Scabiosæ_, _Borraginis_, _Card. B._ _ana_ ʒ. iiii.
Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place, then strain them
strongly, and add thereto _Sir. ros. lax._ _Mannæ. Calabriæ_ _ana_ ℥.
i. _Decoct. col._ ℥. ii. _vel_ ℥. iii.
Mix all these together, and take it as the other before.
_A good purgation for a weak body._
℞. _Fol. sennæ_, ʒ. iii. _Rhab. elect_, ʒ. i. _Sem. anis._ ʒ ß.
_Schenanthi_, ℈. ß. _Aquæ Acetosæ_, ℥. v.
Boyle them a little, then take it from the fire, and let them stand
infused together twelve houres, then strain it out strongly, and add
thereto _Sir. ros. lax._ ℥. i. and then drink it as the other before.
_Another gentle purgation._
℞. _Aquarum scabiosæ_, _Card. B. Aquæ ad pestem_, _ana_ ℥. i. _Rhab
elect_, ʒ. ii. ß. _Cinamomi_, ʒ. ß.
Infuse them together twelve hours, and strain them strongly; then add
to the straining _Sir. ros. lax._ ℥. i. _Sir. de limonibus_, four
ounces.
Mix them together, and so drink it as the other before, you may either
add or diminish of the _Rubarb_ unto any of these potions as you list.
Now when you see the purgation hath done working, then give the sick
some Cordiall thing, as hereafter followeth, which he must also take
the next morning following.
_A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging._
℞. _Conserva Burrag_, Bugloss, _Mali Citri_, _ana_ ʒ. iiii. _Confect.
Alkermis_ ʒ. i. _Boli Veri_, ʒ. ß. _Specierum diarhod abb._ ℈. ii.
_Diamarga. frigid._ ʒ. i. _Manus Christi perlati_, ℥. i. _Sir. de
Lemon_, ʒ. iiii.
Mix all these together, and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut
at a time, you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great
heat.
_Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is._
℞. _Conservæ Borag_, ʒ iiii. _Conservæ fol. acetosæ_, ℥ i. _Bolarm.
veri_, ʒ. i. _Manus Christi cum perlis_, ℥. i. _Sir. de Lemonibus_, q.
v. _misce._
You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is, so much as three
beanes at a time.
_A good Cordiall potion._
℞. _Aquarum buglossæ_, _Acetosæ_, _ana_ ℥. i. _Pul. diamarga. frig._
ʒ. ß. _Confectio alkermis_, G. ii. _Sir. de aceto_, _Citri_, _vel de
Lemon_. ℥. i. _misce_.
All this you may take after purging as aforesaid, at any time.
And here you must understand, that if it be in a plethorick body full
of ill humors, it were good that you purge him again the next day.
CHAP. III.
_Sheweth what symptoms often chance, and how to help them._
For that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms
which do oftentimes chance, I will here shew you good meanes how to
help the same.
_For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep._
℞. _Hordei mundi._ P. i. _Amigd. dul. depilatum_ ℥. i. ß. _Sem._ iiii.
_Frigid. ma. mund._ _ana_ ℈. i. _Aqua font._ q. s. _fiat decoctio_.
_Decoct. col._ l. i. _Sir. de Lemonibus_, _de Papa_, _ana_ ℥. i. ß.
_Sacchari perlati_, ℥. i.
Boyl them together a little, and then keep it to your use, you must
often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink, and annoint
his temples with this ointment.
_Oyntment to provoke sleep._
℞. _Vnguent popillionis_, ʒ. iiii. _Unguent. Alabastrini_, _Ol.
Nenuphariæ_ _misce_, _ana._ ʒ ii.
This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the
pain of the head, if the place grieved be annointed therewith.
_For raveing and raging._
If the party rave, then give him one scruple of the powder of
Harts-horn burnt, with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and
Lemons, and apply this sacculus following to the head.
_A good Sacculus for raving and raging._
℞. _Florum Nenupharis_, P. i. _Cort. Pap._ ʒ. ii. _Santali albi_, _Rub.
Citri_, _ana._ ʒ. i. _Florum ros. rub_, P. i. _Florum Viol._ P. ß.
_Florum camomil._ _Betonicæ_, _ana_ ʒ. i.
Shread them all small, then pound them grosly, and quilt them in a
bagg, and apply it to the head, and it will help you.
_Aphtham, to help it._
In this contagious disease, there doth chance an ulceration of the
mouth, which is called Aphtham, it cometh by means of the great
interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his
sicknesse, which if it be not well looked unto in time, it will greatly
endanger the body, for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism.
_A good Gargarism for the mouth._
℞. Clean barley, one handfull, wilde Daysie leaves, Plantaine leaves,
Strawberry leaves, Violet leaves, of either one handfull: Purslane
seed, one scruple, Quinse seed, one scruple and half. Licorice bruised,
four drachms.
Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be
half consumed, then strain it, and take one pint and half thereof, and
add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion, and sirrup of dried roses of
either four drachms: _Diamoron_ two ounces.
Mix these together, and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith
oftentimes being warm, and it helpeth.
_Vomiting extreamly, how to help it._
If it come in the beginning of the disease, as most commonly it doth,
there is no better means to stay it, then by giving of Cordials and
by sweating, by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause
thereof is expelled, and breathed out, but if after Cordials given, and
sweat, it doth not stay, it is a very ill and dangerous signe: yet what
means I have used to stay the same, I will here shew you.
_A good bag for the stomack._
℞. Dried leaves of Mints, Elder, Origanie, Wormwood, Calamint, Mugwort,
Thime, Balme, Pellemountaine, tops of Dill, of either a little
handfull: Seeds of _Carduus Benedictus_, Fennell, Annis, of either
four drachms: Roots of Ciperus, _Calamus aromaticus_, of either four
drachms: Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, of either half a drachm.
Make all these in gross powder, then put it into a linnen bag, which
must be made so broad and long, as will cover the stomack: then take
Rose-water and strong Vinegar, of either ten spoonfulls, wherein do you
dissolve one ounce of Mithridate, then must you first wet the said bag
in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine,
and let him soak therein a little while, the liquor being first warmed
on a Chafer and coales, and then wet him in the Rose-water and Vinegar
being warm, and so apply it to the stomack, and when he waxeth cold,
warm him therein againe, and let him remain half an hour in all, and
then take him away, and dry the stomack with a warm cloth, and then
annoint it with this ointment following.
℞. Chymicall oyles of Rosemary, Sage, of either one drachm: Vinegar,
Mithridate, of either one drachm.
Mix all these together, and so use it, and if the party be costive,
then were it good to give him a glister, wherein dissolve two drachms
of Mithridate, it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and
thighes.
_Yoxe, or yexing, to stay it._
℞. Dill seed, two scruples and half: White Poppy seed, Purslane seed,
of either one scruple and a half.
Bruise them a little, then knit them in a fine linnen cloth, and let
it soak in the drink which he useth, and when you give him drink, wring
out the bag therein, and let him drink it, and that will stay it,
also the order aforesaid to help vomiting, is good to stay the yoxe,
or yexing, but if neither of them prevaile, then will the sick hardly
escape death.
_Flix, how to stop it._
You must first give the patient this purpation following, which doth
not onely purge away those slimie humors which is the cause thereof,
but doth also leave an astringencie behind it.
℞. _Rhab. elect._ ʒ. iii. _Cinamoni_, ℈ ii. _Aquarum Endiviæ_,
_Borraginis_, _ana_ ℥. ii.
Infuse them together twelve houres, then strain it out strongly, and
add thereto one ounce of Sirrup of roses laxative, and so drink it
warm, refraining from meat, and drink, and sleep three houres after it:
and at night when it hath done working, give this confection following.
℞. _Conservæ ros._ ʒ. iiii. _Dioscordii_, ℈. i. ß. _Pul. Diamargag.
frigid._ ℈. i, _Dialkermes_, G. x. _Sir. de Lemon._ ʒ. ii. _misce._
When you have given this confection, then doe you Epithemate the region
of the heart with this Epithemative following,
_Epithemation for the heart._
℞. _Aquarum_ _Buglossæ_, _Burrag_, _Rosarum_, _Oxialidis_, _ana_
℥. iiii. _Throchiscorum de camphera_, ℈. i. _Pul. diamargarit.
frigid._ ʒ. i. _Aceti alb._ ℥. i. _Offa de corde cervi_, ℈. ß. _Santal.
Rub._ _Coral. Rub._ _misce._ _ana_ ℈. i.
With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of
an hour, and if by this meanes it stay not, then the next day give some
of this confection following, which I have found excellent good for the
stopping of any flix whatsoever.
℞. _Conservæ ros. siccæ._ ℥. i. _Pul. Rhab. troschiscat_ ℈. i. _Terræ
lemniæ_ ʒ. ß. _Lap. Hemattitis_, _Sang. Draco._ _Bolarmoni._ _ana_
ʒ. ii. _Mithridatii_, _misce_, ʒ. i.
You must every morning and evening give two drachms hereof, and drink
some Plantaine water after it.
Now here you must understand, that if the flix come in the beginning of
the sicknesse, and that no botch, Carbunkle, nor spots appear in the
body, then in any case you may not goe about to stop it, but suffer
nature to discharge it selfe, and onely help nature with Cordials, and
Epithemations applyed to the heart, but if by the continuance thereof,
the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith, then is it to be
repressed, as before is shewed, but it must be the third day before you
attempt to doe it.
But if this flix come when the botch or Carbunkle doth appear, and
tending to maturation, then is it very dangerous, for by that meanes
the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principall parts, and
so killeth the Patient.
CHAP. IIII.
_Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly._
First, give Cordials, and use the defensive before taught you in the
second Chapter, thereby to keep it from the heart, and then bring it to
maturation as followeth.
_A good Maturative._
Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes, then pound him with some
powder of white Mustard-seed, and for lack thereof some Triacle, and
pound them together, and so apply it to the greif warm, and renue it
twice a day, which within three or four dayes at most will bring it to
suppuration.
_Another._
Take white Lilly roots, _Enula campana_ roots, _Scabios_, and Onyons, of
either two ounces.
Roast all these together in a Cole leafe, or a wet paper, then pound
them with some sweet Butter, and a little _Venice_ Triacle, whereunto
doe you adde some _Galbanum_, and _Ammoniacum_ dissolved in Vinegar,
and strained from the fesses and dregs, and so mix them altogether, and
apply it, renewing it twice a day.
_Another, where no inflammation is._
Take _Unguentum basilicon_ ℥. iiii. soure Leaven ℥. ii. Oil of Lilies,
sweet Butter, _ana._ ʒ. iiii. Triacle ʒ. i. ß. yolks of two Eggs.
Mix them together, and so apply it, and when it is come to suppuration,
then open it in the lowest part, either with a potentiall Caustick, or
by inscition, but the Caustick is best, and when you have opened it, if
no matter flow out, then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore, as
before hath been shewed: after that put into the wound a digestive as
followeth.
_A Digestive,_
Take the yolk of an Egge, clear Turpentine ʒ. iiii. clarified Honey ʒ.
ii. Mithridate, or Triacle ʒ. ß.
Mix all these together, and use it in the wound untill it be well
digested, which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and
thick matter that will flow out of it, and upon the sore lay this
Cataplasme untill it be digested
_A digestive Cataplasme._
℞. Fat Figs, and Raisins the stones pickt out, _ana._ ℥. ii. _Sal
nitrum_ ʒ. iv. sour Leaven ℥. iii. Honey ℥. i. oil of Cammomill ℥. i. ß.
You must shread and pound the Figs and Raisins very small, then commmix
it with the rest in a morter, in form of a pultis, and use it.
And when it is digested, then you must mundifie it with a
mundificative, to which purpose _Unguentum virid._ or else
_Apostolorum_ mixt with _Unguentum basilicon_ will serve, and when it
is clean mundified, then to incarnate and heal it up, doe you onely
annoint or strike it over with a feather wet in _Arceus_ linament,
which must be molten in a saucer, and over all lay a plaister of
_Diaculum_, or a plaister of _Kellebackeron_, which is excellent good
in all Imposthumes and tumours, and in this order doe you proceed,
untill the greif be whole.
CHAP. V.
_Sheweth how to bring the botch out, that lieth deep within the
body or flesh._
First you must consider, that oftentimes the botch, or carbunkle doth
offer it selfe to come forth in some place of the body, and yet no
apparant sign thereof, but lieth deep hidden within, because nature
is not of sufficient strength to thrust it forth; which is easily
perceived by the great and almost intolerable pain, that by some is
felt in the place where nature intends to expell it, which in the most
part of people, by bloud-letting, Cordials, and sweat, is clean taken
away and evacuated; but if after all this is done it goe not away,
then unto these you must use all the meanes you can to bring it to the
outward parts. First, by giving to the sick oftentimes some Cordiall
Electuary to keep it from the heart, then (if no great pain be in the
outward part) you must apply a cupping-glasse with scarification,
directly against the place where the greif is felt, and let it remain
thereon a quarter or halfe an hour, then take it away, and presently
apply the rumps of Chickens, Hens, or Pigeons to the place (as before
hath been shewed) that being done, then lay some attractive and
maturative plaister or Cataplasme to the place, which here following is
shewed, and every sixth hour you must apply the cupping-glass, as also
the rest, untill such time as you have brought the venomous matter to
the outward parts, there to be visibly seen, or at least, by feeling to
be perceived, which commonly is effected at the second time, then use
no more cupping, but onely apply a maturative to the place.
_A good Maturative Cataplasme._
℞. _Rad. simphyti_, _ma._ _Liliorum_, _Ceparum_, _Allium_, _ana_, ℥. i.
_Fol. Oxialidis_ _M._ i.
You must pound all these together a little, then wrap them in a cole
leafe, and so roast them in the hot embers, then pound them in a
morter, whereunto adde _Ol. liliorum_, _Auxungiæ porc._ _ana._ ℥. i.
_Fermenti acris_ ʒ. vi. _Mithridatii_ ʒ. i.
Mix them altogether in form of a Pultus, and so apply it warm, and
renue it twise a day.
_Another_
℞. _Galbani_, _Apopanacis_, _Ammoniaci_, _ana._ ʒ. iiii.
Dissolve these in Vinegar if the botch be hot and inflamed (but if
it be not) then dissolve them in _Aqua vitæ_, and being dissolved,
then strain it from the dregs, and adde thereto _Unguent. basillici_,
_Mithridat._ _Fomenti acris_, _ana_, ℥. iiii.
Mix all these together, and apply it.
_Another which is sooner made._
Take a great Onyon, make a hole in the middle of him, then fill the
place with Mithridate or Triacle, and some leaves of Rue, then roast
him in the hot embers, and when it is soft, then pound it with some
Barrowes greace, and apply it to the sore, and that will ripen it in
short time, then open and cure it as in the Chapter before,
But if the pain and inflammation in the place be so great, that the
party cannot indure cupping glasses to be used, then must you apply a
Vesicatory to the place, in the lowest part of the greife.
_A Vesicatory._
Take _Cantharides_ bruised in grosse powder ʒ. ß. soure Leaven ʒ. ii.
mix them together in a morter with a little Vinegar, and apply it,
which within twelve houres will raise a blister, which you must open,
and then lay an Ivie or Cole leafe to the place, and upon all apply any
of the Cataplasmes aforesaid, and dresse it twice a day, and once a
day at least, give the Patient some Cordiall, and when it is come to a
softnesse, and that you perceive it is imposthumated, then open it, and
so proceed to the cure, as before is shewed.
_When the botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth alwayes
hard._
Sometime it is seen that the botch, although it appear outwardly, yet
will it not come to maturation, which commonly is accomplished within
three or four dayes, but will resist whatsoever you apply to it, and
remain and continue alwayes hard; now here you must presently open
it, either with a Caustick or by inscition, for fear least it strike
in again, or at least grow to _gangrena_, but before you open it, you
must Epithemate the greif with this _Epithemation_ following, and
every morning and evening give the sick some Cordiall, and betwixt the
sore and the heart annoint it with the defensive before in the second
Chapter.
_An Epithemation._
Take leaves of Mallowes, Violets, Cammomill, _ana_, M. i. Floures of
Dill, Mellilot, _ana._ ℥. i. Hollehock roots ℥. iiii. Linseed ℥. ii.
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water
be consumed, and then wet some Wooll or Flax therein, being first
well beaten and pickt clean, and lay it upon the sore warm, and as it
cooleth, doe you take it away, and lay on another warm stewse, and so
continue it half an hour together, and then open it as beforesaid,
and immediately apply to the wound Chickens or Hens, as before in the
first Chapter hath been shewed you: and if you cannot get Chickens
nor Hens, then a Whelpe or a Pigeon cloven asunder by the back, and
so applyed warm will suffice, which must be renued so oftentimes as
cause requireth, and when that is done, then apply unto the wound a
digestive, made as followeth.
_A Digestive._
Take Turpentine ℥. ß. Honey ʒ. ii. Mithridate, or Triacle ʒ. ß. the
yolk of a new laid Egge.
Mix all these together and use it in the wound, and upon all lay the
digestive Cataplasme beforesaid, which is made of Figs, or a plaister
of _Kellebackeron_, or of _Diaculum magnum_, and dresse it twice a
day, and every dressing Epithemate the greif as beforesaid, when it is
digested, then mundifie, incarnate, and sigillate it, as in the Chapter
before is shewed you.
CHAP. VI.
_Sheweth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again._
Sometimes you shall see the sore will appear outwardly, and suddenly
vanish away again, which is a very dangerous and deadly sign; now
when this doth chance, then presently give some good Cordiall that
hath power to expell the venome, as in the first Chapter of this
Treatise you may find choyce of, and immediately apply this Pultus to
both the soales of his feet, which must be made with Culver-dung, and
Vinegar mixt together, and spread on a Cole leafe, and so applyed;
you must give the Cordiall every third hour, and immediately after
the first giving of the Cordiall, you must Epithemate the heart with
the _Epithemation_ before expressed, in the second Chapter of this
Treatise; and when that is done, then cause the sick to sweat, if you
may, and after his sweat, and the body well dried, then give him an
easie Glister, the next day purge him with some gentle purgation, as
before is shewed you. And if by these meanes you prevail not, then
small hope of life is to be expected; yet _Petrus Forestus_ willeth
you, first to give a Glister, and then within two houres after it, to
draw some bloud in the same side where the greif is, and to annoint
the place greived with _Unguentum resumptivum_, mixt with some Oil of
Cammomill, and then two houres after it to give a Cordiall, and procure
sweat upon it, and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid, did
recover divers.
CHAP. VII.
_Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another, and so to
discusse him without breaking._
First you must apply a cupping glasse next adjoyning to the lower part
of the sore, on that side where you would have him to be brought, and
next unto that glasse apply another, so neer the first as you can,
and if that be not so farre as you would have the sore to be brought,
then apply the third glasse, and let them all remain a quarter of an
hour, then take away the last glasse, but suffer the first to remain,
then presently apply him again, and let it remain a quarter of an hour
more, and doe so three or four times together, but alwayes suffer the
first glasse next the sore for to remain; now when you have thus done,
then take all the glasses away, and presently apply a Vesicatory to
the place where the last and uttermost glasse did stand, suffering
it to remain there twelve houres, then open the blister, and lay
an Ivy or Cole leafe to the place, and upon all lay a plaister of
_Kellebackeron_, or _Diaculum magnum_, and dresse it twice a day, the
longer you keep it running, the better it will be, and at length heal
it up as other Ulcers are cured.
Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory, you must presently
epithemate the botch with this Epithemation.
_Epithemation._
Take Mallowes, Violets, Cammomill, Dill, and Mellilot, _ana_, M. i.
Hollehock roots three ounces, Lin-seed one ounce and a half.
Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the
water be consumed, in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll
or Flax made clean and well beaten, then being wrung out a little,
apply it warm to the place, and renue it every hour, during the time
that the Vesicatory is in working, and when you have opened the blister
that is made thereby, then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it
self.
Take Mallowes, Violets and Cammomill floures, of either one handfull.
Boil them in water untill they be tender, then cut them very small with
a shreading knife, and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies, of
either two ounces: Barrowes mort two ounces, Wax one ounce.
Melt the Wax in the Oiles, and then put it to the Hearbs, and boile
them together a little, then take it from the fire, and adde thereto
Barly and Bean flower, a handfull of either of them, and so mix them
altogether, and apply it to the greif, renuing it twice a day, which
within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch; but if
it doe it not by that time, then use all the meanes you can to bring it
to suppuration, as before is sufficiently shewed you.
CHAP. VIII.
_Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain, as also the cure of the
same._
The Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal,
and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together, with a great
burning and pricking pain in the place, which Pustulaes are like a
scalding bladder, seeming to be full of water or matter, yet when you
open it, little or nothing will come out of it, and when they are
broken, will grow to a hard crust or scarre, as if it had been burnt
with a hot Iron or Caustick, with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in
the place. In some it comes in the beginning, without any Pustula at
all to be perceived, but with a hard black crust or a scarre; sometimes
it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at
all, as if it be in the lungs, then there is a difficulty of breathing,
with a Cough and foul spitting.
If it be in the Liver or Spleen, then the party feeleth a great pain
and pricking in the same side; if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth
chance, then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine, or great
pain in the making of water; if it be in the Brain, then a _delirium_
followeth, but howsoever it chance to come, the party infected
therewith hath a Fever, with other accidents, as before in the 13.
Chapter of the first Treatise is declared; if it begin with a green,
black, or blew colour, or of divers colours like the Rainbow, then is
it a deadly signe, and so is it, if once it appear and then suddenly
vanish away; but if it be red or yellowish, so it be not in any of the
principall parts, or emunctuaries of the body, as the heart, stomack,
armpit, flanke, jawes, or throat, then it is laudable, otherwise in
any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured, but
wheresoever it doth chance, unlesse it may be brought to suppuration,
it is deadly.
_The cure of the Carbunkle._