Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: OR THE London Dispensatory
Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, now living of the said COLLEDG.
Whereunto is added,
1. The Vertues, Qualities, and Properties of every Simple.
2. The Vertues and Use of the Compounds.
3. Cautions in giving all Medicines that are dangerous.
4. All the Medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensatory, and are left out in the New Latin one, are printed in this fourth Impression in English with their Vertues.
5. A Key to Galen's Method of Physick, containing thirty three Chapters.
6. What is added to the Book by the Translator, is of a different Letter from that which was made by the Colledg.
By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology; living in Spittle-fields neer London.
Scire potestates Herbarum, usumque medendi Maluit, & mutas agitare (inglorius) artes.Virgil.
LONDON:
Printed for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange. 1653.
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: OR THE London Dispensatory
Further adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, now living of the said COLLEDG.
Wherein you may find,
1. The Vertues, Qualities, and Properties of every Simple.
2. The Vertues and Use of the Compounds.
3. Cautions in giving all Medicines that are dangerous.
4. All the Medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensatory, and are left out in the New Latin one, are printed in this fourth Impression in English with their Vertues.
5. A Key to Galen's Method of Physick, containing thirty three Chapters.
6. What is added to the Book by the Translator, is of a different Letter from that which was made by the Colledg.
7. In this Impression the Latin name of every one of the Compounds is printed, and in what page of the New Folio Latin Book they are to be found.
By Nich. Culpeper Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology; living in Spittle-fields neer London.
Scire potestates Herbarum, usumque medendi Maluit, & mutas agitare (inglorius) artes.Virgil.
LONDON:
Printed for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange. 1653.
LET it not seem strange in so Solemn a Business, in which no less than the Preservation of Life, Health, and by consequence Wel-being of all the poor People in this Nation is concerned; in so weighty a business, contrary to all Presidents in this Nation, which is now Heart-sick of Ignorance, and cries out aloud for cure; in so Populous a City, and so full of Criticks, before so many Ancient Physitians who might have done the Work better than I, had they not wanted will; neither could they have wanted that, had they not wanted real Love to this Nation: in such times (I say) in such a place, and before such People, for me whose years are few, whose Exercise in the Physical Sphere small, (my greatest Studies being spent about Natural Phylosophy) whose Judgment slender to venture upon this so great a Work as to attempt to rectifie the Judgments of a whol Colledg, (which is indeed no less needful than great) may seem to some perhaps, great Arrogancy and Presumption, to others no smal insolency and want of discretion: Notwithstanding, the Glory of God being my Aim, and the good of this languishing Nation my End (I do not call the Nation languishing in respect of Government, but in respect of Knowledg, as for the Government of this Nation, God knows what he hath to do, and I hope well) which I say languisheth so sorely under a Disease which now turned Epidemical and rages so extreamly that it sweeps away millions in a year, leaving many woful Widdows, and Fatherless Children to the protection of those whose mercies are cruelty, and that is Ignorance in Physick, or want of Knowledg of what may do them good; the Cure of this Disease cannot be performed neither by Aurum potabile, nor the Phylosophers Stone, but by the real indeavors of a Publick Spirit by the Fear of God, and Love to poor People, by laboring to discharge a good Conscience, by instructing People what belongs to their Health; this I assure you was the reason that moved me to adventure into the Stage of
the World in this Nature, and not any sinister ends of my own whatsoever, for it is not unknown to your Worship that I have incurred many Enemies by my writing, though I do good, and but my duty; yet I shall ever chuse rather to satisfie the Godly minds of real Common-wealthsmen, in revealing to them what belongs to the Preservation of their Lives, and the helping of their poor Neighbors, than either wrong my own Conscience, or rob the whol Nation of what I may and ought to reveal to them: I confess I have chiefly been reviled of those to whom I have done good, who have received their greatest Knowledg of Physick by my Writings; I can pity them, but do not wonder a whit at it; it hath been so even in the dayes of old, when Christ and his Apostles lived upon Earth, they cast out Devils, they cured their Diseases, they made the Blind to see, and the Lame to go, for which of all these good Deeds were they persecuted? doubtless it was done by that Monster Envy wch rules in the children of Disobedience, who having joyned to himself Pride, and Self-interest labors to surpress whatsoever is well done; but as I have fellowship with Christ and his Apostles in their Sufferings, so I look to have fellowship with them in that Glory into which no Proud, nor Envious, nor Self-seeking man shall enter. I can freely (as I hitherto have done) yet continue doing them good, as being perswaded that by so doing, I am the more like unto God, who causeth the Sun to shine upon the good and the bad, and the Rain to fall upon the just and the unjust; following that Rule which is so often repeated in holy Writ, If thy Enemy hunger give him meat, if he be athirst give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Worthy Sir, This Child of mine coming out the fourth time into the World, and wanting Defence, as most Truths do, cried aloud for a Patron which made me so bold as to present it at your feet; rather I wil assure you, to take a Pattern of your Patience than any waies to make a purchase of my own praise, that so in despight of Cavaliers it may be called the God-child of a Peerless God-father. You must not expect large incomiums of praise from him whose words & actions you know alwaies to be so plain, nor an Epistle stuffed as full of Flattery as an Egg is full of meat, which I hate to give, and you to receive, and God hates it in whomsoever he finds it; it is sufficient to you, and infinite joy to me, that your Works declare to the World what you are, even in these times when rich Pluto is accounted a better Phylosopher than learned Plato, when Godliness is not accounted great Gain, as it was in better times than now are, but Gain is accounted great Godliness. I had Reasons enough to make me bold to dedicate it to you, as namely, That Ingenuity of your Spirit, your excellent Endeavors for the publick Good, that admirable Constancy which Honor it self could not choak; so that your Splendor (like other Justices in Office with you) has not gone out like a Candle, and left a stinking snuff behind, though it hath pleased God to place you in Authority in such an Age, that calleth Vertue Vice, and Vice Vertue, that calleth Good, Evil, and Evil, Good, that strike at the Devil, and hit Christ in his Saints: To whom rather (these things considered) should I dedicate these my weak Labors, than to your self, to whom God
hath given the Knowledg to discern Vertue from Vice, to love the one and hate the other, according to that excellent Speech of Plato, Oh Knowledg, how would men love thee if they did but know thee, for as Health is the Conservation of the Body, so is Knowledg the Conservation of the Mind, which is too too much absconded (the more is the pity) from the eyes of this languishing Nation, and calls aloud for a Cure, for as Plato saith in another place, If Vertue could take upon her a bodily shape, she would be so beautiful as men would be in love with her; also if Vice could take upon her a Bodily shape, she would be such an ugly beast all men would loath and disdain her, for if Drunkards have so many Apish and beastly postures, what would Drunkenness it self have, which is the Author of them all, if that could appear in a visible form? This I know you are well versed in; the love of a Real Common-wealth may be read in you even through a pair of Spectacles glassed with an inch board: this was another argument moving me to dedicate this Book to you, which tends towards the furtherance of a Common-wealth, and the pulling down a Monopoly extreamly prejudicial, yet scarce discernable.
I must be brief, because it is brevity you delight in, therefore to use many words I account it needless; your kind acceptance of this Book, I shall account such a favor as is never to be forgotten: The God of Heaven and Earth which hath hitherto preserved your Body in so many dangers and difficulties which you have passed, and your Spirit pure in these back-sliding Times, still be your Guide, and preserve your Spirit, Soul, and Body untill the time of your Change shall come, and present you blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom God hath loved you, and washed you from your sins in his Blood.
So praies, Sir
Your Worships most humble Servant NICH. CULPEPER.
THose things which God did make first in the Beginning without means, He now preserveth by Means, and therefore He hath placed Nature in the World which by Motion acts in all things, according to the quality of the thing acted upon, as Fire acts upon Wood to make a fire to warm one by, or the like; therefore as the Cause of Diseases is to be understood to be Natural, so is their Cures also to be effected in a Natural way; and if you do but consider the whol Universe as one united Body, and Man an Epitomy of this Body, it will seem strange to none but Mad-men and Fools that the Stars should have influence upon the Body of Man, considering he being an Epitomy of the Creation, must needs have a Celestial World within himself; for to wind the strings a little higher, If there be a Trinity in the Deity (which is denied, but by none but Ranters) then must there be a Trinity also in all his Works, if there be a Unity in the God-head, there must needs be a Unity in all his Works, and a dependancy between them, and not that God made the Creation to hang together like Ropes of Sand, so God made but one world, and yet in this one World a Trinity, first Elementary, which is lowest; Secondly, Celestial, which is next above that; Thirdly, Intellectual, which is highest in degree, and happy, yea thrice happy is he that attains to it; if then Man be capable of the Intellectual World as having an Epitomy of that in himself, whereby he knows that there is a God, and that God made this World, and Governeth it now he hath made it, that there are Angels, and that he bath an immortal Spirit in himself which causeth him to hope and expect immortality; If he have an Epitomy of the Elementary World in himself, whereby he searcheth and seeks after the Vertues of Elementary Bodies, and the various mixtures of Natural things, their Causes, Effects, Times, Fashions, Events, and how they are produced by the Elements, must he not also by the same rule have an Epitomy of the Celestial World within himself, by which he searcheth out the Motion and Course of the Celestial Bodies, and what their influence is upon the Elements, and Elementary Bodies; he that denies this, let him also deny that the whol world was made for man, that so the world may see what he is; it is palpable to those that fear God, and are conversant either in his Word or in his Works, that every inferior world is Governed by its superior, and receives influence from it. God Himself the only First-being, the Maker and Disposer of all things, Governs the Celestial World by the Intellectual, namely, the Angels; He governs the Elementary World, and all Elementary Bodies, by the Celestial World, namely, the Stars; and that's the reason the influence' of the Stars reacheth not to the Mind or Rational part of Man, because it is an Epitomy of the Intellectual world which is a superior to them: but because there is now some Dispute about it (I should have said Cavelling) by such as would fain have their own Knaveries hidden, and therfore they would fain have the Stars made to stop Bottles, or else for the Angels to play at bowls with when they had nothing else to do, but not rule the Elementary world, no, by no means: We shall prove they rule over the Elementary world, first by Scripture, secondly by Reason.
First, by Scripture: I beseech you read in the first place, Genesis 1. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. verses, And God said, let there be lights in the Firmament of the Heaven, to divide the Day from the Night: and let them be for SIGNS, and for SEASONS, and for DAIES and YEARS. And let them be for Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to give light upon Earth: and it was so. And God made two great Lights, the greater light to RULE the day, the lesser Light to RULE the night, He made the Stars also. And set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to give light upon Earth. And to RULE over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from darkness. To this place also answers that in the 136. Psalm, He made the Sun to RULE by day, and the Moon and Stars to RULE by night. In these Scriptures God saith He made them to Rule, He set them for Signs, therefore they must signifie something, He set them also for Seasons, for Daies, and for Years: the Scriptures are so cleer, they need no Exposition.
But let us see a little what Reason saith to the business: It is palbable and apparant that all Elementary Bodies never stand at a stay, but are ever either increasing or decreasing: It is as apparant that the Celestial Bodies are not changed, but remain the very same they were at the first Creation; and if so, the Elementary
Bodies must needs be by Nature Passive, because they are subject to change, and the Celestial Bodies active because they change not; as a Carpenter when he hews a Timber-log, the Timber-log must needs change form according as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hewed, but the Carpenter himself changeth not.
Secondly, Consider that all Time is measured out by Motion, and that the Original of all Motion is in the Heavens, for it is the motion of the Sun which causeth day and night, Summer, Winter, Spring, and Harvest, from which Conversion of Times and Years all changes proceed, both Heat and Cold, Dryness and Moisture, by which four is caused Life and Death, Generation and Putrifaction, increase and decrease of Elementary things, for the Elementary world is the womb of all Elementary Creatures, both Animals, Minerals, and Vegetables, it conceives them, and nourisheth and cherisheth them being conceived: this womb is alwaies full of useful Matter, fit for the forming, increasing, and conserving Bodies, whether Animal, Mineral, or Vegetable; the Sun gives a vital seed, and stirs up all to motion and action, quickens, and defends what it hath quickned; the Moon subministers moisture to preserve what the Sun hath Generated from the scorching heat which is caused by motion: both Sun and Moon make use of the other five Planets (even as the Heart and Brain make use of the Liver, Spleen, Gall, &c. in the Body of Man) for the effecting and varying things below, and tempering them diverse waies according to their several motions, else all the things generated in the Elementary World would be of one Nature and Quality, and then the world could not subsist; for Man having all qualities in him, cannot subsist without any one of them: He, and he only is a Physitian that knows which of these qualities offends, by which of the Celestial Bodies it is caused, and how safely and speedily to remedy it; all the the rest that practice Physick are but Mountebanks, for there is no question to be made, but that all Diseases have their original from super-aboundance or deficiency of Heat, Coldness, Dryness or Moisture; and that the Elements barely from themselves can cause this, is an opinion more fitting for a Hog-herd than a Phylosopher, for whatsoever is begotten must have a matter to be begotten of, as well as something to beget it, and this matter must be proper to receive form, for man cannot make a Timber-log of a Turf, nor a Book of an Egg-shel, therefore this Matter must naturally be affected to suffer whatsoever form the Author pleaseth to give it: the Author of every Generation must be altogether active, not subject to any adverse principles, that so he may not run out of one thing into another before he hath finished, and this is proper to the Sun, Moon, and Stars: this will be denied by none that have lived a Rational Man but one Summer and one Winter, and felt a difference of heat and coldness, driuess and moisture, caused by the neerness and remoatness of the Sun, and seen the difference of springing, increasing and decaying of things upon Earth in those times, for when we see the Load-stone draws Iron, it shews plainly that Nature hath given it efficacy so to do; so when we see these things done by the Heavens, we must needs think Nature hath given the Heavens power to do so, and seeing those Qualities, Heat, Coldness, Dryness, and Moisture, are contrary the one to the other, of necessity sometimes the one must yeeld, and sometimes the other, and thence comes the Procreation, Corruption, and Vicissitude of things below; and seeing all likes rejoyce in their likes, and disagree with their dislikes, there must needs be something in the Heavens agreeable to all this, therefore some part of the Heavens is said to be Hot, some Cold, some Dry, and some moist, not because they are so in themselves, but because they work such effects in Elementary Bodies, as is evident to the experience of them that search after it.
We have now shewed you what a Physitian ought to be in respect of Knowledg in the Celestial World: I shall only now show you in a word or two what knowledg he ought to have in the Elementary and Intellectual worlds, and that very briefly, and so conclude.
As in the Celestial world he ought very carefully to heed the oppositions and great conjunctions of the Planets, the Eclipses of the Luminaries, the Quarterly ingresses of the Sun and the Crisis of Diseases, so in the Elementary world he ought to heed the Seasons of the Year, whether they be hotter, colder, dryer, moister than they should be; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ought to be very well skilled in Vegetables and Minerals and how the Earth brings them forth, what is the Office of the Central Sun, and what is the office of the Celestial Sun, what is the office of the Central Moon, and what the office of the Celestial Moon in the production of things here below, and how, and by what Mediums they perform it.
Lastly, In the Intellectual World, he ought to be very frequent, fearing God, and eschewing evil, for into his hands as the means, hath the eternal God of Heaven and Earth put the lives of those Christians whom, he loved so well that he redeemed them by the Blood of his only begotten Son: Let him be very studious in those great Books of God, the Book of the Scripture, and the Book of the Creatures, let the Glory of God, and the Good of the Creature be his whol Aim, neither let such a Monster as Covetousness have the least entertainment in his heart; let him be no respecter of Persons, but go as willingly to the Poor for nothing, as to the Rich for a reward, Knowing, That he that giveth to the Poor, lendeth to the Lord, and he shall be sure to have a good Pay-master. To conclude, In all his practices let him consider what he would have another do to him if he were in like case, and do the like to them: and to them that follow this Rule, Peace shall be upon them, as upon the Israel of God.
Ita dixit Nich. Culpeper.
4 The ENGLISH PHYSITIAN; being an AstrologoPhysical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is shewed how to cure a mans self of most Diseases incident to mans Body, with such things as grown in England, and for three-pence charge.
Also in the same Book is shewed, 1. The time of gathering all Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically. 2. The way of drying and keeping them and their Juyces. 3. The way of making and keeping all manner of useful Compounds, made of those Herbs. 4. The way of mixing the Medicines according to Cause, and mixture of the Disease, and the part of the Body afflicted.
THe most usual Measures [amongst us] (quoth the Colledg) are these:
A Spoon which in Syrups holds half an ounce, in distilled Waters three drachms.
A Taster which holds an ounce and an half.
A Congie which (in their former Dispensatory held nine pound, now) holds but eight pound; viz. just a Gallon: To miss but one Pint in a Gallon is nothing with a Colledg of Physitians, such Physitians as our times afford. The reason I suppose is, Because most Nations differ in the quantity of their Measures, and they quoted their Congius from one Nation before, and from another now; for indeed their Dispensatory is borrowed a great part of it from Arabia, part from Greece, some from France, some from Spain, and some from Italy, and now they vapor with it. Oh brave! should a man that borrowed his Cloathes from so many Broakers in Long-lane be proud of them?
Besides these, they have gotten another antick way of MENSURATION which they have not set down here, viz. By Handfuls and Pugils. An Handful is as much as you can gripe in one Hand; and a Pugil as much as you can take up with your Thumb and two Fingers; and how much that is who can tell? Intruth this way of Mensuration is as certain as the Weather-cock, and as various as mens Fingers are in length, and the things taken up in driness or form; for an Handsul of green Herbs will not be half an Handsul or not above when they are dry: and your mother-wit will teach you that you may take up more Hay in this manner than Bran, and more Bran than Sand. And thus much for their Weights, and also for their Measures: both rediculous and contradictive.
TWenty Grains do make a Scruple. Three Scruples make a drachm (commonly called a dram) Right Drachms make an Ounce. Twelve Ounces make a Pound.
As for the Colledges Measures I know not well what English Names to give them. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 holds in Syrups half an Ounce; in distilled Waters three Drachms. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 holds an ounce and an half. Hemina (which also they call Cotyla) contains nine Ounces. Libra holds twelve Ounces. A Sextary contains eighteen Ounces. A Congie six Sextaties.
These Measures amongst the Romans contained not just the same quantities; for their Cyathus contained an ounce and an half, a drachm and a scruple. Their Sextary contained but fourteen ounces, three 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and half a quarter; and among the Gracians not so much: It is called a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 because it is the sixt part of a Congie. Neither did the Roman Hemina contain altogether seven ounces and an half. Their Libra I suppose to be that which Galen calls 〈◊〉〈◊〉, viz. A Vessel to measure with; it was made of cleer Horn, and by certain lines drawn round it like rings, was divided into twelve equal parts, each part containing an ounce.
ALthough I did what I could throughout the whol Book to express my self in such a language as might be understood by all, and therefore avoided terms of Art as much as might be, (it being the task of the Colledg to write only to the Learned and the Nurslings of Apollo, but of my Self to do my Country good; which is the Center all my Lines tend to, and I destre should terminate in) Yet,
1. Some words must of necessity fall in, which need explanation.
2. It would be very tedious at the end of every Receipt to repeat over and over again, the way of administration of the Receipt, or ordering your Bodies after it, or to instruct you in the mixture of Medicines, and indeed would do nothing else but stuff the Book full of 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
To answer to both these is my task at this time.
To the first:
The words which need explaining, such as are obvious to my Eye are these that follow.
The seat of all these is in the Brain.
The Vital Spirits proceedeth from the Heart, and causeth in Man Mirth, Joy, Hope, Trust, Humanity, Mildness, Courage, &c. and their opposites: Viz. Sadness, Fear, Care, Sorrow, Despair, Envy, Hatred, Stubbornness, Revenge, &c. by heat Natural or not Natural.
The Natural Spirit nourisheth the Body 〈◊〉〈◊〉 (as the Vital quickens it, and the Animal gives it Sence and Motion) Its office is to alter or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Food into Chyle, Chyle into Blood, Blood into Flesh, to Form, Engender, Nourish, and Increase the Body.
As for the manner of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or ordering the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 any sweating, or purging Medicines, or Pills, or the like, the Table at the latter end of the Vertues of the Medicines will direct you to what Pages you may find them in, look but the word [Rules] there. As also in the next Page.
The different forms of making up Medicines, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈…〉〈…〉 People, that so Medicines might be more delightfull, or at least less burdensom: in such a case, the Table of Vertues at the latter end will universally furnish you with the generality of both Simples and Compounds apropriated to the Disease. You may make the mixtures of them in what form you please; only for your better instruction at present, accept of these few Rules:
Lastly, Take sweating Medicines when you are in bed, covered warm, and in the time of your sweating drink Posset-drink as hot as you can drink it; if you sweat for a Feaver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in your Posset-drink, sweat an hour or longer if your strength will permit, then (the chamber being kept very warm) shift your self all but your Head, about which (the Cap which you sweat in being still kept on) wrap a Napkin very hot, to repell the vapors back.
I confess these, or many of these Directions may be found in one place of the Book or other, and I delight as little to write tautology as another, but the Printer desiring they should be put here, and I considering it might make for the publick good, inserted them; if notwithstanding any will be so mad to do themselves a mischief, the fault is not mine.
BEfore I begin the Catalogue, I thought good to premise a few words to the Reader.
1. Let him have a care he mistake not one thing for another; viz. Herbs for Roots, or either of them for Flowers: If he cast but his eye up to the top of the Page he shall there see which it is.
2. Let a due time be observed (cases of necessity excepted) in gathering all Simples; for which take these few Rules. The time to gather all roots is before the hearb run up to seed, for then they are softest, as you may see by Radishes, carrots, parsneps &c. the roots of which, you may perceive hard when they run up to seed and not because the sap is then in the root, as the vulgar hold; for if the sap rose and fell as they hold, then the root must grow in winter only, as the branches do in Summer, which experience will shew to be falce; for the root grows only in Summer, as the branches doe; you see what a wooden Docter Tradition is: Would not this make every one endevour to Study a reason for what he doeth? and see how our forefathers have been lead by the noses by Tradition. The truth is, it is the Sun is the author of life and growth to the wholl Creation, he was ordained of God for that end; when he comes on this side of the Equator, the trees spring, when he passeth to the south side of the Equator they loose their verdant color and growth also till the revolution of time bring his presence to revive them; but enough of this in this place.
Herbs are to be gathered when they are fullest of juyce which is, before thy run up to seed; and if you gather them in a hot sunshine day, they will not be so subject to putrifie: the best way to dry them, is in the Sun, according to Dr. REASON, though not according to
Dr. TRADITION: Such Herbs as remaine green all the year, or are very full of juyce, it were a folly to dry at all, but gather them only for present use, as Housleek, Scurvy-grass &c.
Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime, in a sunshine day, and dried in the sun. Let the Seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered.
3. Let them be kept in a dry place; for any moisture, though it be but a moist air, corrupts them, which if perceived in time, the beams of the Sun will refresh the hearbs and flowers and do the Sun no harm.
4. Take notice, that only the Latin Names, were quoted by the Colledg, & are to beseen at the beginning of each Simple, in a different Letter; the English Name, together with the Temperature, and Vertues, were added by the Translator for the publick good.
5. All the Latin Names to one Herb are not set down, most of which are superfluous, some ridiculons, some Idolatrous; as to attribute one Herb, to the Virgin Mary, another to St. Peter, and a third to St. Paul: Some blasphemous as to call one, the holy Ghost, another Allelujah, another, an Herb of the Trinity &c. So in the Compositions, To call an Oyntment, the Oyntment of the Apostles: to call one Plaister, Divine, another, Holy, a third, the grace of God. The Colledge might have been ashamed of it if they had ever come where shame grew: but,. 1. The Heathen they dedicated herbs and trees to their Gods. 2. the Papists they must follow their patriarks and dedicate them to their Saints; Ours having not wit enough to find out a third, (for their wits were in print before they were born) they follow the Papists as their holy Fathers as in absconding their art so in their blasphemies, see how one sin ushers in another.
ACANTHI, Brancae Ursinae. Of Bears-breech, or Brank-ursine; it is meanly hot and dry, it helps ach and numness of the joynts, and is of a binding quality, good for wounds and broken bones. Dioscorides saith, they are profitable for Ruptures, or such as are bursten, or burnt with fire, a drachm of the Root in Pouder being taken in the morning fasting, in a Decoction made with the same Root and Water.
Acori, Veri, Perigrini vulgaris, &c. See Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not, nor dare not make a long Paraphrase about the sorts of it, one of which is Water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which is hot and dry in the second degree, binds, strengthens, stops fluxes of the belly, and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, a drachm being taken in red wine every morning.
Alljum. Garlick. It is hot and dry in the fourth degree, breeds naughty and corrupt blood, yet is an enemy to all Poysons, and such as are bitten by cold venemous beasts, viz. Adders, Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urin, and expels wind.
Alcannae. Of Privet. See the Leaves.
Althaeae. Of Marshmallows: are meanly hot, of a digesting softning nature, ease pains, help bloody fluxes, the stone and gravel; being bruised and well boyled in Milk, and the Milk drunk, is a gallant Remedy for the gripings of the belly, and the Bloody flux: If a Feaver accompany the Disease, boyl a handful of common Mallow leaves with a handful of these Roots.
Angelicae. Of Angelica; is hot and dry in the third degree, strengthens the heart exceedingly, and is a singular remedy against pestilence and poyson, half a drachm taken in the morning fasting.
Anchusae. Of Alkanet; cold and dry, binding, good for old Ulcers.
Anthorae. An outlandish root, the counterpoyson for Monkshood, it is an admirable remedy for the wind-chollick, and resists poyson. They that would know more of it, let them reade Guainerius, and Solerius, both which lived neer the places where it plentifully grew.
Apii. Of Smallage. See the Barks.
Aristolochiae. Of Birthwort: of which are three sorts, long, round, and climing: All hot and dry in the third degree.
The long, being drunk in Wine, brings away* 11.1 both birth and after-birth, and whatsoever a careless Midwife hath left behind.* 11.2
The round, being drunk with Wine, helps (besides the former) stuffings of the lungues, hardness of the spleen, ruptures, convulsions; both of them resist poyson.
I never read any use of the climing Birthwort. Artanitae, Cyclaminis, &c, Of Sowbread: hot and dry in the third degree, a most violent purge, dangerous; outwardly applied to the place, it profits much in the bitings of venemous beasts, also being hung about women in labor, it causeth speedy deliverance. See the Herb.
Arundinis, Vallatoriae, & Saccharinae. Of common Reeds and sugar Reeds. The Roots of common Reeds applied to the place draw out thorns, case sprains; the ashes of them mixed with Vinegar, take scurf, or dandrif off from the head, and prevent the falling off of the hair, they are hot and dry in the second degree, according to Galen.
I would not have the Reader build too much confidence upon the degrees of temperature (or more properly intemperature) neither of this, or any other Simple, because most of them are quoted by Outlandish Authors; and out of question the difference of the climate may somthing alter their temperature in degree.
I never read any vertue of the Root of Sugar Cane.
Ari, &c. Of Cuckow-pints, or Wake-Robin, hot and dry in the third degree. I know no great good they do inwardly taken, unless to play the rogue withal, or make sport: outwardly applied, they take off Scurf, Morphew, or Freckles from the face, and cleer the skin, and case the pains of the Gout.
Asclepiadis, vincetoxici. Of Swallow-wort, hot and dry, good against poyson, and gripings of the belly, as also against the bitings of maddogs, taken inwardly.
Asari. Of Asarabacca: the Roots are a safer purge than the Leaves and not so violent, I do not much fancy any of them both, ignorant people had better let them alone than be too busie with what they have no skill in: they purge by vomit, stool, and urine, they are profitable for such as have Agues, Dropsies, stoppings of the Liver, or Spleen, green sickness.
Asparagi. Of Sparagus, or Sperage: they are temperate in quality, opening, they provoke urine, and cleanse the reins and bladder, being boyled in white wine, and the wine drunk.
Asphodeli, Hastae Regiae, foem. Of Kings spear, or foemale Asphodel. I know no physical use of the Roots, probably there is: for I do not beleeve God created any thing of no use.
Asphodeli, Albuci, maris, of male Asphodel. Hot and and dry in the second degree. Inwardly taken, they provoke vomit, urine, and the terms in women: outwardly used in Oyntments, they cause hair to grow, clense Ulcers, take away Morphew and Freckles from the face.
Bardanae &c. Of Bur, Clot-bur, or Burdock,* 11.3 temperately hot and dry. Helps such as spit blood and matter, bruised and mixed with* 11.4 salt and applied to the place, helps the bitings of mad-dogs. It expels wind, easeth pains of the teeth, strengthens the back, helps the running of the reins, and the whites in women, being taken inwardly.
Behen. alb. rub. Of Valerian, white and red. Mesue, Serapio and other Arabians say they are hot and moist, in the latter end of the first, or beginning of the second degree, and comfort the heart, stir up lust. The Graecians held them to be dry in the second degree, that they stop fluxes, and provoke urine.
Bellidjs. Of Dacies. See the Leaves.
Betae, nigrae, albae, rubrae. Of Beets, black, white, and red; as for black Beets I have nothing to say, I doubt they are as rare as black Swans. The red Beet root boyled and preserved in Vinegar, makes a fine cool, pleasing, clensing, digesting sawce. See the Leaves.
Bistortae &c. Of Bistort, or Snakeweed, cold and dry in the third degree, binding, the quantity of half a dram at a time taken inwardly, resist pestilence and poyson, helps ruptures, and bruises, staies fluxes, vomiting, and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflamations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boyled in white Wine and the mouth washed with it.
Borraginis. Of Borrage, hot and moist in* 11.5 the first degree, cheers the heart, helps drooping spirits.
Brionae &c. Of Briony both white and black, they are both hot and dry, some say in the third degree, and some say, but in the first: they purge flegm and watry humors, but they trouble the stomach much, they are very good for dropsies; the white is most in use, and is admirable good for the fits of the Mother; both of them externally used, take away Freckles, Sunburning and Morphew from the face, and clense filthy Ulcers: It is but a churlish purge, but being let alone, can do no harm.
Buglossi. Of Bugloss: Its vertues are the same with Borrage, and the Roots of either seldom used.
Bulbus Vomitorius. A vomiting Root: I never read of it elsewhere by this general name.
Calami Aromatici. Of Aromatical Reed, or sweet garden flag: It provokes Urine, strengthens the lungues, helps bruises, resists poyson, &c. being taken inwardly in pouder, the quantity of half a drachm at a time. In beating of it be very speedy, for the strength will quickly fly out. You may mix it with Syrup of Violets, if your body be feaverish.
Capparum. Of Cappar Roots. Are hot and dry in the second degree, cutting and clensing; they provoke the Terms, help malignant Ulcers, case the Toothach, asswage Swellings, and help the Rickets. See Oyl of Cappers.
Cariophillatae &c. Of Avens, or Herb Bennet. The Roots are dry, and somthing hot, of a cleansing quality, they keep garments from being moth-eaten. See the Leaves.
Caulium. Of Coleworts. I know nothing
the Roots are good for, but only to bear the the herbs and flowers.
Centaurij Majoris. Of Centaury the greater. The Roots help such as are bursten, such as spit blood, shrinking of sinews, shortness of wind, Coughs, Convulsions, Cramps: half a drachm in pouder being taken inwardly, either in Muschadel, or in a Decoction of the same Roots. They are either not at all, or very scarce in England, our Centaury is the smal Centaury.
Cepae. Of Onions. Are hot and dry (according to Galen) in the fourth degree: they cause driness, and are extreamly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for cholerick people, they breed but little nourishment, and that little is naught; they are bad meat, yet good Physick for flegmatick people, they are opening, and provoke Urine, and the terms, if cold be the cause obstructing; bruised and outwardly applied, they cure the bitings of mad dods; rosted and applied, they help Boils, and Aposthumes; raw, they take the fire out of burnings; but ordinarily eaten, they cause headach, spoil the sight, dull the sences, and fill the body full of wind.
Chameleontis albi nigri &c. Of Chameleon white and black. Tragus calleth the Carline Thistle by the name of white Chameleon, the root whereof is hot in the second degree, and dry in the third; it provokes sweat, kils worms, resists pestilence and poyson, it is given with success in pestilential feavers, helps the toothach, by being chewed in the mouth, opens the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, it provokes urine, and brings down the terms: give but little of it at a time, by reason of its heat. As for the black Chemeleon, All Physicians hold it to have a kind of venemous quality, and unfit to be used inwardly, both Galen, Clusius, Nicander, Dioscorides, and Aegineta. Outwardly in Oyntments, it is profitable for Scabs, Morphew, Tetters, &c. and all things that need clensing.
Chelidonij, majoris, minoris. Of Celondine, the greater and lesser: The greater is that which we usually call Celondine: The Root is manifestly hot and dry, clensing and scouring, proper for such as have the yellow Jaundice, it opens obstructions of the Liver; being boyled in white Wine, and the Decoction drunk; and if chewed in the mouth it helps the tooth-ach.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewort, which though Galen, and Dioscorides teach to be hot in the fourth degree, and might happily be so in those Countries where they lived, yet with us it scarce exceeds the first degree, the Juyce of the root mixed with Honey and snuffed up into the nose, purgeth the Head, helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles being bathed with it, as also doth the root only carried about one, being made into an Oyntment helps the* 11.6 disease in the neck commonly called the Kings Evil.
China, wonderfully extenuateth and drieth, provoketh sweat, resisteth putrefaction, it strengthens the Liver, helps the Dropsie and malignant Ulcers, Leprosie, Itch, and French-pocks, and is profitable in Diseases coming of fasting. It is commonly used in diet drinks for the premises.
Cichoris. Of Succory; cools and dries in the second degree, strengthens the Liver and Veins, it opens obstructions, stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk.
Colchici. Of Meadow-Saffron. The Roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach, therefore I let them alone.
Consolidae, majoris, minoris. Consolida major, is that which we ordinarily call Comfry; it is of a cold quality, yet pretty temperate, of such a gluttenous quality that according to Dioscorides they will joyn meat together that is cut in sunder, if they be boyled with it; it is excellent for all wounds, both internal and external, for spitting of blood, Ruptures or Burstness, pains in the back, it strengthens the Reins, it stops the Terms, and helpeth Hemorrholds. The way to use them is to boyl them in water and drink the Decoction.
Consolida minor, is that we call Self-heal, and the Latins Prunella. See the Herb.
Costi utriusque. Of Costus both sorts, being Roots coming from beyond Sea, hot and dry, break wind, being boyld in Oyl, it is held to help the Gout by anointing the grieved place with it.
Cucumeris agrestis. Of wild Cucumer Roots, or Cowcumber as the vulgar call them; they purge flegm, and that with such violence, that I would advise the Country man that knows not how to correct them, to let them alone.
Cinarae &c. Of Artichokes. The Root purgeth by Urin, whereby the rank savor of the body is much amended.
Cynoglossae &c. Of Houndstong. Cold and dry: being roasted and laid to the fundament, helps the Hemorrhoids, is also good against burnings and Scaldings.
Curcumae. Of Turmerick, hot, in the third degree, opens obstructions, is profitable against the yellow Jaundice, and cold distempers of the Liver and Spleen, half a drachm being taken at night going to bed in the pulp of a rosted Apple, and if you ad a little Saffron to it, it will be the better by far.
Cyperi utriusque, longi, rotundi. Of Cyperus grass, or English Galanga, both sorts, long and round; is of a warming nature, provokes urine, breaks the Stone, provokes the Terms; the Ashes of them (being burnt) is used for Ulcers in the mouth, Cankers, &c.
Dauci. Of Carrots. Are moderately hot and moist, breed but little nourishment, and it extream windy; I omit what vertues Galen writes of them, as being confident there was such a difference between them, that our Carrots will never answer those effects, or if any do, 'tis the wild kind.
Dentaria majoris &c. Of Tooth-wort, toothed Violets, or Coral-wort; they are drying, binding, and strengthening; are good to ease
pains in the sides and bowels; also being boyled, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is said to be good to wash green Wounds and Ulcers with.
Dictamni. Of Dittany: is hot and dry in the third degree, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 travail in women, provokes the Terms. (See the Leaves.)
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Of Doronicum, a supposed kind of Wolf-bane: I am of opinion that Serapio and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and other Arabian Physitians did not intend that Root we now use for Doronicum when they wrote so much against it, I shall adhear to the judgment of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which is verified by dayly experience; It is hot and dry in the third degree, strengthens the heart, is a soveraign cordial, and preservative against the Pestilence; It helps the Vertigo or swimming of the head, is admirable against the bitings of Venemous beasts, and such as have taken too much Opium, as also for Lethargies, the Juyce helps hot 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the eyes; a scruple of the Root in pouder is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to take at one time.
〈◊〉〈◊〉, Dracunculi. Diverse Authors attribute 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 to this name, it is most probable* 11.7 to me that they mean Dragons, the Roots* 11.8 of which cleanse mightily, and take away proud, or dead flesh, the very smell of them is hurtful for women with Child, outwardly in Oyntments, they take away Scurf, Morphew, and Sunburning; I would not wish any unless very well read in Physick, to take them inwardly.
Ebuli. Of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Elder, Walwort, or Danewort; hot and dry in the third degree; the Roots are as gallant a purge for the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as any is under the Sun, which besides the Authority of the Ancient, was often proved by the never dying Dr. Butler of Cambridg, as my self have it in a Manuscript of his. You may take a drachm or two drachms (if the Patient be strong) in white Wine at a tim.
Echij. Of Vipers Bugloss, or Wild Bugloss: I warrant you if Authors had not differed about this herb, the Colledg would have set down five or six names to have explained their meaning, as they usually do where they need not: I have set down the most usual name, and alwaies quote the vertues to what I set down: They say the root of this being carried in ones hand, no venemous beast will bite him, (and so they say of Dragons which I forgot before) so that you may walk without danger amongst Adders, Vipers, and Serpents; (but I beleeve you had best have a care you do not tread upon them): this root is cold and dry, good for such as are bitten by venemous beasts, either being boiled in Wine and drunk, or bruised and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the place; being also boiled in Wine and drunk, it encreaseth milk in Nurses.
Ellebori, Veratri, albi, nigri. Of Hellebore, white and black. The root of white Hellebore, or Sneezwort, being grated and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 up the nose, causeth Sneezing, kills Rats, and Mice, being mixed with their meat: it is but a scurvy, churlish Medicine; being taken inwardly, and therefore better let alone than used; and yet Dr. Bright commends it for such as are mad through Melancholly. Others are of opinion such harsh Medicines are not convenient for so sullen an humor, and of that opinion am I my self: If you will use it, for sneezing, let your head and neck be wrapped hot for fear of carching cold.
Black Hellebore, Bears-foot, or Christmas flower; both this and the former are hot and dry in the third degree. This is nothing so violent nor dangerous as the former, Both Galen, and Julius Alexandrinus, report the roots of this boiled in Vineger to be an admirable remedy against inveterate Scabs, Itch and Leprosie, the same helps the Tooth-ach, being held in the mouth, and dropped into the ears, help deafness coming of Melancholly, and noise in the ears; a 11.9 corrected with a little Cionamon (in pouder) it purgeth Melancholly, resisteth Madness. Also Pliny, Absyrtus, and Columella, affirm that a piece of root put into a hole made in the ear of a beast troubled with the Cough, or that hath taken any poyson, and drawn quite through next day about that time, helpeth them: out of question it is a special thing to rowel Cattel withall.
Enulae Campanae, Helenij. Of Elecampane. Is hot and dry in the third degree, wholsom for the stomach, resists poyson, helps old Coughs and shortness of breath, helps Ruptures and provokes lust: in Oyntments, it is good against Scabs and Itch.
Endiviae &c. Of Endive. Garden Endive which is the root here specified, is held to be somewhat colder, though not so dry and cleansing as that which is wild, it cools hot stomachs, hot livers, amends the blood corrupted by heat, and therefore must needs be good in Feavers; it cools the Reins, and therefore prevents the Stone, it opens obstructions and provokes Urine, you may bruise the root and boyl it in white wine, 'tis very harmless.
Eringij. Of Eringo, or Sea-holy: the roots are moderately hot, something drying and clensing, bruised and applied to the place, they help the Scrophula, or diseace in the throat called the Kings Evil, they break the Stone, encrease seed, stir up lust, provoke the Terms &c.
Esulae, majoris, minoris. Of Spurge the greater and lesser; they are both (taken inwardly) too violent for a vulgar use; outwardly in Oyntments they clense the Skin, and take away sunburning.
Filicis &c. Fearn, of which are two grand distinctions, viz. male and foemale; I suppose they intend the male here, because they adjoyn some other names to it, which the Greeks attributed only to the male, the foemale is that which we in Sussex call Brakes; both of them are hot and dry, and exellent good for the Rickets in children, and diseases of the Spleen, but dangerous for women with child.
Filipendulae. Of Dropwort, The roots are hot and dry in the third degree, opening, clensing, yet somewhat binding, they provoke Urine, case pains in the bladder, and are a good
preservative against the Falling sickness.
Foeniculi. Of Fennl: The root is hot and dry, some say in the third degree, opening; it provokes Urine, and the Terms, strengthens the Liver, and is good against the dropsie.
Fraxini. Of Ash-tree. I know no great vertues in Physick of the roots.
Galangae, majoris, minoris. Galanga commonly called Galingal, the greater and lesser: They are hot and dry in the third 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and the lesser are accounted the hotter, it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and takes away the pains thereof coming of cold or wind, the smel* 11.10 of it strengthens the brain, it releeves saint hearts, takes away windiness of the womb, heats the Reins, and provokes lust: you may take half a drachm at a time.
Gentianae, Of Gentian, called so from* 11.11 his name that first found it out, some call it Felwort, and Baldmoney. It is hot, clenssng, and scouring, a notable counterpoyson, it opens obstructions, helps the bitings of venemous beasts, and mad dogs, helps digestion, and clenseth the body of raw humors; our Chyrurgians use the root in form of a tent, to open the sore, they are also very profitable for Ruptures, or such as are burst,
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Of Liquoris; the best that is grows in England: it is hot and moist in temperature, helps the roughness of the Windpipe, Hoarsness, diseases in the Kidnies, and Bladder, and ulcers in the Bladder, (which in my opinion is a very difficult thing to cure, although curable) it concocts raw humors in the stomach, helps difficulty of breathing, is profitable for all salt humors; the root dried and beaten into pouder and the pouder put into the eye, is a special remedy for a Pin and a Web.
Graminis. Of Grass, such as in London they call Couch-Grass, and Squitch-grass, in Sussex Dog-Grass. It gallantly provokes Urine, and easeth the Kidnies 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with Gravel, gripings of the belly, and difficulty of Urine. Let* 11.12 such as are troubled with these Diseases, drink* 11.13 a draught of white Wine, wherein these Roots (being bruised) have been boyled for their mornings draught; if they find ease, let them thank God, if not, let them blame me. Bruised and applied to the place, they speedily help green Wounds.
Hermodactyli. Of Hermodactils. They are hot and dry, purge flegm, especially from the joynts, therefore are good for Gouts, and other Diseases in the Joynts. Their vices are corrected with long Pepper, Ginger, Cinnamon, or Mastich: I would not have unskilful people too busie with Purges.
Hyacinthi. Of Jacinths: The Roots are dry in the first degree, and cold in the second; they stop loosness, bind the belly.
Iridis, vulgaris, & Florentinae, &c. Orris, or Flower-de-luce (after the French name) both that which grows with us, and that which comes from Florence. They are hot and dry in the third degree, resist poyson, help shortness of the breath, provoke the terms; the Root being green and bruised, takes away blackness and blewness of a stroke being applied thereto.
Imperitoriae &c. Of Masterwort. The Root is hot and dry in the third degree; mitigates the rigor of agues, helps Dropsies, provokes Sweat, breaks Carbuncles, and Plague-sores being applied to them; it is very profitable being given inwardly in bruises.
Isatidis, Glasti. Of Woad. I know no great Physical vertue in the Root. See the Herb.
Labri Veneris, Dipsaci. Fullers-Thistle, Teazle. The Root being boyled in Wine till it be thick (quoth Discorides) helps by unction the clefts of the Fundament, as also takes away Warts and Wens. Galen saith, they are dry in the second degree: and I take it all Authors hold them to be cold and dry.
Lactucae. Of Lettice. I know no Physical vertue residing in the Roots.
Lauri. Of the Bay-tree. The Bark of the Root, drunk with Wine, provokes Urine, breaks the Stone, opens obstructions of the Liver and* 11.14 Spleen. But according to Dioscorides is naught for women with Child.
Lapathi acuti, Oxylapathi. Sorrel, according to Galen: but Sharp-pointed-Dock, according to Dioscorides: But which the Colledg intends, I know not. The Roots of Sorrel are held to be profitable against the Jaundice. Of Sharppointed Dock; clense, and helps Scabs, and Itch.
Levistici, Of Lovage. They are hot and dry, and exceeding good for any diseases coming of wind.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 albi. Of white 〈◊〉〈◊〉. The Root is somthing hot and dry, helps Burnings, softens the Womb, provokes the Terms; if boyled in Wine, is given with good success in rotten Feavers, Pestilences, and all Diseases that require suppuration: (it being outwardly applied) helps Ulcers in the head, and amends the ill colour of the face.
Malvae. Of Mallows. They are cool, and digesting, resist Poyson, and help Errosions, or gnawing of the bowels, or any other part; as also Ulcers in the Bladder. See Marsh-mallows.
Mandagorae. Of Mandrakes. A Root dangerous for its coldness, being cold in the fourth 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Root is scarcy, and dangerous for the vulgar to use; therefore I leave it to those that have skill.
Mechoachanae. Of Mechoacan. It is corrected with Cinnamon, is temperate, yet drying, purgeth flegm chiefly from the head and joynts, it is good for old diseases in the head, and may safely be given even to Feaverish bodies, because of its temperature, it is also profitable against Coughs and pains in the Reins; as also against the French-Pox: the strong may take a dram at a time.
Mei &c. Spignel. The Roots are hot and dry in the second or third degree, and send up unwholsom vapors to the head; and therefore seeing God hath alootted such plentiful Remedy
for those maladies, this Root conduceth to the cure of: I pass it by with silence.
Mezerei &c. Of Spurge Olive, or Widdowwail. See the Herb, if you think it worth the seeing.
Merorum Celci. Of the Mulberry-tree. The bark of the Root is bitter, hot and dry, opens stoppings of Liver and Spleen, purgeth the belly, and kills worms, boyled in Vinegar, helps the tooth-ach.
Morsus Diaboli, Succisae &c. Devils-bit. See the Herb.
Nardi Spicae, Indicae, Celticae. Of Spiknard, Indian, and Celtique. Celtick Nard, according to Rondetitius wonderfully provokes Urine. They are both hot and dry, but I let the degree alone, till the Learned are agreed about it: The Indian also provokes Urine, and stops fluxes, helps windiness of the Stomach, resisteth the pestilence, helps gnawing pains of the Stomach, and dries up Rhewms that molest the head. The Celtick Spicknard performs the same offices though in a weaker measure.
Nenupharis, Nymphae. Of Water-Lillies. They are cold and dry, and stop lust: I never dived so deep to find any other vertue the Roots have.
Ononidis, Arrestae Bovis &c. Of Cammock, or Rest-Harrow: so called because it makes Oxen stand still when they are ploughing. The Roots are hot and dry in the third degree; it breaks the Stone, (viz. the bark of it) the Root it self, according to Pliny, helps the Fallingsickness, according to Mathiolus, helps Ruptures; you may take half a dram at a time.
Ostrutij. Masterwort: given once before under the name of Imperitoria. But I have somthing else to do than to write one thing twice as they did.
Pastinatae, Sativae, & silvestris. Garden and wild Parsnips. They are of a temperate quality, enclining something to heat: the Garden Parsnips provoke lust, and nourish as much and more too, than any Root ordinarily eaten; the Wild are more Physical, (and so are usually all Wild Plants, I could give reasons for it if I durst spend time and paper) being cutting, clensing, and opening; they resist the bitings of venemous beasts, ease pains and stitches in the sides, and are a soveraign Remedy against the Wind Chollick.
Pentaphyllis Of Cinkfoyl: Commonly called Five-leaved, or Five-fingered grass; the Root is very drying, but very moderately hot: It is admirable against all Fluxes, and stops blood flowing from any part of the body, it helps infirmities of the Liver and Lungues, helps putrified ulcers of the mouth, the Root boyled in Vinegar is good against the Shingles, and appeaseth the rage of any fretting sores. You may sasely take a drachm at a time in any convenient Liquor.
Petacitae. Of butter-bur. The Roots are hot and dry in the second degree, they are exceeding good in violent and pestilential Feavers, they provoke the Terms, expel Poyson, and kill Worms.
Peucedani, foeniculi porcini. Of Sulphurwort, Hog-fennel, or Hore-strange. It is very good applied to the navils of Children that stick out, Ruptures; held in the mouth, it is a present Remedy for the fits of the Mother; it being tataken inwardly, gives speedy deliverance to women in travail, and brings away the after-birth.
Poeoniae, maris, foemellae. Of Peony, male, and foemale. They are meanly hot, but more drying, the male is more effectual in operation than the foemale (say Authors) and yet quoth Dr. Reason, why should not the male be best for men, and the foemale for women? The Root helps women not sufficiently purged after travail, it provokes the Terms, and helps pains in the Belly, as also in the Reins and Bladder, Falling-sickness, and Convulsions in children, being either taken inwardly or hung about their necks. You may take half a drachm at a time, and less for children.
Phu, Valerinae, majoris, minoris. Valerian, or Setwal, greater and lesser. They are temperately hot, the greater provoke Urine and the Terms, helps the Strangury, staies Rhewms in the Head, and takes away the pricking pains thereof. The lesser resists Poyson, asswageth the swelling of the Cods, coming either through wind or cold, helps cold taken after sweating or labor, Wind Chollick; outwardly it draws out thorns, and cures both Wounds and Ulcers.
Pimpinellae &c. Of Burnet. It doth this good, To bring forth a gallant Physical Herb.
Plantaginis. Of Plantane. The Root is somthing dryer than the Leaf, but not so cold, it opens stoppages of the Liver, helps the Jaundice and Ulcers of the Reins and Bladder. Dioscorides affirmeth that one Root helpeth a Quotidian Ague, three a Tertain, and four a Quartan, which though our late writers hold to be fabulous, yet there may be a greater truth in it than they are aware of; yet I am as loth to make Superstition a foundation to build on as any of them, let Experience be Judg, and then we weigh not modern Jury Men. A little bit of the Root being eaten, instantly staies pains in the Head, even to admiration.
Polypodij. Of Polypodium, or Fearn of the Oak. It is a gallant, though gentle purger of Melancholly; Also in the opinion of Mesue (as famous a Physitian as ever I read for a Gallenist) it dries up superfluous Humors, takes away swellings from the hands, feet, knees, and joynts, stitches, and pains in the sides, infirmities of the Spleen, Rickets: correct it with a few Annis seeds, or Fennel seeds, or a little Ginger, and then the stomach will not loath it. Your best way of taking it, is to bruise it well, and boyl it in white Wine till half be consumed, you may put in much, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 little, according to strength of the Diseased, it works very safely. I can give no better reason why Polypodium of the Oak should be the best, unless because 'tis rarest, it draws either very little sap from the Oak, or
none at all; or if it did, the reason were as far to seek. I am of opinion, that which grows on the ground is the best to evacuate Melancholly, but it is more Sympathetical.
Poligonati, sigilli Solomonis &c. Of Solomons Seal. Let it be no dishonor to Galen nor Dioscorides that English men have found out in late daies that these Roots may safely be given inwardly; Intruth they may be excused if the difference of the climates they and we lived, and now live in, be but considered, neither I hope will my Country men blame me for following only Dr. Experience in the vertues of this Root: stamped and boyled in Wine it speedily helps (being drunk I mean, for it will not do the deed by looking upon it) all broken bones, it is of an incredible vertue that way; as also being stamped and applyed to the place it soon heals all Wounds, and quickly takes away the black and blew marks of blows, being bruised and applied to the place, and for these, I am perswaded there is not a better Medicine under the Sun (or as Copernicus and Kipler will have it above the Sun.)
Porri. Of Leeks. They say they are hot and dry in the fourth degree, they breed but ill favored nourishment at the best, they spoil the eyes, heat the body, caus troublesom sleep, and are noisom to the stomach, yet are they good for something else (than only to stick in Welchmens hats) for the juyce of them dropped into the ears, takes away the noise of them, mixed with a little Viniger and snuffed up the nose, it staies the bleeding of it; they are better of the two boiled then raw, but both waies exceeding hurtfull for Ulcers in the bladder; and so are Onions and Garlick.
Prunellorum Silvestrium. Of Slo-bush, or Slo-tree. I think the Colledge set this amongst the roots only for fashion sake, and I did it because they did.
Pyrethri Salivaris &c. Pelitory of Spain. It is hot and dry in the foutrh degree, chewed in the mouth, it draws away Rewm in the Tooth-ach; bruised and boiled in oyl, it provokes sweat by unction; inwardly taken, they say it helps Pal sies and other cold effects in the brain and nerves.
Rhapontici. Reupontick, or Reubarb of Pontus. It takes away windiness, and weakness of stomach, sighings, sobbings, spittings of blood, diseases of the Liver and Spleen, Rickets &c. if you take a dram at a time it will purge a little but bind much, and therefore fit for foul bodies that have fluxes.
Rhabarbari. Of Reubarb. It gently purgeth Choller from the stomach and liver, opens stoppings, withstands the Dropsie, Hypocondriack Melancholly, a little boyling takes away the vertue of it, and therefore it is best given by infusion only; If your body be any thing strong you may take two drams of it at a time being slised thin and steeped all night in white Wine, in the morning strain it out and drink the white Wine; it purgeth but gently, it leaves a binding quality behind it, therefore dryed a little by the fire and beaten into pouder, it is usually given in Fluxes.
Rhaphani, Domesticae & sylvestris. Of Radishes, Garden and Wild. Garden Radishes provoke Urine, break the stone, and purge by urine exceedingly, yet breed very bad blood, are offensive to the stomach, and hard of digestion, hot and dry in quality. Wild, or Horse Radishes, such as grow in ditches, are hotter and drier than the former, and more effectual in the premises.
Rhodie Rad. Rose Root, called (I suppose) by that name because of its sweetness. Stamped and applied to the head it mitigates the pains thereof, being somewhat cool in quality.
Rhabarbari Monachorum. Patience, MonksReubarb, or BastardReubarb, It also purgeth, clenseth the blood, opens obstructions of the liver.
Rubiae tinctorum. Of Maddir. In this were Galen and Dioscorides quite beside the cushion, in saying this root was opening, and clensing, when clean contrary; it is both drying and binding, yet not without some opening quality, for it helps the Yellow Jaundice, and therefore opens the obstructions of the Liver and Gall; it is given with good success to such as have had bruises by falls, stops Loosness, the Hemorrhoids, and the Terms in women.
Rusci. Of Knee-holly, or Butchers-broom, or Bruscus. They are meanly hot and dry, provoke urine, break the stone, and help such as cannot piss freely. Vse them like grass roots.
Sambuci. Of Elder. I know no wonders the root will do.
Sarsae-Parigliae, Of Sarsa-Parilla, or bindweed; somewhat hot and dry, helpful against pains in the head, and joynts, they provoke sweat, and are used familiarly in drying Diet drinks.
Satyrij utriusque. Of Satyrion, each sort. They are hot and moist in temper, provoke lust, and encrease seed; each branch beareth two roots, both spongy, yet the one more solid than the other, which is of most vertue, and indeed only to be used, for some say the most spongy root is quite contrary in operation to the other, as the one increaseth, the other decreaseth; yet if in your eye they contend for dignities, put them both in water, and the most solid which is for use will sink, the other swim.
Saxifragiae albae. Of white Saxifrage; in Sussex we call them Lady-smocks. The roots powerfully break the Stone, expel wind, provoke Urine, and cleanse the reins.
Sanguisorbae. A kind of Burnet.
Scabiosaer Of Scabious. The roots either boyled or beaten into pouder and so taken, helps such as are extreamly troubled with Scabs and Itch, are medicinal in the French-pocks, hard swellings, inward wounds, being of a drying, clensing, and healing faculty.
Scordij. Of Scordium, or Water Germander. See the Herb.
Scillae. Of Squils. See the Vineger, and Wine of Squils in the Compounds.
Scrophulariae &c. Of Figwort. The roots being of the same vertue with the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, I refer you thither.
Scorzonerae. Of Vipers grass. The root cheers the heart, and strengthens the vital spirits, resists poyson, helps passions and tremblings of the heart, faintness, sadness, and melancholly, opens stoppings of the liver and spleen, provekes the terms, easeth women of the sits of the mother, and helps swimmings in the head.
Seseleos. Of Seseli, or Hart-wort. The roots provoke mine, helps the falling sickness.
Sisari, secacul. Of Scirrets. They are hot and moist, of good nourishment, something windy, as all roots are; by reason of which, they provoke lust, they stir up apetitite, and provoke urine.
I hope I may without offence forbear mentioning, Comfry, and black Briony, twice, though the Colledg did not.
Sonchi. Of Sowthistles. See the herb.
Spinae Albae, Bedeguar. I scarce know what name to give it, that will please the Colledg; Our English, both physitians and Apothecaries, call that ball of threed that grows upon the Bryars, Bedeguar; but the Arabians called our Ladies thistles, by that name; The roots of which are drying and binding, stops fluxes, bleeding, takes away cold swellings, and case the pains of the teeth.
Spatulae soctidae. Stinking Gladon, A kind of Flower-de-luce-, called so for its unsavory smel: It is hot and dry in the third degree; outwardly they help the Kings Evil, soften hard swellings, draw out broken benes: Inwardly taken, they help Convulsions, Ruptures, Bruises, Infirimities of the Lungues.
Tamarisci. Of Tamaris. See the berbs, and Barks.
Tanaceti. Of Tansie. The root eaten, is a singular remedy for the Gout: the rich may bestow the cost to preserve it.
Thapsi &c. A venemous root, outlandish: therefore no more of it.
Tormentillae. Of Tormentil. A kind of Sinkfoil; dry in the third degree, but moderately hot; exceeding good in pestilences, provokes sweat, staies vomiting, cheers the heart, expels poyson.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Of Tresoyl. See the Herb.
Tribuli Aquatici. OfWater Caltrops. The roots lie too far under water for me to reach to.
Trachellij. Of Throatwort: by some called Canterbury Bels: by some Coventry Bels. They help diseases and ulcers in the throat.
Trinitatis herbae. Hearts-ease, or Pansies. I know no great vertue they have.
Tunicis. I shall tell you the vertues when I know what it is.
Tripolij. The root purgeth flegm, expels poyson.
Turbith. The root purgeth flegm, (being hot in the third degree) chiefly from the exterior parts of the body: it is corrected with Ginger, or Mastick. Let not the vulger be to busie with it.
Tubernum. Of Toad-stools. Whether these be roots or no, it matters not much: for my part I know but little need of them, either in food or Phyfick.
Victorialis. An Outlandish kind of Garlick. They say, being hung about the neck of Cattel that are blind suddenly, it helps them; and defends those that bear it, from evil spirits.
Swallow-wort, and Teazles were handled before.
Ulmariae, Reginae prati &c. Meadsweet. Cold and dry, binding, stops fluxes, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women: you may take a drachm at a time.
Urticae Of Nettles. See the Leaves.
Zedoariae. Of Zedoary, or Setwal, This and Zurumbet, according to Rhazis, and Mesue, are all one; Avicenna thinks them different: I hold with Mesue; indeed they differ in form, for the one is long, the other round; they are both hot and dry in the second degree, expel wind, resist poyson, stop Fluxes, and the terms, stay vomiting, help the Chollick, end kill worms; you may take half a dram at a time.
Zingiberis. Of Ginger. Helps digestion, warms the stomach, cleers the sight, and is profitable for old men, heats the joynts, and therefore is profitable against the Gout, expels Wind; it is hot and dry in the third degree.
APis Rad. Of the Roots of Smallage. Take notice here, That the Barks both of this Root, as also of Parsly, Fennel &c. is all that of the root which is in use, neither can it properly be called Bark, for it is all the Root, the hard pith in the middle excepted, which is alwaies thrown away, when the roots are used. It is something hotter and drier than Parsly, and more medicinal; it opens stoppings, provokes urin, helps digestion, expels wind, and warms a cold stomach: use them like Grass Roots.
Avellanarum. Of Hazel. The rind of the tree provokes Urine, breaks the Stone; the husks anp shels of the Nuts, dried and given in pouder, stay the immoderat flux of the terms in women.
Aurantiorum. Of Orrenges. Both these, and also Lemmons and Citrons, are of different qualities, the outward bark, viz. what looks red, is hot and dry, the white is cold and moist, the juyce colder than it, the seeds hot and dry; the outward bark is that which here I am to speak to, it is somewhat hotter than that either of Lemmons or Citrons, therefore it warms a cold stomach more, and expels wind better, but it strengthens not the heart so much.
Berber &c. Barberries. The rind of the tree according to Clusius, being steeped in Wine, and the Wine drunk, purgeth Choller, and is a singular remedy for the yellow Jaundice. Boil it in white Wine and drink it. See the Directions at the beginning.
Cassia Lignea &c. It is something more oyly than Cinnamon, yet the vertues being not much different, I refer you thither.
Capparis Rad. Of Caper Roots. See the Roots.
Castanearum. Of Chestnuts. The bark of the Chestnut tree is dry and binding, and stops Fluxes.
Cinnamomum. Cinnamom, and Cassia Lignea. Are hot and dry in the second degree, strengthens the stomach, helps digestion, causeth a sweet breath, resists poyson, provokes urin, and the terms, causeth speedy delivety to women in travel, helps Coughs and Defluxions of humors upon the Lungs, Dropsies, and difficulty of Urin. In Ointments it takes away red pimples, and the like deformities from the face. There is scarce a better remedy for women in labor, than a drachm of Cinnamon newly beaten into pouder and taken in white Wine.
Citrij. Of Pome Citrons. The outward pill, which I suppose is that which is meant here: It strengthens the heart, resists poyson, amends a stinking breath, helps digestion, comforts a cold stomach.
Ebuli Rad. Of the Roots of Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort. See the Roots.
Enulae. Of Elecampane. See the Roots.
Esulae Rad. See the Roots.
Fabarum. Of Beans. Bean Cods (or Pods, as we in Sussex call them) being burned, the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Gouts, and Sciaticaes.
Foenicull Rad. Of Fennel Roots. See the Roots, and remember the Observation given in Smallage at the beginning of the Barks.
Fraxini Rad. Of the Bark of Ash tree Roots. That the vertue lies only in the Bark of the Root, I suppose it to be only nicety: but the Bark of the tree, helps the Rickets, is moderately hot and dry, staies Vomitting; being burnt, the Ashes made into an ointment, helps Leprosie, and other deformity of the skin, easeth pains of the spleen. You may lay the Bark in steep in white Wine for the Rickets, and when it hath stood so two or three daies, let the diseased Child drink now and then a spoonful of it.
Granatorum. Of Pomegranates. The rind or pill, cools, and forcibly binds, staies Fluxes, and the Terms in women, helps digestion, strengthens weak stomachs, fastens the teeth, and are good for such whose gums wast. You may take a drachm of it at a time inwardly. Pomegranate flowers are of the same vertue.
Gatrujaci. See the Wood.
Juglandium Virid. Of green Walnuts. As for the outward green bark of Walnuts, I suppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all, and then you may take Nuts and all (if they may properly be called Nuts at such a time) you shall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach, they resist poison, and are a most excellent preservative against the Plague, inferior to none; they are admirable for such as are troubled with Consumptions of the lungues; the rich may keep them preserved; they that cannot do as they would, must be
content to do as they may. viz. dry them and so keep them.
Lauri. Of the Bay tree. See the Root.
Limonum. Of Lemmons. The outward pill is of the nature of Citron, but held not so effectual; how ever let the poor Country man that cannot get the other, use this.
Mandragorae. Rad. Be pleased to look back to the Root.
Myrobalanorum. Of Myrobalans - See the Fruits.
Macis. Of Mace. It is hot in the third degree, strengthens the stomach and heart exceedingly, and helps concoction.
Maceris &c. It is held to be the inner bark of Nutmeg-tree, helps fluxes and spitting of blood.
Petroselini Rad. Of Parsly Roots. opens obstructions, provokes urine and the terms, warms a cold stomach, expells wind and breaks the stone, use them as Grass Roots, and take out the inner pith as you were taught in Smallage roots
Prunelli Silvestris. Of Sloe-tree. I know no use of it.
Pinearum putaminae. Pine-shucks, or husks. I suppose they mean of the cones that hold the seeds; both those and also the bark of the tree, stop fluxes, and help the lungues.
Querci. Of Oak-tree. Both the Bark of the Oak, and Acorn Cups are drying and cold, binding, stop fluxes and the terms, as also the running of the reins, have a care how you use them before due purging.
Rhaphani. Of Radishes. I could never see any bark they had.
Suberis. Of Cork. It is good for something* 11.15 else besides to stop bottles; being dry and binding, stancheth blood, helps fluxes, especially the ashes of it being burnt.
Sambuci &c. Of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Roots and Branches; purgeth water, helps the dropsie,
Cort. Medius Tamaricis. The middle Bark of Tamaris, easeth the Spleen, helps the Rickets, you may use them as Ash-tree Bark.
Tilliae. Of Line-tree. Boyled, the water helps burnings.
Thuris. Of Frankincense. I must plead Ignoramus.
Ulmi. Of Elm. Moderately hot and clensing, very good for wounds, burns, and broken bones. viz. boyled in water and the greived place bathed with it.
A Gallochus, Lignum Aloes. Wood of Aloes; is moderately hot and dry: a good Cordial: a rich Perfume: a great strengthener to the stomach.
Aspalathus. Rose-wood. There are diverse Bushes called by the name of Aspalathus: But because the Colledge have set it down amongst the Wood, (I suppose they mean the Tree) It is moderately hot and dry, stops loosness, provokes urin, and is excellent to clense filthy ulcers.
Bresilium. Brassil. All the use I know of it is, to dye Cloath, and Leather, and make red Ink.
Buxus. Box. Many Physitians have written of it, but no physical vertue of it: I suppose the Colledg quoted it only as a word of course.
Cypressus. Cypress. The Wood laid amongst cloathes, secures them from moths. See the Leaves.
Ebenum. Ebeny. It is held by Dioscorides, to cleer the sight, being either boyled in Wine, or burnt the ashes.
Gaujacum, Lignum vitae. Dries, attenuates, causeth sweat, resisteth putrifaction, is admirable good for the French pocks, as also for Ulcers, Scabs and Leprosie, it is used in diet drinks.
Juniperus. Juniper. The smoke of the Wood, drives away Serpents; the ashes of it made into ly, cures Itch, and Scabs.
Nephriticum. It is a light wood and comes from Hispaniola: being steeped in water, will soon turn it into a blew colour; it is hot and dry in the first degree, and so used as before, is an admirable remedy for the stone, as also for the obstructions of the liver and spleen.
Rhodium. Encreaseth Milk in Nurses.
Santalum, album, rubrum, citrinum. White, red, and yellow Sanders: They are all cold and dry in the second or third degree: The red stops defluxions from any part, and helps inflamations; the white and yellow (of which the yellow is best) cool the heat of Feaveas, strengthen the heart, and cause cheerfulness.
Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the second degree, it opens obstructions or stoppings, it strengthens the breast exceedingly, if it be weakened through cold, it breaks the stone, staies vomiting, provokes urin, and is very profitable in the French pòcks, used in diet drinks.
Tamaris. Is profitable for the Rickets, and Burnings.
Xylobalsamum. Wood of the Balsam tree. Is hot and dry in the second degree, according to Galen. I never read any great vertues of it.
A Brotanum mas, foemina. Southernwood, male and foemale. Is hot and dry in the third degree, resists poyson, kils worms, provokes lust; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves cold swellings, and helps the bitings of venemous beasts, makes hair grow: take not above half a drachm at a time in pouder.
Absinthium &c. Wormwood. Its several sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or third degrees, the common Wormwood is thought to be hottest, they all help weakness of the stomach, clense Choller, kill Worms, open Stoppings, help Surfets, cleer the Sight, resist Poyson, clense the Blood, and secures cloaths from Moths.
Abugilissa &c. Alkanet. The Leaves are something drying and binding, but inferior in vertue to the Roots, to which I refer you.
Acetosa. Sorrel. Is moderately cold and dry, binding, cutteth tough humors, cools the brain, liver, and stomach, cools the blood in Feavers, and provokes apetite.
Acanthus. Bears-breech, or Branch ursine. Is temperate, something moist. See the root.
Adiantum, album, nigrum. Maiden hair, white and black. They are temperate, yet drying, white Maiden hair is that we usually call Wall-rue; they both open obstructions, clense the breast and lungs of gross slimy humors, provoke urine, help ruptures and shortness of wind.
Adiantum Aureum, Politricum. Golden Maiden-hair; its temperature and vertues are the same with the former; helps the Spleen; burned, and Ly made with the Ashes, keeps the hair from falling off from the head.
Agrimonia. Agrimony. Galens Eupatorium:* 11.17 it is hot and dry in the first degree; binding, it* 11.18 amends the infirmities of the liver, helps such as* 11.19 piss blood, helps inward wounds, opens obstructions; outwardly applied it helps old sores,* 11.20 ulcers &c. Inwardly it helps the Jaundice and the spleen: You may either take a drachm of this or that following at a time inwardly in white, or boyl the herb in white Wine and drink the decoction.
Ageratum. Mesue his Eupatorium. Maudlein. Is hot and dry in the second degree, provokes urine and the terms, dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness, and profits such as have a cold, weak liver; outwardly applied, it takes away the hardness of the matrix, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh.
Agnus Castus &c. Chast-tree. The Leaves are hot and dry in the third degree; expel wind, consume the seed, cause Chastity being only born about one, it dissolves swellings of the Cods being applied to them, Headach, Lethargy. Also Dioscorides saith a branch of it preserves a traveller from weariness.
Alleluja, Lujula &c. Wood Sorrel. It is of the temperature of other Sorrel, and held to be more cordial; cools the blood, helps ulcers in the mouth, hot defluctions upon the lungs, wounds, ulcers &c.
Alcea. Vervain-Mallow. The root helps* 11.21 fluxes and burstness.* 11.22
Allium. Garlick. Hot and dry in the fourth degree, troublesom to the stomach, it duls the sight, spoils a cleer skin, resists poyson, easeth the pains of the teeth, helps the bitings of mad dogs and venemous beasts, helps ulcers, leprosies, provokes urine, is exceeding opening, and profitable for dropsies.
Althaea &c. Marsh-Mallows. Are moderately hot and drier than other Mallows; they help degestion, and mitigate pain, ease the pains of the stone, and in the sides. Use them as you were taught in the roots whose vertues they have, and both together will do better.
Alsine. Chickweed. Is cold and moist without* 11.23 any binding, aswages swelling, and comforts the sinnews much, and therefore is good for such as are shrunk up, it dissolves Aposthumes, hard swellings and helps mangy hands and legs, outwardly applied in a pultis.
Alchymilla. Ladies-Mantle: is hot and dry, some say in the second degree, some in the third: Outwardly it helps wounds, reduceth womens breasts that hang bagging: inwardly, helps bruises, and ruptures, staies vomiting, and the whites in women, and is very profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry through cold and moisture.
Alcanna. Privet; hath a binding quality, helps ulcers in the mouth, is good against burnings and scaldings, cherisheth the nerves or sinnews: boyl it in white Wine to wash your mouth, and in hogs grease for burnings and scaldings.
Amaracus, Majorana. Marjoram. Some say 'tis hot and dry in the second degree, some advance it to the third. Sweet Marjoram, is an excellent remedy for cold diseases in the brain, being only smelled to: helps such as are given to much sighing, easeth pains in the belly, provokes urine, being taken inwardly; You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder. Outwardly in Oyls or Salves, it helpeth Sinnews that are shrunk, Limbs out of joint, all aches and
swellings coming of a cold cause.
Angelica. Is hot and dry in the third degree, openeth, digesteth maketh thin, strengthens the heart, helps fluxes, and loathsomness of meat, it is an enemy to poyson and pestilence, provokes the term in women, and brings away the afterbirth. You may take a drachm at a time in pouder.
Anagallis, mas, foemina. Pimpernel, male and foemale. They are something hot and dry, and of such a drawing quality that they draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, amend the* 11.24 sight, clense ulcers, help infirmities of the liver and reins.
Anethum. Dill, is hot and dry in the second degree. Dioscorides saith, it breeds milk in Nurses. But Galen he denies it: Howsoever, it staies vomiting, easeth hiccoughs aswageth swellings, provokes Urine, helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother, and digests raw humors.
Apium. Smallage: So it is commonly used; but indeed all Parsly is called by the name of Apium, of which this is one kind. It is somewhat hotter and drier than Parsly, and more efficacious; it opens stoppings of the liver, and spleen, clenseth the blood, provokes the terms, helps a cold stomach to digest its meat, and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice. Both Smallage and Clevers may be well used in pottage in the morning instead of Herbs.
Aparine. Goose-grass, or Clevers; they are* 11.25 meanly hot and dry, clensing; helps the bitings of venemous beasts, keeps mens bodies from growing* 11.26 too fat, helps the yellow jaundice, staies* 11.27 bleeding, fluxes, and helps green wounds.* 11.28
Aspergula odorata. Woodroof: Cheers the heart, makes men merry, helps melancholy, and opens the stoppings of the liver.
Aquilegia. Columbines; help sore throats, are of a drying, binding quality.
Argentina. Silver-weed, or Wild Tansie: cold and dry all most in the third degree; stops Lasks, Fluxes, and the Terms, good against Ulcers, the Stone, and inward Wounds, it stops the immoderate Flux of the Terms in women, if it be but worn in their shoos: easeth gripings in the belly, fastneth loose teeth; outwardly it takes away Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning, it takes away Inflamations; and bound to the wrests stops the violence of the fits of an ague.
Artanita. Sow-bread: hot and dry in the third degree; it is so dangerous a purge that I dare not take it my self, therefore would I not advise others: outwardly in Oyntments it takes away Freckles, Sunburning, and the marks which the Smal Pocks leave behind them: dangerous for women with child, yea so dangerous, that both Dioscorides and Pliny say, it will make a woman miscarry if she do but stride over it.
Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birthwort long and round. See the Roots.
Artemisia. Mugwort; is hot and dry in the second degree; binding: an herb apropriated to the foemine sex, it brings down the terms, brings away both birth and after birth, easeth pains in the matrix. You may take a drachm at a time.
Asparagus. See the Roots.
Asarum &c. Asarabacca; hot and dry; provokes vomiting, and urine, and are good for dropsies; they are corrected with Mace or Cinnamon.
A••riplex &c. Orach, or Arrach; it is cold in the first degree, and moist in the second, saith Galen, and makes the belly soluble. Dioscorides saith, they cure the yellow Jaundice. Lycus Neop saith, they help such as have taken Cantharides. Mathiolus saith, (o 11.29) it purgeth upwards. and downwards. Hypocrates saith, it cools hot aposthumes, and St. Anthonies fire. It is certainly an admirable remedy for the fits of the mother and other infirmities of the matrix, and therefore the Latins call it Vulvaria.
Auricula muris, major. Mouse ear, hot and dry, of a binding quality, it is admirable to heal wounds, inward or outward, as also ruptures or burstness, Edg-tools quenched in the juyce of it, will cut Iron without turning the edg, as easy as they will lead, and lastly it helps the swelling of the Spleen, Coughs, and Consumptions of the lungues.
At••ractilis hirsuta. Wild Bastard-saffron, Distaff-thistle, or Spindle-thistle; is dry and* 11.30 moderately digesting, helpeth the biting of venemous* 11.31 beasts. Mesue saith, it is hot in the first degree, and dry in the second, and cleanseth the breast and lungues of tough flegm: but if the Colledg do intend Carduus Bened. by this, we shall talk with that by and by.
Balsamita &c. Costmary, Alecost: See Maudlin, of which I take this to be one sort or kind.
Barba jovis, sedum majus. Housleek or Sengreen: cold in third degree, profitable against the Shingles and other hot creeping ulcers, inflamations, St. Anthonies fire, frenzyes, it cools and takes away corns from the toes being bathed with the juyce of it, and a skin of the leaf laid over the place, stops fluxes, helps scalding and burning.
Bardana. Clot-bur, or Burdock, temperately dry and wasting, something cooling, it is held to be a good remedy against shrinking of the sinnews, they ease pains in the bladder, provoke urine. Also Mizaldus saith that a leaf applied to the top of the head of a woman draws the Matrix upwards, but applied to the soles of the feet draws it downwards, and is therefore an admirable remedy for suffocations, precipitations, and dislocations of the Matrix, if a wise man have but the using of it.
Beta, alba, nigra, rubra. Beets, white, black, and red, Black Beets I have, as yet, as little skill in as knowledg of. The white are something colder and moister than the red, both of them loosen the belly, but have little or no nourishment. Simeon Sethi tells a large story of several diseases they breed in the stomach. I scarce beleeve him. This is certain, the white, provoke to stool, and are more clensing, open stoppings
of the liver and spleen, help the vertigo or swimming in the head. The red stay fluxes, help the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, and are good in the yellow Jaundice.
Benedicta Carrophyllata. Avens: hot and dry, help the chollick and rawness of the stomach, stitches in the sides, help bruises, and take away clotted blood in any part of the body.
Betonica vulgaris. Common or wood Betony; hot and dry in the second degree, helps the falling* 11.32 sickness, and all headaches coming of cold, clenseth the breast and lungs, opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, as the Rickets, &c. procures appetite, helps sour belchings, provokes urine, breaks the stone, mitigates the pains of the reins and bladder, helps Cramps and Convulsions, resists Poyson, helps the Gout, such as piss blood, madness and headach, kills worms, help bruises, and clenseth women after their labor. You may take a drachm of it at a time in white Wine, or any other convenient liquor proper against the Disease you are afflicted with.
Betonica Pauli &c. Pauls Betony, or male Lluellin, to which ad Elatine or foemale Lluellin which comes afterwards; they are pretty temperate, stop defluxions of humors that fall from the head into the eyes, are profitable in wounds, helps filthy foul eating Cankers: Pena tells of one of her Country men, a Shentleman of Wales, who had her nose almost eaten off with the Pocks, yea it was so pitiful sore it had almost brought her to a Leprosie, & her was cured by only taking her own country Herb Lluellin inwardly, and applying the Herb outwardly to the place.
Betonica Coronaria &c. Is Clove Gilliflowers. See the Flowers.
Bellis. Daisies, are cold and moist in the second degree, they ease all pains, and swellings coming of heat, in Clysters they loose the belly, are profitable in Feavers, and inflamations of the stones, they take away bruises, and blackness and blewness: they are admirable in wounds and inflamations of the lungues or blood.
Blitum. Blites. Some say they are cold and moist, others cold and dry, none mention any great vertues of them.
Borrago. Borrage: hot and moist, comforts the heart, cheers the spirits, drives away sadness and melancholly, they are rather laxative than binding; help swooning and heart-qualms, breed special good blood; help consumptions, madness, and such as are much weakned by sickness.
Bonus Henricus. Good Henry, or all good; hot and dry, clensing, and scouring, inwardly taken it loosens the belly, outwardly, it clenseth old sores and Ulcers.
Botrys. Oak of Jerusalem: hot and dry in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 degree, helps such as are short-winded, cuts and wasts gross and tough flegm, laid amongst cloaths they preserve them from moths, and give them a sweet smel.
Branca ursina. Bears-breech.
Brionia &c. Briony, white and black: both are hot and dry in the third degree, purge violently, yet are held to be wholsom Physick for such as have Dropsies, Vertigo, or swimming in the Head, Falling sickness &c. Certainly it is a scurvy, strong, troublesom purge, therefore ill to be tampered with by the unskilful; outwardly in Oyntments, it takes away freckles, wrinkles, morphow, scars, spots, &c. from the face.
Bursa pastoris. Shepherds-purse; is manifestly cold and dry, though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary; it is binding and stops blood, the terms in women, spiting and pissing of blood, cools inflamations.
Buglossum. Bugloss. * 11.33 Its vertues are the same with Borrage.
Bugula. Bugle, or middle Comfry; is temperate for heat, but very drying, excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves 〈◊〉〈◊〉 blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the Rickets and other stoppings of the Liver; outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangreens and Fistulaes, it helps broken bones, and dislocations. (o) 11.34 To conclude, let my Country men esteem it as a Jewel. Inwardly you may take it in pouder a drachm at a time or drink the decoction of it in white Wine, being made into an oyntment with hogs grease, you shall find it admirable in green wounds.
Buphthalmum &c. Ox eye. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore, to the vertues of which I refer you.
Buxus. Boxtree. The leaves are hot, dry, and binding, they are profitable against the bitings of mad dogs, both taken inwardly, boyled and applied to the place, besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots.
Calamintha, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Palustris. Mountain, and Water Calamint. For the Water Calamint; see Mints, than which it is accounted stronger. Mountain Calamint, is hot and dry in the third degree, provokes urine and the terms, hastens the birth in women, brings away the after-birth, helps cramps, convulsions, difficulty of breathing, kills worms, helps the leprosie; outwardly used, it helps* 11.35 such as holds their necks on one side: half a* 11.36 drachm is enough at one time.
Calendula &c. Marigolds. The Leaves are* 11.37 hot in the second degree, and something moist, loosen the belly, the juyce held in the mouth, helps the toothach, and takes away any inflamation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little Vineger.
Callitricum. Maiden-hair. See Adianthum.
Caprisolium. Honysuckles: The Leaves are hot, and therfore naught for inflamations of the mouth and throat, for which the ignorant people often give them, and Galen was true in this, let modern Writers write their pleasure. If you chew but a leaf of it in your mouth, experience will tell you, that it is likelier to cause than to cure a sore throat, they provoke urine, and purge by urine, bring speedy delivery to women in travail, yet procure barrenness, and hinder conception; outwardly they dry up soul ulcers, and clense the face from morphew, sunburning and freckles.
Carduncellus &c. Groundsel. Cold and moist according to Tragus, helps the Chollick, and pains or gripings in the belly, helps such as cannot make water, cleanseth the reins, purgeth Choller and sharp humors, the usual way of taking it is, to boyl it in water with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and* 11.38 so eat it, I hold it to be a wholsom and harmless purge. Outwardly it easeth womens breasts that are swollen and inflamed, (or as themselves say) have gotten an ague in their breasts, as also inflamation of the joynts, nerves, or sinnews.
Carduus B. Mariae. Our Ladies Thistles. They are far more temperate than Carduus Benedictus, open obstructions of the liver, help the Jaundice and Dropsie, provoke Urine, break the Stone.
Carduus Benedictus. In plain English, Blessed Thistle; Though I confess it be better known by* 11.39 the Latin name: it is hot and dry in the second degree, clensing and opening, helps swimming* 11.40 and giddiness in the head, deasness, strengthens the memory, helps griping pains in the belly, kills worms, provokes sweat, expels poyson, helps inflamation of the liver, is very good in pestilences, and the French-pocks; outwardly applied, it ripens Plague-sores, and helps hot swellings, the bitings of mad-dogs, and venemous beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Every one that can but make a Carduus posset knows how to use it.
Carlina. See the Roots, under the name of white Chameleon.
Corallina. A kind of Sea-Moss: cold, binding, drying, good for hot gouts, inflamations; also they say it kills worms, and therefore by some is called Maw-wormseed.
Cassutha, cuscuta, potagralini. Dodder. See Epithimum.
Caryophyllata. Avens or Herb Bennet. Hot and dry, they help the Chollick, Rawness of the stomach, Stitches in the sides, Stoppings of the liver, and Bruises.
Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge: See Tithymalus.
Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints. The vertues are the same with Calaminth.
Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a binding drying quality, cures wounds, and is an admirable remedy for sinnews that are shrunk; yea, Galen saith it cures sinnews though they be cut in sunder: but Columbus holds that is incurable unless they be cut within the Muscle; well then we will take Galen in the charitablest sense. However this is certain, it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose, or by wound, stops the Terms in women, Fluxes, Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder, Coughs, Ulcers in the Lungues, Difficulty of breathing.
Caulis, Brassica 〈◊〉〈◊〉, silvestris. Coleworts, or Cabbages, Garden and Wild. They are drying and binding, help dimness of the sight, help the spleen, preserve from drunkenness, and help the evil effects of it, provoke the terms; they say, being laid on the top of the head, they draw the matrix upward, and therefore are good for the falling out of the womb. Chrysippus writes a whol treatise of them, and makes them a universal medicine for every disease in every part of the body.
Centaurium, majus, minus. Centaury the greater and lesser. They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds: see the Root. The lesser is that which is commonly in Sussex known by the name of Centaury, and indeed so throughout that part of the nation that I have travailed over; a present remedy for the yellow Jaundice, opens stoppings of the liver, gall, and spleen purgeth choller, helps the Gout, cleers the sight, purgeth the stomach, helps the dropsie and green-sickness. It is only the tops and flowers which are useful, of which you may take a drachm inwardly in pouder, or half a handful boiled in posset drink at a time.
Centinodium &c. Knotgrass; cold in the second* 11.41 degree, helps spitting and pissing of blood,* 11.42 stops the terms and all other fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, Gonorrhaea, or running of Reins, weakness of the back and joints, inflamations of the privities, and such as piss by drops, and it is an excellent remedy for hogs that will not eat their meat. Your only way is to boyl it, it is in its prime about the latter end of July or beginning of August: at which time being gathered it may be kept dry all the yeer.
Ceresolium vulgare & Myrrhis. Common and great Chervil: Take them both together and they are temperately hot and dry, provoke urine, they stir up lust and desire of copulation, comfort the heart and are good for old people, help pleurisies and pricking in the sides.
Caepaea, Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, hot and dry, but not so hot and dry as Water-cresses; Tragus saith they are hot and moist, but the man dreamed waking, they help mangy Horses: see Water-cresses.
Ceterach &c. Spleenwort; moderately hot, wasts and consumes the spleen, in so much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known hogs that have fed upon it, that have had (when they were killed) no spleens at all. It is excellent good for melahcholly people, helps the strangury, provokes urine, and breaks the stone in the bladder. Boyl it and drink the decoction; but because a little boyling will carry away the strength of it in vapours, let it boyl but very little, and let it stand close stopped till it be cold before you strain it out; this is the general rule for all Simples of this nature.
Chamaepitys. Ground-pine; hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, helps the Jaundice, Sciatica, stoppings of the liver, and spleen, provokes the Terms, clenseth the entrails, dissolves congeled blood, resists poyson, cures wounds and ulcers. Strong bodies may take a dram, and weak bodies half a drachm of it in pouder at a time.
Chamaemelum, sativum, sylvestre. Garden and Wild Chamomel. Garden Chamomel is hot and dry in the first degree, and as gallant a medicine against the stone in the bladder as grows upon the earth, you may take it inwardly, I mean the decoction of it, being boyled in white Wine,
or inject the juyce of it into the bladder with a syringe. It expels wind, helps belchings, and potently provokes the terms;used in baths it helps pains in the sides, gripings and gnawings in the belly.
Chamaedris &c. Germander; hot and dry in the third degree; cuts and brings away tough humors, opens stoppings of the liver and spleen, helps coughs and shortness of breath, strangury and stopping of urine and provokes the terms; half a drachm is enough to take at a time.
Chelidonium utrumque. Celondine both sorts. Small Celondine is usually called Pilewort, it is something hotter and dryer than the former, but not in the fourth degree as Galen and Dioscorides would have it; they say it helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles, by only carrying it about one, (but if it wil not, bruise it and apply it to the grief) and from thence it took its 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Celondine the greater is hot and dry (they say in the third degree) any away used, either the juyce, or made into an Oyl or Ointment, is a great preserver of the sight and as excellent an help for sore eyes as any is.
Cinara &c. Artichokes. They provoke lust, and purge by urine.
Cichorium. Succory, to which ad Endive which comes after. They are cold and dry in the second degree, clenfing and opening, they cool the heats of the liver, and are profitable in the yellow Jaundice, and burning Feavers, helps excoriations in the Yard, hot Stomachs; and outwardly applied, help hot rewms in the eyes.
Cicuta. Hemlock; Cold in the fourth degree, poysonous; outwardly applied, it helps Priapismus, or continual standing of the Yard, the Shingles, St. Anthonies fire, or any eating Ulcers.
Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca provinca. Peruinkle. Hot in the second degree, somthing dry and binding, stops Lasks, spitting of blood, and the Terms in women.
Consolida masor. Comfry. I do not conceave the Leaves to be so vertnous as the Roots,
Consolida media. Bugles, of which before.
Consolida minima. Daizes.
Consilida rubra. Golden Rod: hot and dry in the second degree; clenseth the Reins, provokes Urin, brings away the Gravel; an admirable herb for wounded people to take inwardly, stops blood &c.
Consolida Regalis. Delphinium. Larks heels, resist poyson, help the bitings of venemous beasts.
Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Consound. Helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sore throats, wasting of the lungues, and liver.
Coronopus. Buchorn-Plantane, or Sea-Plantane: Cold and dry, helpeth the bitings of venemous* 11.43 beasts, either taken inwardly, or applyed to the wound; helps the Chollick, breaks the Stone.
Cotonaria. Hath got many English names. Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, and Petty Cotton. Of a drying and binding nature; boyled in Ly, it keeps the head from Nits and Lice; being laid among Cloaths, it keeps them safe from Moths, kils Worms, helps the bitings of venemous beasts; taken in a Tobacco-pipe, it helps Coughs of the lungues, and vehement headaches.
Cruciata. Crossewort. (there is a kind of Gentian called also by this name, which I passe by) Is drying and binding, exceeding good for inward or outward wounds, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied; and an excellent remedy for such as are bursten.
Crassula. Orpine. Very cool: Outwardly used with Vineger, it cleers the Skin; inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of the stomach and bowels, ulcers in the lungues, bloody flux, and Quinsie in the throat: For which last disease, it is inferior to none: take not too much of it at a time, because of its coolnesse.
Crithamus, &c. Sampler. Hot and dry, helps* 11.44 difficulty of urine, the yellow jaundice, provokes the terms, helps digestion, openeth stoppings of the liver and spleen.
Cucumis Asininus. Wild Cucummers. See Elaterium.
Cyanus major, minor. Blewbottle, great and small, A fine cooling herb, helps bruises, wounds, broken veins; the juyce dropped into the eye, helps the inflamations thereof.
Cygnoglossum. Hounds-tongue. Cold and dry; applied to the fundament, helps the Hemorroids,* 11.45 healeth wounds, and ulcers, and is a present remedy against the bitings of Dogs, burnings and scaldings. Some say, if you put the herb under your foot, within your stocking, no Dog will bark at you.
Cypressus. Chamae cyparissus. Cypresse tree. The leaves are hot and binding, help Ruptures, and Polypus, or flesh growing on the Nose.
Chamaecyparissus. Is Lavender Cotton. Resists poyson, kils worms, and withal take notice how learnedly the Colledge could confound the Cypress tree, and Lavender Cotton together; and if they say some Authors say Cypressus and Chamaecyparissus are all one, and withal shew you where, then tell them I thought their brain was in their books not in their heads.
Distamnus Cretensis. Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, hot and dry, brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smel of it drives away venemous beasts, so deadly, an enemy is it to poyson; it's an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poysoned weapons, it draws out splinters, broken bones &c. The dose from halfe a drachm to a drachm. They say, the Goats and Deers in Creet, being wounded with* 11.46 Arrows, eat this herb, which makes the Arrows* 11.47 fall out of themselves: And from thence came the tale in Virgil * about Aeneas.
Dipsacus, sativ. sylv. Teazles, Garden and wild: the leaves bruised and applied to the temples,* 11.48 alay the heat in feavers, qualifie the rago in frenzies; the juyce dropped into the ears, kill worms in them, (if there be any there to kill)
dropped into the eyes, cleers the sight, helps redness and pimples in the face being anointed with it.
Ebulus. Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort: hot and dry in the third degree; wasts hard swellings, being applied in form of a pultis; the hair of the head being anointed with the juyce of it turns black; the leaves being applied to the place, help inflamations, burnings, scaldings, the bitings of mad-dogs; mingled with Buls suet is a present remedy for the gout; inwardly taken, is a singular purge for the dropsie and gout.* 11.49
Echium. Vipers-buglosse, Vipers-herb, Snakebuglosse, Wall-buglosse, Wild-buglosse; several Countries give it these several names: it is a singular remedy being eaten, for the biting of venemous beasts; Continual eating of it makes the body invincible against the poyson of Serpents, Toads, Spiders &c. however it be administred; It comforts the heart, expels sadness, and melancholly: It grows abundantly about the Castle walls, at Lewis in Sussex. The rich may make the flowers into a conserve, and the herb into a syrup; the poor may keep it dry; both may keep it as a Jewel.
Empetron, Calcifraga, Herniaria &c. Rupture-wort, or Burst-wort; the English name tels you it is good against Ruptures, and so such as are bursten shall find it, if they please to make trial of it, either inwardly taken or outwardly applied to the place, or both. Also the Latin names hold it forth to be good against the stone, which who so tries shall find true.
Enula Campana. Elicampane. Provokes Urine: See the root.
Epithimum. Dodder of Time, to wch ad cōmon Dodder wch is usually that wch grows upon Flax: indeed every Dodder retains a vertue of that herb or plant it grows upon, as Dodder that grows upon Broom, provokes urin forcibly, & loosens the* 11.50 belly, and is moister than that which grows upon* 11.51 Flax, that which grows upon Time, is hotter* 11.52 and dryer than that which grows upon Flax, even in the third degree, opens obstructions, helps infirmities* 11.53 of the spleen, purgeth melancholly, releeves* 11.54 drooping spirits, helps the rickets; that which grows on Flax, is excellent for agues in young children, strengthens weak stomachs, purgeth choller, provokes urine, opens stoppings in the reins and bladder; that which grows upon Nettles, provokes urine exceedingly. The way of using it is to boyl it in white Wine, or other convenient decoction, and boyl it very little, remembring what was told you before in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Eruca. Rocket, hot and dry in the third degree,* 11.55 being eaten alone, causeth headach by its heat, procureth lust.
Eupatorium. See 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Euphragia. Eybright: somthing hot and dry, the very sight of it refresheth the eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the sight, and makes old mens eyes young; a drachm of it taken in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles, it comforts and strengtheneth the memory, outwardly applyed to the place it helps sore eyes.
| Filix foemina. | |
| Filicula, polypodium. | See the Roots. |
| Filipendula. |
Malabathrum. Indian-leaf, hot and dry in the second degree, comforts the Stomach exceedingly, helps digestion, provokes urine, helps inflamations of the eyes, secures cloathes from moths.
Foeniculum. Fennel, Encreaseth milk in Nurses, provokes Urine, breaks the stone, easeth pains in the Reins, opens stoppings, breaks wind, provokes the terms, You may boyl it in white Wine.
Fragaria. Strawberry leaves, are cold, dry, and binding, a singular Remedy for inflamations and wounds, hot diseases in the throat, they stop fluxes, and the terms, cool the heat of the stomach, and inflamations of the Liver. The best way is to boyl them in barley water.
Fraxinus &c. Ash-trees: the leaves are moderately hot and dry, cure the bitings of Adders, and Serpents, by a certain antipathy (they say) there is between them, they stop loosness, and stay vomittng, help the Rickets, open stoppages of the Liver and Spleen.
Fumaria. Fumitory: Cold and dry, it openeth and clenseth by Urine, helps such as are Itchy, and Scabbed, cleers the skin, opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, helps Rickets, Hypochondriak Melancholly, madness, frenzies, Quartan Agues, loosneth the belly, gently purgeth Melancholly, and addust choller: boyl it in white Wine, and take this one general rule, All things of a clensing or opening nature may be most commodiously boyled in white wine. Remember but this and then I need not write one thing so often.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Goats-rue: Temperate in quality, resists Poyson, kills Worms, helps the Fallingsickness, resisteth the Pestilence. You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder.
Galion. Ladies-bedstraw: dry and binding, stancheth blood: boyled in Oyl, the Oyl is good to anoint a weary Traveller; inwardly it provokes lust.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. See the Root.
Genista. Broom: hot and dry in the second degree, clens and open the Stomach, break the Stone in the Reins and Bladder, help the green sickness. Let such as are troubled with heartqualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the Heart and Spirit Vital. See the Flowers.
Geranium. Cranebil, the divers sorts of it, one of which is that which is called Muscata, and in Sussex barbariously Muscovy; it is thought to be cool and dry, helps hot swellings, and by its smel amends a hot brain.
Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot; helps the wind Chollick, pains in the belly, stone in the reins and bladder, and is singular good in ruptures, and inward wounds. I suppose these are the general vertues of them all.
Gramen. 〈◊〉〈◊〉; See the Root.
Gratiola. Hedg- Hysop, purgeth water and flegm, but works very churlishly. Gesner commends it in Dropsies.
Asphodelus foem. See the Root.
Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and dry, excellent good for Inflamations of the Liver, or any other Inflamations, yellow Jaundice.
Hedera Arborea, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Tree and GroundIvy. Tree-Ivy helps Ulcers, Burnings, Scaldings, the bad effects of the Spleen; the Juyce snuffed up in the nose, purgeth the head, it is admirable for surfets or headach, or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness, and therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus to have his head bound round with them. Your best way is to boyl them in the same liquor you got your surfet by drinking.
Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the Juyce helps noise in the ears, fistulaes, gouts, stoppings of the Liver, it strengthens the Reins and stops the terms, helps the yellow Jaundice, and other diseases coming of stopping of the Liver, and is excellent for wounded people.
Herba Camphorata. Stinking Ground-pine, is of a drying faculty, and therefore stops defluxions either in the eyes, or upon the Lungues, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches, strengthens the Nerves.
Herba Moschata. Mentioned even now, me thinks the Colledg should not have forgotten themselves so soon: How can a man that forgets himself remember his patient?
Herba Paralysis, Primula veris. Primroses, or Cowslips, which you will. The Leaves help pains in the head and joynts; see the Flowers which are most in use.
Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One-berry. Pena and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, affirm it resists poyson. Mathiolus saith it takes away evil done by witchcraft, and affirms it by experience, as also long lingring sickness; however it is good for wounds, fals, bruises, apostumes, inflamations, ulcers in the privities. Herb True-love, is very cold in temperature. You may take half a dram of it at a time in pouder.
Herba Roberti. A kind of Cranebil.
Herba venti, Anemone. Wind-flower; the Juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it clenseth filthy Ulcers, encreaseth milk in Nurses, and outwardly by Oyntment helps Leprosies.
Herniaria. The same with Empetron.
Helxine. Pellitory of the wall. Cold, moist, clensing, helps the stone and gravel in the Kidnies, difficulty of Urine, sore throats, pains in the ears the Juyce being dropped in them; outwardly it helps the shingles and St. Anthonies fire.
Hippoglossum. Horstongue, Tongueblade or Double-tongue. The Roots help the strangury, provoke urine, case the hard labor of women, provoke the terms, the Herb helps ruptures and the fits of the mother, it is hot in the second degree, dry in the first, boyl it in white Wine.
Hippolapathum. Patience, or Monks Reubarb: see the Roots.
Hipposelinum. Alexanders, or Alisanders. Provoke urin, expel the After-birth, help the strangury, expel wind.
Horminum, Clary; hot and dry in the third degree; helps weakness in the back, stops the running of the Reins, and the whites in women, provokes the Terms, and helps women that are barren through coldness, or moisture, or both, causeth fruitfulness, but is hurtful for the memory. The usual way of taking it, is to fry it with Butter, or make a Tansie with it.
Hydropiper. Arsmart. Hot and dry, consumes all cold swellings, and blood congealed by bruises and stripes; applied to the place, it helps that aposthume in the joynts, commonly called a Felon: (but in Sussex, an Andicom) If you put a handful of it under the saddle upon a tired horses back, it will make him travel fresh and lustily; strewed in a chamber kils all the Fleas there; this is the hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given inwardly: there is a milder sort, called Persicaria, which is of a cooler milder quality, drying, excellent good for putrified ulcers, kill worms: I had almost forgot that the former is an admirable remedy for the Gout, being rosted between two Tiles and applied to the grieved place, and yet I had it from Dr Butler too.
Hysopus. Hysop. Helps Coughs, shortness of Breath, Wheezing, Distillations upon the Lungues; it is of a clensing quality: kils worms in the body, amends the whol colour of the body, helps the Dropsie and Spleen, sore Throats, and nois in the Ears. See Syrup of Hysop.
Hyoscyamus &c. Henbane. The white Henbane is held to be cold in the third degree, the black or common Henbane and the yellow, in the fourth: They stupifie the sences, and therefore not to be takn inwardly; outwardly applied, they help inflamations, hot gouts; applied to the temples, they provoke sleep.
Hypericon. St. Johns wort. It is as gallant a Wound-herb as any is, either given inwardly, or outwardly applied to the wound; it is hot and dry, opens stoppings, helpeth spitting and vomiting of blood, it clenseth the Reins, provokes the Terms, helps congealed blood in the Stomach and Meseraick Veins, the Fallingsickness, Palsy, Cramps and Aches in the joynts; you may give it in pouder or any convenient decoction.
Hypoglottis Laurus Alexandrina. Laurel of Alexandria, provokes urin and the terms, and is held to be a singular help to women in travail.
Hypoglossum, the same with Hippoglossum before, only different names given by different Authors, the one deriving his name from the tongue of a horse, of which form the Leaf is; the other from the form of the little leaf, because small leaves like small tongues grow upon the greater, but whether the Colledg knew this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no, is some question.
Iberis Cardamantice. Sciatica-cresses. I suppose so called because they help the Sciatica,
or Huckle bone-gout.
Ingunialis, Aster. Serwort, or Shartwort: being bruised and applied they help swellings, botches, and venerious buboes in the groyn, whence they took their name, as also inflamation and falling out of the fundament.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. See the Roots.
Isatis, Glastum. Woad. Drying and binding; the side being bathed with it, it easeth pains in the spleen, clenseth filthy corroding gnawing ulcers.
Iva Arthritica. The same with Camaepytis.
Juncus odoratus. The same with Schoenanthus.
Labrum veneris. The same with Dipsacus.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Lettice. Cold and moist, cool the inflamation of the stomach commonly called heart-burning, provoke sleep, resist drunkenness and take away the ill effects of it, cool the blood, quench thirst, breed milk, and are good for chollerick bodies, and such as have a frenzy, or are sienitique, or as the vulgar say frantick. They are far wholsommer eaten boyled than raw.
Lagobus, Herba Leporina. A kind of Trefoil growing in France and Spain. Let them that live there look after the vertues of it.
Lavendula. Lavender: hot and dry in the third degree; The temples and forehead bathed with the juyce of it, as also the smel of the herb helps swoonings, Catalepsis, Falling sickness, provided it be not accompanied with a Feaver. See the flowers.
Laurcola Laurel. The leaves purge upward and downward, they are good for rhewmatick people to chew in their mouths, for they draw forth much water.
Laurus Bay-tree: the leaves are hot and dry, resist drunkenness, they gently bind and help diseases in the bladder, help the stinging of Bees and Wasps, metigate the pain of the stomach, dry and heal, open obstructions of the liver and spleen, resist the pestelence.
Lappa minor. The lesser Burdock.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Mastick-tree, both the leaves and bark of it stop sluxes, (being hot and dry in the second degree) spitting and pissing of blood, and the falling out of the fundament.
Lens palustris. Duckmeat: cold and moist in the second degree, helps inflamations, hot swellings, and the falling out of the fundament, being warmed and applied to the place.
Lepidium Piperites. Dittander, Pepper-wort,* 11.56 or 〈◊〉〈◊〉: a hot fiery sharp herb, admirable for the Gout being applied to the place, being* 11.57 only held in the hand it helps the toothach, and withal leaves a wan color in the hand that holds it.
Livisticum. Lovage: Clears the sight, takes away redness and freckles from the face.
Libanotis Coronaria. See Rosemary. Linaria. Toad-flax, or Wild-flax; hot and dry, clense the reins and bladder, provoke urin, open the stoppinps of the liver and spleen, and help diseases coming thereof: outwardly they take away yellowness and deformity of the skin.
Lillium convallium. Lilly of the Valley. See the flowers.
Lingua Cervina. Harts-tongue: drying and binding, stops blood, the terms and fluxes, opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and diseases thence arising. The like quantity of Hartstongue, Knotgrass and Comfry Roots being boyled in water, and a draught of the decoction drunk every morning, and the materials which have boyled applied to the place, is a notable remedy for such as are burst.
Limonium. Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bugloss, or as some will have it Sea-Lavender: the seeds being very drying and binding, stop fluxes and the terms, help the chollick and strangury.
Lotus urbana. Authors make some flutter about this Herb, I conceive the best take it to be Trisolium Odoratum, Sweet Tresoyl, which is of a temperate nature, clenseth the eyes gently of such things as hinder the sight, cureth green wounds, ruptures, or burstness, helps such as piss blood or are bruised, and secures garments from moths.
Lupulus. Hops. Opening, clensing, provoke urine; the young sprouts open stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, clense the blood, cleer the skin, help scabs and itch, help agues, purge choller: they are usually boyled-and taken as they eat Sparagus, but if you would keep them, for they are excellent for these diseases, you may make them into a Conserve, (as you shall be taught hereafter) or into a Syrup.
Lychnitis Coronaria: or as others more properly from the Greek write it, Lychnis. Rose Campion. I know no great physical vertue it hath.
Macis. See the Barks.
Magistrantia &c. Masterwort: Hot and dry in the third degree; it is singular good against poyson, pestilence, corrupt and unwholsom air, helps windiness in the stomach, causeth an appetite to ones victuals, very profitable in fals and bruises, congealed and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; the leaves chewed in the mouth, clense the brain of superfluous humors, thereby preventing Lethargies, and Apoplexes.
Malva. Mallows. The best of Authors account wild Mallows to be best, and hold them to be cold and moist in the first degree; they are profitable in the bitings of venemous beasts, the stinging of Bees and Wasps &c. Inwardly they resist poyson, provoke to stool; outwardly they asswage hard swellings of the Privities or other places, in Clysters they help roughness and fretting of the Guts, Bladder, or Fundament; and so they do being boyled in water and the decoction drunk, as I have proved in this present Epidemical disease, the Bloody-flux.
Majorana. See Amaracus.
Mandragora. Mandrakes. Fit fot no vulgar use, but only to be used in cooling Oyntments.
Marrubium, album, nigrum, foetidum. Marrubium album, is common Horehound. Hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, openeth
the Liver and Spleen, clenseth the breast and lungs, helps old Coughs, pains in the sides, Phtisicks, or ulceration of the lungues, it provokes the Terms, easeth hard labor in Childbearing, brings away the after-birth. See the Syrups.
Marrubium, nigrum, & foetidum. Black and stinking Horehound, I take to be all one. Hot and dry in the third degree; cure the bitings of mad-dogs, wast and consume hard knobs in the fundament and matrix, clense filthy Ulcers.
Unless by stinking Horehound the Colledg should mean that which Fuchsius cals Stachys, if they do, it is hot and dry but in the first degree, and a singular Remedy to keep wounds from inflamation.
Marum. Herb Mastich. Hot and dry in the third degree, good against Cramps and Convulsions.
Matricaria. Featherfew. Hot in the third degree, dry in the second; openeth, purgeth; a singular remedy for diseases incident to the Matrix, and other diseases incident to women, eases their travail, and infirmities coming after it; it helps the Vertigo or dissiness of the head, Melancholly, sad thoughts: you may boyl it either alone, or with other Herbs fit for the same purpose, with which this Treatise will furnish you: applied to the wrists, it helps the Ague.
Matrisylva. The same with Caprifolium.
Meliotus. Melilot. Inwardly taken, provokes urine, breaks the Stone, clenseth the Reins and Bladder, cutteth and clenseth the Lungs of tough Flegm; the juyce dropped into the eyes, cleers the sight, into the ears, mitigates pain and noise there; the head bathed with the juyce mixed with Vinegar, takes away the pains thereof: outwardly in Pultisses, it asswageth swellings in the privities, and else where.
Mellissa. Bawm. Hot and dry; outwardly mixed with salt and applied to the neck, help the* 11.58 Kings Evil, bitings of mad-dogs, venemous* 11.59 beasts, and such as cannot hold their necks as they should do; inwardly it is an excellent remedy for a cold and moist stomach, cheers the heart, refresheth the mind, takes away grief, sorrow, and care, instead of which it produceth joy and mirth. See the Syrup.
Mentha sativa. Garden Mints, Spear Mints. Are hot and dry in the third degree, provoke hunger, are wholsom for the stomach, stay vomiting, stop the terms, help sore heads in in children, strengthen the stomach, cause digestion;* 11.60 outwardly applied, they help the bitings* 11.61 of mad dogs: Yet they hinder conception, and are naught for wounded people, they say by reason of an antipathy between them and Iron.
Mentha aquatica. Water Mints. Ease pains of the belly, headach, and vomiting, gravel in the Kidnies and Stone.
Methastrum. Horse-mint. I know no difference between them and Water Mints.
〈◊〉〈◊〉, mas, foemina. Mercury, male and foemale, They are both hot and dry in the second degree, clensing, digesting, they purge watry humors, and further conception. Theophrastus relates that if a woman use to eat either the male, or foemale Mercury, two or three daies after conception, she shall bring forth a child either male or foemale according to the sex of the herb she eats.
Mezereon. Spurg-Olive, or Widdow-wail. A dangerous purge, better let alone than medled with.
Millesolium. Yarrow. Meanly cold and binding, an healing Herb for wounds, stancheth* 11.62 bleeding; and some say the Juyce snuffed up the nose, causeth it to bleed, whence it was called, Nose-bleed; it stoppeth Lasks, and the Terms in women, helps the running of the reins, helps inflamations and excoriations of the Yard, as also inflamations of wounds.
Muscus. Moss. Is somthing cold and binding, yet usually retains a smatch of the property of the tree it grows on, therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding; Serapio saith that it being insused in Wine and the Wine drunk, it staies vomiting and fluxes, as also the whites in women.
Myrtus. Mirtle-tree. The Leaves are of a cold earthy quality, drying and binding, good for fluxes, spitting, vomiting, and pissing of blood, stop the Whites and Reds in women.
Nardus. See the Root.
Nasturtium, Aquaticum, Hortense. Watercresses and Garden-cresses.
Garden-cresses are hot and dry in the fourth* 11.63 degree, good for the Scurvy, Sciatica, hard swellings, yet do they trouble the belly, ease pains of the Spleen, provoke lust.
Water-cresses are hot and dry, clense the blood, help the Scurvy, provoke urine and the terms, break the stone, help the green sickness, cause a fresh lively color.
Nasturtium Album, Thlaspi. Treacle-mustard. Hot and dry in the third degree, purgeth violently, dangerous for women with child: Outwardly it is applied with profit to the Gout.
Nicotiani. Tabacco. And in reciting the* 11.64 vertues of this herb, I will follow Clustus, that* 11.65 none should think I do it without an Author. It is hot and dry in the second degree, and of a clensing nature, the leaves warmed and applied to the head are excellent good, in * inveterate head-aches and Negrims, if the diseases come through cold or wind, change them often till the diseases be gone, help such whose necks be stiff, it easeth the faults of the breast, Asthmaes or hard flegm in tho lappets of the lungues, easeth the pains of the stomach and windiness thereof being heat hot by the fire and applied to it; easeth the pains of the spleen being moistened in vineger and applied hot to the side, they loosen the belly and a 11.66 kill worms being applied to it in like manner, they break the stone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder, help the rickets, being applied to the belly and sides; applied to the navil they give present ease to the fits of the mother, they take away cold ach in
the joints applied to them, boyled, the liquor absolutely and speedily cures scabs and itch, neither is there any better salve in the world for wounds than may be made of it, for it clenseth, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out the filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the flesh from the bottom, and all this it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 speedily, it cures wounds made with 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and for this Clusius brings many 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 tedious here to relate; It is an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thing for Carbuncles, and Plaguesores, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to none; green wounds 'twill cure in a trico, Ulcers and Gangrenes very speedily, not only in men but also in beasts: therefore the Indians dedicated it to their god. Taken in a pipe it hath almost as many vertues, it easeth 〈◊〉〈◊〉, takes away the sence of hunger and thirst, provokes to stool, he saith, the Indians will travail four daies without either meat or drink by only chewing a little of this (made up like a Pill) in their mouths; It easeth the body of supersluous humors, opens stoppings. Monardus also confirms this judgment, and indeed a man might fill a whol Volumn with the vertues of it. See the Oyntment of Tobacco
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Money-wort, or Herb Twopence; cold dry, binding, helps Fluxes, stops the Terms, helps ulcers in the lungues; outwardly it is a special herb for wounds.
Nymphaea. See the Flowers.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Basil, hot and moist. Simeou Sethi, saith the smel of Basil is good for the head, but Hollerius (and he no mean Physician neither) saith the continual smell of it hurts the brain and breeds Scorpions there, and asfirms his own knowledg of it, and that's the reason (saith he) there is such an Antipathy between it and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which I am confident there is, the truth is, it will quickly putrifie and breed worms. Hollerius saith, they are venemous; and that's the reason the name Basilicon was given to it: The best use that I know of it, is, it gives speedy deliverance to women in travail. Let them not take above half a drachm of it at a time in pouder, and be sure also the birth be ripe, else it causeth abortion.
Oleae folia. Olive-leaves; they are hard to come by here.
Ononis. Rest-harrow. See the Roots.
Ophiogloslon. Adders-tongue: the leaves are very drying, being boiled in Oyl they make a dainty green Balsom for green wounds: taken inwardly, they help inward wounds.
Origanum. Organy: a kind of wild Marjoram; hot and dry in the third degree; helps the bitings of venemous beasts, such as have taken Opium, Hemlock, or Poppy; provokes urine, brings down the terms, helps old coughs; in oyntment it helps scabs and itch.
Oxylapathum. Sorrel. See Acetosa.
Papaver &c. Poppies; white, black, or erratick. I refer you to the Syrups of each
Parietaria. Given once before under the name of Helxine.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. Parsnips. See the Roots.
Persicaria. See Hydropiper: this is the milder sort of Arsmart I described there: If ever you find it amongst the Compounds, take it under that notion.
Pentaphyllum. Cynkfoil: very drying, yet but meanly hot, if at all; helps ulcers in the mouth, roughness of the windpipe, (whence comes hoarsness and Couges &c.) helps fluxes, creeping ulcers and the yellow jaundice; they say one leaf cures a quotidian ague, three a tertian, and four a quartan: I know it will cure agues without this curiosity, if a wise man have the handling of it; otherwise a Cart load will not do it.
Petroselinum. Parsly. See smallage
Pes Columbinus. See Geranium.
Persicarum folia. Peach leaves: they are a gentle, yet a compleat purger of choller, and diseases coming from thence, fit for children because of their gentleness. You may boyl them in whiteWine, a handful is enough at a time.
Pilosella. Mousear: once before, and that's often enough.
Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge, of the last Edition.
Plantago. Plantane. Cold and dry, an herb though common, yet let none despise it, for the decoction of it, prevails mightily against tormenting pains and excoriations of the guts, bloody fluxes, it stops the terms, and spitting* 11.67 of blood, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or Consumptions of the* 11.68 lungues, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, pains in the head, and frenzies: outwardly it cleers the sight, takes away inflamations, scabs, itch, the shingles, and all spreading sores, and is as wholsome an herb as can grow about a house.
Polium &c. Polley, or Pellamountain: all* 11.69 the sorts are hot in the second degree, and dry in the third: helps dropsies, the yellow-jaundice, infirmities of the spleen, and provokes urine.
Polygonum. Knotgrass.
Polytricum. Maidenhair.
Portulaca Purslain: Cold and moist in the second or third degree; cools hot stomachs, and (I remember since I was a child that) it is admirable for one that hath his teeth on edge by eating sowr apples, it cools the blood, liver, and is good for hot diseases, or inflamations in any of these places, stops fluxes, and the terms, and helps all inward inflamations whatsoever.
Porrum. Leeks. See the Roots.
Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the Flowers, which you will.
Prunella. Self-heal, Carpenters-Herb, and in Sussex Sicklewort. Moderately hot and dry, binding. See Bugle. So shall I not need to write one thing twice, the vertues being the same.
Pulegium. Penyroyal: hot and dry in the third degree; provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins, (for I take it, the herb is chiefly apropriated to those parts) strengthens womens backs, provokes the terms, easeth their labour in Child-bed, brings away the afterbirth, staies vomiting, strengthens the brain, (yea the very
smell of it) breaks wind, and helps the Vertigo.
Pulmonari, arborea, & Symphytum maculosum. Lunguewort. I confess I searching Authors for these, found out many sorts of Lungueworts, yet all agreed that both these were one and the same; and helps infirmities of the Lungues, as hoarceness, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath &c. You may boyl it in Hysop water, or any other water that strengthens the Lungues.
Pulicaria. Fleabane; hot and dry in the third degree, helps the bitings of venemous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow Jaundice, the falling-sickness, and such as cannot piss; it being burnt, the smoke of it kils all the Gnats and Fleas in the chamber, as also Serpents if they be there; it is dangerous for women with child.
Pyrus sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree. I know no vertue in the Leaves.
Pyrola. Wintergreen. Cold and dry, and very binding, stops fluxes, and the terms in women, and is admirable good in green wounds.
Quercus folia. Oak Leaves: are much of the nature of the former, stay the whites in women. See the Bark.
Ranunculus. Hath got a sort of English names: Crowfoot, King-kob, Gold-cups, Gold-knobs, Butter-flowers &c. they are of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken inwardly; If you bruise the Roots and apply them to a Plague-sore, they are notable things to draw the venom to them. Also Apuleius saith, that if they be hanged about the neck of one that is lunatick in the wane of the Moon, the Moon being in the first degree of Taurus, or Scorpio, it quickly rids him of his disease.
Raparum folia. If they do not mean Turnepleaves, I know not what they mean, nor it may be themselves neither, the greatest part of them having as much knowledg in Simples, as a horse hath in Hebrew. Rapum is a Turnep, but surely Rapa is a word seldom used; If they do mean Turnep-leaves: when they are yong and tender, they are held to provoke urin.
Rosmarinum. Rosemary, hot and dry in the second degree, binding, stops fluxes help stuffings* 11.70 in the head, the yellow Jaundice, helps the* 11.71 memory, expels wind: See the Flowers.
Rosa Solis. See the Water.
Rosa Alba, Rubra, Damascena. White, Red, and Damask Roses. I would some body would do so much as ask the Colledg wherefore they set the Leaves down.
Rumex. Dock: all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance, and therefore stops fluxes; and the Leaves are seldom used in Physick.
Rubus Idaeus. Raspis, Rasberries, or Hindberries: I know no great vertue in the Leaves.
Ruta. Rue, or Herb of grace; hot and dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, and is an enemy to generation, helps difficulty of breathing, and inflamations of the lungues, pains in the side, inflamations of the Yard and Matrix, is naught for women with child: An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides. This I am sure of, no Herb resisteth poyson more. And some think Mithridates, that renowned King of Pontus, fortified his body against poyson with no other medicine. It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly, and no Herb better than this in Pestilential times, take it what manner you wil or can.
Ruta Muraria. See Adianthum.
Sabina. Savin; hot and dry in the third degree, potently provokes the terms, expels both birth and after-birth, they (boyled in oyl and used in Oyntments) stay creeping ulcers, scour away spots, freckles, and sunburning from the face, the belly anointed with it kils worms in children.
Salvia. Sage: hot and dry in the second or third degree, binding, it staies abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times, it causeth fruitfulness, it is singular good for the brain, strengthens the sences and memory, helps spitting and vomiting of blood; outwardly, heat hot with a little Vinegar and applied to the side, helps stitches, and pains in the sides.
Salix. Willow-leaves; are cold, dry, and binding, stop spitting of blood and fluxes; the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonderfully cool the air, and refresh such as have feavers; the leaves applied to the head, help hot diseases there, and frenzies.
Sampsucum. Marjoram.
Sanicula. Sanicle: hot and dry in the second degree, clenseth wounds and ulcers.
Saponaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort; vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers, and is of notable use in the French-pocks.
Satureia. Savory. Summer-savory, is hot and dry in the third degree, Winter-savory is not so hot, both of them expel wind gallantly, and that (they say) is the reason why they are boyled with Pease and Beans, and other such windy things: 'tis a good fashion and pitty it should be left.
Saxifragia alba. White Saxifrage; breaks wind, helps the chollick and stone.
Scabiosa. Scabious; hot and dry in the second degree, clenseth the breast and lungues, helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty of breathing, provokes urine and clenseth the bladder of filthy stuff, breaks Aposthumes, and cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in white wine.
Scariola. An Italian name for Succory.
Schoenanthus. Schaenanth, Squinanth, or Chamels-hay; hot and binding. Galen saith it causeth headach, beleeve him that list; Dioscorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins: surely it is as great an expeller of wind as any is.
Scordium. Water-Germander; hot and dry, clenseth ulcers in the inward parts, it provokes urine and the terms, opens stoppings of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder, and matrix, it is a great counterpoyson, and easeth the breast oppressed with flegm. See Diascordium.
Scrophularia. Figwort, so called of Scrophula, the Kings Evil, which it cures, they say by being only hung about the neck if not, bruise it and apply it to the place, it helps the Piles or Hemorrhoids, and (they say) being hung about the neck preserves the body in health.
Sedum. And all his sorts. See Barba Jovis.
Senna. In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue, as an imparaleld Author: it heats in the second degree and dries in the first, clenseth, purgeth, and digesteth, it carries downwards both choller, flegm, and melancholly, it clenseth the brain, heart, Liver, Spleen, it cheers the sences, opens obstructions, takes away dulness of sight, preserves youth, helps deafness (if purging will help it) helps melancholly and madness, keeps back old age, resists resolution of the nerves, * 11.72 pains in the head, scabs, itch, fallingsickness, the windiness of it is corrected with a little Ginger. You may boyl half an ounce of it at a time, in Water or white Wine, but boyl it not too much; half an ounce is a moderate dose to be boyled for any reasonable body.
Scrpillum. Mother-of-Time, Wild Time; it is hot and dry in the third degree, it provokes the terms gallantly, as also helps the strangury* 11.73 or stoppage of urine, gripings in the belly, ruptures,* 11.74 convulsions, inflamations of the Liver, Lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen: boyl it in white Wine.
Sigillum Solomonis. Solomons Seal. See the Root.
Smyrnium. Alexanders of Creet.
Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding, it is somwhat dangerous given inwardly, unless by a skilful hand; outwardly it helps the Shingles, St Anthonies fire, and other hot inflamations.
Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in the second degree, it opens obstructions of the Liver,* 11.75 and purgeth watry humors, and is therefore very profitable in dropsies, it is very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon, Ginger, or Annis-seeds &c. Yet the German Physitians affirm that it cures the dropsie being only bruised and applied to the navil and somthing lower, and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all.
Sonchus levis Asper. Sowthistles smooth and rough; they are of a cold watry, yet binding quality, good for frenzies, they encrease milk in Nurses, and cause the children which they nurse to have a good color, help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause; outwardly they help inflamations, and hot swellings, cool the heat of the fundament and privities.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 Chirurgorum. Flixweed: drying without any manifest heat or coldness, it is usually found about old ruinous buildings, it is so called because of its vertue in stopping fluxes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 highly commends it, nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulaes; which though our modern Chyrurgians despise, yet if it were in the hands of a wise man, such as Paracelsus was, it may do the wonders he saith it will.
Spinachia. Spinage. I never read any physical vertues of it.
Spina alba. See the Root.
Spica. See Nardus.
Staebe. Silver Knapweed: The vertues be the same with Scabious, and some think the Herbs too; though I am of another opinion.
Staechas. French Lavender, Cassidony, is a great counterpoyson, open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, clenseth the matrix and bladder, brings out corrupt humors, provokes urine. There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name of Amaranthus, in English, Golden flower, or Flower-gentle: the flowers of which expel worms; being boyled, the water kils Lice and Nits.
Succisa, Monsus Dioboli. Devils-bit: Hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly taken, it easeth the fits of the mother, and breaks wind, takes away swellings in the mouth, and slimy flegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck, which the vulgar call, the Almonds of the ears, than this Herb bruised and applied to them.
Suchaha. And Egyptian Thorn. Very hard, if not impossible to come by here.
And here the Colledg make another racket about the several sorts of Comfryes, which I pass by with silence, having spoken to them before.
Tanacetum. Tansie: hot in the second degree, and dry in the third; the very smel of it staies abortion, or miscarriages in women; so it doth being bruised and applied to their navils, provokes urine, and easeth pains in making water; and is a special help against the Gout.
Taraxacon. Dandelyon, or to write better French, Dent-de-lyon, for in plain English it is called Lyons-tooth; it is a kind of Succory, and thither I refer you.
Tamariscus. Tamaris. It hath a dry clensing quality, and hath a notable vertue against the* 11.76 Rickets, and infirmities of the Spleen, provokes* 11.77 the terms.
Telephium. A kind of Orpine.
Thlaspi. See Nasturtium.
Thymbra. A wild Savory.
Thymum. Tyme. Hot and dry in the third degree; helps coughs and shortness of breath, provokes the terms, brings away dead children and the after-birth, purgeth flegm, clenseth the breast and lungues, reins and matrix, helps the Sciatica, pains in the breast, expels wind in any part of the body, resisteth fearfulness and melancholly, continual pains in the head, and is profitable for such as have the Falling-sickness to smell to.
Thymaelea. The Greek name for SpurgeOlive: Mezereon being the Arabick name.
Tithymalus, Esula &c. Spurge. Hot and dry in the fourth degree; a dogged purge, better let alone than taken inwardly; hair anointed with the juyce
of it will fall off; it kills Fish, being mixed with any thing that they will eat: outwardly it clenseth ulcers, takes away freckles, sunburning and morphew from the face.
Tormentilla. See the Root.
Trinitatis herba. Pansies, or Hearts-ease: They are cold and moist both Herbs and Flowers, excellent against inflamatious of the breast or lungs, Convulsions, and Falling sickness, also they are held to be good for the French Pocks.
Trifolium. Trefoil: dry in the third degree, and cold. The ordinary Medow Trefoil, (for their word comprehends all sorts) clenseth the guts of slimy humors that stick to them, being used either in Drinks or Clysters; outwardly they take away inflamations, Pliny saith the Leaves stand upright before a storm, which I have observed to be true oftener than once or twice, and that in a cleer day, 14. hours before the storm came.
Tussilago. Colts-foot: something cold and dry, and therefore good for inflamations, they are admirable good for Coughs, and Consumptions of the lungues, shortness of breath &c. It is often used and with good success taken in a Tobacco-pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oyl of Annis seeds. See the Syrup of Colts-foot.
Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwal See the Roots
Verbascum. Thapsus Barbatus. Mullin, or Higtaper. It is something dry, and of a digesting, clensing quality, stops fluxes and the hemorroids, it cures hoarcness, the cough, and such as are broken winded; the Leaves worn in the shooes provokes the terms, (especially in such Virgins as never had them) but they must be worn next their feet: also they say, that the Herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo, and the Moon in Aries, in their mutual Antiscions, helps such of the falling-sickness as do but carry it about them: worn under the feet it helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother.
Verbena. Vervain; hot and dry, a great opener, clenser, and healer, it helps the yellow jaundice, defects in the reins and bladder, pains in the head, if it be but bruised and hung about the neck; all diseases in the secret parts of men and women; made into an ointment it is a sovereign remedy for old headaches, called by the name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as also frenzies; it cleers the skin, and causeth a lovely colour.
Veronica: See Betonica Pauli.
Violarla. Violet Leaves: They are cool, ease pains in the head proceeding of heat, and frenzies, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied, heat of the stomach, or inflamation of the lungues.
Vitis Vinifera. The Manuted Vine, a 11.78 The Leaves are binding and cool withal; the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine, scour the teeth and make them as white as snow; the Leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart-burnings, vomitings, as also the longing of women with child.
Vincitoxicum. Swallow-wort. A pultis made with the Leaves helps sore breasts, and also soreness of the matrix.
Virga Pastoris. A third name for Teazles. (Thus you see the Colledg will be surer than the Miller who took his toll but twice.) See Dipsacus.
Virga Auria. See Consolida
Ulmaria. See the Root. Meadsweet.
Umbilious Veneris. Navel-wort; Cold, dry and binding, therefore helps all inflamations; they are very good for kib'd heels, being bathed with it, and a leaf laid over the sore.
Urtica: Nettles; an herb so well known, that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night: they are something hot, not very hot; the juyce stops bleeding; they provoke lust exceedingly, help difficulty of breathing, pleurisies, inflamations of the lungues, that troublsome cough that women call the Chincough; they exceedingly break the stone, provoke urine, and help such as cannot hold their necks upright. Boyl them in white Wine.
Usnea. Mosse; once before.
BOrrage, and Bugloss flowers, strengthen the heart and brain, and are profitable in Feavers.
Chamomel flowers, heat and asswage swellings, inflamations of the bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable given in Clysters or drink, to such as are troubled with the Chollick, or Stone.
Staechas, opens stoppings in the bowels, and strengthens the whole body.
Saffron powerfully concocts, and sends out whatever humor offends the body, drives back inflamations, being applied outwardly, encreaseth lust, provokes urine.
Clove-Gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver, and stomach, and provokes lust.
Schoenanth (which I think I touched slightly amongst the Herbs) provokes urine potently, provokes the terms, breaks wind, helps such as spit or vomit blood, easeth pains of the stomach, reins, and spleen, helps dropsies, convulsions, and inflamations of the womb.
Lavender-flowers, resist all cold afflictions of the brain, convulsions falling-sickness, they strengthen cold stomachs, and open obstructions of the liver, they provoke urine and the terms, bring forth the birth and afterbirth.
Hops, opens stoppings of the bowels, and for that cause Beer is better than Ale.
Bawm flowers, cheer the heart and vital spirits, strengthen the stomach.
Rosemary-flowers, strengthen the brain exceedingly and resist madness, cleer the sight.
Winter-Gilliflowers, or Wall-flowers (as some call them) help inflamation of the womb, provoke the terms, and help ulcers of the mouth.
Hony-suckles, provoke urine, ease the pains of the spleen, and such as can hardly fetch their breath.
Mallows, help Coughs.
Red Roses, cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal vertue, restore such as are in consumptions, strengthen. There are so many Compositions of them which maks me the briefer in the Simples.
Violets, (to wit the blew ones, for I know little or no use of the white in physick) cool and moisten, provoke sleepe loosen the belly, resist feavers, help inflamations, correct the heat of choller, ease pains in the head, help the roughness of the wind-pipe, diseases in the throat, inflamations in the breast and sides, pluresies, open stoppings of the liver, and help the yellow Jaundice.
Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar calls it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive.
Water-lillies ease pains of the head coming of choller and heat, provoke sleep, cool inflamations, and the heat in seavers.
Pomegranate-flowers, dry and bind, stop fluxes, and the terms in women.
Cowslips, strengthen the brain, sences, and memory, exceedingly, resist all diseases there, as convulsions, falling-sickness, palsies &c.
Centaury, purges choller and gross humors, helps the yellow Jaundice, opens obstructions of the liver, helps pains of the spleen, provokes the terms, brings out the birth and afterbirth.
Elder, flowers, help dropsies, clense the blood, cleer the skin, open stoppings of the liver and spleen, and diseases arising there from.
Bean-flowers, cleer the skin, stop humors flowing into the eyes.
Peach-tree flowers, purge choller gently.
Broom-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies
The temperature of all these differ either very little or not at all from the Herbs. And now I think I have done full out as well as the Colledge, that named three times as many and gave the vertues of none.
The way of using the Flowers I did forbear, because most of them may, and are usually, made into Conserves, of which you may take the quantity of a Nutmeg, in the morning; all of them may be kept dry a yeer, and Boyled with other herbs conducing to the cures they do.
GReen Figs, are held to be of ill juyce, but the best is we are not much troubled with them in England; dry Figs helps coughs, clense the breast, and help infirmities of the lungues, shortness of wind, they loose the belly, purge the reins, help inflamations of the liver and spleen; outwardly they dissolve swellings; some say the continual eating of them makes men lousie.
Pine-Nuts, restore such as are in consumptions, amend the failings of the lungues, concoct flegm, and yet are naught for such as are troubled with the headach.
Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers being applied to them, they are very good for weak stomachs, for they soon digest, and breed good nourishment, they help infirmities of the reins, bladder, and womb.
Sebestens, cool choller, violent heat of the stomach, help roughness of the tongue and windpipe, cool the reins and bladder.
Raisons of the Sun, help infirmities of the breast and liver, restore Consumptions, gently clense and move to stool.
Walnuts, kill worms, resist the Pestilence, (I mean the green ones, not the dry.)
Capers, eaten before meals, provoke hunger.
Nutmegs, strengthen the brain, stomach, and liver, provoke urin, ease the pains of the spleen, stop loosness, ease pains of the head, and pains in the joynts, ad strength to the body, take away weakness coming of cold, and cause a sweet breath.
Cloves help digestion, stop loosness, provoke lust, and quicken the sight.
Pepper, binds, expels wind, helps the chollick, quickens digestion oppressed with cold, heats the stomach, (for al that old women say, 'tis cold in the stomach.)
Quinces, See the Compositions.
Pears are grateful to the stomach, drying, and therefore help fluxes.
All Plums that are sharp or sour, are binding, the sweet are loosning.
Cucumers, or (if you will) Cowcumbers, cool the stomach, and are good against ulcers in the bladder.
Gaules, are exceeding binding, help ulcers in the mouth, wasting of the gums, easeth the pains of the teeth, helps the falling out of the womb and fundament, makes the hair black.
Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, of smal nourishment, they provoke urine, outwardly applied, the flesh of them help inflamations and burnings, being applied to the forehead they help inflamations of the eyes.
Melones, called in London Musk-millions, have few other vertues.
Apricocks are very grateful to the stomach, and dry up the humors thereof, Peaches, are held to do the like,
Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third degree, they expel wind, and clense the stomach of tough, and viscus humors, they ease the pains of the spleen, and help cold diseases of the womb, they clense the head of slegm and strengthen the brain, they heat the stomach and provoke lust.
Bitter Almonds, are hot in the first degree and dry in the second, they clense and cut thick humors, clense the lungues; and eaten every morning they are held to preserve from drunkenness.
Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mitigate pains are excellent for cold infirmities of the womb, and dropsies.
Cherries, are of different qualities according to their different tast, the sweet are quickest of digestion, but the sour are most pleasing, to a hot stomach, and procure appetite to ones meat.
Medlers, are strengthening to the stomach, binding, and the green are more binding than the rotten, and the dry than the green.
Olives, cool and bind.
English-Currance, cool the stomach, and are profitable in acute feavers, they quench thirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat of choller, provoke appetite, and are good for hot complexions.
Services, or (as we in Sussex call them) Checkers, are of the nature of Medlars, but something weaker in operation.
Barberries, quench thrist, cool the heat of choller, resist the pestilence, stay vomiting and fluxes, stop the terms, kill worms, help spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and strengthen the gums.
Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and blood, but are very hurtful for such as have agues.
Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, and break the stone.
Cassia-fistula, is temperate in quality, gently, purgeth choller and flegm, clarrifies the blood, resists feavers, clenseth the breast and lungues, it cools the reins, and thereby resisteth the breeding of the stone, it provokes urine, and therefore is exceeding good for the running of the reins in men, and the whites in women.
All the sorts of Myrobalans, purge the stomach, the Indian Myrobalans are held to purge melancholly most especially, the other slegm; yet take heed you use them not in stoppings of the bowels: they are cold and dry, they all strengthen the heart, brain, and sinnews, strengthens the stomach, releeve the sences, take away tremblings and heart-qualms. They are seldom used alone.
Prunes, are cooling and loosning.
Tamarinds, are cold and dry in the second degree, they purge choller, cool the blood, stay vomiting, help the yellow Jaundice, quench thrist, cool hot stomachs, and hot livers.
I omit the use of these also, as resting confident a child of three yeers old, if you should give it Raisons of the sun or Cherries, would not ask how it should take them.
COriander seed, hot and dry, expels wind, but is hurtful to the head, send up unwholsom vapors to the brain, dangerous for mad people; therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book.
Fenugreek seeds, are of a softening discussing nature, they cease inflamations, be they internal or external, bruised and mixed with vineger they ease the pains of the Spleen; being applied to the sides, help hardness and swellings of the matrix; being boyled, the decoction helps scabby heads.
Linseed hath the same vertues with Fenugreek.
Gromwel-seed, provokes urine, helps the chollich, breaks the stone, and expels wind. Boyl them in white Wine, but bruise them first.
Lupines, easeth the pains of the spleen, kils worms, and casts them out; outwardly, they clense filthy ulcers, and Gangrenes, help scabs, itch, and inflamations.
Dill seed, encreaseth milk in Nurses, expels wind, staies vomitings, provokes urine; yet it duls the sight and is an enemy to generation.
Smallage seed, provokes urin and the terms, expels wind, resists poysons, and easeth inward pains, it opens stoppings in any part of the body, yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling sickness, and for women with child.
Rocket seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, encreaseth seed, kills worms, easeth the pains of the spleen: use all these in like manner.
Basil seed: If we may beleeve Dioscorides and Crescentius, cheers the heart, and strengthens a moist stomach, drives away melancholly, and provokes urine,
Nettle seed, provokes lust, opens stoppages of the womb, helps inflamations of the sides and lungues, purgeth the breast: boyl them (being bruised) in White Wine also.
The seeds of Ammi, or Bishopsweed, heat and dry, help difficulty of urine, and the pains of the chollick, the bitings of venemous beasts, they provoke the terms, and purge the womb.
Annis seeds, heat and dry, ease pain, expel wind, cause a sweet breath, help the dropsie, resist poyson, breed milk, and stop the whites in women, provoke lust, and ease the headach
Cardamoms, heat, kill worms, clense the reins, and provoke urine.
Fennel seeds, break wind, provokes urine, and the terms, encreaseth milk in Nurses.
Commin seeds, heat, bind and dry, stop blood, expel wind, ease pain, help the bitings of venemous beasts: outwardly applied (viz in plaisters) they are of a discussing nature.
Carrot seeds, are windy, provoke lust exceedingly, and encrease seed, provoke urine and the terms, cause speedy delivery to women in travel, and bring away the after-birth. All these also may be boyled in White Wine.
Nigella seeds, boyled in oyl and the forehead anointed with it, ease pains in the head, take away leprosie, itch, scurff, and hepls scald-heads: inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine, and the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them (being burned) drives away Serpents and venemous beasts.
Stavesager, kills Lice in the head, I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly.
The seeds of water-cresses, heat, yet trouble the stomach and belly, ease the pains of the spleen, are very dangerous for women with child, yet they provoke lust; outwardly applied, they help leprosies scaldheads, and the falling off of hair, as also Carbuncles, and cold ulcers in the joynts.
Mustard seed, heats, extenuates, and draws moisture from the brain; the head being shaved and anointed with Mustard, is a good remedy for the lethargy, it helps filthy ulcers, and hard swellings in the mouth, it helps old aches coming of cold.
French Barly, is cooling, nourishing, and breeds milk.
Sorrel seeds, potently resist poyson, helps fluxes, and such stomachs as loath their meat.
Succory seed, cools the heat of the blood, extinguisheth lust, openeth stoppings of the liver and bowels, it allaies the heat of the body, and produceth a good colour, it strengthens the stomach, liver, and reins.
Poppy seeds, ease pain, provoke sleep. Your best way is to make an Emulsion of them with Barly-water.
Mallow seeds, ease pains in the bladder.
Cich-Pease, are windy, provoke lust, encrease milk in Nurses provoke the terms, outwardly, they help scabs, itch, and inflamations of the stones, ulcers &c.
White-Saxifrage seeds, provoke urine, expel wind, and break the stone. Boyl them in white Wine.
Rue seeds, help such as cannot hold their water.
Lettice seed, cool the blood, restrains lust.
Also Gourds, Citruls, Cucumers, Mellons, Purslain, and Endive Seeds, cool the blood, as also the stomach, spleen and reins, and allay the heat of feavers. Use them as you were taught to do Poppy seeds.
Wormseed, expels wind, kills worms.
Ash-tree Keyes, ease pains in the sides, help the dropsie, releeve men weary with labor, provoke lust, and make the body lean.
Peony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or the disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the fits of the mother, and other such like infirmites, of the womb, stop the terms, and help Convulsions.
Broom seed, potently provoke urine, breaks the stone.
Citron seeds, strengthen the heart, cheer the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poyson.
LAdanum, is of a heating molifying nature, it opens the mouth of the veins, staies the hair from falling off, helps pains in the ears, and hardness of the womb. It is used only outwardly in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Asa foetida, is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it, they say, inwardly taken, it provokes lust, and expels wind.
Benzoin, or Benjamin, makes a good perfume.
Sanguis Draconis, cools and binds exceedingly.
Aloes, purgeth choller and flegm, and with such deliberation that it is often given to withstand the violence of other purges, it preserves the sences and betters the apprehension, it strengthens the liver, and helps the yellow Jaundice. Yet it is naught for such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoids, or have agues. I do not like it taken raw. See Aloe Rosata, which is nothing but it washed with juyce of roses.
Manna, is temperatly hot, of a mighty dilative quality, windy, clenseth choller gently, also it clenseth the throat and stomach. A child may take an ounce of it at a time melted in milk, and the dross strained out, it is good for them when they are scabby.
Scamony, or Diagridium, call it by which name you please, is a desperate purge, hurtful to the body, by reason of its heat, windiness, corroding, or gnawing, and violence of working, I would advise my country to let it alone 'twill gnaw their bodyes as fast as Doctors gnaw their purses.
Opopanex, is of a heating, molifying, digesting quality.
Gum Elemi, is exceeding good for fractures of the skul, as also in wounds, and therfore is put in plaisters for that end. See Arceus his Liniment.
Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, hoarsness, and distillations upon the lungues.
Bdellium, heats and softens, helps hard swellings, ruptures, pains in the sides, hardness of the sinnews.
Galbanum, hot, dry, discussing; applied to the womb, it hastens both birth and afterbirth, applied to the navel it staies the strangling of the womb, commonly called the fits of the mother, helps pains in the sides, and difficuty of breathing, being applied to it, and the smel of it helps the vertigo or dissiness, in the head.
Mirrh, heats, and dries, opens and softens the womb, provokes the birth and after birth; inwardly taken, it helps old coughs, and hoarsness, pains in the sides, kills worms and helps a stinking breath, helps the wastings of the gums, fastens the 〈◊〉〈◊〉; outwardly it helps wounds, and fills up ulcers with flesh. You may take half a drachm at a time.
Mastich, strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps such as vomit or spit blood, it fastens the teeth and strengthens the gums, being chewed in the mouth.
Frankinsence and Olibanum, heat and bind, fill up old ulcers with flesh, stops bleediug, but is extream bad for mad people.
Turpentine purgeth, clenseth the Reins, helps the running of them.
Styrax calamitis, helps coughs and distillations upon the lungues, hoarsness, want of voice, hardness of the womb, but it is bad for headaches.
Amoniacum, applied to the side, helps the hardness and pains of the spleen.
Camphire, easeth pains of the head coming of heat, takes away inflamations, and cools any place it is applied to.
THat all Juyces have the same vertues with the Herbs, or Fruits whereof they are made, I suppose few or none will deny; therefore I shall only name a few of them, and that briefly.
Sugar is held to be hot in the first degree, strengthens the Lungues, takes away the roughness of the Throat, succours the Reins and Bladder.
The Juyce of Citrons cools the Blood, strengthens the Heart, mitigates the violent heat of Feavers.
The Juyce of Lemmons works the same effect, but not so powerfully (as Authors say,)
Juyce of Liquoris strengthens the Lungues, helps Coughs and Colds.
I am loth to trouble the Reader with Tautology, therefore I pass to
OF these, the Colledg names but few, and all of those few have been treated of before, only two excepted; the First of which is,
Agaricus. Agrick, It purgeth Flegm, Choller, and Melancholly, from the Brain, Nerves, Muscles, Marrow, (or more properly Brain) of the Back, it clenseth the Breast, Lungues, Liver, Stomach, Spleen, Reins, Womb, Joynts, it provokes Urine, and the Terms, kills Worms, helps pains in the Joynts, and causeth a good Colour: It is very seldom or never taken alone. See Syrup of Roses with Agrick.
Lastly, Viscus Quircinus, or Misleto of the Oak, helps the Falling sickness, being either taken inwardly, or hung about ones neck.
MIllepedes (so called from the multitude of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they have a thousand,) Sows, Hoglice, (in Sussex they call them Woodlice:) being bruised and mixed with Wine, they provoke urine, help the yellow Jaundice; outwardly being boyled in oyl, help pains in the ears, a drop being put into them.
The flesh ofa 11.79 Vipers being eaten, cleer the sight, help the vices of the nerves, resist poyson exceedingly, neither is there any better remedy under the Sun for their bitings than the head of the Viper that bit you, bruised and applied to the place, and the flesh eaten, you need not eat above a drachm at a time, and make it up as you shall be taught in Troches of Vipers. Neither any comparable to the stinging of Bees and Wasps &c. than the same that stung you, bruised and applied to the place.
Land Scorpions, cure their own stingings by the same means, the ashes of them (being burnt) potently provokes urine and breaks the stone.
Earth-Worms, (the preparation of which you may find towards the latter end of the Book) are an admirable remedy for cut nerves being applied to the place, they provoke urine, see the oyl of them, only let me not forget one notable thing quoted by Mizaldus, which is, that the pouder of them put into an hollow tooth, makes it drop out.
Eels, being put into Wine or Beer, and suffered to die in it, he that drinks it will never endure that sort of liquor again.
Oysters, applied alive to a pestilential swelling, draw the venom to them.
Crab-fish, burnt to ashes, and a drachm of it taken every morning helps the bitings of mad-dogs, and all other venemous beasts.
Swallows, being eaten, cleer the sight, the ashes of them (being burnt) eaten, preserves from drunkenness, helps sore throats being applied to them, and inflamations.
Grashoppers, being eaten, ease the chollick, and pains in the bladder.
Hedg-Sparrows, being kept in salt, or dryed, and eaten raw, are an admirable remedy for the stone.
Young Pidgeons being eaten, help pains in the reins, and the disease called Tenasmus.
THE brain of Sparrows being eaten provoke lust exceedingly.
The brain of an Hare being rosted helps trembling, it makes children breed teeth easily, their gums being rubbed with it, it also helps scald heads and falling off of hair the head being anointed with it.
The head of a cole black Cat being burnt to ashes in a new pot, and some of the ashes blown into the eye every day, helps such as have a skin growing over their sight, if there happen any inflamation, moisten an Oak leaf in water and lay over the eye; Mizaldus saith (by this one only medicine) cured such as have been blind a whol yeer.
The head of a young* 11.80 Kite, being burned to ashes and the quantity of a drachm of it taken every morning, in a little water, is an admirable remedy for the Gout.
Crabs-eyes, breaks the stone, and open stoppings of the bowels.
The lungues of a Fox well dried (but not burned) is an admirable strengthner to the lungues: See the Lohoch of Fox lungues
The liver of a Duck, stops fluxes, and strengthens the liver exceedingly
The liver of a Frog, being dried and eaten, helps quartan agues, or as the vulgar call them third-day agues.
Cocks stones nourish mightily, and refresh and restore such bodies as have been wasted by long sickness they are admirable good in Hectick feavers, and (Galens supposed incurable) Marasmus, which is a consumption attending upon a Hectick feaver; they encrease seed, and help such as are weak in the sports of Venus.
Castorium resists poyson, the bitings of venemous beasts, it provokes the terms, and brings forth both birth and after birth, it expels wind, easeth pains and aches, convulsions, sighings, lethargies, the smell of it allaies the fits of the mother; inwardly given, it helps tremblings, falling-sickness, and other such ill effects of the brain and nerves: A scruple is enough to take at a time, and indeed spirit of Castorium is better than Castorium raw, to which I refer you.
The yard of a stag, helps fluxes, the bitings of venemous beasts, provokes urine, and stirs up lust exceedingly.
A sheeps or Goats bladder being burnt, and the ashes given inwardly, helps the Diabetes, or continual pissing.
Unicorns horn, resists poyson and the pestilence, provokes urine, restores lost strength, brings forth both birth and after-birth.
Ivory, or Elephants tooth, binds, stops the whites in women, it strengthens the heart and stomach, helps the yellow-Jaundice, and makes women fruitfull.
The vertues of Harts-horn, are the same with Unicorns horn.
The bone that is found in the heart of a stag is as soveraign a Cordial, and as great a strengthner to the heart as any is, being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly, also it resists pestilences and poyson.
The scull of a man that was never buried, being beaten to pouder and given inwardly, the quantity of a drachm at a time, in Bettony water, helps palsies, and falling sickness.
That small Triangular bone in the Skul of a man, Called Os triquetrum, so absolutely cures the falling sickness that it will never come again (saith Paracelsus.)
Those small bones which are found in the fore feet of a Hare being beaten into pouder and drunk in Wine, powerfully provoke urine.
A Ring made of an Elks Claw, being worn helps the cramp.
The fat of a man is exceeding good to anoint such limbs as fall away in flesh.
Goose grease and Capons grease are both softning, helps gnawing sores, stifness of the womb, and mitigate pain.
I am of opinion that the Suet of a Goat, mixed with a little Saffron is as excellent an oyntment for the Gout, especially the Gout in the knees as any is.
Bears grease staies the falling off of the hair.
Fox Grease helps pains in the ears.
Elks Claws or Hoofs are a Soveraign remedy for the falling sickness, though it be but worn in a Ring, much more being taken inwardly, but (saith Mizaldus) it must be the Hoof of the right foot behind
Milk is an extream windy meat, therefore I am of the Opinion of Dioscorides, viz. that it is not profitable in head-aches, yet this is for certain, that it is an admirable remedy for inward ulcers in any part of the body, or any corrosions or excoriations, pains in the reins and bladder, but it is very bad in diseases in the liver, spleen, the falling sickness, vertigo, or dissiness in the head, feavers, and head aches: Goats milk is held to be better than Cows for Hectick feavers, Phtisicks, and consumptions, and so is Asses also.
Whey, attenuateth and clenseth both choller and melancholly, wonderfully helps melancholly and madness coming of it, it opens stoppings of the bowels, helps such as have the dropsie, and are troubled with
the stoppings of the spleen, rickets, and hypocondriack melancholly: for such diseases you may make up your Physick with Whey. Outwardly it denseth the skin of such deformities as come through choller or melancholly, as scabs, itch, morphew, leprosie &c.
Honey, is of a gallant clensing quallity, exceeding profitable in all inward ulcers, in what part of the body soever, it opens the veins, clenseth the reins and bladder: he that would have more of the vertues of it, let him read Butler his Book of Bees, a gallant experimental work. I know no vices belonging to it, but only it is soon converted into choller.
Wax, softens, heats, and meanly fills sores with flesh, it suffers not the milk to curdle in womens breasts; inwardly it is given (ten grains at a time) against bloody-fluxes.
Raw-Silk, heats and dries, cheers the heart, drives away sadness, comforts all the spirits, both Natural, Vital, and Animal.
As for Excrements, there the Colledg makes shittin work, and paddle in the turds like Jakes Farmers, I will let them alone for fear the more I stir them the more they stink.
SPerma Caeti, is well applied outwardly to eating Ulcers, the marks which the small pocks leave behind them, it cleers the sight, provokes sweat; inwardly it troubles the stomach and belly, helps bruises, and stretching of the nerves, and therefore is good for women newly delivered.
Amber greese, heats and dryes, strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the infirmity of them come of cold, resists pestilence.
Sea-sand, a man that hath the dropsie, being set up to the middle in it, it draws out all the water.
Red Corral, is cold, dry and binding, stops the immoderate flowing of the terms, bloody-fluxes, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, helps such as spit and pisse blood, helps witchcraft being carried about one, it is an approved remedy for the falling sickness. Also if ten grains of red Corral be given to a Child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born, before it take any other food, it will never have the falling sickness, nor convulsions. The common dose is from ten grains to thirty.
Pearls, are a wonderfull strengthner to the heart, encrease milk in Nurses, and amend it being naught, they restore such as are in Consumptions, both they and the red Corral preserve the body in health, and resist feavers. The Dose is ten grains or fewer; more I suppose because it is dear, than because it would do harm.
Amber, (viz. yellow Amber) heats and dryes, therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head, it helps violent Coughs, helps Consumptions of the lungues, spitting of blood, the whites in women, it helps such women that are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child, it stops bleeding at the nose, helps difficulty of urine: You may take ten or twenty grains at a time
The Froath of the Sea, it is hot and dry, helps scabs, itch, and leprosie, scald heads &c. it clenseth the skin, helps difficulty of urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed with it, the head being washed with it, it helps baldness, and trimly decks the head with hairs,
GOLD is temperate in quality, it wonderfully strengthens the heart and vital spirits; which one perceiving very wittily inserted those verses.
For Gold is Cordial; and that's the reason, Your raking Misers live so long a season.However this is certain, in Cordials, it refists melancholly, faintings, swoonings, feavers, falling- sickness, and all such like infirmities incident, either to the vital or animal spirit. What those be, see the directions at the beginning.
Alum, heats, binds, and purgeth, scours filthy ulcers, and fastens loose teeth.
Brimstone, or flower of Brimstone, which is Brimstone refined, and the better for Physical uses, helps coughs and rotten flegm; outwardly in oyntments it takes away leprosies, scabs, and itch, inwardly it helps the yellow Jaundice, as also worms in the belly especially being mixed with a little Salt-peter, it helps lethargies being snuffed up in the nose, the truth is I shall speak more of this, and many other Simples (which I mention not here) when I come to the Chymical Oyls of them.
Litharge, both of Gold and Silver, binds and dries much, fils up ulcers with flesh, and heals them.
Lead, is of a cold dry earthly quality, of an healing nature, applied to the place it helps any inflamation, and dries up humors.
Pompbolix, cools, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and binds.
* 11.81 Jacynth, strengthens the heart being either beaten into pouder and taken inwardly, or only worn in a Ring; Cardanus saith it encreaseth riches and wisdom.
Saphyre, resisteth Necromantick apparitions, and by a certain divine gift, it quickens the sences, helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts, ulcers in the guts, Galen, Dioscorides, Garcias, and Cardanus are my Authors
Emerald, called a Chast stone, because it resisteth lust, and will break (as Cardanus saith) if one hath it about him when he deflowrs a Virgin; moreover being worn in a Ring, it helps or at least mitigates the falling sickness, and vertigo, it strengthens the* 11.82 memory, and stops the unruly passions of men, it takes away vain and foolish fears, as of Devils, Hobgoblins &c. it takes away folly, anger &c. and causeth good conditions; and if it do so being worn about one, reason will tell him that being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly, it will do it much more.
Ruby (or Carbuncle, if there be such a stone) restrains* 11.83 lust, resists pestilence, takes away idle and foolish thoughts, makes men cheerful.
Granate, strengthens the heart, but hurts the brain,* 11.84 causeth anger, takes away sleep.
Diamond, is reported to make him that bears it infortunate, It makes men undaunted (I suppose because* 11.85 it is a stone of the nature of Mars) it makes* 11.86 men more secure or fearless than careful, which it doth by over-powring the spirits; as the Sun though it be light it self, yet it darkens the sight in beholding its body.
Amethist, being worn, makes men sober and staied, keeps them from drunkenness, and too much sleep, it quickens the wit, is profitable in huntings, and fightings, and repels vapors from the head.
Bezoar, is a notable restorer of nature, a great cordial, no way hurtful nor dangerous, is admirable good in feavers, pestilences, and consumptions, viz. taken inwardly, for this stone is not used to be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as a Jewel; the pouder of it being put upon wounds made by venemous beasts, draws out the poyson.
Topas, (If Epiphanius spake truth) if you put it into boyling water, it doth so cool it that you may presently put your hands into it without harm, if so, then it cools inflamations of the body by touching of them.
Toadstone, being applied to the place helps the bitings of venemous beasts, and quickly draws all the* 11.87 poyson to it, it is known to be a true one by this, hold it neer to any Toad, and she will make proffer to take it away from you, if it be right, else not.
There is a stone of the bigness of a Bean found in the Gizzard of an old Cock, which makes him that* 11.88 bears it, beloved, constant, and bold, valiant in fighting, beloved by women, potent in the sports of Venus.
Nephriticus lapis, help pains in the stomach, and is of great force in breaking and bringing away the stone & gravel; concerning the powerful operation of which I shall only quote you one story of many, out of Monardas, a Physitian of note. A certain noble man (quoth he) very well known to me, by only bearing this stone tyed to his arm, voided such a deal of gravel, that he feared the quantity would do him hurt, by avoiding so much of it, wherefore he laid it from him, and then he avoided no more gravel; but afterwards being again troubled with the stone, he ware it as before, and presently the pain eased, and he avoided gravel as before, and was never troubled with the pain of the stone so long as he ware it.* 11.89
Jasper, being worn stops bleeding, easeth the labor of women, stops lust, resist feavers and dropsies.
Aetites, or the stone with child, because being hollow in the middle, it contains another little stone within it, it is found in an Eagles nest, and in many* 11.90 other places; this stone being bound to the left arm of women with child, staies their miscarriage or abortion,* 11.91 but when the time of their labor comes, remove it from their arm, and bind it to the inside of
their thigh, and it brings sorth the child, and that (almost) without any pain at all.
Young Swallows of the first brood, if you cut them up, between the time they were hatched, and the next full Moon, you shall find two stones in their ventricle, one reddish, the other blackish, these being hung about the neck in a piece of Stags leather, help the falling sickness, and feavers. The truth is, I have found the reddish one my self without any regard to the lunation, but never tried the vertues of it.
Lapis Lazuli, purgeth melancholly being taken inwardly; outwardly worn as a Jewel, it makes men cheerful, fortunate, and rich.
And thus I end the Stones, the vertues of which if any think incredible, I answer, 1. I quoted the Authors where I had them, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. I know nothing to the contrary but why it may be as possible as the sound of a Trumpet is to incite a man to valor, or of a Fiddle to dauncing; and if I have added a few Simples which the Colledg left out, I hope my fault is not much, or at least wise, venial.
THus much for their old Dispensatory, which with them is now like an old Almanack out of date: Indeed had not the Printer desired it might not be (and withall promised me that he would do it in a smaller print that so the Book might not exceed the former price) I had left out what hitherto hath bin written, having published in print such a* 11.92 treatise of Herbs and Plants as my Country men may readily make use of, for their own preservation of health or cure of diseases, such as grow neer them and are easily to be had; that so by the help of my book they may cure themselves, and never be beholding to such Physitians as the iniquity of these times affords.
And thus I come to the thing they call their New Dispensatory, or as more properly it is, their old one new vamped; And first to their Cotalogue of simples.
Colledg. SOrrell, Calamus Aromaticus, Waterflag, Privet, Garlick, Marsh-mallows, Aleanet, Angelica, Anthora, Smallage, Aron, Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, Reeds, Asarabacca, Virginian, Snakeweed, Swallow-wort, Sparagus, Asphodel male and foemale, Burdocks great and small, Behen, or Bazil, Valerian white and red, Dazies, Beets, white red and black, Marsh-mallows, Bistort, Borrage, Briony white and black. Bugloss garden and wild, Calamus Aromaticus, our Ladies thistles, Avens, Coleworts, Centaury the less, Onions, Chameleon white and black, Chelondine, Pilewort, China, Succory, Artichokes, Virginian Snakeroot, Comfry greater and lesser, Contra yerva, Costus, sweet and bitter, Turmerick, Wild Cucumers, Sowbread, Hounds-tongue, Cyperus long and round, toothwort, White Dittany, Doronicum, Dragons, Woody Nightshade, Vipers Bugloss, Smallage, Hellebore white and black, Endive, Alicampane, Eringo, Coltsfoot, Fearn male and foemale, Filipendula or Dropwort, Fennel, White Dittany, Galanga great and small, Gentian, Liquoris, Dog-grass, Hermodactills, Swallow-wort, Jacinth, Henbane, Jallap, Masterwort, Orris or flower-de-luce both English and Florentine, Sharp-poynted-dock, Burbock greater and less, lovage, Privet, White Lillies, Liquoris, Mallows, Mechoacan, Jallap, Spignel, Mercury, Devils Bit, Sweet Navew, Spicknard, Celtick, and Indian, Water lillies, Rest-harrow, Sharp-poynted-Dock, Peony male and foemale, Parsneps garden and Wild, Cinkfoyl, Butter-Burre, Parsly, Hogs-Fennel, Valerian greater and lesser, Burnet, Land and water Plantane, Polypodium of the Oak, Solomons Seal, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain, Cinkfoyl, Turneps, Rhadishes garden and Wild, Rhapontick, Common Rhubarb, Mouks-rhubarb, Rose-root, Maddir, Bruscus, Sopewort, Sarsaparilla, Satiryon male and foemale, white Saxifrage, Squills, Figwort, Scorzonera English and Spanish, Virginian, Snakeweed, Solomons Seal, Cicers, Stinking Gladon, Devills-bit, Dandelion, Thapsus, Tormentill, Turbith, Colts foot, Valcrian greater and lesser. Vervain, Swallow-wort, Nettles, Zedoary, long and round, Ginger.
Culpeper] These be the Roots the Colledge hath named, and but only named, and in this order as I have set them down. It seems the Coiledg hold a strange opinion, viz. That it would do an English man a mischeife to konw what the herbs in is garden are good for, such admirable Commonwealths-men they are, so infinitly beneficiall to their Country; even in the suparlative degree.
For my own particular I aim solely at the benefit of my country in what I do, and shall impartially reveal to them what the Lord hath revealed to me in Physick: I see my first labours were so well accepted, that I shall not now give over till I have given my country that which is called the whol body of Physick, in their own mother tongue; I waigh the ill language of the Colledg no more than I do a straw under my foot; Wisdom will be justified of all her children: only I desire them not to grow to proud, but remember who it was said, Pride goes before a fall, and a haughty mind before destruction.
In antient times when men lived more in health, simples were more in use by farr than now they are: now compounds take the cheif place, and men are farr more sickly then before; The reason I conceive to be the incongruity between the Colledges compounds and our bodies; It is palpably true that their receipts were no children of their own brains, but borrowed
some from Arabia, others from Greece, and some few from Italy: I know no reason why they abscorded the names of the Authors from whence they borrowed them, unless it were either to make the Generation to come, beleeve they were their own: or else to put an exceeding difficulty to all, an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 impossibility upon most, to find the verttues of them, as not knowing in what Authors to search for them; The one of these shews the pride, the other the dishonesty of their hearts.
But to return to my purpose, my opinion is, that those herbs, roots, plants &c. which grow neer a man are farr better and more congruous to his nature than any out-landish rubbish whatsoever, and this I am able to give a reason of to any that shall demand it of me, therefore I am so capious in handling of them, you shall observe them ranked in this order.
1. The Temperature of the Roots, Herbs, Flowers &c. are of, viz. Hot, cold, dry, moist, together with the degree of each quality.
2. What part of the body each root, herb, flower, is apropriated to, viz. head, throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, bowells, reins, bladder, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, joynts, and in those which heat those places, and which cool them.
3. The property of each Simple as they, bind, open, mollify, harden, extinuate, discusse, draw out, suppure, clense, glutinate, break wind, breed seed, provoke the terms, stop the terms, resist poyson, abate swellings, ease pain.
This I intend shall be my generall method throughout the Simples, which having finished; I shall give you a paraphrase explaining these terms, which rightly considered will give the key of Galens way of administring Physick.
Marshmallows, Bazil, Valerian, Spattling poppy, Burdocks, Borrage, Bugloss, Calamus Aromaticus, Avens, Pilewort, China, Self-heal, Liquoris, Dog-grass, White-Lillies Peony male and foemale, Wild parsneps, Parsly, Valerian great and small, Knee-holly, Satyrion, Scorzonera, Skirrets.
Hot in the second degree.Water-flag, Reeds, Swallowwort, Asphodel male, Carline thistle, Cyperus long and round, Fennel, Lovage, Spignell, Mercury, Devils-bit, Butter-burr, Hogs-Fennel, Sarsa-parilla, Squills, Zedoary.
Hot in the third degree.Angelica, Aron, Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, Asarabacca, Briony, white and black, Sullendine, Virginian Snake-root, Hermerick, White 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Doronicum, Hellebore white and black, Alicampane, Filipendula, Galanga greater and lesser, Masterwort, Orris, English and Florintine, Restharrow, Stinking Gladon, Turbith, Ginger.
Hot in the fourth degree.Garlick, Onnions, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain.
Roots temperate in respect of heat are,〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sparagus, Our Ladies thistles, Eringo, Jalap, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mechoacan, Garden-Parsnips, Sink-foyl, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 cold in the first degree.Sorrel, Beets white and red, Comfry the greater, Plantane, Rose root, Maddir.
Cold in the second degree.Alcanet, Dazies, Succory, Hounds-tongue, Endive, Jacinth.
Cold in the third degree,Bistort and mandrakes, are cold in the third degree, and Henbane in the fourth.
Roots dry in the first degreeBearsbreech, Burdocks, Red beets, Calamus Aromaticus, Pilewort Self-heal, Endive, Eringo, Jacinth, Maddir, Knee-holly.
Dry in the second degree.Waterflag, Marsh-mallows, Alkanet Smallage, Reeds, Sorrel, Swallow-wort, Asphodel male, Bazill, Valerian and Spatling-poppy, according to the opinion of the Greeks, Our Ladies thistles, Avens, Succory, Hounds-tongue, Cyperus long and round, Fennell, Lovage, Spignel, Mercury, Devills bitt, Butter-burt, Parsly, Plantane, Zedoary.
Dry in the third degree.Angellica, Aron, Birthwort long and round, Sowbread, Bistort, Asarabacca, Briony white and black, Carline thistle, China, Sullendine, Virginian, Snakeroot, White Dittany, Doronicum, Hellebore white and black, Alicampane, Filipendula, Galanga greater and lesser, Master-wort, Orris English and Florentine, Rest-harrow, Peony, male and foemale, Sinkfoyl, Hogs-Fennell, Sarsa-parilla, Stinking-Gladon, Tormentill, Ginger.
Dry in the fourth degreeGarlick, Onnions, Costus, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain.
Roots moist are,Bazil Valerian, and Spattling-poppy, according to the Arabian Physitians, Daisies, white Beets, Borrage, Bugloss, Liquoris, Dog-grass, Mallows, Satyrion, Scorzonera, Parsnips, Skirrets.
Doronicum, Fennel, Jallap, Mechoacan, Spicknard, Celtick, and Indian, Peony male and foemale.
Neck and throat.Pilewort, Devils-bit.
Breast and lungues.Birthwort long and round, Elicampane, Liquoris, Orris English and florentine, Calamus Aromaticus, Sinkfoil, Squills.
HeartAngellica, Borrage, Bugloss, Carline thistle, Doronicum, Butter bur, Scorzonera, Tormentil Zedoary, Bazil, Valerian white and red.
StomachAlicampane, Galanga greater and lesser, Spicknard, Celtick, and Indian, Ginger, Fennel, Avens; Radishes.
BowelsValerian great and small, Zedoary, Ginger.
LiverSmallage, Carline thistle, Sullendine, China, Turmerick, Fennel, Gentian, Dog-grass, Cinkfoyl, Parsly, Smallage, Sparagus, Rhubarb Rhapontick, Knee-holly.
SpleenSmallage, Carline thistle, Fearn male and foemale, Parsly, Water-flag, Sparagus, round Birthwort, Fennel, Capers; Ash, Gentian.
Reins and bladder.Marshmallows, Smallage, Sparagus, Burdock, Bazil, Valerian, spatling Poppy, Carline thistle, China, Cyperus long and round, Filipendula, Dog-grass, Spicknard, Celtick, and Indian, Parsly, Kneeholly, white Saxisrage.
WombBirthwort long and round, Galanga greater and lesser, Peony male and foemale, hogs Fennel.
FundamentPilewort.
JoyntsBears-breech, Hermodactils, Jallap, Mecoacan, Ginger, Costus.
Roots cool the HeadRose Root.
StomachSow thistles, Endive, Succory, Bistort.
Liver and spleenMaddir, Endive, Cichory.
Although I confess the properties of the Simples may be found out, by the ensuing explanation of the terms and I suppose by that means they were found out at first, and although I hate a lazy Student from my heart, yet to encourage young Students in the art; I shall quote the cheifest of them, I desire all lovers of Physick to compare them with the explanation of these Rules, so shall they see how they agree, so may they be enabled to find out the properties of all Simples, (yea of such as are not mentioned in the learned Colledges Apish Dispensatory) to their own exceeding benefit in Physick.
Roots, Bind,Cyperus, Bistort, Tormentil, Cinkfoyl, Bears breech, Waterflag, Alkanet, Toothwort, &c.
DiscussBirthwort, Asphodel, Briony, Capers, &c.
ClenseBirthwort Aron, Sparagus, Grass, Asphodel, Sullendine, &c.
OpenAsarabacca, Garlick, Leeks, Onions, Rhapontick, Turmerick, Carline thistle, Succory, Endive, Filipendula, Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus, Sparagus, Smallage, Gentian &c.
ExtenuateOrris English and florentine, Capers, &c.
〈◊〉〈◊〉Garlick, Onions, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Spain &c.
〈◊〉〈◊〉Mallows, Marshmallows, &c.
SuppureMarshmallows, Briony, white Lillies, &c.
GlutinateComfry, Solomons seal, Gentian, Birthwort, Daisies, &c.
Expell WindSmallage, Parsly, Fennel, Waterflag, Garlick, Costus, Galanga, hogs Fennel, Zedoary, Spicknard Indian and Celticque, &c.
Breed seedWaterflag, Eringo, Satyrion, Galanga, &c.
Provoke the termsBirthwort, Asarabacca, Aron, Waterflag, white Dittany, Asphodel, Garlick, Centaury the less, Cyperus long and round, Costus, Capers, Calamus, Aromaticus, Dittany of Creet, Carrots, Eringo, Fennel, Parsly, Smallage, Grass, Alicampane, Peony, Valerian, Kneeholly, &c.
Stop the termsComfry, Tormentil, Bistort, &c.
Provoke sweatCarline thistle, China, Sarsa parilla, &c.
Resist poysonAngellica, Garlick, long Birthwort, Smallage, Doronicum, Costus, Zedoary, Cyperus, Gentian, Carline thistle, Bistort, Tormentil, Swallow-wort, Vipers, Bugloss, Alicampane &c.
Help burningsAsphodel, Jacinth, white Lillies, &c.
Ease painsWater-flag, Eringo, Orris, Rest-harrow, &c.
Asatabacca, Rhubarb, Rhapontick, Fern, &c.
MelanchollyHellebore, white and black, Polypodium.
Flegm and watry humorsSquils, Turbith, Hermodactils, Jallap, Mechoacan, wild Cucumers, Sowbread, male Asphodel, Briony white and black, Elder, Spurge, great and small.
* 12.1 I quoted some of these properties, to teach you the way how to find the rest, which the explanation of these terms will give you ample instructions in: I quoted not al because I would fain have you studious; be dilligent, gentle Readers be dilligent, who knows but you may come to be Collegiates, or as good Physitians as Collegiates, before you die.
Colledg] 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Nuts, Orrenges, Barberries, Birch-tree, Caper roots, Cassia Lignea, Chestnuts, Cinnamon, Citron Pills, Dwars-Elder, Spurge Roots, Alder, Ash, Pomegranates, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, green Walnuts, 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Bay, Lemmons, Mace, Pomegranates, Mandrake roots, Mezereon, Mulberry-tree roots, Sloe-tree roots, Pinenuts, Fistick-nuts, Poplar tree, Oak, Elder, Sassasras, Cork, Tamaris, Line-tree, Frankinsence, Elm, Capt. Winters Cinnamon.
Culpeper] A. Of these, Captain Winters Cinnamon, being taken as ordinary Spice, or half a dram taken in the morning in any convenient Liquor, is an excellent remedy for the Scurvey, the pouder of it being snuffed up in the nose, clenseth the head of Rhewn gallantly.
The Bark of the black Alder-tree, purgeth choller and flegm, if you make a decoction with it: Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops, Endive, and Succory roots, Parsly, and Smallage Roots, or you may bruise a handful of each of them, and put them in a gallon of new 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and let them work together, (put the Simples in a Boulter-bag) * 12.2 a draught being drunk every morning, helps the dropsie, Jaundice, evil disposition of the body, helps the rickets, strengthens the liver and Spleen, makes the digestion good, troubles not the stomach at all, causeth appetite, and helps such as are scabby and itchy.
The rest of the Barks that are worth the noting, and the vertues of them are to be found, in the former part of the book.
Guajacum, Tamaris, Orrenges, Lemmons, Citrons.
Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea, Captain Winters Cinnamon, Frankinsence, Capers.
Mace.
Oak, Pomegranates.
Mandrakes
Captain Winters Cinnamon.
Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea, Citron Pills, Walnuts, Lemmon Pills, Mace.
Orrenge Pills, Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon, Citron Pills, Lemmon Pills, Mace, Sassafras.
Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon, Walnuts.
Barberry-tree, Bay-tree, Capt. Winters Cinnamon.
Caper Bark, Ash-tree Bark, Bay-tree.
Bay-tree, Sassasras.
Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon.
Pomegranate Pills.
The Bark of Barberry-tree.
Elder, Dwarf-Elder, Spurge, Laurel.
Colledg] FIrr, Wood of Aloes, Rhodium, Brazil, Box, Willow, Cipress, Ebeny, Guajacum, Juniper, Lentisk, Nephriticum, Rhodium, Rosemary, Sanders, white, yellow, and red, Sassasras, Tamaris.
Wood of Aloes, Rhodium, Box, Ebeny, Guajacum, Nephriticum, Rosemary, Sassafras, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Cypress, Willow, Sanders, white, red, and yellow.
Rosemary is apropriated to the Head, Wood of Aloes to the Heart and Stomach, Rhodium to the Bowels and bladder, Nephriticum to the Liver, Spleen Reins, and Bladder, Sassafras to the breast, stomach and bladder, Tamaris to the Spleen, Sanders cools the heart and spirits in seavers.
For the particular vertues of each see that part of the book preceeding.
The Colledg] SOuthernwood male and foemale, Wormwood, Common, Roman, and such as beares, Wormseed, Sorrel, wood Sorrel, Maiden-hair common, white or wal Rue, black and golden, Maudlin, Agrimony, Vervain, Mallow, Ladies mantle, Chickweed, Marshmallows, and Pimpernel both male and foemale, water Pimpernel, Dill, Angellica, Smallage, Goose-grass or cleavers, Columbines, wild Tansy, or silver weed, Mugwort, Asarabacca, Wood roofe, Arach, Distaffe thistle, Mousear, Cost-mary, or Alecost, Burdocks greater and lesser, Brooklime, or water Pimpernal, Beets white, red, and black, Bettony of the wood and water, Daisies greater and lesser, Blite, Mercury, Borrage, Oak of Jerusalem, Cabbages, Soldanella, Briony white and black, Bugloss, Bugless, Sheaphards purse, Ox-eye, Box leaves, Calaminth of the Mountains, and Fens, ground Pine, Wood-bine, or Honey suckles, Ladysmocks, Marygolds, our Ladies thistles, Carduus, Benedictus, Avens, small Spurge, Horse tail, Coleworts, Centaury the less, Knotgrass, Ceterach, Cheyvil, Germander, Chamomel, Chamepitys, foemale Southernwood, Chelondine, Pilewort, Chicory, Hemlock, garden and Sea Scurvy-grass, Fleawort, Comfry great, middle, or Bugle, least or Daisies, Sarasens consound, Buck horn, Plantane, May weed, (or Margweed, as we in Sussex call it) Orpine, Sampeer, Crolwort, Dodder, Blew bottle great and smal, Artichoaks, Houndstongue, Cypress leaves, Dandelion, Dittany of Creet, Fox leaves, Teazles garden and wild, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Elder, Vipers Bugloss, Lluellin, Smallage, Endiue, Alicampane, Horstail, Epithimum, Groundsel, Hedgmustard, Spurge, Agrimony, Maudlin, Eye-bright, Orpine, Fennel, Sampeer, Filipendula, Indian leaf, Srawberry leaves, Ashtree leaves, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Goats rue, Ladies Bedstraw, Broom, Muscatu, Herb robert, Doves foot, Cotton-weed, Hedg-bysop, tree Ivy, ground Ivy, or Alehoose, Alicampane, Pellitory of the wall, Liver-wort, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Rupture-wort, Hawkweed, Monks Rhubarb, Alexanders, Clary garden and wild, Henbane, St. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Horstongue, or double tongue, Hysop, Sciatica-cresses, small Sengreen, Sharewoot, Woad, Reeds, Schoenanth, Chamepitys, Glasswort, Lettice, Lagobus, Archangel, Burdock great and small, Lavender, Laurel, Bay leaves English and Alexandrian, Duck meat, Dittander or Pepper wort, Lovage, Privet, Sea Bugloss, To ad-flax, Harts-tongue, sweet Trefoyl, Wood Sorrel, Hops, Willow herb, Marjoram, common and tree Mallows, Mandrakes, Horehound white and black, herb 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Feather-few, Woodbine, Melilot, Bawm, garden and water Mints, Horse-mints, Mercury, Mezereon, Yarrw, Devils-bit, Mosse, sweet Chivil, Mirtle leaves, Garden and water Cresses, Nep, Tobacco, Moneywort, Water-lillies, Baxil, Olive leaves, Rest-harrow, Adders tongue, Origanum, Sharp-poynted-Dock, Poppy, white, black, and red, or Erratick, Pellitory of the wall, Cinkfoyl, Arsmart, spotted, and not spotted, Peach leaves, Throughwax, Parsly, Harts-tongue, Valerian, Mousear, Burnet, smal Spurge, Plantane, common and narrow leaved, Mountain and Cretick Poley, Knotgass, Golden Maiden-hair, Poplar leaves and Buds, Leeks, Purslain, Silverweed, or wild Tansy, Horehound white and black, Prim-roses, Self-heal, Field Pellitory, or Sneez-wort, Peny-royal, Fleabane, Lungue-wort, Winter-green, Oak Leaves and Buds, Cinkfoyl, Crowfoot, Rosa solis, Rasberry and Bramble Leaves and Buds, Docks, Common Rue, or Herb of Grace, Goats Rue, Wall Rue, or white Maiden-hair, Wild Rue, Savin, Ozier Leaves,
Garden Sage, the greater and lesser, wild Sage, Elder leaves and buds, Marjoram, Burnet, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sopewort, Savory, white saxifrage, Scabious, Cichory, Schoenanth, Clary, Scordium, Figwort, Housleek or sengreen, the greater and lesser, Groundsel, Senna leaves and cods, Mother of Time, Solomons seal, Alexanders, Nightshade, Soldanella, Sowthistles, smooth and rough, Flixweed, Common spike, spinach, Hawthorn, Devils bit, Comfry, Tamaris leaves, Tansie, Dandelyon, Mullen or Higtaper, Time, Linetree Leaves, spurge, Tormentil, common and golden Trefoyl, Woodsorrel, sweet Trefoyl, Coltsfoot, Valerian, Mullen, Vervain, Pauls Bettony, Lluellen, Violets, Pansies, Perewinkles, Swallow-wort, Golden rod, Vine leaves, Meadsweet, Elm-leaves, Navil-wort, Nettles, common and Roman, Arch-Angel, or dead Nettles, white and red.
Culpeper] A. These be the Herbs as the Colledg set them down to look upon; we will see if we can translate them in another form for the use and benefit of the body Man.
Common Maiden-hair, Wal-rue, black and golden Maiden-hair, Wood-roof, Bugle, Goats Rue, Hartstongue, sweet Trefoyl, Flixweed, Cinkfoyl, Trefoyl, Pauls Betony, Fluellin.
Intemperate, are hot in the first degree, asAgrimony; Marshmallows; Goosgrass or Cleavers; Distaff thistle; Borrage; Bugloss; our Ladies thistles; Avens; Cetrach; Chervil; Camomel; Eyebright; Cowslips; Melilot; Bazil, Self-heal.
In the second degreeCommon and Roman Wormwood; Maudlin; Ladies Mantle; Pimpernel, male and foemale; Dill; Smallage; Mugwort; Costmary; Betony; Oak of Jerusalem; Marigolds; Cookow flowers; Carduus Benedictus; Centaury the less; Camepitys; Scurvy-grass; Indian leaf; Broom; Alehoof, Alexanders; Doubletongue, or tongue-blade; Arch-Angel, or dead Nettles; Bay leaves; Marjoram; Horehound; Bawm; Mercury; Devils-bit; Tobacco; Parsly; Poley mountain; Rosemary; Sage; Sanicle; Scabious; Senna; Soldanella; Tansy; Vervain; Peruinkle.
In the third degreeSouthernwood, male and foemale; Brooklime; Angellica; Briony, white and black; Calaminth; Germander: Sullendine: Pilewort: Fleabane: Dwarf-Elder: Epithimum: Bank-cresses: Clary: Glasswort: Lavender: Lovage: Herb mastich: Feathersew: Mints: Watercresses: Origanum: biting Arsmart, called in Latin, Hydropiper: (the Colledg confounds this with Persicaria, or mild Arsmart, which is cold) Sneezwort: Penyroyal: Rue: Savin Summer and Winter Savory: Mother of Time: Lavender: Spike: Time: Nettles.
In the fourth degreeSciatica-cresses: stone crop. Dittander or Pepperwort: Garden-cresses: Leeks: Crowfoot: Rosa solis: Spurge.
Herbs cold in the first Degree.Sorrel, wood Sorrel, Arach, Burdock, Sheaphards purse, Pellitory of the wall, Hawk-weed, Mallows, Yarrow, mild Arsmart called Persicaria; if you be afraid of mistaking this for the other, break a leaf cross your tongue, that which is hot will make your tongue smart, so will not this, (and here by the way let me tell the Colledg one of their errors, and I will tell them but the truth, whereas they affirm, Persicaria Maculata, or spotted Arsmart to be the Hydropiper, 'tis no such matter in our Country, most of the wild Arsmart, though not all, hath blackish spots in the leaves, almost Semi circular, like a half Moon, but to proceed) Burnet, Coltsfoot, Violets.
Cold in the second Degree.Chickweed, wild Tansy, or Silver-weed, Daisies, Knot-grass, Succory, Buckhorn, Plantane, Dandelion, Endive, Fumitory, Strawberry leaves, Lettice. Duckmeat, Plantane, Purslain, Willow leaves.
In the third Degree.Sengreen or Housleek, Nightshade.
In the fourth Degree.Hemlock, Henbane, Mandrakes, Poppies.
Herbs dry in the first Degree.Agrimony, Marshmallows, Cleavers, Burdocks, Sheaphards purse, our Ladies thistles, Chervil, Chamomel, Eyebright, Cowslips, Hawkweed, Tongue blade, or double Tongue, Mclilot, mild Arsmart, Self-heal, Senna, Flixweed, Coltsfoot, Peruinkle.
Dry in the second Degree.Common and Roman Wormwood, Sorrel, wood Sorrel, Maudlin, Ladies mantle, Pimpernel male and foemale, Dill, Smallage, wild Tansy or Silverweed, Mugwort, Distaffe thistle, Cost-mary, Bettony, Bugle, Cookow flowers, Carduus Benedictus, Avens, Centaury the less, Chicory commonly called Succory, Scurvy-grass, Buckhorn, Plantane, Dandelion, Endive, Indian leafe, Strawberry leaves, Fumitory, Broom, Alehoofe, Alexanders, Archangel or dead Nettles white and red, Bay leaves, Marjoram, Feather-few, Bawm, Mercury, Devils-bit, Tobacco, Parsly, Burnet, Plantane, Rosemary, Willow leaves, Sage, Sanicle, Scabious, Soldanella, Vervain.
Dry in the third Degree.Southern wood male and foemale, Brooklime, Angellica, Briony white and black, Calaminth, Germander, Chamepitys, Sullendine, Pilewort, Fleabane, Epithimum, Dwarff Elder, Bank cresses, Clary, Glaswort, Lavender, Lovage, Horehound, herb Mastich, Mints, Water-cresses, Origanum, Cinkfoyl, hot Arsmart, Poley mountain, Sneezwort, Peny-royal, Rue, or herb of Grace, Savin winter and summer Savory, mother of Time, Lavender, Spike, Tansy; Time; Trefoyl.
In the fourth Degree.Garden cresses; wild Rue; Leeks; Onions; Crowfoot; Rosa solis; Garlick; Spurge.
Herbs moist in the first Degree.〈◊〉〈◊〉; Bugloss; Marigolds; Pellitory of the wall; Mallows; Bazil.
In the fourth Degree.Chickweed; Arach; Daisies; Lettice; Duckmeat; Purslain; Sow thistles; Violets; Water-Lillies.
Maudlin; Costmary; Bettony; Carduus. Benedictus; Sullendine; Scurvy grass; Eyebright; Goats 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Cowslips; Lavender; Laurel; Lovage; herb Mastich; Feather-few; Melilot; Sneezwort; Peny royal; Senna; mother of Time; Lavender; Spike; Time; Vervain, Rosemary.
Heat the Throat.Archangel white and red; otherwise called dead Nettles; Devils-bit.
Heat the Breast.Maidenhair; white, black, common and Golden; Distaffe thistle; Time; Betony; Calaminth; Chamomel; Fennel; Iudian leafe; Bay leaves; Hysop; Bawm; Horehound; Oak of Jerusalem; Germander; Melilot; Origanum; Rue; Scabious; Peruinkles; Nettles.
Heat the Heart.Southernwood male and foemale; Angellica; Woodroofe, Bugloss; Carduus Benedictus; 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Goats Rue; Bay leaves; Bawm; Rue; Senna; Bazil; Rosemary; Alicampane.
Heat the Stomach.Wormwood common and Roman, Smallage, Avens, Indian leafe, Broom, Schenanth, Bay leaves, Bawm, Mints, Parsly, Fennel, Time, mother of Time, Sage.
Heat the Liver.Agrimony, Maudlin, Pimpernel male and foemale, Smallage, Costmary, or Alecost, our Ladies thistles, Centaury the less, Germander, Chamepiyts, Sullendine, Sampier, Fox gloves, Ashtree leaves, Bay leaves, Toad-flax, Hops, Hore-hound, Water-cresses, Parsly, Poley mountaine, Sage, Scordium, Senna, mother of Time, Soldanella, Asarabacca, Fennel, Hysop, Spicknard.
Heat the Bowels.Chamomel, Alehoofe, Alexanders.
Heat the spleen.All the four sorts of Maiden-hair, Agrimony smallage, Centaury the less, Cetrach, Germander, Chamepitys, Sampier, Fox-gloves, Epithimum, Ashtree, Bay leaves, Toad flax, Hops, Hore-hound, Parsly, Poley mountain, sage, scordium, senna mother of Time, Tomaris, Wormwood, Water-cresles, Hartstongue.
Heat the Reins and Bladder.Agrimony, Maudlin, Marshmallows, Pimpernel male and foemale, Brooklime, Costmary, Betony, Chervil, Germander, Chamomel, sampier, Broom, Rupture-wort; Clary, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Bay leaves, Toadflax, Hops, Melilot, Water-cresses, Origanum, Peny-royal; scordium, Vervain; mother of Time; Rocket, Spicknard, Saxifrage; Nettles.
Heat the Womb.Maudlin Angellica; Mugwort, Costmary, Calaminth, Fleabanc, May 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Marg-weed, Dittany of Creet, Schenanth; Archangel or dead Nettles, Melilot; Feather-few; Mints; Devils-bit, Origanum; Bazil; Peny-royal; Savin; Sage; Scordium; Tansy: Time: Vervain, Peruinkles: Nettles.
Heat the Joynts.Cowslips: sciatica-cresses, hot Arsmart: Garden cresses: Costmary, Agrimony, Chamomel: Saiut Johns-wort, Melilot, Water-cresses, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Stechas.
Herbs cooling the Head.Wood sorrel, Teazles, Lettice, Plantane, Willowleaves, sengreen, or Housleek, strawberry leaves, Violet leaves, Fumitory, Water-Lillies.
Cool the Throat.Orpine, strawberry leaves, Privet, Bramble leaves.
Breast.Mulberry leaves Bramble leaves, Violet leaves, strawberry leaves, sorrel, Wood-sorrel, Poppies, Orpine, Money-wort, Plantane, Colts-foot.
HeartSorrel, Wood sorrel, Vipers, Bugloss, Lettice, Burnet, Violet leaves, strawberry leaves- WaterLilles.
StamachSorrel, Wood-sorrel, succory, Orpine, Dandelion, Endive, strawberry leaves Violet leaves, Hawkweed, Lettice, Purslain, sow thistles, Violet leaves.
LiverSorrel, Wood-sorrel, Dandelion, Endive, succory, strawberry leaves, Fumitory, Liver-wort, Lettice, Purslain, Nightshade, Water-Lillies.
BowelsFumitoty, Mallows, Buckhorn-Plantane, Orpine Plantane, Burnet.
SpleenFumitory, Endive, succory, Lettice.
Reins and BladderKnot-grass, Mallows, Yarrow, Money-wort; Plantane, Endive, succory; Lettice, Purslain, Water-lillies, Housleek, or sengreen.
The WombWild Tansy, Arach, Burdocks, Willow herb, Mirtle Leaves, Money-wort, Purslain, sow thistles, Endive, succory, Lettice, Water-Lillies, sengreen.
The JoyntsWillow leaves, Vine leaves, Lettice, Henbane Nightshade, sengreen; or Housleek.
Amomus; Agnus Castus; sheaphards purse; Cypress; Horstail; Ivy; Bay leaves; Melilot: Bawm; Mirtles; sorrel; Plantane; Knot-grass; Comfry; Cinkfoyl; Fleawort; Purslain; Oak leaves, Willow leaves; sengreen; or Housleek; &c.
Open; as;Garlick; Onions; Wormwood; Mallows; Marshmallows; Pellitory of the wall; Endive; succory &c.
Soften.Mallows; Marshmallows; Beets; Pellitory of the wall; Violet leaves; strawberry leaves; Arach: Cypress leaves: Bay leaves: Felawort: &c.
HardenPurslain, Nightshade: Housleek, or sengreen: Duckmeat: and most other Herbs that are very cold.
ExtenuateMugwort: Chamomel: Hysop. Penyroyal: Stoechas: Time: Mother of Time: Juniper &c.
DiscussSouthernwood, male and foemale, al the four sorts of Maiden-hair: Marshmallows: Dill: Mallows: Arrach:
Beets: Chamomel: Mints: Melilot: Pellitory of the Wal: Chickweed: Rue: stoechas: Marjoram.
DrawPimpernel: Birthwort: Dittany: Leeks: Onions: Garlick: and also take this general Rule, as all cold things bind and harden, as is apparant by the frost binding and hardning water and mire; so all things very hot are drawing, as is cleer by the Sun who is the Original of heat, drawing up the dew.
SuppureMallaws, Marsh-mallows, white Lilly leaves &c.
ClensePimpernel: southernwood: sparagus: Cetrach: Arrach: Wormwood: Beets: Pellitory of the wal: Chamepitys: Doddar: Liverwort: Horehound: Willow leaves &c.
GlutinateMarshmallows: Pimpernel: Centaury: Chamepitys: Mallows: Germander: Horstail: Agrimony: Maudlin: strawberry leaves: Woad: Chervil: Plantane: Cinkfoyl: Comfry: Bugle: self-heal: Woundwort: Tormentill: Rupture-wort: Knotgrass: Tobacco
Expel windWormwood; Garlick; Dill; Smallage; Chamomel; Epithimum; Fennel; Juniper, Marjoram; Origanum; Savory, both winter and summer; and that, I am of opinion, was the reason in ancient times, women alwaies boyled Savory with their beans and pease, viz. to expel the windiness of them; it was a good fashion, and therefore I would not have it left: however this shews that in ancient times, people were more studious in the nature of Simples, or at the least Physitians were more honest, I mean more free in imparting their knowledg for the benefit of the vulgar; at last Honesty began to leave the Earth, and then Ignorance quickly stepping up in the place of Knowledg, people used them a while for custom sake, at last they were esteemed superstitious, and quite left off.
I care not greatly, now I am at it, if I quote one more of like nature (I am confident, were it my present scope, I could quote an hundred) and that is Tansy.
Tansie is excellent good to clense the stomach and bowels of tough viscous flegm, and humors that stick to them, which the flegmatick constitution of the Winter usually infects the body of man with, and occasions gouts and other diseases of like nature, and lasting long; this was the original of that custom to eat Tansies in the Spring, which afterwards grew to be superstitious, and apropriated only to some certain daies, as Palm-Sundaies &c. and so at last the evils of observing daies being known, and the vertues of the meat absconded, it is quite almost left off. For my part, if any think it superstitious to eat a Tansie in the Spring, I shall not burden their consciences, they may make the Herb into a Conserve with Sugar, or boyl it in Wine and drink the Decoction, or make the Juyce into a Syrup with Sugar, which they will. But to proceed.
Herbs breed seedClary, Rocket, and most Herbs that are hot and moist, and breed Wind.
Provokes the TermsSouthernwood, Garlick, al the sorts of Maidenhair, Mugwort, Wormwood, Bishopsweed, Cabbages, Bettony, Centaury, Chamomel, Calaminth, Germander, Dodder, Dittany, Fennel, St. Johns-wort, Marjoram, Horehound, Bawm, Water-cresses, Origanum, Basil, Penyroyal, Poley-mountain, Parsly, smallage, Rue, Rosemary, Sage, Savin, Hartwort, Time, Mother of Time, Scordium, Nettles.
Stop the TermsShepheards-purse, strawberries, Mirtles, WaterLillies, Plantane, Housleek or sengreen, Comfry, Knotgrass.
Resist PoysonSouthernwood; Wormwood; Garlick; al sorts of Maiden-hair; smallage; Betony; Carduus Benedictus; Germander; Calaminth; Alexanders; Carline thistle; Agrimony; Fennel, Juniper; Horehound; Origanum; Penyroyal; Poley-mountain; Rue; scordium; Plantane.
Discuss swellingsMaiden-hair, Cleavers or Goosgrass, Mallows, Marshmallows, Docks, Bawm, Water-cresses, Cinkfoyl, scordium &c.
Ease painDil, Wormwood, Arrach, Chamomel, Calaminth, Chamepitys, Henbane, Hops, Hogs Fennel, Parsly, Rosemary, Rue, Marjoram, Mother of Time.
Groundsel, Hops, Peach Leaves, Wormwood, Centaury, Mallows, senns.
MelanchollyOx-eye, Epithimum, Futhitory, senna, Dodder.
Flegm and WaterBriony, white and black: spurge: both work most violently and are not therefore fit for a vulgar use: Dwarf Elder: Hedg Hysop: Laurel Leaves: Mercury Mezereon also purgeth violently, and so doth 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Elder Leaves senna.
For the particular operations of these, as also how to order the body after purges, the quantity to be taken at a time, you have been in part instructed already, and shal be more fully hereafter.
Colledg] VV Ormwood, Agnus Castus: Amaranthus: Dill Rosemary, Columbines: Orrenges: Balaustins: or Pomegranate flowers: Betony: Borrage: Bugloss, Marigolds: Woodbine: or Honey suckles: Clove gilliflowers: Centaury the less: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: winter-gilliflowers: or Walflowers: succory: Comfry the greater: saffron: Blewbottle great and small: (Cynosbatus, Tragus, and Dedonaeus hold our white thorn to be it: Cordus and Marcellus think it to be Bryars: and Lugdunensis takes for the sweet Bryar: but what our Colledg takes it for: I know not) Cytinus: (Dioscorides calleth the Flowers of the Manured Pomgranates: Cytinus: but Pliny calleth the Flowers of the wild kind by that name:) Fox gloves: Vipers Bugloss: Rocket, Eye-bright: Beans: Fumitory: Broom: Cowslips: St. Johns-wort: Hysop: Jasmine: or shrub Trefoyl, Archangel: or dead Nettles white and red: Lavender, Walflowers: or Winter-gilliflowers: Privet: Lillies: white: and of the vally: Hops: Comon and tree Mallows: Featherfew: Woodbine: or Honeysuckles: Melilot: Bawm, Walnuts: Water-Lillies: white and yellow: Origanum: Poppies: white: and red: or erratick: Poppies, or corn Roses: so called because they grow amongst Corn, Peony, Honey-suckles: or Woodbine: Peach-flowers: Prim-roses, self-heal: sloebush: Rosemary flowers: Roses: white, Damask: and red, sage: E lder: white saxifrage: scabious, siligo (I think they mean wheat by it: Authors are not agreed about it:) stoechas: Tamaris: Tansy: Mullen, or Higtaper: Line-tree: CloveGilli-flowers, Colts-foot, Violets: Agnus: Castus: dead-Nettles white and red.
Borrage: Bugloss: Betony: Ox-eye: Melilot Chamomel: stoechas.
Hot in the second degree.Amomus: saffron: Clove-gilli-flowers, Rocket: Bawm, spicknard, Hops: schenanth: Lavender: Jasmine, Rosemary.
In the third degree.Agnus: Castus: Epithimum: Winter-gilli-flowers: or Wal-flowers: Woodbine: or Honey-suckles.
Cold in the first degree.Mallows: Roses: red: white: and Damask: Violets.
In the second.〈◊〉〈◊〉: or wind-flower: Endive: succory: WaterLillies: both white and yellow.
In the third.Balaustins: or Pomegranate flowers.
In the Fourth.Henbane-and all the sorts of Poppies: only whereas Authors say: field Poppies: which some call red: others: erratick: and corn Roses, are the coldest of all the others: yet my opinion is: that they are not cold in the fourth degree.
Moist in the first degree.Borrage: Bugloss: Mallows: succory, Endive.
In the second.Water-Lillies: Violets.
Dry in the first degree.Ox-eye: saffron: Chamomel: Melilot: Roses.
In the second.Wind-flower: Amomus: Clove-gilli-flowers, Rocket: Lavender: Hops: Peony: Rosemary: spicknard.
In the third.Woodbine, or Honey-suckles: Balaustines: Epithimum: Germander: Chamepitys.
The Temperature of any other flowers not here mentioned are of the same temperature with the herbs; you may gain skil by searching there for them, you can lose none.
Rosemary flowers; selt-heal; Chamomel; Betony; Cowslips; Lavinder; Melilot; Peony; sage; stoechas.
The BreastBetony: Bawm: seabious: schaenanth.
The HeartBawm: Rosemary-flowers: Borrage: Bugloss: sasfron: spicknard.
The StomachRosemary-flowers: spicknard: schaenanth.
The LiverCentaury: schaenanth: Elder: Betony: Chamomel: spicknard.
The SpleenBetony: Wal-flowers.
The Reins and BladderBetony: Marshmallows: Melilot: schaenanth: spicknard.
The WombBetony: squinanth or schaenanth: sage: Orris or Flower-de-luce.
The JoyntsRosemary-flowers: Cowslips: Chamomel: Melilot.
Violets, Roses, the three sorts of Poppies, and
Water-Lillies.
The breast and heart.Violets, red-Roses, Water-lillies.
The stomach.Red-Roses, Violets.
The Liver and spleen.Endive, and Succory.
Violets, Botrage, and Bugloss moisten the heart, Rosemary flowers, Bawm, and Betony, dry it.
Balaustins, Saffron, succory, Endive, red-Roses Melilot, Bawm, Clove-gilliflowers, Agnus Castus.
Discuss.Dill, Chamomel; Marshmallows, Mallows, Melilot, stoechas, &c.
Clense.Damask-roses, Elder flowers, Bean-flowers, &c.
Extenuate.Orris: or Fower-de-luce: Chamomel: Melilot:, stoechas: &c.
Mollify.Saffron: white Lillies: Mallows: Marshmallows: &c.
Suppure.Saffron: white Lillies &c.
Glutinate:Balaustins, Centaury, &c.
Provoke the terms.Betony: Centaury: Chamomel: Schoenanth, Walflowers, Bawm: Peony: Rosemary, Sage.
Stop the terms.Balaustins, or Pomegranate flowers, Water-Lillies.
Expell wind.Dill: Chamomel: Schoenanth: Spicknard.
Help burnings.White Lillies, Mallows, Marhmallows.
Resist poyson.Betony: Centaury.
Ease pain.Dill Chamomel. Centaury: Melilot: Rosemary.
Flowers purge Choller.Peach flowers, Damask Roses, Violets.
Flegm.Broom flowers, Elder flowers.
If you compare but the quallities of the Flowers, with the Herbs, and with the Explanation of these terms at the latter End, you may easily find the temperature, and property of the rest.
As for the vertues of the flowers, there were but few quoted before, and those very briefly; I think the reason was, because the Printer was afraid the book would be too big: I shall therefore give a supply here, to what was wanting there, and where I was too briefe there, I shall be more large here.
The Flowers of Ox-eye, being boyled into a pultis, with a little barly meal, take away swellings, and hardness of the flesh, being applied warm to the place.
Chamomel flowers heat, discuss, Loosen, and rarifie, boyled in Clisters, they are excellent in the wind chollick, boyled in Wine, and the decoction drunk, purgeth the reins, breaks the stone, opens the pores, casts out chollerick humors, succors the heart, and easeth pains and aches, or stiffness coming by travailing.
The flowers of Rocket used outwardly, discuss, swellings, and dissolve hard tumors, you may boyl them into a pultis, or Cataplasme, as Scholers cal it, But inwardly taken, they send but unwholsom vapors up to the head.
Hops open obstruction of the bowels, Liver, and spleen, they clense the body of Choller and flegm, provoke urine. I wonder in my heart how that apish fashion of drinking Beer and Ale together for the stone, came up, and others affirm that the disease of the stone, was not in rerum naturam, before Beer was invented, a gross untruth: for Physitians have written of the stone, that lived a thousand years before Beer was invented. I deny not but staleness of Beer, may cause sharpness of urine, otherwise Beer, if mild, is ten times better drink for such as are troubled with the stone, than Ale, as being more opening.
Jasmine flowers boyled in Oyl, and the greived place bathed with it, takes away cramps, and stiches in the sides: The plant is only preserved here in the gardens of some few, and because hard to come by, I pass it; If you desire more vertues of it, be pleased to search it in Dodonoeus.
The flowers of Woodbine, or Honey-suckles, being dryed, and beaten into pouder, and a drachm, taken in white Wine in the morning, helps the rickets, difficulty of breathing, provoke urine, and help such as cannot make water: I would have none make a common practice of taking it, for it clenseth the uritery vessels, so potently that it may cause pissing of blood.
The flowers of Mallows, being bruised, and boyled in hony (two ounces of the flowers is sufficient for a pound of hony, and having first clarified the honey, before you put them in) then strained out, this honey taken with a Liquoris stick, is an eccellent remedy both for Coughs, Astmaes, and cansumptions of the Lungues.
Colledg] WInter Cherries, Love-Apples, Almonds, sweet and bitter, Anacardia, Orrenges, Hazel Nuts, the oyly Nut Ben, Barberries, Capers, Gumny Pepper, Figs, Carpobalsamum, Cloves, Cassia Fistula, Chestnuts, Cherries, black and red, Cicers, white black and red, Pome Citrons, Coculus Indi. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Currance, Cornels, or Cornelian Cherries, Cubebs, Cucumers, garden and wild, Guords,* 12.3 Cynobatus, Cypress Cones, Quinces, Dates, Dwarf Elder, Green Figs, Strawberries, common and Turky Galls, Acorns, Acorn cups, Pomegranates, Goos-berries, Ivy, Herb True-love, Walnuts, Jujubes, Juniper berries, Bay-berries, Lemmons, Orrenges, Citrons, Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemmons, Mandrakes, Peaches, Stramontum, Apples garden and wild, or Crabs and Apples, Musk Melones, Medlars, or open Arses, Mulberries, Myrobalans, Bellericks, Chebs, Emblicks, Citron and Indian, Mirtle berries, Water Nuts, Hazel Nuts, Chest-nuts, Cypress Nuts, Walnuts; Nutmegs, Fistick Nuts, Vomiting-Nuts, Olives pickled in brine, Heads of white and black Poppies, Pompions, Peaches, French or Kidney Beans, Pine Cones, white black and long Pepper, Fistick Nuts, Apples, and Crabs, Prunes French and Damask, Sloes, Pears, English Currance, Berries of purging Thorn, Black-berries, Rasberries; Elder-berries, Sebestens, Services or Checkers, Hawthorn Berries, Pinenuts, Water nuts, Grapes, Goos-berries, Raisons, Currance.
Culpeper] That you may reap benefit by these, be pleased to consider, that they are, some of them
Raisons of the Sun, Currance, Figs, Pinenuts, Dates, Sebestens.
Sweet Almonds, Jujubes, Cypress nuts, green Hazel Nuts, green Walnuts.
The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ben, Capers, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dry Walnuts, dry Hazel Nuts, Fistick nuts.
Juniper Berries, Cloves, Carpobalsamum, Cubebs, Anacardium, bitter Almonds.
Pepper, white black and long, Guinny Pepper.
The flesh of Citrons, Quinces, Pears, Prunes, &c.
Guords, Cucumers, Melons, (or, as they are called in London, Musk Melones, I suppose for the sweetness of their smell) Pompions, Orrenges, Lemmons, Citrons, Pomegranates, viz. the Juyce of them, Peaches, Prunes, Galls, Apples.
Mandrakes.
Stramonium.
The flesh of Citrons, Lemmons, Orrenges, viz. the inner rind which is white, for the outer rind is hot.
Guords, Melones, Peaches, Prunes &c.
Juniper berries.
The Nut Ben, Capers, Pears, Fistick nuts, Pinenuts, Quinces, Nutmegs, Bay-berries.
Cloves, Galls, &c.
All the sorts of Pepper.
Anacardia, Cubebs, Nutmegs.
The BreastBitter Almonds, Dates, Cubebs, Hazel Nuts, Pinenuts, Figs, Raisons of the Sun Jujubes.
The HeartWalnuts; Nutmegs; Juniper Berries.
The StomachSweet Almonds; Cloves; Ben; Juniper berries; Nulmegs; Pinenuts Olives.
The SpleenCapers.
The Reins and BladderBitter Almonds; Juniper Berries; Cubebs; Pinenuts; Raisons of the Sun.
The WombWalnuts; Nutmegs; Bay-berries; Juniper berries.
Cool the BreastSebestens; Prunes; Orrenges; Lemmons.
The HeartOrrenges; Lemmons; Citrons; Pomegranates; Quinces; Pears.
The StomachQuinces; 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Cucumers; Guords; Musk Melones; Pompions; Cherries; Gooseberries; Cornelian Cherries; Lemmons; Apples; Medlars; Orrenges; Pears; English Currance; Cervices or Checkers.
The LiverThose that cool the stomach, and Barberries.
The Reins and WombThose that cool the stomach, and Strawberries.
The berries of Mirtles; Barbérriés, Chestnuts, Cornels or Cornelian Cherries; Quinces; Galls; Acorns; Acorn-cups; Medlars; Checkers, or Services; Pomegranates; Nutmegs; Olives; Pears; Peaches.
DiscussCapers; al the sorts of Pepper.
ExtenuateSweet and bitter Almonds; Bay-berries; Jnniperberries.
GlutinateAcorns; Acorn cups; Dates; Raisons of the Sun; Currance.
Expel WindBayberries, Juniper berries, Nutmegs, al the sorts of Pepper.
Breed seedRaisons of the Sun, sweet Almonds, Pinenuts, Figs &c.
Provoke UrineWinter-cherries.
Provokes the TermsIvy Berries, Capers &c.
Stop the TermsBarberries &c.
Resist poysonBay berries, Juniper berries, Walnuts, Citrons, commonly called Pome-citrons, al the sorts of Pepper.
Ease painBay berries, Juniper berries, Ivy berries, Figs, Walnuis, Raisens, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, all the sorts of Pepper.
Cassia Fistula: Citron Myrobalans: Prunes: Tamarinds: Raisons.
MelanchollyIndian Myrobalans.
FlegmColocynthis and wild Cucumers purge it violently, and therefore are not rashly to be medled withal; I desire my book should be beneficial, not hurtful to the vulgar; but Myrobalans of all sorts, especially Chebs, Bellericks, and Emblicks purge flegm very gently, and without danger.
Of all these, besides what hath been formerly mentioned in this Book (to which I refer you) give me leave to commend only one to you, as of special concernment, which is Juniper berries; They may be found all the Winter long plentifully growing on Warley Common in Essex neer Brent-wood, about fifteen miles from London.
Tragus saith, the Vertues of Juniper berries are so many, that they cannot be numbred; amangst which these are some: The Berries eaten (for they are pleasant in tast) are exceeding good against the biting of Adders, they resist poyson, pestilence, or any infectious disease, help the strangury, and dropsie. Mathiolus affirms that a lye made with the ashes of Juniper and water, is as great a provoker of Urine as can be; The Berries expel wind exceedingly, heat the stomach, help the digestion, provoke the Terms, the Germans make an universal medicine of them; they help the cough, shortness of breath, weakness of the lungues, convulsions, cramps, they give easie delivery to women with child; five or six berries taken every morning preserves the body in health, helps the chollick and stone, rawness of the stomach, faintings, and heart-qualms, Madness and frenzies, they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 then the eyes and help rhewms there, the yellow jaundice, falling sickness, gout, and palsey.
Take those berries that are ripe, which look black.
Colledg] SOrrel: Agnus Castus: Marshmallows: Bishops weed true and common: Amomus: Dill: Angellica: Annis: Rose-seeds: Smallage: Columbines: Sparagus: Arach: Oates: Orrenges: Burdocks: Bazil: Barberries: Cotton: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or Kneebolly: Hemp: Cardamoms greater and lesser: Carduus Benedictus: our Ladies thistles: Bastard Sasfron: Caraway: Spurge greater and lesser: Coleworts: Onions: the Kernels of Cherry stones: Chervil: Succory: Hemlock, Citrons: Citruls: Garden Scurvy-grass: Colocynthis, Coriander: Sampier: Cucumers garden and wild: Guords: Quinces: Cummin: Cynosbatos: Date-stones: Carrots English and Cretish: DwarffeElder: Endive: Rocket: bedg Mustard: Orobus: Beans: Fennel: Fenugreek: Ashtree keyes: Fumitory: Broom, Grains of Paradice: Pomegranates, wild Rue: Alexanders: Barly: white Henbane: Saint Johnswort: Hysop: Lettice. Sharp-pointed-Dock: Spurge: Laurel: Lentils: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Lemons: Ash tree keyes: Linseed: or Flaxseed: Gromwel: Darnel: sweet Trefoyl: Lupines, Master-wort: Marjoram: Mallows: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Melones: Medlars, 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Gromwel: sweet Navew: Nigella: the Kernils of Cherries: Apricocks: and Peaches, Bazil: Orobus: Rice: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Poppies white and black: Parsneps Garden and wild: through Wax: Parsly: English and 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Burnet: Pease: Plantane: Peony: Leeks: Purslain: Fleawort: Turneps: Radishes: Sumach: Spurge: Roses: Rue garden and wild: Wormseed: Saxifrage: Succory: sesami, Hart-wort: common and Cretish, Mustardseed: Alexanders: Nightshade: staves-ager: Sumach: Treacle: Mustard, sweet Tresoyl: Wheat: both the fine flower and the brann: and that which* 12.4 Starch is made of: Vetches or Tares: Violets: Nettles common and Roman: The stones of Grapes: Greek wheat: or spelt Wheat.
Culpeper] That you may receive a little more benefit by these, than the bare reading of them, which doth at the most but tel you what they are; the following Method may instruct you what they are good for.
Linseed, Foenugreek, Coriander, Rice, Gromwel, Lupines.
In the second.Dill, Smallage, Orobus, Rochet, Bazil, Nettles.
In the third.Bishops weed, Annis, Amomus, Caraway, Fennel, (and so I beleeve is Smallage too, let Aurhors say what they wil, for if the herb of Smallage be somwhat hotter than Parsly, I know little reason why the seed should not be so hot) Cardamoms, Parsly, Cummin, Carrots, Nigella, Navew, Hart-wort, Stavesager.
In the fourth.〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mustard-seed.
Cold in the first degree.Barly, &c.
In the second.Endive, Lettice, Purslain, Succory, Guords, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Melones, Citruls, Pompions, Sorrel, Nightshade.
In the third.Henbame, Hemlock, Poppies white and black.
Moist in the first degree.
Mallows, &c.
Dry in in the first degree.Beans, Fennel, Fenugreek, Barly, Wheat, &c.
In the second.Orobus, Lentils, Rice, Poppies, Nightshade, and the like.
In the third.Dill Smallages Bishops-weed, Annis, Caraway, Cummin, Coriander, Nigella, Gromwel, Parsly.
Fennel, Marjoram, Peony, &c.
The Breast.Nettles.
The heart.Bazil, Rue, &c. Mustard seed, &c.
The stomach.Annis, Bishops-weed, Amomus, Smallage, Cummin, Cardamoms, Cubebs, grains of Paradice.
The Liver.Annis, Fennel, Bishops-weed, Amomus, Smallage, Sparagus, Cummin, Caraway, Carrots.
The spleen.Annis, Caraway, Water-cresses.
The Reins and Bladder.Cicers: Rocket: Saxifrage: Nettles: Gromwel.
The Womb.Peony: Rue.
The Joynts.Water-crafses: Rue: Mustard-seed.
Cool the Head.Lettice: Purslain: white Poppies.
The Breast,White Poppies: Violets.
The Heart.Orrenge: Lemon: Citron: and Sorrel seeds.
Lastly: the four greater and four lesser cold seeds, which you may find in the beginning of the Compositions, as also the seeds of white and black Poppies, cool the Liver and spleen, reins, and bladder, womb: and Joynts.
Rose seeds, Barborries, Sheaphards purse, Purslain, &c.
Discuss.Dill, Carrots, Linseeds, Fenugreek, Nigella, &c.
Clense.Beans, Orobus, Barly, Lupines, Nettles, &c.
Mollify.Linseed, or Flax seed, Fenugreek seed, Mallows, Nigella.
Harden.Purslain seed, &c.
Suppure.Linseed, Fenugreek seed, Darnel, Barly husked, commonly called french Batly.
Glutinate.Orobus, Lupines, Darnel, &c.
Expell wind.Annis, Dill, Smallage, Caraway, Cummin, Carrots, Fennel, Nigella, Parsly, Hartwort, Worm-seed.
Breed seed.Rocket, Beans, Cicers, Ashtree keyes.
Provoke the terms.Amomus, Sparagus, Annis, Fennel, Bishops-weed, Cicers, Carrots, Smallage, Parsly, Lovage, Hartwort.
Break the stone.Mallows, Marshmallows, Gromwel, &c.
Stop the terms.Rose seeds, Cummin, Burdock, &c.
Resist poyson.Bishops-weed, Annis, Smallage, Cardamoms, Orrenges, Lemons, Citrons, Fennel, &c.
Ease pain.Dill, Amomus, Cardamoms, Cummin, Carrots, Orobus, Fenugreek, Linseed, Gromwel, Parsly, Panick.
Asswage swellings.Linseed, Fenugreek seeds, Marshmallows, Mallows, Coriander, Barly, Lupines, Darnel, &c.
Colledg] Juyces of Wormwood and Maudsin, Acacia: Aloes: Lees of Oyl: Assa foetida: Balsam of Peru: and India: Bdellium Benzoin: Camphirt: Caranna: Colophonia: Juyce of Maudlin: Euphorbium: Lees of Wine, Lees of Oyl: Gums of Galbanum: Ammoniacum: Anime: Arabick: cherry trees: Coopal, Elemi: Juniper: Ivy: Plum-trees: Cambnge: Hypocystis: Labdanum: Lacca: liquid-Amber: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Mastich: Mirrh: Olibanum: Opium: Opopanax: Picebitumen: Pitch of the Cedar: of Greece: Liquid and dry, Rozin of sirr tree, Larch tree, Pine tree: Pinefruit: Mastich Venice and Cipress Turpentine: Sugar: white, red, and Christalline, or sugar-Candy white and red, Sagapen. Juniper, Gum, sanguis draconis: sarcocolla: scamony, styrax: liquid and Calamitis: Tacha Mahacca: Tartar, Frankinsence: Olibanum: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Who would have thought our Colledg of Physitlans were turned Bird-catchers.
Culpeper.] That my Country may receive more benefit than ever the Colledg of Physitians intended them from these, I shall treat of them severally.
Juyce of Liquoris, white starch.
Hot in the first degreeSugar
In the secondLabdanum.
In the the thirdBenzoin, Assafoetida.
Cold in the first degreeSanguis Draconis, Acacia.
In the thirdHypocistis
In the fourthOpium, and yet some Authors think Opium is hot because of its bitter tast
Aloes and Manna purge Choller gently; and Scamony doth purge choller so violently, that it is no waies fit for a vulgar mans use, for it corrhodes the Bowels. Opopanax purgeth flegm very gently.
Considering I was very brief in the handling the Vertues of these in my former part, I shall supply here what was wanting there.
White starch gently levigates or makes smooth such parts as are rough, Syrup of Violets being made thick with it and so taken on the poynt of a knife, helps coughs, roughness of the throat, wheezings, excoriations of the bowels, that same very disease which so lately puzled the Learned Rabbies of our times, the Bloody-flux, or the plague in the guts (as their Worships learnedly called it) I cut my finger the other
day, and then had I got the plague in my finger by the same rule.
Juyce of Liquoris helps roughness of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Arteria, which is in plain English called the Windpipe, the toughness of which causeth coughs and hoarceness, difficulty of breathing &c. It allaies the heat of the stomach and Liver, caleth pains, soreness and roughness of the reins and bladder, it quencheth thirst, and strengthens the stomach exceedingly: It may easily be carried about in ones pocket, and eat a little now and then.
Sugar clenseth and digesteth, takes away roughness of the tongue, it strengtheneth the reins anti bladder being weakned; being beaten into fine pouder and put into the eyes, it takes away films that grow over the sight.
Labdanum is in operation, thickning, heating and mollifying, it opens the passage of the veins, and keeps the hair from falling off, the use of it is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 external; being mixed with Wine, Mirrh, and Oyl of Mirtles, and applied like a plaistet, it takes away filthy scars, and the deformity the small pocks leave behind them; being mixed with Oyl of Roses, and dropped into the ears, it helps pains there; being used as a pessary, it provokes the terms, and helps hardness or stiffness of the womb: It is sometimes used inwardly in such medicines as ease pains and help the cough; if you mix a little of it with old white Wine and drink it, it both provokes urine, and stops loosness or fluxes.
Dragons blood, cools, binds and repels
Acacia and Hyposistis do the like.
The juce of Maudlin; (or for want of it Costmary, which is the same in effect, and better known to the vulgar, some Countries call it Alecost) the juyce is made thick for the better keeping of it; first clarifie the juyce very wel, before you boyl it to its due thickness, which is something thicker than Honey.
It is apropriated to the Liver; and the quantity of adrachm taken every morning, helps the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or evil disposition of the body proceeding from coldness of the Liver; it helps the rickets, and worms in children, provokes urine, and gently (without purging) disburdens the body of choller and 〈◊〉〈◊〉; it succours the lungues, opens obstructions and resists purifaction of blood.
The rest which are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and easie to be had may be found in what goes before; such as are hard to come by I pass by, as considering it would do the Reader little good to tell him a long tale of what things are in the East Indies or Arabla.
Gums are either temperate, asLacca, Elemi, Tragatanth &c.
Intemperate, and so are hot in the first degree, asBdellium, Gum of 〈◊〉〈◊〉
In the second〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mirrh, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Frankinsence, Olibanum, Pitch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉,
In the thirdAmmoniacum.
In the 〈◊〉〈◊〉Euphotbium.
Gum Arabick is cold.
Colophonia and Styrax soften.
Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, Sandarack or Juniper Gum, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bind.
Gum of Cherry trees, breaks the stone.
Styrax provokes the terms.
Opopanax gently purgeth flegm.
Because I was brief in the vertues of these before, I shall supply here what was wanting there.
From the prickly Cedar when it is burned comes forth that which with us, is usually known by the name of Tar, and is excellent good for unction eithor, for scabs, itch, or manginess, either in men or 〈◊〉〈◊〉; as also against the leprosie, Tetters, Ringworms, and Scald-heads.
All sorts of Rozins fill up hollow ulcers, and relieves the body ore, pressed with cold griefs.
The Rozin of pitch tree, is that which is commonly called Burgony-pitch, and is something hotter and sharper than the former, being spread upon a cloath is excellent good against old aches coming of former bruises or dislocations.
Pitch mollifies hard Swellings, and brings boyls and sores to suppurstion, it breaks carbuncles, disperseth Aposthumes, clenseth ulcers of corruption and filleth them with flesh.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 heats and mollifies, and that very temperately, being mixed with any convenient Oyntment or Plaister, it helps kernels in the neck and throat, Scrophula, or that disease which was wont to be called the Kings evil, because people dream'd waking that the Kings of England could cure it by touching, which to me is as credible as the History of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and the Dragon.
Inwardly taken in any convenient Medicine, it prevokes urine and the terms, and breaks the stone; it helps coughs and the bitings of venemous beasts, it helps windiness of the Spleen, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the sides thence coming; both outwardly applied to the place & inwardly taken, it helps ruptures or such as are burst, it softens the hardness of the womb, dties up the moisture thereof, and expels the dead child.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 Judaicum is a certain dry pitch which the dead Sea, or Lake of Sadom in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cast forth at certain times, the Inhabitants there about, pith their Ships with it. It is of excellent use to mollifie the hardness of swellings and discuss them, as also against Inflamations; the smoke of it burnt is excellent good for the fits of the mother, and the falling-sickness; Inwardly taken in Wine it provokes the terms, helps the bitings of venemous beasts, and dissolves congealed blood in the body.
Ambergreese is hot and dry in the second degree; I will not dispute the case whether it be a Gum or not: It strengthens nature much which way soever it be taken; there are but few grains usually given of it at a time, I suppose rather for fear it should be too heavy for the purse than too hot for the body; mixed with a little Oyntment of Orrenge flowers, and the temples and forehead anointed with it, it easeth the pains of the head and strengthneth the brain exceedingly; the same applied to the privities helps the fits of the mother, inwardly taken it strengthens the brain and memory, the heart and vital Spirit, warms cold stomachs, and is an exceeding: strengthener of nature to old people; adding vigor to decayed and worn-out spirits, it provokes lust, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 barren women fruitful, if coldness and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or weakness be the cause impediting.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 being smelled to, is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 known to repress the fits of the mother; a little 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into an aching tooth, presently easeth the pains; ten grains
of it taken before dinner walking half an hour after it, provokes appetire, helps digestion, strengthens the stomach, and takes away loathing of meat, it provokes lust exceedingly, and expels wind as much.
Borrax, or Borrace as some cal it, besides its vertues it hath to sodder Gold, Silver, and Copper &c. Inwardly given in smal quantities, it stops fluxes, and the running of the reins; being in fine pouder, and put into green wounds it cures them at ounce dressing.
Cambuge, which out of many names, which every Country bestows upon it, the Colledg are pleased to call Gutta Gamba: Authors are extreamly different, both about its being, what is is, whether a juyce or not; If a juyce, of what, and about its operation, whether it work violently or not: for my part I care not for medling with an unknown medicine my self, neither would I advise my Country men.
Caranna outwardly applied, is excellent for aches, and swellings in the nerves and joynts; If you lay it behind the ears, it draws back humors from the eyes, applied to the temples as they usually do Mastich, it helps the tooth-ach.
Gum Elemi Authors apropriate to fractures in the skull and head. See Arceus his Liniment.
Gum Lacca being well purified, and the quantity of half a drachm taken in any convenient liquor, strengthens the stomach and liver, opens obstructions, helps the yellow jaundice and dropsie, provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins and bladder.
Liquid Amber is not much unlike liquid Styrax; by unction it warms and comforts a cold and moist brain, it easeth all greifs coming of a cold cause; it mightily comforteth and strengtheneth a weak stomach, being anointed with it, and helps digestion exceedingly, it dissolves swellings. It is hot in the third degree, and moist in the first.
I think it would do the Common-wealth no harm, if I should speak a word or two of Manna here, although it be no Gum; I confess Authors make some flutter about it, what it is, some holding it to be the juyce of a tree; I am confident it is the very same condensated that our honey-dews here are, only the Countryes whence it comes being far hotter it fulls in greater abundance: Let him that desires reasons for it, be pleased but to read Butler his book of Bees, a most excellent experimental work, where he shal find reason enough to satisfie any reasonable man. Chuse the dryest, and whitest, it is a very gentle purger of choller, quencheth thirst, provokes appetite, easeth the roughness of the throat, helps bitterness in the throat, and often proness to vomit; It is very good for such as are subject to be costive to put into their drinks in stead of Sugar, it hath no obnoxious quality at al in it, but may be taken by a woman with child, without any danger, a child of a year old may take an ounce of it at a time, dissolved in milk, it wil melt like Sugar, neither wil it be known from it by the tast.
Mirrh is hot and dry in the second degree, excee ding dangerous for women with child; It is bitter, and yet al Authors hold it to be good for the roughness of the throat and wind-pipe; half a drachm of it taken at a time, helps rhewmatick distillations upon the Lungues, pains in the sides, it stops fluxes, provokes the terms, brings away both birth and afterbirth, softens the hardness of the womb: being taken two hours before the fit comes, it helps Agues, Malhiplus saith he seldom used any other medicine for the quartan ague, than a drachm of Mirrh given in Muskadel, an hour before the fit usually came; if you make it up into pills with Treacle, and take one of them every morning fasting; it is a soveraign preservative against the pestilence, against the poyson of serpents and other venemous beasts, a singular remedy for a stinking breath, if it arise from putrifaction of the stomach, it fastens loose teeth, and staies the shedding off of the hair, outwardly used, it breeds flesh in deep wounds, and covers the naked bones with flesh.
Olibanum is hot in the second degree, and dry in the first: you may take a drachm of it at a time, it stops loosness and the running of the reins, it strengthens the memory exceedingly, comforts the heart, expels sadness and melancholly, strengthens the heart, helps Coughs, Rhewms, and pleurisies; your best way (in my opinion to take it, is to mix it with conserves of Roses, and take it in the morning fasting.)
Tachamacha, is seldom taken inwardly, outwardly spread upon leather, and applied to the navil, it staieth the fits of the Mother, applied to the side, it mitigates speedily, and in little time quite takes away the pain and windiness of the spleen; the truth is whatsoever ach or swelling proceeds of wind or cold raw humors, I know no better Plaister coming from Beyond Sea then this Gum; it strengthens the brain and memory exceedingly, and stops al such defluxions thence, as trouble the eyes, ears or teeth, it helps the gout and Sciatica.
Gum Coopal, and Gum Anime are very like one another, both in body and operation, the former is hard to come by, the last not very easy, it stops defluxions from the head, if you persume your Cap with the smoke of it, it helps the headach and Megrim, strengthens the brain, and therefore the Sinnews.
Gum Tragaganth, which the vulgar call Gum dragon, being mixed with pectoral Syrups (which you shall find noted in their propper places,) it helps coughs and hoarceness, salt and sharp distillations upon the Lungues, being taken with a liquoris stick, being dissolved in sweet Wine, it helps (being drunk) gnawings in the bowels, sharpness and fretting of the urine, which causeth excoriations either in the reins or bladder, being dissolved in milk and the eyes washed with it, it takes away wheals and scabs that grow on the eye lids, it is excellent good to be put in pultisses to sodder wounds, especially if the nerves or sinnews be hurt.
Sagapen. dìssolved in juyce of Rue and taken, wonderfully breaks the stone in the bladder, expels the dead child and after-birth, cleers the sight, dissolved in Wine and drunk, it helps the cough, and distillations upon the Lungues, and the fits of the mother, outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched.
Galbanum is of the same operation, and also taken from the same plant, viz. Fennel, Giant.
Gum Arabick, thickneth and cooleth, and correcteth Chollerick sharp humors in the body, being dissolved in the white of an Egge well beaten, it helps burnings, and keeps the place from blistering.
Mastich staies fluxes, being taken inwardly any way: Three or four small grains of Mastich swallowed down whol at night going to bed, is an excellent remedy for pains in the stomach: Being beaten
into pouder, and mixed with conserves of Roses, it strengthens the stomach, stops distillations upon the lungues, staies vomiting and causeth a sweet breath, being mixed with white Wine and the mouth washed with it, it clenseth the gums of corruption, and fasteneth loose teeth.
Frankinsence being used outwardly in the way of a Plaister, heats and binds, being applied to the temples, stops the Rhewms that flows to the eyes, helps green wounds, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh, stops the bleeding of wounds, though the Arteries be cut, being made into an Oyntment with Vineger and Hogs-grease, helps the Itch, burnings, ulcers in the head, pains in the ears, inflamations in womens breasts, commonly called the Ague in the breast; beware of taking it inwardly, least it cause madness.
Turpentine is hot in the second degree, it heals softens, it discusseth and purgeth, clenseth the reins, provokes urine.
Styrax Calamitis is hot and dry in the second degree, it healeth, mollifieth, and concocteth; being taken inwardly helps the cough, and distillation of the Lungues, hoarceness and losse of voice, helps the hardness of the womb, and provokes the terms; if you take ten grains of it at a time made up in the form of a Pill.
Ammoniacum, hot and dry in the third degree, softens, draws, and heats; being dissolved in Vineger, strained and applied plaister-wise, it takes away bunckles and hardness in the flesh, it is one of the best remedies that I know for infirmities of the spleen, being applied to the left side; being made into an Oyntment with Oyl, it is excellent good to anoint the Limbs of such as are weary; a scruple of it being taken in the form of a Pill losens the belly, gives speedy delivery to women in travail, helps diseases in the spleen, the sciatica and all pains in the joynts, such as piss blood, and have any humor afflicting their Breast.
Camphire, it is held by al Authority to be cold and dry in the third degree, it is of very thin and subtil parts, insomuch that being beaten into very fine pouder it will vanish away into the air, being beaten into pouder and mixed with Oyl, and the temples anointed therewith, easeth head aches proceeding of heat, al inflamations whatsoever; the back being anointed with the same, cools the reins, and Seminal Vessels, stops the running of the reins and whites in women, the moderate use of Venery, the like it doth if it be drunk inwardly with Betony Water, take but a smal quantity of it at a time inwardly, it resists poyson and bitings by venemous beasts; outwardly applied as before and the eyes anointed with it, stops hot rhewms that flow thither.
Opopanax purgeth thick flegm from the most remote parts of the body, viz. the brain, joynts, hands and feet, the nerves and breast, and strengthens all these parts when they are weak, if the weakness proceed of cold as usually it doth; it helps weakness of the sight, old rotten coughs, and gouts of all sorts, dropsies, and swellings of the spleen, it helps the strangury and difficulty of making Urine; provokes the terms, and helps all cold afflictions of the womb, have a care you give it not to any women with child. The dose is one drachm at most corrected with a little Mastich, dissolved in Vineger and outwardly applied helps the passions of the Spleen.
Colledg. VIneger, Juyce of Citrons, Juyce of sowr Grapes, Orrenges, barberries, Tares of a Birch-tree, Juyce of Chermes, Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemmons, Wood-sorrel, Oyl of unripe Olives, and ripe Olives both new and old, Juyce of red and Damask Roses, Wine, Tares of a Vine.
Culpeper] A The Vertues of most of these may be found in the Syrups, and are few of them used alone, unless it be Vineger to make sawce, and Wine to drink.
Colledg. AGrick, Jews-ears, the Berries of Cermes, the Spungy substance of the Bryar, Moss, Viscus Quercinus, Oak Apples.
Culpeper] A. As the Colledg would have you know these, so would I know what the chiefest of them are good for.
Jews-ears boyled in Milk and drunk, helpeth sore Throats: it is the opinion of those that have studied Hermetick Phylosophy, That those things which resemble any parts of mans body, strengthens those parts of the body they resemble, and help the diseases they are vulgarly incident to, which is an approved truth in this; for as they resemble the Bar of a man, so being boyled in white Wine, and the Wine drunk, and the Jews-ears applied to the Ear outwardly, will help deafness, inflamations, and other infirmities of the Ears.
Moss, is cold, dry, and binding, therefore good for fluxes of all sorts: if you desire to know more of it, I desire you would see my English Physitian.
Our Colledg must have none but Misleto of the Oak used, and what has any body to do to question them for so doing? let the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 buy only such, and paysawce for it; it is nothing to me; but as for the poor Country man, I can tell him this, and I will tell him but the truth, and am able to prove it when I have done, That one sort of Misleto is as good as another; it helps the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sickness, and the convulsions being 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gathered and used.
Oak Apples: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith if Oak Apples be broken alonder about the time of their withering before they have a hole through them, they contain in them one Living-creature or another, which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it be a Fly it signifies War, if a Spider, Pestilence, if a Magget, Murren of beasts, if a Worm, scarcity of Victuals, if an Ant, plenty of Corn for us; Ple bind no bodies faith to beleeve it, because I never tried it my self; this I say, they are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and binding: being boyled in milk and drunk, they stop fluxes and the terms; and being boyled in Vineger, and the body anoynted with the Vineger cures the Itch.
Colledg. BEES, Woodlite, Silkworms, Stoads, Crabs of the River, little Puppy Dogs, Grashoppers, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cathanel, Hedg-hogs, Emets or Ants, Larks, Swallows, and their yong ones, Hors-leeches, Snails, Earth-worms, Dish-washers or Wagtails, House Sparrows, and Hedg Sparrows, Frogs, Scincus, Land Scorpions, Moles, or Mants, Tortoise of the woods, Tenches, Vipers and Foxes.
Culpeper] A. The part of this crew of Cattel and some others which they have not been pleased to learn may be made beneficial to your sick bodies, be pleased to understand, that
Bees being burnt to ashes, and a Ly made with the ashes, trimly decks a bald head being washed with it.
Snails with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 on their backs, being first washed from the dirt, then the shels broken, and they boyled in spring Water, but not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at all, for the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 will sink of it self, and the water drunk for ordinary drink is a most admirable remedy for a consumption, and here by the way I cannot but admire at the simplicity of most Physitians, who prescribe that the snails ought to be purged from their flime either with salt or bran before they be used, which if you do, you take away their vertue, for the reason why they cure a consumption is this, Man being made of the slime of the Earth, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 substance recovers him when he is wasted; if you please to eat the Snails when they are boyled you may, for they have a very pleasing tast, & it would be very cunningly done of you, if you did so, especially in these hard times, for then would you have meat, drink, and medicine all together. Besides this, being 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and applied to the place they help the gout, draw thorns out of the flesh, and held to the Nose help the bleeding thereof.
Frogs. It is a vulgar fashion of the Walloons to catch live Frogs and cut off their hinder Legs and fry them and eat them; whether they be good meat or no I know not, but I am sure 'tis a good medicine for the biting of Serpents: An Oyl made of it is excellent good for the stifness of the Tendons, and the falling off of hair.
Before I come to the Compounds, lest any should think I go about to hide from them any thing that might do them good, I have here inserted the living Creatures, and Excrements, &c. in the order the Colledg left them, (for impose them they could not for want of Authority; Alack! alack! the King is dead, and the Colledg of Physitians want power to impose the Turds upon men.) The use of the Fats and Suets, you shel have if you please but to stay til I come to the Oyls and Oyntments; the other which you think not useful for Physick, will serve to laugh at, the reading of them may make you 〈◊〉〈◊〉, though the smell of them might turn your stomach: My self cannot chuse but smile to think in what part of the Apothecaries Shop the Colledg would have them kept, they had need place them neer the Civit pot.
Colledg. THE Fat, Grease, or Suet of a Duck, Goose, Ecl, Bare, Herron, Thymallos (if you know where to get it) Dog, Capon, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, wild Cat, Stork, Coney, Horse, Hedg-hog, Hen, Man, Lyon, Hare, Pike or 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (if they have any fat I am 〈◊〉〈◊〉 'tis worth twelve pence a grain) Wolf, Mouse of the Mountains, (if you can catch them) 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Serpent, Badger, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Bear, Fox, Vultur (if you can catch them) Album 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, a Dogs Turd, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of a Hare and a Hog, East and West 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Butter not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and salted, stone taken out of a mans Bladder, Vipers
flesh, fresh Cheese, Castorium, white, yellow, and virgins wax, the Brain of Hares and Sparrows, Crabs claws, the Rennet of a Lamb, Kid, a Hare, and a Calf, and a Horse too (quoth the Colledg:) [They should have put in the Rennet of ah Ass to make a Medicine for their adle brains; the next time they alter their Dispensarory, let them go take council of the Butchers, and allow them a place in their Colledg-Garden in Amen-Corner as they have done their learned Alchymist; truly they would have knocked down such an Earor like an Ox, and told them no creatures had Rennets, but only such as sucked: to proceed.] The Heart of a Bullock, a Stag, a Hog, and a Weather; the Horn of an Elk, a Hart, a Rhinocerot, an Unicorn; the skull of a Man, killed by a violent death; a Cocks comb [to hang upon their learned heads] the Tooth of a Bore, an Elephant, and a Sea-horse, Ivory, or Elephants Tooth, the skin a Snake hath cast off, the gall of a Hawk, Bullock, a shee Goat, a Hare, a Kite, a Hog, a Bull, a Bear, the cases of Silk-worms, the Liver of a Wolf, an Otter, a Frog, Ising-glass, the guts of a Wolf, and a Fox, the milk of a shee Ass, a shee Goat, a Woman, an Ewe, a Heifer, East and West Bezoar, the stone in the head of a Carp, and a Pearch, if there be any stone in an Ox Gall, stone in the Bladder of a Man, the Jaw of a Pike or Jack, Pearls, the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep, Ox, Goat, Stag, Calf, common and virgin Honey, Musk, Mummy, a Swallows nest, Crabs eyes, the Omentum or Call of a Lamb, Ram, Weather, Calf, the whites, yolks, and shells of Hens Egs, Emets Egs, bone of a Stags Heart, an Ox Leg, Ossepiae, the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard, the Wool of Hares, the feathers of Partridges, that which Bees make at the entrance of the Hive [to keep out cold if they make any thing at all, for I assure you I could never find any yet, and have been a diligent searcher after it] the pizzle of a Stag, of a Bull, Fox Lungues, fasting spittle, the blood of a Pidgeon, of a Cat, of a hee Goat, of a Hare, of a Partridg, of a Sow, of a Bull, of a Badger, of a Snail, [they might have been a little plainer; Testudo, which is their word, signifies any shell-fish, as also snails that have shels on their backs; any thing will serve to cheat the people with] Silk, Whey, the suet of a Bullock, of a Stag, of a hee Goat, of a Sheep, of a Heiser, Sperma 〈◊〉〈◊〉, a Bullocks Spleen, the skin a Snake hath cast off, the Turds of a Goose, of a Dog, of a Goat, of Pidgeons, of a stone-horse, of a Hen, of Swallows, of Men, of Women, of Mice, of Peacocks, of a Hog, of a Heiser, the Ancle of a Hare, of a Sow, Cobwebs, Water shels, as Blatta Bizantia, Buccinae, Crabs, Cockles, Dentalis, Entalis, mother of Pearl, Mytuli purpurae, Os sepiae, Umbilicus, Marinus, the stones of a Horse, of a Cock, the hoof of an Elk, of an Ass, of a Bullock, of a Horse, of a Lyon, the piss of a Bore, of a shee Goats of a Man or Woman that is a Maid, and that is not a Maid, the Moss on a Mans skull, Zibeth.
Culpeper] A. The Liver of a Hedg-hog being dried and beaten into pouder and drunk with Wine, strengthens the Reins exceedingly, and helps the dropsie, convulsions, and the Falling-sickness, together with all fluxes of the Bowels.
The Liver being in like manner brought into pouders strengthens the Liver exceedingly, and helps the dropsie.
The Heart of a Frog being applied to the Region of the Heart in a burning Feaver, mitigates the fits to admiration.
The Heart of a Lark being bound to the Thigh of those that have the Chollick, helps them; it doth the like also, being eaten.
Coll. AMber-greese, Sea water, Sea sand, Bitumen, Amber, white and yellow, Jet, Carallinae, Corral white and red, Fome of the Sea, Spunge stone, Pumice, Sea salt, Spunges, Amber.
VErt-de-greese, scales of Brass, Aetitis, Alana Terra, Alabaster, Alectorious, Allum Scisile and Roch, Amethist, Amianth, Ampheliles, Antimony, Leaves and filings of Silver, Quick-silver, Lapis Armenius, native Arsenick, both white and red, artifieial Arsnick, white and realgar, Argilla, Asteria, Leaves and filings of Gold, Belemnites, Beril, Bole-armenick, Borax, Toads-stone, Lapis Calaminaris, Cadmia, Lime quick and quenched, Vitriol, white, blew, and green, Steel, Borax 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Crysopus, Cinabaris, native and artificial, whetstones, Chalk white and green, Cristal, Diphriges, the rust, dust, scales, and flakes of Iron, Granate, Morter, such as walls are daubed with, Hematites, Heliotropium, Jacinth, Hibernicus, Jasper, Lapis Judaicus, Tiles, Lapis Lazuli, Lapis Lincis, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Litharge of Silver and Gold, Loadstone, Marchasite, or fire-stone, Marble, red Lead, native and artificial; Myst, Naphtha, Lapis Nephriticus, Niter, Oaker, yellow and red, Onyx, Opalus, Ophytes, Osteocolla, Lead white and black, Plumbago, Pompholix, Marchasite realgar, Ruby, red Oaker, Sal Armoniack, Sal Gem, and Sal Niter, Saphir and Sardine, Selenites, Flints, Emerald, Smiris, Sori, Spodium, Peuter, Brimstone quick and common, Talch, Earth of Cimolia, Samos, Lemnos, Sylesia, Topas, Alana Terra, Tutty, Vitriol, white, blew, and green.
When the ground of our institution required us, then one to one simple, and sometimes to repeat them in diverse places, it pleased us to note those that are iterated in a different Character, lest we should seem to make a needless repetition, or increase our Catalogue for vain glory sake.
Well said Colledg.
Culpeper] A. Also I repeated them twice or thrice when they did, & caused them to be set down in a different Letter; also I hope it will make to my honor and not to my disgrace to imitate such a learned Colledg of Physicians.
Of some precious stones I spake before in the former Edition; I shall here reduce them all into order, and treat of such as were casually there omitted: whether they were mentioned by the Colledg or no it matters nothing to me.
By a way manifest, they are
Hot in the first degree.Hemetites, Pyrites, Lapis Asius, Thyites, Smyres, Lapis Schistus.
Precious Stones cold, are in the first degree.Jacinth, Saphir, Emerald, Cristal, Lapis Samius, Lapis Phrygius.
In the second degree.Ruby, Carbuncle, Granate, Sardony.
In the fourth degree.Diamond.
In respect of property, they bind, as Lapis Asius, Nectius, Geodes, Pumice-stone.
Emollient, asAlabaster, Jet, Lapis Thrasius.
Stupifie, asMemphites, Jasper, Ophites.
Clense, asLapis Arabicus.
Glutinate, asGalactites, Melites.
〈◊〉〈◊〉, asMorochtus.
Break the stone, asLapis Lyncis, Lapis Judaicus, Lapis Sponge.
Retain the fruit in the Womb, as Aetites, Jasper.
Provoke the Terms.Ostracites.
〈◊〉〈◊〉, Topas, Lapis Colubrinus, Toad-stone, Emerald, Alectorius, Calcidonius, Amethist, Saphit, Jasper, Lapis Nephriticus, Lapis Tibernum, Lapis Spongites, the Stone found in the Maw of a Swallow, Load-stone, Lapis Vulturis, Merlucius, Corral, Lynturius, Jet, Aetites, the stones of Crabs, Amber, Cristal, &c.
The Load-stone purgeth gross humors.
Lapis Armenius, and Lapis Laxuli, purge Melancholly.
To speak a word or two of those which were then pretermitted.
A Water-Snake, a string being thrust through her tail, and she hung up, a Vessel full of Water being set underneath, into which she may put her Head; after* 12.5 certain hours, or dayes, she will vomit up a Stone, which being received in the vessel full of water will drink it all up, which being bound to the Navil of one that hath the Dropsie, drinks up all the water.
Lapis Calcidonius, being hung about the neck, helps those melancholly illusions, and melancholly fancies.
In the Indian Sea, are taken certain strong fighting Fish, called Tyburones; in the Heads of which, are* 12.6 found three or four Stones, sometimes more, very white, great and ponderous, insomuch, that sometimes they weigh two pound: The pouder of this Stone is very profitable for such as are troubled with the Stone and difficulty of Urine, breaks the stone in the Reins and Bladder.
Blood-stone is a kind of Jasper of diverse colors,* 12.7 with red spots in it like blood, stops the Terms and bleeding in any part of the Body.
Hemetites stops blood, the Eyes being often stroken with it, helps bloodshed; being beaten into pouder* 12.8 and taken inwardly provokes urine and stops the Terms.
Pyrites, heats and clenseth, takes away dimness of* 12.9 sight.
Lapis Asius binds, and moderately corrodes and elenseth filthy ulcers, and fills them up with flesh; being mixed with Honey, and applied to the place, is an admirable remedy for the Gout.
Christal being beaten into very fine pouder, and a* 12.10 drachm of it taken at a time helps the bloody-flux, stops the whites in women, and increaseth milk in Nurses.
Lapis Samius is cooling and binding, it is very comfortable to the stomach, but it dulls the Sences,* 12.11 helps Fluxes of the Eyes and Ulcers: Dioscorides held that it was little inferior to Lapis Aetites in all his vertues.
That which comes off from a Whetstone of Cypress by whetting, helps baldness; being taken inwardly with Vineger consumes the Spleen and helps the falling-sickness.
Geodetes binds and dries; being beaten into pouder and mixed with water, and applied to the place, takes away inflamations of the Testicles.
Pumice-stone being beaten into pouder and the* 12.12 teeth rubbed with it, clenseth them.
Jet, it is of a softening and discussing nature, it resisteth the fits of the Mother.
Lapis Memphites: Dioscorides saith, that if it be beaten to pouder and made into an Oyntment, and the part of a man which is to be cut off anointed with it, it takes away the sence of it without any danger.
Lapis Ophites: some of these stones have white lines in them; these are an admirable remedy both for Head-ach and Lethargy; all of them being born about one help the Head-ach, and the biting of Serpents.
Lapis Arabicus being beaten into pouder and made into an Oyntment, helps the Hemorrhoids.
Ostrocites, a drachm of it taken in pouder provokes* 12.13 the terms, being taken after that purgation causeth conception; also being made into an Oyntment helps inflamations of the breasts.
Lapis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is an admirable stone of the Moon; the Women in Germany wear them as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 because they would be fruitful; they cure the falling-sickness, and being bound to trees make them fruitful.
Lapis Amianthus being born about one helps such* 12.14 as are bewitched.
Myexis being born about one takes away pains in* 12.15 the reins and hinders the breeding of the stone.
Lapis Armenius purgeth Melancholly, and also causeth vomiting, I hold it not very 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for our English bodies, and therefore I will speak no more of it.
〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉Smallage, Sparagus, Fennel, Parsly, Kneeholly.
The two epening Roots.Fennel, Parsly.
The five emollient Herbs.Marsh-mallows or Mallows, Beets, Mercury, Pellitory of the wall, Violet Leaves.
The five Capillary Herbs.Maidenhair, Wall-rue, Cetrach, Harts-tongue, Politricum.
The four Cordial Flowers.Borrage, Bugloss, Roses, Violets.
The four greater hot Seeds, Carminative, or breaking wind.Annis, Caraway, Cummin, Fennel.
The four lesser hot Seeds.Bishopsweed, Amomus, Smallage, Carrots.
The four greater cold Seeds.Citrul, Cucumer, Guord, Melone.
The four lesser cold Seeds.Succory, Endive, Lettice, Purslain.
Five fragments of precious Stones.Granate, Jacinth, Saphire, Sardine, Emerald.
Culpeper] A. I was the more willing to quote these again, although they be almost the same in their former Dispensatory; 1. Because this is all the good the Learned Colledg hath done their Country, in this their refined Master-piece; namely, To tell them that such and such Roots are opening, such and such Flowers Cordial, or strengthening to the heart, such and such Seeds break wind, &c. and if any should be so bold as to object against a whol Colledg of learned Physitians, That they did the generality of the Common-wealth no good at all, because they wrote it in Latin, which is a Language understood but by few; it were easily answered, They did it in Latin to animate people to bring up their children to learning, which is a thing I wish from my heart were done; what the Colledg doth, I know not.
2. Because they have here left out some Oyntments, the use of which they would not have the Chyrurgians know, (the most part of which are no Scholars, (the more is the pity) and that they know well enough) it were a brave trick if they could catch old birds with chaff.
KIND READERS,
THE Right VVorshipful, the Colledg of Physitians of London in their new Dispensatory, give you free leave to distill these common VVaters that follow, but they never intended you should know what they are good for.
BRiony, Onions, Alicampane, Orris, or Flower-deluce, Turneps.
Southernwood, both sorts of Wormwood, Wood-sorrel, Ladies-Mantle, Marsh-mallows, Angelica, Pimpernel with purple flowers, Smallage, Columbines, Sparagus, Mousear, Borrage, Shepheards-purse, Calaminth, wood-bine or Honey-suckles, Carduus Benedictus, our Ladies thistles, Knotgrass, Succory, Dragons, Coltsfoot, Fennel, Goats-rue, Grass, Hysop, Lettice, Lovage, Toadflax; Hops; 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Mallows; Horehound; Feathersew; Bawm; Mints; Horsemints; Water-cresses; English Tobacco; white Poppies; Pellitory of the wall; Parsly; Plantane: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Self-heal: Penyroyal: Oak Leaves: Sage: Scabious: Figwort or Throatwort: Housleek or 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the greater and lesser: Mother of Time: Nightshade: Tansie: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Valerian
Orrenges [if you can get them] Blew-bottle the greater: Beans: Water-lillies: Lavender: Nut-tree: Cowslips: Sloes: Rosemary: Roses, white 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and red: Satyrion: Line-tree: Clove-gilliflowers: Violets.
Orrenges: black cherries: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Quinces: Cucumers: Strawberries: Winter Cherries: Lemmons: Rasberries: unripe Walnuts: Apples.
Lobsters: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Snails:* 12.16 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Bullocks dung made in May: Swallows: Earthworms: Magpies: spawm of Frogs.
Agrimony: Wild Tansie, or Silverweed, Mugwort, Betony, Marigolds, Chamomel, Chamepitis, Sullondine, Pilewort, Scurvy — grass, Comfry the greater, Dandelyon, Ashtree leaves, Eyebright, Fumitory; Alehoof or ground Ivy, Horstail, St. Johns wort, Yarrow, Moneywort, Restharrow, Solomons seal, Ros solis, Rue, Savin, Saxifrage, Hartstongue, Scordium, Tamaris, Mullin, Vervain, Pauls Betony, Mead sweet, Nettles.
Mayweed: Broom: Cowslips: Butter-bur: Peony: Elder.
Broom, Elder.
Culpeper] A. Then the Colledg gives you an Admonition concerning distilling these (such a one as it is) which being converted into your native language, is as followeth.
We give you warning that these common waters be better prepared for time to come, either in common stills, putting gaod store of Ashes underneath, the Roots and Herbs being dryer, &c. Or if they be full of Juyce, by* 12.17 distilling the Juyce in aconvenient Bath, that so burning may be avoided, which hitherto hath seldom been: But let the other Herbs, Flowers, or Roots, be bruised, and by adding Tartar, common Salt, or Leven, be digested, then putting spring water to them: distill them in an Alembick with his refrigeratory, or Worm, till the change of the tast shew the vrtue to be drawn off, then let the Oyl (if any be) be seperated from the Water according 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Culpeper] A. That my Country may receive the benefit of these Waters: I shall first shew the Temperatures, secondly, the vertu es of the most usual & most easie to come by: If any should take exceptions that I mention not all (for itis imposible to write to please every body) I answer first I me ntion enough, secondly; Who ever makes this objection, they shew extream ingratitude, for had I mentioned but only one; I had revealed more to them than ever the Colledg intended they should know, or con me thanks for doing, but the best is, I respect their love, and fear their hatred much at one.
Simple distilled Waters either cool or heat; Such as cool, either cool the blood or Choller.
Waters cooling the blood.Lettice, Purslain, Water-Lillies, Violets, Sorrel, Endive, Succory, Fumitory.
Waters cooling and repressing chollerick humors, or vapors in the head.
Nightshade, Lettice, Water-Lillies, Plantane, Poppies, viz. The flowers both of white, black, and red Poppies, black Cherries.
The breast and lunguesViolets, Poppies all three sorts, Colts-foot.
In the heart.Sorrel, Quinces, Water-Lillies, Roses, Violets, green or unripe Walnuts.
In the stomach.Quinces, Roses, Violets, Nightshade, Housleek, or Sengreen, Lettice, Purslain.
In the River.Endivc, Succory, Nightshade, Purslain, Water Lillies.
In the Reins and bladder.Endive, Succory, winter Cherries, Plantane, Water-Lillies, Strawberries, Housleek: or Sengreen, black Cherriea.
In the Womb.Endive: Succory, Lettice, Water-Lillies, Purslain, Roses.
Simple Waters which are hot, concoct either flegm or Melancholly.
Betony, Sage, Marjoram, Chamomel, Fennel, Calaminth, Rosemary flowers, Primroses, Eye-bright.
In the Breast and Lungues.Maidenhair, Betony, Hysop, Hore-hound, Carduus Bnedictus, Scabious, Orris, or Flower-de-luces Bawm, Self-heal, &c.
In the heart.Bawm, Rosemary.
In the stomach.Wormwood, Mints, Fennel, Chervil, Time, mother of Time, Marigolds.
In the Liver.Wormwood: Centaury: Origanum; Marjoram: Maudlin: Costmary; Agrimony: Fennel.
In the Spleen.Water-cresses: Wormwood: Calaminth.
In the reins and bladder.Rocket: Nettles: 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Pellitory of the wall: Alicampane: Burnet.
In the Womb.Mugwort: Calaminth: Peny-royal: Savin: mother of Time: Lovage.
Hops: Fumitory.
The Breast.Bawm: Carduus Benedictus.
The HeartBorrage: Bugloss: Bawm: Rosemary.
The Liver.Endive, Cichory, Hops.
The Spleen,Dodder: Harts-tongue: Tamaris: Time.
Having thus ended the apropriation, I shall speak breifly of the vertues of distilled Waters.
Lettice Wat er cools the blood when it is overheated, for when it is not, it needs no cooling, it cools the head and Liver, staies hot vapors ascending to the head, and hi ndring sleep, it quencheth immoderate thirst, and breeds milk in nurses. Distill it in May.
Purslain Water cools the blood and Liver, quencheth thirst, helps such as spit blood, have hot coughs or pestilences.
The distilled Water of water Lilly-Flowers, cools the blood and the bowels, and al internal parts of the body, helps such as have the yellow Jaundice, hot coughs or pleuresies, the headach coming of heat, feavers pestilential, and not pestilential, as also hectick feavers.
The Water of Violet flowers, cools the blood, the heart, Liver, and Lungnes overheated, and quencheth an insatiable desire of drinking; they are in their prime about the latter end of March, or begining of April, according as the year fals out.
The Water of Sorrel cools ths blood, heart, Liver, and spleen; if Venis Treacle be given with it, it is profitable in pestilential feavers; distil it in May.
Endive and Succory Water, are excellent against heat in the stomach; If you take an ounce of either (for their operation is the same) morning and evening four daies one after another, they cool the Liver, and clense the blood; they are in their prime in May.
Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames, to
wash their faces with, to take away morphew freckles, and Sunburning, inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice, and Itch, clenseth the blood, provokes sweat, strengthens the stomach, and clenseth the body of adust humors, It is in its prime in May and June.
The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat; take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common, if you do, you may make mad work; let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder, have wit enough to let them both alone til they do.
The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nature, helps headaches coming of heat, and too long standing in the Sun: Distil them in June or July.
Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it, inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks, and other diseases incident to the lungues; Distil them in May or June.
The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly, staies vomiting, and fluxes, and strengthens the retentive faculty in man.
Demask Rose-water, cools, comsorts, and strengthens the heart; so doth red Rose-water, only with this difference, the one is binding, the other loosening, if your body be costive, use Damask Rose-water, because it is loosening, if loose, use red, because it is binding.
White Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms, and inflamations in the eyes, and for this it is better than the former.
The Water of Red Poppy flowers, called by many Corn-roses, because they grow so freequently amongst corn, cool the blood, and spirits overheated by drinking or labor, and is therefore excellent for surfets.
Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June, or beginning of July, and bruiled, and so stilled, strengthens the heart, and resisteth the pestilence.
Plantane Water helps the headach, being dropped into the ear; it helps the toothach, helps the Phthisick, dropsie, and fluxes, and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder, to be used as common drink: the herb is in its prime in May.
Strawberry Water cooleth, quencheth thirst, clarifieth the blood, breaks the stone, helps al inward inflamations, especially those in the reins, bladder, and passages of the urine, it strengthens the Liver, and helps the yellow Jaundice.
The distilled Water of Dog-grass, or couch-grass as some cal it, clenseth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gallantly, and provokes urine, opens 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen, and kils worms.
Black Cherry Water, provokes urine, helps the dropsie; It is usually given in diseases of the brain, as convulsions, falling sickness, palsey, and Apoplexy.
Betony is in its prime in May; the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads, it prevails against the dropsie, and al sorts of feavers, it succors the Liver and spleen, and helps want of digestion, and evil disposition of the body thence arising, it hastens travail in women with child, and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts.
Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it; the Water strengthens the brain, provokes the terms, helps nature much in al its actions
Marjoram is in its prime in June; the distilled Water, is excellent for such whose brains are too cold, it provokes urine, heats the womb, provokes the terms, strengthens the memory, and helps the judgment, causeth an able brain, and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians.
Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June: It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly, it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, provokes the terms, expels the dead child, and takes away pains in the head.
Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain, dilates the breast, helps the cough, provokes the terms, encreaseth milk in nurses, and if you wash your eyes with it, it cleers the sight.
Calaminth Water, hea ts and clenseth the womb, provokes the terms, and easeth the pains of the head; distil it in May.
The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers, helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice, Asthma; it clenseth the blood, helps concoction, strengthens the brain and body exceedingly.
Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley, strengthens the brain and all the sences.
The water 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers, helps the palsey, and thence they obtained the name [Paralysis] takes away pains in the head, the vertigo, and megrim, and are exceeding good for women with child.
The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water, most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight.
Maidenhair distilled in May, the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues, clarifies the blood, and break the stone.
Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm, helps Coughs, and Asthmaes; distill it in August.
The water of Hore-hound, helps the Cough, and straitness of the breast, it strengthens the breast, Lungues, and stomach, and Liver; distil it in June.
Carduus water succors the head, strengthens the memory, helps such as are troubled with vertigoes, and quartan agues, it provokes sweat, strengthens the heart, and is good in pestilences, and all other feavers of choller; it is in its prime in May and June.
Scabious water, helps pleuresies, and pains, and prickings in the sides, Apostthemes, Coughs, pestilence, and straitness of the breast.
Water of Flower-de-luce, is very profitable in dropsies, an ounce being drnnk continually, morning and evening, as also pains and torments in the bowels.
Bawm water distilled in May, restores memory when it is lost, it quickens al the sences, strengthens the brain, heart, and stomach, causeth a merry mind, and a sweet breath.
The water of Comfry sodders broken bones, being drunk helps ruptures, outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds, they being washed with it.
Wormwood water distilled cold, about the end of May, heats and strengthens the stomach, helps concoction, staies vomiting, kills worms in the stomach, and bowels, it mitigates the pains in the teeth, and is profitably given in feavers of Choller.
Mint water strengthens the stomach, helps concoction and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vomiting; distil it in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, as the year is in forwardness, or backwardness; observe that in all the rest.
Chervil water distilled about the end of May, helps ruptures, breaks the stone, dissolves congealed blood, strengthens the heart and stomach.
The water of Mother of Time strengthens the
brain and stomach, gets a man a good stomach to his victuals, provokes urine, and the terms, heats the womb; it is in its prime about the end of June.
The water of Marigold flowers, is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head, Eyes, and stomach; they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion.
Distilled water of Centaury, comforts a cold stomach, helps in feavers of choller, which the Greeks 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 it kills worms, and provokes appetite to victuals.
Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May, or June, strengthens the Liver, helps the yellow 〈◊〉〈◊〉, opens obstructions, and helps the dropsie.
Water-cresses distilled in March, the water clenseth the blood, and provokes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 exceedingly, kils worms, outwardly mixed with Honey, it cleers the skin of morphew and Sunburning.
Distil Nettles when they are in flower, the water helps coughs, and pains in the bowels, provokes urine, and breaks the stone.
Saxifrage water provokes urine, expels wind, breaks the stone, clenseth the reins and bladder of gravel; distil them when they are in flower.
The water of Pellitory of the wal, opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, by drinking an ounce of it every morning, it clenseth the reins and bladder, and easeth the gripings of the howels coming of wind; distil it in the end of May, or beginning of June.
Sinkfoyl water breaks the stone, clenseth the reins, and is of excellent use in putrified feavers; distil it in May.
The water of Radishes, breaks the stone, clenseth the reins and bladder, provokes the terms, and helps the yellow Jaundice.
Alicampane water strengthens the stomach and Lungues, provokes urine, and clenseth the passages of it from gravel.
Distil Burnet in May or June; the water breaks the stone, clenseth the passages of urine, and is exceeding profitable in pestilential times.
Mugwort water distilled in May, is excelleut in coughs, and diseases proceeding from stoppage of the terms in women, it warms the stomach, and helps the dropsie.
Distil Peny-royal when the flowers are upon it; the water heats the womb gallantly, provokes the terms, expels the Afterbirh, cuts, and casts out thick and gross humors in the breast, easeth pains in the bowels, and consumes flegm.
The water of Lovage distilled in May, easeth pains in the head, and tures ulcers in the womb being washed with it, inwardly taken it expels wind, and breaks the stone.
The tops of Hops when they are young, being distilled; the water clenseth the blood of addust and melancholly humors, and therefore helps Scabs, Itch, and leprosie, and such like diseases thence proceeding, it open obstructions of the spleen, helps the rickets, and Hypocondriack melancholly.
The water of Borrage and Bugloss, distilled when their flowers are upon them, strengthen the heart and brain exceedingly, clense the blood, and takes away sadness, greife, and melancholly.
Doddar water clenseth the Liver and spleen, helps the yellow jaundice.
Tamaris water opens the obstructions, and helps the hardness of the spleen, and strengthens it.
English Tobacco distilled; the water is excellent good for such as have dropsies, to drink an ounce or too every morning, it helps ulcers in the mouth, strengthens the Lungues, and helps such as have Asthmaes.
The water of Dwarffe Elder hath the same effects.
Thus have you the vertues of enough of cold waters, the use of which is for mixtures of other medicines, whose operation is the same, for they are very seldom given alone; if you delight most in liquid medicines, having regard to the disease, and part of the body afflicted by it, these will furnish you with, where withal to make them, so as will please your pallat best.
Culpeper] A. BEfore I begin these, I thought good to premise a few words: They are all of them hot in operation, and therefore not to be medled with by people of hot Constitutions, when they are in health for fear of Feavers, and adustion of blood; but for people of cold constitutions, as Melancholly and Flegmatick people. If they drink of them moderately now and then for recreation, due consideration being had to the part of the body which is weakest, they may do them good; yet in diseases of melancholly, neither strong Waters nor Sack is to be drunk, for they make the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thin, and then up to the head it flies, where it fills the brain with foolish and fearful imaginations.
2. Let all yong people forbear them whilst they are in health, for their blood is usually hot enough without them.
3. Have regard to the season of the year, so shall you find them more beneficial in Summer than in in Winter, because in Summer the body is alwaies coldest within, and digestion weakest, and that is the reason why men and women eat less in Summer than they do in Winter.
Thus much for people in health, which drink strong waters for recreation.
As for the Medicinal use of them, it shall be shewed at the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 end of every Receipt; only in general they are (due respect had to the humors afflicting, and part of the body afflicted) medicinal for diseases of cold, and flegm, chilliness of the spirits &c.
But that my Country men may not be mistaken in this, I shall give them some Symptoms of each Complexion, how a man may know when it exceeds its due 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Leaness of body, costiveness, hollow eyes, anger without a cause, a testy disposition, yellowness of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bitterness in the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 pains in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the pulse 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and stronger 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ordinary; the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 higher colourd, thinner and brighter; troublesom sleeps; much dreaming of fire; lightning; anger and fighting.
The Veins are bigger (or at least they seem so) and fuller than ordinary; the skin is red, and as it were swollen; pricking pains in the sides and about the temples; shortness of breath; headach; the pulse great and full; urine high coloured and thick; dreams of blood &c.
Fearfulness without a cause, fearful and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 imaginations, the skin rough and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, want of sleep, frightful dreams, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the throat, the pulse very weak, solitariness, thin 〈◊〉〈◊〉 urine, often sighing &c.
Sleepiness, dulness, slowness, heaviness, cowardliness, forgetfulness, much spitting, much 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, little appetite to meat, and as bad 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the skin whiter, colder and smoother than it was wont to be, the pulse flow and deep, the urine thick and low colored, dreams of rain, flouds, and water &c.
These things thus premised I come to the matter.
The first the Colledg presents you with, is
Spiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita. Pag. 30. Or, Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition.The Colledg] Take of the Leaves of* 13.1 dried Wormwood two pound; Annis seeds half a pound; steep them in six gallons of small Wines twenty four hours, then 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them in an Allembick, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to every 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 water two 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉 Sugar.
Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood; those which follow, Wormwood Water the lesser Composition.
Culpeper] A. I like this distinction of the Colledges very well, because what is first stilled out is far stronger than the rest, and therefore very fitting to be kept by it self, you may take which you please, according as the temperature of your body, either to heat or cold, and the season of the yeer requires.
A. It hath the same vertues Wormwood hath, only fitter to be used by such whose bodies are chilled by age, and whose natural heat abateth. You may search the Herb for the vertues; it heateth the stomach and helpeth digestion.
The Colledg] After the same manner (only omitting the Annis seeds) is distilled Spirit and water of Angelica, both Herb and Root; 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mints, Sage &c. The Flowers of Rosemary Clary, Clove-gilli flowers &c. the seeds of Caraway &c. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 berries, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pils, Lemmons, Citrons &c. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Nutmegs &c.
Culpeper] A. I would some body (that knows their conditions) would do but so much as ask the Colledg what the meaning of all these et caetera's is.
Spiritus et Aqua Absynthii magis composita. Pag. 30. Or, Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition.The Colledg] Take of common and Roman Wormwood, of each a pound; Sage, Mints, Bawm, of each two handfuls; the roots of Galanga, Ginger, Calamus Aromaticus, Alicampane, of each three drams; Liquor is an ounce, Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces; Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds, of each three drachms, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each two drachms; Cardamoms, Cubebs, of each one drachm: Let the things be cut that are to be cut, and the things bruised that are to be bruised; all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish Wines for twenty four hours, then distilled in an Allembick, adding two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water.
Let the first pint be called Spirit of Wormwood the greater composition.
Culpeper] A. In this Receipt they have only in their new Master-piece, left out According to Art, and I commend them, for sure it was advisedly done of them not to write of what they never had.
A. The Opinion of Authors, is, That it heats the stomach, and strengthens it and the lungues, expels wind, and helps digestion in ancient people.
Spiritus et Aqua Angelicae magis composita. Page 31. Or, Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition.The Colledg] Take of the* 13.2 Leaves of Angelica eight ounces, of 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 ounces, of Bawm and Sage, of each sour ounces; Angelica seeds six ounces; sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces: Let the Herbs being dried and the seeds be grosly bruised, to which ad of the Species called Aromaticum Rosatum, and of the Species called Diamoschu Dulce, of each an ounce and an 〈◊〉〈◊〉; infuse them two daies in thirty two pints of Spanish Wine; then distil them with a gentle fire (according to that art which we never had) and with every pound mix two ounces of Sugar dissolved in Rose water.
Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spirit, the rest by the name of Water.
Culpeper] A This Receipt was far different from that Angelica water which they prescribed in their last Dispensatory; I could at first imagine no reason worth the quoting, unless it were done to make it dearer, as who should say, seeing the common people cannot be kept from knowing the vertues of what we have so long monopolized into our own hands, through the iniquity of the times in abolishing Kingly Government, which was the only 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we had to lean upon; yet will we to work again, and leave never a stone unturned that may uphold us in our pride and unconscionable domineering: and though we cannot write but it will be translated into such a language as will be in the reach 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 brain, yet will we wind the business so high, that it shall be out of the reach of his purse; this I thought to be the plain English of it: yet afterward I found, that their former Dispensatory had a water called Cordial Water, which here shouldered out, Angelica Water, and having got into its place, stole its name. Pray do but so much as tell what good it doth the vulgar for you to change the names of Medicines: I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Rat, a new trick to cheat the world.
A. The chief end of composing this Medicine, was to strengthen the heart, and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and therefore is very wholsom in pestilential times, and for such as walk in stinking airs.
I shall now quote you their former Receipt in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 former Dspensatory.
Angellica water the greater Composition.The Colledg] Take of* 13.3 Angellica two pound, Annis seeds half a pound, Coriander and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 away seeds, of each four ounces, Zedoary bruised, three ounces, steep them twenty four hours in six gallons of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Wines, then draw out the Spirits, and sweeten it with Sugar.
Culpeper] A. It comforts the heart, cherisheth the vital Spirits, resisteth the pestilence, and al corrupt airs, which indeed are the natural causes of al Epidimical diseases; the sick may take a spoonful of it in any convenient cordial, and such as are in health, and have bodies either cold by nature, or cooled by age, may take as much either in the morning fasting, or a little before meat.
Spiritus Lavendulae compositus. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Pag. 31. Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Spirit of Lavender. Matthias.The Colledg] Take of Lavender flowers one gallon, to which pour three gallons of the best Spirit of Wine, let them stand together in the Sun six daies, then destil them with an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with his refrigeratory.
Take of the flowers of Sage, Rosemary, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of each one handful, the flowers of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Lillies of the vally, Cowslips, of 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉; let the flowers being newly and seasonably gathered, being infused in one gallon of the best Spirit of Wine, and mingled with the aforegoing Spirit of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 flowers, adding the leaves of Bawm, Feather-few, and Orrenge tree fresh gathered; the flowers of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Orrenge tree, Bay berries, of each one ounce; after 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, distil it again, after which add, Citron 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the outward Bark, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seeds husked, of each six drachms, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Mace, Cardamoms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, yellow Sanders, of each half an 〈◊〉〈◊〉, wood of Aloes one 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the best 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the stones being taken out, half a pound, digest thêm six weeks, then strain it, and filter it, and add to it,
prepared Pearls two drachms, Emeralds prepared a scruple, Ambergreese, Musk, Saffron, of each half a scruple, red Roses dried, red Sanders, of each half an ounce, yellow Sanders, Citron pills dried, of each one drachm; let the Species being tied up in a rag, be hung into the aforegoing Spirit.
Culp] Although I could have easily been brought to beleeve, that the Colledg never intended the company of Apothecaries any good, yet before I read this Receipt; I could not conceit they willingly intended to impose impossibilities upon them; I could wish the Apothecaries would desire to be certified by the Colledg.
A. 1. Whether the Gallon of Lavender flowers must be filled by heap, or by strike.
A. 2. Next, whether the flowers must be pressed down in the Measure, or not.
A. 3. How much must be drawn off in the first distillation.
A. 4. Where they should get Orrenge leaves and flowers fresh gathered.
A. 5. What they mean by Convenient Digestion.
A. 6. Where you shal find Borrage, Bugloss, and Cowslips 〈◊〉〈◊〉 together, that so you may have them al fresh according to their prescript, the one flowring in the latter end of Aprill, and beginning of May, the other in the end of June, and beginning of July.
A. 7. If they can make a shift to make it (which is a task almost, if not altogether, as hard as to piss down Pauls, how, or which way the vertues of it wil countervail the one half of the charge and cost, to leave the pains and trouble out. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dr. Ignoramus followed Matthias and never considered he lived in a different Climate.
Spiritus Castorii. Page 32. in the Latin Book. Or, Spirit of Castorium.The Colledg] Take of fresh Castorium four ounces, Lavender flower an ounce, the tops of Sage, and Rosemary, of each half an ounce, Cinnamon six drams, Mace, Cloves, of each two drachms, Spirit of Wine rectified six pound.; digest them in a Phial filled only to the third part, close stopped with cork and bladder, in warm ashes for two daies, then distilled in* 13.4 Balneo Mariae, and the distilled water kept close stopped.
Culpeper] A. By reason of its heat it is no waies fit to be taken alone, but mixed with other convenient medicines, apropriated to the diseases you would give it for; It resists poyson, and helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts, it causeth speedy deliver y to women in travail, and casteth out the after birth, it helps the fits of the mother, Lethargies, and Convulsions; being mixed with white. Wine, and dropped into the ears, it helps deafness, if stopping be the cause of it: the dose to be given inwardly, is between one drachm, and half a drachm according to the age and strength of the patient.
Aqua Petasitidis composita. Page 32. in Latin Book. Or, Compound water of 〈◊〉〈◊〉-Burrs.The Colledg] Take of the fresh roots of Butter Burr bruised, one pound and an half; the roots of Angelica, and Master-wort, of each half a pound; steep them in ten pints of strong Ale, then distil them, till the change of the tast gives testimony that the strength is drawn out.
Culpeper] A. This water is very effectual, being mixed with other convenient cordials, for such as have pestilential feavers; also a spoonful taken in the morning, may prove a good preservative in pestilential times: it helps the fits of the mother, and such as are short winded, and being taken inwardly, dries up the moisture of such sores as are hard to be cured.
Aqua Raphani Composita. Page 33. in the Latin B. Compound water of Rhadishes.The Colledg] Take of the leaves of hoth sorts of Scurvy-grass, of each six pound; having bruised them, press the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out of them, with which mix of the Juyce of Brooklime, and Water-cesses, of each one pound and an half, of the best white wine eight pound, twelve whole Lemmons, pills and all, fresh 〈◊〉〈◊〉 roots four pound, the roots of wild Raddishes two pound; Capt. winters Cinnamon half a pound, Nutmegs four ounces; steep them altogether and then distil them.
Culpeper] A. In their former Dispensatory, when they had that Ingenuity left to confess where they had their medicines; I gave them a modest term, and said they borrowed them from such or such an Author; but now all ingenuity hath left them, and nothing but Self remains in them, and they abscond their Authors; I know not what to say, unless I should say they: stole them: whether this be their own or not I know not, 'tis something like them, a churlish medicine, to a churlish Colledg; I fancy it not, and so I leave it; I suppose they intended it for purgation of women in childbed, and 'tis as fit for it, as a Sow is for a Saddle.
Aqua Peoniae Composita. Page 33. in the Latin B. Or, Compound water of Peony.The Colledg] Take of the flowers of Lillies of the vally, one pound; infuse them in four gallons of Spanish Wine, so long til the following flowers may be had fresh.
Take of the fore named flowers half a pound, Peony flowers four ounces; steep them together fourteen daies, then distil them in Balneo Mariae til they be dry, in the distilled liquor, infuse again male Peony roots, gathered* 13.5 in due time, two ounces and an half, white Dittany, long Birthwort, of each half an ounce, the leaves of Misleto of the Oak, and Rue, of each two handfuls, Peony seeds husked ten drachms, Rue seeds three drachms and an half, Castorium two scruples, Cubebs, Mace, of each two drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an ounce and an half, Squils prepared three drachms, Rosemary flowers six pugils, Arabian 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Lavender, of each four pugils, the flowers of Betony, Clove-gilli-flowers, and Cowslips, of each eight pugils; then adding four pound of the Juyce of black cherries: Distil it in a glass stil, til it be dry.
Culpeper] A. It seems the Colledg was shrewdly put to it, to alter the name of this Receipt, from Langius his Antepileptical water, to Compound water of Peony, a new trick to cheat the world, and they have also altered some few things not worth the noting.
A. If the Authority of Erastus, or daily experience wil serve the turn, then was this Receipt chiefly compiled against the Convulsion fits, but the derivation of the word notes it to be prevalent against the falling
sickness also, for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek, signifies Falling sickness; and indeed Erastus and experience pleads for this also: It is true, the Composition of Erastus differs from this, and so doth another recited by Johannes Langius; but it seems our Physitians (for some reasons best known to themselves) esteemed this the best at this time, for their minds are mutable.
A. Well then, having now learned the vertues of the Water, a word or two of the Use will not be amiss. Erastus was of opinion that both these diseases were caused by the Moon (and so am I of that opinion also, for I know some at this time that are constantly troubled with the falling sickness, only at the new and full Moons; I could give reasons for this judgment of Erastus but I am unwill ing to be tedious.) Then saith he, if the disease come daily, let a spoonful to it be taken morning and evening, if weakly, then let it be taken only at the new and ful Moon, and at her quartiles to the Sun, if it begin to wear away, then only twice a month viz. at the new and full Moon wil suffice. It profits also in time of the fit, by rubbing their temples, nostrils, and jaws with it.
Aqua Bezoartica. 34. in the Latin Book. Or, Bezoar Water.The Colledg] Take of the leaves of Sullendine roots and al, three handfuls and an half, Rue two handfuls, Scordium four handfuls, Dittany of creet, Carduus, of each one handful and an half, Zedoary, and Angellica roots, of each three drachms, Citrons, and Lemmon pills, of each six drachms, Clove-gilliflowers one ounce and an half, red Roses, Centaury the less, of each two drachms, Cinnamon, Cloves of each three drachms, Venis Treacle three ounces, Mithridate one ounce and an half, Camphire two scruples, Troches of vipers two ounces, Mace two drachms, wood of Aloes half an ounce, yellow Sanders one drachm and an half, Cardus seeds one ounce, Citron seeds six drachms; let them be cut, and infused in Spirit of Wine, and Malaga Wine, of each three pound and an half, Vineger of Clove-gilli-flowers, juyce of Lemmons, of each one pound, and distilled in a glass stil in Balneo Mariae; after it is half stilled off, the residue may be strained through a linnen cloath, and be reduced to the thickness of Honey, and called the Bezoartick extract.
Culpeper] A. Extracts have the same vertues with the waters they are made from, only the different form is to please the quaint pallats of such whose fancy loaths any one particular form.
A. This Bezoar water strengtheneth the heart, Arteries and spirit vital: It provoketh sweat, and is exceeding good in pestilential feavers, in health it withstands melancholly and consumptions, and makes a merry blith cheerful creature. Of the extract you may take ten grains at a time or somewhat more if your body be not feaverish; half a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time and that mixed with other cordials or medicines apropriated to the disease that troubles you, which the Table at the latter end of the Book will direct you to. And take this for a general rule, when any thing is too hot to take it by it self, resort to the Table of diseases, which will amply furnish you with what to mix it, and especially the cold waters, the vertues of which you have amply in this third Edition: This is Langius Receipt, though the Colledg would have no body know it.
Aqua et Spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis. P. 34. L. B. Or, Water and Spirit of Earth-worms.The Colledg] Take of Earth-worms wel clensed, three pound, Snails with shels on their backs clensed, two Gallons; beat them in a mortar, and put them into a convenient vessel, adding stinging Nettles, roots and all, six handfuls, wild Angellica four handfuls, Brank ursine seven handfuls, Agrimony, Betony, of each three handfuls, Rue one handful, common Wormwood two handfuls, Rosemary flowers six ounces, Dock roots ten ounces, the roots of Sorrel five ounces, Turmerick, the inner bark of Barberries, of each four ounces, Fenugreek seeds two ounces, Cloves three ounces, Harts-horn, Ivory in gross pouder, of each four ounces, Saffron three drachms, smal Spirit of Wine four gallons and an half; after twenty four hours infusion, distil them in an Alembick. Let the four first pounds be reserved for Spirit, the rest for water.
Culpeper] A. 'Tis a mess of Altogether; it may be they intended it for an Universal medicine.
Aqua Gentianae composita, Page 35. in the Latin B. Or, Gentian Water Compound.The Colledg] Take of Gentian roots sliced, one pound and an half, the leaves and flowers of Centa••ry the less, of each four ounces; steep them eight da•••• in twelve pound of white Wine, then distil them in an Alembick.
Culpeper] A. It conduceth to preservation from ill air, and pestilential feavers, it opens obstructions of the Liver, and helps such as they say are Liver grown, it easeth pains in the stomach, helps digestion, and easeth such as have pains in their bones by ill lodging abroad in the cold, it provokes appetite, and is excellent good for the yellow jaundice, as also for prickings or stitches in the sides; it provokes the terms, and expells both birth and after-birth; it is naught for women with child: If there be no feaver, you may take a spoonful or taster full by it self, if there be, you may if you please mix it with some cooler medicine apropriated to the same use you would give it for.
Aqua Gilberti. Page 35. in the Latin Book. Or, Gilberts Water.The Colledg] Take of Scabious, Burnet, Dragons, Bawm, Angellica, Pimpernel with purple flowers, Tormentil roots and all, of each two handfuls; let al of them being rightly gathered and prepared, be steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine, stil off three gallons in an Alembick, to which ad three ounces of each of the cordial flowers, Clove-gilli-flowers six ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Turmerick two ounces, Galanga, Bazil seeds, of each one drachm, Citron pills one ounce, the seeds of Citrons, and Cardus, Cloves, of each five drachms, Harts-horn four ounces; steep them twenty four hours, and then distil them in Balneo Mariae; to the stilled water add Pearls prepared, an ounce and an half, red Corral, Crabs eyes, white Amber, of each two drachms, Crabs claws six drams, Bezoar Ambergreese, of each two scruples, steep them six weeks in the Sun in a vessel well stopped, often shaking it, then filter it (you may keep the p••uders for Sp. cord. temp.) by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar
candy, with six ounces of red Rose water, and four ounces of Spirit of Cinnamon with it.
Culpeper A. I suppose this was invented for a cordial, to strengthen the heart, to releeve languishing nature, it is exceeding dear; I forbear the dose, they that have money enough to make it themselves, cannot want time to stady both the vertues and dose; I would have Gentlemen men to be studious.
A. Only one thing I would demand of the Colledg that makes their brags so much of minding their Countryes good, these same species which they appoint to be left (after use in this medicine) for Species Cordiales Temperatae. Doth the vertue come out of them in this medicine or not? if not, why are they put in? if yes, then wil the Species cordiales Temperatae be like themselves, viz. good for nothing but to deceive people.
Aqua Cordialis 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. Page 36. in Lat. B.The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Borrage, Bugloss, Bawm, Bistort, Tormentil, Scordium, Vervain, Sharp-pointed dock, Sorrel, Goats Rue, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, blew Bottle great and smal, Roses, Marigolds, Lemmons, Citrons, of each six ounces, Bnrnet: Sinksoyl, of each three ounces, white Wine Vineger one pound, Purslain seeds two ounces, Citron and Cardus seeds, of each half an ounce, Water Lilly flowers two ounces, the flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Violets, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each one ounce, Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉〈◊〉; let all of them being rightly prepared, be infused three daies, then distilled in a glass still; to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia, aud Samos, of each one ounce and an half, Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons, three drachms, mix them, and keep them together.
Culpeper] A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory (which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it) to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Almanack out of 〈◊〉〈◊〉; some final alterations they have made in some medicines (of which this is one) not worth speaking of, yet wil they serve to vapor with, look here quoth they here's such a thing altered, here is a grain and an half put in, where there was but a grain before, the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth, and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors; nay some of their own handy works, so they may but uphold their own interests and unconscionable domineering; thus they serve the poor people just as a Cat serves a Mouse; first play with them, and then eat them up.
A. It mightily cools the blood, and therefore profitable in Feavers, and al diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep. You may take half an ounce at a time, or two drachms if the party be weak.
Aqua Theriacalis. Page 36. in the Latin Book. Or, Treatle Water.The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of green Walnuts, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pound; the juyce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three pound, juyce of Carduus, Marigolds and Bawm, of each two pound, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Petasitis roots one pound and an half, the roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one pound, Angellica and Master-wort, of each half a pound, the leaves of Scordium four 〈◊〉〈◊〉, old venis 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each eight ounces, Canary Wine twelve pound, Vineger six pound, juyce of Lemons two pound; digest them two daies, either in horse-dung or in a bath, the vessel being close shut, then distil them in Sand: in the distillation you may make a theriacal extraction.
Culpeper] A. This water is exceeding good in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Feavers, especially pestilential, it expelleth venemous humors by sweat, it strengtheneth the heart and vitals, it is an admirable counterpoyson, special good for such as have the Plague, or are poysoned, or bitten by venemous beasts, and expelleth virulent humors from such as have the French Pocks. If you desire to know more vertues of it, see the vertues of Venis Treacle. The dose is from a spoonful to an ounce.
Aqua Brioniae Composita. Page 37. in the Lat. Book. Or, Briony water Compound.The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Briony roots, four pound, the leaves of Rue, and Mugwort, af each two pound, dried Savin three handfuls, Feather-few, Nep, Peny-royal, of each two handfuls, Bazil, Dittany of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each one handful and an half, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pills four ounces, Mirrh two ounces, Castorium one ounce, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Wine twelve pounds; digest them four daies in a convenient vessel, then stil them in Balneo Mariae; about the middle of the distillation strain it out, and make an Hysterical extraction of the residue.
Culpeper] A. A spoonful of it taken easeth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the mother in women that have them; it potently expels the after-birth, and clears the body of what a mid-wife by heedlesness or accident hath left behind, it clenseth the womb exceedingly, and for that I fancy it much; take not above a taster full at a time, and that in the morning fasting, for it is of a purging quality, and let women with child forbear it. This was called Aqua Histerica in their former Edition; let any body unless it be an Ass be judge if the Colledges intentions in changing the names only of their medicines, the Ingredients being all the very 〈◊〉〈◊〉; If I could not have found out this, I had certainly been as great a fool as themselves.
Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Page 37. in the Latin Book. Or, Imperial Water.The Colledg] Take of dried Citron, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pills, Nutmegs, Cloves, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two ounces, the roots of Cyperus, Orris Florentine, Calamus, Aromaticus, of each one ounce, Zedoary, Galanga, Ginger, of each half an ounce; the tops of Lavender, and Rosemary, of each two handfuls, the leaves of Bay, Marjoram, Bawm, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sage, Time, of each one handful, the flowers of white and Damask Rose fresh, of each half a handful, Rose water four pound white Wine eight pound; let al of them being bruised, and insused twenty four hours, then distil them according to art.
Culpeper] A. You must distil it in a Bath, and not in sand: It seems the Colledg were but mean practioners in Alchymy, but in this, and many other Receipts, trusted to that monster called Tradition; therefore take this for a general Aphorism, All gross bodies stilled in sand, will stink egregiously. This so gravelled the Colledg that in their new Dispensatory they quite lest out the manner of distillation.
A. It comforts and strengtheneth the heart a gainst Faintings, and Swoonings, and it is held to be
a preservative against Consumptions and Apoplexies. You may take half a spoonful at a time.
Aqua Mirabilis. Page 38. in Lat. Book.The Colledg] Take of Cloves, Galanga, Cubebs, Mace, Cardamoms, Nutmegs, Ginger, of each one drachm; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a pound; Spirit of wine one pound; white wine three pound; infuse them twenty four hours and draw off two pound with an Alembick.
Culpeper] A The Simples also of this regard the stomach, and therefore the water heats cold stomachs: besides Authors say, it preserveth from Apoplexies, and restoreth speech lost.
Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Page 38. in Lat. Book.The Colledg] Take of Scordium, Scabious, Cardus, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two handfuls, Citron and Orrenge Pills, of each two ounces; the seeds of Citrons, Cardus, Hartwort, Treacle Mustard, of each one ounce; the flowers of Marigolds, and Rosemary of each one handful: cut them and bruise them grosly, then insuse them in four pound of white Wine, and two pound of Cardus Water, in a glass stopped close, and set in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or bath for a fortnight, often shaking it, then still it in Balneo Mariae. Let the two first pounds be kept by themselves for use, and the remainder of the distillation by it self: Lastly, mix an ounce of Julep of Alexandria, and a spoonful of Cinnamon water with each pound.
Culpeper] A. Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉, signifies a Water for Treacle, so then if you put Diascordium to it, it is a water for Diascordium: well then, we will take it for a general water for all Physick.
Aqua Caponis. Page 38. in Lat. Book. Or, Capon Water.The Colledg] Take a Capon the guts being pulled out, cut in pieces the fat being taken away, boyled in a g 13.6 sufficient quantity of spring water, in a close vessel, take of this broath three pound, Borrage and Violet Water of each a pound and an half, white Wine one pound; red Rose Leaves two drachms and an half; the flowers of Borrage, Violets and Bugloss, of each one drachm; pieces of bread hot out of the Oven half a pound; Cinnamon bruised half an ounce; still it in a glass still according to art.
Culpeper] A. Divers Physitians have written several Receipts of this water, as Gesner, Andr. è Lacuna, Med. Florent. and Coloniens. But the truth is, this Receipt (although our Physitians conceal it) was borrowed from the Augustan Physitians, and only because they thought (as I suppose) a Capon must not be eaten without bread, they added the bread to it, the rest is verbatim from the Augustan Physitians.
A. The Simples are most of them apropriated to the heart, and in truth the the composition greatly nourishes and strengtheneth such as are in consumptions, and restoreth strength lost, either by feavers or other sickness: It is a Soveraign remedy for Hectick feavers, and Marasmos, which is nothing else but a consumption coming from them; let such as are subject to these diseases hold it for a Jewel.
Aqua Limacum 〈◊〉〈◊〉. P. 39. Or, Water of Snails.The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of* 13.7 Ground-Ivy, Coltsfoot, Scabious, Lungwort, of each one pound and an half, the Juyce of Purstain, Plantane,a 13.8 Ambrosia, Pauls Betony, of each a pound; Hogs blood, white Wine, of each four pound; Garden Snails, two pound; dried Tobacco Leaves, eight; pouder of Liquor is two ounces; of Alicampane, half an ounce; of Orris an ounce; Cotton seeds, an ounce and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half; the greater cold seeds, Annis seeds, of each six drachms, Saffron one drachm, the flowers of red Roses, six pugils, of Violets and Borrage, of each four 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them three daies warm, and then distill them in a glass still in sand.
Culpeper] It purgeth the lungues of flegm, and helps consumptions there: If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten, you may use this.
Aqua Scordii Composita. Page 29. in the L. Book. Or, Compound Water of Scordium.The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue, Sorrel, Scordium, Citrons, of each one pound; London Treacle half a pound; steep it three daies and distill it in sand.
Culpeper] A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs.
Aqua Mariae. Page 39. in the Latin Book.The Colledg] Take of Sugar candy a pound, Canary Wine six ounces, Rose water sour ounces; boylit well into a Syrup, and ad to it Imperial Water two pound, Ambergreese, Musk, of each eighteen grains; Saffron fitfeen grains; yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms; make ae cleer water of it.
Culpeper] A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this, Here they appoint Imperial Water, and before Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which they very subtilly have left out here: any tooth good Barber, so we may hold up our honor and gains. Both Receipts are very costly, as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse, as of his brains.
Aqua Papaveris Composita. Page 39. in L. Book. Or, Poppy Water Compound.The Colledg] Take of red Poppies, four pound; sprinkle them with white Wine two pound; then distill them in a common still: let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times; to which distilled water ad two* 13.9 Nutmegs sliced; red Poppy flowers a pugil, Sugar two ounces; set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness; if the sharpness be more than you would have it, put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun; and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing.
Aqua Juglandium Composita. Page 40. in L. Book. Or, Walnut Water Compound.The Colledg] Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half, Rhadish roots one pound, green Asarabacea six ounces, Rhadish seeds four ounces: let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies, then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry; And when you have done so, I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for, in truth I know not.
The Colledg] Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote, Syrup of Citron Pills, of each one pound; spirit of Wine distilled five times over, five pound: put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them, stop it close that the spirit fly not out, then shake it together, that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit, so let it stand a month, shaking it together twice a week (for the Electuary will settle to the bottom) The month being ended, powr off the cleer water into another glass to be kept for your use, stopping it very close with wax and Parchment, else the strength will easily fly away in vapors.
Culpeper] A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this Water, for (quoth he) four drachms (that is half an ounce) of this water being taken, either by it self, or in the like quantity of good Wine, or any other Cordial Water, so absolutely and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever, that although the danger of death be such, that the patient have lost his speech, sight, and almost all the rest of his sences, yet will he be rouzed up like a man out of his sleep, to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved ah 13.10 thousand times. It draws away poyson from the heart, and cures such as have drunk poyson, it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit, and helps such as have the pestilence.
A. For my own particular part, thus much I can testifie by experience in the commendations of it; I have known it given in acute, in peracute feavers with gallant success, and also in Consumptions, yea, in Hecticks, and in Galens supposedk 13.11 incurabe Marasmos, neither hath it missed the desired effects; and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly, and the spirit vital. It helps in the falling-sickness, apoplexies and convulsion.
A. And then your own genius will tell you, this is fittest for cold complexions, cold diseases, and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in. It is too hot to be taken alone; and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time.
Cinnamon Water.The Colledg] Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half, Spanish Wine twelve pints: Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours, then distil them in an 〈◊〉〈◊〉; draw out three pints of strong Waters (and small as much as you think sufficient) sweeten it with Sugar sufficiently, and so keep it for your use.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath, to which I refer you.
Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water.The Colledg] Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound, put it into a glass still, powring upon it four pints of Rose water, a pint and an half of Spanish wine, stop the still body close, and place it in a warm bath twenty four hours; then put on the still-head, lute it well, and distill it according to art.
Culpeper] A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints, and that is all the alteration.
A. The Authors own Judgment is, That it strengthens the brain, heart, liver, stomach, lungues, spleen, and nerves, quickens the sight, resisteth poyson, helpeth bitings by venemous beasts, causeth a sweet breath, bringeth down the terms in women, and hath vertue, attenuating, opening, digesting and strengthening.
A. The truth is, I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases, being orderly regulated in quantity, according to the nature of the disease, the age and strength of the patient, and the season of the year; have a care of taking too much of it in feavers.
Cinnamon Water made by Infusion.The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon bruised, four ounces; Spirit of Wine, two pints; infuse them together four daies, in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder, shaking the Glass twice a day.
Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy, in a quart of Rose water; then mix both these liquors together, then put into them four grains of Musk, and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen rag and hung to the top of the glass.
Culpeper] In my opinion this latter water is more prevalent for heart-qualms, and faintings than Mathiolus his, neither is it half so hot, therefore more safe.
Aqua Coelestis. Mathiolus.The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon an ounce; Ginger half an ounce; white, red, and yellow Sanders, of each six drachms; Cloves, Galanga, Nutmegs, of each two drachms and an half; Mace, Cubebs, of each one drachm; both sorts of Cardamoms, Nigella seeds, of each three drachms; Zedoary, half an ounce; seeds of Annis, sweet fennel, wild Parsnips, Bazil, of each a drachm and an half; Roots of Angelica, Avens, Calamus Aromaticus, Liquoris, Valerian the less, the leaves of Clary, Time, Calaminth, Penyroyal, Mints, Mother of Time, Marjoram, of each two drachms; the flowers of red Roses, Sage, Rosemary, Betony, Stoechas, Bugloss, Borrage, of each one drachm and an half; Citron Pils three drachms: Let the things be bruised that are to be bruised, and infused fifteen daies in twelve pints of the best spirit of Wine
in a glass body well stopped, and then let it be distilled in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Mariae according to art. Adding to the distilled Water, Pouders of Diambra, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dulce, Aromaticum Rosatum, Diamagariton frigidum, Diathodon Abbatis, pouder of Electuary de gemmis, of each three drachms; yellow Sanders bruised two drachms; Musk, Ambergreese, of each a scruple tied up in a fine rag; cleer Julip of Roses a pound shake them well together, stopping the glass close with wax and Parchment till it grow cleer to be kept for your use.
Culpeper] A. It comforteth and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the heart, reviveth drooping spirite, prevaileth against the plague and all malignant feavers, preserveth the Sences; and restoreth such as are in Consumptions; It is of a hot nature. Let not the quantity taken at a time exceed half a drachm.
A. Only take this Caution, both concerning this and all other strong waters; They are not safely given by themselves in Feavers, (because by their hot quality they inflame the blood, and ad fuel to the fire) but mixed with other convenient Cordials, and consideration had to the strength, complexion, habit, age, and sex of the patient: for my own part, I aim sincerely at the publick good in writing of this, and therefore as I would not have Physitians domineer; so I would not have fools turn Physitians.
Bawm Water: The greater Composition.The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a pound, Time, Penyroyal, of each three drachms; Cinnamon, two drachms; Cardamoms the less one drachm:a 13.12 Grains of Paradice half an ounce: Sweet Fennel seeds an ounce; Nutmegs, Ginger, of each a drachm; Galanga, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 drachms; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aromaticus, Cyperus, of each one drachm and an half; Dictamni, half a drachm: Let all of them be bruised and infused in eight pints of Spanish Wine, and six pints of strong Ale, for twenty four hours together, and then distilled by an Alembick, draw out of the stronger water three pints.
Culpeper] A. The Simples seem chiefly apropriated to the stomach, and therefore must needs strengthen cold and weak stomachs, and help digestion: besides Authors say, It restoreth memory lost, quickkens all the sences, keeps away gray hairs and baldness, strengtheneth the brain, makes the heart cheerful, and helps the lisping of the tongue, easeth the pains of the teeth, and causeth a sweet breath.
Rosa 〈◊〉〈◊〉.The Colledg] Take of Nutmegs, Annis seeds, Coriander seeds, of each one ounce; Galanga, Ginger, Cloves, of each half an ounce; red Rose Leaves, one bandful; Ros-solis six handfuls; Liquoris two ounces; Cardamoms, Zedoary, Grains of Paradice, Calamus Aromaticus, of each one drachm; red Sanders, Cinnamon, of each an ounce and an half; of the best Aqua vitae, twelve pints: make an infusion of them for eight daies, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 strain it and ad to the Liquor, one pound and an half of Sugar.
Culpeper] A, The Basis of this Medicine, seems to be the Herb Ros-solis, which is of a drying and binding quality, and apropriated to the Lungues, and therefore must needs be available for 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or Consumptions of the Lungues, and because this herb provokes lust exceedingly, I suppose therefore the Rose leaves were added, which according tob 13.13 Authors resist lust.
Dr. Stephens Water.The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon, Ginger, Galanga, Cloves, Nutmegs, Grains of Paradice, Seeds of Annis, Fennel, Caraway, of each one drachm; Herbs of Time, Mother of Time, Mints, Sage, Penyroyal, Pellitory of the Wall, Rosemary, flowers of red Roses, Chamomel, Origanum, Lavender, of each one handful; infuse them twelve hours in twelve 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Gascoign Wine, then with an Alembick, draw three pints of strong Water from it.
Culpeper] A. Authors hold it profitable for women in labor, that it provokes the terms, and brings away the after-birth.
Ordinary Aqua vitae.The Colledg] Distil Ale and Lees of Wine in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Alembick (whose worm runs through cold Water) into small Wine, in ten Congies of which, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one pound of bruised Annis seeds, for twenty four hours, then still it again into strong water.
Aqua vitae Compound.The Colledg] Is made of smal Wines, in six congies of which, infuse Annis seeds half a pound; seeds of Fennel, and Caraway, of each two ounces; Cloves, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Ginger, of each one ounce, and then draw the strong Spirit from it.
Culpeper] A. This is excellent good in my opinion for such as are troubled with wind.
Vsquebach.The Colledg] Take of strong Aqua vitae twenty four pints, in which, for four daies infuse a pound of Liquoris, Raisons of the Sun half a pound; Cloves half an ounce; Mace, Ginger, of each two drachms, strain it and keep it for your use.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the stomach, and helps indigestion coming of flegm and cold.
A. It is possible I may have overslipped some others of their Alterations of Names; my time is short, and my understanding dull: and the truth is, their new model shews far more subtilty than honesty.
Colledg. TAke two drachms of Saffron, eight ounces of Treacle Water, digest them six 〈◊〉〈◊〉, then strain it.
Culpeper] A. See the Vertues of Treacle Water, and then know that this strengthens the heart something more, and keeps melancholly vapors thence by drinking a spoonful of it every morning.
The Colledg] Take of Castorium in pouder half an ounce; Spirit of Castorium half a pound; digest them ten daies cold: strain it, and keep the Liquor for Tincture.
Culpeper] A. A learned invention! 'Tis something more prevalent than the Spirit.
The Colledg] Take of ripe Wood-Strawberries, two pound; put them in a Phiol, and put so much small Spirit of Wine to them, that it may oretop them the thickness of four fingers; stop the vessel close, and set it in the Sun two daies, then strain it and press it but gently; powr this Spirit to as many fresh Strawberries, repeat this six times, at last keep the cleer Liquor for your use.
Culpeper] A. A gallant fine thing for Gentlemen that have nothing else to do with their money, and it will have a lovely look to please their eyes.
The Colledg] Take of the Leaves of Scordium gathered in a dry time, half a pound; digest them in six pound of small spirit of Wine, in a vessel well stopped for three dates, press them out gently, and repeat 〈◊〉〈◊〉 infusion three times, and keep the clarified Liquor for use.
So is made Tincture of Sullondine, Rest-harrow, Ros-solis.
Culpeper] A. See the Herbs for the Vertues, and then take notice that these are better for cold stomachs, old bodies.
The Colledg] Take of Canary Wine often times distilled, Vineger in which half an ounce of Rue seeds have been boyled, two pound; choyce Treasle, the best Mithridate, of each half a pound; mix them and set them in the Sun, or heat of a Bath, digest them and keep the Water for use.
The Colledg] Take of bruised Cinnamon two ounces; rectified Spirit of Wine two pound: infuse them four daies in a large glass stopped with Cork and Bladder, shake it twice a day, then dissolve half a pound of Sugar candy by it self in two pound of Rose Water, mix both Liquors, into which hang a Nodule containing, Amber greese half a scruple, Musk four grains.
Culpeper] A. This was before amongst the Waters, only there is four ounces of Cinnamon appointed, and here but two.
The Colledg] Take of Vert-de-greece, half an ounce; Auripigmentum six drachms; Allum three drachms; boyl them in a pound of white uine till half be consumed, adding after it is cold the Water of red Roses, and Nightshade, of each six ounces.
Culpeper] A. This was made to clense ulcers, but I fancy it not.
The Colledg] Take of Plantane and red Rose water, of each a pound; roch Allum and sublimatum, of each two drachms: Let the Allum and Sublimatum being in pouder boyl in the waters, in a vessel with a narrow mouth till half be consumed; when it hath stood five daies, strain it.
Culpeper] A. Now they have left out the Quicksilver as I bid them, I like men will do as they are bid, yet I fancy it not. Follopius invented it, but you must tell no body.
Colledg] TAke a handful of dried Wormwood for every gallon of Wine; stop it in a vessel close, and so let it remain in steep: so is prepared Wine of Rosemary flowers, and Eye-bright.
Culpeper] A. It helps cold stomachs, breaks wind, helps the Wind Chollick, strengtheneth the stomach, kills worms, and helps the green sickness.
A. Rosemary flower-Wine is made after the same manner that Wormwood Wine is made.
A. It is good against al cold diseases of the head, consumeth flegm, strengtheneth the gums and teeth.
A. Eyebright Wine is made after the same manner.
A. It wonderfully cleers the sight being drunk, and revives the sight of ancient men: A cup of it in the morning is worth a pair of Spectacles.
A. All other Wines are prepared in the same manner, when the Physitian shall see it fit [quoth the Colledg] in their former, but here they left it out.
A. But what if there be never a Physitian worth a rush in 20. 30. 40. or 50. miles, (as some such places may be found in this Nation) must the poor Country man lose his cure? truly this charity is according to vulgar Fervent cold: in such cases let them view the vertues of the Simple the Wine is made of, and then let them know the Wine of that Simple is far better and fitter for cold bodies and weak stomachs, than the Simple it self.
A. The best way of taking any of these Wines is, To drink a draught of them every morning. You may if you find your body old or cold, make Wine of any other herb, the vertues of which you desire, and make it and take it in the same manner: I have done, only I would know of the Colledg whether their wooden wits intend Sack or white Wine to be used in these.
The Colledg] Take a gallon of the juyce of black Cherries, keep it in a vessel close stopped til it begin to work, then filter it, and an ounce of Sugar being added to every pound, let it pass through Hippocrates his sleeve, and keep it in a vessel close stopped for use
Culpeper] A. If ever I knew the like of the Colledg never trust me, here they go and appoint the Wine of black Cherries with never a drop of Wine in it, and the juyce will not keep without it, above a week or so, and so if you are minded to make it, you may by that time sing
Alack, alack now have I lost My pains, my labor, and al my cost.A. Or I know not, it may be they followed their Patriarks the Papists, as wel in this, as in their reasons, why Physick must not be printed in our mother tongue; and they were minded to pop you off with the juyce, and drink al the wine themselves: Or to judge as modestly as can be judged, they were so mad because I had translated their former, that anger so besotted them in this, that they knew not what they wrote.
Unbridled anger takes away mens knowledge; And clouds the The truth (and so it did the Colledg.)
The Colledg] Take of white Hellebore out smal, four ounces, Spanish Wine two pound; steep it in the Sun in a Pbial close stopped, in the Dog daies or other hot weather.
Culpeper] A. And then it will make a dogged purge, as like the Colledg as a pomewater is like an apple.
The Colledg] Take of Stibium in pouder one ounce, Cloves sliced two drachms, Claret Wine two pound, keep it in a Phial close shut.
The Colledg] Take of Crocus Mettallorum in pouder one ounce, Mace a drachm, Spanish Wine one pound and an half, steep it.
The Colledg] Take of Regulus of Antimony in pouder, four ounces, steep it in three pound of white Wine, in a glass well stopped, after the first shaking let the Regulus settle.
Culpeper] A. These three last mentioned are vomits, and vomits are fitting medicines for but a few, as I told you before, the mouth being ordained to take in nourishment not to cast out excrements, and to regulate a mans body in vomiting; and doses of of vomits requires, a deeper study in Physick, then I doubt the generality of people yet have; I omit it therefore at this time, not because I gruteh it my Country, but because I would not willingly have them do themselves a mischeife, I shal shortly teach, them in what diseases vomits may be used, and then and not til then the use of vomits.
The Colledg] Take of a white Squil of the mountains, gathered about the rising of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 starre, cut in thin peices, and dryed for a month, one pound, put it in a glass bottle, and pour to it eight pound of french Wine, and when it hath stood so four daies, take out the Squil.
Culpeper] A. I told told them before that Squils grew by the Sea side, and not upon mountains; but a man shall, as soon knock a Spunge into a milstone, as any wit into the head of a conceited fool; and then again it must be gathered at the rising of the dog-star; yes forsooth by al means: truly right worshipful against the time you are minded to play the anticks again, I will give you as much directions in this business, as is needful to give men of your Rank and quallity. Therefore know, that the dogs are two constellations between the Equator and the South pole, consisting of divers Stars, two of which are most remarkable, and of the first magnitude, whereof that in the great dog is called Syejus: that in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Procyon, each of these two Stars hath three risings, Acronical, Cosmical, and Heliacal, and as many settings. I dare pass my word it is not the Heliacal rising here meant; If it be, I hope so learned a Colledg is not to seek of finding such a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out, Procyon riseth Acronically upon the fifteen or sixteen of January; Syejus upon the twenty six or twenty seven of the same month, Procyon riseth Cosmically upon the ninteenth of July, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon the last day of the same month: the next time you write, pray lay your noddles together; to study out at which of these times the Squil must be gathered.
A. The vertues of this are the same with Vineger of Squils, only 'tis hotter.
Colledg FIll a glass or stone Alembick with the best Vineger to the third part, separate the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with a gentle fire, then encrease the fire by degrees, and perform the work.
The Colledg] Take of red Rose buds gathered in a dry time, the whites cut off, dried in the shaddow three or four daies, one pound, Vineger eight Sextaries; set them in the Sun fourty daies, then strain out the Roses, and repeat the infusion with fresh ones.
After the same manner is made Vineger of Elderflowers, Rosemary flowers, and Clove-gilli-flowers.
Culpeper] A. For the vertues of al Vinegers take this one only observation, they carry the same vertues with the flowers whereof they are made, only as we said of Wines, that they were better for cold bodies than the bare Simples whereof they are made, so are Vinegers for hot bodies. Besides Vinegers are often, nay most commonly used externally, viz. to bath the place, then look a mongst the Simples, and see what place of the body the Simple is apropriated to, and then you cannot chuse but know (if you have but a grain of understanding, more than a beast) both what Vineger to use, and to what place to apply 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The Colledg] Take of that part of the Squil which is between the outward bark and the bottom, cut in thin slices, and placed thirty or fourty daies in the Sun or some remiss heat, then a pound of them (being cut smal with a knife made of Ivory or some white wood) being put in a vessel, and six pound of Vineger put to them; set the vessel being close stopped in the Sun thirty or fourty daies, afterwards strain it, and keep it for use.
Culpeper] A. A little of this medicine being taken in the morning fasting, and walking half an hour after, preserves the body in health, to extream old age, (as Sanius tryed, who using no other medicine but this, lived in perfect health til an hundred and seventeen years of age) it maketh the digestion good, a long wind, a cleer voice, an acute sight, a good colour, it suffers no offensiye thing to remain in the body, neither wind, flegm, choller, melancholly, dung nor urine, but brings them forth, it brings forth filth though it lie in the bones, it takes away salt and sour belchings, though a man be never so d 13.14 licentious in diet, he shal feel no harm; It hath cured such as have the Phtisick, that have been given over by al Physitians: It cures such as have the Falling-sickness, gouts, and diseases and swellings of the Joynts; It takes away the hardness of the liver and spleen. We should never have done if we should reckon up the particular benefits of this medicine; Therefore we commend it, as a wholsom medicine for soundness of body, preservation of health, and vigor of mind: thus 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The Colledg] Take of the roots of Sullendine the greater, one ounce and an half, the roots of Angellica, Master-wort, Gentian, Bistort, Valerian, Burnet, white Dittany; Alicampane, Zedoary, of each one
drachm, of Plantane the greater one drachm and an half, the leaves of Mousear, Sage, Scabious, Scordium, Dittany of Creet, Cardus, of each half a handful, bark and seeds of Citrons, of each half a drachm, Bole Armenick one drachm, Saffron three drachms, Harts-born one drachm and an half; of these let the Saffron, Harts-horn, Dittany, and Bole, be tied up in a ragge, and steeped with the things before mentioned, in five pints of Vineger, for certain daies by a temperate heat in a glass well stopped, strain it, and ad six drachms of the best Treacle to it, shake it together, and keep it for your use.
The Colledg] Add to `the description of Treacle water, Clove-gilli-flowers two ounces, Lavender flowers an ounce and an half, Rose, and Elder flower Vineger, of each four pound, digest it without boyling three daies, then strain it through Hippocrates his sleeve.
Culpeper] A. See Treacle water for the vertues, only this is a little more cool, a little more phantastical.
The Colledg] Take of Mallows, Violets, Pellitory, Beets, and Mercury, Chamomel flowers, of each one handful, sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce, Linseeds two drachms, boyl them in a sufficient quantiiy of common water to a pound.
Culpeper] A. This is the common Decoction for all Clysters, according to the quality of the humor abounding, so you may ad what Simples, or Syrups, or Electuaries you please; only half a score Linseeds, and a handful of Chamomel flowers are added.
The Colledg] Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, and Inds, of each half an ounce, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Raisons of the Sun stoned, Epithimum, Senna, of each one ounce, Fumitory half an ounce, Mandlin five drachms, Polipodium six drachms, Turbith half an ounce, Whey made with Goats milk, or Heisers milk four pound, let them all boyl to two pound, the Epithimum excepted, which boyl but a walm or two, then take it from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and ad black Hellebore one drachm and an half, Agrick half a drachm, Sal. Gem. one drachm and an half, sleep them ten hours, then press it strongly out.
Culpeper] A. Here is half a drachm of black Hellebore added, and I like the Receipt never the better for that.
A. It purgeth melancholly gallantly, as also addust choller, it resisteth madness, and al diseases coming of melanchelly, and, therefore let melancholly people esteem it as a jewel.
A. I cannot but commend it to such of my Countey men as abound with melancholly humors: Let them take a quarrer of a pint of this in the morning, and keep by the fire side al day; imagine they take it at six of the Clock, then let them drink a draught of posset-drink at eight, and eat a bit of hot Mution at twelve, if their bodies be strong, (for people oppressed with Melancholly, usually go hardly to stool, by reason it is a retentive humor) Let them mix those Syrups (which I shal quote when I come to them) with it, and I dare hazard that small credit I have in Physick, that it shall in a few mornings fetch them out of their Melancholly dumps, which though they may seem pleasing, yet are no way profitable to the body of man, especially if the body be troubled also with [ill tumors] I know not what better word to give [Cacochynna.]
The Colledg] Take of Senna two ounces, Pollipodium half an ounce, Ginger one drachm, Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces, Se bestens, Prunes, of each twelve, the flowers of Borrage, Violets, Roses, and Rosemary, of each two drachms; boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed.
Culpeper] A. It is a common Decoction for any purge, by adding other Simples or Compounds to it, according to the quality of the humor you would have purged, yet in its self, it chiefly purgeth melancholly. I shal quote it when I come at such Compounds as are fit to mix with it.
The Colledg] Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned, an ounce, Seb oftens, Jujubes, of each fifteen, Dates six, Figs four, french Barly one ounce, Liquoris half an ounce, Maiden-hair, Hysop, Scabious, Colts-foot of each one handful, boyl them in three pound of water till two remain.
Culpeper A. The medicine is cheifly apropriated to the Lungues, and therefore causeth a cleer voice, a long wind, resisteeh coughs, hoarceness, Asthmaes
&c. You may drink a quarter of a pint of it every morning, without keeping any diet, for it purgeth not. I shall quote some Syrups fitting to be mixed with it, when I come to the Syrups.
The Colledg] Take of Agrimony, Mugwort, * 13.15 wild Angelica, St. Johns wort, Mousear, of each two handfuls; Wormwood half a handful; Southernwood, Betony, Bugloss, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the greater and lesser, roots and all, Avens, both sorts of Plantane, Sanicle, Tormentil with the roots, the buds of Rasberries and Oak, of each a handful: all these being gathered in May or June and dilligently dried, let them be cut and put up in skins or papers against the time of use; then take of the fore named Herbs three handfuls, boyl them in four pound of Conduit water, and two pound of white Wine gently till half be consumed; strain it, and a pound of Honey being added to it, let it be scummed and kept for use.
Culpeper] A. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sight of a Medicine will do you good, this is as like to do it as any I know.
Colledg] TAke of the c 13.16 seeds of Annis, Carrots, Fennel, Cummin, and Caraway, of each three drachms; Chamomel flowers half a handful; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Sun an ounce and an half: boyl them in two pints of water, till almost half 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sumed.
Culpeper] A. It is commonly used in Clysters, to such whose bodies are molested or oppressed with wind, these seeds being added to the former Decoction.
A Decoction of Flowers and Fruits.The Colledg] Take five Figs, fifteen Prunes, Jujubes, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each twenty, Tamarinds an ounce, the flowers of Roses, Violets, Borrage, Bugloss, of each a drachm; Maidenhair, Hops, Endive, of each half an handful, Liquoris two drachms: being cut and bruised, boyl them in three pints of spring Water to the consumption of the third part.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the Lungues, and helps Obstruction.
Lac Virgineum.The Colledg] Take of Allum four ounces, boyl it in a quart of spring Water, to the third part: Afterwards,
Take of d 13.17 Litharge half a pound, white Wine Vineger a pint and an half; boyl it to a pint, strain both the waters, then mix them together, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them about till they are white.
Culpeper] A. It takes away Pimples, redness, freckles and sunburning, the face being washed with it.
A Drink for wounded men.The Colledg] Take of Crabs of the River calcined, and beaten into very fine pouder, two drachms; the roots of round Birthwort, and of Comfry the greater, Self-heal, Bay-berries lightly bruised, of each one drachm; tie them all up in a linnen cloath, and boyl them in three pints of white Wine till the third part be consumed, adding about the middle of the Decoction, one pugil of h 13.18 Perewinkles, then strain it for your use.
This Decoction must be prepared only for the present, when the Physitian appoints it, as also must almost all the rest of the Decoctions.
Culpeper] A. And therefore left my poor wounded Country man should perish for want of an Angel to fee 〈◊〉〈◊〉 k 13.19 Physitian, or if he have it, before the Physitian (which in some places is very remote) can come at him: I have taken the pains to write the Receipt in his own Mother tongue; he may get any friend to make it: He may drink half a pint of it in the morning; or if he please to boyl it in smal Ale instead of Wine; he would be well the sooner if he drunk no other drink.
The Colledg. TAke of the clarified Juyce of common Wormwood, clarified Sugar, of each four pound; make it into a Syrup according to art.
After the same manner, are prepared simple Syrups of Betony, Borrage, Bugloss, Cardus, Chamomel, Succory, Endive, Hedg-mustard, Strawberries, Fumitory, Ground-Ivy, St. Johns wort, Hops, Mercury, Mousear, Plantane, Apples, Purslain, Rasberries, Sage, Scabious, Scordium, Housleek, Coltsfoot, Pauls Betony, and other Juyces not sour.
Culpeper. A. See the Simples, and then you may easily know both their vertues and also that they are pleasanter and fitter for delicate stomachs when they are made into Syrups.
The Colledg. Take of common Wormwood meanly dry, half a pound, red Roses two ounces, Indian Spicknard three drachms, old white Wine, Juyce of Quinces, of each two pound and an half; steep them a whol day in an earthen vessel, then boyl them gently, and strain it, and by adding two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper. A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this; and the Receipt is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs, and in my opinion 'tis an admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens both stomach and liver, as also the instruments of concoction; a spoonful taken in the morning, is admirable for such as have a weak digestion, it provokes an appetite to ones victuals, it prevails against the yellow Jaundice, breaks wind, purgeth humors by urin. It was Roman Wormwood before, and so Mesue hath it, and our Colledg is as well able to correct Mesue as the Pigmies were to beat Hercules.
The Colledg. Take of cleer Water four pound, white Sugar five pound, boyl them in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire, scumming it till half the water be consumed, then by putting in two pound of Wine Vineger by degrees, perfect the Syrup.
Culpeper. A. That is, Only melt the Sugar with the Vinegar over the fire, scum it, but boyl it not.
The Colledg. Take of white Sugar five pound, white Wine Vinegar two pound, by melting it in a bath, make it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. Of these two Syrups let every one use which he finds by experience to be best; the difference is but little, I hold the last to be the best of the two, and would give my reasons for it, but that I fear the Book will swell too big: They both of them cut flegm, as also tough, hard, viscous humors in the stomach; they cool the body, quench thirst, provoke urine, and propare the stomach before the taking of a vomit. If you take it as a prepatative for a vomit, take half an ounce of it when you go to bed the night before you intend to vomit, it will make you to vomit the easier, but if for any of the foregoing occasins, take it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg. Take of the Roots of Smallage, Fennel, Endive, of each three ounces; the seeds of Annis, Smallage, Fennel, of each one ounce; of Endive half an ounce, cleer Water six pound; boyl it gently in an earthen vessel till half the Water be consumed, then strain and clarifie it, and with three pound of Sugar, and a pound and an half of white wine Vinegar, boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. This in my opinion is a gallant Syrup for such whose bodies are stuffed either with flegm, or tough humors, for it opens obstructions or stoppings both of the stomach, liver, spleen, and reins; it cuts and brings away tough flegm and choller, and is therefore a special remedy for such as have a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at their stomach. Mesue prescribes ten 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Water, and a quart of Vineger, let every one use which Dr Experience tels him is best.
The Colledg. Take of the seeds of Rue, and Hemp, of each half a drachm; of Endive, Lettice, Purslain, Guords, Melones, of each two drachms; of Fleawort half an ounce, of Agnus Castus four ounces, the Flowers of Water-Lillies, the Leaves of Mints, of each half a handful; Decoction of seeds of Lentils, and Coriander seeds, of each half an ounce, three pound of the Decoction, boyl them all over a gentle fire til two pound be consumed, ad to the residue being strained, two ounces Juyce of Lemmons, a pound and an half of white Sugar, make it into a Syrup according to art.,
A. A pretty Syrup and good for little.
The Colledg. Take of Roots of Marsh-Mallows two ounces, the Roots of Grass Sparagus, Liquoris, Raisons of the Sun stoned, of each half an ounce, the tops of Mallows, Marsh-Mallows, Pellitory of the Wall, Burnet, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Maiden-hair white and black, of each a handful red 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an ounce, of the* 13.20 four greater and four lesser cold seeds, of each three drachms, boyl them in six pound of cleerr Water till four remain, which being strained, boyl into a Syrup with four pound of white Sugar.
Culpeper. A. It is a fine cooling, opening, slippery Syrup, and chiefly commendable for the chollick, stone, or gravel, in the kidnies or bladder.
A. I shall only give you a Caution or two concerning this Syrup, which for the forenamed effects, I hold to be excellent.
A. 1. Be sure you boyl it enough, for if you boyl it never so little too little, it will quickly be sour.
A. 2. For the Chollick (which is nothing else but an infirmity in the gut called Colon and thence it takes its name) you had best use it in Clysters, but for gravel or the stone, drink it in convenient Medicines, or by it self; If both of them afflict you use it both waies: I assure you this medicine will save those that are subject to such diseases, both mony and misery.
The Colledg. Take of Maudlin and Cetrach, of each four handfuls; common Wormwood an ounce, the Roots of Succory, Sparagus, bark of Caper Roots, of each two ounces, after due preparation sleep them twenty four hours in three ounces of white Wine, Rhadish and fumitory water, of each 2. pound, then boyl it away to one pound eight ounces, let it settle, in four ounces of which whilst it is warm, dissolve by it self Gum Ammoniacum, first dissolved in white Wine Vinegar, two ounces, boyl the rest with a pound and an half of white Sugar into a Syrup, adding the mixtures of the Gum at the end.
Culpeper. A. It cools the Liver, and opens obstructions both of it and the Spleen, helps old Surfets and such-like diseases, as scabs, itch, leprosy, and what else proceed from the Liver overheated; you may take an ounce at a time.
The Colledg. Take of Mugwort two handfuls, Penyroyal, Calaminth, Origanum, Bawm, Arsmart, Dictani of Creet, Savin, Marsoram, Germander, St. Johns Wort, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Featherfew with the Flowers, Centaury the less, Rue, Bettony, Bugloss, of each a handful; the Roots of Fennel, Smallage, Parsly, Sparagus, Bruscus, Saxifrage, Alicampane, Cyperus, Maddir, Orris, Peony, of each an ounce; Juniper Berries, the seeds of Lovage, Parsly, Smallage, Annis, Nigella, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Costus, Cassia Lignea, Cardamoms, Calamus Aromaticus, the Roots of Asarabacca, Pellitory of Spain, Valerian, of each half an ounce; being clensed, cut, and bruised, let them be infused twenty four hours in fourteen pound of cleer water, and boyled till half be consumed, being taken off from the fire and rubbed between your hands, whilst it is warm, strain it, and with Honey and Sugar of each two pound, sharp Vineger four ounces, boyl it to a Syrup, and perfume it with Cinnamon and Spiknard, of each three drams.
Culpeper. A. It helps the passion of the matrix, and retains it in its place, it dissolves the coldness wind, and pains thereof, it strengthens the nerves, opens the pores, corrects the blood, it corrects and provokes the terms in women. You may take a handful of it at a time.
The Colledg. Take of Betony three handfuls, Marsoram a handful and an half; Time, red Roses, of each a handful; Violets, Stoechas, Sage, of each half a handful; the seeds of Fennel, Annis, and Ammi, of each half an ouce; the roots of Peony, Polypodium, and Fennel, of each five drachms; boyl them in six pound of river water to three pound, strain it, and ad juyce of Betony two pound, Sugar three pound and an half, make it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. It helps diseases coming of cold, both in the head and stomach, as also such as come of wind, vertigoes, madness, it concocts melancholly, it provokes the terms in women, and so doth the Simple Syrup more than the Compound. The Composition was framed by the Augustan Physitians. Certainly our Physitians have but shallow brains, that they are fain to trot as far as Ausberg in Germany to steal Receipts.
The Colledg. Take of the Juyce of the Leaves of Endive and Smallage, of each two pound; of Hops and Bugless, of each one pound; boyl them together, and scum them, and to the clarified Liquor, ad four pound of white Sugar, to as much of the Juyces, and with a gentle fire boyl it to a Syrup.
The Colledg. Take of the Juyces so ordered as in the former, four pound, in which boylred Roses two ounces, Liquoris half an ounce, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, and Smallage, of each three drachms, Spicknard two drams, strain it, and to the three pound remaining, ad two pound of Vineger, four pound of Sugar, make it into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper. A. They both of them (viz. both Simple and Compound) opens stoppings of the stomach, liver, and spleen, help the Rickets in children, cuts and brings away tough flegm, and helps the yellow Jaundice: Mesue saith the Compound Syrup is of more effect than the Simple for the same uses. You may take them with a Liquoris stick, or take a spoonful in the morning fasting.
The Colledg. Take of Oak of Jerusalem, Hedg-mustard, Nettles, of each two handfuls; Coltsfoot, an handful and an half, boyl them in a sufficient quantity of cleer Water till half be consumed; to two pound of the Decoction ad two pound of the Juyce of Turneps baked in an Oven in a close pot, and with three pound of white Sugar boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. This Syrup was composed against Coughs, shortness of breath, and other the like infirmities of the breast proceeding of cold, for (which if you can get it) you may take it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg. Take of Liquoris two ounces, Maidenhair five ounces, steep them a natural day in four pound of warm water, then after a gentle boyling and strong straining, with a pound and an half of fine Sugar make it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. It opens stoppings of the stomach, strengthens the Lungues, and helps the infirmities of them. This may be taken also either with a Liquoris stick, or mixed with the pectoral Decoction like Syrup of Coltsfoot.
The Colledg. Take of Rhenish Wine two pound, Rose water two ounces and an half, Cloves two seruples, Cinnamon half a drachm, Ginger two scruples, Sugar three ounces and an half, boyl it to the consistence of a Julep, adding Amber-greese three grains, Musk one grain.
Culpeper. A. He that hath read thus far in this Book, and doth not know he must first boyl the Simples in the Wine, and then strain them out before he puts in the Sugar, is a man that in my opinion hath not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 enongh to be taught to make up a Medicine; and the Colledg in their new Master-piece hath left it out.
A. If you would have this Julip keep long, you may put in more Sugar, and yet if close stopped, it will not easily corrupt because 'tis made up only of Wine; indeed the wisest way is to order the quantity of sugar according to the* 13.21 pallat of him that takes it.
A. It restoreth such as are in Consumptions; comforts the heart, cherisheth the drooping spirits, and is of an opening quality, thereby carrying away those vapors which might otherwise anoy the brain and heart: You may take an ounce at a time, or two if you please.
The Colledg. Take a pound of Clove-gilliflowers the whites being cut off, infuse them a whol night in two pound of Water, then with four pound of sugar melted in it, make it into a Syrup without boyling.
Culpeper. A. In their former they added three pound of Water, if you would infuse them you must do it at several times.
A. The syrup is a fine temperate syrup, it strengthens the heart, liver, and stomach, it refresheth the vital spirits, and is a good cordial in feavers; and usually mixed with other Cordials, you can hardly err in taking it, it is so harmless a syrup.
The Colledg. Take of Cinnamon grosly bruised, four ounces; steep it in white Wine, and small Cinnamon water, of each half a pound three daies in a glass by a gentle heat; strain it and with a pound and an half of Sugar boyl it gently to a syrup.
Culpeper. A. This comes something neerer the Augustan Dispensatory than their former did; it is not altogether the same, for then people would have said they did nothing, whereas now 'tis apparent they did something though to little purpose.
It refresheth the vital spirits exceedingly, and cheereth both heart and stomach languishing through cold; it helps digestion exceedingly, and strengthens the whol body. You may take a spoonful at a time in a Cordial.
The Colledg. Thus also you may conveniently prepare syrups (but only with white Wine) of Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger &c.
The Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Citrons, strained without expression and clensed a pound, sugar two pound, make it into a syrup like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers.
Culpeper. A. It prevails against all diseases proceeding from Choller, or heat of blood, feavers, both pestilential and not pestilential, it resisteth poyson, cools the
blood, quencheth thirst, cureth the Vertigo, or dissiness in the head.
The Colledg. After the same manner is made syrup of Grapes, Orrenges, Barberries, Cherries, Quinces, Lemmons, Woodsorrel, Mulberries, Sorrel, English Currence, and other sour Juyces.
Culpeper. A. If you look the Simples you may see the vertues of them, they all cool and comfort the heart and strengthen the stomach, syrup of Quinces staies vomiting, so doth also syrup of Grapes.
The Colledg. Take of flesh yellow Citron Pills five ounces, the Berries of Chermes, or the Juyce of them brought over to us two drachms, spring water, four pound, steep them all night, boyl them till half be consumed, taking off the scum, strain it, and with two pound and an half of sugar boyl it into a syrup, let half of it be without Musk, but perfume the other half with three grains of Musk tyed up in a rag.
Culpeper. A. It strengthens the stomach, resists poyson, strengthens the heart, and resists the passions thereof, palpitation, faintings, swoonings; it strongthens the vital spirits, restores such as are in Consumptions, and Hectick Feavers, and strengthens nature much. You may take a spoonful at a time.
The Colledg. Take of red Corral in very fine pouder four ounces, dissolve it in clarified Juyce of Barberries in the boat of a bath, a pound, in a glass well stopped with wax and Cork, a digestion being made three or four daies, pour off what is dissolved, put in fresh clarified Juyce and proceed as before; repeat this so osten till all the Corral be dissolved; lastly to one pound of this Juyce ad a pound and an half of sugar, and boyl it to a syrup gently.
The Colledg. Take of red Corral six ounces, in very fine pouder and levigated upon a marble, ad of clarified juyce of Lemmons, the flegm being drawn off in a bath, sixteen ounces, clarified 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Barberries, eight ounces; Sharp wine Vinegar and juyce of Wood-sorrel, of each six ounces; mix them together and put them in a glass stopped with Cork and Bladder, shaking it every day till it have digested eight daies in a bath or horsdung, then filter it, of which take a pound and an half; juyce of Quinces half a pound, Sugar of Roses twelve ounces, make them into a syrup in a bath, adding syrup of Clove-gilliflowers sixteen ounces, keep it for use, omitting the half drachm of Ambergrees and four grains of Musk till the Physitian command it.
Culpeper. A. Syrup of Corral both Simple and Compound, restore such as are in Consumptions, are of a gallant cooling nature, especially the last, and very Cordial, special good for Hectick feavers, it stops fluxes, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, helps such as spit blood, and such as have the Fallingsickness, it staies the terms in women: And indeed it had need be good for somthing, for it is exceeding costly. Half a spoonful in a morning is enough for the body, and it may be too much for the purse.
The Colledg. Take of the Juyce of Quinces clarified six pound, boyl it over a gentle fire till half of it be consumed, scumming it, adding red Wine three pound, white sugar four pound, boyl it into a syrup, to be perfumed with a drachm and an balf of Cinnamon, Cloves and Ginger of each two scruples.
Culpeper. A. It strengthens the heart and stomach, staies loosness and vomiting, releeves languishing nature, for loosness take a spoonful of it before meat, for vomiting after meat; for both as also for the rest, in the morning.
The Colledg. Take of Hedgmustard fresh, six handfuls, the Roots of Alicampane, Coltsfoot, Liquoris, of each two ounces; Borrage, succory, Maiden-hair, of each a handful and an half, the Cordial Flowers, Rosemary, and Betony, of each half a handful, Annis seeds half an ounce, Raisons of the Sun stoned two ounces, let all of them being prepared according to art be boyled in a sufficient quantity of barley Water and Hydromel, with six ounces of juyce of Hedgmustvrd to two pound and an half, the which with three pound of sugar boyl into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper. A. It was invented against cold afflictions of the breast and Lungues, as Astmaes, hoarceness &c. you may take it either with a Liquoris stick, or which is better, mix an ounce of it with three or four ounces of pectoral decoction, and drink it off warm in the morning.
The Colledg. Take of Endive, common Wormwood, Hops, Dodder, Hartstongue, of each a handful; Epithimum an ounce and an half; boyl them in four pound of Water till half be consumed; strain it, and ad the juyce of Fumitory a pound and an half; of Borrage, and Bugloss of each half a pound, white Sugar four pound; make them into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper. A. The Receipt is a pretty concocter of melancholly, and therefore a rational help for diseases arising thence, both internal and external; It helps diseases of the skin, as Leprosies, Cancers, Warts, Corns, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, Scabs, &c. and it is the better to be liked because of its gentleness, For in my experience, I could never find a violent Medicine do good, but ever harm in a b 13.22 Melancholly disease. It also strengthens the stomach and liver,
opens obstructions, and is a soveraign remedy for Hypocondriack Melancholly. You may ad an ounce of this to the decoction of Epithimum before mentioned, and order your body as you were taught there. It helps surfets exceedingly, clenseth, cooleth, and strengtheneth the liver, and causeth it to make good blood, and good blood cannot make bad flesh. I commend this Receipt to those whose bodies are subject to scabs and Itch. If you please you may take two ounces by it self every morning.
The Colledg. Take of green Liquoris scraped and bruised two ounces, white Maidenhair an ounce, dryed Hysop half an ounce, steep these in four pound of hot water, after 24. hours boyl it till half be consumed, strain it and clarifie it, and with Honey, Peuids, and Sugar of each eight ounces, make it into a syrup, adding before it be perfectly boyled, red Rose-water six ounces.
Culpeper. A. It clenseth the breast and lungues, and helps continual Coughs and Pleuresies. You may take it with a Liquoris stick, or ad an ounce of it or more to the pectoral Decoction.
The Colledg. Take of white Sugar a pound and an half, Juyce of Pomegranates eight ounces, white Wine Vineger four ounces, boyl it gently into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. Look the Vertue of Pomegranates amongst the Simples.
The Colledg. Take eight pound of spring Water, half an ounce of Barley, boyl it about half an hour, then ad the Roots of smallage, Parsly, Fennel, Liquoris, of each ten drams; Jujubes, Sebestens of each fifteen; Raisons of the sun stoned an ounce and an half; Figs, Dates, of each ten; the seeds of Mallows and Quinces, Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag, of each three drachms; Hysop meanly dried ten drachms, Maiden-hair six drachms; boyl them together, yet so, that the Roots may precead the Fruits, the Fruits the Seeds, and the Seeds the Herbs, about a quarter of an hour; at last, five pounds of Water being consumed, boyl the other three (being first strained and clarified) into a syrup with two pound and an half of Sugar.
Culpeper. A. You may thank Mesue for it, not the Colledg.
A. It mightily strengthens the b 13.23 breast and lungs, causeth long wind, cleer voice, is a good remedy against coughs. Use it like the syrup of Liquoris.
The Colledg. Take of Chamepitys two handfuls; Sage, Rosemary, Poley mountain, Origanum, Calaminth, wild mints, Peniroyal, Hysop, Time, Rue, Garden and wild, Betony, Mother of Time, of each a handful; the roots of Acorus, Birthwort long and round, Briony, Dittany, Gentian, Hogs Fennel, Valerian, of each half an ounce, the roots of smallage, sparagus, Fennel, Parsly Bruscus, of each an ounce; Pellitory of Spain an ounce and an half, stoechas, the seeds of Annis, Ammi, Carraway, Fennel, Lovage, Hartwort, of each three drachms, Raisons of the sun two ounces; boyl them in ten pound of water to four, to which ad Honey and Sugar of each two pound, make it into a syrup to be persumed with sugar, Nutmegs, and Cubebs, of each three drachms.
Culpeper. A. I bid them mend this for shame last time, and the truth is, so they have; before it was a Hodg-podg that could not be made, and now 'tis a Hodg-podg only not worth the making.
The Colledg. Take of Jujubes, Violets, five drachms; Maidenhair, Liquoris, French Barley, of each an ounce; the seeds of Mallows five drachms; the seeds of white Poppies, Melones, Lettice, [seed of Quinces and Gum Tragacanth tyed up in a rag] of each three drachms; boyl them in six pound of rain or spring water till half be consumed, strain it and with two pound of sugar make it into a syrup.
Culpeper. A. Those that adore the Colledg as so many little God-a-mighties, let them ask them what part of the Violets must be put in, for they must operate as neer to their meanings as the men of Benjamin could throw a stone and not miss; others that do not, may be pleased to make use of the Flowers.
A. It is a fine cooling syrup, very available in Coughs, Hoarsness, and Pleuresies, Ulcers of the Lungues, and Bladder, as also in all inflamations whatsoever. You may take a spoonful of it once in three or four hours, or if you please take it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg. Take of white Poppy heads with their seeds, gathered a little after the flowers are fallen off, and kept three daies, eight ounces; black Poppy heads (so ordered) six ounces, rain Water eight pound, steep them twenty four hours, then boyl and press them gently, boyl it to three pounds, and with twenty four ounces of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art.
The Colledg. Take of white and black Poppy heads with their seeds fifty drachms; maindenhair fifteen drachms; Jujubes thirty; the seeds of Lettice fourty drachms;
of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a rag a drachm and an half; Liquoris five drachms; Water eight pound; boyl it according to art, strain it, and to three pound of Decoction ad sugar and penids, of each a pound, make it into a syrup.
Culpeper. A. Meconium: The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispiece, is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick: As I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce ofg 13.24 Poppies growing in hotter Countries (and therefore in all reason is colder in quality;) and therefore (I speak purely of Meconium and Opium, not of these syrups) though they be no edg-tools, yet 'tis ill jesting with them.
A. All these former syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness, such as these are, are not fit to be given in the beginning of Feavers, nor to such whose bodies are costive; ever remember my former Motto, Fools are not fit to make Physitians. Yet to such as are troubled with hot, sharp Rhewms, you may safely give them; and note this, the last, which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues, whose own words (translation excepted) of it are these, It prevails against dry Coughs, Phtisicks, hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms, and provokes sleep. It is an usual fashion for Nurses when they have heat their milk by exercise or strong liquor, (no marvel then if their children be froward) then run for syrup of Poppies to make their young ones sleep. I would fain have that fashion left, therefore I forbear the dose; let Nurses keep their own bodies 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and their children will sleep well enough, never fear.
The Colledg. Take of the Bark of Bugloss Roots an ounce; the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of white Dittany, sinksoyl, scorzonera, of each half an ounce; the Leaves of Bawm, scabious, Devils-bit, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of both sorts of Bugloss, and Rosemary of each a handful; the seeds of sorrel, Citrons, Fennel, Cardus, Bazil, of each three drachms; boyl them in four pound of water till half be consumed, strain it, and ad three pound of white sugar; Juyce of Bawm, and Rose Water, of each half a pound, boyl them to a syrup, the which perfume with Cinnamon and yellow sanders of each half an ounce.
Culpeper. A. The scorzonera Roots, and Bugloss Roots are added, and the Bettony Roots left out, and Fernelius his name buried in oblivion; that is all the Alteration: If the name of the wicked shall rot, 'tis more likely to happen upon themselves than Fernelius.
A. Alwaies tie perfumes up in a rag, and hang them into the syrup by a string when it boyls, and hang them by a string in the veslel (be it pot or glass) that you may keep the syrup in being boyled.
A. It is an excellent Cordial, and strengthens the heart, breast, and stomach, it resisteth Melancholly, revives the spirits, is given with good success in Feavers, it strengtheneth the memory, and relievs langushing nature. You may take a spoonful of it at a time.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Quinces sweet and between sweet and sowr, the juyce of Pomegranates sweet, between sweet and sowr, and sowr, of each a pound and an half, dryed mints half a pound red Roses two ounces, let them lie in steep one day, then boyl it half away and with four pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art, perfume it not unless the Physitian command.
Culpeper.] A. The syrup is in quality binding, yet it comforts the stomach much, helps digestion, staies vomiting, and is (in my opinion) as excellent a remedy against sowr or offensive belchings, as any is in the Dispensatory: Take a spoonful of it after meat.
The Colledg.] Take of the seeds of Marsh-Mallows, Mallows, Quinces, of each an ounce; Gum Tragacanth, three drachms; let these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of Mallows, white Poppy seeds, and Winter-cherries; then press out the Mussilage to an ounce and an half; with which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction, and two ounces of sugar, make a syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] A. A spoonful taken by it self, or in any convenient Liquor is excellent for any sharp corroding humors be they in what part of the body soever, Phtisicks, bloody Flux, stone in the Reins or Bladder, or Ulcers there, it is excellent good for such as have taken Purges that are to strong for their bodies, for by its slippery nature it helps corrosians, and by its cooling, helps inflamations.
The Colledg.] Take of Mirtle berries two ounces and an half; Sanders white and red, sumach, Balaustines, Barberry stones, red Roses of each an ounce and an half; Medlars half a pound; bruise them in eight pound of water to four; strain it and ad juyce of Quinces and sour Pomegranates, of each six ounces; then with three pound of sugar boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper.] A. The syrup is of a very binding, yet comforting nature, it helps such as spit blood, all fluxes of the belly, or corrosions of the internal parts, it strengthens the retentive faculty, and stops immoderate flux of the terms in women: A spoonful at a time is the dose.
The Colledg.] Take of the whitest of white Water-lilly-flowers, a pound; steep them in three pound of warm Water, six or seven hours; let them boyl a little and strain them out; put in the same waight of Flowers again the second and third time; when you have strained it the last time, ad its waight of sugar to it and boyl it to a syrup.
The Colledg.] Take of white Water-lilly-Flowers
half a pound; Violets two ounces, Lettice two handfuls; the seeds of Lettice, Purslain, and Guords, of each half an ounce; boyl them in four pound of cleer water till one be consumed; strain it, and ad half a pound of red Rose water; white sugar four pound, boyl it into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] A. They both are fine cooling syrups, they allay the heat of Choller, and provoke fleep, they cool the body, both head, heart, liver, reins, and matrix, and therefore are profitable for hot diseases in either: you may take an ounce of it at a time when your stomach is empty.
The Colledg.] Take of the fresh Flowers of red Poppies two pound, steep them in four pound of warm spring Water; the next day strain it and boyl it into a syrup with its equal waight in Sugar.
Culpeper.] A. I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken with moderation; and bread immoderately taken, hurts; the syrup cools the blood, helps surfets, and may safely be given in Frenzies, Feavers, and hot Agues.
The Colledg.] Take of Mousear three handfuls, the Roots of Ladies mantle, an ounce and an half; the Roots of comsry the greater, Maddir, white Dittany, Tormentil, Bistort, of each an ounce; the Leaves of Wintergreen, Horstail, Ground-Ivy, Plantane, Adders tongue, Strawberries, St. Johns Wort with the Flowers, Golden rod, Agrimony, Bettony, Burnet, Avens, Sinkfoyl the greater, red Coleworts, Balaustines, red Roses of each a handful; boyl them gently in six pound of of Plantane Water to three, then strain it strongly and when it is setled, ad Gum Tragacanth, the seeds of Fleawort, Marsh-mallows, and Quinces, made into a Mussilage by themselves in strawberry and Bettony Water, of each three ounces; white sugar two pound, boyl it to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper.] A. Certainly they intended an universal Medicine of this, and may prove as good as Chrysippus his Coleworts. It is profitable for wounded people to take, for it is drying and healing, and therefore good for Ruptures.
The Colledg.] It is prepared just for all the world like syrup of Clove-gilliflowers.
Culpeper.] A. See syrup of Meconium for the vertues.
The Colledg.] Take of the Roots of both sorts of Peony taken up at the full Moon, cut in slices and steeped in white Wine a whol day, of each an ounce and an half; Contra yerva half an ounce; Siler mountain six drachms; Elks Claws an ounce, Rosemary with the Flowers on, one handful; Bettony, Hysop, Origanum, Chamepitys, Rue, of each three drachms; Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Cardamoms the less, of each two drachms; Ginger, Spicknard, of each a drachm; stoechas, Nutmegs, of each two drachms and an half; boyl them after one daies warm digestion, in a sufficient quantity of distilled Water of Peony Roots, to four pouud; in which being strained through Hippocrates his sleeves, put four pound and an half of white sugar and boyl it to a syrup.
Culpeper.] A. It is somewhat costly to buy, and as troublesom to make, a spoonful of it taken helps the Falling-sickness and Convulsions.
The Colledg.] Take four pound of the juyce of sweet scented Apples, the juyce of Bugloss garden and wild, of Violet Leaves, Rose water, of each a pound; boyl them together and clarifie them, and with six pound of pure sugar, boyl it into a syrup according to Art.
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat, and may safely be given in feavers, for it rather loosens than binds; it breeds good blood, and is profitable in Hectick feavers, and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart, it quencheth thirst admirably in Feavers, and staies Hiccoughs. You may take an ounce of it at a time in the morning, or when you need.
The Colledg] Take of white Horehound fresh, two ounces; Liquoris, Polipodium of the Oak, Fennel, and smallage Roots of each half an ounce; white Maiden-hair, Origanum, Hysop, Calaminth, Time, savory, scabious, Coltsfoot of each six drachms; the seeds of Annis and Cotton, of each three drachms; Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces, fat Figs ten, boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel till half be consumed, boyl the Decoction into a syrup with honey and sugar of each two pound, and perfume it with an ounce of the Roots of Orris Florentine.
Culpeper.] A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues, and is a fine clenser, to purge them from thick and putrified flegm, it helps Phtisicks and Coughs, and diseases subject to old men and cold natures. Take it with a Liquoris stick. Both this Receipt and the former, Fernelius was the Author of.
The Colledg.] Take of the Roots of smallage, Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus, Sparagus, of each two ounces, spring Water six pound; boyl away the third part and make a syrup with the rest according to art; with three pound of sugar, adding eight ounces of white white Wine Vinegar towards the latter end.
Culpeper] It clenseth and openeth very well, is profitable against Obstructions, provokes Urine, clenseth the body of flegm, and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers. An ounce at a time upon an empty stomach is a good dose.
The Colledg] Take of Garden and wild Rhadish Roots, of each an ounce; the Roots of white Saxifrage, Lovage, Bruscus, Eringo, Restharrow, Parsly, Fennel, of each half an ounce; the Leaves of Bettony, Burnet, Penyroyal, Nettles, Watercresses, Sampier, Maidenhair, of each a handful; Winter Cherries, Jujubes, of each ten; the seeds of Bazil, Bur, Parsly of Macedonia, Hartwort, Caraway, Carrots, Gromwel, the Bark of the Root of Bay-tree, of each two drachms; Raisons of the sun stoned, Liquoris, of each six drachms; boyl them in twelve pound of water to eight; strain it, and with four pound of Sugar and two pound of Honey, make it into a syrup and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon, and half an ounce of Nutmegs.
Culpeper] A. A tedious long Medicine for the stone: I wonder why the Colledg affect such LONG Receipts, surely it will be LONG enough before they be wiser.
The Colledg] Boyl four pound of Rose water, and one pound of white sugar into a Julep.
Julep. of Roses is made with Damask Rose water, in the very same manner.
Culpeper] Two fine cooling drinks in the heat of summer for them that have nothing else to do with their money.
The Colledg] Make four pound of spring Water hot, in which infuse a pound of dried Roses by some at a time; press them out, and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. If you boyl it, it will lose bothl 13.25 colour and vertue, and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff? I am weary with nothing this in every Receipt, therefore be pleased to accept of this one general Rule, It is not best to boyl any syrups made of Infusions, but by adding the double weight of Sugar (viz. two pound of sugar to each pint of infusion) melt it over a fire only.
A. Syrup of dried Roses, strengthens the heart, comforts the spirits, bindeth the body, helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts, it strengthens the stomach, and staies vomiting. You may take an ounce at a time, before meat, if for fluxes; after meat, if for vomiting.
The Colledg] Take of the Roots of Alicampane, and Polypodium of the Oak, of each two ounces; Raisons of the the sun stoned an ounce, sebestens twenty, Coltsfoot, Lungwort, savory, Calaminth, of each a handsul and an half; Liquoris, Spanish Tobacco, of each half an ounce; the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms; boyl them all (the Roots being infused in white Wine the day before) in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water to eight ounces; strain it, and adding four ounces of the Juyce of Scabious, and ten ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup, adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur.
Culpeper] A. It is a clensing syrup, apropriated to the breast and lungues; when you perceive them oppressed by flegm, crudities, or stoppings, your remedy is to take now and then a spoonful of this syrup, it is taken also with good success by such as are itchy or scabby.
The Colledg] Take of Hartstongue three handfuls, Polypodium of the Oak, the Roots of both sorts of Bugloss, bark of the roots of Capars & Tamaris of each two ounces, Hops, Doddar, Maiden-hair, Bawm of each two handfuls, boyl them in nine pound of spring water to five, and strain it, and with four pound of white sugar make it into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. It helps the stoppings of Melancholly, opens obstructions of the Liver and spleen, and is profitable against splenetick evils, and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the Rickets, or Liver-grown: A spoonful in a morning is a precious Remedy for children troubled with that disease. Men that are troubled with the spleen, which is known by pain and hardnes in their left side, may take three or four spoonfuls, they shall find this one Receipt worth the price of the whol Book.
The Colledg] Take of Stoechas flowers four ounces, Rosemary flowers half an ounce, Time, Calaminth, Origanum of each an ounce and an half, Sage, Betony of each half an ounce, the seeds of Rue, Pcony, and Fennel, of each three drachms, spring water ten pound, boyl it till half be consumed, and with Honey and sugar of each two pound boyl it into a syrup, which perfume with Cinnamon, Ginger, and Calamus Aromaticus, of each two drachms tyed up in a rag.
The Colledg] Take of the Roots and Tops of Comfry the greater and lesser, of each three handfuls, red Roses, Betony, Plantane Burnet, Knot-grass, scabious, Coltsfoot, of each two handfuls, press the Juyce out of them all being green and bruised, boyl it, scum it and strain it, ad its weight of sugar to it that it may be made into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. The syrup is excellent for all inward wounds and bruises, excoriations, vomitings, spittings, or pissings of blood, it unites broken bones, helps ruptures, and stops the terms in women: you cannot er in taking of it.
The Colledg] Take of Violet Flowers fresh and picked, a pound, cleer water made boyling hot two pound, shut them up close together in a new glazed pot, a whol day, then press them hard out, and in two pound of the Liquor dissolve four pound and three ounces of
white Sugar, take away the scum, and so make it into a syrup without boyling.
Syrup of the Juyce of Violets is made with its double waight of Sugar like the former.
Culpeper] A. This latter syrup is far more chargable than the former, and in all reason is better, although I never knew it used; they both of them cool and moisten, and that very gently, they correct the sharpness of choller, and give ease in hot vices of the breast, they quench thirst in acute feavers, and resist the heat of the disease, they comfort hot stomachs exceedingly, cool the liver and heart, and resist putrifaction, pestilence and poyson. It is so harmless a syrup you shall hurt your purse by it sooner than your body.
The Colledg] Julep of Violets is made of the water of Violet flowers and sugar like Julep of Roses.
Culpeper] A. It is cooling and pleasant for the Gentry when they are hot with walking, for few of them much trouble their study.
The Colledg. TAke of whol Barley, the Roots of Smallage, Fennel and Sparagus of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, Endive, smooth Sowthistles of each two handfuls, Lettice, Liverwort, Fumitory, tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden-hair white and black, Cetrach, Liquoris, Winter Cherries, Dodder of each six drachms; to boyl these take sixteen pound of spring water, strain the liquor and boyl in it six pound of white Sugar, adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb, six drachms of Spicknard bound up in a thin and slack rag, the which crush often in boyling, and so make it into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. This Receipt (without a name) was borrowed from Nicholaus Florentinus; the difference is only in the quantity of the Rhubarb, and Spike, besides the order inverted, whose own aprobation of it runs in these terms.
A. It clenseth the body of venemous humors, as Boyls, Carbuncles, and the like; it prevails against pestilential Feavers, it strengthens the heart and nutritive vertue, purgeth by stool and urine, it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat, and provokes sleep.
A. But by my Authors leave, I never accounted purges to be proper Physick in Pestilential Feavers; this I beleeve, the syrup clenseth the liver well, and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with Hypocondriack Melancholly. The strong may take two ounces at a time, the weak one; or you may mix an ounce of it with the Decoction of Senna.
The Colledg] Take of Epithimum twenty drams, Mirobalans, Citron, and Indian of each fifteen drams, Emblicks, Bellericks, Polypodium, Liquoris, Agrick, Time, Calaminth, Bugloss, Stoechas of each six drams, Dodder, Fumitory, of each ten drachms, red Roses, Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each two drachms and an half,d 13.26 sweet Prunes ten, Raisons of the sun stoned four ounces, Tamarinds two ounces and an half; after twenty four hours infusion in ten pints of spring water, boyl it away to six, then take it from the fire and strain it, and with five pound of fine Sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is best to put in the Dodder, Stoechas and Agrick, towards the latter end of the Decoction.
A. This Receipt was Mesue's, only instead of five pound of Sugar, Mesue appoints four pound of Sugar and two pound of Sapa (the making of which shall be shewed in its proper place) and truly in my opinion the Receipts of Mesue are generally the best in all the Dispensatory, because the Simples are so pertinent to the purpose intended, they are not made up of a mess of Hodgpodg as many others are: but to the purpose.
A. It purgeth Melancholly, and other humors, it strengtheneth the stomach and Liver, clenseth the body of addust choller and addust blood, as also of salt humors, and helps diseases proceeding from these, as scabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, leprosie &c. and the truth is, I like it the better for its gentleness, for I never fancied violent Medicines in Melancholly diseases. A mean man may take two ounces at a time, or ad one ounce to the Decoction of Epithimum.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Peach-flowers a pound, steep them a whol day in three pound of warm water, then boyl it a little and strain it out, repeat this infusion five times in the same 〈◊〉〈◊〉, in three pound of which dissolve two pound and an half of Sugar [and boyl it into a syrup.
Culpeper] A. It is a gentle Purger of choller, and may be given even in feavers to draw away the sharp chollerick humors according to the opinion of Andernacus, whose Receipt (all things considered) differs little from this.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of sweet smelling Apples two pound, the juyce of Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound and an half, Senna two ounces, Annis seeds half an ounce, Saffron one drachm; let
the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be sleeped in the Juyce's twenty four hours, and after a walm or two strain it, and with two pound of white sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art, the Saffron being tyed up in a rag, and often crushed in the boyling.
Culpeper] A. Mesue appoints Senna Cods, and so do the Augustan Physitians, viz. the husk that holds the seeds; and the Colledg altered that, and added the Annis seeds, I suppose to correct the Senna, and in so doing they did well.
A. The syrup is a pretty cooling purge, and tends to rectifie the distempers of the blood, it purgeth choller and melancholly, and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black Jaundice, madness, scurf, Leprosie, and scabs; It is very gentle, and for that I commend both the Receipt, and Mesue the Author of it. The dose is from one ounce to three, according as the body is in age and strength. An ounce of it in the morning is excellent for such children as break out in scabs.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce and Water of Apples of each a pound and an 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Juyce and Water of Borrage and Bugloss of each nine ounces, Senna half a pound, Annis seeds, and sweet Fennel seeds of each three 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Epithimum* 13.27 of Creet two ounces, Agrick, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, Ginger, Mace of each four scruples, Cinnamon two scruples, Saffron half a drachm; Infuse the Rhubaib and Cinnamon apart by it self, in white Wine and Juyce of Apples, of each two ounces, let all the rest, the Saffron excepted, be sleeped in the Waters above mentioned, and the next day put in the Juyces, which being boyled, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and strained, then with four ounces of white Sugar boyl it into a syrup, crushing the Saffron in it being tyed up in a linnen rag, the infusion of the Rhubarb being added at the latter end.
Culpeper] A. Out of doubt this is a gallant syrup to purge addust Choller and Melancholly, and to resist madness. I know no better purge for such as are almost, or altogether distracted by Melancholly, than one ounce of this mixed with four ounces of the Decoction of Epithimum, ordering their bodies as they were taught.
The Colledg] Take of the best Rhubarb and Senna of each two ounces and an half, Violet Flowers a handful, Cinnamon one drachm and an half, Ginger half a drachm, Betony, Succory and Bugloss Water of each one pound and an half; let them be mixed together warm all night, and in the morning strained and boyled into a syrup with two pound of white sugar, adding towards the end four ounces of syrup of Roses.
Culpeper] A. It clenseth choller and melancholly very gently, and therefore is fit for children, old people, and weak bodies. You may ad an ounce of it to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Epithimum or to the Decoction of Senna. It is a very pretty Receipt made by the Augustan Physitians.
The Colledg] Take of spring water boyling hot four pound, Damask Rose leaves fresh as many as the Water will contain, let them remain twelve hours in insusion, close stopped; then press them out and put in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Rose leaves, do so* 13.28 nine times, in the same liquor, encreasing the quantity of the Roses as the Liquor encreaseth, which will be almost by the third part every time; Take six parts of this Liquor and with four parts of white Sugar boyl it to a syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. It loosneth the belly, and gently bringeth out choller and flegm, but leaves a binding quality behind it.
The Colledg] It is prepared without steeping, only with the Juyce of Damask Roses pressed out, and clarified, and an equal proportion of Sugar added to it.
Culpeper] A. This is like the other.
The Colledg] Take of Agrick cut thin an ounce, Ginger two drachms, Sal-Gem one drachm, Polypodium bruised two ounces, sprinkle them with white wine and steep them two dates over warm oshes, in a pound and an half of the infusion of Damask Roses prescribed before, and with one pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art.
Culpeper] A. You had better ad twice so much sugar as is of the infusion, for fear the strength of the Agrick be lost in the boyling.
A. It purgeth flegm from the head, relieves the sences oppressed by it, it provokes the terms in women, it purgeth the stomach and Liver, and provoketh urin. Some hold it an universal purge for all parts of the body: a weak body may take an ounce at a time, and a strong, two ounces, guiding himself as he was taught in Decection of Epithimum.
The Colledg] Take of the bark of all the Myrobalans of each four ounces, bruise them grosly and steep them twenty four hours in twelve pound of the infusion of Roses before spoken; Senna, Epithimum, Polypodium of the Oak, of each four ounces; Cloves an ounce, Citron seeds, Liquoris of each four ounces, thef 13.29 bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms; let the fourth part of the Liquor gently exhale, strain it, and with five pound of Sugar and sixteen drachms of Rhubarb tyed up in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rag, make it into a syrup according to Art.
Culpeper] A. You must not boyl the black Hellebore at all, or but very little, if you do you had as good put none in; me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty, than to have left Receipts so woodenly penned to posterity, or it may be they wrote as they say only to the Learned, or in plain English for their own ends, or to satisfie their covetousness, that a man must needs run to them every time his finger akes.
A. The syrup rightly used, purgeth melancholly, resisleth madness. I wish the ignorant to let it alone, for fear it be too hard for them, and use them as coursly as the Colledg hath done.
The Colledg] Take of Senna six ounces; Caraway
and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms, sprinkle them with white Wine and infuse them two daies in three pound of the infusion of Roses aforesaid, then strain it, and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth the body of choller and melancholly, and expels the relicts a disease hath left behind it; the dose is from one ounce to two: you may take it in a Decoction of Senna, it leaves a binding quality behind it.
The Colledg] Take of the Berries of Purging Thorn, gathered in September, as many as you will, bruise them in a stone Mortar and press out the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, let the fourth part of it evaporate away in a bath, then to two pound of it, ad sixteen ounces of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sugar, boyl it into a Syrup, which perfume with 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Annis seeds, in fine pouder of each three drachms.
Culpeper] A. Tragus and Pena commend it much against the Dropsie, I know nothing of it by experience, and I am confident the Colledg when they writ it knew as little, and therefore I hold it modesty to let it alone, as an upstart Medicine appointed to try experiences upon poor mens bodies, and if it kill them, their friends by Law cannot question a Collegiate.
TAke of fresh Rosemary Flowers a pound, clarified Honey three pound, mix them in a glass with a narrow mouth, set them in the sun, and keep them for use.
Culpeper] A. It hath the same vertues with Rosemary flowers, to which I refer you, only by reason of the Honey it may be somwhat clensing.
The Colledg] Take of white Hellebore Roots bruised a pound, cleer water fourteen pound, after three daies infusion, boyl it till half be consumed, then strain it diligently, and with three pound of Honey boyl it to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. What a monstrum horrendum, horrible terrible Receipt have we got here? A pound of white Hellebore boyled in fourteen pints of Water to seven; I would ask the Colledg (if they would not be angry, or if they be I cannot help it) whether the Hellebore will not lose its vertue in the twentieth part of this infusion and decoction (for it must be infused (forsooth) three daies to a minute;) if a man may make so bold as to tell them the truth, A Taylors Goose being boyled that time, would make a Decoction near as strong as the Hellebore, but this they will not beleeve; well then be it so, imagine the Hellebore still to retain its vigor after being so long tired out with a tedious boyling (for less boyling would boyl an Ox) what should this Medicine do? purge Melancholly say they, but from whom? from men or beasts? for the Medicine would be so strong the Devil would not take it unless it were powred down his throat with a horn. I will not say they intended to kill men cum privilegio, that's too gross; I charibly judg thus, They fearing their monopoly would not hold as being built upon a rotten foundation, intended when it failed to turn Horse-Doctors, and so provided this Receipt against a wet day, For,
A. Either the vertue of the Hellobore will fly away in such a martyrdom, or else it will remain in the Decoction.
A. If it evaporate away, then is the Medicine like themselves good for nothing.
A. If it remain in, it is enough to spoil the strongest man breathing.
A. 1. Because it is too strong.
A 2. Because it is not corrected in the least, and because they have not corrected that, therefore I take leave to correct them.
The Colledg] Boyl three pound of the Juyce of Mercury with two pound of Honey to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. It is used as an Emollient in Clysters.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Mulberries and black berries, before they be ripe, gathered before the Sun be up, of each a pound and an half, Honey two pound boyl them to their due thickness.
Culpeper] A. It is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 known to be good for sore mouths, as also to cool inflamations there.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of the outward bark of green 〈◊〉〈◊〉, gathered in the dog daies two pound, boyl it gently till it be thick, and with one pound of Honey boyl it to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. It is a good preservative in peftilential times, a spoonful being taken so soon as you are up.
The Colledg] Take of Raisons of the Sun clensed from the stones two pound, steep them in six pound of warm water, the next day boyl it half away and press it strongly, and with two pound of Honey let the expressed liquor boyl to its thickness.
Culpeper] A. It is a pretty pleasing Medicine for such as are in Consumptions, and are bound in body.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses not quite open two pound, Honey six pound, set them in the Sun according to art.
The Colledg] Take of the best clarified Honey ten pound, Juyce of frish red Roses one pound, set it handsomly over the fire, and when it begins to boyl, put in four pound of fresh red Roses, the whites being cut off; the Juyce being consumed by boyling and stirring, strain it, and keep it for use.
Culpeper] A. They are both used for diseases in the mouth.
The Colledg] Take of the often Infusion of Damask Roses five pound, Honey rightly clarified four pound, boyl it to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. It is used as a laxative in Clysters, and some Chyrurgians use it to clense wounds.
The Colledg] After the same manner is prepared Honey of the Infusion of red Roses.
The Colledg] Take one Squill full of Juyce, cut it in bits, and put it in a glass vessel, the mouth close stopped, and covered with a skin, set it in the Sun fourty daies, to wit, twenty before and after the rising of the Dog Star, then open the vessel and take the Juyce which lies at the bottom, and preserve it with the best Honey.
Culpeper] A. A man never shews his folly so much as in medling with things he hath no skill in: Were it not folly in me to go teach a Smith how to make nails, or a Farmer how to mend his Land? And what then is it for our learned Colledg to write of Astronomy, which is a Science they have as much skill in as Banks his horse? I told them of it last Edition, and now they have mended it as the Fletcher mended his Bolt, made two faults for one before; what should a Common-wealth do with such creatures that know nothing, and are too proud to learn. It belongs to their slaves, viz. the Company of the Apothecaries to ask them, 1. Which Dog Star they mean, 2. Which rising whether Acronical, Cosmical, or Heliacal.
The Colledg] Honey of Violets is prepared like as Honey of Roses.
The Colledg] Take of the best Honey four pound, cleer water and white Wine Vineger of each two pound, boyl them in an earthen vessel, taking the scum off with a wooden Scummer, till it be come to the consistence of a Syrup.
Culpeper] A. Your best way is to boyl the Water and Honey first into a Syrup, and ad the Vineger afterwards, and then boyl it again into a Syrup. Observe, that the later it be before you ad the Vineger to any Syrup, the sowrer will it be: so may you please your self, and not offend the Colledg, for they give you latitude enough.
A. It cuts flegm, and it is a good preparative against a vomit.
The Colledg] Take of the Bark of the Root of Fennel, Smallage, Parsly, Bruscus, Sparagus, of each two ounces, the Seeds of Fennel, Smallage, Parsly, Annis, of each one ounce, steep them all (the Roots being first clensed and the Seeds bruised) in six pound of cleer water, and a pound and an half of wine Vineger, the next day boyl it to the consumption of the third part, boyl the rest being strained, with three pound of Honey into a liquid Syrup according to art.
Culpeper] A. First, having bruised the Roots and Seeds, boyl them in the water till half be, consumed, then strain it and ad the Honey, and when it is almost boyled enough, add the Vineger; and with all my heart I will put it to Dr. Reason to judg which is the best way of making of it, the Colledges or mine.
The Colledg] Take of Rue, Time, Dittany of Creet, Hysop, Penyroyal, Horebound, Cardus, the Roots of Celtick Spicknard without Leaves, the inner bark of Elders, of each a handful, mountain Calaminth two pugils, the Seeds of Annis, Fennel, Bazil, Romane Nettles, Dill, of each two drachms, the Roots of Angelica, Marsh-Mallows, Aron, Squils prepared, Birthwort, long, round, and climing, Turbith, English Orris, Costus, Polypodium, Lemmon Pills, of each an ounce, the strings of black Hellobore, Spurge, Agrick, added at the end of the Decoction, of each two drams; the bark of white Hellebor half an ounce, let al of them being dried & bruised, be digested in a Glass, or glazed vessel close stopped, in the heat of the Sun, or of a Furnace; Posca, made of equal parts of Water and Vineger, eight pound, Sapa two ounces; three daies being expired, boyl it a little more than half away; strain it pressing it gently, and ad to the liquor a pound and an half of Honey-Roses, wherein two ounces of Citron Pills have been infused, boyl it to the thickness of Honey, and perfume it with Cloves, Saffron, Ginger, Galanga, Mace, of each a drachm.
Culpeper] A. It is such a mess of altogether, that a man scarce knows what to do with it; here are many Simples very Cordial, many provoke the terms, some purge gently, some violently, and some cause vomiting; being all put together I verily think the labor and cost if put in an equal ballance would outweigh the benefit; but the Apothecaries must make it, the Colledg commands it.
The Colledg] Take of the bark of Caper Roots, the Roots of Orris, Fennel, Parsly, Bruscus, Cichory, Sparagus, Cyperus, of each half an ounce, the Leaves of Harts-tongue, Schaenanth, Tamaris, of each half a handful, sweet Fennel Seed half an ounce, infuse them in three pound of Posca which is somthing sowr, afterwards boyl it till half be consumed, strain it, and with Honey and Sugar clarified, of each half a pound, boyl it to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. This Medicine is very opening, very good against Hypocondriack Melancholly, and as fit a Medicine as can be for that disease in children called the Rickets. Children are as humorsom as men (and they are humorsom enough Experience the best of all Doctors teacheth) some love sweet things, let them take Syrup of Harts-tongue; others cannot abide sweet things, to their natures this Syrup suits, being taken in the same manner.
The Colledg] Oximel of Squils simple is made of three pound of clarified Honey, Vineger of Squils two pound, boyl them according to art.
Culpeper] A. They say they borrowed this Receipt of Nicholaus, but of what Nicholaus I know
not, the self same Receipt is word for word in Mesue whose commendations of it is this, It cuts and divides humors that are tough and viscus, and therefore helps the stomach and bowels afflicted by such humors, and helps sour belchings. If you take but a spoonful in the morning, an able body will think it enough.
A. View the Vineger of Squils, and then your reason will tell you this is as wholsom, and somwhat more toothsom.
The Colledg.] Take of Origanum, dried Hysop, Time, Lovage, Cardamoms the less, Stoechas, of each five drachms, boyl them in three pound of Water to one; strain it, and with two pound of Honey, Honey of Raisons half a pound, Juyce of Briony five ounces, Vineger of Squils a pound and an half, boyl it and scum it according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Mesue saith this is good against the Falling-sickness, Megrim, Head-ach, Vertigo, or swimming in the head, and if these be occasioned by the stomach as many times they are; it helps the Lungues obstructed by humor, and is good for women not well clensed after labor, it opens the passage of the womb. 'Tis too churlish a purge for a Country man to meddle with: If the ignorant will be medling they will meet with their matches, and say I told them so.
A. Such Syrups as are in their rejected Dispensatory, and left out in this, (for they love to reject the best and chuse the worst, as though they were born for nothing else but to do mischief) are these that follow.
Culpeper. A. REader, before we begin, I thought good to advertise thee of these few things, which indeed I had inserted at the beginning of the Syrups had I not forgotten it.
A. 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a liquid body, compounded of Decoction, Infusion, or Juyce, with Sugar or Honey, and brought by the heat of the fire, into the thickness of Honey.
A. 2. Because all Honey is not of a thickness, understand new Honey, which of all other is thinnest.
A. 3. The Reason why Decoctions, Infusions, and Juyces, are thus used, is, because thereby,
A. 4. In boyling Syrups have a great care of their just consistance, for if you boyl them too much they will candy, if too little, they will sour.
A. 5. All Simple Syrups have the vertues of the Simples they are made of, and are far more convenient for weak people, and queazy stomachs.
The Colledg. TAke of the seeds of Purslain grosly bruised, half a pound, of the Juyce of Endive boyled and clarified two pound, Sugar two pound, Vineger nine ounces; infuse the seeds in the juyce of Endive twenty four hours, afterwards, boyl it half away with a gentle fire, then strain it and boyl it with the Sugar to the consistence of a Syrup, adding the Vineger towards the latter end of the Decoction.
Culpeper.] A. It is a pretty cooling Syrup, fit for any hot diseases incident to the stomach, reins, bladder, matrix, or liver, it thickens flegm, cools the blood and provokes sleep. You may take an ounce of it at a time when you have occasion.
The Colledg.] Take six handfuls of green Coltsfoot, two handfuls of Maiden-hair, one handful of Hysop, and two ounces of Liquoris, boyl them in four pints, either of c 13.30 rain or spring water, till the fourth part be consumed, then strain it and clarifie it, to which ad three pound of white Sugar, boyl it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup.
Culpeper.] A. The Composition is apropriated to the Lungues, and therefore helps the infirmities, weaknesses, or failings thereof, as want of voice, difficulty of breathing, coughs, hoarsness, cathars &c. The way of taking it is with a Liquoris stick, or if you please you may ad an ounce of it to the pectoral Decoction before mentioned.
The Colledg] Take the heads of white Poppies and black, when both of them are green, of each six ounces; the seeds of Lettice, the Flowers of Violets, of each one ounce, boyl them in eight pints of Water, till the vertue is out of the heads, then strain them, and with four pound of Sugar boyl the Liquor to a syrup.
The Colledg] Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies, seeds and all, of each fifty drachms, Maiden-hair fifteen drachms, Liquoris five drachms,
Jujubes thirty by number, Lettice seeds fourty drams; of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces (tied up in a thin linnen cloath) of each one drachm and an half, boyl these in eight pints of water till five pints be consumed; when you have strained out the three pints remaining, ad to them, Penides and white Sugar of each a pound, boyl them into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] A. All these former Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire they may be used with a great deal of Caution and wariness, such as these are, are not fit to be given in the beginnings of Feavers, nor to such whole bodies are coslive; ever remember my former Motto, Fools are not fit to make Physitians. Yet to such as are troubled with hot, sharp Rhewms, you may safely give them; and note this, the last, which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues, whose own words (translation excepted) of it are these, It prevails against dry Coughs, Phtisicks, hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms, and provokes sleep. It is an usual fashion for Nurses when thcy have heat their Milk by exercise or strong liquor, (no marvel then if their children be froward) then run for Syrup of Poppies to make their yong ones sleep. I would fain have that fashion left, therefore I forbear the dose; let Nurses keep their own bodies temperate, and their children will sleep well enough, never scar.
The Colledg. Take of the Roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Succory, os each two 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Liquoris, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Dodder, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Roses, os each six drachms; Maidenhair, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or instead thereof the Roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Mariae,c 13.31 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thereof the Roots of Avens, the flowers or roots of Bugloss, Annis seeds, sweet 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seeds, Ageratum, or Maudlin, of each five drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each three drachms, Spicknard, Indian Leaf, or instead of it put Roman Spike, of each two drachms: boyl them in eight pints of water till the third part be consumed; then strain the Decoction, and with four pound of Sugar, clarified juyce of Smallage and Endive, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a pound, boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper.] A. 'Tis a strange clause, and the stranger because it comes from a Colledg of Physitians: that they should set Bedeguar, or instead thereof Carduus Mariae: It is well known that the Bedeguar used here with us, or rather that which the Physitians of our times use for Bedeguar, is a thing that grows upon wild Roses, but the Bedeguar of the Arabians was* 13.32 Carduus Mariae, and they knew well enough Mesue (whose Receipt this was) was an Arabian: truly this is just as if they should say, they would have ten shillings for a visit, or instead of that an angel; there being in deed and in truth as much difference between Bedeguar and Carduus Mariae, as between eightpence and two groats.
A. It amends infirmities of the Liver coming of cold, opens obstructions, helps the Dropsie and evil state of the body, it extenuates gross humors, strengthens the Liver, provokes urine and is a present succour for Hypocondriack Melancholly. You may take an ounce at a time in the morning: it opens, but purgeth not.
The Colledg.] Take fifty Emblick Myrobalans, bruise them and boyl them in three pints of water till two be consumed; strain it, and with the like weight of Honey, boyl it into a Syrup.
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine gentle purger both of flegm and Melancholly, it strengthens the brain and nerves, and sences both internal and external, helps tremblings of the heart, staies vomiting, provokes appetite. You may take a spoonful at a time.
Culpeper. A. ROB is somthing an uncouth word, and happily formidable to the ignorant Country-man in these thieving times; and therefore in the first place, I will explain the word.
A. 1. Rob or Sapa, is the Juyces of a Fruit, made thick by the heat either of the Sun or the Fire, that it is capable of being kept safe from putrifaction.
A. 2. Its use was first invented for Diseases in the mouth, (however or for whatsoever it is used now, it matters not.)
A. 3. It is usually made, in respect of body, somthing thicker than new Honey.
A. 4. It may be kept about a year, little more or less.
The Colledg.] Take of Wine newly pressed from white and ripe Grapes, boyl it over a gentle fire to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. When ever you reade the word Rob, or Sapa throughout the Dispensatory, simply quoted in any medicine without any relation of what it should be made, this is that you ought to use.
The Colledg.] Take of the Juyce of Barberries strained as much as you will, boyl it by it self (or else by adding half a pound of Sugar to each pound of Juyce) to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper.] A. It quencheth thirst, closeth the mouth of the stomach, thereby staying vomiting, and belching, it strengthens stomachs weakened by heat, and procures appetite. Of any of these Robs you may take a little on the point of a knife when you need.
The Colledg.] Take of the juyce of red Cherries somwhat sourish, as much as you will, and with half their weight in sugar boyl them like the former.
Culpeper.] A. See the vertues of Cherries, and there have you a neat trick to keep them all the year.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce os Cornels two pound, sugar a pound and an half, boyl it according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Of these Cornel trees are two sorts, male and foemale; the fruit of the male Cornel, or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used, for the foemale is that which is called Dogberry, in the North Country they call it Gatter-wood, and we in Sussex Dog-wood, I suppose because the Berries will make Dogs mad as some hold; also it is very unwholsom wood, specially for such as have been bitten by mad Dogs.
A. The fruit of male Cornel, binds exceedingly, and therefore good in fluxes, bloody fluxes, and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women.
The Colledg] Take of the clarified juyce of Quinces, boyl it till two parts be consumed, and with its equal waight in Sugar boyl it into a Rob.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Quinces clarified twelve pound, boyl it half away, and ad to the remainder, old white wine five pound, consume the third part over a gentle fire, taking away the scum (as you ought) let the rest settle, and strain it and with three pound of sugar boyl it according to art.
Culpeper] A. Both are good for weak and indisposed stomachs.
The Colledg] Rob of sowr Plums is made as Rob of Quinces, the use of sugar is indifferent in them both.
Rob of English Currence is made in the same manner, let the juyce he clarified.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same with Rob of Barberries.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Elder Berries and make it thick with the help of a gentle fire, either by its self, or a quarter of its waight in sugar being added.
Culpeper] Both Rob of Elder Berries, and DwarfElder are excellent for such whose bodies are inclining to Dropsies; neither let them neglect nor despise it, if they do 'tis not my fault: They may take the quantity of a Nutmeg each morning, 'twill gently purge the watry humor.
The Colledg] In the same manner is made Rob of Dwars Elder, Junipers and Pauls Betony, only in the last, the Sugar and Juyce must be equal in waight.
The Colledg] Infuse Liquoris Roots clensed and gently bruised three daies in spring water, so much that it may oretop the Roots the breadth of three fingers,
then boyl it a little and press it hard out, and boyl the Liquor with a gentle fire to its due thickness.
Culpeper] A. It is vulgarly known to be good against coughs, cold, &c. and a strengthener of the Lungues.
The Colledg] Take of the water of tender Oak leaves, of Scabious of each four pounds, English Liquoris scraped and bruised two pound, boyl them by degrees till they be soft, then press out the Liquor strongly in a press, to which ad three pound of Juyce of Hysop, and dry it away in the Sun in a broad Earthen vessel.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same with the former, but that the Colledg loves to be troublesom.
The Colledg] Take of Sloes hardly ripe, press out the Juyce and make it thick in a bath.
Culpeper] A. It stops Fluxes, and procures appetite.
The Colledg] So are the juyces of Wormwood, Maudlin, and Fumitory made thick, to wit, the Herbs bruised while they be tender, and the juyce pressed out and after it is clarified, boyled over the fire to its just thickness.
Culpeper. A. BEcause this word also is understood but by few, we will first explain what it is.
A. 1. The word Lohoch is an Arabick word, called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latin, Linctus, and signifies a thing to be lick'd up.
A. 2. It is in respect of Body, somthing thicker than a Syrup, and not so thick as an Electuary.
A. 3. Its use it was invented for, was against the roughness of the windpipe, diseases, and inflamations of the Lungues, difficulty of breathing, Colds, Coughs &c.
A. 4. Its manner of reception is with a Liquoris stick, bruised at end, to take up some and retain it in the mouth, till it melt of its own accord.
The Colledg] Take of Coltsfoot roots clensed eight ounces, Marsh-mallow roots four ounces clensed, boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, and press the pulp out through a sive, dissolve this again in the Decoction, and let it boyl once or twice, then take it from the fire, and ad two pound of white sugar, Honey of Raisons, sourteen ounces, juyce of Liquoris two drachms and an half, stir them stoutly with a wooden pestel, mean season sprinkle in saffron, and Cloves of each a scruple, cinnamon and Mace, of each two scruples, make them into a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. It was invented by an uncertain, or an unrevealed Author for the Cough, and they that cannot get a better nor a cheaper may freely use this, for the Colledg gives them leave if they appoint it, not else; those that have read the Augustan Physitians may reade a cheaper there, and those that have not nor cannot, may know if they please, how they are led by the noses by a company of Colledg gulls.
The Colledg] Take white Poppy seeds twenty four drachms, sweet Almonds blanched in Rose water, Pinenuts clensed, Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each ten drachms, juyce of Liquoris an ounce, starch three drachms, the seeds of Lettice, Purslain, Quinces of each half an ounce, Saffron a drachm, Penids four ounces, Syrup of Meconium three pound, make it into a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. The right Worshipful, the Colledg of Physitians, having found a Medicine called by this name in the Augustane Dispensatory, did as well as they could to alter it a little, that so they might make fools beleev it was their own. It helps salt sharp and thin distillations upon the Lungues; it allaies the fury of such sharp humors which occasion both roughness of the throat, want of sleep, and feavers; It is excellent for such as are troubled with Pleuresies to take now and then a little of it.
The Colledg] Take of male Peony Roots, Liquoris of each half an ounce, Hysop, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Hartstongue, or Cetrach of each half a handful, boyl them in spring water, and press them strongly, and by adding a pund
of Raisons bruised, boyl it again, pressing it through a linnen cloath, then with a pound of white Sugar make it into a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. Although this Medicine be seldom in use with us in England, yet by report of forraign Physitians, it is very prevalent, both against coughs, consumptions of the Lungues, and other vices of the breast, and is usually given to children for such diseases, as also for the o 13.33 convulsions, and falling sickness, and indeed the simples testifie no less.
The Colledg] Take of Pinenuts, fifteen drachms, sweet Almonds, Hazel nuts gently rosted, Gum- Arabick, and Tragacanth, pouder and juyce of Liquoris, white starch, Maiden-hair, Orris Roots of each two drachms, the pulp of Dates seventeen drachms, bitter Almonds one drachm and an half, Honey of Raisons, white Sugar-Condy, fresh Butter, of each two ounces, Honey one pound and an half, dissolve the Gums in so much Decoction of Maiden-hair as is sufficient, let the rest be mixed over a gentle fire, and stirred that so it may be made into a Lohoch.
Culpeper] A. Before, the Colledg followed the Augustan Physitians to a hair, and indeed who can blame them for following wiser men than themselves, now they have altered the quantities, of the simples, and if you ask them the reason why they did so, you shall have the same answer Balaam gave when he disputed with his Ass, ``Oh, that there were a sword in ``my hand that I might kill thee.
A. The Medicin is excellent for continual coughs, and difficulty of breathing, it succours such as are o 13.34 Asthmatick, for it cuts and attenuates tough humors in the breast.
The Colledg] Take of the strained juyce of Purslam two pound, Troches of terra Lemnla two drams, Troches of Amber, Gum-Arabick, Dragons blood of each one drachm, Lapis Hematitis, the wool of a Hare tosted, of each two scruples, white Sugar one pound, mix them together, that so you may make a Lohoch of them.
Culpeper] A. The Medicine is so terribly binding that it is better let alone than taken, unless in inward bruises when men spit blood, then you may safely take a little of it; if you would know whence they stole it, it was from Ausberg: you shall shortly hear the Augustan Physitians come with Hu and Cry after the Colledg, and cry, STOP THEEVES!
Lohoch è Pulmone Vulpis. Page 81. in Lat. Book. Or, Lohoch of Fox Lungs.
The Colledg] Take of Fox Lungues rightly prepared, juyce of Liquoris, Maiden-hair, Annis seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, of each equal parts, Sugar dissolved in Coltsfoot and Scabious water and boyled into a Syrup, three times their waight; the rest being in fine pouder, let them be put to it and strongly stirred together, that it may be made into a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. Look what pains the Colledg hath taken in altering this Receipt, here is a little Scabious water added and that's all: Why should they think themselves wiser than Mesue, when they are not (God knows) half so honest.
A. Mesue appoints sixteen ounces of Honey, and no Sugar nor uncertain quantity of any thing, and reason it self will tell you Honey is most densing.
A It clenseth and uniteth ulcers in the Lungs and breast, and is a present remedy in Phtisicks.
Lohoch sanum et Expertum. Page 81. in L. Book. Or, A sound and well Experienced Lohoch.
The Colledg] Take of dried Hysop and Calaminth of each half an ounce, Jujubes, Sebestens, the stones being taken out, fifteen, Raisons of the Sun stoned, p 13.35 fat Figs, Dates, of each two ounces, Linseed Fenugrick seed, of each five drachms, Maiden-hair one handful, Annis seeds, and sweet Fennel seeds, Orris Roots cut, Liquoris, Cinnamon, of each an ounce; boyl them all according to art in four pound of cleer water till half be consumed, and with two pound of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 boyl it into a syrup, afterwards cut and bruise very smal Pinenuts five drachms, sweet Almonds blanched, Liquoris, Gum Tragacanth and Arabick, white Starch, of each three drachms, let these be put into the Syrup when it is off from the fire, and stir it about swiftly with a wooden Pestel till it look white.
Culpeper] A Only Mesue appoints one drachm less of Linseeds, and whereas they appoint white Sugar, he appoints Penids, else the Receipt is verbatim.
A It succours the Breast, Lungs, Throat, and * 13.36 Trachaea Arteria oppressed by cold, it restores the voice lost by reason of cold, and attenuate thick and gross humors in the Breast and Lungs.
Lohoch Scilliticum. Page 81. in the Latin Book. Or, Lohoch of Squils.
The Colledg] Take three drachms of a Squill baked in past, Orris Roots two drachms; Hysop, Horehound, of each one drachm, Saffron, Mirrh, of each half a drachm, Honey two ounces and an half, bruise the Squill, after it is baked, in a stone Mortar, and after it hath boyled a walm or two with the Honey, put in the rest of the things in pouder, dilligently stirring it, and make it into a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. In their former Edition (if they be not ashamed to own it, as they need not for they cannot mend it) they quoted another Lohoch of Squills, and said it was Mesue's, but they were beside the cushion, it was this.
Eclegma of Squils. Mesue.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Squils and Honey, both of them clarified, of each two ponud, boyl them together according to art to the consistence of Honey.
A. And my Descant upon it was this,
A. How the name of Mesue came to be obtruded upon this Receipt I know not; this I am confident of, Galen was the Author of it, neither is it probable the Colledg would have given the name of Eclegma, but Lohoch, had it been the Receipt of an Arabian; neither can it be the Printers fault, for he vapors at the latter end of the Book, that he hath made none, and he hath done it in English, that the vulgar may understand THAT in the Book, though nothing else.
A. Ah ha, quoth they, have we got the rong Sow by the ear, and hath he found out our knavery? it cannot be holp, we will leave out that here, and steal one from Mesue to put instead of it, which is what they prescribed but now; and just as I was writing
of this I heard my neighbors dogs howl, it may be it was because he was ashamed of their baseness, or else because if they had that trick, they had others worse.
A. For the vertues of it see Vineger of Squils, and Oximel of Squils, only this is more mild, and not so harsh to the throat, because it hath no Vineger in it, and therefore is far more fitting for Asthames, and such as are troubled with difficulty of breathing, it cuts and carries away humors from the breast, be they thick or thin, and wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals, and easeth pains in the breast; and for this I quote the Authority of Galen. Alwaies take this as a general Aphorism in Physick, Sour things we offensive to the Wind-pipe.
A. Lohochs left out in their new Moddel, because they must be doing.
The Colledg] Take one pound of the Juyce of Coleworts, clarified, Saffron three drachms, clarified Honey and Sugar, of each half a pound, make of them a Lohoch according to art.
Culpeper] A. It helps hoarsness, and loss of voice, easeth surfets and Headach coming of drunkenness, and opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and therefore is good for that disease in children which women call the Rickets.
TAke of Eringo Roots as many as you will, clense them without and within, the* 13.37 Pith being taken out, steep them two daies in cleer water, shifting the water somtimes, then dry them with a cloth, then take their equal waight in white Sugar, and as much Rose water as will make it into a syrup, which being almost boyled, put in the Roots, and let them boyl till the moisture be consumed, and it be brought to the due body of a Syrup.
Not much unlike to this, are preserved the Roots of Acorus, Angelica, Borrage, Bugloss, Succory, Alicampane, Burnet, Satyrion, Sicers, Comfry the greater, Ginger, Zedoary.
Take of the Stalks of Artichokes not too ripe as many as you will, and (contrary to the Roots) take only the pith of these, and preserve them with their equal waight in Sugar like the former.
So is prepared the Stalks of Angelica, Burs, Lettice &c. before they be too ripe.
Take of fresh Orrenge Pills as many as you will, take away the exteriour yellowness, and steep them in spring water three daies at the least, often renewing the water, then preserve them like the former.
In like manner are Lemmon and Citron Pills preserved.
Preserve the Flowers ofq 13.38 Citrons, Orrenges, Borrage, Primroses, with Sugar according to art.
Take of Apricocks as many as you will, take away the outer skin and the Stones, and mix them with their like waight in Sugar, after four hours take them out, and boyl the Sugar without any other Liquor, then put them in again, and boyl them a little.
Other Fruits have the same manner of being preserved, or at least not much unlike to it, as whol Barberries, Cherries, Cornels, Citrons, Quinces, Peaches, common Apples, the five sorts of Myrobalans, Hazel Nuts, Walnuts, Nutmegs, Raisons of the Sun, Pepper brought green from India, Plums Garden and wild, Pears, Grapes.
Pulps are also preserved, as of Barberries, Cassia Fistula, Citrons,* 13.39 Cynosbatus, Quinces, and Sloes, &c.
Take of Barberries as many as you will, boyl them in spring Water till they are tender, then having pulped them through a sive, that they are free from the stones, boyl it again in an Earthen vessel over a gentle fire often stirring them for fear of burning, till the watry humor be consumed, then mix ten pound of Sugar with six pound of this Pulp, boyl it to its due thickness.
Broom Buds are also preserved, but with Brine and Vineger, and so are Olives and Capars.
Lastly, Amongst the Barks, Cinnamon, amongst the Flowers, Roses and Marigolds, amongst the Fruits, Almonds, Cloves, Pinenuts and Fistick Nuts, are said to be preserved but with this difference, they are encrusted with dry sugar, and are more called Consects than Preserves.
The Colledg. CONSERVES of the Herbs of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sorrel, Woodsorrel, the Flowers of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Borrage, Bugloss, Bettony, Marigolds, the tops of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Flowers of Centaury the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 flowers, Germander, Succory, the Leaves of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Flowers of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the greater,* 13.40 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Cynosbati, the roots of Spurge, Herbs and Flowers of Eyebright, the tops of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Flowers of Broom not quite open, Hysop, Lavender, white Lillies, Lillies of the Valley, Marsoram, Mallows; the tops of Bawm, the Leaves of Mints, the Flowers of water Lillies, red Poppies, Peony, Peaches, Primroses, Roses, damask, red, Rosemary, the leaves of Rue, the flowers of Sage, Elder, Scabious, the Leaves of Scordium, the flowers of Limetree, Coltsfoot, Violets; with all these are Conserves made with their trebble proportion of white Sugar, yet note, that all of them must not be 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, some of them must be cut, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and gently 〈◊〉〈◊〉 some neither cut, beaten, nor boyled, and some admit but one of them, which every Artist in his Trade may find out by this Premonition and avoid errour.
Culpeper] A. What a half-faced order to make up Conserves do the Colledg here leave? Indeed it belongs to the Apothecaries Trade, Is it not sufficient for a gentle man to go to a Smith and bid him shoo his Horse, but he must go about to teach him how to make his shoos and nails? would he not by medling with what he hath no skill in, quickly shew what a Lubber he is? and what then can one say of the Colledg? Mutato nomine de te, fabula narratur.
The Colledg] Take of white Poppy heads, meanly ripe and newly gathered, twenty, steep them in three pound of warm spring water, and the next day boyl them till the vertue is out, then strain out the Liquor, and with a sufficient quantity of good Sugar, boyl it according to art that you may make it into Lozenges.
Culpeper] A. This Receipt is transcribed verbatim from the Augustan Physitians, though the Colledg (through forgetfulness or something else) hide it, the vertues are the same with the common Diacodium, viz. to provoke sleep and help thin Rhewms in the head, coughs and roughness of the Throat, and may easily be carried about in ones pocket.
The Colledg] The first is made by pouring the Sugar out upon a Marble; after a sufficient boyling in half its 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Damask Rofe water) And the latter by adding to every pound of the former towards the latter end of the Decoction, Pearls prepared and bruised half an ounce, with eight or ten Leaves of Gold.
Culpeper] A. Here the Colledg have left out that blasphemous speech, which I cannot write without horror, nor an honest man read without trembling, viz. To call a little Rose-water and Sugar boyled together, THE HAND OF CHRIST: The truth is, if they had left out the rest of the blasphemies, I should have had some hopes they would in time turn honest, but I see to my grief they remain: especially that abominable blasphemy in their Dedicatory Epistle to King James, which they having not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 enough to alter, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let stand, or else it was because like Sodom, they would declare their sin and hide it not, but manifest to the world in the sight of the Sun, that they are not a Colledg of Christians, but of RANTERS, by calling KING JAMES their GOD; blush O Sun at such blasphemy. It may be they left it out because King Charls is dead, for worshiping old Jemmy for God, 'tis more than probable they worshiped his Son for Christ; and their Tubelary gods being apud Inferos, gives me some hopes they will follow them quickly, and so all the Tyrants will go together.
A. It is naturally cooling, apropriated to the heart, it restores lost strength, takes away burning feavers, and false imaginations, (I mean that with Pearls, for that without Pearls is rediculous) it hath the same vertues Pearls have.
The Colledg] Take of choyce Rhubarb four scruples, Agrick Trochiscated, Corallina, burnt Hartshorn, Dittany of Creet, Wormseed and Sorrel seed, of each a scruple, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Saffron, of each half a scruple, white Sugar a pound, dissolved in four ounces of warmwood water, warmwood Wine an ounce, Cinnamon water a spoonful, with the forenamed poudersmake it into Lozenges according to art.
Culpeper] A. The title shews you the vertues of it: for my part I think in penning of it, they made a long Harvest of a little Corn.
The Colledg] Are prepared of Sugar dissolved in spring water by a gentle fire, and the whites of Egs dilligently beaten, and clarified once, and again whilst it is boyling, then slrain it and boyl it gently again, till it rise up in great bubbles, and being chewed it stick not to your teeth, then powr it upon a Marble, anointed with Oyl of Almonds, (let the bubbles first sink, after it is removed from the fire) bring back the outsides of it to the middle till it look like larch Rozin, then your hands being rubbed with white starch, you may draw it into threeds either short or long, thick or thin, and let it cool in what form you please.
Culpeper] A. I remember Country people were wont to take them for coughs, and they are sometimes used in other Compositions.
The Colledg] Take Coriander seeds prepared half an ounce, Nutmegs, white Frankinsence, of each three drachms; Liquoris, Mastich, of each two drachms; Cubebs, Harts-horn prepared of each one drachm, Conserves of red Roses an ounce, white Sugar as much as is sufficient to make it into mean bits.
Culpeper] A. I cannot boast much neither of the rariety nor vertues of this Receipt.
The Colledg] Take of red Rose Leaves the whites being cut off, and speedily dried in the Sun an ounce, white Sugar a pound, melt the Sugar in Rose water and juyce of Roses of each two ounces, which being consumed by degrees put in the Rose Leaves in Pouder, mix them, put it upon a Marble, and make it into Lozenges according to art.
Culpeper] A. As for the vertues of this, It strengthens weak stomachs, weak hearts, and weak brains, restores such as are in consumptions, restores lost strength, staies fluxes, easeth pains in the head, ears, and eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and pissing of blood; it is a fine commodity for a man in a Consumption to carry about with him, and eat now and then a bit. This they mended as I bid them, `tis a comfort they will do something as they are bid.
Colledg. TAke of Cloves seven drachms, Mace, Zedoary, Galanga the less, yellow Sanders, Troches, Diarrhodon, Cinnamon, wood of Aloes Indian Spicknard, long Pepper, Cardamoms the less of each a drachm, red Roses four drachms, Gallia Moschata, Liquoris, of each two drachms, Indian leaf, Cubebs, of each two scruples, beat them all dilligently into pouder.
Culpeper] A. This pouder strengthens the heart and stomach, helps digestion, expelleth wind, staies vomiting, and clenseth the stomach of putrified humors. This they have mended also, as I in my former Edition shewed them.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses exungulated fifteen drachms, Liquoris seven drachms, Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each three drachms, Cinnamon five drachms, Cloves, Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum-Arabick, and Tragacanth of each eight scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamoms the less, Galanga, of each one drachm, Indian Spicknard, two scruples, make it into pouder to be kept in a glass for use.
Culpeper] They have here only left out the Musk and Ambergreece, viz. Musk one scruple, Ambergreece two scruples, for fear the Receipt should be too good.
A. It strengthens the brain, heart, and stomach, and all such internal Members as help towards concoction, it helps digestion, consumes the watry excrements of the bowels, strengthens such as are pin'd away by reason of the violence of a disease, and restores such as are in a consumption.
The Colledg] Take of Pearls prepared, Crabs eyes, red Corral, white Amber, Harts-horn, Oriental Bezoar, of each half an ounce, Pouder of the black tops of Crabs Claws, the waight of them all, beat them into pouder which may be made into Balls with gelly, and theskins which our vipers have cast off, warily dried and kept for use.
Culpeper] A. This is that pouder they ordinarily call Gnscoigns pouder, there are diverse Receipts of it, of which this is none of the worst, thought the manner of making it up be antick and exceeding difficult if not impossible; but that it may be had to do a man good when Adders skins cannot be gotten you may make it up with gelly of Harts-horn, into which put a little Saffron: four, or five, or six grains is excellent good in a feaver to be taken in any Cordial, for it cheers the heart and vital spirits exceedingly, and make them impregnable.
The Colledg] Take of wood of Aloes, Spodium of each a drachm, Cinnamon, Cloves, bone of a Stags heart, the Roots of Angelica, Avens and Tormentil, of eath a drachm and an half, Pearls prepared six drachms, raw silk tosted, both sorts of Corral of each two drachms, Jacinth, Emerald, Saphir, of each half a drachm, Saffron a scruple, the leaves of Gold and Silver, of each* 13.41 ten make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. Musk and Ambergreece of each half a drachm, is here left out; it was not done for cheapness, for it will still be dear enough; but the world changeth so doth the Colledg, the world grows worse and worse so do the Colledg.
A. It is a great Cordial, a great strengthener both of the heart and brain.
The Colled] Take of mountain Calaminth, Penyroyal, Origanum, the seeds of Macedonian Parsly, common Parsly, and Hartwort, of each two drachms, the seeds of Smallage, the tops of Time of each half an ounce, the seeds of Lovage, black Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. It heats and comforts cold bodies, cuts thick and gross flegm, provokes urin & the terms in women. I confess this differs somthing from Galen, but is better at leastwise for our bodies in my opinion than his. It expels wind exceedingly, you may take half a drachm of the pouder at a time. There is nothing surer than that all their Pouders will keep better in Electuaries than they will in Pouders, and most part of them were quoted Electuaries by the Authors whence they had them; and into such a body, if you please you may make it with two pound and an half of white Sugar dissolved in Rose-water.
The Colledg] Take of Diacalaminthe simple half an ounce, The Leaves of Horehound, Marjoram, Bawm, Mugwort, Savin dried, of each a drachm, Cyperus Roots, the seeds of Maddir and Rhue, Mace, Cinnamon, of each two scruples, beat them and mix them dilligently into a pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. This seems to be more apropriated to the foeminine gender than the former, viz. to bring down the terms in women, to bring away the
birth and after-birth, to purge them after labor, yet is it dangerous for women with child.
The Colledg] Take of Annis seeds two ounces and an half, Liquoris, Mastich, of each an ounce, the seeds of Caraway, Fennel, Galanga, Mace, Ginger, Cinnamon, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 five drachms, the three sorts of Pepper, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lignea, Mountain Calaminth, Pellitòry of Spain of each two drachms, Cardamoms the greater, Cloves, Cubebs, Indian Spicknard, Saffron, of each a drachm and an half, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. Mesue appointed this to be made into an Electuary, it is chiefly apropriated to the stomach, and helps the cold infirmities thereof, raw flegm, wind, continual coughs, and other such diseases coming of cold. You may safely take a drachm of the Electuary at a time. You may make an Electuary of it with its trebble waight of clarified Honey.
The Colledg] Take of Aron Roots two ounces, of common Water-slag and Burnet, of each one ounce, Crabs Eyes half an ounces Cinnamon three drachms, Salt of Wormwood, and Juniper of each one drachm, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. And when you have done, tell me what 'tis good for.
The Colledg] Take of Orris Roots half an ounce, Sugar Candy, Diatragacanthum frigidum, of each two drachms, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. I do not mean the Diatragacanthum frigidum, for that is in pouder before. It comforts the breast, is good in colds, coughs, and hoarsness. You may mix it with any pectoral Syrups which are apropriated to the same diseases, and so take it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg] Take of Gum-lacca prepared, Rhubarb, Schaenanth, of each three drachms, Indian Spicknard, Mastick, the Juyce of Wormwood and Agrimony made thick, the seeds of Small age, Annis, Fennel, Ammi, Savin, Bitter Almonds, Mirrh, Costus or Zedoary, the Roots of Maddir Asarabacca, Birthwort long and round, Gentian, Saffron, Cinnamon, dried Hysop, Cassia Lignea, Bdellium of each a dram and an half, black Pepper, Ginger, of each a drachm, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. If the Colledg were made to fast till they could beat this into pouder, they would make such poor — weak — Receipts in a little time.
A. According to Mesue you ought to dissolve the Mirrh and Bdellium in Wine, and together with the simples, beaten in fine pouder, make it into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of clarified Honey. It strengthens the stomach and liver, opens obstructions, helps dropsies, yellow jaundice, provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins and bladder. Half a drachm is a moderate dose; if the patient be strong they may take a drachm in white Wine: let women with child forbear it.
The Colledg] Take of East Bezoar, Bone of a Stags heart of each a drachm and an half, Magisterium of white and red Corral, white Amber, Magisterium of Pearl, Harts-horn, Ivory, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Earth of Germany, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Lemnos, Elks Claw, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Roots of each a drachm, Wood of Aloes, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pills, the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary, of each two scruples, Leaves of Gold twenty, Ambergreece one scruple, Musk six grains, mix them and make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. It is too deer for a vulgar purse, yet a mighty Cordial and great strengthner of the Heart and Vitals in Feavers.
The Colledg] Take of the four greater cold seeds, the seeds of Purslain, white Poppies, Endive, Sorrel, Citrons, the three 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Wood of Aloes Ginger, red Roses 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Flowers of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Bugtoss, Violets, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Mirtles, bone in a Stags heart, Ivory, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each one drachm, both sorts of Corral, of each half a drachm, Pearls, three drachms, Camphire six grains, make them into pouder according to art.
Observe that the four greater cold 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and the Poppy seeds are not to be added before the pouder be required by the Physician for use. Do so by the other pouder in the Composition of which these pouders are used.
Culpeper.] A. Here may you see what a labarinth the Colledg have run themselves into through their 〈◊〉〈◊〉, viz. because they would seem to be singular in Sayiing contrary to wiser Physitians, they run upon two dangerous Rocks in this one Receipt, 1. It is a costly Cordial, and not usually above one drachm of it (very seldom half so much) given at one time, and these Seeds excepted against in their caution, and upon grounds just enough, are not the tenth part of the Composition, which (a drachm being prescribed) is but six grains, which six grains must be divided into five equal parts (a nice point) one part for each seed. 2. If this Rock were put off, yet then can you not beat them into pouder alone because they are so moist, and yet is not mended now; sure they are mad, and there is some hopes they will not live long. They have left out the Ambergreece six grains, and the Roman Doronicum, instead of which they put in the like quantity of Contra yerva.
A. As for the vertues of it, Authors hold it to be restorative in consumptions, to help such as are in hectick Feavers, to restore strength lost, to help Coughs, Asthmaes, and consumptions of the lungs, and restore such as have labored long under languishing or pining diseases.
The Colledg.] Take of Cinnamon, Angelica Roots, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Indian Leaf, Galanga, of each three drachms, Indian Spicknard, Cardamoms, greater and lesser of each one drachm, Ginger a dram and an half, Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, long Pepper, of each two drachms, Amber-greece a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and an half, Musk half a drachm, make them all into pouder according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Mesue apropriates this to the head, and saith, it heats and strengthens the brain, causeth mirth, helps concoction, cherisheth the Animal, Vital, and Natural Spirit, it strengthens the heart and stomach, and resists all cold diseases, and is therefore special good for women and old men. Your best
way is to make it into an Electuary, by mixing it with three times its waight of clarifyed Honey, and take the quantity of a Nutmeg of it every morning. Here also they have left out Doronicum, and put in Angelica Roots; sure they hate Doronicum as bad as they hate Honesty.
The Colledg] Take of Saffron, Galanga, Zedoary, Wood of Aloes, Mace of each two drachms, Pearls raw Silk tosted, white Amber, red Corral prepared, Gallia Moschata, Bazill, of each two drachms and an half, Ginger, Cubebs, long Pepper of each a dram and an half, Nutmegs, Indian Leaf or Cinnamon, Cloves, of each one drachm, Musk two scruples, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. It wonderfully helps cold afflictions of the brain, that come without a feaver, melancholly and its attendance, viz. sadness without a cause &c. Vertigo or dissiness in the head, Falling-sickness, Palsies, resolution of the nerves, Convulsions, Heartqualms, afflictions of the Lungues, and difficulty of breathing. The dose of the pouder is half a drachm, or two seruples, or less, according to the age or strength of him or her that takes it. Mesue appoints it to be made into an Electuary with clarified Honey, and of the Electuary, two drachms is the dose; the time of taking it is, in the morning fasting.
The Colledg] Is prepared by adding to the forenamed Wormwood, dried Roses of each three drams, Aloes half an ounce, Cinnamon two drachms and an half, Castorium and Lovage of each one drachm, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. Besides the vertues of the former, it purgeth the stomach of putrified humors.
The Colledg] Take of Rosemary flowers an ounce, red Roses, Violets, Liquoris, of each six drachms, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Galanga, Cinnamon, Ginger, Zedoary, Mace, Wood of Aloes, Cardamoms the less, the seeds of Dill and Annis, of each four scruples, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the heart and helps the passions thereof, it causeth a joyful and cheerful mind, and strengthens such as have been weakned by long sickness, it strengthens cold stomachs, and helps digestion notably. The dose is half a drachm, you may make it into an Electuary with Honey, and take two drachms of that at a time.
The Colledg] Take of Penidies two ounces, Pinenuts, sweet Almonds blanched, white Poppy seeds, of each three drachms and a scruple, [Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, (which three being omitted it is Diapenidion without Species] Juyce of Liquoris, Gum Tragacanth, and Arabick, white Starch, the four greater cold seeds 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each a drachm and an half, Camphire seven grains, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. It helps the vices of the breast, coughs, colds, hoarsness, and consumptions of the lungues, as also such as spit matter. You may mix it with any pectoral Syrup, and take it with a Liquoris stick, if you fancy the Pouder best; but if the Electuary, you may take a drachm of it upon a knifes point at any time when the cough comes.
The Colledg] Take of Sanders white and red, of each two drachms and an half; Gum Tragacanth, Arabick, Ivory, of each two scruples; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 roots, Maslick, Indian Spicknard, Cardamoms, Liquoris, Saffron, Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Gallia Moschata, Annis and sweet Fennel seeds, Cinnamon, Rhubarb, Bazil Seeds, Barberry seeds, the seeds of Succory, Purslain, the four greater cold Seeds clensed, white Poppy seeds, of each one scruple; Pearls, bone of a Stags heart of each half a scruple; red Roses exangulated, one ounce and three drachms; Camphire seven grains, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach, as also of the liver, lungues and Spleen, easeth pains in the body, and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat. The dose of the Pouder is half a drachm, and two ounces of the Electuary, into which with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water you may make it; and can the Colledg justly say 'tis destructive to the Common-wealth?
The Colledg] Take of Cummin seeds steeped in Vineger and dried, long Pepper, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 leaves, of each an ounce, Niter half an ounce, make them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomcahs, it helps cold stomachs, cold belchings and windy. You may take half a drachm after meat, either in a spoonful of Muskadel, or in a Syrup of Mirtles or Quinces, or any Cordial Water whose effects is the same.
The Colledg] Take of Gum Tragacanth two ounces, Gum Arabick an ounce and two drachms, white starch half an ounce, Liquoris, the seeds of Melones and white Poppies, of each three drachms, the seeds of Citruls, Cucumers and Guords of each two drachms, Penids three ounces, Camphire half a scruple, make of them a Pouder according to art.
Also you may make an Electuary of them with a susficient quantity of Syrup of Violets; but have a care of what was told you before, Of the seeds. (quoth the Colledg, Before, when all honesty was not fled from them to Heaven.)
A. If you please to put in the cold seeds (which the Reverend Colledg appoints to be left out, till the Pouder come to be used, and then 'tis impossible to put them in, as I shewed before, page 122.) and so make it up into an Electuary; then I can tell you what the vertues are: It helps the faults of the breast and Lungs coming of heat and driness, it helps Consumptions, Leanness, Inflamations of the sides, Pleuresies &c. hot and dry Coughs, roughness of the Tongue and Jaws: but how to make ought of the Receipt as the Colledg have ordered it, belongs to another Oepidibus and not to me. It is your best way to make the Electuary very moist, and take now and then a little of it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg] Take of the three sorts of Peppers of each six drachms and fifteen grains, Annis seeds 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Ginger of each one drachm, beat them into 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.
Culpeper.] A. It heats the stomach and expels wind. Half a drachm in pouder, or two drachms in Electuary (for so Galen who was Author of it appoints it to be made with clarified Honey, a sufficient quantity) if age and strength permit; if not, half so much, is a sufficient dose, to be taken before meat, if to heat the stomach and help digestion; after meat, if to expel wind.
The Colledg] Take of all the sorts of Sanders, red Roses, of each three drachms, Rhubard, Ivory, Juyce of Liquoris, Purslain seeds of each two drams and fifteen grains, white Starch, Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, the seeds of Melones, Cucumers, Citruls, Guords, Endive, of each a drachm and an half; Camphire a scruple, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It is very profitable against the heat of the stomach and liver, besides it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow Jaundice, and consumptions of the Lungues. You may safely take a drachm of the pouder, or two drachms of the Electuary in the morning fasting; for most of their pouder will keep better by half in Electuaries, and were so appointed by those from whence they stole them.
The Colledg] Take of white Poppy seeds ten drachms; white Starch, Gum Arabick and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each three drachms, the seeds of Purslain, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, of each five drachms, of Cucumers, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Guords, Citruls, Quinces, of each seven drachms, Ivory, Liquoris, of each three drachms; Penids, the waight of them all, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It is a gallant cool Pouder, sit for all hot imperfections of the breast and Lungues, as consumptions, pleuresies, &c.
A. Your best way is to make it into a soft Electuary with Syrup of Violets, and take it as Diatragacanthum frigidum. They have only taken a little pains to less purpose to alter the quantities, else 'tis the same with their former.
The Colledg] Take the flowers of Clove-Bazil, or the seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron Pills, Galanga, Mace, Nutmegs, Styrax Calamitis of each two drachms and an half, Ivory, Annis seeds, Time, Epithimum, of each one dram, bone of a Stags heart, Pearls, Camphire, of each half a drachm, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Gold and Silver of each half a scruple, make it into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. It causeth a merry heart, a good colour, helps digestion, and keeps back old age. You may mix half a drachm of it to take at one time, or less if you please, in any Cordial Syrup, or cordial Electuary apropriated to the same uses.
The Colledg] Take of Saphire, Ruby, Jacinth, Granates, Emerald of each a drachm, Terra Lemnia, Bole-armenick, red Corral prepared, Pearls prepared of each two drachms, Zedoary, Unicorns horn, East and West Bezoar, Musk, Ambergreece, Camphire, Squinanth, Saffron, of each half a drachm, yellow Sanders, Wood of Aloes, Benjamin, of each two scruples, Magisterial Phylonium four scruples, bone of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 heart Citron Pills, Chermes, of each half a drachm, Chymical Oyl of Cinnamon and Nutmegs of each five drops, make of them a most subtil Pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. Surely the Colledg laid all their heads together to invent a Cordial that should be so dear no body should buy it, I am afraid to look upon it. 'Tis a great Cordial to revive the body, but it will bring the purse into consumption.
The Colledg] Take of Tormentil Roots, the seeds of Sorrel, Endive, Coriander prepared, Citron, of each one drachm and an half, all the Sanders, white Dittany of each a drachm, Bole-armenick, Earth of Lemnos of each three drachms, Pearls, both sorts of Corral, white Amber, Ivory, Spodium, bone of a Stags heart, the roots of Scrpentary, Avens, Angelica, Cardamoms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mace, Wood of Aloes, Cassia Lignea, Saffron, Zedoary, of each half a drachm, Penids, raw Silk tosted, Emeralds, Jacinth, Granate, the flowers of Water-Lillies, Bugloss and red Roses, of each a scruple, Camphire seven grains, make them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Scrpentary Roots are added, and Musk and Ambergreece of each three grains, left out, because destructive to the Common-wealth.
A. It is exceeding good in pestilential Feavers, and preserveth from ill airs, and keepeth the humors in the body from corruption, it cools the heart and blood, and strengtheneth such as are oppressed by heat; to conclude, it is a gallant cool cordial though costly. It being out of the reach of a vulgar mans purse, I omit the dose, let the Gentry and Nobility study Physick themselves, so shall they know it, for had they wanted hearts to that study no more than they wanted time and means, it had been far better for this Common-wealth than now it is. If a Gentleman have no skill in Physick himself, Dr. Dunce if he have a Plush Cloak on will serve his turn.
The Colledg] Take of the Roots of both sorts of Angelica, Swallow-wort, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Valerian, Polypodium of the Oak, Marsh-mallows, Nettles, of each half an ounce, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of German Mezereon, two drachms; twenty grains of Herb 〈◊〉〈◊〉-love, the Leaves of the same, Roots and all, thirty six; the Roots being steeped in Vineger and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, beat it all into pouder.
Culpeper] A. It seems to be as great an expeller of poyson, and as great a preservative against it, and the pestilence as one shall usually reade of. Widdowwail left out by 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Crato, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉: and out of question it makes the Receipt the worse, and not the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 intend the flower of herb Truelove,
thereby distinguishing it from one leaf of the flower, or whether they mean the flower and branch, is very difficult if not impossible to judg; for their word [cum toto] comprehends all, both root, branch, leaf, and flower.
The Colledg] Take of the Leaves of Rue, Vervain, Sage,. Plantane, Polypodium, common Wormwood, Mints, Mugwort, Bawm, Bettony, St. Johns wort, Centaury the less, of each equal parts, let them all be gathered in their greatest strength, which is about the full Moon in June, and dried speedily in a Warm Sun, and renewed yeerly, and not beaten to pouder till you have occasion to use them.
Culpeper] A. I see now the Colledg is not too old to learn how to dry Herbs, for before they appointed them to be dried in the shadow; I would they would learn humility and honesty, and mind the common good, and consider what infinite number of poor creatures perish daily (whom Christ hath 〈◊〉〈◊〉 purchased to himself, and bought with the price of his blood) through their hiding the rules of Physick from them, who else happily might be preserved if they knew but what the Herbs in their own Gardens were good for; with what face will they answer for this another day before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels? a few thoughts of this might put them upon such principles as might be a lengthning to their Tranquility; but why do I spend time about them, seeing there is little hopes they will be honester? for why did they change the name of this Receipt from a pouder against the bitings of Mad-dogs, to Pulvis Antilyssus? was it not because people should not know what it is good for, but if they be bitten, they may be mad and hang themselves for all them? I beleeve I have hit the nail at head the first blow. A drachm of the Pouder is sufficient to take every morning.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses, Liquoris, of each one ounce, one drachm, two scruples and an half; Cinnamon, * 13.42 two drachms, two scruples, and two grains, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Ginger, Galanga, Nutmegs, Zedoary, Styrax Calamitis, Cardamoms, Parsly seeds of each one scruple eight grains, beat them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. Excellently penned, even to half a grain.
A. It quencheth thirst, and staies vomiting, and the Author saith it helps hot and dry stomachs, as also heat and driness of the heart, liver, and lungues, (yet is the pouder it self hot) it strengthens the vital spirit, takes away heart-qualms, provokes sweat, and strengthens such as have labored long under Cronical diseases. You may take a drachm of the Electuary every morning, if with clarified Honey you please to make it into such a body.
The Colledg] Take of Frankinsence a drachm, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a drachm, beat them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. And when you have occasion to use it, mix so much of it with the white of an a 13.43 Egg as will make it of the thickness of Honey, then dip the wool of a Hare in it, and apply it to the sore or part that bleedeth, binding it on.
A. In my opinion this is a pretty Medicine, and will stick on till the sore be throughly healed, and then will come off of it self. I remember when I was a child, we applied such a medicine, (only we left out the Aloes and Frankinsence, and used only Coneys wool and the white of an Egg) to kibed heels, and alwaies with good success. And why could they not here set down the yertues and way to use it as they did last time? Do they delight to have the curses of the Widdow and Fatherless, and the last groans of poor dying People ring in the ears of the Lord God Almighty against them, or did they think I was dead, they (and their Imps) having so often cursed me to the pit of Hell for doing my Country good? No, I would have them know that through the prayers of so many honest people, and so many that bless God for me, my life shall be lengthned to a longer date than their Charter, and when I die I shall have more weeping eyes accompanying me to the Grave than all they have friends in the whol Universe.
The Colledg] Take of mens bones burnt, Scammony, Hermodactils, Turbith, Senna, Sugar, of each equal parts, beat them into pouder.
Culpeper] A. 'Tis a devilish purge like themselves good for nothing but to destroy men; your souls being led to your graves by their directions like sheep to the slaughter, and know not whither you are going nor what hurts you, or if you do, are they questionable by law? Dear souls, avoid this Medicine, else the Colledg will have mens bones enough to burn, it may be they appointed it for that end: And oh Colledg, Colledg, may I not use the speech of Cicero to you? Iam vos non stultos ut semper, non improbos ut saepe, sed dementes et insae nos rebus addicam necessariis, I cannot now accout you sools as alwaies, not wicked as sometimes, but mad men and lunatick, and prove it by good reasons; would you offer to appoint such a violent purger without any thing to correct it? God be merciful to your souls, for if you give such Physick you will kill more men by half than you cure, and men must give you an angel at least to kill them, when the hangman would do it at a cheaper rate.
The Colledg] Take of the seeds of Annis, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Fennel, Cummin, Spicknard, Cinnamon, Galanga, of each half an ounce; Liquoris, Gromwel, of each an ounce, Senna the waight of them all, beat it into Pouder.
Culpeper] A. That this Receipt is gallantly composed none can deny, and is an excellent purge for such bodies as are troubled with the wind chollick, or stoppage either of the guts or Kidneys; two drams taken in white Wine will work sufficiently with any ordinary body. Let weak men and children take less, keeping within doors, and warm. And why must the Colledg spit their venom in defacing the name of the deceased Dr. Ralf, Holland with a deleatur? why should all be accounted their own when nothing indeed is theirs but folly and baseness.
The Colledg] Take of Senna two ounces, Cremor
Tartar half an ounce, Mace two scruples and an half, Ginger, Cinnamon, of each a drachm and an half, Sal gem one drachm, beat it into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. This Pouder purgeth melancholly, and clense the head; Montagnanus was the Author of it, only the Colledg something altered the quantities of the Simples: the following pouder works somthing violently by reason of the Scammony that is in it, this is more gentle, and may be given without danger, even two drachms at a time to ordinary bodies. I would not have the unskilful meddle with the following. Neither is it fitting for weak bodies and children; such as are strong may take a drachm, or a drachm and an half, mixing it with white Wine; let them take it early in the morning after they are up, and not fleep after it for fear of danger; two hours after let them drink warm posset drink, and six hours after eat a bit of warm Mutton, let them walk about the chamber often, and not stir out of it that day.
The Colledg] Take of Senna, Cremor Tartar, of each two ounces, Cloves, Cinnamon, Galanga, Ammi, of each two drachms; Diacrydium half an ounce, beat it into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. Out of question some body had formerly cursed the Colledg for calling so violent a purge a HOLY POUDER, and therefore now they changed the name; yet this Use may safely be made of their Doctrine, ``Themselves being violent, ``count the violentest things the most holy.
The Colledg] Take of Turbith, Hermodactils, of each an ounce, Rhubarb ten drachms, Diacrydium half an ounce, Sanders red and white, Violets, Ginger, of each a drachm and an half, Mastich, Annis 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cinnamon, Saffron of each half a drachm, make it into pouder.
Culpeper] A. This also purgeth flegm and choller. Once more let me desire such as are unskilful in the rules of Physick, not to meddle with purges of this nature (unless prescribed by a skilful Physitian) lest they do themselves more mischief in half an hour, than they can claw off again in half a year.
Culpeper] The Pouders they in their new Moddel have plaid the men and left out, are these:
The Colledg] Take of Harts-horn, Unicorns-horn, Pearls, Ivory, of each six grains: beat them into fine pouder; If you mean to keep it, you may encrease the quantity analogically.
The Colledg] Take of the Roots of Tormentil, Dittany, Clove-gilliflowers, Scabious, the seeds of Tormentil, Coriander prepared, Citron, Carduus Benedictus, Endive, Rue, of each one drachm; of the three sorts of a 13.44 Sanders, Been white and red, (or if you cannot got them, take the Roots of Avens and Tormentil in their steads) Roman b 13.45 Doronicum, Cinnamon, Cardamoms, Saffron, the flowers of both sorts of c 13.46 Bugloss, red Roses, and Water-Lillies, Wood of Aloes, Mace, of each two scruples, Ivory, Spodium, Bone of a Stags heart, red Corral, Pearls, Emeral'd, Jacinth, Granate, of each one scruple, raw Silk d 13.47 torrefied, Bole Armenick, Earth of Lemnos, of each half a drachm; Camphire, Amber-greese, Musk, of each 〈◊〉〈◊〉 grains; beat them into pouder according to art, and with eight times their weight in white Sugar, dissolved in Rose-water, you may make them into Lozenges, if you please.
Culpeper] A. Both this and the former Pouder, are apropriated to the heart, (as the titles shew) therfore they do strengthen that and the vital spirit, and relieve languishing nature. All these are Cordial Pouders, and seldom above half a drachm of them given at a time, I suppose more for the cost of them than any ill effects they would work, they are too high for a poor mans purse, the Rich may mix them with any cordial Syrup or Electuary which they find apropriated to the same use these are.
The Colledg] Take of Terra sigillata, e 13.48 Sanguis Draconis, Mummy, of each two drachms; Sperma Ceti one drachm; Rhubarb half a drachm: beat them into Pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. You must beat the rest into pouder, and then ad the Sperma Ceti to them afterwards, for if you put the Sperma Ceti and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all together, and go to beat them in that fashion, you may as soon beat the Mortar into pouder, as the Simples. Indeed your best way is to beat them severally, and then mix them all together, which being done, makes you a gallant medicine for the infirmity specified in the title, a drachm of it being taken in Muskadel, and sweating after it.
The Colledg] Take of Cummin seeds, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a natural day in Vineger, one ounce and one scruple; Cianamon, Cloves, of each two drachms and an half; Galanga, Savory, Calamith, of each one drachm and two scruples; Ginger, black Pepper, of each two drachms and five grains; the seeds of Lovage and * 13.49 Ammi, of each one drachm and eighteen grains; long Pepper one drachm; Spicknard, Nutmegs, Cardamoms, of each two scruples and an half; beat them and keep them diligently in pouder for your use.
Culpeper.] A. It heats the stomach and bowels, expels wind exceedingly, helps the wind chollick, helps digestion hindred by cold or wind, is an admirable remedy for wind in the guts, and helps 〈◊〉〈◊〉 agues. The pouder is very hot, half a drachm is enough to take at one time, and too much if the patient be feaverish; you may take it in white Wine. It is in my opinion a fine composed Pouder.
The Colledg.] Take of Galanga, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Aloes, of each six drachms; Cloves, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, seeds of Lovage of each two drachms; Ginger, long and white Pepper, Cinnamin, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aromaticus, of each a dram and an half; Calaminth, and Mints dried, Cardamoms the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Indian Spicknard, the seeds of Smallage, Annis Fennel, Carraway, of each one dram, beat them into Pouder according to art. Also it may be made into an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with white Sugar dissolved
in Malaga Wine, or twelve times the weight of it of clarified Honey.
Culpeper] A. I am afraid twelve times the weight of the weight of the simples is too much by half, if not by three parts: Honest Mesue appoints only a sufficient quantity, and quotes it only as an Electuary, which he saith prevails against wind, sowr belchings, and indigestion, gross humors and cold afflictions of the stomach and liver. You may take half a drachm of the pouder at a time, or two of the Electuary in the morning fasting, or an hour before meat. It helps digestion exceedingly, expels wind, and heats a cold stomach.
The Colledg] Take of Pearls prepared three drachms; Spodium, Ivory, both sorts of Corral, of each two drachms; the flowers of red Roses a dram and an half; Jacinth, Saphire, Emerald, Sardine, Granate, Sanders white red and yellow, the flowers of Borrage and Bugloss, the seeds of Sorrel and Bazil, both sorts of Been (for want of them, the Roots of Avens and Tormentil) of each one drachm; Bone of a Stags heart half a drachm; Leaves of Gold and Silver of each fifteen: make of them all a pouder according to art, and let it be diligently kept.
The Colledg.] Take of Pearls and Pellitory of the Wall; of each one drachm; Ginger, Mastich, of each half an ounce; Doronicum, Zedoary, Smallage seeds, both sorts of Cardamoms, Nutmegs, Mace, of each two drachms; Been of both sorts (if they cannot be procured take the Roots of Avens and Tormentil) black and long Pepper of each three drachms; beat them into pouder and keep them for your use.
Culpeper] A. Avicenna prescribes this as an Electuary, and so are most of all the Colledges Pouders prescribed by those by whom they borrowed them, as I told you before, and they will keep longer and better in Electuaries than in Pouders; but people must be fantastical.
A. This (quoth Avicenna) is apropriated to women, and in them to diseases incident to their matrix, but his reasons I know not; It is Cordial and heats the stomach.
The Colledg] Take of Spicknard, Ginger, Cinnamon, black Pepper, Cardamoms, Cloves, Mace, of each half a drachm; Costus, Liquoris, Cyperus, Traganth, Germander, of each two scruples; the seeds of h 13.50 Bishops weed, Smallage, Sparagus, Bazil, Nettles, Citrons, Saxifrage, Burnet, Carraway, Carrots, Fennel, Bruscus, Parsly of Macedonia, Burs, k 13.51 Seseli, Asarabacca, of each one drachm; Lapis spongiae, Lyncis, Cancri, Judaici, of each one drachm and an half Goats blood prepared an ounce and an half; beat them all into pouder according to art.
Culpeper] A. The truth is, the Colledg have altered this Receipt much, and I am perswaded have made it much better, Neque enim benefacta maligne, detractare meum est.
A. It heats the stomach, and helps want of digestion coming through cold, it easeth pain in the belly and loyns, the o 13.52 Illiack passion, powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, it speedily helps the chollick, strangury, and disury. The dose is from a drachm to half a drachm, take it either in white Wine, or Decotion of 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 to the same purposes.
The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon, Cloves, Galanga, wood of Aloes, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Ginger, Spodium, Schoenanthus, Cyperus, c 13.53 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Violets of each one dcachm, Indian Leaf or Mace, Liquoris, Mastich, Styrax Calamitis, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or Water-Mints, Bazil, Cardamoms, long and white Pepper, Mirtle berries, and Citron pills, of each half a drachm and six grains, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 white and red (or if they be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their steads) red Corral, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Silk, of each eighteen grains, Musk six grains, Camphire four grains, beat them into pouder according to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and with ten times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Bawm water you may make them into an Electuary.
Culpeper.] A. It is exceedingly good for 〈◊〉〈◊〉, melancholly, lumpish, pensive, grieving, vexing, pining, sighing, sobbing, fearful, careful spirits, it strengthens weak stomachs exceedingly, and helps such as are prone to faintings and swoonings, it strengthens such as are weakned by violence of sickness, it helps bad memories, quickens all the sences, strengthens the brain and Animal spirit, helps the falling-sickness, and succours such as are troubled with Asthmacs, or other cold afflictions of the lungs. It will keep best in an Electuary, of which you may take a drachm in the morning, or more, as age and strength requires.
The Colledg] Take of all the d 13.54 Sanders, the seeds of Bazil, of each an ounce and an half; Bole Armenick, Cinnamon, of each an ounce; the Roots of Dittany, Gentian and Tormentil of each two drams and an half; the seeds of Citron and Sorrel, of each two drachms; Pearls, Saphire, bone of a Stags heart, of each one drachm: beat them into pouder according to art.
Culpeper.] A. The title tels you the vertue of it. Besides it cheers the vital spirit and strengthens the heart. You may take half a dram every morning either by it self, or mixed with any other convenient composition, whether Syrup or Electuary.
The Colledg.] Take of the best Turbith an ounce; Diagridium, Ginger, of each half an ounce; Cinnamon, Cloves, of each two drachms; Galanga, long Pepper, Mace, of each one drachm: beat them into Pouder, and with eight ounces and five drachms of white Sugar dissolved in Succory Water, it may be made into an Electuary.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth flegm, being rightly administred by a skilful hand. I fancy it not.
The Colledg] Take of Wormseed four nunces; Senna one ounce; Coriander seed prepared, Harts horn, of each half a drachm; Rhubarb half an ounce; dried Rue two drachms: beat them into Pouder.
Culpeper] A. I like this Pouder very well, the quantity (or to write more Scholastically, the dose) must be regulated according to the age of the patient, even from ten grains to a dram, and the manner of taking it by their pallat: It is something purging.
Colledg] TAke of red Roses, Liquoris, of each two drachms and five grains; Gum Arabick and Tragacanth of each two drachms and two scruples; Sanders white and red of each four scruples, Juyce of Liquoris, white Starch, the seeds of white Poppies, Purslain, Lettice, and Endive of each three drachms, the four greater cold seeds husked, the seeds of Quinces Mallows, Cotton, Violets, Pinenuts, fistick nuts, sweet Almonds, Pulp of Sebestens, of each two drachms, Cloves, Spodium, Cinnamon, of each one drachm, Saffron five grains, Penids, half an ounce, being beaten, make them all into a soft Electuary with three times their weight in Syrup of Violets.
Culpeper] A. It restores Consumptions, and Hectick 〈◊〉〈◊〉, strength lost, it nourisheth much, and restor es radical moisture, opens the pores, resists choller, takes away coughs, quencheth thirst, and resisteth feavers. For the quantity to be taken at a time, I hold it needless to trouble the Reader: you may take an ounce in a day by a drachm at a time, if you please; you shall sooner hurt your purse by it than your body.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Apples, Damask Rose-water, of each a pound and an half, in which infuse for twenty four hours, raw Silk four ounces, strain it strongly and ad syrup of the Berries of Chermes brought over to us two pound, Sugar one pound, boyl it to the thickness of Honey, then removing it from the fire whilst it is warm, ad Ambergreese cut smai half an ounce, which being well mingled put in these things following in pouder, Cinnamon, Wood of Aloes of each six drachms, Pearls prepared two 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Leaf-Gold a drachm, Musk a scruple, make it up according to art.
Culpeper] A. They have added the double quantity of Juyce of Chermes, whereby the Medicine is made both hotter and stronger, and if they had doubled the quantity of Sugar also, that so it need not have boyled away so much, they had done better; also they have subtracted from the quantity of Musk there being a drachm appointed before, but why they have done so, neither I, nor I think themselves know; and as little reason can be given why they should leave out the Lapis Lazuli, unless it be for an Apish opinion they hold, that Lapis Lazuli purgeth, whereas indeed, it strengthens the heart exceedingly against Melancholly vapors. Their former Composition contained of it (being first burnt in a Crucible, then often washed in Rose-water till it be clean) six drachms.
A. Questionless this is a great Cordial, and a mighty strengthner of the heart, and spirit vital, a restorer of such as are in consumptions, a resister of pestilences and poyson, a great relief to languishing nature; it is given with good success in feavers, but give not too much of it at a time, lest it prove too hot for the body, and too heavy for the purse. You may mix ten grains of it with other convenient Cordials to children, twenty or thirty to men.
The Colledg] Take of Sassafras two ounces; common Water three pound, boyl it to the consumption of the third part, adding towards the end Cinnamon bruised half an 〈◊〉〈◊〉, strain it and with two pound of white Sugar, boyl it to the thickness of a Syrup putting in, in pouder, Cinnamon, a drachm, Nutmegs half a scruple, Musk three grains, Ambergreese two and thirty grains, ten Leaves of Gold, Spirit of Vitriol four drops, and so make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, helps cold Rhewms or defluxions from the head to the lungs, or teeth, or eyes; it is excellent in coughs, and other cold afflictions of the lungues and breast; it helps digestion, expels wind and the gravel of the kidneys, it provokes the terms, warms and dries up the moisture of the womb, which is many times the cause of barrenness, and is generally a helper of all diseases coming of cold, raw thin humors: you may take half a drachm at a time in the morning.
The Colledg] Take of the Leaves of dried Rhue ten drachms, the seeds of Ammi, Cummin Lovage, Origanum, Nigella, Carraway Carrots, Parsly, Bitter Almonds, Pepper black and long, wild Mints, Calamus Aromaticus, Bay-berries, Castorium of each two drachms, Sagapenum half an ounce, Opopanax three drachms, clarified Honey a pound and an half, the things to be beaten being beaten, and the Gums dissolved in uine, make it into an Electuary according to art
Culpeper] A. It is exceeding good either in the chollick, or iliack passion, or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind, it generally easeth pains in the bowels. You may give a drachm in the morning fasting, or half an ounce in a Clyster, according as the disease is.
The Colledg] Take of Capars four 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Agrimony Roots, Nigella seeds, Squils, Asarabacca, Centaury, black Pepper, Smallage, Time of each an ounce, Honey three times their weight, make into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. They say it helps infirmities of the spleen, and indeed the name seems to promise so much; it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of nature in them; me thinks 'tis but odly composed: the next looks more lovely in my eyes, which is —
The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms; Cassia Lignea, Alicampane roots, of each half an ounce; Galanga seven drachms, Cloves, Long Pepper, both sorts of Cardamoms, Ginger, Mace, Nutmegs, Wood of Aloes, of each three drachms, Saffron one drachm, Sugar five drachms, Musk two scruples, added according to the prescript of the Physitian, and by adding three pound eight ounces of clarified Honey, boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Diacinnamomum, or in plain English, a Composition of Cinnamon, heats the stomach, causeth digestion, provokes the terms in women, strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body; a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies, such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm, or wind, for it comforts and strengthens nature much. If you take it to help digestion, take it an hour before meat, do so in all things of like quality.
The Colledg] Take of Corral white and red, Bole Armenick, Dragons blood, of each one drachm, Pearls half a drachm, Wood of Aloes, red Roses, Gum Tragacanth, Cinnamon of each two scruples, Sanders white and red of each one scruple, with four times its weight in Sugar dissolved in smal Cinnamon water, make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly, and restores such as are in consumptions, it is cooling, therefore good in Hectick feavers; very binding, and therefore stops fluxes; neither do I know a better Medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness. It stops the terms and whites in Women, if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering. Take but a drachm at a time every morning, because of its binding quality, except you have a loosness, for then may you take so much two or three times a day.
The Colledg] Take of the roots of Cicers, Acorus, or Calamus Aromaticus, Pine-nuts, of each a pound and an half; let the Cicers roots being clensed, cuto 13.55 boyled and pulped, be added to ten pound of clarified Honey, and boyled (stirring it) to its just thickness, then being removed from the fire ad the Acorus roots beaten, the Pine-nuts cut, and these following in pouder; Take of black Pepper an ounce, Long Pepper Cloves, Ginger, Mace, of each half an ounce, Nutmegs, Galanga, Cardamoms of each three drachms, mix them with the Roots and Honey into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Electuary provokes lust, heats the brain, strengthens the nerves, quickens the sences, causeth an acute wit, easeth pains in the head, helps the falling-sickness and convulsions, coughs, cathars, and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the Brain. Half a drachm is enough to take at one time because of its heat.
The Colledg] Take of the flesh of Quinces cut and boyled in fair water to a thickness eight pound, white Sugar six pound, boyl it to its just thickness.
The Colledg] Take of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Quinces, Sugar of each two pound, white 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 half a pound, added at the end of the Decoction, it being gently boyled and the scum taken away, ad Ginger two ounces, white Pepper, ten drachms and two scruples, bruise them grosly, and boyl it again to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper.] A. Is not this then more a Syrup than an Electuary? Surely either the Colledg or I doted, when we set this among the Electuaries, and would not be beaten out of our follies.
The Colledg] Take of white Sugar six pound, spring water four pound, clarifie them well with the white of an Eg scumming them, then take of ripe Quinces clensed from the rind and seeds, and cut in four quarters eight pound, boyl them in the foregoing Syrup till they be tender, then strain the Syrup through a linnen cloath, vocata Anglice boulter, boyl them again to a Gelly, adding four ounces of white Wine Vineger towards the end; remove it from the fire and whilst it is warm, put in these following Species in gross pouder, Ginger an ounce, white Pepper, Cinnamon, Nutmegs of each two drachms; keep it in diverse bones.
Culpeper.] A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former Receipt together, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 would find but little difference between them: only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added.
A. The vertues of all these three are, They comfort the stomach, help digestion, stay vomiting, belching &c. stop fluxes and the terms in women. They are all harmless, you may take the quantity of a Nutmeg of them at a time, before meat to help digestion and fluxes, after meat to stay vomiting, in the morning for the rest.
The Colledg] Take of Jacinth, red Corral, Bole Armenick, Earth of Lemnos of each half an ounce, the Berries of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Roots of Tormentil and Dittany, the seeds of Citrons, Sorrel, and Purstain, Sassron, Mirrh, red Roses exungulated, all the sorts of Sanders, bone of a Stags heart, Harts-horn, Ivory prepared, of each four scruples, Saphire, Emerald, Topas, Pearls, raw Silk, Leaves of Gold and Silver of each two scruples, Camphire, Musk, Ambergreese of each five grains: with Syrup of Lemmons, make it into a Confection according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a great Cordial and cool, exceeding good in acute feavers, and Pestilences, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mightily strengtheneth and cherrisheth the heart. Never above half a drachm is given at a time, very seldom so much; not because of its offensiveness, I suppose its chargableness.
The Colledg] Take of Lupines busked two drams,
black Pepper five scruples, and six grains, Liquoris four scruples, long Birthwort, Mugwort, Cassia 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Macedonian Parsly seed, Pellitory of Spain, Rhue seed, Spicknard, Mirrh, Penyroyal, of each two scruples fourteen grains, the seeds of Smallage, Savin, of each two scruples and thirteen grains, Centaury the greater, Cretish Carrots, Nigella, Carraway, Annis, Cloves, Allum of each two scruples, Bay-leaves one scruple, one half scruple and three grains, Wood of Aloes a scruple and fourteen grains, Schaenanth one scruple and thirteen grains, Asarabacca, Calamus Aromaticus, Amomum, Centaury the less, the seed of Orrach, Peony, Fennel, of each one scruple and six grains, Cyperus, Alicampane, Ginger, Cappar roots, Cummin, Orobus of each one scruple: All of them being beaten into very fine pouder, let them be made into an Electuary according to art, with four times their weight in Sugar, let it stand one month before you use it.
Culpeper] A. It provokes the terms, brings away both birth and after-birth, the dead child, purgeth such as are not sufficiently purged after travail; it provokes urine, breaks the stone in the bladder, helps the strangury, disury, iskury, &c. helps indigestion, the chollick, opens any stoppings in the body, it heats the stomach, purgeth the liver and spleen, consumes wind, staies vomiting; but let it not be taken by women with child, nor such people as have the Hemorrhoids.
A. Nicholaus I take to be the Author of this fantastical Medicine, (though the Colledg give it a more general term) and the vertues also are quoted from him. The dose is from one dram to two drams.
The Colledg] Take of Satyrion Roots three ountes, Dates, bitter Almonds, Indian nut, Pinenuts, Fistick Nuts, green Ginger, Eringo Roots preserved, of each one ounce; Ginger, Cloves, Galanga, Pepper long and black, of each three drachms, Ambergreese one scruple, Musk two scruples, Penids four ounces, Cinnamon, Saffron, of each half an ounce, Malaga Wine three ounces, Nutmegs, Mace, Grains of Paradice, of each two drachms, Ash-tree Keys, the belly and loyns of Scinks, Borax, Benjamin, of each three drachms, Wood of Aloes, Cardamoms, of each two drachms, the seeds of Nettles and Onions, the roots of Avens of each a drachm and an half, with two pound and an half of Syrup of green Ginger make them into an Electuary according to Art.
The Colledg] Take of the four greater and lesser cold seeds, the seeds of Sparagus, Burnet, Bazil, Parsly, Winter Cherries of each two drachms, Gromwel, Juyce of Liquoris, of each three drachms, Cinnamon, Mace, of each one drachm, with eight times their weight in white Sugar dissolved in Marsh-mallow water, make it into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. It breaks the stone, and provokes urine. Men may take half an ounce at a time, and children half so much, in Water of any Herbs or Roots &c. (or Decoction of them) that break the stone; which the last Catalogue in the Book (viz. the Catalogue of Diseases) will furnish you with. I delight to have men studious.
The Colledg] Take of the Barks of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Mirobalans torrefied, of each two drachms and an half, the seeds of Water-cresses, Cummin, Annis, Fennel, Ammi, Caraway, of each a drachm and an half, bruise the seeds and sprinkle them with sharp white Wine Vineger, then beat them into pouder and add the Myrobalans and these things that follow, Spodium, Balaustines, Sumach, Mastich, Gum Arabick of each one drachm and fifteen grains, mix them together, and with ten ounces of Syrup of Mirtles make them into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. It gently easeth the bowels of the wind Chollick, wringing of the guts, infirmities of the spleen, it stops fluxes, the Hemorrhoids, as also the terms in women.
A. A drachm or two of this taken in the morning had been a better remedy (I say amongst their Hodgpodg) than most they gave in the late Epidemical disease, the bloody flux.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Liquoris, sweet Almonds, Hazel Nuts of each half an ounce, Pinenuts an ounce, Hysop, Maiden-hair, Orris, Netile seeds, round Birthwort of each a drachm and an half, black Pepper, the seeds of Water-cresses, the Roots of Alicampane, of each half a drachm, Honey fourteen ounces, make them into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the stomach and lungs, and helps the vices thereof. Take it with a Liquoris stick.
The Colledg] Take of Gentian, Bay-berries, Mirrh, round Birthwort, of each two ounces, Honey two pound, make them into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. This is a gallant Electuary, like the Author, which was Mesue. It wonderfully helps cold infirmities of the brain, as convulsions, fallingsickness, dead palseys, shaking palseys &c. as also the stomach, as pains there, wind, want of digestion; as also stoppings of the Liver, dropsies; it resists the pestilence, and poysons, and helps the bitings of venemous beasts. The dose is from half a drachm to two drachms, according to the age and strength of the patient, as also the strength of the diseases; you may take it either in the morning or when urgent occasion cals for it.
The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea, of each half an ounce, Scordium one ounce, Dittany of Creet, Tormentil, Bistort, Galbanum, Gum Arabick of each half an ounce; Opium one drachm and an half; Sorrel seeds one drachm and an half; Gentian half an ounce, Bole-Armenick an ounce and an half, Earth of Lemnos, half an ounce; long Pepper, Ginger, of each two drachms; clarified Honey two pound and an half; Sugar of Roses one pound, Canary Wine ten ounces; make them into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. It is a well composed Electuary, something apropriated to the nature of women, for it
provokes the terms, hastens their labor, helps their usual sickness at the time of their lying in, I know nothing better; it stops fluxes, mightily strengtheneth the heart and stomach; neither is so hot but it may safely be given to weak people; and besides provokes sleep. It may safely be given to young children ten grains at a time; ancient people may take a dram or more: It is given as an excellent cordial in such feavers as are accompanied with want of sleep.
The Colledg] Take of Mirrh, Saffron, Agrick, Ginger, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Frankinsence, Treacle Mustard seeds, of each ten drachms; the seeds of Hart-wort, Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression, Schenanth, Stoechas, Costus, Galbanum, Turpentine, long Pepper, Castorium, Juyce of Hypocistis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Calamitis, Opopanax, Indian leaf, or for want of it, Mace, of each one ounce; Cassia Lignea, Poly mountain, white Pepper, Scordium, the seeds of Carrots of Creet, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Troch. Cypheos, Bdellium, of each seven drachms; Celtick Spicknard, Gum Arabick, Macedonian Parsly seed, Opium, Cardamoms the less, Fennel seed, Gentian, red Rose Leaves, Dittany of Creet of each five drachms; Annis seeds, Asarabacca, Orris, Acorus, the greater Valerian, Sagapen. of each three drachms, Meum, Acacia, the bellies of Scinks, the tops of St. Johns Wort, of each two drachms and an half; Malaga wine so much as is sufficient to dissolve the Juyces and Gums, clarified honey the trebble weight of all, the Wine excepted, make them into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper.] A. I have not time to search whether there be any difference between Damocrates and the Colledg. It was also corrected afterwards by Bartholomew Maranta. Also diverse Authors have spent more time about this and Venis Treacle (both of them being terrible messes of Altogether) in reducing them into Classes, than ever they did in saying their prayers. Also Andromacus hath another sort os Methridate. It may be it is that usually called with us [Venis Mithridate] but because the Electuary is very chargable to be made, and cannot be made but in great quantities, and only that here prescribed is to be gotten, or at least, easily to be gotten; I am willing to spare my pains in any further search.
A. It is good against poyson, and such as have done themselves wrong by taking filthy Medicines, it provokes sweat, it helps continual watrings of the stomach, ulcers in the body, consumptions, weakness of the limbs, rids the body of cold humors, and diseases coming of cold, it remedles cold infirmities of the brain, and stopping of the passage of the sences (viz. hearing, seeing, smelling, &c.) by cold, it expels wind, helps the chollick, provokes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to ones victuals, it helps ulcers in the bladder if Galen say true, as also difficulty of Urine, it casts out the dead child, and helps such women as cannot conccive by reason of cold, it is an admirable remedy for melancholly and all diseases of the body coming through cold, it would fill a whol sheep of paper to reckon them all up particularly. You may take a scruple or half a drachm in the morning, and follow your business; two drachms will make you sweat, yea one dram if your body be weak, for then two drams may be dangerous because of its heat: how to order your self in sweating you were taught before, if you have forgot where, look the Table at latter end.
The Colledg] Take of white Pepper, the seeds of white Henbane of each two drachms, Opium Earth of Lemnos of each ten drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Hematitis, Saffron of each five drachms, Castorium, Indian Spicknard, Euphorbium prepared, Pellitary of Spain, Pearls, Amber, Zedoary, Alicampane, Troch. Ramach, of each a drachm, Camphire, a scruple, with their trebble waight in Honey-Roses make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. All the difference is, Mesue appoints Honey, whose commendations of it is this: It stops blood flowing from any part of the body, the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, the hemorrhoyds in men, spitting of blood, bloody fluxes, and is profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry: See the next Receipt.
A. Now they have made the quantity the same with Mesue, before I think they followed Wicker.
The Colledg] Take of white Pepper, White Henbane seeds of each five drachms, Opium two drachms and an halfe, Cassia Lignea a drachm and an halfe, the seeds of Smallage a drachm, Parsly of Macedonia, Fennel, Carrots of Creet of each two scruples and five grains, Saffron a scruple and an half, Indian Spicknard, Pellitory of Spain, Zedoary, fisteen grains, Cinnamon a drachm and an halfe, Euphorbium prepared, Mirrh, Castorium, of each a drachm, with their trebble waight in clarified Honey, make it into an Electuary.
Culpeper] A. It is a most exquisite thing to ease vehement and deadly pains in what part of the body soever they be, whether internal or external: that vehemency of pain will bring a feaver, and a feaver, death, no man well in his wits will deny; therefore in such diseases which cause vehemency of pain, as Chollicks, the Stone, Strangury &c. this may be given (ordered by the discretion of an able brain, for it conduceth little to the cure) to mitigate the extremity of pain, until convenient remedy may be had: (as men pump water out before they can stop the hole in a leaking vessel.) As for other vertues which Authors say this Electuary hath, I shall pass them by, resting confident that other remedies may be found out for them in this Book, as effectual, and less dangerous; and because the former Electuary is not much unlike to this in some particulars, take the same caution in that also. I would not have the vulgar meddle with this, nor the former.
The Colledg] Take of Opium four ounces, Benjamin, Mirrh; Mummy of each halfe an ounce, Spirit of Wine as much as is sufficient to make it into an Opiate.
Culpeper] A I hold their Laudanum to be a better Midicine, for this (being exceeding dangerous) for an unskilful man to meddle withal, I let it alone, yet am not ignorant what good it might do to such whose wounds have brought them into a frenzy, if given by an able hand.
The Colledg] Take a Hens Egge new laid and the white being taken out by a small hole, fill up the void place with Saffron, leaving the yolk in, then the hole being stopped, rost it in ashes till the shell begin to look black, take dilligent heed the Saffron burn not for then is the whole Medicine spoiled, then the matter being taken out dry if so that it may be beaten into pouder, and ad to it as much Pouder of white Mustard Seed as it waighs. Then take the Roots of white Dittany, and Tormentil, of each two drachms, Mirrh, Harts horn, Petasitis roots of each one dram, the roots of Angellica and Burnet, Juniper berries, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Camphire of each halfe an ounce, mix them all together in a mortar, then ad Venis Treacle the waight of them all, stir them about with a pestle three hours together, putting in so much Syrup of Lemmons, as is enough to make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. A drachm of it given at a time is as great a help in a pestilential feaver as a man shall usually reade of in a Galenist. It provokes sweat, and then you shall be taught how to use your self: if years do not permit, give not so much.
The Colledg] Take of Troches of Squills fourty eight drachms, Troches of Vipers, long Pepper, Opium of Thebes, Magma, Hedycroi dried of each twenty four drachms, Red Roses exungulated, Orris, Illirick, juyce of Liquoris, the seeds of sweet Navew, Scordium, Opobalsamum, Cinnamon, Agrick, of each twelve drachms, Mirrh, Costus, or Zedoary, Saffron, Cassia, Lignea, Indian Spicknard, Schenanth, Pepper, white and black, Olibanum, Dittany of Creet, Rhapontick, Stoechas, Horehound, Macedonian Parsly seed, Calaminth, Cypress, Turpentine, the roots of Cinkfoyl and Ginger of each Six drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, mountain, Chamepitis, Celtick Spicknard, Amomus, Styrax Calamitis, the roots of Meum, the tops of Germander, the roots of Rhapontick, Earth of Lemn os, Indian leafe, Chalcitis burnt or in stead thereof Roman Vitriol burnt, Gentian roots, Gum Arabick, the juyce of Hypocistis, Carpobalsamum or Nutmegs, or Cubebs, the seeds of Annis, Cardamoms, Fennel, Hartwort, Acacia or in stead thereof the juyce of Sloes made thick, the seeds of Treacle Mustard, and Ammi, the tops of Saint Johns wort, Sagapen. ofof each four drams, Castorium, the roots of long Birth-wort, Bitumen, Judaicum, Carrot seed, Opopanax, Centaury the less, Galbanum of each two drachms, Canary Wine enough to dissolve what is to be dissolved, Honey the trebble waight of the dry Species, make them into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is confessed many Physitians have commented upon this Receipt; as Bartholomaeus Maranta, Galen, Medici Romani, and Medici Bononienses, cum multis aliis; but with little difference. The vertues of it are, It resists poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts, inveterate headaches, vertigo, deafness, the falling sickness, astonishment, apoplexes, dulness of sight, want of voice, asthmaes, old and new coughs, such as spit or vomit blood, such as can hardly spit or breath, coldness of the stomach, wind, the chollick, and Illiach passion, the yellow jaundice, hardness of the spleen, stone in the reins and bladder, difficulty of urine, ulcers in the bladder, feavers dropsies, leprosies; it provokes the terms, brings sorth both birth and afterbirth, helps pains in the joints, it helps not only the body, but also the mind, As vain fears, melancholly &c. and is a good remedy in pestilential feavers. Thus Galen. You may take half a drachm and go about your business, and it will do you good if you have occasion to go in ill airs, or in pestilential times; if you shall sweat upon it, as your best way is, if your body be not in health, then take one drachm, or between one and two, or less than one, according as age and strength is; if you cannot take this or any other sweating medicine by it self, mix it with a little Carduus or Dragons water, or Angelica water which in my opnion is the best of the three.
The Colledg] Take of Hartshorn two ounces, the seeds of Citrons, Sorrel, Peony, Bazil, of each an ounce, Scordium Corallina of each six drams, the roots of Angellica, Tormentil, Peony, the Leaves of Dittany, Bay berries, Juniper berries, of each half an ounce, The flowers of Rosemary, Marigolds, Clove Gilliflowers, the tops of Saint Johns wort, Nutmegs, Saffron of each three drachms, the Roots of Gentian, Zedoary, Ginger, Mace, Mirrh, the leaves of Scabious, Devilsbit, Cardus, of each two drachms, Cloves, Opium of each a drachm, Malaga Wine as much as is sufficient, with their trebble waight in Honey, mix them according to art.
Culpeper] A. The receipt is a pretty cordial, resists the pestilence, and is a good antidote in pestilential times, it resists poyson, strengthens cold stomachs, helps digestion, and crudities, of the stomach. A man may safely take two drachms of it in a morning and let him fear no harm.
Colledg] Take of Saffron, Asarabacca roots, the seeds of Parsly, Carrots, Annis, Smallage, of each half an ounce, Rhubarb, the roots of Meum, Indian Spicknard of each six drachms, Cassia Lignea, Costus, Mirrh, Schenanth, Cubebs, Maddir roots, the juyces of Maudlin, and Wormwood made thick, Opobalsamum, or oyl of Nutmegs of each two drachms, Cinnamon, Calamus Aromaticuus, of each a drachm and an half, Scordium Cetrach, juyce of Liquoris of each two drachms and an half, Tragacanth a drachm with eight times their waight in white Sugar, dissolved in Endive water, and clarified, make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Mesue appoints clarified Honey. It is exceeding good against cold diseases of the stomach, liver, or spleen, corruption of humors, and putrifaction of meat in the stomach, il-savored colour of the body, dropsies, cold faults in the reins and bladder, provokes urine. Take a drachm in the morning.
Colledg. TAke of choyce Turbith ten drachms, Diacridium, bark of Spurge roots prepared, Hermodactils, Red-roses of each five drachms, Cloves, Spicknard, Ginger, Saffron, long Pepper, Amomus, or for want of it Calamus Aromaticus, Cardamoms the less, the seeds of Smallage, Parsly, Fennel, Sparagus, Bruscus, Saxifrage, Gromwel, Carraway, Sal. gem. Galanga, Mace of each a drachm, with their trebble waight of clarified Honey, make them into an Electuary according to art. Also you may keep the Species by it self, in your shops.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth flegm, chiefly from the joynts, also it purgeth the reins and bladder.
A. I willingly omit the quantity of these purges, because I would not have foolish women and dunces do themselves and others mischief. For it worketh too violently for their uses, and must be prudently ordered, if taken at all, for I fancy it not at all, but am of opinion it kills more men than cures.
The Colledg] Take of Cloves, Costus, or Zedoary, Ginger, Cummin of each two drachms, Hermodactils, Diacridium, of each half an ounce, with their double waight of Honey clarified in white Wine, make them into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Authors say it purgeth hot Rewms, and takes away inflamations in wounds, I assure you the' Electuary works violently, and may safest be given in Clysters, and so you may give two or three drachms at a time, if the patient be strong. For taken orherwise it would kill a horse cum privilegio. I wonder theColledg is not a shamed to fret mens guts out with outlandish rubbish, and then they may safely cry out they have the Plague in their guts, and they know not how to cure them.
The Colledg] Take of the leaves of Violets, Mallows, Beets, Mercury, Pellitory of the wall Violet flowers of each a handful, boyl them in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 quantity of water, by the benefit of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let the Cassia be extracted, and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 washed; Then take of this Cassia so drawn, and boyl it to its consistance. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pound, Sugar a pound and an halfe, boyl them to the form of an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is no more than breaking the Canes of the Cassia, and pick out the pulp (casting away the seeds, boyl the pulp in a little of this decoction, then press it through a pulping sieve, the title shews the use of it: or if you will take an ounce of it inwardly, you shall find it work with great gentleness. You may take it in white Wine, it is good for gentle bodies, for if your body be hard to work upon, perhaps it will not work at all; it purgeth the reins gallantly and cooleth them, thereby preventing the stone and other diseases caused by their heat.
The Colledg.] Take of Agrick, Turbith, Species, Hiera Simplex, Rhubarb of each one drachm, choise Aloes unwashed two drachms, Ginger, Christal of Tartar, of each two scruples, Orrus Florentine, sweet Fennel seeds of each a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Syrup of Roses, Solutive as much as is sufficient to make 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into an Electuary according to art.
The Colledg] Take of Epithimum half an ounce, the roots of Angelica three drachms, of Gentian 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Acorus, of each two drachms, Cinnamon one drachm and an half, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Saffron, of each one drachm, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 six ounces, with Syrup of Fumitory, Scabious, and Sugar so much as is sufficient to make it into a soft Electuary.
Culpeper] A. Both these purge choller, the former flegm, and this melancholly; the former works strongest, and this strengthens most, and is good for such whose brains are anoyed. You may take half an ounce of the former if your body be any thing strong in white Wine, if very strong an ounce, ordering your self as you were taught before, and the Table at later end will direct you to the place: a reasonable body may take an ounce of the latter, the weak less. I would not have the unskilful too busie with purges without advice of a Physitian.
The Colledg] Take of Damask Prunes two 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Vlolet-flowers a bandful and an half, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 water a pound and an half, boyl it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to art till half be consumed, Strain 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and dissolve in the decoction six 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Cassia newly drawn, Sugar of Violets 〈◊〉〈◊〉 up of Violets of each four ounces, Pulp of Tamarinds an ounce, Sugar Candy an ounce and an half, Manna two ounces, mix them, and make them into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine cool purge for such as are bound in the body, for it works gently and without trouble, it purgeth choller, and may safely be given in feavers coming of choller: but in such cases, if the body be much bound, the best way is first to administer a Clyster, and then the next morning an ounce of this will cool the body and keep it in due temper. I wonder what they need have put in Sugar of Violets, and Syrup of Violets, why would not the double quantity of the Syrup have fetved the
turn; I protest they will do any thing, to make their Rceipts dear and difficult, that so they may grow rich by a lazy life, and uphold themselves in their lawless domineering. A most unconscionable thing that men should prefer their own greatness before the the lives of poor men and women; the stones in the street, would cry out against them shortly, if I should hold my peace.
The Colledg] Take twelve Prunes, Violet flowers a handful, French Barly, the seeds of Annis, and bastard Saffron, Polyprdium of the Oak, of each five drachms, Maidenhair, Time, Epithinum, of each half a handful, Raisons of the sun stoned half an ounce, sweet Fennel seeds two drachms, the seeds of Purslain, and Mallows of each three drachms, Liquoris half an ounce, boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, Strain them, & dissolve in the Decoction, Pulp of Cassia two pound, of Tamarinds an ounce, Cinnamon three drachms, Sugar a pound, boyl it into the form of an Electuary.
The Colledg] Take of the former Receipt two pound, Senna in pouder two ounces, mix them according to art.
Culpeper.] A. This is also a fine cool purge, gentle, clensing the bowels of choller and melancholly without any griping, very fit for feaverish bodies, and yet the former is gentler than this. They both clense and cool the reins; a reasonable body may take anounce and an half of the former, and an ounce of the latter, in white Wine, if they keep the house, or their bodies be oppressed with melancholly, let them take half the quantity in four ounces of decoction of Epithium.
The Colledg] Take of* 13.56 Diatragacanthum Frigidum half an ounce, Pulp of preserved Quinces an ounce, the inside of the seeds of Bastard Saffron half an ounce, Ginger two drachms, Diagrydium beaten by it self three drachms, Turbith six drachms, Manna two ounces, Honey Roses, Solutive, Sugar-candy of each one ounce, Hermodactils half an ounce, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 ounces and an half, make of them a Liquid Electuary 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to art.
Culpeper] A. I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 what art it must be, wherewith a man should make up an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and have not wherewithal; I tell you truly, that to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 up an Electuary of this without more moisture (for here is nor a quarter enough) is a task harder than al Hercules his twelve labors, abate me but his fetching Cerberus out of Hell: For my part I shall trouble the Reader no further, but leave the Receipt to Arnoldus and the Colledg for a pure piece of non-sence. Only let me admire at the pride and Headstrongness of the Colledg, that will not mend any error, though as apparant as the Sun is up, when he is upon the Meridian; but quos perdere 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Jupiter dementis facit, those whom Jupiter will destroy, he first makes mad; so their Jupiter, or Juvans pater (as they often in their Dedicatory Epistle stile the King, and the only God they (poor fooles) worship, unless like heathens they worship many gods) being now sent to take his supper apud inferos, hath left such a spirit of madness upon them, which is an absolute forerunner of their end.
The Colledg] Take of the pulp of Dates boyled in Hydromel, Penids, of each half a pound, sweet Almonds blanched three ounces and an half, to all of them being bruised and permixed, add clarified Honey two pound, boyl them a little and then strew in Ginger, long Pepper, Mace, Cinnamon, Rue leaves, the seeds of Fennel and Carrots, of each two drams; Turbith four ounces, Diacridium an ounce and an half; make of them an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. I cannot beleeve this is so profitable in Feavers taken downwards as Authors say, for it is a very violent purge: Indeed I beleeve being mixed in Clysters, it may do good in Chollicks and infirmities of the bowels coming of Raw humors, and so you may give half an ounce at a time.
The Colledg] Take one hundred Damask Prunes boyl them in water till they be soft, then pulp them, and in the Liquor they were boyled in, boyl gently one ounce us Violet flowers; strain it, and with two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup; then ad half a pound of the aforesaid pulp, the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds of each one ounce; then 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with it these Pouders following, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 white and red, Spodium, Rhubarb, of each three drachms, red Roses, Violets, the seeds of Purslain, Succory, Barberries, Gum Tragacanth, Liquoris, Cinnamon, of each two drachms; the four greater cold seeds of each one drachm; make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It may safely, and is with good success given in acute, burning, and all other feavers, for it cools much and loosens the body gently; it is good in agues, hectick feavers and Marasmos. You may take an ounce of it at a time, at night when you go to bed, three hours after a light supper, neither need you keep your chamber next day, unless the weather be very cold, or your body very tender.
The Colledg] Take of Diaprunum Lenitive whilst it is warm, four pound; Scammony prepared two ounces and five drachms; mix them together and make them into an Electuary according to art.
Seeing the dose of Scammony is encreased according to the Author in this Medicine, you may use a less weight of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 if you please.
Culpeper] A. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they left out now, and left their honesty withal. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 therein the Colledg said true, for the Medicine according to this Receipt is too strong, violent, corroding, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, fretting, and yet this is that which is commonly called Duaprunes, which simple people take to give themselves a purge, being fitter to do them mischief (poor souls) than good, unless ordered with more discretion than they have; it may be they build upon the vulgar proverb, That no carrion will kill a Crow. Let me intreat them to have a greater care of themselves, and not meddle with such desperate Medicines:
Let them not object to me they often have taken it and felt no harm; they are not capable of knowing what harm it may do them a long time after: let them remember the old proverb, The pitcher never goes so often to the well, but it comes broke home at last.
The Colledg] Take of the pulp of Cassia and Tamarinds, the Leaves of Senna, of each two ounces; Polipodium, Violets, Rhubarb, of each one ounce; Annis seeds, Penids, Sugar Candy, Liquoris, the seeds of Guords, Citruls, Cucumers, Melones, of each two drachms, the things to be bruised being bruised, take of fresh Polypodium three ounces, sweet Fennel seeds six drachms, boyl them in four pound of water till the third part be consumed, strain it, and with two pound of Sugar boyl the Decoction to the thickness of a Syrup, then with the pulps and pouder make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a fine cooling purge for any part of the body, and very gentle, it may be given (an ounce, or half an ounce at a time, according to the strength of the patient) in acute, in peracute diseases, for it gently looseneth the belly and adds strength, it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen, gouts of all sorts, quotidian, tertain, and quartan Agues, as also headaches. It is usually given in Clysters. If you list to take it inwardly, you may take an ounce at night going to bed, in the morning drink a draught of hot posset drink and go about your business.
A. They have altered the quantities of some of the Simples that are harmless, for they do wonders as fast as Bell in the Apocripha eat Mutton.
The Colledg] Take of Citron Pills preserved, Conserves of the flowers of Violets and Bugloss, Diatragacanthum frigidum, Diacrydium of each half an ounce; Turbith five drachms, Ginger half a drachm, Senna six drachms; sweet Fennel seeds one drachm; white Sugar dissolved in Rose water and boyled according to art ten ounces; make a sollid Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Here are some things very cordial, others purge violently, both put together, make a composition no way pleasing to me; therefore I account it a pretty Receipt, good for nothing.
The Colledg] Take of Diacrydium, Turbith, of each six drachms; Cloves, Cinnamon, Ginger, Myrobalans, Emblicks, Nutmegs, Polypodium, of each two drachms and an half, Sugar six ounces, clarified Honey ten ounces, make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Mesue appoints only clarified Honey, one pound and four ounces, to make it up into an Electuary; and saith, it purgeth choller and flegm, and wind from all parts of the body; helps pains of the joynts and sides, the Chollick, it clenseth the reins and bladder: yet I advise you not to take too much of it at a time, for it works pretty violently, though well corrected by the pen of a Mesue: let half an ounce be the most, for such whose bodies are strong, alwaies remembring that you had better ten times take too little, than once too much. You may take it in white wine, and keep your self warm. If you would have my opinion of it, I do not like it.
The Colledg] Take of the bark of Citron Myrobalans two ounces; Myrobalans, Chebs and blacks, Violets, Colocynthis, Polypodium of the Oak, of each one ounce and an half; Wormwood, Time, of each half an ounce; the seeds of Annis and Fennel, the flowers of red Roses of each three drachms: Let all of them being bruised be infused one day in six pound of Whey, then boyled till half be consumed, rubbed with your hands and pressed out: to the Decoction add juyce of Fumitory, pulp of Prunes, and Raisons of the Sun, of each half a pound; White Sugar, clarified Honey, of each one pound; boyl it to the thickness of Honey, strewitg in towards the end, Agrick Trochiscated, Senna of each two ounces; Rhubarb one ounce and an half; Epithimum, one ounce; Diacrydium six drams; Cinnamon half an ounce; Ginger two drachms, the seeds of Fumitory and Annis, Spicknard, of each one drachm; make it into an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. The Receipt is chiefly apropriated as a purge for Melancholly and salt flegm, and diseases thence arising, as Scabs, Itch, Leprosies, Cancers, infirmities of the skin, it purgeth addust humors, and is good against madness, melancholly, forgetfulness, vertigo: It purgeth very violently, and is not safe given alone. I would advise the unskilful not to meddle with it inwardly: You may give half an ounce of it in Clysters, in melancholly diseases, which commonly have astringency a constant companion with them.
A. They have now something mended it, as well as they could, they having no more skill in making up Medicines than a Cow hath in dauncing.
The Colledg] Take of Raisons of the Sun stoned, Polypodium of the Oak, Senna, of each two ounces; Mercury one handful and an half; Jujubes, Sebestens of each twenty; Maiden-hair, Violets, French Barley, of each one handful; Damask Prunes stoned, Tamarinds, of each six drachms; Liquoris half an ounce: boyl them in ten pound of water till two parts of three be consumed; strain it, and dissolve in the Decoction, pulp of Cassia, Tamarinds, and fresh Prunes, Sugar of Violets, of each six ounces; Sugar two pound; at last ad Pouder of Senna Leaves, one ounce and an half; Annis seeds in pouder two drams to each pound of Electuary; and so bring it into the form of an Electuary according to Art.
Culpeper] A. It gently opens and mollifies the bowels, bringing forth choller, flegm, and melancholly, and that without trouble: It is cooling, and therefore is profitable in Pleuresies, and for wounded people: A man of reasonable strength may take an ounce of it going to bed, wch wil work next morning.
A. And intruth they have done well here to ad the Annis seeds to correct the Senna; Oh that they would but do so alwaies
The Colledg] Take of fresh Polypodium roots, three ounces; fresh Marsh-Mallow roots, Senna, of each two ounces, Annis seeds two drachms, steep them all in a glazed Vessel in a sufficient quantity of spring water, boyl them according to art; strain it and with Pulp of Raisons of the Sun half a pound, white Sugar, Manna, of each four ounces; boyl it to the thickness of a Cydoniate, and renew it four times a yeer.
Culpeper] A. The Colledg are so mysterious in this Receipt, a man can hardly give directions how to make it, for they give only incertainties.
A. You had best, first boyl the Roots in three pints of water to a quart, then put in the Senna, and seeds, boyl it to a pint and an half, then strain it and ad the rest; the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar, indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the Decoction, and so strain it because of its dross.
A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly, clenseth the reins and bladder, and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidnies. I leave out the dose till the Colledg have learned wit enough to make the Receipt plainer.
The Colledg] Take of Sugar, the juyce of red Roses clarified, of each a pound and four ounces; the three sorts of Sanders of each six drachms, Spodium three drachms, Diacydonium twelve drachms, Camphire a scruple: Let the Juyce be boyled with the Sugar to its just thickness, then add the rest in Pouder and so make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth Choller, and is good in tertian Agues, and diseases of the joynts; it purgeth violently, therefore let it be warily given. I omit the dose, because it is not for a vulgar use. I would not willingly have my Country men do themselves a mischief; let the Gentry study Physick, then shall they know what belongs to it. A lazy Gentry makes blockheaded Physitians.
The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon, Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes, the roots of Asarabacca, Spicknard, Mastich, Saffron, of each six drachms, Aloes not washed twelve ounces and an half, clarified Honey four pound and three ounces, mix them into an Electuary according to art. Also you may keep the Species by it self in your shops.
Culpeper] A. It is an excellent remedy for vicious juyces which lie furring the tunicle of the stomach, and such idle fancies and symtomes which the brain suffers thereby, whereby some think they see, others that they hear strange things, especially when they are in bed, and between sleeping and waking; besides this, it very gently purgeth the belly, and helps such women as are not sufficiently purged after their travel.
A. Being thus made up into an Electuary, it will be so bitter a dog would not take it, and the Species kept by it self is not so sweet: your best way (in my opinion) to take it (for I fancy the Receipt very much, and have had experience of what I have written of it) is to put only so much Honey to it as will make it into Pills, of which you may take a scruple at night going to bed (if your body be not very weak) in the morning drink a draught of hot broath or posset drink; you need not fear to go about your business, for it will hardly work till next day in the afternoon, and then very gently. I have found the benefit of it, and from my own experience I commend it to my Country men.
The Colledg] Take of Species Hiera, simple without Aloes, Agrick Trochisheated, of each half an ounce, Aloes not washed one ounce, clarified Honey six ounces, mix it, and make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Look but the vertues of Agrick and ad them to the vertues of the former Receipt, so is the business done without any further trouble.
The Colledg] Take of Coloquintida, Polipodium, of each two drachms, Euphorbium, Poley mountain, the Seeds of Spurge, of each one drachm and an half, and six grains, Wormwood, Mirrh, of each one dram and twelve grains, Centaury the less, Agrick, gum Ammoniacum, Indian leafe or Mace, Spicknard, Squills prepared, Diacrydium of each one drachm, Aloes, Time, Germander, Cassia Lignea, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Horehound, of each one scruple and fourteen grains, Cinnamon, Opopanax, Castoreum, long Birthwort, the three sorts of Pepper, Sagapen. Saffron, Parsly of each two drachms, Hellibore black and white, of each six grains, clarified Honey a pound and and half, mix them, and make of them an Electuary according to art. Let the Species be kept dry in yo ur shops.
Culpeper] A. It takes away by the roots daily evils comming of mellancholly, falling sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, leprosie, and many other infirmities; for my part I should be loth to take it inwardly unless upon desperate occasions, or in Clysters. It may well take away diseases by the roots, if it take away life and all.
The Colledg] Take of Colocynthis, Agrick, Germander, white Horebound, Stechas, of each ten drachms, Opopanax, Sagapen. Parsly seeds, round Birthwort roots, white 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of each five drachms, Spicknard, Cinnamon, Mirrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saffron of each four drachms, bruise the Gums in a mortar, sist the rest, and with three pound of clarified* 13.57 Honey, three onnces and five drachms, make it an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It helps the falling sickness, madness, and the pain in the head called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pains in the breast and stomach whether they come by sickness or bruises, pains in the loins or backbone, hardness of womens breasts, putrifactions of meat in the stomach and sour belchings. It is but used seldom 〈◊〉〈◊〉 therefore hard to be gotten.
The Colledg] Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, Bellericks,
Inds, and Emblicks, Nutmegs, of each five drachms, Watercress seeds, Asarabacca roots, Persian Origanum, or else Dittany of Creet, black Pepper, Olibanum, Ammi, Ginger, Tamaris, Indian Nard, Squinanth, Cyperus roots, of each half an ounce, filings of Steel prepared with Viniger twenty drams, let the Myrobalans be rosted a little with fresh butter, let the rest being poudered, be sprinkled with Oyl of sweet Almonds, then add Musk one drachm, and with their trebble waight in Honey, make it into an Electuary according to art.
C. A. It helps the immoderat flowing of the terms in women, and the Hemorrhoids in men, it helps weakness of the stomach and restores colour lost, It frees the body from crude humors, and strengthens the bladder, helps melancholly, and rectifies the distempors of the spleen. You may take a drachm in the morning, or two if your body be any thing strong, and by that you have read this, you cannot chuse but see a reason, why they set a binding Electuary amongst the Purges, as also why the name is changed, from Triphera the less, to Triphera the greater, viz. Because a great piece of ignorance to set it here, they are like to give Medicines to good purpose, when they know the operations no better.
The Colledg] Take of Diacrydium ten drachms, Turbith an ounce and an half, Cardamoms the less, Cloves, Cinnamon,* 13.58 Honey of each three drachms, yellow Sanders, Liquoris, sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ounce, Acorus Schenanth, of each a dram, RedRoses, Citron pills preserved, of each three drachms, Violets two drachms, Penids four ounces, white Sugar half a pound, Honey clarified in juyce of Apples one pound, make an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Diacrydium and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, ate a couple of untoward purges, the rest are all Cordials, but what to make of them all together I know not, and as little reason do I know, why they should put Honey in twice, unless they mistook honey for Mace, they have a blessed turn in this world, 'tis lawful for them to mistake, but for no body else.
Colledg. TAke of Cinnamon, Cassia, Schoenanth, of each an ounce & an half; Saffron, Mirrh, of each one ounce; Costus,o 13.59 Spignel,p 13.60 Acorus, Agrick, Scordium, Carrots, Parsly, of each half an ounce, white Pepper, eleven grains; Honey, so much as is sufficient to make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. It prevails against poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts, and helps such whose meat putrifies in their stomach, staies vomiting of blood, helps old coughs, and cold diseases in the liver spleen, bladder, and matrix. The Colledg hath made some petty alterations in the quantities of the Simples, but not worth the speaking of. The dose is half a drachm.
The Colledg.] Take of the flakes if Iron infused in Viniger seven daies and dried, three drams, Indian Spicknard, Schoenanth, Cyperus, Ginger Pepper Bishops Weed, Frankinsence, of each half an ounce, Myrocalans, Indian, Bellericks, and Emblicks, Honey boyled with the decoction of Emblicks sixteen ounces: mix them together and make of them an Electuary.
Culpeper] A. I wonder how the quantities of the Myrobalans escaped the great care, labor, pains, and the industry of the honorable Society the Authors of that Book, or the vigilancy of the vaporing Printer. Rhasis an Arabian Physitian, the Author of the Receipt appoints a drachm of each: the medicine heats the spleen gently, purgeth melancholly, easeth pains in the stomach and spleen, and stre ngthens digestion. People that are strong may take half an ounce in the morning fasting, and weak people three drams. It is a good remedy for pains and hardness of the spleen.
The Colledg.] Take of Eyebright two ounces, Fennel seeds five drachms, Cloves, Cinnamon Cubebs, long Pepper, Mace, of each one drachm: beat them all into pouder, and with clarified Honey one pound, in which boyl juyce of Fennel one ounce, juyce of Celondine and Rue, of each half an ounce, and with the pouders make it up into an Electuary.
Culpeper.] A. It is chiefly apropriated to the brain and heart, quickens the sences, especially the sight, and resisteth the pestilence. You may take half a drachm if your body be hot, a drachm if cold, in the morning fasting.
The Colledg] Take of Orris roots one ounce; Penyroyal, Hysop, Liquoris, of each six drams; Traganth, white Starch, bitter Almonds, Pine Nuts, Cinnamon, Ginger, Pepper, of each three drachms; fat Figs, the pulp of Raisons of the Sun, and Dates of each three drachms and an half; Styrax Calamitis two drachms and an half; Sugar dissolved in Hysop water, and clarified Honey, of each twice the weight of all the rest: make them into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Electuary is chiefly apropriated to the lungues, and helps cold infirmities of them, as asthmaes, coughs, difficulty of breathing &c. You may take it with a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stick, or on
point of a Knife, a little of it at a time, and often.
The Colledg] Take of the roots ofa 13.62 Satyrion fresh and sound, Garden Parsnips, Eringo, Pine Nuts, Indian Nuts, or if Indian Nuts be wanting, take the double quantity of Pine Nuts, Fistich Nuts, of each oneb 13.63 ounce and an half; Cloves, Ginger, the seeds of Annis, Rockit,c 13.64 Ash Keys, of each five drachms; Cinnamon, the tayls and loins of Scincus, the seeds ofd 13.65 Bulbus, Nettles, of each two drachms and an half; Musk seven grains; of the best Sugar dissolved in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, three pounds: make it into an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Either the Colledg or the Printer, left out Cicer roots seven drachms, which I think are proper to the Receipt; they also added the loins of Scincus and the Nettle seeds, and in so doing they did well.
A. It helps weakness of the reins and bladder, and such as make water with difficulty, it provokes lust exceedingly, and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus. You may take two drachms or more at a time.
The Colledg] Take of Rhubarb, Rhu-pontick, Valerian Roots, the Roots of Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus, Cyperus, Cinkfoyl, Tormentil, round Birthwort, male Peony, Alicampane, Costus, Illirick, Orris, white Chamelion, or Avens, of each three drachms, the roots of Galanga, Masterwort, white Dictamni, Angelica, Yarrow, Filipendula or Dropwort, Zedoary, Ginger, of each two drachms; Rosemary, Gentian, Devils-bit, of each two drachms and an half, the seeds of Citrons, and Agnus Castus, the berries of Kermes, the seeds of Ash-tree, Sorrel, wild Parsneps, Navew, Nigella, Peony the male, Bazil,a 13.66 Hedg Mustard, Treacle Mustard, Fennel, Bishops-weed, of each two drachms; the berries of Bay, Juniper, and Ivy,b 13.67 Sarsaparilla (or for want of it the double weight of Cubebs) Cubebs, of each one drachm and an half; the leaves of Scordium, Germander, Chamepitys, Centaury the less, Stoechas, Celtick Spicknard, Calaminth, Rue, Mints, Betony Vervain, Scabious, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Benedictus, Bawm, of each one drachm and an half, Dittany of Creet, three 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Marjoram, St. Johns wort, Schaenanth, Horchound, Goats Rue, Savin, Burnet, of each two drachms; Figs, Walnuts, Fistick nuts, of each three ounces; Emblick Myrobalans half an ounce, the flowers of Violets, Borrage, Bugloss, Roses, Lavender, Sage, Rosemary, of each four scruples, Saffron three drachms, Cassia Lignea ten drachms, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, of each two drachms and an half, black Pepper, long Pepper, all the three sorts of Sanders, wood of Aloes, of each one drachm and an half, Harts-horn half an ounce, unicorns-horn, or in its stead, Bezoar Stone one drachm, Bone in a Stags heart, Ivory, Stags pizzle, Castorium, of each four scruples, Earth of Lemnos three drachms; Opium one drachm and an half, Orient Pearls, Emerald, Jacinth, red Corral, of each one dram and an half, Camphire two drams, Gum Arabick, Mastich, Frankinsence, Styrax, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sagapenum, Opopanax, Laserpitium or Mirrh, of each two drachms and an half, Musk, Ambergreese, of each one drachm, Oyl of Vitriol half 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ounce,a 13.68 Species cordiales temperatae, Diamargeriton, Diamoscu, Diambra, Electuarii de Gemmis, Troches of Camphire, of Squils, of each two drams and an half, Troches of Vipers two ounces, the juyce of Sorrel, Sowthistles, Scordium,* 13.69 Vipers Bugloss, Borrage, Bawm, of each half a pound, Hypocistis two drachms, of the best Treacle and Mithridate of each six ounces, Old Wine three pound, of the best Sugar or choyceb 13.70 Honey eight pound six ounces: These being all chosen and prepared with diligence and art, let them be made into an Electuary, just as Treacle or Methridate is.
Culpeper] A. The Title shews you the scope of the Author in compiling it, I beleeve it is excellent for those uses: I want time to examine what alterations the Colledg hath made in it, or whether any or none; for particular 〈◊〉〈◊〉 (to avoid Tautology) I refer you to his Bezoar Water. The dose of this is from a scruple to four scruples, or a dram and an half; It provokes sweating abundantly, and in this or any other sweating Medicine, order your body thus: Take it in bed, and cover your self warm, in your sweating, drink poslet drink as hot as you can; if it be for a feaver, boyl Sorrel and red Sage in the posset drink, sweat an our or two if your strength wil bear it, then the chamber being kept very warm, shift your self all but your head, about which (your cap which you sweat in being kept on) wrap a hot napkin, which will be a means to repel the vapors back. This I for present hold the best method for sweating in feavers and pestilences, in which this Electuary is very good.
A. I am loth to leave out this Medicine, which if it were stretched out and cut in thongs would reach round the world.
The Colledg] Take of red Rose Leaves, the whites being cut off, blew Violets, of each three drachms: Opium of Thebes dissolved in Wine, the seeds of white Henbane, Poppies, white and black, the roots of Mandrakes, the seeds of Endive, Purslain, Garden Lettice,c 13.71 Psyllium, Spodium, Gum Traganth, of each two scruples, and five grains: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Ginger, of each a drachm and an half: Sanders, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, white, and red, of each a drachm and an half: Sugar three times their weight dissolved in Rose water: Mix them together, and make of them an Electuary according to art.
Culpeper] A. Requies, the title of this Prescript, signifies Rest: but I would not advise you to take too much of it inwardly, for fear instead of Rest it brings you to Madness, or at best to Folly: outwardly I confess being applied to the temples, as also to the insides of the wrests, it may mitigate the heat in feavers, and provoke the Rest; as also mitigate the violent heat and reging in Frenzies. I like not the Receipt taken inwardly.
The Colledg] Take of the seeds of Saxifrage and Gromwel, juyce of Liquoris, of each half an ounce: the seeds of Carraway, Annis, Smallage, Fennel, Parsly of Macedonia, Broom, Carrots, Bruscus, Sparagus, Lovage, Cummin, Juniper, Rue, Siler Mountain, the
seeds of Acorus, Penyroyal, Cinkfoyl, Bay-berries, of each two drachms: Indian Spicknard, Schaenanth, Amber, Valerian, Hogs Fennel, Lapis Lincis, of each a drachm and an half: Galanga, Ginger, Turbith, of each two drachms: Senna an ounce: Goats blood prepared, half an ounce: mix them together: first beat them into pouder, then make them into an Electuary according to art, with three times their weight in Sugar dissolved in white Wine.
Culpeper] A. It is an excellent remedy for the stone and wind chollick, a drachm of it being taken every morning; I assure such as are troubled with such diseases, I commend it to them as a Jewel.
Culpeper. A. PILLS in Greek are called, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latin, Pilulae; which signifies little Balls: because they are made up in such a form, that they may be the better swallowed down, by reason of the offensiveness of their tast.
A. They were first invented for the purging of the head (however Physitians have since ordered the business) because the matter there offending is not so soon taken away by any other Physick.
A. Such as have Scammony, otherwise called Diagrydium in them, or Colocynthis, work strongly, and must be taken in the morning, and the body well regulated after them, keeping your chamber and a good fire. I shall instruct you in the dose as I come to them, Such as have neither Colocynthis, nor Diagrydium, may best be taken in the evening; neither need you keep the house for them.
The Colledg] Take of Agrick three drams: our own blew Orris roots, Mastich, Horehound, of each one drachm: Turbith five drachms, Species Hiera Picra half an ounce: Colocynthis, Sarcoc ol, of each two drachms: Mirrh, one drachm: Sapa as much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It was invented to clense the breast and lungues of flegm, it works pretty tithly, therefore requires a good headpiece to direct it. Half a drachm at a time keeping your self warm cannot well do you harm, unless your body be very weak.
The Colledg] Take of Citron Myrobalans, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, juyce of Agrimony and Wormwood made thick of each two drachms: Diagridium five drachms: Agrick, Colocynthis, Polypodium, of each two drachms: Turbith, Aloes, of each six drams: Mastich, red Roses, Sal. gem. Epithimum, Annis, Ginger, of each one drachm: with Syrup of Damask Roses, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth the head of choller, flegm, and Melancholly and that stoutly; it is good against quotidian agues, and faults in the stomach and liver; yet because it is well corrected if you take but half a drachm at a time, ond keep your self warm, I suppose you may take it without danger.
The Colledg] Take of Cinnamon, Cloves, Cardamoms the less, Nutmegs, Mace, Calamus Aromaticus, Carpobalsamum, or Juniper Berries, Squinanth wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, red Roses dried, Wormwood, of each half an ounce: Let the tincture be taken out of these being grosly bruised in spirit of Wine, the vessel being close stopped, in three pound of this tincture being strained, dissolve Aloes one pound: which being dissolved add Mastich, Mirrh, of each half an ounce: Saffron two drachms: Balsam of Peru one drachm: the superfluous Liquor being consumed, either over hot ashes or a bath, bring it into a Mass of Pills.
Culpeper] A. This Receipt differs much from that which Mesue left to posterity: perhaps the Colledg followed Renodaeus more closly in it than they did Mesue: But some question whether Renodaeus: or the Colledge either can amend the Receipts of Mesue. The chief alterations are: Asarabacca roots, Indian Spicknard, of each one ounce, is totally left out; besides, all the Simples till you come to the Wormwood, are set down but half so much in quantity as Mesue prescribed them: Some other small alterations are also in most of the quantities. But I must return to my scope.
A. It clenseth both stomach and brain of gross and putrified humors, and sets the sences free when they are thereby troubled, it clenseth the brain offended by ill humors wind &c. helps vertigo, and head-aches, and strengthens the brain exceedingly, helps concoction, and strengthens the stomach. I have often made experience of it upon my 〈◊〉〈◊〉 body, and alwaies with good success in such occasions, and therfore give me leave to commend it unto my Country men, for a wholsom clensing Medicine, strengthening, no waies violent: one drachm taken at night going to bed will work gently next day; if the party be weak you may give less, if strong, more. If you take but half a drachm you may go abroad the next day, but if you take a drachm, you may keep the house, there can be no harm in that.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes washed with juyce of Red-Roses one ounce, Agrick three drachms, Mastich two drachms, `Diamoschu Dulce half a drachm, Syrup of Damask Roses, so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth both brain, stomach, bowels and eyes of putrified humors, and also strengthens them. Use these as the succeeding.
The Colledg.] Take of Aloes in pouder, four ounces, juyce of Damask Roses clarified one pound, mix them and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them in the Sun, or in a bath, till the superfluous Liquor be drawn off, digest it, and evaporate it four times over, and keep the* 13.72 Mass.
Culpeper] A. It is a gallant gentle purger of choller, frees the stomach from superfluous humors, opens stoppings, and other infirmities of the body proceeding from choller or flegm, as yellow Jaundice &c. and strengthens the body exceedingly. Take a scruple or half a drachm at night going to bed, you may walk abroad, for it will 〈◊〉〈◊〉 work till next day in the after noon.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes, Diacrydium, of each five drachms, Red-Roses, Smallage seeds, of each two drachms and an half; the seeds of Annis and Fennel, of each one drachm and an half, Mastich, Saffron, Troch. Alhandal of each one drachm, with a sufficient quantity of Honey roses, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. They are held to purge the head, to quicken the sences, especially the sight, and to expel wind from the bowels, but works something harshly. Half a drachm is the utmost dose, keep the fire take them in the morning and sleep after them, they will work before noon.
The Colledg.] Take of Species Hiera Picra ten drachms, Troch. Alhandal three drachms and an half, Diacrydium two drachms and an half, Turbith, Stechas, of each five drachms, with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Stechas, make it into a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 according to art.
Culpeper] A. Gesner, and Math. de Grad. put in only two scruples and a half of Diagrydium, belike because they would not have it work so violently. But Mesue, Rhafis, and Nicholaus Myrepsus prescribe two drachms and an half, as here in the Dispensatory; only Mesue appoints it to be made up with syrup of Wormwood. 'Tis held to purge the head, but 'tis but a dogged purge at best, and must be given only to strong bodies, and but half a drachm at a time, and yet with great care.
The Colledg.] Take of Aloes, Scammony, Colocynthis, of each one ounce, with equall parts of Syrup of Wormwood and of purging thorn, make it into a Mass according to 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The Colledg] Take of the roots of Houndstongue dried, white 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seed, Opium prepared of each half an ounce, Mirrh six drachms, Olibanum five drachms, Saffron, Castoreum, Styrax Calamitis, of each one drachm and an half, with Syrup of Stoechas, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. It staies hot rhumes that fall down upon the lungues, therefore is good in Phtisicks, also it mitigates pain: a scruple is enough to take at a time going to bed, and too much if your body be weak, have a care of opiates for fear they make you sleep your last.
The Colledg] Take of Colocynthis, and Scamony, of each one ounce, Oyl of Cloves as much as is sufficient to malax them well, then with a little Syrup of purging Thorn, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. Surely the Colledg intend to go to Hell, and give Phisick to the Devils, they else would never invent such Pills as this and put Cochiae the less, without any corrigents at all, in truth 'tis pity but they should have the just reward of Perillus, viz. be forced to take them themselves, they being not only to strong, but also of a base gnawing nature, that so they may gnaw out their ill conditions.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Maudlin, and Wormwood made thick, Citron Myrobalans, of each three drachms, Rhubarh three drachms and an half, Mastich one drachm, Aloes five drachms, Saffron half a dram, Syrup of the juyce of Endive, as much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. Having compared this Receipt of Mesue with reason, I find it a gallant gentle purge, and strengthening, fitted for such bodies as are much weakened by diseases of choller. The author apropriates it to such as have tertain agues, the yellow Jaundice, obstructions or stoppings of the liver; half a drachm taken at night going to bed, will work with an ordinary body, the next day by noon; the truth is, I was before sparing in relating the doses of most purging physicks because they are to be regulated according to the strength of the patient &c. Physick is not to be presumed upon by Dunces, lest they meet with their matches and overmatches too.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes, Colocynthis, Amoniacum, Sagapen. Mirrh, Rue seeds, Epithymum, of each five drachms, Scammony three drachms, the roots of Turbith half an ounce, the roots of Spurge the less prepared, Hermodactils of each two drachms, Ginger one drachm and an half, Spicknard, Cinnamon, Saffron, Castoreum, of each one drachm, Euphorbium prepared two 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dissolve the Gums in juyce of Leeks, and with Syrup made with the juyce of Leeks and Sugar, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. They purge gross and raw flegm, and diseases thereof arising, Gouts of all sorts, pains
in the backbone and other joynts; it is good against Leprosies, and other such like infirmities of the skin. I fancy not the receipt much. Both because of its violence and apish mixture.
The Colledg] Take of Sagapen. fix drachms, Opopanax three drachms, melt them in warm juyce of Coleworts, so much as is sufficient, then strain it through a convenient ragg, afterwards boyl it to a mean thickness, then take of Hermodactils, Aloes, Citron, Myrobalans, Turbith, Coloquintida, soft Bdellium, of each six drachms, Euphorbium prepared, the seeds of Rue and Smallage, Castorium, Sarcocol, of each three drachms, Saffron one drachm and an half, with Syrup of the juyce of Coleworts made with Honey, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. They are good against the Gout and other cold afflictions of the joynts. These are more moderare by half; than Pilulae Foetidae, and apropriated to the same diseases. You may take a drachm in the morning, if age and strength agree; if not, take less, and keep your body warm by the fire, now and then walking about the chamber.
The Colledg] Take of Species Hiera Picra, Agrick, of each half an ounce, Aloes one ounce, Honey roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. Very many are the vertues Authors have been pleased to confer upon this Medicine, as making it universal, and applying it to all parts of the body, and almost all diseases in them; proceed they either of choller, flegm, or of melanceolly: nay they make it to resist poyson, and Epidemicall diseases, to help the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dropsie, and falling sickness; to provoke the terms, and ease the fits of the mother, to cure agues of all sorts, shortness of breath, and consumption of the lungues, vertigo, or dissiness in the head, to open obstructions of the liver and spleen, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cure the yellow Jaundice, and sharpness of urine: to strengthen the brain and memory, and what not; the truth is, it is as harmless a purge, as most is in their Dispensatory. You may safely take a scruple at night going to bed, having eat a light supper three hours before; and you may safely go about your business the next day, for it will not work too hastily, but very gently; so you may continue taking it a week together, for it will not do wonders in once taking.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes two ounces, Rhubarb one ounce and an half, Agrick Senna, of each one ounce Cinnamon three drachms, Ginger two drachms, Nutmegs, Cloves, Spicknard, Mastick, of each a dram, with Syrup of Violets, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It clenseth the body of mixt humors, and strengthens the stomach exceedingly, as also the bowels, liver, and natural spirit; it is good for cold natures, and cheers the spirits. The dose is a scruple or half a drachm, taken at night; in the morning drink a draught of warm posset drink, and then you may go about your business:) both these and such like Pills as these, 'tis your best way to take them many nights together, for they are proper for such infirmities as cannot be carried away at once, observe th is rule in all such pills as are to be taken at night.
The Colledg] Take of Lapis Lazuli in pouder and well washed five drachms, Epithimum, Polypodium, Agrick, of each an onnce, Scammony, black Hellebore roots, Sal. gem. of each two drachms and an half, Cloves, Annis seeds of each half an ounce, Species Hiera Simple, fifteen drachms, with Syrup of the juyce of Fumitory, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It purgeth melancholly very violently, we will not now dispute the story how, or in what cases violent purges are fit for melancholly, let it suffice that it is not fit for a vulgar use.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes two ounces, Mastich half an ounce, dried Marjoram two drachms, Salt of Wormwood one drachm, make them all being in pouder, into a Mass according to art with juyce of Coleworts and Sugar, so much as is sufficient.
Culpeper] A. It is a gallant composed Pill, who ever was the Author of it, I have not time to search, it strengtheneth both stomach and brain, especially the nerves and muscles (what they are you shall be instructed in a table by it self, at the latter end of the Book, as also in all other hard words that puzzle your brains) and easeth them of such humors as afflict them, and hinder the motion of the body, they open obstructions of the liver and spleen, and takes away diseases thence coming. Your best way is to take them often going to bed, you may take a scruple, or half a drachm at a time; I commend it to such people as have had hurts or bruises, whereby the use of their limbs is impaired, and I desire them to take it often, because diseases in remote parts of the body cannot be taken away at a time; It will not hinder their following of their business at all, and therefore is the fitter for poor people.
The Colledg.] Take of Mastich two ounces, Aloes four ounces, Agrick, Species Hiera simple, of each one ounte and an half, with Syrup of Wormwood, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. They purge very gently, but strengthen much, both head, brain, eyes, belly and reins. Both dose, and order is the same with the former.
The Colledg] Take of Mecoacan roots half an ounce, Turbith three drachms, the leaves of Spurge steeped in Viniger and dried, the seeds of Walwort, Agrick, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Spurge
roots prepared, Mastich, of each one drachm and an half, Mace, Cinnamon, Sal. gem. of each two scruples, beat them into pouder, and with white Wine bring them into a Mass. When it is dry beat it into pouder, and with Syrup made with the juyce of Orris roots and Sugar, make it the second time into a Mass for Pills.
Culpeper] A. They purge flegm very violently. If the disease be desperate, you may take half a dram, (or a scruple if your body be weak keeping the house) else I would advise you to let them alone.
The Colledg] Take of Opopanax, Sagapen. Bdelsium, Amoniacum, Hermodactils, Coloquintida, of each five drachms, Saffron, Castorium, Mirrh, Ginger, white Pepper, Cassia Lignea, Citron, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each one drachm, Scammony two drachms, Turbeth half an ounce, Aloes one ounce and an half, the Gums being dissolved in clarified juyce of Coleworts, with Syrup of the juyce of Coleworts, make them into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It helps tremblings, palsies, gouts of all sorts, clenseth the joynts, and is helpful for such as are troubled with cold afflictions of the nerves. It works violently, take but half a drachm at a time and stir not abroad.
The Colledg] Take of Coloquintida six drachms, Agrick, Scammony, the roots of black Hellebore, and Tarbith, of each half an ounce, Aloes one ounce, Diarrodon abbatis half an ounce, let all of them (the Diarrh. Abb-excepted) be grosly bruised, and insused eight daies in the best spirit of Wine in a vessel close stopped in the Sun, so that the Liquor may swim at top the breadth of six fingers: afterwards infuse the Diarrh. Abb. in the same 〈◊〉〈◊〉 four daies in aqua vitae, then having strained and pressed them hard, mix them both together, Casting the dross away, and draw off the moisture in a glass Alembick, and let the thick matter remain in a Mass.
Culpeper] A. As this is the dearest, so in my opinion it is most excellent in operation of all the Pills in the Dispensatory, being of a quick searching nature, yet though many violent simples be in it, the terrene part is cast away, and only the tincture used, whereby it is apparent it cannot lie gnawing in the body so long; It clenseth both head and body of choller, flegm, and melancholly: it must not be taken in any great quantity, half a drachm is sufficient for the strongest body; let the weaker take but a scruple, and the weakest less; keep your chamber: they work very speedily being of a penetrating nature.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes two ounces, Mirrh one ounce, Saffron half an ounce, with Syrup of the Juyce of Lemmons, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. A scruple taken at night going to bed, is an excellent preservative in pestilential times; also they clense the body of such humors as are gotten by surfets, they strengthen the heart, and weak stomachs, and work so easily that you need not fear following your business the next day.
The Colledg] Take of washed Aloes, fourteen drachms: Scammony prepared six drachms: Agrick, Rhubarb, Senna, of each half an ounce: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, red Roses exungulated, Violet flowers, Doddar, Mastich, of each a drachm: Salt of Wormwood, of each half a drachm: with Syrup of the Juyce of Fennel made with Honey, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth flegm, choller, and melancholly from the head, makes the sight and hearing good, and giveth ease to a burdened brain. Pilulae sine quibus esse nolo, is in English, Pills without which I will not be: But unless they worked more gently, I had rather let them alone than take them. I doubt they were mistaken, it should have been Pilulae sine quibus esse volo, not sine quibus esse nolo.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes six drachms: Mastich, red Roses, of each two drachms: with Syrup of Wormwood, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] A. They clense and strengthen the stomach, they clense but gently, strengthen much, help digestion. Take them as the former.
The Colledg] Take of Aloes an ounce: Senna five drachms: Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Elder-flower-Vineger, half an ounce: Mastich, Mirrh, of each a drachm and an half: Saffron, Salt of Wormwood, of each half a drachm: with Syrup of Purging Thorn, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. They work more strongly than the former did, and are apropriated to such whose stomachs are weakned by surfets; let such take a drachm of them in the morning, and if they can sleep after them, let them. They may take them by four of the clock, and keep the house all day.
The Colledg] Take of Styrax Calamitys, Olibanum, Mirrh, Juyce of Liquoris, Opium, of each half an ounce: with Syrup of white Poppies, make it into a Mass according to art
Culpeper] A. They help such as are troubled with defluxion of Rhewm, Coughs, and provoke sleep to such as cannot sleep for coughing. Half a scruple is enough to take at a time, if the body be weak, if strong, they may make bold with a little more: I desire the ignorant to be very cautious in taking Opiates; I confess it was the urgent importunity of friends moved me to set down the Doses; they may do wise men very much good, and therefore I consented: if people will be mad and do themselves mischief, I can but warn them of it, I can do no more.
The Colledg] Take of white Amber, Mastich, of each two drachms: Aloes five drachms: Agrick, a drachm and an half: Long Birthwort, half a drachm: with Syrup of Wormwood make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. It amends the evil state of a womans body, strengthens conception, and takes away what hinders it; it gently purgeth choller and flegm, and leaves a binding, strengthening quality behind it. Take them as Imperial Pills.
The Colledg] Take of Mastich two ounces: Aloes four ounces, Agrick, Hiera Simple of each an ounce and an half, Rhubarb two ounces, Cinnamon two drachms: wth Syrup of Succory, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] A. They gently purge choller, and help diseases thence arising, as itch, Scabs, wheals, &c. They strengthen the stomach and Liver, and open obstructions; as also help the yellow Jaundice. You may take a scruple or half a drachm at night going to bed, according as your body is in strength; neither need you fear next day to go about your business.
The Colledg] Take of Turbith two ounces: Aloes an ounce and an half: Citron Myrobalans, ten drams: Red Roses, Mastich, of each six drachms: Saffron, three drachms: Beat them all into pouder, and with Syrup of Wormwood bring them into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. They purge choller and flegm, and that with as much gentleness as can be desired; also they strengthen the stomach and liver, and help digestion. Take a setuple or half a drachm, according as your body and the season of the yeer is, at night, you may follow your business next day.
The Colledg] Take of Thebane Opium extracted in Spirit of Wine, one ounce: Saffron alike extracted, a drachm and an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Castorium one drachm: Let them be taken in tincture of half an ounce of Species Diambrae newly made in Spirit of Wine; add to them Amber greese, Musk of each six grains: Oyl of Nutmegs ten drops: Evaporate the moisture away in a bath, and leave the Mass.
Culpeper] A. It was invented (and a gallant invention it is) to mitigate violent pains, stop the sumes that trouble the brain in feavers (but beware of Opiates in the beginning of Feavers) to provoke sleep, take not above two grains of it at a time, going to bed; if that provoke not sleep, the next night you may make bold with three. Have a care how you be too busie with such medicines, lest you make a man sleep till dooms-day.
The Colledg] Take of Tincture of Opium made first with distilled Vineger, then with Spirit of Wine, Saffron extracted in spirit of Wine, of each an ounce: Salt of Pearl and Corral, of each half an ounce: Tincture of Spec. Diambrae, seven drachms: Amber greese, one drachm: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them into the form of Pills by the gentle heat of a bath.
Culpeper] A. The Operation is like the former, only 'tis dearer, and not a whit better: This is for the Gentry that must pay dear for a thing, else 'tis not good.
The Colledg] Take of Species Hiera Picra Galeni an ounce: Mastich, Citron Myrobalans, of each half an ounce: Aloes two ounces: the Syrup of Stoechas as much as is sufficient: Make of them a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth choller and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and strengtheneth the whol body exceedingly, being very precious for such whose bodies are weakened by surfers, or ill diet, to take half a drachm or a scruple at night going to bed.
The Colledg] Take of Bdellium ten drachms: Myrobalans, Bellericks, Emblicks, and Blacks, of each five 〈◊〉〈◊〉: flakes of Iron, Leek seéds, of each three drachms:* 13.73 Choncula Veneris burnt, Corral burnt, Amber, of each a drachm and an half: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, half an ounce: a 13.74 Dissolve the Bdellium in juyce of Leeks, and with so much Syrup of juyce of Leeks as is sufficient, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. Both this and the former are seldom used, and therefore are hardly to be had. Those that please may easily make the former, this is more tedious; but the Printer will have it put in to stop the mouth of Momus.
The Colledg] Take of choyce Rhubarb three 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Citron Myrobalans, Trochisci Diarhodon, of each three drachms and an half: Juyce of Liquoris, and Juyce of Wormwood, Mastich, of each one drachm; the seeds of Smallage and Fennel, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a dram: Species Hiera Picra Simp. Galeni, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: with juyce of Fennelb 13.75 not clarified, and Honey so much as
is sufficient, make it into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth choller, opens obstructions of the Liver, helps the yellow jaundice and dropsies in the beginning, strengtheneth the stomach and lungues. Take them as Pilulae Imperiales. They are never the worse because the Colledg left them out.
The Colledg] Take of the best Aloes, four ounces: Briony Roots, Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebs, Indian, Bellerick, and Emblick, Mastich, Diagrydium, Asarabacca, Roses, of each an ounce: Castorium, three drachms: Saffron, one dram: with Syrup of Worm-wood, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It helps such women as are not sufficiently purged in their labor, helps to bring away what a careless Midwife hath left behind, purgeth the head, helps head-ach, megrim, vertigo, and purgeth the stomach of vicious humors, besides Authors say it preserves the sight, and hearing, and preserves the mind in vigor, and causeth joyfulness, driving away melancholly; 'tis like it may, but have a care you take not too much of it, a scruple is enough to take at a time, or half a drachm if the body be strong, take it in the morning about four of the clock, and (if you can) sleep an hour or two after, keep your self warm by the fire, and order your self as after other purges. I pray be not too busie with it, and say I warned you of it.
The Colledg] Take of Hermodactils, Turbith, Agrick, of each half an ounce: Cassia Lignea, Indian Spicknard, Cloves, Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Mace, Galanga, Ginger, Mastich, Assafoetida, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, Saxifrage, Sparagus, Bruscus, Roses, Gromwel, Sal. gem. of each two drachms: Scammony, one ounce: of the best Aloes the weight of them all: Juyce of Chamepitys made thick with Sugar so much as is sufficient, or Syrup of the Juyce of the same, so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass.
Culpeper.] A. As I remember the Author appoints but a drachm of Scammony, which is but the eighth part of an ounce, and then will the Receipt be pretty moderate, whereas now it is too too violent. I know well enough it is the opinion of Doctors that Aloes retards the violent working of Scammony, I could never find it, and I am the worst in the world to pin my faith upon another mans sleeve, and I would as willingly trust my life in the hands of a wild bear as in the hands of that Monster called TRADITION: If but a drachm of Scammony be put in, then may a man safely (if not too much weakned) take a drachm of it at a time, about four in the morning, ordering your self as in the former: but made up as the Colledg prescribes, I durst not take them my self, therefore will I not prescribe them to others. It helps the gout and other pains in the joynts, comforts and strengthens both brain and stomach, and consumes diseases whose original comes of flegm.
The Colledg] Take of the pouder of the Pills before prescribed, the pouder of the bark of the roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hellebore, one ounce: make it into a Mass with Syrup of Stoechas according to art.
Culpeper] A. The former purgeth the head of flegm, and therefore is fit for Lethargies: this of Melancholly, and is therefore fit for mad people, if Melancholly be the cause.
The Colledg] Take of Myrobalans, Citrons; Chebs, and Indian, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each five drachms: Aloes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 drachms: Let all of them being bruised, be thrice moistened with juyce of Fumitory, and thrice suffered to dry, then brought into a Mass with Syrup of Fumitory.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth Melancholly from the liver and spleen, sharp, chollerick, and addust humors, salt flegm, and therefore helps 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and itch. Take but half a drachm at a time in the morning, and keep by the fire. Be not too busie with it I beseech you.
The Colledg] Take of Indian Myrobalans, black Hellebore, Polypodium of the Oak, of each five drams: Epithimum, Stoechas, of each six drachms: Agrick, Lapis Lazuli often washed, Troches Alhandal, Sal. Indi, of each half an ounce: Juyce of Maudlin made thick, Indian Spicknard, of each two drachms: Cloves one drachm: Species hiera picra Simplex Galeni, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 drachms: with Syrup of the Juyce of Smallage, make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It wonderfully prevails against afflictions coming of Melancholly, Cancers which are not ulcerated, Leprosie, Evils of the mind coming of melancholly, as sadness, fear, &c. quartan agues, jaundice, pains and infirmities of the spleen. I advise to take but half a drachm, or a scruple at a time, and take it often, for melancholly infirmities are not easily removed upon a sudden, take it in the morning and keep the house.
The Colledg] Take of Roses, Violets, Wormwood, Colocynthis, Turbith, Cubebs, Calamus Aromaticus, Nutmegs, Indian Spicknard, Epithimum, Carpobalsamum, or instead thereof, Cardamoms, Xylobalsamum, or wood of Aloes, the seeds of Seseli or Hartwort, Rue, Annis, Fennel, and Smallage, Schaenanthus, Mastich, Asarabacca roots, Cloves, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cassia Lignea, Saffron, Mace, of each two drachms; Myrobalans, Citrons, Chebuls, Indian, Bellerick, and Emblick, Rhubarb, of each half an ounce: Agrick, Senna, of each five drachms: Aloes succotrina the weight of them all: with Syrup of the juyce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth mixt humors from the head, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it of such excrements as hinder the sight. You may take a drachm in the morning, keep your self warm and within doors, you shall find them strengthen the brain and visive vertue: If your body be weak take less.
The Colledg] Take of the Bark of the roots of Spurge the less, steeped twenty four hours in Vineger and juyce of Purslain, two drachms: Grains of* 13.76 Palma Christi torrefied, by number fourty: Citron Myrobalans,
one drachm and an half: Germander, Chamepitys, Spicknard, Cinnamon of each two scruples; being beaten into fine pouder with an ounce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Traganth dissolved in Rose water, and syrup of Roses so much as is sufficient, let it be made into a Mass.
Culpeper] A. I could say if I would, and prove it too, that the ounce of Gum Traganth so dissolved is enough to make six times so much into a Mass, but because the Receipt (in my eyes) seems more fitting for a horse than for a man, I leave it.
The Colledg] Take of Euphorbium, Colòcynthïs, Agrick, Bdellium, Sagapenum, of each two drachms: Aloes five drachms: with Syrup made of the juyce of Leeks, make it into a mass.
Culpeper] A. The Pills are exceeding good for dropsies, pains in the loins, and Gouts coming of a moist cause. Take not above half a drachm at a time and keep the house.
The Colledg] Take of Sagapenum, and Mirrh, of each two drachms: Opium, Cardamoms, Castorium, of each one drachm; white Pepper, half a drachm; Sapa so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is apropriated to such as have Phtisicks, and such as spit blood, but ought to be newly made, a scruple is sufficient taken going to bed. Galen was the Author of it.
A. I have now done with the Pills, only take notice that such as have Diagrydium (otherwise called Scammony) in them, work violently and are to be taken early in the morning, with discretion and administred with due consideration; the other work more gently, so that you may take a scruple of them at night going to bed and follow your imployments next day without danger.
A. I put in these only to satisfie the desires of the curious, being confident that the Colledg quoted more by half than needed; and Apothecaries must have them all in a readiness because the Colledg appoints them; for if a Master, bid his boy quench out the fire and make a new one, he must do it, because he is commanded; Oh! that they would once be so wise to see their slavery.
Culpeper. A. IF any cavil at this name, and think it hardly English; let them give a better and I shall be thankful: I know no other English name but will fall far below it.
A. They have gotten many Greek names, almost as many as a Welchman: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. The Latins, besides the Greek name, Trochisci and Pastilli, and Placentulae.
A. Although a man may make them into what form he pleaseth, yet they are usually made into little flat thin cakes, of a scruple or twenty grains in weight plus minus: some print Images (as of Serpents upon Troches of Vipers) upon them, some guild them with Leaf-Gold, some do neither.
A. They were first invented by the Ancients, that Pouders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer; for the vertues of Pouders will soon exhale by intromission of air, which the thick body of troches resist; also such as are pectoral are the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 carried in ones pocket.
A. Few of them are taken by themselves, but mixed with other Compositions.
The Colledg] Take of Red Roses, Wormwood leaves, Annis seeds, of each two drachms, Juyce of Maudlin made thick, The roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Rhubarb, Spicknard, Smallage seeds, bitter Almonds, Mastich, Mace, of each one drachm, juyce of Succory so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art
Culpeper] A. Before they used the term Absinthium Ponticum, which is a term they gave before both to Roman and common wormwood, as I then told them in the Margin, and they it seems either not knowing what Wormwood Mesue the Author of the Receipt intended, or what pontick Wormwood, which before they pratled of was, now quite left out.
A. They strengthen the stomach exceedingly, opens obstructions or stoppings of the belly or bowels, strengthens digestion, open the passages of the liver, helps the yellow Jaundice, and consumes watry superfluities of the body. They are somewhat bitter and seldom taken alone; if your pallat affect bitter things, you may take a drachm of them in the morning: They clense the body of choller, but purge not, or not to any purpose.
The Colledg] Take of Agrick sifted and poudered, three ounces, Steep it in a sufficient quantity of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Wine, in which two drachms of Ginger have been 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. See Troches of Agrick. This being indeed but the way to correct Agrick, and make it 〈◊〉〈◊〉
fitter for use, and to perform those vertues Agrick hath, which you may find among the simples.
The Colledg] Take of Ceruss washed in rosewater ten drachms, Sarcocol three drachms, white Starch two drachms, Gum Arabick, and Tragacanth, of each one drachm, Camphire half a drachm, either with Rosewater, or womens milk, make it into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They are cool without Opium, but cooler with it, as also very drying, and are used in injections in ulcers in the yard, and the running of the reins &c. It seems now the Colledge, is very unwilling that you should know, that they use to contain half a drachm of Opium. If there be an inflamation you may use them with Opium, if not, without, and the manner of using them is this, take a drachm of the Troches, which having beaten into pouder, mix with two ounces of plantane water, and with a Syringe inject it into the yard.
The Colledg] Take of Zedoary roots, pouder of Crabs claws, of each one drachm and an half, the outward Citron pills preserved and dryed, Angelica seeds, of each one drachm, Bole Armenick half a drachm, with their trebble weight in Sugar make them into pouder, and with a sufficent quantity of Mussilage of Gum Tragacanth, made in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 water distilled, make it into past, of which make 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Culpeper A. The Greeks call all medicines that expell poyson Alexiteria, so then Trochisci Alexiterii, are nothing else but troches to expel poyson; this receipt is far different from what they prescribed before under that name, It may be I shall find under another name before I have done with the troches, they use to do such tricks sometimes, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 I do not; you shall have it at latter end; mean season, this preserves the body from ill airs, and Epedemical diseases, as the pestilence, small pocks &c. And strengthens the heart exceedingly, eating now and then a little, you may safely keep any troches in your pocket, for the dryer you keep them, the better they are.
The Colledg] Take of Coloquintida freed from the seeds, and cut Small, and rubbed with an ounce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Roses, then beaten into fine pouder ten ounces, Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, Bdellium, of each six drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Gums three or four daies in a sufficient quantity of Rosewater till they be melted, then with the afore said pulp, and part of the said Mussilage, let them be dried in the shadow, then beaten again, and with the rest of the Mussilage, make it up again, dry them and keep them for use.
Culpeper] A. They are too violent for a vulgar use.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bruised, three ounces, Styrax Calamit is one ounce and an half, Benjamin one ounce, wood of Aloes two drachms, Amber greese one drachm, Camphire half a drachm, Musk 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a scruple, with a sufficient quantity of Rosewater, make it into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is singular good for such as are Asthmatick and can hardly fetch their breath, as also for yong children, whose throat is so narrow that they can hardly swallow down their milk, A very little taken at a time is enough for a mans body, and too much for a poor mans purse; for young children, give them four or five grains at a time in a little breast milk.
The Colledg] Take of winter cherries three drachms, Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, Olibanum, dragons blood, Pine nuts, bitter Almonds, white Starch, juyce of Liquoris, Bole Armenick, white Poppy seeds, of each six drachms, the seeds of Meloues, Cucumers, Citrulls, Guords, of each three drachms and an half, the seeds of Smallage and white Henbane, Amber, earth of Lemnos, Opium, of each two drachms, with juyce of fresh winter Cherries, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They 〈◊〉〈◊〉 provokes urine, and break the stone. Mix them with other medicines of that nature, half a drachm at a time or a drachm if age permit.
The Colledg] Take of white Sugar one pound, white Sugar Candy, Penids of each four ounces, Orris Florentine one ounce, Liquoris six drachms, white Starch one ounce and an half, with a sufficient quantity of Mussilage, of Gum Tragacanth made in Rosewater, make them into small troches.
You may add four grains of Ambergreese, and three grains of Musk, to them if occasion serve.
The Colledg] Take of juyce of Liquoris, white Sugar of each one drachm, Gum Tragacanth, sweet Almonds blanched, of each six drachms, with a sufficient quantity of Mussilage, of Quinte seeds, made with Rosewater, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. Both this and the former will melt in ones mouth, and in that manner to be used by such as are troubled with coughs, cold, hoarceness or want of voice, the former is most in use, but in my opinion the last is most effectual. You may take them any time when the cough troubles you, and this convenience you shall find in Troches more than in any other Physick, you may carry them any whether in your pocket in a paper, without spoyling, though you travel as far as the East Indies.
The Colledg] Take of juyce of Barberries, and Liquoris made thick, Spodium, Purstain seeds, of each three drachms, Red-roses six drachms, Indian Spicknard; Saffron, white Starch, Gum Tragcanth, of each a drachm, Citrull seeds elensed three drachms and an half, Camphire half a drachm, with Manna dissolved in juyce of Barberies, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They wonderfully cool the heat of the liver, reins, and bladder, breast and stomach, and stop loosness, cools the heat in feavers. They are very fit for bodies that are distempered with heat to carry about with them when they travail, they may take them at any time; I suppose their mothers wit will teach them that it is best to take them when the stomach is empty: I cannot write every thing, neither if I did should I please every body; I had as leeve undertake (with the Sicilian Phylosopher) to teach an Ass to speak, as to teach a Dunce physick.
The Colledg] Take of Camphire half a drachm: Saffron two drachms: white Starch three drachms: red Roses, Gum Arabick, and Tragacanth, Ivory, of each half an ounce: the seeds of Cucumers husked of Purslain, Liquor is of each an ounce, with Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort, drawn in Rose water, make them into Troches.
Culpeper] A. It is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 good in burning feavers, heat of blood and choller, together with hot distempers of the stomach and Liver, and extream thirst coming thereby, also it is good against the yellow Jaundice, Phtisicks, and Hectick feavers. You may use these as the former. They have much altered this, for they must be doing, though to little purpose.
The Colledg] Take of the Bark of Cappar roots, the seeds of Agnus Castus, of each six drachms: Ammoniacum, half an ounce: the seeds of Water-cresses and Nigella, the Leaves of Calaminth and Rue, the roots of Acorus and long Birthwort, the juyce of Maudlin made thick, bitter Almonds, of each two drachms: Harts-tongue, the roots of round Cyperus, Maddir, Gum Lac. of each one drachm: Being bruised let them be made into Troches according to art, with Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger and boyled to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. They open stoppings of the liver and spleen, and help diseases thereof coming, as Rickets, Hypocondriack Melancholly &c. Men may take a drachm, children a scruple in the morning: you need not ask how children should take it, 'tis well if you can get them to take it any how.
The Colledg] Take of Amber an ounce: Hartsborn burnt, Gum Arabick burnt, red Corral burnt, Tragacanth, Acacia, Hypocistis, Balaustines, Mastich, Gum Lacca washed, black Poppy seeds rosted, of each two drachms and two scruples: Frankinsence, Saffron, Opium, of each two drachms: with a sufficient qantity of Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort drawn in Plantane water, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper.] A. They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body, the terms in women, the Hemorrholds or piles; they also help ulcers in the breast and lungues. The dose is from ten grains to a scruple.
The Colledg] Take of Pulp of Raisons of the sun, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Turpentine, of each three ounces: Mirrh, Squinanth, of each an ounce and an half; Cinnamon, half an ounce: Calamus Aromaticus, nine drachms: the roots of round Cyperus, and Indian 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cassia Lignea, Juniper Berries, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Aspalathus or wood of Aloes, two drachms and an half: Saffron one drachm: clarified Honey as much as is sufficient: Canary Wine a little: Let the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Bdellium be ground in a Mortar with the Wine, to the thickness of liquid Honey, then ad the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, then the pulp of Raisons, then the Pouders; at last with the Honey let them all be made into Troches.
Culpeper] A. It is excellent good against inward ulcers in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 part of the body soever they be. It is chiefly used 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Compositions, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Mandlin made thick, Manna, of each an ounce: red Roses half an ounce: Spodium three drachms and an 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Spicknard three drachms: Rhubarb, Asarabacca roots; Annis seeds, of each two drachms: Let the Nard, Annis seeds and Roses be beaten together; the Spodium, Asarabacca and Rbubarb by themselves; then mix the Manna and Juyce of Maudlin in a Mortar, add the pouders, and with new juyce make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. Obstructions, or stoppings, and swelling above nature, both of the liver and spleen, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cured by the inward taking of these Troches, and diseases thereof coming; as yellow and black jaundice, the beginning of dropsies &c. Take them as Troches of Wormwood.
The Colledg] Take of Wood of Aloes five drams: Ambergreece, three drachms: Musk, one drachm: with Muscilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose water make it into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They strengthen the brain and heart, and by consequence both vital and animal spirit, and cause a sweet breath. They are of an extream price, therefore I pass by the dose.
The Colledg] Take of the four greater cold seeds busked, the seeds of white Poppies, Mallows, Cotton, Pierstain, Quinces, Mirtles, Gum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Arabick, Fistick Nuts, Pine nuts, Sugar-candy, Penids, Liquoris, French 〈◊〉〈◊〉 arley, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Fleawort seeds, sweet Almonds blanched, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two drachms: Bole Armenick, Dragons blood, Spodium, red Roses, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each half an ounce: with a sufficient quantity of Hydromel make it into Troches according to art.
Culpeper.] A. They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder, and all other inward ulcers whatsoever, and case feavers coming thereby, being of a fine cooling, slippery, heating nature. You may mix half a drachm of them with Syrup of Marshmallows, or any other Syrup, or Water apropriated to
these uses: they ease the pains of the stomach much. They have left out the four lesser cold seeds of each two drachms, and altered some of the quantities of the rest, if you ask them a reason, they can scarce give you a wise one.
The Colledg] Take of Aspalatbus, or yellow Sanders, the leaves of Mastich, the roots of Asarabacca, of each two drachms, Rhupontick, Castus, Calamus Aromaticus, Wood of Aloes, Cinnamon, Squinancth, Opobalsamum or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression, of each three drachms: Cassia Lignea, Indian Leaf or Mace, Indian Spicknard, Mirrh, Saffron, of each six drachms: Amomus, or Cardamoms the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, an ounce and an half: Mastich a drachm: Canary Wine as much as is sufficient: Let the Mirrh be dissolved in the Wine, then add the Mastich and Saffron well beaten, then the Opobalsamum, then the rest in pouder, and with the Wine, make them up into Troches, and dry them gently.
Culpeper] A. They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions; yet naturally they heat cold stomachs, help digestion, strengthen the heart and brain.
The Colledg] Take of Assafoetida, Galbanum, of each two drachms and an half: Mirrh, two drachms: Castorium a drachm and an half: the roots of Asarabacca and long Birthwort, the Leaves of Savin, Featherfew, Nep, of each a drachm: Dittany half a drachm: with either the juyce or decoction of Rue, make into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. These are applied to the foeminine gender; help fits of the mother, expel both birth and after-birth, clense women after labor, and expel the relicts of a careless Midwife. Search what other compositions are apropriated to the same purpose; you may find them in the Table at the latter end of the Book; and then you may ad half a drachm of this to them.
The Colledg] Take of Wood of Aloes, red Roses, of each two drachms: Mastich, Cinnamon, Cloves, Indian Spicknard, Nutmegs, Parsnep seed, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the greater and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cubebs, Gallia Moschata, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, Mace, of each a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and an half: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a scruple: with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 make it into Troches.
Culpeper.] A. It 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the heart, stomach, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, takes away 〈◊〉〈◊〉-qualms, faintings, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 breath, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the dropsie. The rich may take half a drachm in the morning.
The Colledg] Take of Mirrh three drachms: the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Lupines five drams: Maddir roots, the leaves of Rue, wild Mints, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Creet, Cummin seeds, Assa foetida, Sagapen. Opopanax, of each two drams; Dissolve the Gums in Wine, wherein Mugwort, hath been boyled, or else,* 13.77 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, then add the rest, and with juyce of Mugwort, make it into troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They provoke the terms in women, and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain. Take a drachm of them beaten into pouder, in a spoonful or two of syrup of Mugwort, or any other Composition tending to the same purpose, which the Table at latter end will direct you.
The Colledg] Take of lead burnt and washed, Brass burnt, Antimony Tutty washed, Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of each an ounce, Opium half a drachm, with Rosewater, make them being beaten and sifted into Troches.
Culpeper] A. It fils up and cures ulcers in the eyes. If you put it into them (say authors), but in my opinion 'tis but a scurvy medicine.
The Colledg] Take of Pomegranat flowers twelve drachms, Roch album three drachms, Erankinsence, Mirrh, of each half an ounce, Chalcanthum two drams, Buls gall six drachms, Aloes an ounce, with Austere Wine, or juyce of Nightshade or Plantane, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They are very good they say, being outwardly applied, both in green wounds and ulcers. I fancy them not.
The Colledg] Take of Rhubarb ten drachms, juyce of Maudlin made thick, bitter Almonds, of each half an ounce, red Roses three drachms; the roots of Asarabacca, Maddir, Indian Spicknard, the leaves of Wormwood, the seeds of Annis and Smallage, of each one drachm, with Wine in which Wormwood hath been boyled, make them into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They gently clense the liver, help the yellow Jaundice and other diseases coming of choller and stoppage of the Liver. You may take a drachm of them every morning, or if you list not to take them alone, beat them into pouder, and mix them with white Wine.
The Colledg] Take of the three Sanders, of each one ounce, the seeds of Cucumers, Guords, Citrulls, Purslain, Spodium, of each half an ounce, red Roses seven drachms, juyce of Barberies six drachms, Bole armenick half an ounce, Camphire one drachm, with Purslain water make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same with Troches of Spodium, both of them harmless.
The Colledg] Take a Squill gathered about the beginning of July, of a middle bigness, and the hard part to which the Small roots stick, wrap it up in past, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it in an Oven, till the past be drie, and the
Squill tender, which you may know by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it with a wooden sticks or a bodkin, then take it out and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it in a mortar, adding to every pound of the Squill, eight ounces of white Orobus, or red Citers in pouder, then make it into Troches, of the weight of two drachms a peice (your hands being anoynted with Oyl of Roses;) dry them on the top of the hoùse, opening towards the* 13.78 South, in the shadow, often turning them till they be well drie, then keep them in a peuter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 glass vessell.
The Colledg] Take of redRoses twelve drachms, Spodium ten drachms, Sorrel seed six crachms, the seeds of Purslain and Coriander, steeped in Vineger and dried, Pulp of Sumach, of each two drachms and an half,a 13.79 white Starch rosted, Balaustines, Barberries, of each two drachms, Gum Arabick rosted one drachm and an half, with juyce of unripe grapes, make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. They are of a fine cooling, binding nature, excellent in feavers coming of choller, especially if they be accompanied with a loosness, they also quench thirst. You may take half a drachm, either by themselves, or in any other convenient medicine.
The Colledg] Take of Earth of Lemnos, Bole Armenick, Acacia, Hyposistis, gum Arabick tosted, Dragons blood, white Starch, red Roses, Rose seeds, Lap. Hematitis, red Corral, Amber, Balaustins, Spodium, Purslain seeds a little tosted, Olibanum, Hartsborn burnt, Cypress Nuts, Saffron, of each two drachms, black Poppy seeds, Tragacanth, Pearls, of each one drachm and an half, Opium prepared one drachm, with Juyce of Plantane make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. Indeed in external applications, if any inflamation, or feaver be, I think it better with Opium than without, else better without than with it.
A. It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body, and for it, 'tis excellent: well then, for the bloody flux, take half a drachm of them inwardly (being beaten into pouder) in red Wine every morning; for spitting of blood, use it in like manner in Plantane water; for pissing of blood, inject it into the bladder; for bleeding at the nose, either snuff it up, or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oyl; for the immoderate flowing of the terms, inject it up the womb with a syringe, but first mix it with Plantane water; for the hemorrhoids or wounds, apply it to the place bleeding.
The Colledg] Take of Frankinsence, Lap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Pompholix, of each ten drachms Ciruss fourty drachms, Gum Arabick, Opium, of each six drachms, with sair water make it into Balls, dry them and keep them for use.
Culpeper] A. Sief is a general term which the Arabians give to all medicines apropriated to the eyes, of which this is one, and a good one to dry up rewms there.
The Colledg] Take of Violet flowers meanly dry, six drachms, Turbith one ounce and an half, juyce of Liquoris, Scammony, Manna, of each two drachms, with Syrup of Violets make it into Troches.
Culpeper] A. They are not worth talking of, much less worth cost, the cost and labor of making.
The Colledg] Take of the flesh of Vipers, the skin, entrals, head, sat, and taill being taken away, boyled in water with dill, and a little Salt eight ounces, white bread twice baked, grated and sifted two ounces, make it into Troches, your hands being anoynted with Opobalsamum, or Oyl of Nutmegs by expression, dry them upon a sieve turned the bottom upwards in an open place, often turning them till they are well dried, then put them in glass, or stone pot glazed, stopped close, they will keep a year, yet is it far better to make Treacle, not long after you have made them.
Culpeper.] A. They expel poyson, and are excellent good, by a certain Sympatheticall vertue, for such as are bitten by an Adder.
The Colledg] Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus, Lettice, redRose flowers, Balaustins, of each a dram, Ivory, white Amber, Bole Armenick washed in knot grass water, two drams; Plantane seeds four scruples, Sassafras two scruples, with Mussilage of quince seeds extracted in water of Water lilly flowers, let them be made into Troches.
Culpeper] A. Very pretty Troches, and good for little.
Colledg TAke of the roots of Gentain, Tormentil, Orris Florentine, Zedoary, of each two drachms; Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, of each half a dram; Angelica roots three drachms; Coriander seeds prepared, Roses, of each one drachm; dried Citron pills two drachms: beat them all into pouder, and with juyce of Liquoris softened in Hippocras, six ounces, make them into a soft Past, which you may from into either Troches or small rowls, which you please.
Culpeper] A. It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly, helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits, resists poyson and the pestilence; and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places and corrupt air, only taking a very small quantity now and then.
The Colledg] Take of Annis seeds, the juyce of Maudlin made thick, of each two drachms; the seeds of Dill, Spicknard, Mastich, Indian leaf or Mace, the leaves of Wormwood, Asarabacca, Smallage, bitter Almonds, of each half a drachm: Aloes two dtams; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Wormwood so much as is sufficient to make it into Trocbes according to art.
Culpeper] A. They open obstructions of the liver, and that very gently, and therefore diseases coming thereof, help quartan agues. You can scarce do amiss in taking them if they please but your pallat.
The Colledg] Take of the flowers of red Roses six drachms; Spicknard, wood of Aloes, of each two drachms, Liquoris three drachms; Spodium one drachm; Saffron half a drachm, Mastich two drachms, make them up into Troches with white Wine according to art.
Culpepeper A. They wonderfully ease feavers, coming of flegm, as quotidian feavers, agues, Epialos, &c. pains in the belly.
The Colledg] Take of Gum Lacca clensed, the juyce of Liquoris, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Wormwod, and Barberries all made thick, Rhubarb, long Birthwort, Costus, Asarabacca, Bitter Almonds, Maddir, Annis, Smalbage, Schoenanth, of each one drachm: With the Decoction of Birth-wort, or Schoenanth, or the juyce of Maudlin, or Wormwood, make them into troaches according to art.
Culpeper] A. It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen, and feavers thence coming; it expels wind, purgeth by urine, and resists dropsies. The dose is between half a drachm and a drachm, according to the age and strength of the patient.
The Colledg] Take of Pomegranate flowers ten drachms: Copper is twelve drachms: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Galls, Birthwort, Frankinsence, of each an ounce; Allum, Mirrh, of each half an ounce: * 13.80 Misy, two drachms: With eighteen ounces of austere Wine make it into 〈◊〉〈◊〉 according to art.
Culpeper] A. This also is apropriated to wounds, ulcers, and fistulaes; it clears the ears, and represseth all excressences of flesh, clenseth the filth of the bones.
The Colledg. Take of Allum, Aloes, Copperis, Mirrh, of each six drachms: Crocomagma, Saffron, of each three drachms: Pomegranate flowers, half an ounce: Wine and Honey of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into troches according to art.
Culpeper. A. Their use is the same with the former.
The Colledg. Take of Saffron, a hundred drams: red Roses, Mirrh, of each fifty drachms; white Starch, a 13.81 Gum, of each thirty drachms; Wine so much as is sufficient to make it into troches.
Culpeper. A. It is very expulsive, heats and strengthens the heart and stomach.
The Colledg. Take of the juyce of Sorrel, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ounces; red Rose Leaves, an ounce; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 berries two ounces: boyl them a little together, and strain them: ad to the decoction, Galls well beaten, three ounces: boyl them again a little, then put in these following things in fine pouder: take of red Roses an ounce; yellow Sanders ten drachms; Gum Arabick an ounce and an half; Sumach, Spodium, of each an ounce; Mirtle berries four ounces: wood of Aloes, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, of each half an ounce; sour Grapes seven drachms: mix them all together, and let them dry upon a stone, and grind them again into pouder, and make them into smal troches with one drachm of Camphire, and so much Rose water as is sufficient, and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk.
Culpeper. A. They strengthen the stomach, heart, and liver, as also the bowels, they help the chollick, and fluxes of blood, as also bleeding at the nose if
you snuff but up the pouder of them; disburden the body of salt, fretting, chollerick humors. You may carry them about you and take them at your pleasure.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses, half an ounce: wood of Aloes two drachms: Mastich, a drachm and an half: Roman Wormwood, Cinnamon, Indian Spicknard, Cassia Lignea, Schaenanth, of each one drachm: old Wine, and decoction of the five opening Roots, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion, the Illiack passion, Hectick feavers, and dropsies in the beginning, and cause a good colour. Use them like the former.
The Colledg] Take of Bole Armenick, red Corral, of each an ounce: Balaustins, terra Lemnia, white Starch, of each half an ounce: Hypocystis, the seeds of Henbane, Opium, of each two drachms: juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. These also stop blood, help the bloody-flux, stop the terms, and are a great help to such whose stomachs loath their victuals. I fancy them not.
The Colledg] Take of the seeds of Small age, and Bishops weed, of each an ounce; Annis and Fennel seeds, of each half an ounce: Opium, Cassia Lignea, of each two drachms: with rain Water, make it into troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. These also bind, case pain, help the pleuresie.
The Colledg] Take of white Starch Balaustins, earth of Samos, juyce of Hypocistis, * 13.82 Gum, Saffron, Opium, of each two drachms: with juyce of Plantane, make them into troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Operation of this is like the former.
The Colledg] Take of choice Agrick three ounces; Sal. Gem. six drachms; Ginger two drachms; with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient, make it into Troches according to art.
Culpeper] A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick, only it may be more safely given this way than the other; they clense the brain of flegm, and the stomach of tough thick, viscous humois. The dose is one drachm at a time.
BEfore I begin with their Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters, give me leave to swerve a little from the Colledges mode, they swerve ten times more from the truth: I would but give a few Rules for the Use of them, and I had as good do it here as any where: and to write but the truth, many City Chyrurgians that I have talked with, are scarce able to give reason for what they do; 'tis to be feared, that those that live in the country far remote, are far less able: to do all these a curtesy, do I candidly deliver these Rules, and let me never be acconnted so basely bred, as to forget those kind Ladies and Gentlewomen that for Gods sake help their poor wounded neighbors, the great God reward them with a plentiful increase of estate in this world, and eternal Beatitude in that to come.
The cheifest of all these, Chyrurgicall Antidotaries, I shall divide into these twelve Chapters, which shall be treated of in this order.
Of Medicines.| Anodine | 1 |
| Repelling | 2 |
| Attracting | 3 |
| Resolving | 4 |
| Emollient | 5 |
| Suppuring | 6 |
| Clensing | 7 |
| Incarnative | 8 |
| Scarrifying | 9 |
| Glutinative | 10 |
| Cathereticks | 11 |
| Stanching blood. | 12 |
SUch Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters, as ease pain are called by Physitians (because you should not know what they mean) Anodines.
All pain is caused by heat, or driness, or both, for moisture seldom, unless heat be joyned with it causeth pain.
Anodines, also some divide into proper and improper, improper Anodines, (if a man may call them Anodines) they call Narcoticks, for I assure you if crabbed words would cure 〈◊〉〈◊〉, our Physitians would come behind none in the world: the truth is, these words were borrowed from Galen, and are Greek words, and Galen writing in his mother tongue, they were understood well enough there; ours retain the same words, only to blind peoples eyes, that so they may not prie into the Mystery of their Monopoly, for then all the fat were in the fire. But to proceed.
Proper Anodines are either temperately hot or temperately cold.
Hot Anodines are
Oyl of sweet Almonds, Linseed Oyl, Oyl of Eggs, Oyl of Saint Johns-wort, Hen-grease, Ducks grease, Goose grease, Chamomel, Melilot, Fenugreek seeds, Dill, Bay leaves and berries, Juniper berries, Rosemary, Oyles and Ointments made of them; Oyle of Earth-worms Oyle of Elder, Wax, Turpentine, Oyntment of Marshmallows, Martiatum, Arregon, Resumptivum, Oxycroceum.
If any external part of your body be pained, these, or any of these made into fomentations, to both the part pained, or into pultifses, or Oyls, or Oyntments by adding Hogs grease, or Plaisters, by adding Wax, or Rozin, or both to the Oyntment; and applyiug it to the place, ease pain.
But if together with the pain there be an inflamation, then Anodines of a cooler nature are more convenient, such be Oyl Omphacine, viz. Oyl of Olives pressed from them before they be ripe, Poppies, Roses, Violets, Pellitory of the wall, Fleawort: these, or any of these made into Pultisses, Oyls, Oyntments, or Plaisters, Oyntment of Roses, Unguantnm Album, Populeon, Refrigerans, Galeni, &c.
Improper Anodines, or Narcoticks which you please, are Medicines of another nature, and (you may thank the Colledge of Physitians, for training you up in such ignorance) scarce fit for a vulgar use, till they have learn'd more skill in Physick than yet they have; yet be pleased to consider, that in taking away pains, three things are to be considered; The cause, the pain, the part pained. To these are medicines apropriated, for some take away the cause, but these belong not to my present scope; others take away the pain, and meddle not with the cause, as those proper Anodines I mentioned before: and some take away neither cause nor pain, but only stupifie the sences, that so it cannot be felt: these are to be used with abundance of skill and discretion, and never but in cases of necessity, when the pain is so vehement that Nature is not able to bear it, or a Feaver thereby threatned. Of this Nature, and for this use are Narcoticks.
Of these some are Simple; As,
Mandrakes, Henbane, Poppies, Opium, Lettice, Sengreen, Nightshade, Camphire, Hemlock, &c.
Compound are, Oyls and Oyntments of these, Philonium Persicum, Philonium Romanum, Pilulae è Cynoglosso, or Pills of Houndstongue, Pilulae è Styrace; and most Opiates you meet withal in the Dispensatory.
BY Repelling, or Repulsive Medicines I mean, either,
They are devided into Simple, and Compound.
Simple Repercussives (which is another term they have)
| are | Mild, | binding. |
| Strong, | ||
| Hot and |
Mild Repulsives are,
Roses, Endive, Lettice, Sorrel, Navel-wort, Purslain, Violets, Water-Lillies, cold water, Whey, Coriander, Cinkfoyl, Trefoyl, Pellitory of the Wall, Apples, Pears, Whites of Eggs, Horstail, Woodbine.
Strong are,
Teazles, Shepheards purse, Plantane, Nightshade, Sengreen, or Housleeks, Melones, Guords, Citruls, Duckmeat, Fleawort, Mirtles, Quinces, Pomegranat rinds and flowers, Sanguis Draconis, Poppy, Opium, Bole Armenick, Ceruss, Terra Sigillata, Lead, burnt and not burnt, Cypress Nuts.
Hot and binding
Comfry the greater, Wormwood, Centaury, Horchound,
Cardamoms, Cyperus grass, Calamus 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and of 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Compounds are,
The Oyls and Oyntments of these, Refrigerans, Galen, Unguentum Album, Rhasis, Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 de Siccativum rubrum, Unguentum Pectorale, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
ATTractives (called by the Greeks, 〈◊〉〈◊〉) are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉〈◊〉; for the nature of Repelling, Repulsive, or Repercussive Medicines, is to drive from the Circumference to the Centre, but of Attractives to draw from the Centre to the Circumference.
They are all hot in temper, and of thin parts.
Attractives draw bySimple are,
Onions, Briony, Leeks, Garlick; and now you may know a reason why the cutting of Onions makes your eyes run a water; Birthwort, Spurge, Southernwood, Nettles, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Gentian, Asphodel, Bdellium, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Euphorbium, Water-cresses, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Carpobalsamum, Frankinsence, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Rosemary flowers, Cabbage; Aqua vitae, Sea water, Ammoniacum, Pitch, Bitumen, Calaminth, Dittany, Mustard, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Galbanum, Pellitory of Spain, Cantharides, Crowfoot, &c.
Compound are,
The Oyls and Oyntments made of these, Turpentine, Oyl of Bricks, Oyl of Foxes, Oyl of Bays, Oyl of Dill, Oyl of Rhue, Peter Oyl, Oyl of Castorium, Oyl of St Johns wort, Oyntment of Arregon Matiatum and Agrippa, Mithridate, and Venis Treacle applied outwardly, for 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Diachylon magnum, Diachylon cum Gummi, A Plaister of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, both Simple and Compound, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, with many others, which Reading and Dilligence (if they be gentlemen of your acquaintance) will help you to, and furnish you with.
Such as draw by Putrefaction are,
All Turds in general, especially Pidgeons and Goats dung, Leaven, Old Cheese, &c.
By hidden Property as they call it,
All 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in general, Amber, Viscus Quercinus, or Mislero, Peony, the Load-stone; these they (poor fools, being utterly ignorant of the Sympathy and Antipathy of the Creation, and by consequence of the Magnetick Vertue of things, upon which the Foundation of Physick is built) call them Hidden Qualities, and so give Physick by rote, as a Parrot speaks. I could if I durst tell you of common 〈◊〉〈◊〉 obvious to the eye of every one, that have a far greater Magnetick Vertue in them than the Load-stone; but I must be silent till men learn to be Honester: It is denyed me to write all I know.
By Fuga Vacui, or driving away Emptiness.
It is a most certain truth that nature abhors Vacuum or Emptiness, neither is there such a thing in rerum Naturâ, let Baptista van Helmont speak his pleasure; And this way do Cupping glasses, and Horse Leaches draw; and thus may you draw with a horn.
THese the Greeks call Diaphoretica, the Latins, Carminativa, and these are used externally as well as internally; for it is the external use of Medicines we are to speak of in this place.
Their Use is,Weak are,
Savin, Marjoram, Rosemary, Origanum, Wormwood, Melilot, Arrach, Spicknard, Chamomel, Dill, Annis, Cummin, Hysop, Fumitory, Elder, Dwarf Elder, Valerian, Southernwood, Wormwood, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Rozin, all sorts of Turds, Turpentine, old Cheese, Wine, strong-water.
Strong are,
Dittany, Leeks, Onions, Garlick, Vineger, Aqua vitae, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Spain, all the hot seeds which you may find ranked in Battalia at the beginning of the Compounds, Cinnamon, Chervil, Nutmegs Pepper, Crowfoot.
Coupound are,
Oyls, Oyntments, and all Compositions of the former; Oyl of Euphorbium, Oyntment of Bays, Diachylon magnum, and cum Gummi, Emplastrum de Cymino, Oxicroceum, Emplastrum de Baccis lauri: Of Melilot, Oyutments of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Arregon, and Martiatum.
TEe use of Emollients, is to soften hard places, and bring them to their pristine estate, of which we spake more at large in the Simples.
They are,Those are common, whose general operation is to soften hard swellings, and such parts and places of the body, as are hardened by Congralation.
They are Propper which are apropriated to peculiar humors, and belong to my scope at present; for I intend not a Treatise of Chyrurgery, but to givea Candle and a Lanthorn, to light you through the Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters; that you may see what a mist the Colledge being ballanced with ignorance, and Sailing by the wind of Authority, hath hitherto wrapped you in, and compassed you round about with: for take this for a general rule, and you (if you have any Ingenuity in you) must needs confess, Ignorance is encroaching, and seeks Authority to back it; But wisedom desires to be publick, and is alwaies justified of her children.
To proceed, consider that Emollients are more temperate than Attractives, but less temperate than Suppuratives; of which more in the next Chapter.
Also take notice that if the tumor be in any principal part of the body, mix your Emollients with Astringents.
Emollients are either Simple or Compound.
Simple are,
Almost, if not altogether, all Marrows, as of a Stagge, Dog, Horse, Caìfe, Bear, Man, Hog, Hen, Goose, Duck, Lion, Goat, &c. The Colledge in their Simples rattle you up enough of them, one after another, (I promised then to tell you what they were held to be good for, and now I am as good as my word; and although I am of opinion, that there is a far neerer and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 way to cure diseases than they use, yet this book (if you have but wit enough to be a Physitian) this Book I say, if heedfully read and examined, will so furnish you with the vulgar rules, that you may be able to understand, that when God shall enable me to put it forth. A man shall never know any thing of the mysteries of his Creator, till he knows himself: and he shall never know himself, First, Till he hath the honesty freely to impart to others, what God hath freely revealed to him for the publick good; Secondly, Till he hath the Discretion to impart every thing in its due season. But to proceed to Simple Emollents where I left) Gum Amoniacum, Bdellium, Opopanax, Galbanum, Turpentine, Rozin, Colophonia, Pitch, the Emollient hearbs (you have them in rank and file, at the beginning of the Compounds) Linseed, Fennugreek seed, white Lilly roots, Astrach, Figs, Wheat and Barly Meal, Malt, Flower, &c.
Compounds are,
Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters, made of all or any of these, Oyl of Lillies, Oyl of Chamomel, Oyl of Earth-worms, Oyl of Foxes, Oyntment of Marshmallows, Resumptivum Diachylon, cum muliis aliis.
I shall give a notion or two, and then I have done with this, (you had had them before had I not forgotten them, and now before I go any further let me advise those that intend to reap any benefit by my writings, to take a pen and ink, and note down what ever they find of consequence in them; for I know and they shall find by experience; that once writing of a thing, seates it better in the memory, then a hundred times reading of it.)
THe Greeks call these Peptica. the Lattines Maturantia, we had some talk about them amongst the Simples.
Their office is by natural heat, to bring the blood and superfluous humors into matter, to help nature so to concoct a superfluous humor, that it may be fit to be cast out, to ripen it as the vulgar proverb is.
Emplasticks are af this nature, which we treated of by themselves in the Simples, and may well be reduced to this head. For,
First, Some close the pores of the body, and so natural heat being kept in is encreased, as the Sulphurious Vapors being kept in the Cloud turn to real fire, and that is that we call Lightning; So that cortuption of the body being kept in together putrifies, and turns to matter.
Of this number (for before we told you what Emplasticks were in general, now we tell you, what particulars are Emplasticks, and a little Ingenuity will find out more, by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the qualities of these) of
this number I say, are Mallows, Marshmallows, yolks of Eggs, Turpentine, Honey, Amoniacum, Galbanum, Labdanum, Frankinsence, Liquid Styrax.
2. As the former forced nature to do the work, so these help nature in it, the former did it per accidens, these per se, viz. they are friendly to nature, and conspire together with it to bring the Superfluous matter to form, yea to such a form as may be cast out, and the body afflicted may thereby be cased.
Such Simples are,
Marshmallow roots, white Lilly roots (which is the best internal medicine of Gallen's Method, which I know for such an use, for you must note, that I chiefly speak of external medicines now) Wheat, and Barly, and malt Flower, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fenugreek seed, Brank Ursine, or Bears breech, Figs, Raisons, Currance, Dates &c.
As for Compounds, I shall not use any distinction between them, they that do one may happily do both together, there are besides Compounds made of these (let me not forget Oyl of Lillies, because I fancy it) Unguentum Basilicon) Diachylon simplex, Diachylon magnum, Diachylon cum Gummi, a Plaister of Mussilages, your own genius, if it be not dull, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 you with more.
CLensing medicines are such as by a drawing quality, have power to draw away parulentus excrements (which Chyrurgians call the Sanies of a wound) or mattery quality which ariseth in all wounds after putrifaction, (and then Chyrurgians call them ulcers) from the Centre of the ulcer, to the circumference, you have an 〈◊〉〈◊〉, you would fain clense it, for you must make it clean before you can heal it, clensing medicines were ordained you for hat end.
Of these some are,Weak Simples are,
Honey, Sugar, Salt Urine, especially your own Urine, white Wine, these gently clense all wounds and [ulcers which is indeed nothing else but a wound putrified, 'tis neither better nor worse.]
Strong Simples are,
Wormwood, Agrymony, Betony, Smallage, Southernwood, Mirrh, Aloes, Sarcocolla, Turpentine, bitter Almonds, Vert-de-greece, Bullocks gall, Alicampane, Briony, the roots of Aron, or Cooko pintles, Gentìan, Hellebore, Allum, Whey, Birthwort, both long and round.
Compounds are.
Oyls and Oyntments of these, and what hath these in them doth more or less clense; Oximel, That Plaister which the Colledge like blasphemous wretches call Divine, that Oyntment of twelve ingredients which they are not ashamedwithout blushing, to call an Oyntment of the Apostles, their consciences are so feared, Unguentum Egiptiacum &c.
THe Greeks call Incarnatives Sarcotica.
Their office is to dry, and change the blood that comes to any part into flesh.
They must be hot, and but hot in the first degree; because they must be friendly to nature, else they cannot be helpful.
They must all be dry, yet so as there must not be a difference in their driness, for if the ulcer happen in a dry part of the body, the Sarcotick must be very dry, and therefore some of them are drying even to the fourth degree: but if the part of the body where they happen be moist, you must use Incarnatives, (or Sarcoticks which you please to call them by) that are less drying.
According to the degrees of Comparison I shall
divide them into,Mean are Olibanum, Colophonia, Mastick, Aloes, Barly Meal, malt Flower, Fenugreek seeds; these ought to be applied to moist and dilicate bodies.
Stronger are, Birthwort both long and round, Orris, Meall of Lupines, and Orobus, these ought to be applied to dry bodies, and hollow wounds.
Strongest are, Centaury the greater and lesser, burnt Lead, Mirrh, these are apropriated to deep ulcers.
Then according as formerly, I shall divide them into Simple and Compound, If you search the Simples you may there find their degree of dryness, and be sure of this, you can loose nothing by dilligence and searching, then as the wound or ulcer abounds with moisture, so let your Incarnatives be sutable for driness.
Simple Incarnatives are.
Olibanum, Mastich, Aloes, Borax, Colophonia, the meale of Lupines, Barly, Orobus and malt of Fenugreek, Beans, Wheat, and Lentils, both sorts of Birthwort, Mirrh, Sarcolla, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 oyl, Betony, Sheephards purse mouse eare, Saint Johns wort Centaury,
Sanicle Vervain, Scabious, Burnet Tutty, Gum Arabich and Tragacanth.
Compounds are.
The compositions of these, Unguentum aurium and Committissae, Plaisters of Bettony, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Emplastrum de janua.
THese the Greeks call Epilotica, the Latins, Cicatrizantes, and we in English Scarrifying medicines, though the greater half of the nation know not what the word [Scarrifying] means.
Therefore take notice that a Scarrifying medicine, is such a medicine as cloaths a place again with skin, when the skin is off, and this it doth by a drying and binding quality.
Of these some are Simples, some Compounds.
Simples are,
Galls, Spunge burnt, Litharge, terra Sigillata, or Lemnia, Pomegranate Pills, or Flowers, Aloes, Cassia Lignea, Pompholix, Spodium, Cypress Nuts, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Frankincense, Lead, Bole 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sarcocolla.
Compounds are.
All mixtures of these, unguentum album, Disiccativum Rubrum, Dia Pompholigos, Emplastrum de Minio, Dia palma, &c.
THe Greeks call Aglutinative medicines, Symphitica, and that's the reason Comfry is caled Symphitum, because of its Glutenous quallity.
The meaning of the word [Aglutinative] is best known by its use, which is to dry up that humidity, that is between the lips of a wound, that so it may be healed.
They are all usually drying in the second degree
Aglutinatives Simple are,
Mastich, Sarcocolla, Frankincense, Mirrh, Colophonia, Bole Armenick, Dragons blood, terra Lemnia, Saint Johns-wort, Rosemarry flowers, Knotgrass, Comfry, Marjoram, Gum Tragacanth, Gum of Ivy, Gum Elemni, red Wine, Vervain, Yarrow, wild Tansy, Cranebil, Sanicle, Cobwebs, Horse tail, Sinkfoyl.
Compounds are, the Compositions of these, Diapalma Emplastrum de minio.
And now by comparing these with the Scarrifying medicines, you may see that they are as like, as one eg is like another: and what a multitude of rules Physitians have imposed upon you, that so they might make their way difficult to you.
They all being as neer of kin, as a man and his brother, I have put them all together, but before I treat of them, I care not greatly, if I explain their degrees: Therefore take notice that they are all such medicines as have force to corrode the flesh or skin.
Of theseThe mean, if there be any meaness in them, or a more propper term is those wch are least violent, for all that are violent are called Catheritica, or Corrosives, by vehement drying these consume the excressences of flesh.
They are usually applied to ulcers that have dead flesh in them.
They areSimple are,
Vert-de-greece, Coperas, or Vitriol, Allum, burnt and not burnt, burnt Salt, Antimony, Mercury Sublimate and Precipitate, Emphorbium.
Compound are,
Unguentum Egiptiacum, and that which the Devil and his Imps attribute to the Apostles, as though they performed their cures by Oyntments, and not by the Spirit of God: All Oyntments that have the Simples before mentioned in them.
The stronger the Greeks call Septica, or Putrifactive Medicines. By their vehement heat they ulcerate the skin and yet with little pain.
Such are,
Arsenick, Crowfoot, Spurge, Mustard-seed, Cantharides, Euphorbium.
Causticks are the strongest, and those the Greeks cal Escarotica. These have got a faculty to consume all they come neer.
Such are,
Quicklime, sublimated, Arsenick.
Strong be, Lapis infernalis.
I shall give you the use of them all in a very few words, as few as can be imagined.
| The | ||
| First, | Eat away dead flesh. | |
| Second, | is used to | Draw Blisters. |
| Third, | Make Issues. |
SUch are, Bole Armenick, terra Sigillata, Dragons blood, Crocus Martis, Chalk, Eggshels, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Litharge, Frankinsence, Mastick, Aloes, Rozin, white starch, stones of Raisons, Purslain, Housleek or Sengreen, Horstail, the Herb I alwaies mean, so called, not the tail of a Horse; the Herb Mousear, not the ears of a Mouse; Fleawort, white and red Corral, Lapis Hematitis, the Blood-stone, dried blood, Gum Tragacanth, and Arabick, Knotgrass, Cobwebs.
I have now done with my Proaemium to the Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters: I desire you to excuse me for not following one and the same Author in the Simples, and here; the more you know the variety of Authors, the better Physitians in time you may come to be. Ville suum enique est nec voto vivitur uno, and according to these Rules, so understand the Oyls, Oyntments, and Plaisters following.
Colledg. TAke of sweet Almonds not corrupted, as many as you will, cast the shells away, and blanch them, beat them in a stone Mortar, heat them in a double Vessel, and press out the Oyl without heat.
Culpeper.] A. It helps roughness and soreness of the throat and stomach, helps Pleuresies, encreaseth seed, easeth coughs, and Hectick feavers; by injection, it helps such whose water 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them; ulcers in the bladder, reins, and matrix. You may either take half an ounce of it by it self, or mix it with half an ounce of Syrup of Violets, and so take a spoonful at a time, still shaking them together when you take them; only take notice of this: If you take it inwardly, let it be new drawn, for it will be sowr in three or four daies.
A. In their new Moddel, they bid you heat them in a double vessel, and then ptess out the Oyl without the help of heat; Oh Heavens! did ever the Sun shine upon such rediculous creatures! who would think a whol Colledg of Physitians should dote so young!
Oyl of bitter Almonds.The Colledg] It is made like Oyl of sweet Almonds, but that you need not blanch them, nor have such a care of heat in pressing out the Oyl.
Culpeper] A. It opens stoppings, helps such as are deaf, being dropped into their ears; it helps the hardness of the nerves, and takes away spots in the face. It is seldom or never taken inwardly.
Oyl of Hazel Nuts.The Colledg] It is made of the Kernels, clensed, brused, and heat, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, like Oyl of 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.
Culpeper] A. You must put them in a vessel, (viz: a glass, or some such like thing) and stop them close that the water come not to them when you put them into the bath.
A. The Oyl is good for cold afflictions of the nerves, the gout in the joynts &c.
The Colledg] So is Oyl of Been, Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Oyl of Mace drawn.
Oleum Caryinum.The Colledg] Is prepared of Walnut Kernels, in like manner, save only that in the making of this somtimes is required dried, old, and rank Nuts.
Oleum Chrysomelinum.The Colledg] Is prepared in the same manner of Apricocks; so is also Oyls of the Kernels of Cherry 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Peaches, Pine-nuts, Fistick nuts, Prunes the seeds of Orienges, Hemp; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Saffron, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cucumers, Guords, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, Lettice, Flax, Melones, Poppy, Parsly, Rhadishes, Rapes, Ricinum, Sesani, Mustard Seed, and Grape stones.
Culpeper] A. Because most of these Oyls is out of use, I took not the pains to quote the Vertues of them; if any list to make them, let them look the Simples and there they have them; if the Simples be not to be found in the Book, there are other plentiful Medicines conducing to the cure of all usual diseases which are.
Oyl of Bays.The Colledg] Take of Bay-berries ripe, and new gathered, being bruised let them be boyled in water, and pressed in a press; then bruise them again, and boyl them as before, and take away the Oyl that swims at top of the water according to art. It will soon be rank.
Culpeper] A. This is different from their former manner of Extraction, and in my opinion worse: Their former manner was thus:
The Colledg] Take of Bay berries, fresh and ripe, so many as you please; bruise them sufficiently; then boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water, till the Oyl 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 top, which separate from the water and keep for 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.
Culpeper] A. It helps the Chollick, and is a soveraign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold. For the Chollick you may take a few drops inwardly in any Compound apropriated to the Chollick: The Table of diseases will direct you, I love to have 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: Negligent
people make wooden Physitians.
The Colledg] Common Oyl of Olives is pressed out of ripe Olives, not out of the stones.
Oyl of Olives Omphacine, is pressed out of unripe Olives.
Oyl of Yolks of Eggs.The Colledg] Boyl the Yolks till they be hard, and bruise them with your hands, or with a Pestle and Mortar; heat them in an Earthen vessel glazed until they begin to sroath, stirring them dilligently that they burn not; being hot, put them in a linnen bag, and sprinkle them with Aromatick Wine, and press out the Oyl according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is profitable in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and malignant ulcers, it causeth the hair to grow, it cleers the skin, and takes away deformities thereof, viz. Tetters, Ringworms, Morphew, Scabs. I suppose none is so sinple to take it inwardly to cleer their skin, nor to anoint their feet to take away the deformity of their face.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses before they be ripe bruised in a stone Mortar four ounces, Oyl Omphacine one pound; set them in a hot Sun in a glass close stopped, a whol week, shaking them every day; then boyl them gently in a bath; press them out, and put in others, use them in like manner; do so the third time, then keep the Oyl upon a pound of juyce of Roses.
Oyl of Roses Compleat.Is made in the same manner with sweet and ripe Oyl often washed, and red Roses fully open, bruised, set in the sun and boyled gently, in a double vessel; only let the third infusion stand in the sun fourly daies, then keep the Roses and Oyl together.
In the same manner is made Oyl of Wormwood, of the tops of common Wormwood thrice repeated four ounces, and three pound of ripe Oyl, only the last time put in four ounces of the juyce of Wormwood, which evaporate away by gentle boyling.
Oyl of Dill, of the flowers and leaves of Dill four ounces, compleat Oyl one pound, thrice repeated.
Oyl of Castoreum, of one ounce of Castoreum, Oyl one pound, Wine four ounces, which must be consumed with the heat of a bath.
Oyl of Chamomel (which more than one call Holy) of compleat Oyl, and fresh Chamomel flowers, the little white leaves taken away, cut, bruised, and the vessel covered with a thin linnen Cloth, set in the Sun, pressed out, and three times repeated.
Oyl of Wall flowers as Oyl of Dill.
Oyl of Quinces of six parts, of Oyl omphacine, the meat and juyce of Quinces one part: set them in the Sun fifteen daies in a glass, and afterwards boyl them four hours in a double vessel press them out and renew them three times.
Oyl of Alicampane, of ripe Oyl and the roots of Alicampane bruised, and their juyce, of each one part, and of generose Wine half a part, which is to be evaporated away.
Oyl of Euphorbium, of six drachms of Euphorbium, Oyl of Walflowers, and sweet Wine, of each five ounces boyling it in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed.
Oyl of Ants, of winged Ants infused in four times their weight of sweet Oyl, set in the sun in a glass fourty daies, and then strained out.
Oyl, or Balsom of St. Johns wort simple is made of the Oyl of the seeds beaten and pressed, and the flowers being added, and rightly set in the sun.
Oyl of Jesmine is made of the flowers of Jesmine, put in cleer Oyl and set in the sun, and afterward pressed out.
Oyl of of Orris made of the roats of Orris Florentine one pound, purple Orris flowers half a pound; boyl them in a double vessel in a sufficient quantity of Decoction of Orris Florentine, and six pound of sweet oyl, putting fresh roots and flowers again and again, the former being cast away as in oyl of Roses.
Oyl of Earthworms is made of half a pound of Earthworms washed in white Wine, ripe oyl two pound, boyled in a double vessel, with eight ounces of good white Wine till the wine be consumed.
Oyl of Marjoram is made with four ounces of the Herb a little bruised, white Wine six ounces, ripe oyl one pound; mixed together, let them be set in the sun repeated three times; at last boyled to the consumption of the Wine.
Oyl of Mastich, is made of oyl of Roses omphacine one pound, Mastich three ounces, Wine four ounces; boyl them in a double vessel to the consumption of the Wine.
Oyl of Melilot is made with the tops of the Herb like oyl of Chamomel.
Oyl of Mints is made of the Herb and oyl omphacine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 oyl of Roses.
Oyl of Mirtles is made of Mirtle berries bruised aud sprinkled with austere wine one part, oyl omphacine three parts, set in the Sun twenty four daies, and in the intrim thrice renewed, boyled and the berries pressed out.
Oyl of Daffadils is made as oyl of Roses.
Nard oyl is made of three ounces of Spicknard, sweet oyl one pound and an half, sweet white wine and cleer water, of each two ounces and an half, boyled to the consumption of the moisture.
Oyl of water Lillies is made of fresh white water lilly flowers, one part, oyl omphacine three parts, repeating the flowers as in oyl of Roses.
Oyl of Tobacco is made of the juyce of Tobacco and common oyl, of each equal parts boyled in a bath.
Oyl of Poppies is made of the flowers, heads and leaves of Garden Poppies, and oyl amphacine, as oyl of Dill.
Oyl of Poplars is made of the buds of Poplar tree three parts, rich white wine four parts, sweet oyl seven parts, first let the buds be bruised, then infused in the Wine and Oyl seven daies, then boyled, then pressed out.
Oyl of Rue is made, of the herbs bruised and ripe Oyl, like Oyl of Roses.
Oyl of Savin is made in the same manner.
So also is Oyl of Elder flowers made.
Oyl of Scorpions, is made of thirty live Scorpions, caught when the Sun is in the Lyon, Oyl of bitter Almonds two pound, let them be set in the Sun, and after fourty daies strained.
Oleum Cicyonium, is made of wild Cucumer roots, and their 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each equall parts, with twice as much ripe Oyl boyl it to the consumption of the juyce.
Oyl of Nightshade, is made of the berries of Nightshade ripe, and one part boyled in ripe Oyl, or Oyl of Roses three parts.
Oyl of Styrax, is made of Styrax and sweet white Wine, of each one part, Ripe Oyl four parts gently boyled, till the Wine be consumed.
Oyl of Violets, is made of Oyl Omphacine, and Violet flowers, as Oyl of Roses.
Oyl of Vervain is made of the herb and Oyl, as Oyl of Mints.
Culpeper] A. That most of these Oyls if not all of them, are used only externally, is certain; and as certain that they retain the vertues of the Simples whereof they are made; therefore the ingenious might help themselves. But because we live in a frigid age, I shall vouchsafe to quote the Vertues of the chiefest of them.
A. Oyl of Roses (the stomach being anointed with it) strengthens it, cools the heat of it, thickens, takes away inflamations, abates swellings.
A. Oyl of Wormwood doth moderately heat and strengthen the stomach, being anointed with it; it procures appetite, opens obstructions, furthers digestion, and kills worms.
A. Oyl of Dill doth moderately digest, asswage the pains of the head and nerves, and procures sleep.
A. Oyl of Castorium helps cold diseases of the nerves, deafness being dropped into the ears, and noise there.
A. Oyl of Cham omel strengthens the sinnews, greatly asswageth pain, and breaks the stone.
A. Oyl of Meliot hath the same effects.
A. Oyl of Walflowers asswageth pains in the breast and reins, sinnews, joynts, and bladder.
A. Oyl of Quinces, cools, binds, and strengthens, stops vomiting, loosness and sweating.
A. Oyl of Euphorbium hath the same effects with that of Castorium, but works more forcibly; being snuffed up the nose, it purgeth the head of flegm.
A. Oyl of Emmats, the privities being anointed with it, provokes lust.
A. Oyl of Saint Johns-wort, is as good a thing in green wounds as a man can use.
A. Oyl of Orris, doth concoct and dissolve, asswage pain of the womb, liver, and joynts; also it strengthens the breast.
A. Oyl of Earthworms mollifie heat, and asswage pains, and is special good for such as have been bruised or hurt in their joynts.
A. Oyl of Marjoram, helps weariness, cold diseases of the brain, noise in the ears being dropped into them, the bitings of venemous beasts, and provokes the terms in women.
A. Oyl of Mastich, strengthens the brain, stomach, and liver, sinnews, and veins, staies vomiting, and fluxes.
A. The stomach being anointed with Oyl of Mints, staies the weakness, heats and strengthens it, staies vomiting, helps digestion and provokes appetite.
A. Oyl of Mirtles hath the same effects with Quinces.
A. Oyl of Mirrh preserves any thing from putrifying that is anointed with it, makes the face fair and, youthful.
A. Nard Oyl doth heat, digest, and strengthen, resists all cold and windy diseases throughout the body.
A. Oyl of Water Lillies cools and asswageth the violent heat, especially of the head, reins and bladder, thereby mitigating frenzies, procuring sleep, and is a good preservative against the stone, and help such women (their backs being anointed with it) as are subject to miscarry through heat of their reins, which they may easily know by continual pain in their backs, and swelling of their legs. Also Oyl of poppies have the same vertue.
A. Oyl of Rue, heats, and makes thin gross humors, expelleth wind, helps palsies, cramps, coldness of the womb and bladder.
A. Oyl of Violets cools inflamations, easeth the Plurisie, and pains of the breast.
A. Oyl of Nightshade hath the same effects with that of water Lillies.
A. Then remember that these Oyls must not be given inwardly as men take drink, but outwardly applied or cast in as injections or Clysters.
One material Oyl only, which was in their last Dispensatory; which is, Oyl of Mirrh, which is thus made.Take certain new-laid Egs, and boyl them till they be hard, then cut them through the middle, the longest way; take out the yolks, and fill the hollow place half full of Mirrh; then joyn the whites together again and bind them gently with a string, then place them between two dishes, a small grate being between that they fall not to the bottom; then place them in a Wine-Celler, or some other cool place under the ground, so will the melted Liquor of the Mirrh distil down into the inferior dish.
Colledg] TAke of the roots of Cardus and Valerian of each one ounce, the flowers of Saint Johns wort two ounces, Wheat one ounce and an half, old Oyl four ounces, Cipress, Turpentine eight ounces, Frankinsence in pouder two ounces, infuse the roots and flowers being bruised, in so much white Wine as is sufficient to cover them, after two daies infusion, put in the Oyl with the Wheat bruised, boyl them together till the Wine be consumed, then press it out, and ad the Frankinsence, and Turpentine, then boyl them a little and keep it.
Culpeper] A. It is apropriated to clense and consolidate wounds especially in the head.
Oleum de Capparibus. Page 145. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Cappers.The Colledg] Take of the bark of Capper roots an ounce, bark of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the leaves of the same, the seeds of Agnus Castus, Cetrach, or Spleenwort, Cyperus roots, of each two drachms; Rue one drachm, Oyl of ripe Olives one pound, white Wine Vineger, and white Wine, of each two ounces, cut them and sleep them, and boyl them (two daies being elapsed) gently in a bath, then the Wine and Vineger, being consumed, strain it, and keep it.
Culpeper] A. The Oyl is opening, and heating, absolutely apropriated to the spleen, hardness and pains thereof, and diseases coming of stoppings there, as Hypocondriack melancholly, the rickets &c. Bath the breast and afflicted side with it hot by the fite, and if you please to ad its like weight of oyntment of the opening juyces to it, it will be the better, then if you apply a Virginia Tobacco leaf to the place, you shall find it an incomparable remedy.
Oyl of Castorium compound. P. 146. in Latin book.The Colledg] Take of Castorium, Styrax Calamitis, Galbanum, Euphorbium, Opopanax, Cassia Lignea, Saffron, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Spicknard, Costus, of each two drachms; Cyperus, Squinanth, Pepper long and black, Savin Pelletory of Spain, of each two drachms and an half; ripe Oyl four pound, Spanish Wine two pound, the five first excepted, let the rest be prepared as they ought to be, and gently boyled in the Oyl and Wine, while the Wine be consumed, mean season the Galbanum, Opopanax, and Euphorbium beaten in fine pouder, being dissolved in part of the Wine, and strained, let them be exquisitely mixed with it (while the Oyl is warm) by often stirring, the boyling being finished put in the Styrax and Castorium.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same with the Simple, only it is held to be more effectual in the premises.
Oleum Catellorium. Page 146. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Whelps.The Colledg] Take of Sallet Oyl four pound, two Puppy Dogs newly whelped, Earth worms washed in white Wine one pound, boyl the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 till they fall in pieces, then put in the worms, a while after strain it, then with three ounces of Cypress Turpentine, and one ounce of Spirit of Wine, perfect the Oyl according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is excellent good to bath those limbs and muscles, that have been weakned by wounds or bruises.
Oleum Costinum. Page 146. in the Latin Book.The Colledg] Take of the roots of bitter Costus, two ounces; Cassia Lignea one ounce, the tops of Marjorum eight ounces, being bruised, steep them two daies in twelve ounces of sweet white Wine; then with three pound of Sallet Oyl washed in white Wine boyl it in Balneo mariae till the Wine be consumed.
Culpeper.] A. It heats, opens obstructions, strengthens the nerves, and all nervous parts, as muscles, tendons, ligaments, the ventricle; besides these, it strengthens the liver, it keeps the hairs from turning gray, and gives a good colour to the body. I pray you take notice that this and the following Oyls, (til I give you warning to the contrary) are not made to eat.
Oleum Crocinum. Pag. 146. in the Lat. Book. Or, Oyl of Saffron.The Colledg] Take of Saffron, Calamus Aromaticus, of each one ounce; Mirrh half on ounce, Cardamoms nine drachms, steep them six daies, (the Cardamoms excepted, which are not to be put in till the last day,) in nine ounces of Vineger, the day after put in a pound and an half of washed Oyl, boyl it gently according to art, till the Vineger be consumed, then strain it.
Culpeper] A. It helps pains in the nerves, and strengthens them, mollifies their hardness, helps pains in the matrix and causeth a good colour.
Oyl of Euphorbium. Page 147. in the Latin Book.The Colledg] Take of Stavesacre, Sopewort, of each half an ounce; Pellitory of Spain six drachms; dryed Mountaine Calaminth one ounce and an half, Costus two drachms, Castorium five drachms, being
bruised, let them be three daies steeped in three pound and an half of vine; boyl them with a pound and an half of Oyl of Wall flowers, adding half an ounce of Euphorbium, before the wine be quite consumed, and so boyl it according to art.
Culpeper] A. It hath the same yertue, only something more effectual than the Simple.
Oleum Excestrense. Page 147 in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Exceter.The Colledg] Take of the leaves of Wormwood, Centaury the less, Eupitorium, Fennel, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Bays Marjo am, Bawm, Nep, Penyroyall, Savin, Sage, Time, of each four ounces; Southernwood, Bettony, Chamepilys, Lavender, of each six ounces; Rosemary one pound, the flowers of Chamomel, Broom, white 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Elders, the seeds of Cummin, and Fenugreek the roots of Hellebore black and white, the bark of Ash and Lemmons, of each four ounces; Euphorbium, Mustard, Castorium, Pellitory of Spain, of each an ounce: Oyl sixteen pound, Wine three pound, the herbs, flowers, seeds, and Euphorbium being brused, the roots, Barks, and Castorium cut, all of them infused twelve hours in the Wine and Oyl, in a warm bath, then boyled with a gentle fire, to the consumption of the Wine and moisture, strain the Oyl and keep it.
Culpeper] A. Many people by catching bruises when they are young, come to feel it when they are old: others by catching cold, catch a lameness in their limbs; to both which I commend this Sovereign Oyl to bath their grieved members with.
Oleum Hirundinum. Page 148. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Swallows.The Colledg] Take of wholl Swallows sixteen, Chamomel, Rue, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the greater and lesser, Bay leaves, Penyroyal, Dill, Hysop, Rosemary, Sage, Saint Johns-wort, Costmary, of each one handful; Common Oyl four pound, Spanish Wine one pound, make it up according to art.
Culpeper] A. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 if instead of Oyl you will put so much May Butter to it as here is appointed Oyl, and boyl it with the foregoing Simples, then will it have both the name and consistance of an Oyntment.
A. Both this and the former are apropriated to old brulses and pains thereof coming, as also to sprains. If you please you may mix them together.
Oleum Hyperici Compositum. Pag. 148 in Lat. Book. Or, Oyl of Saint Johns wort Compound.The Colledg] Take of the tops of Saint Johnswort four ounces, steep them three whol daies in a pound of old Sallet Oyl, in the heat either of a bath, or of the Sun, then press them out, repeat the infusion the second, or third time, then boyl them, till the Wine be almost consumed press them out; and by adding three ounces of Turpentine, and one scruple of Saffron, boyl it a little and keev it.
Culpeper] A. See the Simple Oyl of Saint Johnswort, than which this is stronger.
Oleum Hyperici magis Compositum. P. 148. in Lat. B. Or, Oyl of Saint Johns wort more CompoundThe Colledg] Take of white Wine three pound, tops of Saint Johns-wort ripe and gently bruised, four handfuls, steep them two daies in a glass close stopped, boyl them in a bath, and strain them strongly, repeat the infusion three times, having strained it the third time, aad to every pound of decoction, old Oyl four pound, Turpentine six ounces, Oyl of Wormwood three ounces, Dittany, Gentian, Cardus, Tormentil, Carline, or Cardus Maria, Calamus Aromaticus, all of them bruised, of each two drachms, Earth worms often washed in white Wine two ounces, set it in the Sun five or six weeks, then keep it close stopped.
Culpeper A. Besides the vertues of the simple Oyl of St. Johns-wort, which this performs more effectually, it is an excellent remedy for old bruises, aches and sprains.
Oleum Irinum. Page 149. in in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Orris.The Colledg] Take of the roots of Orris Florentine, three pound four ounces, the flowers of Purple Orris, fifteen ounces, Cyperus roots six ounces, of Alicampane three ounces, of Alkanet two ounces, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Benjamin, of each one ounce, let all of them being bruised as they ought to be, be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the Sun, or other hot place, in fifteen pound of old Oyl, and four pound and an half of cleer water, after the fourth day, boyl them in Balneo Mariae, the water being consumed, when it is cold strain it and keep it.
Culpeper] The effects are the same with the Simple, only 'tis stronger, and better composed here than it was in their former Dispensatory, yet I know no great reason why this, or any other Oyl must be boyled in a bath. I see the Apothecaries shall never want ignorance nor trouble, if the Colledg can help it.
Oleum Majoranae. Page 149. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Marjoram.The Colledg] Take of Marjoram four handfuls mother of Time two handfuls, the leaves and berries of Mirtles one handful, Southernwood, water Mints, of each half an handful, being cut, bruised, and put in a glass, three pound of Oyl Omphacine being put to it, let it stand eight daies in the Sun, or in a bath, close stopped, then strain it out, in the Oyl put in fresh Simples, do so the third time, the Oyl may be perfected according to art.
Culpeper] A. It helps weariness and diseases of of the brain and nerves, coming of cold; it helps the dead palsie, the back (viz. the region along the back bone) being anointed with it; being snuffed up in the nose, it helps Spasmus Cynicus, which is a wrying the mouth aside, it helps noise in the ears being dropped into them; it provokes the terms, and helps the bitings of venemous beasts, it is a most gallant Oyl to strengthen the body, the back being anointed with it; strengthens the muscles, they being chafed with it; it helps headach the forehead being rubbed with it.
Oleum Mandragorae. Page 149. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Mandragues.The Colledg] Take of common Oyl two pound, Juyce of Mandrake apples, or for want of them, of the leaves, four ounces, Juyce of white Henbane two ounces, Juyce of black Poppy heads three ounces,
Juyce of Violets, and tender Hemlock, of each one ounce; Set them all in the Sun, and after the tenth day, boyl them to the consumption of the Juyce, then put in Opium finely beaten, and Styrax Calamitis dissolved in a little Turpentine, of each half an ounce.
Culpeper. A. It is probable the Author studied to invent an Oyl extreamly cold, when he invented this. I am of opinion it may be used safely no way but only to anoint the temples and noses of such as have a frenzy. If by using this Ointment you see they sleep too long, dip a spunge in Viniger, and hold to their noses, it may be a means to awake them. It is scarse safe, yet if you let it alone, it cannot do you harm.
Moschelaeum. Page 149. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Musk.The Colledg] Take two Nutmegs, Musk one drachm, Indian leafe or Mace, Spicknard, Costus, Mastich of each six drachms, Styrax-Calamitis, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lignea, Mirrh, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cloves, Carpobalsamum, or Cubebs, Bdellium, of each two drachms, pure Oyl three pound, Wine three ounces, bruise them as you ought to do, mix them and let them boyl easily, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Wine be consumed, the Musk being mixed according to art after it is strained.
Culpeper.] A. It is exceeding good against all diseases of cold, especially those of the stomach, it helps diseases of the sides they being anointed with it, the stranguary, chollick, and vices of the nerves, and afflictions of the reins.
A. The Receipt was made by Nicholaus Alexandrinus, only the Colledg something altered the quantities and that not worth speaking of.
Oleum Nardinum. Page 150. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Nard.The Colledg] Take of Spicknard three ounces, Marjoram two ounces, wood of Aloes, Calamus Aromaticus, Alicampane, Cyperus, Bay leaves, Indian leafe or Mace, Squinanth, Cardamoms, of each one ounce and an half, bruise them al grosly, & steep them in water, and Wine, of each fourteen ounces, Oyl of Sesamin, or Oyl of Olives four pound and an half, for one day, then perfect the Oyl, by boyling it gently in a double Vessell.
Culpeper] A. I wonder why they should put in Oyl of Sesamum, or Oyl of Olives; when every body knows Sesamum is a kind of purging pulse, but purge or bind, it is all one to them it seems; So Authors say it. Will that answer serve the turn before the Lord God Almighty another day? I left out Oyl of Sesamum in the coppy because of that, and if it be made as I have written it, It heats, attenuates, digests, and moderately binds, and therefore helps all cold and windy afflictions of the brain, stomach, reins, spleen, liver, bladder, and womb, being snuffed up the nose it purgeth the head, and gives a good colour and smel to the body.
Oleum Nicodemi. Page 150. in the Latin Book.The Colledg] Take of the seeds or tops of Saint Johns wort, old Turpentine, of each one pound, Litharge six drachms, Aloes, Hepatick, Tutty, of each three drachms; Saffron one ounce, white Wine four pound, old Oyl two pound; The fourth part of the Wine being consumed in a bath, or sand, or in the Sun, in the Dog daies, after the tenth day strain it, and keep the Oyl apart from the Wine.
Culpeper] A. Both Wine and Oyl are exceeding drying, (that the Wine is more clensing, and the Oyl best to skin a sore, your genius (though never so dull) will tel you) and therefore excellent for sores and ulcers that run much, as for scabs, itch, small pocks, swine pocks &c.
Oleum Vulpinum. Page 150. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Foxes.The Colledg] Take a fat Fox, of a middle age * 13.83 (if you can get such an one) caught by hunting, about Autumn cut in pieces, the skin, and bowels taken away, the bones broken, boyl him (scumming it dilligently) in white Wine, and spring water, of each six pound, till half be consumed, with three ounces of Sea salt, the tops of Dill, Time, and Chamepitys, of each one handful, after straining hoyl it again with four pound of old Oyl, the flowers of Sage and Rosemary, of each one handful, the Water being consumed, strain it again, and keep the pure Oyl for use.
Culpeper] A. It is exceeding good in pains of the joynts, gouts, pains in the back and reins, it heats the body being afflicted by cold, and hard lodging in the airs, whereby the joynts are stiffe, a disease incident to many in these times.
Culpeper. THe Receipt is before; the vertues of Oyl of Tobacco is, A. It is a gallant remedy for deep wounds, scabs or itch, as any is under the Cope of Heaven, and no way prejudicial: See the Oyntment.
Oyl of Pepper. Mesue.The Colledg.] Take of long, black, and white Pepper, of each three drachms; Myrobalans, Chebul, Bellerick, Emblick, and Indian, of each five drachms: the roots of Smallage and Fennel, of each three drachms and an half; Sagapenum, Opopanax, Ammoniacum, white Henbane, of each two drachms and an half; Turbith two drachms; Ginger three drachms; the branches of green Time and green Rue, of each one handful: infuse them according to art, in a sufficient quantity of Aqua vitae, Oyl of Walflowers otherwise called Winter Gilliflowers two pound: then boyl them to the consumption of the Aqua vitae.
Culpeper] A It helps cold diseases of the nerves, as Palsies, falling sickness, convulsions, wry-mouths, trembling or shaking palsie, likewise cold afflictions
of the reins, and bladder, yard and womb, gouts and all diseases of the joynts, it 〈◊〉〈◊〉, makes thin, and clenseth, and therefore it opens obstructions or stoppings, and breaks the stone.
Oleum Populeum. Nich.The Colledg] Take of fresh Poplar buds three pound; Wine four pound; common Oyl seven pound two ounces; beat the Poplar buds very well, then steep them seven daies in the Oyl and Wine, then boyl them in a double vessel till the Wine be consumed (if you infuse fresh buds once or twice before you boyl it, the medicine will be the stronger) then press out the Oyl and keep it.
Culpeper.] A. It is a fine cool Oyl, but the Oyntment called by that name which follows hereafter is far better.
The Colledg] TAke of Oyl of Roses nine ounces, Ceruss washed in Rosewater, and dilligently sersed, three ounces, white Wax two ounces, after the Wax is melted in the Oyl, put in the Ceruss, and make it into an Oyntment according to art, add two drachms of Camphire, made into pouder with a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds, so will it be camphorated,
Culpeper] A. Some hold it impossible to make it into an Oyntment this way: others hold it not convenient, but instead of Oyl of Roses they add so much Hogs grease; and leaving out the white Wax they make it into an Oyntment without the help of the fire, but 'tis to be supposed, that 'tis so long ago since the Colledg made an Oyntment, they have forgot how to make it, but they are not to be blamed for that, but for commanding in what they have no skill in, they must go teach how to make Oyntments when they have no more skill in it, than a hobby horse.
A. It is a fine cooling drying Oyntment, easeth pains, and itching in wounds and ulcers, and is an hundred times better with Camphire than without it.
The Colledg] Take of Vert-de-grease finely poudered, five parts, Honey fourteen parts, sharp Vineger seven parts, boyl them to a just thickness, and a redish colour.
Culpeper. A. It clenseth filthy ulcers and fistulaes forcibly, and not without pain; it takes away dead and proud flesh, and dries: The Chyrurgians of our daies use it commonly instead of Apostalorum, to clense wounds, it clenseth more potently indeed, and therefore may be fitter in sanious ulcers, but it strengthens not so much.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of white Lillies, six ounces, Oyl of Dill and Chamomel, of each two ounces, Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce; Ducks grease and Hens grease, of each two ounces, white Wax three ounces: mix them according to art.
Culpeper] A. I take the Augustan Physitians to be the Authors of this, for there it is to be found verbatim, only they prescribe no certain quantity of Wax: Its use is to asswage pains in any part of the body, especially such as come by inflamations, whether in wounds, or tumors, and for that it is admirable.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Smallage one pound, Honey nine ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 heat flower three ounces, boyl them to a just thickness.
Culpeper] A. It is a very fine, and very gentle clenser of wounds and ulcers.
The Colledg] Take of Gum Elemi, Turpentine of the fir tree, of each one ounce and an half; old Sheeps Suet clensed two ounces; old 〈◊〉〈◊〉 grease clensed one ounce, mix them, and make them into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. Although our Chyrurgians usually use this only for wounds and ulcers in the head, yet he that makes trial shall find it excellent for ulcers, if not too sanious, in any part of the body, though in the feet, and they are at the greatest distance from the head; it gently clenseth, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 up an ulcer with flesh, it being of a mild nature and friendly to the body.
The Colledg] Take of yellow Wax half a pound
common Oyl two pound, Turpentine two ounces pineRosin, Colophonia, of each one ounce and an half, Frankinsence, Mastich, of each one ounce; Saffron one drachm; first melt the Wax in the Oyl, then the Turpentine being added, let them boyl together, having done boyling, put in the rest in fine pouder (let the Saffron be the last) and by dilligent stirring, make them into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. If you remember, the Colledg commends this Oyntment to engender flesh in the beginning of the Compounds, and indeed it doth so; but if you please to takecounsel of Dr. EXPERIENCE, he will tell you that the former is worth two of this for that use.
The Colledg] Take of white Wax, pine Rosin, Heifers Suet, Greek Pitch, Turpentine, Olibanum, Mirrh, of each one ounce; Oyl five ounces, Pouder, the Olibanum and Mirrh, and the rest being melted, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
The Colledg] Take of yellow Wax, fat Rosin, Greek Pitch, of each half a pound; Oyl nine ounces; mix them together, by melting them according to art.
Culpeper] A. Both this and the former, heat, moisten and digest, procure matter in wounds, I mean, bring the filth or corrupted blood from green wounds; they clense and ease pain.
The Colledg] Take of Bdellium, six drachms; Euphorbium, Sagapen. of each four drachms; Castorium three drachms; Wax fifteen drachms, Oyl of Elder or Walflowers, ten drachms, the Bdellium, and Sagapen. being dissolved in Water of wild Rue, let the rest be united by the heat of a hath.
Culpeper] A. And why in a bath? the Colledg have a brave time of it, to appoint what they list, it being sence, or no sence, they are not to give a reason of it.
A. I confess Mesue appoints it to be made up in the same manner: I do not well kdow whether it be possible or not; if not, it may be done with the Oyl, but 'tis ordinary with the Colledge, to appoint impossible things.
The Colledg] Take of Chalke washed seven times at least, half a pound, Wax three ounces, Oyl of Roses one pound, stir them al together dilligently, in a leaden mortar, the Wax being first melted by a gentle fire in a sufficient quantity of the prescribed Oyl.
Culpeper. A. It is exceeding good in burnings, and scaldings.
The Colledg] Take of common Oyl four pound; Mussilage of Marshmallow roots, Linseeds, and Fenugreek seeds two pound; boyl them together till the watry part of the Mussilage be consumed, then add Wax half a pound, Rozin three ounces, Turpentine an ounce, boyl them to the consistence of an Oyntment, but let the Mussilage be prepared of a pound of fresh roots bruised, and half a pound of each of the Seeds steeped, and boyled in eight pound of spring Water and then pressed out. See the Compound.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Nightshade sixteen ounces, white Wax; washed Ceruss, of each four drachms, Lead burnt and washed, Pompholix prepared, of each two ounces, pure Frankinsense one ounce, bring them into the form of an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. This much differing from the former, you shall have that inserted at latter end, and then you may use which you please.
The Colledg] Take of Alicampane roots boyled in Viniger, bruised and pulped one pound, Turpentine washed in their decoction, new Wax, of each two ounces, old Hogs grease salted ten ounces, old Oyl four ounces, common Salt one ounce, add the Turpentine, to the grease, Wax, and Oyl, being melted, as also the pulp, and Salt being finely poudered, and so make it into an Oyntment according to art.
The Colledg] Is made of the former Oyntment, by adding two ounces of Quicksilver, killed by continual stirring (not only with Spittle, or juyce of Lemmons, but with all the Turpentine kept for that intent, and part of the grease, in a stone mortar.
Culpeper] A. My opinion of this Oyntment is (briefly) this, It was invented for the Itch; without Quick silver it will do no good, with Quick silver it may do harm.
The Colledg] Take of Bay leaves bruised; one pound; Bay berries bruised, half a pound, Cabbage leaves four ounces, Neats-foot Oyl five pound, Bullocks Suet two pound, boyl them together, and strain them that so it may be made into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. Let the leaves and berries being bruised and boyled with the Oyl and Suet till their Juyce be consumed, let it be strained and kept.
A. It heats and expels wind, is profitable for old aches, and sprains, but what good it should do to the itch (for which simple people buy it,) I cannot imagin.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Roses, one pound and an half; red Lead three ounces, Litharge two ouncés, Ceruss one ounce and an half, Tutty three drachms, Camphire two drachms, Wax one ounce and and half, make it into an Oyntment according to art, in a Pestle and mortar made of Lead.
Culpeper] A. This Oyntment is as drying as a man shall usually read of one, and withal cooling, therefore good for sores, aud such as are troubled with defluxions. I remember once Dr. Alexander Read applyed it to my Mothers breast when she had a Cancer, before it brake long time, but to as much purpose as though he had applied a rotten Apple; yet in the foregoing infirmities I beleeve it seldom fails: they have something altered the quantities, but not worth speaking off; first melt the Wax in the Oyl, then put in the rest in pouder.
The Colledg] Take of Tobacco leaves bruised, two pound, steap them a whol night in red wine, in the morning boyl it in fresh Hogs grease, dilligently washed, one pound, till the Wine be consumed, strain it, and add half a pound of Juyce of Tobacco, Rosin four ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the consumption of the Juyce, adding towards the end, round Birthwort roots in pouder, to ounces, new 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It would ask a whol Summers day to write the particular vertues of this Oyntment, and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundreth part of its due praise, It cares Tumors, Aposthumes. Wounds, Ulcers, Gun-shot, Botches, Scabs, Itch, stinging with Nettles, Bees, Wasps, Hornets, venemous beasts, Wounds made with poysoned Arrows &c. Tush! this is nothing — paulo majora canamus. It helps Scaldings though made with Oyl, Burnings though with Lightening, and that without any Scar: It helps nasty, rotten, stinking, putrified Ulcers, though in the legs, whither the humors are most subject to resort; in Fistulaes though the bone be afflicted it shall scale it without any instrument, and bring up the flesh from the very bottom: Would you be fair? your face heing anointed with this, soon will the Redness, Pimples, Sunburning vanish, a Wonnd dressed with this will never putrifie, a Wound made with so small a weapon that no tent will follow, anoint but with this and you need fear no danger, If your head ach, anoint your temples with this and you shall have ease; The stomach being anointed with it, no infirmity dares harbor there, no not Asthmaes, nor consumption of the lungues; The belly being anointed with it, helps the Chollick and Illiack passion, the Worms, and what not? it helps the Hemorrholds or Piles, and is the best Oyntment that is, for gouts of all sorts: finally there may be as universal a medicine made for all diseases, of Tobacco as of any thing in the world, the Phylosophers Stone excepted. O Joubertus! thou shalt never want praise for inventing this medicine, by those that use it, so long as the Sun and Moon endureth.
The Colledg] Take of Litharge of Gold finely poudered, half a pound; Vineger one pound, Oyl of Roses two pound, grind the Litharge in a mortar, pouring to it sometimes Oyl, sometimes Vineger, till by continual stirring the Viniger do no more appear, and it come to a whitish Oyntment.
Culpeper] A. It is of a cooling, drying nature, good for itching of Wounds, Itch and Scabs, and such like deformities of the skin, as Tetters, Ringworms &c.
The Colledg] Take of Bole Armenick washed in Rose water, one ounce; Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eye-bright water, Tutty prepared, of each two drachms; Pearls in very fine pouder half a drachm, Camphire half a scruple, Opium five grains, fresh butter washed in Plantane water, as much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is exceeding good to stop 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Rhewms that fall down into the eyes, the eye-lids being but anointed with it.
The Colledg] Take of the roots of Sharp-pointed Dock boyled in Viniger until they be soft, and then pulped, Brimstone washed in juyce of Lemmons, of each one ounce and an half, Hogs grease often washed in juyce of Scabious, half a pound, Unguentum populeon, washed in juyce of Alicampane, half an ounce, make them into an Oyntment, in a mortar.
Culpeper.] A. It is a wholsom though troublesom medicine for what the Title specifies, before it was called an Oyntment against Scabs, and Itch, now because none should know what 'tis good for, it is called an Oyntment of Sharp-pointed Dock; If they were as able, as they are willing: good God what ignorance would they lead poor man too, but a curst Cow, hath but short horns.
The Colledg] Take of Lead, Burnt according to art, Litharge, of each two ounces, Ceruss, Antimony, of each one ounce, Oyl of Roses, as much as is sufficient, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] Take it one time with another, 'twill go neer to do more harm than good.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Hogs grease, three pound, fresh Sheep Suet nine ounces, Pomewater pared and cut, a pound and nine ounces, Damask Rosewater, six ounces, the roots of Orris Florentine grosly bruised, six drachms, boyl them in Balneo Mariae till the Apples be soft, then strain it, but press it not, and keep it for use * then warm it a little again, and* 13.84 wash it with fresh Rose-water, adding to each 〈◊〉〈◊〉, twelve drops of Oyl of Lignum Rhodium.
Culpeper] A. Its general use is, to soften and supple the roughness of the skin, and take away the the chops of the lips, hands, face, or other parts.
The Colledg.] Take of butter without salt a pound and an half, Spermaceti 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Tormentil roots, Castorium of each half an ounce, boyl them as you ought in a sufficient quantity of Wine, till the Wine be consumed, and become an Oyntment.
Culpeper] A. I know not what to make of it.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or Rosin of the pine tree, of the purest, Turpentine, yellow Wax washed, pure Oyl, of each equal parts, melt them into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is as pretty a Cerecloath for a new sprain as most is, and cheap. Let it not be despised, for I have known a gentlewoman in Sussex do much good with it, even before their Dispensatory, was ever hatched, or in the Egge.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Hogs grease elensed a pound, fresh Red roses half a pound, juyce of the same three ounces, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Colledge give you but a short come off in this Oyntment, they love to be breife and tedious, last time when they were honester, they taught you how to make it, which was thus,
The Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease well clensed from the skins a pound; wash it nine* 13.85 times in warm water, then as often in cold water; fresh red Roses a pound: mix them together and so let them stand seven daies, then boyl them over a gentle fire, and strain out the Roses, then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses, and then let them stand together as many daies, then strain them out having first boyled them; at the last ad juyce of red Roses six ounces, boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed, then strain it, and make an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold, and you shall see it is Oyntment alone without any further making, now compare but this with what I wrote before, and see if they do not love to be breife and tedious.
A. It is of a fine cooling nature, exceeding usefull in all gaulings of the skin, and frettings accompanied with chollerick humors, angry pushes, tetters, ringworms, it mitigates diseases in the head coming of hear, as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Roses, Omphacine, a pound, white Wax five ounces, which being melted and put in a leaden Mortar, put in, Earth of Lemnos or Bole-Armenick, Lapis Calaminaris of each four ounces, Litharge of gold, Ceruss, of each three ounces, Camphire one drachm, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humors and is as gallant an Oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory.
The Colledg] Take of juyce of Nightshade, Litharge washed, of each five ounces, Ceruss washed eight ounces, white Wax seven ounces, Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms, Oyl of Roses often washed in water two pound, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It was invented to take away inflamations from wounds, and to keep people from scratching of them when they are almost well.
The Colledg] Take of Tutty prepared two ounces; Lapis Calaminaris, often burnt and quenched in Plantane water, an ounce, make them being finely poudered into an Oyntment, with a pound and an half of Oyntment of Roses.
Cul. A. It is a cooling, drying Oyntment apropriated to the eyes, to dry up hot and salt humors that flow down thither, the eye-lids being anointed with it.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of green Scabious pressed out with a scrue, and strained, through a cloath Hogs grease, of each as much as you will, beat the Hogs greas in a stone mortar, not grind it, putting in the juyce by degrees for the more commodious mixture and tincture, afterwards set it in the Sun in a convenient vessel, so as the juyce may overtop the grease; nine daies being passed, pour of the discoloured juyce, and beat it again as before, putting in fresh juyce, set in the Sun again five daies, which being elapsed, beat it again putting in more juyce, after 15 daies more do so again, do so five times, after which keep it in a glass or glazed vessel.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Mullen, Hogs grease, of each as much as you will, let the grease be clensed and cut in pieces, and beat it with the juyce, pressed and strained, as you did the former Oyntment, then keep it in a convenient vessel nine or ten daies, then beat it twice, once with fresh juyce, until it be green, and the second time without juyce, beaten well, pouring off what is discoloured, and keep it for use.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Sullendine and Mullen, of each one part, clarified Honey two parts, boyl them by degrees till the juyce be consumed, adding (the Physitian prescribing) Vitriol burnt, Alum burnt, Ink, and boyl it again to an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. These three last was stolen out of the Manuscripts of Mr. John Ardern for a Chyrurgian at Newwark upon Trent, though now the Colledg have the honesty to conceal his name, you may know the vertues of the two former, if you view but the Simples, as for the latter he quotes a pretty passage of, which is like to be the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 because the Colledge conceales it now, and did not before. it is this, when you are troubled with the Itch, put a little Tapsimel up your fundament, and the Itching will presently Cease.
The Colledg] TAke of Briony roots two pound, the roots of wild Cucumers, one pound, Squills half a pound, fresh English Orris roots, three ounces, the roots of Male Fearn, Dwarffe Elder, water Caltrops, or Aron, of each two ounces, bruise them all being fresh, and steep them, six or seven daies in four pound of old Oyl, the whitest not rank, then boyl them and press them out, and in the Oyl me 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fifteen ounces of white wax, and make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It purgeth excceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies, and if there be any humor of flegm in any part of the body that you know not how to remove (provided the part be not too tender) you may anoint it with this, but yet be not too busie with it, for I tell you plainly 'tis not very safe.
The Colledg] Take of of the juyce of Chamomel four ounces, the juyce of red Roses, Marshmallow roots, of each two ounces, the juyce of Rue, and Bettony, of each an ounce and an half, Oyl of Roses, Omphacine a pound and an half, Alabaster in very fine pouder three ounces, mix them, and let them alone till the next day, then boyl it till the juyce be consumed, then with six ounces of white Wax make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper.] A. I never knew it made, neither know I what to make of it, tis amongst Victorius his Empericks to be found, and a hundred to one but he saith 'tis good for something, but I know not for what. There he quotes abundance of Receipts, and it seems this is one, I have about a hundred of them, but this is none of them.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Rue, Savin, Mints, Wormwood, bitter Almonds, of each one ounce and an half, juyce of Peach flowers and leaves, and Wormwood, of each half an ounce, pouder of Rue, Mints, Centaury the less, Gentian, Tormentil, of each one drachm, the seeds of Coleworts, the pulp of Colocynthis of each two drachms, Aloes Hepatick, three drams, meal of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half an ounce, Mirrh washed in grass Water a drachm and an half, Bulls gall an ounce and an half, with a sufficient quantity of juyce of Lemmons, and an ounce and an half of Wax, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper A. Do but so much as compare the simples of this Oyntment, with my rules at the beginning of the Oyls, and you sh all see pretty sport to laugh at, the Simples making as great a discord, as a Second and a Seventh in Musick, which can hardly be reduced to harmony, but agrees like a harp and a harrow.
The Colledg] Take of Turpentine, yellow Wax, Rosin, Amoniacum, of each fourteen drachms, long Birthwort roots, Olibanum, Bdellium, of each six drachms, Mirrh Galbanum, of each half an ounce, Opopanax, Vert-de-greese of each two drachms, Litharge nine drachms, Oyl two pound, Vineger enough to dissolve the gums, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It consumes corrupt and dead flesh, and makes flesh soft which is hard, it clonseth wounds, Ulcers, and Fistulaes, and restores flesh where it is wanting.
A. Here is our Colledges Religion, ad unguem. King James is their god, Harts-ease their Trinity, their Divinity and holiness in a couple of Plaisters, these twelve ingredients are their Apostles, their Colledge in Amen Corner, where they all sing Allelujah, Anglice Woodsorrel together. Unless their hand of Christ, which is made of Rosewater and Sugar help them, I know not what will become of them, they have no other remedy to fly too but their Plaister called the grace of god, to see if that will help at a dead lift.
The Colledg] Take of Rosemary, Marjoram, mother of Time, Rue, the roots of Aron, and wild Cucumers, of each four onnces and an half, the leaves of Bay sage, Savin, Briony roots, of each three ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each nine ounces, the leaves of wild Cucumers, Nep, of each half a pound, let all of them being gathered in May, clensed and bruised, be steeped seven daies, in six pound of Sallet Oyl, and a pound of Spirit of Wine, boyl them gently till the Spirit be consumed, then strain the Oyl, in which melt Wax sixteen ounces, Bears grease, Oyl of Bayes, of each three ounces, Moschaleum half an ounce, PeterOyl an ounce, Butter four ounces, stir them, and put in these following things in pouder; Mastich, Olibanum, of each seven drachms, Pellitory of Spain, Euphorbium, Ginger, Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper. A. It mightily digesteth and maketh thin, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not without some purging quality; and is very comodious against cold afflictions of the body, but especially of the sinnews, convulsions, falling sickness, pains of the joynts, and great guts; I cannot much commend it, unless I should commend it for its length and tediousness.
The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Sowbread, or for want of it, a strong decoction of the roots, three pound, juyce of wild Cücumers, Heifers Butter, of each a pound, Oyl of Orris two pound, Pulp of Coloquintida, four ounces, Polypodium six ounces, Euphorbium half an ounce: the things to be bruised being bruised, let them be steeped in a glazed vessel close shut eight daies, afterwards boyled in a double vessel till the Juyce be almost consumed, then press it out and dissolve in the Liquor yellow Wax five ounces: whilst it is warm mix with it Sagapen. dissolved in Vineger, Bulls gall boyled in a bath to the thickness of Honey, of each an ounce, then put in these things following in Pouder; Scammony, Turbith, Coloquintida, berries or leaves of Mezereon, Aloes, of each seven drachms; Sal. Gem. half an ounce; Euphorbium long Pepper, Mirrh, Ginger, Chamomel flowers, of each three drachms, make them into an oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. The stomach being anointed with it, it purgeth by vomit; the Belly anoynted with it, it purgeth by stool: the truth is, it is a desperate kind of purge, yet I hold it as fitting as can be to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies, because I conceive it especially purgeth water, and the water in dropsies lie neer the skin. They have altered it a little, and to as little purpose. I fancy not such violent Remedies, sometimes they kill, and sometimes they cure.
The Colledg] Take of Ceruss washed in Purslain water, then in Vinegar wherein wild Rhadish Roots have been steeped and pressed out, Lapis Calaminaris, Chalcitis, of each six drachms, burnt Lead, Goats blood, of each half an ounce, Quick-silver sublimated an ounce, the juyce of Housleek, Nightshade, Plantane of each two ounces, Hogs grease clensed three pound, Oyl of Violets, Poppies, Mandrakes, of each an ounce, first let the Sublimate and Exungia, then the Oyls, Juyces, and Pouders, be mixed, and so made into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Title shews it to be invented against scabs and itch. But I delight not in such kind of Medicines, they are Collegiates that appoint them and may do what they list, nemine contradicence.
The Colledg] Take of Borax an ounce; Camphire a drachm, white Corral half an ounce, Allum Plume an ounce, Umbilicus Marinus, Tragacanth, white Starch of each three drachms, Cristal, Dentalis Eutalis, Olibanum, Niter, white Marble of each two drachms, Gersa Serpeutaria an ounce, Ceruss six ounces, Hogs grease not salted, a pound and an half, Goats Suet prepared an ounce and an half, Hens fat two ounces and an half; Pouder the things as you ought to do both together, and by themselves, melt the fats being clensed in a stone vessel, and steep in them two Citrons of a mean bigness cut in bits, in a warm bath, after a whol week strain it and put in the Pouders by degrees, amongst which, let the Camphire and Borax be the last, stir them and bring them into the form of an Oyntment.
Culpeper] A. It takes away Pimples, redness, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and other deformities of the face, Scabs in any part of the body; it takes away the redness of the eyes, and makes a rough skin smooth. It is a terrible tedious piece of stuff, such as they usually use to make men beleeve wonders, only here they left out Gipsum because they could not tell what it was, they should have asked their Brother Dr. P. S. the Receipt coming from Rome, he could have told them when he was there to be confirmed in his Religion what the walls were plaistered with, for Gypsum is the plaister of a wall.
The Colledg] Take of the middbe Bark of Acorns, Chestnuts, Oaks, Beans, the berries of Mirtles, Horstail, Galls, Grapes stones, unripe Services and Medlars dried, the leaves of Sloe-tree, the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil, of each an ounce and an half, bruise them grosly and boyl them in ten pound of plantane water till half consumed, then take new yellow wax eight ounces and an half, Oyl of Myrtles simple, two pound and an half; melt them and wash them nine times in the aforesaid Decoction, being washed and melted put in these following Pouders, the middle bark of Acorns, Chestnuts, and Oak, Galls, Juyce of Hypocistis, Ashes of the bone of an Ox Leg, Mirtle berries, unripe Grape stones, unripe Services, of each half an ounce, Troches of Amber two ounces, with oyl of Mastich so much as is sufficient, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It seems in my eyes a gallant binding Oyntment, composed neatly by a judicious brain. The belly and reins being anointed with it, it staies abortion, or miscarriage in women though already begun, it strengthens weak backs exceedingly, and stops the immoderate flowing of the terms, and hemorrhoids, and falling out of the fundament and womb; finally, for every occasion that requires binding, I would if I were Eloquent, commend it in the superlative degree.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Bay leaves three pound Garden Rue two pound and an half, Marjoram two pound, Mints a pound, Sage, Wormwood, Costmary, Bazil of each half a pound, Sallet oyl twenty pound, yellow wax four pound, Malaga wine two pound, of all of them being bruised, boyled and pressed out as they ought, make an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper. A. This is not the Oyntment they prescribed before under that name, nor half so tedious, therefore I like it better: It is a great strengthener of the head, it being anoynted with it; as also of all the parts of the body, especially the nerves, muscles and arteries.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Mastich, Wormwood and Nard, of each an ounce, Mastich, Mints, red Roses, red Corral, Cloves, Cinnamon, Wood of Aloes Squinanth, of each a drachm, wax as much as is sufficient to make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. This is like the former, and not a whit inferior to it, it strengthens the stomach being
anointed with it, restores appetite and digestion. Before it was called a Stomach Oyntment.
The Colledg] Take of Hogs grease washed in juyce of Sage a pound, Quick-silver* 13.86 strained through Lether, killed with Spittle four ounces, Oyl of Bays, Chamomel and Earthworms, of each two ounces, Spirit of Wine an ounce, yellow wax two ounces, Turpentine washed in juyce of Elicampane three ounces, Pouder of Chamepytis and Sage, of each two drams, make them into an Oyatment according to art.
Culpeper] A. A Learned art to spoyl people: hundreds are bound to curse such Oyntments, and those that appoint them; 'tis not enough for a man to be plagued with the pocks, but he must be worse plagued with preposterous Medicines.
The Colledg] Take of Cowslips with the Flowers, Sage, Chamepytis, Rosemary, Lavender, Bay with the Berries, Chamomel, Rue, Smallage, Melilot with the flowers, wormwood of each a handful, mints, Betony, Penyroyal, Parsly, Centaury the less, St. Johns wort, of each half a handful, Oyl of Sheeps or Bullocks feet, five pound, Oyl of Spike half an ounce; Sheeps or Bullocks suct, or the Marrow of either two pound, the Herbs being bruised and boyled with the Oyl and Suet, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It is apropriated to the nerves, and helps their infirmrties coming of cold, (which you may find often enough related, I do not love alwaies to harp upon the same string) as also old bruises; make use of it in dead pal seys, chilliness or coldness of particular members, such as the Arteries perform not their office to as they ought; for wind anoynt your belly with it; for want of digestion, your stomach; for the Chollick, your belly; for what ever diseas in any part of the body comes of cold, esteem of this as a Jewel, and you shall give me thanks for declaring it, after you have been thankful to God for raising me up to that end.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Butter washed in Violet water, six ounces, oyl of sweet Almonds four ounces, oyl of Chamomel and Violets, white wax, of each three ounces, Hens and Ducks grease of each two ounces, orris roots two drachms, Saffron half a drachm: the two last being finely poudered the rest melted and often washed in Barly or Hysop water, make an oyntment of them according to art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the breast and stomach, easeth the pains thereof, helps pleuresies and consumptions of the lungues, the breast being anointed with it. Now they have mended their nonsensical boyling of the Butter.
The Colledg] Take of fresh black Poplar buds one pound and an half, the flowers of Violets and Navilwort of the wall, of each three ounces; fresh Hogs grease three pound, all of them being beaten together, in May let them stand a while, add the tops of Rasberries, the leaves of black Poppies, Mandrake, Henbane, Nightshade, Lettice, Housleck, great and smal, Burs the greater of each three ounces, beat them all together, and all of them being mixed, after ten daies with a pound of Rose water, boyl it till all the super fluous humidity be consumed, then strain it and press it out that it may be an oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is exceeding good in burnings, scaldings, and inflamations, it asswageth the heat of the head and Kidneys, the temples being anointed with it, it provokes sleep. They have in their last something altered this, but to little purpose, or none at all; they must do something as the woman said, when she sh — in the house and made it clean again.
The Colledg] Take of Hogs grease three ounces, the grease of Hens, Geese, and Ducks, of each two ounces, Oesipus half an ounce, oyl of Violets, Chamomel and Dill, of each two ounces, fresh Butter a pound, white wax six ounces, Mussilage of Gum 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Arabick, Quince seeds, Linseeds, Marsh Mallow roots, of each half an ounce; let the Mussilages be made in Rose water, and adding the rest, make it into an oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It mightily mollifies without any manifest heat, and is therefore a fit oyntment for such as have Agues, Asthmaes, hectich Feavers, or Consumptions. It is a gallant oyntment to ease pains coming by inflamations of wounds or Aposthumes, especially such as driness accompanies, an infirmity wounded people are many times troubled with. In inward Aposthems, as pleuresies, is one of them to anoint the external region of the part is very beneficial.
The Colledg] Take of oyl of Cappers an ounce, oyl of white Lillies, Chamomel, fresh Butter, juyce of Briony and Sow-bread, of each half an ounce, bayl it to the consumption of the juyce, ad Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar two drachms and an half, Hens grease, Oesypus, Marrow of a Calfs leg, of each half an ounce, Pouder of the Bark of the roots of Tamaris and Cappers, Fearn roots, Cetrach, of each a drachm, the seeds of Agnus Castus, and Broom, of each a scruple, with a sufficient quantity of wax make it into an oyntment according to art.
The Colledg] Take of the Bark of Capper roots six drachms, Briony roots, orris Florentine, pouder of sweet Fennel seed, Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger, of each half an ounce, tops of wormwood, Chamomel flowers of each a drachm, oyntment of the juyce and flowers of orrenges of each six drachms, oyl of orris and Cappers of each an ounce and an half, the things which ought being poudered and sifted, the rest dilligently mixed in a hot mortar, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. Before they called these Unguentum Splenicum, which because every one that understood any Latin might understand, they invented a hideous
name, Unguentum Splanchnicum.
A. There are some that cannot abide Oyntments, yet can easily bear Plaisters; therefore when occasion is given, you may make up the Oyntment in form of a Plaister, by adding a little Wax, Ship Pitch, Cyperus, Turpentine.
A. Both these Oyntments are apropriated to the spleen, and ease the pains thereof, the sides being anointed with them. I fancy not the former.
The Colledg] Take of Juyce of dwarf Elder eight ounces, of Small age and Parsly of each four ounces, Wormwood and Orris of each five ounces, Common Oyl half a pound, Oyl of white Lillies ten ounces, of wormwood and Chamomel of each six ounces, the fat of Ducks and Hens of each two ounces, boyl them together with a gentle fire till the Juyces be consumed, then strain it and with seven ounces of white wax, and a little white wine Vineger, make it into an Oyntment according to art. See Unguentum ex 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Aperitivis.
The Colledg] Take of Sumach, unripe 〈◊〉〈◊〉, mirtle Berries, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Pomegranate Pills, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cups, Cypress Nuts, Acacia, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each ten drachms, white Wax five ounces, Oyl of Roses often washed in Allum water, a pound and ten ounces, make a fine pouder of the things you can and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them four whol daies in juyce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and unripe Services, of each a sufficient quantity, then dry them by a gentle fire, and with the Oyl and wax boyl it into an Oyntment.
Culpeper] A. It is a gallant drying and binding Oyntment, my former Rules will shew you what it's good for, be studious, be studious; besides the stomach anoynted with it staies vomiting, and the belly anoynted with it staies loosness; if the Eundament fall out, when you have put it up again, anoynt it with this Oyntment and it will fall out no more; do the like by the womb if that fall out. They had the honesty before to call it a binding Oyntment, now it hath another name, and its place is changed, give God the glory that he hath left a way to do you good in spite of their subtilty, and I shall do the like that he hath made me an Instrument to do it.
The Colledg] Take of Marsh-Mallow Roots two 〈◊〉〈◊〉; the seeds of Flax and Foenugreek of each one pound; Pulp of Squils half a pound; Oyl four pound; Wax one pound; Turpentine, Gum of Ivy, Galbanum, of each two ounces, Colophonia, Rozin, of each half a pound: let the Roots be well washed and bruised, as also the Linseed, Foenugreek seed and Squills, then steep them three daies in eight pints of Water, the fourth day boyl them a little upon the fire, and draw out the Mussilage, of which take two pound and boyl it with the Oyl to the consumption of the juyce; afterwards, add the Wax, Rozin, and Colophonia; when they are melted, add the Turpentine, afterwards the Galbanum and Gum of Ivie, dissolved in Vineger, boyl them a little; and having removed them from the fire, stin them till they are cold, that so they may be well incorporated.
Culpeper] A. They both (viz. this and the former) heat and moisten; the latter helps pains of the breast coming of cold and pleuresies, old aches, and stitches, and softens hard swellings.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Roses sixteen ounces; Juyce of Nightshade six ounces: let them boyl to the consumption of the juyce, then add white Wax five ounces; Ceruss washed two ounces; Lead burnt and washed, Pompholix prepared, pure Frankinsence, of each an ounce; let them be brought into the form of an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. It cools an binds, dries, and staies fluxes, either of blood or humors in wounds, and fills 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ulcers with flesh; this is much like 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Oyntment of Nightshade in their last Edition, and of the same operation, and the very same receipt, they last time called Guilielmus Placentinus Simple Liniament. Good Lord what shifts are they put too, to cheat this 〈◊〉〈◊〉! well, though I cannot rout the Colledge, yet know all men by this Oyntment, I have put them to their shifts.
The Colledg.] Take of white Wax four ounces; Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound; melt it in a double vessel, then powr it out into another, by degrees putting in cold water, and often 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it out of one vessel into another, stirring it till it be white; last of all wash it in Rose Water, adding a little Rose Water and Rose Vineger.
Culpeper] A. It is a fine cooling thing, (for what denomination to give it I scarce know) and exceeding good, yea super-excellent to cure inflamations in wounds or tumors.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mints, Wormwood, Common Parsly, Valerian, of each three ounces; oyl of Wormwood and Mints, of each half a pound; yellow Wax three ounces; mix them together over the fire, and make of them an Oyntment. Sometimes is added also the pouders of Calamus Aromaticus, Spicknard, of each one drachm; a little oyl of Cappers.
Culpeper] A. It opens stoppages of the stomach and spleen, easeth the Rickets, the breast and sides being anointed with it.
The Colledg] Take of the Leaves of Bay and Rosemary, of each eight ounces; Rue seven ounces; Tamaris fix ounces; the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder, Marjoram, Savin, Costmary, or else, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ater-mints, Sage, Bazil, Polcy-mountain, Calaminth, Mugwort, Elicampane, Betony, 〈◊〉〈◊〉-Ursine, Goose grass or Cleavers, Anemone or Wind-flower, or for want of it, Pellitory of the Wall, Burnet, Agrimony, Wormwood, Cowslips, Garden Costus, Elders, Orphine the greater, Housleek the greater and lesser, Yarrow, Germander, Centaury the less, Plantane, Strawberries, * 13.87 Tetrahit or for a 13.88 want of it Golden-rod, Cynksoyl, of each four ounces and an half; the roots of Marsh-mallows, the seeds of Cummin, Mirrh, of each three ounces; Foenugreck an ounce and an half; the seeds of the greater Nettles, of Violets, red or erratick Poppies, commonly called Corn-roses, Garden Mints, Sorrel, wild Mints, Maindenhair, Carduus Benedictus, Woodbind or Honeysuckles, Valerian the greater, sweet Cranebil, or Muschata, Wood-sorrel, Harts-tongue, o 13.89 Ox-eye, Southernwood, Marrow of a Stag, Styrax Calamitys, of each half an ounce; Butter ten drachms; Bears and Hens grease, Mastich, Frankinsence, of each one ounce; Nard Oyl two ounces; Wax two pound: let the Herbs being green, be cut, and insused in eight pounds of Oyl with Wine for seven daies, on the eighth day let them be boyled almost to the consumption of the Wine, then being removed from the fire, let it be strained and the Oyl put into the pan again, to which (being a little warmed) ad the Butter, Marrow, Fat, Nard Oyl, and Wax, then the Styrax dissolved in Wine and mixed with a little Turpentine, but let the Mastich, Mirrh, and Frankinsence being heaten into pouder be put in last of all, and when they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 all wil mixed together, keep the Oyntment in a vessel.
Culpeper. A. This long Receipt of Nich. Myrepsus, is held to be profitable against cold afflictions of the brain, nerves, and joynts, as shaking palsey, dead palsey, convulsions &c. it helps numbness of the joynts, the gout and hard tumors of the spleen.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Rue, Savin, Mints, Wormwood, and bitter Almonds, of each an ounce and an half; juyce of the flowers or leaves of Peaches, and Wormwood, of each half an ounce; Pouder of Rue, Mints, Gentain, Centaury the less, Tormentill, of each one drachm; the seeds of Coleworts, the Pulp of Colocynthis, of each two drachms; Aloes Hepatick, three drachms; the meal of Lupines half an ounce; Mirrh washed in grass water, a drachm and an half; Bulls, Gall an ounce and an half: with juyce of Lemmons so much as is sufficient, and an ounce and an half of Wax, make it into an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Belly being anointed with it, kills the worms
The Colledg] TAke of Galbanum prepared an ounce and an half, Assafaetid a half an ounce, Bdellium a drachm, Mirrh two drachms, Wax two ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seeds a scruple; Featherfew, Mugwort of each half a drachm, dissolve the Gums in Vineger, and make it a Cerecloath according to art.
Culpeper] A. Being applied to the belly of a woman after labor, it clenseth her of any 〈◊〉〈◊〉 accedentally left behind, helps the fits of the mother, and other accedents incident to women in that case.
The Colledg] Take of Oesypus ten ounces, Oyl of Chamomel, and Orris, of each half a pound, yellow Wax two pound, Rozin a pound, Mastich, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Turpentine, of each an ounce; Spicknard two drachms and an half, Saffron a drachm and an half, Styrax Calamitis, half an ounce, make them into a Cerecloath according to art.
Culpeper] A. It mollifies and digests hard swellings of the liver, spleen, womb, nerves, joynts, and other parts of the body, and is a great easer of pain.
The Colledg] Take of red Sanders ten drachms, white and yellow Sanders, of each six drachms, red Roses twelve drachms, Bole Armenick seven drams, Spodium four drachms, Camphire two drachms, white Wax washed thirty drachms, Oyl of Roses, Omphacine six ounces, make it into a Cerecloath according to art.
Culpeper] A. It wonderfully helps hot infirmities of the stomach, liver, and other parts, being but aplied to them.
Culpeper] A I Hope no body is so simple to eat Plaisters. The general 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of application is to the grieved place. You may melt them in any earthen dish, and so spread them upon a cloath or white leather.
The Colledg] Take of Amoniacum, Bran well sifted, of each an ounce, Oyntmen t of Marshmallows, Mellilot Plaister compound, roots of Briony, and Orris in pouder, of each half an ounce, the fat of Ducks Geese, and Hens, of each three drachms, Bdellium, Galbanum, of each one drachm and an half, Perrozin, Wax; of each five ounces, Oyl of Orris, Turpentine, of eaah half an ounce, boyl the Fats and Oyl with Mussilage of Linseed, and Foenugreek seed, of each three ounces, to the consumption of the Mussilage, strain it, and add the Wax, Rozin, and Turpentine, the Oyntment of Marshmallows with the Plaister of Meliot, when it begins to be cold, put in the Amoniacum, dissolved in Vineger, then the Bdellium in pouder, with the rest of the pouders, and make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. By [Plaister] alwaies understand not a Plaister spread upon a cloath, but a roll made to spread such a one withal.
A. It softens and asswageth hard swellings, and scatters the humors offending, applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen, asswageth pains thence arising.
The Colledg] Take of Bay berries husked Turpentine of each two ounces, Frankinsence, Mastich, Mirrh, of each an ounce, Cyperus, Costus, of each half an ounce, Honey warmed and * 13.90 not scummed, four ounces, make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is an excellent Plaister to ease any pains coming of cold or wind, in any part of the body, whether stomach, liver, belly, reins, or bladder. It is an excellent remedy for the Collick and wind in the bowels.
The Colledg] Take of dry Pitch eight pound yellow Wax six pound and eight ounces, Perrosin five pound and four ounces, Bitumen, Judaicum, or Mummy four pound, Oyl one pound and an half, Vert-degrease, Litharge, Ceruss, of each three ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half a pound, Roch Alum not burnt an ounce and an half, Burnt four ounces, Opopanax, Scales of Brass; Gal banum, of each twelve, drachms, Aloes, Opium; Mirrh, of each half an ounce, Turpentine two pound, Juyce of Mandrakes, or else dried Bark of the root, six drachms, Vineger five pound, let the Licharge, Ceruss, and Oyl, boyl to the thickness of Honey, then, incorporate with them, the pitch being melted with Bitumen in pouder, then add the rest, and boyl them according to art, till the Viniger be consumed, and it stick not to your hands.
Culpeper] A. It helps the bitings of men and beasts, easeth the inflamations of wounds, and helps infirmities of the joynts, and gouts in the beginning.
The Colledg] Take of Betony Burnet, Agrimony, Sage, Penyroyal, Yarrow, comfry the greater, * 13.91 Clary, of each six ounces, Frankinsence, Mastich, of each three drachms, Orris, round-Birthwort, of each six drachms, white Wax, Turpentine, of each eight ounces, Per-rosin six ounces, Gum 〈◊〉〈◊〉, a 13.92 Oyl of fir, of each two ounces, white Wine three pound, bruise the hearbs, boyl them in the Wine, then strain them, and add the rest, and make them into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a gallant Plaister to unite the skul when it is cracked, to draw out pieces of broken bones and cover the bones with flesh; It draws filth from the bottom of deep ulcers, rest ores flesh lost, clenseth, digesteth, and drieth.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses one ounce and an half, Bistort roots, Cipress Nuts, all the Sanders, Mints, Coriander seeds, of each three drachms, Mastich half an ounce, Hypocistis, Acacia, Dragons blood, Earth of Lemnos, Bole-Armenick, red Corral, of each two drachms, Turpentine washed in Plantane water, four ounces, Oyl of Roses three ounces, white Wax twelve ounces, Perrosin ten ounces, Pitch six ounces, the juyce of Plantane 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each an ounce, the Wax, Rosin, and pitch, being melted together, add the Turpentine and Oyl, then the Hypocistis, and Acacia dissolved in the Juyces, at last the Pouders, and make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is of a fine, cool, binding, strengthening nature, excellent good to repel 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or vapours that ascend up to the head, the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown.
The Colledg] Take of juyce of Marshmallow roots six ounces, Bark of Ash treeroots, and their leaves, the roots of Comsry the greater, and smaller with their leaves, of each two ounces, Mirtle berries, an ounce and an half, the leaves of Willow, the tops of St. Johns wart, of each an handful and an half, having bruised them, boyl them together in red Wine, and Smiths water, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two pound, till half be consumed, strain it, and ad Oyl of Mirtles, and Roses, Omphacine, of each one pound and an half, Goats 〈◊〉〈◊〉 eight ounces, boyl it again, to the consumption of the decoction, strain it again, and add Litharge of Gold and Silver, red Lead, of each four ounces, yellow Wax one pound, Colophonia half a pound, boyl it to the consistance of a Plaister, then add Turpentine two ounces, Mirrh, Frankinsence Mastich, of each half an ounce, Bole Armenick, Earth of Lemnos, of each an ounce, stir them about well, till they be boyled, and made into an Emplaister according to art.
The Colledg] Take of the roots of Comfry the greater, Marshmallows, Missleto of the Oak, of each two ounces, Plantane, Chamepitys, St. Johns-wort, of each a handful, boyl them 〈◊〉〈◊〉 parts of black Wine, and Smiths water, till half be consumed, strain it, and add Mussilage of Quince seeds, made in tripe water, Oyl of Mastich, and Roses, of each four ounces, boyl it to the consumption of the Humidity, and having strained it, ad Litharge of Gold four ounces, boyl it to the consistance of an Emplaister, then ad yellow Wax four ounces, Turpentine three ounces, Colophonia six drachms, Ship-pitch ten ounces, pouders of Balaustines, Roses, Mirtle, Acacia, of each half an ounce, Mummy, Androsamum, Mastich, Amber, of each six drachms, Bole Armenick, fine flower, Frankinsence, of each twelve drachms, Dragons blood two ounces, make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper. A. Both this and the former are binding, and drying, the former rules will instruct you in the use.
The Colledg] Take of Rosin two ounces, black Pitch one ounce, Labdanum, Turpentine, flower of Beans, and Orobus, Doves dung, of each half an ounce, Mirrh, Mastich, of each one drachm and an half, Gum of Juniper, Nutmegs, of each two drams, dissolve the Mirrh, and Labdanum in a bot mortar, and adding the rest, make it into a Plaister according to art. If you will have it stronger, ad the pouders, Euphorbium, Pellitory of Spain, and black Pepper, of each two scruples.
Culpeper] A. It is proper to strengthen the brain and repel such vapours as anoy it, and those pouders being added it dries up the superfluous moisture thereof, and easeth the eyes of hot scalding vapors that anoy them.
The Colledg] Take of Ceruss in fine pouder, white Wax, Sallet Oyl, of each three ounces, ad the Oyl by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the Ceruss, and holy it by continuall stirring over a gentle fire, till it begin to swell, then ad the Wax, cut small, by degrees, and boyl it to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 just consistance.
Culpeper] A. It helps burns, dry scabs, and hot ulcers, and in general what ever sores abound with moisture.
The Colledg] Take of the juyce of Hemlock four ounces, Vineger of Squills, and Ammoniacum, of each eight ounces, dissolve the Gum in the juyce, and Vineger, after a due infusion, then strain it, into its just consistance according to art.
Culpeper] A. I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extream pains, and alay the inflamations of wounds, for which it is very good; Let it not be applied to any principal part.
The Colledg] Take of Cinnabaris an ounce and an half, Euphorbium, Auripigmentum, of each two drachms and an half, beat them into fine pouder, and unite them with Galbanum, Burgundy, Pitch, of each two ounces and an half, Plaister of Mussilages three ounces, Unguentum Egiptiacum half an ounce, make it into a Plaister without boyling.
Culpeper] A. I wonder what this poysonous Plaister was invented for, unless to Poyson mens wounds, and set the cure as fast backward, as a months well dressiug can set it forward, to eat out dead flesh it cannot, for that is belonging to Oyntments, dead flesh is usually in hollow ulcers, and a Plaister cannot come at it; but imagine it could, yet would such a Plaister as this poyson the flesh round about.
The Colledg] Take of Mastich, Mints, Spodium red Corral, all the Sanders of each one drachm, Oyl of Mastich, and Quinces, of each one drachm and an half, a Crust of Bread tosted, and three times steeped in red Rose Vineger, and as often dried, Labdanum, of each two ounces, Rosin four ounces, Styrax Calamitis half an ounce, Barly meal five drachms, make them into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. I shall commend this for as gallant a Plaister to strengthen the brain as any is in the Dispensatory, the hair being shaved off and it applied to the crown; also being applied to the stomach it strengthens it, helps digestion, staies vomiting and putrifaction, of the meat there. Montagnana was the Author of it, not the Colledg.
The Colledg.] Take of Cummin-seed, Bay ber ies, yellow Wax, of each one pound, Per-rosin two pound, common Rosin three pound, Oyl of Dill half a pound, mix them, and make them into a Plaister.
Culpeper.] A. I am of opinion here is not half Oyl enough to make it into a Plaister; they that make of it know better than I; I judge but by reason, they know by experience.
A. It asswageth swellings, takes away old aches coming of bruises, and applied to the belly, is an excellent remedy for the wind chollick. This I have often proved, and alwaies with good success.
The Colledg] Take of Hogs grease, fresh and purged from the skins two pound, Oyl of Olive omphacine, Litharge of Gold beaten and sifted, of each three pound, white Vitriol burnt and purged four ounces: Let the Litharge, grease, and oyl boyl together with a gentle fire, with a little Plantane water, alwaies stirring it to the consistence of a Plaister, into which (being removed from the fire) put in the Vitriol and make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. Before it was to be made in this manner: First let the Litharge boyl with the Oyl and Grease a long time, continually stirring it with the branch of a Palm or other tree of a binding nature, as Oak, Box, or Medlar, which is new cut, that so the vertue of the Spatula may be mixed with the Plaister, cutting off the top and the rind, even to the wood it self; the mixture being thus made thick by boyling and stirring, and removed from the fire, put in white Copperis for want of true Chalcitis in pouder, and so make it into a laudable mass for an Emplaister.
A. It is a very drying, binding Plaister; profitable in green wounds to hinder putrifaction, as also in pestilential sores after they are broken, and ruptures; as also in burnings and scaldings.
A. Before it was called Diapalma, because of the branch of the Palm-tree, and Diacaleiteos, because of the Calcitis in it; but now neither of both be in: me thinks such a Learned Colledg might in three daies hard study, have invented a new name.
The Colledg] Take of Mussilage of Linseed, Foenugreek seed, Marsh mallow roots, of each one pound; old Oyl three pound; boyl it to the consumption of the Mussilage, strain it, and ad Litharge of Gold in fine Pouder, one pound and an half; boyl them with a little water over a gentle fire alwaies stirring them to a just thickness.
Culpeper] A. It is an exceeding good remedy for all swellings without pain, it softens hardness of the Liver and Spleen, it is very gentle like the Author of it [Mesue] very moderate and harmless, and it may be therefore neglected by the phantastical Chyrurgians of our age.
The Colledg] Ad one ounce of Orris in Pouder to every pound of Diachylon simple.
The Colledg] Take of Mussilage of Raisons, fat Figs, Mastich, Mallow Roots, Linseeds and Foenugreek seeds, Birdlime, the Juyce of Orris and Squills, of each twelve drachms and an half, Oesypus or Oyl of sheeps seet, an ounce and an half; oyl of Orris, Chamomel, Dill of each eight ounces; Litharge of Gold in fine pouder one pound; Turpentine three ounces; Per-rozin, yellow Wax, of each two ounces: boyl the Oyl with the Mussilages and Juyces to the comsumption of the humidity, strain the Oyl from the Facies and by adding the Litharge boyl it to its consistence; then ad the Rozin and Wax; Lastly, it being removed from the fire, ad the Turpentine, Oesypus, and Birdlime, make of them a Plaister by melting them according to art.
Culpeper] A. It dissolves hardness and inflamations.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Ammoniacum, of each two ounces, dissolved in Wine, and added to the Mass of Diachylon magnum; first boyl the Gums being dissolved, to the thickness of Honey.
Culpeper] A. This is the best to dissolve 〈◊〉〈◊〉 swellings of all the three.
The Colledg] Take of Mucilages of the middle bark of Elm, Marsh-mallow roots, Linseed and Foenugreek seed of each four ounces and an half, Oyl of Chamomel, Lillies, and Dill, of each an ounce and an half; Ammoniacum, Galbanum, Sagapex. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of each half an ounce, new wax twenty ounces, Turpentine two ounces Saffron two drachms, dissolve the Gums in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It ripens swellings and breaks them, and clenseth them when they are broken. It is of a most excellent ripening nature.
The Colledg] Take of yellow Wax two ounces, Per-rozin, Pitch, of each four ounces, Oyl of Roses and Nard, of each one ounce, melt them together, and add Pulp of Dates made in Wine four ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Quinces boyled in red wine an ounce, then the Pouders following; Take of bread twice baked steeped in Wine and dried two ounces, Mastich an ounce, Frankinsence, wormwood, red Roses, Spicknard, of each two drachms and an half, wood of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mace, Mirrh, washed Aloes, Acacia, Troches of Gallia Moschata, and earth of Lemnos, Calamus Aromaticus, of each one drachm, Labdanum three ounces, mix them and make them into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the stomach and Liver exceedingly, helps fluxes, apply it to the places grieved, your mother wit will teach you not to apply it to the Nose for fluxes, nor yet to the soles of your feet to strengthen your stomach.
The Colledg] Take of Wax four ounces, Ship Pitch five ounces, Labdanum three ounces and an half; Turpentine an ounce and an half; oyl of Roses one ounce, melt these and ad Pulp of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 almost ripe boyled in austere Wine four ounces; flesh of Quinces in like manner boyled, Bread twice baked, often steeped in red Wine and dried of each an ounce; Styrax Calamitys, Acacia, Unripe Grapes, Balaustines, yellow Sanders, Troches of Terra Lemnia, Mirrh, wood of
Aloes of each half an ounce, Mastich, red Roses, of each an ounce and an half, Austere Wine, as much as is sufficient to dissolve the juyces, make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A It strengthens the belly and liver, helps concoction in those parts, and distribution of humors, staies vomiting and fluxes.
The Colledg] Take of Load-stone four ounces, Ammoniacum three ounces and three drachms; Bdellium two ounces; Galbanum, Mirrh, of each ten drachms; Olibanum nine drachms; Opopanax, Mastich, Long Birthwort, Vert-de-greece, of each one ounce; Litharge, common Oyl, of each a pound and an half; new Wax eight ounces: Let the Litharge in fine Pouder be boyled with the Oyl to a thickness, then ad the Wax, which being melted, take it from the fire, ad the Gums dissolved in Wine or Vineger, strain it, then ad the Mirrh, Mastich, Frankinsence, Birthwort, and Load stone in Pouder; Last of all the Vert-degreese in Pouder, and make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is of a clensing nature, exceeding good against malignant Ulcers, it consumes corruption, engenders new flesh, and brings them to a scar.
A. Herein lies the Colledges Religion, if you would know what it is; for they are neither Presbiterians, nor Independants.
The Colledg] Take of Mustard seed, Euphorbibium, Long Pepper, of each a drachm and an half; Staves-acre, Pellitory of Spain, of each two drachms; Ammoniacum, Galbanum, Bdellium, Sagapon. of each three drachms, * 13.93 whol Cantharides five drachms; Ship-pitch, Rozin, yellow Wax, of each six drachms; Turpentine as much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister.
Culpeper] A. Many people use to draw blisters in their necks for the toothach, or for Rhewns in their eyes, if they please to lay a Plaister of this there, it will do it.
The Colledg] Take of Rozin, Per-rozin, yellow wax, Sheep suet, of each half a pound, Olibanum four ounces, Turpentine two ounces and an half; Murh, Mastich of each an ounce; Camphire two drachms; white Wine half a pound, boyl them into a Plaister.
Culpeper] A. I found this Receipt in an old Manuscript written in the year 1513. the quantity of the Ingredients but very little altered (except analogically) and the vertue of it thus described verbatim.
A. Yt ys well clensande and well sowdande and generande the flesh, and heland more yn eight days then ony other Trete woll doe yn a monyth, for yt wyll soffer noe corruption yn a wounde, ne noe dead flesh to byde thereyn; also yt ys good for headache and for wynde yn the brayn, and for all mannyr posthymes yn the head, or yn the body, for swelling of the eares, or of the cheekes, for all mannyr of synowes that ys grieved, or breysyd, or sprong, and yt woll draw out yrne or splynts of trees, or thornes, or broken bones, or ony other thyngs that may grow yn a wounde, and yt ys good for bytyng of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bests, and yt 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and healls all mannyr of boches without fawt, and yt ys good for sester or canker, and for noli me tangere, and yt drawys out all mannyr of akyng yn the lyver or reynes, or mylt, and helpyth the emerauds.
The Colledg] Take of Gum Elemi three ounces; Per-rozin, Wax, Ammoniacum, of each two ounces; Turpentine three ounces and an half; Malaga Wine so much as is sufficient, boyl it to the consumption of the Wine, then ad the Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger.
Culpeper] A. The operation is the same with Arceus Liniment.
The Colledg] Take of Lapis Calaminaris prepared an ounce, Litharge two ounces, Ceruss half an ounce, Tutty a drachm, Turpentine six drachms; white Wax an ounce and an half; Stags suet two ounces; Frankinsence five drachms; Mastich three drachms; Mirrh two drachms; Camphire a drachm and an half, make it up according to art.
Culpeper.] A. Before they set down Stags suet twice, and now they left out a sufficient quantity of it; do not they know that both Lapis Calaminar is and Litharge are of an exceeding drying nature? and that six drachms of Turpentine and two ounces of Stags suet is not half enough to make only them two into a Plaister? If they do know it, why do they set it so down? if they do not know it, why do they meddle with what they have no skill in? and yet forsooth 'tis two-penny treason to swerve from their rediculous Receipts; so imperious they are, just like a Spaniard that will not leave his magestical gate, even when he is whipt at carts tail.
The Colledg] Take of Galls, Cipress Nuts, Pomegranate pills, Balaustines, Acacia, the seeds of Plantane, Fleawort, Watercresses, Acorn cups, Beans torrified, Birthwort long and round, Mirtles, of each half an ounce, let these be poudered, and steeped in Rose Vineger, four daies, then torrified and dried, then take of Comsry the greater and lesser, Horse tail, Woad, Cetrach, the roots of Osmond Royall, Fearn, of each an ounce, Frankinsence, Mirrh, Aloes, Mastich, Mummy, of each two ounces, Bole-Armenick washed in Vineger, Lap. Calaminaris prepared, Litharge of Gold, Dragons blood, of each three ounces, Ship-pitch two pound, Turpentine six ounces, or as much as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. The Plaister is very binding and knitting, apropriated to ruptures or bursteness, as the title of it specifies; it strengthens the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and womb, staies abortion, or miscarriage in women, it consolidates wounds, and helps all diseases coming of cold and moisture. If you mix a little Diapalma with it, it will stick the better.
The Colledg] Take of Bistort roots one pound, Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, Nutmegs, Barbery Kernels, Rose seeds, of each one ounce, Cinnamon, Cloves, Squinanth, Camomel flowers, of each half an ounce, Frankinsence, Mastich, Alipta Moschata, Gallia Moschata, Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram, Mosch half a drachm, yellow Wax one pound and an half, Turpentine half a pound, Moschaleum four ounces, Labdanum four pound, Ship-pitch three pound, let the Labdanum and Turpentine, be added to the pitch and Wax, being melted, then the Styrax, lastly the rest in pouder, and sisted, that they may be made into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. I know not justly what they mean by that word [Anthera] in the Receipt, unless they mean the hairy threeds in the middle of the Rose, which usually Country People call (though faslv) Rose seeds: As I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum, of the Greek 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the flowers of Roses. But indeed Ancients, as Galen &c. gave the word Anthera to many Compound medicines that had no Roses at all in them: but I cannot stand to dispute the story here. The plaister being applied to the navil, is a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such women as are subject to them, by retaing the womb in its place.
The Colledg] Take of Mastich three ounces, BoleArmenick washed in black Wine, an ounce and an half, red Roses six drachms, Ivory, Mirtle berries, red Corral, of each half an ounce, Turpentine, Colophonia, Tachamahacca, Labdanum, of each two ounces, yellow Wax half a pound, Oyl of Mirtles, four ounces, make it a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a binding Plaister, strengthens the stomach, being applied to it, and helps such as loath their victuals, or cannot digest it, or retain it till it be digested.
The Colledg.] Take of Rosin eight pound, yellow Wax four pound, Sheeps Suet two pound, these being melted, add green Melilot cut small, five pound, make it a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a gallant drawing and healing Plaister, no way offensive to any part of the body, it clenseth wounds of their filth, ripeneth swellings, and breaks them, and cures them when it hath done, it is special good for those swellings vulgarly in London called Felons, in Suffex Andicoms, only have a care of applying it to the legs, because of its drawing quality, to any other part of the body, in a sore that hath any putrifaction in it, it is none of the worst Plaisters.
The Colledg] Take of Melilot flowers six drams, Chamomel flowers, the seeds of Fenugreek, Bay berries husked, Marshmallow roots, the tops of Wormwood and Marjoram, of each three drachms, the seeds of Smallage, Ammi, Cardamoms, the roots of Orris, Cyperus, Spicknard, Cassia Lignea, of each one dram and an half, Bdellium five drachms, beat them all into fine pouder, the Pulp of Twelve Figs, and incorporate them with a pound and an half of Melilot Plaister Simple, Turpentine an ounce and an half, Amoniacum dissolved in Hemlock Vineger, three ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 five drachms, Oyl of Marjoram, and Nard, of each half an ounce, or a sufficient quantity, make it into a Plaister with a hot mortar and pestle, without boyling.
Culpeper] A. It mollifies the hardness of the stomach liver spleen, bowels and other part of the body; it wonderfully asswageth pain, and easeth Hypocondriack melancholly, and the Rickets.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Roses, Omphacine twenty ounces, Oyl of Mastich two ounces, Suet of a Sheep and a Calfe, of each half a pound, Litharge of Gold and Silver, red Lead, of each two ounces, a taster full of Wine, boyl them by a gentle fire, continually stirring it, till it grow black, let the fire be hottest towards the latter end, then add Turpentine half a pound, Mastich two ounces, Gum Elemi one ounce, white Wax as much as is sufficient, boyl them a little, and make them into a Plaister accordiag to art.
Culpeper. A. It potently cures wounds, old malignant ulcers, and is very drying.
The Colledg] Take of red Lead nine ounces, Oyl of red Roses, one pound and an half, white Wine Vineger six ounces, boyl it into the perfect body of a Plaister.
It is prepared without Vineger thus, Take of red Lead one pound, Oyl of Roses one pound and an half, Wax half a pound, make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is a fine cooling healing Plaister, and very drying.
The Colledg] Take of Mastich one ounce and an half, Galbanum dissolved in red Wine and strained, six drachms, Cypress, Turpentine two drachms, Cypress Nuts, Galls of each one drachm and an half, Oyl of Nutmegs by expression one drachm, Musk two grains and an half, Pitch scraped off from old Ships, two drachms aud an half, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Galbanum, Pitch, Turpentine, and Mastich, gently in a hot mortar and Pestle, towards the end, adding the Oyl of Nutmegs then the rest in pouder, last of all the Musk mixed with a little Oyl of Mastich upon a Marble, and by exact mixture make them into a Plaister.
Culpeper] A. It was invented (as I suppose) to comfort and strengthen the retentive faculty in the stomach and belly, and therefore staies loosness and vomiting, and helps the fits of the mother, being applied to the navill.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Chamomel, and Roses, of each two ounces, of Mastich, Tur pentine, and Linseeds, of each an ounce and an half, Turpentine boyled four ounces, Suet of a* 13.94 Gelt Calse, and of a Hee Goat, of each two ounces and an half, 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Bettony, Horstail, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the less, of each an handful, Earth-worms washed and clensed in Wine, three ounces, tops 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. Johns 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a handful, Mastich, Gum Elemi, Maddir roots, of each 〈◊〉〈◊〉 drachms, Ship-pitch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each an ounce and an half, Litharge of Gold and Silver, of each two ounces and an half, red Lead two ounces, Galbanum, Sagapen. Amoniacum, of each three drams, boyl the Roots, Herbs, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, in a pound and an half of Wine, till half be consumed, then press them out, and boyl the decoction again, with the Oyls Suets, Litharge, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lead, to the consumption of the Wine, then ad the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dissolved in Wine, afterwards the Turpentine, Rosin, Pitch, and Mastich, in pouder, and make them into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper. A. It strengthens the brain and nerves, and then being applied to the back, down along the bone, it must needs add strength to the body.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Ship-pitch, Colophonta, yellow Wax, of each four ounces, Turpentine, Galbanum, Ammoniacum, Mirrh, Olibanum, Mastich, of each one ounce and three drachms, let the Pitch and Colophonia be melted together, then ad the Wax, then (it being removed from the fire) the Turpentine, afterwards the Gums dissolved in Vineger, lastly the Saffron in pouder, well mixed with Vineger, and so make it into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is of a notable sostening & discussing quality, helps broken bones, and any parts 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with cold, old aches, stifness of the limbs by reason of wounds, ulcers, fractures, or dislocations, and dissipates cold swellings.
The Colledg] Take six Live Frogs, Worms washed in white Wine, three ounces and an half, Oyl of Chamomel, Dill, Spicknard, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two ounces, Oyl of Saffron one ounce, of Bayes, one ounce and an half, the fat of an Hog, and a Calf, of each one pound, Vipers 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two ounces and an half, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 five drachms, Frankinsence ten drachms, Juyce of the roots of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Dwarff Elder, of each two ounces, Squindnith, Stoechas, Mugwort, of each one handful, Wine two pound, boyl them to the consumption of the Wine, strain it, and ad one pound of Litharge of Gold, Turpentine three ounces, white Wax as much as it sufficient to make it into a Plaister, adding in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 when it is removed from 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fire, Liquid Styrax an ounce and an half, stirring it about with spatule; 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Mass being warm, ad Quicksilver four ounces, killed in the Turpentine, and Liquid Styrax, and incorporate them very well together.
The Colledg] Take of wild Cucumer roots three ounces, Sulphur vivum, Cummin-seeds, of each two ounces, Euphorbium one ounce and an half, beat them all into very fine pouder, which incorparate with Burgundy, Pitch twenty eight 〈◊〉〈◊〉, over a gentle fire, stirring it with a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, adding at the end, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Sow-bread three ounces, make it into a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 according to art.
Culpeper] A. This Plaister will go neer to cure, what ever 'tis applied to, but a halter will do it a great deal sooner, and cheaper.
The Colledg] Take Oyl of Roses half a pound, Rams Suet four ounces, Wax ten ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Per-rosin, Frankinsence, Mastich, of each two ounces, Bole Armenick, fine Flower, of each one ounce, boyl the Oyl, Suet, and Litharge together, and when they are well incorparated, then make them all into a Plaister according to art, in which being hot dip your tents.
Culpeper] A. I never knew it used, yet it dries.
The Colledg] Take of Labdanum half an ounce, Styrax, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gum, of each two drachms, Amber, Cypress, Turpentine, of each one drachm, red Corral, Mastich, of each half a drachm; the flowers of Sage, red Roses, the roots of Orris Florentine, of each 〈◊〉〈◊〉 scruple, Rosin washed in Rosewater, half an ounce, the Rosin, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gum, and Turpentine, being gently beaten in a hot 〈◊〉〈◊〉, with a hot 〈◊〉〈◊〉, sprinkling in a few drops of red Wine, till they are in a body, then put in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and by 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, make them into an exact Plaister.
The Colledg] Take of Oyl of Olives six ounces, yellow Wax an ounce and an half, Litharge in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 four ounces and an half, Ammoniacum, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each half an ounce, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Oyl of Bays, Lapis 〈◊〉〈◊〉, both sorts of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Mirrh, Frankinsence, of each two drachms, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Turpentine an ounce: Let the Oyl, Wax, and Litharge, be boyled 〈◊〉〈◊〉 till 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stick not to your fingers, then the mass being removed from the fire, and cooled a little, and the Gums dissolved in while Wine 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which evaporate away by boyling, strain it strongly, then ad the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it may be made into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthen the nerves, draw out corruption, take away pains and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and restores strength to members that have lost it: the last is most effectual.
The Colledg] Take of Mints, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Bay leaves, of each a drachm, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Roses, yellow 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two drachms, Calamus 〈◊〉〈◊〉, wood of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 flowers, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each a drachm, Mastich three drachms, Cloves two drams 〈◊〉〈◊〉 an half, Oyl of Mints an ounce and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, Oyl of Nard an ounce, Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a dram, Rozin, Wax,
of each fonr ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three ounces, Styrax half an ounce, make it into a Plaister.
Culpeper.] A. Both this and the other of that name which you shall have by and by, strengthen the stomach exceedingly, help digestion, and stay vomiting.
The Colledg] Take of dry pitch two 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Wax one pound, Per-vozin, half a pound, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Foenugreek, roots of black Chameleon or Briony of each four ounces, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seeds, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 two ounces, make it into a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 according to art.
Culpeper] A. A pretty Plaister and good for little.
The Colledg] Take of Pitch scraped from a Ship that hath been a long time at Sea, yellow wax, of each seven drachms; Sagapenum six drachms; Ammoniacum, Turpentine, Colophonia, Saffron, of each four drachms; Aloes, Olibanum, Mirrh, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three drachms; Styrax Calamitys, Mastich, Opapanax, Galbanum, Allum, the seeds of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each two drachms; the setlings or feeces of liquid Styrax, Bdellium, of each one drachm; Litharge half a drachm.
Culpeper] A. It is of a gentle emollint nature, prevails against stoppings of the stomach coming of cold, hardness of the spleen, coldness of the liver and matrix.
The Colledg] Take of Turpentine half a pound; Rozin one pound; white Wax four ounces; Mastich an ounce; fresh Betony, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each a handful: Let the Herbs being bruised, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sufficiently boyled in white Wine, the Liquor pressed out, in which let the Wax and Rozin be boyled to the consumption of the Liquor; being taken from the fire, let the Turpentine be mixed with it; lastly the Mastich in pouder, and so make of them a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is excellent good in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and green ulcers, for it keeps back 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and joyneth wounds, fills up ulcers with flesh. Alas poor men, they have left out the Grace of God; it seems they are past Grace.
The 〈◊〉〈◊〉] Take of 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of Betony, Plantane, and Smallage, of each one pound; Wax, Pitch, Rozin, Turpentine, of each half a pound: boyl the Wax and Rozin in the Juyces with a gentle fire, continually stirring them till the Juyce be consumed, then ad the Turpentine and Pitch, continually stirring it till it be brought into the consistence of a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 (or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 I am mistaken) it matters not much which. It is a gallant plaister for pains in the head, and to recruit an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 brain, helps green wounds, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 inflamations, strengthens the liver.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wax an hundred drachms; Turpentine two hundred drachms; scales of Copper, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, of each eight drachms; 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 half; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Oyl 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pound, sharp Vineger 〈◊〉〈◊〉 much 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, let the mettals 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dissolved in the Sun 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 put in those 〈◊◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊◊〉 last of all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and make them all 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉.
Culpeper] A. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊◊◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊◊◊〉 ulcers 〈◊〉〈◊〉. I know no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but why it 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 well serve for other parts of the body.
The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each six 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of each three 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Styrax Calamitis, Allum; (Rondeletius appoints, and we for him) Bitumen, Foenugreek, of each two drams; the feeces of Liquid Styrax, Bdellium, Litharge, of each half a drachm: Let the Litharge being beaten into Pouder, be boyled in a sufficient quantity of Water, then add the Pitch, which being 〈◊〉〈◊〉, ad the Wax and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 and feeces being mixed with the Turpentine, last of all the Colophonia, Mastich, Frankinsence, Bdellium, Allum, Mirrh, and Foenugreck in Pouder, let them be made into a Plaister.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the stomach, and helps digestion.
The Colledg] Take of Colophonia, Rozin, ShipPitch, white Wax, Roman Vitriol, Ceruss, Olibanum, Mirrh, of each eight ounces; Oyl of Roses seven 〈◊〉〈◊〉; 〈11 words〉〈11 words〉; 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, Mummy, of each two ounces; Earth of Lemnos, Mastich, Dragons blood, of each one ounce; the fat of an Heron one ounce,; the fat of* 13.95 Timullus three ounces; Loadstone prepared
two ounces; Earth-worms prepared, Campbire, of each one ounce: make them into a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. It is very good (say they) in green wounds and pricks.
The Colledg] Take of Per-rozin twelve ounces; Oyl of Bays, Turpentine, of each two ounces; Gum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 four ounces: Let the Rozin and Gum be melted over the fire in a brass pan stirring it with a brass instrument, then ad Oyl of Bays and Turpentine, boyl it a little, then put it in a linnen bag, and that which drops through keep in a glazed pot for your use.
Culpeper] A. The vertues are the same with Arceus his Liniment.
The Colledg] Take of Frankinsence, Bellium, Styrax, of each three drachms; Ammoniacum, Galbanum of each one drachm and an half; Ship pitch, six drachms; the Marrow of a Stag, sat of Hens and Geese, of each two drachms; Sulphur 〈◊〉〈◊〉 washed in Milk, Hermodactils in pouder, of each a drachm and an half: Let the Gums be dissolved in white Wine, (not in Vineger, because that is inimical to the nerves) and with two parts of Oyl of Roses compleat, and one part of Oyl of Eggs, and a little Oyl of Turpentine, make it into a Plaister according to art.
The Colledg] Take of wood of Aloes, Wormwood, Gum Arabick, Mastick, Cyperus, Costus, Ginger, of each half an ounce; Calamus Aromaticus, Olibanum, Aloes of each three drachms; Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Spicknard, Nutmegs, Gallia Moschata, Schananthus, of each one drachm and an half; with Rob of Quinces make it into an Emplaster: And when you have spread it upon a Cloath, perfume it with wood of Aloes, and apply it to your stomach.
The Colledg] Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger an ounce; Unguentum de Althaeae, Melilot Plaister, of each half an ounce; Bran an ounce; pouder of the Roots of Briony, and Orris, of each half an ounce, the Grease of Ducks, Geese, and Hens, of each three drachms; Oyl of Orris one ounce and an half: Let them boyl gently in the Mussilages of Lin and Foenugrelk seeds so much as is sufficient: by adding Wax four ounces, make it into a Cerecloath according to art.
Culpeper.] A. It asswageth swellings, or ripens und breaks them, and easeth pains thereby coming.
The Colledg] Take of red Roses, Mastich, of each twenty drachms: dried wormwood fifteen drachms: Spicknard ten drachms: Wax four ounces: Rose Water so much as is sufficien: Oyl of Roses a pound and an half: Let it boyl so till it be like an Oyntment: Then ad Oyl of Roses eight ounces; Wax fourteen ounces; the Pouders afore mentioned (excepting the Mastich which must be melted in the Oyl of Roses) of all of them used in this manner, make a Cerecloath according to art.
Culpeper] A. It strengthens the stomach and liver, easeth their pains, provokes appetite to ones meat, and helps digestion.
A. And thus you see I have left out Vigo his nonsence, or his most excellent Plaister of Vineger and Saffron in which is no Saffron, there being other things in the book rediculous enough, if you are disposed to laugh.
Culpeper] A. I Desire you to take notice before I begin, that Chymical Oyls generally are not to be taken alone by themselves by reason of their vehement heat and burning, but mixed with other convenient medicines.
A. 2. They carry the very same vertues the Simples do, but are far more prevalent, as having far more spirit in them and far less earthly dross.
A. 3. The generall way of taking them, is to drop two or three drops of them in any convenient liquor or other medicine, which the last Table will fit you with, and so take it; for some of them are so hot (as Oyl of Cinnamon) that two or three drops will make a dish of pottage so hot of the Simple that you can hardly eat them.
Oyl of Wormwood.The Colledg.] Take of dried Wormwood a pound, spring water twenty pound, steep them twenty four hours, and distill them in a great Alembick, with his refrigeratory, or a Copper one with a Worm, let the Oyl be separated from the Water with a Funnel, or seperating glass as they call it, and let the Water be kept for another distillation.
Let two or three of the first pounds of Water be kept for the Physitians use, both in this, and other Chymical Oyls drawn with Water.
Culpeper.] A. Your best way to learn to still Chymical Oyls, is to learn of an Alchymist: for I rest confident the greatest part of the Colledg had no more skill in Chymistry than I have in building houses, but having found out certain models in old rusty Authors, tell people S O they must be done. I can teach a man S O, how to build a house: first he may lay the foundation, then rear up the sides, then joyn the rafters, then build the Chimneyes, tile the top, and plaister the walls; but how to do one jot of this I know not: And so play the Colledg here: for the Alchymists have a better way by far to draw them: the truth is, I am in a manner tied to their method here, from which I may not step aside; if my Country kindly accept this, (which is the beginning of my labors) I may happily put forth something else for the Ingenious to whet their wits upon; Only here I quote the Oyls in the Colledg order, and then quote the vertue of the chiefst of them, that so the Reader may know by a penny how a shilling is coyned.
The Colledg] In the same manner are prepared Oyls of Hysop, Marjoram, Mints, garden water Cresses, Origanum, Peny-royal, Rosemary, Rue, Savin, Sage, Savory, Time &c. the Flowers of Chamomel, Lavender &c.
Culpeper] A. I shall instance here only Oyl of Lavender, commonly called Oyl of Spike, which helps the running of the reins they being 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with it; it expels worms, two drops of it being taken in Wine, the region of the back being anointed with it, it helps the Palsey. For all the rest see the vertues of the Herbs themselves.
After the same manner are made Oyl of dryed Barks.The Colledg] Of Orrenges, Citrons, Lemmons; But it is better prepared of the Barks, being green and full of Juyce, seperated from the internal white part, bruised, and with a sufficient quantity of Simple distilled water, so will the Oyl be drawn easter, and in greater plenty, and no less fitting for the Physitians use.
Oyl or fat of Roses, commonly called Spirit of Roses.The Colledg] Take as many fresh Damask Roses as you will, infuse them twenty four hours, in a sufficient quantity of warm water, after you have pressed them out, repeat the infusion certain times, till the Liquor be strong enough, which distill in an Allembick with his refrigeratory, or a Copper with his worm, seperate the Spirit from the water, and keep the water for another infusion.
So may you draw Spirit from Damask Roses, pickled in Salt, as also Spirit of red Roses.
Culpeper] A. 'Tis a good perfume.
The Colledg] Take of Dill seeds bruised two
pound, spring Water twenty pound, steep them twenty 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, then 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them in a Copper Stil, or an Allembick with his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, seperate the Oyl from the Water with a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and keep the water for a new distillation.
So also is prepared Oyl of the seeds of Annis, Laraway, Cummin, Carrots, Fennel, Parsly, Saxifrage, &c.
Culpeper] A. Oyl of Annls seeds although it be often given and happily with good success in vertigoes or dissiness in the head, yet its chief operation is upon the breast and lungues, it helps narrowness of the breast, rawness and wind in the stomach, all infirmities there, coming of cold and wind, strengthens the nerves; six drops is enough at a time, taken in broath or any other convenient liquor.
〈◊〉〈◊〉. As Annis seeds are apropriated to the breast, so are Fennel seeds to the head, the Oyl of which clenseth the brain of cold infirmities, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, iudisposition of the body, numbness, want of motion, also it helps the stomach and expels wind.
A. Cummin seeds, the Oyl of them is a great expeller of wind, nothing better; it also wonderfully caseth pains of the spleen, pains in the reins and bladder, stopping of urine especially if it come of wind, and is a present remedy for the chollick; for the way of taking of them see Annis seeds.
The Colledg] So also are made Oyl of Spices, as of Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Pepper &c.
Culpeper] A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to take at a time, and is exceeding good for such as are in consumptions. See [Cinnamon] among the Simples.
A. Oyl of Maco is excellent good for Rhewms in the head: and Oyl of Pepper for the Chollick.
The Colledg] Also Oyls of Aromatical woods, as of Sassafras, and Rhodium, &c.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Juniper berries fifty pound, bruise them and part them in a wooden Vessel, with twenty four pound of spring water, sharp leaven one pound, keep them in a Cellar three months, the vessel being close stopped, then distill them in an Allembick, with a sufficient quantity of Simple water, after the Oyl is separated, keep the water for a new distillation.
After the same manner is made Oyl of Bay berries, Ivy berries &c.
Or you may draw Oyl from the aforenamed berries bruised and steeped twenty four hours in warm water, adding six pound of water, or if the berries be very dry, ten pound of water to each pound of berries, and stilling them as before.
Culpeper] A. Oyl of Juniper berries, prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard, and running of the reins, the falling sickness, it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence, and all evil airs, it purgeth the reins, provokes urine, breaks the stone, helps the dropsie: the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor, is three or four drops; outwardly by unction it helps the gout; two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick.
A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Illiack passion.
A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the joynts, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 one, and provokes the terms 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. Use them as Juniper Oyl.
Oyl of Turpentine.The Colledg] Take of Venis Turpentine as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as you will, put it into an Allembick, with four times its waight in common Water, still it with a convenient fire, and draw off a white thin Oyl like water, the Colophonia will remain in the bottom of the vessel, this Oyl 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be drawn into a bath, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 from burning in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 still.
Culpeper] A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves, and all diseases coming of cold and wind, it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues, as Asthmaes, difficulty of breathing &c. A drachm being taken in the morning: outwardly it adorns the body, takes away the prints of scabs, and the small pocks, chops in the skin and breasts of women, and deafness being dropped into the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉The Colledg] Take of Mirth bruised, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of each six pound, dissolve them in sixty pound of spring water, and still them in a Copper still, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 bick.
Culpeper] It keeps wounds (and all things else 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fioravantus) from 〈◊〉〈◊〉, it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 and youthful, quickly cures wounds, and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 dropped into the ears.
Oyl of Guajacum.The Colledg] Take of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in gross pouder, as much as you will, put it in a retort, and still it in Sand, the Oyl that cames first out, because 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 and sweeter keep it by its self, which by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with much water will yet be sweeter.
The same things are to be observed in the distillation of Box, and Oak, and other solid woods, as also Oyl of Tartar, with its 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Spirit, which 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 be distilled out of Christal of Tartar in the same 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Oyl of Wax.The Colledg] Take of yellow Wax melted one pound, with which mix three pound of Tiles in pouder, draw out the Oyl in Sand with a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which rectifie with water.
Culpeper] A. I am of Opinion that Oyl of Wax, is as singular remedy for burns, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ulcers, as any is, or need to be.
The Colledg] After the same manner is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Oyl of Fats, and Gums, and Rosins, which cannot be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into pouder, as Ammoniacum, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Sagapen, Liquid Styrax, Tacha 〈◊〉〈◊〉 &c.
Oleum Latericium Phylosophorum. Page 190. in L. B.The Colledg] Take of Bricks broken in pieces, as big as an Hens egge, heat them red hot, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them in old Oyl, where let them lie till they be 〈◊〉〈◊〉, then beat them into fine Pouder, and still them in a
glass retort, with a fit receiver, give fire to it by degrees, and keep the Oyl in a glass Close stopped.
Culpeper] A. The Oyl will quickly penetrate, and is a soveraign remedy for the gout, and all cold afflions in the joynts or nerves, cramps, epilepsies, or falling sickness, palsies; it mollifies hard swellings, dissolves cold swellings, as also cold distempers of the spleen, reins and bladder.
Oleum Succini. Page 191. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Amber.The Colledg] Take of yellow Amber one part, burnt Flints, or pouder of Tiles two parts, distil them in a retort in Sand, keep the while cleer Oyl which comes out first by it self, then distil it on, till all come out, keep both Oyls severally, and rectifie them with water: gather the Salt of Amber which sticks to the neck of the retort, and being purged by Solution, Filtration, and Coagulation, according to art keep it for use.
Culpeper] A. It speedily helps all afflictions of the nerves, and convulsions, falling sickness &c. Being given in convenient liquors, it is a singular remedy against poyson and pestilent air, diseases of the reins and bladder, the fits of the mother; the nose being anointed with it, the chollick; it causeth speedy labor to women in travail being taken in Vervain Water, it strengthens the body exceedingly, as also the brain and sences and is of an opening nature.
The Colledg] 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is distilled oyl of* 13.96 Jet, and of Gums and Rosins, which may be poudered, as Benjamin, Mastich, Frankinsence, &c.
Culpeper] A. Having perused these Oyls following, I would willingly have left them quite 〈◊〉〈◊〉, I mean, the manner allotted by the Colledge to make them.
A. 1. Because I fear they and the truth are Separatists.
A. 2. Because the Ignorant will know as well how to make them as they did before, when I have done what I can.
A. 3. As to Alchymists (to whose profession the making of them belongs) I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher, who never having seen 〈◊〉〈◊〉, undertook to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Military 〈◊〉〈◊〉 before 〈◊〉〈◊〉, who was one of the best Soldiers in the world; But I am in a manner forced to it. He that is able to understand the Receipt, is able to understand that the failings are not mine, but the Colledges.
Oleum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Butyrum Antimonii. Page 191. in Lat. B. Oyl or Butter of Antimony.The Colledg] Take of crude Antimony, Mercury sublimate, of each one pound, beat them into pouder, and put them in a glass retort, with a large neck, give fire by degrees into a reverberatory, or else in Sand, the Fat will distil down into the receiver, that part of which that sticks to the neck of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, will 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be melted, by putting a gentle fire under it; let this fat be rectified in a small retort, and kept either in an open Phiol, or in a Celler or other moist place, that it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Oyl, which must be kept in a vessel close stopped.
Oleum Arsenici. Page 191. in Lat. Book. Or, Oyl of Arsenick.The Colledg] Take of Christalline, Arsenick first sublimated with Colcother alone, mix it with an equal part of Salt of Tartar, and Salt-peter, calcine it between two pots, the uppermost of which, hath a hole through, till no smoke 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dissolve the matter so calcined in warm water that you may draw out the salt, moisten the Pouder which resides at the bottom with Liquor Tartari, and dry it by the fire, do so three times, then dissolve the matter again that you may draw out the salt, and there will remain a white pouder and fixed, which being kept in a moist place will dissolve into a moist substance like Oyl or Butter.
Oleum Salis. Page 192. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Salt.The Colledg] Take of French, or Spanish Bay salt, as much as you will, dissolve it in water and filter it, and having then put it in a Copper vessel, mix with the Brine fine Pouder of tiles 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bricks two or three times the weight of the Salt before it was dissolved, and set it upon hot coals, and let the water evaporate away (continually stirring it) till it be very dry, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 put the Pouder into a glass Retort well luted, placed in a furnace with a fit receiver, giving fire by degrees, to the height, for the space of twelve hours, so shall you have an Oyl, or sharp spirit of Salt in the receiver, rectifie this by separating the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in a retort in sand, and keep it close stopped for use.
Culpeper] A. Being mixed with Turpentine and applied outwardly, it helps the gout; three drops taken every morning in convenient Liquor, preserves youth, consumes the dropsie, resists feavers, convulsions, and the falling-sickness; being mixed with Oyhtments, it is exceeding good in ruptures and dislocations.
Oleum Sulphuris. Page 192. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Sulphur.The Colledg] It is prepared in a Bell still by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 burning and consuming of Brimstone, by which a sharp spirit beating against the sides of the still, will turn into liquor, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 down like water or oyl, the orderly disposing of the still and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and other commodities belonging to this operation, we leave to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Artificer.
Culpeper] A. Prevails against diseases coming of cold, putrifaction or wind, feavers, ague, tertian, quartan or quotidian, pestilence; wounds and ulcers, affects of the brain, mouth, teeth, liver, stomach, spleen, matrix, bladder, entrails, and arteries coming of abundance of humors or putrifaction; outwardly applied it helps 〈◊〉〈◊〉, ulcers of the mouth, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉; the way to take it inwardly is thus, dip the top of a feather in the Oyl, and wash it in the liquor or decoction you give it in; in quotidian agues, give it in wine, in which Rosemary or Mints or both have been 〈◊〉〈◊〉; in 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 in 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. Centaury hath been boyled; in quartan agues, in Bugloss water; in all of them a little before the fit come: in pestilences, in Wine in which Rhadishes have been boyled, mingled with a little Venice Treacle; in the falling-sickness, with decoction
of Betony or Peony; in coughs with decoction of Nettle seed and Hysop, both of them made with Wine; for flegm in Wormwood Water; for the wind chollick, in Chamomel flower water; for dropsies and cold livers, in Selondine water and Honey; for the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and stoppage of the spleen, in Tamamaris Water: for the French pox, in Fumitory or Broom-flower water: against worms, in Grass or Wormwood water: for the fits of the mother, in decoction of Betony or Featherfew in Wine: for suppression of Urine, in decoction of Garlick with Wine: for the gout, in decoction of Chamepitys Wine; in wounds and ulcers, the place is lightly to be touched with a feather wet in the Oyl: if a hollow toothach, put a drop into it, if all your teeth ach make a decoction of Mints in Wine and put a drop or two of this Oyl to it, and hold it warm in your mouth.
Oleum Vitrioli. Page 192. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyl of Vitriol.The Colledg] Take Ungarick or English Vitriol of the best, as much as you will, melt it in an Earthen vessel glazed, and exhale away all the moisture, continually stirring it, and so bring it into a yellow pouder, which is to be put in earthen Retorts that will endure the fire, placed in an open furnace, give fire by degrees, even to the height for three daies, till the receiver which before was full of smoke be cleer, rectifie the liquor from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in sand, and keep the strong and pouderous Oyl by it self.
Culpeper] A. It must be mixed with other medicines, for it kills being taken alone; it asswageth thirst, allayeth the violent heat in feavers and pestilences, and a few drops of it gives a pleasant grateful tast to any medicine.
Aqua fortis. Page 192. in the Latin Book.The Colledg] Take of Vitriol prepared, as for Oyl of Vitriol two pound; Salt peter purged one pound; beat them together, and put them in a Retort well luted, place it in a furnace with a large receiver, and giving fire to it distill it by degrees for twenty four hours, rectifie the water in sand.
Aqua Mellis. Page 193. in Lat. Book. Or, Water of Honey.The Colledg] Take of the best Honey sour pound; dry Sand two pound: distill it in a glass still, so capacious that the matter take up only the fist part of it, draw off the flegm in a bath, then encrease the fire, and draw off the yellowish water.
Culpeper.] A. Paracelsus adviseth it to be drawn five times over, and calls it Quintessence of Honey, and extols the vertues of it to the skies; saith, it will revive dying men: which Mr. Charls Butler of Hamshire also affirms.
Liquor seu Liquamen Tartari, seu Oleum Tartari Per Deliquium. Page 193. in Lat. Book. Or, Liquor of Tartar.The Colledg] Take of Tartar of white Wine calcined till it be white as much as you will, put it in Hypocrates his sleeve, and hang it in a moist Celler that the Tartar may dissolve, putting a vessel under it to receive it, dissolve what remains in the sleeve in common water, filter it, and evaporate it away till it begin to be like Allum, then use that like the former.
Culpeper] A. This is common to be had at every Apothecaries. Virgins buy it to take away the Sunburn and freckles from their faces. It takes off the rust from Iron, and preserves it bright a long time.
Oleum Mirrhae per Deliquium. Page 193. in L. B. Or, Oyl of Mirrh.The Colledg] Boyl Hens Eggs till they be hard, then cut them through the middle of the length, take out the yolk and fill the Cavities half full of beaten Mirrh, joyn them again and bind them gently with a threed, place them between two dishes in a moist place, a grate being put between, so will the Liquor of the Mirrh distill down into the lower dish.
Culpeper] A. You had both it and its vertues before.
The Colledg] Take of Tartar so much as you will, put it into a large Retort, with that proportion, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the third part of the vessel be fid distill it in Sand with a strong fire; afterwards (the Oyl being first separated from the water, or spirit, of Tartar) rectifie it with much water, to correct the smell of it; let it stand open a long time in the Sun.
Colledg] TAke of the best Antimony one part, pure Niter two parts, bruise the Antimony, then ad the Niter to it, bring them both into Pouder, which burn in a Crucible, which will be most conveniently done if you put it in the red hot Crucible, with a ladle or such a like instrument, then take it out and beat it again and mix it with the same quantity of Niter as before, put it into the Crucible upon hot coals, and putting into it a live coal, fire it, stirring it with an iron thing that it may burn all about equally, and when there needs put in more fresh coals, bruise it the third time, and with the like quantity of Niter use it as before, at last beat it into pouder, wash it in pure water and keep it for use.
Take of filings of Steel clensed with a Loadstone, as much as you will, moisten them twelve times with sharp white Wine Vineger, dry it in the Sun or a dry air, beat it in an iron mortar, and levigate it apon a Marble with a little Cinnamon water, and so bring it into a very fine pouder and keep it for use.
Take of Tartar of white, or Rhenish Wine as much as you will, beat it in gross pouder, and wash it from the dross in water, then boyl it in a sufficient quantity of spring water, after you have taken away the scum, filter it, being somewhat warm through a brown paper into a glass warmed before, least it break, then place it in a Cellar, that the Crystal may stick to the sides of the glass, the which wash in pure water and keep for use.
Heat pieces of Iron or Steel red hot, and thrust them into a great heap of Brimstone, a bazon of water being set underneath, the mettle will run out like Wax, which being separated from the Sulphur, beat into very fine pouder in an Iron mortar, which put into foursquare earthen pans, not above afingers bredth in deepness, set it at the flame of a reverberatory three or four daies, till it look red like a Sponge, the tops of which take away with an Iron, set the rest at the fire again, till it look so all of it.
Take of the best Antimony, and salt Peter, of each equal parts, beat them into pouder severally, then mix them together, put them into a hot crucible with a ladle, or other convenient instrument, let it be beaten till the noyse ceaseth, then remove it from the fire and cool it, then the vessel being broken, seperate it from the white crust at top, and keep it for use.
Take of the best Brimstone, and beat it with equal parts of Colcothar of Vitriol, put it in a long earthen still, a head of glass large enough being put over it, give fire to it in sand by degrees, stirring it with a Hares foot, it will be the purer if you iterate it with new Colcothar.
Take of Ly of which black Sope is made, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it to a stone in a frying Pan, do not consume all the humor, when it is cold cut it in the form of dice, and keep it in a glass close stopped.
Otherwise. Take of Vitriol calcined to redness two ounces, Salarmoniack one ounce, Tartar calcined to whiteness, quick Lime, of each three ounces, sprinkle all of them being beaten, with Ly made of Figtrees, or Spurge, or Sope, strain it often till almost all the matter be dissolved, then boyl it in a brass vessel, till the moisture be consumed, that which is left keep close stopped for use.
Take of pure salt peter one pound, put it in a crucible, and place coales round about it, that the niter may flow like mettle, then put in by degrees two ounces of flower of Brimstone, after the Brimstone is consumed, pour the Niter out into a brass bason, when it is cold keep it in a glass close stopped.
Take of Pearl or Corral, as much as you will, levigate it into very subtil pouder, to which put such a quantity of Spirit of radicate Vineger, that it may overtop it the breadth of three or four fingers, digest it in ashes till it be dissolved, then pour off the Liquor, and put in fresh till the residue be dissolved, filter it, and put a little Liquor of Tartar to it, so will a white pouder fall down to the bottom of the glass, which being seperated from what is dissolved, is to be washed, first with spring water, then with Bawm or Borrage water. Radicate Vineger is that which is distilled with Bay Salt in Sand.
Take of Vitriol purified by Solution, Filtration, and Coagulation, and calcined till it be yellow one pound, Bay Salt in like manner 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and dried, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in like 〈◊〉〈◊〉 purified, of each half a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, crude Mercury clensed by straining through a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, one pound, bruise them all in a wooden mortar, with a wooden Pestle, till the Salis are in pouder, and no bits of the Mercury are seen, which will be best 〈◊〉〈◊〉 if you do it at divers times; as for example sake, taking Vitriol and Mercury, of each one ounce, Salt and Nyter, of each half an ounce at a time, and so forth, till the whole matter be brought into a pouder and mixt, then put this matter into a glass body, so capacious that it fill not above the one half of it, place the glass a little above the middle in Sand, in a conveniint Furnace, give fire to it by degrees, even to the height, twelve or sixteen hours being passed, the sublimated Mercury wil stick to the top of the glass, which being seperated and bruised, sublimate by it sels the second and third time, and oftener if it be too impure, till it be as white as snow, and no dross mixed with it.
Take of Mercury sublimated as before four ounces crude Mercury three ounces, bruise them, and grind them in a wooden mortar, with a wooden pestle, till they be perfectly mixed, put them into a long Phiol, which place above the middle in Sand, put first a gentle fire under it, then encrease it by degrees six hours, that the Mercury may be driven from the bottom, into the middle region of the Phiall, which being seperated from that at top and bottom, sublime it the second time, and the third if need be, till it have lest its acromony, and be freed from all impurity, and be as white as snow.
Take of crude Mercury, driven from Sea salt in a retort, one part: Aquafortis of our discription two parts, make a dissolution according to art, mean season provide brine of Sea salt, and fair water as strong as you can make it, filter it, and put your solution of Mercury into this brine, and forth with a white pouder will precipitate, which is to be washed from its acrimony in Simple distilled water, or warm spring water, dried and kept in a glass for use.
Make a dissolution of crude Mercury, and Aqua fortis as before, then evaporate it till it be dry, at last encrease the fire and stir the matter with an Iron, till it be red, keep it in a glass for use.
Take of butter of Antimony distilled according to our prescript, put it into cleer water, which will forthwith be white, a milk white pouder will precipitate, which is to be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by much washing in warm water, and dried by a gentle beat and kept for use.
Take of crude Antimony, Salt peter, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 equall parts, beat the Antimony a part in 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, with an Iron Pestle, then ad the rest in pouder, put this pouder by degrees with a 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 Crucible, placed amongst 〈◊〉〈◊〉 coals, after its 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shake the Crucible gently, that the Regulus may sink to the bottom, which being taken out and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by degrees, and freed from the dross, keep for use.
Put as much red Lead as 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and put so much Vineger to it, as may over 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it the breadth of four fingers, warm it, and stir it a good while, after it is settled, pour off the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and put 〈◊〉〈◊〉, do it so often 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no more sweetness be drawn from it, put all the liquors, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 let thom settle, then exhale it away in a glass, 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 consumed, or until, it being set in a Cellar, the Cristal appear, which having taken out, exhale it again, and set it in a Cellar or cold place, till more, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, do so till no more appear, then dissolve the Cristal in cleer water, filter and coagulate it.
Reduce Ungarick, or English Vitriol being 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in a crucible into 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of an obscure purple 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which pouder cast by degrees into a large glass, in which is either distilled, or other very cleer 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it continually with a stick, till the water which was at first hot, is cold, then let it stand twenty four hours, then filter it, lastly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it in a glass 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and coagulate it according to art.
Take of crude Mercury, Oyl of Vitriol seperated from all the flegm, of each equal parts, still them in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, encreasing the fire by degrees, till all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be flown up in the air, a white Mass remaining in the bottom, which being separated from the crude Mercury, wash in spring water, and forth with it wil 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yellow, wash it in warm water from all its 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dry it, and keep it for use.
Take of liquor of Tartar four ounces, into which drop by drops two ounces of Oyl of Vitriol, wel rectified, so wil a white pouder fall to the bottom, which dry, and keep for use.
Dissolve white Vitriol in cleer water, filter it, and coagulate it.
Take of good Antimony in fine pouder, and put it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a large stone vessel, put fire under, til it grow into clots, beat it, and do so again, and again, alwaies stirring it til it resemble white ashes, & smoke not at al, then take of this half a pound, Corax half an ounce, put them in a crucible, the which cover with a Tile, set it in a strong fire, till there flow a matter like water, then put it into a brass or copper vessel, and keep the glass for use.
EXTRACTS may be made almost of every Medicine, whether Simple, as Herbs, Flowers, Seeds; or Compound, as Species or Pills: Therefore take of any Medicine cut or bruised, or prepared as the infusion requires, and powr to it Spirit of Wine, or distilled water, as the Pbysition commands, let it stand in infusion in the heat of a bath, two daies more or less according as the thickness or thinness of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 requires untill the tincture be sufficient, then separate the liquor and put in more as before, do so till the Medicine afford no more tincture; put all these Liquors together and filter them and exhate the humidity to the heat of a bath, till the matter be left at the bottom of the thickness of Honey to which if the Physitian prescribe, you may add two scruples or half a dram of its own proper, or other convenient 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to every ounce of Extract that so it may keep the longer.
TAke of any Plant when it is fresh and full of Juyce a sufficient quantity, bruise it in a wooden Mortar, and a great deal of cleer water being added, boyl it till half be consumed, strain 〈◊〉〈◊〉 decoction, press it strongly and boyl it to the thickness of Honey, set it in a glass or glazed vessel in a cold place eight daies at least, and a Cristal Salt will arise like Sal. Gem. which gather and wash with its proper water, and dry for your use. Thus is Salt made of wormwood, Cardus, Mugwort, and other bitter Herbs; but of other Herbs with much difficnlty.
It consists in four things, Calcination, Solution, Filtration, Coagulation.
Burn the matter you would make salt of into white ashes, and berein sometimes you must have a care 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by too hasty burning they run to glass; then with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 water make the ashes into ly to draw out the Salt, filter the Ly and boyl it in an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vessel by a 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, that the water may be exhaled and the Salt left; which Solution, Filtration, and Coagulation being repeated certain times it will be free from all impurity, and be very white.
Thus is prepared Salt of Plants, and parts of living Creatures amongst which these excel; Salt of wormwood, Time, Rosemary, Centaury the less, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Cardus, Masterwort, Parsly, Rest-harrow, Ash, Dwarf Elder, Box, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, St. Johns wort, Cichory, Sullendine, Scurvy-grass, Betony, Maudlin, Bawm, Cetrach &c.
TAke of fresh fat, the veins, strings, and skins being taken away wash them so often in fair water till they be no longer bloody, then beat them well, and melt them in a double vessel, strain them and powr off the water, keep it in a glass in a cold place; it will endure a yeer.
So is also prepared Marrow taken out of fresh bones, especially in Autumn.
Lay flakes of Brass in an earthen vessel, interposing Salt or Brimstone between each of them, so lay flake upon flake burn them sufficiently and wash the Ashes with warm water till they be sweet.
Put as much Aloes in pouder in a glass, as you will, putting a sufficient quantity of warm water to it, that it may overtop it two or three fingers thickness, stirring it about with a Spatule, that the purer part of the Aloes may be mixed with the water, that being poured off, put in fresh warm water, and stir it in like manner, that the dross may be separated, gather those waters together, evaporate the Humidity, nad keep the Mass.
Grind it smal, and dissolve it so often in Rose water, till the dross and Sand be taken away, dry it in the Sun, and keep it being dryed.
Take of Bryony roots scraped, bruised, and the juyce pressed out, which being, let it stand still a while in a vessel, a white pouder like Starch will fall from the bottom, from which pour the water, and let it dry for use.
So is Gersa Serpentaria prepared of Aron roots, and Foecula of the roots of Radishes, and Orris.
About the latter end of May, take fresh Butter without Salt, and in a glazed earthen vessel, set it in the Sun, that it may be all melted, strain it through a rag without pressing, set it in the Sun again, strain it again, and keep it a year.
Heat it red hot three times in the fire, and quench it as often in Plantane and Rose water, at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 levigate it upon a Marble, and with the same waters make it into Balls.
Bruise quicklime, put it in a pan, and mix it with sweet water, and when it is settled to the bottom, change the water, and mix it again, do so seven or eight times, filtring it every time, at last do it with Rose water, and dry the Lime.
Beat them in a steel mortar, and levigate them on a Marble, putting a little Rose water to them, till they are in very fine pouder, then make them into Balls.
Steep them twenty four hours in sharp Vineger, then dry them. So may you prepare 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seed.
Burn them in a crucible till they e white, then beat them into pouder, and wash them with Rose water, at last levigate them on a Marble, and make them into Troches, you may dissolve Camphire half an ounce in the last pound of Rose water, if you please.
Hang them by a thred in a vessel of Aqua vitae, so as that they touch not the Liquor, then putting on the head distill it, and the vapors ascending will make them easie to be brought into pouder, after many distillations.
Take of wild Cucumers almost ripe, and cut them with the knife upwards, and gently press out the juyce with your foremost fingers, let it run through a sieve into a clean glazed vessel, let it settle, and powr off the cleer water into another vessel, dry the setlings in the Sun and keep them for use; if you will you may keep the cleer water for Unguentum de Artanita.
Clense them and infuse them three daies in sharp Vineger, then dry them. So are Lawrel leaves, Mezereon, and other things of that nature prepared.
Take of Euphorbium purged from the dross and poudered, put it in a glass and put so great a quantity of Juyce of Lemmons to it, that it may overtop it three or four fingers; then place them in a hot bath, till the Euphorbium be dissolved in the Juyce, strain it through a rag, place it in a bath again, and evaporate away the juyce, and keep the Euphorbium for use.
Steep such black Hellebore Roots as are brought to us, the woody pith being taken away, three dayes in juyce of Quinces by a moderate heat, then dry them and lay them up.
Take a Goat of a middle age, and feed him a month with Burnet, Smallage, Parsly, Mallows, Lovage, and such like things, kill him in the end of Summer, about the Dog dayes, then take the blood which flows out of his Arteries and let it settle, powring off the water, dry the blood in an Oven.
Kill young Swallows so as the blood may flow upon their wings, then sprinkle them with a little Salt and burn them in a new glazed vessel, and keed the ashes for use.
So are burned Hedg-bogs, Frogs, Toags, and the like creatures.
Take of Lacca not clensed, for otherwise your labor were vain, bruised a little, and boyled in water in which the Roots of long Birthwort, and Squinanth of each equal parts have been boyled, till the purer part swim at top and the dross sink to the bottom, keep that
purer part, put it in a Glass and cover it, and evaporate the moisture either by the heat of the Sun, or of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and being dry keep it for your use.
Let Lapis Lazult being beaten into very fine pouder, be so often washed in water, continually stirring it, till the water (after washing) remain cleer without any other tast than its own.
Let the Litharge be ground into very fine pouder in a mortar, then pour cleer water upon it, and stir it up and down till it be troubled and thick, then pour off that water into another vessel, and put in fresh water to the pouder of the stone, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 up and down till it be thick, and pour that water off to the former; do this so often till nothing but dross remains in the mortar, the thinner substance being all mixed with the water you poured off, let that stand and settle, so will the pure Litharge remain in the bottom, pour the water off gently, dry the Litharge and grind it upon a Marble so long, till no harshness can be discorned in it by your tongue.
Slit them in the middle and wash them so often in white wine till they be clensed from their impurity, then dry them and keep them for your use.
Take of Wood-lice as many as you will, wash them very clean in pure white wine, then put them in a new glassed pot, which being shut close put into a hot oven, that so they may be dried with a moderate heat to be beaten into pouder.
Take of Wool unclensed which was taken off from the Neck, Ribs, and Shoulder-pits of the Sheep, put it into warm water often times, and wash it dilligently til all the fatness be come off from it into the water; afterwards press it out and lay it by, then pour that fat and filthy water out of one vessel into another, holding the vessel on high, pouring and repouring till it be froathy; let the froath settle, then take away the fat that swims on the top, pour it and repour it as before till it be froathy, then again take away the fat that swims at the top, do so, so often till no more froath appear, nor fat swim at top; then take the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the froath and wash it up and down with your hand in cleer water, so often and so long till the filth be washed from it, which may be known by the water remaining cleer, and the fat being tasted do not bite your tongue, then keep it in a thick and clean pot in a cold place.
Dissolve the Opium in Spirit of Wine, strain it and evaporate it to its due consistence.
Beat your Lead into very thin Plates, and cut these thin Plates into very small pieces, the which steep three daies in very sharp Vineger, changing the Vineger every day, then take them out, and dry them, without burning them, and take a little pains with them in a morter to bring them into very fine Pouder.
Stir about water in a Leaden Morter with a Leaden Pestle, and labor at it to some purpose, till the water look black and thick; strain out this water, dry it, and make it into balls.
Take as many thin Plates of Lead as you please, put them into a new earthen pot, lay them plate upon plate with Brimstone between each plate, then put the Pot in the fire, and stir the Lead about with an Iron Spatule when the Brimstone burns, until you have brought it all into 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the which wash in clean water and keep for your use.
Take of the fresh Lungues of a Fox, the Aspera Arteria being taken away, wash them dilligently in white wine, in which Hysop and Scabious hath been boyled, then dry them in an Oven so moderately hot that no part of them may be burned, then keep them in a glass stopped with wax.
Take the Core out of a Quince and fill the vaid place with pouder of Scammony, then joyn the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 together again, and wrap it up in Past, bake it in an Oven, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 it under the ashes; afterwards take out the Scammony and keep it for use. This is that which is vulgarly called Diacrydium or Diagrydium.
Take of Scammony 〈◊〉〈◊〉 small, as much as you wil, spread it upon a brown Paper and hold it over 〈◊〉〈◊〉 coals upon which you have put Brimstone, stir the Scammony about all the while till it begin to melt or look white; and this is called Scammony 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Take a great Squil whilst it is green, casting away the outward rinds, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it in past and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it in an oven till it be tender, which you may know if you pierce it through with a Bodkin, then take it out of the oven and take off all the slakes one by one (leaving 〈◊〉〈◊〉 part which is hard, behind) draw a cord through them, and bang them in a dry place, at that distance the one, from the other, that one may not touch another, til they be dryed; yet take this caution along with you, That you ought not to cut nor pierce them with any Iron Instrument, but with Wood, Ivory, or Bone.
Take of bruised Tartar as much as you will, pour cold and cleer spring water to it, stir it up and down, then let it settle, pour off that water and pour on more, use it as before, and repeat the usage so long till the water remain cleer after washing.
Take of Venice Turpentine a pound, to which pour twenty four pound of Water, in which, boyl it so long till it be thick, and being cold may be rubbed in pouder like Rozin and beaten like Glass.
Tutty is prepared the same way that Lapis Calaminaris is; tye it up in a clean Linnen cloath, which shake up and down, drawing it this way and that way in a vessel full of clean water, till the thinner and more profitable part come out into the water, and the thicker and impurer remain in the cloath; then let it settle, and powr off the water gently from it; repeat this operation so often, till nothing good for any thing remain in the cloath: Then take what you bave purified, sprinkle it with a little Rose water, make it into Troches to be kept for use.
I Have now (courteous Reader) led thee through the Colledges reformed and refined Dispensatory; I assure thee not led thereto by any envious principles against them, for I bear them more good will, and love them better than they love themselves; only I hate selvishness in whomsoever I find it. If thou findest me here and there a little lavish in such expressions as many like not, I pray pardon that, it is my Dialect, I cannot write without it: I assure thee it was not premediated: If thou thinkest I did it for gain, thou art so far wide from the truth, that unless thou change thy opinion, 'tis to be feared truth and you will not meet again in a long time. I have taken up this World as Travellers takes up an Inn, not as a Freeholder takes a Dwelling: I take no care for Victuals before I am hungry, nor new Cloathes before my old lack mending. I have read in some Authors that Mammon which signifies Covetousness is the master Devil over those that tempt men to sin, and I partly beleeve it: I have read also in Hosea, 4. 12. That those that make the Earth their happiness, go a whoring from under their God, which made me terribly afraid, lest in one act, I should commit two evils, forsake the fountain of Living-waters, and buy my self a Cestern that would hold none. I have a very simpathetical Spirit, and could either weep with Heraclitus or laugh with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to see men spend all their pains about the gains of this world, and when they have done, must die and leave it (as Solomon saies) they know not to whom, whether he will be a wise man or a fool; therefore mistake me not, but judg of me as I am: I desire not to spend the strength of an immortal Spirit in seeking after what hath no worth in it, which may make me worse, cannot make me better. There was a tale lately told me of a Lady of a great estate, that was so extream foolish, that she would ride in the Coach-box and drive the Horses, whilst the Coach-man rid in the Coach: you think this was a great madness; yet a greater madness by odds it is, for a man that is Heir to an Eternal Being to make himself a slave to the Earth, which must perish: I will assure you it was a higher principle than all these, moved me to write, viz. Pure love to that Nation in which I was born and bred; of which I may justly say, If the Spirit of God said Israel was destroyed for want of knowledg when sin reigned but single, how much more this Nation when it reigns by troops? I weigh not the ill language of those that mind earthly things; I wish them all the riches their hearts can desire, for they have all their wit 〈◊〉〈◊〉 'tis comfortable enough for me that I am beloved of the honest: my reward I expect hereafter in that place whereinto no Earthly-minded nor selfish man shall come.
Nich. Culpeper.
FINIS.| Page | |
| THe Scope of the whol Work. | 301 |
| Of Temperate Medicines what they are. | 302 |
| Their Use | Ibid |
| Of Medicines hot in the first degree | ibid |
| Use 1. Reduce the body to natural heat. | ibid |
| Use 2. To mitigate pain | ibid |
| Use 3. To take away weariness and help Feavers. | 303 |
| A Caution | ibid |
| Use 4. To help digestion and breed good blood. | ibid |
| What they are | ibid |
| Use 1. To help moist 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Use 2. To take away 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Use 3. To open the pores | ibid |
| Use 1. To cut tough humors | ibid |
| Use 2. To provoke sweat | ibid |
| Use 3. To resist poyson | ibid |
| Use. To cause Inflamations, and to cause Blisters. | ib. |
| Use 1. To qualifie the heat of food | ibid |
| Use 2. To asswage the heat of the Bowels | ibid |
| A Caution | ibid |
| Use 1. To asswage the heat of choller | 394 |
| Use 2. To take away the inflamations of hot swellings | ibid |
| Use 3. To cause sleep | ibid |
| Use 1. To mitigate desperate pains by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Sences | ibid |
| Use 1. To help the roughness of the throat | 304 |
| Use 2. To make the inward parts of the body 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Use. To strengthen the Members of the Body | 304 |
| Cautions | ibid |
| THe 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of Authors | 305 |
| Their Difference | ibid |
| Cautions in their use | ibid |
| Of Medicines apropriated to the Brain. | ibid |
| Directions in their use | 305, 306 |
| The opinion of Astrologers | 306 |
| The election or choice of Medicines for the Eyes | 306 |
| Of Medicines apropriated to the Mouth and Nose. | 306 |
| Cautions for their Use | ibid |
| The manner of the Medicines | ibid |
| Medicines apropriated to the Ears. | ibid |
| What they are, and why they are so | ibid |
| Medicines apropriated to the teeth. | ibid |
| What they are, and why they are so | ibid |
| What they are | 307 |
| The Opinion of other Authors | ibid |
| The Authors Opinion | ibid |
| What the office of the Heart is | |
| 1 To cherish life. | 307 |
| 2 To add vigor to the affections | ibid |
| The afflictions of the Heart. | |
| 1 Excessive heat | 308 |
| 2 Poysons | ibid |
| 3 Melancholly vapors | ibid |
| What Cordials are. | ibid |
| 1 Such as metigate the heat in Feavers. | ibid |
| 2 Such as resist 〈◊〉〈◊〉. | ibid |
| 1 By Antipathy between the Medicine and the poyson | ibid |
| 2 By Sympathy between the Medicine and the Heart | ibid |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Such as strengthen the Heart | ibid |
| 4 Such as refresh the Spirits | ibid |
| The infirmities of the stomach | ibid |
| 1 Appetite lost | ibid |
| 2 Digestion weakned | ibid |
| 3 The Retentive Faculty corrupted | ibid |
| Medicines apropriated to the stomach, are | |
| 1 Such as provoke Appetite | ibid |
| 2 As help Digestion | ibid |
| 3 Such as help the Retentive Faculty | ibid |
| A way to find these | ibid |
| Cautions in the use of them | ibid |
| What they are. | 309 |
| How to know them | ibid |
| How to use them | ibid |
| Chap. 6. Of Medicines apropriated to the Spleen. What the office of the Spleen is | 309 |
| What medicines apropriated to the Spleen are | ibid |
| How they must be used | ib. |
| Chap. 7. Of medicines apropriated to the Reins and Bladder. | 310 |
| What they are. Their Use. Cautions. | ibid |
| Chap. 8. Of medicines apropriated to the womb. How they ought to be used | 310 |
| Chap. 9. Of Medicines apropriated to the Joynts. What they are. How they ought to be used | 311 |
| Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines | 312 |
| What they are. Their use. | ibid |
| How they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 known 1 By their tast. 2 By their feeling | ibid |
| Chap. 2. Of hardning Medicines | 312 |
| Their Qualities. Their Use | ibid |
| Chap. 3. Of loosning Medicines | 313 |
| Loosning Medicines described. Their use. | ibid |
| Chap. 4. Of medicines making thick and thin. | |
| Described | 313 |
| The use of medicines making thin | |
| To open the pares. To mitigate pain. To asswage swellings | ibid |
| The use of Medicines making thick | 314 |
| Chap. 5. Of medicines opening the mouths of the vessels | 314 |
| Their description. Their use. How they are known. | ibid |
| Chap. 6. Of attenuating medicines. | |
| Their use: 1 To open obstructions. 2 To clense the breast of flegm. 3 To provoke the terms. | ib. |
| Chap. 7. Of drawing Medicines | 315 |
| Their use: 1 To draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh. 2 To draw corrup humors from the Bowels. 3 To call the offending humors to the outward parts of the Body. 4 By them the crisis of the disease is much helped forward. 5 To draw poyson out of the body. 6 To heat parts of the body which are over cooled | ibid |
| Chap. 8. Of discussive medicines. | 315 |
| What they are. Their use. Cautions in their use. | |
| How they are known. | ibid |
| Chap. 9. Of Repelling medicines. | 315 |
| What they are | ibid |
| How they are known. | 316 |
| Their uses are, 1 To help hot swellings. 2 To ease Head-aches coming of heat. 3 To take away the windy vapors of feavers. | ibid |
| The time of giving repelling medicines. | ibid |
| Cautions in giving them | ibid |
| Chap. 10. Of burning medicines. | 316 |
| Their degrees in heat | ibid |
| Their uses: 1 To restore Limbs wasted away. 2 To burn off hair. 3 To dissolve hard tumors, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 warts and the like. 4 To help Gouts and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 5 To help Fistulaes &c. | ibid |
| Cautions in using these medicines. | ibid |
| Chap. 11. Of clensing medicines. | 316 |
| Their definition. Their difference. Their use. | ib. |
| Chap. 12 Of Emplasters. | |
| What they are. Their use. | 317 |
| Chap. 13 Of suppuring medicines | |
| What they are. Their use. Their time of use. | 317 |
| Chap. 14 Of medicines provoking urine. | |
| What urine is | 317 |
| The cause of the stoppage of Urine | ib. |
| What Diureticks are. 1 Such 〈◊〉〈◊〉 conduce to separate the blood. 2 Such as open the passages of urin. | 318 |
| How each of these may be known. Their use. | ibid |
| Chap. 15 Of medicines provoking the terms. | |
| Their use and manner of using | 318 |
| Chap. 16 Medicines breeding or taking away milk. | |
| Their Description | 318 |
| Their Use | ibid |
| Chap. 17. Of medicines regarding the Seed | |
| Their Description. Cautions in giving them. Their use | 319 |
| Chap. 18 Of Medicines easing pain | |
| Their description | 319 |
| The manner of using them | ibid |
| Chap. 19 Of Medicines breeding flesh. | |
| Their uses. Their differences | 320 |
| Chap. 20 Of Glutinative Medicines. | |
| Their use | 320 |
| Chap. 21 Of Scarrifying Medicines | |
| Cautions in their use. | 320 |
| Chap. 22 Of Medicines resisting poyson. | |
| What they are | |
| 1 Such as strengthen Nature | 320 |
| 2 Such as oppose the poyson | ibid |
| 3 Such as violently thrust it out of the Body. | ib. |
| Cautions in the use of these Medicines | ibid |
| Chap. 23 Of Medicines adorning the Body. | |
| 1 The Face. 2 The Skin. 3 The Hair. 4 The Teeth. 5 The Head, Scurf, Dandrif. | 321 |
| Chap. 24 Of Purging Medicines | |
| Cautions concerning Purging | 322 |
| The choice of purging Medicines | 323 |
| Medicines Purging, 1 Flegm. 2 Watry Humors. 3 Choller. 4 Melancholly | ibid |
| In all these, to what Bodies such Purges are general, and such as are strong should be given | ibid |
| Of the time of purging | 324 |
| Of the Correcting purging medicines. | ibid |
| How to order your Body both before and after Purges | ibid |
| Inconveniences that arise to the Body by violent Purges | ibid |
| The way how to prevent them. | ibid |
| The way how to remedy them | ibid |
| Of the way or manner of Purging | 325 |
I Shall desire thee, who ever thou art, that intendest the Noble (though too much abused) Study of Physick, to mind heedfully these following Rules, which being well understood, shew thee the Key of Galen and Hippocrates ther Method of Physick: He that useth their Method, and is not heedful of these Rules, may soon Tinker-like, mend one hole and make two; cure one Disease, and cause another more desperate.
That then thou maiest understand what I intend, It is to discover in a general way of the manifest Vertues of Medicines,
I say of the Manifest Vertues, and Qualities, Viz. Such as are obvious to the Sences, especially to the Tast and Smel: For it hath been the practice of most Physitians, (I say not of all) in these latter ages as well as ours, to say, when they cannot give, nor are minded to study a Reason, Why an Herb, Plant, &c. hath such an operation, or produceth such an effect in the Body of Man: It doth it by an hidden quality: For they not minding the whol Creation, as one United Body, not knowing what belongs to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Influence, nor regarding that excellent Harmony the only wise God hath made in a composition of Contraries (in the knowledg of which consists the whol ground and foundation of Physick) no more than a Horse that goes along the street regards when the Clock strikes, are totally led by the Nose by that Monster TRADITION, who seldom begets any Children but they prove either Fools or Knaves, and this makes them so brutish that they can give a Reason for the operation of no Medicine, but what is an Object to Sence; this their Worships call Manifest, and the other Hidden, because it is hidden from them, and alwaies will if they search no further after it than hitherto they have done. A Common-wealth is well holp up with such Physitians, that are not only so ignorant, but also so careles of knowing the foundation upon which the whol Fabrick of Physick ought to be built, and not upon Tradition. They profess themselves Galenists: I would civilly encreat them but seriously to peruse, and labor to be well skilled in the Astronomy of Galen and Hippocrates.
I confess, and am glad to think of it, That all Ages have afforded some wise Physitians, well skilled in the Principles of what they profess, of which this our Age is not wanting, and they begin to encrease daily. As for others, my comfort is, That their whol Model will not stand long, because it is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon the Sand. And if I be not mistaken in my Calculation, there are searching times coming, and with speed too, in which every building that is not built upon the Rock shall fall. The Lord will make a quick search upon the face of the Earth.
It is the Manifest Qualities of Medicines that here I am to speak to, and you may be pleased to behold it in this order.
| Sect. 1. Of the Temperature | of Medicines. |
| Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation | |
| Sect. 3. Of the Properties |
HErbs, Plants, and other Medicines manifestly operate, either by Heat, Coldness, Driness, or Moisture, for the world being composed of so many qualities, they and only they can be found in the world, and the mixtures of them one with another.
But that these may appear as cleer as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian, I shall treat of them severally, and in this order.
IF the world be composed of Extreams, then it acts by Extreams, for as the man is, so is his work: therefore it is impossible that any Medicine can be temperate, but may be reduced to Heat, Cold, Driness, or Moisture, and must operate (I mean such as operate by manifest quality) by one of these, because there is no other to operate by, and that there should be such a temperate mixture, so exquisitely of these qualities in any Medicine, that one of them should not manifestly excel the other, I doubt it is a Systeme too rare to find.
Thus then I conclude the matter to be, Those Medicines are called Temperate (not because they have no excess of Temperature at all in them) which can neither be said, to heat nor cool so much as wil amount to the first degree of excess, for daily experience witnesseth that they being added to Medicines, change not their qualities, they make them neither hotter nor colder.
They are used in such Diseases where there is no* 15.1 manifest distemper of the first qualities, viz. Heat and Cold, for example, In obstructions of the Bowels, where cold Medicines might make the Obstruction greater, and hot Medicines cause a Feaver.
In Feavers of Flegm, where the cause is cold and moist, and the effect hot and dry, in such use, temperate Medicines, which may neither encrease the Feaver by their heat, nor condensate the Flegm by their coldness.
Besides, Because Contraries are taken away by their Contraries, and every Like maintained by its Like, They are of great use, to preserve the constituion of the Body temperate, and the Body it self in strength and vigor, and may be used without danger, or fear of danger, by considering what part of the Body is weak, and vsing such temperate Medicines as are apropriated to that part.
THe care of the Ancient Physitians was such that they did not labor to hide from, but impart to posterity, not only the temperature of Medicines in general, but also their degrees in temperature, that so the distempered part may be brought to its temperature, and no further; for all things which are of a* 15.2 contrary temperature, conduce not to cure, but the strength of the contrariety must be observed, that so the Medicine may be neither weaker nor stronger, than just to take away the distemper; for if the distemper be but meanly hot, and you apply a Medicine cold in the Fourth Degree, 'tis true you may soon remove that distemper of Heat, and bring another of Cold twice as bad.
Then Secondly, Not only the distemper it self, but also the part of the body distempered must be heeded, for if the Head be distempered by Heat, and you give such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you will bring another Disease and not cure the former.
The Degrees then of Temperature are to be diligently heeded, which ancient Physitians have concluded to be Four, in the first qualities, viz. Heat and Cold, of each of which we shall speak a word or two severally.
THose are said to be hot in the first Degree which induce a Moderate and Natural heat to the Body, and to the Parts thereof, either cold by Nature, or cooled by accedent, by which Natural heat is cherished when weak, or restored when wanting.
The first Effect then of Medicines hot in the first* 15.3 Degree is, by their sweat and temperate heat, to reduce the Body to its natural heat, as the fire doth the external parts in cold weather, unless the affliction of cold be so great that such mild Medicines will not serve the turn
The Second Effect is, The Mitigation of pain arising* 15.4 from such a distemper, and indeed this effect hath other Medicines, some that are cold, and some that are hotter than the first degree, they being rationally applyed to the distemper, these Medicines the Greeks call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and shall be spoken of in their proper places. In this place let it suffice that Medicines
hot in the first degree, make the offending humors thin & expel them by sweat, or insensible transpiration, and these of all other are most congruous or agreeable to the Body of Man, for there is no such equal temperature of heat and cold in a sound Man, but heat exceeds, for we live by heat and moisture, and not by cold.
Medicines then which are hot in the first degree, are such as just correspond to the Natural heat of our Bodies; such as are hotter or colder, are more subject to do mischeif, being administred by an unskilfull hand, than these are, because of their contrariety to Nature; whereas these are gratefull to the Body by their moderate heat.
Thirdly, These take away weariness, and help Feavers,* 15.5 being outwardly applied, because they open the pores of the Skin, and by their gentle heat prepare the humors, and take away those fuliginous vapors that are caused by Feavers.
Yet may discommodities arise by heedless giving* 15.6 even of these, which I would have young Students in Physick to be very careful in, lest they do more mischeif than they are aware of, viz. It is possible by too much use of them, to consume not only what is inimical in the Body, but also the substance it self, and the strength of the spirits, whence comes faintings, and sometimes death: Besides, by applying them to the parts of the Body they are not apropriated to, or by not heeding well the complexion of the Patient, or the Natural temper of the part of the Body afflicted, for the Heart is hot, but the Brain temperate.
Lastly, Medicines hot in the first Degree, cherisheth* 15.7 heat in the internall parts, help Concoction, breed good Blood, and keep it in good temper, being bred.
HAving spoken of Medicines hot in the First Degree, it follows now in order to speak of those that are hot in the Second; These are something hotter than the Natural temper of a Man.
Their Use is for such whose Stomach is filled with* 15.8 moisture, because their faculty is to heat, and dry, they take away obstructions or stoppings, open the pores of the skin, but not in the same manner that such do as are hot in the First Degree, for they do it without force, by a gentle heat, concocting, and expelling the humors, by strengthening and helping Nature in the work, but these cut tough humors, and scatter them by their own force and power when Nature cannot.
THose which attain the Third Degree of heat, have the same faculties with those before mentioned; but as they are hotter, so are they more powerfull in their operations, for they are so powerfull in heating and cutting, that if unadvisedly given they cause Feavers; Their Use is to cut tough and compacted* 15.9 humors, to provoke sweat abundantly, hence it comes to pass that all of them resist poyson.
THose Medicines obtain the highest degree of heat, which are so hot that they burn the Body of Man being outwardly applied to it, and cause inflamations, or raise blisters; as Crowfoot, Mustardseed, Onions, &c. Of these more hereafter.
PHysitiant have also observed Four Degrees of Coldness in Medicines, which I shall briefly treat of in order.
THose Medicines which are least cold of all, obtain the First Degree of Coldness, and I beseech you take notice of this, That seeing our Bodies are nourished by heat, and we live by heat, therefore no cold Medicines are Naturally, and Per se (as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 call it) friendly to the Body, but what good they do our Bodies, they do it per accedens, viz. by removing an unnatural heat, or the Body heated above its Natural temper.
The giving then of cold Medicines, to a Man in his Natural temper, the season of the year also being but moderately hot, extinguisheth Natural heat in the Body of Man.
Yet have these a necessary Use in them too, though not so frequent as Hot Medicines have; and that may be the reason why an All-wise God hath furnished us with far more Hot Herbs and Plants &c. than Cold.
Their Use is first, In Nourishments, that so the* 15.10 heat of Food may be qualified, and made fit for a weak Stomach to digest, and therefore are Sallets used in Summer.
Secondly, To restrain and asswage the heat of the* 15.11 Bowels, and to cool the Blood in Feavers.
Therefore if the distemper of heat be but gentle, Medicines cold in the first degree will Suffice; also Children, and such people whose Stomachs are weak, are easily hurt by cold Medicines.
SUch whose Stomachs are strong, and Livers hot may easily bear such Medicines as are cold in the second degree, and in cases of extremity find much
help by them: as also by such as cool in the third degree, the extremity of the disease considered; for by both these the unbridled heat of Choller is asswaged.* 15.12
Also they are outwardly applied to hot swellings,* 15.13 due consideration being had, That if the Inflamation be not great, use those that are less cool; if the Inflamation be vehement, make use of Medicines cold in the second or third degree; Alwaies let the Remedy correspond to the just proportion of the Affliction.
Thirdly, Sometimes the Spirits are moved inordinately* 15.14 through heat, thence follows immoderate watchings, if not deprivation of the Sences: this also must be remedied with cold Medicines; for cold stops the pores of the Skin, makes the humors thick, represseth Sweat, and keeps up the Spirits from fainting.
LAstly, The Use of Medicines cold in the Fourth Degree, is, To mitigate desperate and vchement Pains, by stupifying the sences, when no other course can be taken to save life: Of the Use of which more hereafter.
THere can be no such difference found amongst Moistning Medicines, that they should surpass the Second degree. For seeing all Medicines are either hot or cold; neither heat nor cold, seeing they are extreams, can consist with moisture, for the one dries it up, the other condensates it.
Philosophers therefore call Moisture and Dryness, Passive qualities, yet have they their operation likewise; for moist Medicines lenifie and make slippery,* 15.15 ease the Cough, and help the Roughness of the Throat: These operations are proper to Medicines moist in the First Degree.
Those which are moister, take away Naturally strength, help the sharpness of humors, make both Blood and spirits thicker, looseth the Belly, and fit it for purgation.
The immoderate or indiscreet use of them duls the Body, and makes it unfit for action.
DRying Medicines have contrary faculties to these; viz. To consume moisture, stop fluxes, and make such parts dry as are slippery, they make the Body and Members firm, when they are weakened by too much moisture, that so they may perform their proper functions.
Yet although the Members be strengthened by drying medicines, they have, notwithstanding their own proper moisture in them, which ought to be conserved, and not destroyed, for without it they cannot consist: If then this moisture be consumed by using, or rather over-use of drying Medicines, the Members can neither be nourished, nor yet perform their proper actions.
Such Medicines as are dry in the third degree, being unadvisedly given, hinder the parts of the Body they are apropriated to, of their nourishment, and by that means brings them into a Consumption.
Besides, There is a certain moisture in the Body of Man, which is called Radical Moisture, which being taken away, the parts must needs die, seeing natural heat and life also consists in it; and this may be done by too freequent use of medicines dry in the* 15.16 fourth degree: And it may be this was the Reason of Galen his writing. That things dry in the fourth degree must of necessity burn; which is an effect of heat, and not of driness, unless by burning, Galen mean consuming the Radical moisture,
The Use then of drying Medicines is only to such Bodies and parts of the Body as abound with moisture, in which observe these Rules,
Thus have we briefly spoken of the first Qualities of Medicines, and in the general only; and but briefly, because we shall alwaies touch upon them in the Exposition of the other Qualities, in which you must alwaies have an eye to these.
ANtient Physitians also kept a grievous racket about this, some denying any specifical vertues at all in Medicins, or any congruity to certain parts of the Body, but were of Opinion that such as strengthen the Head must needs strengthen the Bowels and all other parts of the Body, by the same Rule, because being ignorant of the influence of the Heavens, they would give no Reason for the contrary, and so whatsoever is obnoxious to one part of the Body must needs be obnoxious to all the rest, by the same Rule.
Others hold them to be apropriated to the particular parts of the Body by an hidden property as they call it, because their ignorance in Astronomy knew not what to make of it, or how the Midicines operated and their experience testifying that they had distinct operations upon distinct parts of the Body.
Others have labored to find out a middle way between both these, and they hold that what Medicines strengthen one part of the Body, must needs in some measure strengthen all the rest, yet so as that it is peculiarly apropriated to that Part of the Body which it strengthens, and their reason is, Because the substance of the Medicine agrees with the substance of that Part of the Body which it strengthens, and every one almost that hath but wit enough to eat an Eg, knows that the substance of all Parts of the Body are not alike. This argument hath some weight in it, though in my Opinion it falls a little too low, for it is a certain truth, the Sympathy, and Antipathy in the Creation is the cause both of all Diseases, and also of the operations of all Medicines, However I may intertex my Opinion of what Physitians call [hidden Qualities] now and then with it, yet my scope shall be to treat chiefly of this at this time, till time and oppertunity (together with the will of my Creator) give me leave to digest what they call [hidden Qualities] into such a form that others may understand it as well as my self: I am sickly and have no body to help me, I can do things no faster than I can.
That the Qualities and Use of these Medicines may be found out, and understood by every one, and so my Country reap the benefit of my Labor, they shall find them presented to their view in this Order.
Medicines apropriated,BY [Head] is usually understood all that part of the Body which is between the top of the Crown, and the uppermost joynt of the Neck; yet are those Medicines properly called Cephalical which are apropriated to the Brain, not to the Eyes, Ears nor Teeth; neither are those Medicines which are proper for the Ears proper also for the Eyes, therefore (my intent being to write as plain as I can) I shall subdivide this Chapter into these parts.
Medcines apropriated —For what Medicines are apropriated to an unruly Tongue, is not in my power at present to determin.
Of Medicines apropriated to the Brain.BEfore we treat of Medicines apropriated to the Brain, it is requisite that we discribe what the nature and affection of the Brain is.
The Brain which is the Seat of Apprehension Judgment, and Memory, the Original of Sence and Motion, is by nature temperate, and if so, then you will grant me that it may easily be afflicted both by Heat and Cold, and it is indeed more subject to afflictions by either of them, than any other part of the Body, for if it be afflicted by heat, Sence and Reason is immoderately moved, if by cold, they languish,
and are dulled, to pass by other symptoms which invade the Head, if the Brain be altered from its proper temper.
Also this is peculiar to the Brain, that it is delighted or offended by sinels, sights, and sounds, but I shall meddle no further with these here, because they are not Medicines.
Cephalical Medicines may be found out from the Affections of the Brain it self. The Brain is usually oppressed with moisture in such afflictions; therefore give such Medicines as very gently, warm, clense, cut, and dry; but withal, let them be such as are apropriated to the Head, such as Physitians say [by an hidden quality] strengthens the Brain.
Again, if you consider the scituation of the Brain, you shal find it placed in the highest part of all the Body; therefore it is easily afflicted with hot vapors, this punisheth a man with watchings and head-ach, as the former did with sottishness and sleepiness; in such cases use such Cephalects as gently cool the Brain.
To make Cephalects of Narcoticks, or slupifying Medicines is not my iutent, for I am confident they are inimical both to Brain and Sences. Of these, and such Medicines also as purge the Brain, I shall speak by and by. To return to my purpose.
Some Cephalicks purge the Brain, some heat it, some cool it, some strengthen it; but how they perform this Office peculiarly to the Brain, most Physitians confess they could neither comprehend by Reason, nor discribe by Precepts, only thus, they do it by an hidden quality, either by strengthening the Brain, thereby defending it from Diseases, or by a certain Antipathy between them and the Diseases incident to the Brain.
Lastly, For the Use of Cephalicks, observe, if the Brain be much afflicted, you cannot well strengthen it before you have purged it, neither can you well purge the Brain before you have clensed the rest of the Body, it is so subject to receive the vapors up to it; give cooling Cephalicks when the Brain is too hot, and hot Cephalicks, when it is too cold.
Beware of using cooling Medicines to the Brain when the Crisis of a Disease is neer: How that time may be known, I shall (God asisting me) instruct you hereafter, I cannot do all things at one time; let it suffice now, that according as the Discase afflicting your Head is, so let your remedy be.
Of Medicines apropriated to the Eyes.TAke such Medicines as are apropriated to the Eyes under the name of [Ocular Medicines] I do it partly to avoid multiplicity of words, and partly to instruct my Country Men in the Terms of Art belonging to Physick, (I would have called them [Ophthalmicks] had not the word been troublesom to the reading, much more to the understanding of a Country man) as I even now called such Medicines [Cephalicks] as were apropriated to the Brain.
Ocular Medicines are two fold, viz. such as are referred to the Visive Vertues, and such as are referred to the Eyes themselves.
Such as strengthen the Visive Vertue or the Optick Nerves which convey it to the Eyes (say Doctors) do it by an hidden Vertue, into the reason of which no man can dive, unless they should fetch it from the Similitude of the substance; And yet they say a Goats Liver conduceth much to make one see in the night, and they give this Reason, Because Goats see as well in the night as in the day. Yet is there no affinity in temperature nor substance between the Liver and the Eyes; However Astrologers know wel enough that all Herbs, Plants, &c. That are under the Dominion of either Sun or Moon, and apropriated to the Head, be they hot or cold they strengthen the Visive Vertue, as Eyebright which is hot, Lunaria or Moonwort which is cold.
As for what appertains to the constitution of the Eyes themselves seeing they are exact in sence, they will not indure the least inconvenience, therefore such Medicines as are outwardly applied to them (for such Medicines as strengthen the visive Veertues are all given inwardly) let them neither hurt by their hardness nor gnawing quality, nor be so tough that they should stick to them, Therefore let Oculiar Medicines be neither in Pouders nor Ointments, because Oyl it self is offensive to the Eyes, and how pleasing Pouders are to them you may perceive your self by but going into the dust.
Medicines apropriated to the Mouth and Nose.APPly no stinking Medicine to a Disease in the Nose, for such offend not only the Nose, but also the Brain; neither administer Medicines of any ill tast to a Disease in the Mouth, for that subverts the Stomach, because the tunicle of the mouth and of the Stomach is the same; And because both Mouth and Nostrils are wayes by which the Brain is clensed, therefore are they infected with such vices as need almost continual clensing; and let the Medicines you apply to them be either pleasant, or at least, not ingrateful.
Medicines apropriated to the Ears.THe Ears are easily afflicted by Cold, because they are alwaies open, therefore they require hot Medicines. And because they are of themselves very dry, therefore they require Medicines which dry much
Medicines apropriated to the Teeth.VEhement heat, and vehement cold is inimical to the Teeth, but they are most of all offended by sharp and four things, and the reason is, because they have neither Skin nor Flesh to cover them, they delight in such Medicines as are clensing and binding, because they are troubled with Defluxions and Rhewms upon every light occasion, and that's the reason the common use of fat and sweet things, soon rots the Teeth.
THe Medicines apropriated to the Breast and Lungues, you shall find called all along by the name of [Pectorals] that's the term Physitians give them, when you hear them talk of Pectural Syrups, Pectoral Rowls, or Pectoral Oyntments, now you know their Use.
They are divers, some of which regard the part afflicted, others the matter afflicting.
But although sometimes in Ulcers of the Lungues we are forced to use binding Medicines, to joyn the Ulcer, yet are not these called Pectorals, because binding Medicines are extream hurtful to the Breast and Lungues, both because they hinder ones fetching his breath, and also because they hinder the avoiding that Flegm by which the Breast is oppressed.
Such Medicines are called Pectorals, which are of a* 15.17 lenifying Nature, for by their operation is the breath the easier fetched, and what sticks to the Stomach the easier spit out.
Neither yet is the way or manner of provoking this same spitting alwaies one and the same, for somtimes the matter is so thin that it cannot be cast up by the motion of the Lungues, but it slips besides. Again, Sometimes it is so thick that it cannot be cast out by the narrow Arteries of the Lungues. These then are the genuine operations of Pectorals, viz. Some to make the thin matter thicker, others to make the thick matter thinner.
Besides, Those which make thin matter thicker are of two sorts, viz. Some are mild and gentle, which may safely be administred, be the matter hot or cold which offendeth, (the degrees of temperature will satisfie, which such be among the Simples, neither shall you want instructions among the Compounds) Others are very cold, which are used only when the matter offending is sharp.
But because such Medicines as conduce to the cure of the Phtisicks (which is an Ulceration of Lungues and the disease usually called, The Consumption of the Lungues) are also reckoned in amongst Pectorals. It is not amiss to speak a word or two of them.
In the cure of this disease are three things to be regarded.
And indeed some particular Simples will perform all these, and Physitians confess it; which shews the wonderfull Mysterie the All-wife God hath made in the Creation, That one and the Same Simple should perform two contrary Operations on the same part of the Body; for the more a Medicine clenseth the more it conglutinates; And it is wisely done of Physitians to shut their Eyes against such a Mysterie, and against Astrology also, which is one means to reveal it, they make a long Harvest of little Corn, and get the more money by it. They usually in such cases first use Medicines which are more clensiing; lastly, Medicines more binding and strengthen the Lungues all the time.
To conclude then, Pectoral Medicines are such as either cut and clense out the compacted humors from the Arteries of the Lungues, or make thin Defluxions thick, or temper those that are sharp, help the Roughness of the Wind-pipe, or are gently lenitive and softning, being outwardly applied to the Breast.
THese are they that are generally given under the notion of Cordials, take them under that name here.
The Heart is the seat of the vital Spirit, the fountain of life, the original of infused heat, and of the natural affections of man.
So then these Two Things are proper to the Heart.
And if these be proper to the Heart, you will easily grant me, that it is the property of Cordials to administer to the Heart in these Particulars.
Of Cordials, some cheare the Mind, some strengthen the Heart, and refresh the Spirits thereof, being decayed.
Those which checr the Mind are not one and the same; for as the Heart is variously disturbed, either by Anger, Love, Fear, Hatred, Sadness, &c. So such things as flatter Lovers, or appease the Angry, or comfort the Fearful, or please the Hateful, may well be called Cordials; for the Heart, seeing it is placed in the middle between the Brain and the Liver, is wrought upon by Reason, aswell as by Digestion; yet these, because they are not Medicines, are beside my present scope.
And altough it is true, That Mirth, Love, &c. are actions, or motions of the Mind, not of the Body; yet many have bin induced to think such Affections may be wrought in the Body by Medicines, which some hold is done by an hidden property (the old Bush ignorant Physitians have run into) Others that denied any hidden quality in Medicines, held it to be done by Enchantment, and that is the only way of a thousand to lead people in ignorance, viz.
To tell them (when they cannot give, nor will not study a reason of a thing) It is Diabolical, and done by Sorcery. I could give a Reason of the former, if it were my present scope to speak of hidden properties; a very short time will discover the latter to be the greatest of Falshoods. But to return to my purpose.
The Heart is chiefly afflicted by too much heat, by Poyson, and by stinking Vapors, and these are remedied by the second sort of Cordials, and indeed chicfly belong to our present scope.
According to these Three Afflictions, viz.Are Three kinds of Remedies which succor the afflicted Heart:
Such asAll these are called Cordials.
Of the First we shall speak anon, in a Chapter by it self. The latter belongs to this Chapter, and they are such Medicines, whose nature is to strengthen the Heart, and fortifie it against the Poyson, as Rue, Angelica, &c. For as the operation of the former is upon the Poyson, which afflicteth the Heart, so the operation of the latter is upon the Heart afflicted by the Poyson.
To this Classis may be referred all such Medicines, as strengthen the Heart, either by Astral influence, or by likeness of substance, if there be such a likeness in Medicines, for a Bullocks heart is of like substanceto a Mans, yet I question whether it be Cordial or not.
BY Stomach, I mean that Ventricle which contains the Food till it be concocted into Chyle.
Medicines apropriated to the Stomach are usually called Stomachicals.
The infirmities usually incident co the Stomach are Three.
When Appetite is lost, the man feels no hunger when his Body needs Nourishment.
When Digestion is weakened it is not able to concoct the meat received into the Stomach, but it putrifies there.
When the retentive Faculty is spoiled, the Stomach is not able to retain the Food till it be digested, but either vomits it up again, or causeth Fluxes.
Such Medicines then as remedy all these, are called Stomachicals. And of them in order.
For the Use of these.
BE pleased to take these under the name of Hepaticks, for that is the usual name Physitians give them, and these also are of Three sorts.
The Pallat is the Seat of tast, and its Office is to judg what Food is agreeable to the Stomach, and what not, by that is both the Quality and Quantity of Food fit for the Stomach discerned: the very same Office the Meseraick Veins perform to the Liver.
Sometimes such Food pleaseth the Pallat which the Liver likes not (but not often) and therefore the Meseraick Veins resuse it, and that's thereason some few men fancy such food as makes them sick after the eating thereof.
Yet do not Hepatical Medicines require so great a binding faculty as Stomachicals do, because the passages of the Stomach are more open than those of the Liver, by which it either takes in Chyle, or sends out Blood to the rest of the Body, therefore Medicines which are very binding are hurtful to the Liver, and either cause obstructions, or hinder the distribution of the Blood, or both.
Sometimes Inflamation follows the obstruction, and then must you use Hepatical Medicines, which cool, clense, and extinuate.
In using these have a special care that your cooling Medicines be so tempered with heat, that the digestive faculty of the Liver be not spoiled, and that the Diaphragma (which is very neer unto it) be not so cooled that it hinder the fetching of breath.
And thus much for the Liver, the Office of which is to concoct Chyle (which is a white substance the Stomach digests the food into) into Blood, and distribute it by the Veins to every part of the body, whereby the Body is nourished, and decaying flesh restored.
IN the breeding of Blood are three Excrements most conspicuous, viz. Urine. Choller, and Melancholly.
The proper seat of Choller is in the Gall.
The Urine passeth down to the Reins or Kidneys, which is all one.
The Spleen takes the thickest or melancholly blood to it self.
I hope shortly to give you the exactest piece of Anatomy now extant, in your own mother tongue, wherein you may as perfectly see these and all other internal operations of your Body, as you can your Faces in a Looking Glass. But to return.
This Excrement of Blood is twofold: for either by excessive heat, it is addust, and this is that the Latins call Atra bilis: or else it is thick and earthly of it self, and this properly is called Melancholly humor.
Hence then is the nature of Splenical Medicines to be found out, and by these two is the Spleen usually afflicted, for Atra bilis (I know not what distinct English name to give it) many times causeth Madness, and pure Melancholly causeth obstructions of the Bowels, and tumors, whereby the concoction of the Blood is viciated, and Dropsies many times follow.
Medicines then peculiar to the Spleen must needs be twofold also, some apropriated to Atra bilis, others to pure Melancholly; but of purging either of them, I shall omit till I come to treat of Purging in a Chapter by it self.
Aud although sometimes Medicines are outwardly applied to hardness of the Liver, yet they differ from Splenicals, because they are binding, so are not Splenicals.
THe Office of the Reins is, To make a separation between the Blood and the Urin, to receive this Urine thus separated from the Blood, is the Bladder ordained, which is of a sufficient bigness to contain it, that so a man may go about his business and not be alwaies pissing.
Both these parts of the Body officiating about the Urin, they are both usually afflicted by the vices of the Urin.
The Urin is oppressedMedicines apropriated to the Reins and Bladder are usually called Nephriticals and are Threefold; some cool, others cut gross humors, and a third sort breaks the Stone.
In the Use of all these, take notice, That the constitution of the Reins and Bladder is such, That they abhor all binding Medicines, because they cause stoppage of Urine.
The truth is, I shall speak of all these apart in so many Chapters by themselves, only let it suffice here, That Physitians confess some Medicines perform these by an hidden 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and even break the hardest Stone; but no man (they say, because they cannot themselves) can give a Reason how, nor why they do it.
And Secondly, take notice, That the Reins and Bladder being subject to Inflamations endure not very hot Medicines.
Thirdly Because the Bladder is further remote from the Centre of the Body than the Kidnies are, therefore it requires stronger Medicines than the Kidnies do, lest the strength of the Medicine be spent before it be come to the part afflicted.
THese Physitlans call Hystericals, and to avoid multiplicity of words, take them in this disconrse under that notion,
Take notice that such Medicines as provoke the Terms, or stop them when they flow immoderately, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 properly Hystericals, but shall be spoken to by and by in a Chapter by themselves.
As for the Nature of the Womb, it seems to be much like the nature of the Brain and Stomach, for experience teacheth that it is delighted with sweet and Aromatical Medicines, and flies from their contraries.
For example: A Woman being troubled with the Fits of the Mother, which is a drawing of the Womb upwards, apply sweet things, as Civit, or the like, to the place of Conception, it draws it down again, but apply stinking things to the Nose, as Assafoetida, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the like, it expels it from it, and sends it down to its proper place.
Again, Sometimes the Womb of a Woman falls out, in such cases, sweet scents applied to the Nose, and stinking things to the privy passage, reduces it to its proper place again, and this made some Physitians of Opinion that the Womb of a Woman was capable of the sence of smelling. For my part I beleeve nothing less; only it doth it by apropriation to that part of the Body, for the Stomach is also offended with stinking things, not because it smels them, but because they are obnoxious to that part of the Body, judg the like by the Womb; it is offended by stinking things, and strengthened by sweet: for smell is one of the Touch-stones by which Nature trieth what is convenient for its self; yet, that the Womb hath much affinity with the Head is most certain, and undeniable by this argument, Because most Cephalick Medicines conduce to the cure of Diseases in the Womb, neither is the Womb often afflicted, but the Head principally suffers with it.
The Joynts are usually troubled with Cephalick Diseases, and then are to be cured by Cephalick Medicines.
Medicines apropriated to the Joynts, are called by the name of Arthritical Medicines.
The Joynts, seeing they are very Nervous, require Medicines which are of a heating and drying Nature, with a gentle binding, and withal such as by a peculiar vertue are apropriated to them, and ad strength to them. It is true, most Cephalicks do so, yet because the Joynts are more remote from the Centre, they require stronger Medicines.
For removing pains in the Joynts this is the Method of proceeding.
Pains is either taken away, or eased, for the true cure is to take away the cause of the pain, sometimes the vehemency of the pain is so great that you must be forced to use Anodines (for so Physitians call such Medicines as ease pain) before you can meddle with the cause, and this is usually when the part pained is inflamed, for those Medicines which take away the cause of pain being very hot, if there be any Inflamation in the part pained, you must abstain from them till the Inflamation be taken away.
Also the manner of easing the pain is two-fold, for if you regard only the pain, use Anodines, but if you regard the Inflamation, use cooling Medicines; because by them, not only the heat is asswaged, but also the Flux of Blood to that part is stopped, especially if you mix some repelling Medicine with it. We shall speak of all these in the next Section.
Only here take notice, That such Medicines as take away the cause of pain from the Joynts, are of very thin substance and forcible in cutting and drawing; and when you see the cause is taken quite away, then use such as bind and strengthen the Joynts, that so 〈◊〉〈◊〉 may prevent defluxions for the time to come. And thus much for the Second Section.
THat I may be as plain as can be in this (for I desire to be understood of all) I shall devide this SECTION into these Chapters, Viz.
Of MEDICINES.| Chap. | |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉. | 1 |
| Hardning. | 2 |
| Loosning. | 3 |
| Making thin, and thick. | 4 |
| Opening the Vessels. | 5 |
| Attinuating. | 6 |
| Drawing. | 7 |
| Discussing. | 8 |
| Repelling. | 9 |
| Burning. | 10 |
| Clensing. | 11 |
| Emplasticks. | 12 |
| Suppuring. | 13 |
| Provoking Urin. | 14 |
| Provoking the Terms. | 15 |
| Breeding Milk. | 16 |
| Regarding the Seed. | 17 |
| Easing Pain. | 18 |
| Breeding Flesh. | 19 |
| Glutinative. | 20 |
| Scarrifying. | 21 |
| Resisting Poyson. | 22 |
| Adorning the Body. | 23 |
| Purging. | 24 |
Of all these in order, and in the same order they are set down.
THe various mixtures of Heat, Cold, Driness, and Moisture in Simples, must of necessity produce variety of Faculties, and Operations in them, which now we come to treat of, beginning first at Emollients.
What is hard and what is soft, most men know, but few are able to express; Phylosophers define that to be hard which yields not to touching, and soft to be the contrary; An Emollient, or softning Medicine (which is all one) is such a Medicine as reduceth a hard substance to its proper temperature.
But to leave Phylosophy, and keep to Physick; Physitians describe hardness to be two-fold.
So many properties then ought Emollient Medicines to have, viz. to moisten what is dry, to discuss what is stretched, to warm what is congealed by cold, yet properly, that only is said to mollifie which reduceth a hard substance to its proper temper.
Driness and thickness of humors being the cause of hardness, Emollient Medicines must of necessity be hot and moist; and although you may peradventure find some of them dry in the Second or Third Degrees, yet must this driness be tempered and qualified with heat and moisture, for Reason will tell you that dry Medicines make hard parts harder.
Besides, In Scirrhous humors (in which Emollients are most in use) various Symptoms appear, so that the hardness being not Simple, the Emollients are not, nor ought not to be alwaies one and the same, as for example: Sometimes the Swelling abounds with moisture, and then the Medicine must be dryer, not to mollifie the swelling, but to consume the moisture; Sometimes the humor is so tough, that temperate Medicines will not stir it, then must the Medicine be the hotter, these things are accedental according as the humor offending is; it follows not for all this, that Emollient Medicines should not be temperately hot and moist in their own Nature; for general Rules are not to be accounted false, because a man must sometimes swerve from them, for this is the true use of all Rules, viz. To vary them according to the various Symptoms of the Disease, and herein is the judgment of the Physitians tried.
Lastly, Molifying Medicines are known, 1. By their tast, 2. By their feeling.
GALEN in Lib. 5. De Simpl. Med. Facult. Cap. 10. determins Hardning Medicines to be cold and moist, and he brings some arguments to prove it, against which other Physitians contest.
I shall not here stand to quote the Dispute, only take notice, That if softning Medicines be hot and moist (as we shewed even now) then hardning Medicines must needs be cold and dry, because they are contrary to them.
Yet you must observe a difference between Medicines drying, making thick, hardning, and congealing, of which differences a few words will not do amiss.
That you may cleerly understand this, observe but these two things.
That which worketh is outward cold, that which is wrought upon is a certain thickness & driness of humors, for if the humor were fluid as water is it might properly be said to be congealed by cold, but not so properly hardned. Thus you see cold & drines to be the cause of hardning. But enough of this (perhaps some may think too much) This hardning being so far from being useful, that it is obnoxious to the Body of Man, I pass it without more words. I suppose when Galen wrote of hardning Medicines, he intended such as make thick, and therefore amongst them he reckons up, Fleawort, Purslain, Housleek, and the like, which asswage the heat of the humors in Swellings, and stop subtil and sharp Defluxious upon the Lungues, but of these more anon.
BY Loosning here, I do not mean Purging; not that which is opposit to Astringency, but that which is opposit to stretching: I knew not suddenly what fitter English Name to give it, than Loosning or Laxation, which latter is scarce English.
The Members are distended or stretched divers waies, and ought to be loosned as many, for they are stretched sometimes by driness, sometimes by cold, sometimes by repletion or fulness, sometimes by swellings, and sometimes by some of these joyned together. I avoid terms of Art as much as I can, because it would profit my Country but little, to give them the Rules of Physick in such English as they understand not.
I confess the Opinion of Ancient Physitians hath been various about these Loosning Medicines. Galen's Opinion was, That they might be referred either to moistning, or heating, or mollifying, or evacuating Medicines, and therefore ought not to be referr'd to a Chapter by themselves.
Tis like they may, and so may all other Medicines be referred to heat, or coldness, or dryness, or moisture: But we speak not here of the Particular properties of Medicines, but of their Joyned properties, as they heat and moisten.
Others, they question how they can be distinguished from such as mollifie, seeing such as are loosning, and such as are emollient, are both of them hot and moist.
To that, thus: Stetching and Loosning are ascribed to the movable parts of the Body, as to the Muscles and their Tendons, to the Ligaments, and Membranae; But softness and hardness to such parts of the Body as may be felt with the hand: I shall make it cleer by a Similitude: Wax is softned being hard, but Fiddle-strings are loosned being stretched. And if you say that the difference lying only in the parts of the Body, is no true difference; then take notice, that such Medicines which loosen, are less hot and more moistning than such as soften, for they operate most by heat, these by moisture.
The truth is, I am of Opinion, the difference is not much, nay, scarce sensible, between Emollient and Loosning Medicines, Only I quoted this in a Chapter by itself, not so much because some Authors do, as because it conduceth to the encrease of knowledge in Physick, for want of which this poor Nation is almost spoiled.
The chief Use of Loosning Medicines is in Convulsions and Cramps, and such like infirmities which cause distention or stretching.
They are known by the very same marks and tokens that Emollient Medicines are.
MEdicines which rarify, or make thin, are such which open the pores of the skin, and make them wider, they are not so moist as Emollient Medicines are, but of thin and subtil parts, they are hot, but not so hot that they should draw the matter to them, or discuss it, as we shall shew when we come to speak of those Faculties.
Such as make thick are contrary to these, these are cold and stop the pores of the skin.
These Galen would have to be moist, neither is there any difference between his Description of hardning Medicines, and such as make thick.
Again, In swellings, it is not only the plenty of humors that causeth pain, but the driness, hardness, or stretching of the Skin, therefore seeing Medicines which rarify or make thin, do both loosen and
mollifie, they must of necessity by these operations mitigate pain.
Also there is much profit in the use of thickning Medicines, for they make the Skin firm, thereby not only the better resisting cold, but also they stop too much sweating, and desolution of the spirits that way, which often happens to them that are weak.
THese Galen thought to be hot, but of thick parts and biting.
Let none admire that thickness should be attributed to Medicines of an opening substance, seeing thickness seems rather to stop than to open. For answer to this, you must consider the manner of opening obstructions, and of opening the mouths of the Vessels is different, Obstructions require cutting Medicines by which the thickness of the matter obstructing is made thinner, therefore the Medicine ought not to be thick, but of thin substance that it may the better penetrate (I do not mean of a thin Body, like water, for that causeth Obstructions rather then take them away, but of thin parts, viz. Making thin) But those Medicines which are said to open the mouths or passages of the Vessels, are of thick parts, that they may not only penetrate, but also strengthen the passages by which they pass, therefore Galen besides heat, appointed thickness of parts and sharpness, or biting, as Pepper bites, for such a sharp heat is very effectual to penetrate, and cannot stop in the least; for although the Skin be easily contracted by gentle Medicines, the Vessels cannot be shut but by things vehemently binding, and therefore let these Medicines of thick substance be also moist, for moisture cannot so forcibly bind as to stop the mouths of the Vessels.
The Use of opening Medicines may be easily gathered* 15.22 from the use of the Vessels to be opened, for seeing their use is to hold Blood, which sometimes offend in quantity, sometimes in quality, such infirmities are to be remedied by opening Medicines.
They are easily known by tast, being sharp and piercing, and bite the tongue, but such as are stopping, are cold and binding, and contract the tongue in tasting of them.
THe use of Attenuating Medicines is to open the obstructions of the Bowels.
The Bowels are obstructed or stopped by tough and viscus humors, hence then it is cleer that Attenuating, or Extenuating Medicines ought to be thin of substance, but whether they ought all to be hot or not, is some question, for indeed many cold Medicines cut tough humors and open obstructions, as Vinegar, Endive, Succory, and the like. I shall not enter into the Dispute here whether all cold things bind or not, and therefore some hold Vinegar to be hot in it self, and cool only by accedent; we know Wine is hot, and Vinegar is nothing but corrupted Wine, and we know as well that putrifaction turns things usually into a contrary quality, and besides if you ask Physitians how one Simple can perform two contrary operations, they presently run into the old bush, It doth it (say they) by a hidden quality.
The use of Attenuating Medicines is to open the Bowels, to clense the Breast of Flegm, co expel the Terms, &c.
Your best course is, first to clense the body by some gentle purge before you use Attenuating Medicines, lest they seise upon the Blood and cause Feavers, or other mischeifs as bad.
They are in tast sharp, sowr, or bitter, yet such as being tasted dilate the tongue, and contract it not.
THe Opinion of Physitians is concerning these as it is concerning other Medicines, viz. Some draw by a manifest quality, some by a hidden, and so (quoth they) they draw to themselves both humors and thorns, or splinters that are gotten into the Flesh, however this is certain, they are all of them hot, and of thin parts; hot because the Nature of heat is to draw, of thin parts that so they may penetrate to the humors that are to be drawn out.
Their Use is various, viz.
They are known almost by the same tokens that Attenuating Medicines are, seeing Heat, and thinness of parts is in them both, they differ only in respect of quantity, thinness of parts being most proper to Attenuating Medicines, but Attractive Medicines are hotter.
BY Discussive Medicines I intend such as the Greeks call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 commonly Physitians call them by the names of Diaphoreticks; in plain English, they are such Medicines as provoke Sweat, or as work by insensible transpiraton, which is another term they give to Sweating. I quote these terms, and explain them, because I would not have my Country-men hood-wink'd with strange terms; I am half of Opinion it is one way by which they are trained up in slavery.
The nature of Discussing (or Sweating) Medicines is almost the same with Attractive, for there are no discussive Medicines but are attractive, nor scarce any attractive Medicine but is in some measure or other discussing. The difference then is only this; That discussive Medicines is hotter than attractive, and therefore nothing else need be written of their nature.
Their Use may be known even from their very* 15.28 Name; for diseases that come by repletion or fulness, are cured by evacuation or emptying, yet neither* 15.29 Blood nor gross humors are to be expelled by Sweating or insensible transpiration (as they call it) but the one requires Blood-letting, the other Purgation; but Serosus or thin humors and filthy vapors, and such like superfluities, are to be expelled by sweat, and be wary in this too, for many of them work violently,* 15.30 and violent Medicines are not rashly to be given.
Besides, Swellings are sometimes made so hard by* 15.31 sweating Medicines, that afterwards they can never be cured; For what is Thin being by such Medicines taken away, nothing but what is perfectly hard remains: If you fear such a thing, mix Emollients with them.
Again, Sometimes by using Discussives, the humors* 15.32 offending (which Physitians usually call the Peccant humor) is driven to some more noble part of the Body, or else it draws more than it discusseth; in such cases, concoct and attenuate the matter offending before you go about to discuss it.
From hence may easily be gathered at what time of the Disease Discussive Medicines are to be used, viz. about the declining of the disease, although in diseases arising from heat of blood, we sometimes use them in the encrease and state of them.
They are known by the same marks and tokens attenuating Medicines are, viz. by their burning and biting quality, they being very hot and of thin parts, void of any biting quality, therefore they contract not the Tongue in tasting of them.
REpelling Medicines are of Contrary operation to these three last Mentioned, viz. Attenuating, Drawing, and Discussive Medicines; 'Tis true, there is but little difference between these three, some hold none at all; and if you will be so nice, you may oppose them thus. And so Medicines making thick correspond to Attenuating Medicines, or such as make thin, repelling Medicines are opposed to such as draw, and such as retain the humors and make them tough, are oppisit to such as discuss, some hold this niceness needless.
2. The sentence of Authors about Repulsive Medicines is various:
For seeing an Influxion may be caused many waies: A Repulsive hath got as many defenitions.
For such things as cool, bind, stop and make thick,
stay Influxions, and therefore Repulsives are by Authors opposed. not only to Attractives, but also to Attenuating, and Discussing Medicines.
But properly such things are called Repulsives, which do not only stay Inflaxions, (for so do such Medicines which step and and make thick) but such as drive the humors flowing to, or inherent in the place, to some other place.
The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is, Binding is inherent to Repulsives, so is not coldness nor making thick: Yet such as are binding, cold and thin in operation are most effectual.
Your tast will find Repulsives to be, tart, or sharp, or austere, with a certain binding which contracts the Tongue.
Their Use is manifold, as in hot Tumors, Headaches* 15.33 or the like.
By these in Feavers are the Vapors driven from the* 15.34 Head: Vineger of Roses is notable.
They are most commodious in the beginning and* 15.35 encrease of a disease, for then Influxions are most rife.
But seeing that in the cure of Tumors there are two Scopes, 1 That that which flows to it may be repelled. 2 That that which is already in it may be discussed: Repulsives are most commodiously used in the beginning, discussives in the latter end.
In the middle you may mix them with this Proviso, That Repulsives exceed in the beginning, Discussives in the latter end.
If the matter offending be of a venemous quality,* 15.36 either abstain from Repulsives altogether, or use Purging first, lest the matter fly to the Bowels and prove dangerous, especially if the Bowels be weak.* 15.37
Also forbear Repulsives, if the pain be great.* 15.38
Lastly, Have a care lest by Repulsives you contract the Pores so much, that the matter cannot be removed by Discussives.
SUch Medicins are called by the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 so vehement hot that they burn the Skin like fire or scalding 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Physitians to keep the People in ignorance that so they may the better make slaves of them, use the Greek name [〈◊〉〈◊〉]
Yet these also are distinguished by their degrees, for some are milder, and only cause redness to, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon the skin, others burn both skin and flesh, and are used to make Issues.
The mildest are many times used to such Limbs as* 15.39 are wasted away.
To burn off Hair, to dissolve hard and callous tumors,* 15.40 to consume Warts, and Polypus which is a fleshy excressence growing in the Nose, in the cure of Gouts, and Lethargies.
Fistulaes and malignant Ulcers are restrained this* 15.41 way, and dangerous defluxion of humors to the superficies of the Body and many things of the like Nature.
Yet must this sort of Medicines be used very circumspectly,* 15.42 lest it cause either Feavers or Convusions, therefore use it not at all till the Body be first well purged.
If you use it to restore Limbs, temper it with milder* 15.43 things.
Lastly, Have a care lest the parts adjacent be inflamed,* 15.44 which you may both prevent and remedy by anointing them with cool Oyntments.
CLensing Medicines can neither be defined by heat, nor coldness,, because some of both sorts clense.
A clensing Medicine then is of a terrene quality, which takes away the filth with it and carries it out.
Here to avoid confusion, a difference must be made between wathing 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.* 15.45
A thing which 〈◊〉〈◊〉, carries away by Fluxion, as a man washeth the dirt off from a thing.
A clensing Medicine by a certain roughness or nitrous quality, carries away the compacted filth with it.
This also is the difference between clensing and discussing Medicines, the one makes thick humors thin, and so scatters them, but a clensing Medicine takes the most tenacious humor along with it, without any alteration.
Besides, Of clensing Medicines some are of a gentler nature which the Greeks call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, some are more vehement called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
These are not known one and the same way, for some are sweet, some salt, and some bitter.
The Use of clensing is external, as the use of Purges internal.
They are used to clense the Sanies and other filth of Ulcers, yea and to consume and eat away the Flesh it self, as burnt Allum, Prescipetate, &c.
When these must be used, not only the affects of the Ulcers, but also the temperature of the Body will tell you.
For if you see either a Disease of fulness, which our Physitians call [Plethora] or corrupted humors which they call [Cacochyma] you must empty the Body of these, viz. fulness by bleeding, and corrupt
humors or evil state of the Body, by purging before you use clensing Medicines to the Ulcer, else your cure will never proceed prosperously.
In the Ulcer, pain to be eased, some part of the Ulcer to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Flux to be stopped, or Inflamation to be ceased will instruct a prudent Artificer.
BY 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 here, do I mean things glutinative, and they are clean contrary to things clensing, They are of a fat glutenous or tenareous substance. They differ from things stopping because they do not stop the pores so much, as stick to them like Birdlime.
They have a certain glutenous heat, tempered both with coldness and moisture.
From these, Plaisters take their names.
Their tast is either none at all, or not discernable whether hot or cold but sat, insipid or without tast or sweet, viscous in feeling.
Their use is to stop flowing of Blood and other* 15.46 Fluxes, to cause suppuration, to contain in the heat, that so tumors may be ripened.
Also they are mixed with other Medicines, that they may the better be brought into the form of an Emplaster, and may stick the better to the Members.
THese have a great affinity with Emolients, like to them in temperature, only Emollients are mething hotter.
Yet is there a difference as apparent as the Sun is when he is upon the Meridian, and the use is manifest. For,
Emollients are to make hard things soft; but what Suppures, rather makes a generation than an alteration of the humor.
Natural heat is the efficient cause of Suppuration, neither can it be done by any external means.
Therefore such things are said to suppure, which by a gentle heat cherish the inbred heat of man.
This is done by such Medicines which are not only temperate in heat, but also by a gentle viscosity, fill up or stop the Pores, that so the heat of the part affected be not scattered.
For although such things as bind hinder the dissipation of the Spirits, and internal heat, yet they retain not the moisture as Suppuring Medicines properly and especially do.
The heat then of Suppuring Medicines is like the internal heat of our Bodies.
As things then very hot, are ingrateful either by biting, as Pepper, or bitterness: in Suppuring Medicines, no biting, no binding, no nitrous quality is perceived by the tast (I shall give you better satisfaction both in this and others, by and by)
For Reason will tell a man, that such things hinder rather than help the work of Nature in Maturation.
Yet it follows not from hence, That all Suppuring Medicines are grateful to the tast, for many things grateful to the tast provoke Vomiting, therefore why may not the contrary be?
The most frequent use of Suppuration is, to ripen* 15.47 Phlegmonae, a general term Physitians give to all swellings proceeding of Blood, because Nature is very apt to help such cures, and Physick is an art to help, not to hinder Nature.
The time of Use is usually in the height of the disease, when the flux is staied, as also to ripen matter that it may be the easier purged away.
THe causes by which Urine is suppressed are many.
Urin is the thinnest part of Blood, separated from the thickest part in the Reins.
If then the Blood be more thick and viscous than ordinary, it cannot easily be separated without cutting and clensing Medicines.
This is for certain, That Bloud can neither be separated nor distributed without heat.
Yet amongst Diureticks are some cold things, as the four greater cold Seeds, Winter-Cherries, and the like.
Although this seem a wonder, yet may it be, and both stand with truth.
For cool Diureticks, though they further not the separation of the Bloud one jet, yet they clense and purge the passages of the Urin.
Diureticks then are of two sorts:
The former are biting (and are known by that tast)* 15.48 very hot and cutting, whence they penetrate to the Reins, and cut the gross humors there.
Bitter things, although they be very hot and cut gross humors, yet are they of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and terrene substance, than is convenient to provoke Urin.
Hence then we may safely gather, That bitter things are not so moist nor penetrating as such as bite like Pepper.
Those cold things which provoke Urin, though they bite not, yet have they a nitrous quality whereby they open and clense,
For the Use of these the Title will instruct you, only, lest they carry the humors they find in the Veins to the Reins and so make the stopping the greater, purge those places they must pass through before you administer them.
THose Medicines have a great affinity with those before going.
For such as provoke the Terms, provoke also Urine, their Nature is almost the same, viz. Hot and of thin essence.
Only thus much, to provoke the Terms not only the Blood is to be attenuated, but the mouths of the Vessels also to be opened.
Such as open those Vessels carry a certain terrene quality with them, whereby they not only penetrate, but also penetrating dilate the Vessels, and carry away the filth with them.
Things provoking the Terms ought to be hot in the third Degree, and yet not very dry.
That there is an appointed time for the Terms to come down: every Woman that is but sixteen years old can tell you.
Be sure you administer the Medicine at the time they should come down, else you will do no other good than weaken Nature.
Neither must those things be neglected which may bring the Body into a fit temper for such a business
If the Body be full of ill humors, purge them out first before you administer hot things, lest you 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the crude humors into the Veins.
By avoyding the Menstruis the Body is made lighter, and nature disburthened, health 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 procured.
The retaining of them breeds Dropsies, Fallingsickness, and other cruel Diseases, yea sometimes Madness.
Hippocrates denies any Women have the Gout so long as they have the Terms
SEing Milk is bred of Blood, there is no question to be made but the way to encrease Milk, is to encrease the Blood.
Yet though Blood be very copious, it doth not alwaies follow that Milk must of necessity be so too, for the Bloud may be naught, or not fit to be turned into Milk, or impedited that it cannot.
Those things are properly said to breed Milk, which breed much Bloud, and it good, and have a moderate cutting faculty also.
Such things then as breed Milk are hot and of thin parts, yet differ much from those that provoke Urine or the Terms. The other Being vehemently hot, these which breed Milk temperately hot.
And if driness be adverse to the provoking of the Terms, certainly it is most adverse to breeding 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Medicines which breed Milk, are in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 either 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or sweet.
For seeing both Blood and Milk are temperate, or at least very moderately hot, they must be bred of such things as are not unlike to them in Nature.
Such things as lessen Milk must needs be contrary to such things as encrease it.
This is done by drying or thickning the Blood.
They are known by tast, bitter, sharp, tart, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c. and whatsoever is excessive either in heat or cold.
If the Body be full of evil juyce, purge it before you go about to breed Milk, for the more you nourish impure. Bodies the more you offend them.
AS Milk, so also Seed takes his Original from Blood.
Therfore of necessity nourishing meats 〈◊〉〈◊〉 much Seed, because they beget much Blood.
This is the difference between such things as breed Milk, and such as breed Seed, Seed requires a more windy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 than the other doth.
For this faculty ought to be in Seed, that being heat with spirits it may cause the Yard to stand.
Such Medicines are temperately hot and moist.
Also to provoke one to the sports of Venus, we use such things as stir up the veneral faculty.
These are hotter than those that encrease Seed, yet not so dry that they should consume the Seed.
Take notice of this 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that some things dull Venus by cold, and some over power her by 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The one of those 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Seed, the other makes it torped and sluggish, staies the Itching.
For the Seed of Man is subject to as many contingents as the Man himself is.
It is not my 〈◊〉〈◊〉 here to treat of them, for such things as make Seed either thinner or thicker, are not properly said to breed Seed.
For the time, when Seed should be encreased; I need say nothing, unless I should say when a Man hath got a prety 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
If the Body be vicious, let it first be purged, let Seed be entreased before it be provoked.
Biting things lessen the Seed, stir up the Venerial parts to expulsion, cause Itching, or tickling of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, therefore they are good to be used a little before the act, otherwise the constant use of them, consumes and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Seed.
Observe thus much, that one and the same Medicine doth not suit with every complexion, for example, If the person be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let the Medicine be the hotter.
The use of these Medicines is the propagation of Mankind, for the desire of Children inches many to Copulation, but the pleasure that is in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ten times more.
THere is no dispute of the story but that which causeth the disease causeth the pain, as also what 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the disease caseth the pain.
Yet are those properly called 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (which is the Physical term for such Medicines) which barely regard the pain, both cause and disease remaining.
These are temperate for heat, and thin for essence.
For seeing they are to be applied both to hot and cold effects, they ought not to vary much from temperature.
They something excel in heat, and so they ease pain, because they open the pores, and loosen the skin.
But they also cool because they let out those hot fuliginous vapors which cause the pain.
Such things as case pain by 〈◊〉〈◊〉, are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
They do not take away the pain at all, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 cause sleep, or so dul the sences that they cannot 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it.
They are administred at such times when the Symptoms are so grievous that they threaten a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 danger than the disease is.
If in giving them, you fear a greater fluxion will come to the part afflicted, mix some things with them, which are medicinal for the disease.
If the pain lie in the skin, let the anodines beliquid; the deeper it lies, the more solid let them be, lest their vertue be discussed before they come at the part afflicted.
THere are many things diligently to be observed in the cures of Wounds and Ulcers, which incur and hinder that the cure cannot be speedily done, nor the separated parts reduced to their natural state.
Viz. Fluxes of Bloud, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Hardness, Pain and other things besides our present scope.
Our present scope is, To shew how the cavity of Ulcers may be filled with Flesh,
Such Medicines are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Sarcoticks.
This, though it be the work of Nature, yet it is helped forward with Medicines, that the Bloud may be prepared, that it may the easier be turned into Flesh.
These are not Medicines which breed good Bloud, nor which correct the intemperature of the place afflicted, but which defend the Bloud and the Ulcer it self from corruption in breeding Flesh.
For Nature in breeding Flesh produceth two sorts of excrements, viz. serosus humors, and purulentus dross.
Those Medicines then which clense and consume, these by drying are said to breed Flesh, because by their helps Nature performs that Office.
Also take notice that these Medicines are not so drying that they should consume the blood also as well as the Sanies, nor so clensing that they should consume the Flesh with the dross.
Let them not then exceed the first Degree unless the Ulcer be very moist.
Their difference are various according to the part wounded, which ought to be restored with the same Flesh.
The softer then and tenderer the place is, the gentler let the Medicines be.
THat is the true cure of an Ulcer which joyns the mouth of it together.
That is a glutinative Medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an Ulcer before brought together.
These require a greater drying faculty than the former, not only to consume what flows out, but what remains liquid in the flesh, for liquid flesh is more subject to flow abroad than to stick together.
The time of using them, any body may know without teaching, viz. when the Ulcer is clensed and filled with Flesh, and such symptoms as hinder are taken away.
For many times Ulcers must be kept open that the Sanies, or sords that lie in them may be purged out, whereas of themselves they would heal before.
Only beware left by too much binding you cause pain in tender parts.
THe last part of the cure of an Ulcer is to cover it with Skin, and restore the place to its prestin beauty.
Such Medicines the Greeks call Epulotica.
This also is done by things drying and binding.
They differ from the former thus, in that they meddle with the Flesh no further than only to convert it into Skin.
Before you administer Epuloticks, let not only the Ulcer but the places adjacent be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 viewed, lest ill Symptoms follows.
SUch Medicines' are called Alexiteria, and Alexipharmaca, which resist Poyson.
Some of these resist Poyson by Astral influence, and some Physitians (though but few) can give a reason of it.
These they have sorted into three Ranks.
Such as strengthen Nature against Poyson either do it to the whol Body universally, or else strengthen some particular part thereof.
For many times one particular part of the Body is most afflicted by the Poyson, suppose the Stomach, Liver, Brain, or any other part, such as cherish and strengthen those parts being weakned, may be said to resist Poyson.
Such as strengthen the Spirits, strengthen all the Body.
Sometimes Poysons kill by their quality, and then are they to be corrected by their contraries.
They which kill by cooling are to be remedied by
heating, and the contrary, they which kill by corrhoding are to be cured by lenitives such as temper their acrimony.
Those which kill by Induration, or Coagulation require cutting Medicines.
Also because all Poysons are in motion, neither stay they in one till they have seised and oppressed the Fountain of Life, therefore have they invented another faculty to stay their motion, viz. Terrene and Emplastick.
For they judg, if the Poyson light upon these Medicines, they embrace them round with a viscous quality.
Also they say the waies and passages are stopped by such means, to hinder their proceeding, take Terra Lemnia for one.
Truly if these Reasons be good, which I leave to future time to determin, it may be done for a little cost.
Some are of opinion that the safest way is to expel the Poyson out of the Body, so soon as may be, and that is done, by Vomit, or Purge, or Sweat.
You need not question the time, but do it assoon as may be; for there is no Parlying with Poyson.
Let Vomiting be the first, Purging the next, and Sweating the last. This is general. But,
If thou doest but observe the nature and motion of he Venem, that will be thy best Instructer.
In the Stomach it requires Vomiting, in the Bloud and Spirits Sweating; if the Body be Plethorick, Bleeding; if full of evil humors, Purging.
Lastly, The Cure: being ended, strengthen the parts afflicted.
Thus our common Physitians, But out of question, Medecines whose operation is by Astral influence, are both safest and speediest, not only in this but in all other Diseases, but this is beside my present scope, and Physitians confess is hid from their eyes, that belongs to my own Model, which I trust in God I shall live to perfect. This is that that curés diseases per se, the other per accidens; this Moderns quite neglected: some Ancients were groping at it, though left it not to posterity.
SUch Medicines as adorn the Body, adding Comliness and Beauty to it, are called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Beauty is a blessing of God, and every one ought to preserve it; they offend as much that neglect it, as they do that paint their Faces.
They are apropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth.
The Skin is pestered with Spots, Pimples, Freckles, Wrinkles and Sunburning.
The Hair either fals off, or hangs not as it should do.
The Teeth are either loose, or fal out, or stink, or are black.
Spots and Sun-burning, as also blackness of the Teeth are to be taken away by clensing Medicines, of which before.
Redness of the Face proceedeth from diverse causes, therefore are the remedies as diverse.
If of heat, cool the Blood; if it be impacted to the Skin, use extenuating Medicines; if of both, use both.
If the failing be extrinsecal, use extrinsecal Medicines; if intrinsecal, let the remedy be so also.
Wrinkles are taken away by Laxative, Lenient, and Emollient Medicines.
For falling off of Hair, correct the pravity of the humor that causeth it.
Gentle heat breeds hair, and preserves it; clensing and corrhoding Medicines take it away.
Drying and binding Medicines cause Hair to curl.
Clensing things make the Teeth clean, binding things strengthen them, but have a care they have not a blackish quality with them, which is incident to many binding Medicines.
Clensing and discussing Medicines take Scurf or Dandrif from the Head.
In all these, see the Bowels be clean, else local Medicines are applied in vain.
In preserving Hair, only two things are considerable.
MUch jarring hath been amongst Physitians about Purging Medicines, namely whether they draw the humors to them by a hidden quality, which in plain English is, they know not how; or whether they perform their office by a manifest quality, viz. By heat, driness, coldness, or moisture; It is not my present scope to enter the lists of a Dispute about the business, neither seems it such a hidden thing to me that every like should draw its like, only to make the matter as plain as I can, I subdivide this
Chapter into these following Parts.
IN this, first consider diligently, and be exceeding cautious in it too, what the matter offending is, what part of the Body is afflicted by it, and which is the best way to bring it out.
Only here by the way first, have a care of giving Vomits, for they usually work more violently, and afflict the Body more than Purges do, therefore are not fit for weak Bodies, be sure the matter offending lie in the tunicle of the Stomach, else is a Vomit given in vain.
Secondly, Vomits are more dangerous for Women than Men, especially such as are either with Child, or subject to the Fits of the Mother. This is the first Caution.
Secondly, What Medicine is apropriated to the purging of such a humor, for seeing the offending matter is not alike in all, the purging Medicine ought not to be the same to all. I shall speak more of this anon. As also of the divers waies whereby Medicines draw out or cast out humors, viz. By lenifying, clensing, provoking Nature to expulsion, and (which is stranger than the Doctors hidden Quality) some purge by binding, but indeed and in truth such as are properly called purging Medicines, which besides these faculties have gotten another, by which they draw, or call out the humors from the most remote parts of the Body, whether these do it by heat, or by an hidden quality, Physitians are scarce able to determin, it being very well known to modern Physitians though the Ancient denied it, that many cold Medicines purge: For my part I shall forbear the Dispute here, not because I am not able to answer it, but because I would train up my Country men first a little better in the Grounds of Physick, it being my Opinion that yong Physitians as well as yong Christians ought not to be led into doubtful Disputations. This is the Second Caution.
Thirdly, There is this Faculty in all the Purges of Galen's Model (because he gives the whol Simple, which must needs consist of divers qualities, because the Creation is made up of, and consists by a harmony of contraries) there is (I say) this Faculty in all Purges of that Nature, that they contain in them a substance which is inimical both to the Stomach and Bowels, and some are of opinion this doth good, namely, Provokes Nature the more to expulsion; the reason might be good if the Foundation of it were so, for by this reason Nature her self should purge not the Medicine, and a Physitian who takes his name from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which signifies Nature, should help Nature in her business and not hinder her. But to forbear being critical, this substance which I told you was inimical to the Stomach, must be corrected in every Purge; And this is my Third Caution.
Fourthly, The choice of Purging Medicines is very difficult, they are not Physick for every Ignoramus to prescribe, for some purge gently, some violently, some are apropriated to Flegm, some to Choller, some to Melancholly, and some to Water, or serosus humors: Consider this but duly, and withal, what mischief may accrue by giving a Medicine purging Choller, in a Disease proceeding of Flegm or watry humors, you may easily see without a pair of Spectacles, that it cannot but weaken the Spirits exceedingly, and abate Natural heat, which is all Nature hath to help her self in such a case, as also hinder the clarification of the Blood which is done by Choller, thereby encreasing the Disease, and opening a gap to let out Life, and let in Death; It were vain to recite what mischiefs may follow the giving of violent Purges to weak Bodies, or to strong Bodies where the humor offending is not tough and viscous, but fluid and easie to be carried away, I shall touch upon them by and by, only here you may see reason enough, why I am so long upon this Subject.
Lastly, When you perfectly know the humor offending, the convenient Medicine, and fit correction for it, the time and manner of using it remains to be enquired into.
These I thought to premise by way of Caution before I come to the matter it self intended, and so much the rather because people from one Generation to another have been so trained up in ignorance by Physitians who have absconded the Method of Physick from them, that now like mad men (oppression having almost, if not altogether made them so) when they all any thing, they take any Purge what their next Neighbor adviseth them to, right or wrong 'tis no matter, their wit in, and consideration of the business being much at one.
WE told you before, that purging Medicines were apropriated to certain humors, the redundancy or overflowing of which causeth diseases in the Body of Man, of these such as proceed from Blood are not to be remedied by Purging.
The Humors to be purged are Four, viz.
According to the quality of these are Purging Medicines to be chosen.
Before I come to them, give me leave to premise one word or two, I shall only here quote Purging Simples because I am now upon the Simples, I shall touch upon the Purging Compounds when I come unto them, and if any ask why I meddle with no other Medicines than what the Colledg makes use of, tell them the reason is, Because the Colledg have so ordered the matter, that a man can buy no other for his money.
The most noted qualities of Purging Medicines. I shall first give you a Synopsis or Joynt-view of Purging Simples usually to be had.
Secondly, speak as briefly as I can of their Properties.
Purging Simples workWormwood, Centaury, Aloes, Hops, Mercury, Mallows, Peach leaves and flowers, Damask Roses, Blew Violets, Cassia Fistula, Citron Mirobalans, Prunes, Tamarinds, Rhubarb, Rhapontick, Manna.
Purge Flegm, As,Hysop, Hedg Hysop, Bastard Saffron, Broom flowers, Elder flowers, Myrobalans, Bellerick, Chebs, and Emblicks, the Seed of Bastard Saffron and Broom, Jallap and Mechoacan.
Watry Humors.The Leaves, Bark and Roots of Elder, and Dwarf Elder, or Walwort, Elder Flowers, Broom Flowers, Agrick, Jallap, Mechoacan, Orris, or Flower-deluce Roots.
Melancholly.Senna, Fumitory, Dodder, Epithimum, Indian Myrobalans, Polipodium, Whey, Lapis Lazuli &c.
Violent Simples purge Choller, AsThe Seeds of Spurge, the Bark and Root of the same, Scammony, Elaterium.
Flegm and Water.Elaterium, Euphorbium, Spurge, Opopanax, Sarcocolla, Briony Roots, Turbith, Hermodactils, Colocynthis, Wild Cucumers, Sowbread, Mezereon, Squils.
Melancholly.Hellebore white and black.
Secondly, In all these observe, That such as are gentle are only to be given to delicate and tender bodies, whether the body be weake naturally, or caused so by sickness, above all give not vomits to weak stomachs, for the Fundament is ordained by nature to avoid the Excrements and not the mouth, which was ordained to take in, not to vomit out, therefore use vomits as seldom as may be.
But for the Election of Purges, Let such as are apropriated to flegm and Melancholly be mixed with such things as are thin in substance, and of a cutting quality, because these humors are tough, gentle Medicines will serve to evacuate Water and Choller usually, I say [usually] because sometimes water requires such Medicines, as are of force to call them from the extream parts of the Body, and such must needs be violent in operation. I entreat all yong Students in Physick to be very careful in administring violent Medicines, and that never without due preparation of the Body beforehand, never unless the humor be so repugnant that it will not yield to gentler: And oh! that simple people would learn to be but so wise as to let them alone, and not take them themselves, the evil they may do them (if not regulated by an abler brain than dwels in their skuls) is certain, the good very uncertain; for such violent Medicines as purge Choller if immoderately taken, first draw the Choller, then the Flegm, afterwards the Melancholly, then they cuase corrosions and draw the blood; Such as purge Flegm and Water violently when they have drawn that, then they draw the Choller, then Melancholly, they then corrode, and so either by excoriation or opening the mouths of the Veins, bloody Fluxes also follow, and many times the disease ends in the Grave; and so also the immoderate Purgation of Melancholly, first draws Choller (I mean after the Melancholly is evacuated) then Flegm, and ends as the other do, but I think this is enough to wise men. To return.
If you prepare the body beforehand (you will not want instructions how to do it in the COMPOUNDS) then gentler Medicines will serve the turn, and therefore such Medicines as purge Water, ad but cutting Medicines to them, and they purge Flegm.
And then again, I desire you to take notice that such Medicines as have a binding quality in them are very hurtful to tough Flegm, and Melancholly, because the humors themselves being tough they make them the tougher, but they are most proper for choller and putrified 〈◊〉〈◊〉, because the first of them often causeth Defluxions, the second a loosness.
Again, Another thing I thought good to give notice of, and so much the rather because I have seen it printed in English, and heard it contended for by Students in Physick, yet is the conceipt very dangerous, viz. That the operations of Purging Medicines may be known by their colors, for say they, white Medicines purge Flegm; black, Melancholly; and yellow, Choller: I confess some Ancient Physitians were of this apish Opinion, which in no wise holds true in the general, though in some particulars it may.
IT was the Opinion of Hippocrates alwaies to prepare the Body with hot and cutting Syrups before the purging Medicine be given, with this Proviso, That the matter be not so hot that it be thrust into the Veins and cause Feavers.
If your Purge must be strong, take some lenitive Purge, or else a Clyster before you take it, lest the passages being not opened, the matter being violently expelled be stopped in its passage, and so either Chollicks, or vehement Belly-ach, or worse mischief follow.
Let it be two hours ere you drink, and four or five ere you eat after you have taken a Purge, and let your Stomach be empty when you take them.
1. Lest being mixed with the nourishment they lose their force, and so Nature convert them into nourishment, thereby corrupting the Blood.
2. All Purges are enemies to Nature, and if you mix them with food, Nature detains them the longer, and by consequence is the more prejudiced by them.
3. It is very unfitting to molest Dame Nature with two several motions at one time, viz. To expel the Purge and the obnoxious humor with it, and also at the same time to nourish the Body.
As for Lenitives or gentle Purges, and many Pills, they may safely be taken at night, as you were taught in the first part of my Directory, to which I refer you for Directions in all Purges, and I shall have a word or two to say concerning Vomits before I have done this Book: I refer it here therefore to its proper place.
I shall here conclude with this Caveat, Never take sweet things after Purges, because the Liver draws them so greedily that they soon turn the Purge to aliment, which if any thing will bring mischiefs more than enough to the Body, this will.
Of the correcting of Purging MedicinesIN Purging Medicines are many things considerable which are either to be helped forwards or corrected, for of Purges some work too slowly, others too violently.
Or to be a little more distinct, some vices of a Purge may be known before it is given, and others not till after, I shall begin with the first.
There is this almost properly in all Purges, that they are obnoxious to the Stomach, and indeed to Nature it self, therefore mix some things with them which strengthen the Heart and Stomach.
Again, The gentlest Purgers that are have one discommodity in them that they are easily turned to Wind, therefore mix such things with them as expel wind (the former Rules amongst the Simples will furnish you with enough and more than enough of either) for although they be not windy of themselves, yet by their heat they stir up wind, though they meét with Flegm, or Melancholly.
Violent Purges by their Acrimony or sharp gnawing quality are inimical to the Bowels, which must in no wise be corrected with binding Physicks, for that will mend them as the Fletcher mends his Bolt, viz. Spoil all, and that by keeping them so long in the Body; such things as make slippery, lenifie, and something thicken, are proper corrigents for them, such are Quince Seeds, Mallows, Gum Tragacanth, and the like.
After the Purge is given, it may offend on either hand, viz. By working either not at all, or too violently, If it work not at all, take hot Broaths; if they will not do the deed, use a Clyster.
Various and manifold are the evils that a Purge working too violently may afflict upon the Body of Man, and very dangerous, for such may produce these, or any of these consequences, and poor silly people that take them, never know whence they come.
If you feel these, or any of these Symptoms after Purging, you may give a shrewd guess, either your Purge was not proper for your Disease, or else wrought too violently.
It is not my present Task to shew you how to remedy these, the Table at the latter end will instruct you with Medicines for each, and you cannot be more unwilling to pay for one thing twice, than I am to write it.
For preventing such evils as these are (or others which perhaps a man might find in Authors) accept of these following Aphorisms.
Lastly, If for all this the matter grow desperate and will not be stopped, Mesue leaves two remedies more, which he desires may be the last that are used; and truly so do I, only I shall quote his last first, because I hold it (of the two) the safest.
His last (but my first) is this; To take three grains of Laudanum, or if your Body be weak, but two.
The Second is, To take a Vomit, thereby to divert the humors from their unbridled Course downward.
VArious is the way, and manner of Purging, according to the variety of the humor offending; concerning which, take these few and brief Rules, which may serve you as a Candle and Lanthorn to light you through the dark mist of your ignorance, which Physitians have envelupted you in, till such time as the Sun of Light begin to rise upon you.
Such Purging Medicines as do leave a binding quality behind them, the chiefest of them are these, Aloes, Wormwood, Damask Roses, Rhubarb, Rhapontick, all the five sorts of Myrobalans, Prunes, Tamarinds, &c.
If the matter be tough, viseous, and long 〈◊〉〈◊〉, it is impossible to carry it away all at once, your way then is to take gentle Purges, and take them often; for if the Purge be too strong, it will weaken Nature so, that the House (I mean the Body) will fall down before you can clense it of the filth; and of such a Nature usually is Melancholly.
As for the Doses of Purges it is impossible to prescribe such general Rules, but they must of necessity do far more harm than good, for particulars you may if you please find them, in the first part of the Book concerning Simples, and in that part concerning Compounds.
| ALkanet | b 3 |
| Angelica | b 3 |
| Anthora | b 3 |
| Asarabacca | a 4 |
| Asphodel Male | a 4 |
| — Female | a 4 |
| Avens | b 4 |
| Artichoaks | b 5 |
| Bay-Tree | b 7 |
| Bears-breech | a 3 |
| Birthwort Long | b 3 |
| — Round | a 4 |
| Branck-Ursine | a 3 |
| Beets | b 4 |
| Bistort | b 4 |
| Borrage | b 4 |
| Burdock | a 4 |
| Briony | b 4 |
| Bugloss | b 4 |
| Brakes | b 6 |
| Butter-bur | a 8 |
| Bruscus | b 9 |
| Butchers broom | b 9 |
| Calamus Aromaticus | b 4 |
| Capers | b 4 |
| Carrots | b 5 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 white | a 5 |
| — Black | a 5 |
| Chelondine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 5 |
| — Lesser | a 5 |
| China | a 5 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 4 |
| Centaury | a 5 |
| Costus | b 5 |
| Corralwort | b 5 |
| Cucumers wild | b 5 |
| Cyperus long | b 5 |
| — Round | b 5 |
| Chamock | a 8 |
| Cinkfoyl | a 8 |
| Canterbury, or | |
| Coventry Bells | b 10 |
| Danewort | a 6 |
| Doronicuns | a 6 |
| Dittany | a 6 |
| Dragons | a 6 |
| Dwarf-Elder | a 6 |
| Dropwort | b 6 |
| Elicampane | b 6 |
| Endive | b 6 |
| Eringo | b 6 |
| Fearn | b 6 |
| Filipendula | b 6 |
| Flower-de-luce | a 3 |
| Fullers thistle | b 7 |
| Figwort | a 10 |
| Fennel | a 7 |
| Garlick | a 3 |
| Galanga greater | a 7 |
| — Lesser | a 7 |
| Gentian | 〈◊〉〈◊〉 7 |
| Grass | a 7 |
| Ginger | b 10 |
| Gladen stinking | a 10 |
| Hartwort | a 10 |
| Hermodactils | a 7 |
| Hellebore white | a 6 |
| — Black | b 6 |
| Houndstongue | b 7 |
| Horestrange | b 8 |
| Hogs-Fennel | b 8 |
| Jacinth | a 7 |
| Knee-holly | b 9 |
| Ladies Thistle | a 10 |
| Liquoris | a 7 |
| Lillies white | b 7 |
| Lovage | b 7 |
| Leeks | a 9 |
| Marsh-mallows | b 3 |
| Meddow Saffrom | b 5 |
| Masterwort | b 7 |
| Mallows | b 7 |
| Mandrakes | b 7 |
| Mechoacan | b 7 |
| Mezereon | a 8 |
| Mulberry | a 8 |
| Monks Rubarb | b 9 |
| Meadsweet | b 10 |
| Onions | a 5 |
| Orris | a 7 |
| Parspips | a 8 |
| Patience | b 9 |
| Plantane | b 8 |
| Petasitis | a 8 |
| Peony | b 8 |
| Pellitory of Spain | a 9 |
| Pollipodium | b 8 |
| Reeds common | a 4 |
| — Sugar | a 4 |
| Restharrow | a 8 |
| Rhapontick | a 9 |
| Rubarb | a 9 |
| Radishes | b 9 |
| Rose roots | b 9 |
| Sarsaparilla | b 9 |
| Satyrion | b 9 |
| Saxifrage white | b 9 |
| Scabious | b 9 |
| Scorzonera | a 10 |
| Setwal | b 10 |
| Seseli | a 10 |
| Scirrets | a 10 |
| Sowbread | a 4 |
| Swallow-wort | a 4 |
| Sparagus | a 4 |
| Snakeweed | b 4 |
| Sullendine | a 5 |
| Succory | b 5 |
| Spurge | b 6 |
| Sharp-pointed-dock | b 7 |
| Sorrel | b 7 |
| Spignel | b 7 |
| Spurge-Olive | a 8 |
| Spicknard | a 8 |
| Sulphur-wort | b 8 |
| Solomons Seal | a 9 |
| Tansie | a 10 |
| Teazles | b 7 |
| Toothwort | b 5 |
| Turmerick | b 5 |
| Tormentil | a 10 |
| Throatwort | b 10 |
| Toadstools | b 10 |
| Tripolium | b 10 |
| Turbith | b 10 |
| Valerian white | b 4 |
| — Red | |
| Vipers bugloss | a 6 |
| Valerian great | b 8 |
| — Smal | b 8 |
| Vipers grass | a 10 |
| Victorialis | b 10 |
| Waterflag | a 3 |
| Wake-robin | a 4 |
| Walwort | a 6 |
| Water-Lillies | a 8 |
| Widdow-wail | a 8 |
| Zedoary | b 10 |
| Ash-tree | b 11 |
| Barberries | a 11 |
| Beans | b 11 |
| Cassia Lignea | a 11 |
| Chestnuts | a 11 |
| Cinnamon | a 11 |
| Citrons | b 11 |
| Cork | b 12 |
| Elder | b 12 |
| Elm | b 12 |
| Hazel | a 11 |
| Lemmons | b 12 |
| Line-tree | b 12 |
| Mace | a 12 |
| Oak | b 12 |
| Orrenges | a 11 |
| Parsly roots | a 12 |
| Pine-nuts | a 12 |
| Pomegranates | b 11 |
| Smallage roots | a 11 |
| Tamaris | b 12 |
| Walnuts | b 11 |
| Brazil | a 12 |
| Cypress | a 12 |
| Ebeny | a 12 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 12 |
| Rhodium | b 12 |
| Sanders red | b 12 |
| — white | b 12 |
| — yellow | b 12 |
| Rosewood | a 12 |
| Sassafras | b 12 |
| Tamaris | b 12 |
| Wood of Aloes | a 12 |
| Nephriticum | b 12 |
| Adders-tongue | a 22 |
| Agrimony | a 13 |
| Agnus Castus | a 13 |
| Alkanet | a 13 |
| Angelica | a 14 |
| Asarabacca | b 14 |
| Arrach | b 14 |
| Alecost | b 14 |
| Avens | a 16 |
| Artichoaks | a 17 |
| Ash-tree leaves | b 18 |
| Alehoof | a 19 |
| Alexanders | b 19 |
| Arsmart | b 19 |
| Bay-tree | a 20 |
| Balm | a 21 |
| Bazil | a 22 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 13 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 14 |
| Burdock | b 14 |
| Betony | a 15 |
| Blites | a 15 |
| Borrage | a 15 |
| Briony | a 15 |
| Bugloss | b 15 |
| Bugle | b 15 |
| Box-tree | b 15 |
| Brooklime | b 16 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉-Plantane | a 17 |
| Blew-bottle | b 17 |
| Burstwort | a 18 |
| Broom | b 18 |
| Butter-flowers | a 23 |
| Brulsewort | b 23 |
| Bindweed | a 24 |
| Cabbages | a 16 |
| Calaminth | b 15 |
| Carduus benedictus | a 16 |
| Cassidony | b 24 |
| Catmints | a 16 |
| Centaury | b 16 |
| Cetrach | b 16 |
| Chamomel | b 16 |
| Chelondine | a 17 |
| Chervil | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Chickweed | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Cleavers | a 14 |
| Columbines | a 14 |
| Costmary | b 14 |
| Corrallina | a 16 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 16 |
| Chamepitys | b 16 |
| Comfry | a 17 |
| Cotton-weed | a 17 |
| Cudweed | a 17 |
| Crosswort | b 17 |
| Cypress-tree | b 17 |
| Cranebill | b 18 |
| Cowslips | b 22 |
| Clary | b 19 |
| Cinkfoyl | b 22 |
| Coltsfoot | a 25 |
| Cammels hay | b 23 |
| Crowfoor | a 23 |
| Dandelyon | b 24 |
| Dasies | a 15 |
| Dill | a 14 |
| Distaf-Thistle | b 14 |
| Dictamni | b 17 |
| Dwarf-Elder | a 18 |
| Dodder | a 18 |
| Doves-foot | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Double-tongue | b 19 |
| Dittander | a 20 |
| Duckmeat | a 20 |
| Docks | a 23 |
| Devils-bit | b 24 |
| Dittany | b 17 |
| Elicampane | a 18 |
| Epithimum | a 18 |
| Eyebright | a 18 |
| Fennel | b 18 |
| Fumitory | b 18 |
| Featherfew | a 21 |
| Fleabane | a 23 |
| Figwort | a 24 |
| Flixweed | a 24 |
| Garlick | b 13 |
| Good Henry | a 15 |
| Goos-grass | a 14 |
| Groundsel | a 16 |
| Germander | a 17 |
| Groundpine | b 17 |
| Golden rod | a 17 |
| Goats Rue | b 18 |
| Gold knobs | a 23 |
| Herb two-pence | a 22 |
| Harts-tongue | b 20 |
| Harts-ease | a 25 |
| Housleek | b 14 |
| Honey-suckles | b 15 |
| Herb Bennet | a 16 |
| Horstail | a 16 |
| Hemlock | a 17 |
| Houndstongue | b 17 |
| Hedg-hysop | a 19 |
| Hors-tongue | a 19 |
| Hysop | b 19 |
| Herb Mastich | a 21 |
| Hops | b 20 |
| Horehound | b 20 |
| Higtaper | a 25 |
| Indian leaf | b 18 |
| Ivy | a 19 |
| King Cob | a 23 |
| Knapweed | b 24 |
| Knotgrass | b 16 |
| Ladies Mantle | a 18 |
| Lluellin | a 15 |
| Ladies Thistle | a 16 |
| Larks heel | a 17 |
| Lavender Cotton | b 17 |
| Ladies Bedstraw | b 18 |
| Liver-wort | a 19 |
| Laurel of Alexandria | a 20 |
| Lavender | a 20 |
| Laurel | a 20 |
| Lettice | a 20 |
| Lovage | a 20 |
| Lungwort | a 23 |
| Marigold | b 15 |
| Maiden-hair | a 13 |
| Maudlin | a 13 |
| Marsh-mallows | b 13 |
| Marjoram | b 13 |
| Mousear | b 14 |
| Mugwort | a 14 |
| Muschata | b 18 |
| Masterwort | b 20 |
| Mastick-tree | a 21 |
| Mallows | b 20 |
| Mandrakes | b 20 |
| Melilot | a 21 |
| Mints | a 21 |
| Mercury | a 21 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 21 |
| Moss | b 21 |
| Mirtle-tree | b 21 |
| Moneywort | a 22 |
| Mother of Time | a 24 |
| Mullin | a 25 |
| Navil-wort | b 25 |
| Nep | a 16 |
| Nettles | b 25 |
| Nightshade | a 24 |
| Oak of Jerusalem | a 15 |
| Ox-eye | b 15 |
| Orpine | b 17 |
| One-berry | a 19 |
| Origany Origanum | a 22 |
| Pansies | a 25 |
| Patience | b 19 |
| Pauls Bettony | a 15 |
| Pimpernel | a 14 |
| Perewinkle | b 25 |
| Primroses | b 22 |
| Pellitory of the wall | a 19 |
| Pepper-wort | a 20 |
| Penyroyal | b 22 |
| Peach leaves | b 22 |
| Plantane | b 22 |
| Poppies | a 22 |
| Poley-mountain | b 22 |
| Purslain | b 22 |
| Rocket | a 18 |
| Ruptue wort | a 18 |
| Rosemary | a 23 |
| Roses | a 23 |
| Rue | a 23 |
| Sampier | b 17 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 consound | a 17 |
| Sage | b 23 |
| Sanicle | b 23 |
| Savin | b 23 |
| Savory | b 23 |
| Saxifrage | b 23 |
| Schaenanth | b 23 |
| Southernwood | a 13 |
| Sorrel | a 13 |
| Smallage | a 14 |
| Silverweed | a 14 |
| Sowbread | a 14 |
| Sengreen | b 14 |
| Shepherds-purse | b 15 |
| Spleenwort | b 16 |
| Sullendine | a 17 |
| Succory | a 17 |
| Strawberry leaves | b 18 |
| Stinking Groundpine | a 19 |
| Saint Johns-wort | b 19 |
| Sciatica-cresses | b 19 |
| Star-wort | a 20 |
| Share-wort | a 20 |
| Sea Bugloss | b 20 |
| Sea Lavender | b 20 |
| Sweet Trefoyl | b 20 |
| Self-heal | b 21 |
| Sicklewort | b 22 |
| Sopewort | b 23 |
| Scordium | 〈◊〉〈◊〉 23 |
| Senna | a 24 |
| Sow-thistles | a 24 |
| Spinach | b 24 |
| Stoechas | b 24 |
| Spurge | b 24 |
| Swallow-wort | b 25 |
| Tamaris | b 24 |
| Tansie | b 24 |
| Teazles | b 17 |
| True-love | a 19 |
| Tongue-blade | b 19 |
| Toad-flax | a 20 |
| Treacle-mustard | b 21 |
| Tobacco | b 21 |
| Turnips | a 23 |
| Time | b 24 |
| Trefoyl | a 25 |
| Vervain-mallows | b 13 |
| Vipers bugloss | a 18 |
| Vervain | a 25 |
| Violet leaves | b 25 |
| Vine leaves | b 25 |
| Water-cresses | b 21 |
| Walwort | a 18 |
| Wormwood | a 13 |
| Wood-sorrel | b 13 |
| Woodroof | a 14 |
| Wild Tansie | a 14 |
| Wild-flower | a 19 |
| Woad | a 20 |
| Widdow-wail | b 21 |
| Winter-green | a 23 |
| Willow leaves | b 23 |
| Yarrow | b 21 |
| Bawn | a 26 |
| Balaustins | 26 |
| Borrage | 26 |
| Bugloss | 26 |
| Beans | 26 |
| Broom | 26 |
| Centaury | 26 |
| Chamomel | 26 |
| Clove gilliflowers | 26 |
| Cowslips | 26 |
| Elder flowers | 26 |
| Hops | 26 |
| Honey-suckles | 26 |
| Lavender flowers | 26 |
| Mallows | 26 |
| Peach-tree | 26 |
| Rosemary | 26 |
| Roses | 26 |
| Saffron | 26 |
| Stoechas | 26 |
| Schaenanth | 26 |
| Succory | 26 |
| Walflowers | 26 |
| Water-Lillies | 26 |
| Winter gilliflowers | 26 |
| Apricocks | 27 |
| Bay-berries | 27 |
| Barberries | 27 |
| Bitter Almonds | 27 |
| Capers | 27 |
| Cassia Fistula | 27 |
| Checkers | 27 |
| Cherries | 27 |
| Cloves | 27 |
| Cucumers | 27 |
| Cubebs | 27 |
| Currance English | 27 |
| Dates | 27 |
| Figs | 27 |
| Galls | 27 |
| Medlars | 27 |
| Melones | 27 |
| Myrobalans | 27 |
| Nutmegs | 27 |
| Olives | 27 |
| Pepper | 27 |
| Pears | 27 |
| Plums | 27 |
| Pinenuts | 27 |
| Pompions | 27 |
| Prunes | 27 |
| Quinces | 27 |
| Raisons | 27 |
| Sebestens | 27 |
| Services | 27 |
| Strawberries | 27 |
| Tamarinds | 27 |
| Walnuts | 27 |
| Winter cherries | 27 |
| Annis | 28 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉-tree | 28 |
| Bazil | 28 |
| Bishops-weed | 28 |
| Broom | 28 |
| Cardamoms | 28 |
| Carrots | 28 |
| Coriander | 28 |
| Cummin | 28 |
| Chich-pease | 28 |
| Dill | 28 |
| Fenugreek | 28 |
| Fennel | 28 |
| French barly | 28 |
| Four greater cold Seeds | 28 |
| Citrons | 28 |
| Gromwel | 28 |
| Lettice | 28 |
| Linseed | 28 |
| Lupines | 28 |
| Mallows | 28 |
| Mustard-seed | 28 |
| Nettles | 28 |
| Nigella | 28 |
| Peony | 28 |
| Poppy | 28 |
| Purslain | 28 |
| Rocket | 28 |
| Rue | 28 |
| Smallage | 28 |
| Stavesager | 28 |
| Sorrel | 28 |
| Succory | 28 |
| Water-cresses | 28 |
| White Saxifrage | 28 |
| Wormseed | 28 |
| Aloes | 29 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 29 |
| Ammoniacum | 29 |
| Bdellium | 29 |
| Benzoin | 29 |
| Camphire | 29 |
| Diagrydium | 29 |
| Elemni | 29 |
| Frankinsence | 29 |
| Galbanum | 29 |
| Labdanum | 29 |
| Manna | 29 |
| Mastich | 29 |
| Mirrh | 29 |
| Olibanum | 29 |
| Opopanax | 29 |
| Sanguis Draconis | 29 |
| Scammony | 29 |
| Styrax Calamitis | 29 |
| Traganth | 29 |
| Turpentine | 29 |
| Citrons | 29 |
| Lemmons | 29 |
| Liquoris | 29 |
| Sugar | 29 |
| Agrick | 30 |
| Misleto | 30 |
| Crabfish | 30 |
| Earth-worms | 30 |
| Eels | 30 |
| Grashoppers | 30 |
| Hedg-sparrows | 30 |
| Oysters | 30 |
| Pidgeons | 30 |
| Sows | 30 |
| Swallows | 30 |
| Vipers | 30 |
| Woodlice | 30 |
| Bears grease | 31 |
| Bone in a Stags heart | 31 |
| Bone in a Hares foot | 31 |
| Brain of Sparrows | 31 |
| Brain of Hares | 31 |
| Cats head | 31 |
| Crabs eyes | 31 |
| Cocks stones | 31 |
| Castorium | 31 |
| Ducks liver | 31 |
| Ducks grease | 31 |
| Elks claws | 31 |
| Fox lungues | 31 |
| Fox grease | 31 |
| Frogs liver | 31 |
| Goats Bladder | 31 |
| Goats suet | 31 |
| Goose grease | 31 |
| Capons grease | 31 |
| Harts-horn | 31 |
| Honey | 32 |
| Ivory | 31 |
| Kites head | 31 |
| Mans skull | 31 |
| Mans fat | 31 |
| Milk | 31 |
| Os Triquetrum | 31 |
| Stags pizle | 31 |
| Sheeps bladder | 31 |
| Raw silk | 32 |
| Unicorns horn | 31 |
| Wax | 32 |
| Amber | 32 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 32 |
| Foam of the Sea | 32 |
| Pearls | 32 |
| Red Corral | 32 |
| Sea sand | 32 |
| Sperma Ceti | 32 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 33 |
| Allum | 33 |
| Amethist | 33 |
| Bezoar | 33 |
| Brimstone | 33 |
| Carbuncle | 33 |
| Cocks stone | 33 |
| Diamond | 33 |
| Emerald | 33 |
| Granate | 33 |
| Gold | 33 |
| Jacinth | 33 |
| Jasper | 33 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 34 |
| Lead | 33 |
| Litharge | 33 |
| Nephriticus | 33 |
| Pompholix | 33 |
| Ruby | 33 |
| Saphire | 33 |
| Swallows 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 34 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 33 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | 33 |
| SPiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita: Or spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition. | b 62 |
| Spiritus et Aqua Absynthii magis Composita: Or spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition | a 63 |
| Spiritus et Aqua Angelicae magis Composita: Or spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition | ibid |
| Spiritus Lavendulae Compositus or Compound spirit of Lavender. | b 63 |
| Spiritus Castorii: or spirit 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cistorium | a 64 |
| Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Composita Or Compound Water of Butter-burs. | ibid |
| Aqua Rhaphani composita Or, Compound Water of Rhadishes. | b 64 |
| Aqua Peoniae composita: or, Compound Water of Peony | ibid |
| Aqua Bezoartica: Or, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | a 65 |
| Aqua et spiritus Lumbricorum Magistralis: Or, Water and spirit of Earth-worms. | b 65 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gentianae composita: or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Water Compound | ibid |
| Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Gilberts Water | ibid |
| Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉 frigida 〈◊〉〈◊〉. | a 66 |
| Aqua Theriacala. Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Water | ibid |
| Aqua Brioniae composita. Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Water Compound | b 66 |
| Aqua Imperialis: Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Water | 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Aqua Mirabilis | a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Aqua 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Or, Capon Water. | b |
| Aqua Limacum Magistr. Or, Water of snails | ibid |
| Aqua Scordii composita: Or, Compound Water of Scordium. | b 67 |
| Aqua Mariae | ibid |
| Aqua Papaveris composita: Or, Poppy Water Compound | ibid |
| Aqua Juglandium Composita: Or, Walnut Water compound | ibid |
| Mathiolus, his Bezoar Water | a 68 |
| Cinnamon Water | ibid |
| Mathiolus, his Cinnamon Water | b 68 |
| Cinnamon Water made by Infusion | ibid |
| Aqua Coelestis | ibid |
| Bawm Water | a 69 |
| Rosa solis | ibid |
| Dr, Stephens Water | b 69 |
| Aqua vitae ordinary | ibid |
| Aqua vitae compound | ibid |
| Usquebach | ibid |
| Tinctura Croci: Or, Tincture of saffron. | a 70 |
| Tinctura Castorii: Or Tincture of Castorium | 70 |
| Tinctura Fragorum: Or, Tincture of straw-berries | 70 |
| Tinctura Scordii: Or, Tincture of scordium | 70 |
| Tinctura Theriacalis: Or Tincture of Treacle | b 70 |
| Tinctura Cinnamomi: Or Tincture of Cinnamon | 70 |
| Tinctura Viridis: Or, a green Tincture | 70 |
| Aqua Aluminosa Magistralis | 70 |
| Vinum Absynthites: Or, Wormwood Wine | a 71 |
| Vinum Cerassorum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Or, Wine of black Cherries | ibid |
| Vinum Helleboratum: Or, Wine Helleborated. | b 71 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Rubellum | ibid |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ibid |
| Vinum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Or, Antimonial Wine | ibid |
| Vinum Scilliticum: Or Wine of Squills | a 72 |
| Acetum distillatum: Or, Distilled Vineger | a 72 |
| Acetum Rosatum: Or, Rose Vineger | ibid |
| Acetum Scilliticum: Or, Vineger of Squils. | ibid |
| Acetum Theriacale: Or, Treacle Vineger | b 72 |
| Acetum Theriacale: Or Treacle Vineger | b 73 |
| Decoct a commune 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: Or A Common Decoction for a Clyster | a 73 |
| Decoctum Epithimi: Or, A Decoction of Epithimum | ibid |
| Decoctum Sennae Gereonis: Or, Decoction of Senna | b 73 |
| Decoctum Pectorale: Or, A 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Decoction. | ibid |
| Decoctum Trumaticum | a 74 |
| A Carminative Decoction | a 74 |
| A Decoction of Flowers and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Lac Virginium | ibid |
| A Drink for wounded men | b 74 |
| Syrupus de Absynthio simplex: Or, syrup of Wormwood simple | a 101 |
| Syrupus de Absynthio 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Or, syrup of Wormwood compound | ibid |
| Syrupus Acetosus simplex: Or, syrup of Vineger simple | ibid |
| Syrupus Acetosus simplicior: Or, syrup of Vineger more simple. | b 101 |
| Syrupus Acetosus compositus: Or, syrup of Vineger compound | ibid |
| Syrupus de Agno Casto: Or, Syrup of Agnus Castus | a 102 |
| Syrupus de Althaea: Or Syrup of Marsh-mallows | ibid |
| Syrupus de Ammoniaco, Or syrup of Ammoniacum | ibid |
| Syrupus de Artemisia: Or syrup of Mugwort | b 102 |
| Syrupus de Betonica composita: Or, syrup of Betony compound | ibid |
| Syrupus Byzantinus, simple. | ibid |
| Syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Compound. | a 103 |
| Syrupus Botryos: Or, syrup of Oak of Jerusalem. | ibid |
| Syrupus Capillorum Veneris: Or, syrup of Maidenhair | ibid |
| Syrupus Cardiacus, vel Julepum Cardiacum: Or, A Cordial syrup | ibid |
| Syrupus insusionis Floram Caryophillorum: Or, Syrup of Clove gilliflowers | b 103 |
| Syrupus de Cinnamomo: Or, syrup of Cinnamon | ibid |
| Syrupus Acetositatis Citriorum; or syrup of Juyce of Citrons | ibid |
| Syrupus Corticum Citriorum: Or, syrup of Citron Pills | a 104 |
| Syrupus è Coralliis simplex: or, syrup of Corral simple | ibid |
| Syrupus è Coralliis Compositus: or, syrup of Correl compound | ibid |
| Syrupus Cydoniorum: or, syrup of Quinces | b 104 |
| Syrupus de Erysima: or, syrup of Hedg-mustard | ibid |
| Syrupus de Fumaria: or, syrup of Fumitory | ibid |
| Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza: or syrup of Liquoris | a 105 |
| Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto: Or, syrup of Pomegranates with Vinegar | ibid |
| Syrupus de Hyssopo: Or, syrup of Hysop | ibid |
| Syrupus Ivae arthritioae, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: or, syrup of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 105 |
| Syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or syrup of Jujubes | ibid |
| Syrupus de Meconio, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: or, syrup of Meconium, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Syrupus de 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: or syrup of Meconium compound | ib. |
| Syrupus Melissophilli: or syrup of Bawm | a 106 |
| Syrupus de Mentha: or, syrup of Mints | b 106 |
| Syrupus de Mucilaginibus: or syrup of Mucilages | b 106 |
| Syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, syrup of Mirtles | ibid |
| Syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Nymphaeae simplex: or, syrup of Water-Lilly-flowers simple | ibid |
| Syrupus Florum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 compositus: or syrup of Water-lilly-flowers compound | ibid |
| Syrupus de Papavere Erratico, sive Rubro: or, syrup of Erratick 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 107 |
| Syrupus de Pilosella: or, syrup of Mousear | ibid |
| syrupus infusionis florum Paeoniae: or syrup of the infusion of Peony flowers | ibid |
| syrupus de Paeonia compositus: or, syrup of Peony compound | ibid |
| syruyus de Pomis alterans: or, syrup of Apples | b 107 |
| syrupus de Prasio: or, syrup of Horehound | ibid |
| syrupus de quings Radicibus: or, syrup of the five opening Roots. | ib. |
| syrupus Raphani: or, syrup of Rhadishes | a 108 |
| syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉, alias 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Alexandrinum; or, Julep of Alexandria | ibid |
| syrupus de Rosis siccis: or, syrup of dried Roses | ibid |
| syrupus scabiosae: or syrup of scabious | ibid |
| syrupus de scolopendrio: or syrup of Hartstongue | b 108 |
| syrupus de 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, syrup of stoechas | ibid |
| syrupus de symphito: or, syrup of Comfry | ibid |
| syrupus Violarum: or, syrup of Violets | ibid |
| syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhabarbaro: or syrup of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with rhubarb. | a 109 |
| syrupus de Epithyme: or, syrup of Epithimum | ibid |
| syrupus è Floribus 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, syrup of Peach-flowers | b 109 |
| syrupus 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Purgans: or syrup of Apples, Purging | ibid |
| syrupus 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Magistralis: or, syrup of Apples 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 110 |
| syrupus de Rhabarbaro: or, syrup of Rhubarb | ibid |
| syrupus Rosaceus solutivus: or, syrup of Roses solutive | ibid |
| syrupus è succo Rosarum: or, syrup of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 110 |
| syrupus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 solutivus cum Agarico: or, syrup of Roses solutive with Agrick | ibid |
| syrupus Rosacens solutivus cum Helleboro: or, syrup of Roses solutive with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum sena: or, syrup of Roses solutive with senna | ibid |
| syrupus de spina 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, syrup of Purging Thorn | a 111 |
| Mel Anthosatum: or Honey of Rosemary-flowers | a 111 |
| Mel Helleboratum: or Honey Helleborated | ibid |
| Mel Mercuriale: or, Honey of Mercury | b 111 |
| Mel Mororum, vel Diamoron: or, Honey of Mulberries | ibid |
| Mel Nuceum, aliàs, Diacaryon et Dianucum: or Honey of Nuts. | ibid |
| Mel Passulatum: or, Honey of Raisons | ibid |
| Mel Rosatum commune, sive foliatum: or, common Honey of Roses | a 112 |
| Mel Rosatum Colatum: or Honey of Roses strained | ibid |
| Mel Rosatum solutivum: or Honey of Roses solutive | ibid |
| Mel Scilliticum: or Honey of Squils | ibid |
| Oxymel simple | ibid |
| Oxymel compound | ibid |
| Oxymel Helleboratum: or, Oximel Helleborated | b 112 |
| Oxymel Julianizans | ibid |
| Oxymel Scilliticum compositum: or Oxymel of Squils Compound. | a 113 |
| Syrup of Purslain | a 113 |
| Compound syrup of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Syrup of Poppies, the lesser Composition | b 113 |
| Syrup of Poppies, the greater Composition | ibid |
| Syrup of Eupatorium | a 114 |
| Honey of Emblicks | b 114 |
| Signification and use | a 115 |
| Rob, sive Sapa, simplex: or, Simple Rob, or Sapa | ibid |
| Rob de Berberis: or, Rob of Barberries | ibid |
| Rob de Cerasis: or, Rob of Cherries | ibid |
| Rob de Cornis: or Rob of Cornels. | ibid |
| Rob Cydoniorum: or, Rob of Quinces | b 115 |
| Miva, vel Gelatina Eorundem: or, Gelly of Quinces | ibid |
| Rob Baccarum Sambuci: or, Rob of Elder Berries | ibid |
| Succus Glycyrrhizae simplex: or, Juyce of Liquoris simple | ibid |
| Succus Glycyrrhizae compositus: or, Juyce of Liquoris Compound. | a 116 |
| Succus Pronorum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Juyce of sloes, called Acacia | b 116 |
| Signification and use | a 116 |
| Lohoch de Farfara: or Lohoch 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Coltsfoot | ibid |
| Lohoch de 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or Lohoch of Poppies. | b 116 |
| Lohoch è Passulis: or, Lohoch of Raisons | ibid |
| Lohoch e Pino: or, Lohoch of Pine-nuts | a 117 |
| Lohoch de Portulaca: Or, Lohoch of Purslain | ibid |
| Lohoch è Pulmone Vulpis: or, Lohoch of Fox Lungues | ibid |
| Lohoch sanum et Expertum: or, A sound and well experienced Lohoch | b 117 |
| Lohoch Scilliticum: or, Lohoch of Squils | ibid |
| Eclegma of Squils | ibid |
| Lohoch of Coleworts | b 118 |
| The way to make them | 118 |
| The general way to make Conserves | a 119 |
| Diacodium Solidum, sive Tabulatum | ibid |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Tabulatum simplex, et Perlatum: Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of sugar, both simple and pearled | b 119 |
| Saccharum Tabellatum compositum: Or, Lozenges of sugar compound | ibid |
| Saccharum Penidium: or, sugar of Penids | a 120 |
| Confectio de Thure: or, Confection of Frankinsence | ibid |
| Saccharum Rosatum: or, Sugar of Roses | b 120 |
| Aromaticum Caryophillatum | a 121 |
| Aromaticum Rosatum | ibid |
| Pulvis ex Chelis Cancrorum compositus: or Pouder of Crabs Claws compound | ibid |
| Species Cordiales 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 121 |
| Diacalaminthe simple | ibid |
| Diacalaminthe compound | ibid |
| Dianisum | a 122 |
| Pulvis Radicum Ari compositus: or Pouder of Aron Roots compound | ibid |
| Diaircos simple | ibid |
| Dialacca | ibid |
| Pulvis Cardiacus Magistralis | ibid |
| Diamargariton frigidum | b 122 |
| Diambra | ibid |
| Diamoschu Dulce | a 123 |
| Diamoschu Amarum | ibid |
| Species Dianthus | ibid |
| Diapenidion | ibid |
| Diarrhodon Abbatis | b 123 |
| Diaspoliticum | ibid |
| Species Diatragacanthi frigidi | ibid |
| Diatrion Pipereon | a 124 |
| Diatrion santalon | ibid |
| Pulvis Haly | ibid |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Pulvis Bezoardicus Magistralis: or A Bezoartick Pouder Magisterial | b 124 |
| Species consectionis Liberantis | ibid |
| Pulvis Saxonicus | ibid |
| Pulvis Antilyssus | a 128 |
| Rosatae Novellae | ibid |
| Pulvis Thuraloes | ibid |
| Pulvis Hermodactilorum compositus Or, Pouder of Hermodactils compound | b 128 |
| Pulvis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 compositus major: Or, Pouder of senna, the greater composition | ibid |
| Pulvis senae compositus minor: Or, Pouder of senna, the lesser composition | ibid |
| Diasenae | a 126 |
| Diaturbith with Rhubarb | b 126 |
| The lesser Cordial Pouder | a 126 |
| The greater Cordial Pouder | ibid |
| A Pouder for such as are bruised by a fall | ibid |
| Species Electuarii Diacymini | b 126 |
| Species Electuarii Diagalangae | ibid |
| Species Electuarii de Gemmis frigidi | a 127 |
| Species Electuarii Diamargariton Calidi | ibid |
| Lithontribon | ibid |
| Pleres arconticon | b 127 |
| A preservative Pouder against the Pestilence | ibid |
| Diaturbith the greater, without Rhubarb | ibid |
| A Pouder for the worms | ibid |
| Antidolus analeptica | a 125 |
| Confectio Alkermes | ibid |
| Electuarium è Sassaphras: or Electuarie of Sassafras | b 125 |
| Electuarium de Baccis Lauri: or, Electuary of Bay-berries | ibid |
| Diacapparis | ibid |
| Diacinnamomu | 129 |
| Diacorallion | ibid |
| Diacorum | ibid |
| Diacydonium simple | b 129 |
| Diacydonium with Species | ibid |
| Diacydonium compound, Magisterial | ibid |
| Confectio de Hyacintho | ibid |
| Antidotum Haemagogum | ibid |
| Diasatyrion | a 130 |
| Electuarium Diaspermaton | ibid |
| Micleta | b 130 |
| Electuarium Pectorale: or, A Pectoral Electuary | ibid |
| Theriaca Diatessaron | ibid |
| Diascordium | ibid |
| Mithridate | a 131 |
| Phylonium Persicum | b 131 |
| Phylonium Romanum | ibid |
| Phylonium Magistrale | ibid |
| Electuarium de Ovo: or, Electuary of Eggs | a 132 |
| Theriaca Andromachi: or, Venice Treade | ibid |
| Theriaca Londinensis: or, London Treade | b 132 |
| Diacrocuma | ibid |
| Benedicta Laxativa | a 133 |
| Caryocostinum | ibid |
| Cassia extracta pro Clysteribus: or, Cassia extracted for Clysters. | ibid |
| Electuarium amarum Magistrale majus: Or, the greater bitter Electuary. | b 133 |
| Electuarium Amarum minus: Or, The lesser bitter Electuary | ibid |
| Diacassia with Manna | ibid |
| Cassia extracta fine foliis senae: or, Cassia extracted without the leaves of senna | a 134 |
| Cassia extracta cum foliis senae: or, Cassia extracted with the leaves of senna | ibid |
| Diacarthamum | ibid |
| Diaphoenicon | b 134 |
| Diaprunum lenitive | ibid |
| Diaprunum solutive | ibid |
| Catholicon | a 135 |
| Electuarium de Citro solutivum: or Electuary of Citrons solutive | ibid |
| Electuarium Elescoph. | ibid |
| Confectio Hamech | b 135 |
| Electuarium Lenitivum | ibid |
| Electuarium Passulatum | a 136 |
| Electuarium è succo Rosarum; or, Electuary of the Juyce of Roses | ibid |
| Hiera Picra simple | ibid |
| Hiera with Agrick | b 136 |
| Hiera Logadit | ibid |
| Hiera Diacolocynthidos | ibid |
| Triphera the greater | ibid |
| Triphera solutive | b 137 |
| Electuarium è scoria ferri | a 137 |
| Confectio Humain | b 137 |
| Diaireos Solominis | ibid |
| Diasatyrion | a 138 |
| Mathiolus his great Antidote against Poyson and Pestilence | ibid |
| Requies | b 138 |
| Electuarium Reginae Coloniens | ib. |
| Pilulae de Agarico: or, Pills of Agrick | a 139 |
| Pilulae Aggregativae | ibid |
| Pilulae Aloephanginae | b 139 |
| Pilulae de Aloe lota: or, Pills of washed Aloes | a 140 |
| Aloe Rosata | ibid |
| Pilulae aureae | ibid |
| Pilulae Cochiae the greater | ibid |
| Pilulae Cochiae the less | ibid |
| Pilulae de Cynoglosso: or, Pills of Houndstongue | b 140 |
| Pilulae ex dnobus: or, Pills of two things | ibid |
| Pilulae de Eupatorio: or, Pills of Eupatorium | ibid |
| Pilulae 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, stinking Pills. | ibid |
| Pilulae de Hermodactilis: or, Pills of Hermodactils | a 141 |
| Pilulae de Hiera cum Agarico: or, Pills of Hiera with Agrick | ibid |
| Pilulae Imperialis: or, Imperial Pils | ibid |
| Pilulae de Lapide Lazuli: or, Pills of Lapis Lazuli | b 141 |
| Pilulae Macri | ibid |
| Pilulae Mastichinae: or, Mastich Pils | ibid |
| Pilulae Mechoacanae: or, Pills of Mechoacan | ibid |
| Pilulae de Opopanace: or, Pillr of Opopanax | a 142 |
| Pilulae Rudii | ibid |
| Pilulae Ruffi | ibid |
| Pilulae sine 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Pills without which — | b 142 |
| Pilulae stomachicae: or, stomach Pills | ibid |
| Pilulae stomachicae cum Gummi: or, stomach Pills with Gums | ibid |
| Pilulae styrace: or, Pills of styrax. | ibid |
| Pilulae de Succino: or, Pills of Amber | a 143 |
| Pilulae ex tribus: or, Pills of three things | ibid |
| Pilulae Turpeti aureae | ibid |
| Laudanum | b 143 |
| Nephenthes Opiatum | ibid |
| Pilulae assaireth. | a 143 |
| Pills of Bdellium | ibid |
| Pills of Rhubarb | b 143 |
| Pilulae Arabica | a 144 |
| Pilulae Arthriticae | ibid |
| Pilulae Cochiae with Hellebore | ibid |
| Pills of Fumitory | b 144 |
| Pilulae Indae | ibid |
| Pilulae Lucis majores | ibid |
| Pills of Spurge | ibid |
| Pills of Euphorbium | a 145 |
| Pilulae Scribonii | ibid |
| The meaning of the word | a 145 |
| Trochisci de Absinthio: or, Troches of Wormwood | ibid |
| Agaricus Trochiscatus: or, Agrick Trochiscated | b 145 |
| Trochisci albi: Rhasis. or, white Troches. | a 146 |
| Trochisci Alexiterii | ibid |
| Trochisci Albandal | ibid |
| Trochisci Aliptae Moschatae | ibid |
| Trochisci Alkekengi: or, Troches of Winter Cherries | b 146 |
| Trochisci Bechici albi, vel, Rotulae Pectorales: or, Pectoral Rouls | ib. |
| Trochisci Bechici nigri | b 146 |
| Trochisci de Barberis.: or, Troches of Barberries | ibid |
| Trochisci de Camphora: or, Troches of Camphire | a 147 |
| Trochisci de Capparibus: or Troches of Cappers | ib. |
| Trochisci de Carabe: or, Troches of Amber | ib, |
| Trochisci Cypheos for Methridate. | b 147 |
| Trochisci de Eupatorio: or, Troches of Maudlin | ib. |
| Throches of Gallia Moschata | ib. |
| Trochisci Gordonie | ib. |
| Trochisci Hedychroi | a 148 |
| Trochisci Hysterici | ib. |
| Trochisci de Ligno Aloes: or, Troches of Wood of Aloes | ib. |
| Trochisci è Mirrha: or, Troches of Mirrh | ib. |
| Sief de Plumbo: or, Sief of Lead. | b 148 |
| Trochisci Polyidae Androm. | ib. |
| Trochisci de Rhabarbaro: or, Troches of Rhubarb | ibid |
| Trochisci de santalis: or, Troches of Sanders | ib. |
| Trochisci de scilla ad Theriacam: or Troches of Squils for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Troches of Spodium | a 149 |
| Trochisci de Terra Lemnia: or, Troches of Earth of Lemnos | ib. |
| Sief de Thure: or, Sief of Frankinsence | b 149 |
| Trochisci è Violis solutivi: or, Troches of Violets solutive | ib. |
| Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacam. or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Vipers for Treacle. | ib. |
| Trochisci de Agno Casto: or, Troches of Agnus Castus | ib. |
| Trochisci Alexiterij | a 150 |
| Troches of Annis seeds | ib. |
| Trochisci Diarrhodon | ib. |
| Trocisci de Lacca | ib. |
| Pastilli Adronis | b 150 |
| Trochisci Musae | ib. |
| Crocomagma of Damocrates | ib. |
| Trochisci Ramich | ib. |
| Troches of Roses | a 151 |
| Trochisci Diacorallion | ib. |
| Trochisci Diaspermaton | b 151 |
| Hamoptoiei Pastilli | ib. |
| Traches of Agrick | ib. |
| Of Medicines | 151 |
| Chap. 1. Of Anodines | 152 |
| Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines. | ib. |
| Chap. 3. Of Attractives | 153 |
| Chap. 4. Of Resolving Medicines. | ib. |
| Chap. 5. Of Emollients | 154 |
| Chap. 6. Of Suppuratives | ib. |
| Chap. 7. Of clensing Medicines | 155 |
| Chap. 8. Of Incarnatives | ib. |
| Chap. 9. Of Cicatrizing Medicines | 156 |
| Chap. 10. Of Glutinative Medicines | ib. |
| Chap. 11. Of Cathereticks, Septicks, and Causticks | ib. |
| Chap. Ult. Of Medicines used to stop blood | 157 |
| Oyl of sweet Almonds | a 158 |
| Oyl of bitter Almonds | ib. |
| Oyl of Hazel Nuts | ib. |
| Oleum Caryinum | b ib. |
| Oleum CChrysomelinum | ib. |
| Oyl of Bays | ib. |
| Oyl of Yolks of Eggs | a 159 |
| The way to make them | 159 |
| The Vertues of them particularly. | 160 |
| Oleum Benedictum: or, blessed oyl | a 161 |
| Oleum de Capparibus: or, Oyl of Cappers | ib. |
| Oyl of Castorium compound | ib. |
| Oleum Catellorium: or, Oyl of Whelps | 61 |
| Oleum Costinum | ib. |
| Oleum Crocinum: or, Oyl of saffron | ib. |
| Oyl of Euphorbium | ib. |
| Oleum Excestrense: or Oyl of Exceter | a 162 |
| Oleum Hirundinum: or, Oyl of swallows | ib. |
| Oleum Hiperici 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Oyl of St. Johns wort compound | ib. |
| Oleum Hyperici magis compositum: or oyl of saint Johns wort more compound | ib. |
| Oleum Irinum: or, Oyl of Orris | b 162 |
| Oleum Majoranae: or, Oyl of Marjoram | ib. |
| Oleum Mandragorae: or, Oyl of Mandrakes | ib. |
| Moschelaeum: or, Oyl of Musk. | a 163 |
| Oleum Nardinum: or, Oyl of Nard | ib. |
| Oleum Nicodemi | b 163 |
| Oleum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Oyl of Foxes | ib. |
| Oyl of Pepper | a 163 |
| Oleum Populeum | a 164 |
| Unguentum album: or white Oyntment | a 164 |
| Unguentum Egyptiacum | ib. |
| Unguentum Anodinum | b 164 |
| Unguentum ex 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or Oyntment of Smallage | ibid |
| Liniment of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Elemi | ibid |
| Unguentum Aureum | ibid |
| Basilicon the greater | a 165 |
| Basilicon the less | ib. |
| Oyntment of Bdellium | ib. |
| Unguentum de Calce: or, Oyntment of Chalk | ib. |
| Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Oyntment of Marsh-mallows | ib. |
| Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 165 |
| Unguentum Enulatum: or, Oyntment of Alicampane | ib. |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 cum Mercurio: or, Oyntment of Alicampana with Quick-silver | ib. |
| Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 commune: or Oyntment of Bays, common | ib. |
| Unguentum de Minio, sive rubrum Camphora: or, Oyntment of red Lead | ib. |
| Unguentum è 〈◊〉〈◊〉, seu Peto: Or, Oyntment of Tobacco. | a 166 |
| Unguentum Nutritum, seu Trifarmacum | ib. |
| Unguentum Ophthalmicum: Or, Oyntment for the Eyes | b 166 |
| Unguentum ex Oxylapatho: Or, Oyntment of sharp pointed Dock | ib. |
| Unguentum è Plumbo: or, Oyntment of Lead | ib. |
| Ungnentum Pomatum | ib. |
| Unguentum Potabile | ib. |
| Unguentum Resinum | a 167 |
| Unguentum Rosanum: or, Oyntment of Roses | ib. |
| Desiccativum rubrum: or, a drying red Oyntment | ib. |
| Unguentum è Solano: or, Oyntment of Nightshade | ib. |
| Unguentum Tutiae: or, Oyntment of Tutty | b 167 |
| Valentia Scabiosae | ib. |
| Tapsivalentia | ib. |
| Tapsimel | ib. |
| Uunguentum Agrippa | a 168 |
| Ungunentum de Alabastro: Or, Oyntment of Alabaster | ib. |
| Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, a bitter Oyntment | ib. |
| Ungutntum Apostolorum: or, oyntment of the Apostles | b 168 |
| Unguentum Aregon | ib. |
| Unguentum de Artanita: or, Oyntment of Sow-bread | a 169 |
| Unguentum Catapsoras | ib. |
| Unguentum Citrinum, or, a Citron Oyntment | ib. |
| Unguentum Comitissae | b 169 |
| Unguentum Martiatum | ib. |
| Unguentum Mastichinum: or, an Oyntment of Mastich | ib. |
| Unguentum Neapolitanum | a 170 |
| Uuguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Unguentum Pectorale: or, a Pectoral Oyntment | ib. |
| Unguentum Populneum: or, Oyntment of Poplar | ib. |
| Unguentum Resumptivum | b 170 |
| Unguentum Splanchnicum | ib. |
| Unguentum Splanchnicum Magistrale | ibid |
| Unguentum è Succis: or, Oyntment of Juyces | a 171 |
| Unguentum Sumach | b 171 |
| Oyntment of Marsh-Mallows compound | a 171 |
| Unguentum 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ib. |
| Unguentum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 171 |
| Unguentum è Succis Aperitivis primum | ib. |
| Unguentum Martiatum | a 172 |
| An Oyntment for the worms | b 172 |
| Ceratum de 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Galbanum | a 172 |
| Ceratum Oesypatum | ib. |
| Ceratum Santalinum | b 172 |
| Emplastro ex Ammoniaco: or, A Plaister of Ammoniacum | a 173 |
| Emplastrum è Baccis Lauri: or, a Plaister of Bay berries | ib. |
| Emplastrum Barbarum magnum | ib. |
| Emplastrum de Retonica: or, A Plaister of Betony | b 173 |
| Emplastrum Caesaris | ib. |
| Emplastrum Catagmaticum the first | a 174 |
| Catagmaticum the second | ib. |
| Emplastrum Cephalicum: or, a Cephalick Plaister | ib. |
| Emplastrum de Cerussa: or, a Plaister of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum ex Cicuta cum Ammoniaco: or, a Plaister of Hemlock with Ammoniacum | b 174 |
| Emplastrum è Cinnabari | ib. |
| Emplastrum è Crusta Panis: or, A Plaister of a crust of Bread | ib. |
| Emplastrum è Cymino: or, a plaister of Cummin | ib. |
| Emplastrum Diacalciteos | a 175 |
| Diachylon simple | ib. |
| Di achylon Ireatum | ib. |
| Diachylon magnum | ib. |
| Diachylan magnum cum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 175 |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, sive 〈◊〉〈◊〉 è Mucilaginibus: or, A Plaister of Mucilages | ib. |
| Emplastrum Diaphoenicon, hot | ib. |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉, cold | ib. |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: Or, A Divine Plaister | a 176 |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Flos, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dictum: or, Flower of Oyntments. | ib. |
| A Plaister of Gum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 176 |
| A Piaister of Lapis Calaminaris | ib |
| Emplastrum ad 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib |
| Emplastrum Hystericum | a 177 |
| Emplastrum de 〈◊〉〈◊〉: 〈◊〉〈◊〉, a Plaister of Mastich | ib. |
| Emplastrum de 〈◊〉〈◊〉 simplex: or A Plaister of Melilot simple | ib. |
| Emplastrum de Meliloto 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or, A Plaister of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 compound | ib. |
| Emplastrum de Minio 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or, a Plaister of red Lead compound | b 177 |
| Emplastrum de 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: or, a Plaister of red 〈◊〉〈◊〉 simple | ib |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum Nervinum | a 178 |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum de Ranis: or, a Plaister of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum Sicyonium | ib. |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seu 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Emplastrum Stephaniaion | ib. |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib |
| Emplastrum Stomachicum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or, a stomach Plaister | ib. |
| Emplastrum Tonsoris | b 179 |
| Emplastrum Ceroma | a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Emplastrum Gracia Dei: or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Grace of God | ib. |
| Emplastrum de 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Emplastrum Isis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| A Plaister of Mastich | ib. |
| Emplastrum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| A holy Plaister | a 180 |
| Emplastrum sine Pari | ib. |
| A Plaister for the stomach | ib. |
| A Cerecloath of Ammoniacum. | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Ceratum Stomachium | ib. |
| The way to distil | |
| Oyl of Herbs & Flowers | a 181 |
| Oyl of Wormwood | ib. |
| Oyl of dried Barks | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| Oyl or fat of Roses | ib. |
| Oyl of Seeds | ib. |
| Oyl of Spices | a 182 |
| Oyl of Woods | ib. |
| Oyl of Berries | ib. |
| Oyl of Turpentine | b 182 |
| Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Oyl of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Oyl of Wax | ibid |
| Oleum Latericium Phylosophorum | ibid |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Succini: or, Oyl of Amber | a 183 |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Antimonii: Oyl or Butter of Antimony | ib. |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉: or, Oyl of Arsenick | b 183 |
| Oleum Salis: or, Oyl of Salt | ib. |
| Oleum Sulphuris: or, Oyl of Sulphur | ibid |
| Oleum 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Oyl of Virriol | a 184 |
| Aqua fortis | ibid |
| Aqua fortis: or, Water of Honey | b 184 |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seu Liquamen 〈◊〉〈◊〉, seu Oleum Tartari per Deliquium: or Liquor of Tartar | ibid |
| Oleum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 per 〈◊〉〈◊〉: or, Oyl of Mirrh | ibid |
| Oyl of Tartar | ibid |
| 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cum Nitro calcinatum; or, Antimony calcined with Niter | a 185 |
| Chalybs 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Or, Steel prepared | ibid |
| Crystal of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Crocus Martis | ibid |
| Crocus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉, Or, Flower of Brimstone | b 158 |
| Lapis infernalis | ibid |
| Lapis seu 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ibid |
| Magisterum of Pearl and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib |
| Mercurius Sublimatus Corrosivus; Or, Mercury Sublimate Corrosive | a 186 |
| Mercurius 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ibid |
| Mercurius dulcis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Mercurills 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Or, Corrosive precipitate | ibid |
| Mercurius 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Regulus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | b 186 |
| Saccharum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Sal Vitrioli Or, Salt of Vittiol | ibid |
| Turpethm Minerale | ibid |
| Tartarum Vitriolatum | ibid |
| Vitriolum album de puratum; Or, white 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ibid |
| Vitrum Antimonii | ibid |
| Salt Volatle | a 187 |
| Salt fixed | ibid |
| The way of Preparing Fats | a 187 |
| The burning of Brass | b 187 |
| The washing of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 188 |
| The preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 armenick | ibid |
| 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 | ibid |
| May Butter | ibid |
| The preparation of Lapis Calaminaris | ibid |
| The washing of Lime | ibid |
| The Preparation of Corral, Pearls, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Eyes and other precious Stones | ibid |
| The preparation of Coriander seed | ibid |
| The burning of Harts-horn, Ivory, and other Bones | ibid |
| A new Preparation of them | b 〈◊〉〈◊〉 |
| The way to make 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| The preparation of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Spurge Roots | ibid |
| The Preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib |
| The preparation of black Hellebore Roots | ibid |
| The preparation of Goats blood | ib. |
| The burning of Young Swallows | ibid |
| The Preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| The preparation of Lapis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | a 185 |
| The preparation of Litharge | ibid |
| The preparation of Earthworms: | ibid |
| The preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or woodlice | ibid |
| The manner of preparing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| The preparation of Opium | ibid |
| Pouder of Raw 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| The washing of Lead | ibid |
| The burning of Lead | ibid |
| The Preparation of Fox Lungues. | b 185 |
| The preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ib. |
| Another way of preparation of Scamony with Sulphur | ibid |
| The preparation of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Washed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 | ibid |
| Boyled Turpentine | ibid |
| The preparation of Tutty | ibid |
| A Bortion hindreth, 13 23 24 33 131 160 169 176. |
| Ach 3 13 28 31 44 65 162 165 171 175 178. |
| See Pain. |
| Adders sting, see 〈◊〉〈◊〉 beasts |
| Addust choller 109 124 |
| Addust humors 60 135. |
| After-birth 3 〈◊〉〈◊〉 14 15 17 19 21 22 23 24 26 28 29 31 61 64 65 66 69 122 130 131 132 144 148 172. |
| Agues naught for, 21 27 |
| Ague in the breast 16 21. see inflamation |
| Agues 4 7 8 14 18 20 22 31 60 107 128 134 135 136 139 140 141 144 150 170 〈◊〉〈◊〉. |
| Air corrupted, or infected |
| see infection |
| Almonds of the Ears 24 29. |
| Andicom, see Felon. |
| Anger causeth 33. |
| Anger asswageth 33. |
| Appetite provoketh 10 13 14 15 20 21 27 38 61 65 101 109 115 116 131 151 160 170 180. and restores. |
| S. Anthonies fire 14 16 19 24 |
| Aposthumes 5 13 14 19 23 60 166 170 176. |
| Appoplexes 20 60 67 132. |
| Asthma 21 44 60 61 68 73 117 122 127 132 137 146 166 170 182. |
| Astonishment 132. |
| Back strengthneth 4 5 16 19 22 141 160 162 169. |
| Baldness 4 13 32 69. |
| Barrenness 15 19 31 125 131. |
| Belly-ach 13 16 18 21 127 173 176. |
| Belly-ach see Bowels |
| Belly loosens 14 15 18 20 21 22 26 27 109 110 114 129. |
| Belching 15 16 72 106 113 114 123 127 129 136. |
| Beauty ads 18 20 25 26 28 61 72 132 137 151 159 161 169 182. |
| Birth facilitates 3 4. |
| Bees stinging 20 30 166. |
| Bleeding stops 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 25 28 29 32 33 60 128 131 149 150. |
| Bladder 4 6 7 8 14 15 16 18 20 21 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 60 61 102 105 113 122 127 130 132 133 135 136 137 137 138 147 149 460 463 164 173 182 183. |
| Blackness and blewness 9 15 |
| Blood clenseth 6 8 13 14 20 26 59 60 61. |
| Blood congealed 15 16 19 20 60 165. |
| Blood 13 15 17 20 22 27 28 29 59 60 66 113. |
| Bloody-flux 3 17 20 22 32 48 106 130 131 147 149 150 151. |
| Black jaundice 110 147. |
| Body cools in general, see the particular parts over-pressed with heat. |
| Boyls, 5 20 109 166 176. see Carbuncles. |
| Bots in horses 15, |
| Binds 3 7 10 12 13 15 20 24 27 28 31 33 170 171. |
| Bones broken 3 9 10 12 15 29 60 108 173 176 178. |
| Bowels 8 14 17 25 28 31 44 59 60 61 121 128 140 141 145 150 177. |
| Bowels excoriated 7 48. |
| Brain 7 22 23 24 26 27 28 30 32 60 61 68 69 114 120 121 122 123 127 130 140 141 143 147 148 151 172 174 176 178 182 183 |
| Brain cooleth 13 18 20. |
| Brain heateth 9 13 129. |
| Brain drieth 13. |
| Breath, shortness of breath, 67 13 15 16 17 19 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 46 64 72 73 103 105 106 113 118 123 137 141 182. |
| Breast cold 12. |
| Breast inflamed, see inflamation. |
| Breast 12 13 14 15 21 23 24 25 26 24 28 30 32 60 105 107 109 117 118 122 124 139 147 160 170 171 182 182 |
| Breath stinking 11 27 28 29 60 68 69 147 148. |
| Bubo, or swelling in the groyn, see swelling |
| Bruised 4 7 9 10 11 13 15 16 19 20 23 32 108 161 162 170 175. |
| Burns 3 5 7 12 13 14 17 18 19 27 60 165 166 170 174 182. |
| Burstness, see Ruptures 3 5 7 13 14 17 18 20 176. |
| Cancers 135 144. |
| Cachexia, or ill disposition of the body |
| Canker 5 15 176. |
| Cathers 113 129 |
| Carbuncles 7 16 22 28 109 see plague-sores. |
| Choller 9 11 13 16 18 20 22 24 26 27 29 30 31 38 44 48 72 73 101 107 109 110 111 128 126 129 133 134 135 136 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 147 173. |
| Chollick 3 8 10 16 17 18 23 26 27 28 30 44 46 60 71 102 126 127 125 130 131 132 134 135 139 150 158 163 166 170 175 182 183 184. |
| Catalepsis 20. |
| Chollerick humors 20 73. |
| Chap'd lips and hands 166. |
| Chincough 25. |
| Cods swoln 8 13 |
| Conception strengthens 143 |
| Colds 8 29 102 116 122 123 146. |
| Colour ill, see beauty |
| Consumption 11 12 15 25 26 27 31 32 33 44 65 66 68 69 103 104 111 117 120 121 122 123 124 125 129 131 141 170 182. |
| Concoction, see digestion. |
| Cough 5 6 7 10 14 16 17 21 22 23 25 26 27 29 32 33 44 46 48 59 60 61 73 103 105 106 107 113 114 116 117 118 120 122 123 125 129 132 137 142 146 158. |
| Convulsion 4 5 8 10 15 21 24 25 26 28 31 32 46 46 61 64 68 107 117 123 129 130 136 163 168 172 183. |
| Corrosions of the bowels, see bowels. |
| Corruption, see Putrifaction |
| Corns on the feet 14. |
| Cramp 5 15 19 21 31 44 46 160 183. see convulsions |
| Crudities, see indigestion. |
| Dandrif, see scurf |
| Dead flesh 6 164. |
| Deafness 6 16 64 132 142 158 160 182. |
| Dead child, see birth |
| Diabetes 16 28 31 |
| Defluxions 12 166. |
| Digestion, see indigestion |
| Dislocations 15 178 183. |
| Dissury, see urine stopped |
| Dogs biting 4 5 7. |
| Dropsie, 4 5 6 7 9 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 22 24 26 27 28 31 32 33 38 46 60 61 111 114 122 129 130 132 141 144 145 147 148 150 151 168 169 182 183 184. |
| Drunkenness 19 20 30. |
| Drunkenness preserves from 16 19 20 27 30 33. |
| Ears 6 17 18 19 30 31 120 144 150 176. |
| Excoriations, see the place excoriated |
| Excoriation of the Yard, see the Yard |
| Evil spirits 10. |
| Eyes 6 7 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 30 31 32 46 60 61 68 71 72 120 125 132 237 140 141 142 144 149 167 174 176. |
| Fainting 4 7 10 33 46 66 68 104 108 127 150 |
| Falling-sickness bad for 28. |
| Falling-sickness helps 7 8 10 15 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 30 31 32 33 34 46 60 65 68 69 72 113 117 123 127 129 130 132 136 141 163 167 182 183. |
| Fatness 14 31 32 167. |
| Fals, see bruises |
| Feavers 4 5 6 7 12 13 15 17 23 26 27 28 29 31 32 33 34 59 60 61 64 65 66 68 69 103 104 106 107 109 114 116 119 124 125 126 129 132 133 134 138 143 147 149 183 184. |
| Fear 27 33 127. |
| Felon 19 177. |
| Fighting 33. |
| Fistula 15 19 24 150 159 164 166 168 183. |
| Flegm 4 5 7 10 14 15 19 23 24 27 29 30 33 38 44 60 61 71 72 101 103 107 108 110 113 114 121 122 126 127 129 133 135 139 140 141 142 143 160 168. |
| Fleas 19 23. |
| Flux 3 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 31 60 106 108 115 116 120 129 130 131 160 171 175 176 177. |
| Folly 33. |
| Forgetfulness 16 18 23 26 33 60 69 106 127 135 141. |
| Freckles 4 14 15 20 23 25 60 73 169 184. |
| French pox 5 7 9 12 15 16 23 25 66 184. |
| Frenzies 14 17 18 20 22 23 24 25 46 107 131 138 160 163. |
| Face 7 158 160 166 169. |
| Fundament 7 21 24. |
| Fundament falling out 20 27 169 171. |
| Gall 9 16. |
| Gangrenes 15 22 28 183. |
| Gnats 23 |
| Gout 7 10 11 15 16 18 19 20 21 24 31 46 72 135 140 141 144 145 158 163 166 172 173 182 183. |
| Gripings of Belly 3 4 7 16 17 24 60 61 108 126 130. |
| Gravel 3 7 17 19 33 61 102 125 136. |
| Green-sickness 4 13 16 18 21 71. |
| Gums 27 29 71. |
| Gunshot 17 166. |
| Hands scabby, see scabs. |
| Hardness see swellings |
| Head strengthens 14 19 23 27 32 33 61 71 140 141 144 163. |
| Headach helpeth 1 7 8 9 13 15 17 19 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 39 60 61 107 113 118 120 129 132 135 137 139 144 160 162 166 167 169 176 179. |
| Heads scabby, see scabs and scald heads |
| Heat of the stomach, see stomach |
| Health preserved 72 121. |
| Hypochondriacal melancholy 18 32 61 105 109 112 114 147 161 177. |
| Heart 4 6 10 11 12 15 16 18 21 24 26 29 31 32 33 44 60 61 63 65 66 67 68 70 103 104 106 107 108 109 114 119 121 122 123 124 128 120 125 129 129 131 142 147 148 150 160. |
| Heart-qualms 15 27 28 46 68 123 128 148. |
| Heart-burnings 17 20 25. |
| Hectick feavers 31 59 67 107 122 125 129 134 147 151 158 170. |
| Humors 4 7 8 13 14 17 22 26 27 44 73 137 151. |
| Hemorrhoids helpeth 5 9 17 24 25 130 131 136 147 149 166 169 176. |
| Hemlock eaten |
| Hiccoughs 14 107 |
| Hoarsness 7 23 25 29 73 105 111 118 122 123 146. |
| Hair 18 25 27 28 29 31 159 161. |
| Horses that are mangy 16 |
| Hornets stinging 166. |
| Hnnting 33. |
| Hogs 16 |
| Iliack passion 127 125 132 151 166 182. |
| Indigestion 7 11 12 13 17 18 21 27 28 38 46 60 63 65 69 70 72 101 103 106 118 121 123 124 126 127 125 129 130 132 139 142 243 145 148 151 160 170 174 176 179 180. |
| Infection 124 132 145 182 183. |
| Inflamations 4 7 12 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 33 60 111 116 123 133 146 149 160 164 167 170 171 173 174 179. |
| Inflamation in the privities, 15 16 19 23 25 26 28 106 |
| Inflamation in the eyes, see eyes |
| Inflamation of the Liver, see Liver |
| Inflamation in the stomach 25. |
| Joynts 7 9 10 11 13 15 16 19 27 30 72 132 135 141 142 144 158 160 162 163 164 168 172 173 182 183 |
| Joynt-ach 19 22 172 |
| Itch 5 6 7 9 12 18 20 22 23 24 28 32 33 38 60 61 102 105 108 109 135 136 143 144 163 165 166 167 169 |
| Kibes 25 128. |
| Kings evil 5 6 10 24. |
| Kidneys 7 19 21 102 128 125 136 170. |
| Leanness 28 123. |
| Legs scabby, see scabbed |
| Leprosies 5 6 11 12 13 15 19 28 32 33 61 102 109 110 132 135 136 141 144. |
| Lethargy 13 20 24 28 31 33 64 144 482. |
| Lice causeth 27. |
| Lice killeth 17 24 28. |
| Ligaments 161. |
| Liver 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 44 59 60 61 65 68 72 101 102 103 105 107 108 109 110 113 114 118 122 123 124 128 127 125 130 132 135 137 139 141 143 144 145 147 148 148 150 160 161 163 167 172 173 175 176 177 179 180 183 184. |
| Lisping 69. |
| Longing of women 25. |
| Lunary, see madness |
| Lust provokes 4 6 7 8 9 10 13 16 17 18 21 25 26 27 28 29 31 33 38 69 129 137 160 |
| Lust staies 8 28 33. |
| Lungues 4 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 19 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 46 60 61 63 67 68 69 73 74 103 105 106 107 113 114 116 117 122 123 124 128 125 130 139 141 144 170 182 182. |
| Mad-dogs biting 7 13 15 16 17 18 20 21 30. |
| Madness 6 15 18 23 24 26 31 46 73 102 110 135 136 138. |
| Marasmos 31 67 68 134. |
| Mare 28. |
| Megrim 21 60 113 136 144. |
| Melancholly 6 8 9 10 14 15 16 18 21 24 27 28 30 31 33 34 61 65 70 72 73 102 106 108 109 110 111 114 123 126 127 125 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 139 141 142 144. |
| Memory, see forgetfulness. |
| Mice 6. |
| Mother fits 4 8 10 14 15 21 24 25 28 29 31 64 66 141 172 177 183 184. |
| Moaths 12 13 15 17 18 20. |
| Morphew 4 5 6 14 15 25 32 60 61 159. |
| Mouth sore 4 17 111 112. |
| Mouth swelled, see swellings |
| Navil 8. |
| Nerves, see sinews. |
| Nits, 17 24. |
| Noise in the ears 9 19 21 160 162. |
| Numbness, 3 172. |
| Necks stiff 21 |
| Nurses to breed milk 6 12 14 18 19 20 24 28 60. |
| Obstructions or stoppings 13 16 17 18 19 20 23 26 28 101 141 164. |
| Opium taken 5 22. |
| Pain easeth 3 6 13 20 22 31 44 135 141 164 178. |
| Palsie 9 19 26 31 46 60 123 130 142 160 163 170 172 181 183. |
| Passion, see Anger |
| Perfume, 163 181. |
| Pestilence 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 14 16 18 20 23 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 46 59 60 61 63 64 65 66 68 103 109 111 124 125 129 130 132 137 142 145 150 175 182 183 184. |
| Pimples 11 18 74 166 169. |
| Pissing blood 13 15 20 32 44 108 120. |
| Pissing disease, see Diabetes. |
| Plague Sores 7 11 22 23 66 69. see Carbuncles. |
| Poysonous weapons, 17 22. |
| Pleuresie 16 25 26 59 105 116 123 135 151 158 160 170 171. |
| Pock-holes 14 32 146 163 182. |
| Poyson 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 28 30 31 33 46 64 66 68 103 104 109 124 125 130 131 132 137 141 149 150 166 183. |
| Preparations for a vomit 101 |
| Privities, see Womb, Yard. |
| Priapismus 17. |
| Phtisick 21 22 31 60 69 70 105 106 107 114 140 145 147 166. |
| Putrifaction 12 132 136 160 174 175 176. |
| Purge 110. |
| Quinsie 17. |
| Rats 6. |
| Rhewms of the stomach 17 |
| Reins 4 5 6 7 8 9 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 44 61 101 107 113 122 127 132 133 135 136 138 139 141 147 160 163 164 173 176 182 183. |
| Rhewm 8 46 60 106 114 125 133 140 142 149 166 176. |
| Rhewm in the head 8 9 20 38 119 173 182. |
| Riches 33 34. |
| Rickets 4 6 8 9 11 12 15 18 21 24 25 38 44 61 103 108 112 118 147 161 171 177. |
| Ringworms 109 159 166 167 |
| Roughness of the skin see Sunburning |
| Rowelling Cattel, 6 |
Rules for
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| Running of the Reins 4 12 16 19 21 22 27 29 32 140 181 182. |
| Ruptures 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 13 14 17 18 19 20 24 29 60 107 108 175 176 183. |
| Sadness 10 18 21 32. |
| Scurf 4 6 28 110. |
| Scabs 5 6 7 9 12 13 18 20 21 22 23 24 28 29 32 33 38 61 102 105 108 109 110 135 143 144 159 163 166 169 174 182. |
| Scalding 5 13 14 17 18 19 165 166 170 175. |
| Scald heads, 28 31 32. |
| Sciatica 11 16 19 21 24 145. |
| Scrophula 6. |
| Skull broken 29. |
| Seed increases 6 9 28 31 158. |
| Seed consumes 13. |
| Serpents divers ways 12 23 28 |
| Serpents biting, see venemous beasts |
| Sinews 5 9 13 16 19 30 102 114 129 141 142 160 161 163 168 169 170 172 178 182 183. |
| Sides pained 13 16 17 21 23 26 28 29 135 163. |
| Shingles 8 17 19 22 24. |
| Sighing 9 13 31 127. |
| Sinews shrinking 13 14 16 24 27 29 31 32 158 178. |
| Scurvy 21 38. |
| Sight, see Eyes. |
| Sleep provokes, see watching |
| Sneezing 6 |
| Smal pox, the maks of them, see pock-holes. |
| Sores, see wounds and ulcers. |
| Spiders 3 17. |
| Spleen 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 38 44 59 60 61 68 72 101 102 103 108 118 123 125 129 130 132 135 137 141 147 161 163 171 172 173 175 177 179 182 183 184. |
| Sprains 4 162 165 167. |
| Spitting blood 4 5 9 12 15 16 17 19 20 22 23 26 27 32 59 106 108 120 123 131 132 145 149. |
| Spirit vital 10 26 28 32 63 68 104 106 121 122 128 126 125 147 150. |
| Spirit animal 26 32 122 127 147. |
| Spirit natural 32 109 122 141 |
| Spirit spent, see strength lost, and fainting. |
| Splinters, see thorns. |
| Spots in the face, see freckles. |
| Stomach 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 〈◊〉〈◊〉 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 33 46 59 60 60 63 65 68 69 70 71 101 103 104 106 107 109 110 113 115 120 121 121 122 123 123 127 〈◊〉〈◊〉 130 〈◊〉〈◊〉 132 136 137 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 147 148 150 151 158 160 163 166 167 169 170 171 172 174 175 177 179 180 182 183. |
| Strangury, 8 16 17 19 20 24 46 127 130 131 163. |
| Stinking breath, see bowels. |
| Stitch 8 15 16 23 44 60 65. |
| Stone 3 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 25 27 28 30 31 33 44 46 60 61 102 106 122 127 130 131 132 136 139 146 160 164 182. |
| Sunburning 4 6 14 15 23 25 60 61 73 166 184. |
| Surfets 13 19 60 102 105 107 142 143 149. |
| Strength lost, 3 19 31 103 119 122 125 178. |
| Sweat causeth 5 7 9 10 12 16 32 60 65 66 128 131 132 138 〈◊〉〈◊〉. |
| Swellings 4 8 9 10 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 23 24 27 26 29 44 147 160 166 171 172 173 175 176 177 180 183. |
| Swellings in the Privities, see Womb and Yard. |
| Swoonings 33 66 104 127 184. |
| Swelling in the mouth, 24. |
| Teeth on edg, 22. |
| Teeth loose 4 11 14 29 33 183. |
| Teeth, to make them fall out 30 |
| To make teeth white 25 32 |
| Teeth, to breed easily 31 |
| Teeth strengthens 27 |
| Tenasmus 30 |
| Tetters 5 109 159 166 167 |
| Terms provokes 4 5 6 7 8 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 30 31 46 60 61 65 68 69 102 110 112 121 125 129 130 131 132 141 160 182. |
| Terms stops 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 32 61 106 108 115 129 129 130 131 137 147 148 149 151 169 |
| 〈…〉〈…〉 |
| 〈…〉〈…〉 128 125 147 184. |
| Throat sore 14 17 18 19 26 29 30 48 116 117 119 158. |
| Throat norrow 146 |
| Toads 3 17 33. |
| Toothach 4 5 6 8 9 10 13 15 20 27 60 69 71 121 176 184. |
| Trembling 31 142 163 |
| Tumors, see swellings. |
| Tongue rough 27 123. |
| Venemous beasts 3 4 6 7 8 13 14 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 28 30 31 33 46 60 64 66 68 130 132 137 149 160 162 166 173 176. |
| Vertigo or dissiness in the head 6 10 15 16 21 23 29 31 33 60 102 104 113 123 132 135 136 139 141 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. |
| Veins broken 5 17. |
| Veins opens 23 29 32. |
| Ulcers 3 4 5 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 25 28 29 31 32 33 64 70 72 131 147 150 119 163 164 166 167 168 171 173 174 176 177 178 179 183 184. |
| Ulcers in the Reins and bladder 16 27 60 106 131 132 147 158. |
| Ulcers in the mouth 5 8 13 22 26 27 28 61 183. |
| Ulcers in the Throat 10. |
| Ulcers in the Lungs 16 22 see Phtisicks |
| Ulcers in the Privities 19 61 158. |
| Ulcers in the Eyes 148. |
| Vomiting provokes 4 14 71 |
| Vomiting stops 4 10 11 12 13 14 18 21 22 25 27 28 60 104 106 108 114 121 128 129 130 137 160 168 170 174 176 177 179. |
| Vomiting blood 19 23 26 29 108 120 132 137. |
| Voyce 29 68 72 73 105 〈…〉〈…〉 |
| 〈…〉〈…〉 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 |
| 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 44 46 〈◊〉〈◊〉 61 72 101 107 109 110 114 121 122 130 131 132 141 146 150 182 184. |
| Warts 7. |
| Watching 19 20 26 28 66 106 107 109 113 114 116 119 131 142 143 160 170. |
| Wasps stinging 20 30 166. |
| Wens 7. |
| Wheals 143. |
| Wheezing 19 23 48. |
| Weariness 13 22 44 160 162 |
| Whites in women 4 13 19 21 22 23 27 28 31 32 129. |
| Wind 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 23 24 26 27 28 29 31 46 61 63 69 71 72 101 121 122 124 126 127 125 129 130 131 135 140 150 160 165 173 182 183 |
| Wind-pipe 7 22 26 27. |
| Witch-craft 19 32. |
| Wisdom 33 129. |
| Womb 7 14 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 30 31 60 107 111 112 113 125 133 137 160 163 164 172 179 183. |
| Womb inflamed, see inflamations. |
| Womb fallen out 14 16 27 169 171. |
| Womens travel 6 8 11 15 17 19 21 22 23 26 28 29 31 33 46 60 64 69 122 230 131 132 183. |
| Womb swelled, see swellings |
| Womb hardned 13 29 44. |
| Womens breasts, see breasts. |
| Women newly delivered, and not well purged 15 113 136 144. |
| Worms 5 8 10 13 15 16 17 18 19 21 23 24 27 28 29 30 33 60 61 61 71 160 166 172 181 184. |
| Wounds 3 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 29 32 107 108 112 133 135 148 150 160 161 163 164 165 166 167 168 170 171 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 182 183 184. |
| Wry mouths 162 163 |
| Wry necks 15 21 25 |
| Yard 20 21 24 25 164 182 |
| Yard excoriated 17 21 |
| Yellow jaundice 5 7 8 9 11 13 14 15 16 17 19 22 23 26 27 29 30 31 33 38 46 59 60 61 65 101 103 110 122 124 132 140 141 143 144 145 147 148. |
| Youth preserves 24 124 〈◊〉〈◊〉. |
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