of it with the iuce of plantain, or els take of plantaine thrée handfuls, of saint Iohns wort thrée hādfuls, of Cresses as many hād­fuls, seth this in a galō of raine water, or a galō of red wine to a potell or more, than straine it, & put to it .ij. vnces of the pouder of Cinamon, and drinke of it diuers tymes.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come of a salt humor or of super-abundance of rume with corruption of bloud.

A remedy.

First purge y ^e head as it doth appere in the Chapter named Caput, & vse daily gargarices & sternutaciōs, and wash the eyes oft with colde water and a fine linnen cloth, and to bed­warde anoint the eyes diuers times with Tutty, and than wash them in the morning with cold water.

For Ligmos, looke in the Chapter named Singultus.

The cause of these infirmities

¶ If the tongue do swell, it doth come of the corruption of bloud, or els of superabundance of rume, or euil diet, as sur­ [...]ting, &c.

A remedy.

If it do come of corruption of bloud, exhaust two or thrée vnces of bloud, as age and strength wil permit it with time conuenient, & then purge the head with pilles of Cochée, and vse gargarices. If it do come of rume, take of y ^e iuice of night shad otherwise named Solatrum, & let the pacient holde in his mouth, as long as he may v [...]spōefuls one after an other. If it do come of a palsey, it doth come of a great anger or feare, or els of extreme colde, or els of drinking of to much wine, & drinking of euill drinks of sundry brewings, some good & some badde, some newe & some stale, and it may come of eating of euil meates, vse therefore diuers times to lay a graine of Castory vpon the tongue, and refraine from such things as may be the occasion of this sicknes rehearsed. If there be fissures in y ^e tongue or chappes, it doth come of some colerike humour which doth cause ariditie and driues of the [Page 72] tongue, for such matters vse mellilote & moyst thinges. If ther be wheales in the tongue, it doth come of surfeting and keping of euill dyet, & drinking late of hot wines & strong ale, and it may come of heat in the stomake, for this matter first vse good dyet, and than purge the head, and vse of Gar­garices with sternutacions.

For Lipothomia looke in the Extrauagants in the ende of this booke.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either by nature, or els by ea­ting of euill & viscus meats and euill drinkes, as thick ale or béere, eating broyled & fryed meates, or meates y ^t be dried in y ^e smoke, as bacon, martinmas béefe, red, herring, sprottes, & salt meates, & crustes of bread, or pasties, and such like.

A remedy.

If it do come by nature, ther is no remedy, a man may mit­tigate the paine & breake the stone for a time, as shalbe re­hersed. If it do come accidentally by eating of meates y ^e wil ingender the stone, take of the bloud of an Hare, & put it in an earthen potte, and put therto thrée vnces of Saxafrage rootes, and bake this together in an ouen, & than make pou­der of it, and drinke of it morning and euening. For this matter this is my practise, first I doe vse a dyet eatting no newe breade, except it be .xxiiii. hours olde. I refuse Cake-bread, Saffron breade, Rye bread, leuen bread, Cracknels, Simnels, & al maner of crustes, thā I do drink no new ale, nor no maner of béere made with hoppes, nor no hot wines. [Page] I doe refraine frō flesh & fishe, which be dried in the smoke, and from salt meates & shel fishes. I do eate no grosso meats nor burned fishe nor flesh, thus vsing my self I thanke God I did make my selfe whole and many other, but at y ^e begin­ning whē I went about to make my selfe whole, I did take the pouder following. I did take of Brome séedes, of percilie seedes, of Saxafrage séedes, of Gromel séedes, of either of thē an vnce, of Iete stone a quarter of an vnce, of date stone as muhe, of egge shelles that chekin hath laine in the pith pul­led out halfe an vnce, make pouder of all this & drinke half a sponefull morning and euening, with posset ale or whyte wine. Also the water of hawes is good to drinke.

For Lumbe looke in y ^e Extrauagāts in y ^e end of this booke

The cause of this impediment.

¶ This impediment doth come thorow cold rume, the which doth obnebulate mans memory, and doth lye in the hinder part of a mans head, within the scull or brayne panne.

A remedy.

First if néede require vse Flebothomy, and aboue al things marke or sée that the body be not constupated or costiue, but laxatiue, and vse gargarices, and other while vomites, and a­noynt the head with the oyle of Castory, and the oyle of Ro­ses, compound with Aceto squilitico, & let such men hauing this impedimēt, beware of drinking to much strong drinks, as wine and ale, and eating of Garlike, Léekes, & Onions, and such like.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmity doth come of a colerick & melancoly humour.

A remedy.

For this matter I do take iii. vnces of bores grece y ^e skins pulled out, thē I do put to it an vnce of the pouder of oister shels burnt, & of y ^e pouder of brimstone, & iii. vnces of Mer­cury mortified w ^t fasting spettle, cōpound al this together & anoint the body .iii. or iiii. times, & take an easie purgation.

For Lugia, looke in the Chapter named Dubaleth.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of superabundance of fleuma­ticke humours.

A remedy.

If any mā wil take a Plow mans medicine, & the best me­dicine for these wormes, & al other wormes in mās body, let him eate Garlike. For this matter looke further in the Chap­ters named Vermes, & in Affarides and in Cucurbiti.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment may come by nature & kind, & then it is vncurable, or els it may come by a great feare or study.

A remedy.

First be not solitary, nor muse not of studious or superna­tural matters, vse mery company, & vse some mery & honest [Page] pastime, be not long fasting, vse warme meates, and drinke wel to bedward, to make or to prouoke slepe: slepe not in the day, and vse the medicines which be in the Chapters named Memoria, Sensus, and Anima.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come most cōmonly of a menstru­ous woman, & it may come by corruption of bloud, & diuers times it doth come of a melancoly humour adusted.

A remedy.

First make this preparatiue, take of Enula cāpana rootes clensed & cut in péeces thrée vnces, of Fenell rootes the pith pulled out ii. vnces, of the kayes of Ashe trées an vnce and a half, of Scabiouse ii. handfuls, of honisuckles thrée hand­fuls, of Fumetory two handfuls, of y ^e tender croppes of bur­res ii. handfuls, of Sene and Polipody of eche two vnces, of the flowers of Rosemary & of Violets an vnce, of Sica­dos & Epithime an vnce, confecte all this together with su­ger plate and Rose water, & make a sirupe, and vse to eate it morning, noone, and at night, and than take Yera ruffini, or Yeralogodion ruffi, or Theodoricon a dramme or two at a time. For this matter looke further in the Extrauagantes.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impediments doth come many waies, it may come for lacke of sucking or drawing of the milke, it may come by grossenes of the bloud, it may come of debility & weaknes or opilacions, as when a woman doth lacke milke it may come by to much handling of them, and it may come by na­ture or grossenes of humours.

A remedy.

If a woman do lacke milke, take of Cristal a drame and a halfe, & make fine pouder of it, and drinke it with Bastard or Muscadell, do this v. or vi. times. Or els take of Fenel, of Malowes, of Anis, of Marche, of eche of them ii. hande­fulles, séeth it in Basterd or Muschadel and straine it, and [Page 75] drinke it oft. If the brestes be longe, bigge, and great, make a plaister with hemlockes sodden in white wine, & lay it to the brestes. If there be any inflaminges in y ^e breste, take the whits of two egges, & two handfuls of houseleke, compound both together and lay it to the brest. Or els take Southistell and Dandelion, Violet leaues, the tender croppes of wilde hoppes, of each a handfull, séeth it in posset ale and drinke it. If the milke be cruded in the breste, some olde auctours wil geue repercussiues. I would not do so, I doe thus, I do take Dragagant, and gumme Arabicke, and doe compound them with the white of rawe egges, and the oyle of violets & do make a plaister. Or els I doe take pitch, and do liquifie it in y ^e oyle of Roses, putting a little doue dunge to it, & dregges of wine or ale and make plaisters.

For Macula in Oculo looke in y ^e chapter named Tarphati.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a corrupt bloud in the head, & some doth say that it doth come of a bilous bloud intrused in the head, and some sayth it doth come of weakenes of the braine the which letteth a man to sléepe, and he that can not sléepe must nedes haue an ydle brayne, and some say it is a turning vp so downe in the head, the which doth make the madnes.

A remedy.

First in the chamber wher the pacient is kept in, let ther be no picters nor painted clothes about the bed or chamber, [Page] than vse in the Chamber all thinges that is redolent & of sweete sauours, and kepe the pacient from musing & studi­ing, and vse mirth and mery communicatiō, and vse the pa­cient so that he do not hurt himselfe nor no other ma [...], and he must be kéept in feare of one man or an other, & if néede require he must be punished and beaten, and giue him thrée times a day warme meate, and vse to eate Cassia fistula, and Epithime vsed is very good.

The cause of these infirmities.

¶ These infirmities doth come either by corruption of blud, or els thorow a humour, or els thorow the heate of y ^e liuer, or els thorow the ariditie of coller.

A remedy.

First he that wil be whole in the body & handes, let him vse to wash the hands oft in a day, specially in y ^e morning and after diner & supper, & for any impediment in y ^e handes take of dere suet an vnce, of Malowes thrée handfuls, of wa­ter two pintes, of secke a pinte, séeth all this together & di­uers times in a day specially morning & euening wash the hands and kepe them warme out of the winde. Or els take of the pouder of Enula campana rootes an vnce & a halfe, of bores grece iii. vnces, of mercury mortified with fasting spittle an vnce & a halfe, of Camphire a dram and a halfe, incor­porate all this together, and morning and euening anoynt the handes and kéepe the handes warme from the winde.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impediments doth come of distemperance of the bo­dy and of superfluous and moyst humours, or disordering of the midwife, in disordering any woman when she should be deliuered.

A remedie.

If it come thorow suffocacion. Take of Betony leues halfe an vnce, stampe it small and drinke it with white wine and smell to Galbanum and Serapine and make a perfume of Iuneper, either of olde lether and sit ouer it, or els take of Piony séedes iii. drames, drinke it with Mellicrate. If the matrix doe fall out, fyrst wash the place twyse or thryse with white wine, or els take of Iuneper cut in péeces thrée vnces, of Mirtiles thrée vnces, seth this in running water, & wash the place two or thrée times, than take of Galbanum thrée drames, drink it with red wine, euery thing that will helpe the falling out of a mans foundemēt will helpe this impe­diment, wherfore looke in the Chapter named Anus.

For Melanchima looke in y ^e chapter named Melankyron.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie doth come of the maliciousnes of melan­coly the which doth bring in death, for melancoly and death be concurrant together.

A remedy.

If a man haue the blacke Iawnes with a Feuer quartaine I do remit him to y ^e mercy of god, if ther may be any remedy purge melācoly, & thē do as I haue writtē in y ^e Feuer quar­taine, & for y ^e blacke Iaunes without a feuer quartaine, first purge melācoly with pillule Indie, & pillule Lucis, pillule de lapide Lazuli, Pillule Sebely, & a cōfection of mus ke is good.

To acute and to make quicke a mans memory and vnderstanding.

Vse the confection of Anacardine, and to sauour Amber de grece, and to other odiferous sauours.

The cause of this matter.

¶ The cause of this mater is that God hath ordeyned it to all women from .xv. yéeres of their age or there a bout, to l. and as long as a woman can bring forth their flowers or haue their termes, so long they may bring forth fruite and haue children or els not.

¶ A remedy for them that hath not their termes, & for them that hath to much of them, and a remedy for them that haue them vnnatuarlly.

If a womans termes do flow to much, exhaust two or thrée vnces of bloud out of a veine named Cephalica, or els Basilica, or els of Both Sophenes, then let hir vse to drinke of the iuice of Tansy, & of the iuice of Plantaine with red wine. If a womā haue not their terms, take of Materwort, of Isope, of Organum, of Calamint, of Colloquintida, of Ca­lamus, Aromaticus, and of Ameos & such like, and take thē in simples or compound, & vse it ix. times, one day after an other, twise or thryse.

The cause of this impediment.

¶ The original of this infirmitie doth come of an euil melā ­coly humour, and of a stubberne heart, and running to farre in fantasies, or musing or studying vpon things y ^e his rea­son can not comprehend, such persons at length wil come and be very natural fooles, hauing gestes with thē, or els peuish fantasticall matters nothing to the purpose and yet in their conceyt doe thinke themselues wise.

A remedy.

First in the beginning let them beware of melācoly meats, and let them vse cōpany, & not be alone nor to muse of this thing nor of that matter, but to occupy him in some manuel operation, or some honest pastime, and let them purge melā ­coly, and vse to eate Cassia fistula, and vse myrth, sport, play, and musicall instruments, for ther is nothing doth hurt this impediment so much as doth musing and solicitudenes. For this matter looke in the Chapter named Mania.

A remedy to purge coller and melancoly if it be superfluous or vnnaturall.

Catholicon and Diaphenicon, and Polypody and such like, be good to purge coller, & melancoly humours Yeraruffini, and as it doth appere more largely in y ^e Dyetary of health.

For Meri, looke in the Chapter named Isophagus.

For Mentagra looke in the Chapter named Lichen & in the Chapter named Morbus gallicus, and in the Chapters named Variole and Morbillia.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of corruption of bloud & fleume

A remedie.

First purge bloud and fleume, as it doth appeare in their Chapters, and vse the medicines specified in the chapter na­med Vlcus or Vlcera.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come thorow official siknes, cōmō sik­nes or cōsimyl siknes, for this mēber named in y ^e intrach is sēsible, therfore many accidētal infirmities doth hapē vnto it.

A remedy.

First kepe the belly warme, and as the cause of the sicknes doth come, so minister the medicines.

For Mitra loke in the Chapter named Matrix.

For Mirach loke in the Extrauagantes, in the next boke after this.

Meceraice be certaine veines so named. Loke in the An­thomy in the Introduction to knowledge.

The cause of this infirmitie.

These infirmities doth come either natural or els accidētal. If it do come naturally or by nature, fewe Phisicions can helpe it, but they can mitigate the paine of the infirmitie. If it do come accidentally, it may be holpen.

A remedy.

First for him that can not hold his water, take of Mushreōs otherwise named Tode stooles ii. vnces, of y ^e scales of Iron the which is about a Smithes Handfile an vnce & a halfe, stāpe these two things together in a brasē morter as fine or as subtil as one may do it, & then put it in a quart of red wine, & let it stand iiii. or v. houres, then strain it & drinke it morning & euening ix. sponefuls at a time, & if nede require [Page] make fresh & fresh. Or els take of Enula Campana rootes, of A [...]orns, of either of thē two vnces, make fine ponder of thē & drink it at times with the iuice of Plantain, & saincte Iohns wort sod with red wine. Or els take a Goats blader or a sh [...]pes bladder, or a Bulles bladder, make pouder of it & drink it with vineger or water, and drink it morning & euening iii. daies. If a mā can not pisse, take of Mellifoly .ii hādfuls, of Percely ii. handfuls, of Nettles or Nettle séedes an vnce & a halfe, cōpound al this together and infuce it in white wine & drink it morning & euening ix. sponefuls at a time, & anoint the raines of the backe and the sides and flākes with conies grece. Or els take of the rootes of Rapes, of Burres, of Dockes, of Persely, of Nettls, of ech two vn­ces, seth al this in white wine & drink of it morning & eue­ning, & of the substance make a plaister and lay it ouer the sides & the belly. If a man do pisse bloud, take of Alkaken­ge, of Burres, of either an vnce, of Musherons an vnce con­fect this with the sirupe of Roses, & drink iii. sponefuls at a time. Or els take of horehoūd, of mader, of ech ii. vnces, stāp it & drink it with vineger. If it burne in the end of y ^e yerd, take thā of the séedes of Goordes, & of the seedes of Citrulles excoriated, of ech ii. vnces, infuse it in the water of hawes, & vse to drink of it, and anoint the cods & the raynes of the backe with it, and oyle of Nunifer.

For Muime loke in the Chapter named Memoria.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of grosse humours the which be ingendred in the matrix, making a woman to thinke y ^t she is with childe when she is not with childe.

A remedy.

First let her beware of eating of any meats the which doth ingender wynde, than let her vse stuphes & take than this medicine, take of Moderwort, of Garmander, of Calamint, of Betony, of ech an vnce & a halfe, of Anys séeds, of Fenel séedes an vnce, of Calamus Aromaticus, of Cipres, of eche an vnce, of white vineger two vnces, of Roset hony an vnce make a sirup of this & purge this matter with Theodoricō and vse Stuphes, and let the midwife for water occupye Petrosium, euery thing that is good for Abhorsion is good for this impediment named Mola matricis.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of the corruption of humours, reflecting more to a perticuler place thē to vniuersal places, & it is much like to a Fystle, for and if it be made whole in one place it will breake out in an other place.

A remedy.

For this matter let euery man make frendes to the kinges maiestie, for it doth perteine to a king to help this infirmity, by the grace the which is giuen to a king anointed. But for as much as some men doth iudge diuers times a Fistle or a French pocke to be the kings euil, in such matters it beho­ueth not a king to meddle withal, except it be thorow & of his boūtiful goodnes to giue his pitifull and gracious coun­cell. For kinges & kinges sonnes & other noble men hath béen eximious Phisicions, as it appeareth more largely in y ^e Introduction of knowledge, a booke of my making.

For Morbus caducus and Morbus comicialis, loke in the Chapter named Epilepsia

For Morbus aquatus, loke in y ^e Chapter named Hicterica.

The cause of this sicknesses.

The cause of these impediments or infirmities doth come many wayes, it may come by lying in the shetes or bed ther where a pocky person hath the night before lien in, it may come with lying with a pocky person, it may come by sitting on a draught or sege, ther wher a pocky person did lately sit, it may come by drinking oft w ^t a pocky persō, but specially it is taken when one pocky person doth sinne in lecherie y ^e one with an other. All the kindes of the pockes be infectious.

A remedy.

Take y ^e grece of a bore y ^t skin clene picked out, y ^e weight of a pound, of y ^e pouder of brimstone iii. vnces of pouder of oy­ster shels .ii. vnces, of verdigrece y ^e weight of xii. d. y ^e inward barke of y ^e braunches of a vine .v. vnces, thā stamp al this to­gether in a morter & anoint y ^e body, specially as nigh y ^e sores as one may, & thē lay y ^e person in a bed & cast clothes inough ouer him, let him swete .xx. or xxiiii. houres, do this iii. times in ix. dayes, & after that take an easy purgation, & take of the water of Plantaine halfe a pynte, of Mercury sublimated y ^e weight of viii.d. of Roch Alom halfe an vnce, make pouder of it, and mixe all together, and with a fether anoint y ^t pla­ces. Or else take of Turpentine wel washed an vnce, of Le­terge, of burnt Alome, of ech an vnce, myxe this together, than take two vnces of the fatnes of a gote or a kydde, & a­noynt the places. Or els take of fresh butter an vnce & a half of Barowes grece halfe a pound, of olde Treacle an vnce, of Metridatum halfe an vnce, of quicke siluer mortified the weight of vi. grotes, of Lyterge and salte of eche halfe an vnce, myxe all this together and make an oyntment.

The cause of this infirmitie.

¶ These infirmities doth come by default of the nutritius vertue, or by vsing venerious actes in youth.

A remedie.

¶ If the place be pricked and will not bléede, the Morphewe is not curable. If it do bléede, take of Rapes, of Roket, of eche an vnce and a halfe, stampe it with Vynegre, and after that washe the place. Or els take of a Cowe horne, & burne it, and with Vineger wash the place, or els take earth of Affrick and mixe it with Vineger and wash the place oft.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a grosse & superfluous hu­mour, of corruption of bloud, and of coller adusted.

A remedy.

Take of shéepes doung an vnce, bray it with Hony & a lit­tle of vineger, & make a plaister, or a suppositor, or a tent. Or els take of Rue an vnce, Salt peter halfe an vnce, bray this together and make a plaister. Oo els pare as depe of y ^e mat­ter as the pacient may suffer, & drope then vppon the place red waxe, as one will do to an agnell.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of abundance of na­ture, or els of little nature, it may come by the vengeance of God, or by vnnaturall copulacion betwixt man & woman, or to meddle with any vnresonable beast of one kinde to co­ple with any other beast of a contrary kinde.

A remedy.

In this matter God must onely remedy it, and folow the councell of sainct Paule, saying, Masculus super feminam in timore Dei. This is to vnderstand, betwixt man and wife, the which may lefully and lawfull vse the act of matrimony, and other persons can not do so without deadly sin: & beasts, to vse them selues contrary to their kind, I do couple thē to­gether vnreasonable to reasonable, vsing not reason.

The cause is shewed.

A remedy.

First take a sponge and put it in hot water and wring out the water and lay it hot to the place, do thus diuers times & than cuppe the place, and after that make a playster of Tria­cle [Page] and lay it to the place. And for the stinging of a waspe or bée, or Hornet, put ouer the place colde Stele.

The cause of this matter.

¶ This matter doth spring of an euil education or bringing vp, and of a sensual and a peruerse minde, not fearing God nor worldly shame.

A remedie.

Phisicke can not helpe this matter, but onely God & great sicknes may subdue this matter.

Vt mulier non cocat cum alio viro nisi cum proprio. &c. Beleue this matter if you will.

¶ Take the gale of a Gote and the gal of a Wolfe, mixe thē together, & put to it the oyle of Olyue ETNVS virga. Or els take y ^e fatnes of a Gote that is but of a yéere of age ETNVS virga. Or els take the braines of a Choffe & mix it with hony ETNVS virga. But y ^e best remedy y ^e I do know for this matter, let euery man please his wife & beat hir not, but let hir haue hir owne will as I haue sayd.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come thrée maner of wayes, the first is thorow abundance of rume. Or els it doth come thorowe some Apostumacion lying betwixt the braine and the Or­ganes of the nosethrilles, or it may come by some Apostuma­cion growing in the nosethrilles.

A remedie.

First take sternutacions and gargarices, & vse once or twyse in a wéeke a drame of pills of Cochée, and vse labour or wal­king, and beware of drinking of wine, and abstaine from the fatnes of Samon, the fatnes of Conger, & the fatnes of Eles, as it doth appere in the Chapter named Reuma.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impedimēts doth come either by great labour, going a fote, or riding vpon an euill horse in a naughtie saddle.

A remedy.

There is nothing better then to rub, anoynt, or greze the place with a tallow candell, and they that hath great but­ockes before they do trauell, let them anoint themselues betwixt the buttockes with oyle Olyue.

The cause of these infirmities.

If nature do wast and consume it doth come thorow some sicknes, and if it be putrified it doth come thorowe the cor­ruption of the bloud.

A remedy.

Fyrst heale the cause, that is to say, heale the sicknes, and clense the bloud, & all thinges that is swéete is nutritiue, and doth encrease nature.

¶ For Naucea looke in the Chapter named Abhominacio stomachi.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come many wayes, as by great liftīg, or great straining, or to much medling with womē, & it may come by kind, or by eating of euil meates ingēdring y ^e stone.

A remedy.

Claryfeyed with the yolkes of egges is good for the back, and so is Muscudell and bastarde dronke next a mans heart. Also these oyles be good for the back, oyle of Alabaster, oyle of Scorpions, oyle of Nunifer, otherwise named the oyle of water Lillies, and such like, & beware of Costiuenes, & vse clisters or suppositers, and vse the medicines the which be in the Chapter named Lithiasis.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of rume, & of y ^e grossenes of blud.

A remedy.

First giue the pacient a Drame of pils Aggregate, and than make incision vnder this maner, cut the skin crosse­wise, lift vp the skin and cut out the matter, and wash the place with white wine and lay downe the skin, and then minister salue to heale it.

Nephoi, looke in the Chapter named Renes.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of an humour, y ^e which doth ly before the sight, & it may come of daseling of a mans eies v­pon the sun, or els of small printed letters, or such like.

A remedy.

First purge the head and the stomake with pilles of Co­chée and vse gargarices and sternutacions, & beware of co­stiuenes and of the occasion of the impediment.

The cause of these impedimentes.

The impediments which doih fortune to the sinewes may come by cutting of a sinewe, or by strayning, or by starke­nesse, or by the crampe, or such like matter or causes.

A remedy.

If a sinewe be cut in sunder there is no remedy to make it whole, if impediments do come to the sinewes thorow the crampe, looke in the Chapter named Spasmos. If any im­pediment do come otherwayes, vse the oyle of Turpentine and netes foote oyle.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of corruption of fleumatike hu­mours mixt with putrified bloud.

A remedy.

First for matter beware of surfeting, & late eating & drink­ing. And for this impedimēt I do neither minister medicins nor yet no salues, but I do wrap a little clout ouer or about it, & as it doth come, so I do let it go, for & a man for euerie trifling sicknes & impedimēt shuld run to the Phisiciō or to the Chirurgion, so a man should neuer be at no point with himself as long as he doth liue. In great matters a ske sub­stanciall counsell, & as for small matters let thē passe ouer.

For Nodi looke in the Chapter named Dabaleth.

For Noctilopi looke in the Chapter named Nictalopia.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of late drinking or euil dyet.

A remedy.

The chiefe remedy is, not to touch nor meddle with it, but looke as it doth come, so let it go, & beware of eating of gar­like and onyons and such like, and drinke not to much hot wines, and vse the medicines the which be in the Chapter named Salsum flegma.

For Nucha looke in the Extrauagantes in the end of this booke.

For Nuretitur loke in y ^e secōd booke in y ^e Extrauagāts.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of reume or some ventositie, or of some colde humor lying about the braine, it may come of solicitudenes or great study, occupyīg y ^e memory so much that it is fracted, and the memory fracted, there must néedes then be obliuiousnes, & it may come to yoūg men and wo­men when their mind is bréeched.

A remedy.

First beware & eschewe all such thinges as do make or in­gender obliuiousnes, & than vse the cōfection of Anacardine, and smell to odiferous & redolēt sauours, and vse the things or medicines the which is specified in the chapter named A­nima and Memoria. A medicine for bréeched persons, I do not know except it be Vnguentum baculinum, as it doth ap­pere in the Chapter named the Feuer lurden.

For Ocdema looke in the Chapter named Vndemia.

For Occomia loke in y ^e Extrauagāts in y ^e end of this boke.

These thinges be good for the eyes.

¶ Euery thing that is gréene or blacke, is good for a [Page] man to looke vpon it. Also to looke vpon Golde is good for the sight, so is glasse, cold water and euery colde thing, ex­cept the winde, is good for the eies and no hotte thing, nor warme thing is good for the eies, except womans milke and the bloud of a doue.

These things be euil for the eyes.

Euery thing that is hot is naught for the eies, the sun, the fire, the snow, and euery thing that is white is not good for the sight, and smoke, weping, the wind, sicknes, rume, reding in smal printed bokes, specially greeke bookes, and onyons, garlike, chybolles, and such like, be not good for the eyes.

To clarify the eyes and the sight.

Take of the séedes of Ocult Christi, & put into the eies ii. iii. or iiii. séedes, or els take cold water & with a fine linnen cloth wash the eies diuers times in a day, the ofter the bet­ter & change the water oft that it may be fresh and colde.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow rume that causeth the murre, or by some appostumacion or humour the which doth opilate and stoppe the Organs of smelling, or thorowe some fleshly apostumacion the which doth grow in the nose­thrilles.

A remedy.

Take the water or vrine of an Hart, and instill it into the Nosethrilles diuers times fasting, and vse sternutacions, & also for this impediment is good to vse gargarices.

¶ Opilacio is the latin worde. In English it is na­med opylacion or stopping, that a man can not take na­turallye in and expell out of his bodye the ayre requy­sitie [Page 87] beside other members the which may be opilated as it doth more plainly appere in the Chapters of this booke.

For Ophiasis looke in the Chapter named Alopecia.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow the attraction of the si­newes and for lacke of blude, it may come by a feare or an­ger, or by a strayne.

A remedy.

For this matter beware of anger and feare, and vsing of ve­nerious actes after replectiō, and then take of musterd sedes made in fine pouder and vnce, put it into vineger, & thā vse fricaciōs & great rubbing about y ^e neck & forehead & the tēples.

Optique and some do name it Oblique is a sinew that doth rule the eye, and it hath two braunches.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a colde reumatike humour, or els of a corrupt bloud mixt with coller as aūtient doctours doth declare, but I say it may come accidētally, as by a stripe or a blow with a mans fist, or such like matter, for if there [Page] were no cause of an infirmitie there should be no sicknes, & if ther be no sicknes a man shal liue as long as bind & nature is in him, and this impediment may come by Melancoly.

A remedie.

If it do come of a reumaticke humour, y ^e eyes will be infla­ted, and therefore purge the cause with Yeralogodion ruf­fie, and pills of Turbyth doth in like maner purge the cause. If it doe come by corruption of bloud myxt with coller, red­nes & blewnes & heate aboue the eye will shew the cause, & thā take y ^e confection of Anacardine. If it come of a melan­coly humour, the eies wil be dry without moisture, thā take the confection of Muske: and if it do come by coller, than is heate and pricking in the eyes, and it will trouble a man, as if there were dust or grauell in the eyes, than vse Diaci­tonicon, and pillule Stomatice.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a reume myxt with corrupt bloud, the which hath a recourse more to that place than to a­ny other place.

A remedy.

Take of Affodyll, an handful, seth this in whyte wine, & thā bray it and make a plaister & lay it to the place & vse it oft.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come either of y ^e malice of y ^e lūgs or els of opilaciō of y ^e pipes, or els it may come thorow viscus fleme

A remedy.

First vse a Ptisane, & Locsanū de pino & after that vse once or twise a wéeke, pills of Cochée, & other easy purgations, & beware of eating of Nuts and hard chese, & crustes of bread, and such like thing, & aboue all beware of all Costiuenes.

For Orthomia, looke in the Chapter named Disma.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impedimēts doth come thorow reume, or els of fu­mositie or heate of the liuer or stomake, or els of some col­lerike humour.

A remedy.

First purge reume with pilles of Cochée, if y ^e cause come of reume. If it do come of coller, purge coller w ^t pillulis Sto­maticis. If it do come of heate of the lyuer or the stomake, qualify the heate with cold herbes, as Endyue, Cycory, Dā ­delion, Sowthistle, and such like herbes, and surfeting & late drinking.

The cause of this infirmitie

This infirmitie doth come either for lacke of slepe or els it doth come before a feuer, or some other infirmitis, or else by lusknes, brother to the Feuer lurden.

A remedy.

Take away the cause, & take away the impediment, & sléepe wel in the morning, & not in the day time as y ^e after none. &c.

The cause of this infirmitie.

The causes be shewed in the prenominated infirmities, as it doth appere in the third Chapters.

A remedy.

For a remedy looke in the chapters named Lethargos, Me­moria, and Cancer.

For Onex looke in the Chapter named Piosis.

For Oysophagos loke in the chapter named Isophagus.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of a filthy & euil humor y ^e which doth come frō y ^e braī, & hed ingēdred of rume & corrput blud

A remedy.

In this matter rume must be purged, as it doth appere in y ^e chapter named Reuma, than picke not the nose, nor touch it [Page 89] not, except vrgent causes causeth the contrary, & vse garga­rices & sternutacions. I will coūsell no man to vse vehemēt or extreme sternutacions for perturbating y ^e braine. Gentle sternutacions is vsed after this sort. First a man rising from slepe or coming sodēly out of a house, & loking into y ^e elemēt or sun, shal nese twise or thrise, or els put a straw or a rish into y ^e nose & tickle y ^e rish or straw in y ^e nose, & it will make sternutacions, the pouder of pepper, y ^e pouder of Eliborus al­bus snuft or blowen into the nose doth make quicke sternu­tacions. But in this matter I do aduertise euery mannot to take to much of these pouders at a time, for troubling y ^e se­cond principall member which is the braine, & they y ^e which will not nese stop the nosethriles with the fore finger & the thombe vpon the nose, & not with in the nosethrils, and if they would they can not nose, all maner of medicines not­withstanding, how be it I would counsell all men taking a thing to prouocke such matters to make no restrictions.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of an hot colericke humour.

A remedie.

¶ Take of the oyle of Roses an vnce, of the oile of Henbane halfe an vnce, of Vineger thrée sponefuls, incorporate this to­gether and anoynt the fingers and the nailes, or els anoynt the nailes with eare waxe.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either by heat of the sunne, or by heate the which doth fume from the liuer & the stomake.

A remedie.

First anoynt the face with the oyle of sower Almons, and vse to drinke oft of whay the which doth come of chéefe. Or els take shepes dunge and bray it with Vineger, and to bed­ward anoynt the face vi. or vii. nightes.

For Panus perteyning to the eye, looke in the Chapter after Peripneumonia.

The cause of this matter.

The cause why it is more harder payne & ieoperdy with one woman than w ^t an other, whē they should be deliuered, is y ^e one woman is not so strong of cōplexion as an other womā is, & peraduenture y ^e childe is turned in the mothers body, & that the head doth not come first, then there is great perill.

A remedy.

If the head of the childe do not come forth first, the midwife than must turne the chyld y ^t the head may come forth first, & let y ^e midwife anoint hir hand with y ^e oyle Oliue. Also if the woman be in extreme labour, let hir take y ^e iuice of Dipta­ny a drame, with, the water of Fenugreke, or els take of Se­rapine an vnce, & drinke it at thrée times with the water of Cheries, & kepe y ^e woman moderately in a temperate heat.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of superabundance of corrupt bloud, or els of rume, or els of some hurt.

A remedy.

First be let bloud in a veyne named Cephalica, & than vse gargarices and sternutacions, and vse pilles of Cochée, & put into the eare with wol y ^e oyle of Béen. I do not speake of y ^e oyle of Benes, but an oyle made of Béen the which y ^e Poti­caries hath, & vse for this matter, y ^e medicines the which shal be most conuenient specified in the Chapter named Aures. For Perocela looke in y ^e chapter named Ramex or Ramicer.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of hot blud, or of a bilous humour, & otherwhile it doth come of a melancoly humour.

A remedy.

First be let bloud of a veyne named Cephalica, if so be that age and strength will permit it, with a conuenient time. As for any other local medicines or plaisters, I aduertise al persones not to smatter to much with the impediment, for it will were away by it selfe.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a venemous humour soden­ly ingendred vnder or about the naile.

A remedy.

As I did say in the Chapter named Noma, that I would not counsell a man for euery trifeling sicknes to go to phisick or Chirurgery, let nature operate in such matters in expul­sing such humours, and meddle no further.

¶ The causes of Palseys.

A Palsey doth come, whether it be vniuersall or perticu­ler, by reuolucion or els compressiō of y ^e neruous or sinewes, and by opilacion or stoping of the bloud which hath not his true course nor recourse, and that doth come vnder this ma­ner either it doth come by a greate anger, or els of a greate feare, it may also come by extreme colde ryding, or going in [Page 91] an impetuse winde.

A remedy.

First vse a good dyet, and eate no contagious meates, and if néede bée, vse clisters, & anoint the bodie with the oyles of Laury and Camomill, but whether the Palsey be vniuersal or perticuler, I do anoint y ^e body with the oyle of Turpen­tine compound with Aqua vite, and vse fricacions or rub­bynges with the handes, as one would rubbe with grece an olde payre of bootes, not hurting the skin nor y ^e pacient. And I do geue y ^e pacient Treacle w ^t y ^e pouder of peper, or els Me­tridatum with peper, or els take of Diatrapiperion. And if one wil, he may rub y ^e pacient with y ^e rootes of Lillies braied or stamped, after y ^e vse dry stuphes, as the pacient is able to abide. Or els take a Foxe, & with the skin & al y ^e body quar­tered, & with y ^e heart, liuer, & lungs, & the fatnes of y ^e intrails, stones & kidnes, seth it long in rūning water with Calamīt and balme, and Carawaies, and bath the pacient in the wa­ter of it, and the smell of a Foxe is good for the Palsey.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment most commonly doth infest or doth hap­pen to young persons the which be hardly brought vp, going bare foted or with euyll shoes, and it doth come of extreme colde and fleumatike humoures

A remedy.

For the kybes beware the snowe do not come to the héeles, & beware of colde, nor prick, nor pick the kibes, kéepe them warme with wollen clothes, & to bedward wash y ^e héeles & y ^e féete with a mans propre vrine, and with netes fote oyle.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come by the corruption of hot hu­mours with sweat, or else of rancknesse of the bodie, or else by vncleane keping, or lying with lowsie persons, or else not changing of a mans shert, or else lying in a lowsy bed.

A remedie.

Take of the oyle of Bay an vnce & a halfe, of Stauisacre made in fine pouder half an vnce, of Mercury mortified with fasting spittle an vnce, incorporate all this together in a ves­sell vpon a chafing dish of coles, and anoint the bodie. I doe take onely the oyle of Bayes with Mercury mortified, and it doth helpe euery man and woman, except they be not to ranke of complexion.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come of corrupt & grose flume, & cer­taine times it doth come of catarue, & some times of a plu­risie, & it may come of superabūdance of other grose humors.

A remedie.

In this matter I doe praise a Ptisane made as it doth ap­pere in the chapter named Tussis, and the medicine which doth serue for a Pluresie and for the cough, is good for this impediment, the matter perstructed in due order & fashion in the ministracion of the medicines.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of corrupcion of the liuer, and of a waterish bloud, or of coler.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with pilles of Fumitorie the grea­ter, of Pilles Aggregatiue, of Agaricke, of eche a scruple, make than pilles and eate them, and vse a good and a tempe­rate dyet, as well in meates as in drinkes.

For Petia in oculo, looke in the second booke named the Ex­trauagants.

For Pectus looke in y ^e Extrauagāts in the end of this booke.

For Oepsis looke in the Chapter named Digestio.

No remedie.

If this Pia mater or pellicle be pereill there is no remedie but death.

For Phthiriasis, looke in the Chapter named Pediculacio. For Phlebothomia, looke in the Chapter named Flebotho­mia.

The cause of this infirmitie.

For the Phrenise the cause is shewed, how be it some hol­deth opinion that a Phrenise doth come of a bilous humour oppressing the braine, and some say it is an inflacion of the braine, the which doth perturbate the reason, and doth make a man out of reason. The accident phrenise doth come two wayes, the one is thorow a hot fume ascending from the sto­make to the braine. The other is thorow colligacion of the nerues or sinewes which the braine hath with the midriffe.

A remedie.

First let the pacient bloud of a veine named Cephalica, than shaue the head and anoint it with the oyle of Roses, or else wash the head with Rose water and vineger, and if the pacient can not sléepe, vse dormitaries, and kéepe him as it is specified in the Chapter named Mania.

For Pharmacia looke in the Chapter named Medicina.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of colericke humours boiling vnder the skin, penitrating the flesh a little, if it be as some doe say it is a bladder, than it doth come of a waterish hu­miditie, and then this impedimēt may come as well thorow skalding as by labour or any other waye, some doth name this impediment Macula in oculo.

A remedie.

First purge coller as it doth appere in the Chap. named Co­lera, and than vse Colirions, or else vse the water of Plan­taine with Tuttie loted, & euer vse cold things to the eyes, & beware of hot and warme things to be put into the eyes.

Pastinaco is the latin word. It is taken for a sicknesse, as well as for a persnep.

For Pili, looke in the Chapter named Capillus.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of great ease and grose or of lasciuious feeding, it may come also by nature.

A remedy.

The best remedy that I doe know is to vse purgacions, and with meate & potages or sewes is to eate much pepper, & vse electuary of Lacher, & vse gargarices and sternutacions, as is specified in the Chapter named Ozinei.

For Pitariosis looke in the Chapter named porrigo.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of viscus reume other while mixt with a salt humor, & it may come of corruptiō of rume.

A remedy.

First purge reume, the head & the stomake, with pilles of Cochee, & beware of eating of viscus meates, the which will adhere or cleue to the fingers, beware of smoke, and diuers t [...]mes in the day clense the eyes with cold water, dipping a fine linnen cloth in the water, and drop on the eyes.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come thorow caliditie and inflasions from the raines of the backe, or else it doth come of inflasi­ons of the veines in the yerde and stones, it may come by the vsage of venerious actes.

A remedy.

First anoint the yerde and coddes with the oyle of Iuneper and the oyle of Camphory is good. And so is Agnus castus, brayed and made in a plaister and layd vpon the stones, and let Priests vse fasting, watching, euill fare, hard lodging, & great study, & flee from all maner occasions of lechery, and let them smell to Rue, Vineger, and Camphire.

The cause of this matter.

This matter doth come of the humiditie or moisters of bloud, and specially of fleume, and otherwhile of reume a­bounding in the head, discending by the Vuela.

If the spettil be superfluous without viscusnesse, clense the head & stomake with pilles of Cochée. If it be viscus, purge the head and stomake with pillulis also of Cochée. For this matter looke in Sputum, in the Extrauagants in the ende of this booke.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a fumish bloud, & of an hastie heart, which doth perturbate either y ^e ioynts, or else y ^e heart & stomake with y ^e brest, it may also come of great heate or extreme cold by y ^e north winds, & it may come by dronkennes.

A remedie.

First if the part be cōstupated, take easy purgaciōs, as Cas­sia fistula, or else vse suppositers or clisters, & I haue knowē olde auncient doctors in this matter, vse phlebothomie, the which I did neuer vse in this matter, cōsidering the pericu­lisnes of it. In this matter a Ptisane is good, or else the wa­ters of Malowes, Violets, Buglose, or Borage, with Suger candie, and vse a cleane & a good diet, as well in meats as in breads & drinks, as a light bread being xxiiii. houres olde is laudable, stale drinke & meates light of digestiō I do praise, &c. And for Pluritis looke in the Chap. Pulmonia, in the Extrauagants in the ende of this booke.

Plura is a thin pannicle y ^e which doth couer the ribs in the which diuers times is engendred an impost. called Pluritis.

The cause of these impedimentes.

These impediments doth come of grose humors the which be viscus, descending out & from the head to the nose or nose­thrilles, it may also come of melancoly humor, or else it may come of hurting the nose.

A remedie.

Take the pouder of Dragagant with a little hony, & make a tent & introduce it into the nose or nosethrils. Or els take the iuice of black Iuy & with a little cotton make a tent, and introduce it or put into the nosethrils.

For Piritasta, looke in the Chapter named Combustio.

The cause of these infirmities.

These infirmities doth come of euil dyet sitting or standing long a dice, cardes, or long studying or such like thinges, ta­king extreme coldnes in the féete, it may come of late drink­ing, or it may come by nature, or els longe standing or sit­ting at writing or studying.

A remedy.

First reforme euill dyet and surfeting, and than vse stuphes both wet & dry, & beware of drinking of wine, & vse to drink Idromel, & make plaisters of Treacle, or Mitridatū. Or els take of the iuice of Letyce & Womans milke, halfe an vnce, compound it with thrée egges, and warme lay it to the place thrée dayes. Or els take of y ^e cromes of whyte bread a poūd & more, of Cow milke a pinte, of the oyle of Roses iii. vnces, of the yokes of egges iii. of saffron the weight of ii.d. make of this a stiffe plaister, & vse it, & this is good for Chiragra.

The cause of this matter.

If it be voluntary they y ^t so doth offend in bogari. And they that so doth be those y ^e which saint Paul doth call thē moles which can not inherite the kingdom of heauen, and so do I say, without repentaunce & amendment. The other is inuo­luntary, which is to say, y ^t when nature doth depart against a mans will, the which doth come to a man thorow inbeci­litie & wekenes of the body. The other doth come sleping, & that may be as well voluntary as in voluntary, for it doth come of a foule lasciuious dreame, and if any delectatiō, wil, [Page] consent, or occasion had before the slepe & in the waking to delyte in the matter it is deadly sin, & so it is if it doo come by dronkennes then it is voluntary, & if it do come contrarily without any occasion or delectatiō, it is no sinne, for it doth come of superabundance of nature, or els thorow debilitie.

A remedy.

For the first, is no remedy but onely repentāce. For y ^e other the which be inuoluntary, if it do come by surfeting or dron­kennesse it is a deadly sin, & so it is if any voluntary preco­gitaciō doth come or is had before y ^e dreame or poluciō, they the which be infected with this passiō most cōmonly they be yoūg persones the which be vnmaried, & pristes that do liue chaste, therefore for this matter let thē pray & fast & lye hard, & vse no delicate meates & drinkes, y ^e which is a great pro­uocaciō to this foule impediment. I therfore aduertyse all those that be of strength to vse Phlebothomy, if this matter do come by imbecilitie or great weaknes after a sicknes, dis­may not y ^e matter, but vse good restoratiue meates & drinks within due order, without surfeting.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a great moister in the head and of reume, or else of a dry melancoly humour.

A remedy.

Take garlike & stamp it w ^t salt & anoint the place ix. times, or els take of Literge, of Auripigmēt, of eche an vnce, make fine pouder of it & mix it w ^t vineger & wash y ^e place ix. times.

For Precipitacio matricis, looke in the Extrauagants in the ende of this booke.

For Pruna looke in y ^e chapter named Ignis sancti Antoni.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of great humiditie in y ^e inferi­all partes of the body, specially in the orifice of y ^e matrix or else in the foūdemēt, or to y ^e partes adiacēt to y ^e saide places.

A remedy.

Take of red Sage an handfull, boyle it in fresh Butter, and with Cotton make a tent or suppositer. Or else take of ba­rowes grece two vnces, of Mercury mortified with fastinge spittle an vnce and a halfe, of Sage finely ground an hand­full, cōpound all this together, & then anoynt y ^e place. Or for this matter ordaine a good payre of nailes and rent the skyn and teare the fleshe and let out water and bloud.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come many wayes, it may come of a strype or by a fal, or by extreme labour & heate, or by great sicknesse, or by some strayne, or by breaking of some veyne, or drinking to much, specially wyne.

A remedy.

To restryct the bloud the which doth flowe out of a mans nose, lette him smell to an hogges torde, and lay the stones and coddes in vineger. If it be a woman lette hir laye her [Page] brestes in Vineger Dr [...]els exhaust an vnce or more of bloud our of a veyne named Cephalica.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of corruption of euil blud, the which would be out of the flesh, it may also come of fleume mixt with corrupt bloud the which doth putrifie the flesh, & so consequently the skin.

A remedy.

This I do aduertise euery man for this matter to ordeyne or prepare a good payre of nailes, to scrach and claw, and to rent and teare the skyn and the flesh, that the corrupt bloud may runne out of the flesh, and vse than purgations and stu­phes, and swéetes, & beware reuerberate not the cause in­ward with no oyntment, not claw not the skin with filthy fingers, but wash the handes to bedwarde.

The cause of these impedimentes.

If the scabbes be dry, it doth come of coller adusted, if they be moyst it doth come of the corruption of bloud.

A remedy.

Take of y ^e skurse of Iron y ^e which doth ly about a smithes handfile in handful, make smal pouder of it and put to it. ii. vnces of the pouder of Brimstone, confect or compound this together with hony & oyle Olyue, & anoynt the body. Or els take of the rootes of Burres. v. vnces, of the rootes of Enula campana. vii. vnces, broose or stamp this together and put to it two vnces of y ^e pouder of Brymstone, of Mercury morti­fied, [Page 97] thrée vnces, confect this together with Bores grece the skin pulled out, & compound all this together and anoint the bodie. For the drye scabbes, take of Sorel, of Organum, of eche three handfulls, stamp it and put to it the oyle of Hen­ban [...] and vineger, and anoint the bodie.

The cause of this infirmitie is shewed A remedy.

Olde men hauing this infirmitie, cherish thē w ^t restoratiue meates & drinkes, & let them beware of anger & hastinesse. Other medicines I doe knot know for natural cōsumpcion. For vnnaturall consumpcion, vse to eat milk with suger, & drinke no wine except it be Ipocras, & vse nutritiue and restoratiue meates, and morning & euening Diaisopus, or Diairis, or Diacalamint, or such lyke, and Locsanum is good for all men the which hath this infirmitie, & so is a Ptisane.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come and is ingendred of a ruma­ticke and a viscus humour congeled together.

A remedie.

In this matter ther is two wayes to make one whole. The fyrst is by wynding or cutting away the webbe with an in­strument. And the other is by a water to corrode & to eate away the webbe, it may be remedyed by the iuice of Hore­hounde, Oculus Christi, and Diaseris iniected into the eye. But I take onelie the iuice of Horehound and the juice of Licoryce, iniected int eh eyes is very good.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This impediment doth come of great cold, euill diet, & surfe­ting, it may come by great labour, lifting or straining.

A remedie.

A Ptisane is good for the Lungs, & so is the vsage of Lico­rice. Or else take of Sinamon, Galbanū, Castory .iii. drams, of Storax, Calamint, of Licorice, Of Dragagant, of eche a dram, of Opium, of Saffron, of eche v. drams, confect this together with Idromel, and make pilles of this & vse them, and eate no Nuttes, nor chéefe, nor Apples, and such lyke.

The cause of them.

The cause of the ingendring of flées cōmeth many wayes, they be ingendred of a corrupt dust, and the sweat of dogges doth ingender them, and so doth vnclene kéeping of houses and chambers, and beddes.

A remedy.

First kepe the chambers and house clene, and vse no olde Kishes nor bentes in the house, swéepe the house and cham­bers oft, and make the beddes betime in the morning, and lay a blanket on the ground in house or chamber, & all the fleas will leape into the blanket that is vpon the ground, and so may you take them, & straw the chamber with Wal­nut leues, and if thou wilt anoint the body with bitter Al­mons or with the oyle of wormewood.

For Pulmonia, looke in y ^e Extrauagāts in y ^e end of this boke

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of corruptiō of blud, and then they be red, or els doth come of abūdance of fleume and then they be white, or else it doth come of coller, then they be dry and harde. And if they be blacke it doth come of Melancoly, and they do signifie death, for melancoly hu­mours doth bring in death.

A remedy.

First looke what humour doth make the cause of y ^e impedi­mēt & purge it: and if nede be exhaust out of a veine named Cephalica .ii. or .iii vnces of blud or more, as age & strength will permit it, & to kil or heale exterially al such wheals [Page 99] the matter purged intierially, take of Ceruse, of literge, of either of them iii. drams, of burnt lead ii. drams, of the oyle of Roses, and Nightshade, of either of them ii. drams, incor­porate all this together and anoint the place, and if néede be compound of mortified Mercury with it, an vnce.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of to much humiditie flowing to the place there where the impostume is.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with pilles of Cochée, & vse a gar­garice, and if néede be exhaust ii. or iii. vnces of bloud out of a veine vnder the tongue, or else out of a veine named Ce­phalica.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of ariditie or of a drye colle­ricke humour.

A remedy.

Take of Rose leaues iii. handfulls, séeth it in white wine & wash the place ofte. Or else anoint the place with the oyle of Almons, or with the fatnesse of an Ele.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of a great heate and a sodeine colde taken vpon the heate, or else it may come lew­ring, halowing, or great crying, it may come of late drink­ing & late sitting vp, it may come by iniection of the inward parts, then it is a signe of leprousnesse.

A remedy.

Take of y ^e water of Scabious, of the water of Fenel, of the water of Licorice, of the water of Buglosse, of eche of them a pinte, of suger Candy a poūd, séeth this together, and mor­ning and euening drinke .ix. sponefulls.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of superabundance of reume, taken of colde or of a surfet.

A remedy.

First purge the head and stomake with pilles of Cochée, & vse gargarices and sternutacions. And for this matter looke in the Chapter named Coriza.

The cause of Reume.

Reume is ingendred in the head, which is a viscus hu­mour, and it is ingendred of taking of colde in the feete, and in the head and necke, and it may come thorow drinking of wine and strong ale, and it may come thorow surfeting and late sitting vp.

A remedy.

The vsage of Anacardine and sternutacions & gargarices, is very good, & purge the head with Yerapigra, & vse labour, walking, and smell to this ball. Take of Storax, Calamint, of Amber de Gréece, of eche a dram, of Cloues, of Mastix. ii. drams, of Muske iii. graines, of Lapdanum a dram, confect this together. &c.

For Rouschinechios looke in the Chapter named Menstrua.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of coldenesse in the guttes, or long fasting, or eating of fruites and windie meates, and it may come of euill dyet in youth.

A remedy.

First beware of colde and long fasting, and beware of ea­ting of fruits, porages, and sewes, and beware that the belly be not cōstupated or costiue, & vse dragges to breake winde. For Rupia, looke before & after the Chap. named Rancedo. For Reduuie, looke in the Extrauagants.

The cause of a Rupture.

A rupture doth come of crying, or else of a great lift, or of a great fall or broose, or leping vneasely vpon an horse, or cly­ming ouer a high hedge or stile, or by a great straine and vociferacion.

A remedie.

First make a trusse to kéepe in y ^e guts that they doe not fall out of the belly, & than take y ^e rootes of Knewholme iiii. vn­ces, of Polipody ii. vnces, of Auince an handfull & a halfe, of Centinody, of Mouseare, of eche of thē ii. handfulls, stamp al this together in a morter, & than infuse it in a quart of stale Ale, & let it stand iiii. or v. houres, then streine & drink of it morning & euening ix. sponefuls, continue this xxi. daies or more. If a rupture doe continue iii. yeres in a man, he can not be made whole without incision or cutting, for the belly at that side that the rupture is in must be cut, & the call or pellicle that the guts doth lye in must be cut away that doth hang out, & so must one of the stones, if the stone be putrifi­ed, and than must the Siphac be bounde & knit or sewed vp againe and than sered, and so than made whole with salues, this must be done of some expert chirurgion with the coūcel of some phisicion, the which hath both speculacion & practise.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either of the caliditie or heate of the liuer, or else of the malice of the stomake, it doth most cōmonly come of euil diet, & late drinking, & great surfeting.

A remedy.

Take of Bores grece the skin & straines clene picked out an vnce, of Sage finely stāped an handful, of Mercury mor­tified with fasting spittel an vnce, incorporate all this toge­ther and anoint the face to bedward. In the morning wipe the face with browne paper that is soft, and wash not the face in vi. or vii. dayes, and kéepe the pacient close out of the winde.

For Sabara, looke in the Chapter named Caros.

For Saphati, looke in the Chapter named Pustule.

For Sahara, looke in the Chapter named Subeth.

For Saliua, looke in the Chapter named Pituita.

For Sarcocela, looke in the Chapter named Ramex, or Ramicis.

The cause of bloud.

Bloud is ingendred of fleume, and fleume is ingendred of good meates and drinkes.

A remedie for bloud putrified or corrupted.

First vse stuphes and hathes and gentle purgacions, vse al­so meates of light digestion, & beware of grosse meates and euill drinkes, and of surfeting, and of to much repletion, and of venerious actes, specially after a full stomake.

For Saluatella a veine, looke in the Chapter of veines named Mediana.

For Sarcites, looke in the Chapter named Iposarea.

Sarcoides is named in English a poore. For this matter looke in the Extrauagants.

The cause why it cannot stand.

A man that is in great age, or spente, or being in sicknesse, or grace working aboue nature in man vnmaried, shal haue no erectiōs of his flesh to exercise any venerious acte, if any maryed man the which would haue this matter or desire & cannot thorow imbecilitie vse the acte of matrimony, I will shew my minde to them in the Chapter named Concepcio, and in the Chapter named Coitus.

A remedy.

Vse Diagalanga, and in the morning vse to eate ii. or thrée new layd egges rosted rere, & put into thē the pouder of the séedes of Netles with suger. Also all swéet things is nutri­tiue & helpeth in this matter. Also Ipocras, Elegāt, Basterd Muscadel, & Gascon wine is good for this matter, but now a daies few hath this impediment, but hath erection of y ^e yerd to sin. A remedy for y ^t is to leape into a great vessel of cold water or put netles in the codpece about y ^e yerde and stones.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of a vaporous humour, which doth perturbate the animall powers.

A remedie.

First let the pacient beware of drinking of wine, or strong drinks, they must beware of eating of Chibolles, Garlike & [Page] Onions, and all vaporous meates & drinkes, & let them vse pills of Cochee to purge the stomake & the head, & gargarices be good for this matter, and Yerapigra, and such men hauing this passion let them beware of climing or going vpon high Hilles or rounde stayres.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of hard lying on the hokil bones or lying on the ground, or vpon a forme, or such lyke harde thinges, it may come by a stripe or a great fall, and it will runne from the hokill bone to the knée, and from the knée to the ancle, and from the ancle to the little toe, & then it is past cure, and otherwhile this goute will haue reflection to the raines of the backe, and to the flankes, and it may come of a grosse fleumaticke humour.

A remedie.

The chiefest remedy that euer I did know practized is to a­noint the places with the oyle of turpentine and Aqua vite, compound together, and so to vse to anoint the place against the fire oft, and sere cloth of pitch be good.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a grosse fleume, and is like to an infirmitie named Dubaleth, and Glandule, concerning the rotunditie of the sicknesse, but it doth differ in quantitie of Schrophule, for the one is greater then the other.

A remedy.

First purge the matter with y ^e pilles named Hermodactilis. & after y ^e wash the place with decoctiō of Ireos & thā take of the rootes of Lyllies an vnce & a halfe, of Storax, Calamint halfe an vnce, incorporate this together with the mary of a Calfe, & make a plaister or plaisters & cōtinue with this .ix. dais: for this matter in Rome & Moūtpiller is vsed incistōs.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of hot and corrupt bloud mixt with coller.

A remedy.

Take of the oyle of wheate & myxe it with the oyle of egges and with a mans vrine wash & anoint the skin, or else take the water of burres, or séeth burres in water & wash y ^e body.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This skin or Call might nor may not be without the con­ception, and after the childe is conceiued and come to the li­niaments, forme and shape of a creature, there is a pellicle, a skin or a call, that doth grow incircūfecence about the childe, and when that doth breake the childe is redie to be borne, & then the childe doth come before, and the pellicle or skin doth come after, if it doe not folow after the childe is deliuered from the mother, the mother is in great daunger.

A remedy.

Drinke Penirial with posset Ale, and make a fume of Lapdanum.

For Sequibere, looke in the Chapter named Hictalopis.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of a grosse or viscus [Page 104] fleume, or else of a melancoly humour, and if it be whitish, it doth come of fleum, if it be swart it doth come of melācoly

A remedie.

First take the sirupe of Buglosse, and of the sirupe of Fu­mitery, of eche an vnce and a halfe, myxe them together and drinke it with the water of Fumitery, & than take Doues doung thrée vnces, of wheaten bran an handful, and séeth it in vineger and make plaisters.

A remedy.

If naturally a mans memory is tarde of wit & knowledge or vnderstāding, I know no remedy, if it come by great stu­dy or solicitudenes, breaking a mans mind about many matters the which he can not comprehend by his capacitie, & although he can comprehend it with his capacitie and the me­mory fracted from the pregnance of it, let him vse odiferous sauours & no contagious ayres, and vse otherwhyle to drink wine and smel to amber de grece, euery thing which is odi­ferous doth comfort the wittes, the memory & the sences, & all euill sauours doth hurt the sences and the memory, as it appereth in the Chapter named Obliuio.

The cause of the diseases.

This disease may come of great liftes & straines, broses or strypes, & it may come of medling to much of or with vene­rious actes, also a bone or bones in the backe may be disloca­ted or out of ioynt.

A remedy.

For the backe y ^e grece of a Fore, or the oyle of a Fox is good & so is the oyle of Spyke, or the oyle of Camomyll, or y ^e oile of mastike, or y ^e oyle of Lilies. In old causes the oile of Nu­nifer is good, & so is y ^e oyle of Alabaster, & the oile of Castory, and the oyle of Scorpions, and a pytch cloth is good.

For Siuanchi looke in the Chapter named Angina. Siphac is an Araby word, it is a pellicle or a skin growing out of y ^e midriffe which doth disend to y ^e spōdils of y ^e back. And doth sustaine y ^e stomake & y ^e guts, & endeth in y ^e nether part of the bely, & of this Siphac the two didimes be ingē ­dred [Page 105] the which doth discend to y ^e stones ouer a bone named pecten, for the didimes looke in .D.

The cause of this impediment.

These wormes be engendred of the corruption of bloud and fleume.

A remedy.

Take of quicke siluer mortified an vnce, compound it with blacke Sope and anoint the places.

Sintexis is the greke worde. In English it is named the weaknes & faintnes the which doth come after a great sick­nesse. A remedy is to eate good meates and drinkes, and to haue good cherishing.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of infection about the braine and the hart, making their opilacions, or els it doth come of some extreme sickenes, it may come thorow great heat and soden colde, and so conuerse, it may come of doing to much of venerious actes, doing more then a man is able to per­fourme, it may come by repletion, taking of superfluous meates and drinkes, it may come of & thorow great sweats, [Page] or sweating, or stuphes, or bathes, it may come of to much mirth, hauing to much myrth in fantasticall matters.

A remedy.

First & chiefely beware of the premisses, vse temperance, & than if such accident causes doe come, take and eate a race of grene Ginger, drinke a sponefull of Aqua vite, or else of A­qua composita, and rub the pulses of the braine and haire, with Rose water, and Vineger, and holde to the nose of the pacient redolent sauours.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a colde stomake or some euil humor about the heart, it may also come of to much drink­ing, & therfore many men doth name it y ^e drōken mans cough

A remedy.

For this matter a sponeful of Aqua vite, or Aqua composita is good, and so is a race of gréene ginger, or a race of Ginger pared and cut in iiii. or v. péeces, & to swalow them ouer one after an other, as whole as one can. Also Diatriapiperion is good for this matter, & so is burnt Malmesey or burnt Seck and so is Yera Constantini, & Yera simplex Galeni.

The cause of these infirmities.

This infirmitie doth come either of to much veneriousnes, [Page] specially vsed after a full stomake, it may come also tho­rowe debilitie & wekenes, for lacking of bloud and nature, and it doth come after a great sickenes.

A remedy.

The kinges maiestie hath a great helpe in this matter in halowing Crampe ringes, & so giuen without money or peticion. Also for the crampe take of the oyle of Lillies and Castory, if it do come of a colde cause. If it do come of a hot cause, anoint the sinewes with the oyle of water Lillies and willowes and Roses. If it do come of any other cause, take of the oyle of Euforbium, and Castory, and of Pyretory & confect or compounde all together and anoint the place or places with the partes adiacent.

To comfort and to reioyce these spirites.

First liue out of sin, and folow Christes doctrine, and then vse honest mirth, and honest company, and vse to eate good meate, and drinke moderately. For this matter, looke in the Chapter named Anima.

For Squame, looke in y ^e Extrauag. in y ^e ende of this booke

For Squinancia, looke in the Chap. named Angina.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come many waies, either it doth come by some sicknesse, or else by drōkennes, or else by some heate in the liuer or stomake, or else it doeth come by hotnes [Page] of the ayer or els of extreme labour, it may come by e [...]ing of salt meates.

A remedy.

If it do come of a hot stomake or a hot liuer, qualify the heate of the liuer, as it doth appeare in the Chapter named Epar. If it do come otherwise, eate .v. or .vi. Prunes, & kéepe one of the prune stones in the mouth, and otherwhile roule the stone with y ^e tongue in the mouth. Oxizacra or the sirupe of Violets, or Oximell diuretycke is good.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of some vlceracion in the blad­der or raynes of the back, or els it may come thorowe acre­dite or sharpenesse of the water, it may come also of to much heat, or to much coldenes in the backe and bladder.

A remedie.

First if y ^e belly be cōstupated, vse clisters or suppositers, thē reforme the matter the which is offendant. And if it do come of heate, vse suger roset, & the thrée kindes of Sanders, com­pound with the sirupe of Myrtilles. If it do come of colde-vse [Page 108] Mecridatum, Diaolibanum, Diamynt, or Diagalanga.

For Strangulacio looke in the chapter named Suffocacio.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of dilacion of the pores of the braine, or of coldenes or heat in the head, or it may come casting vp the sight toward the light or Sunne.

A remedy not to nese.

¶ If a man will not nese, let him holde his nose harde with his fingers, and if a man will nese, take a strawe or a rish and tickle himselfe in the nose, or els take of the pou­der made of Eliborus albus, otherwise named nesing pou­der.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of to much humiditie in the matrix or in y ^e place of conception, for when the sede of man is sowen, and the woman can not reteine it but doth slip a­way from hir, ther can be no conception Also if mans nature be wake he can get no childe, therefor the default may be as well in the man as in the woman.

A remedy.

For this matter looke in the Chapter named Conceptis, & in the Chapter named Coitus, & in y ^e chapter named Embrio, & [Page] in the chap. named Abhorsus, & let the man y ^t is weake vse restoratiue meates & drinks, & vse cordialls and mirth with honest company, and let the woman take no thought, & vse good things as man drago, Peches, and peper if she be fat.

The cause of this matter is shewed partly.

But the cause may come otherwaies, as by anger, or feare, or great studying vpon many matters, or by extreme heate, or by surfeting, or such lyke, doth hurt the stomake.

A remedy.

To comfort the stomake, vse Ginger and Galingale, vse myrth and well to fare, vse Pepper in meates, & beware of anger, for it is a shroude heart that maketh all the body fare the worse.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of lacking bloud in the mem­ber where it is, or else that the spirits be letted that they can not haue a recourse to the sinewes, or else bloud doth lack in the veines.

A remedy.

First rub the place with a blew or a Scarlet cloth, and if néede be, vse Phlebothomy, & anoint the place with the oyle of Turpentine, or with the oyle of Rosemary flowers, na­med in gréeke Anthos, or such like oyles.

For Suberati, looke in the Chap. named Nictalopis.

For Strathomata, looke in the Chap. named Tubercula.

For Strume, looke in the chapter named Chirades.

For Succubus, looke in the chapter named Epialtes.

For Subeth, looke in the Chap. named Caros.

For Surditas looke in the chap. named Cophosis.

The cause of these impediments.

The cause of sweats, either it doth come of heate or corrup­cion of the ayer, or it may come by one person infecting ano­ther, or as I sayd by labour or some sicknesse.

A remedy for the sweating sicknes.

First kéepe the pacient not to hot nor to cold, but in a tempe­rance, and let him not cast out armes, féete, nor legges out of the bed, let the head be couered, and the face open, kéepe a fyer in the chamber be the ayer neuer so hot, eate no meate for xxiiii. houres, vnlesse it be an ale brue, drinke warme drinke, and no wine, & euery thing that is receued, sucke it [Page] thorow quills of a Swan or Gose .iiii. or .v quills put to­gether the one in an other, & they the which be not infected let them beware of infectuous persons, for the sicknes is in­fectiue, & is one of the kindes of the plague or pestilence, for vnnatural sweats y ^t which doth come by sicknes a Saphire is good to drinke it or to hold a Saphire in ones hand, or els take of Mirtills and of Rose leues, of ech of them .iii. vnces, make pouder of it & cast it in the shetes, shert or smock and lay some to the pulses, & drinke of these foresayd thinges so­den in ale, & anoint the Pulses of the hart braine, & the Liuer with y ^e oyle of Mandrake. And as for sweat that doth stinke looke in the Chapter named Fetor assellarum.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come many wayes, it doth come by hasty eating or drinking, thorow y ^e which eroms or some droppes of drink falleth into the wesand or throte bol, it may come by lying open mouthed, & some worme or flye, or any other grosse matter may happen into the throt boll, it may come by an impostume, or a grosse fleume sodeinly rysing may make strangulacions, and so consequently soden death or els ieopardy of death doth folow.

A remedie.

If it do come by hasty eating or drinking, first be not a­uedious in the taking of it, but eate thy meate & drinke thy drinke with deliberacion. If it come by lying opē mouthed exchew such matters & the occasion of it, the which most cō ­mōly is thorow lying vpright. If it do come by an impostūe in the orifice of the throte, the which wilbe a rising or swel­ling [Page 110] there, than if the teth be clapsed together open y ^e mouth as wide as may be, & looke vnder the flap of the tongue, and ther shal ye finde y ^e impostume, & with your finger draw it out, or els sodē deth doth folow. If it come by viscus fleume than drinke rather to much thā to little. And they the which be infested with fleume purge it, and let them vse Locsa­num de pino, but Diacoridon is the highest remedy, or Di­anucum al is one, for the Grecians doth vse this word Di­acoridon, as the Latins doth vse Dianucum. Also Serocum andromachum doth maturate and doth disolue appostuma­cions. Also a plaister made of Diaquilon and oyle of Violets, doth disolue and maturate hot impostumes, and Cerotum Sandalinum, & oyle of Violets is good for an hot appostu­macion that is inflamed, and the oyle of Philosophers na­med in latin Olist philosophorum is good for impostume of y ^e Splene. Also implastrum de Alus, is good for impostumes in the bowels. Also the oyle of Mastix is good for hard ap­postumacions in the stomake.

The cause of this impediment

This impediment doth come either naturally or acciden­tally, if it come naturally thē the pacient was so borne, and there is no remedy, if it come accidentally it doth come by attraction of the sinewe with in the eye.

A remedie.

Vse the medicines that is for a perticuler Palsy, and for the Crampe, but beware what is put into the eye, except it be colde, vnlesse it be womans milke & the bloud of a doue. For Suspirium looke in the Extrauagantes.

The cause of these impediments.

The first impediment doth come either that man will not call for grace to God not to displease him, or else a man will folow his luxurious sensualitie like a brute beast. The se­cond impediment the which is auarice or couetise, wil touch all things, and take as much as he can get, for all is fishe that commeth to the net with such persons.

A remedie.

For these matters I know no remedy, but onely, God for ther is few or none that doth feare God in none of these two causes, if the feare of God were in vs we would not doe so. Iesus helpe vs all. Amen.

For Tabes, looke in the chapter named Phthisis.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doeth come of to little drinking of [Page 111] ale or béere, and it may come of to much drinking of wine, and it may come of eating of costiue meats, or els of super­abundance of coller adusted,

A remedy.

Vse to eate of laxatiue meates, and twise or thrise a wéeke with milke or potage eate halfe a sponefull or more of pou­der of Séene, with two peny weight of Ginger, or els vse as much as a walnut of Cassia fistula, or some other gentle purgacions, as Polypody, or Mercury, or such like.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a reumatike humour discē ­ding to the eye.

A remedy.

Be let bloud in a veyne named Cephalica, & séeth Colworts in white wine, and vse to make plaisters of it, or els vse the water of plantaine.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of a venemous humor which is tumorus.

A remedy.

First purge the head & the stomake with the pilles of Co­chée, and shaue the head, and than make incision crossewise, and pull or rip of the tumorous matter, and than lay downe the skin and vse sanatiue salues.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come of ventositie intrused in y ^e belly.

A remedie.

First beware of all maner meates y ^t doth ingender winde, as fruits, cold herbs, & such like, also beware of drinking of new ale or new béere, & of eating of new bread, of chéese and nuttes, and such like things. Furthermore for this matter, y ^e belly must be kept laxatiue with purgacions & clisters, and suppositers. And in Mountpiller for this matter is vsed inci­sions, [Page 112] for if there be no incision, there cannot be long lyfe, drags for this matter is good that doth breake winde, & so is euery thing the which doth make a man to belch or fart.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come many wayes, as feare by fier, feare by water, feare of great displesure of a great man, feare of killing, and such lyke.

A remedie.

For this matter thank God of all aduersitie, and vse mery company, & so vse thy selfe that thou feare nothing but God.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of ventositie or winde, which is in the head and in the eares, and can not get out.

A remedie.

First purge the head, and than take of the oyle of Castory, or else of the oyle of radish, & put it into the eare or eares, the oyle of bitter Almons is good, & so is oyle of Béen instilled into the eares with blacke wolle.

The cause of this infirmitie.

This infirmitie doth come either by corruption of bloud, or else by abundance of rume or some vaporous humour.

A remedie.

First shaue the head, or clyp away the haires, than purge the head with gargarices and sternutacions, and purge the head & stomake with pilles of Cochée, and anoint the head with the oyle of Violets, do this thrée daies and thrée nights, thā after that wash y ^e head with dregges or lyes of white wine, in the which a little Roche alome is disolued, and after that stampe onyons and garlike together and rub the head with it thrée or foure times, & after that anoint the head with the iuice of Coriander and hony, or els stampe doues dong with oyle olyue & anoint the head v. or vi. times, or els take thrée vnces of Bores grece, & an vnce and a halfe of Brymstone, stampe all together, and than put to it an vnce of Mercury mortified with fasting spettyll and anoint the head.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of venemous and a melanco­ly humour.

A remedy.

For this vse Treacle & purgaciōs & vomits, & thā take of Mercury mortified with fasting spittle & brimstone, of eche an vnce, of Bores grece thrée vnces, compound this together & vse to anoint thy body, & thā vse stuphs & baths, & sweats

For Tisis, looke in the Chapter named Prisis.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of abundance of swéet flemme or els of abundance of bloud with fleume.

A remedy.

First take thrée Onions of a good quantitie, & thrée egges, and rost them together in the hot emeries of the fyre, than stampe them together and incorporate all together with olde bores grece, and make plaisters, and if nede be make incisi­on, and than mundify the place, and after all this incarnate the place, and than skin it with salues.

For Tonsille looke in the Chapter named Paristhomia.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of coldnes taken, or els of anger, or of a spice of a perticuler palsy.

A remedy.

Take of musterd halfe a pinte, and let the pacient with his owne hande take two or thrée sponefulles in his handes chafing the one hand with the other, and than let him make frications, redusing the side of the mouth the which is draw­en to the one side to bring it to the othe side, doe thus .v. dayes, and vse diuers times gargarices and sternutacions.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come either of coldnesse in the guts, or else of winde intrused in the belly, and can not get out, & it may come of constupacion.

A remedy.

First kéepe the belly warme, & sée that thou be not costiue, and beware of eating colde meates and cold herbes & fruits, and vse Diatriapiperon & dragges, and clisters, or else sup­positers.

The cause of these impediments.

These impediments doth come thorow imbecilitie or weak­nesse of the sinewes, also it may come of extreme colde or great feare, or thorow a great anger, and beware of drinking in the morning, but eating somewhat before.

A remedy.

First beware of colde, of feare, and of anger, and than vse to wash the necke and the handes with the water that Sage and balme hath bene sodden in.

The cause of these impediments.

These impediments of the brest bone [...] doth [...] of [Page 114] some great broosing, or else of some putrifying of it, or such like.

A remedie.

First for this matter interially easy & gentle purgacions as these folowing, Pouder of the coddes of Sene, Mercury, Po­lipody, Cassia fistula, Pillule aurea, Pillule Cochie, & such lyke, and for a broose take Sparmaceti, with warme ale and Malmesy. And exterially these oyntments be good for the brest bone, oyle of Myntes, oyle of Spyke and such lyke.

The cause of the impediments of the stones

These impediments doth come by some of the kindes of the Hernies, or else by some other humour descending from the body to the coddes making swellings or burnings, or some other apostumacions, and it may come by a broose.

A remedie.

If it doe come by any of the kindes of the Hernies, looke in the Chapter named Hernia. If it doe come any other waies anoint the stones with Vngentum albū, or else make pul­ces and Mollifying bathes, or such lyke, be good.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of gréedines to eate or drink sodenly, not taking leysure, also it may come of some flye in­hausted into a mans throt sodeinly, as I haue sene by other men, as by my selfe, for a nyt or a flye cōming vnto a mans mouth when he doth take in his breth and ayer, looke what smal thing is before the mouth is inhausted into y ^e wesand, and so it perturbeth the pacient with coughing.

A remedie.

For the fyrst cause be not to gréedy, eate and drinke with leysure, fearing God, and as for the second cause, I commit onely to God, for this matter coughing is good.

For Trixcom looke in y ^e second booke in y ^e Extrauagantes.

The cause of these impediments.

These impediments doth come many wayes, if it be warts in the handes, face, or other superiall partes, it doth come of grosse & corrupt humors, if it be agneles it doth come of cha­fing of the féete and of straight shoes wearing, and it may come by nature.

A remedy.

First clip of their heades, & than rubbe them well with Alome water and bay salt, do this .ix. times, and lay ouer the places thin plates of leade.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come of the lunges, or els of a reume distilling to the asperous nature, or the pipes of the lunges.

A remedie.

First for this matter let the paciēt be kept in a cleane ayer without corruption of draughtes, dung hills, & euill sauours & flauours, let the paciēt beware of swéeping of howses and stréetes, & daūsing vpon rishes ther wher much dust is vn­der y ^e rishes, these thinges obserued & kept, than the pacient must eschew & refraine from certeine meates and drinkes & breades. First from breades, as stale and newe bread, frō sodden bread, as Semnells and Crackenelles, and also Cake bread & crustes. After this newe Ale or Béere, sower ale or béere, or sower sider or wine, let y ^e pacient refraine from it, Egges, milke, & specially hard chese & nutes, let them the which hath the cough eate none of it. A Ptisane made vnder this maner. First take of Enula cāpane rotes .iii. vnces mū ­dified & sliced thin, of Esope .ii. hādfuls more or les, as y ^e time of the yere shal require, for in sōmer whan y ^e vertue is in y ^e herbes, is worth .iii. handfuls in winter, than take of Fenel roots the pith pulled out, or els Fenell séedes y ^e weight of an vnce & a halfe, of Anis séedes .iii. vnces, of great raisons the stōes pulled out, a quarter of a poūd: of Figs pulled in peces halfe a poūd, of Licorice broosed halfe a poūd, of Barly clēsed or picked clen & broosed, & so putrified iii. handfulls, séeth all this together in a galon of rūning water, strained & boile al together till it be consumed to lesse thā iii. quarters, & than straine it & let the pacient drinke morning, noone, & night .ix. spnoefuls at a time. And whē his drink named a Ptisane is done, let y ^e pacient purge himselfe with the pills of Coche or with pilles stomatical, & after that vse Locsanum de pino, I in this matter wolde not y ^e sodēly a restrictiō shuld be cured lest paraduēture thorow such soden mutaciōs incōuenience might fall, for a sodein mutaciō is death. And whosoeuer he be the which can cough, so long he can not die, but beware y ^e [Page] after clappes. And I do say, whosoeuer that can cough & ex­pulse or expell the viscus matter that woulde stop the pipes shal liue long, & they the which that would be holpen of an old cough & do pretend to stop vp the breath and the life & all, let him go about to stop the cough, good it is to take me­dicines to relax, or to lose viscus fleume.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come more of the corruptiō of bloud then any other humour, it may come of mēstruous humour in the conceptiō of a child, wherfore this infirmitie is an ac­cident cause to youth, age is not infested nor infected with this infirmitie, vnlesse it be thorow a great contagious ayre recept and taken of infectious persons, and if the pacient be so generated, beware of leprositie consequently wil folow.

A remedy.

First let al phisitions beware, not onely in this infirmitie but in many other, not to minister medecines exterial, which should be repercussiue, which is to say, to driue in the infir­mitie to the body, and beware in this matter of ointmentes and bathes, and of colde and open ayre, or of piking or tou­ching any of the pushes or scabbes, kepe the pacient warme & let him or her be of a good diet to comfort bloud, although that some experte doctours in this matter would that a man should exhaust bloud out of a veyne named Mediana.

The cause of this impediment.

This impedimēt doth come diuers waies, either by extreme labour with going, leaping, daunsing, wrastling, or suchiike, or els it doth come of some euill humour descending from y ^e superiall partes to the inferiall partes, & as I doe precisely knowe, this matter is much grounded vppon ventositie the which is the principall cause.

A remedy.

First if néede be, exhaust bloud out of the Basilike veyne, and then purge the matter with Yera ruffini, or with pils of Lapidis lazuli, & thā take of the skurfe of Iron in a smithes forge a handful, of wheten bran thrée handfuls, séeth this in white wine or in lyes, and wash the place thrée tymes to bedward, and purge coller.

For Varuce looke in the Chapter named Acrochordones.

The cause of this matter.

This matter doth come of some venemous worme, or beast, byting or stinging, and poysoning doth come by eating or drinking of poyson, howe be it in Rome they will poy­son a mans sterope, or saddel, or any other thing, and if any part of ones body doe take any heate or warmenes of the poyson, the man is then poysoned.

A remedy.

If a man do perceiue y ^t he be poisoned, first let him vomit, and giue him purgacions, Clisters, or suppositers, and let him bloud of these veines named Mediana and Cardiaca, and vse to drinke Treacle or Metridatum, and also garlike & Rew is good against poysō or poysoning. If one be stonge or bitten with a venemous beast or worme, looke in y ^e chap­ter named Morsus reptilium.

The cause of this impediment.

This impediment doth come diuers wayes, as by long fa­sting or taking of extreme colde, or eating of fruits, or eating of potage or sewes, or grosse meates and such like.

A remedie.

For this metter vse to eate Diaspermaton, or Diatesseron, or Diaciminū, or else teke Anis séedes, of caraway séedes, of Fenell séedes, of Ginger, of Setual, of Cloues, of Comin séedes, of eche v. drames, make pouder of all this, and vse a portion euery day with meates, drinkes, or potages, and be­ware of costiuenes and vse dredge.

The cause of wormes in a mannes Eare.

Two causes there be that a man hath wormes in his eares, the one is ingendred thorow corruption of the braine, the other is accidentall by créeping in of a worme into a mans eare or eares.

A remedy.

Instill into the eare the oyle of biter Almons, or els the oile of wormewode, or els the iuice of Rewe, warme euerie thing that must be put into the eare,

For V [...]tigo looke in the Chapter named Scotomos.

The cause of these impediments.

These impediments doth come cōmonly of euill ordering in youth, the other causes be shewed.

A remedy.

First anoint the raynes and the coddes, and other secrete places, with the oyle of Scorpions, and drinke red wine in the which Musherons is sodden in. Also I do aduertise euery man to discharge oft the bladder & neuer to hold in the wa­ter, for by restricting of the water such impediments be in­gendred, and so is the goute.

For Vesice, Looke in the Chapter named Phlitana [...].