ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ, A Description of the little World.
CHAP. I. Shewing the Definition of Chyrurgery, the qualifications of a Chyrurgion, and Anatomy of the simple Members.
CHyrurgery is derived,
[...], which is as much as to say a hand working; so that Chyrurgery is a working of the hand in the body of man, in cutting or opening those parts that be whole, in healing those parts that be broken or cut, and in taking away that which is superfluous, as Warts, Wens, Scurfula's, and the like: To the cure of every disease belongeth four things; the first and principall is God, the second the Chyrurgion, the third the Medicine and fourth the Patient: Therefore the Chyrurgion ought to be Religious. Ingenious,
[Page 2]Learned, and Expert, both in Theorick and in Practick; he must be skilfull in the Anatonay, else he will be like a blind man to carve an Image; he must be secret and private, as a Confessour to his Patient, not discouraging any, nor setting a certain day of his recovery, as Mountebanks doe, for that is not in their power,
oportet seipsum non solum, neither let them backbite others nor vaunt and praise themselves, that will redound more to their shame then credit, for their own workes will get credit enough.
Of the simple members there be 11. and 2. superfluities,
viz. Bones, Cartilages, Nerves, Pannicles, Ligaments, Cords, Arteries, Veynes, fatnesse, flesh, and skin; the superfluities be haires and nailes; the bones be the foundation and hardest member of the body; it is a
consimile member, simple and spermatick, cold and dry of complexion, insensible and inflexible, and hath divers formes in mans body, for the severall operations thereof, and diversity of helpings; the gristle is a member simple and spermatick, next in hardnesse to the bone and is of complexion cold and dry, and insensible.
The Ligament is a member consimple, simple, and spermatick, next in hardnesse to the gristle, and of complexion cold and dry, flexible and sensible, and binds the bones together.
The sinew is a
consimile member, simple and
[Page 3]spermatick, mean between hard and soft, strong and tough, having his beginning from the braine, or from
minuca, which is the marrow of the back, and from the braine cometh seven paire of Nerves sentative, and from
minuca cometh seven pair of Nerves motive, and one that is by himselfe that springeth from the last spondell.
A Cord or Tendon is an officiall member compounds and spermatick, sinowy, strong, and tough, meanly between hardnesse and softnesse, and sensible and flexible, cold and dry.
An Arterie is a member simple and spermatick, hollow and sinowy, having his beginning from the heart, and bringeth from the heart to every member, spirit, and life, it is of complexion cold and dry; and all these Arteries have two coates, except one that goeth to the lungs, and he hath but one coat, that spreadeth abroad in the lungs, and bringeth to the lungs bloud and spirit of life, and sendeth from thence ayre to temper the famous heat that is in the heart: A veyne is a simple member, in complexion cold and dry, and spermatick like to the Arterie, having his beginning from the liver, nutritive bloud to nourish every member of the body with; and the Arterie is a vessell of bloud spirituall or vitall, and a veyne a vessell of bloud nutrimentall; the flesh is a simple member not spermatick, ingendred of bloud, in complexion hot and moist: There is three kindes
[Page 4]of flesh, the one soft and pure, the second
musculus, hard or brawny, the third is
grandulus, knotry or kurnelly: Next is fatnesse, whereof likewise is three kindes,
pinguedo, which is made of a subtill portion of bloud, congealed by cold; it is cold and moist, insensible and intermedled amongst the parts of the flesh; the second is
adeppes, of the same kind as the other, but is parted from the flesh besides the skin, and is as an oyle healing the skin, and moistning it; the third is
au xingia, parted from the flesh about the kidneys and entrails.
The skin is a member officiall, partly spermatick, strong and tough, flexible and sensible, thin and temperate, one covereth the outward members, and the other the inward, which is called a pannicle.
The haires are superfluities made of the grosse fume or smoake passing out of the viscous matter, and thickned to the form of hair.
The nailes likewise are superfluous humours, engendred of earthly fume, waxing through the naturall heat of humours to the extremity of the fingers and toes, in complexion cold and dry, and is softer then the bone and harder then the flesh, &c.
CHAP. II. Of the compound members:
1. Of the head.
THe head is the habitation or dwelling place of the reasonable soule of man, as,
homini sublime dedit; it is raised up by God as a watch tower over all the body; it is composed of hair, skin, flesh, veines, Pannicles, and bones; the hair defendeth the braine from too much heat, and too much cold, it beautifieth and adorneth the head and face, and by it the fumosity of the braine are purged; the skin of the head is more
lazartus and thicker then any other of the body, defendeth the braine, and keepeth it warme, and bindeth and keepeth the bones of the head fast together; the flesh is
musculus or
lazartus lying upon
pericranium without means.
Next followeth
pericranium, or the covering of the bones of the head, between the flesh, and which passeth a veine and an arteir, that nourisheth the utter part of the head, passeth through the skul and nourisheth the pannicles of the braine, and hereof is made
dura mater, which is nearer the braine then
pericranium, and under the skull.
Next is the bone or pot of the head, whereof there be seven in number in the pan or skull; the first is the Coronall Bone, in which is the holes of
[Page 6]the eyes, and reacheth from the browes to the midst of the head, where it meeteth with a second bone of the hinder part of the head called the noddell of the head, which two bones be divided by the comissaries in the midst of the head; the third and fourth bones be called
Parietales, and they be divided by the comissaries from the two former; the fifth and sixth be called
Petrosa or
mendosa, on each side of the head one, wherein are the holes of the eares; the seventh and last is called Paxillary or Bazillary, which bone as a wedge doth fasten the rest together. These are the parts of the head containing, next followeth the parts contained: The first is
dura mater, then
pia mater, then the substance of the brain,
vermi formes & rete mirabile; the Pannicle
dura mater is made of the vein & arterie spoken of before, which passeth through the seames of the head, which
dura mater is seperated from the bone of the skull, the better to defend the
pia mater; the next is the pannicle called
pia mater, which is tender and soft over the brain and in it are contained a great number of veines and arteries, giving unto the brain both spirit and life, from the heart and from the liver nutriment; this pannicle circumvolveth all the substance, and there the spirit is made animall; these pannicles be cold and dry, spermatick; next unto this pannicle is the brain it selfe, which is divided into three ventricles, the formost which is most, the
[Page 7]middlemost lesse, and the hindmost which is least, and from each to other be issues and passages conveying spirit of life; and every ventricle is divided into two parts: in the formost ventricle God hath placed the common senses, in the one part thereof is contained the fansie, in the other part the imaginative vertue, which receiveth the forme of sensible things, representing them to the memory: in the middle sell or ventrickle there is placed the contemplative or cogitative virtue; and in the third or last the virtue memorative, out of whose lower parts springeth
Mynuca, or marrow of the Spondels: Further, from the formost ventrickle there springs seven paire of sinewes, produced to the eyes, ears, the nose, the tongue, and the stomack, and to divers other parts of the body: About the middle ventrickle is the place of
vermi formis, with curnelly flesh that filleth, and
rete mirabile, that wonderfull net or caule under the pannicles of small arteries only comming from the heart, and there the spirit of feeling hath his first creation, and from thence passeth to other members; the brain is a member cold and moist, thin and meanly viscous and spermatick, continually moving and ruling all other members of the body, giving them feeling and moving: And Aristotle saith, that it followeth the course of the Moon; in the waxing of the Moon it followeth upwards and in the wane of the Moon it discends downwards,
[Page 8]and is lesse in substance of virtue, and is not so obedient to the spirit of feeling, as it appears in lunaticks, and such as have the falling sicknesse, who are most grieved in the beginning of the new Moon, and in the wane of the Moon; therefore if the brain be either too dry or too moist, it cannot worke its kind, whereby the spirits of life melt and art solve away, and then followeth sicknesse and feeblenesse of the wits and other members, and in the end death, and thus much of the head.
CHAP. III. Of the face.
THe first part on the face is the forehead, which containeth skin and
musculus flesh, the pannicle under it is of
pericranium, and the bone Coronall, which passeth from one eare to another with a musckle, which keepeth up the eye brows which are called
supercilium, and under them is the eye lids called
cilium, which defend the eyes from annoyances, and are set and adorned with haires; the eares are griftly, the organ or instrument of hearing cold and dry, the sinews whereof spring from the brain, and through them is received the sound, and conveyed to the common wits: The eyes be next of nature unto the soule wherein is seen the passions of the soule, as joy gladness, love, wrath, &c. They are the instruments of sight compounded of seven tunicles o
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[Page 9]roles, and three humours, and these sinewes be hollow as a reed, that thereby the visible things might passe to the sight; now these sinews go out from the substance of the brain, passing through
pia mater, where he taketh a pannickle, and these are called
nervi optici, and are joyned in one before they come into the eye, that if any disease happen in one eye the other should receive the visible spirit, and that one sinew might stay and help the other: Now the three humours are placed in the middle of the eyes, the first is the vitriall humour like glasse, liquid and thin, and is innermost next to the brain, and he compasseth the christalline humour, untill he meeteth the humour
Albuginus, which is set in the uppermost part of the eye, and in the midst of these humours is placed the christaline humour, in which is the principall fight of the eye; and these humours be involved with the pannicles, between every humour a pannicle, and thus is the eye made; the next unspoken of in order is the nose; from the braine cometh two sinews to the holes of the brain pan, where doth begin the concavity of the nose, and these two be the organs or instruments of smelling, they have heads like teats or paps, and receive the smelling conveying it to the common senses; over these two is
colatorium, the nosthrils between the eyes, and through them passeth the spirit of smelling unto the instrument of smelling, and by
[Page 10]them the superfluities of the brain are cleansed, and from his concavity there passeth two holes down into the mouth, whereby ayre passeth too and free into the lungs, and when these are stopped then one is sayd to speak in his nose; it is made of skin and
lazartus flesh, and of two bones standing triangle wise, joyned to the coronall bone, and it hath two gristles that hold up the nose, and two muskles to help the working of his office: The cheekes are the sideling parts of the face, and they containe in them
musculous flesh with veines and arteries; about these parts be many muskles,
Guido saith seven about the cheekes and upper lip, and
Haly Abbas, that there be twelve that move the nether jaw in opening and shutting, that passe under the bones of the temples, they are called temporals, and they be sensitive, and whose hurt is dangerous: Then there be also other muskles for to grinde and to chew, and to all these muskles cometh nerves from the brain, and there cometh unto them many arteries and veins, and chiefly about the temples, the angles or corners of the eyes and the lips; in the checks is the chiefe beauty, thereby the complexion is most known, and (as
Avicen saith) they shew also the affections and passions of the heart, waxing pale or red at the suddain joy or dread of the heart: of the face be two bones, two of the nose outwardly two of the upper mandible, one of the nether, three of the
[Page 11]nose within, in all ten. The parts of the mouth are five, the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the
uvula, and pallat of the mouth; and first the lips are members official of
musculous flesh, serving to the mouth as doores to an house, and helping the pronounciation of the speech; the teeth are likewise officiall, the hardest of all members, and are fastned to the cheek bones, serving to chew the meat and helping the pronountiation of the speech: They that have the whole number have two and thirty; the tongue is a
carnous member, compound, of many nerves, ligaments, veines and arteries, receiveth the tast, and pronounceth every speech, the flesh of the tongue is white, and hath in him nine muskles, the root of him is
glandulous, wherein are two wels containing spettle to temper and keep moist the tongue; the
uvula is of spongeous flesh, hanging down from the end of the pallate over the gutter of the throat, and is cold and dry, and oftentimes when there falleth rawnesse or much moistnesse into it from the head, then it hangeth down into the throat, and letteth a man to swallow; it helpeth the sound of the speech, the prolation of vomits, and tempereth the ayre that passeth to the lungs, and guideth the supersluities of the brain, which come from the coletures of the nose.
The pallate of the month is a carnous pannicle, and the bones that be underneath it have two divisions,
[Page 12]one along the pallate, from the division of the nose, and from the opening of the other mandible, under the neither end of the pallate, lacking halfe an inch, and there it divideth overthwart and the first division is of the mandible, and the second is of the bone called Paxillary or Bazillary, that sustains and bindeth all the other bones of the head together; the skin of the pallate of the mouth is of the inner part of the stomack, and of
Myre and
Isofagus, that is the way of the meat unto the stomack; also in the mouth is ended the uppermost extremity of the Wesand, which is called
Mire or
Isofagus; and with him is contained
Trachia Arteria, viz. the passage of the ayre or breath, whose holes be covered with a lap like unto a tongue, and is gristly, that the meat and drink might slide over him into
Isofagus, which is reared up when a man speaketh and covereth the way of the meat, and when a man swalloweth, then it covereth the way of the ayre, so that when one is open the other is covered; and thus much shall suffice for the Anatomy of the head and face, which is under the celestiall signe
Aries.
CHAP. IV. Of the Neck.
THe neck followeth next to be spoken of, which is contained between the head and the shoulders, and between the chin and the breast; in the neck be seven spondels, the first joyned unto the lower part of the head, and every spondell in like manner, the last of the seven is joyned unto the ridge of the back, and the ligaments that keep these spondels together are not so hard and tough as the ligaments of the back, but more feeble and subtle, because of the often moving of the neck; out of these seven spondels there spring seven pair of sinews, which be divided into the head, the shoulders and the armes: The muskles of the neck (as
Gallen saith) are twenty, moving the head and the neck; the third part of the neck is called
gutter, which is the standing out of the throat bell, the fourth part
gula, and the hinder part
cernix so called, because of the marrow that commeth to the ridge bones, and it is (as it were) a servant to the brain, and receiveth of the brain the virtue of moving, and sendeth it by sinews to all the members of the body: Here also observe, that the way through which the meat passeth, or
Isofagus stretcheth from the mouth to the stomack, and is
[Page 14]fastned to the spondels of the neck untill he come to the first spondell, and extendeth forward to the breast, and endeth at the mouth of the stomack; this we sand is compound, consisting of two tunicles or coats, the inner and the outer; the outer tunicle is simple, the inner is compound of
musculous longitudinall will, whereby he draweth the meat into the stomack; also it is to be understood that the great veins which passe by the sides of the neck, to the upper part of the head, are called
vena organices, of which the incision is dangerous; thus you see the neck is composed of skinny flesh, ligaments, and bones, and is under the dominion of the sign
Taurus.
CHAP. V. Of the Armes and Shoulders.
IN the shoulder there be two bones, the shoulder bone and the cannell bone, the first is
os spatula, or blade bone of the shoulder, whose hinder part declineth toward the chin, and in that end it is broad and thin, and in the upper part it is round; wherein in a concavity, called the box or coope of the shoulder, and which entereth the adjutor bones of the armes, and they are bound together with strong flexible sinews, and are contained fast
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clauicula, or the cannell bone, which bone extendeth to both the shoulders, one end to one shoulder, and another to the other, and there they make the composition of the shoulders; the bones of the armes from the shoulder to the fingers ends be thirty; the first is the adjutor bone of the arm, the upper end whereof entereth into the box of the shoulder bone, it is hollow and full of marrow, and extendeth to the elbow, where it hath two knobs in the juncture of the elbow, entering into a concavity proportioned, in the uppermost ends of the two fosell bones, the lesse whereof goeth from the elbow to the thumb, by the upper part of the arme, and the greater neathermost from the elbow to the little finger; and these bones be joyned and bound together with the adjutor bone with strong ligaments, and likewise with the bones of the hand; the bones of the hand are eight, four uppermost and four neathermost, and in the palme of the hand five called
ossa patinis, unto them are joyned the bones of the fingers and thumbes, in every finger three bones, and in the thumbe two; so that there is in the fingers and thumbe of every hand fourteen bones called
ossa digitorum, in the palme of the hand five called
patinis, and between the hand and the wrist eight, and from the wrist to the shoulder three bones, which in the whole numbred together are thirty, in each hand and arme, likewise there cometh from
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Minuca, and the spondels of the neck four sinews, one cometh along the upper part of the arm, another passeth under the arme, one in the inner side, and another in the outer side of the arme, which bring unto the armes feeling and moving from the brain and
minuca; now to speak of the veins and arteries of the arme, from
venakelis springeth two branches, one runneth to one arme pit, the other to another, and there the branch is divided into two parts, or other branches, one goeth along the innerside of the arme, untill it commeth to the bought of the arme, and there it is called
Bazillica or
Epatica, and then goeth down the arme, till it come to the wrist, where it turneth to the back of the hand, and goeth between the little finger and the next, and there is called
salvatella; the other branch in the arme hole spreadeth to the utter side of the shoulder, where he divideth in two, the one goeth up spreading in the carnous part of the head and passeth through the bone into the veine; the other branch runneth along the outward side of the arme, and there is divided into two also, the one part endeth at the hand, the other part foldeth about the arme, and in the bouget of the arme is called
Sephalica, from thence it goeth to the back of the hand, appeareth between the thumbe and the forefinger, and is there called
Sephaelica occulario; there are in the arme five principall veines from each of the two branches that I speak of,
[Page 17]which bee divided in the hinder part of the shoulders, springeth one vein, and those two meet together in the bought of the arme, and there is called
Mediana, or
Cordialis, or
Commine, and of
vena Sephalica springeth
vena oculoris, and of
vena Bazilita ariseth
vena Salvatella, and of the two veins that meet there springeth
vena mediana; and from these five principall veins there spring innumerable other small veins, but of them the Chyrurgion hath not so great charge; further you shall understand, that wheresoever there is found a vein, there is an Artery under him, if it be a great vein, there is a great Artery; and contrariwise, a little vein a little Artery, for wheresoever there goeth a vein to carry nutrimentall bloud, there also goeth an Artery, conveying the spirit of life. Therefore the Arteries lye deeper in the flesh then the veins do, and carry in them more pure and precious bloud, therefore he is further from outward danger then the veine, and is covered with two coats, the vein only with one: and thus much for the arms and shoulders, which are governed by the signe
Gemini.
CHAP. VI. Of the Breast, Heart, and Back.
THe Breast or
Thorax is the Ark or Chest of the spirituall members, where there are four parts
[Page 18]containing, and eight contained; the foure containing are the skin, musculous flesh, the paps, and bones; the parts contained are, the Heart, the Lungs, Panicles, Ligaments, Nervs, Veins, Arteries, Myre, or
Isophagus. Of the skin and the flesh its spoken of before, but you must observe that the flesh of the paps differeth from the other flesh of the body, for it is white, glandulus, and spongeous; and there is in them both Nerves, veins, and Arteries, & by them they have Coligaves with the heart, the liver, and brain, and the generative members. Also there is in the breast 80 or 90 Muckles, some of them common to the neck, some to the shoulders, some to the Midriffe; some to the Ribs, some to the Back, and some to the Breast it selfe; and in man the paps defend the spirituals from outward annoyance; and by their thicknesse they comfort the naturall heat; and in women there is the generation of milk, which commeth from the matrix to their breasts through many veins, that bring into them menstrual bloud, which is turned (by the digestive virtue) from red into white, like the colour of the paps, even as the stones turn the bloud into sperme of the same nature and colour of themselves so is the chile comming from the stomack to the Liver turned into the colour of the Liver: Now the bones of the breast are said to be triple or threefold, and they be numbred, seven in the breast before, and their
[Page 19]length is according to the breadth of the breast, and their ends be gristly, as the ribs be, and at the upper end of
Thorax, is a hole or Concavity in which is set the foot of the Cannell bone, and at the lower end of
Thorax against the mouth of the stomack, is a gristle called
Ensi-forme, which defendeth the stomack from outward hurt; and giveth place to it in time of fulnesse when need requireth. Now to speak of the parts of the back behind, there are twelve spondels, through whom passeth
minuca, of whom springeth 12 paire of Nerves, which bring feeling end moving to the muskles of the breast, and in each side there be twelve Ribs, seven true, and five false, which five are shorter then the other seven; and therefore called false Ribs. Of the parts that be inward, the heart is the principal, first, and beginner of life, he is the
primum vivens, & ultimum moriens, and he is seated severally by himselfe, in the midst of the breast as Lord and King over all the members, and all the members receive their bloud of life from the heart; the substance of the heart is as it were Lazartus flesh, an officiall member spermatick, sending forth to every Member spirit of breath and heat, by his moving and stirring. The heart hath the shape and forme of a Pine-apple, the broad end thereof is upwards, and the sharp end downwards, depending a little towards the left side. Also the heort hath bloud in his substance, wheras all other mēbers have it but
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[Page 20]in their veins and Arteries; and the heart is bound with certaine Ligaments to the backe part of the breast, but they touch not the substance of the heart, but in the overpart they spring out of him, and is fastned as aforesaid; further the heart hath two ventricles, or concavities, and the left is higher then the right, and in this hollownesse he keepeth the bloud for his nourishing, and the ayre to abate and temper the great heat he is in; likewise here observe, that to the right ventricle of the heart commeth a vein from
venakelis that receiveth all the substance of bloud from the Liver to nourist the heart with, and the residue of it is made subtill through the vertue of the heart and then it passeth through the Concavity of the heart, and ther
[...] is made hot and pure, and then it passeth into th
[...] left ventricle, and there is ingendred in it a spirit that is cleare, bright, and subtile, and a meane between the body and the soule; further it is to b
[...] noter, that from the left ventrickle of the hear
[...] springeth two Arteries, the one having but on
[...] Coat, and is called
Arteria venalis, which Arter
[...] carrieth bloud from the heart to the Lungs to giv
[...] them nutriment, and bringeth ayre from the Lung
[...] to the heart to refresh him with. The other Arter
[...] hath two Coats and is called
vena Arterialis, an
[...] of him springeth all other Arteries that spread
[...] every member of the body; and the spirit that
[...] retained in them is the Instrument or treasure
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[Page 21]the soule, and at the braine he receiveth a further digestion, and there is made animall, and at the liver nutrimentall, and at the testicles or stones generative, and this Artery is also called the pulsative vein, or the beating veine. Also there is in the heart three pellicks, opening and closing the going in of the heart, bloud, and spirit; the heart hath likewise two little ears through whom passeth the ayre from the Lungs: The heart is also covered with a strong pannicle called
Pericordium, unto which commeth nerves, as unto the other members, and this pannicle springeth of the upper pan-pannicle of the midriffe. And from him springeth another pannicle which parteth the breast in the middle, and is called
Mediastricum, and keepeth the Lungs that they fall not over the heart; there is also another Pannicle that covereth the Ribs inwardly of whom the midriffe hath his beginning. And thus much of the Breast and Heart, which are under the signes
Cancer and
Leo.
CHAP. VII. Of the Lungs, Bowels, and Belly.
THe Lungs is a member Spermatick of his first Creation, in his naturall complexion coid and dry, and accidentally cold and moyst, lapped in a
[Page 22]nervous pannicle, that it might gather together the softer substance of the Lungs; In the Lungs is three kinds of substance, one is a veine comming from the Liver, bringing the crude or raw part of the chile to feed the Lungs; another is
arteria venalis comming from the heart, bringing with him the spirit of life to nourish him with; the third is,
Trachia arteria, that bringeth in ayre to the Lungs.
The Lungs is also divided into five Lobs, or Pellicles, viz. three on the right side, and two on the left; so that if there fell any hurt to one, the other might supply his Office; so that the Lungs as a paire of Bellows draw cold winde and refresh the heart, change alter, and purifie the Ayre, and do receive from the heart the superfluities which he putteth forth by his breathing. Behind the Lungs passeth
Isofagus of whom its spoken before, and there passeth also veins and Arteries, and all these with
trachia arteria do make a stoke repleat unto the gullet, with Pannicles, strong Ligaments, and
glandulus flesh to fulfill the voyd places. And last of all is the Midriffe, which is an officiall member made of two Pannicles, and Lazartus flesh, and is placed in the midst of the body overthwart under the region of the spirituall members, parting them from the matrix; and it divideth the spirituals from the nutrales, and keepeth the malicious fumes from ascending upwards to annoy the spirituals
[Page 23]or vitall. Next followeth the womb which is the Region of all the intrailes, and reacheth from the midriffe down to the share inwardly, and outwardly from the reines or kidneyes downe to the bone
Pecten, about the privy parts; and this wound is compound made of two things,
viz of
Syfac and
Myrac: Syfac is a member spermatick, officiall, sensible, sinnowy, cold and dry, and hath his beginning at the inner Pannicle of the Midriff, and it containeth and bindeth together all the intrails, defendeth the musculus, so that he oppress not the naturall members:
Myrac is compound, and made of foure things,
viz of skin outwardly, of fatnesse, of a carnous Pannicle and of musculus flesh, and all the whole from
Syfac outward is called
Myrac, and in this
Myrac, or outer part of the womb, there is noted eight Muskles, two longitudinals, proceeding from the shield of the stomack unto
os pecten, two Longitudinalls comming from the backwards to the womb, and four transverse, two whereof spring from the ribs on the right side, and go to the left side to the bones of the Haunches, or of
pecten; and the other two spring from the ribs on the left, and come over the womb to the right parts. Here note, that by the musculus longitudinall, is made perfect the virtue attractive, and by the musculus transverse, the virtue retentive, and by the musculus latitudinall the virtue expulsive, and by the virtue attractive is
[Page 24]drawn downe to the intrailes all the superfluities, both water, winde, and dirt; by the virtue retentive all things are holden and kept untill nature hath wrought his kinde; and by the vertue expulsive is put forth all things when nature provoketh any thing to be done. Now to come to the parts contained within: first that which appeareth next under the
Syfac is
omentum or
Zirbus, which is a pannicle covering the stomack and intrails, implanted with many veins and arteries, and fatnesse to keep moyst the inward parts. This
Zirbus is an officiall member, and is compound of a veine and an Artery, which entreth and maketh a line of the utter tunicle of the stomack, unto which tunicle hangeth the
Zirbus and covereth all the guts down to the share; next to
Zirbus appeareth the intrails or guts, which convey the drosse of the meat and drink, and cleanse the body of their superfluities: There be six portions of one whole gut, which beginneth at the neither mouth of the stomack, and continueth to the end of the fundament: neverthelesse he hath divers shapes and formes, divers operations, and divers names. And as the stomack hath two tunicles, so have all the guts two tunicles; the first portion of the guts is called
Duodenum, he is twelve inches of length, and covereth the neither part of the stomack, and receiveth all the drosse of the stomack: the second is called
Jejunium, for he is evermore empty, for
[Page 25]to him lyeth the chest of the gall, and beateth him sore, and draweth all the drosse out of him, and cleanseth him: the third is called
Yleon, or small gut, and is in length fifteen or sixteen Cubits; in this gut oftentimes falleth a disease called
Yleaca passio: the fourth gut is called
Monoculus, or blind gut, and seemeth to have but one hole or mouth, one neare unto the other, for by the one all things go in, and by the other they go out again; the first is called
Colon, and receiveth all the drosse comming from all profitablenesse, and there commeth not to him any veins miseraices as to the other: the sixth and last is called
rectum or
longam, and endeth in the fundament, and hath in his nether end foure muscles, to hold, to open, to shut, and to put out, &c. Next to be noted is
Misenterium, which is a texture of innumerable veines miseraices, ramefied of one veine called
Porta Epates, covered and defended of pannicles and ligaments comming to the intrails, with the backe full of Ligaments, and grandulus flesh.
The stomack is compound and spermatick, sinowy and sensible, and therein is made the first digestion of Chile; for if it faile in his working, all the members of the body shall corrupt; wherefore
Gallen saith, that the stomack should be to all the members of the body as the earth is to all that are ingendred of the earth,
viz. that it should desire meat for all the body, and that it should be as
[Page 26]a sack or chest to all the body for meat, and as a Cooke to all the members of the body; it is made of two pannicles, the inner is nervous, and the outer carnous; this inner pannicle hath musculus longitudinals that stretcheth along from the stomack to the mouth, whereby he draweth meat and drink to him as it were with hands; and he hath transverse will to with-hold or make retention; and the outer pannicle hath latitudinall will to expulse and put out, and by his heat helpeth the digestive virtue of the stomack, and by other heats given him of his neighbour, as the Liver on the right side, chasing, and heating him with his lobs or figures, the spleene on the left side sending to him melancholly to excercise his appetites, and about him is the heart quickening him with his Arteries; also the braine, sending to him a branch of nerves, to give him feeling; and he hath on the hinder part descending of the parts of the back many ligaments, with the which he is bound to the spondels of the back.
The forme of the stomack is in likenesse of a Gourd, crooked; both holes be in the upper part of the body of it, because there should be no going out unadvisedly of those things that be received into it. The stomack is subject to many passions, and the nether mouth thereof is narrower then the upper for three causes. 1. Because the upper receiveth meat great in substance, and there being
[Page 27]sine and subtill, pasieth easier into the nether, 2. By it passeth all the chilosity of the meat from the stomack to the Liver. And 3 through him passeth all the drosse of the stomack into the guts. And thus much for the stomack which is likewise under the signe
Cancer, and the Bowels under
Virgo.
Next followeth the Liver to be spoken of, which is a principall member, officiall, spermatick, compleat in quantity of bloud, of himselfe insensible, but sensible by accidents, and in him is made the second concoction; he is inclosed in a sinnewy pannicle, and cruded, turneth the chile, that runneth from the stomack to the Liver, into the colour of bloud. In the Liver is ingendred all nutrimentall: the seat of the Liver is under the false Ribs in the right side; the form thereof is bunchy in the backside, and it is somewhat hollow like the inside of an hand plyable to the stomack as an hand is to an apple, and doth comfort the digestion thereof, heating the stomack as a fire doth a pot or Chauldron that hangeth over it: like wise the Liver is bound with Pellicles and strong Ligaments to
Diafragma or the Midriffe; also he hath Colligaves with the stomack, intrails, with the heart, reigns, testicles, and other members; and in him are sive pellicles like sive fingers:
Gallen calleth the Liver
Mesasanguinaria and here are the places of the foure Humours,
viz Bloud, or sanguine in
[Page 28]the Liver, Choller in the Gall, Melancholly in the Spleen, and Flegme in the Lungs; the watry superfluities to the Reins and these four humours are thus distributed, from the spermatick matter of the Liver are ingendred two great veins, the greatest is called
Porta, of whom springeth the miseraick veins, which are to
vena Porta, as the branches of a tree are to the tree it selfe, some of them be contained with
Duodenum, some with
Jejunium, some with
Yleon, some with
Monoculus, or
Saccus; and from all these guts they bring to
vena porta the succosity of chile, going to the stomack, distributing it to the substance of the Liver, and in these miseraick, veins are begun the second concoction, which is ended in the Liver So that this
vena porta, spreading it sefe through the gibbous part of the Liver, meet all in one, and there maketh the second great veine called
Concava, or
vena Ramosa, and he with his branches draweth all the bloud ingendred from the Liver, and with his branches conveys it to all the members of the body, wherein is made perfect the third concoction. Now to speake of the Chest or Gall, it is an officiall member, spermatick and sinowy, as a purse or panniculer vesicke, in the holownesse of the Liver, about the middle pericle or lob, ordained to receive the cholerick superfluities ingendred in the Liver: and in the purse or bag of the Gall are contained three holes, the first receiveth the Cholerick substance
[Page 29]of the bloud, that the bloud be not hurt by the choler; the second sendeth Choler to the bottome of the stomack to further the digestion; and by the third neck he sendeth to the guts choler to cleanse them of their superfluities and drosse; next is the Spleen, or the milt, which is spermatick, and is the receptacle of the melancholy superfluities ingendred in the Liver; he is placed on the left side transversely linked to the stomack, he is thin of substance, and purifieth the nutritive bloud from the drosse of melancholy.
And next it is to be observed, that within the Region of the Nutrites, backwards, the kidneys are ordained, to cleanse the bloud from the watry superfluities, they have in each of them two passages, by the one is drawne the water from
Venakelis, by two veins, called
vena emulgentes, by the other the same water is conveyed to the bladder, and is called
poros urithides. The substance of the Kidneys is
Lazartus, longitudinall, placed behind on each side of the spondels, they are two in number, the right Kidney lying higher then the left, and are bound to the back with Ligaments, they are full of hard concavities, therefore the sores of them are difficult to cure; there commeth also from the Heart to the Kidneys an Artery bringing with him bloud, heat, spirit and life; and a vein from the Liver, bringing bloud nutrimentall to nourish them withall.
The fat of the Kidneys is made or congealed of thin bloud of gre
[...]t quantity, serving to temper the heat of the Kidneys, which they have by the sharpnesse of the Urine. And thus much sufficeth to speake of the Reins and Bowels, the one being ruled by the signe
Libra, the other under the dominion of
Virgo.
CHAP. VIII. Of the Buttocks, Haunches, and Secret-Members.
THese are the lower parts of the Womb or Belly, and are adjoyning to the Thighs and Secret Members. Herein is to be noted the parts containing, the parts contained, and the parts proceeding outwards; the pacts containing are
Myrac, Syfac, Zarbus, and Bones; the parts contained are the
Vesick or Bladder, the spermatick vessels, the
Matrix, and
Vulva in Women; the
Longoan, the Yard, Testicles, or Stones and Cods in men, Nerves, Veines, and Arteries, descending downwards, the Buttocks and Muscles descending to the Thighes: of which in order.
First of the parts containing, as
Myrac, Syfac, and
Zirbus, of which it is spoken already; but as for the bones of the Haunches, there be of the parts
[Page 31]of the back three spondels of
ossasacri, or the Haunches; and three
Cartaliginis spondels of
ossa caudt, or the Tayle bone: Thus there is in every man thirty spondels,
viz. in the neck seven, in the ridge twelve, in the reins five, in the Haunches six; and every spondell is hollow in the midst, through which spondell passeth
Nuca from the braine, or the marrow of the back, and each of these spondels are bound fast one with another, so that one of them may not well be named without another: And all these spondels together contained one by another, is called the ridge bone, which is the foundation of the shape of the body. They bee joyned to the bones of the haunches, and be the upholders of all the spondels; and these bones bee small towards the Tayle bone, and broad towards the Haunches, and before they are joyned and make
os pectenis, each of these two bones towards the Liver, hath a great round hole, into which is received the bone called
vertebra, or the whirle bone: also besides that place, there is a great hole or way, through which passeth from above musculus veins and Arteries, and goe into the thighs. And thus of this bone
Pecten, and of
vertebra, is formed the Juncture of the thigh.
Now concerning the parts contained, the first is the bladder a member officiall compound of two nervous pannicles, in complexion cold and dry;
[Page 32]the neck of the bladder is carnons, and hath muscles to with-hold, and to let goe, and in man it is long, contained with the yard, passing through
peritonium, but in women it is shorter, and is contained within the
vulva. It is placed in men between the bone of the share and
longoan, and in women between the said bone and the matrix; and in it are implanted two long vessels comming from the kidneys, called
porri, urickides, bringing with them the urine or water from the kidneys to the bladder, which privily entreth into the holes of the pannicles of the bladder, by a naturall moeing between Tunicle and Tunicle, and there the urine findeth the hole of the nether Tunicle, and there it entreth privily into the holes of the concavity of the bladder, and the more the bladder is filled with the urine, the straighter the holes thereof be comprised together: and the holes of the Tunicles be not one even against another, therefore if the bladder be never so full, there can none goe back againe: The forme of it is round, in some bigger, and in some lesse.
There is also two other vessels called
Vasa semiuaria, or the spermatick vessels, and they come from
Venakelis, bringing bloud to the Testicles, aswell in man as in women, which by the further digestion of the Stones or Testicles is made Sperm or Nature: In men they be put outward, for their Testicles hang without, and in women they be inward,
[Page 33]for their Testicles stand within. Next followeth the matrix in women, which is an officiall member, compound and nervous, cold and dry in complexion, it is the field of mans generation, it is an instrument susceptive, that is receiving or taking, for as the Adamant draweth or attracteth the Iron, so the matrix draweth in the seed of man, and
Aristotle maketh mention of a Maid that standing in a Bath where some seed of man had been spilt, drew it unto her and conceived thereby; her proper place is between the Bladder and
Longoan, the similitude or likeness of it, as it were a yard reversed or turned inward, having Testicles likewise within as aforesaid, and is outwardly adorned with haires, in them that be of ripe age; it hath two concavities or Cells, it also hath a long neck like a Urinall, and in every neck it hath a mouth, one within, and another without; the inner in the time of conception is shut, and the outer open as it was before; it hath in the midst a Lazartus pannicle called
Tengito, wherein is two utilities, the first is, by it goeth forth the urine which else would be shed throughout all the
vulva. 2. By it the Ayre that commeth to the matrix is altered and the heat tempered.
Furthermore, in the Concavity of this neck is many involutions and pleats, joyned together in the manner of Rose leaves, before they be fully spread or blowne, and they be shut together like a
[Page 34]purse mouth, so that nothing may passe forth but urine untill the time of Childing. Also about the middle of this purse be certaine veins in maidens which in time of deflowring be corrupted and broken, and these are called the Tokens of Virginity. Furthermore in the sides of the outer mouth, are two Testicles or stones, and two vessels of sperme, shorter then mans vessels, and in time of Coyt or copulation, the womans sperme is shed down into the bottome of the matrix, also from the Liver there commeth to the matrix many veins, bringing nutriment to the child, when a woman is with child, and those veines, when the matrix is voyd, bring thereto superfluities from certain members of the body, whereof are ingendred womens flowers, &c.
Now in the matrix, which is the field of generation, is sowne by the tillage of man, a convenable matter of kindly heat, which seed of generation commeth from all parts of the body, both of man and woman, with the consent of all the members, and is shed in the place of conceiving, and by the vertue of nature, is gathered together in the Cels of the matrix, in whom by the working of the mans seed, and by the suffering of the womans seed mixt together, is ingendred
Embryon. And further it is to be noted, that this sperme that commeth both to man and woman, is made of the most pure drops of bloud in all the body, and by
[...]
The Cods is a compound member, and officiall, and as a purse ordained for the custody and comfort of the stones, and other spermatick vessells, it is made of two parts, the inner and the outer, the outer is compound made of skin and Lazartus, longitudinall and transversall, as the Myrach, the inner part of the Cods is of the substance as the
Syfac, and in similitude as two pockets drawn together, they differ not from the
Syfac; and there be two, if there fall any hurt to the one, the other should serve; the stones be two, made of glandulus or carnelly flesh, and through the
Didimus commeth from the braine to the stones sinnewes, and from the heart Arteries, and from the Liver veins, which bringeth unto them both feeling and stirring life and spirit, and nutrimentall bloud, and the purest bloud of all other members of the body, whereof is made the sperme, by the labour of the Testicles or stones
ut supra.
The groyns be the emy Junctures, or purging places unto the Liver, and they have carnelly flesh in the plying or bowing of the thighs.
The hips have great brawny flesh on them, and from thence descend downwards Brawns, Cords, and Ligaments, moving and binding together the thighes with the Buttocks or hanches themselves.
CHAP. IX. Of the Thighes, Legs, and Feet.
THe thigh or
Coxa is contained from the joynt of the haunch unto the knee; the leg reacheth from the knee to the ankle, and is called
Tibia; & the foot from the ankle unto the end of the toes; the Thigh, Leg, and Foot are compound, made as the arme and hand, with skin, flesh, veines, arteries, sinnews, brawns, tendons, and cords, wherof in order.
Of the skin and flesh it's spoken of before; and as of veins and arteries, in their descending downwards, at the last spondels they be divided into 2 parts, whereof the one part goeth into the right thigh, and the other into the left, and when they come to the thigh, they be divided into two parts, or branches; one of them spreadeth into the inner side of the leg, and the other into the outer side, and so branching descend down to the Leg, Ankles, and Feet, and be brought into foure veines, which be commonly used in bloud letting, as hereafter followeth; one of them is under the under Ankle towards the heele, called
Soffeua; another under the under Ankle, and is called
Siarica, and another under the ham, called
Poplitica; the fourth betweene the little Toe and the next, called
Renalis. The sinnewes spring of the last spondel, and of
Os sacrum, and passeth through
[Page 39]the hole of the bone of the hip, and descendeth to the brawnes, and moveth the knee and the ham, and these descend downe to the Ankle, and move the foote, and the brawnes of the foote moove the toes, as is declared in the bones of the hand; the thigh bone, or
Coxa, is without a fellow, and full of marrow, and round at either end; the roundnesse at upper end is called
Vertebrum, or whirlbone, and boweth inwards, and is received into the box or hole of the haunch bone, and at the knee he hath two rounds, which he receiveth into the Concavities of the bones of the leg, at the knee, called the great fossels.
There is also at the knee a round bone, called the knee pan; then followeth the leg, wherein is two bones called
focile major and
focile minor, the bigger of them passeth before, and is called the shin bone, and passeth downe making the inward ankle; the lesse passeth from the knee backwards, and descendeth downe to the outer ank'e, and there formeth that ankle.
The bones of the foot are six and twenty; first next the ankle bone is one called
Orabalistus; next under that towards the heele, is one called
Calcany: and betweene them is another bone, called
Os neculare; in the second ward there bee foure bones called
Raccti, as bee in the hands: In the third and fourth wards be fourteene, called
Digitori, and five called
Pectens, at the extremity of the
[Page 40]Toes, next to the nailes: And thus be there in the foot 26 bones, with the leg from the ankle to the knee; 2 in the knee, and one round and flat bone, and in the thigh one; in the whole, thigh, leg, and foot, thirty bones: Thus are we marvelously and curiously wrought in the nethermost parts of the earth.
Choyce and select Receipts and Secrets for all manner of Diseases, Gun-shot, and preservatives against the Plague.
What Wounds are.
WOunds are in Latine called
Vulnera, and of the Vulgar,
Vulner: They are simple and compound; the simple are those that are onely in the flesh; the compound are those where are cut sinnews, veins, muscles, and bones; and these are of divers and sundry kindes, and the difference among them is by the variety of the place where they are, and the difference of the weapon wherewith they are hurt; for some go right, some overthwart that offend divers places of the body: the simple are of small importance, if they keep them cleane and close shut, nature will heale them without
[Page 41]any kind of medicine; but those where veins are cut require Art, wherewith they must stop the bloud, and not suffer the wound to remain open, but sow it up very close, so that the vein may heale; and those where sinnews are cut or hurt are of great importance, and should be healed with great speed, so the sinnews may joyne with more ease: but those where bones be hurt are of greatest importance; for if the bone be separated from the other, it must be taken away before the wound can be healed. And thus much for what wounds are, and their kindes.
Of the Syncope passion, or swounding through the cause of wounds.
GALEN saith, that Syncope is a sudden decay of strength, through immoderate evacuation, and vehement dolour, continuall watching and paine, intemperatenesse of the principall parts, or vehement perturbations of the minde; but Syncope which followeth in wounds springeth of great effusion of bloud, or else of vehement dolour, and paine; the comming of it is perceived by the weaknesse, pulse, palenefle of face, cold sweats about the neck and temples; it is not lightly to be regarded because it commeth suddenly, and as the image of death, therefore the wounded man is to be comforted by all means possible; if you perceive
[Page 42]this accident come, give the Patient a piece of fine white bread, dipped in the best Wine you can get, into which Wine put Rose-water &
Manus Christi, and Burrage water, and give him of the Wine to drink, and comfort him with sweet smels, and chafe his temples with Rose-water, and if he begin to swound, cast cold water on his face, chafe and rub his temples with your bands, and pull him by the nose, thereby to revive and quicken his spirits.
Of Luxation, or Dislocation, and their differences.
LUxation is a going out of a joynt from a naturall or proper place, whereby the voluntary motion thereof is hindred; there be two differences of luxations, according to the bigness therof; for if the bone be quite out of his socket or place, then it is properly called a Luxation: but if it be onely a little removed, then it is named a wrench. A joynt may be foure manner of wayes dislocated or wrenched,
viz. forwards, backwards, higher, and lower: now to reduce them to their proper places, there are foure intentions to be observed, the first to bring the joynt to his naturall pristine place: the second is the conservation and keeping the joynt so put in, that it slip not out againe: the third to defend the member
[Page 43]from accidents, as dolour, inflammations, flux of humours, and the like: the fourth to put away those accidents if any do follow.
How the luxated joynt is to be reduced to his naturall and proper place.
FIrst extend the member decently, untill such time as the place betwixt both bones is empty and void, then the bone which is out of his place is to be put and placed in his native seat, that the emptines of the socket may be filled againe with the bone; this extension must be done tenderly, with as little paine as possible; neither is there one way onely of extending and stretching out the luxated member, for sometime it may be done with the hands onely, sometime with bands, and sometime with Instruments apt and fit for that purpose, as appeareth in
Hypocrates lib. de luxatis & fractis.
How the member brought to his naturall place, may be conserved in the same.
VVHen the member is brought to his naturall place, you must with all diligence labour to confirme the part, and keep the member from slipping out againe; therefore annoynt the place with oyle of Roses, and apply unto it a
[Page 44]fine old linnen cloath wet in oyle of Roses, also use cloaths wet in the whites of Egges, and apply them to the joynt; wet your rollers in water and vinegar mixed together, and roll the member therewith, and if necessity require, use splints of Leather, or pasted paper, and apply them about the joynt; but be carefull the part be not too hard rolled, for feare of inflamation; lay the member in his naturall figure, and unlesse some great and ill accident happen, open not the member before the tenth day at the least; use not hot cloathes or medicines for feare of inflammation, but rather some refrigerative cerate: and labour to defend the member from a flux of humours, by strengthening it with apt and convenient medicines hereafter mentioned, keeping the Patient to thin and small diet purging and letting bloud if need require.
Of the Cure of broken and fractured bones.
TO the uniting of every fracture is required foure things, first the joyning or putting together of the broken bones into their proper place: Secondly, to keep and conserve them so placed without motion: The third is to conglutinate and joyne together the parts of the broken bone by ingendring of
Callus: Fourthly to correct those
[Page 45]accidents which follow the fractures of bones: first to unite the fractured bones, if the member where the bone is fractured doth extend it selfe and stand upwards, & pricketh, shewing an inequality when it is touched: these be sure signs that the bone broken is out of his natural place; wherfore the mēber is decently to be extended, & that part of the bone that is depressed to be gently lifted up, and that which standeth upward to be put downe, untill the ends of the fractured bones do meet, and bee united, and brought to their naturall proper place; but it is not possible this can be done without some force and strength; so that if the member be small, and of no great strength, as the finger or other like member, one man may well extend it, and stretch it out, by applying one hand on the one part, and the other hand on the other, untill both ends of the bone fractured doe meet and joyne together: but if the member be great, having strong nerves, and tendons, then one man is not sufficient, and you must diligently take heed, that the member be not too immoderately extended or drawne out, for that doth bring vehement paine, and consequently Feavers, Convulsions, Palsey, and such diseases, and oftentimes by this means the Fiberes and threads in the heads of the muscles be broken: therefore let one man lay his hands on the member above the fracture, and the other on the nether part of the member
[Page 46]under the fractured bone, so stretch and extend the member, till both parts of the bone do meet, then forme it together, till you bring it to its naturall forme and figure, and when the bone is reposed in his place, then shall the Patient feel ease of his paine.
To keep the bones that they fall not out againe.
THe broken bone being thus reduced, and brought to his proper figure, the next thing to be observed is to keep in the same that it start not out againe; therefore all means possible are to be used to keep the members without motion, and to use apt and convenient ligature and rolling: But before you roll the member, first mix the white of an Egge and oyle of Roses together; and wet therein a soft linnen cloath of such bignesse as may compasse not only the place where the bone is fractured, but also somewhat of the sound parts above and below. Then this being applied to the affected part, you shall binde and roll the member, diligently regarding that you compress not the member, by too hard rolling, so that nourishment cannot come to it, and also paine thereby may cause flux of humours and inflamation; neither must you binde it to flack and loose, for then the broken bones will separate againe, and
[Page 47]go asunder; but observe a meane herein, that you binde not the member too streight, nor too loose, but follow discretion between both, and the feeling of the patient; and as touching your rollers, you must have 2 made of soft cloth, whose breadth and latitude must be such, as in rolling there be no loosenesse, widenesse and plaites. The beginning of the rolling must be upon the Fracture, and so rolled about three or foure times, and then rolling upward untill you come to the sound parts, which must also be somewhat rolled; by this means the bones united shall more firmely remaine together, and the flux of humours be stayed that they cannot come to the affected part.
The beginning of the second roll must also bee upon the fractured place, going also three or four times about it, and so continuing downwards, untill you have compassed the sound parts: which done, you must with the same roller ascend upwards againe, untill you come some what above the first roller, therefore the second roller must be halfe as long againe as the first, which suffereth not any flux of humours to infest, or annoy the part affected.
These rollers should be wet in water and Wine mixed together before you use them, and if there be any vehement paine or inflamation, then the member should be wrapped about with fine wool well carded, or else with stuffes well in
exicratum;
[Page 48]And the ligature or binding must not be hard, but such as may keep the united bones together; furthermore there must bee used both to defend the member from accidents, to keep it together, and to confirm and consolidate the same certaine plaisters or cerats, which must be put upon the two rollers, and as it were the third ligature or roll, amongst which is used
Ceratum Humidum, made of Wax melted in oyle of Roses, but if there be besides the fractured bone any solution or hurt in the flesh, then use not either Cerote or oyle, for that will make the ulcer filthy and stinking, but instead thereof use Plumaciols that be long, dipt in red and st
[...]p
[...]ck wine.
Now the better to keep the member, placed in his naturall place from dolour and paine, there must be used certaine splints, to be put about the ligature at the first dressing: these splints must be equall, smooth, even; not crooked, or rugged, and in the midst thicker then in the other parts, the better to strengthen the member where the bone is fractured: the way of applying these splints is thus, there must be cloathes three or four fold dipt in Rose-water, and lavd upon the roller according as the member requireth, then the splint involved and wound about with wooll, cotten must be placed round about the member, a fingers breadth asunder, and binde them moderately and gently, that you compresse not the
[Page 49]member, and take heed that none of the splints touch any joynt, if any be neare the fractured bone, for that will make ulceration, and inflammation in the the same joynt. Therefore if the fracture be neare to any joynt, you must in that place make your splints shorter, smaller, and lighter, and if no dolour, inflammation, itching, nor ulceration commeth to the fractured part, then you may let the splints remaine on till the 12 or 15 day or untill the 20 day, but if any of these happen, then you must unrole the member the third day, and foment it with luke warme water, whereby the paine is ceased and the itching put away.
To Conglutinate and Joyne together the fractured bones.
THe fractured bones being thus put in their naturall places, out of the bone must grow the nourishment to Conglutinate and cause them to grow together; and this is called
Callus which like glew doth Cement them together: wherefore ought to be made grow, by all meanes possible. This
Callus is ingendred of Grosse and Earthly parts, for such is the nourishment of the bones. After the minde of divers it beginneth to grow about the tenth or fourteenth day, when it bee inneth to grow you shall perceive by these signes. The dolour and paine is aslwaged; the inflammation
[Page 50]ceaseth: and the tumor vanisheth, and the member cometh againe to it's naturall colour. Now the principall way to ingender
Callus is apt and convenient diet, at the beginning of the Fracture
Hippcerates counselleth to use thinne and slender diet, to obstaine from flesh and Wine the space of ten dayes. But when ye come to ingender
Callus, you must licence the patient to use a more large diet, and meates that make good juice, and that gross and somewhat viscous. Therefore Frumenty is much commended; also the heads & feet of beasts, which nourish and bee of viscous Iuice. Also give him to drinke good red wine when he goeth to meate, but that must be taken moderately: the bignesse of
Callus must not be either bigger or lesser then is requisite, for being bigger it bringeth paine to the muskels, and if it be lesser it is unable to defend the fractured bones. How to keep it that it be not too bigge not too little followeth.
To remove the accidents which may happen to fractured bones.
THe accidents hindring the cure of the Fractured member, for the most part are extreame paine, inflamation, itching in a wound, immoderate drynes or moysture,
Gangrena, hardnesse, and the quantity of
Callus too much, or little. These bee the cheife enemies that hinder natures worke
[Page 51]Therefore if these accidents doe infest and beseige the Fractured member, after it be bound, rolled and drest, you must with speed loose the Ligature and take away the roller, and then the member being bare and naked, foment it with the Oyle of Roses, vinegar, and other medicines mentioned before, and doe not use againe either ligature or splints before the paine bee asswaged and the inflammation ceased, but onely to strengthen and keepe the member together; but these accidents being expelled, then use splints and roling, as before, and if this itching happeneth, then foment the place with water temperately hot, and apply to it
Vnguentum Album or
Vnguentum Populeon, and binde the member as aforesaid. Further if there happen to the member any wound either at the breaking of the bone; or else made by the
Chyrurgeon to take out the shivers of the bone molesting the muskels: or if there be any flux of bloud you must labour to staunch it with convenient remedies, as are herein set forth, if any inflammation follow, it must be repelled if the flesh be broken and contused, then sacrifie the parts for feare least
Gangrena should follow, which if it should or any putrefaction, you must endeavor to cure it as is set out in the ensuing medicines; and if none of these happen, then use the like medicine to the cure of the wound as you do to fresh and greene wounds. Further if the wound bee immoderately dry whereby the growing of
Callus is hindred,
[Page 52]shall be convenient the third or fourth day to foment the place with water: and when as the flesh doth rise in a tumour, then cease the fomentation unlesse it be to evaporate and digest the multitude of matter, then cease not till the tumor goeth away; and if moistnesse follow in the fractured member and hinder the ingendring of
Callus you shall put it away by convenient ligature and roling and moderate exsiccation, now that the
Callus may be ingendred of convenient substance, neither too big nor too small; you must take heed to the diet, fomentation, and plaisters; if you would increase it, use plaisters which doe moderately heale, but if it be too big then use medicines astringent, and a compressing ligature and plate of leade also fomentations made with oyle salt-peter, and salt water made hot. But if the
Callus be not growne at the accustomed time which appeareth if the member affected be leaner, smaller and slenderer then it was naturally; then you must apply unto the member hott atractive medecinet let the Patients diet be more large, and cause him to embrace mirth, and bamsh heavynesse, and such passions of the minde as may bring the body into a melar cholick disposition. And thus much touching broken or fractured bones, luxations and dislocated joynts.
A secret powder to stay the flux of bloud in a wound.
℞
Aluminis Succarini, Thuris, Arsenici, ana ℥ j.
Calcis vini ℥ vj.
Make them
[...] in fine powder, and put unto them one pinte of strong vinegar, and boyle them on the fire, stirring it, till the vinegar be consumed, then set it in an oven, or in the Sun, till it be perfectly dry, then make it in powder, and when you will use it, take of this powder three ounces, Bolear moniack halfe an ounce,
Pulvis Alcamisticus one ounce; mix all these together, and make them into very fine powder: and thus you have the powder prepared and sublimed to restrain any flux of bloud, when you use it, take 4 ounces of this powder, and incorporate it with whites of Egs; then make a boulster or stuffe of Tow as large as the end of the member you take off, or place where the wound is; dip the Tow first in vinegar, and presse it out againe, then spread your medicine on the Tow, and after strow a little of this dry powder upon it, and so make many little bolsters of Tow, to lay upon this, as need doth require for to restraine bloud.
Of Wounds made with Gunshot.
1. That the usuall Gunpowder is not venemous.
COncerning the nature of Gunpowder, many have affirmed it to be venemous, and so consequently the wounds made with powder must have the cure of venemous wounds; I doe not deny but there may be Gunpowder venemous, but the usuall powder is not, and that I shall shew, for it is made of Zulphur, Saltpeter, and Coale, neither of which are venemous; so that if the simples be not venemous in themselves, neither can the compound be so:
Dioscorides writing of Zulphur, saith that Zulphur doth heat, dissolve, and concoct speedily; it is good against the cough and short breath, taken in an Egge, or using the fume of it; it taketh away leprosie and scabs, being tempered with vinegar, and healeth the itching of the body; these be the words of
Dioscorides touching Zulphur: Of Nitre he saith (which is Saltpeter) it hath the strength and ustion of Salt; it helpeth the Collick, if it be taken with Commine in hydromell, or new wine boyled, or any thing that doth breake winde, as Rue or Dill; it is mixed with Emplaisters, which do extract & dissolve; it doth extenuate and put away the Leprosie,
[Page 55]used with warm water or Wine, it opens fellons mixed with ℞ozen, or Turpentine.
Galen saith, all kindes of Zulphur are hot, and do resist the venome of poysonous Beasts, being used with old Oyle, Honey, and Turpentine. Or Nitre, or Saltpeter he saith, it is a meane between Aphronitum and Salt, it doth dry and digest, and being taken inwardly, it doth cut and extenuate grosse and slimy humours more then Salt: Aphronitrum (unless great necessity doth enforce it) is not to be taken inwardly, because it hurteth the stomack, and doth extenuate more then Nitrum, therefore both
Dioscorides and
Galen found Zulphure and Nitre so far from any venemous quality, as they used them as approved and excellent medicines against venome. So that unlesse any will be so ridiculous as to affirme the Cole to be venemous, the simples entring into the composition cannot make the powder venemous.
And many times, Gunpowder instead of other medicines hath been used in wounds to dry and exsiccate, to the great comfort of the Patient; and therefore it is not in mixture or composition venemous but medicinable, and hath in him the vertues obstersive and desiccative, neither in those that are shot with this powder doe there follow any of those Accidents which are inseperable in venemous shot; and the cure of these wounds agreath with those that be contused or broken,
[Page 56]without the Addition of any medecine or
Alexipharmacon against venom, and are to be numbered amongst greene wounds, such as are carled bruised, Contused, or Crushed wounds. And now to the Generall cure of wounds made with Gunshot.
Of healing wounds made with Gunshot.
TO the cure of such wounds properly belong two things; the one is to deliver and cleanse the wound of all such things as are not agreeable to nature, which are not onely shot, iron splints or shivers of wood, cloth, dust, oyle, or such like, but also the clods of bloud, matter, bruised flesh, and such like, which you shall endeavour to take out with instruments for that purpose, or if the wound be so narrow that it cannot be taken out with an instrument, then you must labour to enlarge the wound either with tents, as the roote of
Gantian pith of elder, or a peece of sponge, or if otherwise then to make incision with a paire of Cassers or sheeres made for that purpose; there are also divers instruments when the wound is enlarged to take out such things, as Tongs, Nippers, Terrebils, Crowbills, which a Chyrurgeon must alwayes be furnished with. Then to endeavour to cute the wound as you would a bruised, crushed, or contused wound, and to take away the bruised
[Page 57]asmuch expedition as possible with conveniency, without sharpe and biting medecines, therefore you shall lay to the contused place, or wound of
Mercury precipitaete drachme 1. or as much as you shall see cause, and mixe it with simple oyle, oyl of Roses, butter, or fresh Barrowes grease, and droppe into the wound one droppe of this oyle following.
℞.
Refinae abjectinae ℥ v.
Olei rosarei ℥ ij.
sena: Hypericouis v. drachms,
sem. Momoraicae, iii. drachms.
The seeds must be bruised and put in a double vessell with the oyles, and let them boyle halfe an houre, then straine them and keepe them to thy use. This oyle doth concoct and digest and preserveth the sound flesh from corruption and putrefaction.
A plaister good to extract such things as are fixed in wounds.
℞.
- Apostolicon descript. Nicholai
4 ounces,
- Magnetis orientaelis
2 ounces.
-
ana
halfe an ounce.
- Pinguedinis leporinae
2 ounces.
- Olei canabis
1 ounce.
-
Terebinthinae halfe an ounce.
Of these make an Emplaister which is marvelous
[Page 58]drawing our rotten bones, thornes, or the like.
But in poysoned shots, the medicines before rehearsed, are not sufficient, butyon must give the Patient some Antidote or
Alexipharmacon against venom or poyson both inwardly and outwardly: inwardly you shall give him every day this potion.
℞.
- Vini cretiei, Sublimatae rutae ana ℥
4
-
ana
2. drachms.
-
Theriacae opt. 1.
drachme,
let them be boyled till a 3. part be consumed, so reserve them for vse.
Outwardly, into the wound you shall put oyle of violets warme, which oyle must be made of Linseede oyle; you may also wet your tent in that oile, and mixe it with your other medecines that you apply to the wound.
To cure a simple wound in the head made with gunshot.
First consider whether the wound be simple or compound, if the wound be simple, the cure is easier and without danger if the patiēt have not a body repleat with evill juice or have tasted of that cōtagion called
morbus gallicus, if the wounded patient be so affected, though the wound be small & simple, yet trifling wounds in such bodies are not cured
[Page 59]without much diligence; wherfore in such bodies you must labour to cleanse the body thereof by bloud letting, purging, by sweating, and good diet, so that the body being rectified, the cure of the wounds shall be the more speedy and easie.
Now to the cure of simple wounds in the head.
First let the haire be shaven round about, and apply this unguent following.
℞.
- Precipitati optimi
2. drachms
-
- Butiri salis experti,
- Oleiresarum
ana
drach. 1. ss.
- Croci
2. graines.
Mixe these and make an unguent, which you shall lay on soft linnen cloth and apply to the wound, lay on the wound also
Bolus armenius, tempered with oyle of Roses and the white of an egge like an unguent to defend the parts from accidents.
And this shall suffice for the first day: you may also at the beginning use in stead of the second unguent this comfortable cataplasme following;
℞.
-
ana. ℥
ij
-
- Banlastiaum
- Rosarum rub:
- Boli armeni.
ana ℥
1
- Sanguis draeconis
1. drachm.
- Mirrhe
halfe a drachme.
Make of all this a Cataplasme according to Art and apply it the second day you shall use such medicines that doth digest and moderately dry the wound, of which sort this is one.
℞.
- Terebinthinae lotae
1. ounce,
- Mellis rosarum
2 ounces.
- Butiri salis experti
3 drachms.
-
- Farinae hordei,
- Aristolochiae rotundae
- Radicis ireos
ana
1. drachme.
- Aloes
halfe a drachme
Mixe these and make them in an unguent and use it untill such time as there appeare signes of concoction in the wound; then use no more butter in the wound but this powder following.
℞.
- Sarcocollae
1. drachme
- Cocticum radicis papaver is
halfe a drachme
-
ana
drachme 1 ss
Make this in powder and temper it with the other unguent, and use this untill the wound be perfectly cured; and this is the cure of a simple wound in the head.
Of wounds compound in the head through shot.
IN the cure of compound wounds of the head you must first use insition; with some instrument sharpe and flat raise the skinne and flesh from cranium, and if you see any short or peece of bone, which may easily be taken out, you may do it with some convenient instrument; but if it will not bee without dificulty, then wett your stuffs in astringent wine, and vinegar mixt with
Bole armonicke and
Sanguis araconis, and lay it to the wound; then the next day following use this receipt for 3. or foure dayes, for feare of inflammation to follow.
℞.
- Boli armeni
2. ounces.
- Albumem ovorum
2. ounces
- Olei Resacei omphacitis
3 ounces
- Croci
3 graines misce.
Then you may use this digestive following, untill the thing fixed will easily be taken out.
℞.
- Terebinthinae lotae in vixo
3. ounces,
- Ovorum vitella
2.
- Olei rosati ℥ ij
- Alloes
2 scruples ij
- Croci
4 graines misce
s: A.
IN other things it differeth not from the cure of simple wounds, But if any veine under
Cranium bee broken, and maketh effusion of bloud, or if
dur a mater, or
Pia mater be rent or torne, if
Cranium
[Page 62]be bruised, and thereby the braine suffer, you must with all expedition set a trapan on
Cranium and give the wound vent, and take out the bloud and matter or what else doth depresse the braine, and when you are constrained hereunto, make tents of cotten or lint, and put into the Patients eares, and command a man to compress with his hands the patients eares, least the noise make him too much affraid and faint harted and dippe your tents in stipticke wine or oyle of Roses. And wet stuffs in oyle of Roses and lay them on the place, and lay upon the same cloth bole
Armonick mixed with the white of an egge and apply it to the wound to prevent inflammation; and if there followeth any corruption to any part of the braine then use
Ʋnguentum Egiptiasum which is most excellent in this case.
Of wounds in the breast with gunshot.
ALthough the wounds in all parts of the body are all one in effect yet they differ in the cure according to the place wounded. Therefore if a wound be in the brest and pearse not through, you may cure it like other wounds and the first two dayes
Vnguentum ex precipate, or some other of the like effect, also use some medicines which wil gently exicate and mundifie as
mell rosarum simplex,
[Page 63]And after the fourth or fift day use
abstersive medicines make after this manner.
R.
- Mellis rosarum
1. ounce
-
- Terebinthinae
- Butirirecentis
ana
2 drachmes.
-
- Farine berdei'
- Aristolochiae rotundae
ana
1 drachme
Mix these together and dip your tents in them, but on the wound lay this medicine following.
℞.
- Album vnius ovi
- Olei rosati
1 Ounce.
- Boli Armeni
1 ounce. and halfe misce.
The rest of the cure of these wounds doe not differ from other wounds.
Of wounds with gunshot in the belly.
WOunds in the belly or flank that peirce not through & hurt not the spine of the back, are cured as simpie wounds in the flesh, but if the shot have peirced through the belly and wounded either the stomack, Liver, spleene, kidneys, intestines, bladder, or any of the great veynes or arteries, then there is no hope of life to be looked for; but if the shot have pierced the belly, and yet wounded none of the forenamed members; then the shot
[Page 64]being taken out there is some hopes of recovery.
Therefore you must labour to take out the shot with a probe fit for that use, but if you cannot without much labour doe it, it is better that it remaine within, then to provoke mortall accidents, by laboring to take it out; for the wound may bee very well cured, and the bullet remaine within: And if blood bruised or matter be in the belly, use wine warmed and make injections, and use this incarnative following.
℞.
-
- Thuris
- Alloes
- Farinae hordei
ana
1 drachme
-
- Terebinthinae
- Millis.
- Succi myriophili
ana
2 drachms.
Mixe the flower with the juice, and dissolve and melt the honey and the turpentine at the fire; then put altogether, and make an unguent: with this spread your plaisters and dip your tents in; and when the flesh doth grow and the wounds fill, apply such medicines as be astringent, and that doe dry: and if need be open a veine in the arme, and alwayes keep the belly folluble.
Of wounds in the legs and armes made with gunshot.
THe cure is after the method set out before, first with your probe search out the shot, and with your crowbill take it out; but if the shot cannot easily be found, then proceede on to the cure of the wound and let it remaine within; instill and power into the wound the unguent made with butter,
precipitate and
Egyptiacum, and let it peirce into the wound, then make tents and dip them in the same, and put them into the
Orifices of the wound, and when the wounde is well mundified, use some incarnative, as this following.
R
- Terebinthine,
2. ouces
- Mellis
1. ounce.
-
- Alloes
- Thuris
- Farinae hordei
ana
1. drachme,
- Aristolochiae,
halfe a drachme.
And you must have a care that you make your tents dayly shorter and lesser, as the wound healleth; but if through the violence of the shot, any bones be fractured and broke, then you must use a double cure: First, you must labour to take out the shot, next to remove the contused and broken flesh, and to procure the generation of new, and then you must come to the unition of the fractured
[Page 66]bones, and keep the same without motion, as is set out before in the cure of fractured bones and dislocations, saving that you shall not use such ligatures and splints in this kind of wounds, but use an instrument to lay the fractured arme or lege in, and cover the member with soft cloathes to defend it from the injury of the aire.
Of burnings with gunpowder.
THe cure is all one with other burnings of fire, but because those that are much used to shoot in guns are subject to the flame of powder, I have placed it heer, if the skin be not ulcerate, you may apply oyle of bitter Almonds, oyle of Olives, or juyce of Onyons, but if there be ulcerations, use this Unguent following.
℞.
-
Olei olivarum, 2. pound.
-
Secundae Corticis sambuci. 4. ounces.
Boyle these on the fire, then strain them out strongly, after adde to them
-
Cerussae halfe an ounce.
-
ana 3. drachmes.
Mix them, and make thereof a liniment, and apply it: Thus much of gunshot.
Receipts for severall Diseases.
Here followeth choyce and select Receipts.
An excellent preservative against the Plague.
TAke Aloes Epatica, or Sicatrina, Cynamon, and Mirrhe, of each of them three Dragms, Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, Mastick, Bole Armonick, of each of them halfe a Drachme, stampe them well together in a clean morter, mingle them together, and take of it every morning two penny waight in halfe a glasse of white wine, with a little water, and drinke of it in the morning, it is excellent against all infection of the Ayre and Plague.
Remedies against the Plague.
IN the time of Pestilence in no wise suffer too great thirst, and if you do thirst drink but measurably, and use cooling drinkes, such as Tysan water mingled with Vinegar, or water of Burrage, Lettice, Rose-water, Scabious, Turmentill, or Dittany; also when you go to bed, shut your doores and windowes close, and have a pan of coales, whereon cast powder of Laurell leaves
[Page 68]dryed, Rosemary and Frankinsense; also use in your chamber fire of Juniper wood, Frankinsense, Storax, Calamint, and Labdanum; like wise have ever some Pomeander or good scent about you.
A Drinke for the Plague.
GIve the Party (finding himselfe sick) before he sleepe, six spoonfuls of
Aqua vitae, and put therein a spoonfull of beaten gunpowder, and let him drink it, and sweat upon it.
A Cordiall Water.
TAke a gallon of Strawberries, and put them into a pint of
Aqua vitae, let them stand for foure or five dayes, strain them gently out, and sweeten the water as you please with fine Sugar or Perfume.
For burning or scalding.
TAke green Geese dunge, and fry it with fresh butter and sheeps suet, and strain it through a cloth, and lay it on the fore.
For stinging of Adders and Snakes.
TAke Draggons and drink it, also stamp Draggons and lay it to the place, where the stinging
[Page 69]is, it will both draw out the venom, and heale the smarting and pain.
For the Scurvy.
TAke of white-wine a quart, of running water or Ale, which you like best, a quart, Coltsfoot four or five leaves, English Licoris scraped and sliced two or three sticks, of Hysop two or three slips, Raisins of the sun stoned ten, of Figs sliced two or three, of Anniseeds brayed in a morter a spoonfull, of Elecampane a root or two, boyle these together to the halfe, then skim and strain them in a fair cloth, and set the liquor upon the embers, and therein put an ounce of white suger candy beaten; take about a spoonfull hereof morning and evening, and every two houres as much.
Probatum est.
For pain in the head, and to cause sleep.
TAke two handfuls of Dog-bryar leaves, four spoonfuls of wine vineger, as much red Rosewater, as much breast-milke, a Nutmeg sliced small; infuse these in a dish upon a chasing-dish with coales, and apply them to each side of the head, upon the temples when you go to rest; in case the Roses be not to be had, red Rose-cakes, or red Poppy-cakes will serve the turn.
For a Canker, or any other heat in the mouth.
TAke red Sage and Rue, of each a handfull, of Sorrell, Groundsell, of each a small quantity; cut the Hearbs small, and stampe them in a wooden vessell, then take roach Allome the quantity of a Walnut, of white Copperas as much as a Hazell Nut, and burn them together: Take also as much Copperas and Allome unburnt, stamp these with the Hearbs very small, then boyle them in a pint of running water, with three spoonfuls of English hony, till halfe be consumed, then let it run thorough a strainer, into an earthen vessell; when it is cold put it in a glasse, and when you use it, you must gargle with it three times a day; you may lay some of the Hearbs that remaine in the stainer, to the sorest places, if you see cause.
For the pin and web, or any other Rheume in the eyes.
TAke two new layd Eggs, make a hole in the crowns, and put the whites into a sawcer, then put away the yolkes, and take one of the shels and wash it with faire water, and put halfe the white into it, then put in as much white Copperas as a Pease, and so much Roach Allome, then
[Page 71]fill the egge-shell up with the rest of the white, then lute it up with a little dow, and wrap it in a wet paper, and rake it up in Embers till it be very hard, then strain it thorow a strong cloth; drop one drop of this water into your eye, lying on your back, morning and night, and also at foure of the clock, if need be.
For a woman that hath not her termes.
TAke a small quantity of the best
hiera picra, every morning in a little warm posset drinke; if the party be of a weake constitution, then every other morning, about two houres after let them drinke some warm physick broth, and beware of taking cold; if need be let blood in the foot.
A Powder for the green sicknesse.
TAke a quarter of a pound of Sugar, Steele ℥ i. of Pearle, Cloves, Mace, and Nutmegs,
ana halfe an ounce, beat them very small, and mingle them together, and take in the morning fasting as much as will lye on a six pence, and so much again at four of the clock in the afternoon.
A Purge.
TAke of the best Sena, six Drachms, of Rhabarbe two Drachms;
Cremor tartari halfe
[Page 72]a Drachme, of sweet Fennell-seed as much, and a little Cynamon; infuse all these one night in half a pint of white wine, in the morning let it boyle a walm or two, straine it and put to it of the best Manna ℥ i. dissolve it over the fire, then straine it, and put to it one ounce of the sollative sirrup of Roses, and so drink it; fast two houres after from meat, drink, and sleep, and then drink nothing but thin broth.
For the Ptisick, or shortness of breath.
TAke a pint of Hony, clarifie it, and put to it ℥ ij. of flower of Licoras, a quarter of a pound of Currans, two ounces of sweet Fennell-seed bruised, flower of Elecampane roots two drachms, stir all these together into the hony over the fire. then take it off, and eate a little of this in the morning, and at any other time, when you see occasion.
Probatum est.
An excellent Drinke for the Ptisick and Consumption.
TAke two quarts of running water, put into it two handfuls of unset Hysop, two handfuls of tops of Rosemary, a handfull of Scabious, a little Lungwort, and Mayden-hayre, nine or ten Figs sliced, a few Elecampane roots, stir all these together,
[Page 73]boyle it to a quart, and sweeten it with Sugar-candy, drinke hereof three times a day, a little warme, morning fasting, three in the afternoon, and last at night.
For the Dropsie.
TAke sweet Fennell-seeds, Anniseeds, Parsly-seeds, Coriander-seeds, of each an ounce, Raisins of the sun stoned one pound, blew Figs halfe a pound, French Barley two ounces,
Capillus veneris one handfull, Hartongue, Polipody-roots, Liverwort, Lungwort,
ana halfe an handfull, red Sage, Penny Royall, Violet leaves, each one handfull, nine tops of Rosemary, inward barke of green Elder one handfull, Liquoras two ounces, boyle all these together in a gallon of spring water, to a pottle, then sweeten it with Sugar-candy, and drinke of it when you please: After this take half a peck of Sage of virtue, and red Sage together, and two handfuls of Rue, and still them together, and so drink them altogether.
A Plague Water.
TAke a pound of Celandine, Rosemary, Balm, Rue, Wormwood, Draggons, Scabious, Pimpernell, Egrimony, Bettony, Angelica, Cardus, Marigold leaves and flowers, Burrage-leaves and
[Page 74]flowers, Featherfue,
Rosa solis, Pellitory of Spain, Pellitory of the wall, red Sage, and Sage of Jerusalem, Setwell, Mother time, and Devils bit, Tormentill, of every of these a pound, or lesse, as you see cause proportionably; Tormentill roots halfe so much as of the Hearb, put all these together in a great pot, and let them soke in white wine three dayes and three nights, stopping the pot very close and stirred two or three times a day, being set in a very coole place, then take out the Hearbs and still them, and keep the water in faire glasses, and set the same in the sun; and if any happen to be sick of this disease, give them ten spoonfuls of this water bloud warm, so soon as they feele themselves sick, and then let him walk an houre if he be able; if he be not of himselfe, then let him be led about by the armes an houre, let him not eate or drink in the mean time, and then have him to bed; if he vomit it is the better, and if he take it before he sleepe he shall escape
(Deo Iuvante) the older the water is, the better it is: This water must be stilled in May, if the Hearbs can be got so early; and it is good against the Ague, or any infectious disease that is in the stomack, being taken before the fit do come.
For heat in the Ʋrine.
TAke the rinds of Hazell, steepe them in Ale or Beere, and drinke it for your first and last
[Page 75]draught every day, and at any other time, if you please.
Another for the same.
DIstill Purslaine in a common still, and drink of that water a quarter of a pint every morning.
For a strain causing one to spit bloud.
TAke a pint of good Sack, and set it on the fire, and put into it a good piece of fine Sugar, let it so stand till it be ready to burn, (burn it not) then brew into it the yolkes of four new layd egges, strain it, brewing it continually till it be thick like a Cawdell, then drink a draught thereof first and last, both morning and night; Sirrup of Comphrey is likewise very good for the same purpose.
A Bag for purging Ale.
TAke of Egrimony, Speedwell, Liverwort, Scurvy-grasse, Watercresses, each a good handfull, of Monke, Rhabarb, and red Madder, each halfe an handfull, of Horse Rhadish roots ℥ iij. Licoras ℥ ij. Sassafrace ℥ iiij. Sena ℥ vij. sweet Fennell-seeds two drams, four Nutmegs, pick and wash your Hearbs and roots, bruise them all in a morter, and put them all into a bag made of bolter; so hang them in three gallons of middle Ale,
[Page 76]and let it worke in the Ale, and after three daye you may drink of it as you see occasion.
For to stay vomiting.
TAke Roses and boyle them in good strong Vinegar, and make a Plaister thereof, and apply it to the stomack.
A secret Powder for wounds.
TAke Hipericon leaves and flowers, Millsoyle and Viticella, and stamp them together, and strow it upon the wound, and round about the wound when it is dressed, and it doth defend it from Accidents.
Of the Sciatica.
THe Sciatica is a Disease so called, because it cometh in that place of the body called Scio
[...] and is caused of an evill quality, and grosse humors that are stayed in that place, because they cannot passe down: The Cure thereof is with Glisters, Vomits, Purgations, and Unctions, because the Glisters do evacuate those places next unto it, and so easeth the humor; the Vomit cleanseth the stomack, the Purgation doth evacuate the body downwards, and the Unctions dissolve the wind
[...]
[Page 77]& ease it; so that by these means, you may help the Sciatica.
Against a stinking mouth.
YE must wash your mouth with water and vinegar, and chew Mastick a good while, and then wash your mouth with the decoction of Anniseeds, Mints, and Cloves sodden in wine.
For a stinking breath.
SEeth two ounces of Commin-seeds bruised in a pottle of white wine unto a quart, then keep it, using to drinke a little thereof at night warme, the space of fifteen dayes, and it will help.
To make an aking tooth fall out of himselfe, without any instrument or pain.
TAke wheat-flower, and mix it with the milke of the Hearb called in Latine
Herba lactaeria, in English Spurge, which is an Hearb well enough known, and thereof make as it were a paste or dow, with which you shall fill the hole of the tooth, and leave it in a certain time, and the tooth will fall out of himselfe; also if you wash your mouth once every month with wine, wherein the root of the sayd Hearb hath been sodden; you shall never have pain in your teeth.
An excellent purging Ale called the Ale of health and strength.
TAke Sassafrace-wood halfe an ounce, Sarsaparilla three ounces, white Saunders one ounce, Mace a quarter of an ounce,
Lignum Rhodium, China root, each halfe an ounce,
Lignum vitae a quarter of an ounce; cut the woods as thin as may be into small pieces, and bruise them in a morter, and put to them Cowslip flowers, and Romane Wormwood, each an handfull, Sage, Rosemary, Bettony, Mugwort, Balm, and sweet Marjoram, each halfe a handfull, a handfull of Hops, boyle all these in six gallons of Ale, till it come to foure; then put the Woods and Hearbs into six gallons of Ale of the second wort, and boyle it likewise till it come to foure; let it run from the drugs, and put your Ale together, and use it as you do other Ale, put it in a sweet vessell till it be ripe, and then drink it at your pleasure.
A Medicine for the Gout to be taken in order.
1. The Pultis.
TAke of Manchet about three ounces, the crum only thin cut; let it be boyled in milke till it come to a pulpe, then adde unto it a drachme and a halfe of the powder of red Roses, of Saffron ten
[Page 79]graines, oyle of Roses halfe an ounce; let it be spread upon a thin cloth, and applyed luke warm, and continued for three houres space.
2. The bath for the Gout.
TAke of Sage leaves halfe an handfull, of Hemlock roots sliced six drachms, of Briany roots halfe an ounce, two handfuls of red Rose leaves; let them be boyled in a pottle of water wherein steele hath been quenched till the liquor come to a quart, after the straining put in halfe a handfull of bay-salt; let it be used with scarlet wool, or scarlet cloth, dipt in the liquor hot, and renewed seven times in the space of an houre, or a little more.
3. The Plaister for the Gout.
TAke the Plaister of Diacalcytis as much as is sufficient for the part you mean to cover; let it be dissolved with oyle of Roses in such a consistence as will stick, and spread it upon a piece of Holland, and so apply it.
For a straine.
TAke Powder of Corrall, and Powder of Rock-amber beads, each halfe a drachme, make them up into paste with a little gum-draggon and conserve
[Page 80]of red Roses; this you must eate morning and evening, and beware of violent stirring, wine, and women, and meats with Pepper.
For a Flux.
PUt one ounce of whole Pepper into a quart of new milke, boyle it unto a pint, and drinke halfe a pint thereof every morning, and fast three houres after it.
For a Pin and Web, or any other Rheume in the Eyes.
TAke two new layd eggs, make a hole in the crowns, and put the whites into a sawcer; then put away the yolkes, and take one of the shels and wash it in faire water, and put halfe the white into it; then put in as much white Coperas as a Pease, & as much Roch Allome, then fill up the egge with the rest of the whites, rost it in embers, and afterwards straine it, drop a drop of it into your eye, lying on your back morning and evening.
Another for Rheume in the eyes.
TAke white Archangell flowers, and put them into sallet oyle, and heat them upon a chafingdish of coales, and lay them to the nape of the
[Page 81]neck, as hot as you can suffer them.
For blear'd and watry eyes.
TAke a quarter of a pint of the purest running water, and put it into a violl glasse, and put thereto four ounces of the best white Copperas, being first beaten into very fine powder; then put thereto three or four spoonfuls of red Fennell-water, or for want thereof as many of the sprigs of red Fennell, growing next the root; then lute up the violl close, and set it in a skillet of faire water, and warm it so til it begin to boyle, then take it out, and so keep it for use; let the patient morning and evening have a drop dropped into the eye.
For heat in the Eyes.
TAke the white of a new layd Egge, beat it very well, then let it stand and settle, and take a spoonful of the clearest thereof, and as much breast-milke, and so much red Rose-water, as both of them, mingle them well together, put them into a glasse, and when you use it, warme a little thereof bloud-warm, and dip two or three rags folded three or four times double, being very fine, and bind them on the eyes when you go to bed, and in the day time wash therewith your eyes, as often as you please.
A water for sore Eyes.
TAke six drachms of Tutia, made into fine powder, as much Aloes in powder, as much fine Sugar, a pint and an halfe of white wine, as much white Rose-water, put all these into a pottle glasse, stop it very close, and sun it a month, shakeing it very wel twice or thrice a day, and so keep it for your use.
An Electuary for a Consumption.
TAke Elecampane roots one pound, wash and scrape them clean; cut them in little square pieces, then take of Rhadishes a quarter of a pound, slice them thin, and as many Wardens as the weight of both these; slice them thin likewise, mingle them together, laying them in Lanes in a Pipkin, and put between every of them some hony, lute up the Pipkin close with paste, and bake it in an Oven with houshold bread: A pint of hony may be enough for this quantity; when it is cold beat it to a pulpe in a stone mortar, and take it as an Electuary morning and evening.
A Julip for a Consumption, or any weak body.
TAke a Capon that is fleshy, and not fat, dresse him clean, cut him into about ten pieces, wash
[Page 83]him in white wine, cut every piece by it selfe, and put into every piece a small skewer, that the flesh may not touch the bottome, then put them into a jugge, with a narrow mouth that will hold about a pottle, then put to it twenty Raisins of the sun stoned, four Dates quartered, two large Maces, a sprig of Rosemary, stop it up close with a Corke, then lute it with paste, and tie a cloth over it, that no ayre get out or in then set the jugge in a pottle of water, and set bricks about it that it may not stir, so let it boyle six houres at the least; keepe your pot full of water to the neck of the jugge, by having other water ready heated to fil it, then take it out of the pot, and when it hath stood halfe an houre, poure out the Julip; if there be any fat in the top take it off, put to this ten graines of Amber-greese in powder, stir them wel together, and so put them up in your glasse, and take three spoonfuls of this at a time warmed when you go to bed; if the Patient be too hot put lesse, or leave quite out the Amber-greese.
For a Cough, or shortness of breathing.
TAke a quart of running water, boyle therein a handful of unset Hysop, til it come to a pint, straine it, and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Licoras sliced, halfe a handfull of Raisins of the sun stoned, two Figs, two Dates, sweet
[Page 84]Fennel-seeds, and Anniseeds halfe an ounce, boyle these til almost halfe be consumed, then let it run thorow a strainer, and sweeten the liquor with white Sugar-candy, and drink of it bloud warms first and last.
A Sirrup for a Consumption and Cough.
TAke two handfuls of Elecampane, slice it thin, boyle it in faire water halfe an houre, shifting it two or three times, then take two handfuls of Colts-foot, two handfuls of Liverwort, one of Harts-tongue, and two handfuls of Egrimony, one handful of Mayden-haire, a quarter of an handful of Mayden-hysop, an ounce of China root sliced, two ounces of Licoras sliced, a spoonfull of Anniseeds, a good handfull of Raisins of the sun stoned, foure or five Figs sliced, two spoonfuls of French-barly bruised, and boyled into two or three several waters; put all these into a pottle of running water, boyle them until more then halfe be consumed, and strain the liquor from the drugs, and put in your Elecampane boyled before, and a pound and an halfe of Sugar boyle it to a sirrup, and keep it in a gally pot to your use.
For the Chine Cough.
TAke a handful of Rue and stamp it, then mingle it with English hony, and make it into a Conserve, give it mornings and afternoons, and at night to bed ward, as much at a time as a Nut.
Another for the same.
ROast an Egge rear, dresse it, and put into it as much flower of Brimstone as will lye upon a two pence, mix it wel together, and let the Patient sup it up every morning fasting.
For the Spleene.
TAke of Couch, or Grasse roots, Succory roots, and Fennel roots, of each halfe an ounce, of the Barke of Caper, and Barke of Tamarisk, each two drachms, Currans and Capers washt from the Salt, each three drachms, boyle these in the belly of a Chicken, with a branch of Time, and put in the bottome of a white loafe.
For a Flux.
TAke Barke of an Oake from the Tanners, grind it to powder, and searce it, put it into
[Page 86]new milke, and boyle them very wel together, eate of this pap every morning, and what other times you please.
Another for the same, being also good for a weak back.
TAke stale bread, or ship-bisket, grate it, and put it into a quart of new milke, with a good stick of Cynomon, and a good piece of I singlasse, boyle it to a pint, and thereof morning and evening you may take what you please.
For a weake back, or the whites.
TAke an ounce of Cynomon, an ounce of white Comphry roots, one ounce of Polipodian of the oak, three ounces of white Sugar-candy, make all these into powder, mingle them together, and take as much at a time thereof as wil lye upon a six penny piece, every morning for the space of five dayes, and so likewise in the afternoon, and drink a draught of red wine within an houre after every taking.
A Plaister for the swelling of the stones.
TAke Cow-dung, and seeth the same in milke, then make a Plaister thereof, and lay it meetly hot upon the swelling.
Another for the swelling of the stones.
TAke Comminseed, Anniseed, and Fennugreeke, of each a like portion, seeth them in Ale, and stamp them, and temper them with fresh May butter, or a little oyle Olive, and apply it to the sore.
Another for the same in the beginning of the griefe.
IF there be much inflamation in the Cods, you may make an Oyntment of Planten, the yolke of an egge, and oyle of Roses, stir them wel about, and apply it to the griefe twice or thrice in a day; if the pain be great, and the Patient of a good age, and of strong complexion; if the Premises will not help, make a Plaister after this sort,
viz. Take Henbane leaves a handful, Mallow leaves a handful and an halfe, seeth them wel in clear water, then stamp them and stir them, and with the broath, Bean-flower, Barly-flower, oyle of Roses and Camomile sufficient, make it up, and put it on the swelling lukewarme; Henbane is good (as
Avicen saith) to dissolve the hardness of the stones by a secret quality.
A Pultis for a sore breast.
TAke new milke and white bread grated, Mallows, and red Rose leaves, each an handful, then chop them and boyle them together til it be thick, then put in Hony and common Turpentine, spread it on a cloth and apply it to the sore.
Another for the same.
TAke a quart of faire water, halfe a pint of oatmeale, two handfuls of Smalledge, halfe a handfull of red Nettles, boyle all these well together, being first chopt, and put in a quarter of a pound of Sheeps suet minced, stir them well on the fire, and apply part thereof as hot as the Patient can suffer it.
For an Ague in the breast, as also to dry up the Milke.
TAke good
Aquavitae, Linseed oyle, warme them in a dish, and dip therein two clothes fit for the breasts, and apply them as hot as can be endured, lay also a little lump of Flax tow under each Arme, being well dryed and warme, and dresse the breasts therewith morning and evening.
For a swell'd face.
TAke Rosemary leaves, mince them, boyl them with milke and oatmeale to a Pultis, then put thereto a spoonful of hony, apply it as oft as there is cause, and as hot as the Patient can suffer it.
For any ordinary sorenesse.
TAke a pint of Ale yest, three or four handfuls of groundsel, houshold leaven as much as an egge; set the yest upon the fire, and then crum the leaven into it, and let it boyle a little while, and then put in the hearbs and the roots, and let it be boyled thick, and lay some of it on a cloth every morning and evening, and this will both draw, break, and heale.
For a Fistula.
TAke a handful of Sage, wash it, pick and spread it, boyle it in a pint of milke, til it be tender, then take a penny worth of Flax seed, beat it to powder, and when the Sage is tender, thick the milke with the Flax-seed, when it is boyled put thereto a penny worth of oyl of Roses, use this two or three dayes twice a day.
For a Felon or Boyle.
TAke halfe a pint of new milke, and put some grated bread into it, boyle them together, then put thereto a handful of Smalledge, as much Southernwood chopped fine, so boyle them to a Pultice, and when it is boyled, stir into it almost a spoonful of Castle Sope scraped.
For a Burn or Scald.
TAke three handfuls of the green rinds of Elder, as much green Goose dung, beat these, and boyle them a pretty while in a pound of fresh butter, strain it out very hard, and keep it in an earthen pot, stir it til it be almost cold; and when you use it melt thereof, and anoynt the sore with a feather, and lay a Primrose leafe next the sore.
Another for the same.
TAke Barrows grease, red Sage, Sengreene, chop them and boyle altogether, then strain it and use it.
For the Mother.
TAke a great red Onion, and cut a round hole therein, and fil it with black Sope, and roast it
[Page 91]in Embers til it be soft, and apply it to the Navel as hot as may be.
For the same.
GIve the Patient a good draught of fair water and wheat flower mingled together, bow the Patient forward, and burn Partridge feathers before them in a chafing-dish with coals.
To cure Cornes in the feet, and the cause of them.
THe matter whereof Cornes are ingendred is a certain hot humour, whereof nature striveth to be disburthened and discharged, and is properly rearmed a Callowes matter, and this humour nature endeavouring to expell, forceth it out unto the lower parts of the body, even unto the very extremity of the toes, where it cannot passe any further by reason of the hardnesse of the skin, whereby it often ingendreth a hard tumor in the skin, which many times doth increase, and grow in hardness, causing such pain, that it doth not only hinder their going that are troubled therewith, but also many times breaketh their sleepe in the night: This kind of tumor is commonly called
Callo, or Cornes, and infinite number of people are troubled with this Malady; and many have
[Page 92]pretended much for the cure of them, but very few have perfectly arrived at it; they may be very well eased, but the perfect cure of them is seldome, if at all compleated; the best way is therefore to pare them with a sharp knife unto the bottome, where you shal find a certain matter; but if you find none, pare them until the flesh be tender, and then dresse it with the oyle of Sulphure, or artificial Balsome, and it will much help it; likewise the leaden plaister formerly mentioned in this booke is very profitable for easing Cornes, being plaister wise applyed thereto; the juyce of House-leeke if it can be conveniently applyed hath been approved very effectuall for this purpose.
An excellent Oyntment for the Stone and Chollick.
TAke Broom-buds ready to blow clean picked from the stalkes, halfe a pound, and beat them very smal in a morter, then mix them with May butter clarified, as much as shal be sufficient to make it into an Oyntment, and keep it close stopt in a vessel eight dayes, then seeth it and strain it, and therewith anoint the Patient very warme evening and morning.
For winde or chollick in the belly.
TAke a Rose-cake and toast it at the fire with vinegar thrown upon it, and lay it as hot to your belly as you may suffer it.
For inflamations in Wounds.
TAke of the juyce of the hearb called Pimpernel, and of Sempervive, of each halfe a pound, of oyle Olive one pound, put them all into a vessel to boyle until halfe be consumed, then put thereto of butter foure ounces, and of Valerian halfe an ounce, and make thereof an oyntment, and use it as you see occasion.
Against the swelling of the Leggs.
TAke the juyce of Walwort, Wax, Vinegar, and Barly meale, of each like quantity, boyle it, and make a plaister, and bind it upon the sore.
An excellent Preservative against the Plague.
TAke Aloes Sicatrina, Cynomon, and Mirrhe, each three drachms, Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, Mastick, Bole-armonick of each halfe a
[Page 94]drachme, let them be stamped very smal in a clean morter, then mingle them together, and after keep them in some close vessel for your use; take of this medecine every morning two penny weight in halfe a glasse of white wine, with a little Citron water, and drink it in the morning fasting betimes, when you feare any infectious ayre, and by Gods help it will defend you.
An excellent Plaister to dissolve Tumors, which King
Henry the Eight used for the swelling in his Legs.
TAke the roots of Marsh Mallows, wash and pick them clean, then slit them and take out the pith, then cut them in small pieces and bruise them, then take the quantity of a pound of them, and put them in a new earthen pot, and adde thereto of Linseed and Fenugreeke, each two ounces bruised, then put thereto Malmsie and white wine, each a pint, and stir altogether, and let them stand infused two or three dayes, then set them over a fire, and stir it till it grow thick and slimy, then take it off, and strain it thorow a new Canvas cloth, then take oyle of Roses a quart, and wash it in white wine and Rose water very well; then take the oyle clean from the water and wine, and set it over the fire in a brasse pan, alwayes stirring it, and put thereto the powder of
[Page 95]Lytharge of Gold, and Lytharge of Silver, each eight ounces, of Ceruse six ounces, or red Corrall two ounces, of Bole Armonick and Draggons bloud, each one ounce; make these into very fine powder, and searce them, then put them into the oyle over the fire, alwayes continuing your stirring it, then put in of the Mucylage made of the Mallow roots before, ten ounce, by little and little at once; and when it is boyled enough, which you shall perceive by the hardness or softness thereof; if you drop a drop of it on the bottome of a cleane pewter dish, if it be hard, take it off from the fire, and when it is neer cold make it up in roles, and keep them in Parchment for your use.
A marvelous remedy to cure the Pestilence, Carbuncles, and such like.
TAke the seed or berries of Ivy, that groweth on trees or wals, and gather the sayd berries very ripe, dry them in the shadow, and keep them in a box of wood as a precious thing; and if any be infected with the Pestilence, take of the sayd berries, and beat them to powder, and give the Patient of the sayd powder as much as will lye upon a groat in a glasse of white wine, then cover him very hot in his bed, and let him sweat very well, then let him change his shirt and the sheets if you can conveniently; some have taken of this powder
[Page 96]over night and been perfectly well in the morning.
How a man may preserve himselfe in time of Pestilence against infectious Ayres.
BEcause the evill humors that be in mans body, make it more apt and easie to receive the corruption and infection of the Ayre; it is good to keep the stomack and the head clean purged, not to overcharge it by eating and drinking, but abstaine from all excesse thereof, and also from all grosse meats, and to purge himselfe often gently with some easie purgation, as of Cassia, Rhabarb, Mastick pils, Aloes, or the like: It is also good to eate in your pottage things that purge the bloud, as Burrage, Bugglas, Succory, Lettice, and such like; and above all, not to keep your stomack overcharged, nor too empty, and in the morning betimes to take some of these preservative medicines as Rue, Figs, & Walnuts, which is very good against all infections, or else take some Confect, as the pill of Citron Confect, and after meales to use the seeds of Citron Confect in Sugar, which is very good against all manner of venome and poyson: And likewise at your meales to eate the white and inside of a Citron with a little Sugar, and to eate it with meat as men eate Lemmons in the morning, at noon, and night. It is also very
[Page 97]good to bath and wash your hands, your temples, your pulses, and your nose with vineger roser, or with other vineger, whereunto you may adde a little Camphire, Rose water,
Lignum Aloes,
Xilebalsamum, if you can get it, if not, use a little Cynomon instead thereof: It is alwayes very good to keep such kind of vineger by you in some viol, for to use it when time shall require, for it is a very good preservative; and if you cannot have the vinegar compound as is prescribed, then you may use vineger of compound wine; also it is very good to carry about you some good perfume, either in your Gloves, or Handkercheife, or to hang it about your neck; your house ought to be kept as clean as possible, not savouring of pisse, or such unsavoury smels; keep it shut, and often washed, and beware ye keep no foule and stinking clothes in your house. you may also often burn in your house the wood and leaves of a Bay-tree, of Rosemary, Juniper, and Cyprus, use it often, likewise Pitch, Rosin, and Olibanum, burning it in the midst of the house or chamber, principally at night and in the morning: Likewise Orenge and Lemmon pils, Storax
calamita, and
Labdanum, be very good for this purpose. As concerning the disposition of the mind, ye must consider, that Sorrow, Anger, Sadness, or Melancholy, do corrupt the bloud and other humors, weaken the heart and spirits, deprave and hurt nature, therefore every
[Page 98]man ought to avoyd them as much as is possible; also if a man be over much merry, or given to pleasure, it dilateth and enlargeth the pores and passages of the seed of man and the heart, so that he is thereby the more inclined, and more apt to receive the evill ayre and venome, penetrating into his body, also a man must beware of drinking much wine; thsrefore it is good to use temperance and moderation in all things, and above all things let a man alwayes have a sure hope and confidence in God, ever be ready and disposed to dye when he shall please to call us, not so much esteeming this mundane or worldly life, or fearing so much death, which is no other thing then an issue or departing out of this troublesome life full of miseries and calamities, and an entrance into an ever blessed and eternall life, replenished with all joy, solace, and pleasure, which God hath prepared for all them that love him through Jesus Christ.
To breake the Stone.
TAke the stones of a Cock of a year old, d
[...] them and beat them into fine powder, and give it the party diseased to drinke in white win
[...] ▪ also the stones of a Colt made into powder, an
[...] drunk in white wine, is good for the same.
A very approved good exciccative Plaister for all kinds of Ʋlcerations, as well of the legs, as other parts of the body.
TAke of Lytharge in powder one pound, of oyle of Roses one pint, of white Wax ℥ ij. of Mirrhe and Olibanum, each ℥ i. of white wine and of Urine, of each halfe a pound, of white wine vineger a quarter of a pound, of Nightshade and Plantain, of each halfe a handfull: Put the hearbs in a morter with the vineger, and stampe them together, and wring out the juyce, and put unto it the vineger and wine aforesayd; and thus you must make your Plaister, melt your oyle and wax together in a faire pan, and let it boyle, then by little and little put in your Lytharge, alwayes stirring it, afterwards put in your juyces by little and little, keeping it stirring till you have put in all, and be sure it be well stirred that it settle not to the bottome, and so let it boyle stirring it well till the juyces be consumed; then last of all, put in your Mirrhe and Olibanum in fine powder, and stir it till it be cold; if it be too hard make it softer with oyle of Roses, if it be too soft boyle it harder according to art,
&c.
The virtues of this Plaister.
THis is a speciall Plaister for all kinds of Ulcerations, and old festred sores, as well of the legs as of any other parts of the body, for it hath great virtue alterative, resolvative, and excicca
[...]ive provided alwayes the body be throughly and universally purged, as often as need shall require.
A good Cerate called
Hydrelaeon Galeni.
TAke of Lythargy of Silver one pound, of clear fair water, of pure oyle each two pound; the Lytharge is to be made in pure fine powder, and the other to be stirred together in a morter o
[...] stone, then boyle them on a soft and small fire o
[...] coales; the medicine should properly be made in the sun, that it be the whiter, and the fire vanishing, you must still adde fresh coales untill you have boyled these together to the thickness and substance of a Cerate, then preserve it for these uses: It doth refrigerate, and therefore is profitable in Ulcers and Tumors, for it suffereth not any humour to flow unto them, and that which is already come it expelleth, it healeth itchings o
[...] Wounds, Botches, and malignant Ulcers.
Another for Rhumatick Passions and greene Wounds, it doth exciccate and dry.
TAke Lytharge of Silver one pound, of pure oyle, and of the best white wine, of each one pound, mix them and boyle them to a Cerate as the former.
A precious Oyntment good for all kind of Sciaticaes, dry itches, straines of sinews or vains, for any burning with gunpowder, shingles, blisters, venoms.
TAke Organy, Mints, Time, Hysop, Spike leaves and flowers Wormwood, Fe
[...]the
[...]fue, O
[...]pen, Sage, Vervain, Costmary, B
[...]ttony, Marygold, Stems and flowers, each a good handfull, and of Valerian two good handfuls, take the tenderest part of the leaves from the heart stalkes, stamp them very small, and seeth them in a clean pan with two pound of Barrows grease finely tryed, and four ounces of Dears suit stir it diligently the space of an houre, then strain it into a clean pan, let it stand all night, the next morning let out the water, underneath the oyntment takeing none but the purest of it, set it on the fi
[...]e again, melt it, skum it clean, put thereto foure
[Page 102]ounces of Deeres suet, then take it off, and let it stand all night as before, then warm it a little, and take it out on a clean boord, and cleanse the bottome of it, and keep it for your use, it will last seven years.
For Aches, Bruises, Gouts, Stitches, Palsies, Cramps, &c.
TAke Sage, Rue, of each one pound. Wormwood and Bayes, each halfe a pound, Sheeps suet three pound, all these must be stamped together till none of the suet be seen, but all one; then put thereto of oyle olive a pottle, and worke it well together, and after put it into a fine Bason and cover it close, and let it stand eight dayes and then take it out altogether and breake it into a brasse pan, making a soft fire under it, stirring it till the herbs becom crackling, and hard, and then take it off, and when it is cold straine it and put to it an ounce of oyle of spike, and anoint the greife therewith warme.
For the falling sicknesse.
TAke the hinder part of a skull, beat it to powder and give it the party in Sirrup of violets asmuch as a pease at a time.
To draw out the Ague from any sore or in the legs.
TAke wormwood and henbane, each a handfull, shred them into a quart of milk, put in a handfull of red rose leaves, and as much beaten oatemeale as will make it a pultis, a good quantity of swines grease, and when it is well boyled apply it to the sore very hot.
For an old sore running with thinne matter.
TAke running water and white wine vinegar each a pint, boyle them halfe away, then boyle therein a new peice of holland, thus bath with this liquor a place a hands bredth above the sore, and lay the cloth on the same place; do it morning and evening.
For swelling in the knees or any other place that commeth of winde.
TAke a quantity of sacke, put therein some rosemary and a little pepper grosely beaten, put them all into a stone jugge, stop it close and let it boyle softly untill halfe be consumed, then bath the place therewith that is grieved, as hot as
[Page 104]may bee, then dipp a linnen ragge and binde it on the place, two or three times a day and keepe it warme.
To dissolve any knob or hard swelling.
TAke of the whitest Frankinsense, and the white of an egge, beat them to a salve, and apply it.
For the Gout, and all manner of Aches and Bruises, an Oyntment.
TAke Violet leaves and flowers, Primrose leaves and flowers, Cowslip leaves and flowers, Elder leaves and flowers, white Lilly flowers, St.
Johns Wort, Ragwort, Mugwort, Sage, Neppe, Smalledge, Marjoram, Lavander, Southernwood, Rosemary, Rose leaves blown, Rue, Lavander-Cotton, Featherfue, Tansie, Lovage, Mints, Camomile, Time, Clary, Oake of Jerusalem, Penny-Royal, Safron of the Willow, Hysop, Balme, white Mints, Marygolds, Pyoney leaves, Bay-leaves, Dill: Take of each of these Hearbs a handfull, and bruise them in a morter, and put them in a pan, with a pottle of sweet sallet oyle, and a quart of white wine, then set it over the fire, and let it boyle softly untill the wine be consumed, stirring it all the while, then take it from
[Page 105]the fire, and let it coole, when you anoynt herewith, you must chafe it in by the fire, and apply next unto the place a piece of bladder, that the cloth drinke not up the oyle.
For a Ringworm in the neck.
TAke Hounds tongue, that is white and dry, stamp it, and put it in an earthen pot with wine untill it be thick, spread it, and apply it.
For the Sciatica.
TAke a quart of the oyle of Trotters, and put thereto three handfuls of Neppe, two handfuls of Camomile, boyle them all on a soft fire, till it be very green, then strain out the Hearbs, and put into it an ounce of Ginger finely beaten and fearced, and stir it together as it cooleth, and chafe the place that is grieved against the fire with this Oyntment both morning and evening.
For a Sore festred with bloud.
TAke Lithurge of Gold four ounces, oyle Olive, yong Swines grease, each of them two ounces, green Copperas a quarter of an ounce, Ceruse halfe an ounce, seeth them altogether on the fire continually stirring them, and in the boyling put into
[Page 106]it three ounces of white Wax, and when it is boyled to a pure white, take it off, and stir it till it be cold, there anoynt your hands with oyle and worke it up in Roles, wrap it in oyled Papers, and keep it in a close box.
A green Salve to heale any Sore.
TAke Bores grease white washed and well drayned halfe a pound, of the leaves and flowers of St.
Johns Wort, and Knot-grasse, each a handfull, of Ashen leaves two handfuls, beat them first very small, and then mingling them with the grease, beat them again, and boyle them a good space, stirring them, then put in two ounces of yellow Wax, and a spoonfull of Turpentine, so let these boyle a little, and then make it up.
A Salve for a new wound.
TAke Elecompane leaves, English Tobacco, the great Orpin,
Jacobs Ladder, of each halfe a handfull, beat these in a morter very fine, then put to them above halfe a pound of barrows grease, beat them well together, untill the grease be very green, and then set them on a soft fire, a good space, stirring it continually; then put to them yellow Wax and Rozen, of each one ounce, Turpentine one spoonfull, Camphire and Allome, of
[Page 107]each a little quantity, boyle them together, then take them off and strain them,
&c.
A Medicine for the Ague to apply to the Wrists.
TAke nine leavs of red Sage, as much Rue, and about twenty leaves of stock Gilly flowers, cut all these very small upon a trencher, then take two pieces of Calves leather, about four singers breadth, and spread the same with Venice Turpentine, and upon the Turpentine spread the aforesayd Hearbs, and upon the Hearbs you must scrape a Nutmeg, so lay it to the wrists, an houre before the fit, and when you perceive the fit comeing, let the party eate a tost, sopped in
Aqua vitae and Pepper.
For the green sicknesse approved.
TAke one ounce of the filings of steele, and steep it four dayes in the best wine vineger, then set it before the fire to dry, and then beat it to powder, and searce it very small; then take two ounces of Anniseeds, and beat them, and searce them small, and one ounce of fine Sugar, beaten and searced, then mingle them together, and put into it a spoonfull of powder of red Corrall, there must be thrice as much Anniseeds and Sugar, as there
[Page 108]is steele. They must take it in a morning fasting, as much as will lye upon a knives point at three times, and as much more two houres before supper, and use some moderate exercise after it till they sweat, after this take a Purge.
A purging dyet Ale for the Dropsie, Scurvy, and to open the Liver and Spleen.
TAke Dock roots, Madder roots Horse-Radish roots, Smalledge roots, Polipody of the Oak,
Sarsaparilla, Caper and Tamarak roots, of each two ounces, Egrimony Mayden haire, Ceterack, Tamarisk, Scurvy grasse, Brook-lime, Water-cresses, green Wormwood, each one good handfull,
Seua six ounces, Hermodactils, M
[...]choacan, Rhabarbe, Agarick, each one ounce, Anniseeds, sweet Fennel-seeds, Sassafrace, and Liquoras, each one ounce, Cynomon, Ginger, Mace, each halfe an ounce, put all these in a bag, with two
[...]adds of steele, and hang it in four gallons of new Ale, letting them worke together, with a pint of the juyce of Scurvy-grasse, drinke hereof mornings and evenings.
A Drinke for the Rickets.
TAke a handfull of the barke of Ivy, as much of the barke of Ath, a good handfull of Tamarisk,
[Page 109]put it into two gallons of Beere, and when it is a fortnight old, let the Child drinke it with meat, and at all times for six weekes, or two moneths, spring and fall; put in likewise Rhabarb one ounce sliced, to this quantity of drink.
For the Plague.
TAke three pints of Malmsey, or else Muskadine, and boyle therein Sage and Rue, each a handfull, till a pint be wasted, then strain it, and set it over the fire again, and put to it three penny worth of long Pepper, and halfe an ounce of Ginger, and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs, all beaten together; so let it boyle a little together, then put therein four penny worth of Mithridate, two penny worth of Treakle, and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water; take of this a spoonfull in the morning or evening and sweat upon it, if the party be infected, it's effectuall; likewise for the small Pox, Measles, Surfets, and such like diseases.
For old Wounds, Ʋlcers, Cankers, Scabs, Itch, or Fistulaes.
TAke Virginia Tobacco stalkes one pound, spring water a gallon, boyle it to three pints, put it in a bottle, the longer you keep it the better;
[Page 110]the way to use it is, to wet a Linnen cloth in the water a little warmed, and so bath wel the wound or place, and then lay the wet cloth thereon; although this medicine be but cheape and homely, make use of it, and you wil confesse it a secret worthy your acceptance.
For the Megrim.
TAke Bettony, Vervaine, Camomile, Featherfue, Wormwood, Rosemary, each alike, put them into a bag, and seeth them in white wine, and lay them to the head as hot as you can suffer it.
To procure easie delivery in Women.
TAke Pippins, and cut them in thin slices, and fry them in a smal frying pan with oyle of sweet Almonds, and let them eate thereof in the mornings, and at four of the clock in the afternoon, use it constantly til you are brought to bed, and anoynt the Belly and Matrix with oyle of sweet Almonds, and
Sperma caeti, mingled together and warmed once every day, or more if you can conveniently.
An Oyntment for Rheumatick Eyes.
TAke Hogs Lard wel tryed ℥ ij, set to steep in red Rose water six houres, then wash it
[Page 111]twelve times in white wine, wherein
Lapis Tutiae and
Lapis Caluminaris have been quenched; then adde the
Caluminaris and
Tutia, being heat red hot and quencht in white wine, as before six times,
Ana ℥ ij.
Lapis haematis ℈ ij. Aloes twelve graines, seed Pearle prepared six graines, mix it very well together, and adde a little Fennel water, as much as shal be necessary to make it liquid enough. Anoynt the eye-lids herewith, it wil take away spots, or any thing that groweth about the eyes.
For a Quinzie.
TAke
Album Grecum in powder, and a handful of Rue beat smal, boyle them in sweet sallet oyle, til they become thick, then spread it on a cloth plaisterwise, and apply it to the sore from eare to eare.
Against the trembling of the Heart, and Convulsion fits.
TAke powder of Gold one penny worth, six penny weight of Amber, six penny weight of Pearle, six penny weight of Corrall, Bezoar five grains, halfe an ounce of Pioney root, twelve penny weight of the skul of an Anatomy; make them all into powder, take as much as wil lie on a six pence in a spoonful of endive water every
[Page 112]morning, and drinke a good draught after it.
To boyle Turpentine, for the running of the Reynes.
FIrst wash it, then boyle it in Plantane, or red Rose water, til it come to the consistence of Wax, then make it into pils, whereof take three or four when you go to bed.
To prevent miscarrying, and stop the Reds.
TAke Clarret wine a quart, Mouseare, Shepheards purse,
Ana M. 1. boyle it all together with a stick of Cynomon, and sweeten it with Sugar, and drink a draught often warme.
To stay vomiting bloud by reason of an inward bruise.
QUench steele in milk, and drink it often, and
[...]ke
Sperma Cati in any warm drink once or twice.
To breake a Boyle or Felon.
TAke a great Onion, cut off the top, and take so much out of it as you may fil it up with halfe a spoonful of Treacle, and cover it with the piece again, bind it with a thread and roast it in
[Page 113]the Embers in a brown paper, and when it is roasted, breake it and mingle it together, and apply it to the Boyle or Sore which you would have broken.
For a Child broken in the belly.
TAke Polipody of the wall, Juniper Berries, Comphrey roots, the skin of the yolke of an egge, dry all these, and beat them to powder, then put therein a pint of good Ale, and give it every morning.
For the falling sicknesse.
TAke Gold, Pearle, Corrall, Bezoar, and Amber,
ana ℈ 4. single Pioney seeds as much, and single Pioney roots a like quantity, in powder, and take as much of the powder as will lie on a groat, in a spoonfull of white endive water, every morning fasting, until a quarter of a pint of water be in such manner spent.
For the Collick.
TAke Figs good store, and new Mustard made with Vinegar, stamp them wel together, and put them into a linnen bag, and as hot as you can suffer it lay it on, and hold it to the Navel and Belly.
For bleeding at Nose.
TAke Hempe, or a hempen halter, and weare it about your neck.
A Water to take away Wheales, Pushes, Kernels, Swellings, Bunches, and Warts.
TAke oyle of bay two pound, white Frankinsense, Mastick, Gum Arabick, and Turpentine, each ℥ iij. beat the Mastick, Gum, and Frankinsense, then mingle them altogether, distill them in a Limbeck; and after put into that water halfe a pound of the Ashes of Earth burned, and then distill it again, and keep it as a treasure to bestow on your best friends.
A Water for the head ach, and to cause rest in weakness, or childbed women.
TAke Primrose leaves, and Wood Bettony, each
M. 1. steepe them twelve houres in as much new milke as wil cover them; then stil them together, then steep in this water two good handfuls of Cowslip flowers, and one good handful of Violet flowers, and one good handful of unset Hysop; so let it stand four houres, then stil i
[...] altogether, and give six or eight spoonfuls at a
[Page 115]time, warme with a little Sugar.
An Oyntment to swage a swelled sore Breast, or any other swelling.
TAke Egremony and boyle it in Butter, or Hogs Lard, to an Oyntment, and therewith anoynt the swelled breast; also Egremony boyled in milke, and thicked up with bread and a little honey put into it, and layd to the breast, asswages a hard swelled breast.
For bleeding Gums.
TAke the thin shaving of a piece of Spanish Leather, and hold between the Gums, stayes it.
For the dead Palsie.
TAke foure penny worth of the horne that groweth in the inside of a horse knee, dryed and beat to powder; give it with two spoonfuls of the juyce of the green leaves of Perewinckles in
[...] fit, and let them drinke a draught of Sack after it, and sweat, do this every other day for three dayes, and tie the strings of the Perewinckle about the dead member, and shift them every other day; these strings cure the cramp, being tyed on the grieved place.
For the Gout stitches, and to open obstructions, most excellent.
℞. Halfe a pound of red Sanders, and steep it in a pint and a halfe of white wine, let it steep all night, the next morning strain it and drink it; do this two or three dayes together, then forbeare it as long; after take it againe, in halfe a score times taking, it hath cured those of the Gout, which for three years together have not been able to go; it doth worke upwards and downwards, and wil for a little time make them sick, but is most harmless.
For a Plurisie of winde.
TAke Horse-dung, Camomile, and Parsley fryed with Butter and Vineger, and apply it hot as may be suffered, divers times, or wet Rye meale in the parties water, and make a Cake of it; slit the Cake in the middle, and spread it with London Treacle, and apply it to the side.
For the Wind, Mother, or Convulsions.
TAke Corral, Amber, and Jet,
ana like weight beat them into fine powder, take the quantity of an Hazel Nut, and put it into a spoone wit
[...] some Cawdle or Broth; take two or thre
[...]
[Page 117]spoonfuls in a morning, and eat not in two or three houres after.
A soveraigne Water for old Ʋlcers.
TAke two penny worth of pure white Copperas, put into it a pint of pure Spring water, set it on a soft fire, that it may only simper, take off the scum with a Feather; so soon as the Copperas is dissolved take it off, and put it into a glasse, or stone bottle, the longer it is kept the better it wil be.
Ʋse this defensive Plaister.
BOle Armonick, the white of an Egge, and white wine Vineger, and to keep the Orifice open, put into it Gentian Wood.
For heat in the Back.
TAke juyce of Lemmons and Vineger, and dip a cloth in it, and apply it to the back oftentimes.
For the head ach.
TAke oyle of Wormwood, strong Vineger, and Rose water, and mingle them together, and boyle them, and lay them as hot as you may suffer it.
To dry up a Sore that issues with water.
TAke Ale or Beer, and boyle in it Sage til it be strong, then put in a smal quantity of Allome and Hony, and bath the part ill affected, and lay of the Sage leaves that were boyled on the sore place.
For the Mother.
TAke about Michaelmas time the ripest and rankest Nettle seeds you can get, dry them in the Sun, or in an Oven, and so keep them close in a paper, and when the Patient feeles the Mother to rise, take a spoon heaped of these seed, beat in a morter, in white wine or Beer, and let them drink it.
For the Piles.
℞. White Starch in powder, and put on the Piles, or a great Onyon rost it, spread it flat, and spread it over with Mithridate, and apply it warm.
For the Rickets.
TAke sallet Oyle one pint, Cammomile with the flowers three handfulls, strip it from the stalkes, boyle one handfull first, in the Oyle and take it up, then the second and the third, then put
[Page 119]the Cammomile into a bags; and anoint the sides striking it downwards with the Oyle, then lay on the bags warme, anoint it twice a day where the knots are, and lay speedewell in their drinke continually, then take a purge of Rhabarb, five or sixe graines in powder, in posset use it nine dayes together, then cease a fortnight and use it againe.
An oyntment for the Rickets.
TAke Rosemary, Bayleaves, Cammomile, tops of Lavender, Alehoof, unset Hisop, unset time
ana Mr. shred together; and beate in a morter and boyled together in a pound of fresh butter an houre, then straine it out, and with this anoynt the Child, his sides, knees, and downe to his feet, Evening and Morning, a quarter of an houre, this must be made in May. Take cloves of Fox ferne root
alias osmond bruised and boyled in milke, take it in the morning fasting, and fast an houre after it, and make the root in powder and give it in Beere.
Sirrup for the Rickets.
TAke running water, one quart, Mayden haire, Sage of Ierusalem, Coltsfoot each one ounce, Licoras sliced, Anniseeds bruised,
ana, halfe an ounce, boyle all these to the halfe, then straine it, put to it fine Sugar, a pound and a half, pearle prepared
[Page 120]℥ iij boyle altogether, then straine it and give your Childe one spoonefull first and last.
Pils to stay vomitting and cleanse the stomacke.
TAke Alloes
Siccatrina, adde to it Nutmeg grated, two or three drops of Sallet Oyle, as much
Aquavitae, and a little Sirrup of Roses when it is dissolved together, put a droppe of Oyle on your fingers, make it in Pils, whereof take two in a morning.
The Palsie oyle to make to anoynt twice a day for any ach or benummedness.
TAke Neats-foot oyle, Rosemary tops, sweet Marjoram, of each two handfuls, Lavander tops or leaves, before it shoot to blow two handfuls, red Sage, Camomile, Wormwood, Time, and Hysop, each one handful, chop them smal and put them to the oyle, and let them boyle apace til the Hearbs be changed, and the Oyntment of a fair green colour, then strain it out, and keep it in a Glasse close stopt for use, it wil-last seven yeares in its ful force and vertue; if you cannot have the Lavander green when you would use it, you may take it dry, and likewise the other hearbs, but then you must take the greater quantity; I made this Oyntment at Michaelmas last, for one who
[Page 121]was suddainly stroken in her limbs, so that she was not able to stand, and was afflicted with violent pain; it was on the Sabboth day she was taken about ten in the morning, I prepared the Medicine by two in the afternoon, wherewith she was anoynted, and (by Gods blessing) was very wel by night, and so hath continued. Δόξ τῳ Θεῷ. It was at
Wokingham, where I was unprovided of the Hearbs, in my own Garden, where I had not much residence (though too long for my purse) and I was enforced to buy them at a Gardners, who shewed me an exact
Wokingham conscience, and as most of that Town do, he made a vertue of my urgent necessity, and made me pay sawce for my Hearbs, although you would judge them but of smal price; this I record here, only to learn others to beware of
Wokingham, lest they pay for it as deare as I have done.
For the Stone in the Kidneyes, and them that make bloudy water.
TAke milke and make a clear Posset, wherein boyle a handful of Plantain, a stick or two of Licoras, a slice or two of Comphrey root, drinke thereof first and last, and sometimes drinke the juce of Plantain by it selfe, or in Beer. Take also Pils of Turpentine washt in Plantain water, and made up in Pils with Gum Arabick, and wrapt up
[Page 122]in Sugar or Conserve of Roses, and swallowed.
For a Burn or Scald.
TAke thorne Apple leaves, stampe them or cut them smal, and boyle them in Hogs Lard to an Oyntment.
Probatum.
Jay powder for the falling sickness.
TAke a Jay, pul off the Feathers, then take out the guts, and fil it ful with Comminseeds and Anniseeds, and then bake it til it is dry to beat to powder, with the head on and legs, drinke this in Porrage or Ale.
Flos Unguentorum, or the flower of Oyntments.
TAke Rozen, Perozen, each halfe a pound,
Olibanum, Deeres suet, or Sheeps suet, and white Wax, of each four ounces, Mastick and Mirrhe, of each an ounce, Venice Turpentine two ounces, white wine a pottle; your Wax and Suet being finely shred, must be first molten upon a soft fire, then put in your Rozen and Perozen, and stir them wel til they be melted, then strain the stuffe into a hot pan, then have ready your
Olibanum, Mastick, and Mirrhe, ground smal and finely searced, and
[Page 123]let it all melt together, your whitewine being something warm, poure in by little and little, then take it from the fire, and put in the Turpentine, and stir it, and last of all the Camphire in powder, and stir it til it be cold, and make it up in Roles, and keepe it in red Leather to your use, as the best and most precious Salve that can be made.
The Virtues of it.
THis Medicine is good for all manner of Discases, following,
viz. for all wounds, and it is most cleansing, and wel soken, and gendreth flesh, and suffereth no corruption in a wound, nor no evil flesh to be gendred therein; it is good for the head ach, and singings in the brain, for all manner of Impostumes, for sounding in the eares, and for sinews that are sprung or cut, and draweth out a broken bone, or thorne, or any thing that is in a wound; it is good for biting or stinging of a venemous Beast, and it healeth all manner of Botches without, it is good for a Fester, Canker,
noli me tangere, it draweth out all ach of the Liver, Spleen, or Reines, healeth the Emrods, and is a good Seare-cloth for Gouts, and pestilent Diseases.
The manner how to cut the Plaisters of this Medicine to cure these Diseases under written,
viz.
For the Navell three inches square, to stay the Flux of the Belly.
For the Reines six inches long, four inches broad, to stay the Flux of the Reynes.
For the Stomack four inches broad, six inches deep, it must be cut three square, for wind or pain in the stomack.
For shortnesse of breath or Ptisike.
TAke eight or nine heads of Garlicke, according to the constitution of the party, peele and cut off both the ends of each Clove, and put it into a pipkin; with a quarter of a pound of butter unsalted, boyle it untill the Garlicke turnred, then run it thorow such a thing as a milke strainer, then put it into a pipkin: againe, with a quarter of a pound of butter more unsalted, and the best honey one pound, boyle it till the skim is wel risen, then take it off and skimme it, and strow in an ounce of the powder of Elecompane roots, thē let it boyle three or foure walmes, take it off the fire, and stirre in the powder of six penny-worth of saffron, from the first to the last, you must stirre
[Page 125]it while it is boyling except the time, while the skim of the honey is rising, eate the quantity of a small nutmeg hereof, evening and morning.
For scabs in Childrens heads.
TAke fresh butter, and boyle in it soote of a Chimney (where is no Seacole burned) till it be blacke, and therewith anoynt the head, it will heale it though there be holes you may turne your finger in the head.
For a swellyng or bruise.
Take Elder stampt aod fryed with Chamberly, and fresh buttr, and layd all over it, taketh away a swelling or bruise.
For the Lungs, and Gonorrhea.
TAke Crawfishes, and boyle them in milk, and eate them, and drinke the milke first and last, and in the afternoone sweetned with Sugar.
For a perrillus Cough.
TAke Sage, Rue, Commin, and powder of pepper and seeth them in honey; and make there of an electuary and use thereof a spoonfull, evening
[Page 126]and morning.
Stinging of an adder or snake.
DRinke the distilled water of Draggons, or the juyce, also stampe dragons and lay to the place. &c.
To procure easie delivery.
TAke Hysop, Vervaine, and betony, of each one handfull, stampe them very small, and straine them in good stale Ale; and let the Patient drinke a good draught thereof, and it will helpe her presently without danger.
To heale a scald or burne.
TAke barley meale, with the Juice of red fennel, make a plaister thereof and lay it on the sore, and it will draw out the corruption and heale it.
Flux of Bloud to stay.
TAke Willow leaves and barke, and boyle it in wine, and drink it.
For noyse in the eares, or tongue swelled.
BOyle Figs in Water, and let the Patient drinke thereof.
To purge the head with Ceny.
TAke Cene in powder ℥ i. Ginger ℥ i. twelve Cloves, Fennel seeds ℥ ij. Cinamon, & tartar, each halfe a drachme, beate them all into powder, take thereof in white-wine a drachme before supper.
For itch, scabs, and the like.
TAke fumitory and boyle it in a quart of ale, then infuse in it. Sena. ounce, Raisins of the Sun stoned, Anniseeds bruised, and a little ginger, drinke it with sirrup of Roses.
A Balsome for wounds, swellings, venom, bitings, and Apostumations, oldsores, fretting ulcers. &c.
TAke Oyle olive one quart, St. Iohns-wort, betony, Centory and selfe heale, each two handfulls, stampe them and mixe them well, and so let it still in a glasse all Summer, and then straine the Oyle from the hearbs and soe keepe it
[Page 128]for use: Adde to it Tobacco flowers.
To heale watring Eyes.
TAke red Rose water, two ounces, and put it into a bowle glasse, then take male Frankinsense, put it on the point of a Knife into a Candle of Uirgins Wax, untill it begin to melt, then still dip it in the water, at least a hundred times, untill it turn thick, like Balm, distrain it through a fine linnen cloth, and anoynt your eyes therewith.
To expell Rheume in the face.
TAke the white of an Egge beat to an Oyle, and skimmed, then temper it with the Wool of a Conies skin to a plaister, warm it on coales, and apply it to the temples, and the grieved place, and bind it on fast with a cloth.
For the Chollick, or griping in the belly.
TAke the seed of
Carduus benedictus stamped and drunke in Posset Ale, or any other drinke, doth help the griefe.
For the Passion of the Heart.
TAke juyce of Buglosse two ounces, cleanse and purifie it at the fire, mix it with two
[Page 129]drachms, of white Sugar-Candy, and let the Patient drinke it every night going to bed ten nights together.
To purge choller.
TAke sirrup of Violets with Agarick infused in Barly water, or broth of a Hen.
A Purge for the Kings Evill.
TAke
Lignum vitae four ounces, infuse it in Embers in four quarts of spring water twenty four houres, then adde to it Posipodian foure ounces,
Sena two ounces, Anniseeds and sweet Fennel seeds,
anae halfe an ounce, Burrage, Bugglos, and Fox-Gloves, each a handfull, boyle it a way to the halfe, then give four or five spoonfuls to a childe every morning for eight dayes together sweetned with Sugar.
For the Dropsie.
TAke Broome. Bettony, Balme,
anae three handfuls, put it into three gallons of Ale Wort, when it is ready to be stopt up; let it stand a weeke, and then drink it constantly a weeke together, or a fortnight.
An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie.
TAke Horse-Radish roots fliced long wayes thin, two ounces, sweet Fennel-seeds bruised ℥ ij. Smalledge and Fennel roots sliced, each one ounce, the tops of Time, Winter Savory, sweet Marjoram, Water Cresses, Nettles, of each one handfull; boyle these in three pints of water and three pints of wine, a quart of Canary, and a pint of Muskadine close covered til halfe be consumed; so remove it from the fire and let it settle three houres, then strain it, and into every draught put in an ounce of sirrup of the five roots, it must be taken twice a day, in the morning, and at three in the afternoon, and fast an houre after it; if the Patient have the scurvy also, adde to the draughts two spoonfuls of the juyce of scurvy grasse, when the Patient is ready to drink it.
The Oyntment for the Dropsie.
TAke Walwort, and Elder leaves, sweet Marjoram, and Water Cresses, Penny Royal, each one handfull cut and bruised, and set them to seeth in aquart of sweet sallet oyle, halfe an houre, then let them stand in the vessell three dayes, then again heat them and strain it hard out, and put into it as many more of the sayd Hearbs, and seeth them
[Page 131]as before, and straine it; do so the third time, and keep it as an excellent Oyntment; let the swoln body be annointed therewith once in three dayes, and that in the morning by a good fire, stroking it downwards an houre together.
For a sore breast in great anguish.
TAke Dung of Geese the newest you can get, and the like of Doves, and a little Leaven, and a little Time; stamp them together, and lay them to the breast.
For a Bruise.
TAke Red-Nettles, and a quantity of Bay-salt, bruise them together, and lay them to the sore, or bruise: this must be applied incontinently after one is bruised, and often changed, it will asswage the paine, and heale the bruise.
To stay bleeding at the Nose.
TAke the bone in a Carps head, and beat it to powder, and take a little of the bloud of the party, and beat it to powder, then mingle it together, and put it in a little Ale or Beer, and let them drink it once or twice.
For the same.
LEt the Patient drink Wine-vinegar, and dip a Napkin in Wine-vinegar, and apply to his privy Members.
For a cold Stomack, and hot Liver.
TAke halfe a pinte of White-wine, asmuch Fumitory water, let them halfe one walme together, and sweeten it with Syrrup of Violets, take of it as you see cause.
For the Falling-sickness.
TAke Piony roots in Powder, in Ale, drink it both morning and evening, take the Jay-powder also in Porrage, and drink Ale before it.
An excellent Oyntment for the Spleene, or Spraine, or for Winde, or Stitch in the side, & good for any inward bruise, to annoynt outwardly.
An old Judge going off his Horse back, broke a veine, and spit bloud, and pist bloud, and this oyntment cured him, by annoynting him.
TAke S. Johns wort two handfuls, sweet Marjoram, Sweet Bazil, Mints, or Speremmts, Flowers of Lavender spike, and red Rose leaves, each one handfull, Maudlin and wild Time, each halfe a handfull compound them well together in a stone Mortar, then put into them a pinte of the best Sallet Oyle, in a vessell close stopt, and set it in a place where it may have moderate heat fourteen dayes, then strain it and put into it halfe a pinte of Malmsey, Nu megs halfe an ounce, large Mace halfe an ounce, and a pretty quantity of Cynamon, boyle all these together till the liquor be nigh halfe spent, and straine it out, and so use it.
For paine in the Head.
CHew Mace in your mouth, and hold it that the Fume may ascend, and smell to Spikenard.
For the same.
TAke Vervaine, Vinegar, and Honey, mingle them well together, and drinke it often times fasting.
For the Megrim.
SEeth a little quantity of Aloes and Mastick in white Wine, and drink thereof.
Against Drunkennesse.
TAke before you drink twelve spoonfuls of Betony Water, and after drinke as much as you will.
For a Worme in the Somack.
TAke Nepp, stamp it and mingle it with white Wine, and give the Patient when he is grieved.
For scalding, burning, itch, scabs, scald head, or any heat.
TAke butter unwasht, melt it scalding hot, then powre it into faire spring water, and with a spoone labour it and wash it, untill the butter grow cold, then gather the butter together, and powre out that water, and put fresh water to the butter, till you finde the butter very white, then worke the water out of the butter, then worke in the powder of brimstone finely beaten, untill the butter be stiffe, and looks yellow with it, then take Camphire, and the seed of Pompeyons clean picked and husked, grinde the Campheire and them together, and worke it to the butter, and so use it; but if you will skin any burne with it, adde to it the powder of a rotten post, else not.
For the Piles approved.
TAke a little piece of scarlet and burne it, and beat it to powder, and searce it, and put to it a little Honey, and annoint the party therewith, also take Horehound, and Hagtaper in powder fasting foure or five mornings together.
For a Chin-cough.
TAke the Burre of an Eglantine tree, and dry it in powder, and drink it in possit drinke.
The most excellent Plaister, called Leaden Plaister.
TAke two pound and four ounces of Oyle-olive the best, good red Lead 1
lb. white Lead 1
lb. beaten to dust, Spanish Sope ℥ xij. incorporate them in an earthen pot, and when the Sope commeth upward, put it upon a small fire of coales, continuing it an houre and an halfe stirring it with an iron or stick, then drop of it upon a trencher, if it cleave not it is enough, spread it on cloaths, or lay it on a board till it cooles, then rowle it up, it will last twenty yeares, the older the better.
The vertues of this Plaister.
THe same laid on the stomack provokes appetite, and takes away any griefe in the stomack, it is a present remedy for the Collick, being laid on the belly; and upon the back it's good for the bloudy Flux, Gonorrhea, and all weakness in the back; for Women with child to weare all the time they are with childe, if they finde any weaknesse; it healeth all swellings, bruises, and aches; it breaks Felons, Pushes, and other Impostumes, and healeth the same, draweth out any rotten humour, not breaking the skin, and applyed to the Fundament, healeth any disease there growing; the same laid to the temple is good for the Evelo, head-ach, and the eyes easeth Corns, the Gowt, and for a straine.
Prohatum.
For a bruise on the Stones.
TAke mud of a Grind-stone, and Oyle of Roses tempered together, and spread on a cloath, and apply it to the place grieved.
For the Dropsie.
TAke Hysope, Thime, Water-cresses, and Calamint, each two handfuls, Fennell one handfull,
[Page 137]Raddish roots foure or five taken out of the ground fresh, and slice them thin, Licoras, Anniseeds, and Comminseeds, each two ounces, boyle all these together in a pan or pot, with the quantity of three Gallons of faire running water, till a third part be consumed, then put in a pottle of Sack, strain it all through a linnen cloath, then put it into a glasse or stone bottle, close stopt, drink of it every morning, and at foure of the clock in the afternoone, and as you find good of it, continue it.
To coole the Liver.
TAke Barley water, cast away the first, and in the secōd boyle Cinquefoil, Burnet, Strawberryleaves, Burrage, Sorrell, Egrimony, each one handfull, boyle it from a Pottle to three pintes and something more, straine it, and adde to it two spoonfuls of Syrrup of Violets, and one spoonfull of Rose-water, drinke it morning and evening, it cooles the Liver, and makes the body soluble.
For displacing the Mother, or Whites with a Serringe.
TAke Cynamon bruised one ounce, Pomegranate flowers halfe an ounce, red Rose leaves a quarter of an ounce, boyle these in a pinte and a halfe of red Rose water, till halfe be consumed,
[Page 138]then addered Wine halfe a pinte, and straine it for your use.
A Receipt of pills.
TAke white Amber, mastick, each one drachim, Aloes the best, two drachmes and a halfe, agarick two scruples,
Aristolechia the round and true, one scruple, make them all in fine powder, and with a little Iuyce of Bettony or sirrup make them in pils, make five of a drachme and take two three or five going to bed.
The virtue of these pills.
THey preserve the stomack from inward hurt, and suffer no ill humors to putrifie in it, for they cleanse, mundifie, and strengthen the heart, stomack and head, make the party cheerefull, they purge the veines, and matrix, and helpe the eyes, they are safe without any danger.
For asore throat.
TAke plantaine, and boyle it in running water to a pultis, and clap it hot to the throat with a cloth, this cured one that could hardly speak, scarce swallow, and made him avoyde peeces of stinking flesh out of his throat.
An oyntment for a joynt Ague.
TAke Colewort leaves, chopt and boyled in butter to an oyntment, straine it and anoynt the place ill therewith, or boyle Ale to an oyntment and anoynt the place with it, the same is good for Chilblanes.
To skin nipples.
TAke yong Bayleaves, bruised and layd on the nipples, skinnes them; also
Ʋnguentum Album is good for the same.
For the same.
TAke pure fine Sugar, and burnt allum and plantaine water, and a little red Rose water, boyle altogether to a sirrup, dip fine ragges in it and lay about the nipples till it be whole, likewise take butter and wax, and lay it on the nipples being melted together.
Unguentum Album,
to make.
TAke hogs Lard and wash it in Plantaine water or red Rose water, and mingle them together with white Ceris and white leade.
A gargle for the throat for flegme.
TAke Mustard a spoonefull, three or foure spoonfull of white Wine, mingle them together, use it every morning for flegme, likewise Vineger and Water is good for the same; but if it bee for the Palsey, take Mustard, white Wine, Vineger and Honey, and gargle at night going to bed warme.
For the Morphew.
TAke Pippins, and Elder berries baked together, or you may still it, and drinke the water, because you cannot have the berries at all times.
To help fainting fits in lying in.
BOyle Harts horne and Safron in Ale or Beere, and put a little Sugar to it, and drinke it, adde to it a little winter Savory.
For the Palsey, and to stay Rhume.
TAke a quart of Ale, boyle in it Lavender, and put to it a little butter and Sugar, this drinke morning and evening.
For the Yellow Jaundies most excellent in great extremity.
TAke English Safron two penny worth in fine powder, two penny worth of Turmerick in powder, and two penny worth of Mace in powder, mingle it with as much fine Sugar as you like to your taste, eat every morning and evening as much in the pap of an apple as three Nuts, if you take a purge of Rhabarb after, it is good, or use Rhabarb in powder with the rest.
For one that pisses bloud.
TAke Oyle of sweet Almonds new drawn, and put a little fine Sugar into it, or white Sugarcandy, and take of it first and last, likewise Turpentine washt in Plantaine water, and made up in Pills, with red Rose leaves, and a little Corrall; first purge the Reines with Cassia and Rhabarb.
A Clyster for the bloudy Flux.
TAke three pints of skimmed milk, put it in a Bason, then take three gags of Steele, and heate them red hot, and quench them in the milke 3 times, then take a spoonfull of old conserve of red Roses, beat it into the milke, and then take
[Page 142]the yolke of one egge and beate it and stirre it into the milke, then straine it and give asmuch as will agree with the constitution of the partye.
An approved Searecloth for aches.
TAke Burgundy pitch, halfe a pounde, white Virgins wax one quarter of a pound, white Frankinsense, two ounces, let the Frankinsense be beaten, and searced very small, then take the wax and the pitch and melt them, in two severall pipkins, and when they are melted powre the wax into the pitch, then strow in the Frankinsense, stirr them well together, powre all into a bason of faire water and worke it up into Rowels, with your hands anoynted with butter for sticking.
To comfort the hart.
TAke two handfulls of Burrage leaves, and two handfulls of Buglosse, one handfull of white Endive, halfe a handfull of Rosemary, halfe a handfull of time, asmuch of Savory and Hisope, boyle all these in three pints of faire Water till halfe be wasted, then put in one pound and an half of Sugar, and a few whole Cloves, halfe an ounce of Cynomon, a quarter of an ounce of Ginger, finely beaten, then boyle it till it come to the thickenesse of life Honey, and so reserve it in galley
[Page 143]pots: and take asmuch as a Hasell nut every morning and when you please.
For a Consumption.
TAke a fat sow Pigge, dresse it, and put it into a still, with a handfull of Speeremints, asmuch red Fenell, and as much red Nepp, Liverwort, and Clary, each halfe a handfull and new Oates, new dates the Stones and pith taken out and well washed in two or three waters, halfe a quarter of an ounce of Mace, two sticks of Cynomon bruised, distill altogether with an easie fire, and put it in a sure glasse, and sunne it nine dayes and drinke of it at your pleasure. For the winde or gripings in the belly, take Anniseeds, sweet Fennell seeds each one spoonefull, Licoris, Pepper, Elecompane roots, each one drachm, a small quantity of Saffron all in powder, a quarter of an ounce of nutmegs grated, too grains of musk, waigh all these ingredients together, and put to them their double weight of fine Sugar, then incorporate them with asmuch damaske Rose water as will make them liquid; then put it up in a Galley Pot and take a small quantity therof, on the point of a knife in the morning or at any other time when the winde offends you, it must be tempered cold and not boyled.
For a scald head.
TAke a penny worth of lampe Oyle, and halfe a pint of faire water, and boyle it well together, and when it is cold, put thereto a halfe penny worth of quicksilver, and temper it well together, and anoint the head.
For the black Jaundies.
TAke Gentian, long Pepper, Calamus Aromaticus, Avenus, Lycoris, Raysins, Corants, white Spanish Sope, of each three ounces, two spoonfulls of mustard, boyle all these in a quart of wine till the third part be wasted, and let the Patient drinke it.
For St. Anthonies fire.
TAke and rost Sorrell in a wet linnen cloth, the space of halfe an houre underthe hot embers, hen stamp it with fine Clarified Honey, and lay it to the sore, it ill heale it perfectly.
Of the twelve Signes. The division, nature, and expositions of the twelve signes of the
Zodiack, according to the twelve months in the yeare.
THE Ancients have given the Signes of Heaven certain names of living Creatures and briefe Characters, to prevent tediousnesse in the often writing of them; they are Charactered thus: ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓
These twelve Signes are divided into four parts, according to the foure quarters of the yeare; the three first Signes containe the Vernall, or Spring Quarter, and the sanguine Complexion of m
[...]n.
The 4.5. & 6. Signes, the Summer Quarter, and is hot and dry of the Chollerick Complexion.
The seven eight and nine Signes containe the Autumnall or Harvest Quarter, and is cold and dry of the Melancholly Complexion.
The three last or ten eleaven and twelve Signes containe the Brumall, Hiemall, or winter Quarter,
[Page 146]& of the flegmatique complexion Cold and moist.
Aries, or the Ram is the first of all the Signes, it is Masculine, Diurnall, Chollerick, Fiery, and Hot, and by peculiar property dry; by his heate and quickning preserving life, fit for the nourishment of all things Animall and Vegetable, he is Moveable, equinoctiall. Vernall, of the fiery Triplicity, Orientall and the Diurnall house of ♂, he ruleth the head and face, the moneth of March, wherein it is good to let bloud, and purge. Vnder this Signe falleth head-each, small-Pox Megrims, falling Sicknesse, and all diseases of the head.
The second signe is Taurus, or the Bull, which is Melancholly, Cold, and Dry, Feminine, Nocturnall of the earthly Triplicity, is Temperate, Profitable to the earth and Flowers, it is Meridionall and the night house of Venus, it ruleth the Neck and Throat, the moneth of Aprill, in which it is perrilous to have sicknesse in the Throat, as the Kings Evill, Wenns, Boyles, Quinsies and Impostumes.
Third Signe is Geminy, which is hot and moist, affecting the Aire with temperature, comforting nature, producing the seeds to fruits, it is a Signe Sanguine, Masculine. Diurnall, Occidentall, double bodied, Dexter Common, and aircall, the day house of Mercury, of the Airy Triplicity, he ruleth the moneth of May, wherein it is indifferent to let bloud and take Physicke, he signifies all diseases
[Page 147]in the shoulders Armes, and hands, and describes a man to be upright and tall, of a Sanguine Complexion, darke haire, a good sight, a sharp wit and judicious understanding.
The forth Signe is Cancer or the Crabbe, cold or moist, Temperate, apt for the nutrition of nature, having a comfortable humidity and temperature, whereby all things both Animall and Vegetable doe live and are maintained, it's a Signe Feminine, Nocturnall, Moveable, Solstitiall, and northerne, of the watery triplicity, the house of the Moone. It hath the moneth of Iune, ill to take Physicke or let bloud unlesse necessity require, it ruleth the breast, stomacke ribs, and spleene, signifies imperfections in the stomack, ptisicke, salt flegme, dropsies, impostumes and Cancets in the breast, renders a man to be of a small, low stature, round visage, sickely, pale, melancholly complexion, the haire a sad browne, little eyes, if a woman, apt to have many Children.
The first signe is Leo, or the Lyon, by nature hot, chollerick, of the fiery triplicity, so farr from temperature, that with it, nature beginneth to move the dimunition of the leaves of the trees, and abatement of fruits tending to their decay, it is masculine, diurnall and orientall, the onely house of the Sun, it hath the moneth of Iuly, rules the back, sinews, bones, and gristles, and signifies the diseases thereof, as trembling and passions of the
[Page 148]heart, pestilent feavers, the plague, and paines in the backe, and plurisies; it represents persons of large bodies, broad shoulders, something tall stature, great head, big goggle eyes, yellow or darke flaxen haire, curling, a fierce countenance, a ruddy sanguine complexion, it is evill in the moneth of Iuly (unles extremity force it) to give Physicke or let bloud.
The sixt Signe of the Zodiacke is Virgo, which is a bicorporeal or double bodies Signe; the influence thereof upon the earth worketh cold and drinesse, hardly temperate, through which vegetables, suffer detriment, hearbs and leaves do wither yet the coldnesse thereof is not altogether exempt from temperature, it's of the earthly triplicity the house of exaltation of Mercury, it is feminine, nocturnall meridionall, melancholly, right common and dexter. It hath the moneth of August wherein it is evill to give physicke, or let bloud: it ruleth the wombe, bowels, guts, liver, gall, and mi
[...]te, and the diseases thereof, as the wormes, winde, collicke, paine in the guts and miseraicke veines. It denotes a meane stature, slender body, but decent, ruddy browne complexion, blacke haire, shrill small voice, witty, ingenious, and studious, a rare understanding in man or woman.
The seventh Signe is Libra or the ballance which is an aireall Signe hot and moist, sanguine, it impresseth into the Ayre, heat, and moisture, causing
[Page 149]it to be hot, thicke, grosse, mixt and verti
[...]le to the individuall kinds of nature, as seeds, herbs, and bows of trees, it is a signe of the Ayry triplicity, Masculine, Diuruall, Equinoctiall, Occidentall, and Autumnall; the cheife house of Venus hath the moneth of September, in which it is good to take physicke, to purge the body and let bloud, it governeth the reines, loynes, and haunches, and diseases are attributed to it as the stone or gravell, in the reynes and kidnyes and bladder, corruption of bloud or ulcers in the reines and kidnyes, impostumes, or ulcers there, or in the loynes or haunches and weaknesse in the backe; it represents a body straight, tall, and slender, a smooth, yellow, long haire, a round face, sanguine colour, in age some pimples in the face or colour very high.
The next in order is Scorpio, the eight Signe in the Zodiacke, it imparteth to the aire coldnesse and moisture, exempt from all temperature, bringing rather corruption then generation. It is a Signe of the watry triplicity, feminine, nocturnal, septentrionall, fixed right and flegmaticke; the house and joy of Mars. It hath the moneth of October, wherein it is good to take Physicke, and indifferent to let bloud; it rules the secret members and bladder, signifies all diseases thereof, as rupturs, the piles, gonorreha, hemrods, priapismes, all aflictions and defects in the yeard, stones and matrix. It personates a corpulent strong body, broad
[Page 150]face, a hairy body, short neck, commonly subtill and deceitfull men.
The ninth Signe is Sagittarius or the Archer, which is hot and dry, of the fiery triplicity, void of temperature, causing destruction of seeds and hearbs, and hurt to many living Creatures: it is masculine, diurnall, orientall, chollerick, the house and joy of Iupiter, dexter, right, common, and double bodied, ruleth the month of November, wherein it is good to take Physick and let bloud, it governeth of mans body the thighs, and Buttocks, to which are subject all fistulas, bruises, and hurts in those places, denoteth pestilentiall feavors, falls from horses, hurts from fourefooted beasts, prejudice by fire, bloud heated &c. It signifies a handsome welfavored person, long face, full and ruddy sunburnt complexion, the stature indifferent tall, the haire light, chesnut coulor, or browne.
The tenth signe is Capricorne, or the Goat, which is cold and dry, untemperate, moveable, of the earthly triplicity, meridionall, nocturnall, solstitiall, hiemall, and melancholly, feminine, the house of Saturne, and exaltation of Mars, it hath the moneth of December, governeth the knees and casualities incident thereunto, either by dislocations, spraines, or fractures; notes, itch, scabs, and leprosie, it signifies a short body, long leane visage, blacke haire, narrow chin, small necke and
[Page 151]narrow breast.
The eleaventh Signe is called Aquarius, which is hott and moist, of the A
[...]ery triplicity, untempetate, noisome, and hurtfull to all seeds, and things vegetable, masculine, diurnall, occidentall, sinister, fixed, and sanguine the house of Saturne, wherein he rejoyceth, ruleth the moneth of Ianuary wherein it is indifferent to take Physicke, and let bloud, & of mans body he governeth the legs, and ankles, and all casualties and instruments incident thereunto, all melancholly windes in the veines and bloud, cramps, gouts and paines in the legs, it represents persons of a thicke, short, strong, body, a long visage, blacke or sandy coloured haire, a sanguine complexion.
The twelfeth and last Signe is Pisces, it is cold and most of the watery triplicity, declining from temperature, but imparting some comfort to divers things vegetable, feminine, nocturnall, septentrionall, dexter double bodied, common and flegmaticke, the house of Iupiter and exaltation of Venus; hath the moneth of February, wherein it is good to take physicke, to let bloud indifferent. It claimes domination over the feet, and the diseases and maladies incident therunto, as the gout, cramp, and cornes, signifies cold and moist, diseases, boyls, itches, breakings out; and ulcers proceeding from melancholly and putrefacted bloud, it personates a lecherous idle effeminate person, a short il favored
[Page 152]body but fleshy, a large face, the body something crooked, and of a pale complexion, the sun entreth into this Sign about the ninth day of February, & dwelleth therein till the tenth of March, at which time she finisheth her winter quarter and the yeare
Of the seven Planets.
THe first and highest of the Plannets is Saturne, which is cold and dry, yet sometimes moist upon accident of colour pale and wan, like to lead, he signifies a melancholly dusky and pale complexion, blacke haire, acrooked misshapen body, ruleth all sicknesse proceeding of melancholly humors or cold rumes, as blacke jaundies, quartaine Agues and the like, the magnitude of his body according to Tichobrahe exceedeth the earth two and twenty times, he maketh his period through the Zodiack in thirty yeares.
The next to Saturne is Iupiter, his quillity is hot and moist, temperate, masculine, Ayry, the greater fortune, of colour splendent like gold personates a tall stature, browne sanguine complexion, a long full visage, and strong body, signifies diseases of the liver, heart, and inflammation of the lungs, plurisies paines in the backe, and ribs, feavers, and windinesse, proceeding from corrupted and superfluous
[Page 153]bloud, his
[...]u
[...]ke by Tycho, exceedeth the earth 14 times, he accomplisheth his course through the Zodiacke in twelve yeares.
The next in order succeeds Mars, which is a plannet, in nature hot and dry intemperate, fiery and chollericke, the lesser infortune, of Colour red like bloud, he signifies a meane stature, yellow haire the body hairy, if oriental, otherwise smooth; and the diseases of the gall, pestilent burning feavers, plague, burnings, phrensies, and all distempers, proceeding from choller, he is lesser then the earth according to Tycho thirteen times, finisheth his course in two yeares.
The sun is placed in the middle of the Planets, he is hot and dry, temperate, masculine, and diurnall, the Sun signifies men ambitious, high minded, a strong large body, yellow complexion, and yellow haire, or reddish, much haire on the beard, healthfull of constitution of diseases and sicknesse, hee signifies all infirmities of the braine and heart, pimples in the face, sore eyes, cankers in the mouth, catars, and soonings. The Suns body is greater then the earth according to Tycho one hundred times, he runneth his course through the Zodiacke in three hundred sixty fives dayes, five houres, and forty nine minutes.
Venus is a Plannet cold and moist, temperate, the lessor fortune, of the colour of gold, glistering and bright, feminine and diurnall, shee represents
[Page 154]persons of a fair complexion, if orientall somewhat tall stature, a straight handsome body, browne haire, a roling eye and blackish, one loving neatnesse, full of mirth and amorous, of diseases shee signifies the french pox, gonorrhea, all infirmities of the matrix, and generative members, in the raines backe and wombe, she is lesse then the earth according to Tycho six times, and finisheth her course in a yeare.
Mercury is a Plannet, mutable and wavering, whose quallity for the most part, is in drying, and equally moistning, for hee dryeth when he applyes to Mars or Sol, and moistneth applying to Venus or Luna, and for that cause is said to be of a changable uncertaine nature, good with the good, and ill with the ill, masculine with the masculine, and feminine with the feminine, of Colour like silver, glistring but not bright, if he be well placed hee signifies a sharpe pregnant wit, a subtill quicke apprehension, an eloquent orator, a great lover of learning, and liberall sciences if he be il dignified he represents a great lyar, a busie prating boaster, a false tale carrier, a personage he signifies of a tall straight body, leane, and spare, sad browne haire; a browne or honey colour complexion, he signifies all diseases of the head and braine, vertigoes, giddiness in the head, imperfections in the speech memory and understanding hee is lesse then the earth as saith Tycho nineteene times, he endeth his revolution in a yeare.
The Moone is the last and lowest of all the Planets; she is cold and moist, moisture being predominant, and bearing the greatest power, yet sometimes she is said to heat: she usually represents a man of a middle stature, white and flegmatick complexion, a fleshy body; signifies diseases of the belly, as Fluxes, and Chollick, of the bladder and generative members, all diseases proceeding of cold Rhume, Sciatica's, Gout in the Feet, and palseys; she is lesser then the Earth 42 times, she dispatcheth her Course in a month.
Saturn ruleth of the week daies Saturday from whence the day is so called; he ruleth the first hour of the day, and the eighth; The Sun the first and eighth hours of Sunday; the Moone the first and eighth houres of Monday;
Mars Tuesday the first and eighth hours of that day;
Mercury the first and eight houres of Wednesday;
Jupiter ruleth Thursday the first and eighth hours thereof; and
Venus hath dominion of the first and eighth hours of Friday.
Of Ʋrine.
IF a mans urine be white at morning, and red before meat, and white after meat, he is in health; if it be very thick and fat, it signifies paine in the head.
Urine that is fat, white, and moist, betokeneth the Feaver quartaine.
Urine that is bloudy and fleshy, denotes some hurt and rotten Ulcer in the bladder and reines, who pisseth bloud without sicknesse, hath some veine broken in his Reines.
Womens urine that is cleere and shining, if she cast oft, and have no desire to meat, it signifies she is with child.
Womens Urine that is strong white, and stinking, signifies infirmities in the reines, in her secret Receipts, in her Chambers full of evil humours, and consequently sicknesse of her whole body.
Womens Urine that is bloudy and cleere as water under, signifies head-ach.
Womans Urine of the colour of Lead (if she be with child,) demonstrates the child to be dead within her.
Urine one part red, another blacke, another green, another blew, betokeneth death.
Urine that is black and little in quantity betokeneth death.
Urine of the colour of Lead, that shineth raw, and bright, if the skin in the bottome shine not in the bottome, it signifies death.
Urine of the colour of water, having a darke skie, it betokens death.
Urine that hath dregs in the bottome mingled with bloud signifies death.
Urine black and thick, if the sick loath when he
[Page 157]goeth to the stoole, it signifies death.
These are the most certain and generall Judgements of Urine; many more there are, but I omit them as the most falacious study that appertaines to Physick; and if men trust to the urine, it will most usually deceive the learnedst Doctor that is: I knew a Gentleman that was taken with a violent Feaver, he continued three daies, the disease increasing the patient weakening; the third day a Doctor saw his water (who I forbeare to name, because he is since dead,) his Judgement was that the patient was in perfect health, and had no distemper on him; but that morning the small Pox began to appeare on his body, and he had them as full, and as tedious a disease of it as any man ever had: another Doctor gave the same Judgement on a sick persons water, who died within halfe an houre following.
Of Bathes
BAthes are naturall and Artificiall, the naturall Baths of England are those of the City of Bath in Somersetshire, in the West Countrey: The chiefest matter, strength, and vertue of these Baths is Brimstone, and the chiefe ruler in them; these Boths of brimstone do soften the sinnews, and do heat; they are therefore good for the Palsey, for all such place, or joynts that are pulled in too
[Page 158]much, or extended too far forth, they asswage the desire of often going to the stoole, and doing little or nothing; they scowre and cleanse the skin, are good for the white Morphew and black, for Leprosie, and for all scabs, and scurfs, for old sores, for the falling of humors into the joynts, for shaking or trembling of any member, they aswage ache, or the swelling of any member, they are good for the gout, in the hands or feet, for the sciatica, they aswage all pains of the liver and milt, and asswage the hardnesse thereof, they scowre away freckles, and cure all kind of itches: Therefore whosoever is afflicted with any of these diseases, may (by Gods help) be perfectly cured; but it is necessary they observe these Rules following.
The Counsell of the learned Physitians is, that they should not at any time goe into any Bath to seek remedy for any sicknesse, unlesse it be such that almost the Physitians dispaire of the healing of it, then let no man enter into any Bath, unlesse his body be first very well purged, cleansed, and prepared, for he that entreth into the Bath with his body unpurged, may perhaps never returne home againe, or if he doe, he most commonly carryeth away worse diseases then he brought to the Bath with him. Neither may you enter into the Bath the same day that ye come thither, but rest and ease your body a day or two.
[Page 159]For the time of the yeare for Bathing, the most fit and proper seasons, are the moneth of May and September, but the spring is the best, and likewise for to take any manner of physicke, the best time of the morning, after the Sun be an houre high at least; and before any patient goe into the Bath, if his disease will suffer him, let him walke an houre or at the least halfe an houre, before he enter into the Bath.
But you must at no time enter into the Bath, except you have beene at stoole either by nature or art; ye may take a suppository or glister, and in great necessity pills, but he that is so purged must not enter into the Bath, for the space of fourteene houres afterwards.
If any be counselled to goe into the Bath twice on a day, he must not enter into it, till six or seven houres after dinner, and tarry not, so long in the Bath in the afternoone as you did in the mornings the common time of tarrying in the Bath, is most commonly allowed to be an hower or more or lesse, wherein respect must be had to the strength and nature of the Bath, as also to the complexion, disease and strength of the patient.
Let no man continew so long in the Bath untill he faint, but let him come out before that, if he suspect any such weaknesse.
Ye must alwayes goe into the Bath, with an empty stomach, and as long as you are in it, and
[Page 160]as long as you continew in it you must neither eat nor drinke unless great necessity require it, so that you soone in the Bath, or be in danger of sooning: as saith Gallen, fourteen
de methodo medendi, that no man should eate nor drinke untill he hath flept after Bathing.
When you come out of the Bath, cover your selfe well that you take no cold, and dry off the water from your body, with warme cloths, and go presently into a warme bed and sweat there if you can: wipe off the sweate diligently, and afterwards sleepe, but ye must not drinke any thing untill dinner time, unless ye be very faint.
And after that ye have sweat, and slept, and be sufficiently delivered, and cleared from the heat, that you had in the Bath, and afterwards in the bed, then may you walke a little before you go to dinner, for by measurable and moderate walking, the vapors and windeness that is contracted in the Bath is driven away.
If the patient cannot walke, then let his body be gently rubbed, if his disease can suffer it, after this ye may goe to dinner, wherein you may use moderation in your diet, alwayes arising from the table with an appetite; beware especially that you drinke not any cold drinke, and abstaine from all things that are cold, when ye first begin to eate, or drink, but let your meat and drink be temperately warm, least when your body is inwardly hot with
[Page 161]Bathing and sweating, the cold strike suddenly into some principall member, and hurt it.
They that are of a hot complexion and open body, ought not to tarry so long in the Bathe as they that are of a colder and faster complexion.
It is most requisite for such patients as have any disease in the head, as Catharr or Rheume, Palsies, or such like diseases, that the water be powred strongly upon the mould of the head, and upon the nape of the necke.
The clay or grounds of the Bathe is good for the dropsy, and likewise for shrunken, swelled, and hard places; which cannot be wel healed with other medicines: the manner of using it is, to lay the grounds upon the place and hold the same against the fire, untill it be somewhat harde, and then to wash it away with the water of the Bath: likewise, those that cannot tarry long at the Bath, may carry some of the water, and grounds home with them, and use it there in the like manner.
If you be rid of your disease, by the Bathing, give God the Glory, goe thy way, sin no more, least a worse thing come unto thee: but if you bee not healed the first time, patiently waite upon God by prayer, and holy life, untill the next opportunity of using the meanes, and then if it conduce to Gods glory, and thy good, thou shalt assuredly bee healed, by the Grace of God, of whom commeth all health of soule and body.
[Page 162]But some, and two many, if the medicine or direction of the physition doe not forthwith answer their expectation, will most impatient, and wickedly, exclaime against and abuse the Physitian, and the medicine both, as if they were to appoint God a time when they shall be healed, and limit the holy one of Israell, but
nolens voleus, they must stay the Lords leisure; and let such as have beene at the Bath, observe the same diet they did when they were there, for the space of a moneth, at least, abstayning from Carnall use of women, and if God please they shall have their desire; for,
Is solus est qui dat salutem &c. To him give the praise, to whom be ascribed, all Praise and Glory, for evermore,
in seculae seculorum. Amen.