_An excellent Powder to expell the Plague_ 26
_Another good powder_ ibid
_A good Opiat to expel Venome, and to provoke sweat_ 27
_Another excellent good means for the same_ ibid
_An excellent good water against the Plague, and divers other
diseases, which is to be made in +May+ or +June+_ 28
_Directions what the Patient must doe after the taking of the
Cordiall_ ibid
_A good defensative Unguent_ 29
_Epithemation_ ibid
_Another_ ibid
_A Quilt for the Heart_ 30
_A Cordial Julip_ ibid
_Another_ ibid
_A Julip to quench thirst_ 31
_A Julep to quench thirst, and to resist Venenositie_ 32
_A good purgation in a strong body_ 33
_Another in a plethorick and full bodie_ ibid
_A good purgation for a weak bodie_ ibid
_Another gentle purgation_ 34
_A good Cordial to be taken after Purging_ ibid
_Another good Cordial to be given where great heat is_ ibid
_A good Cordial Potion_ ibid
_What Symptoms often chance, and the manner how to help them_ 35
_For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep_ ibid
_An Ointment to provoke sleep_ ibid
_For raving and raging_ ibid
_A good +Sacculus+ for raving and raging_ 36
_An +Aphtham+ to help it_ ibid
_A good Gargarism for the mouth_ ibid
_Vomiting extreamly how to help it_ ibid
_A good Bag for the Stomack_ 37
_Yex, or yexing to stay it_ ibid
_Flix how to stop it_ 38
_Epithemation for the heart_ ibid
_The generall cure of a Botch when it appeareth outwardly_ 39
_A good Maturative_ ibid
_Another_ ibid
_Another where no Inflammation is_ 40
_A Digestive_ ibid
_A Digestive Cataplasm_ ibid
_How to bring the Botch out, that lieth deep within the body or
flesh_ 41
_A good Maturative Cataplasm_ ibid
_Another_ 42
_Another which is sooner made_ ibid
_A Vesicatorie_ ibid
_When the Botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth alwayes
hard_ 42
_An Epithemation_ ibid
_A Digestive_ ibid
_What is to be done when the Botch strikes in again_ 44
_How to draw a Botch from one place to another, and so to discuss
him without breaking_ ibid
_Epithemation_ 45
_How to know a Carbuncle or blain, as also the cure of the same_ 46
_The cure of the Carbuncle_ 47
_A Maturative Cataplasm_ ibid
_Mundificative Anodines_ ibid
_Another Mundificative_ ibid
_When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and Inflammation_ 48
_A Bag good against it_ ibid
_A Cataplasm_ 49
The Table of the Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox.
_What the small Pox and Measels are, and whereof they
proceed_ 50
_What the Measels or Males are_ 51
_The cause of the Pox and Measels_ ibid
_To know the signs when one is infected, as also the good and ill
signs in the disease_ 52
_How to know of what humours this disease cometh_ 53
_How to cure the Measels or small Pox_ 54
_A Clyster_ 55
_How to preserve the eyes_ ibid
_What is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming
forth_ 57
_Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels_ ibid
_Epithemation for the heart_ 58
_How to quench the thirst_ ibid
_What is to be done when all the Pox are come out_ ibid
_When the Pox, after they be come out, doe not grow to maturation,
how you shall help it_ 60
_How to help ulceration_ ibid
_A very good Unguent for the same purpose_ 61
_For extream heat and burnings in the soles of the feet, and palms
of the hands_ ibid
_For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth_ ibid
_For inflammation, and pain in the tonsils and throat_ 62
_Another_ ibid
_How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the
Pox_ ibid
_A good Collary for a Web, or +Ungula+ in the eye_ ibid
_How to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured
and gone_ 63
_For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone_ ibid
_For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone_ ibid
_A good Ointment for the same purpose_ 64
_For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone_ ibid
_Running of the Eares how to help it_ ibid
_For stopping of the Nostrils to help it_ 65
_For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone_ ibid
_For filthy and moist Scabs after the Pox are gone_ ibid
The Table of the additionall Observations.
_A Preservative against the infection of the Air and Plague, often
approved by Pope +Adrian+, and many other of great rank and
quality_ 97
_A Cordiall water against the Infection_ ibid
_Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets, as
Preservatives against the Plague_ 98
_Causes of the Plague_ 100
_Signs of the Plague_ 101
_How the infection of the Plague entreth into a man_ ibid
_The cure of the Plague_ 102
_Another_ 103
_Another_ ibid
_Another_ ibid
_Another for Botches, Boyles, and Tokens_ 104
_Experiments for the cure of the Plague_ 105
_Another approved Remedy_ ibid
_A sweating Powder_ ibid
The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions.
_The Calenture_ 106
_To know the Calenture_ ibid
_To cure the Calenture_ ibid
_The Taberdilla_ 107
_To know the Taberdilla_ ibid
_The cure of the Taberdilla_ ibid
_The Espinlas_ 108
_To know the Espinlas_ ibid
_To cure the Espinlas_ 109
Camera de Sangre ibid
_The cure of the bloudy Flux_ ibid
_The Erisipela_ 110
_To know the Erisipela_ ibid
_To cure the Erisipela_ ibid
_The +Tinoso+ or Scurvy_ 111
_To know the Scurvy_ ibid
_Preservatives against the Scurvy_ 112
_To cure the Scurvy_ ibid
_+Sennertus+ his Observations of the Scurvy_ 113
_A water to make a man see within forty dayes, though he have been
blind seven yeares before, if he be under fifty yeares of
age_ 115
_For the Web in the eye_ ibid
_For the Wind in the side, that maketh the head swim_ ibid
_Against Deafnesse_ ibid
Contra lupum veniens super oculum aut pedem 116
Pro Cancro & lupo ibid
Pro oculis ibid
_For bleared eyes_ 117
_Cornes_ ibid
Apostema ibid
_For a cold Stomack_ ibid
_For the pain of the Stomack_ ibid
_For wind, or gnawing in the belly_ ibid
_For the small Pox_ ibid
_For a stroak in the eye_ 118
_Bloudshed in the eye_ ibid
Pro oculo & aure ibid
_For a venomed Sore_ ibid
_To make a Swelling break_ ibid
_For the Squinsie_ ibid
_For biting of a mad Dog_ ibid
_To break a Botch_ ibid
_For gnawings_ ibid
_To increase Milk_ ibid
_If Milk be thick_ ibid
_A Salve for Botches, Wounds, and Sores_ ibid
Venena 119
Pro auribus ibid
Caput-purgium ibid
_For the bloudy Flix_ ibid
_For Stomack Wormes_ ibid
_For a Felon_ ibid
_For the Reins of the Back_ ibid
_For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their Back and
Reines_ 120
_For the Stitch_ ibid
_For the Stitch in the side_ ibid
_To heal Wounds_ ibid
_For swelling of Joynts_ ibid
_To knit Sinewes, or Veines, that are kickt or broke_ ibid
Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur ibid
Verrucæ, Porri, ficus 121
_For Cornes_ ibid
_For Warts_ ibid
_For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly_ ibid
_If men have any bloud within them of any hurt_ ibid
Aqua pro scabie, tumore, & pruritu ibid
An vulneratus vivat, vel non ibid
_To destroy an Imposthume, in what place soever it be_ ibid
_For Warts_ 122
Oleum Nucum ibid
Unguentum _Dialæhææ_ optimum pro podagra ibid
_For the Collick and Stone_ ibid
Aqua propter ulcera & malum mortuum ibid
Aqua pro ulceribus ibid
Capitis dolor 123
_For Bones broken in a mans Head_ ibid
Capitis dolor ibid
Corvi albi ibid
Ebrii ibid
Acetum ibid
Fistula ibid
Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere ibid
Contra exitum ani ibid
Contra fluxum 124
_Plaister of Paris_ ibid
An virgo corrupta ibid
Ut dens cadat ibid
Pro cumbusto cum muliere ibid
_A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister, or
Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly_ ibid
Unguentum genistæ ibid
_+Unguentum Augustinum+ is good for all sore Legs that be red
and hot_ ibid
_+Unguentum viride+ is good +pro erectione virgæ+, and for the
+Mormale+; no Ointment worketh stronger then this_ 125
_+Unguentum nigrum+ for Wounds, heating and burning_ ibid
Unguentum Rubrum ibid
Contra Vomitum ibid
Fluxus sanguinis narium ibid
Contra Sciaticam 126
_Freckles of the face_ ibid
_To know if a man be a Leper or no_ ibid
_For ach in the loins_ ibid
_For a scald head_ ibid
Ad ornatum faciei ibid
_If the Liver rot_ ibid
_For stopping of the Pipes_ ibid
_Two more of the same_ 127
_The Plague Water_ ibid
_A Cordial water good for the Plague, Pox, Measels, all kind
of Convulsions, Fevers, and all pain of the stomack_ ibid
_For a child that hath the Ague_ 128
_For a burning Fever_ ibid
_For the Jaundies black or yellow_ ibid
_To bring down the flowers_ 129
_To stay the flowres_ ibid
_For the Mother_ ibid
_For the stone_ ibid
_For a cold, cough, Ptissick, or any defect of the Lungs_ ibid
_For a Stitch_ 130
_For a Consumption_ ibid
_For the green sickness_ ibid
_A speciall water for all Sores_ ibid
_For the trembling of the heart_ 131
_For a Flux of the wombe_ ibid
_A Purging drink for superfluous humours, for aches in the
joynts, sinews, and for Agues_ ibid
_A precious eye water for any disease of the eyes, often
proved_ 132
_+Tutia+ is thus prepared_ ibid
_You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner_ ibid
_To bring the Camphire to pouder with the use_ 133
_If there be any thing grown upon the eye_ ibid
_For any Ague_ ibid
_To make Pills to cleanse the back_ 134
_A Bath_ ibid
_For the cough of the Lungs and defluxions_ ibid
_To cause a woman to have her flowres_ 135
_For the Cough of the Lungs_ ibid
_For Cramp or numnesse_ ibid
_For a Cough, Wind, and a cold Stomack_ 136
_For a Cough, and a Consumption_ ibid
_For a cold Dropsie_ ibid
_For the Dropsie_ 137
_For an Ague_ ibid
_To comfort and strengthen the joynts and sinnews_ ibid
_For obstructions of Liver and Spleen_ 138
_For the Palsie in the head_ ibid
_Oyle of Saint Johns-wort for ach and pain_ 139
_For the knitting together and the strengthning of bones_ ibid
_For the Courses_ ibid
_A Cordial excellent good for Melancholy, panting, and trembling of
the heart, swouning, fainting, coldnesse, and rawness of the
stomack, and also for many other griefs arising from a cold and
moist complexion, often proved with happie successe_ 140
_A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordial_ ibid
_Pills to purge flegm and winde_ 141
_For the Gout_ ibid
_My Lord +Dennis+ his Medicine for the Gout_ ibid
_Another for the Gout_ 142
_To stay the Courses when they come down too violently_ ibid
_For the whites_ ibid
_To keep the body soluble, and to purifie the bloud_ ibid
_For the green sickness, or yellow Jaundies_ 143
_An Electuary for the green Sickness_ ibid
_An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse_ ibid
_Another_ 144
_A singular purging Potion against the green Sickness, +&c.+_ ibid
_FINIS._
Transcribers’ Note
Apothecaries' abbreviations
The printer gives a list of abbreviations on page 75 at the end of the
first part.
Please note that screen readers might read: ß as eszett, rather than
semis or a half; ʒ as ezh, rather than dram; and ℈ might be completely
missed.
Changes
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so are printed +non-italicised+ are marked with + symbols.
There were illustrated drop capitals, and full width decorative images
acting as separators. These decorations are omitted in this text
version.
“ſ”s (Long “s”) have been transcribed as “s” and “ct ligatures” as “ct”.
Several “u”s and “n”s were printed upside down. These have been
silently corrected.
Archaic and non-standard spellings have been retained, for example
“relinguish”.
Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.
Sometimes abbreviations are followed by a full stop, sometimes a comma,
and sometimes neither. These have been left as printed.
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Child-bearers Cabinet
Page 3 “_From the fifth, sixth, and seventh Moneth,_” changed from
having two commas printed after “the fifth”.
Page 10 “doth too much streighten the inward parts”, “too” changed
from “two”.
Page 15 “the white of an Egg”, “Egg” changed from “Bgg”.
Page 19 “a little Mugwort grosly bruised”, “little” changed from
“litile”.
Page 23 “decoction of Mustard or Onions, is very good”, “very” changed
from “vety”.
Page 27 “passages in the former”, “the” changed from “ths”.
Cures for severall Diseases
Page 39 “of Nutmeg two or three slices”, “Nutmeg” changed from
“Nut-{new line}Neg”.
Page 41 “℞. Rose-water three pound”, “℞” changed from “R.”
Page 44 duplicate word “and” removed from “and a quarter of as much
white Coperas”.
Page 59 “but of the former drinke”, “former” changed from “fomer”.
Page 62 comma added after “keepeth back gray haires”.
The Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox
Page 5 “you may break your fast with”, “wirh” changed to “with”.
Page 14 “_Alloes Ciccatrine_, one ounce”, “Ciccatirne” changed to
“Ciccatrine”.
Page 14 “twelve dayes together”, “togerher” changed to “together”.
Page 15 Formatting of “In plethorick and full bodies ...” standarized to
not start with a drop capital letter.
Page 17 duplicate word “any” removed from “come not neer any place
infected”.
Page 26 “and attractive plaister”, “attractive” changed from
“atrractive”.
Page 29 “And unto the sore place apply chickens rumps”, “apply” changed
from “apyly”.
Page 29 “_Diamargaritum Frigidum_”, changed from “_Diamargaritum_,
_Frigidum_”.
Page 35 “Aqua font. q. s.” “q. s.” changed from “q. 5.”.
Page 35 “and annoint his temples with this ointment”, “annoint” changed
from “anniont”.
Page 37 duplicate word “and” removed from “wet him in the Rose-water
and Vinegar”.
Page 38 “Pul. Diamargag.” changed from “Pul. Diatragag.”
Page 39 “Enula campana” roots, changed from “Enulacompane” roots.
Page 49 duplicate full stop removed from the end of “Henbane, a little
handfull.”
The Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox
Page 56 “For the Lunges give the sick oftentimes”, “oftentimes” changed
from “oftenimes”.
Page 59 “to remain over long”, “to remain” changed from “toremain”.
The additionall Observations
Page 98 “(such as _Arsenick_ is)”, “as” changed from “us”.
The cure of Diseases in remote Regions
Page 117 “3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar” has been
moved to a new line, rather than continuing item 2 in the list.
Page 120 “seeth them in a little raw Milk”, “little” changed from
“litte”.
Page 125 “no ointment worketh stronger than this”, “than” changed from
“then”.
Page 125 Closing bracket added in “(_ut virtus maneat_)”.
Page 136 “Take of Lungwort, Liverwort, Hysop, Violet, and Strawberrie”,
“Strawberrie” changed from “Strawbrrie”.
Page 136 “and put into the hole”, “and” changed from “ænd”.
Page 137 “Of the flowers and seeds of Saint _Johns_ Wort”, “seeds”
changed from “seeeds”.
Page 140 “if you cannot get Motherwort water”, “Motherwort” changed from
“Morherwort”.
Page 140 “A Cordial excellent good for melancholy”, extra space removed
before the “t” in “excellent”.
A Table for Child-bearers Cabinet
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from “Soomack”.
Reference to Page 135 “For Cramp or numnesse”, the first “e” in
“numnesse” did not print.
Reference to Page 136 “For a Cough, Wind, and a cold Stomack”, “For”
changed from “Fir”.