Of broken Bones.

THis is an accident of­ten happening in the Country amongst poor people, where Sur­geons, and especially good ones, are very scarce, and oftentimes remote; and thereby many times ensues much dan­ger to the party thus afflicted, through the neglect or perchance misdressing of his wound: and therefore it ought dili­gently to be regarded.

The first progresse that is to be made in the remedying of any such mischance, is diligently and dexterously to joyn and reunite together the fractured Bones into their proper seats & places again; that thereby the member may [Page 4] be again enabled to perform his pro­per office he is ordained for by God and Nature.

Secondly, in the next place care is to be taken, that the bones thus reduced to their proper form and figure, be so kept and preserved without motion, to gather strength.

Thirdly, to use means to ingender Callus, whereby the parts of the broken bones are conglutinated, joyned and fastened together again.

And fourthly, to take heed to pre­vent and preserve the part afflicted, from those accidents which in such cases are apt to follow the fracture of the Bone, bringing much hurt to the patient.

First therefore, to joyne and set a­gain the broken Bones into their right and proper place; observe how and which way the member where the Bone is fractured, doth extend and stretch it self: if the member where the Bone is broken, doth stand upwards, and is pricking, shewing an inequality when it is touched; it certainly mani­fests, that the broken Bone is out of his natural place▪ wherefore to reduce the [Page 5] same again, the fractured member is decently to be extended, and that part of the Bone which is depressed or crushed down into the flesh, to be gently lifted up; and that part which standeth upwards, to be put down, un­till both ends of the broken Bone do and be united and closed together, and brought again into their natural and proper place; having a diligent care that the member be not too immode­rately extended and drawn out, for that will bring very vehement pain, and consequently the Fever, Palsey, Convulsions, and such like accidents will pursue it: and oftentimes by this means, the fibres and threads in the heads of the Muscles be broken; whereupon lameness ensues.

Therefore to proceed rightly, and avoyd such danger, let one man lay his hand on the member above the fra­ctured or broken place, and another on the nether part of the member un­der the fractured Bone; and so gently and moderately stretch and extend the member, till both parts of the Bone do meet together in their proper place: then form it together, till you [Page 6] feel you have brought it again to its natural form and figure, and the Bone be reposed in his due place; Which being done, then, and not till then, shall the Patient be eased of his pain.

To keep the Bone, being set, that it fall not out again.

THE second progression to be made in the effecting this Cure, is to keep the fractured Bones, being reduced and brought to their proper place and figure, that they start not out again.

The means to be used in the effecting hereof, is to use apt and con [...]enient splinting, binding, ligature, and rolling of the fracture; and by all means to keep the member without motion, as much as possible may be.

But when you have reduced the member, or to speak more plain, set the broken Bone, before you roll up the member, mix some Oil of Roses, and the white of an Egge together, and dip therein a soft linen cloth, and lay it all over the place, that it may compasse [Page 7] it all about, and above and below it; and then roll up the member, but not too hard, so as to compresse it, & draw humors, causing inflammation therein; nor so slack, that the broken Bones se­parate again: but alwayes remember that in measure resteth virtue.

Begin your roller smoothly upon the broken place, going three or four times about it, untill you have compassed about the sound place above and be­low it.

Wet your rollers well in Water and Wine, before you use them; and if the place be much afflicted with any Vehe­ment pain or inflammation, then the member ought to be wrapped about with fine Wooll, or towe well carded, and wet in Oxicratum, or Oil of Roses.

Then, to defend the member from accidents, and to keep it together, and strengthen the same, lay upon the rol­lers a plaister or Cerecloth, made of Wax melted in Oil of Roses; but if there be besides the broken Bone any bruise or hurt in the flesh, then do not apply any Oil or Cerecloth to it; but in stead thereof, Cloths dipt in red and Stiptick Wine.

[Page 8]Also, to keep the member from pain and accidents, there must be splints prepared, to put about the broken member; which splints must be smooth and equal, without ruggedness or crookedness, and are to be thus ap­plyed: First, wet cloths in Rose-water, and then lay them upon the Roller three or four times double; then roll Wool or Cotton round about the splints, and place them about the mem­ber, about the bredth of a finger one from another; and bind them gently on, taking heed that you do not com­presse the member, nor touch any joynt, if the broken Bone be neer a joynt, lest the joynt do thereby be­come inflamed and ulcerate: but make your splints the shorter and smaller, if the fracture be neer to any joynt.

Now after this progresse, if the Pa­tient receive ease, & no pain, inflamma­tion, or itching be fell in the fractured part; then let the splints remain on and unopened twelve or fifteen dayes: but if on the contrary, any of the fore­mentioned accidents happen, then you must unrole the Member the third day at the furthest, and foment and wash [Page 9] the place with warm water, to put away the pain and itching.

It is likewise good to prevent and remove such accidents as usually at­tend these mischances; as gangrenes, ulcers, inflammation, itchings caused through immoderate dryness or moi­sture, and for the most part extream pain; which the Patient will quickly be too sensible of then must you speedi­ly loose the binding about the broken place, and take off your roller; which being done, foment and bathe the place with Oil of Roses, Vinegar, before and hereafter mentioned; and also use Un­guentum Album, and Unguentum Popu­leon, or either; and do not either roll or splint up the Member again, till the pain abateth, and the inflammation cea­seth, but only endeavour to strengthen and keep the Member together, and afterwards roll it, and splinter it as before: and to strengthen the weakned Member, this following is very good.

A special Oyntment to resist accidents, and strengthen a broken Member.

• TAke Camomile,
• Mallows,
• Balme and the Rootes thereof, of each one handful,

Chop and stamp them very small, and then take May-Butter 2 pound, Doggs Grease 1 pound and a half, and therein boyl the Herbs very well: strain it, and then

• Take Wax five ounces and a half,
• Ammoniacum,
• Galbanum, of each 2 ounces.

Dissolve the Gum in Vinegar, and strain it; and then boyl it till the Vine­gar be wasted away: then, melt the Wax amongst it; then put amongst the strain'd Herbs before, and when it is almost cold

• [Page 11]Take Bevercod 1 ounce and a half,
• Oil of Camomile 2 ounces and a half,
• Oil of Bayes 16 ounces.

Mix all this together into an Oynt­ment, and reserve it as a special secret for your use: And when you have oc­casion to use it, melt a little of it, and therewith anoynt the grieved place, and afterwards apply thereon this Cerecloth following.

A Cerecloth for broken Bones.

• Take Frankincense,
• Galbanum, of each 3 quarters of an ounce,
• Mastick 1 ounce,
• Wax 3 ounces,
• Rosin 1 ounce and a half,
• Oil an ounce:

Dissolve the Galbanum in a little Vinegar, and then melt all together in the Oil; and afterwards strain it through a Cloth, and then dip your Cerecloth therein, and apply it after the anoyn­ting.

Another for the same.

• Take Sallat-Oil 4 ounces,
• Wax half an ounce,
• Mastick half an ounce.

Beat the Mastick to powder, and melt the Wax in the Oil; and when it is almost cold, put in the Mastick, and temper them well together, and use it as before is directed.

For the same.

• Take Virgins-Wax,
• Frankincense, of each half an ounce,
• Linseed Oil 4 ounces.

Melt and incorporate them all well together, and dip a Cerecloth therein, and use it as the other.

Also for the same, because if you have not one Medicine in readiness, I prescribe many, that you may speedi­ly apply what remedy is next at hand:

Take Wax and fresh Butter, and melt them together, and apply it.

Another for the same.

Take Fenegreek meal as much as you think good, and Comphrey; pound the Comphrey small, and boyl them together in Water, till they be as thick as grout, and apply it moderately warm to the fractured place.

For the same.

• Take Litharge of Gold,
• Bolus,
• Comphrey, of each 3 ounces,
• Bean-meal, one ounce and a half:

Beat them all together, and infuse them in good Vinegar one night: then

• Take Wax,
• Rosin, of each 3 ounces,
• Sallad-Oil 12 ounces.

Incorporate them all well together on the fire, and let them boyl till all the Vinegar be consumed. Then when it is almost cold, stir into it two ounces of Dragagant in powder, that hath [Page 14] been well steeped in Wine, and so make it into a plaister, and apply it.

Another very good for the same, and for other Ruptures.

• Take Saffron,
• Euphorbium,
• Long pepper; of each 1 Dram.
• Rosin five ounces,
• Aquavitae, 1 ounce and a half.

Dissolve the Rosin in Aquavitae, and beat all the rest to powder, and then boyl them all together till the Aqua­vitae be consumed; and afterwards add to it as much Wax as is sufficient to make it into a plaister, and reserve it for the use aforesaid.

Another plaister for the same.

• Take Ammoniacum half an ounce,
• Galbanum 3 quarters of an ounce,
• Wax,
• Turpentine; of each 4 ounces,
• Myrrhe a quarter of an ounce.

Dissolve the Gums in Wine, and [Page 15] then melt them all together; and when it is almost cold, put in the Myrrhe, and make thereof a plaister for your use.

But if together with the breaking of the Bone, there happen any wound or flux of blood, then indeavour to stanch the blood: for which you may use this powder following.

A Powder to stanch blood in a wound.

• Take of Frankincense,
• Arsenick,
• Aluminis Succarini; of each two ounces.
• Calcis Vivi 6 ounces.

Mix them all together into fine pow­der, and add thereto a pinte of Vine­gar, and boyl them together till the Vinegar be consumed; then let it dry in the Sun, or against the fire, and make it again into fine powder; then to 3 ounces of this powder, add half an ounce of Bole-Armoniack, and one ounce of Pulvis Alcamistinis, and mix them all together into a very fine pow­der, and reserve it for your use, to stanch any flux of blood in a wound. [Page 16] And when you have any occasion to use it, take 4 ounces of this powder, and incorporate it with whites of Egges; then take a bolster of towe, bigge enough to cover the place where the wound is, and dip the towe in Vinegar, and press it out again; then spread your Medicine on the towe, and after strowe a little of the dry powder upon it, and apply it; and after lay upon this many more little bolsters of towe, as much as is needfull to stanch the blood. And proceed in the cure, as you do in the cure of green wounds, if there be no Ulcer, or inflammation, or putrifaction in the Bones; but if the Bones ulcerate or putrify, then to resist the same, use these Medicines fol­lowing.

For putrifaction of the Bones.

• Take burnt Lead 2 ounces,
• Myrrhe half an ounce,
• Aloes,
• Opopanacum,
• Iron Drosse,
• Burnt Squinant,
• Rindes of firre-Tree; of each 1 dram.

[Page 17]Make them all to a powder, and strew thereof upon the putrified Bone; it separates the putrifaction, and heals the place very much.

Also wash the place with water, wherein Sal Armoniak hath been de­cocted.

If there be any ulcer therewith, then have a care you use no Oil thereunto, for Oiles bring putrifaction in Ulcers; but wash the Ulcer with this Medicine following.

For Ulcers in broken Bones.

• Take White-wine 4 ounces,
• Rose-Water two ounces,
• Burnt Allom 1 quarter of an oun.
• Verdigrease 1 dram,
• The White of an Egge sodden hard.

Bruise the white of the Egge small, & boyl them all together a little gent­ly; then strain it, and keep it well stopt for your use; and afterwards if it be too thick or too strong, add some more Wine and Rose-Water unto it, and use it as before is directed: And after­wards lay upon the sore this plaister following.

A Plaister for Ulcers.

• Take Oil of Roses 3 drams,
• Oil of Camomile 1 dram,
• Ceruse 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Dragons blood,
• Bolus; of each half an ounce,
• Camphire 1 dram,
• Litharge of gold half a dram,
• Tutty prepared a quarter of an ounce,
• Coral 1 dram.

Make them all into a plaister with Wax, as much as is sufficient; spread it on leather, and lay it upon the Ulcer.

But if these accidents happen not, or at least be removed; then endeavour to strengthen and Conglutinate the fractured Bones; which is done by a certain Nutriment or substance that groweth out of the Bones, which gleweth them, and causeth to Unite and grow together. This nourishment is called Callus, which must be in­creased by all means. When once it begins to grow, you shall perceive it by these signs; the inflammation ceaseth, [Page 19] and the pain is abated, and the member again reduced to it's natural Colour. To ingender Callus, let the patient use meats that are grosse and viscous, and breed good juyce: and that the Cal­lus may be ingendred neither too big nor too small, have respect to the dyet, fomentation and plaisters. If the Callus grow but slowly, that there be need to increase it, use plaisters that do moderately heal; of which sort here be many directed, in this book. And on the contrary, if it appear too big, use Astringent Medicines, a compressing ligature or binding; apply also a plate of lead upon the place, And use fomen­tations made with Oil, Salt-Peter, or Water and Salt made hot. But if the member appear smaller and leaner then ordinarily and naturally it was before, then apply unto the affected member hot attractive Medicines. Let the pa­tient use large dyet, and voyd all things causing Melancholy.

Of eluxation of the joynts, and to set a Bone put out of joynt.

THE Greeks call this Exarthrema, the Latines Eluxatio; which is as­much as to say, a Joynt writhen or started aside out of its natural place in­to another; so that the free natural mo­tion thereof is thereby hindred: so that if the Bone be quite out of joynt, then this is called an eluxation; or a luxation only, without a compound, you may call it, if you please; but if it be only a little extorted and strained aside, that is not properly a luxation, but only a strain or wrench. If the joynt be luxated, then must manual operation be used to set the same, and reduce it to its proper place; which is the first intention to be used in this case. And the manner of this opera­tion must be in this manner: to re­duce the bone out of his socket into his natural seat, extend the member de­cently and tenderly with the hands, till you feel the Bone brought again into his proper place; but sometimes the operation of the hands sufficeth, not to [Page 21] perform this work alone, but instru­ments and bands prepared fit for that purpose must be used, as Hippocrates teacheth, Hippocrates lib. de Luxatis & fractis.

The Luxated member being well reduced again to his natural place, your next intention must be to endeavour to strengthen and confirm the affected joynt, and keep the Bone that it slip not out of its place again; for which purpose, have Rollets and Splints in readiness to bind up the member, and keep it from hurt and motion. But be­fore you roll or bind up the same, anoint it with Oil of Roses, and lay upon it some old fine Linen-cloths wet in Oil of Roses, or whites of Egges, and apply them to the joynt; then gently roll up the member, ha­ving first wet your Rollers in Water and Vinegar mixed together; then ap­ply your splints about the joynt, if there be necessity: and they may be made of leather or pastboard.

This being done, if the patient be at ease, and no accidents happen, open it not again in ten dayes: if any inflam­mation happen, some refrigerating [Page 22] Cerecloth is good to be used. And to prevent and stop defluxions of humors, which may chance to fall down and weaken the joynt, this plaister follow­ing is very good to withstand the same.

• Take Colophonia,
• Pitch; of each 1 ounce,
• Galbanum,
• Myrrhe,
• Ammoniacum,
• Frankincense; of each 3 drams,
• The Muscilage of Holly-hocks 3 quarters of an ounce,
• Polypody Roots,
• Misleden,
• Heartwort; of each 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Wax 1 ounce,
• Turpentine 3 quarters of an ounce.

Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and then put to it the Wax, Pitch and Tur­pentine: melt them together, and boyl them over a gentle fire, till the Mussi­lage and Vinegar be consumed; then temper the other things being beaten [Page 23] very small, amongst them, and then make it into a plaister.

Spread of this Plaister upon a cloth or peece of leather, and lay it on the grieved place.

Another Plaister for the same.

• Take Holly-hock Roots 3 ounces,
• Acorn-budds 3 quarters of an ounce.
• Flowers of Self-heal 1 ounce and a half,
• Sallet-Oil,
• Oil of Mirtles; of each 3 quarters of an ounce,
• Red Wine 24 ounces,
• Self-heal Water 12 ounces;
• Frankincense,
• Myrrhe; of each 1 dram,
• Deeres suet 1 scruple and a half,
• Turpentine half an ounce,
• Sealed earth half a dram,
• Mumy two Drams and a half.

First bruise the Holly-hock roots, Self-heal flowers, and Acorn-budds, very small, and beat them to pap; then add thereunto the Wines, Oils, and Self-heal Water, and boyl all toge­ther, [Page 24] till the Wine and Water be con­sumed; then strain it out hard, and put in the Frankincense, Myrrhe, Deeres­suet and Turpentine; then seeth them again, till the moisture be consumed; then put in the Sealed-earth and Mu­my, and as much Wax as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister: which is very good for all Luxations and broken Bones, to asswage the pain, and strengthen the sinewes.

In all such accidents, as broken and dislocated Bones and joynts, have a care to defend the afflicted Member from inflammation and humours that are apt to flow thereunto; To prevent which, a moderate dyet must necessa­rily be used, and that not only in this, but in all other distempers; for health consists in mediocrity: and also, if need require, purging and letting blood are not amisse to be used.

It will not be here amisse, to add some remedies fit to be used for the shrinking of sinewes, and withered joynts, and contractures, which often­times happen after Luxation of the joynts, or fractures of the Bones; which many times happens after such [Page 25] mischances, if the same be long before they be cured.

A Salve very good for an extenuated or withered Member.

• Take Cats Grease,
• Deers-suet,
• Bears-Grease,
• Hogges-Grease,
• The marrow of Neats feet,
• Honey,
• Doggs-Grease,
• Badgers-Grease; of each a like quantity:

Boyl them all together in Wine to an oyntment; then strain it, and there­with anoynt the place affected, before the fire, twice a day.

Another for the same purpose.

Take Sage, Mallowes, Nettles, and their Roots, Camomile, Sprigges of Juniper, of each one handful; Dogs-Grease, and fresh Butter, of each 3 ounces; Chop the Herbs small, and boyl them to a grout, and then [Page 26] strain them through a Course-cloth, then put the Grease and Butter to it, and seeth it again to an oyntment; then reserve it for the uses before men­tioned.

And thus have we done with the first part of Luxated, dislocated, and broken Bones, and withered mem­bers, and shrinking sinews: next fol­lows an accident many both old and young languish under; namely, Rup­tures, or broken Bellyes.

For a Tumor or smelling in the groyn or privy parts.

TAke Muscilage of Elecampane Roots, Linseed, Figges, and Se­bestes, of each six ounces, and as much Oil of sweet Almonds, Litharge of gold prepared, three ounces; seeth it untill the Muscilage be consumed, alwayes stirring it: then put thereto an ounce of Wax; make it into a Plaister, and lay it on the place grieved.

A Salve for the same.

Take Rosin and Wax, of each 1 ounc. a great Onion, and two Lilly-Roots; stamp them, and seeth them in Goats Milk; then strain them through a linen Cloth, and let it seeth well again; then stir it about until it be cold, and so re­serve it for the use aforesaid.

If there be any open Ulcer, then use this following.

• Take Tutty prepared 1 ounce.
• Mastick,
• Frankincense, of each 1 quarter of an ounce,
• White Wax, half an ounce.

[Page 29] Oile of Roses a sufficient quantity, to make it into a Salve. If the place be raw, and in great anguish, then anoynt the same with Oil of sweet Almonds.

Also take Argal, and put it into a new pot, and burn it till it be black; then beat it small, and strew it on the sore.

These are only for outward swellings and Ulcers: if there be any inward sore or Ulceration in the conduit of the yard, stoppage or inflammation, then use this injection following, spouting it in gently with a Syrringe.

• Take White-Wine one pinte,
• Burnt Allom 2 dragms and a half,
• Verdigrease 1 dragm and a half.

Boyl them well together, then strain it through a Cloth, and inject it with a Syrringe.

A Salve for the same, to anoynt the whole member.

Take the Juice of Tassels of Planten, and Comphrey, of each two ounces; Camphire 4; Starch and Ceruse of each one ounce, Litharge of Gold half an [Page 30] ounce, Tutty prepared with Rose-water 1 dragm and a half; the whites of three Egges well beaten: bruise the Champhire very small, then incorpo­rate them all together in a leaden Mor­ter, and make a Salve thereof, for the use aforementioned.

But to return to speak of the Rup­tures falling into the Cods: of which there are several causes and kinds; one is a swelling or puffing up of the Cods through wind; Another, and that is most properly called a broken belly, when the Rym of the belly is broken, and the bowels or guts fall down into the Cod little or much, sometimes in one side only, and sometimes into both. And another kind (with is im­properly called a Rupture) is a swelling of the Cod with water, and superfluous matter of moisture; to which Hydropi­cal persons are subject: And that Dis­ease is very well known by the swelling of the Cods.

But first we come to speak of the Hernia, or broken belly, with hapneth above the Cod; the cause hereof is oftentimes in Children, crying, some loud-hooping-cough, or extream blow­ing [Page 31] with wind; in older persons as well as the former, falls, thrusts, blows, much labour, or heavy burdens.

A speedy remedy is necessary to be sought after for this Rupture; for the older it grows, the more difficult it will be to Cure. Let the Patient be laid on his back, and put up the bowels gently again till they come into their due place; then lay thereon this Plai­ster following, spred upon a piece of Leather, and bind it hard on, and apply thereto a convenient trusse.

A Plaister for one that is broken in the Belly.

• Take Pitch,
• Mastick; of each 3 dragmes,
• Frankincense 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Hypocistis,
• Sarcocolla,
• Juyce of Sloes, of each 1 dram and a half.
• Blood-stone,
• Dragons blood,
• Aloe; of each 2 dragmes and a half,
• Birdlyme 1 dragm and a half,
• Comphrey,
• [Page 32]Galls,
• Pomgranate Pills,
• Fine Bolus; of each 3 dragmes,
• Aristolochia 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Sumach,
• Pomgranate Flowers, of each 1 drag.
• Deers suet 2 ounces,
• Turpentine and Wax a quantity suffi­cient.

Dissolve the Gums and Juyces in hot Vinegar or Wine, the rest beat small, and make thereof a Plaister, and apply it as before is directed.

Another of the same.

• Take Pitch half an ounce,
• White and Red Wax,
• Litharge of Gold,
• Ammoniacum,
• Galbanum,
• Mumy, of each 2 dragmes and a half,
• Bridlyme,
• Myrrhe,
• Cypres Nuts,
• Frankincense, of each one dragm,
• Gypsum, or Plaister of a wall,
• [Page 33]Bolus,
• Aloe, of each half an ounce,
• Mastick,
• Comphrey,
• Daisie Roots, of each 3 dragms and a half,
• Turpentine 1 ounce,
• Aristolochia,
• Galnuts, of each 1 ounce,
• Dragons blood 1 quarter of an ounce.

Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and melt the Pitch, Wax, and Turpentine; and beat to powder all that is to be powdered; then make them all toge­ther into a Plaister: you may increase or diminish the quantity of the Wax, as the cause requires.

Another Plaister for a Rupture.

• Take Cypres Nuts 2 ounces,
• Myrrhe,
• Cypres Roots,
• Marjoram Gentle,
• Galls,
• Juyce of Sloes,
• Frankincense,
• Gum, of each 1 ounce.

[Page 34]Dissolve the Gum in Wine, then tem­per the rest amongst it, and make there­of a Plaister, and lay it upon the Rup­ture.

For the same.

• Take Daisy Roots and flowers,
• Wild Tansy flowers and roots,
• Comphrey; of each half an ounce,
• Mastick 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Pomgranate flowers,
• Juyce of sloes, of each half a dragm,
• Hares Hair chopt small 1 dragm,
• Birdlyme 1 ounce,
• Pitch 2 ounces,
• Wax five dragms,

Oil of Roses, a sufficient quantity to make thereof a Plaister, and apply it as before is directed: you need not take off the trusse but once in 4. or 5. dayes, and then renew the Plai­ster.

Another excellent Plaister for the same.

• Take Dragons blood half a dragm,
• Myrrhe▪
• [Page 35] Sarcocolla,
• Opopanacum,
• Brimstone,
• Amber,
• Mastick,
• Comphrey, of each 2 dragmes and a half,
• Myrtle Seed,
• Yellow Myrobalaus, of each 2 drag.
• Barke of Pine-apples,
• Cypres Nuts, of each 4 scruples,
• Dragagant 1 dragm.
• Garden-Snayls 4. or 5.

Dissolve the Gum in Vinegar, and add thereto as much fish-lyme dissolve in Vinegar, as is sufficient to make the rest into a Plaister; mix them all together, and dry away the moisture by a small fire.

A Drinke to be used after this Plaister.

• Take Comphrey,
• Tormentil, of each 1 quarter of an ounce,
• Codwort,
• Sengreen,
• Cinquefoil,
• [Page 36] Mugwort,
• Herb Trinity, of each 2 handfulls,
• Gariofilata,
• Verbascum,
• Broad planten, of each 2 dragms and a half;
• Roses,
• Horse-tail, of each half a handful:

Cut and bruise the Herbs grosse, and put to them Aquavitae, and red seething Wine, of each six ounces, or so much as will cover it: let it so stand 14 hours; afterwards strain it through, and wring it out, and sweeten it with Syrupe of Myrtles; And give hereof from one ounce to three, according to the strength of the Patient, about 6 hours after the applying of the Plaister last before mentioned.

A Pultiss for young Children.

Take meal of Lupins, and burnt Linnen, of each a like quantity; and make a Pap or Pultiss thereof with Wine, and spread it between two fine Cloaths, and lay it upon the Rupture.

A milde Plaister for Children.

Take Beans what quantity you please, steep them in warm water, peel them, and let them dry again; then beat them to powder, & take 2 ounces thereof, Oaken-wood filed smal 1 oun. Comphrey sodden in Wine, and then beat to Pap 3 ounces: Let all these be boyled together till it be thick; then spread it on a Cloth, and lay it on the Rupture, changing it three times a day, and once in the night: fasten it well on with a trusse; continue it 4. or 5. Weeks together, till the Rupture be cured, and the Skin grown strong.

A Drink for a Rupture.

Take Sengreen, Consolida, Saraceni­ca, red Beets, Herb Bennet, Fennel, Knot-grass, and Pauls Betony; of each one handful: boyl them all in Wine, and drink of it twice a day, morning and in the afternoon, but not at night: let a Child continue taking it 6 Weeks, and an old body 12 Weeks.

Shepherds purse, Sanacle, and Vale­rian, [Page 38] and Harts-tongue, decocted in Wine, and drunken, are very good.

An Oyntment for a Rupture.

Take Womans Milk 16 ounces, Badgers-grease, Capons-grease, Deers-suet and Comphrey, of each two ounces, the innermost rynde of a Cherry-tree, cut small, one ounce and a half; boyl them all a little together, and strain it hard through a Cloth, and therewith anoynt the Rupture morn­ing and evening.

Of a Rupture through Wind.

In this case, the Patient must eschew all such meats and drinks as cause wind; as Milk, sweet Wine, and the like; moist fruits, and all moist meats: And use means to expell the wind▪ for which this Clyster following is good.

A Clyster for a windy Rupture.

• Take Cumin,
• Annis,
• Caraway,
• Fennel,
• [Page 39] Ameos, of each one dragm,
• Rue one handful and a half:

Seeth these together in a quart of wa­ter, till the half be consumed: Then take 12 ounces of this decoction; Oil of Rue, and Oil of Bayes, of each one ounce and a half; Jndia-Salt, and Sal­gem, of each half a dragm; Sugar 1 ounce and a half; make a Clyster there­of, and give it once a day: and every morning let the Patient take a dram of Mithridate, with 2 ounces of Rue­water, 7 hours before meat: this ex­pels wind marvelously.

An outward Losion for the same.

Take Sulpher vive beaten 2 ounces, Grains half an ounce, grosly beaten; seeth this together till the third part be sodden away: dip a Spunge in this wa­ter being warm, and lay it on the Privities, renewing it 5. or 6. times a day.

Hernia aquosa, or the watry Rupture.

This is an Hydropical watry humor in the Liver, Veynes and pores, that doth at last fall down into the Cods, and is known by the swelling of the Cods and Navel: for a Remedy hereof, the Pa­tient must be purged, and keep an or­derly dyet; that thereby the water may be expelled out of the body: to purge those humours, take this Drink following:

A Drink to purge for the watry Rupture.

Take Agarit and Hermodactyls of each one dragme and a half, Ginger one scruple, Ireos a dragme; Hony-Water 4 ounces: then make the Hony-Water warm, and steep the other things there­in 24 hours; strain it, and drink it warm, and fast 6. hours after it.

Another for the same.

Take Electuarium Indium 3 dragms, burnt Copper 8 grains, Water of blew [Page 41] flower de Luce 2 ounces: mix them all together, and drink it.

Pills for the same.

Take the Root of Laureola one scruple, steep it 5. dayes in Vinegar, Sulpher Vive 4 grains, burnt Copper 2 grains, Licoris, Annis, and Draga­gant, of each 4 grains: make pills there­of with Juyce of Roses, and take them all at once.

To provoke Urine in this case is re­quisite: for which, use these things following.

To move Urine.

TAke red Pease 6 ounces, 2 Fen­nel Roots: boyl them well toge­ther, and take 5 ounces of this Deco­ction, at a time.

For the same.

Take Smallage-water and Melilot-water; of each 2 ounces and a half; sweeten it with Sugar, and drink here­of a week together.

[Page 42]Or for the same, drink Broom-water about 5 ounces at a time.

To strengthen the Liver, use this Confection.

Take Trochiscos, Diarhodon, Spe­cies Diacynamomi; of each 1 dragme, burnt Ivory one scruple, 4 ounces of white Sugar: seeth it in Fennel-water, and make Tabulats of it, and take of these a quarter of an ounce before meat.

A Fomentation for the Rupture.

Take Seseli, Cumin, Camomile, and Melilot, of each one ounce; seeth these together in a quart of Water, until the third part be spent, and therewith bathe and foment the Rupture; and then lay this Plaister following upon it, binding it on warm.

A Plaister for the watery Rupture.

Take Roots of blew flower de Luce, and Roots of wild Cucumers, of each 3 ounces, Pease-meal and beane-meal, of each 2 ounces, Oil of [Page 43] Rue, and Juyce of Bay-leaves, of each 2 ounces: seeth this together to the thickness of a Plaister, and then spread it on a Cloth, and bind it warm upon the Rupture.

Another Plaister for the same.

Take Mastick one ounce, Cypres-Nuts half an ounce, Dragagant & Gum, of each one dragme: temper these to­gether with Oil of Roses unto a Plai­ster, and so apply it.

If the Rupture be caused of Phleg­matick humours, then use these Purga­tions which follow.

A Purge for a Rupture caused through blood or Phlegme.

TAke Turbith 1 quarter of an ounce, Ginger one dragme, white Sugar 3 dragmes: temper them together; Let the Patient take a dram hereof every fourth day with Worm-wood-water, and the other mornings between them take this Potion following.

A Drink for the same.

Take Water of Balme, Betony, and Worm-wood, of each one ounce and a half, Sugar half an ounce, Vinegar of Squills one ounce: mix them together, and so drink them.

A Plaister for the same, to take away the Phlegmatick matter.

Take Sandaracha two ounces, Sarco­colla one ounce, Ashes of Bean-straw, or Vine-stocks 6 ounces, Vinegar of Squills 2 ounces, Water as much as is needfull to seeth them all together till they come to the thickness of a Plai­ster; and lay it upon the place, binding it on warm, as before is directed.

If the Rupture be fleshy, that is, a fleshy excresence growing in the Cods, which may be caused through over­much heat and moisture in the Cods, whereby the blood turneth into flesh, which much weakneth and infeebleth this member; in this case, such meats and drinks must be refrained, which do over-much heat or moisten, such as [Page 45] sweet Wines, Sugar, delicate meats, and the like; and on the contrary, the Pa­tient must eat such meats as are cooling and drying. The Hemorrhoids in the fundament must be opened together with the Liver or Median Veyne, and outwardly apply these Plaisters follow­ing.

A Plaister for a fleshy Rupture.

• Take Leutil,
• Night-Shade,
• Roses,
• Plantayn, of each 6 ounces,
• Barley-meal 12 ounces.

Boyl these together in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar, and thrice as much water, adding thereto 3 whites of Egges; boyl it to the thickness of a Plaister, and lay it all over the Cod, renewing it every day, 5 or 6 dayes one after another.

Of the Melancholy blood putrifying in the Cods, which is cal­led Buris.

THis is the falling of Melancholy blood down into the Cod, which causeth great swelling there: and some­times if the Cod be full of matter and corruption, and it remain long, it putri­fyeth the Stones, and spoileth them; therefore care is to be taken speedily to purge away, and draw out the Me­lancholy humours; to effect which, it is necessary, that the Liver-Vein be opened, and the next day afterwards, give the Patient this purging Potion, viz. Catharticum Imperiale, with Vio­let-Water, or Lilly-water; and take 6 or 8 dayes following after, these Poti­ons following: Take Violet-water, Lettice-water, and Hop-water; of each one ounce, Syrrup of Cytron-Pills one ounce and a half; drink it warm in the morning: And outwardly to asswage the swelling, take these Medicines fol­lowing, viz.

• [Page 47]Take Bean-meal 3 ounces,
• Muscilage of Holly-hocks,
• Camomile,
• Annis Seeds,
• Fenegreek Seed,
• Raisins stoned, of each half an ounce.

Temper them with yolks of Egges, and apply it to the grieved place.

A Pultis for the same.

Take Cow-dung, Crums of Rye-bread, Cumin, Night-shade, Bean-meal, Melilot, Camomile, and Oil of Lillies: pound and seeth them all to­gether, and lay them on the place grieved.

For the same.

Take Bean-meal, Lilley-Roots, Colewort-Leaves, Figges and Fene­greek-meal, of each a like quantity, and seeth them together being bruised into the form of a Pultis, and so ap­ply it.

Of the falling of the Bowels or Guts into the Cod.

THE first thing in this case, as be­fore is generally directed, is dili­gently to endeavour the putting up of the Bowels again into their due place; by taking hold of the lower part of the Cods, & gently thrusting them up; the Patient lying on his back with his but­tocks somthing higher then the other part of his Body, that thereby the Bo­wels may the easier be reduced to their due place.

Then foment and bath the whole Cods and parts about it, with such Lotions as before are directed; then lay this Plaister following thereupon, and bind it on with a good Trusse.

• Take Cypres-Roots 2 ounces,
• Mil-dust 3 ounces,
• Comphrey-Roots,
• Daisy-Rootes, of each 1 ounce,
• Isinglas 1 ounce and a half,
• Dragagant,
• Gum,
• Mumey,
• Burnt Ivory, of each half an ounce,
• [Page 49] Dragons blood,
• Sagapenum,
• Sealed-earth,
• Fine Bolus, of each 5 dragmes.

Pound the Roots, and seeth them with the meal in 2 parts of Water, and 1 part of red Vinegar, until it be thick enough; then mix molten Wax a­mongst it, as much as is needful; stir it well together with dissolved Gum, till it be cold; so spread it, and apply it as before is directed.

To asswage the pain of the falling down of the Bowels, Clysters are very commodious to be used; for which, these following are very good.

Take white Sesamum Seeds grosly beaten, Linseed and Fenegreek; make a decoction thereof, and mix therewith Butter and Oil of Violets, and admi­nister it warm.

For the same.

Take broth made of a Hen or Cock, [Page 50] and Oil of Sesamum; of each 6 ounces, Salgem half an ounce: temper them to­gether for a Clyster.

Another.

Take sweet Wine 12 ounces, fresh butter, and Oil of sweet Almonds, of each 2 ounces, Benedicta Lax, half an ounce: temper them all together for a Clyster.

To strengthen the broken place where the Bowels come through.

Take Iron Drosse sodden in Vine­gar, and Myrrhe, of each half an ounce, Dragons blood, fine Bolus, Frankin­cense, Mastick, Sealed Earth, and Juyce of Sloes, of each one quarter of an ounce, Cypres Nuts, and Mumey, of each 3 quarters of an ounce, Isinglas 2 ounces: make them all together into a Salve, with Wax and Rosin as much as is needful; with this anoynt the Cods thrice a day, and knit it up alwayes with a Trusse.

A good Drink for a Rupture.

Take Rosemary half an ounce, Cy­namon half a dragme, Balme-Flowers, Ginger, Borage, Nutmegs, of each half a dragme; seeth these together in 7 quarts of Water till the 4 part be con­sumed, then add thereto 16 ounces of Honey, then boyl it again, till the third part be consumed, and use it.

A Confection for the same.

Take Frankincense, Mastick, Juyce of Sloes, Hypocistis, of each 1 dragme and a half, Roses, burnt Ivory, parched Cummin, Dill-Seed, of each one drag. Cypres Nuts half an ounce, Steel filed small, Iron Drosse decocted together in red Vinegar, of each one quarter of an ounce; dryed Seeds of Pomgranates one ounce: beat them all small toge­ther; then take Honey of Roses 18 ounces, white Sugar 12 ounces, Gra­nado Wine 6 ounces, Dragagant-Gum, of each half an ounce: seeth both of these Gums with Honey, Sugar, and this Juyce, till it be thick: when it be­ginneth [Page 52] to be cold, put it into a Mor­ter, and temper the other things a­mongst it, stirring it well together: give the Patient 2 dragmes thereof in the morning, and let him fast 2 hours after it; and one dragme at night, 2 hours after Supper.

Let the Patient keep himself as quiet as possible, forbear much stirring and carnal Copulation; and all excesse either of meat or drink; and forbear binding meat, strong drink, and new Wine. So far of Ruptures.

The first Water is this.

• Take Fennel,
• Rue,
• Vervaine,
• Endive,
• Betony,
• Germander,
• Red roses,
• Maydenhaire, of each 1 ounce.

Stamp them, and steep them in white-Wine a day and a night, and distil a [Page 54] Water of them; This Water shall de­part in three, (that is, you shall draw 3 several Waters,) the first part ye shall do in a glasse by it self: and know ye of a truth, that this Water is as pre­cious as Gold, The second as Silver, The third part as precious as Balme; and keep these 3 parts in glasses.

This Water shall ye give to the Rich for Gold; to mean men for Silver, and to the Poor for Balme.

This Water keepeth the Eyes in cleerness, and avoydeth the Quitery and gounde, and cleereth and sharpneth the sight.

The second Water.

TO the second Water take Salgema pound, and wrap it in a green Dock-leaf, and lay it in the fire till it be well rosted, and wax white, and put it in a glasse against the air at night, and at the morrow it shall be turned to white Water like unto Chrystal; keep this VVater well in a glasse, and do a drop into thy Eye, and it shall cleanse and sharp thy sight: And it is good for the evil at the heart, and for the Mor­phew, [Page 55] and for Sance-fleam, and for the Canker in the Mouth, and for other evills in the Body.

The third Water.

THE 3 Water is as followeth: Take the Root of Parsly, Endive, Mo­nache, Fennel, Betony an ounce: wash them well in Water, and bray them well, and then steep them well in white-Wine a day and a night, and then distil them.

This Water is more worth then Balme: It keepeth a good sight, and cleanseth it of all filth; it refraineth tears, and comforteth the head, and avoideth the Water that causeth headach.

The fourth Water.

THE 4 Water is this; Take Parsly-Seed, Annis, Caraway, Vervaine, of each 2 dragmes, Centory 10 dragmes: beat all these to powder, and do it in warm water a day and a night; then distil it. This water is a precious wa­ter for all sore Eyes, and very good [Page 56] for the health of a mans body, or Wo­mans.

The fifth Water.

THE fifth Water is such, that with it you may do many marveylous things.

Take Lymel of Gold, Silver, Latyn, Copper, Iron, Steel, and Lead; And take Litharge of Gold and Silver, and take Camomile and Columbyne, and steep all together in the Urine of a man-child a day and a night; The second day in white-Wine; the third day in the Juyce of Fennel; the fourth day in the whites of Egges; the fifth day in a Womans milk that nourisheth a man-child; the 6 day in red Wine; the 7 day in whites of Egges; and upon the eighth day, blend and mix all these to­gether, and distil a water of them, and keep this water in a vessel of Gold or Silver. The Virtues of this water is this; it doth away all manner of sick­ness of the Eyes, the Perle, the Sckome of the tears, and theTis an old En­glish word; if Geofry Chaucer were here, he could tell you the meaning of it. Tis too old for me. Quiters, [Page 57] and draweth again into their due form the Eye-lids that are bleared; it slayeth the ach of the head; And if a man drink of it, it keepeth his visage long to be young. There is no man can tell half the Virtues of this VVater.

The sixth Water.

TAKE Lapis Caluminaris, and do it in the fire till it be red as a Rose, and slack it in a pinte of white-VVine, and do so 9 times, and after grinde it and beat it small, and searse it very clean; then Infuse it in the Sun, in Fennel-water, Vervain, Roses, Ce­lendine, Rue, and three-leaved Grasse (the distilled water of them, not the Herbs,) of each a like quantity, in a Vial of glasse, so that the VVater may settle cleer about 5 inches above the stone in the bottom; and when you will use it, stir it together; and take up a drop of it with a feather; and if it abide, then it is fine and good; then drop of it in an Eye that is watry or running, or an Eye that hath a dimme sight: and for the head-ach anoynt the Temples [Page 58] herewith; it is precious for helping the sight, and for ache in the head.

To cleer the sight of the Eyes, a good Water, and for itching thereof.

TAKE Fennel, Roses, Vervain, Celendine and Rue, of each 2 ounces, and distil water of them, which is good to clarify the sight of the Eyes, being washed therewith, according to this verse:

Another for the same.

Take red Snailes, and seeth them in fair water, and there will arise an Oyl or fat; which separate clean by it self, and reserve it in a glasse, and [Page 59] therewith anoynt thy Eyes morning and evening.

To Clarify the sight of the Eyes.

Take red Roses, Smallage, Rue, Ver­vain, Mayden-hair, Eye-bright, En­dive, Sengreen, red Fennel, Celen­dine, of each a quarter of a pound; wash them clean, and infuse them in white-wine a day and a night, and then distill them: the first VVater will be like Gold, the second like Silver, and the third like balme. And this water is very good for all manner of sore Eyes, for a webbe, perle, or haw.

Another for sore Eyes.

TAKE Smallage, Fennel, Rue, Ver­vain, Egrimony, Betony, Scabious, Avens, Hounds-tongue, Eye-bright, Pimpernel, red Roses, and Sage; Distil all these together with a little Urine of a Man-child, and five grains of Frankin­cense; And of this distilled water, drop a drop or two into the Eyes at night when you go to bed.

For pain in the Eyes.

TAKE Egrimony, Vervain, Fennel, Rue and Roses, and put them in a Scillatory, and spring on them good white-VVine, and distil it. This water is good for swelling of a mans Eyes that co­meth of Cold, and for bleared Eyes, and Eyes that be red with anguish, and easeth the pain of them.

Another for the pain in the Eye.

TAke a little Allom and powder of Mint, and mix them together; draw thereof a VVater, and put thereof a drop into the Eye, going to bed, and in the morning.

Another for sore Eyes.

TAke Flowers of Hawthorn, and the Flowers of Withy, and distil it; make thereof a VVater, and this VVa­ter is good for the sight in the Eye, and for the redness in the Eye, and for burning and heat in the Eye, and for Eyes that do lightly VVater; and for [Page 61] webbs in the Eye of a Man or VVo­man.

A good Water for the sight.

TAke Sage, Fennel, Rue, Vervain, Betony, Egrimony, Sanacle, Pim­pernel, Eye-bright, Cinquefoil, and Rue, of all these like much, and grinde them in a Morter; then take powder of Alom, and a little Camphire, and mingle them together, and distil it: And know you of a truth, that this VVater is profitable for all evills of the Eyes; And restoreth the sight that hath been almost lost, by the space of 3 years.

Water of Copporas, to make good for the Eyes.

TAke Copporas, and grinde it to powder, and put a little water to it, and let it stand a day and a night, and strain it through a Cloth. This VVater is good for the Eyes, and for the Canker in the mouth, and for noli me tangere, and to make a deer com­plexion.

Another Water for sore Eyes, and pain in the Head.

TAke red Roses, Maydenhair, Rue, Vervain, Eye-bright, Betony, Cala­mynt, of each one handful; steep them in white-VVine 24 hours: The second day, distill it in a Distillatory. The first water that thou dost distill, it shall be like colour of Gold; The second, of Silver; The third, of Balme. And this is called, the precious water for Ladyes.

Another Water for sore Eyes.

TAke good red VVine, and Cumin, and Salt, and put it in a pot; and set upon the pot an Alembick, and stop it fast about with good paste, and make a slow fire of Cole: The first VVater that is distilled, is good for all cold sick­ness in the Eyes of Man or VVoman; The second VVater is good for all manner of hot maladies in the eyes.

Another for the same.

Take and fill a pot of thick Dregs of good Ale, and put thereto a handful of Cumin and Salt, and put a Lembeck on thy pot, and stop it about with paste, and distill it: a precious VVater for the Eyes.

Salgem.

THE VVater of Salgem is good to cleer the filth of a mans Eyes, and it is good for the scurffe and Morphew, and for the stink of the hammes and Arme-pits. Take a pound of Salgem, and wrap it up in Colewort-Leaves, and do it in the hot Ashes, And there let it seeth in his own kinde, till it be turned to whiteness; after that, lay it on a marble-stone a day and a night, and that which goeth over thereof, will be a Silver Colour: Then take that, and keep it in a glasse, and when need is, put a drop thereof into the sore Eye.

For the haw in the Eye.

Take Pepper, and stamp it to powder; then take the marrow of an old Gooses wing, and mingle it together; and do it in a Cloth, and burne it to powder, and put thereof into the Eye.

For dim sight, and bleared Eyes.

Take Ginger and rub it on a whet­stone, into a fair Bason, and put thereto as much Salt, and temper it in VVine with the juyce of Eye-bright, and let it stand infusing a night and a day; And then take the cleerness that ascendeth above, and put in a glasse for use: and with a feather, when thou goest to bed, or as often as thou lyest down to sleep, therewith annoynt thy eye-lyds within and without, and it will heal them.

An oyntment for sore Eyes, approved.

Take Vinegar, and put it in a clean Bason, then take the flowers of plumbs and mingle all together, and let it stand [Page 65] three dayes and three nights covered: then put it in a box, and reserve it for your use, to anoynt the Eyes when need requires.

Another for the same.

Take Raw Cream made of Ewes milk, and spread it on the bottome of a fair scowred Bason; then take a vessel that hath stood with Ale in it 6. or 7. dayes, and pour out the Ale, and whelm the pot or vessel over the Bason, so let­ting it remain a whole night: then take the Cream, and keep the Cream in a box till you need it for an oyntment for sore Eyes.

Another for the same.

Take red Snayles that be without houses, and seeth them in water; and after that, burne them on a hot tile­stone to powder, and mix the powder with the fat that will arise above the water they are boyled in, And anoynt the Eye-lyds therewith at night going to bed.

For bleared Eyes.

Take the Juyce of VVorm-wood, and mingle it with water, made of the white of an Egge; and therewith anoynt the Eyes, and it will put away the bloodiness and aking thereof.

Another for the same.

Take Celendine, Rue, Planten, An­nis; of each a handful, and as much Fennel as of all the rest, and stamp them in a new earthen pot, and let it stand two days and two nights, & then strain it, and therewith anoynt the Eyes even­ing and morning.

For a pin and Webbe in the Eye.

Take an Egge and rost it hard, and take the white all hot, and put in as much white Copporis as a pease; and while it is hot, strain it through a Cloth, and let it drop into the Eye a good drop. And this for young and old is proved a good Medicine.

For Eyes that be blasted.

Take Tutty and Calamint, and wash them in white-Wine 9 times, and then grinde them upon a stone with some of the white-Wine, and white Goose-Grease, and Capons Grease; and put thereof in the eye morning and at night: approved.

For Eyes that be red, and full of pain.

Take white Ginger, and rubbe it into a Bason on a whet-stone, put thereto as much white Salt, and grinde them together on a Marble-stone; and when it is small ground, add thereto white-Wine, and then temper them well to­gether, and let it stand so a day and a night; then pour out the thinne cleer liquor that standeth above, and put it in a Vyal: And when the sick goeth to bed, anoynt well the Eyes with a clean feather. Probatum.

For Eyes that run with Water.

Take a Colewort leaf, and anoynt it with the white of an Egge beaten well, and lay it to thy Eyes when thou goest to bed, and let it lye all night; and it shall help thee by the grace of God.

To cleer the Eyes, a Drink.

Take Celendine and stamp it, and temper it with fair water, and drink it three dayes, and it shall heal the head, and cleer the sight marvelously.

For the Perle in the Eye at first.

Take white Ginger that is good and fine, and rubbe it on a whet-stone of Norway, into a sawcer of [...]ewter, and put thereto white-Wine; but let it be muddy of the Ginger, and with a fea­ther do it into thy Eyes.

A precious Water for Eyes, called the Water of Mr. Peter of Spain.

Take Fennel, Rue, Celendine, Ver­vain, Eye-bright, Clary, Rosin, or the water of Rosin, and stamp them by the space of a natural day in white-Wine, and then put all together in a Lym­beck, and distill a water thereof; where­with wash the Eyes: it clarifyeth and comforteth them greatly.

The Powder of Master Peter de Villa Nova.

Take Tutty prepared one dragme, Antimony one dragme and a half, Mar­joram 2 dragmes, Flower of red Co­ral one dragme and a half, Raw Silk of the Silk-worm cut small as may be, half a dragme; make hereof as subtil a pow­der as may be made, and keep it in a box of Metal. This powder dryeth tears, and rectifieth redness of the Eyes: And was made for Bishop John.

A Powder for the Eyes, called Bonaventure.

Take a dragme of Sugar-Candy, Tutty prepared half a dragme, powder them, and wash them with water of Roses, and spread them abroad on a Bason, and fumigate the Bason with the fume of Lignum Aloes, and Fran­kincense; dry it, and powder it subtily, and keep it in a box of brasse or pewter, And put it in the Eyes with a Pencil of Silver. This powder is good for all manner of spots in the Eyes.

A precious Powder for a pin and Webbe in the Eye.

Take two dragms of Tutty prepared, of Sandragon one dragm, of Sugar one dragme; beat them together to a very fine powder; whereof put into the Eye a little at a time: approved.

For a hurt in the Eye, with a Thorn, Stubble, or any other thing.

Take Monsear and stamp it, and drink the Juyce thereof; and lay three drops upon the Eye: and stamp Egri­mony, and lay it on the hinder part of the Eye.

For the Webbe in the Eye.

Take ground Ivy, and dresse the Eye with the Juyce thereof once a day, and it will destroy it.

Another for sore Eyes.

Take Centory, and make thereof an Electuary with Honey, very thick, and eat thereof. It is good for the stomack, and will make a man to have a good talent to his meat: And therewith anoynt the Eyes: it is very good for sore Eyes.

A Soveraign Medicine that helpeth the sight, and purgeth and clari­fyeth the Eyes, be they never so bleared.

Take a good quantity of Housleek, and stamp it in a Morter, and wring out the Juyce clean; and put it in a broad Vessel a day and night till it be clear, then take 20 Egges, and seeth them very hard; then take away the Yolk of every Egge, and set the shell hot in wheat-bran, and fill it full of the water of Housleek; and so serve all the Egges while the water lasts, and let them stand so a day and a night, at the least a day; then take the water and put it in Vials. VVith this water anoynt the Eyes morning and night.

Also, take a Pidgeon, and let it bleed in the right Vein under the wings, and anoynt thine Eyes with the blood 9 dayes and 9 nights, and more if it be need; for this Medicine hath been proved many times.

An excellent Oyntment for the Eyes.

• Take new Hogges-lard 2 ounces,
• Tutia prepared 1 ounce,
• Lapis Hematis washed 1 scruple,
• Aloes washed and powdered 12 grains,
• Perles 3 grains,

Steep the Grease 6 hours in Rose-wa­ter, then wash it 12 times in white-Wine; powder the Tutia very fine, and make it into an oyntment with a little Fennel-water, and therewith anoynt the corner of the Eyes.

For Rheumatick Eyes.

First, purge the Head and the Body, and let the Patient sweat a little: Then use this powder following for the Eyes.

Take Tutia, prepared 1 ounce and a quarter, red Coral, yellow Myrobalaus, of each 1 quarter of an ounce, Pepper half a dragme: powder them very fine, and strew them in the corners of the Eyes.

A Water to wash Rheumatick Eyes.

Take Rain-water, boyl therein Gal­nuts, Myrtle-Seeds, fine Bolus and Cy­pres-nuts, And therewith wash the Eyes oftentimes.

To asswage and drive away the pain of the Eyes.

Take prepared Tutty, Camphire bruised very small; of each one scruple, Rose-water 1 ounce, white-Wine half an ounce: temper them well, and when you have occasion to use it, stir it well about, and put a drop or two in the Eye.

For redness in the Eyes.

This oftentimes proceeds from su­perfluity of blood, which floweth unto the Eyes; it is necessary in this case, to apply Cupping-glasses to the shoulders, if need be, to open the Head-vein on the contrary side, and to purge the Body; and outwardly to apply such things to the Eyes, as may repercusse [Page 75] and drive back the humour offending, as followeth.

For the redness of the Eyes.

Take the white of an Egge, and bray it with Womans milk, and apply it to the Eyes; I mean, drop a drop or two thereof into the Eye.

For the same.

Take Linseed and boyl it in water, and wet a Sponge in that Decoction; and lay it warm on the eyes; or do in like manner with the Decoction of Fenegreek or Camomile.

For the same.

Take the Juyce of Night-shade, and mix it with the white of an Egge well beaten, and Oil of Roses: make a cloth wet in it, and lay it on the Eye.

For blood-shot Eyes.

Take the Juyce of Worm-wood, bray it well with the white of an Egge, and drop thereof into the eye.

Another for pain or redness in the Eyes.

Take broad Planten water 1 pinte, small bruised Verdigrease 1 ounce, fine Bolus, Dragons blood; of each half an ounce, Camphire 1 quarter of an ounce, distill this in a glassen helm in Balneo. This water taketh away redness of the Eyes and pains thereof, and helpeth swollen Eye-lids that have long conti­nued; And is also good for all sore mouths, and stinking imposthumations therein, and especial for all Ulcerations in the privy members.

For the same.

Take water of Vervain, Eye-bright, Marjoram, of each half an ounce, Fen­nel-water an ounce, Camphire half a dragme; the Gall of a great Pickerel: temper and stir it all together, and use it as the other.

An Oyntment for red Eyes.

Take Tutia half an ounce, Oil of Bay 1 quarter of an ounce, Honey and Vi­negar, [Page 77] of each one spoonful, Camphire 1 dragme; make a Salve thereof, and therewith anoynt the Eye-lids: this is also good for inverted Eye-lids.

Nutmegs confected in Honey, do help the redness of the Eyes, and de­fend the sight, being eaten.

For hot Eyes.

Take water of Eye-bright, Fennel, Celandine, of each 1 ounce; Tutia pre­pared 3 scruples: Sarcocolla and Pearles prepared, of each half a dragm: temper it together, and therewith anoynt the Eyes.

Another for the same.

Take Rue, Fennel, Vervain, of each equal parts; stamp them, and put to them Rose-water and white-Wine, as much as will cover them quite over. Let it infuse a night, and then distil it in a glasse body in balneo, and reserve the water for the use aforesaid.

For pricking and hot Blysters in the Eyes.

This is oftentimes caused through over-much moisture, setling it self in the white or apple of the Eyes; These are dangerous to be cured: The Patient must be let blood in the Head-Vein, and purged, to divert and carry away the humours; And first take for it this Medicine following.

A Water for blystered and pricking Eyes.

Take Lycium and Saffron, of each half a dragme, Juyce of sloes 1 scruple; mix this with Rose-water, and drop a little into the Eyes with the white of an Egge.

Another for the same, to ripen and draw out the corruption, and asswage the pain.

Take Fenegreek and Linseed, of each one quarter of an ounce; Melilot one quarter of an ounce: seeth it in fair wa­ter, and wash the Eyes oftentimes [Page 79] therewith, and somtimes drop a drop thereof into the Eyes.

Another for the same.

Take Crums of white-bread, and steep it in Womans milk; and lay it on the Eyes; and when it grows dry, renew it, and lay on fresh.

A Confection, good for all heat, pricking and swelling in the Eyes.

Take Eye-bright, Fennel, Cinamon, of each 3 dragms, long Pepper, Mynts, Mace, Marjoram, Vervain, Calamus, Rosemary, of each one dragme and a half, Sugar Pennets 3 ounces, white Sugar 5 ounces: with the Sugar seeth these Juyces following, of Roses and Vervain, of each 2 dragmes, Juyce of Fennel clarifyed, five ounces, Juyce of Celendine and Rue, of each one ounce and an half; let them seeth almost as thick as a Syrrup, afterwards temper amongst it the rest well beaten.

Another Oyntment, to asswage the pain and heat in the Eyes.

Take young Endive, and stamp it with Oil of Roses, or Oil of Violets, and therewith anoynt the corners of the Eyes, and Eye-lids.

Against itching Eyes.

This commonly proceeds from a de­fluxion of salt humour, that falls down to the Eyes, and causeth great itching and pricking in them, which maketh the Patient alwayes very apt to rubbe them; but that he must by all means refrain, for that hurteth the sight, and maketh the eyes more red, hot, and angry: he must be moderate in eating, and forbear strong drink; purge the Body of choler, and open the Head-vein, wash the Eyes well in Rose-water, and afterwards foment and bath them with the Decoction of Mallows, Violet-Leaves, Vervain, and Celandine.

For running Watry Eyes.

This infirmity somtimes flowes from the weakness of the faculty retentive, And is also often occasioned through superfluous moist Rheumes, falling down from the brain upon the Eyes; and likewise it may be caused through mirth, but oftner through its opposite sorrow; for that alwayes follows that kinde of deceitful pleasure, under which excessive drinking seems to mask it self: sharpe windes, smoke, Coughs, stinking Savours, do perish the Eyes. For help of this defluxion, use these re­medies following.

Purge the Body with Pill. Cochiae Aureae, with succo Rosarum, or with Pills of the 5 kindes of Mirobalaus.

Forbear all moist sharp meats and drinks, Salt Fish and Flesh, Milk, Cheese, Onions, Garlick, and all that fumes into the head.

Outwardly, beat the white of an Egge, and temper it with Womans milk, and drop a drop thereof into the eye.

For the same.

Also take unripe Grapes, and burn the same to ashes, and make it into a fine powder; and blow thereof into the Eyes, it dryeth up the Rheume, and ta­keth away the redness.

Another for Watery Eyes.

Take Rose-Leaves fresh half an ounc. Saffron, Spica, Indie, Gum Arabick, of each 1 quarter of an ounce: beat them small, and make Cakes thereof with rain-water; And when you will use it, take 1 dragme thereof, and lay it to steep in the beaten white of an Egge, and herewith anoynt the Eyes. This repelleth the matter, and consumeth the pain.

Another for the same.

Take Juyce of Fennel well clarifyed 1 ounce and a half; Aloe two dragmes and a half, a leaf of beaten Gold: mix them well together, then add to it 7. grains of Frankincense: dissolve them in [Page 83] good white-Wine, and mix them all to­gether with Fennel and Rose-water; and drop of this water into the Eyes twice a day.

Another for running and over­moist Eyes.

Take Myrrhe half a dragme, Blood­stone one dragme, Rose-leaves one ounce: seeth them in a glasse in Balneo to the consumption of half; then strain it through a cloth, and drop thereof 4▪ times a day a drop into the Eyes.

A Salve for watery Eyes, to ease the pain, and stay the defluxion.

Take Juyce of Rue, Oil of Mirtle; of each 2 ounces: Let it boyl untill the Juyce be sodden away: then strain it, and set it again upon the fire, and mix amongst it Saphire prepared half a dragme, Jacynt one scruple, Antimo­ny one dragme, burnt Copper 1 scru­ple, Tutia prepared 3 dragmes; let it seeth gently on the fire, adding there­to two or three dragmes of Wax, more or lesse, accordingly as you desire to [Page 84] have it hard; when you will use it, melt a little, and anoynt the Eye-lids there­with.

If the Rheume in the Eyes cometh of cold; then at the first beginning of it, take inwardly this Confection fol­lowing.

A Confection for Watery Eyes, that come of taking cold.

Take Spica Indie 5 dragmes, Agarick 1 dragme and a half, Cynamon 1 ounc. Mastick as much as the weight of them all: make a Confection thereof with clarifyed Honey, and take thereof eve­ry morning.

Muske and Pomanders are good for the Patient to smell to in this case, and to chew Betony in his mouth every morning.

An outward Oyntment for the same.

Take Bloud-stone prepared 1 quar­ter of an ounce, Roses, burnt Ivory, white and red Coral, Amber, yellow Mirobalaus, of each one dragme, Juyce of Housleek 4 ounces: temper them to­gether, [Page 85] and so keep it well stopped; anoynt the Eye-lids every day here­with, and put of the same a drop into the Eye.

Another Water for the Eyes, to dry Ca­tarrhes and cold Rheumes.

Take Gummi, the Muscilage of Fene­greek-Seeds; of each one quarter of an ounce, of prepared Sarcocol, Spikenard, Myrrhe, Cynamon, Aloes, Bever-cod; of each half a scruple: powder them all together; then steep them in Wo­mans milk, and drop thereof into the Eye.

A Salve for running Eyes, and for all Im­posthumes and Pains, Scabs, Wounds, and Bloud-shots in the Eyes.

Take Tutia prepared in Rose-water half an ounce, fresh Hogges-grease one ounce, Starch 3 quarters of an ounce: bruise and temper them well together in a Morter, then wash it three times in the Water of Night-shade, and with this anoynt the fore-head, the Temples and the Eye-lids, both within and with­out.

A precious Water to strengthen the sight.

• Take Rue,
• Roses,
• Endive,
• Betony,
• Vervain,
• Maydenhair,
• Egrimony,
• Clevers,
• Yarrow,
• Eyebright,
• Pimpernel,
• Sage; of each two handfuls.

Cut the Herbs small, and steep them a day and a night in good white-Wine: then strain them out, and let the Moi­sture run from them: then bruise them grosly in a Morter: then distil them in Balneo, and keep the water for your use close stopt.

For spots in the Eye.

• Take Prepared Blood-stone 3 dragmes, Burne Copper a quarter of an ounce, Perles,
• [Page 87] Red Coral, of each 1 dragm.
• Gummi,
• Tragacant, of each 3 dragmes,
• Pepper 30 grains,
• Washed Ceruse 1 dragme,
• Dragons blood,
• Saffron,
• Amber, of each half a dragme,

Make it into the form of trochises of a dragme apiece; and when you have occasion to use it, bruise one of them, and infuse it in Womans milk, and drop a drop thereof into the Eye.

Another for spots in the Eyes.

Take Frankincense 5 dragmes, Saffron one dragm, Ammoniacum, Sarcocolla, of each two dragmes and a half: beat them all into very fine powder, and make it into Trochises, with Muscilage of Fenegreek; then when you will use it, bruise it into Womans milk, and therewith wash the Eyes: this doth mundify and deer the sight.

For mists and clouds before the Eyes.

It oftentimes happens in them that have the small Pox, afterwards some clouds or white spots remain in the Eyes, endangering the sight thereof; for which, take the Juyce of Corn-roses, the Juyce of Centory; each apart or mixt together, and therewith anoynt the Eye.

A powder for the same.

Take the dryed Juyce of Celendine 3 dragmes, Ameos one quarter of an ounce, as much white Sugar-Candy; make a fine powder thereof, and blow a little into the Eye when you go to bed. Probatum.

With this Medicine, I cured my self of a spot of whiteness, that grew over the sight of my left Eye, immediately after my recovery of a grievous sickness of the small Pox, in October 1646. by putting a little thereof into my Eye going to bed, with a piece of clean Paper, rolled in form of a quill; which in a short time took the spot clean away, not putting the Eye to any [Page 89] pain. Gloria Deo in excelsis. Tur­ner.

Another Powder much commended for the same.

Taste Pumice-stones, Cuttle-bones, prepared Sarcocolla, Aristolochia, red Coral, Boras, of each one dragme, white Sugar-Candy 6 dragmes; make them all into a fine subtil powder.

A Honey to be prepared for the mists be­fore the Eyes.

Take clarifyed Honey 2 ounces, the Juyce of Fennel, the Juyce of Centory, of each 1 ounce and a half; seeth it a little, and scumme it till it be cleer, and drop thereof on the cloud or white spot in the Eye.

A Plaister for swollen and extuberated Eyes, as if they would fall out.

Take Shepherds Purse, Planten, Housleek; make a Plaister thereof, and apply it to the Eye: but if it proceed of weakness of the sinews, then it is need­full to purge the Head with Hiera, or [Page 90] pill Cochie: use Gargarismes, where­with foment the mouth; and lay to the Eyes this Plaister.

Take Juyce of Sloes, Frankincense, Mastick, Cypres-Nuts, (and the Leaves of each, if you can get them,) of each a like quantity; beat them very small, and mix them with the Oil of Camo­mil, and lay it on the Eyes.

A Pomander for to strengthen and help a feeble and dim sight.

• Take Rosemary,
• Nep,
• Marjoram,
• Penny-royal, of each 1 dragme,
• Lignum Aloes,
• Marjoram Gentle,
• Mace, of each 2 dragmes,
• Muske,
• Amber, of each 2 grains,

Make thereof a powder, and bind it in a piece of red Silk, and smell often to it. All odoriferous Herbs, as Rosemary, Lavender, Gillo-flowers, Roses; and all sweet smelling Fruits are good for the Eyes; so also doth the sight of [Page 91] green Fields, green Trees, the precious stone Smaragdus, green Glasse, green Linen, set before the Eyes, strengthen and quicken the sight: on the contrary, lechery, and unmeasurable Venery, Drunkenness, sleeping on a full stomack, much reading small prints or writing, vaporous Meats, moist Fruits, dark misty weather, Smoke, Wind, Dust, Idleness and grosse Meat, weakens and diminisheth the sight.

A Powder to strengthen the sight.

Take Tutia prepared 10 dragmes, make it into Past with the Juyce of Marjoram Gentle: when it hath stood a night, and be well setled, Let it drye well; then beat it again, and add to it Ginger, long and black Pepper, and Celendine, of each 1 dragme, sal Armoniack half a dragme, all beaten small, and made Moist with the Juyce of Fennel; let it dry again, and so pre­serve it: when you will use it, beat it into a very fine powder, and put there­of into the Eye.

A Powder to be strewed upon the Head, to strengthen and pre­serve the sight.

Take Cloves, Lignum-Aloes, Betony, Sandarac, burnt Ivory, Styrax, Calaminta, of each half a dragme; make them into powder, and strew all the Head there­with; and when you will renew it, kemb the Head, that the first may come off: afterwards use twice a month, be­fore you go to sleep, one quarter of an ounce of Trochises of Diambra, and hold them in your mouth till they be dissolved.

A Water to preserve and strengthen the sight, used by the Emperour Frederick the third.

• Take green Betony,
• Rue,
• Vervain,
• Celendine,
• Eye-bright,
• Roses, of each 6 handfulls,
• Long Pepper,
• [Page 93]Cloves, of each half a dragme,
• Aloe one ounce,
• Wood-bind and the flowers 3 hand­fulls.

Chop all the Herbs small, and distill it through a glasse body; drop of this Water into the Eyes, and anoynt the Face therewith.

Another to preserve the sight.

Take Fenegreek, Holly-hock Roots, of each 2 ounces; cleanse them well, and boyl them in fair water by a mild fire, till half be consumed: then strain them out, and add thereto, Aloes 2 dragmes, Sugar-Candy, or Sugar of Roses 1 ounce; strain it with Rose-water, through a Cloth, and let it seeth unto a Syrrup; keep it in a glasse close stopt, And when you have occasion use it as other Eye-waters.

Another for the same.

Take Rose-water, and white Sugar-Candy, of each what quantity you please, And infuse them in a glasse to­gether, [Page 94] and let them stand in the Sun two or three dayes or more, before you use it.

The Galls of all Ravening Birds, as also of partridges, of Bulls, Hares, Wolves, Foxes; and especially the Gall of a Bucke, doth cleer the Eyes and sharpen the sight: if any one of them be decocted with Juyce of Fen­nel, and clarifyed Honey, and dropt into the Eyes.

A Confection for a bad sight, called Ele­ctuarium Oculiste, or the Oculists Electuary.

Take Silver Mountain-Seed, Eye-bright, Fennel and Cinabes, of each one dragme, Cardamome and Mace, of each one dragme and a half, Seeds of Rue and Celendine, of each one quar­ter of an ounce; Rosemary one ounce, Annis-Seed, Lignum Aloes, Caraway, Consolida, Saracenica, of each half an ounce: make a Confection thereof, with Sugar or Honey. This also streng­theneth the brain, restoreth lost sight, and maketh the Spirits of the sight sub­tiller and stronger.

Another Confection to preserve and strengthen the sight.

• Take dryed Betony.
• Celendine,
• Eye-bright,
• Hysop,
• Penny Royal, of each 1 dragme,
• Fennel,
• Silver Mountain,
• Coriander prepared,
• Marjoram Seeds,
• Basil Seeds,
• Cardamom,
• Cynamon,
• Ginger,
• Galingale,
• Nutmegs,
• Cloves,
• Long Pepper,
• Lignum Aloes,
• Mastick,
• Spikenard, of each half a dragme,

Preserved Citron Pills 3 dragms, Con­serves of Borage and Rosemary, of each 6 dragms: make them all into a Con­fection with Sugar Decocted in Fennel [Page 96] and Rose-water; and take hereof as you have occasion.

Tabulats to strengthen the sight.

Take Species Diambrae a dragme and a half, Eye-bright, Celendine, Fennel, Vervain, of each one scruple; Seeds of Rue, and Silver Mountain, of each half a dragme, Sugar 5 ounces; boyl them all in Eye-bright water, and make Tabulats thereof, whereof take one every night after supper.

An excellent Water for the Eyes.

Take the Waters of Rue, Celendine, and Eye-bright, of each 2 ounces; Fen­nel and the Juyce of Vervain, of each 1 ounce; the Gall of a Pickerel three dragms, Lignum-Aloes beaten small, half a dragme: The Seeds of Rue, of Celendine, and Marjoram Gentle, of each one dragme; put them together in a glasse close stopt, and luted with Dough: Let it stand a day in an Oven after the Bread is taken out; the next day take of the past, and set it 12 dayes in the Sun; strain it, and keep it in a [Page 97] glasse close stopt for your use: when you will use it, put a drop thereof into the Eyes morning and evening, lying on your back.

A Potion to purge for a weak sight.

Take Treacle half a dragme; mix it with white-Wine, Water of Rue or Fennel: take it once a week.

A Powder to strengthen the sight.

• Take Eye-bright half an ounce,
• Caraway sodden in Vinegar and dryed, and Marjoram Gentle 3. quarters of an ounce,
• Lignum Aloes,
• Spica Indiae, of each 1 ounce,
• Sorrel Seeds 5 scruples,
• Coriander prepared,
• Cinamon,
• Fennel, of each 2 dragms,

Make thereof a Powder with Sugar as much as you please, And hereof you may take a dragme after Supper, with a little Julip of Roses.

A Medicine to strengthen the sight, and for those that be purblind.

Take the Liver of a Buck, take out the Gall, and cut the Liver in pieces, laying thereon whole long Pepper: cover it with another piece of Liver, and Pepper, as before; thus continuing till all the pieces be layd one upon another, and above and beneath be no­thing but Liver: put this in an Oven, and dry it well; then take off the Pep­per, beat it small, and mix some Musk amongst it; And with the moisture that droppeth from the Liver, moisten the Powder, and make Lozenges thereof, And keep them till you have occasion for to use it; then temper it with Eye-bright water, and eat thereof two or three mornings together.

In all diseases & infirmities of the eyes whatsoever, have a special respect unto your dyet, avoyd Salt and grosse meats, strong drinks and venery, especially ex­cesse in either: use temperance and mo­deration in all things, for in mediocri­tate salus.

A Drink for the Head-ach.

TAKE Betony, Vervain, Worm-wood, Celen­dine, Walwort, Rue, Bark of an Elder Tree, Honey and Pepper, of each equal parts; stamp them together, and seeth them in Wa­ter, and drink thereof morning and evening.

Another for the same.

Take Rue, Vervain, Worm-wood, Sage, Walwort, Alehoof, red Fennel, Planten, inner rinde of Elder, of each a handful; stamp them small, and put them [Page 100] in a new earthen pot, with a quarter of an ounce of Pepper in Powder; put thereto a Pottle of red Wine, and ano­ther of Stale Ale, and seeth it till half be consumed: strain it, and drink there­of 8 spoonfulls at a time, 9 mornings together: And wash thy Head with this liquour following.

A Water for the Head-ach.

Take Rue, Alehoof, Betony, Ver­vain, Mints, red Fennel, Worm-wood, Southern-wood, of each a handful; wash them, and shred them small, and seeth them in Water in an earthen pot, and wash thy Head with some of the Water; and mix the Herbs with wheat­bran, and apply it to the mold of the Head as hot as may be suffered, bin­ding it on with a Cloth.

To cleanse the Head, Breast and Stomack, and cause a good appetite.

Take 3 handfulls of Centaury, and seeth it in a Gallon of Water, till half be consumed: then strain it, and put to it a pinte of clarifyed Honey: then seeth [Page 101] it softly to a quart, and drink thereof two spoonfulls, morning and night, first and last.

To cease Aches and swellings caus [...]d of Sores and Wounds in the Head.

Take Mallows, Worm-wood, Mug­wort, Betony, and Egrimony, of each a handful: wash them, and stamp them, & put thereto 3 ounces of fine wheat-Flower, as much Honey, and as much barrows Grease; stamp them together, and put thereto red Wine a little quantity, and fry them, and lay them warm to the sore; but lay a Colewort-leaf between the Plaister and the wound, and it will cease the ach, and put away the swelling.

For the Meagrim in the Head, Imposthume, Dropsie, Feaver, and all Aches in the Head.

Take 4 penny weight of the Root of Pellitory of Spain, a half penny weight of Spikenard, and grinde them, and boyl them in good Vinegar; and when it is cold, put thereto a spoonful of [Page 102] Honey, & a Sawcer full of Mustard, and mingle them well together; and hold thereof in thy mouth a spoonful at once, as long as a man may be saying 2 Creeds, (if you have not forgot how to say the Creed) then spit it out into a Vessel, and take more: and do so 9 or 10 times together. Take it after Dinner, and going to bed, and wash thy mouth after it: and use this Medicine 3 dayes toge­ther. Probatum.

For the Meagrim.

Take Galingale half a dragme, Gin­ger one dragme, Nutmegs half a dragm, Cloves two dragmes, Elecampane two dragmes, Annis a dragme, Licoris and Sugar, of each half a dragme; make them all into fine powder, and take thereof a dragme, first and last in some Betony Water.

For the Head-ach, that proceedeth from hot and Cholerick causes.

If heat be the cause of the Head-ach, it is known by the swiftness of the Pa­tients [Page 103] pulse, redness of the Urine, much thirst, dry'th of the Mouth, Tongue and Nostrils; no sleep, little appetite to meat, heat over all the Body.

Outward Applications for the Head-ach, proceeding from hot causes.

Take Oil of Roses, Rose-water, and Vinegar of Roses, of each a like quan­tity; dip double linen Cloths herein, and lay them to the temples and the fore-head; refreshing and changing them again as often as it dryeth.

Another for the same, more strong.

If the heat be very extream, take the Water of Nymphea, called in English white water Lilleys, water of Endive, of each 3 ounces, Saunders red, white, and yellow, of each one dragme; or else 3 dragmes of one of them, if you cannot get them all three; Rose leaves beaten half a dragme, beaten Camphire half a dragm; mix them all together, and use them as the other.

[Page 104]If there be any flux of the Belly, or ague, that causeth the Head-ach, then for young or weak persons you may use these Medicines following, with good effect: Such as are Cassia, Manna. Syrrup of Roses, or Sene-Leaves, boy­led with some cooling Herbs: more stronger Bodyes may purge with Pill Cochiae, or the like strong purge, if they have no looseness with it.

If there be any great flux or looseness of the Body, then let the Patient avoyd light and loosening meats; but boyl his meat in steeled water, which is thus made: Take as much fair water as you intend to use; set it on the fire: then take a good peece of Steel, heat it red hot in the fire, then quench it in the Water; repeating it over three or four times; So likewise may you Steel Milk or Wine, and prepare Gold, Silver, or flints for the same purpose: but if the Patient hath no looseness, then you may soon prepare for him this Decocti­on following.

Drink for the Head-ach.

Take Sene-Leaves 1 ounce, Cina­mon, Anniseeds, Fennel-Seeds, and Currans, of each one dragme, Licoris two dragmes, sweet Marjoram and Rosemary, of both half a handful, two or three Figges; boyl them all in a quart of water with one ounce of Su­gar, till half be consumed: then strain it; And for the Dose, give hereof to a Child 2 ounces at a time; or weak Per­sons: to stronger Bodyes, 4 ounces.

If there be pain in the Head, and the Body bound endeavour, the first thing you do, to open and make it soluble: otherwise the ascention of vapours unto the brain, will so distemper the Head with heat and pain, that phren­sies, raging and madness will ensue: to do this, use Clysters, Purgations, and some purging Potions and Supposi­tories.

A Clyster, to provoke the Body to go to Stool.

Take Mallows 3 handfulls, Beets and Herb Mercury, of each two hand­fulls; boyl them well together in fair water, then strain them: Then take 12 ounces of this Decoction; three yolks of Egges, Oil of Sesa­mum or Linseed 4 ounces, Salgem half a dragme; temper them together, and minister it warm.

Another.

Take Mutton-broth, Veal-broth, or Hen-broth, of either of them 16 ounces; melt therein fresh Butter and Ducks-Grease, of each one ounce, Saffron half a dragme, Oil of Lilleys, and Oil of Dill, of each one ounce and a half, Indie-Salt one dragme: then temper them together, and administer it.

A Decoction to open the Body for the same.

Take 12 Prunes, Licorice, Currans, Annis-seeds, and Fennel, of each half an ounce, Flowers of Burrage and Buglosse, of each one dragme and a half: boyl them in a quart of water till a third part be wasted; strain it, and drink thereof.

Another for the same, and to coole the Body.

Take Currans, Licorice, Prunes, In­jubes, Violets, Barley, Melon-seed, Pompeon-seed, Gourd-seed, and Cu­cumber-seed, of each one quarter of an ounce; boyl them as the other.

Pills for the Head-ach.

Take Rhabarb 2 drames, Mastick one scruple, Scammony half a dragm make them into Pills with Juyce of Rue, one dragme of them at a time.

A sweet Ball or perfume for the Head-ach.

Take Violets, Water Lilleys, Willow Leaves, Roses, of each one ounce; Camphire 2 grains: beat them all toge­ther, and bind them up in a piece of fine Silk, and wet it often in Rose-water, and smell often to it.

If the Head-ach proceed from a cold cause, it is good to use Gargarismes, to draw forth the Rheume out of the Head: for which this following is effe­ctual.

A Gargarisme for the Head-ach.

Take Mastick, Calamus, Licorice, Currans, of each half an ounce, Hy­sop, Ireos, of each 2 drams, Pellitoty of Spain, Ginger, Saxifrage, Mustard-Seeds, of each one dram: beat them all together, and boyl them in fresh Water, and gargle the mouth there­with three or four times a day, warm.

A Clyster for the same.

Take Mallows, Herb Mercury, Dill, Rue, Bran, of each one handfull; boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water: take of thi [...] Collature 12 or 16 ounces; mix with it Hyera Picra, and white Sugar, of each half an ounce, Salt two dragmes, Oil of Dill and Rue, of each one ounce and a half, and give it warm.

A Conserve for the Head-ach.

Take Conserve of Roses 2 ounces and a half, Conserve of Betony one ounce and a half, Cinamon, Cloves, Annis-seeds, of each one dragm, green Ginger half an ounce, Syrrup of Citrons a sufficient quantity to make it into an Electuary; and take thereof every morning the quantity of a Nut.

Another for the same, called Electua­rium Vitis.

Take Currans 6 ounces, Licorice 2 [Page 110] dragmes: boyl these in the Waters of Buglosse, Scabious and Betony, of each 12 ounces; then strain it out hard, and steep in the liquour warm 1 dragme of Rhabarbe, Lavender 5 grains, bound up together in a Cloth: stop it close, and boyl it a good while in Balneo; then strain it out, and add to it as much Rhabarbe and Spike as before, and let it steep therein a night: strain it again; and then put therein one ounce of the Barks of yellow Mirobalaus: then boyl it a little more, and strain it, and add to the Collature 6 ounces of Sugar, and two ounces of Manna, and boyl it to a Syrrup; when it is almost cold, mingle in it half an ounce of Cinamon, Cloves, Galingale and Nutmegs, of each one dragme, Seeds of Fennel and Annis, of each half an ounce: boyl them up to an Electuary, and keep it for your use for the purposes before recited.

A good Drink for a Head-ach of cold.

• Take Buglosse Roots 1 handful,
• Chicory Roots,
• Harts-Tongue,
• [Page 111] Flowers of Buglosse,
• Borage,
• Roses, of each half a handful.

Boyl them all in 4 quarts of white-Wine, a quarter of an hour: when it is cold, strain it, and add to it 4 quarts of white-Wine more; and steep in it Sage-Leaves and Rosemary, of each half a handful, long Pepper, Galingale, Cloves, Cubebs, of each half an ounce; Currans, Cinamon and Coriander-Seeds prepared, of each one ounce; grosly beaten, and tyed up all together in a Cloth: boyl the Wine 3 or 4 walms, and put up the Wine in a Rund­let, and drink thereof as you please.

A Powder for a cold pain, and Rheume in the Head.

Take Nutmegs, Mace, Rosemary, Cloves, Frankincense, Mastick, Laven­der, Myrrhe, Marjoram and Stechas, of each a like quantity: beat them all to powder, and rub the Head well therewith; then cover and keep the Head warm with a Cap.

A Lotion or Water, to Bath and Wash the feet for the Head-ach.

Take Betony, Roses, Elder Flowers, Sage, Camomile, and Marjoram, of each 4 handfulls, Bran 2 handfulls, as much Lavender; seeth them all together in a sufficient quantity of Water, and bath the Feet in it every night very hot, hol­ding them in it about half an hour; and every three dayes cast away the old bath, and make fresh.

For Deafness.

Take Betony and Horehound, and stamp them in a Morter, and strain out the Juyce; and drop thereof into the Patients Ear, when he is going to bed.

Another for the same.

Take a round piece of an Ash-Tree with the bark on, and lay the midst thereof in the fire, and keep the Water that droppeth out at both ends; and take the Juyce of Monks Rhabarbe, [Page 113] white-Wine, and the fat of fresh Eel; of each a like quantity: mingle them all together, and put a drop or two there­of into the Patients Ears when he goes to bed; use it every night.

Another for the same.

Take the Gall of a Weather, and Ho­ney, of each a like portion, and mingle them together, and put it into the Pa­tients Ears.

For Pain in the Ears.

Purge the Head with Syrrup of Ro­ses, Cassia, and Electuary de Succo Rosa­rum; Then oftentimes take Oil of Ro­ses, Oil of Water-Lillies, and Wo­mans Milk, and drop thereof into the Ears.

Another for pains in the Ears.

Take the Juyce of Strawberry-leaves, of Pauls Betony, Sage and Housleek, of each one ounce; Mastick and Fran­kincense a dragm and a half, of the De­coction of Cole-worts two ounces; [Page 114] temper them all together, and drop thereof into the Ear.

Against Noise and Hissing, or Singing in the Ears.

Deafness usually follows after this, if not timely prevented: which to do, it is necessary to purge the Brains with Pills de Hyera, Mastichine, Cochie, or Hyera cum Agarico; either or all of which you may have at the Apotheca­ries: take of one of these Pills a dragme at a time: If you take of the Pill Mastichine, you may take a dragme thereof, and form it into six little Pills more or lesse, according as you can swallow them, and take them at night going to bed; if you take of any of the other Pills, take a dragme thereof in the morning.

Afterwards take this Decoction which follows; and let the fume or hot vapour thereof ascend into the Ears.

A Fumigation for Noise in the Ears.

Take Marjoram, Mints, Worm­wood, Rosemary, Sage, Betony and Camomile, of each half a handful; boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Water, till half be consumed, and let the fume or hot vapour thereof ascend into the Ears.

To stanch bleeding at the Nose.

Take the Seeds of the Hazel-Tree, and burn them to powder, and let the Patient have some of it blown into his Nose through a quill, and let him drink the Juyce of Planten.

The Juyce of Planten, or Planten-Water and Milk made into a posset, stanch and heal any bleeding in­wardly.

To Ripen an Imposthume in the Ear.

Take fine wheat Flower one ounce and a half, the Muscilage of Linseed, and Fenegreek Seed, Eels-Grease, Litharge of Gold, Ceruse and Frankin­cense, [Page 116] of each one dragme: mix them all together, and make a Plaister there­of, and lay it all over the Ear, and rub it into the Ear.

Another for the same.

Take fresh Holly-hock Roots beaten small two ounces, Linseed, and Fene­greek Seeds beaten, of each one ounce; Dill-Seed and Camomile, of each half an ounce; boyl them in Butter to the consistence of a soft Plaister, and lay it to the Ear.

To draw out the matter, cleanse and heal an Imposthume in the Ear.

When the Imposthume is ripe, and begins to break, then to cleanse and heal the same, use this Unguent follow­ing.

Take Sarcocolla, Aloes, Dragons-blood, Myrrhe, and Frankincense, Iron Drosse, and Verdigrease, of each half a dragme: incorporate them all well to­gether with Vinegar; and dip a taint therein, and put it into the Ear.

Another for all kinds of Imposthumes in the Ears.

Take Honey 5 dragmes, Vinegar half an ounce, Verdigrease 1 dragme bruised small; seeth them together, then dip Wool therein, and lay it into the imposthumated Ear.

The Oyntment called Unguentum, Apostolorum, which is to be had at the Apothecaries, is also good for Impo­sthumes in the Ears, to be used as the former.

For the Tooth-ach.

Take Allum and Brimstone, of each what quantity you please thereof; burn them on a Tyle-stone, and make pow­der thereof; and add thereto powder of Pepper a like quantity: stamp them all together with a Clove of Garlick; then ty them up in a little piece of linen, and lay it between the Teeth where the pain is.

Another for the same.

Take Honey and seeth it, and take off the scum as it ariseth, and put thereto powder of Pepper, and seeth it till it be black: then put some of it on a Sage leaf; lay it to the aking Teeth.

Another for the same.

Take Vinegar, Mustard, powder of Pepper, and Pellitory of Spain, of each what quantity you please, the Kernel of a Gal-nut; boyl them all together, and if the Teeth be hollow, put there­of into the Teeth; or else lay it hot to the Gums.

Of the Tooth-ach that cometh of Worms.

If there be Worms in the Gums, as it often happens there are, which cause much pain in the Teeth, and do imposthumate and perish them; to kill them,

Take Pepper and beat it to powder, [Page 119] and temper it with good Wine; and sup thereof warm, and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold, and then spit it out: use this often, and thou shalt be delive­red of all anguish in the Teeth.

Another to fasten loose Teeth.

Take Harts-horn and burn it, and put the ashes that come thereof in a linen cloth and lay it to the Teeth, and it will make them fast.

To make a Tooth fall out of it self.

Take the tallow of a Ram, and Plan­ten, and stamp them together, and anoynt the Teeth therewith, and it will fall out of its own accord.

Turner. So says my Author Verbatim, I do not deviate from him: the Medicine is easy to be made: if it do no good, I am sure it can do no hurt; if you have occasion, you may soon try it.

Here follows another receipt for the same purpose, which you may use as you like it; it will not cost you much.

Take a water-Frogge, and a green Frogge, and seeth them together: ga­ther the Grease that ariseth, and there­with anoynt thy Gum, and the aking Teeth: I do not like this, so well as the former.

For stinking Teeth.

Take two handfulls of Cumin-seed, and seeth it in white-Wine, and let them wash their Teeth therewith.

To make Teeth white.

Take Honey, Salt, and Rye-meal, of each what quantity you please; and therewith rub thy Teeth and Gums.

For an Imposthume in the Gums.

Take Honey of Roses one ounce and a half, Vinegar half an ounce; mix [Page 121] them together, and therewith gargle the mouth: when you spit it out, take in fresh again; using it often.

Likewise it is good to open the Gums if there be any sores: and wash it three times a day with water, wherein Al­lom, Myrrhe, and Salt have been sodden.

Another for the same.

Take half a pinte of the Water of Knot-grasse, and half an ounce of Al­lom; dissolve the Allom in the Water, and therewith wash the Teeth and Gums.

For losse of Speech.

Take the Juyce of Southern-wood, Sage, and Pimpernel, and put it under thy Tongue; or take the Juyce of Wormwood, and temper it with Ho­ney; and let the Patient hold it in his mouth.

The voyce is oftentimes spoiled, and corrupted by hoarseness, or weakened by long sickness; for which this Electu­ary which follows is very good.

An Electuary for losse of Speech.

Take Ireos half an ounce, Penny-Royal, Hysop, Licoris, of each 3 drag, Dragagant, bitter Almonds, Kernels of Pine-apples, Cinamon, Ginger and Pepper, of each one dragme and a half, Figges, Dates, Currans; of each one scruple, red Styrax 3 scruples and a half; cut the fruits small, beat all the rest to powder, and to every ounce of this powder add 12 ounces of Sugar: make it into an Electuary with Honey or Syrrup of Hysop; or if you please, you may make Lozengs thereof.

Another for the same.

Take Ireos half an ounce, Sugar-Can­dy a dragm, Cinamon, Ginger and Pep­per one dragme, Sugar 12 ounces; boyl it in Hysop-Water, to the thickness of an Electuary; then make Lozengs there­of: these are good for a Cough, a cold Rheume, and a wheezing breath.

Against Hoarseness, a dry Cough, and all infections of the Lungs, and Breast, proceeding of heat and dry'th; from whence a Con­sumption follows.

• Take Dragagant 1 ounce,
• Gum Arabick 5 dragms,
• Starch 2 dragmes,
• Licoris,
• Melon-Seeds,
• Gourd-Seeds,
• Pompeon-Seeds,
• Cucumber-Seeds, of each 1 drag.
• Camphire 5 dragmes,
• Sugar Pennets one ounce and a half.

Beat all these to powder, and add to an ounce of this powder, 12 ounces of fine Sugar; and boyl it in Violet water unto a Confection, or make Lo­zenges of it, if you please.

A hot Confection for a tough, flegma­tick, and slymy Cough; so that the Patient cannot get up any thing, for a wheezing and short Breath.

• Take Dragagant,
• Hysop, of each 2 ounces,
• Kernells of Pine-Apples,
• Sweet Almonds,
• Linseed, of each 3 dragmes,
• Fenegreek,
• Cinamon, of each 2 dragmes,
• Juyce of Licoris,
• Ginger, of each one dragme.

Boyl them all into an Electuary, or Confection, as the other; or if you will, you may make Lozengs thereof: and every night when you go to bed, dissolve one of them in sweet-Wine, and add half a scruple of Saffron unto it: this comforts the Heart, and vital Spirits.

A Drink for the same.

Take five pints of fair Water, half a pinte of Honey, six Figges, one ounce of Currans, 2 dragmes of Licorice; boyl it till one pinte be wasted, and drink thereof every morning fasting, a good Cup full warm.

To make the voyce cleer, an Electuary.

• Take Cabbage-Seeds,
• Hysop,
• Elecampane Roots,
• Colts-foot,
• Roots of Flower De luce,
• Horehound, of each half an ounce,
• Annis-Seeds,
• Fennel-Seeds,
• Ameos,
• Cubebs,
• Aristolochy, of each one dragme and a half,
• Sugar Pennets 3 dragmes,
• Oxymel Compositum,
• Syrrup of Horehound, of each 3 ounc.
• Pine-apple Kernells 4 ounces,
• Saffron 1 dragme.

[Page 126]Make them all together into a Confe­ction or Electuary, with 12 ounces of Honey clarifyed: take hereof about 2 dragmes morning and night, in a little of the Decoction of Nettle-Roots, mixing a little Sugar with it.

For them that speak in their sleep.

Take the Juyce of Southern-wood 1 spoonfull; and temper it in Wine, and drink it going to bed.

Another for the same.

Take the Tops of Rue and Vervain, of each a like quantity; drink the Juyce thereof in Wine, going to bed.

For them that spit Bloud.

Take Smallage, Rue, Betony, Mynts and Planten▪ of each a like quantity, boyl them in good new Milk, and drink thereof warm.

For a stinking Breath.

Take Butter, the Juyce of Moon­wort, and the Juyce of Fetherfew; of each a like quantity: temper them with Honey, and give the Patient every morning a spoonfull thereof.

Another for the same.

Take two handfulls of Cumin-Seeds, and beat it to powder; and boyl it well in white-Wine, and drink of this decocted Wine 15 dayes toge­ther, every morning, sweetned with a little Sugar.

Another for the same.

Take three handfulls of Cumin, Vervain, Mynts and Rue, of each three handfulls, Licoris 1 dragme, Ginger and Nutmegs; of each half an ounce: bruise them all in a Morter, then boyl them in a Gallon of white-Wine till half be wasted: Drink thereof morning and evening, first and last, for 15 dayes to­gether, as hot as you can suffer it. Pro­batum.

For a cold and Cough.

Take Hysop, Rosemary, Planten, and Radish Roots; of each a like quantity, and boyl them in white-Wine from a Pottle to a quart; then poer out the Liquor, and put the Herbs into a Mor­ter, and mingle them well together, bruising them, and strain them into the Liquor again: then take a pinte of Life-Honey, and boyl it and scum it, and put thereto a quarter of a pound of May-Butter that is clarified; and let it seeth together by the space that one may say the Psalm of Miserere mei Deus, (that is, the 51 Psalme in English, called in those dayes one of the 7 Penitential Psalms: but now penitency is out of fashion. The Psalm will not hurt you, if you think it not too much superstition to read it; neither will your Reading it do the Psalm any hurt at all; nor your letting it alone, will not alter its Religion.) Then strain it through a linen Cloth, and take the Collature, (that is, the Li­quor or Medicine, thus compounded,) and reserve it in a glasse Vessel close stopt, And let the Patient take a little [Page 129] thereof first and last, in a draught of stale Ale, warm, till it be whole; for this is a proved Medicine; saith my Author in Haec Verba.

For a Man or Woman that hath great sickness in the sides, and cannot well draw their wind, nor Cough, for pain.

Take Hill-wort, Alexander, Parsly, Lovage, Smallage, red Fennel, Burnet, Grommel; of each a like quantity, seeth them in sufficient quantity of white-Wine till half be wasted: And let the Patient Drink thereof hot, first and last.

For a Cough.

Take the Juyce of Sage, and Rue, and Hysop; of each a like quantity, of Cu­min, Pepper, Licorice, and sweet Fen­nel Seeds in powder; of each a like quantity: seeth them all in clarified Honey, sufficient to make an Electuary thereof, and let the Patient take there­of morning and evening.

Of the Tumor or swelling in the Throat, called the Squinancy.

This is a dangerous Disease, that co­meth about the Troat-Boll, and shut­teth up the inward parts of the Throat, so that thereby the breath is stopt: which commonly proceedeth of grosse humours, that fall from the Head into the Throat; which is also increased by sleeping immediately after meals. The Patient if he feel this infirmity ap­proching, ought to purge his Head well with Pill Elephanginae, eat and drink but little, and to eat light meats, and Gargarize his mouth with Wine of Pomgranates and Barley-Water min­gled together.

Also take Syrrup of Poppeys, and Syrrup of Mulberryes, of each one dragme, Rose-water 3 ounces: temper them together, and use them as the other before. But to conclude;

Take Album Graecum, Anglicè, a white Doggs Turd; beat it to powder, and mix it with Syrrup of Mulberryes, Black-berryes, or Honey, and give it to the Patient to swallow by little and little. Probatum.

To strengthen the Memory; an Experi­ment of Johannes Coletus, taught him by a Jew. A Gargarisme to cleanse the Head for the Memory.

TAke Pieretrum, Marjoram, Galin­gale, Ginger, Caraway, Broad Plan­ten-Seed, and Mustard-Seed; beat them grosse together, and put two ounces of this powder to one quart of Water, into a Vessel close stopt, and boyl it in Balneo; then when it hath well sodden, put a quart of strong Wine to it, and an ounce of cleer Honey; and let it seeth again till about a pint of the Liquor be wasted: herewith gargarize the mouth well, and many times toge­ther, every morning, holding it hot a good while in the mouth, that the fume may ascend up into the Head; but use it only, when the Moon is increa­sing.

Then use this Drink for the Memory, to draw superfluous Moisture out of the Head.

Take Ginger, long Pepper; of each one dragme, Galingale one scruple, Cloves, Cubebs, of each one dragme and a half: beat them all together to powder, and ty them up in a linen Cloth, and boyl them in Balneo, in a pot close stopt, with 2 quarts of Wine: then let it stand covered till it be cleer; then drink a good draught thereof, morning and going to bed.

Kemb your Head a good while toge­ther in the Sun, or by the fire, as the season of the year is, to open the pores: then wash your Head with Rue-Wa­ter, and drink a draught of Wine after it, and eat a bit of bread steeped in the Wine: eat light suppers, be moderate in your sleep and dyet: And continue this use many dayes together; And then anoynt the Head and Temples with this Oyntment following.

Take white Lillyes, Colewort-Leaves, Balm; of each one dragme: pound them together, and put them in [Page 133] a pot: pour therein 2 ounces of Sallet-Oil, fresh Butter as much as all the rest, Spirit of Wine 4 times rectified, 3 spoonfuls of water of Rue, Sage, and Ce­lendine, of each 2 spoonfulls, white-Wine 5 spoonfuls: incorporate and mix them all well together; then set them 6 or 8 hours in a warm place, strain it, and seeth the liquour till it be as thick as Honey, and set it in the Sun afterwards, till it look red as Copper. This Salve will keep two years. The best time to make it, is about June.

And after the Head is purged as be­fore is directed, anoynt the hinder parts of the Head & Temples with this Salve; and keep the Head warm with a leather Cap, that it may have the bet­ter operation; wash the Head with warm Wine at night; let your meat be easy of digestion, and especially for­bear excessive drinking: use this at first four dayes together, and then two or three dayes together, every eight weeks for a year, every three months the se­cond year; and once every year after­wards, as long as you live: Let the Moon be increasing when you use it.

A Potion to procure steep in Frantick people.

Take white Poppey-seeds half an ounce, Roots of Mandragora, Hen­bane-seeds; of each half a dragme, Saffron 4 grains: bruise them all toge­ther, and bind them up in a Cloth; then steep them 6 hours in 5 ounces of Water-Lilleys: then strain it, and give to the Patient of this water, from one ounce to three, according to the quali­ty of the Disease, and strength of the party.

Another for the same.

Take 12 ounces of Water-Lilleys, Opium one dragme; steep them toge­ther in 3 pints of Malmsey 24 hours: then cast therein one quarter of an ounce of Salt, as much Henbane-seeds, Lettice-seed 3 dragms: and distill it in Balneo; and give hereof from half a dragme to a dragme, at night when the Patient goes to bed.

An Oyntment or Salve to cause sleep.

Take one ounce of Poplar Salve, That is the Oyntment, which the Apothecary calls Un­guentum Populeon. half an ounce of Oil of Violets, Henbane-seeds, and Mandragora Roots; of each half a dragme, Saffron, Cassia-wood; of each one scruple: mix them together, and apply it to the privityes of Men, and the Breasts of Women.

For the same.

Take Willow-leaves, Water-Lilleys, Vine-leaves, and Lettise: boyl them in water, and with the Decoction bath and wash the privy Members, hands and feet.

A Clyster against the shaking Palsey.

• Take Centaury,
• Sage,
• Rue,
• Cowslips.
• St. Johns-wort.
• Mercury; of each half a handful,
• Saffron-seed,
• [Page 136] Rue-seed,
• Silver Mountain-seed,
• Basil-seed; of each half an ounce,
• Agarick 5 dragmes,
• Stechas,
• Amaranthus of each half an ounce;

Seeth them together in sufficient wa­ter; then take 12 or 16 ounces of this Decoction, Honey, and Oil of Lilleys, of each one ounce and a half, Salgem, and Pill Cochiae; of each half a dragm: temper them well, and administer it for a Clyster.

A Powder for the Head, against the sha­king Palsey.

• Take Field-Cypres,
• Cowslips,
• Lignum Aloes,
• Ireos,
• Hermodactils,
• Stechas,
• Marjoram,
• Mints; of each half adragme,
• Spica Indie,
• Grains,
• Rue, of each one scruple,

[Page 137]Beat every one by himself to a subtil Powder; then temper them together, and bestrew the Head with it, when it is new shorn.

An excellent Confection, which resisteth Poyson, and defendeth the Heart against all Contagion and Infecti­on; comforteth the Stomack, & helpeth the Palsey, or the trembling of the Joynts.

• Take Cynamon,
• Lignum Aloes,
• Cloves,
• Spica Indie,
• Galingale,
• Licorice,
• Trochis de Vialis, sive Scammonio.
• Diarrhodon Abbatis; of each 5 dragmes,
• Nutmegs,
• Aliptae Muscatae,
• Sedoary,
• Spikenard,
• Mace,
• Rhabarbe,
• Red Storax, of each half an ounce,
• [Page 138]Pearles prepared,
• Burnt Ivory,
• Harts Bones,
• Ginger,
• Blatia by Zantia, of each 2 dragms and a half,
• Muske,
• Amber,
• Cardamom,
• Lovage-seed,
• Basil-seed, of each one dragme and a half,
• Camphire one dragme,

Make them all into a Confection, with 3 ounces of clarifyed Honey; take thereof every morning about the quan­tity of a Nutmeg.

You may if you please, for your bet­ter conveniency, make Lozenges there­of, by adding 12 ounces of Sugar, boyled in Buglosse-water, to one ounce of the fore-mentioned ingredients.

For the dead Palsy.

Take Nutmegs, sliced Licorice, and Annis-seeds; of each one ounce, Piony Roots one dragme, Elecampane Roots [Page 139] half an ounce, Spirit of VVine 16 ounc. Honey 8 ounces; mix these all toge­ther, and make a Conserve thereof; and if you use it in VVinter, put thereto a quarter of an ounce of long Pepper, and give the Patient about a spoonful thereof every morning.

Pills to purge for the dead Palsy.

Take Agarick one scruple, Assa-Faeti­da half a scruple, Ginger 13 grains, Diagrydion 1 grain; make Pills there­of with the Juyce of Hysop; and after the Patient is purged, let him take this Drink following for eight dayes toge­ther.

Take Egrimony-water, and Southern-wood-water, of each 2 ounces, and sweeten it with Sugar: Drink it in the morning, and fast four hours after it.

A Syrrup for the dead Palsy.

• Take Calmus half an ounce,
• Cowslips 3 handfuls,
• St. Johns-wort,
• Sage,
• Betony,
• [Page 140]Balm,
• Rue,
• Bayleaves, of each one handful,
• Silver Mountain,
• Balsam-wood,
• Balsam fruit,
• Bazil-seed, of each 2 dragms,
• Licorice,
• Currans,
• Lavender Flowers,
• Amaranthus, of each one ounce,

Boyl all these together into a Syrrup, with six ounces of clarifyed Honey, and a pint of Rain-water clarifyed with the white of an Egge.

A Clyster for the dead Palsey.

• Take Sage,
• Rue,
• Stechas,
• Mallows,
• Centory,
• Mercury,
• Bran, of each half a handful,

Seeth them all together: then take 12 ounces of this Decoction, of mix there­with [Page 141] Hyera Logodion half an ounce, Salt one quarter of an ounce, Sallet-Oil 3 ounces; minister it warm.

A Powder to strew on the Patients meat, in stead of spice, that hath the dead Palsey.

• Take Cynamon 1 ounce and a half.
• Coriander,
• Cloves,
• Galingale,
• Pepper,
• Cubebs,
• Mace,
• Nutmegs,
• Saffron, of each one ounce,
• Calmus 2 ounces,
• Coutchenel half an ounce.

Temper them all to a fine powder with 6 ounces of fine Sugar.

A bath for the dead Palsey.

Take Bay-berryes, Juniper-berryes, and Pepper; of each as much as you will: beat them to powder, and set the Patient in a dry bath, and poure of [Page 142] this powder on hot Irons tempered with Lavender-Water; and let him sweat well with the vapour thereof, then rub all the infected Members with Venice Soap till the Soap be drye: And after the Patient cometh out of the bath, keep him in a warm place, and rub the lame Joynts hard with Deers-suet.

An Oyntment for the dead Palsey, Cramp and cold Gout.

• Take Squills,
• Rue,
• Calmus,
• Nettle-Roots,
• Egrimony,
• Cowslips, of each one handful,

Pound them all together, and put to it Oil of Nuts, and old Sallet-Oil; of each 12 ounc. Wine as much: seeth these all together till the moisture be evapora­ted away: then strain it, and temper amongst it Salt-Peter, Euphorbium, Pepper, Oil of Bayes, of each one ounce and a half, Galbanum, Turpen­tine; of each 2 ounces, VVax as much [Page 143] as is needful to make a Salve there­of; and keep it for the use aforesaid.

A Powder against the falling sickness.

• Take Pearls prepared,
• Harts-bones, of each 1 dragm.
• Red Coral,
• Piony-seeds and Roots, of each half a dragm,
• Misleden one dragme and a half,
• Amber prepared 2 scruples,
• White Sugar one ounce,
• Six Leaves of Gold,

Make them all into fine powder, and take hereof a dragme once a week in Piony-water or Broth.

A Clyster for the falling sickness.

Take Swines-bread, black Helle­bore, Centory, Daffadil, of each one dragme, Saffron-seed half an ounce: seeth this in a quart of water till half be consumed: take 13 ounces of this Decoction, temper therein Hyera Lo­godion one ounce, Oil of Euphorbium 10 dragmes, Salgem one drame and [Page 144] a half: mix them all together for a Clyster.

A Confection for the same.

• Take Diapenidium 3 dragmes,
• Pliris Arcoticon 1 dragm,
• Diambra half a dragm,
• Cynamon 1 dragme and a half,
• Nutmegs,
• Cubebs, of each 2 scruples,
• Ginger one dragm,
• Sugar 8 ounces,

Make a Confection thereof with Piony VVater.

Lozenges for the Cough and Rheume.

Take white Poppey-seeds, Lettice-seeds, and Purslain-seeds, of each one dragme, Dragagant, Gum-Arabick and Saffron, of each half a dragme, Opium 5 grains: pound all that is to be pounded, and make it to a dough with Syrrup of Poppey: make Lozenges ther­of as big as small Beanes; and let one of these at a time dissolve in thy mouth: this is for hot Rheumes.

Other Lozenges for a Cough.

Take Pine-apple Kernels, steeped a night in Rose-water, and bitter Al­monds blanched, of each 3 quarters of an ounce, Juyce of Licoris 2 ounces, powder of Licoris 3 dragmes; make Lozenges thereof with Rose-water; they are good against the Cough, and raw­ness of the Throat that proceedeth thereof.

An Oyntment for pain in the back.

Take Oil of Spike, and Oil of Lilleys, of each half an ounce, Oil of Camomile and Dill, of each one ounce, Saffron, Lavender, Madder and Egrimony, of each one dragme, Mastick and Squinant, of each one scruple, VVax as much as is needful to make it a Salve: herewith anoynt the back-bone.

A Clyster for a pleurisy of heat and blood.

Take 16 ounces of broth, made of a Calves-Foot, or Lambs-Head; put [Page 146] therein one ounce of brown Sugar, the yolk of an Egge, 2 ounces of Sallet-Oil, Salt one dragme and a half: temper them together for a Clyster.

An Oyntment for Scabs, and breaking out in the Legges.

Take the red Dock-Root, the Roots of Celendine, and Worm-wood, and the Leaves of Laurel; of each a like quantity: stamp them, and seeth them in May-Butter unto an Oyntment; strain it, and keep it in a box for use.

How the Body is to be Governed against Pestilential, and infectious Ayres.

The first and principal preservation, is to avoyd all that may ingender any Feaver or Ague; and forbear all man­ner of excesse, either of meat or drink: eat no grosse meat, no Onyons, Leeks, Garlick, nor fruit.

Abstain from venereous actions; for that both openeth the Pores, and de­stroyeth the kind natural, and infee­bleth the Spiritual Members, and the Spirits of Man.

[Page 147]Also in time of Pestilence suffer no great thirst; and drink but measurably, only to slacken thy thirst: and drink such drinks as will abate heat, as Water of Borage, Endive, Lettice, Violets, Roses, Scabious, Tormentil, Dittany; either mingled, or else severally alone by themselves: For if the Pestilence reigne in the heat of the Summer, these Drinks be profitable, especially for those that be of a Cholerick Com­plexion.

Also when you sleep, either in the afternoons, or at night a-bed, shut your Chamber-doors and Windowes close, and cast on a Pan of Coles, this Powder following.

Take of Laurel-Leaves, and Rose­mary dryed, and Frankincense; of each a like quantity; make them into pow­der, and strow about half a spoonful hereof upon the Coales.

Use also to burn in thy Chamber Juniper-wood; or for want thereof, Ash-wood, and use to cast on the fire Frankincense, Storax, Calamint. If one be infected with the Pestilence, and a sore begin to arise between the thigh and the privy Members, it is a sign that [Page 148] the Liver purgeth out the infection, in that place: then bleed on the Foot in the same side the swelling appears, the Vein betwixt thy great Toe; And if the botch be more outward to the side, and further from the privy Members, bleed then on the Vein between the Ankle and the Foot.

If the matter appear in the cleansing place of the Head, then consider well in what side it appears, and bleed on the Medium Vein of the Arm, or the Vein of the Hand, between the Thumb and the next finger of the same side; but take good heed that you sleep not in 12 hours after bleeding.

It is good alwayes to have in your hand to smell to, this Pomander fol­lowing, which comforteth the Vital Spirits.

Take Lapdanum purified an ounce, Storax Calamita dissolved; Roses, Cloves, Mace; of each three half penny weight, and make them into powder: add thereto 5 spoonfulls of Oil de Bay, an ounce of Virgins Wax: mingle them well all together, and make there­of a Ball of the quantity of a Wal-Nut.

[Page 149]It is necessary in time of Pestilence, or hot Agues, to wash thy Temples, and the Pulses of thy hands with Rose-water, and Betony-water, And to wet linen Cloths therein, and lay to thy Temples, Fore-head, and Liver, and to each Arm-hole, one 4 times double.

Let thy Cods be alwayes freshly washed, and after dipt in Rose-water; let thy Cap be dipt also in Rose-water, after it is clean washed; and drye it in the fire, and not in the infected Air.

Drink every morning 9 spoonfulls of white-Wine, in a sawcer full of fine Vinegar; before thou go abroad out of thy house.

You shall understand, that all the principal Members, the Heart, Brain, and Liver, have every one his proper purging place given him by nature; whereby he may avoyd all infections and superfluities, and clear himself thereof.

The Heart hath his cleansing place in the Armpits.

The Liver hath his cleansing place in the groyn, between the Thigh and the Body.

[Page 150]The clensing place of the Brain is under the Ears, at the Ear-Roots, and in the Throat.

Then the sickness of the Pestilence cometh thus: when the Pores of the Body are open, then first entreth the venemous and corrupt Air, which in­fecteth the blood; and then cometh to the Heart, that is the Root and ground of Life, and infecteth all the lively Spi­rits in man; whereof death insues: but the Heart and clean blood seeketh to expel, and fly from all that is noy­ous, and contrary unto mankind. And the Heart seeketh to expel the Corrup­tion and venom from him to his clean­sing place the Arm-hole: But then somtimes that place is stopped, that it cannot come out; then it soon passeth to the next principal Member the Li­ver, And then the Liver doth in his kind endeavour to expel it by his pur­ging place the Groyn: but if he be weak or obstructed, that he cannot ex­pell it, then it runneth to the third principal Member the Brain, which al­so striveth to expell, and drive it out by his purging place in the Throat, and under the Ears: but if through the [Page 151] stopping of the Pores, or thickness of the Venemous matter that is mingled with the blood, it is hindred of this kindly course; then are all the princi­pall Members infected and overcome thereby; whereupon death follows.

Against infection.

In the morning alwayes before you go abroad, be sure to break your fast; and wash your mouth with Vinegar, wherein Worm-wood hath been boyled; and afterwards hold in your mouth a bit of Zaedoary Root, Citron-Peels, Tormentil, Angelica or Uni­cornes-horn.

Also it is good to anoynt the mouth, lips, and nose, with this Composition following.

Take the Juyce of Garlick, and Vine­gar of Roses; of each one ounce and a half, Treacle 3 quarters of an ounce, Beaver-Cod 2 dragmes: mix them to­gether for an Oyntment.

Another Oyntment to anoynt the Heart, not only for those that are well, but for those that are already infected.

Take 3 quarters of an ounce of Trea­cle, Saffron, and Canaphire; of each 10 grains, Juyce of Lemons, and Vinegar, as much as is needful to make a Salve thereof.

A Pomander to smell to in Summer, for them that be of a hot Complexion.

Take Water Lilley-flowers, Mynts, Violets, Vine-leaves, Roses, Mittle-seeds, white and yellow Sanders, Ci­tron-Peels, dryed Quinces, dryed Prunes; of each half a dragme, Saffron and Camphire; of each a scruple, Gal­lia Muscata 10 grains: make them up into a Pomander ball with Vinegar, wherein fine Bolus is dissolved.

Another Pomander to be used in Plague-time.

Take Roses a quarter of an ounce, red and white Saunders; of each one dragme and a half, Camphire, Cinamon, Mace, and Nutmegs; of each one scruple, Amber, Citron-Peels, of each half a dragme, Musk 4 grains, red Sto­rax half an ounce, Laudanum 1 ounce: beat them small, but dissolve the Lau­danum with Liquid Storax, and make thereof a Pomander.

Care must be taken in times of in­fection, to keep drye, and comfort the Heart, and principal Members; for which it is good to take once a week a dragme of Mithridate and Treacle in Sorrel-water, and sweat after it: and keep within Doors all the day after.

Pills preservative against the Plague.

Take the Pestilential Pills, called at the Apothecaries, Pill Ruffi 4 scruples, Agarick prepared half a dragm, Zedory, and Angelica, of each one dragm, Rha­barb 1 scruple, Trochisci Alhaudal 5 [Page 154] grains: make Pills hereof with Car­duns water, take a dragme hereof once a week 3 hours after Supper: in the morning drink a draught of the Deco­ction of Pease, and fast 3 hours after it,

A Confection to strengthen and preserve nature against corrupt and Pestilent Airs.

Take Sealed Earth, white Diptamus: fine Bolus, Myrrhe, Wormwood, Rue, Scabious, Pimpernel, Sorrel, and Ze­doary, of each 1 dragme, Aristolochy, Tormentil, and Bay-leaves; of each 1 dragme and a half, 5 or 6 Kernels of Wal-nuts 12 new Figgs, Mithridate and Treacle, of each an ounce, Saffron and Camphire; of each one scruple, Unicorns-horn, prepared Pearls, Bones of a Stagges Heart, burnt Harts-horn and Smaragdes; of each one dragme and a half, Citron-seeds peeled half an ounce, Mace 1 dragme: pound all that is to be pounded, & with Syrrup of Ci­trons make them into a Confection; and take a little hereof morning and even­ing, in Winter, in a draught of Malm­sey or Muscadine, and in Summer with Rose-water.

A Powder against the Plague.

Take Pimpernel, Gentian, Tormen­till, Dragon, Rue, Worm-wood, Nut Kernels, Granats prepared, and Juni­per Berryes; of each a like quantity: use it upon a tosted piece of bread; or if you will, you may make a Confection hereof with Treacle, and Vinegar of Roses.

Thus far by way of prevention, if one be infected: The first means to be used, is to provoke sweat, and that both morning and evening, (if the Patient can abide it,) for which you may use this Confection.

A Confection to cause sweat, when one is infected of the Plague.

Take Treacle and Mithridate, of each half an ounce, Pimpernel, and An­gelica; of each 10 grains, Cardamom 5 grains, Camphire 5 grains, Cinamon 10 grains; make thereof a Confection; give the Patient the quantity of a Ha­zel-Nut thereof, in Carduus or Sorrel-water; and then cover him well, and let [Page 156] him sweat well 3 or 4 hours after, if he be able. If you have none of this Con­fection ready at hand, then take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate, in Carduus or Sorrel-water.

A Diaphoretical Potion, that expelleth the Contagion of the Plague, and all Venom and Pestilent Diseases.

Take Rue, Worm-wood, and the up­permost tops of Black-berryes; of each a handful, Celendine a handful and a half; put them into a Pot with a pinte of Vinegar, and stop the Pot very close, that there come in no air, nor no va­pour get out; and then let them seeth in Balneo, till the third part be consu­med: then strain it out, and keep it close stopt; give the Patient 2 or 3 ounces of this drink when he is infected, and let him sweat after it, and not sleep.

An Oil to provoke sweat, and expel the Venome of the Plague.

Take a glasse Bottle as big as you will, fill it halffull of Elder flowers, a third part of Holly-hock Flowers, and [Page 157] uppermost a third part of the Flowers of St. Johns-wort; filling herewith the glasse: then put thereon old Sallad-Oil as much as the glasse will hold; stop it very close, and let it stand a sunning a whole Summer; with this Oil rub the Body very warm 3 or 4 times a day; it provoketh sweat abundantly.

Anoynt the sick Persons Breast or Heart, with this Medicine following.

Take of the best Treacle one ounce, Juyce of Lemmons and Vinegar, of each half an ounce, Saffron and Cam­phire, of each one scruple: mingle them together, and spread them on a piece of Scarlet, and apply it: If a Plague-soar begin to appear with any redness, and will not imposthumate, then take a young Pullet, & pull off the feathers off her Belly; then cut her open and hold it upon the swelling: then shortly after take another, and do as before.

Another to draw out the Plague-sore.

Take a great Onyon, and roast it with Treacle therein, and lay it upon the soar with a plaister of Oxicroceum, and Diachilon cum Gummis.

[Page 158]Also take the common Plaister of Diachilor 3 dragmes, and the Juyce of Celendine; and make a Salve thereof with a little Wax: or seeth Cole-worts with a little Bacon, and lay it on the swelling; and when you see it begin to imposthumate, then use this following.

Take Holly-hock Roots, Scabious, and Mallows; of each a like quantity: seeth them and beat them to a Pap, and make thereof a Plaister with Barrows-Grease; And apply it to the swelling.

To kill the Plague-soar.

Take 2 or 3 yolks of new laid Egges, and temper therewith about half an ounce of Salt pounded small, and lay it on the place, renewing it every quar­ter of an hour.

If the sore Corrode further, take fine Bolus, Dragons-blood, Vinegar, Rose-water, and whites of Egges, as much as you please: lay the same Plaister-wise upon the sore.

When the Plague-sore is throughly killed, take Scabious 4 handfuls, Trea­cle one ounce, Barrows-Grease one ounce and a half: stamp the Herbs, and [Page 159] make a Plaister thereof, and refresh it often.

To clense the Ulcer, and ingender new flesh when other accidents are past.

Take Turpentine, washed in Scabi­ous water 4 ounces, Barly-meal one ounce, two yolks of Egges, Saffron, Sar­cocolla, Mastick and Frankincense; of each half a dragme: mix them all toge­ther for a Plaister.

Lastly, take Beaten half an ounce, Honey of Roses a sufficient quantity, to make thereof a Salve; use it till the sore be perfectly whole. Et Laudate Dominum.

How to know Mans Urine from Womans, and Beasts from Man or Woman.

You shall understand, that if there be any trouble in Mans Urine, it sheweth it self in the midst of the Urine: and in the Womans Urine it doth not so. And the froth after the casting of Mans Urine, it shall be long; [Page 167] and of a Womans after the casting it shall be round: thus saith Avicenna.

Now to know Beasts Water from Mans Water; Beasts Water is more sad and subtil of Complexion. Also the Beasts Water swelleth more then the Mans.

Also mingle the Urine of a Beast with a Mans, and they shall part asunder.

And if it be a Cow that is with Calf, the Contents of the Cows Urine is much greater then the Urine of a Wo­man; in as much as the Woman is lesse (and fair of Complexion) then the Cow is.

Urine fat and troubled, betokeneth a burning Fever that cometh of Choler.

Urine red and thick over all with a black Circle, betokens sickness over all: and if the Patient sweat not, it is death.

Urine white and thin, and little, de­clares cold in the Body.

Urine cleer with a black Circle, be­tokeneth the Tissick.

Urine thin and somwhat black above in the casting, declares great losse of Nature.

[Page 168]Urine thick and troubled as Horse-pisse, betokens Head-ach.

Urine fat in the bottome, white in the midst, and red above, betokens a Fever quartain.

Urine that hath black Contents, small as moats in the midst of the Wa­ter, signifies an Imposthume under the side.

Urine that hath grains under the Circle, betokens a Stomack full of Worms, and burning of the Heart.

Urine that is foul above, signifies heat in the Heart, in the Lungs, and in the Spleen.

Urine frothy, cleer, and a little red, betokens pain under the right side.

Urine of a Woman that is with Child, that Water shal have some cleer strikes: and the most part shall be troubled; and the troubleness shall be reddish in the manner of a tawney: and this token shall never fail. As soon as the Child hath life, if it be a Girle, the trouble­ness shall draw downward; and if it be a Boy, it shall ascend above.

Urine of a Woman, white, heavy and stinking, betokeneth pain in the Reyns, and pain of the Mother, and sickness of cold.

[Page 169]Urine of a Woman shining as bright Gold, signifyeth lust to a man.

Urine of a Woman that fleeteth fat above, betokens pain in the Reyns.

Urine of a Woman with black Con­tents in the bottome, betokens falling of the Flowers.

Urine of a Woman coloured as white Lead; if shee be with Child, the Child is dead within her. And if shee be not with Child, and the Water stink, it be­tokeneth that the Mother is rotten.

Urine of a Woman coloured as Lin­seed, and if shee have the flux, it be­tokeneth death.

Urine of a Woman red as Gold, with a watry Circle above, signifies that she is with Child.

If thou see thy face in a Womans Water, and shee be without a Fever, it betokeneth shee is with Child. But if thou see thy face in the Urine of a hot Fever, it is a sign of death.

And if thou see thy face in Urine that hath no Axes, it betokens long sickness.

Urine thin in substance, having fleet­ing above as it were a dark Skye, be­tokens death.

Of the Regions of the Urine.

You shall understand, that in the Urine, when it is in the Urinal, there be three Regions. The first, second, and the third.

The third beginneth at the bottome of the Urinal, and lasteth to the thick­ness of a fingers bredth upward.

The second Region begins as the 3 doth end, and lasteth upward to the Circle.

And the first Region contains all that is upward above the Circle. And in these Regions be divers Contents.

There be 4 Contents that belong to Urines, which I will here declare to you; and first, I will begin at froth. Froth that dwelleth and cleaveth to the Cir­cle, betokeneth indigestion, and wind in the Stomack, and in the Bowells, and in the Head: And if above that froth dwell great Bubbles, it betokeneth great pain in the Reyns.

And if the froth dwell small, it's a sign of burning in the Stomack, and burnt bloud in the Liver.

If the froth be full of grains, it be­tokens [Page 171] Rheume in the Head, Breast, and the black Jaundice.

If it be green, it's a sign of the Jaun­dice that cometh of burnt bloud in the Liver.

A small skye appearing and shadow­ing the Urine above; if the Urine be a party blew, it betokeneth pain at the Heart, and shortness of breath, and wind that cometh of the Lungs: And if the Urine be not blew, and such a skye shadow the Urine above it, it be­tokens chafing of the Liver, and especi­ally if the froth be yellow.

A Circle thick, and little Colour, be­tokeneth pain in the Brains.

A Circle thick and little, and colou­red as Purple, betokeneth pain in the forehead.

A Circle black or white, thin, and a little coloured, betokens pain in the left side of the Head.

A Circle thin and high-coloured, as red or yellow, signifies pain in the right side of the Head.

A Circle green, betokens wavering in the Head, and pain in the Stomack; And if it appear in an hot Axis, it be­tokeneth the phrensy that cometh of cold.

[Page 172]A Circle in a hot Axis, coloured blew, if it trembled, betokeneth death.

Grains that dwell in the Circle, after casting of the Urine gone down, and after rise up again to the Circle, they betoken Rheume in the Head.

And if they go down, and turn not again to the Circle, then they signify Rheume in the Breast, Lungs, and the Spleen: And if you see 2 small grains, or more, in the second Region, knit to a small skye, they betoken pain in the Breast, of Rheume, a bad Stomack, Liver and Lungs.

Urine white or pale, neither too thick nor too thin, with an even and clean substance, betokeneth health in a Melancholy man.

Urine white as Water, and not thin, with beams as they were yards, ap­pearing in the midst, betokens sick­ness of the Spleen.

These be the tokens: overthwart swelling in the side, with hardness, in­digestion, a small Neck, a lean Body, heaviness and sloath in all the Body, Especially if they go against a Hill; Paleness of Visage, and swelling after meat.

[Page 173]Urine white and thin, with fleshly and long resolutions, much in quantity, and often made, betokens a sickness that is called Diabites; and of the said sickness, cometh Urine overmuch and unmeasurably. The tokens are, great thirst, unmeasurable dryness of Body; and this breedeth often the Dropsie.

Urine white and thin, with small round moats, betokeneth the cold Gout.

The tokens are. The Patient is wan of colour, and shaking.

Urine white and thin as Water, with a manner of darkeness, and with Gra­vel, betokeneth the stone, and the spices thereof; as is shewed in the Contents.

Urine white and thin, long conti­nuing, with Scales, and black resoluti­ons, signifies in Womans Water, stop­ping of her Flowers. The tokens are, ach in the Head, and Back, and Neck, and in the nether part of the Body, And an evill appetite to meat.

Urine in the beginning red, and shining as flames of fire, and thin, and after white and thin; betokeneth the Phrensie.

[Page 174]These be the tokens: a Fever, Ague, great thirst, Alienation of minde, and many times they think their bed is full of straw, or such like things, which they seek after; and when they cannot find it, they be very raging.

Urine white and thin as colour of Lead with whiteness, betokens the fal­ling sickness.

These be the tokens: heaviness of the Head, sloath of the Body, Yawning, Quaking of the Hands and Feet, Pol­lution of Nature, pissing involuntarily.

Urine white and thin, and cleer, and much shining, and little Gravel appear­ing, betokens the swimming in the Head, which is called Vertigo.

These be the tokens: ach in the Head, and especially in the forehead, dark­ness of the Eyes, and overcasting of the uppermost part: so that if they see wheels go, or running water, they fall down; loathings of meat, and often­times abomination of the Stomach.

Urine white and thin in lean people, betokeneth wasting of the substance of the Body.

These be the tokens: the Face is wan, the Eyes hollow and drye, a faint [Page 175] heat like a soft Fever, in the hands, loathing of meat.

Urine white and thin, in what sick­ness soever it be, betokeneth indigesti­on, and feebleness of natural heat.

The tokens be these: closing of wind under the Ribs and the Sides, rumbling in the womb, swelling of the Sides, heaviness of the Eyes and Joynts; The Body slothful, and evil disposed on the left side. And thus have I set before you the Symptomes of Diseases our frail Bodyes are incident unto, mani­fested by the Urine: if you desire to know the Medicines, look into the Table annexed to this Mirror of Health, where you will find several fitted, and plainly prepared for you; for which means give God the praise.