[Page] APPROO­VED MEDI­cines and Cordiall Receiptes, with the natures, qualities, and opera­tions of sundry Simples.

Uery Commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge.

IMPRINTED AT London in Fleete­streete by Thomas Marshe. 1580.

TO THE VVOR­shipful, the Maister, war­dens, and generall Assistantes of the Fraternitye of Chyrurgians in London.

SENECA that noble Christian E­thnick (for so doth ERASMVS for his singularitye of profound wysedome & iudgemēt terme [...]im) willeth vs in bestowing of any gift [...]o bee carefull, that it bee both such, as [...]s fit for the estate of the Gyuer, and al­so meete for the Cōdition of the Recei­ [...]er. Els, in steede of expected thankes, [...]isgrace may growe: and what the Gy­er meaneth of goodwill, may (perhaps) [...] the Receiuer (eyther lymping in iudg [...]ent, or freezing in delight) bee litle [...]garded, & lesse coūtenanced. For my [...]rt I haue (as I thīk) not much swerued [...]erein, frō the soūd aduise of the afore­named [Page] Philosopher, in makīg you Patrōs of this litle worke, and that for two spe­ciall respects: the one, for that, it trea­teth of such matter, as is peculierly ap­pendant to your worthy faculty, where­by you are in profession best able there­of to iudge: thother, because it was pen­ned and gathered by one, whose name is to mee vnknowen, who neuerthelesse seemeth heereby to bee a hearty embra­cer and well. VViller of your excellent Arte and function: and therefore in that respect, are you the meetest, and in my opinion the fittest to defend his la­bours, & to become Guardiās to this his poore mangled and forsaken Orphane. The faults which (in deed) through negligence or ignorance of them that had the charge and ouersight of the Prynt­ing thereof, are vnhappily chaunced, I am to request you being shilfull, eyther gently to amend, or friendly a whyle to tolerate, till eyther letter oportunitie serue to refourme them, or that the au­ther and compiler (if hee be liuing) may [Page] hymself peruse and recognyze the same. The holy Ghost blesse you and your La­bours in that your so noble an office & profession, hauinge so excellent a Sub­ject to worke vpon, as Man is, the per­fectest and excellētest of all Creatures, and for whom al others were made and created.

From Butley in Chesshyre, the 19. of October. 1580.
Your vnfaygned well willer Thomas Newton.

To the friendly Reader.

HEere haste thou Gentle Reader a briefe and com­pendious collec­tiō of many good & approued me­dicines with the operation, & vertue of many sim­ples. It was not meant at the first to haue the same published, whych is the cause that the Booke now is not wholly with­out his blemishes, and some imperfecti­ons. But thy curteous and friendly accep­ [...]aunce at this tyme may cause the same to bee heereafter better skowred ouer & polished for thy fur­ther commodity.

Farevvell.

THE TABLE OF this Booke.

A
  • ACacia. Fol. 65
  • Adde [...] 89
  • Agaricke. 20
  • Agnus casius. 41
  • Agalochus. 27
  • Alica. 20
  • Alkak [...]ngi 66
  • Almond 10
  • Alisaunders 38
  • Aloë 27
  • Allumme 80
  • Amber 1
  • Ambergryce 27
  • Ambrose 38
  • Amy 39
  • Anacardium 48
  • Anagallis 22
  • Anemone 19
  • Angelica 50
  • Anyse 34
  • Antimonie 75
  • Arabian thorne 61
  • Aristolochia 25
  • Artichoke 36
  • Ashes 51. 81.
  • Aspalathus 15
  • Asphaltum 25
  • Assa foetida. 33
B
  • BAy tree. Folio. 45
  • Basill 23
  • Baulme 12
  • Balaustium, see Pom­granade flovvers.
  • B [...]ley 61
  • Beane 2
  • Bearbreeche. 30
  • Bearefoote 45
  • Beare barley 59
  • B [...]ellium 39
  • Beech 54
  • Bellragges 43
  • Ben [...]emin 33
  • Beete 71
  • Betony 43
  • Berberis 65
  • Be [...]erscodde 89
  • Bitumen, [...]ee Asphaltū.
  • Bitter fitche 15
  • Bole Armoniacke 81
  • Borage 52
  • Bloudstone 83
  • Blyte 71
  • Branne 13
  • Bread 14
  • Bryar 58. 59
  • Bryne 30
  • Brionie 46
  • Britannica 64
  • Brymstone 79
  • Brasle 76
  • Brasen stone 84
  • Broath of a cocke 88
  • Buglosse 21
  • Bulb [...]s or Scalions. 48
  • Bu [...]bast 19
  • Bushsage 58
  • Bushsage mushrū. Ibid.
C
  • CAlamus aromaticꝰ. 28
  • Camomill 1 [...]
  • [Page] Capers 38
  • Cantharides 89
  • Calamint 42
  • Camphyre 68
  • Caravvayes 37
  • Caret 24
  • Cassia fistula 1
  • Cassia Lignea 39
  • Castorium, looke, Bea­uers codde.
  • Cataputia. 50
  • Celandine 40
  • Centorie 42
  • Cedre tree 51
  • Cerusse 75
  • Cetrake 26
  • Cicorie 70
  • Cichpease 20
  • Cinamon 35
  • Cinoper 79
  • Citrull 72
  • Cheric 71
  • Chestnut 54
  • Christes thorne 65
  • Cleauers 20
  • Clone 43
  • Codde tree 62
  • Colevvort 14
  • Colophonia 23
  • Coloquintida 37
  • Coltes foote 32
  • Comfrey 2
  • Corall 55
  • Coriander 15
  • Correcheruile 47
  • Costmarie 43
  • Cotton, see, Bumbast.
  • Coppevvebbe 89
  • Copper 76
  • Copperesse 77. 81
  • Cresses 49
  • Crovvfoote 52
  • Cubebes 37
  • Cuckovv pint. 16
  • Cucumber 72
  • Comyne 37
  • Curryers berries 65
  • Cuttle bone 95
  • Cyperus, see, Englishe Galingale.
  • Cypresse tree 16
D
  • DAffadill 31
  • Damsons 69
  • Darnell 40
  • Dates 19
  • Date tree 59
  • Dill 44
  • Ditan [...]e 42
  • Docke 57
  • Doder 15
  • Doggestones 52
  • Doggeberye, or Eglan­tine 60
  • Doronicum 46
  • Donge 87
  • Doues bloud 85
  • Dregges of oyle 22
  • Dragons 15
  • Dvvale 65. 66
E
  • EArth 81
  • Earthvvormes 89
  • Echion 14
  • [Page] Egge 87
  • Eglantine, see, Dogge­berry
  • Egle stone 84
  • Egrimonie 20
  • Elder 36
  • El'campane 49
  • [...] 55
  • Emeraulde 85
  • Endine 70
  • Englishe Galengale 26
  • Epythyme 34
  • Euphorbe 47
F
  • FEnell 44
  • Fenigreeke 25
  • Ferne 17
  • Fetherfevv 33
  • Figvvort 40
  • Figge tree 28
  • Filbert 24
  • Flovver deluce 33
  • Foales foote 34
  • Foxe lunges 89
  • Fumetory 19
G
  • GAlangale 45
  • Galbanus 43
  • Gall 78
  • Gardein Smallage 37
  • Garlicke 48
  • Gentian 34
  • Germander 2 [...]
  • Gladen 35
  • Glevve 62
  • Goates bloud 86
  • Gold 80
  • Gold Soder 79
  • Gourd 73
  • Grape 7
  • Graynes 19. 42
  • Greenevvort 54
  • Groundsell 64
  • Ground pyne 26
  • Grummell 19
  • Guiacum 22
  • Gumme Ammoniacke. 35
  • Gumme Dragagant. 62
  • Gumme Arabick ibid.
  • Gynger 46
  • Gytt 44
H
  • HArtes horne 88
  • Hartes Pizill ibid.
  • Hartes tounge 67
  • Havvthorne 55
  • Hebenu [...], See, Guiacum.
  • Hempe 28
  • Hemlocke 68
  • Henbane 67
  • Hippe 60
  • Hollyhocke 12
  • Hoppe 64
  • Horehound 27
  • Horsetayle 62
  • Houseleeke 74
  • Hunny 27
  • Hysope 35
I
  • [Page]IAsperstone 83
  • Ieatte 84
  • Ievvish stone 84
  • Iesymyne 25
  • Incense 26
  • Iuye 15
  • Iuorle 88
  • Iuniper 37
  • In [...]uba 71
K
  • KItkeyes 53
  • Knottegrasse 74
L
  • LAbdanum 15
  • Larke 90
  • Laserpitium, see, Benie­myne-
  • Laurell 46
  • Lazule stone 84
  • Lead 78
  • Leauen 13
  • Leeke 50
  • Lettice. 37
  • Lignum Aloes, see Aga­lochus.
  • Lyneseede 12
  • Lyntespurge 51
  • Lillye 30
  • Liquirice 71
  • Liuervvort 58
  • Lote tree 59
  • Lou [...]ge 38
  • Loadestone 83
  • Lupine 19
  • Lycium 2
  • Lye 80
  • Lyme ibidem
  • Lysimachia 64
  • Lytharge 71
M
  • MAce 1
  • Mader 17
  • Maioram gentle 39
  • Maioram 17
  • Maydenhaire ibidē.
  • Malobathron 16
  • Mallovv 71
  • Mandrake 67
  • Manna 16
  • Marchasite, Iooke. Bra­sen stone.
  • Marovv 87
  • Medicines 91. 92. 93 94. 95.
  • Medlers 56
  • Mehlote 12
  • Mercurie 19
  • Melon 72
  • Mill 55
  • Mynte 39. 47
  • Mysseltoe 25
  • Myrobalane 36. 56
  • Molen 47
  • Mosse 54
  • Mulbery 61
  • Mummie 32
  • Muske 29
  • Muskle shell 89
  • Mushroome [...]
  • [Page] Mustard 52
  • Mylke 86
  • Myrrhe 32
  • Myrtle tree 53
N
  • NArde [...]7
  • Nauevve 31
  • Neperyall 42
  • Neesevvort 45
  • Nettle 21
  • Nightshade 65
  • Nu [...]e of India 53
  • Nutte migge 24
O
  • OAde 16
  • Oates 60
  • Oke 54
  • Olyueberie 3
  • Onyon 48
  • Organie 41
  • Orpiment 76
  • Olmund 17
  • Oyles 4
  • Oyster shell 90
P
  • PAlma Christi, looke, Tykeseede.
  • Panax 41
  • Panicke 55
  • Paper herbe 55
  • Parietarie 63
  • Parselye 38
  • Paste 62
  • Patience 57
  • Peache 73
  • Peare tree 58
  • Pease 59
  • Pellitorie of Spaine 50
  • Penyroyall 41
  • Penyvvoit [...]3
  • Peonie 18
  • Pepper 5 [...]
  • Perilvvort 2
  • Pervincle 40
  • Phu, See, Valerian.
  • Pipe edge tree, See, Ber­beries
  • Pisticke nutte 17
  • Pitche 31
  • Plane tree 70
  • Playster of Paris 76
  • Plantayne 65
  • Poli [...]ll 24
  • Polipodie 34
  • Polygonaton 20
  • Pome cytron 3
  • Pomegranade 60
  • Pomegranade flovvers, 61. 65.
  • Pomegranade rinde, ibi.
  • Pompone, looke, Melō.
  • Populer tree [...]3
  • Poppy 68, 69
  • Pouder of a post 16
  • Priuet 57
  • Prunes 69
  • Pumyso 84
  • [Page] Purselane 74
  • Pyne tree 18
Q
  • QVicksiluer 77
  • Quince 61
  • Quitche 59
R
  • RAdish 40
  • Raison 8
  • Rampion 31
  • Rhaponticke 42
  • Rheubarbe 28
  • Revve 39
  • Reede 60
  • Rocket 32
  • Rose 57
  • Rose of Hierusalem, 36
  • Rosemary 44
  • Runner 87
  • Ryce 11
S
  • SAffron 25
  • Sage 22
  • Salt 82
  • Salt peeter ibidē.
  • Sarcocoll 12
  • Saint Iohas vvort 35
  • Saty [...]on 52
  • Sauerie 42
  • Sauyn 34
  • Saphyre 85
  • Scammonie 40
  • Saunders 68
  • Sebesten 2
  • Seahollie ibidem
  • Seavvillovve ibidem
  • Sene [...]7
  • Seruis 57
  • Sesamum 10
  • Setvvall 25
  • Sicomore 30
  • Silke 13
  • Singreene, looke, house leeke.
  • Soldanella 14
  • Sope 51
  • Sovvbread 34
  • Sovvfenell 37
  • Sorell 57
  • Sheepes greasie vvoolle 88
  • Sheepeskinne ibidem
  • Sovvthistell 64
  • Sothernevvood 43
  • Snakes skinne 89
  • Snayle 90
  • Sperage 2
  • Spikenard 17
  • Spinache 70
  • Spelt 59
  • Sponge 12
  • Spurge 49
  • Spodium 78
  • Squilla 31
  • Squinant 12
  • Starch 13
  • Stauefagre 36
  • Stechados 10
  • [Page] Storax 16
  • Storkes bill 21
  • Sugar 11
T
  • TAllovv 86
  • Tamarix 13
  • Tamarindes 68
  • Tatre 32
  • Tartar 83
  • Tasill 56
  • Terra sigi [...]lata 81
  • Thlaspi, or Tryacle mu­stard 49
  • Thapsia ibidem
  • Tu [...]bith 44
  • Turmentill 11
  • Turneppe 30
  • Turpentine 23
  • Tykeseede 31
  • Tyme 37
  • Tutye 77
V
  • VErdegresse 76
  • Verinyce 66
  • Vernyce 17
  • Veruayne 47
  • Vine 63
  • Vineygre 61
  • Violet 70
  • Virgin vvaxe 22
  • Vomit Nutte 24
W
  • VVAllnut 24
  • Wallgelofers 31
  • Wallsage 68
  • Wallvvort 36
  • Water lillie 67
  • Water germander 44
  • Waxe 1
  • Wertvvort 64
  • Wheate [...]3
  • White Lead, see Cerusse
  • Wyne 8
  • Wyne lees 83
  • Wilde Saffron 27
  • Wilde oates 11
  • Wilde smallage 38
  • Wilde mynte 39
  • Wilde rocket 48
  • Wilde Vyne 46, 63
  • Wilde Sage, or Tâsey. 64
  • Wielding 60
  • Wilde Buglosse 64
  • Winter chery, see Alka­kengi.
  • Winter cresses 48
  • Wychwynde 20
  • Willovve 62
  • Woodbynde 2 [...]
  • Wormevvoode 1 [...]
Y
  • YEllovve Bottle, or Mayvveede 23
  • Yellovv carret or Wilde carret 35
  • Yron 79
Z
  • Zizipha, see, Iuiuba.
FINIS.

Medicines of Medicines of temperate heate.

Cera. Waxe.

WAXE, is maturatiue, resolu­ [...]ue, Remedye to ye blou­dy fluxe. & mollificatiue. The ma­terial substāce of Plaisters, & Oynte [...]e [...]ts. It is taken in Gale. sim. Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. wa [...]dly in brothes against the [...]lousy fluxe, which is with vlcerations of [...]e Bowells. Waxe well washed is more [...]mperate than Waxe vnwashed: for by [...]e washing the sharpnesse, and acrimonie [...] it is taken away.

Cassia fistula, Blacke Cassia. Lax. 7

THis is a certaine fruit, or [...]odde brought Serapi. Simple A [...]icen. 20 Canonico Mesue de simplo. from Aegypt, the pulpe of it is Laxa [...]ue, [...]rgeth cholier, and tempereth the bloud: [...]e Tree thereof now groweth in Italy.

Macer, Macis, Mace. Fluxe.

MACIS is the huske of the Nutmeg, Di [...]. li. 10. Gal. si. 0. Act [...]. li. 10. Pau. li. 70. it is contor [...]atiue vnto the Stomacke, [...]o stayeth the fluxe of the body.

Adiantum, Politrithon, Mayden hayre.

THis bear [...] is of the kinde of our may­den Stone. Dio ii. 40 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. bayre: subtil in substāce ins [...]ssiue of gresle vumours in the breast, and [...]. I [...] breaketh the Stone, and stayeth the fluxe of the Body.

Trichomanes, Capillus veneris. true Mayden hayre.

THis is our true Mayden hayre, and of the same vertue that Adiantum before Dio-li 40. spoken of is.

Succinum, Ambra, Amber.

AMber is thought to distill from the Po­puler Stoppe Bloude Fluxe. Dio. li. 10 Auicen. 20 Canonico [...]ee iuto the Ficud of Euridan [...] and there to were hard. Beaten to poud and drunke, it stayeth the Fluxe of the [...] macke and belly, and stoppeth bloud.

Symphiton Petrenum, vnsauery Marioram.

[Page 2] THis Hearbe is inscissyue and also byn­ding. Purge [...] Breaste. Fluxe Wounds Gal. li. 80. Acti, li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio, li, 40. Is purgeth the Breaste, healpeth coughing of bloud, stoppeth all manner of Fluxes, and healeth woundes.

Symphiton magnum, Consolida maior. Comfory the greater.

COmfory is of the same vertue that Sym­phiton Fluxe. Gal. si. 80. Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40 Petrenum is: but something hot­ter in vertue.

Asparagus, Sperage.

BOth the Seede, & Roote of this hearbe Purgeth the Lyuer Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. are abstersyue, apertiue, and doe open both the Lyuer, and Kidnies.

Faba. The Beane.

THe substance of the Beane is abster sive, Bloudy Fluxe purgeth Goute, swelling. the Rynde is bindinge and also abstersiue: therefore the whole Beane decocted, and boyled in water and Uineger is geuen for the fluxe of the Belly wythout bloude, [Page] and agaynst vomites. If it be eaten it is Gal. si. 60. & alim­ent. 10. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 20. windy, and bard to be digested. It purgeth breast and loongs, it easeth the goute made in a Pla [...]ster with swynes grease: and also is good agaynst inflamations & swellinges.

Lotus Pratensis. A kynde of threeleaued grasse. Handachocha. Eyes. Perellworte.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, mixed wyth Dio-li 40. Gal. si. 60. Acu. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Honny it purgeth & cleanseth the tyes of grosse humours.

Lycium, The Lycian liquor. Ulcers.

THe true Lycium is the iuyce of the root [...] Fiuxe. of a certaine [...] Cappadocia, and In Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 70. Acti. l. [...]0 Pau. li. 70. dia. It is resolutiue, auster siue, restrictiue or [...] heateth Ulcers, and ma [...] ous Soares: [...]t stateth all manner of flux [...] [...] of men and women. In steede of th [...] the Chyrurgrans [...] vse the Juice of Ca­prifolie, [...] [...] casted Woodbynde.

Mexa, Sebesten, Nuttes of Graecia.

[Page 3] THis fruite is Laratiue, good agaynst the Lar. Wormes Auicenna Canenico Serapi de Simplici. Laxe. Dio. li. 20. Galen de alimēt. 10. & Sim. 60. Acti li. 10 Pau. li 70. cough: it doth mitigate and swage the burning of the dryne, & killeth the wormes that be in the belly.

The substaunce of this fruite stayeth and byndeth the belly, the lyc [...]ur wherein it is decocted or boyled doth lare the belly, or is soluble: it gendreth euill humours and me­lancolious.

Eringum: Seaholme.

THis hearbe groweth by the Seasydes, Collick & stone. and is good agaynste the Collicke, and breaketh tue Stone: prouoketh ye bryne, and Dio li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70. the monethly course in women. The rootes condite be vses to prouoke luste & conrage, but of no authority, ne yet to any great ef­fect in that behalfe.

Halimus, Sea Willowe, or Prickwillowe. Encrease of Mylke & seede.

THis plant groweth by the Sea sydes it is salt in taste, and samewhat bynding: Gal simp. Paul. li. Diosco. li. [...]t engendereth mylke and Seed [...] the tender buds be eaten, & for the same vse reser­ued. [Page] It groweth much in Cycill.

Malum Citrinum: Malum medicum: The Pome Citron, or Citrine.

THe Rynde of the Pome Citrone is Sweete Breath. Poyson. Gale. de aliment & Simplici. Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. temperate in heate, but [...]ry in the seconde degree. It comforteth the Sin­macke, and maketh the Breath sweete. The middle substance which contey [...]th ye seede is sharpt in taste, colde and dry in the thyrd degree. The substance next v [...]t [...] that towards the Rinde is grosse, and engen­dreth Fleagme, colde in vertue: the Seede is hoate and drye, and resolutiue in the se­cond degree. The leaues of the tree be dry, and resolutiue. The whole fruite drunke wyth Wyne is comminded against poyson, and correcteth the corrupte Appetites in Women with Childe. Orenges, and Ly­mons bee much of the same kynoe, and of lyke vertue.

Oliua, The Olyue Berry.

THis Olyue Berry being ripe, is tempe­perate Binding. Gale. sim Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. in heate: being vnripe is tarte & colde in the first degree. But the Leaues & teuder croppes of the Olyue tree be bin­dinge, [Page 4] and colde.

Olyuae Conditae, the Olyue ber­ries kept in Bryne.

THe Olyue herries that bee preserued in Appetite. B [...] G [...] de alimēt. 60 Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 70 bryne comforte the stomacke, and pro [...]oke an Appetite. The brine wherin they be kept preserueth the Qūmes from rhew­mes & superfluous moystures, & if they bee washed with it, and fastneth also the teeth.

Oleum, Oyle.

OYle of the ripe Olyue is temperate in Dio. li 60. Gal. si. 10. Acti. li. Pau. li. 70 heate, soluble and cesolutiue: but Oyle of the baripe Olyue declyneth to coldnes, byndeth and comforteth. Oyle the older it is the more it exceedeth in heale. All Oyle is good agaynst Doyson often drunke, and often vomited. Oyle washed, is more gen­tle of taste, and of lesse mordacity, or sharp­nesse then that whych is not washed. Oyle is the materiall substance where wyth all Paysters, and Oyntmeates bee made and tempered.

[Page] All other Oyles bee referred for their ver­tues vnto the Temperature and vertue of the substaunce whereof they bee made. As for cremple it is more largely declared in these Oyles after described.

Oleum Rosarum, Oyle of Roses.

OYle of Ros [...]s is confortatiue of partes Burning. Diosco. li. Acti. li. 10 Gal. si. 10. Mesue de Oleis. that bee resolued, resolutiue, repercus­siue, and doth refrigerate such partes as be inflamed.

Oleum Chamomelinum, Oyle of Chamomill.

Oyle of Camomill is resolutiue, and ea­seth paynes.

Oleum Violaceum, Oyle of Violettes.

OYle of Uiolettes extinguisheth Inflā Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 10 Gal. simp. Mesue de Oleis. mations, and hoate swellinges.

Oleum Cidoniorum, Oyle of Quinces.

[Page 5] OYle of Quinces is cōfortatiue of partes Rewmes Floxe Diosco. li. Gale. me­tho. 10. Acti. li. 11 Mesue de Oleis. 10. that be relaxed. byndinge and stayinge all rhewmes and fluxes.

Oleum Amygdalarum dulcium, Oyle of sweete Almondes.

OYle of swéete Almonds [...]solueth hard­nesse, Mollifi­catiue. Galen. li. Simpli. 60. Mesue de Oleis. and doth smoothe and lenigate ye asperite and roughnesse of the wynde pipe: it is good also for the Breast and loonges.

Oleum Amygdaelarum amararum, Oyle of bitter Almondes.

OYle of bilter Almondes is a [...]stersiue, The [...]ares. Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 10 Gal. si. 60. Mesue de Oleis. and aperti [...]. It disselurth wyndes and soundes in the Eares, & killeth the wormes also that oftentimes be in the same.

Oleum Lilliorum, Oyle of Lyllies.

OYle of Lillies is mollitiue of hard swel Colde Breaste. Acti. li. 10. Mesue de Oleis. Auicen Cano. 10. lines, caseth paynes, is good agaynste colds Diseases of all partes, and specially of the Breast.

Oleum A [...]eth [...], Oyle of Dill.

OYle of Dill resolueth, and easeth Act [...]. li. 10 M [...]s [...]e de Oleis 50 Aui [...]enna Canonico paynes.

Oleum Laurinum, Oyle of Bayes.

OYle of Baye [...] is good aga [...]nst all colde Colde bu mou [...]s. Dio. l [...]. 10. Acti. li. 10 Me [...]e de Oleis. Dis [...]ases, as Collick [...]s a [...]d pa [...]es in the S [...]ewes, and Joyntes that come of colde humours.

Oleum Rutaceum, Oyle of Rewe.

OYle of Rewe is good against Inflā na­tions. Juflāma­tions. Gale. me­tho▪ 120 Mesue de Oleis. and wynde, and all diseas [...]s that come of colde.

Oleum Spicatum, Oyle of Spike.

OYle of Spike is good agaynst all colde [...]assions and diseases: and specially of Colde in the Sto­macke. Gale. me­tho. 70. Mesue de Oleis. the stomacke and partes that doe nourish: and wyth all it is comfortable.

Oleum Mastich [...]num, Oyle of Masticke.

OYle of Masticke is confortatiue of the stomacke and Lyuer, and of all partes Confor­tattue. [Page 6] that be needefull to be comforted and war­med. Dio li. 10. Galē me­tho. 70 Mesue de Oleis. 10 Acti. li.

Oleum Abs [...]thij, Oyle of Wormewoode.

OYle of Worme woode r [...]solueth colde, Galē me­tho. 1 [...]0 A [...]cen Cano. 50 and gr [...]sse bum [...]urs, and it is conforta­tiue of the member or parte that is diseased.

Oleum Mel [...], Oyle of Millelote

OYle of Millelote resolueth swelliages Bruses. Mesue de Oleis. and bruse [...], [...]nd easeth the paynes.

Oleum benedictū, vel de Lateribus,

THis Oyle resolueth, and doth mitigate Mesue de Oleis. paynes, and is good against all colde passions.

Oleum Costium, Oyle of Costus,

THis Oyle is apertiue and comfortatiue Mesue de Oleis. Auicen Cano. 50. of the Sinewes: good also agaynst all colde diseases of the Lyuer and stomacke.

Oleum Euphorbij, Oyle of Eu­phorbium. Palūes & Crampes Mesue de Oleis. Auicen Cano. 50

THis Oyle is speciall agaynst all colde [...]iseases of the Synewes and Joyntes: as Palūes, Crampes, and such other.

Oleum Castoreum, Oyle of Beauer.

THis resolueth colde nassions, and is spe­ciall Gale. me­tho. 120 Auicen Cano. 50 good for coll [...]kes.

Oleum Uulpium, Oyle of a Foxe.

THis Oyle of a Foxe is good agaynst all Backe. Mesue de Oleis. Gal. si. 110 Acti li 20 Pau. li. 20 colde diseases and aches: as colde, gouts, aches in the Backe, and Palsies.

Oleum de Scorpionibus, Oyle of Scorpions.

THis Oyle breaketh the Stone in the Stone. Mesue de Oleis. Ry [...]nies, if the Backe be anoynted ther­with: cast in with a syringe it breaketh th [...] Stone in the Bladder.

Oleum Nenupharis. Oyle of the water Lyllie.

THis Oyle is good against heates, and [...] hoate Swellings, and Inflāmations. Inflama­tions. Mesue de Oleis.

Oleum Papaueris, Oyle of Popy.

[Page 7] THis Oyle refrigerateth strongly, and Sleepe. Mesue de Oleis. [...]aseth the paynes that come of heates, and prouoketh Sleepe.

Oleum Mirtinum, Oyle of Mirtes.

THis Oyle doth refrigerate and comfort Hearte. Mesue de Oleis. the Stomacke, the Hearte, and all o­ther partes that be resolued and weakened by excesse of heate.

Una, the Grape.

OF Grapes there bee dyuerse Gale. de a liment. 20 kyndes, some be sweete in taste, some [...]e ta [...]te, some be sharpe, Acti. li. 10 and some be of a meane quali­ty or taste betwixte these, ney­ther notab [...]e sweete, n [...]yt [...]er sharpe, ney­ther Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 50. sower, which bee called Uinosae in La­tine, that is to say, hauinge the taste of Wyne, and this kynde is temperate be­twene [...]oate and colde. The kinde of them that be sweete is hoate, and encreaseth thir­stinesse. The sharpe and sower be colde, the sweete also be sol [...]ble, and specially whyle they b [...]t f [...]ll of moys [...]nesse. The sharpe and [Page] sower doe not onely lacke that property, but also are neyther conco [...]ted in the sto­macke, Galen de a [...]mēt. 20 Diosco. li. Acti. li 10 Pau. li. 10 neyther well distributed into the body, [...]e yet doe well nourish [...]. The ryp [...] Grape doth most nourishe next to the figg [...] of all fruites, and engendreth none euill hu­mours if it be throughly ripe. Howbeit of [...] the Grape cometh no Juyce and stable nou­rishment, as doth of Flesh. The Grape [...] it bee greene and in his moyst [...]s, doth in▪ flate the Stomacke, and is soluble: if th [...] Grape be long retayned within the body, it doth annoy and hurte, which fault doth not happen to the Figge: for although th [...] Figge be not downe warde in short tyme a­uoyded, yet if it be well disgested in the sto­macke it geueth good nourishment: which property and vertue the Grape lacketh, fo [...] in case they bee ouer longe reteyned in the belly, they neyther be disgested nor altere [...] in the stomacke, neyther distributed to th [...] Lyuer and vaynes, nor increase other th [...] crude humours which cannot be altered i [...] to good bloud. The Grape hath in it four [...] substaunces, the one is the stone, which [...] colde, dry, & [...]inding: the other three be th [...] vtter skynne, the substaunce adioyning an [...] [Page 8] contayned within the same, and the Liquor. The ston [...] and [...]kyn do discend through the body in māner [...]o. The other parts be retayned and do nourishe.

Una Passa, The great Rayson.

THe Rayson is of like compari­son to ye Grape, as the ory Figge Galen de alimēt. [...]0 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. [...]0 Pa [...]. li. 70 vnto the greene. The Rayson is maturatiue, bynding, or stiptike, and resolu [...]ue. The sweeter the Ra [...] ye hoatter, the [...]arter the colder, the [...]r Rayson doth strengthen and comforte the stomacke, and bynde the be [...]y: the sweete rayson is in the meane, for it neyther resol­ueth the stomacke, neyther laxeth the bel [...]y, neither yet byndeth g [...]ra [...]ly. The sweete sweete ra [...]son is a [...]ur, and doth temper and vanquishe frea [...]gs or bytinges of the of the stomacke. The best raison is yt which is most fatty and vn [...]ous, and [...]ath a [...] skyn. The raison doth not so laxe the [...]elly, neyther is so abstersiue as the [...]ry Figge: Howbeit, it is better to the stomacke. The raison eaten is good for ye winde pipe, good against ye Cough, good for the Kydnies and B [...]ou [...].

Uinum, Wyne.

WYne is hoate in the seconde de­gree G [...]l. [...]. 80 [...]. li. 10 P [...]. li. 70 Howbeit, if is [...] very [...], it is hoate in the thirde degree: But must or newe wine is hoate i [...] the first: they bee like in drieth, as they Gal. [...]li. 30 D [...]o. li. 50 be in heate. Of all Wynes Red and grosse wyne is most meetest and conu [...]ment to [...] crease and eagender bloude. Next to that Galen de bonis Succis is wyne that is blacke in colour, sweete, & grosse. Thirdly redde or blacke wyne with grassinesse of substan [...]r & ta [...]es in taste, D [...]o. li. 50 Wy [...] wyne & grosse substāce wt tartnes in taste are re [...]rued in the 4. place. Whyt [...] wyne and thynne in Substance nourisheth leaste of all. Sweete wyne is better concot▪ ted in the Stom [...]cke than ye tarte or greene wyne, and better di [...]ed into the body, and also is more soluble. Although gros [...] Galen de [...]ate Tuēda, 50 wynes be meetest for the [...] of bloud, yet it is to be noted that [...]y grosse wine is [...]ardly concorted and altered in the Sto­macke, and slowly distributed, vnlesse th [...] Stomacke be good and st [...]onge, the gross [...] wynes also be not commended for making▪ and prouoking of bryne: and besydes that [Page 9] some of them doe stop the Lyuer, the splen, Dio-li. 50. Galē me­tho. 70 and kyd [...]s, so that by the vse of thē, [...]o [...]e men fal into Drop [...]es, some into the stone: and specially olde men. The most [...] somest wyne for them that bee in recouery from sicknesse (so that they haue no Feuer) is wyne redde in colour, thynne in substance, and somewhat tarte in taste. Wyne among all other thinges doth moyst, and soonest en­crease naturall heate: and therefore wyne that is hoate of nature, and subtill in sub­staunte, yellowe in co [...]er, olde in age, of good odoure, and smelling is most speciall to reuiue and restore such persons as fal in­to Hipocra, de vlceri. soundinges or sayntings, for it is soonest distributed into all partes of the body, not with standing such yellowe & strong wines doe oftentymes trouble the head. Waterish and thyn Wyne doth little or nothing nou­rishe, but doth onely prouoke the bryne. Wyne is meete for the colde natures of complexions: wyne condite with honny is Hipocra. de vlceri. good for those that feare the stone vniuer­sally. As Wyne is good for olde men, so it is euill for chi [...]oren: sweete wynes [...]e good for them that neede to be restored, so they be subiect to no [...]becillity or weakenes of the [Page] Lyuer, [...]pleue, or Rydnies. To them that haue grosse humours in their Uaynes sub­t [...]l wynes are meete and good: to them that [...]aien de [...]e [...]uenda. 50. & 10. haue colde humours in their vaynes hoate wynes and olde ve meete: but to them that bee not of this condition or state, Wynes that be pleasaunte and well smellinge bee m [...]eter, so that they doe not trouble and vn [...] quiet the head Flee frō grosse & euil smel­ling Hipocra. [...]een. wines, & such as be of great tartenesse▪ & or vnpleasaunt taste. Also absteyne from wyne that is to olde, or to newe, speciall from all wynes till they be fyned. Wyne in the vtter partes of the body bee good [...] washe and mūdify v [...]cers or saares Wine also be confected with diuerse substaunces as wyth Honny, [...]ater, U [...]eger, Tym [...] G [...]len d [...] [...]tate Tu [...]n. 5 [...]. Squ [...]t [...]s, Roses, Wormewoode, Raison [...] and many other thinges, whych Wynes confected and made, are to be esteemed a [...] tet the nature of such substaunces when with they vee confected. Wyne thyone su [...]stance. & yellow [...] in colo [...], heateth [...] partes of [...] body, prouoketh vryne, & po [...] geth [...]he bloud. Wyne doth rype & matu [...] [...] [...]rs so [...]uch as any thing els [...] prouo [...]eth [...] e [...]tes, a [...] [...]ryne, & [...]isp [...] [Page 10] to quietnesse and sleepe. As wine is thought to vee vnmeete for children, so it is partely for younge men which are hoate and drye, & yet being in their grouth. For such natures it shall dispose to I [...]e and volupeuousnes of body, & hastynes: and also shall trouble, and vnquiet the mynde and reason, if it be not taken moderately.

Amygdala dulcis, Amarae. Amondes sweete, bitter.

THe sweete Almonde is temperate, but Purge ye Drea [...]a Liuer Spl [...]ne. [...]. [...]. 60 [...] l [...]. 20. Act. l [...]. [...]0 Pau. Pau. li. 70. D [...]. [...]. [...]0 the better is suotill, and a [...]ster siue, and [...]oat [...] in the seconde degree: it purgeth the [...]reast and Luonges of grosse humours: o­ [...]ene [...] op [...]ations of the Lyuet. Splene, & Ryo [...]es, the sweete Almonde hath ye same [...]reper [...]les, but much weaker than the vit­er, and belyo [...]s that, the sweete nourisheth [...]e body, but the the nourishing that it ge­ [...]ets is little.

Sesanij, & Sesanum, Oyly seede.

[Page] THe séede of this hearbe doth mollifie, but Gal. si. 80. alimēt. 20 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 20. by reasō that it is some what oyly & vnc­tious, it filleth the stomacke anone if it bee eaten, it ouerturneth, and troubleth the same: it causeth the Breath to stincke if [...] sticke or remayne betweene the Teethe the Oyle of it also doth mollsie, and so doth the decoction of the hearbe it selfe.

Stechas, Stichados.

THis hearbe is apertiue, abfter siue, co [...] Come in the Sto­macke. Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 30 Act. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. fortatiue of all the inward partes & ou [...] ward pa [...]es of the body, which are refrigrate: and specially good for the Breast if be decoc [...]ed or boyled, and so receaued.

MEDICINES hoat and drie in the first degree.

Absinthium, Seriphiū, Ponticum, Santon [...] the kyndes of Wormewood.

[Page 11] OUr common Wormewoode is of the Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 60. Acti li. 20 Pau. li. 70. of Ponticum: it is hoat in the first de­gree, and dry in the third: it is resolutine, abstersiue, and comfortatine: it purgeth collericke humours from the stomacke and from the vaynes by vryne: openeth the Ly­uer, and killeth Wormes. The kyndes of Wormewood called Seriphium, and Santo­nicum, bee hoat in the seconde degree, more bitterer and not so comfortatiue, they kyll Wormes more strongly.

Chamomelum, Chamomill.

CAmomill is of subtill substaunce, it re­solueth Sorrowe Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 swellings: openeth the poares of the Body, and doth mitigate and cease paynes and dolours.

Aegilops, Wilde barrayne Otes.

THis Hearbe is some parte lyke to our Dio. li. 30 Gal. si. 60 alimēt. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. wylde Otes: it doth resolue hard swel­linges, and healeth the Fistula in the cor­ner of the Eyes.

Oriza, Ryce.

RIce is of little nourishing, bynding, & Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 80. & ali. 10. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 hard to bee digested.

Pentaphillon, Quinque foliū, Tormentilba, Tormentill,

TOrmentill is dry in the thirde degree▪ & Tothach. Liuer. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40 of subtill substaunce: the decoction os it ceaseth the Aothache, and bealeth v [...]cerati­ons of the Mouth: it is also good for the Loonges, and Lyuer.

Sacharum, Succharum, vulgò Suger.

SUger is lenitfue, abstersiue, mundifica▪ Colde stomacke. type, apertiue, good for the stomacke tha [...] is not hoate and collerike, for in the hoate col [...]erike stomacke it is soone turned to cho [...] ler: [...]t is good also specially for the Breast Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 70. and Loonges. Of the Suger which is [...] pressed out of certeyne Canes, or Reedes speaketh no olde Au [...]thor, for the Suger they speake of was brought out of India, Arabia, and was a certaiue substance, whic [...] [Page 12] was congealed vpon the Canes, or Reedes of that Country, and esteemed to be a kynde of Honny, and was of lyke complexion and vertue.

Althea, Ib [...]scus, Holihocke.

THe Roote and Seede of Holihocke, doe Stone. Dio. li. 30 Acti li. 10 Pau. li. 70 mollifie, resolue, and mature or ripe: the Seede also breaketh the stone.

Sarcocola, Sarcocoll.

THis is the Gumme of a Tree in Persia: Woūdes. Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 it dryeth, and sic catrizeth woundes.

Spongia, the Spounge.

THe Spounge layde to a Wounde wyth Stone. Dio. [...]. 80. Gal. si. 50. Pau. li. 70 water or wyne bealeth it, and with hon­ny healeth olde Ulcers and Soares: the stones fonnde in the Spounge bee abster­siue, and breake the stone in the Kydnies.

Mel [...]lotus, Melilote.

[Page] MEllilote is resolutiue, maturatiue of swelling. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Imposthumations and swellinges, and is confortatiue of the members. The Mel­lilote that we nowe vse, seemeth not by his description to bee true mellilote, howebest the vertue of it is not much vnlike.

Schynanthas, squinantum, vulgò Squynante.

SQuynante is of subtill partes or sub­staunce, it prouoketh the vryne, and the Liuer. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 monethly course in Women: it is good a­gaynst hoate swellinges of the Lyuer and Stomacke.

Semen lini, Lynseede.

THis resolueth and mollisieth the instam marions and swellings, taken and mix­ed swelling. Dio. li. 30 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. with Honny, Oyle, and Water and make thereof in playster: if it bee taken [...] wardes it gendreth wynde, and is harde t [...] be disgested, and euill for the stomacke.

Melissa, Apiastrum, Baulme.

[Page 13] THis bearbe is resolutiue and abstersiue, Liuer. Splene. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 it munvifieth the Lyuer, the Splene, ye Breast, and the Loonges.

Seta, Sericum, Silke.

Silke is Cordiall, and good for the hearte. Mesue de electuarijs Auicenna Cano. 20 Serapi de Simpli.

Populus Alba The white Populer tree.

THis is abstersiue. The Juyce of the lea­ues milke warme put into the Eares, Diosco. Gal. simp. Acti. li. Paul. lib. easeth the paynes of them.

Tamarix, Tamariscus.

THis tree is inscissiue, and abstersiue. The Dio. li. 10. Gal si. [...]0 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Roote of it, the tender croppes, the lea­ues decocted or boyled in vyneger, or wyne, bealyeth the Splene, that is endored or bard. Also boyled in wyne and drunke, they haue ye same operation. Cuppes made of ye roote of the same thee are thought very hol­some for splenetike persons to drinke in.

Triticum, Wheate.

[Page] WHeate is a nourishment not to [...] Galen de alimēt. 10 Dio. li. 20 eaten alone without fleshe, fishe, or other foode: for it is of it selfe very Uiscous, & opilatiue, which faulte and lacke in it is corrected, and re­dressed Paul li. 70 Acti. li. 10. Gal. si. 80. by the mixture of Leauen with it. Put to the outwarde partes as medicine, it is hoate in the firste degree, temperate in moysture and dryth. Wheate chawed in the mouth is good agaynst the biting of a mad Dogge. The flower of it decocted and boy­led with water, doth mature and rype.

Furfur, Branne.

BRanne is of the leaste nourishment of a­ny part of the Wheate, it is abstersiue, Leaper. Dio. li. 20 and mundificatyue: boyled in Uyneger it healpeth the Leaper.

Fermentum, Leauen.

LEauen is resolutiue, and attractiue frō Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 the deepe partes of the body.

Amilon, Amidam, Uulgò, Sterche.

[Page 14] STerch is colder & drier than the wheate, Rewmes Galen do alimēt. 10 Dio. li. 20. Pau. li. 70 and nourisheth lesse: it doth Lenigate & smoothe partes that [...]e exasperated & made roughe, as the wynde Pipe or Throate: it is good also agaynst sharpe distillations, & rhewmes into the Eyes.

Panis, Bread.

BRead is a nourishment most wholesome: Galen de alimēt. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. that which is made of ripe redde wheate well kneded, wel baked, and well leauened, is as a medicine: it is resolutiue, by reason of the leauen.

Panis Furfuracnis, Course or browne Bread.

THe Breade that hath much branne is of Galen de alimēt. 10 Pau. li. 10. lesse nourishing then that which is of flower, but more soluble, for it is laxatiue, & scoureth, by reason of the husky substaunce remayneth in it.

Brassica, Caulis domestica. The Coleworte.

[Page] THe Coleworte is abstersiue, resolutiue Ulcers. Wormes Gal. simp. Acti. Paul. Dioscori. of hoat inflāmations and swellinges, and healeth vlcers and soares, the decocti­on of it laxeth the body, the substaunce of the Hearbe byndeth. The Seede killeth woormes.

Brassica Sylue [...]ris. The wilde Coleworte.

THis groweth by the Sea sydes, and is Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10. Paul li. 70 Dio. li. 20. of the same vertue that the Gardeyn Colewortes is, but stronger and of more efficacy.

Brassica marina, vulgò Soldonella.

THis groweth also by the Sea sydes, it Laxe. Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10 Pa [...]. li. 70 Dio. li. 20 is salte and bitter in taste, and laxeth the belly.

Echium. A kynde of buglosse.

THis hearbe drunke with wyne doth no only heale them that be bitten with ve stinginge. Dio. li. 40 Pau. li. 40 nemous serpentes, but also drunke before [Page 15] doth preserue such from hurte as hap to be [...]it of the same.

Orobus, Erui, Bitter Fitches.

THis corne is abstersiue, inscissiue, aper­tiue Dio. li. 10. Galen de alimēt. 10 Simpli. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 of op [...]lacious: it is dry in the se­cond degree, prouoketh vryne: if it be takē excessiuely, it maketh to pisse bloud, because it attereth and raseth in passage.

Coriandrum, Coliander.

COliander seede is abstersiue, resolutiue Wormes Gal si. 70. Dio. li. 30. Pau. li. 70 Acti. li. 10 wyth a certayne bynding: it encreaseth seede or nature. The seede also taken in a small quantity with must killeth wormes: receyued in a greate quantity bringeth to madnesse.

Aspalathos. The wood Rhodium.

THis tree decoct and gargarised healeth Ulcers. Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. Pau. li. 10 corrupt vlcers in the mouth, it groweth in Creta, an Iland.

Cuscuta, Dodder.

THis Hearbe groweth wyth flaxe, it is Splene. Serapi. Simple abstersiue, confortatiue, and apertiue [Page] of the opilations of the Lyuer, Splene, & Kydnies, and purgeth Melancholy. Auicen. Cano. 20.

Hedera, Iuye.

THe greeue leaues of ye Juy boyled wyth Woūdes. Dioscori. Gal. simp. Paul. wyne heale great woundes, and mali­cious Soares that come of burninge. The leaues boyled in vyneger profit the sp [...]eue: the floure is more vehement, and healeth brenuings: the Juice purgeth the head, and healeth olde vlcers of the eares: the gūme Stone. of it killeth Lise, and taketh away hayre: it is so hoate yt it burneth, and if it be drunke it healpeth them that haue the stone.

Ladanum. Ladan

THis is a certayne liquor that in ye spring Falling of ye haire Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of the yeare falleth vpon a p [...]ante call [...] Cischus: it is moistiue, resolutiue, matura­tiue, and comfortatiue: it stayeth the falling of the hayre.

Dracunculus, Dragons.

IT is abstersiue, mundificatiue of op [...]a Splene. Eyes. Dio. li. 20 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. tions of the Lyuer, and Splene, and t [...] Loouges: it healpeth olde vlcers and snare­the fruite is of more strength then the leaues, or roote. The Juyce of the same clean seth the Eyes.

Aron, wake Robin, or Cuckowe pintell.

DRagons is of y same vertue that wake Dio. li. [...]. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Robin is, but not so stronge.

Tereniabin, Manna.

THis is a certayne dewe that falleth vp­on Auicen Cano. 20, Mesue de Simpli. Serapi & Simpli. Galen de aliment. the leaues & trees in the East parts: also in Calabi [...]a and certayne per [...]es of Ita­ly, and other hoate countreys: it is abster­siue, purgeth Choiler, and is good for the Breast, and Loonges. Of this Galen see­meth to make mention in his booke de Ali­mentis vnder the name of Aer [...]meli, and Drosomeli.

St [...]rax calamita, Storax vulgò.

THis is a [...]umine of a tree in Syria, it Cough. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 8. Acti. li. [...] Pau. li. [...]. is mo [...]tiue, maturatiue, good for the Cough and catarris, and for the Br [...]aste: it moueth the mouethiy co [...] in Momē.

St [...]rax liquida, Stacte.

THis is the fatty & oy [...] parte of ye Mirre Dio. li. Acti. li. when it is expressed The vertue of [...]s like to the vertue of Mirre.

Isatis, Glaston. Woade.

VVOade, is resolutiue of all manner swelling. Dio. li. [...]0 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 swellinges: it strauncheth the bloud, it is good for persons that be splenetik, and also healeth greene woundes.

Caries Lignorum. The powder of an olde post.

IT mundifieth, and healeth moyst vlcers Ulcers. D [...]o. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. and Soares.

Folium, Malobathron. A rare spicie leafe.

THis leafe groweth in India it is abster Uryne. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 syue, and comforteth the stomacke, an [...] Lyuer: and prouoketh dryne.

Cupressus. The Cypresse tree.

THe fruiet and tender croppe of ye braun Staūche Bloude Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. ches heale greene woundes: staunc [...] bloude: consume superfluous moystures dry and comforte the mēber or parte, wh [...] is with such moystures oppressed and w [...] kened.

Filix, Femina, The Brakes, or Ferne.

THe rootes of Ferne dry, and heale moist Dio. li. 1 [...] Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. vlcers and soares.

Filix, Osmonde.

THe roote killeth Wormes, and dimini­sheth Splene. Dio. li. 40. Gal. si. 80. Pau. li. 70 the encrease of the Splene.

Nardus, Spicanardus. Spikenarde.

SPikenarde is hoate and byting in taste, & Rewmes Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 dry in the second degree: it strengthneth and comforteth ye stomacke, eaten inwardly [...]nd also outwardly in Plaisters, it prouo­keth dryne, and cureth the gnawing or frea­ [...]ing of the stomacke: it drieth the rhewmes of the belly, of the bowells, or Guttes, and of the heade, and breast. The kyndes called [...]ndica, and Siriaca be chiefe.

Nardus Celtica.

THis is of the same vertue and power ye Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80. Nardus Indica and Siriaca is, but more [Page] weaker in all thinges, onely except that it Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 prouoketh vryne more strongly.

Nardus montania.

THis is of the same kynde and vertue yt Dio. li. Gal. simp. Paul. lib. theother two before are, but not of like strength and efficacy.

Sandarocha, vernix, Vernice.

THis is a certayne gumme, the fumiga­tion Rewmes Auicen Cano. 20. Serapi. Simpli. of it drieth Catarres & the wmes.

Sena, Colutea, Sene.

Sene is thought to be described of Theo­phrastes, Auicen. Cano. 20. Serapi. Simpli. Theop. 30 de historia Plantarsi. vnder the name of Colutea: it purgeth choller.

P [...]stacia, fistici vulgó, Pistickes.

THis fruit is good for the stomacke, aper­tiue of opstations of the lyuer, and good Liuer Loonges. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Pau. li. 70 Acti. li. 70 for the breast and loonges.

Rubea tinctorum, Rubea maiorum, Madder.

[Page 18] MAdder is abstersiue, mundificatiue of Liuer. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. the lyuer and splene: purgeth their o­p [...]lations: prouoketh vryne, & the moneth­ly course in women.

Paeonia, Pionie.

BOth kyndes of Piony be abstersiue, and Lyuer. Dio. li. 30. Gal. li. 60. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li 70. comfortatiue, mundifie opilations of the [...]yuer and kydnies, prouoke vryne and the [...]onethly course in women: it is written [...]f olde experience, that the roote hanged a­ [...]out the necke of Children, cureth them of [...]he falling Sickenesse.

Phu, Valleriana, The wilde Valeriane.

THe wylde Ualeriane is good and com­fortab stomacke and lyuer. Dio. li. 10 Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10 Paul li. 70 c for the Stomacke, and Lyuer: [...]rouoketh vryne, and the monethly course [...] women: i [...] is of like vertue to the Spike­ [...]arde, but somewhat weaker: neuerthe­ [...]sse it prouoketh vryne strongly.

Pini Cortex. The Ryne or Barke of the Pyne tree.

IT doth so dry and bynde that it healeth ex­coriation Br [...]ning. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si 80 Pau. li. 10 Acti. li. 10 that cometh by burning of fire.

Pini folia. The leaues of the Pyne tree.

THese Leaues heale woundes. Wofides. Dio. li. 10. Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10

Pini fructus, Nuclei pini. The Kernell of the Pyne tree.

THe fruite of the Pyne tree is good for the Breast and Loonges: and healpeth Cough. Dio. li. 10 Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10 Paul li. 70 the coughe.

Fuligo Ex pini cortice, ex fructu, ex folijs. The fume of the pyne Barke, fruite, leaues.

THe soote gendred & made of these parts Falling of ye ha [...]re Gal. li. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of the Pyne tree be good for fallinge or shedding of hayre in the Browes, for run­ning Eyes, and Ulcerations in the same.

Cardamomum Arabum. Graynes.

THis spice hath two kyndes: it both com­forteth Serapi de Simpli. Auicen Cano. 20. the stomacke, and conduceth to disgestion: of this Cardamomum the Greeke Authors speake nothing.

Bombex, Gossipium, Cotten, Bumbast.

THis is a certaine kinde of Cotten grow­ing Cough. Se [...]de or Nature. Serapi. Simpli. Auicen. Cano. 20. vpon trees, the seede is good for the Breast, and the cough: it encreaseth Seede or Nature in Man.

Millium folis, Lithospermon. Grumwell.

THis is subtill of substance: it breaketh Stone. Dio. li. 70. Gal. li. [...]0. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li 70. the stone, and prouoketh vryne.

Palmula, Dactylus. The Date.

THe Dates be comfortatiue of the Sto­macke, Dio. li. 10 Galen li. and Lyuer, both inwardly re­ceaued, [Page] and outwardly in plaisters: but they Pau. li. 70 engender ache and Rhewmes: they make great obstructions, and leaprosie, eaten in great quantity.

Mercurialis, Mercury.

THis hearbe doth not onely laske the bel­ly, Laxe. Gal. li. 70. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 40. but also in plaisters it is resolutiue.

Capnos, Fumus terrae, Fumaria. Fumitory.

ALbeit this Hearbe is hoate in the firste Dio. li 40 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. degree, yet is it dry in the thyrd: it ope­neth the opilations of the lyuer, comforteth the mouth of the stomacke, and laxeth the belly, and purgeth choller by the vryne.

Anemone, Herba venti. Purge ye Head. Fleagme. Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70

THis hearbe is attractiue, apertiue, and purgeth the Nose, and the Head: if the roote be chawed & mastichated in ye mouth, it purgeth fleagme.

Lupinus, Lupyne. Wormes Dio. li. 20. Galen de alimēt. 10 & simp. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70.

THe Lupine is abstersiue, and resolutiue, it mundifieth the opilations of the lyue [...] and splene, and killeth wormes.

Choudros, Alicia.

THis is a kinde of corne: it is maturatiue, Dio. li. 20. Galen de alimēt. 10 & simp. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 and doth nourishe: it stayeth the belly, and is good for the stomacke.

Eupatorium; Agrimonium, Egrymony.

THis Hearbe is apertiue, and abstersiue Dio. li. 40 Gal. si▪ 90 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of opilations of the Lyuer, and comfor­teth the same. The hearbe that nowe is cal­led Eupatorium growing by the water sides is iudged of experience to bee of the same vertue, but not mēcioned of olde Aucthors, as farre as it is knowen.

Agaricus, Agaricke.

AGarike is inscissiue, abstersiue of the o­pilations Wormes Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Mesue de Simpli of the Lyuer and Kydnies: it purgeth grosse fleagme and choller: and killeth the Wormes: also it purgeth from the breast grosse and viciouse humours.

Cicer, Chich peason.

THis kinde of pulse is windye, soluble, Stone. Gal. si. 60. & [...]. 10. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 20. prouoketh vryne, and gendreth seede, & Mylke. The decoction of it breaketh the stone.

Smilax hortensis, Gardein withwinde.

THe fruite of this Plante prouoketh v­ryne, Dreames Dio. li. 30▪ Serapi. Simpli. Auicenna Cano. 20 and the monethly course in Wo­men: it is eaten and boyled wyth the Cod [...] as our common bearbes be: and it causeth troublesome Dreames.

Poligonaton, Secacull. Scalacoeli.

THis hearbe is stiptike or binding in taste with sharpnes, and a certayne vitternes. Clense the Face. Gal. [...] [...]. Paul. lib. Dio. li. Se [...]pi S [...]m [...]li Auicen Cane. Mesue [...]e Comidis. The roote healeth woundes: the hearbe i [...] selfe is vsed to mundifie and clense the fac [...] from syots. The Arabitanes seeme by the description of it to call it Secacull, and to at­tribute to the roote of it power and vertu [...] to prouoke lust or courage.

Philanthropos, Aparine▪ Cleauers.

[Page 21] THis is abstersiue & of subtill substance: stinginge. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40. the Juice of [...] drunke with Wyne, is good agayuste the bytinge of venemous Wormes.

Circium. vulgò Buglossum magnu [...], A kinde of Buglosle.

THis is thought by the description of it Dio. li. 40 to bee our Buglosse: it easeth paynes that come of great repletion of the vaynes in euery parte.

Periclimenon, Caprifollium, Matrissilua▪ Woodbynde.

THe fruite and leaues of Woodbynde be Soare [...] in the mouth. Dio-li 40. Gal. si. 80. inscissiue, so that it prouoketh to pisse blood, if it be much vsed: and also it is good for the splene: it is cōmonly vsed of experi­ence to beale vleers & soares in ye mouth, & partes of like temperature.

Geranion, Gruinalis, Storkes bill.

THe first kinde of Gruinalis is good for in­flammations Dio. li. 30. Pau. li. 70▪ in Women: the seconde [Page] kynde is of no vse, neyther profitable in phi­sicke.

MEDICINES hoat and drie in the second degree.

URTICA, The Nettell.

THe Leafe and Seede of the Net­tle resolueth swellings: purgeth Purge ye Breaste. Byting. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio-li. 40. the Breast and Loongs of grosie humours. The Seede drunke wyth sweete Wyne, mooueth lust and cou­rage. The Leaues made in Playster with Salt, heale the bitinges of the mad Dog, and also Ulcers, and Soares: they pro­uoke the Uryne, and the monethly course in Women.

Amurca, The Dregges of Oyle.

THis healeth wounds and vl­cers Tothach. Dropsie. Gal. si 60. Acti. li. 20 Dio. li. 70. Pau. li, 10. in bodyes that are of dry Complexion: for in tender bodies it doth rather exaspe­ratt the wounde, liquify and consume the fleshe: wyth vy­neger, or Wyne it is good agaynst the ache of the Teethe. Also spred vpon Leather and put to the Body, it represseth watery swel­linges in such bodies as haue the Dropsie.

Propolis, Virgin Waxe.

VIrgin Wax is a certaine gum­my Pricking of thorne. Cough. Gal. simp. Acti. li. Pau. li. Dio. li. substance, whereby the hon­ny Combes in the Hyue, and ye Waxe of the same be ioyned & fastened together: it is attrac­tyue, in so much that it draweth out of the body stubells or thornes that are fastened in the same: the fume of it healpeth olde & longe Coughes.

Hebenus, Guaicum, Lignum vitae.

[Page] HEbenus is thought to bee the tree th [...] nowe is called Guaicum or Lignum v [...] it is abstersiue and of subtill substaunce, therefore it mūdifieth and clenseth ye Ey [...] and dryeth the wmes & vlcers in the sam [...] At this time it is vsed of experience onl [...] and of no aucthority to extenuate the bod [...] and dry vlcers and the wmes of all parte [...] as in ye sicknesse called the french Packe [...] Goutes, Melancholy passions, and ma [...] other diseases.

Saluia, Sage.

THe leaues and croppes of sage prouo [...] bryne: it is good for woundes. & staun [...] [...]heth bloud in them: it mundifieth also U [...] cers and soares: besides that it is hoate, [...] is also bynding temperately.

Anagallis, Pimpernell.

PImpernell is aftersiue, and attractiue the Juyce purgeth the head, aswell ga [...] garised, as instilled into the Nose: also [...] healeth wounds & corrupt vlcers & soares both kindes of Pimpernel be of one vertu [...]

Ocimum, Basilicum, Basile.

BAsile eaten gendreth superfluous Hu­mours and moystures: wherefore taken [...]wardes it is not wholsome: but vsed to [...]e vtter partes it is resolutiue, and matu­atiue. After Dioscorides it laxeth the bel­ [...], dissolueth wynde, prouoketh dryne, en­ [...]reaseth Mylke, purgeth the Eyes and the [...]eade. It is esteemed good agaynst melan­holy passions.

Buphthalmos, Cotula. Yealowe Bottell.

THis hearhe is more hoatter, and more resolutiue than Camomill: so that it re­solueth & consumeth hard swellings, mixte wyth Oyle and Waxe.

Terebinthus, The Turpentyne tree.

THe Barke, Leaues, and fruite of thys tree bee strictiue and byndinge: but the fruite dryed mooueth the vryne, and healp­eth splenetike persons.

Resina Terebinthina, Turpentyne.

TUrpentine is abstersiue, attractiue, mol­lificatiue, and resolutiue: it is good for the breast: it prouoketh vryne: laxeth the belly, and healeth scabbes.

Resina Pini. The Rosin of the Pyneaple tree.

THis resolueth, and mollifieth: and is more of efficacie than turpentyne, in that behalfe.

Colophonia, or pix Greca, A kinde of blacker Rosin.

THis is resolutiue, and mollificatiue.

BalsamumLiquor,the licour,
Fructus.the fruite,
Lignum.the wood.

of Baulme.

[Page 24] ALl parts of ye Baulme tree, the wood, ye fruit, & liquour also, be subtil, abstersiue, of great efficacie against all could diseases no sickenes: they prouoke vryne: are good or vlcers & soares that be filthy & corrupt: [...]he liquour is of greatest vertue next vnto [...]: the Fruite or seede leaste of all. The ly­ [...]uour is called Opobalsamum: the Fruicte Carpobalsamum: the wood Xilobalsamum.

Nux muscata, The Nutmegge.

THe Nutmegge is comfortatiue of the stomacke, lyuer, and the splene: it stay­ [...]th vomittes, & sweeteth the Breathe.

Nux Iuglans. The Wallnut.

THe vtter Rynde or huske of the fruit of the Wallnut is very tarte in taste, and byndinge, the Juyce of it is good for the mouth, and throates that bee inflamed: the Kernell is vnc [...]ous and euill for the Sto­macke, the Dyle of it is resolutiue.

Nux vomica, The vomitting Nutte

THis Fruite mooueth to vomittes, an [...] laxeth the Belly.

Nux Auellana. The Filbeard, or hasell Nutte.

THe Filbeard and hasell Nutte be some [...] ­what colder than the Wallnut, & more bynding: in other qualities like, but that [...] hasell Nut maketh the head to ake, and a [...] so is not good for the stomacke.

Polinum. Poliell mountayne.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, and aperti [...] of oppilations of all the inward parts [...] it prouoketh vrine, and the monethly cours [...] in women: also it healeth malicious vlcer [...] and soares.

Pascinaca, Baucia vulgò The Carret tame and wilde.

[Page 25] THe G [...]rde in carret is the weaker, the the wilde carret is the stronger in all qualities: the whole hearbe prouoketh v­ryne, and the monethly course in women, but specially ye roote & seede: the roote pro­uoketh lust and courage.

Viscum, Misseltoe.

THe Misseltoe is subtill, attractiue, and resolutiue: mixed with Incense it heal­peth malitious vlcers. That which grow­eth vpon ye Dake is preferred before other.

Aristolochia vtra (que), rotunda, longa, Astrologie.

BOth kyndes of this hearbe, and special­ly the rootes, be abstersiue, resolutiue, & good for the Breast and Loonges: they bee comfortable also for the Synewes, and dry vp vlcers.

Zeodaria, Setwall.

THis Roote is comfortatiue of the Sto­macke that is colde: it cōsumeth winde, [Page] and resisteth poyson: & is very wholsome in time of the plague.

Crocus, Saffron.

SAffron is maturatiue, and comfortatyue after Auicen it is a Cordiall: [...]ow ve it [...] it be vsed in excesse, it is not without da [...]n­ger: after Dioscorides it mooueth lust and courage.

Fenegrecum, Fenegreeke.

FEnegreeke is resolutiue, and mollitiue of swellings, and some thing abstersiue: if it be taken inwarde, it troubleth the Sto­macke.

Ieseminum, Iesemyne.

IEsemyne resolueth colde swellings: ea­seth paynes and griefe that commeth of colde Fleagme.

Aspalathus, Bitumen.

THis healeth greene wounds, and is good for all passions: and for all wounds and soares that needeth to be dryed with mean [...] [...]eate.

Libanus, Thus. Incense.

[...]Ncense is dry in the first degree, and hath acertayne bynding or strictiuenesse. The [...]arke of the tree is dry in ye second degree: [...]oth doe healpe the spitting of bloud: com­ [...]rt the stomacke, and stay the bloudy fluxe: [...]ey hyale also wounds, vlcers, & soares.

Manna Thuris. Pouder of Frankincense.

THis is the subtill pouder of Incense, & is of lyke vertue, but in some parte of [...]ore efficacie.

Fuligo Thuris. The Soote of Frankincense.

[...]He soote of all thinges doth dry and par­taketh the nature of the thinge burned. [...]he soote of Incense is vsed for Inflama­ [...]ons, rhewmes, & vlcers of the eyes. The [...]ote of Turpentine, and Myr [...] be of lyke [...]tue to the soote of frākincense. The soote [...] Storax is strōger thā is ye soote of Asphal­ [...]s: strongest of al is the soote of the Ceder [...].

Chamepitys, Aniga: Grounde pine.

THis Hearbe called Commonly Chame­pitys is abstersiue, and apertiue of opila­tions of the Lyuer: it prouoketh [...]ryne, and the monethly course in women. This hear [...] being greene healeth greene woundes, cor­rupt vlcers and soares, and resolueth har [...] nes in the breastes of women.

Chamedrys. Tyxago. Germander.

THis hearbe openeth opilations of the [...] uer and splene, prouoketh [...]ryne, and [...] monethly course in women.

Cyperus, Iuncus Anglosus. Englishe Galengale.

THe Roote of this hearbe is incissiue, breaketh the stone, prouoketh [...]ryne, the monethly course in women: it heal [...] moyst vlcers and soares.

Scolopendria, Asplenon. Ceterake.

[Page 27] THis Hearbe is inscissiue: it breaketh the stone, and resolueth the hardnesse of the [...]plen [...].

Colchichon, Hermodactylus. wilde Saffron.

THe Roote of this hearbe is [...]axatiue: it is geuen to them that haue the goute, & [...]aynes in their Joyntes: but it hurteth the stomacke.

Mell, Honny.

HOnny is abstersiue, and mundificatiue: when it is boyled and scommed it doth mūdifie ye lesse: it is sanatiue and consola­tiue of vlcers and soares: it is good nourish­ment for olde men and them that be of colde complexions: in younge persons and [...]oa [...]e natures it encreaseth choller.

Ambra, Ambergreace.

THis is confortatiue of the Brayne, and of all the Senses: it comforteth also ye heart, and is good for colde complexions.

Agalloction, Lignum Aloes.

THis Tree consumeth superfluous moy­stures of the stomacke, & comforteth thē same, and the Lyuer also: and maketh the mouth to smell sweete.

Marinbium, Prassin, Horehounde.

HOrebounde is abstersiue, and apertyue of the Lyuer and splene: it mundifieth the Loonges, and moou [...]th the monethly course in women.

Aloe. Aloes.

ALoes is abstersiue, & [...]axatiue of the bel­ly, and purgeth choller: it is lesse a [...] ­stersiue when it is washed: it is most com­fortatiue to the Stomacke of al Medicines [...]axatiue: it mundifieth and healeth vlcers, and soares that be harde to close, and speci­ally in the Foundament, and secret Mem­bers: it dryeth and healeth also Woun­des.

Cincus, Carthamus, Bastard Saffron.

[...]He seede of this hearbe [...]axeth the [...]elly, and purgeth fleagmo: howbeit it [...]ut­ [...]th the stomacke.

Cucumer Agrestis, wilde Cucumbers.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, mollificatyue, resolutiue, and strongly moueth the mo­nethly course in women: the Juyce of the fruite called Elaterum purgeth cholier and [...]eagme.

Calamus odoratus, vel Aromaticus. A soote Reede.

THis roote groweth in India, and is of a subtill substaunce, as all other thinges that [...]e Aromaticall & of pleasaunt sauour: it prouoketh [...]ryne, & the monethly course in Women, aswell taken inwardly as out­wardly in fomentations: it is good & com­ble in plaisters both to ye lyuer & stomacke.

Rhabarbarū, Reubarbarum, Rubarbe.

[Page] Rubarbe is abstersiue, and purgeth Chol­ler gently, and without daunger: it is a speciall remedy agaynst all cholericke di­seases: it openeth the obstructions of the [...]yuer, and prouoketh [...]ryne, as experience doth dayly shewe: the olde Au [...]thors both Greekes, and Arabikes wryre the same of Rubarbe, howbeit their descriptions séeme not to agree in all poynctes with out Ru­barbe nowe vsed.

Canabis, Hempe.

HEmpe seede cōsumeth & dryeth somuch, that if it bee eaten in great quantity, it dryeth seede of Generation: it is hard to be disgested, and maketh ye head ache.

Canabis Agrestis, wilde Hempe.

THe Roote of wilde Hempe, doth resolue hard swellinges.

Ficus Arbor, The Figge tree.

THe liquor of the Figge tree, & the Juice of the leaues be a [...]stersiue, [...]lcerative, & apertiue of the vaines, and consume war [...]s. The Juice of the wilde Figge tree is stron­ger than of ye Figge of the Gardein.

Ficus, & Carica, The greene Figge, and the dry.

[Page 29] FIgges are nourishing amōge all fruites, and cōmended to be best: notwtstanding yt they engēder euil humors, they haue ye cōmodity of they doe soone passe downe through the bel­ly, and are shortly distributed into ye whole body, they be abstersiue, and purge grauell from ye Kidnies: the nourishment that they geue is not firme and stable to body, as the nourishment of breade and fleshe, they bee windy, but by reason of their short tariance in the Belly the winde hurteth not much. The rype Figge is of much more prayse than the figge that is not ripe, the dry figge is colder than the greene, so that he cometh to the second degree, and is subtile, and in­scissiue: of the great vse of them commeth not very good bloud: one discommodity of them is, that they cause the body to bee full of Lyce: if the stomacke be full of euill hu­mours they doe much hurt, for shortly they be corrupted. Although the dry Figge bee subtill and inscissiue, yet it hurteth the Ly­uer and splene that is enflamed, and so doth the greene figge also: therefore when the Lyuer or splene is abstructed or hath opila­tions, figges be eaten before other meates [Page] wyth Tyme, Peniroiall, Sauery, Cala­mint, Pepper, or Ginger, and such like: who so eateth ye greene or dry figges after grosse meates, doth incurre domage. The dry fig is a medicine to the outwarde partes, and doth mature and rype hard swellings, and the same in short space doth resolue, and the decoction of them also: but when yee wyll more mature or rype than resolue, wheaten flower is to be mixed with them. And when you will more resolue than mature, ye flow­er of Barly bread mixed with them is of ye meane operation betweene ryping and re­soluing. The fatter the figge is, the more it doth mature or rype. The sharper and heat­ter, the more it doth resolue. The greene Fygge, by reason of the superfluous moy­stures, is weaker than the dry Fygge, but both doe laxe the belly. Fygges decocted to the thicknesse and substaunce of bonny are of the same vertue that Honny is, the figge decocted with Isope purge the Breast, and is good agaynste longe and colde coughes, and diseases of the Loonges.

Moscus, Muske.

[Page 30] MUske is pleasaunce in sauour, it com­forteth both the brayne, & the heart.

Acanthus, Branca vrsina vulgò. Beares Breeche.

THe leaues be resolutiue, the roote is in­scissiue and of subtill substance, and pro­uoketh vryne.

• Arcion, , • Personatia, , and • Lappa vulgò. the Burre.

THis is resolutiue & dry with a certayne bynding, wherefore it is good agaynst olde vlcers and soares.

Sycomorus, The Sycomore.

THe fruite of this tree is of little nourish­ment, and euill for the stomacke: the li­cour & Juice of the tree is mollitiue and re­solutiue of swellinges, & healeth woūds: it consumeth also the hardnes of the splene.

Muria, Brine.

THis is a kynde of bryne, which is abster­siue, & is vsed agaynst corrupt vlcers of the bowells, ministred in glysters.

Mariscus, A kynde of Bulrushes.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, and attractiue [...] the roote mooueth vomittes, and healeth great woundes of the synewes, and cordes.

Lilium, the Lilly▪

THe flouer of the Lilly is abstersiue, mol­litiue, and sanatiue. The Oyle of ye sayd Lilly is resolutiue, and mollitiue. The leafe abstersiue, and sanatyue. The roote abster­siue, resolutiue, and consolidatiue.

Seseli massiliense, Siler montanum. Siler mountayne.

THe roote and seede of this hearbe prouo­keth vryne, and the monethly course in women: it is of such subtilty that it healeth the falling sickenesse, and the shortnesse and difficulty of winde or breathing.

Rapum The Turnep.

THe seede of the Turnep is very whol­some, and mooueth Iust and courage: the roote is hard to be disgested, windy, and en­creaseth seede or nature. eaten in excesse, it breedeth crude and grosse humours.

Rapum Agreste, Rampions.

THe seede of Rampions is abstersiue, and mixed with the flower of the Lupyne, or Wheate, or Tare doth clense the Face and the rest of the body: the roote is commonly vsed in sallettes, more of vse than of suffici­ent Aucthority.

Bounias Napum, the Rape, or nanese.

THe roote boyled, doth inflate and nou­rishe lesse than the Turnep: the seede is is good agaynst all venym and poyson, for if it be drunke it maketh the venym to take none efficacy.

Lewcoyon, keiri, The wall Geloflouers.

OF these Geloflowers be three kyndes: yellowe, white, and blewe: the yellow is of more vertue, they bee abstersiue, reso­lutyue, and subtill: they prouoke the mo­nethly course in women, and resolue swel­linges.

Asphodelus, Albucum, Daffadill.

[Page] THis hearbe is abstersiue, resolutyue, and prouoketh the monethly course in Wo­men. The ashes of this hearbe are hoarter and dryer than ye bearbe it selfe. And there­fore it healeth a Disease in the heade called Alopecia.

Scilla, Squilla, Squilles.

THe squill is inscissiue of grosse humors, and specially in the Breast: it is better boyled, or rosted, than rawe.

Cici, Ricinus, Kerua, palma Christi, Tyke Seede.

THe seede & leaues of this hearbe bee ab­stersiue, and resolutiue. The Oyle of the Seede called Oleum Cicinum, or Oleum de Kerua, is more hoatter and more subtill thā the oyle Olyue, & therefore more resolueth: the seede purgeth choller & fleagme downe­warde, & prouoketh also to vomit.

Pix Sicca, Pitche.

PItche is abstersiue, maturatyue, and re­solutiue: it is more dry than hoate, and healeth woundes.

Pix liquida, Tarre.

THis is also abstersiue, maturatiue, & re­solutiue of hard swellinges: it is more [...]oate than dry, and is also subtill: good for [...]hem that be short breathed, and doe voyde corrupt and matterishe humours out of the [...]reaste.

Mirra, Mirre.

THis is the Gumme of a tree that grow­eth in Arabia: it is abstersiue, and exic­ratiue: it healeth woundes in the head, and [...]illeth wormes: prouoketh the monethly [...]ourse in women: is good for the Breast, & [...]gaynst the cough.

Mumia, Mumy.

MUmia is not much different from Bitu­men Indaicum: For in Syria they En­ [...]aulme the corses of dead persons wt Bitu­ [...]en Indaicū, which Enbaulming with por­ [...]ions of the deade Bodies is brought from [...]ence, & is called Mumia: it is vsed against [...]uses, aswell of the inwarde partes, as of [...] outwarde.

Eruca, Rocket.

ROcket is so hoat that it is not commō [...] eaten, without it be mingled with L [...] tice leaues: it is thought to encrease na [...]u [...] or seede, and prouoke iust: it maketh ye [...] to ake, if it be eaten alone: the seede prou [...] keth vryne: the wilde Rocket is strong [...] than the Rocket of the Gardein.

• Huscus, , and • Bruscus, Butchers broome.

THe leaues & fruit bee drunke to prouo [...] vrine, and the monethly course in wo [...] and to breake the stone. The roote decoc [...] is of the same vertue.

• Tussilago, , • Farfara, , and • Ungula caballina. Coltes foote.

THe fume of the leaues and roote of fol [...] foote dried & taken by the mouth, heal [...] eth the coughe, & straightnes of winde: th [...] leaues greene and made in plaisters beal [...] hoate inflamations, and swellinges that [...] harde to mature and rype.

Artemisia, Motherworte.

BOth kindes of mother worte be of subtill substaunce: they breake the stone in the [...]ydnies, vsed both in fomentations to the Belly, and taken by ye mouth, they prouoke [...]he monethly course in Women.

MEDICINES hoat and drie in the third degree.

IRIS. The Floure deluce.

THe floure deluce is subtill, abstersiue, maturatiue, and purgeth grosse humors that be in the breast: prouoketh ye monethly course in women: mundifieth filthy & vncleane soares with water and honny: it laxeth the belly, and purgeth grosse and cholericke hu­mors, & also humors thath be waterishe.

Meoum, Mewe.

THe roote of this hear be is dry in the se­cond degree: it prouoketh vrine, and the monethly course in women: it is windy, & therefore taken in excesse, it causeth ye heade to Ake.

Laserpitium, Assa, Assa faetida vulgó.

THis tree groweth in Syria, & Armenia, The lyquor or gūme of this tree which is thought to be our Beniemin: it is attrac­tiue, abstersiue, and consumeth superfluous fleshe: it is good for the breaste and lyuer, & prouoketh the monethly course in women: the gumme is sweete of odoure. Assaf [...]d [...] which is described of the Arabikes, is dis­pleasaunte in smell, and not mentioned of ye Greekes.

• Parthenium, , • Amaracus, , and • Matricaria, Fetherfewe.

FEtherfewe purgeth Fleagme, and Me­lancholy: and is good for the shortnes of wynde, and agaynst the stone: and is vsed in [Page 34] Baynes & fomentations against hard swel­linges, and in Posthumations in the secrete partes of Women Dioscorides calleth it Parthenium, Galen Amaracus, Serapion Matricaria.

Anisum, Anise.

ANise seede is resolutyue: it prouoketh vryne, and consumeth winde in ye belly: and prouoketh lust & courage: and encrea­seth Mylke.

Asarum, Assarabacca, Foales foote.

THe rootes of Assarabacca be abstersiue, and resolutiue: they prouoke vryne, and the monethly course in women: healpe the splene which is hard and endured: are good agaynst Dropsies and Sciatikaes: the lea­ues prouoke to vomit.

Sauina, Sauen.

SAuen is subtill, resolutyue, and abster­siue: it prouoketh the monethly course in in women, and vehement'y mooueth vryne, & [...]ifleth corrupted bicers and loares.

Epithinnum, Mosse growing about Time.

EPithinuum purgeth fleagme and melan­choly: it healpeth such persons as bee Melancholious, and windy: the quantity of it at the most is foure drammes.

Polypodium. Ferne of the Oake.

POlypodie purgeth fleagme, and Melan­choly.

• Panis porcinus, , and • Malum terrae, Sowebread.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, attractyue, in­scissiue, & resolutiue: it openeth ye vaines that be in the fundamēt called hemeroydes, and prouoketh the monethly course in wo­men.

Gentiana, Gentian.

GEntian is abstersiue, apertiue of the op [...] ­lations of the inward parts, with much efficacy: it is also a remedy agaynst ye sting­ing [Page 35] or byting of venemous beastes, if it bee drunke with Wyne, Pepper, or Rewe.

Dancus, wilde Carret.

THere be three kindes of this hearbe, the chiefe is Dancus Creticus: the Seede of euery of them prouoke vryne, and the mo­nethly course in women.

Cinamomum, Cinamon.

CInamon is of subtill substaunce, & com­fortatiue of the stomacke, & consumeth superfluous humors in the same, and keep­eth it from putrifaction: prouoketh vryne, and the monethly course in women: it is thought that we haue not true Cynamon: for that we haue is called Cassia Lignea.

Hipericon, Herba perforata. Sainct Iohns worte.

SAinct Johns worte is subtil, prouoketh vryne, and the monethly course in womē: this Hearbe beinge greene is sanatiue of woundes and burninges: dryed it healeth moyst vlcers and soares.

Ascyron, & Androsaemon. Tutsan.

BOth these hearbes be of the kinde of Hi▪ pericon, & in some thinges of like vertue: drunken they be very good for the Sciatica, and purge Choller.

Acorus, Hoate Gladen.

BY diuers learned mens iudgement the roote called Galengale is the true Aco­rus: it is subtill and resolutiue, prouoketh vryne, and healpeth the splene that is indu­rate, & hard: in Baynes it is good for cer­tayne secret diseases in women.

Hyssopus, Isope.

[...]Sope is subtill, and apertiue: good for olde Coughes, and doth extenuate grosse humors in the breast, and prouoketh ye mo­nethly course in women.

Ammoniacum, Gumme Armoniake.

TH [...]s gumme doth mollifie, and resolue hard swellinges, & in speciall the hard­nesse [Page 36] of ye splene: also hard & stony matters of substances in ye Joynts, & other partes.

Carduus, Scolimos. The Prickled Artichoake.

THis hearbe boyled in wyne, prouoketh stinking vryne abundantly: and thereof it healpeth the stronge sauour or euill smel­ling vnder the Armes, & in all the body.

Chanelaea Alba, a kinde of Spurge.

THis hearbe is receyued inwarde, & the roote thereof killeth the wormes: and healpeth them that haue Dropsies.

Chamelaea Nigra, A lesse kynde of Spurge.

THis hearbe is not to be taken inwards: it is abstersiue, & cureth letters, scabs, and morfewes.

Staphisagria, Stauesagre.

S [...]auesagre is abstersiue, attractiue, & vl­ceratiue: it healeth scabbes, & purgeth ye head: if it be chawed or holden in [...] mo [...]th, it draweth fleagme by the same.

• Glans vnguentaria, , and • Granum, Ben. Mirobalane.

THis fruite groweth in Ethyopia, and Aegypt: it is inscissiue, abstersiue, and bynding: it purgeth ye Skyn from tetters, morphewes, scabbes, and such like passions, prouoketh vomits, laxeth the belly, & pur­geth opilations of the Lyuer & splene.

Sambucus, Elder.

ELder is resolutiue, and consolidatiue of vlcers and soares: the leaues purge chol­ler and Fleagme.

Ebulus, Wallworte.

VVAllworte is of the same vertue that Elder is.

Amomnium, The rose of Hierechus,

THis hearbe is subtill, resolutiue, & pro­uoketh vryne: and in speciall resolueth the splene indurated: and it prouoketh the monethly course in women.

Iuniperus, Iuniper.

THe Juniper is hoat and dry in the third degree: howbeit the fruite of the same [...] but dry onely in the firste degree: it pro­uoketh vryne, it is good for the stomacke, & [...]reast: it healpeth the cough, and cōsumeth [...]inde.

Thymus, Tyme.

[...]Ime is inscissiue, and mundificatiue of the inward partes: it prouoketh vryne, and the monethly course in women: clean­seth the breast and loonges, purgeth Fleag­ [...]metike humors downewardes.

Colocinthis, Coloquintida.

COloquintida purgeth strongely Crude fleagme, & vndigested humors.

Tencedanum, Sowe fenell.

THis hearbe is resolutiue, subtil, & inscis­siue: good agaynst colde diseases of the synewes, the breast, and loonges: healpeth the hardnesse of the splene, and the [...]ote healeth malicious vlcers.

Cyn [...]mum, Comyn.

COmyne is inscissiue: prouoketh vryne▪ consumeth inflāmations, and winde.

• Carpesion, , and • Cububi, Cububbes, or Goordes.

CUbubbes be abstersiue, and mundifica­tiue of opilations of the inward parte [...] prouoketh vryne, and breake the stone in th [...] Kydnies.

• Caros, , and • Carum, Carowayes.

CArowayes [...]ee inscissiue, & subtill: goo [...] against the stone, prouoke vrine, cōsum [...] inflāmations & wynde

A [...]ium Satinum, Gardeine Smaledge.

THis hearbe is inscissiue, and subtil: [...] prouoketh vryne, & the monethly cour [...] in women: it dissolueth inflammations [...] winde, and specially the seede of it.

• Eleofelinon. , and • Apium Palustre, wilde or water Smaledge.

THis is thought by some men to be wilde smaledge, it is of the same vertue that the other is.

Stachys, Ambrose.

THis Hearbe is abstersiue, inscissiue: it prouoketh vryne, & the monethly course in women.

• Olusatrinum, , and • Hipposolimon, Alexanders.

THis roote is eaten both rawe and sodde: the Leaues and Buddes in like manner with meate: it prouoketh vryne, & the mo­nethly course in women: and hath the other properties of Parseley.

Ortoselmon, Streight Parsley.

THe kinde of Parsley that groweth vpō hills and Cony places, prouoketh vrine, and the monethly course in Women, as Parsley doth.

Petroselinon, Parsley▪

THe kinde of Parsley that is properly c [...] led Petroselinon, groweth in the bills [...] Macedony: it prouoketh vryne, & the mo­nethly course in women largely: it consu­meth winde, & inflations both of the St [...] ­macke, and gutte called Colon, taken wi [...] drinke: it easeth paynes of the Breast, th [...] Kydnies, and Bladder.

Smyrinum, Blacke Lonage.

THis hearbe groweth in a hill of Syci [...] called Mons Amanus: it is commonl [...] eaten both the leafe and stalke: it prouoket [...] vryne, and the monethly course in Wome [...] it healeth malicious vlcers and soares.

Capparis, Capers.

THe rynde of the Roote of Capers is a [...] ­stersiue, mūdificatiue, inscissiue, & reso­lutiue with a certaine bynding & astringe [...] ­cy, and therefore is good for the splene tha [...] is indurate: it prouoketh vrine, and the mo­nethly course in women, healeth malitiou [...] vlcers and soares: the fruite is of like ver­tue, but not of such efficacy.

Bdellinum, Dellium.

THis gumme is of a tree that groweth in the country of India, and in Arabia: it [...] mollitiue, and resolutyue of hard and en­ [...]ured swellinges it breaketh the stone: [...]ouoketh vryne, and the monethly course [...] women.

• Sampsuchus, , and • Maiorana, Marierome gentell.

MArierome is subtill, and resolutiue: it prouoketh vrine, & the monethly course [...] women.

Ami, Ammeos, Amy.

AMmeos is abstersiue, resolutiue, & sub­till: it prouoketh vryne, and the moneth­ly course in women.

Menta, the Mynte.

THe Mynte is abstersiue, and bynding: it killeth wormes, & stoppeth the spittinge of bloud, comforteth the stomacke, stayeth [...]omiting, prouoketh lust and Conrage.

Mentastrum, the wilde Mynte▪

[Page] THe wylde mynte is much of ye same ver­tue, but not so perfect and good to be [...] ­sed in health.

Serpillum, Running Tyme.

RUnning Tyme is resolutiue, and prouo­keth vryne, and the monethly course [...] women: decocted with vynegre, and mixe [...] with oyle of Roses, it easeth the paynes [...] the heade.

Ruta, Rewe.

REwe is resolutiue, & inscissiue of gross [...] humours: it prouoketh vryne, and th [...] monethly course in women: dissolueth infla­tions & wynde: extinguisheth and debateth lust and courage.

Cassia Lignea, Cynamon.

THis is iudged to be our Cynamon tha [...] wee doe vse: it is inscissiue, and resolu­tiue of grosse humors of all parts of the bo­dy, and comforteth the same: it prouoketh monethly course in women which be stayed by excesse and grossenesse of super [...]uous humors.

Scamonium, Scamony.

[...]Camony laxeth the Belly, and purgeth choller & Fleagme.

Sagapenum, Gūme serapyne.

THis Gumme is of an hearbe growing in Media: it is subtill, and abstersiue: it [...]ndifieth and cleanseth the sight that is [...]rkened: it is good agaynst the Palsey, & [...] colde diseases as come of colde & grosse [...]mors.

Silybion, The common Eryn­gium, or Seaholme.

THe Juice of the roote of this hearbe, wt water and hony mooueth to vomit: while [...]e hearbe is younge and tender, it is eaten [...]yth salte and oyle.

Lolium, Darnell.

DArnell is abstersiue of ye outward parts of the body, from letters, ring wormes, [...]nd such like: also good for [...]rabbes and vl­ [...]rations: taken inwardes, sayth Galende [...]limentis, it maketh the head to ake & be as [...] man were drunke for the space: besides ye [...] encreaseth euill humors

Chelidonium maius, Celondyne.

CElondyne is abstersiue: the Juice of th [...] hearbe cleanseth & mūdifieth the sighte [...] which is obscured & darkened by grosse h [...] ­mors: the roote healpeth the Jaundice, an [...] opilations of the Lyuer.

Chelidonium minus, Figwort.

THis hearbe is hoatter and sharper tha [...] Celondyne, in somuch that it doth exul­terate the skyn in short space, and purgeth▪ head by the nose: it is counted hoate in th [...] fourth degree.

Raphanus, Radix, Radishe.

RAdishe is resolutiue, and the wilde R [...] ­dishe is of more strength than the Ga [...] deyn radishe: it is windy, and not good [...] the stomacke: the seede is of greater effic [...] ­cy than the hearbe: it prouoketh to vomi [...] and also vryne: the roote is commonly ea [...] for Sauce, more than for nourishing.

• Panax Heraclium, & Opoponax. , and • Panax, and the Iuyce. 

THe Juyce of this hearbe is called Opoponax, it is resolutiue, & mol­litiue, good agaynst all colde dy­leases: the [...]e of the roote is ab­stersiue, and healeth malicious vlcers, and [...]oares. The Juice and Seede prouoketh the monethly course in women: the Juyce of it most cōmonly is called Opoponax.

Panax ascl [...]pium, The second kynde of Panax

THis kinde of Panax is not so hoat as the kinde called Heracl [...]: the whole hearbe. the floure and seede mixed with hunny, hea­leth vlcers and soares.

Panax chironium, The third kinde of Panax.

THis kinde of Panax is of ye same vertue and strength, that Panax asclepium last before spoken, is.

Agnus Castus, Uitex, Chaste tree.

THis tree is subtill, with a certayne bin­ding: the seede or fruite of it is eaten: howbeit, it causeth the headache, the sayde leaues and fruite doe consume wynde, doth decay lust and courage, both taken inwards and layde outwardes vnder the body: it o­peneth opilations of the lyuer & splene.

Origanum Organe.

ALl kindes of this hearbe bee subtill, and inscissiue, & prouoke the monethly course in women: and wyth hunny it healpeth the the coughe: dronke wyth wyne it resisteth the biting of venemous beastes.

Tragagorinum, wilde Marierome.

THis hearbe is of the same vertue tha [...] Origanum is, and moreouer:: t is good for the stomack that refuseth and abhorreth meate.

Pulegium, Penieroyall.

THis hearbe is subtill, it purgeth gro [...] humors & vitious of the breast & loongs [...] mooueth the monethly course in Women [Page 42] healpeth the bytinge of venemous beastes drunke wyth wyne.

Dictamnus, Dittany.

THis hearbe groweth in Creete, and is of the same vertue that Pulegium before spoken is: but of more efficacy & strength.

Pseudodictamnus, Bastard Dittany.

THis is of the same vertue that Dictam­nus is, but of lesse strength & efficacy.

• Calaminta, , and • Nepeta, The Calaminte, Neperiall.

BOth the Calamint & Neperiall bee sub­till, inscissiue, and penetratyue: they pro­uoke sweats, & dry ye whole body: they pro­uoke the monethly course in women, purge the breast, and the opilations of the Lyuer: healpe the Jaundice.

Thymbra, Satureia, Sauery.

SAuery prouoketh vryne, and the moneth­ly course in women: it purgeth the breast of grosse humors, and is of the same vertue that time is, but not of lyke strength.

Cent aurum maius, Rapontike.

THys Hearbe prouoketh the mon ethly course in women: it doth heale a ud in­coryate woundes: strengthneth & comfor­teth the Member also that is wounded: it healpeth the spitting of bloude. Some men iudge the toote of this hearbe to be yt which wee call Ra Pon [...]cum.

Centaurum minus, Centory.

THe roote of Centory is of no strength ne vertue: the leaues and Floures bee ab­stersiue, & exiccatiue: they heale great woū ­des, soares, and vlcers: purge opilations of the iyuer, healpe the splene indured, pro­uoke the monethly course in women.

Cardamomum Graecorum, Cardumenum, Greekishe Graynes.

THis seede is brought from India, & Ar­menia: it is good against all colde disea­ses of ye sinewes, it killeth wormes, with v­ryne [Page 43] it healeth scabbes. This Cardamomū is called of the Arabikes Cardamenum, & is a thinge much different from that they call Cardamomum, which is hoate and dry in the first degree.

Abrotanum. Sothernewoode.

THere be two kyndes of it, both bee reso­lutiue, and inscissiue, in so much that the Floures boyled in oyle and anoynted on the body, take away the colde and shyuering in feuers: they mooue the monethly course in women, and kill wormes.

Costus. Cost mary.

THis hearbe is abstersiue, and attractiue: good accaynst the Palsey and colde shi­uerings in feuers, killeth wormes, prouo­keth vryne & the monethly course in weomē, mooneth to lust & courage drunke and taken wyth wyne and hunny.

Gariophillon, The Cloue.

CLoues be comfortatyue of the stomacke and lyuer: doe stay vomitting and cause the body to smell sweete.

Galbanum, Galban.

THis gumme is brought out of Syria, it is resolutiue and mollitiue: the smell of it reuiueth and stirreth them that haue ye falling euill: and women that be in the pas­sion called the mother.

• Coccus, , • Granum tinctorū, , and • Charmes, Grayne to dye withall.

GRayne is astringent & binding: it heal­eth great woūds, and pearsing of the si­newes, anoynted with vineger and hunny.

Betonica, Betony

BEtony is inscissiue, & abstersiue: it brea­keth the stone, purgeth the Breast, the Loonges, and the Lyuer, prouoketh vryne, & the monethly course in Women, healpeth them that haue the fallinge sicknes: made in playsters, it healpeth the byting of vene­mous beastes.

• Ston, , and • Berula, Bilders, or Belragges.

BIlders is resolutiue, prouoketh vryne. & the monethly course in womē, and brea­keth also the stone.

Feniculum, Fenell.

ALlthough Fenell bee hoat in the thirde degree, it is dry in the first, and therefore [...]encreaseth Milke: it is good for the eyes, [...]ouoketh vryne, and the monethly course [...] women.

Feniculum Agreste, wilde Fenell.

THis fenell is of the same vertue & power that the Gardein fenell is, onely excepte [...]hat it is much drier, and therefore it rather [...]cayeth milke, than encreaseth it.

Anethum, Dill.

[...]Ill is resolutiue, and maturatiue: it cea­seth paynes, & prouoketh vryne: burned [...] bealeth moyst vlcers and soares, & speci­ [...]lly such as be in the secret parts: decorted [...]nd boyled in oyle, it resolueth, matureth, & [...]ypeth crude swellinges, ceaseth paynes, & [...]rouoketh sleepe.

• Ros marinus, , and • Libanotis, Rosemary.

ROsemary is abstersiue, mollificative, in­scissiue, & resolutiue: ye decoctiō of it help­eth [Page] the Jaundice: mooueth vryne, and pro­uoketh the monethly course in women.

Nigella, Melanthium, Hearbe Git.

NIgella is abstersiue, and inscissiue, and subtill: the smell of it healpeth Catar­res, and colde rhe [...]mes of the beade: it kil­leth wormes, and healpeth the shortents of wynde: prouoketh vryne, and the moneth­ly course in women.

Turbith, Turpetum, Turbit.

THis roote is laxatiue, & purgeth fleagme that is grosse, from the extreame parts: howbeit if it be not corrected wyth Ginger and thinges Aromaticall, which he comfor­tatiue of the Stomacke, it purgeth payne­fully, and troubleth the stomake.

Scordium, T [...]ixago palustris. water Germander.

THis hearbe purgeth and mundifieth the inwarde partes: it prouoketh vryne, & [Page 45] the monethly course in Women, drunke it auayseth agaynst all colde diseases. Being greene it healeth great woundes: being dri­ed it healeth vlcers & soares. Decocted in wyne it healpeth agaynst the biting of vene­mous serpentes.

Galanga, Galengale.

THis roote is good for the stomacke, & consumeth colde humors in the same: it healpeth digestion: and encreaseth se [...]e of generation. These properties be not foūd in the roote wee call commonly Galengale, the which shoulde haue these propertyes. Wherefore it is thought that we lacke the true Galengale, & that which wee do nowe call Galengale to bee the Roote of Acorus after this description, as it is spoken of be­fore in the Chapiter of Acorus.

• Helleborus Niger, , and • veratrum Nigrum, Bearefoate.

THis hearbe is thought to bee a common hearbe growinge heere in England cal­led setterworte, or longe worte: it is abster­siue, [Page] purgeth melancholy downe ward, mū ­difieth the outwarde partes from scabbes, ringwormes, tetters, and such like infir­mities of the Skyn.

• Helleborus Albus, , and • Ueratrum Albū, White Neese woorte.

HElleborus albus, is much of the same vertue, and purgeth grosse humors by vomit, and downewardes also.

Laurus, the Bay tree.

THe Leaues and Berries of the Bay trée be resolueiue: but the Berry is of more efficacy and strength: the rynde of the roote doth breake the stone, and is good for the Lyuer, good for shortnes of wynde & rhew­mes that fall to the breast.

Laurus Alexandrina. The Bay of Alexandria.

THis hearbe prouoketh vryue, & the mo­uethly course in women.

Laureola, Laurell.

[...]Aurell is of the some vertue ye Laurus Alexandrina is, & besides that mooueth [...] vomit, & purgeth fleagme downewards,

Chamaedaphnis, Peruincle.

CHamaedaphnis is of the same power ye Laurus Alexandrina is.

Doronicum, Cummyne of Ethyope.

THis is a certayne Roote Aromaticall, good for the stomack and the heart: good against paines & griefes that come of grosse [...]yndes, and inflations.

Uitis Alba, Brionie.

THe Roote and Fruite of Brionie is ab­stersiue, and resolutiue: it cleanseth the Skin from scabbes, and Leaprosies, it pro­uoketh vryne, and helpeth the Splene that is endured: the tender croppes of it are ea­ [...]en in the spring of the yeare in Sallets, & [...]ee good for the stomacke.

Uitis Nigra, Downie vyne.

This kinde of vyne is of the same vert [...] ye Brionia before spoken is in all things, but yt it is somewhat weaker in operation.

Uitis Siluestris. wilde vyne.

THis Uyne is different [...] nature much frō Labrus­ca, for it is hoate and dry [...] if it be decocted or boyle [...] in wyne, or condite wt [...] ­ter of ye Sea, it purget [...] waterish humors, and is giuen to them th [...] haue the Dropsie: the fruite purgeth t [...] skyn from sunne burning, and other disco [...] loring: the tender croppes of it be reseru [...] in salt and bryne, and eaten.

Zinziber, Ginger.

GInger doth not heate so soone [...] Peper, by reason yt his substan [...] is grosser: it is good for the col [...] stomacke, healpeth concoction [...] [Page 47] looseth the belly: it purgeth the eyes, and is almost of the same vertue that Pepper is: it prouoketh lust & courage after Auicen.

• Uerbascum. , and • Tapsus Barbatus. Molen.

ALl kindes of Molen be abstersiue & dry, and good for passions that be rhewma­tike.

Uerbenica, Veruayne.

BOth kyndes of Ueruayne bee so dryinge and byndinge, that they heale woundes, and stay bloud.

Sisimbrion vtrnnque. water Myntes, and red Myntes.

THere bee two kyndes of Sisimbri­on, the one is a kynde of wylde Myntes, the other is our water Cressis, which is hoate and prouo­keth vryne.

Sandix, Corne Cheruell.

THis Hearbe prouoketh vryne, & open [...] opilations of the inwarde partes.

MEDICINES hoat and drie in the fourth degree.

Ruta agrestis, Harmell, wilde Rewe.

THis Hearbe is subtill, inscissi [...] and resolutiue of grosse humor [...] it prouoketh vryne, and the m [...] ­nethly course in women.

Euphorbium, Euphorbe.

THis Gumme is brought from Lybia: is very subtill, and is good against cold diseases, as Palsies, and such like.

Cepa, The Onion.

THe Onion is abstersiue, and apertyue of the vaynes that be in the fundament cal­led Emeroides: if they be eaten they ingē ­der inflations and winde, and encrease euill humors: if they be boyled, they be of lesse hurte.

Bulbus Cibarius, The best Hyacinth.

THis Hearbe eaten engendreth euill hu­mors, and winde: how be it, it mooueth appetite: purgeth the Breaste, prouoketh lust and courage.

Bulbus vomitorius. The vomitinge Hyacinth.

THis kynde of Bulbus is hoater than ye kynde before spoken of, called Bulbus [...]ibarius, and prouoketh vomit.

Anacardium. Hart berries.

THis fruite groweth in Cycill, and Apu­lia: it sharpneth the sight, and restoreth the memory.

• Erysimon, , and • Irio, wilde Rocket winter Cresses.

VVIlde Rocket purgeth the breast, an [...] the loonges of grosse humors: if [...] bee steeped in water and then corified it [...] of more efficacy.

Allium, Garlicke.

GArlicke is inscissiue of gro [...] humors, apertiue of opilatio [...] it consumeth wynde, and ky­leth wormes, how bee it [...] much vse of it engendreth e [...] humors, and hurteth them that bee of ho [...] Complexions: and hurteth the eye sigh [...]

Nastur [...]ium, Cresses.

CRresses be inscissiue, and good a­gainst the Sciatica, and all dis­seases: for they bee in manner as hoat as mustard seede: they helpe the shortnesse of the winde that commeth of grosse humors: the hearbe dryed is of like strength as ye seede is, but greene it is wea­ [...]er: it killeth wormes, & prouoketh lust & courage.

Elenium, Enula Campana. Elecampane.

THis hearbe purgeth the breast of grosse humors: mooueth vryne, & the moneth­ly course in women: it is good for the Sci­tica, and all colde diseases, for it is rubifi­catyue, and exulceratiue.

Thapsia, Thapfene.

THis hearbe is resolutiue, and attractiue from the deepe parts of the body [...]it pur­geth the breast & loongs of grosse humors: [Page] and is good agaynst all colde diseases, as [...]ciatica, the ache of the head that commet [...] of colde humors, for it is exulceratyue.

Thalspi, Triacle mustard.

THis hea [...]be is subtil, breaketh swelling and Impostumations within the body prouoketh the monethly course in women in glisters it healpeth the Sciatica: it purgeth choller vpwardes, and downe wards.

Arabis, Nasturtium Orientale, Cresses of India.

THe seede of this hearbe is vsed in Cappadocia with meate in steade of Peppe [...] ▪

Tithymall [...] genera, Herbae! lactariae genera. Characias, Myrtites, Paralius, Hetrosc [...] pius, Cyparissus, Dendroides, Platiphy [...] los, The kyndes of Spurge.

There bee vij kyndes of Cithymall: [...] be avster siue, inscissiue, & of like verta [...] [Page 50] The lyquor of them is strongest, next is the [...]eede, then the leaues, of lesse strength is ye [...]oote: boyled in vyneger it doth healpe the [...]oothache: and so doth the lyquor. The ly­quor also taketh away haire: [...]ut because it is exulceratiue, it must be mixed wt Oyle, ye [...]yquor also taketh away Warts, & tetters: and purgeth choller and Fleagme downe­wardes: but with [...]unny and water it pro­ [...]oketh vomit.

Porrum, The Leeke.

THe Leeke is subtill and inscissiue: it pro­uoketh vryne, and the monethly course in women. If it bee much vsed for nourish­ing it increaseth euill humors: prouoketh lust and Courage.

Ampel [...] Prason, wilde Leeke.

THis wilde leeke that groweth in vyne­bardes, is euill for the stomacke, inscis­siue, and apertyue of opilations: it proud­ [...]oketh vryne, and the monethly course in women.

Struthion, Condisi, Angelica.

THe roote of this hea [...]he is a [...]ster siue, & inscissiue: it mooueth vryne, and is goo [...] for the breaste, and prouoketh sweating.

Chamelaea. Theophrastus Rosemary.

CHamelaea is abstersiue, & mundificati [...] with hunny of vncleane & filthy soares it purgeth also choller and fleagme.

Lathyris, Cataputia vulg [...]: Spurge.

SPurge is inscissiue, & abstersiue: the seed of it purgeth choller and fleagme, & prouoketh to vomit.

Pirethrum, Pellitory of Spayne.

THe roote of this hearbe is hoat, dry, a [...] burning: chawed & masticated, it dra [...] eth fleagme largely from the heade: decoted [Page 51] or boyled in vineger it healpeth ye tooth­ache that commeth of colde humors: made into an Oyntment with Oyle, it prouoketh sweate, and easeth the coldenesse that com­eth with longe Feauers: healpeth also all [...]olde dyseases, as Palsies, and such like.

Piper,Longum,The three kindes of Pepper.
Album,
Nigrum,

ALl kindes of Pepper be good for ye colde stomacke, and helpe cōc [...]tion: are good against all colde Passions of all the inward and outward partes: the roote of the Pep­per is abstersiue, and Attrac [...]yue.

Sapo, Sope,

SOye is abstersiue, attractyue, and vl­ceratyue.

Cedru [...], & Cedrea. The Gumme of the Ceder tree.

THe Gumme of the Cedar tree, is putri­ficatiue, and adustiue: it healpeth & eas­eth the payues of the Teeth, & if the Tooth [Page] bee hollowe it breaketh the same: it killeth all vermyne or wormes within the body: the Oyle and v [...]ciiouse parte of this Gumme is more temperate than the Dragges and grosse part of it is, for the grosse part doth exalcerate, th' other doth ory and heale. The tree is but hoate in the thirde degree.

Cinis, Ashes.

THe substaunce of Ashes contayneth in it two partes, the one is subtill and fie­ry, which whe [...] the Ashes be steeped in wa­ter remayneth in the Lee: the other is th [...] earthly parte which discendeth to the bot­tome. All Ashes bee not of one vertue: fo [...] some be stiptike and bynding, some burning as the Ashes of the Fygge tree, and of th [...] Tithymall.

Lepidium, Bastarde Dittany.

THis Hearbe is of the same vertue tha [...] Cresses are, and also doth vlcerate, an [...] therefore it is good for the sciatica.

Pi [...]ynsa, Esula vulgò. Lintspourge.

[Page 52] THis hear [...]e is of the same vertue that ye kyndes of Cithymalles are, and it lax­ [...]th the Belly.

Sinapium, Mustarde.

MUstarde is Attractyue: it prouoketh sneesinge, and purgeth the heade: it is good against all colde passions of the belly.

Batrachium, Rannuculus, Apium risus, Crowefoote.

ALI kyndes of Crowfoote be so hoat, that they exulcerate, and excoriate: they bee [...]bstersine, and resolutyue: the roote dryed prouoketh sueesing.

MEDICINES hoat and moiste in the first degree.

Borago, Buglossa Graecorum, Borage.

[Page] BUrrage leaues in Wyne incrase [...]yrth: d [...]cocted in Hunny, and Water healpe the roughnesse & asperity of the Chroate.

Satyrion, Testiculus vulpis vulg [...]. Lady Traces.

THis Hearbe is sweete, and hath a su­persluous moystnesse in it, wherefore [...] prouoketh lust, and courage: the roote is [...] the same vertue.

Satyrion Rubeum, Another kynde with red floures.

OF this kinde of Satyrion speaketh Dioscorides, and Pliny: it hath the prop [...] ty to prouoke lust and courage, more stronger than the other before spoken of.

Orchis, Testiculus Ca [...]is. Dogstones.

THys Hearbe hath two Rootes, the bigger is hoate and moyste, and full of h [...] midite, whych prouoketh lust and courag [...] [Page 53] more stronger than the other before spo­ken of.

Orchis Serapia [...]. Three stoned Orchis.

THis Hearbe is dryer than Testiculus Ca­nis before spoken of: and therefore doth not a like prouoke lust and courage: it is re­solutiue, and mundificatiue of filthy vlcers and soares. And the more effectually if it [...]ee dryed.

MEDICINES hoat and moiste in the second degree.

Beheū,Album,Hearbe Tunicle.
Rubrum,

THere be two kindes of this roote the one is red, the other is white: they be brought from Armenia: they doe Engender or increase Seede or Nature: they doe comforte the [Page] heart, and healpe trembling of the same. Serapion iudgeth them to be hoat & moyste, and Auicen hoat and dry.

Lingua auis, Kitkeies.

THis is iudged after the description of Se­rapion to be the A she keys: they increase nature or seede, and prouoke lust, and com­forte the hearte.

Nux Indica, The Nut of India.

THis fruite is of subtill nature and little nourishing, and heauy to the stomack: it increaseth lust and Courage: the Oyle of it is good for the Emeroides, and killeth litle wormes in the fundament.

MEDICINES Colde and Dry in the first degree.

Mirtus, & Mirtidanum, The Mirtle tree.

THis tree, and euery parte of it is stric­tiue, and bynding: it stayeth all fluxes [Page 54] both inwardly taken & outwardly, of bloud, as of other humors: Mirtidanum is a cer­tayne substance that groweth vpon ye Mir­tle tree, it is drier & more byndinge or stric­tiue than the Mirtle tree.

Muscus, Usnea, Mosse.

THis is the Mosse that groweth vpon the Ceder tree, the Pyne tree, the white Po­pler tree, and the Oake tree: but that which groweth vpon the Ceder tree is of most effi­cacy, for it is strictiue, and with all resolu­tiue, and mollityue.

Aster Atticus, Herba Iuginalis, Grineworte.

THis hearbe is bynding, and resolutyue: it is specially good agaynst swellings in the Share or Gryne.

Quercus, The Oake tree.

ALl parts of the Oake tree be stryctiue and byndinge, but the Inner Barke [Page] and Cup of the Acorne more than the other partes: it healpeth the spitting of bloud, & the flut in women, and olde rhewmes of the stomacke: the Leaues greene heale greene woundes. The Acorne is of great nourish­ing, but it is hard to be disgested, and engē ­dreth grosse humors: the Cup of the Acorn is very bynding and strictiue.

Glans Castanea, The Chestnut.

THe Chestnut is of the same vertue that the Acorne is, but of better nourishmēt: both kindes doe increase the headache.

Fagus, & Ilex. The Beeche, and the Ilex tree.

THese trees be of the same vertue yt the Oake tree is. The rynde of the Roote of the tree called Ilex, boy­led in Water and mixed wyth an hearbe called Cimola coloureth the hayre blacke.

Spina Alba, Bedeguards, Hawthorne.

THe Roote of this hearbe is Strictiue, & bynding. Wherefore it healpeth weake Stomacks: it staieth also spitting of bloud, and the increase of swellinges: the decocti­on of it healpeth the toothathe: the Seede is subtill, and hoate, and therefore drunke it healpeth the crampes, and the by [...]ing of ve­nemous serpentes.

Coralium,Rubrum,All kyndes of Corall.
Album,
N [...]grum,

ALl the kyndes of Corall be abstersiue, & bynding: good agaynst the bloudy flux, and spitting of bloud: the red Corall is of most efficacy.

Papyrus, Hearbe Paper.

PApyrus groweth in the Water of Nyle, ten Cubites hyghe: of this, Antiquity made theyr Paper: the vse in Phisicke of it was to keepe Fistulas open: the Ashes of it wyth vyneger or wyne healeth greene vl­cers and soares.

Milium, Milium Romanum vulgò. Millet.

THis kinde of corne is of litle nourishing: it stayeth the fluxe of the belly, and pro­uoketh vryne: tor [...]ified and put into bagges or Playsters, it easeth torsions and paynes of grosse humors and wynde.

Panicum, Panike.

THis Corne is of the same vertue yt Mili­um is, but of lesse nourishing: it stayeth rhewmes falling into the stomack: made in playsters, it doth dry & coole the outwarde partes.

Oxisthoemus, A kynde of Bullrushe.

THis is a certaine Junke or Rushe which groweth in waterish places. The séedes of all kyndes of it fryed & drunk with wyne stoppe the fluxe of the Belly, and the redde Fiuxe in women. How be it they make th [...] the Heade to Ake, and procure ouermuch sleepe.

Ulmus, The Elme tree.

THe leaues of the Elme tree be binding, & abstersiue, so that they heale a greene wounde. The Rynde is so abstersiue, that it healeth & purgeth wyth vyneger the rough and Leaprouse Skynne, and healeth also woundes. The Roote is of the same vertue in so much that it is vsed to ioyne and fasten bones that are broken, Dioscorides sayth, that the grosse rynde of it with minte, purg­eth Fleagme.

Dipsacus, Labrum veneris, Tasill.

THe Tasill is dry in the second degree: it is also abstersiue, the roote boyled wyth wyne, healeth the fistula in the Fundamēt, and choppes or ryuings in the same parte.

Mirobalani. Citrini, Indi, Kebuli, Eniblici, Bellirici. The kyndes of Mirobalans.

[Page] THese fiue kyndes of Mirobalans bee te­stringent, and somethinge tarte. Where­fore they all comfort the stomacke. The Ci­tryue purge choller. The Indi purge Me­lancholy, and Choller adust. Rebuli purg [...] Melancholy. Enib [...]ci purge fleagme, an [...] refresh the Wit. Bellitici purge fleagm [...] also, and refreshe the Wit and Brayne Cō dite they bee more delycate, and of no less vertue.

MEDICINES Colde and Dry in the first degree.

MESPILVS, Medlers.

THis Fruite is tarte and bynding, & g [...] for the Stomacke, and stoppe the Fl [...] of the Belly.

Epimelis. Another kynde of Medlers.

[Page 57] THis kynde of Medler is stiptike & byn­ding: hard to bee digested and good for the stomacke: it eugendreth also the head­ [...]che.

Rosa, Rosa Damascena. The Rose.

THe Rose is stiptike, and somewhat reso­lutyue, & specially good agaynst al hoat inflamations, and swellinges, in their be­ginninge, and their augmente or increase. The yellowe Floure of it is more bynding, and more dryer. The Arabikes doe ascribe to the Juyce of the Rose, power and vertue to laxe the Belly. The Damaske rose is e­steemed to bee the more perfect and better smell.

Sorba, The seruis

SEruises bee bynding, and good for ye flure of the Belly, and bee not much to bee ea­ten, but rather as a medecyne than a nou­rishment.

Ligustrum, Alcanna. Pryuet.

PRyuet is bynding, and resolutyue: good for burning of the fyre, and hoate [...]s­mations [Page] and swellinges: it healeth vlcera­tions of the Mouthe that often happe i [...] Children.

Lapathum satinum, Rumex, Patience.

THe roote of this breaketh the stone, and moueth the monethly course in wome [...] the hoate hearbe is resolutiue. The seede i [...] bynding, and stayeth all manner of fluxes.

Oxilapathum, Acetosa vulgò. Sorrell.

SOrrell is resolutyue, and repercussyue [...] the seede is tarte and binding, so that i [...] healeth the Flux of the belly more than th [...] seede of Patience: the Roote breaketh th [...] stone: healeth the Jaundice, and prouoketh the monethly course in women.

Hippolapathum, Lapathumpalustre, The water Docke.

THe water docke, is of the same vertue [...] Patience and Sorrell bee, but mor [...] weaker.

Lapathum Agresto The common Docke.

THe Docke roote boyled in vyneger or wyne, & also the decoction of it warme holden in the mouth, fasteneth the teeth, & [...]aseth the paynes of the same. The roote healeth the Jaundice, and mooueth the mo­nethly course in women.

Tribulus, Terrestris, Aquaticus. The land, and water Briar.

BOth kindes of this are repercussiue, and good agaynst hoate inflamations & swel­linge in the beginning, but the kinde that is [...]alled cerrestris, is more bynding: and the seede of it breaketh the stone.

Lychen, Epatica. Lyuerworte.

LYuerworte besides that it is colde & dry, it is also abstersine: it auaileth & is good [Page] agaynst hoate swellinges: healeth Ryng­wormes, and tetters, and stopeth bloud.

Pirus, The Peare tree.

THe Leaues and tender Braunches bee stiptike and bynding, the fruite with [...]ar [...]nes or stipticknesse hath [...] certayne waterishe sweetenesse, s [...] that it is of a compounde nature: it is good fo [...] the stomacke, and stopeth the belly: de­bareth the thyrlle: beaten to a Playster [...] doth ory and refrigerate temperately, in s [...] much that it healeth woundes. The wyld [...] Peare is of the same vertue.

Cisthos, Bushsage.

THis plante is Stiptike and byndinge the leaues heale woundes, & the floure [...] be of more efficacy, in so much that drunk [...] wyth wyne they cure the bloudy Fluxe, an [...] heale putrified vlcers and soares.

Hypocisthos, The Bushsagemushrum:

THis groweth at the roote of the plant called Cisthos, and of it is taken & gathered [Page 59] a certayne liquor of the same name, which liquor is more stiptike and byndinge than Cisthos: it stayeth all Fluxes & rhew­matike Dispositions into all partes, and strengthneth the parte that is wyth ouer­much moystnesse resolued: it is mixed with Playsters for the Lyuer and Stomacke, for it comforteth the sayde partes.

Pisum, The Pease.

THe Pease doth nourishe, and is of lyke substance to the Beane, but that i [...] is not so wyndy, neyther so abstersiue: and therefore it remayneth longer in the belly than the Beane.

Palma, The Date tree.

THe Date tree is colde, stiptike, & bynd­ing in all his partes: the fruite is stip­tike, and of temperate heate, comfortatyue to the vtter partes in playsters: and to the inner partes receaued with other medicines if it be eaten alone it engendreth grosse and vitious humors: procureth the opilations both of the Lyuer and splene: and maketh the Head to ake.

Grameum. The grasse called quytche.

THe roote of this grasse healeth greene woundes: and the decoction of it brea­keth the stone.

Lotus Arbor. The Lote tree.

THis tree is stiptike or bynding, the de­coction of the shaving of this tree stay­eth the flux of the belly, the bloudy flux, the flux in women: and fasteneth the hayre that falleth.

Trages, Spelta vulgò, Spelt.

THis kinde of Corne is hard to be conco [...] ted and altered, it makethe the belly so­luble.

Zea, Beerebarly.

THis kinde of corne nourisheth lesse tha [...] wheate, and more than Barly.

Rubus, The Bryer.

THe leaues & huds o [...] this bryer are stiptike or binding, they heale [...]lceration [...] [Page 60] in the mouth, and also woundes. The fruite being type is not so tarte and stiptike, for it is some what sweete, and therefore it is ea­ten: howbeit before that it is ripe, it is tarte and stiptike, and so are the floures: both stop all kindes of fluxes: and the roote brea­keth the stone.

Sentis, Cinosbatus, Rosa Canina. Houndes brier, or the hippe.

THe fruite and Canes be stiptike or byn­ding: the [...]y [...]he of the fruite is to be fea­red, for it hurteth the Wynde pype if it bee eaten.

Auena, Oates.

THe Ote after Galen is no nourishing for men, but for beastes: as a medicine it is of the same vertue that Barley is: for in plaisters it dryeth, and resolueth with a cer­tayne bynding, whereby it stayeth the fluxe of the belly: after Dioscorides it healpeth the cough.

Arbutus, The Wilding, or Crab tree.

THis tree and the fruit of it be stiptike or bynding: the fruite is euill for the Sto­macke, and the head.

Arundo, Carna vulgò. A Reede.

THere bee dyuerse kyndes of Canes or Reedes, onely the kinde called Pharg­nutes or Uallaris is vsed in phisicke, where of the roote is attractyue, and abstersiue, & the greene leaues heale hoat inflamations, and swellinges. The Ashes of the Rynd [...] be stiptike and [...]oate in the thirde degree, & [...]eale the dysease of the Heade called Alo­pecia.

Malum Punic [...], Malum Granatum. The Pomegranate.

ALl kyndes of the Pomegranate be good for the Stomacke, although they bee o [...] little nourishment: but the sweete is to b [...] for borne in Feuers: they that be sharpe i [...] [Page 61] taste be good for the whole Stomacke: the meane betwixte the sweete and the sharpe, which is of the taste of [...]ine is of a meane vertue and nature betwixt them both: the Juyce that is expressed out of the graynes, and specially of that kinde which is sharpe, mixed with hunny, consumeth superfluous fleshe in the nost [...]ils. The graine dryes and beaten to powder, stayeth and dryeth rhew­mes failing into the stomacke and belly.

Citimus & Malicorium, The flower dryed of the Pome­granate.

BOth the Floure and Rinde of the Pome­granate be bynding, and of more efficacy than the graynes. The Floures doe gluti­nate and heale woundes.

Spina rociarrabica, Spina Aegyptia [...]a. The Arabian thorne.

THis kynde of Thorne or Thistle stopeth the Flux in women: and healeth vlcers and Soars.

Ordeum, Barley.

BArley is resolutyue, and abstersiue, and of lesse nourishing than wheate, but more soluble: the P [...]isane made of Barley, is moyste and abstersiue.

Morus, The Mulbery.

THe Mulbery being rype, is laxatiue: be­ing not rype, retayneth and stopeth: the Juyce of the rype is good agaynst vlcera­tions of the mouth: the rynde of the roote killeth the wormes: the fruit is lightly cor­rupted in the stomacke if it bee taken after meate, or if the stomacke be not cleane,

Malum Cotoneum, The Quince.

THe Quince is byndinge, and comforteth both the stomacke and Lyuer: it stopeth the Flux of the belly, and all other Fluxes.

Acetum, Vyneger.

VYneger is colde in the first degree, but dry in the third: it is penetratiue and in­scissiue: it hath mixed a certayne hoate sub­staunce with the colde: it represseth hoate inflamations & swellinges: & mixed wyth o­ther [Page 62] conuenient medicines, healeth vlcers, and soares.

Xyloracta, Ceratia, Cod tree, or Horne cod tree.

THis Fruicte is tarte wyth a certayne sweetnesse: whiles the fruit is greene it laxe the Belly, when it is dryed, it byndeth: the humors yt come of it be euill.

Salix, The Willowe or Sallowe.

THe Willowe leaues dry & be astrin­gent, and heale greene woundes: the Floure and rynde be of the same ver­tue and power: but the rynde is of more ef­ficacy: the Ashes of ye rinde steeped in sharp vyneger, consumeth warts and Cornes.

Hippuris, Equisetum, Horse tayle.

THis hearbe is stiptike or byndiog, wt bitternesse: therefore it drieth strong­ly without sharpnesse or bytings, and healeth great wounds and sinewes that be cut: it is good against ye coughing of bloud. and all Fluxes.

Colla, Glutinum [...]aurinum, Common Glue.

THis is much like to the paynters Syse, but that it is made of ye heads of bulles: if it be dissolued in vyneger it taketh away ring wormes, and Leaprosies of the Skin: anoynted with water vpon any parte that is burned, the parte shall not bladder: mix­with Hunny & vyneger it is good to heale woundes.

Colla, Glutinum ex Polline. Paste.

THis is our Paste, which is made of the finest Flower an [...] Water boyled toge­ther: it is emplastike or clea [...] to the partes that it is put vnto, and also matura­tyue.

Ich [...]hiocalla, Glutinum piscium. Mouth Glewe.

THis is made of the Bellies of certayne greate and clammy fishes: it is good for playsters that be vsed to the head: it taketh away the toughnesse of the Skyn, and ma­keth it fayre and smoothe.

Tragachantha, Dragagantum vulgò. Gumme Dragagant.

THis g [...]mme is of very gummy and clea­uinge substaunce: mixed with medicins that bee hoate and byting, it tempereth the Actimony and sharpnesse of them: it is good for the Coughe, and asperity of the wynde Pype: it is also good agaynst vlcerations,

Gummi Arabicum. Gumme Arbike.

GUmme Arabike is much of ye same ver­tue, that gumme Tragagante is: tem­pereth the sharpnesse and acrimony of hoat medicins, and doth smoothe partes that be asperate.

Uitis vinifera, The vyne tree.

THe Ieaues be stiptike or byuding: the Juice of them helpeth the bloudy flux, and spitting of bloude, and are good for the stomacke that doth not retayne meate, and also helpeth the corrupt Appetites and de­sires of straunge & diuers thinges, that doe happen to women with childe. The gūme of [Page] the vyne tree is hoate, inscissiue, and a [...]er­siue, and drunke wyth Wyne breaketh the stone: anoynted, it mūdifieth the skyn from ring wormes, [...]etters, and such lyke.

Oenanthe, Labrusca. The flower of the wilde vyne.

THe wilde Uyne differeth in nothinge from the Gardein vyne, but onely in Cultures: the leaues and braunches be of lyke vertue that the gardein vyne is. The Floure of this vyne, called Denanthe, is colde and dry in the seconde degree: it is stiptike or bynding, confortatiue of the sto­macke: good against inflamations and hoat swellinges in woundes, & agaynst fistulae; in the eyes, in the beginning of them: and also against vlcerations in the mouth, & the secrete partes, mixed with Hunny, Saffrō, Myrre, and oyle of Roses,

Helxine, Parietaria, Herba vitri. Perietary of the wall.

PErietary of the wall is abstersiue & bin­ding, with a certaine colde moistnes: and after Galen is good against hoat sweilings, [Page 64] both in theyr beginning, and increase. The late practicioners suppose it to be hoat and dry, and vse it to resolue wynde, & in sackes, or bagges to prouoke vryne.

Lagopus, Pes Leporis. Harefoote.

THis hearbe dryeth thewmes of the bel­ly, and stomacke strongly.

Ambrosia, wilde Sage.

THis hearbe is stiptike or byndinge, and repercussiue.

Centunclus, Wertworte, or codweede.

THis hearbe is stiptike and bynding: and therefore taken wyth some tarte & bin­ding wyne, healpeth the bloudy Fluxe.

Lupulus, Lupulus Salictarius, The Hoppe.

THe Hoppe, after the Arabikes declineth to coldnesse: decocted it extinguisheth ye hoate inflamations: purgeth choller, and mundifieth the bloude: it is good agaynste hoate inflamations of the stomacke, and Lyuer.

Britannica, Astrology.

THis hearbe is not certainely knowne: i [...] is stiptike or bynding, & healeth woūds.

Lysimachia, Hearbe Willowe.

THis hearbe is stiptike, & healeth woūds stopeth bloud and the bloudy Flux: spitting of bloude, and the Fluxe in women.

Anchusa, wilde Buglosse.

THe roote of this hearbe is stiptike, an [...] somewhat abstersyue, wherefore it i [...] good for them that bee splenetike, and tha [...] haue diseases in the Rydneyes.

Sonchos, Rostrunum Porcinum. Sowthistell.

ALl kindes of Sowthistell doe coole, wit [...] a certayne bynding, eaten & vsed in pla [...] sters to the stomacke.

Senetio, Groundsell.

GRoundsell, besides that it cooleth, doe meanely resolue: killeth wormes, an helpeth them that haue an hoate lyuer.

MEDICINES Colde and Dry in the second degree.

OXYCANTHA, Berberis vulgò. The Barbery, or Piperedge tree.

THe fruite of this tree is stiptike, betwixte moyst & dry. Although it be colde in the seconde degree, it is not to be taken inwards but to the vtter partes: it doth mollifie and is repercussiue: and is good against cholerick swellinges with oyle of Roses or vyneger: it helpeth the ache of the Joyntes of hoate humors.

Balaustium. The floure of the wilde Pomgranate.

THis is very stiptike or bynding: dryed to Powder it healeth excoriations, and vlcerations, and spitting of bloude: and is good agaynst the bloudy Fluxe, and all o­ther Fluxes.

Plantage, Planteyne.

PLanteyne is astringent, and byndinge: good agaynst putrified and malicious vl­cers and soares: agaynst the bloudy Flux, and all other Fluxes: the roote & the seede bee of the same vertue, and the seede is more subtile. The Leaues, Roote, and Fruite [...] good agaynst o [...]ilations of the Lyuer and Kydneis, and specially the Seede, for it is some what abstersiue.

Rhus, Simiake, Curriers berries.

THys seede is very stiptike & byndinge in taste, stayeth the bloudy Flux, and all [...] Fluxes.

Rhamnus, Christes throne.

THis a certayne kynde of thorne why [...] healeth cholerike inflamations, & swel­linges, & vlcerations called herpes which run from place to place.

Solam, Satinum, Solatrum v [...]lg [...]. Night shade, or Dawle.

THe Gardein Nightshade is sometym taken wyth meaces: in Playsters it is [Page 66] good against hoa [...] and cholerike swellings: and agaynst vlcers that spreade from place to place called herpes.

Halicacabus, Uesicaria, Alkakenge, or winter Cherry.

ALkakenge is of the same vertue, and strength that Nightshade is: the fruite of it prouoketh vryne.

Solanum Somniferum, Sleepy Dawle.

THis kinde groweth by the sea syde: the weight of a dramme of the rynde of it [...]unke in wyne prouoketh sleepe: the seede of it prouoketh vryne greatly, and therefore [...]ij. berries of the fruite are geuen agaynst [...]opsies, more than xij. giuen, make a man madde. Some thinke this to be the bearve [...]ee call Dawle, but the description seem­eth not to agree.

Solanum furiosum, Mad Dawle.

THis kynde is not to be taken in wardes, for it maketh a man madde, but in plai­ [...]ers it healeth vlcers.

Ribes, Gasell.

THis fruite doth refrigerate, and comfort the hoat stomacke: asswageth thirst: stop­eth [...]omits, and the Flux of the belly.

Acacia, The fruite of the Aegyptian thorne.

THis Tree groweth in Aegypt: the tree, the Leaues, and the Juyce [...] st [...]ptike and byndinge in taste: th [...] Juyce is the parte most vsed in ph [...] sicke: if it be washed it is colde in the second degree, vnwashed in the first: the Juyce [...] good for eyes that be inflamed, and agains [...] hoate Cholericke inflamations: it healt [...] vlcerations in the mouth, and stopeth a [...] maner of Fluxes: because we lacke the [...] cacia, wee vse in steede of the Juice of it, th [...] Juyce of Slowes or Bulleis.

Omphacium, Agresta vulgò, Verinice.

THis is the Juice of the wilde grape, it colde in the second degree and, dry in th [...] thirde, vynding and stiptike: it is good [...] [Page 67] excorfations of the mouth mixed with bun­ [...] or'Must: mixed with Upneger, it is good agaynste colde vlcers and soares, that doe [...]te and run from place to place.

Nypmhaea, Nenuphar, The water Lilly.

BOth roote and seede of the water Lilly doe dry, and stay the rhewmes of the sto­macke, and nature or seede that voydeth vn­willingly in dreames or other wayes: and also velpe the bloudy Fluxe. That kynde which bath the white roote is more stron­ger: in so much that it stayeth the Flux in women: both kyndes be abstersiue, but the kynde which hath the blacke roote, is more abstersiue.

Phillitis, Lingua Ceruina. Harts tounge.

THis is thought to be out [...]arts tounge: the leaues hee druuke in Wyne agaynst the byting of serpentes: agaynst the blou­dy Fluxe, and other Fluxes.

MEDICINES Colde and Dry in the thirde degree.

Herba Apollinaris, Iusquiamus vulgò, Henbane.

THe kynee of [...]enbane that hath the white flower & the white seede is vsed in Phy­sicke, to cease vehement pai­nes and dystillations of the head, and the eyes: geuen in a conuenient quantity it prouoketh sleepe, the other kyndes are not to be vsed, for they be stupefactiue and perillous.

Mandragora, The Mandrake.

THe fruit of the Mādrake hath in it a cer­tayne superfluous moystnesse, whereby it prouoketh sleepe: the rynde of the roote is stronger, and also dryeth.

Caphura, Camphora, Camphire.

CAmphyre resisteth hoat swellings: and is good agaynst paynes of the head that come of Cholericke humors, and abateth lust and courage.

Sandali lutei, Albi, Rubri. The three kyndes of Saunders.

SAunders is good for the stomacke, head, and lyuer that be hoat: all kyndes be cor­dialles, but the yellowe is of more vertue.

Cicuta, Hemlocke.

THis Hearbe taken inwards is perilous: bowbeit wyth other medicins it is mix­ed in playsters to the vtter partes, and so v­sed it extinguisheth and debateth milke: & also doth stay the increase of the breastes in virgins and maydens.

Tamarindi, Tamaryndes.

TAmarindes are thought to be a kinde of wylde Dates that growe in India: they [Page] represse choller, and purge the same, and ex­tinguishe thirstynes.

Sideritis, Wall Sage.

ALl kyndes of Sideritis be stiptike and bynding, they heale wounds, stop blond, the bloudy Fluxe, and the Flux in women.

MEDICINES Colde and drye in the fourth degree.

PAP AVER, Popy. These bee the kyndes of Popy. Satinum, Erraticum, Siluestre, Cornicu­latum, siue Ceralites, Spumeum, siue Heracleum.

THe seede of ye garde in Popy prouoketh sleepe meanely, and is good against the cough, and distillations.

Pa [...]auer Erraticum, Redcorne Rose.

THis kynde of Popy is so strong that no man can vse it without daunger.

Papauer Siluestre, wilde Popy.

THe seede of this kynde is medicinall, & specially if it grow in Thebes: the iuice of it is called Opium, and taken in excesse it doth refrigerate so much, that it stupifieth, and maketh the body without sense or fre­ling: but taken in a conuenient quantity, it doth ceasse paynes, and prouoketh sleepe: stayeth and engrosseth rhewmes and distil­lations, the deco [...]ion of the leaues, & crops or heads of all these kynds be employed for a fomentation to the heade. The Juyce of this Poppy is called Opium.

Papauer Corniculatum, Yellowe Poppy.

THis kynde is inscissiue, and abstersiue: the roote decocted helpeth diseases of the [Page] Lyuer: the leaues and flowers doe mundi­fie filthy, and vncleane vlcers and soares: it is hoat in the fourth degree.

Papauer Spumeum, White, or froathy Poppy.

THE Seede of thys kynde purgeth Fleagme.

MEDICINES Colde and moist in the first degree.

PRVNA, Prunes, or Damsons.

DAmaske Prunes be the best: pru­nes of Spayne bee nexte: greene Prunes be more soluble than dri­ed Prunes: the Prune of Spaine is more soluble than the Damaske prune: the leaues & Buds of the Prune tree haue [Page 70] sensible tartnes, & binding in taste. Wherefore the decoction of them are good to gar­garise for inflamations of the Junla, and inwarde partes of the mouth: the wylde Prune byndeth and stayeth the belly: the gumme of ye Prune tree drunke wyth wyne breaketh the stone.

Spinachia, Spinache.

SPinache is abstersiue, and lenitiue of the belly: it extinguisheth choler, and is good for the breast and loonges that be distempe­red wyth heate.

Uiola, the Violet.

THe leaues of the violet both alone, and with barly meale, be good against heat swellings and inflamations: also they bee good made in playsters, for the heate of the stomacke, and the Eyes, after Mesue: the Uyolet doth laxe and purge choller: it ex­tinguisheth thrystinesse, is good in hoat Fe­uers, & against ye cough, & other passiōs of ye [Page] breast, that come with heate: the floure is vsed both in syrupes and conserues, and it is of more efficacy than the hearbe.

Platanus, The Plane tree:

THe leaues of ye Plane tree, being greene and made in playsters, beale inflamati­ons, and hoat swellings in their beginning: the barke and the fruite are dryer than the leaues: the barke boyled in vyneger, easeth the paynes of the Teethe: the fruite mixed wyth Swynes grease, healeth vlcers that come of brenning.

Scariola, Intubus, Cychorea satiua, Scarill, or gardein Endyue, Cychory of the gardein.

THe gardein Endyue & Sychory be cold, and moyst: the wilde be colde, and dry. The gardein Endyue and Sychory differ not much from the nature of Lettice, but they be not so pleasaunt: they be good for ye hoat stomacke, and the hoat lyuer, & against all hoat inflamations.

Cerasus, The Cherry tree.

OF Cherries, some be sweete, and they be solutiue and not good for the Sto­macke: some be tarte in taste, and they bee bynding and good for the stomacke: some be sharpe in taste, and good for the stomacke that is Fleagmatike and full of superflu­ous humors. The gumme of the Cherry tree is good for the roughnesse or asperity of the wynde pype, and drunke wyth wyne, breaketh the stone.

Atriplex, Arrege.

ARrege is soluble, good agaynst hoate inflamations and swellinges: the seede purgeth and mundifieth optiations of the lyuer, and therefore cureth the Jaundice.

Glycbyriza, Liquirice.

LIquirice extinguisheth thristinesse, le [...]i­fieth and tempereth the roughnesse and asperity of the wynde pype, & doth the sa [...] in the Bladder which is excoriated.

Beta, The Beete.

THe roote is abstersiue, resolutiue. & pur­geth the head: it is soluble: but not good for the stomacke.

Malua, The Mallowe.

THe Mallowe is resolutyue, mollitiue, & laxeth the belly: howbeit, it is not com­mended for the stomacke.

Iuiube, Zizipha, The fruite Iuiubeis.

THis fruit is of litle nourishment: hard to disgest, and euill for the stomacke.

Blitium, Bleete.

THis hearbe is commonly eaten: it laxeth the belly, and is of no other vse.

MEDICINES Colde and moist in the second degree.

PEPON, The Millian.

THIS Fruite is abster­siue, and soluble: it pro­uoketh bryne, and the sede of it more specially: So that it breaketh the stone: not wythstanding ye fruite ingendreth euill humors, and chiefly if it be not well disgested.

Melopepon, The sweete Millian.

THis seemeth to be of the same kinde that the Pepon is, & of lesse power: both doe prouoke vrine, & laxe the belly: how be it this is of better nourishing.

Cucumis, The Cucumber.

THe Cucumber is abstersiue, inscissiue, [...] prouoketh vryne, but not so much as th [...] Pepon doth: it is soone corrupted in ye Stomacke as ye Pepon is: if the seede & Root be dryed, they be dry in the first degree, an [...] therefore more abstersiue: the seede wyt [...] milke is good agaynst the vlcerations o [...] the bladder.

Citrullus, Cucumis, Citrimus, The Citrull.

THe Citrull is colder than the Cucumber, and engendreth crude and vittou [...] humors in the vaynes, if it be not correcte [...] with Ameos.

Lens Palustris, Duckes meate.

THis hearbe is good agaynst inflamat [...] ens, and hoate Gowtes, and is repe [...] cussyue.

Melon magnus, Melon Saracenicus. The great Millian.

THese seeme to bee the great Melons that be brought from the newe foūo landes: they be good for the stomack, [...]nd agaynst hoat and burning teuers.

Cucurbita, The Gourde.

THe Gourde in Playsters, is good a­gaynst all hoate inflamations. The Juyce of it with oyle of Roses, help­ [...]th inflamations or paynes of the Eares: being rawe or crude, it is euill for the Sto­macke, and hard to be disgested: but boyled and decocted, it is not so euill, howe bee it, it nourisheth but litle.

Lactuca, Lettuce.

LEttuce is good for the hoate stomacke: good agaynst all hoate affectes and dy­seases: it taketh away thrystines, and moo­ueth to sleepe, the seede drunke retayneth & stayeth the seede or nature of Men or Wo­men, [Page] yt vnwillingly auoydeth either sleep­ing or waking: of all heat bes it ingendreth the best humors: yet beware the excesse o [...] it: the wylde Lettuce, which is our wyld [...] Endyue, seemeth to bee colde and dry, and is abstetsiue, by reason of that it is bitter▪ and of the same vertue that the gardein let­tuce is, but of lesse efficacy.

Malus Persica, The Peache.

THe leaues of the Peache made in play­ster to the Nauell, killeth wormes: th [...] fruite is good for the stomacke: taken be­fore other meates they doe not onely l [...]xe belly, and shortly descend themselues, [...] also giue occasion to the rest shortly to fol­lowe. As the rype laxeth, so the vnripe bi [...] ­deth.

Contyledon, Umbilicus veneris. Penyworte.

PEnyworte is cold & moist, with a certi [...] bynding, & bitternes mixed: whereby [Page 74] is repercussiue, abstersiue, and resolutyue: it is good against hoat and chollerike swel­linges, and is also good for the heate of the stomacke in playsters.

MEDICINES Colde and moist in the thirde degree.

PORTVLACA, Purslane.

PUrslane is somewhat tance in taste, and therefore is re­percussiue of hoat inflama­tions or swellings: it extin­guisheth intemperate and excessiue heate of the stomacke, and chiefly in Feuers hectickes: it helpeth the teeth that be edged with eating of sow­er Fruite: it is also good for the bloudy Fluxe: the coughing of bloude, and speci­ally the Juyce of it.

Sedinum, Semperuiuum. Houselike, or Singreene.

BOth kyndes bee somewhat bynding and astringent: good agaynste all hoat and cholericke inflamations and swellinges in all partes of the body.

Poligonon, Herba sanguinalis, Cen­tinodium vulgò. Knotgrasse.

KNotgrasse is byndinge: good agaynst all hoat diseases of the stomacke: good for vlcers, and soares, and greene wounds it stayeth the bloudy Fluxe, and the cours [...] in women.

Fungi, Musheromes.

THe Musheromes doe breede moyste an [...] Fleagmatike humors: all kindes are t [...] be feared: the best are thought to bee thos [...] that growe in sweete and temperate Mea­dowes and pastures: all other be daunge­rous & poyson: beware of those that grow neere to the Dennes of Serpentes, vnt [...] [Page 75] Trees that beare daungerous fruites, vn­to the rust of Iton, or where any corrup­tion or putrifaction is.

MEDICINES Of Metalles.

STIBIVM, Antimonie.

ANTIMO­ny is colde and dry in the second degree, founde in the Mynes of Syluer: if it be burned it sauoreth lyke Brimstone: that is most chiefe that is bryghtest: Besides the vertue and power of during, which is com­mon to all metalles, it is astringent [...] byn­ding: Wherefore it is mixed with m [...]l [...] for the eyes: it doth refrigerate, and prohi­bite the increase of superfluous fl [...]she: it [...]opeth the Fluxe of bloude that commeth [Page] from the raynes, and paniculs that couer ye brayne: that parte that is burned shall not blister, if it be anoynted with Antimony, & with freashe grease: and in case it be bliste­red, and haue gathered a skurfe, yet if it be anoynted wyth Antimony, Waxe, and Ce­russe, it will shortly be cicatrized, & briefly, it is of the vertue that lead burned is.

Cerussa, White leade.

WHite leade is colde & dry in the ij­degree: taken inwards it is poy­son it is made of Leade dissolued in vyneger: it is colde & dry clea­uing or abstrictiue of the poares: it repres­seth superfluous fleshe, & mixed wyth oynt­mentes and playsters that bee lenityue, i [...] doth cicatrize: if it bee burned it is called Sandix, of the olde Authors cōmonly Mi­nium or redde Leade, and is of more sub­till substaunce than Cerusse is: howvei [...] there is a kinde of Minium that is natural [...] and not made by Acte.

Gipsum, Playster of Parys.

GIpsum is colde, dry, and bynding: with the white of Egges, and Myll dust it [...]asicheth bloud: when it is burned it is not so cleaning or stoping of the poares of the [...]ody: but it is dryer, and of more subtility of substaunce, and repercussyue, specially wyth water and vyneger.

Auripigmentum. Orpment.

YEllowe Orpment is hoat and dry in the third degree, and doth putrify the mem­ber bothe burned and vnburned, but the burned is of more subtill substaunce: it is [...]sed to take away hayre: if it remayne long to the parte it doth burne the Skynne, [...]d is not to bee taken inwardes. That which nowe commonly is called Realgar is of the kynde of Auripigmentum, & found with it in the same Myne, but it is not so perfect. Also Arsenike which is whyte, is Judged to be of lyke kynde and vertue.

Sandaracha, Auripigmentum ru­brum, Red Orpment.

THis is of the same power, & vertue that the other Auripmentum is.

Erugo Aeris, Uiride Aeris, Verdegresse.

VErdegresse is hoat and dry in the fourth degree: it resolueth, and cōsumeth dead fleshe: mixed wyth Oyle and waxe, it doth onely mundify, and that without any great sharpnesse or taste.

Aes vstum, Copper, or Brasse burned.

COpper or brasse burned is very hoat, & sharpe: howebeit, it hath mixed a certen bynding or stiptikenesse: if it bee washed it is speciall to cicatrize soares and vlcers in tender fleshe: vnwashed also it doth ye same in hard fleshe.

Flos Aeris, The skumme of Brasse.

THis is subtiller than is vstum or Squa­ma Aeris: it is a [...]stersiue, and vsed to consume & mundifie, specially in a certaine [Page 77] disease of the eye Lyddes which is called Sycosis.

Squama Aeris & ferri, The battering of Brasse, or Iron, when it is beaten with the Hammer.

THe batteringes both of brasse and Iron doe dry strongly: but they differ in that the battring of Brasse is more subtill: the battring of Iron is bynding, and therefore it is meetest to heale corrupte vlcers and soares, more than the battring of Brasse: but the battering of Brasse doth more con­sume and waste the fleshe: both kyndes bee sharpe and byting.

Atramentum sutorium, Calcanthos, Uitriolum vulgò. Copperesse.

COpperesse is hoate and dry in ye fourth degree, and with al hath a certaine bin­ding and strictiuenesse, by reason of yt heat: it is a Corrosiue, and consumeth fleshe: by reason of the byndinge it both compact and strengthen the substance of the part where vnto it is put: the weight of a dramme of it [Page] taken inwardes, killeth the wormes after Dioscorides.

Chalcitis. Vnslaked Copperesse.

THis is very hoat and sharpe, and also a­stringent: it doth burne the fleshe, and gathereth ouer it a skurse: it is vsed in me­dicines for the eyes: if it be burned it is of lesse sharpnes, & in substaunce more subtill.

Argentum viuum, Quick siluer.

OF this there is both naturall, and arti­ficiall: it is temperate in heat & colde, & abstersiue without sharpnesse or byting: it is good for vlcerations in the eyes, and for all moyst soares and vlcers that bee in ten­der bodyes, as Women and Chyldren: for hard and dry bodies, it is of lyke efficacy.

Pompholix, Tutia vulgò, Tutty.

TUtty is colde in the first degree, and dry in the second: washed it doth dry with­out [Page 78] payne or smarte, and therefore it is vsen agaynst cankers and like malitious soares: it is good for rhewmatike eyes, and for all blisters and vlcerations in them, and also for soares, and vlcers in the fundament and secret members.

Spodium, Brente Iuory.

SPodium, after the description of ye greeke Authors, is of the substaunce of mettals, and is good for vlcers, & is much of the same vertue that Pompholix is: but Spodium that Auicen describeth, is made of ye rootes of Canes or Reedes burned: it is comforta­tiue of the hearte, as be wryteth, and slip­tike: but Spodium that wee nowe vse, is burned Juory, and taken to be of the same vertue: for Juory of it selfe vnburned is strictyue and byndiuge.

Lythargiros, Spuma Argenti, Lytharge of Siluer.

LYtharge is colde & dry made of dyuers Substaunces, for there is of it of the [Page] colour of Golde, and of the colour of siluer: it is temperate in heate and cold restrictive and abstersiue: it drieth and healeth, and is a meant betwixte all other medicines of that Nature.

Plumbum, Leade.

LEade is colde and moyst, and specially i [...] it be washed: it is good agaynst [...]oat in­flamations, and vlcers of the fundament, & secret members: heaten as a thinne Plate it is good for the hoate barke, and for them that shed seede or nature in dreames.

Plumbum vstum, Burned leade.

BUrned leade washed, is colde: vnwashed, it bath a certayne heate and sharpnesse mixed, & remayning in it: it is good against malitions soares and vlcers: if it be washed it increaseth fleshe, and doth heale.

Plumbago, Leade Oare.

OF this there is naturall, and artificial: the natural is found in a certaine vaine, [Page 79] contayning in it siluer and leade: the artifi­ [...] is made in the fyning of Golde and sil­uer: it is somethinge colde: it increaseth fleshe, and doth heale vlcers and soares.

Scorio Metallorum, Recrementum, The dregges, or drosse of Me­talles.

THe dregges of metalls doe dry, but the dregges of Iron most, which whē they be powdered finely, and mixed wyth vyne­ger, doe heale mattering eares. The dregs of leade are of the same vertue, that bur­ned lead is. The dregges of siluer are mix­ed with playsters that doe dry.

Ferrum, Iron.

IRon is colde and dry: fiered and extincte in water, it leaueth a certayne drying in it, which if it be drunk, healpeth them that be splenetike: if it be extincte in wyne, it is good for fluxes, and all weakenesse that cō ­eth by choler to the Stomacke.

Sulphur, Brimstone.

BRimstone vntryed is best: it is hoat [...] thirde degree: it is attractiue, and sub­till: so that it is good agaynst the stingig of venemous beastes: wych turpentyne [...] healeth Scabbes, Leaprosies of the Skin, [...]etters, Ringwormes: it is good for the roughe, voth taken inwardes with a rer [...] Egge, and also the fumigation of it: also i [...] is good for the shortnesse of wynde, and for them that wych coughtug voyde the matter and corruption from the lounges.

Cinnaberis, Cinopar.

CInopar is hoat and sharpe, with a certayne astringency, and bynding: it helpeth bloud, and aswageth burnings and blisters, mixed with waxe.

Chrisocolla, Borax, The Soder of Golde.

OF this there is both Natural, & Artificiall: both kyndes consume the fleshe▪ [Page 80] it is a medicine both alone, and also with o­ther lyke thinges, for malicious vlcers, and soares.

Aurum, Golde.

GOlde is temperate of complection, and amonge all medicins of metalls, is most commended to cauterize with, for the cau­terizacion of it is soonest healed: the sub­staunce of it reduced to powder, comfort­eth the heart, and putteth away melācholy fantasies: this is the iudgement of the A­rebikes onely: but the great Authors make no mention thereof.

Alumen, Alume.

OF Alume there be three kynde, in espe­ciall Alumen Liquidum, which is our Alume Plume, or Iching powder. The iij. is Alumen Rotundum, not well knowne in this our time: all kyndes be bynding, and of grosse substaunce: the subtillest is Aiu­lumen Plumeum, ye secōd Alumen Rotun­dum, grossest of all is Alumen Liquidum: all kindes be hoat & dry in the third degree, bynding, & abstersiue, clense ye sight, cōlume [Page] superfluous flesh in ye Eye liddes: all kinds be burned, and doe stay putrified vlcers: stop bloude, dry the gūmes that be moyste: wyth Hunny and vyneger stay and fasteu ye teeth that be loose, and are good agaynst vlcerations.

Calx, Lyme

Vnsleaked Lyme, is hoate and dry in the third degree, and doth burne so strong­ly, that it doth make a skurfe. Lyme that is fleaked doth also gather a skurfe: but by ly­tle, & after a day or two: it burneth lesse thā the other: if it bee washed it putteth away his heat into the water, which is called Li [...] and the oftner it is washed, the lesse it doth smarte or byte, for so it dryeth gently with­out any paynes or smarting.

Lixinium, Lye.

THe strength of Lye is after the nature and power of the Ashes whereof it is made: for some is sharper than other some it is corrosiue, and [...]oth putrifie & burne.

Cinis Sarmentorum vitis, The Ashes of the vyne.

THe Ashes of the vyne, is causticke: and with Oyle and grease it is good against the brousing of sinowes, and the fractures of the Joyntes: it consumeth superfluous fleshe she, & is good agaynst the byting or sting­ing of venemous Serpentes, and madde Dogges.

Terra, Earth.

ALl Earth doth dry, & if it be pure wyth­out any straūge qualties, it dryeth gēt­ [...]y: if there be in it any fiery or sharp quali­ty, washinge taketh it away: earth burned is of more subtilty than earth vnburned, & sharper: if the sharpnes be put away with washing, it doth dry wt more efficacy soares and vlcers that be hard.

Sigillum Lemnium, Terra Sigillata.

TErra sigillata is colde, and dry: dissol­ued in vyneger it healeth corrupt, and [Page] [...] [Page 81] [...] [Page] malicious soares: dissolued in wine it healeth wounds: [...]peth the spitting of bloud is good agaynst poyson: infuled in [...] with the Juyce of plantayne, it heaieth v [...] ­cerations of the Bowells or guttes: [...] haue little or none of this, but such as [...] counterfayte.

Bolus Armenus, Bolearmoniake.

BOlearmoniake is colde in the firste, a [...] dry in the second degree: it drieth m [...] so that it is good for vicerations of ye mou [...] all rhewmes of the stomacke & breast: sp [...] ing of bloude, and also the vlcerations of Loonges: and agaynst all soares and v [...] rations that neede drying: it is also sp [...] all for the Pestilence.

Mys [...], Sory, Chalcitis, Kyndes of vnsleaked Copperesse.

THese three M [...]neralls be founde in o [...] Myne in the Isle of Cyprus, in th [...] vaines: the lowest is Sory, the seconde Chalcitis, the hyghest is Mysy, and they iudged to be of one vertue, but that Mysy [Page 82] more subtill than the other two: Sory is the grosest of ye three: Chalcitis of a meane nature betwixt both: when they be burned, they be made more subtle, and lesse binding: they bee so hoate and sharpe, that they con­sume the fleshe, and be causticke: they bee vsed in me [...]ycines for the Eyes: the one of them doth alter and chaunge in processe of [...] to the other, as Sory into Chalcitis, and Chalcitis into Mysy. Mysy is of the co­lour of golde, Chalcitis is of brasse, & So­ry is blacke.

Sal Ammoniacus, Sal Gemonae. Saltes of diuers kyndes.

THere is salte digged but of the earth, & also salte that is made of the salt water: all kyndes of salt be abstersiue, and stiptike or bynding, but some more, some lesse, after the diuersity of the Groundes and Earthe where they be made. Salte is hoate & dry in the seconde degree, it doth consume all indystures, and condensate, and gather to­gether the substaunce that doth remeyne, whereby the bodyes be preserued from pu­trifactiō. [Page] Sal Armoniake among all salts that be mineralles is chiefest, and doth con­sume superfluous humors in the eyeliddes, whereby the hayres in them doe prosper & increase: all salte doth represse & extenuate superfluous fleshe, & is vsed in Glysters & in bagges or sackes to cease paints. & consume colde swellings, as in Dropsies: with oyle and vyneger also cureth the Itch of the bo­dy: and is also good in playsters agaynst ye stinging or byting of venemous Beastes [...] and doth preserue frō the gout. Salte bur­ned is more subtill, and resolutiue, & of iess [...] bynding or restrictyuenesse, than salte vn­burned. Sal gemmae is of ye nature of salte and moreouer purgeth Fleagme, and Ch [...] ler: and helpeth medicines laxtiue in th [...] operations.

Nitrum, & Aphronitrum, Salt Niter, or Saltpeter.

BOth Nitrum, & Aphronitrum haue t [...] power and vertue of Salte: they be a [...] stersiue, and mundificatiue. Aphronitru [...] is more subtill, and resolutyue. Nitru [...] [Page 83] burned doth dry, and resolue: taken into the body it is inscissiue and extenuatyue of grosse humors, much more thāsalt. Aphro­nitrum is not taken inwardely, without great necessity, for that it is euil for the sto­macke: howbeit, it is good agaynst ye poy­son of Musheromes, and so is Nitrum, both burned, and vnburned.

Fex vini, Wyne leyes, Tartarum vulgò. Tartar.

WYne Ieyes doth dry, and resolue: it is bynding and restrictiue, ac­cording to the nature of ye wyne whereof it is: It doth resolue swellinges, and dryeth Mylke put to the breast: burned it is causticke: wyth Rosen it taketh away Leaprosies, and maketh the bayre yellowe: washed it is abstersiue, and is vsed wyth medycines for the Eyes: it is also vsed of certayne Physitions to bee ta­ken inwardes, to laxe the belly: the leyes of vyneger is more bynding.

Lapis Haematites, The Bloude stone.

THe bloud stone doth dry, and is stipticke. and restrictiue: it healeth the roughnes and asperity of the Eye liddes, if they be in­flamed, mixed wyth the whyte of Egges: without inflamations mixed inflamations, mixed wyth water: drunke, it helpeth the coughing of bloud. It healeth also vlcers, and soares: and the powder represseth su­perfluous and proude fleshe.

Magnes, The Loadstone.

THis stone draweth Iron to it, and is o [...] the vertue and power, that the bloud [...] stone is.

Iaspis viridis, The greene Iasper.

THe greene Jasper, both borne at the st [...] macke and in the ringeworme, comfor­teth the mouth of ye stomack: also knit to th [...] Thyghe of a Woman in labour of Child [...] doth Accelerate the byrth.

Lapis Iudaicus, The Iewishe stone.

THis stone grounde to powder, & drunke wyth Water, breaketh the stone in the Kidneis: and after Dioscorides, the stone in the bladder.

Pyrites, Marchasita, The Copper, or Brasenstone.

THis stone is resolutiue of swellinges of grosse matter, and bloud gathered and congealed within the fleshe: there are of thys diuers kindes: for Aetius sayeth thys stone is lyke to siluer: Dioscorides like to Cop [...]er, or Brasse, which burned is vsed to clense the sight, yt is offended by any grosse humors.

Gagates, That is thought to bee our Get stone.

THis stone is blacke, and cast into ye fire, sauoreth like to Aspaltum: it is resolu­tyue, and consumeth olde swellinges in the knees: the fume of it reuoketh women out of their passions called the mother, and the felling sicknes: it is written that there is great store of this kynde in Englande.

Pumex, the Pumishe stone.

THe Pumishe stone is abstersiue, & scour­eth the Teethe: vurned & washed it doth incarnate hollowe and deepe vlcers.

Lapides in spongi [...]s, The stones founde in Sponges.

THe Stones that hee found in Sponges bee abstersiue, and breake the Stone in the Kydneies.

Lapis Aetites, Lapis Aquilae, The Egles stone.

THis stone bound to ye Arme of her that is with Childe, doth stay all vntymely byrthes: in the tyme of the byrthe & labour bounde to the Leage, it bryngeth forthe the chylde wythout payne.

Lapis Cyaneus, Lapis Lazuli vulgó, The blewe Lazule stone.

THis stone is sharpe, abstersiue, and re­solutiue, more than Cinaberss is: and is also stipticke or byndinge: it consumeth fleshe & is causticke or burning.

Lapis Armenius, The Armenian stone.

THis stone is of the same vertue yt Cbri­socolla is, and increaseth hayres in the Eye lidnes: taken inwardes, it laxeth the belly, and purgeth melancholy.

Saphirus, The Saphire.

THe Saphire beatē to pouder & drunke wt mylke, bealeth all inward vlcerations, and in like case with mylke anoynted to the vtter partes. The powder of it layed vpon cuts and choppes of the tounge, bealeth ye same: also drunke it healpeth them that be bitte with Scorpions.

Smaragdus, The Emeraulde.

THe Emeraulde burned, and beaten to Powder, helpeth the dimnesse of ye sight. Anoynted wyth water, and wyth gumme Arabicke, it belpeth the Leaper: & drunke with water, it bringeth forth the same Di­sease agayne. Borne vpon ye body, it stayeth bloud from what parte soeuer it cometh.

[...] Saphirus, Smaragdus, Hyacinthus, Rubinus, Granata, Sardius, Margaritae. The Saphire, The Garnet The Eme­rauld, the Sardine, the Iacint, the Ruby, Pearles.

THese precious stones of the Arabikes, & of late practicioners in phisicke, are e­steemed & vsed for thinges of great pryce & vertue, to comfort the bearte. The Greeke Authors make no mention of them for ye purpose.

MEDICINES Of the partes of Beastes.

[...] Sanguis Columbarum, Palumharum, & Turturum. Bloud of all kindes of Doues.

THe bloud of the Dooue, ye stock­dooue, or Woodquist, and Cor­tle, is good agaynst bloud shed­ing in the eye, that commeth of a stroke: and also good in woundes of the [Page 86] beade where the Skull is perished: wyth inflamations of the Brayne.

Sanguis Hirci. The bloud of a Goate.

THe bloud of the Goate breaketh ye stone: and drunk with hunuy, is geuen against the Dropsie.

Adens & seuum. Grease, and tallowe of Beastes.

BOth grease and sewet, be moyst & hoate, and doe mollifie and resolue: but some more, some lesse, after the temperature of the beaste: for Swynes grease is moystest of all, neere vnto the temperature of Oyle: Goats sewet is dryest, and doth shortly cō ­geale and waxe grosse, & therefore it is re­fused in Glysters, to cease paines and freat­inges in the lower Gut: Goose grease is hoater and more subtill: the grease of the Cocke & Hen is of a meane betwixt swynes grease, & Goose grease. The Lyons grease is hoatest, & most subtill. Bulles sewet is ye meane betwixte Swynes grease, & Lyons grease.

Lac, Mylke.

Molke contayneth in it three substaūces. The Curde, the Butter, & the Whay. Mylke of it selfe is a good nourishment, the whay is abstersiue, and laxeth the belly: the curde is grosse and cleauing, or stoping of poares: and therefore it tempereth ye sharp­nesse of other medycines. Butter is matu­ratyue, & resolutiue of swellinges: Mylke with Peable stones or Iron fyered, and er­tincte in the same, is good for the bloudy Flure, and sharpe rhewmes in the Belly: Mylke is also good against rhewmes of the Eyes, vlcerations of the Loonges, and of all inwarde partes. The Asses mylke is thynnest: the Cowe mylke grossest: the goates mylke of a meane substaunce: most temperate mylke is womans mylke: nexte to that goates mylke, then followeth Asses mylke, shéepes mylke, & cowe mylke. Milke that hath most of whay & lesse of curde, is to all persons of lesse perill, as the milke that hath most curde & lesse whay is most daun­gerous for them yt haue opilations of the li­uer, or splene. Milke is not good for them yt haue weake heads & wyndy stomacks. Much vse of milke doth perish ye teeth, & specially [Page 87] that milke which hath most curdes: there­fore after milke, ye teeth ought to be washed wyth hunny and water.

Ouum, the Egge.

THe Hen Egge, & the Phesaunt Egge be best for the nourishinge of the body: the Egge of meane temperature or reare­nesse is preserued: the Egge that is so [...], that it may be supped, is of lesse nourishing & doth lenify or smoothe ye aspetity & rough­nes of ye windepipe: takē inwards with bin­ding medicines it is good agaynst ye bloudy Fluxe, & other fluxes of the belly. Egges yt be boyled, bee of hard disgestion, and much more they yt be rosted in Ashes, but fryed be worst of all: the white of ye newe layd egge is colde and of all medicins most gentlest, & of lesse bynding: and therefore good for vi­cerations in the secret partes, yt shoulde bee dryed wtout smarte or bycing: the Yolke is of the same vertue.

Medulla, Marowe.

Marow is a nourishment which doth moue the stomack to voin [...]: but if it be wel dilge­sted, it doth nourish as a medicine: it doth al so moilify. The marow of ye Hart is cheife [...]: next is ye marow of yoūge bullocks: for yt of the goate & Bull be sharpe and dry.

Coagulum, The Runnet.

THe Runnet is hoat and dry, sharpe and resolutiue, the Runnet of the Har doth cure (as it is written) the fa [...]ing sicknesse, and the Fluxes in women: and it dissoiueth Mylke that is curded in them.

Fell, The Gall.

THe Gallis the hoatest humor of the bo­dy, tor it is hoat and dry in the rou [...]th degree: and if it there is much diuersity, ac­cordinge to the diuersities of the [...]: the weakest is the gal: of Swyne, which is good for ulcerations of the Eares: sharper than that be the Galles of the Sheepe, of the Goate, of the Bore, and Bull. The Gailes of birds be sharper & dryer than the Galles of fourefooted Beaues, and among them the Galle of the Cocke, and [...] bee cheife: the Galles of [...]aukes be so sharpe, that they doe exulcerate: Galies be vsed in dyuers medicines, & specta [...]y tor eyes.

Stercus, all manner of Dounge.

THe Dounge of all beasts is hoat & dry, and resolutyue: Goats dounge in play­fter, is good for hard swellings: Dx. [...] [Page 88] in playsters, is good for dropsies: Pigeons dounge is good for longe dileases, as Sc [...]a­s [...]caes, Megtimes, Headache, aches in the the Backe, the Fe [...], the Joyntes, & vni­uersally in all passions, where neede is of greace Attraction to the vtter parts, for it is attactyue.

Corium Ouis, The sheepes Skyn.

THe skynnes of sheepe newely slayne, & put to the body that is beaten and bru­sed, helpeth, the same briefely within one day and a night, more than any other thing, for it doth rype and resolue.

Oesipus, Succida Lana, The sheepes greasie Woolle.

THe fatnesse of the woolle of the sheepe is good agaynst all brousing, & vy [...]nge on any part howsoeuer it come, & is much of like nature with Burter. Woolle with­out fattinesse is a thinge necessarye often tymes to teteyne oyle, and oyntmentes to any partes, Woolle burned is sharpe and drying, and consumeth fleshe in moyst vl­cers and soares.

Ius Gallorum, The broath of an olde Cocke.

THe broath of the olde cocke with Salt, applied to the vtter most of the flesh, lax­eth the belly: the broath of the Hen tempe­reth the sharpnesse of bloud.

Cornu Cerns, & Capri.

THe borne of the Hart, & of the goat bur­ued skoureth the teeth, & dryeth ye moist gummes if they be washed with it: it help­eth the bloudy flux, the spitting of bloud, & the weaknes of the stomack: and it is good also for the Jaundice, & dryeth rhewmes of the Eyes.

Genitale Cerui, The Pyzill of the Hart:

THe Pyzill of the Hart beatē to pouder, and drunke with wyne, is good for the byting or stinging of Adders.

Ebur, Iuory.

THe shauinge of Juory, helpeth Whit­flowes, or hoate swellinges vnder the Nayle, for it is a stringent: it is vsed for the Jaundice by the common people.

Pulmo vulpis, The Loonges of the Foxe.

THe Loonges of the Foxe oryed, & made in pouder, and drunke, helpeth them yt haue shortnesse of mynde.

Castorium, The Beauers cod.

CAstorium is heate and dry in the second degree, and subtill of substaunce: good agaynst al. colde passions that come to the liue wes by repletion: drunke it prouoketh the monethly course in women.

Scincus, The Loynes of the Scinkes.

THe partes of this beast, that be neere to to the Kydneis, drunke with wyne, are thought good to proueke lust, and courage.

Senectus serpentis, The slought or skyn of a Snake or Serpent.

THe skyn of the Serpent boyled in byne­ger, (as it is writen) helpeth the tooth­ache.

Caro viperae, The fleshe of the Adder.

THe fleshe of the Adder is hoate and dry, and purgeth the whole body by ye Skyn [Page] from the Leapry, and such other passions: wherefore it is mixe o with triacle.

Tela Aranearum, the Copwebbe.

THe Copwebbe s [...]yetd bl [...]ud, & preseru­red for wounde from Inflamation.

CAntharides, Greene flies beyond Sea.

CAntharides be heat and dry in the third degree, & doe [...]i [...]ster the skyn: and mix­ed with other conueniente medicines doe take away skabbed, and sk [...]uy Nayles: they prouoke vryne, but taken in too great quantity, doe excoriate the Bladder.

Lumbrici terrestes, Earthwormes.

THese wormes made into a plaister, helpe the sinowes that be brused, and but: be­sides yt, if they be drunke with sweete wyne. they prouoke vryne.

Conchula Indica, Blattae Bizantiae vulgò, The Indian Muskleshell.

THis kinde of shell burned, and taken for a fume, reuiueth women that haue the passion called the mother: and them that haue the falling disease.

Ostreorum testae Oyster shelles.

THe shelles of Oysters burned, and dry­ed, be abstersiue: washed they encrease fleshe, and doe replenishe hollowe vlcers, & soates, without smarte or dyting.

Sepiae Testa, O [...] Sepiae, The Cuttle bone.

THe Cuttle boue is cold, & dry, & abster­siue: burned, it taketh away scabbes & spottes from the skyn: [...]burned, it clen­seth the teeth, and mundifieth skarres in ye [...]yes, and taketh away roughnes growing in the Eye li [...]des.

Ala [...]da, Galerita, The Larke.

THis Bryde rosted and eaten, helpeth the cyollicke.

Cochlea Terrestris, Limaces vulgò, The Snayle.

THe whole Snayle, with ye shells bur­ned, & mixed wyth pepper, & Galles, stop the bloudy Flute: they must bee beaten to pouder with the shelles, & made in a plaister to the belly: they helpe ye drop­sie, and swellinges in the Joyntes of them that haue the Gaw [...]e.

MEDICINES Approued, and Tryed.

For the Chollicke, stone, and Strangu­ry, an excellent perfect medi­cyne.

TAke fiue, or stre leaues o ye Hearte called La [...]re [...] and stampe & strayne th [...] in Ale, or if they bee [...] beate them to Pouder, [...] put them in Ale, and l [...] the Pacient drynke it firste the morning and all that daye keepe him warme in to [...] chamber: for after the receipt thereof th [...] Pacient shall be prouoken to d. or [...]j. store s [...] or more. This [...]a [...] [...] Lawrell, is growing in Gardeyns, and [...] like to M [...]den, [...] hath Leaues like to the [...] called [...] sell which groweth out of [...] [...] and beareth a Berry [...]yke toe bygi [...]sse [...] [Page 91] of Werttes, and is commonly greued to Bullockes for medicines.

THe nexte day, make a pouder of these thinns following, Filipen­dula, and Sarifrage, of eache an ounce: Coriander seede, Gro­mell seene, Alexander seede, of eache halfe an ounce: Juie Berries, ye seede of Brome, of euery an ounce: the B [...]othe of Elder floures, and the Berries of smothe Holme, of euery an ounce: Annise Seene, Fenell Seede, of euery an ounce: a quarter of an ounce of an Or [...] Gall: The Rome of redie berring, halfe an ounce: The Roundes of a Thorne [...] fishe, which is a round nut, which you shall finde within the dryckes which stande vpon the Fyshes backe, halfe an ounce: Polinonium, which is a Ferne growing one of an Oake, dryed in pouder, halfe an ounce: beate all these in pouder, and mire them together, and by the space of foure, or fyue Dayes followinge, take euery Daye fastinge a Spoonefull of the sayde Powder in Ale, and drinke thereof, and eate, nor drynke in foure, or v. houres after.

For a childe or man that is burned, or scalded with fire, or water.

TAke an Hen Egge, and roste it vntill it be very hard: and then take out ye yolke, and bruse it with freshe buter, and anoynte your griefe there with.

For a Copperesle Face, to washe it.

TAke greene and white Copueresse put a quantity in a sancer of water, & warme it ouer the Coales, and as hoate as you can suffer it, anoynte ye pim [...]les of your Face therewith, or such partes as are red & and this vse till they be whole.

For an akinge Heade.

TAke a Rose cake, & wet hym wyth Uy­neger, and put thereunto the pouder o [...] a Nutmegge, & the pouder of Cloues, and bynde them to the temples.

For bleeding at the nose, a singuler Medicine.

TAke a Lynaen clothe, and wette it in vynyger, and wrap it about the pri [...] members of the pacient, and he shall [...]ase bleading: (que) probatum est per Ioannen Lynsell, clericum Magestri Anthony Brown in Essex.

For the tertian Agewe.

TAke nyne leaues of white stocke Ge­loflouts, & fyue or sixe crops of rose­mary, and stampe them together, & take the Juice thereof, and drinke it in Ale luke warme, a litle before your fit.

For an Agewe.

TAke a toste of bread, and spread it ouer with Triacle, & let the Pacient care it before the fit cōmeth, three tymes seuerall, at three dayes. per Guill [...]elmū Le [...]hell, Ox­on. Armigerum. &c.

For a Bruse.

TAke Brooke lime, Smaledge & Brouse wor [...]r, and fry them in Sheepes sewer, then strayne it through a lynnen clothe, and it wilde an O [...]le, & put therevnto the pou­der of Spermaceti, and anoynte the griefe therewith.

For to destroy fleagme, & to auoyd it.

TAke Pa [...]s [...]y rootes, Fenell rootes, Peritorie, & Isope, se [...]th them with good Ale, and Lycoris, with a quan­tity of cl [...] H [...], and vse to drinke it first & last &c. Mistris Castelyne.

For the Chyne coughe.

Take a mouse & flea him, & dry him to pou der in an Ouen, & drynke him in ale: the same is also good for them [...] cannot holde their water. Probatū per magistrū lerueies.

To breake the stone.

TAke the she'l of a Snaile, and dry it lea­surely, and beate it to pouder, & drynke it with white wyne, & note ye Snayles be ve­ry good for a consumption, if they bee firste layde a day in bra [...], and then st [...]wed.

For the Plague.

TAke an Onion, & make a hole in him, & take out the inner core: then take water of Dragon, Triatle, & Pepper, and bruse them a l [...]tle, and put them into the Oni­on, and roste the Onion in the Imbers, & afterwardes bruse the Onion, and stranne him with Malm [...]s [...]y, & [...]ue it vnto ye Pa­cient to drinke: and if it be taken before the heart be infected, it is a present remedy. Per doctor em Uardenorte.

For the Canker in the Mouthe bothe White and Red, the Red will breake out, and the White will not: and for scare Legges, and soare Lippes, or any other Soares.

[Page 93] TAke ij. handfulles of the leaues of wood­bynde, and one handfull of Sage, shred them fine, & brate thē very small in a mor­ter: then take ij. spoonefulles of Hunny, & a peece of Roche alume of the quantity of halfe an egge: then take a quarte of fayre runninning water, and s [...]ethe all these to­gether, vntill it be thicke: then take it, and straine it in a fayre cloth, and put the liquor into a fayre earthen pot, & couer it close: thē anoynte the Gūmes th [...]rewyth, within on the soare syde, or ells your whole mouthe: and if it he a white Canker, then anoynt the v [...]ter side: and then wet a clothe in the Li­quor, & lay it thereunto on the out syde of ye soare: and vse this iij. tymes in a day, and when you are dressed, then lay your face to a warme chafingdishe of coales, & the wa­ter will tunne out of your mouth in great quantity. And if the Canker be in the nose, or in any place where it cannot be touched, then spout in this lyquor with a Quill, and this this will beale you within short space. And this liquor wilbe kept well xxi. dayes in his vertue, and no more. The good wyfe Baldwin of Wimbledon besides Fulham.

For a Mole in a womans body, other­wise called a wheston, or a moone Calfe.

TAke water Cressies, and eate them with Potage sodden with Mutton, morning and eveninge, and vse none other Potage: then take Oyle of Roses, & euery eueninge anoynte your body, breast, and belly there with. Per Ioannem Bell.

For the Pyles.

TAke Diaculum, & Oyle of Spike, a litle, melt them in a Sawcer, & spred it on a lynnen clothe, and lay it very warme to the Pyles, and within two daies fanabitur: and it must be newe dressed dai­ly. Per Ioannem Bell.

For a Corne in your Toe.

TAke a Knyfe, & pare the Corne hard to the Quicke, and then take the in­ner part of a Figge, & a quantity of Uerdegrease, & mire them together, & lay it to the Corne, & bynde it fast with a lin­nen cloth, and this will eate out the roote. Per Ioannem Bell.

A Playster for wormes in a childes belly.

TAke a handfull of fether fewe, & another of Rewe, one of wormewood, & another [Page 94] of [...]set lyekes, and the leauen of Browne bread, and a vynte of whyte wyne vineger, and boyle them all in the vyneger, vntill it be thicke, & lyke a s [...]l [...]e: and thē put it into a double clothe, and bynde it to the Nauell as hoat as it may bee suffered, and let it re­mayne [...]j [...]wers Per Ioannen Bell.

To purge a soare from deade fleshe.

TAke Sorrell, and rost it in the Embers [...] within [...]ro [...] or white Paper. and make a [...] thereof, & lay it as hoate [...]in three dressinges sa­nabitur Per [...] Bell

For the Chollicke, and stone.

TAke Blacke berries. [...]awe [...]. & Arorns, and dry them vpon tyles, then take the [...] of them seuerally, of eache a spone­full, & [...] it [...]e, and geue it to the Pa­cient in Malmosey

For the Gowte.

TAke S [...]e dryed halfe a day, or 1 whole day, & lay it to the soare, and it will [...]ase your payne in one night. Per Sergeant Wa­ters.

Another for the same.

TAke Aquanitae, and washe & rubbe the soare therewith: and then take a linnen [Page] clothe, and wet it in. Aquanitae, and lay it to the soare, and it will heale you within one houre or two at the most. Per Robert. Westo.

For the Plague.

TAke Mit [...]um a drāme, & gene it he­times to the Pacient with dragon wa­ter, white wyne, or with any other liquor.

For the gowt, or any ache.

TAke a Quarter of a pounde of R [...] & asm [...] of [...]itch, & a [...]uantity of Frank­ins [...]ce a [...] m [...] as a [...]e, & [...]smuch of [...]e: then take D [...]ere s [...]wet▪ or s [...] [...] & [...] al [...]o [...]ether in a [...]t, [...] t [...]en [...] it in cleane [...]ter & was [...] it as [...] [...] [...] [...]me, and then s [...]d it v [...] a [...] of L [...]t [...]er, and la [...] it to t [...] soare, & let it remayne there vntill it fa [...]l of.

For a greene wounde, wherein is no deade fleshe.

TAke [...], w [...]ic [...] [...]mith [...] [...]on­ly vs [...], [...] it i [...] [...]ik [...] A [...] & [...] ye [...]ou­ [...] t [...]er [...]of v [...]n the s [...] ▪ t [...]n s [...]r [...]d t [...] ­ [...] v [...] a ly [...] cloth [...], & la [...] it to the s [...], & let it rem [...] [...]s▪ a [...] chau [...]e it once a day with [...]ewe pouder, & it [Page 95] will heale your wounde without any other thing. Per Dauid Denewe of Brainford.

For the plague, a present remedy.

TAke fiue spoonefulles of Dragon water, [...]. spoonefulles of strong [...]y [...]ger halfe a spoonefull of [...]ac [...]e of I [...]ne, a qua [...] of a spoon [...]full of Bole a [...]moniak [...] in [...] pou­der, and the quanti [...]y of a piece of Bry [...] ­sto [...]e beaten into fine pouder, as [...]uch and some what more of the [...]oote of S [...]twa [...]e of Venyce be [...]ten in pouder: & drinke this wh [...]n you [...]e g [...]d wy [...] [...]fec [...]on an [...] [...]ot [...]ls, and take no other meate nor [...]rynke in twelue houres af [...], vu [...]s it [...] a [...]e of the same. Per [...]stris Kn [...]ght de Andouer.

For your defence from the plague, a speciall preseruatiue.

TAke fiue spoonefulles of vyneger, three spoonefulles of r [...]nning Water, halfe a spoonefull of [...]a [...]l [...] ▪ & asmuch of Bol [...] [...] ­ [...]on [...]ake as a [...] N [...]t made in fine pou­der, and drinke this last to bed, and first in the morninge. Per predictam mistris Knight.

To make a salue for a tente.

TAke the Yolke of an Eggt, Hun [...]y as much as a Walnut, T [...]pentyne asmuch: beate these, and vse it to the soare wyth lynte.

To kill the Ringworme.

TAke an ounce of ver degrece, d. ounces of vyneger, and grynd them in a morcer, and adoe three ounces of Hu [...]y, and seeth them all v [...]on the fyre t [...]l they be as thicke as Hu [...]y.

At London in fleet­streete by Thomas Marshe. 1580.

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