But if they be swelled in their face or head; then take a new layd Egg
roasted hard, take out the yolk, and put into the hole so much Cummin
Seed as will fill it, and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the
nape of the neck.
_For the Dropsie._
Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine, an ounce of Cinnamon, and a
pint of green Broom ashes, put them together in an earthen pot eight
and forty houres, the Cinnamon being first bruised; stirre them all
often, and then put them up into a white Cotten bag, and let the liquor
drain out of them, put it up again twice upon the lees, and then use
four times a day of it, drink it cold, in the morning, one hour before
dinner, one hour before supper, and when you goe to bed, at each time
drink a quarter of a pint; if the greif be not fully removed, use a
second or third pottle so made up, but with most persons one pottle
sufficeth.
_For an Ague._
Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut, and three times as much crown
Sope, and mingle them together, then shred about a pugill of Rue, and
put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten, and with
a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour, or as much as shall
suffice; mingle all these together, then take as much strong Beer
as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth, and make it up into two
plaisters, and apply to each wrist one, and keep them fast on for nine
dayes together; you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit
beginneth to come upon them.
Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians, to be very good to cure an
Ague, but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come
upon them; you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be
quite cured; and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but
_Aqua vitæ_ and small Beer mingled together, but you must not make it
too strong of the _Aqua vitæ_.
_To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes._
℞. Of the flowers and seeds of Saint _Johns_ Wort three ounces, steep
them three dayes in sufficient Wine, and then seeth them in a brazen
Vessell till the Wine be consumed, then strain them, and put to the
straining as much of fresh Saint _Johns_ Wort stamped, and steep it
again three dayes, and afterward add thereunto, of Turpentine three
ounces, of old Oyle eight ounces, of Saffron one scruple, of Mastick
ʒ. ß. of Myrrh, of Frankincense, _ana._ ʒ. ii. ß, afterward put in
the straining the space of a moneth, of the flowers and seed of Saint
_Johns_ Wort one handfull and half, of Madder brayed, of fine grain
wherewith Scarlet is died, _ana._ three drachms, of the Juyce of Yarrow
two ounces, seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce, with earth
Wormes washed with Wine two ounces, and a little Wine odoriferous.
_For obstructions of Liver and Spleen._
℞. Flowers of Burrage, Buglosse, Marigolds, Violets, Endive, of
each a handfull, Dates stoned three ounces, of the best blew Currans
two ounces, sweet Fennell-seed half an ounce, Graines and Coriander, of
each one drachm, whole brown Watercresses nine leaves, Hysop stripped
downwards nine little branches, of french Barly three ounces; boyl
all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be
consumed, then strain it, and when it is strained adde of the conserve
of Barberries three ounces, Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces, of each
three ounces, this is to be taken morning and evening, nine spoonfuls
at a time.
The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries, dry all the year.
_For the Palsie in the head._
For the Palsie in the head, take of the oyles, of Amber, Fox, and
Beaver, and mingle them together, and annoint the nape of the neck with
them evening and morning, chafe it in with a warm hand, and chafingdish
of hot coales.
And take of the oyle of Amber alone, and with your finger put some of
it every morning into your nose, and take two or three drops of it, and
rub it into your head upon the mould thereof.
And take two or three drops of the same Oyle, and put it into your Beer
or Ale for your mornings draught, especially at the change or full of
the Moon, for four or five dayes together.
Be sure to keep warm, and avoid going abroad in rain, misty, or moist
weather.
_Oyle of Saint +Johns+ Wort for ache and pain._
Take a quart of Sallet oyle, put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint
_Johns_ Wort well picked, let them lie therein all the summer, untill
the seeds of that hearb be ripe, the glasse must be kept warm, either
in the Sun or in water, all the summer untill the seeds be ripe, then
put in a quart of Saint _Johns_ Wort seeds whole, and so let it stand
twelve houres, the glasse being kept open, then you must seeth the oyle
eight houres, the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the
glasse, when it is cold strain it, that the seed remain not in it, and
so keep it for your use.
_For the knitting together and strenthening of bones._
Give inwardly Knotgrasse, Plantain, or Ribwort water, with Sirrup of
the greater Comfrey, to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of
the sirrup, so often as they use it: There are also vulnerary Potions
prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories.
_For the Courses._
When you give _Oculos cancrorum_ (truly called _Lapides cancrorum_) to
provoke a womans Courses, you must give her almost a spoonfull of it,
mixed with some water of Motherwort, called _Artemisia_, causing her to
drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it; the best
time to exhibite it, is to give it hot in the morning by four of the
clock, and let her sleep after it, you must give it about those times
she ordinarily expecteth her Courses; if you cannot get Motherwort
water, you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water.
You may dissolve your powder of _Lapidum cancrorum_, either with juyce
of Lemons, or with distilled Vinegar, and spirit of Vitrioll; If you
put a greater proportion of Vitrioll, then of the other, it will sooner
dissolve, you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits, and after
some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder.
_A Cordial excellent good for melancholy, panting and trembling of the
heart, swounding, fainting, coldnesse, and rawnesse of the stomack, and
also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion,
often proved with happy successe._
Take of Saffron half an ounce, of Angelica roots finely sliced one
ounce, of Cloves six drachms, Balm two handfuls, Rosemary tops four
handfuls, shread the hearbs and roots, and beat the spices grosly,
then put them, with half a pound of Sugar, into three pints of small
Cinnamon water, or of small _Aqua vitæ_, and let them stand infused
three or four dayes together, after boyle them, and let the _Aqua vitæ_
burn, stirring them well together, till near a pint thereof be consumed
away, then strain it, and when it is settled poure off the clear from
the bottome; keep the clear for your own use, and reserve the bottome,
which you may give away unto poor people, for it will be good and
comfortable, though not so strong: The way to use it, is to take every
morning fasting a spoonfull, and after every meal, at each severall
time, a spoonfull.
_A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall._
Take of the best of Doctor _Mountfords_ water, }
Of very good Angelica water }
Of Clove water, } _ana._ ℥. iiii.
Of Rosemary water, }
Of Balm water, }
Of spirit of Saffron ℥. ii.
Mingle all these together, and with as much sirrup of pure
Sugar as shall suffice mingled, make it up, and put into either
of these two Medicines, of Musk and Ambergrease, of each a
grain. Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes
before rehearsed.
_Pills to purge flegm and Wind._
Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms, of Rubarb, Jallop, and
Agarick, of each six drachms, of Mastick four drachms, of red Rose
leaves three drachms, let all these be beaten severally into very fine
powder, and searced, then mix them well, and beat them up into a paste,
with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice, at the end add
unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds: when you have occasion to
uses these Pills, take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up
into three Pills.
_For the Gout._
Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls, a pennyworth of red Nettle
seeds finely bruised, mingle them well together, and apply it to the
Gout: Let the party drink every third day for a sevennight in the
morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk, of a red or black Cow.
_For the Gout, My Lord +Denni’s+ Medicine._
Take Burdocks leaves and stalks, cut them small, and stamp them very
small, then strain them, and cleanse them, and when you have so done
put them into glasses, and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them, and
stop it close from the air, and when you would use it for the Gout,
poure it into a porrenger and warm it, and wet linnen clothes in it,
and apply it warm to the greived place, warming your clothes one after
another, as they grow cold that are on.
_Another, very good for the Gout._
Take the Yest of Ale, and spread it upon brown paper, and apply it upon
the greived place pretty warm, the space of twelve houres: some first
warm the pickle of Olives, and then bath the greived place therewith,
putting their feet into it, and after use the former Medicine.
My Lord _Denni_’s Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the
change of the Moon, then after it must be taken six dayes together,
then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day.
_To stay the Courses when they come down too violently._
Take half a drachm or a drachm of _Diascordium_, dissolve it in a
drachm of posset Ale, wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull
of Shepherds purse, and as much knotgrasse, and of the greater Comfrey,
and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening.
_For the Whites._
Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell, Plantain, Sheaphards
purse, and of the greater Comfrey, of each half a handfull, of the
hearbs Horse-taile, and Cats-taile, of each half a handfull, boyle all
these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away, then strain it,
and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy finely beaten, and drink of
it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together.
_To keep the body soluble, and to purifie the bloud._
Take Maydenhair, wild Germander, wood-Sorrell, and Balm, of each a
pugill, of wild Mercury half a handfull, of damask Roses two handfuls,
of clarified Whey six pints, let it stand scalding hot for an houre
stirring it sometimes, after an hour is past strain it, and drink it
twice or thrice a day a good draught of it; and if you wash your hands
in Beef broth after your taking it, it will take away all roughnesse
and haires of the hands, it may be taken safe of a woman with child
_For the green Sicknesse, or yellow Jaundies._
For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like
purgation. ℞. of _Hiera picra_ four scruples, of Rubarb, and Trochisces
of Agarick, of each half a drachm, of rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of
each half a scruple, of Cinnamon six graines, of Saffron four graines,
of _Diacatholicon_ half an ounce; infuse these things in the Whey of
Cows Milk, or in the distilled water of _Alkakengie_ or in Dodder
water, or Endive water, you may adde _Oxymell_ thereto.
_An Electuary for the green Sicknesse._
Take of _Diatrion santalon_, and _Diarrhedon abbatis_, of each one
drachm, of _Diacurcuma_, and confection of _Alkermes_, of each half an
ounce, of _Diamargariton frigidum_, and _Calidum_, of each two drachms,
of rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of each one drachm, of all these make
an Electuary, and give it evening and morning by it self, or with
Dodder or Endive water, the dose is one drachm, _pro tempore uno_.
_An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse._
℞. four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder, of rasped Ivory, and
Hartshorn, of each two scruples; make these into a fine powder, and
give a spoonfull thereof with white Wine, or the like, at once.
_Another Medicine._
℞. Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder, boyle it in two quarts of
white Wine, with a peice of Sugar, to the consumption of half of it,
strain it, and let the Maiden drink thereof morning and evening a good
draught warm, and walk, or use some exercise to heat the body, but take
no cold; use this for eleven or twelve dayes together.
_A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse, and all
opilations of the Liver, and causeth young Maids to look fresh, and
fair, and cherry-cheek’d, and will bring down their Courses, the
stopping whereof causeth this greif, and it is good against all manner
of itch, scabs, breaking out, and manginesse of the body, purifying
the blood from all corruption._
℞. Of the roots of Monkes Rubarb, that is red Dock, and of red Madder,
_ana._ half a pound, of Sena four ounces, of Anniseseed, and Licorice,
of each two ounces, of Scabious, and Agrimony, of each one handfull;
slice the roots of Rubarb, and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice,
break the hearbs small, and put them all into a pot with four gallons
of strong Ale, and infuse them all the space of three dayes, then drink
of this drink, for your ordinary drink, for three weeks at the least,
the longer the better, and make new as need requireth; it cureth the
Dropsie, and yellow Jaundies also, if you put in of Cammomill one
handfull.
_For the green Sicknesse, or Jaundies._
℞. Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce, boyle it in a pint of
Ale gently a quarter of an hour, and drink a good draught thereof,
and sweat, and in your sweat drink it all, or as much as you can,
the next day make new and drink again, but without sweating, and use
some exercise to keep the body warm; use this last order twelve dayes
together, use good Cordials and Restoratives, with sirrup and conserve
of Fumitory.
_For the green Sicknesse, and Jaundies._
Boyle of Rue, and Sage, of each a bundle, in a quart or three pints of
Ale, with one scruple of Saffron.
To cure this disease, the Electuary of Steel is excellent, if the body
be first purged, for it doth open all obstructions: but the Patient
must use some exercise after the taking it, to stirre up naturall heat
the better; the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it.
_The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared._
℞. Of the filings of the best Iron, or Steel, as much as you please,
grinde it subtilly and finely, upon a Porphiry, or red Marble stone,
with Vinegar, then dry it at the Sun, or at the fire, and grinde it
again with Vinegar as at the first, and doe thus seven times one after
another, and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you.
_The Electuary of Steel is made up thus._
℞. Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce, Cinnamon, Nutmegs
condited, of each three drachms, of chosen Rubarb two drachms, of the
species of _Aromaticum rosatum_ half a drachm, of chosen Honey, and of
fine white Sugar, of each one pound and one ounce; mingle these all
together over a soft fire, and make it up into an Electuary. After the
taking of this Electuary, let the Patient in all cases use some bodily
exercises, being first universally purged, for this Electuary is most
excellent against all obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, or other
disease, and for the green Sicknesse.
_For the green Sicknesse, or green Jaundies._
The green Sicknesse, or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with
corrupt or putrified flegm, and corruption of bloud, debility of
nature, and faintnesse of heart; it happeneth also when the Liver is
weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud, but the
digestion is raw and crude, so that the whole body is filled with water
and flegm instead of good bloud; it is cheifly found in young Maidens,
who desire to abate their fresh colours, and, as they conceive, to
be fine, and fair, and foolishly feed upon trash (which altereth the
colour and state of their bodies) as of unripe Apples, Peares, Plums,
Cherries, and raw Fruits, and Hearbs, or Meale, Wheat, Barly, raw
Milk, Chalk, Lime, and the like, and they that have this disease are
very pale and greenish; if they chance to cut their finger, no bloud,
but water, will follow; they feele great pain in their head, with
continuall beating, are faint, short-breathed, and their naturall
Flowers are stopped and stayed, to the prevention and cure whereof, the
body must first be well and orderly purged, as by the Medicines before
prescribed.
_FINIS._
The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet.
_What things are to be taken heed of in the two first
Moneths_ page 1
_Orders for the third moneth_ 2
_From the fourth moneth_ 3
_From the fifth, sixth, and seventh moneth_ ibid
_In the eighth moneth_ 4
_In the ninth moneth_ 5
_A Liniment_ 6
_The Fomentation_ ibid
_The Bath_ 7
_Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery_ ibid
_What meat is most usefull_ 8
_What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in_ ibid
_What is to be done at the Birth_ ibid
_How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be
furnished_ 9
_To whom the seat may agree and be fit_ ibid
_What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth_ ibid
_What to be done when the Infant is come into the world_ 10
_If the Secondines break not readily_ 11
_What is to be done after the child is born, if yet the Secondine,
or after-Birth be retained_ ibid
_Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth_ 12
_Another Receipt_ ibid.
_To draw forth a dead child_ ibid
_How the bellies of Child-bearing women, being costive or bound, may
be loosned_ 13
_What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts_ ibid
_The Fomentation_ ibid
_Another_ 14
_An Ointment_ ibid.
_A Girdle for the Belly_ ibid.
_The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to
bed_ 15
_On the eighth day_ ibid.
_On the ninth day_ ibid.
_A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk_ ibid.
_When, and what Bath they must use_ 16
_Another_ 17
_Against the gripings of the belly in Children_ ibid.
_Outward Remedies for the same_ ibid.
_Inward helps in their meats_ ibid.
_A Drink_ ibid.
_The government of the Nurse_ 18
_The Care of the Infant_ 19
_A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children, as by whose
meanes they may grow up and increase_ 20
_The diseases of Infants_ 21
_The diseases and symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with
child_ ibid.
_Against the Rupture of the Cods, and +perinæum+, and the part
between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament, which
proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth_ 22
_For windinesse, or Collick of the Belly_ 23
_For the Itch_ ibid.
_For the Flux of the bloud_ 24
_For falling down of the Matrix from the birth_ ibid.
_For the Piles after the birth_ 25
_Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk_ ibid.
_For the Imposthume of the Breasts_ ibid.
_What is to be administred to the Child after it is born, for the
first thing it taketh_ 27
_For Infants troubled with wind and flegm_ 28
_A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily_ ibid.
_For Agues in Children_ ibid.
_For Wormes in Children_ ibid.
_For Heart-Wormes_ 29
_The Cure_ ibid.
_To cause a young Child to goe to stool_ ibid.
_Another certain Experiment._ ibid.
The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases.
_For Ach in the bones_ 33
_For all Aches, and lame Members_ ibid.
_An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes, shrunken
Sinewes, straines in man or beast, it is incomparable, and will
keep forty yeares, but it must be made onely in +May+_ 34
_To counterfeit beyond-Sea +Azure+_ ibid.
_To know good +Azure+ and pure_ 35
_For an Ague_ ibid.
_For a Tertian, or a double Tertian Ague_ ibid.
_For a short Breath_ ibid.
_An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath._ 36
_For a Bruise or Squat_ ibid.
_A Restorative for the back_ 37
_For Aches in the Back_ ibid.
_For bleeding at the Nose_ ibid.
_For burning or Scalding_ ibid.
_For a Cough of the Lungs_ 38
_For purging of Colds, Coughs, and Comforting the Lungs_ ibid.
_A Julep for a Cough_ 39
_Another_ ibid.
_For a Canker in the Mouth_ ibid.
_For a Consumption, and Cough of the Lungs_ 40
_For Collick, and paines in the Back_ ibid.
_For the Cramp_ 41
_For a Canker_ ibid.
_Another_ ibid.
_For a Canker in the Lips_ ibid.
_A water for a Consumption_ ibid.
_For the Cough_ 42
_For a Cough or shortness of Breath_ ibid
_For a Consumption_ ibid
_For the Dropsie_ 43
_Another_ ibid
_For pains in the Eyes_ ibid
_For sore Eyes by salt Rheum_ ibid
_To cleer the Eye-sight_ 44
_For the Flux_ ibid
_Another_ 45
_For the bloudie Flux_ ibid
_Another for the same_ ibid
_Another for the same_ 46
_Another for the same_ ibid
_An Ointment for the Flux_ 47
_For all Fluxes of bloud, and other Fluxes, pains in the back, or
Liver, and for inward effects_ ibid
_A Powder for the Flux_ 48
_A Clyster_ ibid
_For Morphew, or Scurf of the face or Skin_ ibid
_To blanch the Face_ ibid
_To make the Skin smooth_ 49
_For the Morphew and Freckles_ ibid
_For the Gout, or Ache in the joynts_ ibid
_For the Gout or Bone-ach_ ibid
_For the Gout, or Joynt-ach_ 50
_For the Gout_ ibid
_For the Gout or Bone-ach_ ibid
_Hermes Tree_ ibid
_A Plaister to help any Stitch, or Imposthume wheresoever_ 51
_For an Imposthume of the Stomack_ ibid
_A good Oyle to bring in Joynts that have been out for the space of
seven years, to give strength to veins and sinnews, and to keep
them brought in, in their places_ ibid
_For the black Jaundies_ 52
_Another for the same_ ibid
_To make Hartshorn Jelly_ 53
_For the yellow Jaundies_ ibid
_Another for the same_ ibid.
_For a lame Leg_ 54
_For the same_ ibid.
_For chopt Lips_ 55
_A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs, and Consumption_ ibid.
_To make a Laxative Whey_ ibid.
_A good Laxative for a Child_ ibid.
_To cause Loosenesse._ 56
_For a costive by burnt Choller._ ibid.
_For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs_ ibid.
_A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs_ 57
_A cooling Almond Milk_ ibid.
_A Water to restore Nature_ ibid.
_To restore Nature consumed_ 58
_For the French Pox_ ibid
_Another_ 59
_Another_ ibid
_A Posset good in all cold Agues, or Pestilentiall Diseases._ ibid
_The Plague Water_ 60
_An Antidote against the Pestilence, by +Dr.+ B._ ibid
_For the shaking Palsie_ 61
_Another_ ibid
_To restore lost Speech_ ibid
_To restore speech to an Apoplectick_ ibid
_A Restorative Electuary_ ibid
_A Restorative good in all diseases_ 62
_For the Rickets_ ibid.
_Doctor +Vanhecks+ Rosa Vitæ_ 63
_A Sear-cloth for divers causes._ 64
_For the Stone_ 65
_For the Stone, Strangury, and Collick_ ibid.
_For the Stone in the Bladder_ ibid.
_To break and drive out the Stone_ ibid.
_To cause Urine, and break the Stone_ ibid,
_For the Stone_ 66
_For the Stone in the Reines and Bladder_ ibid.
_A Posset for the Stone_ 67
_For the Spleen_ ibid.
_Another_ ibid.
_For Swelling of Armes, Legs, and Feet_ ibid.
_For Sinewes, and Nerves, cut asunder_ 68
_For Bruises, or streined Sinewes_ ibid.
_For shrinking of Sinewes_ ibid.
_For Sinewes shrunk, and to supple impotent Limbs_ 69
_To cure an old Sore._ ibid.
_For the Scurvy_ ibid.
_To cool the Skin, and heal a Sore_ 70
_To help paines in the Stomack_ ibid.
_An Ointment for the Stomack_ ibid.
_For the pricking of a Thorn_ 71
_To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh_ ibid
_For the Tooth-ach_ ibid
_To keep Teeth White, and kill the Worms_ ibid
_To take away a Wen_ ibid
A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox.
_What the Plague is_ 1
_Cause of the Plague_ ibid
_Warnings of the Plague to come_ 3
_How to prevent the Plague_ 4
_A good perfume in Summer season_ 5
_A good perfume in Winter Season_ ibid
_An excellent good preservative against the Plague_ 6
_Another preservative_ ibid
_Another very good_ 7
_An Excellent Quilt or Bag_ 8
_Another Bag_ ibid
_A Pomander good in the Summer time_ 9
_Another for the Winter season_ ibid
_A good Nodule for the Summer season_ ibid
_Another Nodule for the Winter season_ ibid
_A Nosegay for the same purpose_ 10
_A Suppository_ ibid
_A good Clyster_ 11
_How to make Raisins laxative_ ibid
_A good Ointment to keep one soluble_ ibid
_Good Pills to keep one soluble, and they doe also resist the
Pestilence_ 12
_Pills good to purge_ 13
_A good purging Potion_ ibid
_A Purging powder for such as cannot take Pills_ 14
_Flours stopt, how to provoke them_ ibid
_Issues commended against the Plague_ ibid
_What diet we ought to keep_ 15
_What for your Pottage you may take in the Summer_ 16
_What exercise and Order is to be kept_ 17
_What Orders Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Towns shall
cause to bee observed_ 18
_What you must doe when you go to visit the sick_ 19
_The signs of the Infection_ 21
_Good signs_ ibid
_Evill signs_ ibid