THE REGIment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the book of children, newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayre.  
ANNO 1545   

¶ The preface to the book of children.  
Although (as I doubt not) every good man will interpret this work to none other end, but to be for the comfort of them that are diseased, and will esteem no less, of me by whom they profit, than they will be glad to receive the benfeytes: Yet forasmuch as it is impossible to avoid the teeth of malicious envy, I thought it not unnecessary to prevent the furies of some▪ which are ever gnawing and biting upon them that further any godly sciences. To those I protest, that in all my studies, I never intended nor yet do intend to satisfy the minds of any such pikfaultes (which will do nothing but detract and judge other, snuffing at all that offendeth the noses of their momishe affections, howsoever laudable it be otherways:) but my purpose is here to do them good that have most need, that is to say children: and to show the remedies that god hath created for the use of man, to distribute in English to them that are unlearned, part of the treasure that is in other languages, to provoke them that are of better learning, to utter their knowledge in such like attempts: finally to declare that to the use of many, which ought not to be secret for lucre of a few: and to communicate the fruit of my labours, to them that will gently and thankfully receive them, which if any be so proud or supercilious, that they immediately will despise, I shall friendly desire them, with the words of Horace: Quod si meliora novisti, Candidus imparti, si non, his utere mecum. If they know better, let us have part: if they do not, why repine they at me? why condemn they the thing that they cannot amend? or if they can, why dissimule they their cunning? how long would they have the people ignorant? why grudge they physic to come forth in english? would they have no man to know but only they? Or what make they themselves? Merchants of our lives and deaths, that we should buy our health only of them, and at their prices? no good physician is of that mind. For if Galene the prince of this art being a Graecian wrote in the Greek, king Auicenne of Arabia in the speech of his Arbyans: If Plinius Celsus, Serenus and other of the Latins wrote to the people in the Latin tongue: Marsilius Ficinus (whom all men assent to be singularly learned) disdained not to write in the language of Italy: generally, if the intent of all that ever set forth any noble study, have been to be read, of as many as would: What reason is it that we should huther muther here among a few, the thing that was made to be common unto all? christ sayeth: no man lighteth a candle to cover it with a bushel, but setteth it to serve every man's need: & these go about, not only to cover it when it is lighted, but to quench it afore it be kindled (if they might by malice:) which as it is a detestable thing in any godly science: so me thinketh in this so necessary an art, it is exceeding damnable and devilish, to debar the fruition of so inestimable benefits, which our heavenly father hath prepared for our comfort and innumerable uses, wherewith he hath armed our impotent nature against the assaults of so many sicknesses: whereby his infinite mercy and abundant goodness is in nothing else more apparently confessed, by the which benefits, as it were with most sensible arguments spoken out of heaven, he onstraineth us to think upon our own weakness, and to knowledge, that in all flesh is nothing but misery, sickness, sorrows, sin, affliction, and death, no not so much strength as by our own power, to relieve one member of our bodies diseased. As for the knowledge of medicines, comfort of herbs, maintenance of health, prosperity, and life, they be his benefits, & proceed of him, to the end that we should in common, help one an other, and so live together in his laws and commandments: in the which doing we shall declare ourselves, to have worthily employed them, and as fruitful servants, be liberally rewarded, Otherwise, undoubtedly the talent which we have hidden, shall be digged up, and distributed to them that shall be more diligent: a terrible confusion afore so high a justice, and at such a court where no wager of law shall be taken, no proctor limited to defend the cause, none exception allowed to reprove the witness, no council admitted to qualify the gloss, the very bare text shall be there alleged. Cur non posuisti talentum in fenus. Why hast thou not bestowed my talon to the vantage. These and such other examples, have enforced me being oftentimes exercised in the study of physic, to derive out of the purest fountains of the same faculty, such wholesome remedies, as are most approved, to the consolation of them that are afflicted, as far as God hath given me understanding to perceive: following therein, not only the famous and excellent authors of antiquity, but also the men of high learning now of our days, as Manardus, Fuchsius, Ruellius, Musa, Campegius, Sebastian of Austrike, Otho Brimfelsius, Leonellus. etc. with divers other for mine opportunity, not omitting also the good and sure experiments that are found profitable by the daily practise. And where as in the regiment of life, which I translated out of the french tongue, it hath appeared to some, more curious than needeth, by reason of the strange ingredients, whereof it often treateth: Ye shall know that I have in many places amplified the same, with such common things, as may be easily gotten, to satisfy the minds of them that were offended: or else considering that there is no money so precious as health, I would think no spice to dear, for maintenance thereof. notwithstanding I hope to free the time, when the nature of Simple● (which have been hitherto incredibly corrupted) shall be read in English, as in other languages: that is to say, the perfect declaration of the qualities of herbs, seeds, roots trees, and of all commodities that are here amongst us, shall be earnestly and truly declared, in once own native speech, by the grace of god. To 〈◊〉 which I trust all learned men (having a zeal to the common wealth) will apply their diligent industries, surely for my part, I shall never cease, during my breath, to bestow my labour to the furtherance of it (till it come to pass) even to the uttermost of my simple power. Thus far ye well gentle readers,  
¶ Londini, Mense junii. M.D.xlvi,   

¶ Here beginneth he Regiment of life, and first of the nature of man's body.  

¶ The humours which be in nature, and how they are divided,  
THe body of man is compact of four humours, that is to say: Blood, Phlegm, Choler, & Melancholy, which humours are called the sons of the Elements, because they be complexioned like the four elements. For like as the air is hot and moist: so is the blood hot and moist. And as fire is hot and dry: so is choler hot & dry. And as water is cold and moist: so is phlegm cold and moist. And as the earth is cold and dry: so melancholy is cold and dry. Whereby it appeareth that there be nine complexions. Whereof iiii, be simple, that is to weet hot, cold, moist, and dry: and four complexions compound: that is, hot and moist, which is the complexion of the air and of blood. hot & dry, which is the complexion of the fire, and of choler. Cold and moist, which is the complextion of the water & of phlegm: and cold and dry, that is the complexion of earth and of melancholy. The ninth complexion is temperate, neither too hot nor to cold, nor to moist nor to dry, which yet is a thing very seldom seen among men. After the physicians, the said four humours govern & rule every one in his place and induce men to be of the complexions following.  

¶ The complexion of the phlegmatyke.  
Phlegm inclineth a man to be 

well formed.  
a sleper.  
dull of understanding.  
full of spittle.  
full of colour.     

¶ The complexions of the sanguine.  
Blood causeth one to be 

full of flesh.  
liberal.  
amiable.  
curtyse.  
merry.  
inventive.  
bold.  
lecherous.  
of red colour     

¶ The complexions of the choleric.  
Cholere causeth a man to be 

hasty.  
envious.  
covetous.  
subtile.  
cruel.  
a watcher.  
prodigal.  
lean, and of yellow colour.     

¶ The complexions of the melancholic.  
Melancholy maketh one, 

Solytarye.  
Soft spirited.  
Fearful.  
heavy.  
curious.  
Envious.  
Covetous.  
Black of colour.     
¶ These be the four humours whereof the bodies are compounded, & every one of them hath a special dominion in respect of all the other, according to the age, that is to say, from a man's nativity, till he come to xxv years, the blood hath most power, and from that time to the year of his age xxxv reigneth the Choler, for than cometh heat into the veins, and the choler beginneth to arise and be strong. Then cometh middle age, and bringeth forth melancholy, an humour cold and dry, and hath his enduraunce till thirty years, or there about, at which time all the humours of the body begin to diminish, and the natural heat by little and little doth abate. And then succeedeth old age unto death, in the which age phlegm hath the principal power and dominion. Wherefore it shallbe necessary for all that be of the age, to comfort their bodies with some natural heat and meats of good nourishing, as yolks of eggs potched, good and young flesh, wheat bread, & good wine, and all such things as engendre good blood and spirits, whereof we intend (by the sufferance of God) to declare more abundantly hereafter.  
¶ Here followeth the description of inward and outward diseases, with the most wholesome and expert remedies for the cure thereof, appropriate to every member throughout the body.   

The first chapter, of the sickness and remedies of the heed.  
HEad ache chanceth often times of divers and sundry causes, as of blood, choler, fle●●e or melancholy, or of ventosity, and sometimes of heat of the sun, or of to great cold of the air.  
Ye may know head ache when it cometh of blood, for in the face and eyes there appeareth a dark redness, pricking, and heaviness with heat.  
Remedy. Ye must let him blood on the head vein, on that side that the pain is on, then lay upon the place oil of roses, vinegar, and rose water, or a bag with roses sprinkled with rose water. And here is to be noted, as well in this cause as all other, that if his belly be hard and bound, first ye must give him an easy glister, or else half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn out of the cane, or some other easy laxative to provoke the duty of the womb, else all applications of medicines, will be nothing worth at all.  
One may know head ache that proceedeth of choler, when in the face there is a clear redness, inclining somewhat toward yellow, hollowness of the eyes, & the mouth dry and hot: And sometimes bitterness, small rest, great heat with sharp pain, chief●y on the right side of the head.  
¶ Remedy. Ye must give him morn and even to drink, syrup of violets, or pomegranates with a mean draft of endive water in a glass, or of coming water sodden and cooled again. And in stead of these syrups ye may drink water of endive, succory, porcelain & nenuphar mingled together, or one of them by themself, two or iii days at evening and morning. Then give a dram of pillule sine quibus, at night to bedward, or about midnight, & the day following keep you in your chamber. In stead of those pills, it is good every morning to take an hour afore sun a medicine to drink, that shall be made of half an ounce of Succo rosarum, mixed with two ounces of water of endive. In stead of the said succo rosarum, ye may take half an ounce of diaprunis laxative, & ye must take heed in giving such purgations, that the patient be strong, for if he be weak, ye may give him but the half of the said pills or of the other laxatives. And if in diminishing the quantity of the said medicines, it worketh not with the patient as it should, it is convenient to give him a common glister.  
¶ An other remedy for the same pain. Ye must lay thereon a linen cloth moisted in rose water, plantain water, morel water, and vinegar, or else take the juice of lettuce and roses, & a little vinegar, and warm it together, and dip therein a linen cloth, and lay it to the pain.  
An other. Ye must take the whites of ii eggs, with rose water, and beat it well together: and with tow or flax, lay it to the grieved place. Also ye must shave his heed, and milk thereon woman's milk, that nourisheth a wench, or wash his heed with warm water, wherein have been sod vine leaves, sage, flowers of water lilies, & roses. Also it is necessary to wash his feet & legs with the said water, so that the patient have no rheum: for if there be rheumatic matters, ye ought neither to shave his heed, wash his legs nor to lay any cold thing or moist to his heed. Ye may know that phlegm is cause of the pain in the heed, when ye feel coldness with great heaviness: specially in the hinder part: when one spitteth often, and hath his face like sun brent.  
¶ Remedy. Ye must drink iii or four mornings syrup of stechados with water of fenel, or syrup of wormwood, with a decoction of sage and maiorym. Then ye must purge the head from the said phlegm, with pillule cochie, and with pills of agarici, or pillule auree made with one of the said syrups, five in a dram, and take four or .v. at night to bedwardes, or about midnight. Or in stead of those pills ye may take a potion in the morning v hours afore meat, made of half an ounce of diacartami dissolved i two. or three ounces of betony. After that ye ought to comfort the head, by wearing of a coif, made of double linen cloth, and sowed like a cotton quilt, wherein ye must put flowers of camomile, maiorim, cloves, nutmegs, maces, grains of paradise and cinnamon in powder, for such things digest the phlegm, so that a purgation be given of the said pills, or of pills assagareth, or pills of hierapicra, which are not so laxative as the other are.  
After the said purgation, ye must put in the nose of the patient, powder of pellitory of Spain or other, to make him to sneeze Also it is good to gargarise his mouth, with water wherein sage hath been sodden, and then to anoint his head with oil of lilies, camomile, or of rue.  
Beside this, it is good to give the patient every morning to drink, sage-wine with water, to consume the phlegm and to comfort the brain and the sinews. The said wine is thus made.  
Put a little bag full of good sage bruised, in a quart of new wine, & let it stand so a night, then wring it out and use it. Such wine of sage the inhabiters of Parise and France, use to drink after harvest all the winter long.  
When pain of the head proceedeth of melancholy, the patient feeleth heaviness of the heed, and hath terrible dreams, with great care & thought, or fear, & his pain is specially upon the left side.  
¶ Remedy. Take syrup of borage, hearts tongue or fumytorye, with water of bugloss, and hartestonge, or with the decoction of sage or time, for by these syrups ye shall digest and correct the said melancholic humours, and within a while the pain will be released. And if it cease not for these medicines, after ye have used ii or iii days one of the said syrups, or two or three of them together, take a dram of pills, half auree: & half sine quibus: or else half of hiera, & half of pills of fumytory: or in stead of pills, ye may take in the morning five hours afore meat iii drams and an half of diasene, tempered in water of borage or hops, or in the decoction of sage, liquorice, great raisins, and cordial flowers & fruits. Heed ache cometh of wind or ventosity, when the patient thinketh that he heareth sound or noise in his heed, and the pain is flyttering from one place to an other, without heaviness or descending humour.  
¶ Remedy. Lay unto his head hot linen clothes, & make a bag of Gromel sedes & bay salt dried together in a pan: so proceed with stronger things, if need require, as is bags made of maiorym, rosemary, rue, barberies, & juniper berries, laid to the pained place: or with the decoction of the foresaid things, make fomentation or embrocation upon his heed.  
¶ An other remedy. Ye must take oil of Camomile, oil of dill or Lilies, and anoint the head with one of them, or with ii or iii or all together. If that help not, take oil of Rue, Spike, and of Castor, & anoint it therewith: and add thereto a little Pepper, and mustard seed, if ye would have it sore chafed or heat. Also it is good to draw up by the nose, water of Honey, the juice of Maiorim, and of Fenell, aromatised with a nutmeg and lignum aloes.  
Rasis a great practitioner among physicians saith: that whosoever often times putteth into his nose the juice of maiorim, shall never be diseased in the head. I think he meaneth of the great maiorim.  
If pain of the head come of heat of the sun, ye must apply to the places diseased, as it is said in the remedies of choler.  
But if the said pain proceed of coldness of the air, then use as it is said afore in the remedies of phlegm.  
¶ Here followeth a regiment against all diseases of the head. THe patient that is diseased in the head, whether it be of blood or of choler, may not drink wine nor eat much flesh, whitmetes, nor things that give any great nourishment. But must be contented to drink p●isane, barley water, or julep o● roses, & to eat roasted apples, damask prunes, almond milk, hulled barely, and pottage made with lettuce, sorrel porcelain, in broth of peason, or with a chicken, or veal, if the patient be feeble,  
When pain proceedeth of a cold humour, the patient aught to drink no wine in three of the first days, but to drink only peniale, or such small drink, for although the wine be very comfortable, as concerning natural heat, yet it is contrary and hurtful unto the spirits animal of the brain, and also of the sinews.  
And the patient aught what pain soever it be of the head, to forbear all vaporous meats, as garlic, onions, leeks, pease, beans, nuts milke-meates, spices, mustard, great coleworts, salt meats, and meats of ill digestion. Also he must abstain from sleep of the day, and after supper by the space of two hours.  
Travail of the mind is very contrary, because of the commotion that happeneth unto the lively spirits, which are instruments of understanding, as avicen that noble phisicien saith, in the chapter de soda temporali. Nihil est adeo conveniens sode temporali, sicut tranquilitas et dimissio totius quod commovet sicut sunt fortes cogitationes. etc. There is nothing that is so convenient for the meygrym, as tranquillity and rest, & let all things pass that move the virtue animal, as great musings and all labour of the spirits. And chiefly one ought after dinner to keep him from all things that trouble the memory, as studying, reading, writing, and other like.  
And for the better understanding of the sickness chancing in the heed, ye shall know, that sometime it chanceth because of other diseased members, as of the stomach, or of the mother of the reins, of the liver, or of the spleen & not of any cause in the heed itself. Therefore ye ought to cure such sickness by helping of the same members, as it shall be showed in the chapters following.  
And ye may know, that the head ache cometh of diseases of the stomach, when the patient hath great pain at the stomach. Of the mother, when the woman feeleth great pain in her belly. Of the reins, when their is a great pain in the back. Of the spleen, when he feeleth pain & heaviness thereabout, under the lift side. Of the liver, when the pain is in the right side, about the liver which is beneath the rib▪  
¶ Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain be. TAke an handful of Betony, an handful of camomile, and a handful of vervain leaves piked, stamp them and seeth them in black wort, or in ale for lack of it, and in the later end of the seething, put to it a little Comyn brayed, the powder of a hearts horn, & the yolks of two eggs, and safron a little, stir them well about and lay a plaster hot over all his forehead and temples. This is an excellent remedy also for the meygryme. It shall pierce the better if ye add a little vinegar,  
¶ An other. Make a plaster of bean flower, lineseed & oil of camomile, or in lack of it, goose grease or ducks grease, and rub the place with Aqua vite, and after lay the plaster hot upon it.  
¶ An other. Take a spoonful of mustardseed and another of Bay buries, make them in powder and stamp them with a handful of earth worms, split and skraped from their earth, and a little oil of Roses, or of Camomile, or capons grease, and lay it on the grief.  
Also it is good to take the juice of I●ie leaves mixed with oil, and vinegar, & to rub therewith your temples, and your nostrils.  
Also the chestwormes that are found between the barks of trees, which will turn themselves together like a bead when they be touched, if they be taken & sodden in oil it maketh a singular ointment for the meigryme.   

¶ The second chapter, how to cure diseases chancing in the face.  
first as touching a disease called Gutta rosacea, or copperface in english, it is an excessive redness about the nose, or other places of the face, coming of brent humours, or of salt phlegm, which can not be helped, if it be rooted and old.  
¶ Remedy for the same if it be curable. YE must give him a purgation, as is said in the pain of the head, coming of choler: them dip linen clothes in alum water, which shall be made thus. Take a pound of alumeglasse, the juice of porcelain, of plantain, & vergiouce of grape or crabs, of each a pint & a half, with the white of twenty eggs & beat them well together with the said juice, them mix all together and distill it in a common stillatory, & keep the water for to use against all pimples, scurses, weals, chafings, and heats that chance in the skin. The clothes dipped as is aforesaid, must be laid to the redness, and oftentimes renewed with other fresh clouts dipped in the same.  
¶ Another remedy. Take lytarge of silver, and brimstone, of each like much, and seeth them in rose water and vinegar, & then with a linen clout wet in the said vinegar, lay it to the sore.  
¶ Remedy to pallifye the coppred face that is uncurable. MAke a bath with the flowers of camomile, violets, roses, and flowers of water lilies, them anoint the place with unguentum album camphoratum, and mixed that ointment with a little yellow brimstone, and quicksilver killed with fasting spittle, and anoint the place withal.  
¶ A water for the same. A water called lac virgins, is very good, & rose water mixed with sulphur, oil of tartar, and oil of wheat. Also these things are good for tetters & other ruggedness of the skin. The said lac virgins claryfieth the face, & drieth up moist pimples, & taketh away frekels of the visage, & is thus made. Take iii ounces of litarg of silver fine powdered, half a pint of good white vinegar, mixed them together, & distylle them by a filter, or through a little bag, or by a piece of cloth. Then take of the same water, and mingle it with water of salt, made with one ounce of salt powdered, & half a pound of rain water, or well water, & mingle these waters together, and it will be white like milk, and with this rub the corrupt place. Some add a little ceruse with the litarge which is good for all redness of the face.  
¶ Here followeth a general diet for all copperous faces. Abstain from all salt things, spices, fried meats, and roasted meats. Also from drinking of wine, for it is very evil. Also onions, mustard, & garlic, are very nought. In stead of which, ye must take porcelain, sorrel, lettuce, hops, & borage, with succory or endive, in porridge or otherwise. Also it is necessary to be laxative, & in sleeping, to lay your head high.  
For redness of the face that is not copperosed. TAke a pint of goats milk, the crumbs of one whit loaf hot, the white of six eggs, camphor two drams, and the juice of six citrons, mixed all these together with the said milk, then take all the three kinds of plantain, and put them in the still under the said drugs, and after it an other bed of the same iii sorts of plantain, and distylle them with an easy fire as ye would distill rose-water, and keep it in a glass vessel. And after xu days take a white linen cloth, and dip in the said water, and lay it to the redness.  
An other for the same. Water of lilies stilled, with the blood of an ox, and a little camphor, is very good.  
¶ For chopped or skabbye lips. ¶ Anoint them with vugentum album camphoratum, and if there be any corrupt blood, or matter, ye must wash the place with water of plantain, wherein hath been sod a little alum afore ye put on the said ointment.  
For the same. ¶ unguentum de tutia and oil of yolks of eggs, be very good for it. Also it is good to wash the place with plantain water, & barley water together  
¶ For cankers, ulcers, and Noli me tangere. FOrasmuch as Noli me tangere chanceth often in the n●se or about the face, beginning of a little hard and round kernel, or knob, and full of pain, declining toward a pale and leady colour, ye may judge that disease very perilous, notwithstanding it is good to anoint it as hereafter followeth, and also to apply thereto other remedies, as thus.  
¶ Take unguentum album two or three ounces, the juice of plantain and nightshade, of each half an ounce, Tutie the weight of half a crown, mingle them together, and make an ointment which is good for the same disease.  
¶ For worms in the face. ALthough that worms in the face may not be had out, but with great difficulty: and by long process, because of the cold humour whereof they come, nevertheless, forasmuch as oftentimes they happen unto poor folks, here shall be recited a receipt proved for the same disease, which is an ointment of a singular operation: and is thus made.  
¶ Take the leaves & roots of leeks, & juice them all together, & take thereof a pint & a half, and put it in a glass with an ounce of powder of pellitory, and a scruple of verdigris, and stir them all together, and every day bathe the said worms and wheels, with cotton moisted in the said juice, & stir it often in the glass: this is good also for worms in any other members, and breeding in the sickness called in France the kings evil.  
¶ A purgation which ye ought to take before the said bathing. ¶ Take half a dram of good turbith, and a scruple of ginger, half an ounce of sugar, & a little white wine, mixed all together, and drink it in the morning twice a week warm, and renew it every three weeks.  
¶ For an ulcered face through worms. Ye must first mundify the dead flesh with unguentum egyptiacum, or the powder called precipitatus, and for the perfect curation ye must dry it well, wherefore it is good to wash the place often with alum water, & put therein lynte, and if there be great moistness at the time of desiccation, ye must dip the same lint in unguentum apostolorum or ceraseos, with a little of the ointment that followeth, which ye may safely apply from the beginning to the end of the cure, for it hath virtue to cleanse and incarnate, with a gentle mundification and drying.  
¶ A singular ointment for worms that matter. Take oil of lilies, oil of linseed, ana. ounces iii oil of roses, oil of myrtles, ana. ounces ii litarge of gold and silver, and red lead, ana, i. ounce, diaquilon white with gums, iiii. ounces, goats tallow, hogs grease, of each two ounces & a half, black pitch, and colophony, of each two. ounces, of the juice of houndestonge▪ iiii. ounces. Seeth all together till they be black and the juice be clean consumed, then strain it thorough a thick canvas, and after seeth it again till it be exceeding black in colour, and then add to it clear turpentine iii ounces, gum oppoponax ii ounces & an half, white wax as much as shall suffice to make a plaster not over hard, & put the turpentine & oppoponax in when ye take it from the fire. This is an excellent plaster also both for wounds & ulcers.  
For the same. It is very good to lay upon them the herb called houndstong stamped with a little honey.  
¶ regiment or diet for the same sickness. ¶ The patient in all diseases of the face must endure hunger as much as is possible, and eat not much at ones. Also he must hold his head upright, and sleep not on his knees nor elbows, nor with his face bowed down. Also he must forbear much laughing, speaking, and great anger.  
¶ For the eyes. Hereafter followeth divers medicines for the eyes, which are the windows of the mind, for both joy and anger, and the most of our affections, are seen & known openly through them, and they are ordained and made to lighten all the body, where unto nature hath given brows and eye lids, to defend them and keep them in safety, and the better to resist things contrary and hurtful unto them.  
Yet notwithstanding, beside many other chances, there happeneth sometimes a debility in the sight, which must be helped as hereafter followeth. Take fennel, vervain, celydone, rue, eyebryght, and roses, of every one of them a like much, and distylle them as ye would distill rose-water, and use a little thereof in your eyes, both in the morning, & when ye go to bed.  
¶ A water proved to clarify the dimness of the sight. ¶ Take the juice of fennel, of celydonye, rue and eyebryght, of each ii ounces, honey an ounce and a half, aloes, tutye, and sarcocolla, of each half an ounce, the gall of a capon, cheken or cock two drams, nutmegs, cloves, and safron, of each a dram, sugar candy vi drams, put all in a lembike of glass & distill it. And of this water put in your eyes once in the day. And if ye could get the liver of a he goat, and mixed with the said things in the distillation, the water will be of much greater virtue, and all most with out comparison.  
For the same. Ye must use every day to eat nutmegs, and to take ones in a week a mirabolane conduit.  
For the same. Take a pie and burn her, and beat her to powder, and mingle it with fenel water, and put it in your eyes. Also water of young pies stilled, is very good. Likewise water of rotten apples, put ii or iii drops in the eyes helpeth very much.  
A singular water for diseases in the eyes, and to clarify the sight. Take the green walnuts, husks and all from the tree, with a few walnut leaves and distylle thereof a water to drop within your eyes.  
Pylles good for the sight. The pills sine quibus, assagareth, with trosciskes of agaryk, and pillule lucis, are excellent good to purge the brain and comfort the sight.  
For pain of the eyes. Sometimes pain of the eyes cometh of blood, and then the veins of the eyes are red and swollen, wherefore it is convenient to be let blood of the head vein on the side where the pain is.  
For bloodeshoten eyes. The blood of a stockedove or in lack of it an other dove or pigeon dropped a little in the eye, and a wet clout thereof laid upon the same, healeth bloodshoten eyes whether it be of stroke or any other cause.  
Sometime the said pain cometh of choler, & then the patient feeleth great heat, sharp pricking, & much pain, & commonly there appeareth no gum in the eyes, and if it do, it is yellow. Therefore ye ought to give him a purgation purging choler, as hath been said in the remedy of the head proceeding of the cause of choler.  
¶ For swelling of the eyes. Take a quince and seeth it in water till it be soft, then pare it and bruise it & mix it with the yolk of an egg and the crumbs of wheaten or white bread steeped in the said water, and put thereto a little woman's milk, and two penny weight of safron, bray them all together and lay it over the forehead and the eyes. Sometimes such pains chance because of phlegm, and then the patient feeleth great heaviness in his eyes, with abundance of gummy matter, or water descending into the eyes. And in this case, ye must purge the phlegm, as it hath been said in the remedy of the head grieved by the excess of phlegm.  
¶ To resolve the gum ye shall use to wash your eyes often times with the juice of meek, otherwise called senegrene.  
And some times the same pain cometh because of ventosity or wind, and then the patient feeleth such pains as if one beat on his ear with an hammer, for which it is good to make a decoction of camomille flowers, mellilote, & fennel seed, in water & white wine, & therein wet a four double linen cloth & the liquor well pressed out, lay it often upon the eye.  
otherwiles there chanceth pain of the eyes because of exterior things, as of wind, dust, or heat of the sun, and then it is meet to lay thereto woman's milk, well beaten with the white of an egg.  
And sometime the said pain cometh by percussion or striking, and then ye must drop into the eye, of the blood of a pigeon's wing, or of a partridge, which blood hath like virtue to take away spots, marks, and redness of the eyes.  
For very great pain of the eyes. Take an ounce and a half of oil of roses, the yolk of an egg, and a quarter of an ounce of barley flower, & a little saffron, mix all together & put it between two linen clothes, and lay it to the pain.  
An other. Take of crumbs of wheaten bread white, an ounce, and seeth it in night shade or morel water, then mix with the said bread ii, yolks of eggs, oil of roses, and camomile, of each an ounce and an half, mucilage of linseed an ounce, and use it as is aforesaid.  
An other. Take six leaves of henbane, & roast them, than beat them very well in a mortar, and lay them to the pain.  
For redness of the eyes. In the beginning of the redness lay upon the eyes towe dipped in the white of eggs, but let the white be well beaten first with rose-water, or with plantain water.  
An other. Take red roses, and seeth them, and let them be set warm to your eye. This taketh away spots of blood, that sometime chanceth in the eyes. Also it is good for all diseases of the eyes. And it is good for redness of the eyes, that cometh by striking or any such violence. If at any time there happen a spot or blemish in the eye by a stroke, ye must lay to it by & by tow wet in rose-water and in whites of eggs, and after that the pain be mitigate, ye must lay a plaster upon the eye, made of a raw egg, barley flower, and the juice or mucilage of mallows, and then if the eye be not helped of the said blood, ye must lay to it a plaster both dissolutive, defensive, and partly appeysing the pain, which must be made of wheat flower, the juice of mallows, mints, & smalach, and the yolk of an egg,  
Of hardness that hath been long in the eye. Take a scruple of aloes succotrine & melt it in water of celydony at the fire, then receive the fume of it, and afterward wash the eye with fenel water.  
An other. Take powder of cumin mixed with wax like a plaistre, and lay it upon the eye.  
An other. Take red roses, sage, rue, celedonie, of each a like much, with a little salt, and distill a water, and put thereof a drop or two in your eye, evening and morning. In stead of that water, it is good to take juice of vervain, rue, and a little rose-water.  
For all redness of the eyes. Take the bigness of a nut of white copperas and a scruple of yeroes, and powder it, and mixed it with a glass full of well water, then put two or three drops in your eyes.  
For the same. Water of strawburies made and put in the eye is good.  
A singular powder that drieth and taketh away redness of the eyes. TAke tutie preparat an ounce, and timonie half an ounce, pearls, two drams, red coral a dram and an half, powder all these things very fine, and keep them in a box of tin, and use it.  
For to stop watering of the eyes. MAke a plaster of powder of mastic, fine frankincense, bole armoniac, and gum dragagante, with whites of eggs mixed together, & laid to the forehead & temples. Also it is good to set ventoses on the nape of the neck. Also it is good to make a co●rie to put into the eyes, as followeth. Take tutie preparat & the stone called lapis hematites, of each a dram, aloes half a dramm, pearls and camphor, of each a scruple, powder them all very fine, and mix them in three ounces of water distilled of the knops of roses, and thereof make a colliery.  
Also for to stop all humours descending to the eyes, these things aforesaid are very good mixed with rain water, wherein olibanum or frankenscence hath been sodden.  
¶ For webs of the eye. IT may be casylye helped in young folks, but in aged persons it is very hard. And in the beginning ye must mollify them with a decoction of the flowers of camomile, mellilote, & coal leaves, receiving the fume of the said decoction within the eyes, and then put therein a little powder made with sugercandye, shall gem, and eggs shells burnt, and afterward distill into them woman's milk with the decoction of fenugreek.  
¶ An other singular receipt for webs in the eyes Take snails with the shells on, and wash them eight times, and distill them in a common stillatory, then take hares galls, red coral, and sugercandye, with the said water, distil them again, and put every morning and evening a drop in your eye.  
¶ An other water. This water is made of white coperose, sugar candy, and rose-water, with whites of eggs that are sodden hard, all strained through a linen cloth, & put into your eye, after dinner and all night to bedward.  
Regiment for them that have any sore eyes. Ye must alway keep your belly lose and abstain from fire, smoke, wind dust, and over hot or cold air, & from weeping, and long reading of a small letter, from over long watching, over much drinking of wine, and eating late, for all these are very noisome to the eyes and sight. Also all evaporative things, as onions leeks, garlic mustard, pease, and beans, are very dangerous. Ye must keep your feet clean and forbear the day sleep. Behold green things, clear water, precious stones: and to keep you from long holding down your face, succoureth the sight very much, and is very good for the eyes.  
Likewise use meats of good & quick digestion, as to eat senel often, and after meat take coriander comfits prepa●ated, and drink not after them. But above all keep away your hands, for the rubbing of them maketh them worse and worse.  
¶ Remedy for diseases of the ears. TAke oil of roses & a little vinegar, and put it into the ear, them make a bag of camomile and mellilote, and lay it thereunto.  
¶ For noise and sounding of the ears. Take pullule cochie▪ or fetide, because the sound proceedeth of ventosity, or of phlegm, and before ye take the said pills, it is good to drink three ounces of fennel water ii hours before meat four or .v. days. After the operation of the said pills, ye must dip a tent in oil of rue castor or of salt, with the juice of leeks, and often in the morning fasting to hold his ear over the warm decoction of maiorim, rue, wormwood, camomile, and mellilote.  
¶ For pain in the ears. Goose grease with a little honey suageth the pains of the ears.  
¶ Also the chestwormes sodden in oil of roses upon hot ashes in the rind of a pomegranate, and dropped in the ears.  
¶ Item oil of almonds, specially of the bitter almonds, hot.  
¶ Item if there be water in the ears it shall be had out with a little goose grease and the juice of onions  
¶ Also earth worms with goose grease sudden is good for pain in the ears. Item an adders haine sodden in wine and the ear bathed in it, & a little thereof put into the pain is good to take a way the grief, and it helpeth also to the ears that are running with stinking matter and corruption, but in that case ye must have boiled in the wine a little myrrh.  
¶ Regiment. The pacjent must eat and drink little, and sweat in baths, or hot houses, and sometimes to provoke sneezing. He must forbear garlic, onions, leeks, pease, beans, and nuts, nor drink wine without water.  
¶ For deafness. Sometime there chanceth deafness by wind, which is in the ear, the which causeth tinkling in the head, and then one must put a little aloes in hot water, or in white wine, and distill into the ear. Then put a little euphorbium in powder into his nose, to make him to sneeze, and avoid asmuch humours as ye can.  
Sometime deaffenesse cometh of phlegm, which when it is old is uncurable. But when it beginneth, it must be purged as hath been said in the remedy of the sound of the ears. Then take powder of bay berries, & seeth it in oil of lilies, and put it warm into your ear, and a little black wool to stop the ear with, that no air entre.  
¶ Remedy for stinking of the nose, TAke cloves, ginger, and calamynte, of each a like, & seeth them in white wine, and therewith wash thy nose. After put in powder of piretrum to provoke you to sneeze, & if there be repletion of phlegm in the head, first ye must purge it with pills of cochie or of hirea picra. Also if the cause of stinking come from the stomach, first help the stomach, as shallbe said hereafter in the remedies of the stomach.  
¶ Medicines for bleeding of the nose. Take a dram of bole armoniac washed, and mix it in rose water or plantain water, and drink it. Then bind the extreme parts, as hard as ye may, & after make a tent of greek nettles, and put into his nose.  
Moreover, it is good for the patient to hold in his hand egremony, with the root and all, and drink the juice of knotgrass, and without doubt the blood shall staunch anon.  
¶ For the same. Set a boxing glass upon his liver, if the blood come from the right side, or on the spleen if he bleed on the left side, and lay unto the stones a good quantity of tow or linen dipped in vinegar, and for a woman lay it upon her breasts.  
¶ An other singular medicine for to staunch blood, and it is a thing expert of all the good practitioners. Take swines dung, even as hot as ye can have it from the swine, and when ye have cleansed the congealed blood out of the nose, wring it through a clout and let the juice pierce into the side from whence the blood cometh, and by the grace of God ye shall see it staunch anon.  
Moreover it is good to bind the feet and arms as hard as can be suffered, with a cord or a lace, the stronger they be bound the better.  
¶ Remedy for the tooth ache. Pain of the teeth (as Galene saith) amongst other pains that are not mortal is the most cruel and grievous of them al. It may come divers ways, of a cold or hot cause. If it come of a hot cause his gomes are red, and very hot, wherefore it is very good to hold in his mouth water of camphor or to seethe a little camphor in vinegar, and hold it in his mouth.  
¶ An other singular remedy that taketh away all kinds of tooth ache, specially if it come of a hot cause.  
Take henbane roots, and seeth them in vinegar, and rose-water, and put the decoction in your mouth.  
Remedy for the tooth ache that cometh of cold causes.  
Forasmuch as in such cases oftentimes there distelleth abundance of water into the mouth, purge it with pillule cochie, and afterwards keep in your mouth warm wine, wherein hath been sodden pellitory, mints & rue.  
✚ another remedy for the same. Take sage, pellitory, and seth them in vinegar, and keep it in your mouth as hot as ye may suffer.  
✚ An other for the same. Take pellitory, stave sacre, and the three kinds of pepper of each one part, macis, galingale, half part of the other, make a powder, and with a little white wine rub the teeth and then lay on the foresaid powder where the pain is.  
¶ An other. Take the middle bark of an elder, salt, and pepper, of each a like much: and stamp them together, and lay it to the sore teeth.  
¶ An other remedy. Take a little cotton, and dip it in oil of spike, than put it on the sore tooth. If the tooth be hollow, it is good to draw it out, for it will everyedaye waste whatsoever ye do unto it.  
¶ To make the teeth white. Take white marble, cuttle bone, white coral, shall gem, bay salt, mastic, and pills of a citron, of each like much, make them in very fine powder, and rub the teeth therewith, every morning▪ And afterward wash your mouth with white wine, wherein hath been sodden a little camomile and dill.  
¶ For the same. Take vinegar of squilles and dip a little piece of cloth in it, and rub the teeth and gums withal. The said vinegar fasteneth the gums, coumforteth the roots of the teeth, and maketh a sweet breath.  
another remedy to make the teeth white. Distille a water in a lembik, of two parts of shall gem, and the third part of alum, and rub the teeth with a linen clout dipped in the same.  
To take away stinking of the mouth. Ye must wash his mouth with water and vinegar, and chew mastic a good while, and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of anysesedes, mints, and cloves sodden in wine. If the stinking of the mouth cometh of a rotten tooth, the best is to have it drawn out.  
regiment for tooth ache, and stinking of the mouth. Ye must wash your mouth before and after meat with warm water, for to cleanse the mouth, and to purge the humours from the gums, which descend out of the head. It is good every morning fasting, to wash your mouth and to rub the teeth with a sage leaf, pills of citron, or with powder made of cloves and nutmegs. Ye must forbear lettuce, raw fruit, all tart meats and the chewing of hard things. Also all meats of evil digestion, and vomiting.   

✚ The third chapter treateth of remedies for diseases of the breast.  
first for hoarseness of the voice, that maketh a man to speak low, & with great pain, ye must avoid all eager, salt, and sharp things, & sleeping by day, to much watching, great cold, much speaking, and to loud crying. All sweet things are very good as apples sodden with sugar, great raisins, figs, almond milk, hulled barley, pignolate, penedies, white pills, sugar candy, and the juice of liquorice  
Remedy for a hoarse voice. Take the broth of red colewrote and mingle with it vii or viii penidies, and an ounce of syrup of maiden hear, and give unto the patient, when he goeth to bed.  
another medicine. Take diayris simple, & eat a lozenge of the same at morn and also at night.  
another remedy for horcenesse of a long continuance. Take raisins, figs, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves, of every one a little. Seeth them in good wine, of the which ye shall give to drink morning and evening ii ounces at a time, except he hath a fever.  
For the same. It is good to take morning and evening, a spoonful of the syrup of iu●bes mixed with a root of liquorice, in manner of aloc. If with the said hoarseness, there descend abundance of water to the mouth, it is good to make an electuary of half diayris, and half diadragantum, and to use it first and last, after perfuming with stoops of flax, fumed with frankincense, mastic, sandrake, and storax calamity, laid upon the head warm.  
Remedy for the cough. Take hyssop, great raisins, and figs, of each a little handful, liquorice one ounce, boil them in water till the third part be wasted, then give it him for to drink twice a day, in the morning two hours before meat, and at night one hour before supper, and immediately after, it is good to eat a lozenge of diayris, or diapenidion. If ye will have it stronger, put to them in the decoction a little cool woortes, anise, and fennel, with the sedes of nettles, of each two drams.  
another remedy. Take sugercandy, white pills dyayris, & diadragagant, of every one i ounce, liquorice ii drams, make a pou●er, and let him eat thereof a spoonful, morning and evening, and drink after it three ounces of water of Isope, or of scabious, with sugar or without sugar.  
In stead of those waters, ye may take the broth of red colewoortes without salt.  
another remedy. Take syrup of liquorice, and of hyssop, and drink it even and morn, with a ptisan or one of the same syrups, with a spoonful of ptisan is good.  
An other. Take powder of diayris simple, and liquorice of each a dram weight, & with four ounces of sugar make an electuary, to be eaten first and last, and after meat.  
An other. It is good to take loc sanum, with a stick of liquorice, at the coughing, and after meat. And there is an other loc called loc de pino, as good at all times as the other is. And it is good to anoint the breast morning and evening, with oil of lilies, sweet almonds, and may butter without salt.  
Here is to be noted, that commonly the cough proceedeth of cold humours that grieveth the longs, and for that cause all things the which be hot, sweet, and do poruoke spittle, are very good and wholesome, for the same as be the things afore rehearsed.  
And sometime it proceedeth of heat, & then it is known by the great alteration or fever, & then ye must forbid the patient drinking of all wines, and to use the things that hereafter followeth.  
Remedy against the cough coming of a hot cause. Take syrup of violets, and of jujubes, and drink thereof morning & evening, with a little ptisan sodden.  
For the same. It is good to take first and last, a lozenge of diadragagant, & afterward to drink a draft of good ptisan.  
A good receipt against the cough. Take the rote of Enula campana, horehound, holihock, of each a like much, seeth them altogether in white wine with a dozen of fat figs, & a little liquorice, drink of it a draft, every day twice,  
¶ Regiment or diet for them that have the cough. Ye must abstain from vinegar, veriuce, all salt meats, fruits, and raw herbs, fish, lemons, gross meats, and to much repletion. Also ye may drink no wine between meals, and beware of day sleep, and specially after meat.  
The wind, the cold, and much talking, are very unnatural for the cough, and so is all labour aswell of the body as of the mind, and some time it is good to hold your wind a little, and let it go again.  
¶ remedies against shortness of the wind. Shortness of the wind proceedeth often times of phlegm, that is cough and clammishe, hanging upon the longs or stopping the condites of the same, being in the holowenes of the breast, or of catarrous humours that droppeth down into the longs, and thereby cometh straightness in drawing of the breath, which is called of physicians, dispnoca, or asthma, & when the patient can not bend his neck down for dread of suffocation, it is called orthopnoca. For every one of these diseases there be very wholesome medicines declared here afore.  
¶ The receit for Asthma. Take an ounce of great raisins picked from the kernels, two figs, the meat of a date, dry isope, maidenhair, liquorice, and the longs of a fox washed in wine, water of scabious, of every one a dram, penidies ii ounces with syrup of liquorice, let all be in corporated, & make a loc, to eat a good while after meat, with a stick of liquorice.  
¶ An other receit. Take horehound, maidenhair, and hyssop, of every one a handful, liquorice, dates, figs, seed of smallage, and of fenel of every one half an ounce: boil them in a pint of water and an half till the third part be consumed. After give him the said decoction to drink a good draft every morning two hours afore meat. And before it, or incontinently after it, it is good to take asmuch as a chestnut of conserve of coleworts, or a lozenge of diaysopis or diairis Salomonis. Also loc de pulmone vulpis, is exceeding good for the said disease,  
¶ An ointment for shortness of breath. Take ii ounces of oil of sweet almonds, one of may butter unsalted, a little saffron, and of new wax, & make an ointment, wherewith ye shall anoint the breast morn and even.  
¶ Regiment. Considering the said disease cometh of to great abundance of phlegm in the longs, it is good to observe the things that are showed in the remedies of the cough. And to dwell in a dry place far from water pools, or marshes, and to sleep in a moist chamber, in the which ye must have a fire of wood without smoke. The bread must be light and pleasant, for sour bread, brown bread, and crusts, are to be avoided. Also ye may eat no pease, beans, nuts, chestnuts, nor any thing that stoppeth or engendereth wind. fish roasted upon the gridiron may well be suffered, for they be not so evil. Hulled barley, rise, broth of colewoortes, and broth of an old cock with Isope & saffron, are special good meat for the longs, and so are fat figs, raisins of alican, dates, grains of the pine, pignolate, and sweet almonds. Great movings and chafings, and sudden labour is very evil, yet moderate exercise afore meat is good and profitable.  
running, anger, and such other passions that inflame the heart, are in this case utterly to be avoided.  
¶ remedies for the pthisycke. PThisis is an ulceration of the longs, by the which all the body falleth into consumption, in such wise that it wasteth all save the skin Ye may know him that hath a pthisicke, for from day to day he waxeth ever leaner and drier, and his hair falleth, and hath ever a cough, and spiteth sometime matter and bloody strings withal. And if the which he spitteth be put into a basin of water it falleth to the bottom, for it is so heavy  
Galene speaking of this disease, sayeth it is uncurable. But when he was in Rome, he gave counsel to them that had the pthisickes, to dwell in the mountains and high places, far from waters, & watery grounds, and so their life should be prolonged, but at the last they died of the same disease. Nevertheless, it is good to release the pain and to help them as much as it is possible. And the thing that is most wholesome for the same, is to drink every morning a draft of asses milk. iii● hours afore meat, in the place whe● of one may take the milk of a goat, newly milked, and mix them every time with a spoonful of powder, made of sugar of roses. And it is good every time to use conserve of roses, pignolat, diadragagantum, and anoint the breast before and behind, with oil of sweet almonds, may butter, and salt.  
another remedy proved by a religious man. Take two ounces of pimpernel in powder, and thereof make an electuary with sugar, & use it every morning ii drams with pimpernel water iii ounces. Water of snails distilled is proved good to them that be pthisike, every morning in drink, & for all them that are dry and lean.  
An other. Take the four cold seeds, seed of ●uinces, of each iii drams & a half▪ white poppy seed .v. drams, the juice of liquirise, hyssop, amidum, gum arabic, and dragante, of each a dram and an half, penidies, the weight of them all, make a powder, and use every morning ii drams, and after take two spoonfuls of syrup of jujubes or in stead of it drink the ptisan of water of ungula caballina, otherwise called horsehofe. The powder whereof is good for the pthisike, wherewith Haly saith, that he healed a monk, of the same sickness.  
Regiment for pthisyke. Ye ought to do as hath been said in regiment of Asthma, and to abstain from all spices, save saffron. Ye must likewise abstain from all sour things, sharp things, & tart, nor be not hungry, nor dry: but cherish you well with meats of easy digestion, & good nourishment, such as is coleys of capons, hulled barley, almond milk, eggs yolks, veal, kid, lamb, sheeps feet, and small birds living in woods and bushes, crevices & fish of sweet running water, having scales. Snails in the shells sod with fenel and hyssop, is very good. Ye must live merrily, & play at some pastime for pleasure, without labouring. He ought to abstain from laxative medicines, because that it is said. Cum ●uor excedit, mors intrat, vita recedit, which is contrary to asthma, for therein it is good ever to be lose bellied.  
¶ For the pleurisy. Hereafter shallbe spoken of medicines for diseases of the ribs. And for plainer knowledge of the same, ye shall understand that sometime in the skins that cover the rib, there gathereth together blood and choleric humours, which engender apostemes called pleurisy, & it may be known by iiii. manner of signs. first the patient hath a great burning fever. Secondly the ribs are so sore within, as if they were pricked continually with nedilles. Thirdly, the patient hath a short breath. The four sign is a strong cough, wherewith the sick is vexed, and by these signs may ye surely know a right pleurisy, that is in the skin under the rib within the body.  
But there is an other kind of pleurisy without upon the rib aposteined, but in that is nothing so great danger nor the fyever is not so strong as is the other afore rehearsed.  
Remedy. The patient ought to be let blood on the liver vain, in the contrary arm from the side that is diseased. After the beginning of the sore, till the third day, and after that if the patient be not feeble, let him blood again upon the same side, that the sore is. Moreover, the patient aught to lay upon the sore side, every day an earthen bottle full of warm water, and to anoint his ribs with oil of camomile warm. And he ought to take a glister of chickynes broth, milk, cassia, oil of violets, and honey of roses, if his belly be hard. And in stead of that glister, it is good to take an ounce of cassia i hour before dinner, in a lozenge, or destempered with a ptisan, or else with water of scabious.  
another remedy. Take of broom flowers, of scabious and the great thistle called cardo benedictus, of every one a like portion, meddle them together, and let him every morning and evening, receive a good draft, and anoint the ribs with oil of bromfloures, & it shall be good.  
another singular remedy. Take iii ounces of water of our lady thystle, one spoonful of white wine, and six inner whites of eggs well brayed, mingle all together, and lay them plasterwise upon the ribs, as hot as ye may suffer,  
another expert. remedy. Take ii good handfulles of horsedong, two races of ginger in powder, and then wrap well the dung & the ginger together in a clean linen cloth, them put them in a new pot to boil with. i● pints of white wine, until the third part be consumed, & drink a draft of the said drink every morning, & after ye have drunk the said wine, cover ye aswell as is possible and sweat.  
regiment for the pleuresy. The patient ought not to drink wine▪ nor eat flesh, but must be content to drink ptisan, barley water, & weak drink, & to eat barley hulled, & milk of almonds clarified, roasted apples and great raisins as long as the fever doth last. And for to help him to spit, it is good to use often white pills, diadragagantum, sugar candy, and other things said in the remedy of the cough.  
For diseases in the ribs which is not pleurisy. There chanceth often times a disease in the rib, which they call a bunch, which cometh of ventosity, wherefore it is good to apply thereto hot things, as a tossed of bread very hot & a little bag of oats, & bay salt fried together, or of honey which is better. Also it shall be good to put there a spoonful of hot ashes and herbs of horehound, rue, wormewode, margerym, hyssop, bays, and camomile  
Another remedy for the same. Take the roots of colewort & hops of each an ounce, vervain, mugwort, sage, mints wormwood, tansay, and motherwort, of each a handful, put all in a comen still and disti● them.  
Keep that water to drink, every morning ii or iii ounces, while th● pain doth last.  
Another remedy. Take the said herbs and roots, & beat them with white wine, & str●ine them thorough a linen cloth, and give unto the patient a small draft ii, or iii hours afore meat.   

The fourth Chapter of the weakness of the heart.  
Weakness or feebleness of heart is caused when the body faileth his virtue vital, without any evident cause▪ or when the body is consumed, & waxeth out of colour, and that the operations vital are weak, without sensible hurting of any other member, but the heart. And it may chance of an apostume, for the which there is no manner remedy, for all apostemation ●f the heart is mortal. And debility ●f the heart may come of heat accedental, which one may know when there is great heat in the breast, & vehement thirst, & is quenched better in drawing cold air, than in drinking cold water.  
Remedy. give him that hath a feeble heart, & ready to faint, either for fever or for extreme heat, the weight of a french crown of trosciske of camphor, with wine of pomegranates, & lay upon his breast toward the left side a sendal or linen water of roses, porcelain, succory, & sorelle. Moreover the patient aught to smell things cold and sweet, as dried roses, water lilies, violets and vinegar of roses.  
Also it is good to take an infusion or lax of rhubarb, ordained of some good physician, after the which it shall be good, to apply upon the left pap, a linen cloth dipped in plantain water, roses, sorrel, and a little vinegar.  
For trembling of the heart without a fever, a remedy. The patient must take ii drams of the electuary of diamargariton calidum, and the third part of electuarium de gemmis, then drink ii or iii ounces of water of bugloss & balm mixed together.  
another remedy. Take mastic, lignum aloes, cloves, cinnamon, nutmegs, and cubebes of each a scruple, pills of citrons half a dram, doronicis romani, and pearls, of each xu grains, basile seed, ten grains, amber grease, and musk, of each two grains, with conserved bugloss or coleworts and sucket of citrons, of each half an ounce, make an electuary with four ounces of sugar dissolved in white wine, and bugloss water, and use of the same every morning ii drams, and drink a little good wine after it.  
¶ Another remedy. Take water of bugloss, balm, and borage, of all three together a pound, of white wine half a pound, powder of cinnamon, cloves and nutmegs, of each two drams, mingle them all well together, and then heat it a little, and dip a linen cloth in it, or else a scarlet, and lay it to the left pap.  
¶ Another remedy. Ye must make a bag of sendalle, of the said sweet spices, or other cordial powders and lay it hoot upon the left pap.  
¶ Another remedy. Take pomaunders made of lapdanum, lignum atoes, and citron pills, maces, cloves, borage flowers, storax calamity, amber of grease, and a little wax, and let the patient bear that and smell it often.  
¶ An other medicine. The maw of an old cock dried and made in powder, is exceeding good to drink in red wine, or sweet wine with a little saffron.  
For the same. It is good to drink every morning three ounces of water of bugloss, wherein hath been sodden cloves. And it is good to drink in a morning iii ounces of julep, made of half a pound of balm water, and three ounces of sugar. The confection of diaiacincthi, is singular and excellent for trembling of the heart, but it is for noble men, not for poor folk,  
¶ For swooning. Swooning is a taking away of the feeling and moving of the body, by weakness of the heart, through to much avoidans of the spirits.  
¶ Remedy. In summer for swooning, suddenly ye ought to cast into his face cold water mingled with rose-water or vinegar. And if ye stop his mouth, and nose, and bow his face unto his knees, so long as ye stop your wind yourself, ye shall forthwith recover him. But if the said swooning come of the mother, ye must lay to the nose all stinking things, and abominable savours, as partridges feathers brent, castor, and assafoetida, or the snuffs of candles. Moreover ye ought to give the patient a little good wine, which is the chief thing that quickliest restoreth him, as sayeth Auerrois in his seventh colliget. afterward rub his arms and legs, and bind them hard, then provoke him to sneeze, putting a little powder of long pepper, euphorbium, or castor, into his nose. And if by the said medicines the patient doth not amend, this disease is uncurable. And here ye may note that if swooning come by great resolution of spirits, as after great evacuation, other by sweat, flux of blood, or lax, ye ought not to cast cold water on his face, nor to bind his members, for that should do him hurt, but keep him in a place without moving, and give him to drink a little good wine, & nourish him with good light meats, as pullets, chickens, capons partridges, veal, mutton, & kid. Whereof ye may make him good porrege, coleyses or restoratives, distilled or otherwise as ye shall think convenient.   

¶ The .v. Chapter of remedies for diseases of the stomach.  
THe chest of the body doth receive the meat necessary for all the members in the stomach which is situate in the mids of the body for to digest the same meat into all the members, to the which chanceth debility, or hindrance of appetite, sometimes by error of the eater in quality or quantity, & sometimes by reason of the phlegm that descendeth from the head like a rheum.  
¶ Remedy. Keep abstinence, and eat soberly light meats, and drink good wine, and but little. Purge the stomach, in taking pills of simple hyera before meat iii or four of the said pills at four of the clock in the morning. If the repletion be great, sleeping in the night he must lay his hand on his stomach, or else lay a little pillow of feathers on it, or a bag of wormwood & margerim. Sometimes there chanceth such debility, not for rheum, or meat or drink, but by viscous & slimy phlegm, in the mouth of the stomach, which causeth to engender abundance of ventosity, and maketh the meat to swim with little thirst. And sometimes with sour belchinges, and inflations, such debility may not perfectly be cured, but for a time mended with the remedies that follow.  
¶ remedies for weakness of the stomach. first ye must take pillule stomatice two. or iii hours afore meat, more or less according to the quantity of the fullness of the stomach, & after give him every morning ii hours afore meat, and one hour after supper, at every time a lozenge of a lectuary called diagalanga, or an other called diaciminon which lectuaries do consume ventosities, and with their comfortable heat, drive away the cold and the windy complexion of the stomach.  
¶ For the same. Grene ginger is very good taken as is said afore of electuaries. And it is wholesome to eat afore your meat, anise sedes and fenel, and when ye begin to eat, take a tossed dipped in sodden wine, or good malvoisie without drinking of the same wine, except it be a very little after meat.  
An other. Take mastic and lapdanum, of every one an ounce, mints, and wormwood powdered, of each a dram, turbentine, as much as shall need to incorporate them together, make a plaster and spread it upon leather, and lay it to the stomach. In stead of the said plaster, it is good to anoint the stomach with oil of spikenard, and mastic, or to lay on it hoot bread steeped in good wine, on the which bread strow powder of cloves & nutmegs.  
Sometimes such debility of stomach cometh of hot causes, & then it is known by the little appetite to meat, and great thirst, and head ache before meat, and after, it cometh stinking belching, whereof sometime followeth vomiting, and is helped on this wise.  
Remedy. In such debility if there be great quantity of spittle, and much desire to vomit, it is good to take ten drams of hiera picra, with the decoction of cicers, or with two or three ounces of water of wormwood, and after your meat use coriander seed prepared, and beware ye drink not thereafter, nor sleep in the day time,  
To the same. Mirabolanes condite are very good for the same purpose, to be given once in the week, at four of the clock in the morning, half an ounce, or a hole ounce every time, and take away the stone that is within. If in the said debility of stomach of hot cause, there be not abundance of spittle, but dryness of mouth, with thirst and vomiting, stinking & fumishe, it is good to take every morning syrup of sorrel, syrup of roses, or syrup of quinces with endive and succorrye water, or water sodden and cooled again, and then drink hiera picra, as afore is said, or take a purgation as is declared in the pain of the head, coming of choler. It is to be noted, that for such debility of the stomach, ye may not wear any cerote plaster, nor bag, wherein is hot medicines lest ye should augment the cause▪ but it is convenient to anoint the stomach with cold oils, as be oils of roses, and quinces, and if ye will have a plaster, make it of red roses and sanders.  
For abhorring of meat. SOmetime there chanceth in the stomach, a disease called fastidium, or abhorring of meat, whereby the person against his will taketh in hate and abomination all manner of meats, that is offered unto him: likewise as a hole man taketh pleasure and delight in his meat. The cause of this disease, is repletion of choleric humours or phlegmatic, gross and viscous, which are in the stomach, & the patient hath great thirst, a dry tongue, the mouth bitter, & sometime doth vomit yellow choler  
Remedy. Ye must purge the choler as hath been said afore, and if the veins be great and full of blood, ye ought to let him blood on the right arm, & on that vein which appeareth most: and to quicken the appetite it is good to give him to eat or drink, such as the patient demandeth, although it be not always of the best, And also it is good to give him the juice of pomegranates.  
¶ For belching. Belching is a ventosity instative expulsed out of the stomach to the mouth, and cometh by feebleness, and little heat of the stomach, which engendereth wind, wherefore it signifieth a cold complexion, which is cause of such ventosity after meat. And for this disease ye shall do as followeth.  
¶ Remedy for windiness of the stomach. Abstain from all fruits, and raw herbs, pease, beans, garlic, onions, leeks, chestnuts, course meats, great repast, and sleep on the day. Ye ought to take fasting, comfits made of aneys, fenel, cummine, and carreway seeds, or else powder of the said things mixed with sugar. Also it is good to take in a morning two hours before meat, a lozenge of aromaticum rosatum, & if ye have an aching stomach and cold, it is good to take every morning a lozenge of dianisi, or diaciminun or some other comfortable lozenge, & to drink after it a spoonful of good wine.  
¶ Another remedy. Ye may take a little galingale, with a little wine, or powder of cumine with some good wine.  
¶ Another remedy. Drink every morning fasting, two ounces of wine wherein hath been sodden bay berries, anise, & caraway sedes, of each a little. And if ye put to it a little pure frankincense, it would be the better. And without, it is good to lay a bag full of camomile flowers, rue, wormwood, and maiorim made in powder, or for to anoint the stomach with oil of wormwood, rue, spikenard, or bays.  
Sometimes such belching and ventosity cometh before meat, and it is caused of phlegm viscous, or waterish, that is in the stomach.  
Remedy. Ye must purge the phlegm with pillule cochie, or electuarium of diacartamy as hath been said in the remedy of pain of the heed caused of phlegm. And ere ye give the purgation, ye ought iii or four mornings two hours afore meat, to take two little spoonfuls of syrup of wormwood or of mints. After the which purgation, it is good to anoint the stomach with oil of mastic, nardine, wormwood or lilies & for to wear upon the stomach a cerote being made like a plaster, which ye may buy at the Apotecaris, called cerotum Galeni, or a bag made of maiorim, and camomile flowers, & take every morning a lozenge of the electuary above named, or of diagalanga.  
Item ye shall note, that if the person can not take a purgation, to avoid sufficiently the fullness of the stomach, which hindereth the digestion of meat, he must take a glister, and afterward pills of elephangine, or of hiera simplicis, before dinner or supper. Moreover, if before dinner ye feel an heaviness in the stomach, ye ought to take one of the said pills, half an hour before meat.  
For the hicket. Hicket or yeasking, is an evil moving of the virtue expulsive of the stomach provoked by the virtue sensible, to expulse that that doth annoy. The said hicket doth sometimes happen by reason of emtines, by debility of the stomach after long sickness, or by flux of blood or lax, or by some other strange evacuation, which is very perilous & oftentimes mortal. Therefore it is good to give restoratives to the patient, and to give him soft eggs, almond milk, hulled barley, culleyes of capons, or other things of good nourishment, and of easy digestion.  
Also ye ought to stop the lax, & to make the patient to sleep long and anoint the stomach with oil of sweet almonds. Sometimes hicket proceedeth of repletion of matter humorous, or of drink and meat which engender gross ventosity, & not very easy to consume. If the stomach be overcharged with meats, keep a long abstinence till digestion be done, or else vomit and anoint thy stomach with oil of dil, mastic, wormwood & castor. If humours contained in the stomach be cause of the said hicket, take an ounce of hierapicra with water of wormwood or else pills ante cibum .3. or 4 hours before meat, & every morning following the operation of the said hierapicra, take a lozenge of dianisi or diaciminun▪ or else a few anise sedes & caraways.  
¶ Regiment for all manner hicket. It is good to keep long and often his breath, to sneeze, to travail much, to endure great thirst and also to sleep long. And it is good to cast cold water in the face of him that hath the hicket, and to threaten him, and so put him in fear, and to anger him, or else to provoke him to heaviness, for by these things the natural heat is revoked and fortified within, and causeth the hicket to cease.  
For vomiting. Vomiting cometh sometimes without great violence, & thereby one getteth health, wherefore ye need not give him any remedy, for it is a good action of the natural virtue of the stomach. Sometime vometinge cometh by a great violent moving of the virtue expulsive of the stomach, for the evil things contained in the same.  
¶ Remedy. One may well help a man to vomit, giving him warm water with a little oil to drink, or else to put the finger in his mouth very low, or a feather wetre in oil, the better to vomit and mundify the stomach, if so be the person have a wide throat, and that vomiting do not hurt him much, as be they that have but small and straight throats, and long necks and lean, & he that hath an evil sight, for all these it is evil to vomit,  
Sometimes vomiting cometh by weakness of the stomach, caused of a hot and evil complexion, ye shall heal it after this manner.  
Remedy. Take syrup of roses, quinces, myrtles, with water sodden, and cold again, or else water of porcelain for to refresh and quench the thirst that chanceth commonly in such a case. And it is good to anoint the stomach before dinner & supper, with an ointment made of oil of roses, and quinces, with juice of mints▪ and a little wax, or else to make a plaistre of mints, roses, wormwood, & oil of roses and lay it to the stomach  
An other. Take frakensence, mastic, of each half an ounce made in powder, and mingle them together, with the white of an egg, and a little barley flower, then spread it on a little tow, and lay it to the mouth of the stomach. At the latter end of dinner, it is good to take a morsel of marmalade without drink.  
Sometime vomiting proceedeth of eiul & cold complexion of the stomach.  
¶ Remedy. Anoint the stomach with oil of spikenard & mastic, or else make an ointment of the said oils, with a little mastic, coral, and wax, and anoint the stomach morning and evening.  
¶ An other medicine. Make a bag of wormwood, maiorym, and dry mints, of each a little handful, cloves, galingale, and nutmiges, of each half a dram, the said things powdered, and put betwixt ii linen clothes with cotton enterbasted and applied upon the stomach, are of wonderful operation. In stead of this ye may take the said herbs dried on an hot tilestone, and put them in two linen clouts upon the stomach.  
¶ An other manner. Ye may take a toast of breed & step it in the juice of mints, and cast upon it powder of mastic, then lay it upon the stomach, and from three hours to three hours let it be renewed,  
Otherwise. Take two handfuls of mints, and a handful of roses sod in wine, than take two ounces of toasted breed, and moist it in wine, and incorporate it with powder of mastic, and the said roses & mints, and make a plaster whereof one part must be laid to the stomach when the patient would eat any meat. The said plaster is also good in all hot causes, if for the said wine, ye seeth the mints and roses, and step the toast in vinegar.  
¶ To comfort the stomach after vomiting. It is good to give unto the patient every morning an ounce of syrup of wormwood, or mints, in stead of which it is convenient to take a lozenge of aromaticum rosatum, or diagalanga.  
For the same. Take evening and morning iii hours before meat ii cloves in powder, with a spoonful of the juice of mints, or half a spoonful of rue, dried, with a little wine,  
Also it is good to take powder of cloves, and lignum aloes the weight of a crown, with wine ii hours before meat.  
¶ A glystre for the same. And here ye must note, that in all vomiting, if the patient be hard bellied, it is good to take a lenitive glistre made of the decoction of march mallows, mallows, violets, and, barley with oil of violets, home of roses, and a little cassia. And if the vomiting come of coldness of the stomach, or of cold water contained in it, add unto the said glister, wormwood, hyssop, rue, & cammomylle in the seething. And for oil of violets, take oil of camomile or of lilies, and give the patient a pill of mastic before meat. And ye shall understand, that mints brayed, and mingled with oil of roses, and applied upon the stomach, is very good for all vomiting.  
¶ For pain of the stomach. Ache or pain of the stomach cometh sometimes of wind, & it is called dolour extensive, the which is helped with applying thereto a sponge wet in wine, wherein hath been sodden wormwood, rue and camomile.  
Also ye may help it as hath been said in the remedy of hycket or yeasking, and as shallbe said hereafter in the remedy for all pains of the stomach.  
Sometimes the said pain cometh of repletion of humours, and it is called dolour aggravatiws. Which ought to be cured by purgation, in giving of cassia newly drawn out, hiera picra, or pills stomaticas, or of hiera simple, taking some syrup before the purgation, as is showed in the remedy of debility of stomach.  
Sometimes pain of the stomach cometh of choler, or salt phlegm very sharp, and the patient hath bitter taste or salt with great thirst, and he feeleth heat and mordycation. Wherefore it is good to drink syrup of roses, or occisaccarun simple with sodden water and cooled. In stead whereof ye may take endive water, succory and porcelain with one part of wormwood water, & then take an evacuatyve that purgeth choler, as is said in the remedies for pain of the head coming of choler, or let the patient vomit, in giving a sharp syrup of sorelle, with warm water, than put his finger in his mouth so that he may vomit.  
Sick folks often diseased in the stomach, demand nothing else, but to take away the pain, not regarding the time while the matter may be purged by vomiting, glister or other laxes.  
Also there caunceth sometime so great pain & sharp, that for debilytie of virtue it is good to leave the cause and stick to the swaging of the pain▪ wherefore it behoveth to proceed in manner following.  
¶ Remedy for all pains of the stomach. TAke camomile, melilote, wormwood, mallows with their roots, leaves of bays, parietary and peyryalle, of each a handful, lineseed a pound, fenugreek half a pound, anees, and fenel seed, of each half an ounce.  
The said things bruised and well sodden in water, wet therein▪ sponges, and the liquor well pressed out, and applied unto the stomach, one after an other, and warming them again, when they begin to coal, suage all manner pains of the stomach, And afterward ye must anoint the stomach with oil of dill and camomile.  
¶ An other remedy. Take an hogs bladder, and fill it of the said decoction, and lap it in a linen cloth, and lay it to the stomach and warm it again when it is cold. But after ye have made diverse such applications. Ye must anoint the stomach with the oil aforesaid. If the pain be removing from place to place, it signifieth it cometh of ventositi. Therefore lay unto it a bagful of meal, salt, and cumin dried together.  
¶ An other remedy. Take a spoonful of hot ashes, dew them with good wine, and cover them with a linen cloth: that it go round about the spoon, and lay it to the stomach.  
¶ An other remedy. Take a sheaf of breed meetly thick, toast it, and wet it in hot oil of camomile, as hot as it cometh from the oven, or in oil of spike, and wrap it in a linen, and lay it upon the pain.  
¶ An other remedy. Put a great boxing glass upon the navel, and let it be there i hour.  
¶ An other remedy for pain of the stomach. Take two drams of diaciminon, of dianisi, of diagalanga, & drink it with a little good wine, an hour or ii before meat. To drink two ounces of malmsey, with a little of one of the said electuaries, is very good for such pains as proceed of coldness or ventosite  
¶ An other remedy. Take, a dram of galingale in powder, and give it to drink with a little hot wine, and above all things for pain of ventosity, a singular remedy is to drink a little Castor, with good wine.  
¶ An other. Likewise to drink two hours before meat three or four ounces of the decoction of mints, anneiss seeds, common and fine frankincense.  
Also it is good to drink an electuary called aromaticum, whereof ye may receive one lozenge every morning fasting.  
¶ An other special medicine. Take half an ounce of juice of mints, & two drams of the juice of wormwood, lignum aloes, and cloves and xilo balsamum, of each in powder half a scruple, all mixed together, & drunk warm ii or three hours before meat, are exceeding profitable.   

¶ The sixth Chapter, of remedies for diseases, of the liver.  
THe liver is one of the principal members & chief instrument of generation of blood & of other members, it lieth on the right side under the short rib, the which is ordained to digest the meat the second time, and thereof to make humours that nourisheth all the membres of man's body, by his natural heat, comforted by heat of the heart. But sometimes it is grieved by blood in to much abundance, or by cholerik humours, which cause to great heat, or else by phlegm that doth diminysh the same▪  
A remedy for an hot liver. If the liver be to hot, because of to much blood, the person hath red urine, hasty pulse, his veins great & full, and he feeleth his spittle, mouth and tongue sweeter than it was wont to be, wherefore it is good to be let blood of the liver vein on the right arm, and to use lettuce, sorelle, porcelain, & hops in pottage, and sometimes to drink of the waters of the said herbs fasting, or else endive water to refresh the liver.  
Regiment for disease of the liver coming of blood. YE must abstain from drinking wine, and eating of flesh, and if at meat or drink ye must otherwise, the wine ought to be watered, and the flesh boiled with lettuce and sorrel. It is better to drink ptisan, or stolen cydre, & eat broth of peason, almond milk, hulled barley, or roasted apples, and damask prunes, whiles the heat be diminysshed. And ye ought every day to provoke the duty of the womb, either by means of suppository, or else other wise.  
If the liver be over hot by choler, the patient hath his urine clear and yellow, without measure, great thirst without appetite, & feeleth great burning in his body, and commonly hath his belly bound, and hath the face yellow.  
This disease of the liver chanceth most in summer, & for it ye must take twice a day an ounce of syrup of endive, or violets, with a good draft of ptisan, drink it two or three hours before meat, and also at night to bedward, and so continue three or four days.  
In stead of the said syrups ye may take three ounces of ptisan, or three ounces of water of endive, cicorye and sorrel meddled together, for each time. Then the fifth day in the morning early, it is good to drink a purgation that purgeth choler, which shall be made as followeth.  
An excellent purgation for to avoid choler, and may be given to men of all ages. TAke half an ounce of cassia newly drawn, a dram of good rhubarb infused a night in water of endive with a little spikenard, and an ounce of syrup of violets, mix all the said things with three ounces of ptisan or whey, and drink it warm as afore is said in the other.  
Bowls for the same. In stead of the said medicine (which is to costly for poor folks) ye may make boles of half an ounce of cassia, and three drams of electuarium de succo rosarum, and eat them three hours after midnight, and sleep after it, but all the day ye must keep the chamber, & if ye had rather drink it than eat it, mixed the said boles with whey, or endive water, & drink it at v. of the clock in the morning, but sleep not after it.  
Other medicines laxative. Take half an ounce of diaprunis laxative, mixed with iii ounces of decoction of french prunes, water of succory, and drink it warm at five of the clock in the morning, or else six hours afore meat. In stead of the said diaprunis, ye may take half an ounce of electuarium de succo rosarum, and make a lax as afore is said.  
And it is to be noted, if the patient be very weak or easy to work upon, ye may take away a dram both of the diaprunis, & also of succo rosarum. After the said purgation, it is good to refresh the liver with laying to without on the right side, under the neither ribs, a plaster of cerotum scandalinun, spread upon a linen cloth of the bigness of four fingers, or bathe the said place with a linen cloth wet in water of endive, plantain and roses, warmed together. Moreover it is good to take every morning before meat, a lozenge of triasandaly, and to drink after it endive water iii ounces.  
Regiment for heat in the liver. The patient must abstain from flesh & salt fish, strong wine, garlic, onions, mustard, and such other hot meats. It is good to use broth of pease and veriuce, lettuce, poppy, spinach, and borage, and sometime a little vinegar if he be not grieved in the stomach. This regiment is good also in time of pestilence, and of to great heat.  
A julep for the heat of the liver. TAke half a li of rose-water, one quarter of water of endive, and v. ounces of sugar, make a julep, of which ye shall drink fasting a good draft. And if ye will needs drink for thirst between meals, let it be mingled with ii parts of water of the well. And if ye will have it more coling, add unto it two ounces of vinegar or the juice of a pomegranate.  
If the liver be cold, for the phlegmatic matter that is in it, the person hath his water white, & out of colour, the face pale, and his mouth watery, little blood, and feeleth heaviness about his liver.  
¶ Remedy. He ought to drink in the morning early iii or four times a syrup called oximell diureticum, with the decoction of smallage and parsley, or with waters of smallage, and fennel, and after he must take to purge the phlegm a medicine made as followeth. Take six drams of diafinicon, if the person be strong, or half an ounce if he be weak, and distemper it in four ounces of the decoction of the roots of smallage, parseley, fennel, & drink it lukewarm v. or vi hours afore meat.  
In stead of the said medicine one may give ii drams of agaric in trosciskes with water of smallage, or else good fenel.  
another medicine laxative. Take half an ounce of diacarthami, or half an ounce of diaprunis laxative or asmuch of electuarium dulce, with three ounces of parseley water, smallach hyssop, or fennel, take it five hours afore meat.  
Regiment. The patient must drink good wine, and use ginger, cinnamon, grains of paradise, anise and fenelle, and hot herbs in pottage, as sage, hyssop, time maiorym, and avoid all raw fruits, and also raw herbs.  
Moreover it is very good to make a plaster of smallache, wormwood, spikenard in powder, with oil of dil mingle it, and lay it upon the liver.  
Against stopping of the liver called oppilation. OPpilation or stopping cometh sometime in the hollowness of the liver, and it is known by compassion and pain of the stomach, and is healed by medicines laxative, as it is declared before.  
And sometime the oppilation is in the veins of the hollow part of the liver, and is perceived them by the grief which the patient feeleth in his back, and in his reins. And it is healed by things that open, as by syrups of the three roots, syrups of bisantius, syrups of maidenhair, and by drinking the decoction of raisins, fenel, parseley, smallache, cicory, or waters stilled of the same herbs. Also roots of alisaunder is good for the same. etc. Sometimes the said oppilation cometh of gross blood, earthy, and melancholic, which the members send unto the liver, and because that such engendered blood can have no issue, nor hath any way to depart to any other members, therefore be the veins of the liver stopped up by the grossness of the said blood. And it is known by the water, that is very hie coloured, & clear.  
¶ Remedy. give the patient medicines that pierce, & subtle, as is wine of pomegranates, syrup of endive, with the decoction of cicers. Then let him blood on the liver vein, and every morning eat a lozenge of triasandaly. Sometime the said oppilation cometh of abundance of some humour viscous, cold and phlegmatic, stopping the veins of the liver, and then the urine is as clear, as clear water.  
Remedy. The patient must drink every morning the syrup of oxymel squilityke, with half a draft or more of the decoction of roots of smallache, fenel & parseley. Sometimes unto women cometh oppilations of the liver, by retaining of their pu●gaciōs. Wherefore it is good to let them blood on the vein called sapher, which is above on the higher side of the ●steppe.  
And let them take after the change of the ●one, seven or eight mornings any p●ate called Trifera magna: every time an ounce. And after drink three ounces of waters of mugwort, hyssop and fennel, or the decoction of these ●erbes, or else the roots aperitive, which be smallache, parseley, fenel, alisaunder and asperage, boiled in water with the third part of odoriferous white wine.  
¶ Medicines for the liver that may be easily had at all times. Take a good handful of liverwort that groweth upon the stones, and an other of fumetorye, with as much of hartestonge, and seeth them in whey clarefyed, and drink them every day twice.  
The liver of an hare dried and made in powder, is good for all diseases of the liver, as affirmeth Auicenne and other of the Arabians.  
Also for heat in the liver seeth barberies in whey, and drink them.   

¶ The vij chapter, against the diseases of the gall.  
THe gall is placed in the hollowness of the liver, to receive the superfluity of choler, and to send it to the bowels to be avoided with the grosser excrements, to th'intent to cleanse the blood of the said choler.  
To the which there cometh oftentimes oppilations in the parties about by the liver, or beneath in itself next the bowels, causing great pain, by reason whereof the choler turneth again unto the liver, and there is mingled with the blood, and spread abroad into all the veins of the body, and breedeth a disease named jaundice (ictericia in latin) whereof be three kinds▪ that is to say, yellow jaundice that proceedeth of choler called citrine or yellow, green jaundice which proceedeth of green choler, and black jaundice that proceth of black choler, which is called melancholy, and commonly cometh of the oppilation of the spleen.  
Remedy for jaundice. If the jaundice happen in an ague, before the seventh day, the patient is in great danger of his life, as Hipocrates saith. But if it appear in the sixth day, being a day judicial or cretike of the ague, or after, it is a very good sign.  
And then ye must succour nature, in refreshing and digesting the choler, with syrup of violets, given in the morning with water of morel, or syrup of endive, with water of cicorye.  
After this purge the choler as is said in remedies of the liver. And than give him a lozenge of triasandali, with rhubarb, every morning two hours before meat, and drink a little waters of endive, and cicorye, afore the said lozenge.  
moreover, it is good to bathe the liver as it is said afore, and wash the pacientes eyes with vinegar, and woman's milk, & drink a ptisan made of barley, liquorice, prunes, and the roots of fenel. And if (when the fever is paste) the jaundice tarrieth still, the patient must drink water of fenel, and morelle, with the syrup of occisaccarum compost, and it is good to lay a quick tench upon the liver.  
jaundice sometime cometh without fever, and may be healed by the things that I declared here before, or thus.  
¶ An other Remedy for the jaundice. Take four ounces of radisshe, and give it the sick to drink five mornings iii hours afore meat. In stead whereof it is good to drink every morning four ounces of the decoction of horehound, made in white wine, or as much of the decoction of celidonie and barberies, with a little honey and saffron.  
another remedy. Take worms of the earth called angle twitches, and wash them in white wine, then dry them and drink them a spoonful at a time, with white wine.  
An other. Ye may let him drink vii or viii. days together in the mornings, a good draft of the decoction of politrichon, or of maidenhair. The decoction also of woodbind, or the wa●es of it distelled in a common still, is a sovereign medicine for the said disease.  
another singular remedy. Take cows milk and white wine of each a pint, and distill them in a still▪ keep that water a month, and then give it to the patient three ounces in the morning two hours afore meat, and likewise after supper▪ when he goeth to bed.   

The eight Chapter, for diseases of the spleen.  
THe spleen is a mēberlōg● soft, and spongy, being in the left side joined unto the hollowness of the stomach, and to the thick ends of the ribs, & to the back, the which is ordained for to receive the melancholy humours, and to cleanse the blood of the same, for by the mean the blood remaineth pure & net. Wherefore it is good nourishing for all the membres, and is the cause that maketh a body merry, but oftentimes there happeneth oppilation or debility whereof cometh the black jaundices.  
And sometimes it is greater, fuller, or grosser than it ought to be, by overmuch melancholy that is not natural, caused of the dregs of the blood engendered in the liver, & doth hindre generation of good blood, wherethrough the members become dry for default of good nourishing. And therefore the patient is called splenetike, which ye may know by that, that after meat they have pain in their left side, and are always heavy, and hath their faces somewhat inclining unto blackness.  
¶ Remedy. In oppilations and apostemes of the spleen, whether it be of hot humours or of cold, he ought to be let blood on the spleen vein called saluatella, which is in thee left hand, between the little finger, and the next finger which they call medicus. And ye must draw out but a little blood.  
And if the patient feel a burning on the left side, and hath a dry tongue without appetite, it signifieth that such disease of the spleen, is caused of an hot humour. Wherefore ye must give the patient four or .v. mornings fasting, syrup of endive water, and hartestong, than a purgation made as followeth, thus.  
¶ A goodly purgation to avoid melancholy. Talk half an ounce of succorosarun and three ounces of the decoction of the roots of capparus, and hartestonge, & make a drink the which ye may minister in a good day to take purgations, six hours afore meat.  
An other. In stead of that drink ye may temper half an ounce of cassia, and three drams of diaseny, in three ounces of whey, or hartestong water, and drink it as is aforesaid. After the said purgation, ye ought to anoint the spleen with oil of violets, or oil of linseed, or to make a plaster of the s●de oil and linseed, and the roots of capparis, and lay upon the spleen.  
Also after the said purgation, it shall be good to lay upon the spleen, nightshade, porcelain seed, and powder of plantain, mixed with vinegar like a plaster, and if the patient have more appetite than he can digest, and that he have belchinges of the stomach sometimes sour in the mouth, it signifieth that the passion splenetike cometh by a cold humour melancholic.  
¶ Remedy. Ye must drink syrup of stechados, or hartestong, or oxymel diureticum, with water of the decoction of hartestonge, epithime, smallache roots, percelye roots, tameriscus, and mints, or else only with the decoction of hartestong, and roots of cappars. And then after purge it from such melancholy humour, with an ounce of diacatholicon, & two drams of dia●ene, dissolved in three ounces of the said decoction, or water of wormwood, or hartestonge.  
And after this ye must anoint the side of the spleen, with oil of lilies, oil of dill, fresh butter, mary of an ox, and hens grease, or of a dog, meddled together, or anoint the said side with dialthea.  
And the patient aught to drink white wine, and the decoction of hartestong, evening and morning, taking two figs, with powder of hyssop, peppe● or ginger, but he may put no water in his wine, and oftentimes he must ea● cap●ars, with a little oil and vinegar.  
If for the oppilations of the spleen, the patient hath a pale colour, or leady in the face, and a whiteness of eyes, taking away of appetite, pain in the left side with hardness, and hath his excrements black, it is a sign of the black jaundices,  
An expert medicine for all diseases of the spleen. Take the leaves and cods of ●eny● the bark of an ash tree skraped & cut, maidenhair, hartstong and liquorice, seth them all in clear whey, and after they be strained, drink of it twice or thrice a day till ye be amended.  
¶ Remedy for the black jaundice. Ye must give syrups and purgations as afore is said, and to be let blood of the vein salvat, and afterward divers times evening and morning, to apply ventoses upon the spleen with out scaryfyinge. afterward ye must lay on it a list, wet in good vinegar, and keep it there so long as the heat remaineth in the said list, and warm it three or four times.  
Afterward anoint the spleen with dialthea, & so continue four or five days, and other four or five days lay upon it a plaster made of two ounces of gum armoniac, dissolved in vinegar, and spread upon leather.  
And if by the foresaid things the patient be not eased, the doctors of physic say, that he must receive the medicines again, at the lest once in every month, for half a year together.  
¶ Regiment for all oppilations. The patient ought to use things of easy digestion, and in small quantyty, and aught to abstain from bread to little leavened, cakes, tarts pasties, pies, hogs flesh, beef, and powdered meats, and fumishe. Fish, limmons, peason, beans milk, cheese, rise, and firmentie, all fried meats, drink after supper, wine and apples, which with all other like trouble the body. Also ye must abstain from much moving or exercise by and by after meat.  
It is good to use capars, asparage, hops, broth of dried peason, with parsley, or his roots, small birds of the field, kids flesh, young mutton lamb, chickens, feysauntes, snytes, partridges, scaled fish, of sweet running water, with percelye, and vinegar. New laid eggs potched in water, are very wholesome, & ye may drink white wine or claret, only at meals.  
Also it is good to use cresses, sage, isope, mints, fennel, and percelye, succorry, scariole, and beets, and singularly, to take fasting half a spoonful of red coleworts sodden, and to eat often anise seeds, and fenel.   

The ninth Chapter, for diseases of the bowels.  
IN a person be six guts, three small, which are situate over the navel, and three great, which are placed under the navel.  
The first is called dudenum, because it is xii inches long.  
The second is called iei●num, for that nothing remaineth in it.  
The third is called ylis, because it is long and small.  
The fourth which is the first of the great ones, is called monoculus, because it is like a sack, & hath but one mouth & in that same sometimes are worms engendered or ventosity, that causeth pain of the belly on the right side, which is not the very colic. The .v. they call colon, because it hath many hollow places, and it proceedeth from the right side under the liver, & it maketh his revolution unto the left side, wherein is engendered the colyke which is dispersed by all the belly more than any other disease.  
The vi is called rectum, because it is nigh unto the left kidney, and goeth even right down into the fundament.  
Hipocrates calleth the three bowels that are next the stomach, ilia, that is to say small guts, and the pain of one of them is called yliaca passio, a very sharp pain. Rasis calleth it domine miserere. Likewise also colica passio, is called of the gut colon, which ii diseases are sisters, forasmuch as they come oftentimes both of one cause, that is to say of the oppilation of the bowels.  
Remedy for the colic and of yliaca passio. Forasmuch as those diseases are exceeding eager, sharp, and almost importable of pain, whereof many times followeth defection of the strength, with variety of medicines, ye ought in continently for to help them.  
first when the said pains come by the stopping of the belly, ye must give him a glister mollificative, made of the decoction of mallows, violetes, beets, anise seed and fenugreek, with cassia, and common honey, & oil olive, and afterward, the herbs of the said glister bruised and fried, & laid hot betwixt ii linins, & applied to the belly.  
And if by this means the pain cease not, let the patient sit unto the buttocks, in the said decoction, and after with dialthea▪ & butter anoint the navel.  
And if the said glister do not work sufficiently, make another of the same, or else give him a suppository which is long enough, made of pure honey, and ●al gem.  
¶ For the windy collyke. Thorough windiness oftentimes, cometh the colica passio, or iliaca, & then it appeareth that the pain is changeable, and moving from place to place, and is known also by the rambling which is a noise in the bowels, with gripings, and great pain.  
Remedy. Take mallows, beets, & mercury of each a good handful, margerim, rue, bays, and camomile, of each a little handful, anise seeds, common▪ of each an ounce, make a decoction, and take thereof a pint and a half, and dissolve in it an ounce of cassia, half an ounce of treacle, and iii ounces of oil olive or of camomile, and make a glister, the which must be given warm unto the patient, long before or after meat. In stead of the said glister, ye may give him a pound of oil of linseed, which is a singular thing to take away all diseases of the belly. Also it is good to make a mixture with oil of hemp seed.  
¶ For to appease the pain caused of wind. first make a glister of maivesaye, oil of camomile, or dill. If for the said glisters the pain cease not, or else the patient will not take them, take a great spong or else a felt of a hat, and stepe it in wine of the decoction of rue, camomile, maiorym, anise seeds, and common. And afterward lay it upon the pain, as hot as the patient can suffer, and four times in the day, it is good to let him drink wine wherein hath been sodden rue seeds, careawayes, & common. Drink at every time a little draft, & each day keep abstinence from eating and drinking much of other things till ye be perfectly hole.  
¶ A supppsitorye for the windy colyke. Take a dram of rue, in fine powder, and half a dram of common dried and powdered, and with honey skummed, make a suppository.  
¶ A plaster for windy colic. Take two handfuls of rue, in fine powder, myrrh, and comine powdered of each half an ounce, four eggs yolks, and make two plasters with honey, and lay on the one at night, and the other in the morning, upon the belly. Water of camomile, or a decoction of the same drunken, is good for them that have such diseases. Also a dried acorn in powder, and given to drink with white wine, is very good.  
If ye know that the pain of the belly cometh through wind, apply upon it a great ventose without incision, for by that means the said pain will surely go away, or diminish. If not, it showeth that there is some humours that causeth the said pain, as phlegm or choler.  
If by phlegm it cometh, ye must make a glister of a pint of the decoction of camomile, rue, wormwood, maiorim, mellilote, centaury, anise seeds▪ and fennel, and in the same decoction put half an ounce of hiera picra, or half an ounce of diafinicon, and iii ounces of oil of dil, or of lilies.  
Also ye ought to give to the patient syrup of wormwood, and to make application upon his belly as hath been said afore, or to lay unto it gromyll seed & bay salt dried together, which laid upon the belly, is likewise good for the windy colic.  
If after the said things the said pain continueth, ye must make a purgation as followeth.  
¶ A purgation for colic coming of phlegm. Take .v. drams of diafinicon iii ounces of wormwood water, & make a drink, the which received fasting, iiii. or .v. hours afore meat, is very profitable.  
For pain of the colic coming of choler. If the said pain cometh of choler, which is known when by the application of hot things the pain increaseth, ye must make a glister of violets, or give him half an ounce of succorosarum with ptisan, endive water or wine. And the next morning let him drink a ptisan of the decoction of prunes, and violet flowers, and anoint the belly with oil of violets, or wet a linen cloth in cold water, and lay it thereupon. If it do continue still, the patient must be set in warm water up to the haunches, & if the pain come of cold, ye must anoint his belly with oil of bays, and gosegrese.  
For the windy colyke. If it be wind, make a glister of new milk with a little oil, and the yolk of an egg, for it is very good. Also it is good to let him drink a dram of hiera picra simplex, with ii ounces of water of cardo benedictus, or porcelain or wormwood, and to make a plaster of leek leaves fried in oil & vinegar, and laid upon the belly. Like ward the back.  
Also nephretica is paynefuller afore meat, & the colic is ever more grievous after. And often the colic chanceth suddenly, but nephretica contrary, for commonly it cometh by little & little, for evermore before, one shall feel pain of the back with difficulty of urine. Item there is more difference, for the colic showeth urines as it were coloured, but nephretica in the beginning is clear, and white like water, and after waxeth thick, and then appeareth in the bottom of the vessel like red sand or gravel.  
Remedy for pain of the reins. YE must use things aperitive to cause you make water, but afore ye ought to loose the belly in taking an ounce of cassia, an hour before meat▪ but if your belly he hard bound, ye must take a glister made as hereafter followeth▪ before ye take th● said c●ssi●.  
A glister for nephretica passio. Take of march mallow roots two ounces, mallows, violets, beets, & march mallow leaves, flowers of camomile and mellilote, of each a handful, melon seed and anise seed, of each half an ounce, wheat bran an handful, and decoct it, and take thereof half a pound, and distemper in it an ounce of cassia, & an ounce of course sugar ii ounces of oil of violets, & an ounce of oil of lilies, make a glister. In stead thereof ye may take cows milk, with two egg yolks, in manner of a glister.  
And it is to be noted, that in such a disease, the glystre must be great in quantity, or else ye should make wresting and roumbling in the belly, which should be an occasion of more ●aine. After this operation, if the pain be not appeased, ye must give another glister, after the operation of which, the patiented aught to go into some bath, vp● to the navel, wherein must be sodden mallows, march mallows, beets, pellitary, linseed, fenugreek, & flowers of camomile, with mellilote, all put in a bag in the said water, & ●ubbe him with it: and at his going out of the said bath, ye must take two ounces of syrup of maiden hear, & radish, with three ounces of the decoction of lyquirice. Moreover after the said bath, ye must ●aye upon the pain, a pultes made of herbs, and flowers, with one of almonds, being in the said bag, & ii or three mornings take▪ v. or ●i. ounces of the broth of cicers, sodden with liquorice, or else drink water of ●itory, of ●esses, or of roots aperi●, the which waters are very good for to purge the gravel and the stone▪ 〈…〉 a very good electuary for the skins▪ ●alled electuarium ducis, or iustinum, philantropos, or liontripon, if one take a dram or two after operation of a glister, or o● cassia, or a pill 〈◊〉 ante cib●, and after to drink o●e of the said waters, or else a little white wine warmed.  
¶ Regiment aswell for the colic, as for the reins of the back. HE must fly from all evil qualities of the air, as wind, rain, great heat, and great cold, specially to keep him from warming the r●nes against the fire, nor to heat it by any other means. Also he must abstain from great repletion at one meal, and to long abstinence from meat, for all these ●ille the body full of ill humours. Also sleep not on the day, specially after meat, nor lie not on the rooms, when ye are asleep.  
And ye ought to eat no ●alt●ysh, no● no b●efe, nor other gross meats. Like wise one ought for to beware 〈…〉 ●o●les bred up in the water, spicery pastry, and bread not very well leuen●d▪ specially tarts, cakes, & other pasti● made of flower. But above all, ye must beware of white meats, as milk, cheese raw fruits, hard eggs, & as much as is possible, keep yourself from ire, envy, melancholy, & other like affections.  
For the flux of the womb. IN all fluxes of the ●elly, cause the excrements to be duly searched, for if the disease be such, that the meat cometh out, even as it was received, or not half digested, the said flux is called lienteria. If great abundance of watery humours have their issue by low, the said flux is named diarthea, which is as much to say as flux humoral. And if blood or matter appear with the excrements in the sickness, than they call it dissenteria, which is a great disease and a dangerous for to cure.  
Remedy for the flux lienteria▪ FOorasmuch as this flux cometh for the most part of great debility of virtue retentive of the stomach, for the great moistness of the same, it is good to give the syrup of wormwood, & honey of roses, taking of it with a spoon, or drink th● with the water of betony, fenel, and wormwood, and if it so be the patient do desire to vomit, it would be good for him, or let him take half an ounce of hiera simple, with two ounces of water of wormwood, and if the patient be strong enough, add thereto two drams of diafinicon.  
And after this ye must comfort the stomach with oil of mastic, spike, mint, wormwood, or nardine, or with a plaster called cerotum Galeni, spread upon leather, and after laid upon the stomach, or make a bag of wormwood, mints, and maiorim dried, & lay it upon the stomach.  
In the morning take a lozenge of aromaticum rosatum, and a little rind of citron confit, and before every meal take a morsel of conserua quinces.  
Remedy for the flux humoral called diarthea. THe said flux ought not to be restrained afore the xiiii day, if nature be not very much enfeebled. And sometime it cometh of hot causes, as of choler, and then one ought to give unto the patient to drink afore his meat syrup of ribs, syrup of roses, or syrup of quinces, with smiths water, and in the stead of those syrups▪ ye may make a julep thus.  
A julep for the flux humoral. Take rose-water, bugloss, and plantain, every one half a pound, of all the sanders two drams, and with a quartron and an half of sugar, make a julep. In the morning two hours afore meat, it is good to give the patient old conserve of roses, or a dram of trochisks of roses, after he hath drunk one of the said syrups, or of julep of roses with a little of smiths water, whereof the patient aught to drink at every time when he is a thirst.  
If in the said flux there be eager matter, and the strength of the patient any thing constant, ye may minister the ●a●atorie that hereafter ensueth.  
Take red roses, barley, plantain, of every one a handful, seth them, and in the straining add ii ounces of oil of roses, one ounce of honey of roses, and the yolk of an egg, and give it in the manner of a glister.  
Sometime it is expedient to take a medicine by the mouth, and it is made as thus,  
A medicine for the flux Take the rinds of myrabolane citrine baken, one dram, rhubarb a little dried upon a tile, half a dram, syrup of quinces one ounce, water of plantain iii ounces, mingle all together, and let the patient drink them four hours before meat, & than give him a glister retentive made as thus.  
A glister for the flux. Take oil of roses, of quinces, of mastic, of every one three ounces, bo●e armoniak in powder ii drams, meddle all together & give it as a glister.  
Another. Take the juice of plantain, of poppy, of bursa pastoris, and oil of quinces, of every one iii ounces, mingle them together, and give it for a glister. And if the bowels be excoriat, ye shall give this peculiar remedy. Take half one pound of milk, the water wherein gads of steal hath been quenched, the juice of plantain, and oil of quinces, of every one ii ounces, bull Armeny one dram, goats tallow one ounce, and make them in a glister, but without upon the stomach, ye must lay this ointment that here followeth.  
An ointment for the flux. Take oils of roses, quinces, & mytles, of each an ounce, oil of mastic, half an ounce, powder of coral, & nuts of cypress, of every one a dram, mingle all with wax, and make an ointment. Here is to be noted, that the glisters that are given for to stop a flux, must be very little in quantity. Ye may heal the flux of dis●enteria with giving things before declared for the flux humoral, and take afore your repast ii drams of conserve of quinces, or of marmalade of quinces. And he ought to drink water, wherein hath been quenched gads of steel, & ye must avoid diversity of meats, and give yourself to ease, and to quiet, and sleep a great while. And it is good to use grewel, clean barley, & almond milk, with a little amidum▪ and set ventoses upon the belly without cutting, which thing is also good in all fluxes of the body. If the said flux humoral proceedeth of phlegm, it shall appear of the excrements that are watery and phlegmatic, and than ye ought to give iii or four mornings, syrup of wormwood, or of mint, after purgation as is here following.  
A purgation for the flux humoral. Take ii drams of mirabolanes dried on a tile, half a scruple of agaric in trociske, half an ounce of syrup of mint, or ii ounces of water of balm, and make a potion that shall be received iii or four days, afore meat.  
If ye will make a julep, take water of mint, and of balm, of every one half a pound, sugar a quartern, and make a julep, of the which one may drink evening and morning after meat every time a draught. Every morning it is good to take a lozenge of the electuary that followeth.  
¶ A noble electuary for the flux, Take powder of diagalanga a dram and a half, of red coral and mastic, of every one a scruple, trochisks of terra sigiliata half a dram, the barks of citrons comfit, and quinces, of every one three drams, sugar dissolved in water of mints four ounces, make an electuary.  
Oils of wormwood, mint and of narde, and mastic, are very wholesome to anoint withal the belly, and the stomach, for the said flux.  
And the things declared of the flux lienteria, be very good in this case, taking ever after meat, a morsel of marmalade. Red wine is very good in this flux, to drink at meat with the water of a smith, and likewise a● spices are good for the same purpose.  
¶ Medicines to restrain the flux, of whatsoever cause it be. TAke the peysil of an heart, and dry it into powder, & drink it. The water of oaken buds, or the very acorns dried and made in powder, and drunken in red wine, is very good.  
Item the maw of a young leverette, with the juice of plantain, is exceeding profitable.   

¶ The tenth chapter of diseases of the matrice.  
first against superfluous flux of the mother, in the which ye must consider whether it do come of to great quantity of blood, and then it is good for to open the vein saphena, & abstain from all things that multiply the blood, as eggs, wine and flesh. Or whether it cometh of choler, & then ye must receive a little syrup of roses, pomegranates, or ribs with water of plantain. Than purge the choler that giveth such sharpness to the blood, by ten drams of trifera sarracenica, with two ounces of plantain water, or the medicine of rhubarb, written in the treatise of the flux humoral.  
After purgation ye may give every morning a lozenge of triasandaly, or a dram of trosciskes of roses, in powder, after drink two ounces of plantain water. And if such flux of the matrice, happen of the wateriness of blood, give her to drink four or .v. mornings, honey of roses with a little water of wormwod, afterward purge her with a dram and a half of agaric in trosciskes, and half an ounce of trifera sarasenica, mixed with water of mint, and of wormwood.  
Ye may know the causes of the said flux, by anointing a thread or clout in the said blood, for if it hath the colour of vermilion, it signifieth that the flux cometh of to much blood. If it appear a little yellow, it signifieth that the disease cometh of the subtility and sharpness of the blood, overcome with choler. And if it hath a colour like the water in which new flesh is washed, it betokeneth the blood is much watery.  
And after ye have purged the principal cause of the disease, your second intention shallbe, by and by to staunch the said issue. Wherein also one thing is to be noted, that if nature be accustomed to avoid any superfluities, by continual course of the said flux, it would perchance be inconvenient for to stop it, wherefore if ye see no jeopardy, ye may restrain the said flux this wise.  
¶ Remedy for to stop the said flux. Take trochisks of white amber, and make them in powder, & give a dram every morning, and anon after, drink an ounce, or ii of water of plantain.  
In stead of these trochisks, ye may make a powder of sanguis draconis, bull armeni, white amber, and red coral, drinking one dram thereof, with plantain water as is aforesaid.  
¶ An other medicine to staunch the said flux. Take two ounces of old conserve of roses, of the seed of plantain, two drams, sanguinis draconis, bull armeny, of every one a dram and a● half, white coral and red, ana one dram, make a confection with syrup of myrtles, & give it to drink, morning and evening two hours afore meat, at every time the quantity of a mean chesnutte.  
¶ For the same. Apply ventoses under the breasts twice a day, before dinner and supper, and use to bear about your neck or hold always in your hand, red coral, ●aspis, or a stone called hematites, which is a singular remedy for to stop every kind of bloody fluxes, if it be borne, or tempered in wine & drunk, or make thereof a powder, and use of it every morning with a little wine.  
¶ For retaining of the flowers. Sometimes there chanceth unto women when they can not have their due purgations, to fall in grievous kinds of sicknesses, for the avoidance whereof, it is good to help them and provoke the said purgations by such things as open, which must be given at such time of the moon, as the said women were wont to have the same.  
And if ye see the woman's blood to be to gross and thick, so that she can not have any such purgation, ye must every month give her the syrup of fumetorye, with the decoction of borage, and bugloss, and let her bathe herself, with fresh water hot.  
And when she goeth out of the bath in to the bed, she must receive the foresaid syrup and decoction of the herb called rubea tinctorum or madder, sodden in clear water. In stead of syrups ye may take the very juice or decoction of the herbs.  
And if the woman's blood be slimy, cold, and phlegmatic, than she must drink syrup of stechados, and of oxyniel diuretike, and afterward take the pills called setide, and of agarik. And every morning after that, she must take a dram of trosciskes de mirtha▪ with two ounces of the decoction of juniper berries, or two drams of trifera magna, and thereupon drink two ounces of water of Mugwort.  
And if perchance ye can not have these things at need, ye may take iii ounces of the decoction of alisaunders, the root of smallache, cinnamon, and a little saffron, and let her drink thereof two times a day, and eat no meat thereafter during four hours.  
Moreover it is a proved and expert medicine, to give the first day of the new moan a dram of powder made of borax, which the goldsmiths do occupy, with asmuch cinamome, and a little water of smallache. Also it is very good to have the vein opened, which is called saphena, that lieth outward between the instep and the heel. And if case so be, that the said retention come of superfluity, or to much abundance of fat, than the chief remedy is to suffer much hunger, and to eat very little, much exercise and labour to provoke sweat, and to sleep as little as may be possible.  
But if it come of great debility and weakness of the body, when the natural strength is overcome by reason of some sickness, or after a long ague, in this case ye may not go about to provoke the said purgation, but with all your endeavour seek to restore nature, and give the patient things of much nourishment, as potched eggs, good flesh, and good wine, with other like.  
Sometime the said retention cometh of the excessive heat of nature, in some women, specially such as be valiant and strong as men, and those that are wont to much labour, by reason whereof the heat of their bodies is so strong, that they need none of the said purgations, for the superfluities of their bodies, are sufficiently consumed of the heat alone, therefore they have no need of the said remedies.  
¶ For choking or suffocation of the matrice THe matrice or mother in a woman, oftentimes mounteth up, toward the midrefe and the stomach, with intolerable pains, and is called, suffocation, because that it is choked, or overcharged with some evil and superfluous matter, as by stopping of the due purgations, or to much abstinence of Venus, whereby is often chanced shortness of breath, pain of the head, swooning, trembling of the heart contraction of members, and otherwiles death without remedy.  
¶ A medicine for the said disease. Ye must rub the legs and wrists of the arms vehemently, and bind them with cords or with garters, till they wax sore, then set ventoses upon the legs, and all to chafe the stomak● specially beneath round about the navel.  
And then ye must constrain her to smell stinking things as assa fetida, galbanum, pertriche feathers brent, and the quenching out of candles, with other such, but beneath ye must apply things of sweat odour, as gylofloures maiorim, lignum aloes, amber, civet, and a trociske of gallia muscata, and let her drink a draft of this receipt, that followeth.  
¶ A drink for pain of the mother. Take one dram of mithridatum, and dissolve it in an ounce and an half of water of wormewod, and give it to her to drink, afore she go to meat iiii hours,  
divers goodly medicines for diseases of the mother whatsoever be the cause. Take the rasing of ivory, and the rasing of an hearts horn, with the hear of an hare, dried and made in powder, and asmuch of goats claws brent and powdered if they may be gotten, or in stead of it sheeps claws, take all these and use to eat them in your pottage or otherwise, to stop the fluxes of the matrice.  
An other to provoke them. Seethe marigolds, nept and savin in good ale, and drink it with a good quaintitye of saffron, and a little honey or sugar.  
Item xu black seeds of peony, drunken in wine with saffron, purgeth the matrice of humours, and other xu of the red seeds, stauncheth it again, or any other flux of the mother.  
An other. These herbs are good to purge the matrice, Rue, peony, savin, betony, nept, vale●ian, maidenhair, horehound, savoury, parseley, gromel, alisaunder, marigolds, smallache and time.   

¶ The xi Chapter of the cure of the stone in the reins, and in the bladder.  
Pain of the stone is one of the most enormous pains that the body of man is vexed with, for by it many times the natural virtues are destroyed, women lose their fruit afore the time, cruel & perilous accidents commonly do increase, yea & oftentimes death without remedy.  
Wherefore it shallbe expedient to the comfort of the poor folks, and other that be grieved, to write some good and wholesome medicines for avoiding of the stone,  
¶ And seeing that all authors do affirm the stone to be engendered by reason of the great heat that is about the reins, straitness of the condites, & abundance of gross & slimy phlegm, or of brent choler, which by the said excess of heat, is as one would say, baken or dried as clay is in the furnaces, and so at last becometh an hard stone, therefore it is chief to be noted that without amending of the foresaid causes, all that ye do minister for to break the stone is either hurtful to the patient, or else of small effect. For the which cause it is very necessary that the patient keep a sober diet.  
And for the better understanding, ye shall know, that all wines (whether they be sweet or sharp, gross or subtle, white or red) are in this case utterly re●ected.  
Pulses also of what kind soever they be, as pease beans, and such, and all gross flesh, and water fowls, and fowls of great bodies, as bustardes, crane's, and such like, are in this case very dangerous and noisome.  
Also ye may eat no kind of fruits, except it be a few melons, ripe prunes in small quantity, and pomegranates, with a little sugar and coriandres.  
Of herbs, ye may eat borage, bugloss, parseley, lettuce, mints▪ spinach and succory in broth of veal, or of a young chicken. Nepes also and rapes and radish, in a small quantity, may be well enough permitted.  
Potched eggs are very good in this case, with a little verjuice, but in any wise beware of hard cheese for that is oftentimes the only cause of the said stone. All shell fishes are to be avoided except it be a crevyshe, or a shrympe, measurably taken.  
Ye must, also take heed that ye eat no pepper nor hot spices▪ nor no meats that are salt, sour or heavy of digestion, and that ye lie not on your back on nights when ye are asleep. And ye ought to keep your rains cold and moist, and to let your back be untrussed in the summer.  
After ye have used this regiment or diet by a certain season, it shallbe good for you to take an ounce of cassia newly drawn out of the cane, and eat it with a little sugar in the morning.  
This ye must use every second week, till in time your reins be meetly well cleansed of the same, and every day eat a little cassia, upon a knife's point, to keep your belly moist: for that is one of the things that are most required in the said cure.  
And at divers other times when ye be disposed, ye may take a little of this receipt hereafter, which hath great virtue to mundify the rains, and to bring the humours to equality, with releasing of the pain, and bringing out the gravel.  
¶ A goodly syrup to mundify the reins. Take the broth of a young chicken sodden till the bones fall a sondre, three pound, melon seeds a little bruised an ounce, percelye roots, and alexander roots iii ounces, damask prunes, sepesten, of each vi in number, great raisins half an ounce, clean liquorice x. drams, waters of borage, endive, and hops, of each iii drams, and with sufficient white sugar, boil them all unto the consumption of the half and more, and afterward strain than, and make a goodly syrup.  
This is a thing of excellent operation, and an high secret in mundifying of the reins, if ye keep the diet as is afore described. The dose of it is one cyath or a little cupful in the morning early, and sleep after it a little. If ye would have the foresaid syrup to purge more choler, then put in it a dram of fine rhubarb, with a little cassia.  
¶ Hereafter followeth a powder of excellent operation in breaking of the stone▪ TAke the kernels that are within sloes, & dry them on a tile stone, then make of them a powder by itself: after that take the roots of alisander, parseley, parietary, and hollyhock, of every one a like much, and seeth them all in white wine or else in the broth of a young chicken, than strain them out into a clean vessel, and when ye drink of it, add as much of the said powder as ye think convenient, half a silver spoonful or more, for without doubt it hath great effect in bringing out the gravel.  
¶ An other expert medicine for them that have the stone. There groweth in the galls of some oxen, a certain yellow stone, some times in bigness of a walnut, somewhat long & brittle. If ye take that stone & make of it a powder, & eat it in your pottage, the weight of one scruple or more according to your strength, it is a singular medicine to them that can not piss for stopping of the conduits.  
¶ An other singular medicine. for the stone. Take the seeds of smallache, parseley, lovage, and saxifrage, the roots of philipendula, cherry stones, grommel seed, and broom seed, of every one a like moche, make them in fine powder, and when ye be diseased with the stone, eat of this powder a spoonful at ones in pottage, or in broth of a chicken, and eat nothing after ii or iii hours.   

¶ The xii chapter of remedies for the gout.  
THe pain in the joints of a man's body, as in the hands & feet, is generally called arthritis, or gout, which proceedeth some time of debility of the sinews being lash & unable, to consume the humours, that continually do flow unto them.  
And for the most part they are all derived from the member mandant, that is to say the brain, for he is very gross, and engendereth ever humours in himself, by reason whereof, moche of the said humours are derived into the nuke and muscles of the back, & fro thence they descend into the feet, and then it is called podagra, or to the huckle boon, and then it is sciatica, or else into the hands, & there it is chiragra.  
¶ Remedy. Forasmuch as all the said kinds cometh of one beginning, as is showed afore, and for the better expedition in that we will be brief, ye shall first take away the superfluous moisture of the brain, which is the root and fountain of all the said diseases, and that ye may do four manner of ways. The first is observance of diet inclining toward dryness, & to avoid all fullness of meat and drink, and not to sleep in any wise shortly after meat. And ye must beware that ye eat no vaporous meats, nor thine wine, nor drink much after supper. And if perchance the pain be very sharp, it shallbe much wholesome to the patient, to abstain from all kinds of wine, & to use himself to small drink, which thing if he can not do, then let him drink claret wine mixed with a good quantity of water.  
The second is to purge the brain once a month, with the one half of pills of cochies, and an other half of pills assagareth. And in time of harvest, & of summer, with pills sine quibus, and pills imperial, whereof ye shall give one dram the night before the full moon, and the day following ye may give him to eat a little broth of cicers, with a little quantity of raisins of the sun.  
The third is to repress the fumes that ascend into the brain after meat, which thing may well be done by eating of a little dredge▪ made of anis seed and coriander.  
The fourth is to perfume the brain with certain things confortatyve, as for example thus.  
¶ A good perfume against moistures of the brain. Take fine frankincense, sandrake and mastic, of every one an ounce, lignum aloes, a dram, make them all in gross powder, and perfume therewith stoops made of flax or of cotton, and lay upon the head.  
And when ye have by this means well and duly comforted the brain, & de●ended of, the original cause of the said disease, ye shall proceed to take away the matter conjoint, that is descended unto the sinews, and ye shall begin thus.  
first ye must preserve the body from engendering of humours, in taking every morning next your heart a conserve made of acorns, & of flowers of rosemary, mingled with a little nutmigge and mastic, and if ye be of power, ye may drink a good draft of hippocras or other spiced drink, after meat at dinner and at supper.  
Secondarily, ye shall understand, that whosoever doth intend to be helped of the gout, he must every year be purged two times, preparing first the matter to digestion with syrup of stechados, and duabus radicibus, with the one half of waters of sage, primroses and margerim, in manner of a spiced julep with cinnamon, taken .v. continual mornings ii hours afore ye eat any other meat. And after that, ye must receive a dram of pills called arthretikes, or hermodactiles, or of both together equal portions. Or take half an ounce of diacartami two hours after night, and of diaturbith, of every one two drams, with a little syrup of hisop.  
The rest of the said curation shall be accomplished with the applying of divers local remedies, whereof there be sundry kinds & sorts here declared.  
Ye ought to rub the place that is sore with oil of roses and a little vinegar, & after sprinkle upon the same, fine powder of myrtles. Another plaster also as hereafter followeth.  
¶ A plaster for the gout. Take of the emplaster called mellilote ii ounces, populeon an ounce and a half, red roses, mytles, and flowers of camomile, of every one a dram, make a plaster and lay upon the gouty joint.  
¶ An other. Take the juice of coleworts and of walwort, and with bean flower, and powder of red roses, and the flowers of camomile, make a plaster and lay it to the sore.  
¶ An other. Take oil of roses, crumbs of bread, yolks of eggs, & cows milk, with a little saffron, seeth them together a little as ye would make a pudding, afterward spread them upon clouts & lay upon the sore.  
¶ An other. Make lie of the ashes of rosemary, or of oak, or of bean stalks, & boil in it, sauge, moleyne, primrose, camomile, and mellilote, and receive the fume upon the sore place, or wet clouts in the said decoction, press them and lay them upon the pain.  
All the said remedies are very good to suage the pain of the gout, after the which done, it is necessary to go about the comforting of joints and sinews, and to that intent ye may apply the grease of pies, oil of camomile & of althaea or hollyhock, oil of a fox, oil of earthwormes, oil of primroses, turbentine, oil of gromel brayed, wherwythall, or with one or two of them ye may anoint the sore place, and comfort both the sinews and the joints marvelously. Also this ointment that followeth is singular good for the same purpose.  
Take five or two handfuls of walwort, and seeth them well in wine: then strain them, and with a little wax, oil of spike and aqua vite, make an ointment wherewith ye must anoint the place morning and evening every day.  
another ointment for the gout. Take a fat goose, and pluck her, and trim her as if she should be eaten, than stuff the belly within with two or three young cats, well chopped in small gobbets, with an handful of bay salt, then sow her up again, & let her roast at a small fire, and keep the dripping for a precious ointment against all kinds of gouts, and other diseases of the joints.  
Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases. Take cows dung, and seeth it in sweet milk, and lay a plaster to the gout hot.  
Also the yolks of eggs, woman's milk, linseed, and saffron all together in a plaster, suageth the diseases of the gout.  
And if ye be disposed to broke thee skin, and to let the humours issue (as by such many one is eased) ye shall make a little plaster of black soap, & aqua vite, which will blister it without any great pain.  
Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gambon of bacon, and afterward stamped with a little of the broth, and made in manner of a plaster, is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout, and was first practised of Galene the prince of all physicians,  
A prayer to God for help, against the perturbations of the mind. O Lord my God almighty father, & ruler of my life, my health, my strength, my redeemer, and protector, send unto me the heavenly beams of thy holy spirit, to illumine the darkness of my sinful heart, and to guide me to thy holy place. Show me the light of thine abundant mercy (O Lord) that I may no longer sleep in deadly sin. O only father of light which in very deed dost lighten every man that cometh into this world, for thy great mercy's sake it may please thee, to lighten the eyes of mine heart, and to endue me with the spirit of grace, that I may look upon mine own sin, the great offences wherewith I have offended thee, and to know that in myself there is no manner strength, for to withstand▪ the death, but only through thee. And I beseech thee, o lord, to cover these my carnal eyes, that they see no vanity, and give me thy grace, that I fall not into concupiscence, to th'end I may eschew all evil things, and give my mind holly to the observation of thy commandments. Lord God I beseech thee, that sin may neither reign nor tarry in me, and that I be not subject to mine own fleshly appetites, but that I may expel out of my thoughts as unlawful lusts, so that my soul and all my mind, may be set holy upon the. Lord God suffer not my soul to be oppressed▪ but receive me into the protection of thy holy hand, and despise not me thy simple creature, whom thou hast redeemed with the precious blood of thine only son jesus Christ. Thy mercy O lord is above all that thou haste made, for thou dost differ the punishment of the wicked, if perchance they would amend at last, thou lovest all that thou haste made, & hatest none but for their own iniquities. And when the wicked turn again to thee, and cry unto thy holy name with all their hearts, by & by thy mercy is ready to receive them, even as I most detestable sinner come with heart contrite unto thy mercy this day: that I may obtain remission of my sins. To the I cry out of the veri depth & bottom of mine heart, go not away from me my maker & redeemer, but hear the supplication of my prayer. For thou art mine only hope and mine inheritance in the land of livers. I have sinned, I have sinned (O Lord) and heaped up iniquity even against heaven, and afore the. But I knowledge mine offences, and desire mercy according to thy goodness. Destroy me not (O Lord) among sinners, nor let me not descend into the lake of death, that I unworthy creature being made worthy only by the bounteousness of thy grace, may from henceforth live in thy commandments, love, honour, and praise thee. For all heavenly powers, angels, thrones, and dominations, laud and praise thy holy name▪ world without end. Amen.   
Thus endeth the Regiment of life.   

¶ Here beginneth a goodly brief tretise of the Pestilence, with the causes, signs, and cures of the same: composed, and newly recognized by Thomas Phayer studious in Philosophy and Physic, to the aid, comfort, and utility of the poor.  

¶ To the good reader a preface of the author.  
AFter that God almighty, father and creature of all things, had by his unsearchable providence, ordained mankind to eternal felicity, and joy at the beginning, he thought it not enough to have created him of nothing, a body most excellent, perfect & ●ure both in members and senses, above all other his creatures here in earth, but also of his inestimable goodness endued him with divers & sundry gifts of grace, as wi●te, understanding, mind & reason, whereby he might not only (as near as is possible) approach unto him in the knowledge of his heavenly majesty (as concerning soul) but aswell imagine, search and find out, by all manner ways, aids, comforts & remedies, whereby also the body might be saved and defended, against all assaults of any thing that should annoy it: so bounteous and plentiful are his gifts implanted in our nature, that o● all creatures we might have been th● happiest. But after that sin had entered into the world, and by sin deat● (as saint Paul saith) our corrupt livings have made us more corrupt, 〈◊〉 that now the life which we lead here is not only not very pleasant unto ● most of men, and if it be to some, ye it is uncertain, mutable, and short: but to many other it is exceeding grievous, sorrowful, and tedious, subject to diseases, infortunes, and calamities innumerable, which for the most part do increase daily, ever the just vengeance of God falling upon us for our great abominations, and without doubt will evermore endure, unless we do repent, and live in his commandments.  
And to pass over all the hole swarms of so many, both old and new diseases, wherewith the body of man (alas for our sins) is continually tormented and vexed, to speak nothing of these common and familiar infirmities, as lepryes, agues, cancars, pocks, gouts, palsies, dropsies, rheums, phtisies, and other out of number, which as if they had conspired to fight against physicians, can scantly be appeased with any cure of medicine, what pain or punishment can there be imagined to put us in remembrance of our own wickedness, cause us to detest our abominable livings, and to call for mercy with lamentable hearts, more than this only plague and scourge of god commonly called the pestilence? Is there any sickness that is half so violent, so furious and so horrible, as this sickness is? What disease is there in the world, so venomous in infecting, so full of pain in suffering, so hasty in devouring, and so di●ici●e in curing, as the plague is? And yet are we now a days, so stubborn and so froward, or else so drowned in the mire of filthy and carnal appetites, that we nothing do regard these open and manifest tokens of our condemnation in the sight of God, but apply our hole studies to persever in our sins ever worse and worse: wherefore it is no marvel though the said disease increaseth, but rather to be feared, that almighty God will pour his indignation upon us with some other kind of plague, more violente and terrible than the same is.  
But to them that do repent, and put their only trust in him, who can do but wonder at his infinite benygnitie, and goodness, that even in the midst of all the said afflictions, provideth them of remedies lest they should despair: cureth and amendeth all their grievous sores, languors and diseases: he created medicine even out of the earth, and of the wise man it shall not be despised. And surely amongs all other sickness, is there none so dangerous▪ as is the foresaid plague, for any man to cure by the way of medicine: for it turneth itself in so many manner of kinds, likenesses and fashions, that they that are infected, are many times dead, afore it can be known, that they have the same disease. Which thing although many noble and most excellent learned men have in times passed worthily considered, and thereupon according to their singular knowledge and industries given to them of God, have written upon the causes, signs and cures of the said disease, so exactly, so learnedly, and with so great eloquence, and cunning, that there seemeth nothing either to be omitted, or possible to be added, to the perfect curation of the same: and so it would be hard for a man of my slender wit, to invent the thing that they have not invented, much more in vain should I go about to write the same things that they have written already: Yet notwithstanding forasmuch as this disease when it once beegynneth, infecteth none so much, as the common people, among whom it is not given to all men, to understand the foresaid volumes, if they had them present, much less can they get their health by their own imaginations or experiments, specially when almost no physician will vouchsafe to visit any such infected of the common sort (so great is the danger of this cruel sickness) by reason whereof, the pacientes caste themselves oftentimes into despair, and so many of the poor people, creatures of God, which by good medicines might well enough recover, for lack of such acknowledge are utterly destroyed and cast away, to the great pity of all christian hearts, continual ruin of the common weal, with diverse other grievous and huge incommodities, as is daily seen where the said disease reigneth.  
I therefore at the reverence of almighty God, and for the love that I bear unto mine even christian, according to the talon wherewith the lord hath endued me, under the correction of my friends the physicians, have taken out of divers & sundry volumes, of the most famous authors, that have most exactly written of the said disease, one peculiar, certain and compendeous treatise, adding thereunto such wholesome & singular remedies, as I myself have proved and know to be effectual, in curing of the same.  
desiring god almighty, the only author and restorer of all health, so to guide the hearts of his suppliants, that the said medicines may take effect in them, according to his gifts: and as for my labour, I do nothing desire, but the love and favour of the gentle readers, whom I pray God continually to increase in all goodness.   

A treatise of the pestilence. What is meant or signified by this word pestilence,  
PEstilence is none other thing but a venomous infection of the air, enemy to the vital spirits, by a certain grievous and evil property (and not of any quality elemental that is within itself.) For even as pure treacle is a comforter of life, not because of heat, cold, moistness or dryness, but forasmuch as out of all his composition there redoundeth a certain form agreeing to the form of the vital spirits of our body: so is the foresaid vapour enemy to our natures, not for any quality, as is said before, but for that, that his proportion is direct even contrary to our vital spirits, consisting in the heart, which vital spirits, if by the will of god, & ordinary diet, be stronger in the patient than the foresaid vapour is, they drive it from the body, & will not be infected. And if it happen that the foresaid spirits be weaker than the venom, or the body full of humours apt to putrefaction, than it doth incontinent assault the lively membres, & except remedy, bring the body quickly to destruction. But when we do say the vapour to be venomous, we mean not that it is a poison of itself in deed, for than should every creature be indifferently infected, and none should escape that draweth it in breath: but I call it venomous, for that it is of such a naughty quality, that it may be lightly converted into venom, that is to say, apt to burning and corosion, as do mercury sublimed, quick lime or ratten bane, and other such like kinds of venims. Thus ye may perceive that all the great danger that is in this disease, cometh of the naughtiness of humours, which are made apt to receive the said vapours, & not by violence of the infected air only.   

¶ Of the four roots, or causes principal of the said disease, whereof it doth arise and grow, & why it reigneth in one time more than in another.  
THe first root superior & cause of the pestilence is the will of god, ryghtfullye punishing wicked men, of which root the holy scripture treateth in many places, as in Deu. the xxviii. chapter. If thou wilt hear the voice of thy Lord God, and work and fulfil all his commandments, that which I command to the this day, thy god shall make the more excellent than all the people that be upon the earth. etc.  
And in diverse other places, he giveth many blessings to them that keep his laws.  
And likewise to the people rebelling and breaking his commandments, he threateneth many curses, as where he sayeth.  
If thou wilt not here the voice of thy lord God, to keep and work all his commandments, which I command the this day▪ there shall come upon the these curses, and catch the. Thou shalt be cursed in the city, and in the field, thy barn shall be cursed, thy living shallbe cursed, the fruit of thy womb shallbe cursed, the fruit of thy ground shallbe cursed, the herds of thy sheep and cattle, shall be cursed, thou shalt be cursed at thy coming in, and cursed at thy going out. Also a little after he saith: The lord shall ioin● to thee the pestilence, till he hath consumed the out of the earth, to the whic● thou shalt go to take possession. Th● lord shall strike the with poverty, fevers and cold, burning and heat, an● with a corrupt air. etc.,  
Also in an other place. The Lord shall strike thee with the pestilence o● egypt, and the part of thy body b● the which thou avoidest thy dung, with a scab and itch, and shalt not be able to be cured thereof: and let the heaven that is over thee be as hard as brass by cruel constellations, and the earth on which thou dost tread, be like iron that ever wasteth, and waxeth worse and worse.  
There be many other maledictions which our lord hath threatened the rebellious people withal, expressed in many places of holy scripture, but these may be sufficient as touching our intent, to show that many times the cause of this disease is the vengeance of almighty god, rightfully punishing men for their offences.  
¶ The second root of the pestilence, which doth depend of the heavenly constellations. NOow that we have spoken of the first rote superior, of the which this disease proceedeth, it is also convenient that we declare somewhat of the second root or cause superior, that is to weet, of natural influences of the bodies above.  
And ye shall understand, that according to the saying of Marsilius Ficinus (a man of excellent knowledge, and no less learning) in his book De triplici vita, & in an other which he writeth also of the pestilence: that among all other heavenly dodyes, there be two bodies called evil and malicious, that is Saturn and Mars, which oftentimes by their unwholesome influences, are cause of manifold infirmities, specially of the pestilence. Saturn● through cold, and Mars by excess o● heat. Saturn through cold, is th● cause of rheums, of the lepry called elephancia, and all diseases coming of cold matter.  
Mars by reason of his heat, bringeth forth fevers pestilemcial, spitting of blood, water under the mydrife, and the pleurisy, the which is a disease engendered like an apostome of choleric matter in a thick pannicle, or f●me underneath the ribs.  
A provident physician among many other things, aught to consider the entering of the sun into Aries, by true equation of the houses and planets, for that influence hath more domination, than have all the other influences of the hole year beside, except the superior conjunctions of the planets, or else some great eclipse. And this entering of the sun into Aries, passeth all the enterings of the sun into any other sign.  
Therefore you must consider how the lord of the vi house in the figure is disposed, for he is lord of sickness, that is to say, you must consider whether he be impedite or no, and if he be impedite, there shall be many sicknesses, according to his nature and his house, that is the vi house, as by example thus.  
Be in case that Saturn is the lord of the vi house, and some earthy sign is in the same house, then most commonly the sickness of that year, shallbe of like nature, that is, cold and dry.  
And over this thou must consider, whether that the lord of the vi house hath any aspect with the lord of the house of death, or the lord of the house of death to him, then most commonly the end of those sicknesses that are cold and dry shallbe death.  
And likewise as it is declared of the entering of the sun into Aries, so it must be said of the conjunctions of the sun and moon, through all the year, marking ever the nature of the planet being in the vi house, if there be any, and the aspects to those two houses aforesaid. etc.  
Also he must consider, whether this entering of the sun into Aries, or any of the conjunctions of the luminaries, be in the eight house or no, for than it should be much worse.  
And note, that if the eclipse of the sun or moan, be in any of the angles of the nativity of any person, or in any of the angles of the revolution of his nativity, than he shall suffer sickness according to the nature of the same angles. And if the said eclipse be in the midst of heaven, he shall suffer hurt in his honour and fame: and if it be in the ascendente, he shallbe grieved in his body, and so forth of other houses, but it shallbe the worser, in case the eclipse be in the ascendent, specially if it be the eclipse of the sun, for that is the more dangerous of the two, for asmuch as the effect of the eclipses of the moan, is always finished in the space of one year at the most, sometime in less, and for the most part in three months. But the effect of the eclipses of the sun, is very long or it come to pass, sometime .12. years, as witnesseth Ptolemy in his centiloquio.  
The Astrologians take the judgement of the year, by the entering of the sun into Aries, in the first minute, and if it then happen that all the ill planets be in the eight house, which is the house of death, they say that year shall rise a pestilence, and divers other sicknesses, according to the nature and condition of those planets.  
And if the moon in the same entering be near unto the conjunction of the son, as sometime happeneth, within ii or three, or four degrees, that year shallbe a death and pestilence universal and that shortly after that conjunction, specially at the coming of the moan and the evil planets to infortunes, & as the infortunes be, that effects shall so appear, be they more or less.  
Furthermore, ye must consider the great conjunction of the ii hire planets, as was the conjunction of Saturn and jupiter, the year of our lord. M. ccccc.xxv. in the last day of August, & the xiii degree of Scorpio: which conjunction changed from an airy triplicity to a watery, & it was in a watery sign, whereof there chanced very moche rain, & thereupon followed the excessive humectation or moisting of man's body, which by and by turned to putrefaction, and thereupon ensued perilous & corrupt fevers, pestilences, and agues, specially because in the conjunction, Saturn was exalted, in the north above jupiter, which Saturn is of ill influence.  
¶ Of the third root or cause of this outrageous sickness. THe third rote or cause being inferior, is the stynch and filthy savours that corrupt that air which we live in: for we can not live without drawing of the breath, and we have none other breath but of the air round about us, which if it be stinking, venomous & corrupt, and we by necessity draw the same unto us, immediately corrupteth and infecteth the heart, and the lively spirits of the same, and after that invadeth all the other membres of the body to infect them in likewise, by reason whereof is engendered a corrupt & venomous fever of pestilence, very contagious to all that are about them, for the venomous air itself, is not half so vehement to infect, as is the conversation or breath of them that are infected already, and that by reason of the agreeing of the natures, which is the very cause why our bodies be infected by contagion of men, more than any other beasts.  
Of the fourth root or cause of the said disease. THe fourth rote is, the abuse of things not natural, that is to weet of meat and drink, of sleep and watching, of labour and ease, of fullness and emptiness, of the passions of the mind, & of the immoderate use of lechery, for the excess of all these things, be almost the chief occasion of all such diseases as reign among us now a days.  
For all that of our meat and drink is not digested, turneth anon to putrefaction and to evil qualities.  
And to much sleep replenisheth the body with to great abundance of humours, but over much watching doth dry up the natural humidities.  
And as watching doth, so doth immoderate labour, and as sleep doth, so doth rest and ease out of measure, put the body in great distemper, and maketh it apt unto this sickness, as is daily seen.  
And whoso will be ruled as becometh him in this case, shall never be lightly infected, & if chance he be, he shall easily with a little help, ye sometime by very nature only, save himself and overcome the sickness.  
Now seeing that the causes of this said disease be so great as is afore rehearsed, it is not to be wondered, though the thing itself be very huge and dangerous, and of hard curation▪ wherefore sayeth Auisen in his first of methaphisikes' (although he were no christian:) we must with good and virtuous living mitigate the wrath of god, and by continual prayers keep ourselves still in the state of grace. Therefore would I counsel every christian man, that is in doubt of this disease, to cure first the fever pestilential of his soul, calling for the wholesome water, the well of life, whereof it is written. Omnes sitientes venite ad aquas. etc. Which waters he only giveth, that said to his disciples. Qui biberit ex aqua quam ego dabo illi: erunt in ventre eius aque vive salientes in vitam eternam. And this done undoubtedly the sickness of the body shall be the easier to be cured,  
And for because the other sovereign remedy preservative is to fly the corrupt air, according to the proverb, Long, cito, tarde. Fly be times, fly far, and come slowly again.  
¶ Yet for so much as every man can not, nor is of ability so for to do, it is good for them to look upon this little regiment, wherein with the aid of almighty god the high Physician, if the venom be not to outrageous, he shall find how to preserve himself well enough from it.  
And for the better knowledge and understanding of this treatise, ye shall know that it is divided into ii parts.  
¶ The first is of the manner of preserve a man from the pestilence only by diet, in such things without the which, one can not be long alive in health.  
¶ The second treateth of the cure of the said disease by the way of wholesome medicine.  
¶ The first part is distribute into vii little chapters, 

¶ The first chapter treateth of the election of the air.  
¶ The ii of meats and drinks.  
¶ The iii treateth of sleeping and of waking.  
¶ The fourth treateth of exercise.  
¶ The fifth of emptiness and fullness.  
¶ The sixth speaketh of the accidents of the mind.  
¶ The vii of medicines preparative.    
The second part is divided into vi, chapters.  

¶ The first, how to know when a man is infected.  
¶ The second, of the cure of the pestilence by the way of diet.  
¶ The third, of the cure of the pestilence by the power of medicines.  
¶ The four of cure thereof by letting of blood, ventoses, and purgations.  
¶ The .v. of the cure of the same by outward applications.  
¶ The vi how to cure the botch called a Carbuncle, or Anthrax.    


¶ The first chapter of the first part, treating of the election of the air.  
ALthough the disposition of the air cold and dry, or else moderately moist, be much commendable in the time of pestilence, yet there must be moderation in the same, as well as in the vi things not natural heretofore declared. For ye must have a good respect unto the complexion, the age, the custom of living, the region, composition of the body, strength, sickness time, and many other things. For some require an air more hot, than other some do, and likewise in o●her things, the which I do remit unto the good discreation of every well learned man, and to such other as have any knowledge of natural things. For the more surety, it is good for than that may, to dwell in high or hilly grounds, having in the morning when the sun is up, a window open toward the east, and when the son goeth down, an other window open toward the west, and close up all the windows on the south side, for that wound is very ill in time of pestilence.  
Also it is good to rectify the air within the house, if it be in summer, by sprinkling in the chamber vinegar, & water of roses: if it be winter or cold make a lusty fire of clean wood, & put in it incense, myrrh, laurel tree, or juniper, or cypress: and in time temperate, mingle the hot things with the cold aforesaid.  
Which sprincklinges, and burnings, ye may make at all times when ye will, but specially in the morning, to correct the vapours of the night.  
I read in Plotyne, that the egiptians were wont to fume their houses and their bodies in the day with turpentine or rosin, and in the night with myrrh cast upon the coals, and so resisted all venomous airs & contagions.  
The first hath so great virtue against the pestilence, that we read how Hypocrates preserved the hole country and city of Athenes, by making of great fires in the streets, and all about the town by night, and so delivered them from the certain death that should have comen among them. For which cause the citizens of the said town, made unto him an image all of gold, and honoured him alive as if he had been a god.  
And it is good in hot time, to s●we the chamber full of willow leaves, & other fresh boughs, which must be gathered after the sun setting, & lay about your bed and windows, vine leaves, quinces, pomegranates, oranges, lemons, citrons, and such other fruits, that are odoriferous, as roses, flowers of nenuphar, violets, & other like. And in cold times, take sage, laurel, mint, wormwood, nept, balm, rue, and galingale, which things ye may sometime carry about with you in a cloth to take the air of them. And in time of heat, temper a sponge or a clout in water of roses, & vinegar. And in time of cold ye may add to it a little cinnamon, & thus he that is disposed to have precious savours, as pomanders, or other such, may compose them according to necessity, & as the complexion of his body shall require. Always taking heed the women which are with child, and they that have the suffocation of the mother or else catarrhs, take no such odour, as shall put themselves to any danger, or displeasure.  
In a cold time it is good to hold in the mouth, zedoary, enulacampana, cinamome, cloves, the rind of a citron, lignum aloes, or any one of them. But if the season of the year be hoot, then take corianders prepared, grains of paradise, sanders, seeds of oranges, or of lemons. And in temper at wether mingle the one with the other. But it is good in all times, to bear about you precious stones, (if ye have them) specially a iacincte, a ruby, a garnet, an emerald, or a sapphire, which hath a special virtue against the pestilence, & they be the stonger, if they be borne upon your naked skin, chiefly upon the fourth finger of the left hand, for that hath great affinity with the heart above other membres.  
And as touching them that are continually among the sick of this disease, they must take heed in any wise, to keep them from their breath, and that they do not stand between them and the fire, nor receive the odour of their sweats, urines, vomits, and other excrements of the body nor to eat and drink with them, nor in their vessels, nor to lie in their couches, nor wear any of their apparel, except they be well sunned, or weathered in the clean air.  
It is also good to fly from all places that be corrupt, or stinking, and to keep the streets & houses very sweet and clean. And the rulers ought so to provide, that no filthy dung, nor any dead carrions, be cast into the streets, for that should sore infect the air, & bring many men to death. And during all the time of this disease, there ought to be no hot houses used, but forbidden and locked up, till such time they see no further danger,   

¶ The second Chapter, of eating and drinking.  
THe meats ought to be of very light digestion, more in summer then in winter, having alway an eye unto the complexions, customs and other things aforesaid. The hour what time ye shall receive your meat, is when your appetite cometh upon you, after the first digestion made. Great repletion ought to be abhorred, but a sufficient meal is very wholesome. Neither is diversity of meats allowed of any physic, but if ye will have divers sorts, then begin with them that are the lightest to digest, and that best nourisheth the body.  
Your bread must be of pure corn, kept in good air, and not fusty, meetly well salted, with sufficient leaven, & baken in a place where none evil▪ air is, and it must be of a day or two days old, or there about.  
Wheat is best among all other corns, even as wine among all other liquors, although the ba●lye bread be good for them that mind to keep them lean. Meats of evil taste, after they be long dead, & stinking fish in like manner, and the fats of all fishes, and meats that have been twice sodden, thick wine and troublous, or otherwise corrupt, waters of marshes, & black grounds, and all such corrupt meats & drinks, be very perilous. But good wine, savoury, and clear, and good meats taken with an appetite are cause of health, and preservation from the pestilence.  
Vinegar is a noble thing in time of pestilence, if ye have none other impediment to let you to receive it, & ye may correct it according to the nature of the cause, in such wise, as may be comfortable to the vital spirits of the heart.  
Borage and bugloss, are very good preservatives in this case, and so is a little quantity of saffron, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, prunes of damask, & other such, in good convenient quantity, adding to them a little sugar, and cynamone for correction,  
A nut is called the treacle of fish, shelled & sugared with a little rose water: and as saith Isaac, a nut & a fig dry taken afore dinner, preserveth a man from all manner of poisons.   

The third Chapter, of sleeping and watching.  
TO moche sleep engendereth many humours in the body, specially if it be in the day time; & it dulleth the memory, and maketh a man unlusty and apt to receive the pestilence. Therefore▪ created almighty god the night, wherein we should rest, & the day for to keep us waking that we fall not into sin and sloth. Surely, to sleep on the day time is exceeding hurtful, for when the sun riseth, he openeth the poors of the body, and bringeth the humours and spirits from within, to the outward parties, which provoketh a man to watching, and exercise or works.  
And contrary wise when the sun goeth down, all things are closed & coacted, which naturally provoketh a man to rest.  
Moreover, the stomach by the vehement heat of the day is naturally dilated and spread abroad: so ever against   

¶ The .v. Chapter, of emptiness and fullness.  
IT is wholesome for you, every day once to procure the duty of the womb, if ye can not naturally, yet at the lest ways seek some other means, as by a glister or suppository, for the long withholding of any superfluities, is in this time very dangerous and hurtful. And all the time the said disease endureth, they that have any fistules, ought not to be cured.  
And they that have any issues by their hemoroides, may not be restrained without the flux be sore excessive, & they that had the foresaid hemoroides and were cured afore, let them open them again for fear of further danger. Also they that are disposed to be scabby, having great itch, and such diseases of the skin, aught to bring the matter out by rubbing, and vehement clawing with their nails.  
Excess of women, is exceeding perilous, but if ye can not rule yourself, take good heed, ye do nothing afore the first digestion, and till nature doth provoke you, for every such excess weakeneth more the body, than if ye should be let blood xl times so much, as witnesseth Auicenna, and is cause many times of pestilence, & of death.   

¶ The vi Chapter, of accidents of the mind.  
YE must beware of a● things that should make you to be pensive, heavy, thoughtful, angry or melancholic, for all such things are enough to infect a man alone.  
Pass the time joyfully in good things honest and decent, every man according to his own heart, and the estate that God hath called him unto.   

¶ The vii Chapter, of medicines preservatives.  
ALl they that are of good complexion and of wholesome diet, need not to be purged. For an hole body and void of all humours, is not lightly taken of the pestilence, as the other are.  
But if it be a body full of humours, or a great eater without any exercise or travail, such aught to let themselves be purged, and they that have to much quantity of blood, or if the blood be any thing corrupt, they ought to ask counsel of some good expert physicians, and not to put their trust in any vain boasters that detract other, which in all cases and at all times, give them mercury precipitant, and other medicines corrosive, which for the most part are venom of themselves and under colour of an other medicine do deceive the patient, a wonder to behold, how craftily they cover it, some time in syrup, sometimes in sugar, otherwhiles in figs, lozenges, or raisins, lest it should appear (as it is in deed) that they give the pacientes very quicksilver. Some other affirm that the mercury is quenched, or thoroughly mortified, & worketh none otherwise but by secret quality against all diseases in the body of man: for the excess of elements say they, is clearly corrected in precipitation and adustion of the fire. How cometh it to pass (if this be true) that when a little of it is set upon a coal and a piece of fine gold adjoined to it, we may see plainly the very quicksilver, cleaving to the gold, and will make it as brittle as if it had lain in very raw mercury? Yea how chanceth it that when it is mingled with hot cream, it will be crude again as it was afore. And to say the truth the quick silver raw, is better to be drunken, than such as is sublimed, for that hath been permitted, both of Dioscorides & of divers other: But we never read of any good physician that ever gave counsel to take the precipitate, because of the copporose & other venomous ingredience being with it.  
And although that for the time peradventure some escape, & feel not their effect in deed as many other do (that is to say, debility of the virtue radical, of the stomach & other membres principal, purging of the good humours and leaving the evil within the body, whereof ensueth many time's death) yet they leave a certain evil quality or impression of the bodies in all that do receive them, and so they make work for good physicians, to the great hurt of them that have believed them. Such gallants should go prove their powder made of quicksilver, among the Turks and Sarisins, and not upon their even christian, and their neighbours. But now to our intent.  
The pills called pylluse communes, above other pills preservatives, are allowed to be of highest operation, by reason of a certain property that they have within them, as Rufus the composer of them sayeth, that he never saw any man that used them, but he was preserved from the pestilence.  
There goeth into their composition▪ myrrh & aloes, which have great virtue to keep the body from putrefaction, and are made thus.  
Take of aloes epatik well washed▪ it drams, myrrh washed, and saffron, of each a dram, make them up with white wine, or the juice of lemons, or of oranges and sugar.  
Some take them every third day, the weight of half a dram, in the morning iii pills, and every day one afore supper. Let every man do according to his need, and as his body is replete with humours, but it is good to drink after them a good draft of wine, tempered in a little water of roses, or of wormwood, and if they be to hard, let them be resolved in the syrup of lemons, or a little wine.  
Some doctors join unto them other spices, after the complexion of the person, and the humour that they need to purge. And they wash the aloes and the myrrh, in an hot season, and for him that hath an hot liver, in water of roses and of endive, but in that let every man be his own judge: yet I would counsel them to stick rather to the good experiments that have been accustomed, than the fantasies of their own imaginations.  
The apothecaries ought to have in store both the two sorts, and to see that they be sufficiently leavened, and that the foresaid aloes be elect & pure.  
They which have the hemoroydes and would use the foresaid pills, let them add a little mastic, or the gum that is called bdellium. If any have a bloody flux, or excoriation of the bowels, let him not receive them without a better counsel. Women also great with child, and they that are subject to any flux of blood ought not to receive them.  
Among other things, it is a good preservative, and a thing well expert and commended, to eat in the morning fasting one dry fig, one walnutte, and four or .v. leaves of rue, chopped all together, and afterward to drink a draft of good wine. But it shallbe sufficient for them that are with child to take the said things, leaving out the rue.  
In an hot season it is good to temper the said wine with a little rose-water or of violets. Some other take v hours afore dinner, three times a week, the weight of half a crown of mithridatum, or of fine treacle, tempered in a little good wine. But in time of heat and for hot complexions, it is good to put in it a little conserua roses, & to mingle them with water of sorrel, or of borage, or of bugloss.  
Mithridatum is a great medicine against all kind of venom, for we read that the founder of it, king Mythrydates, who did use to eat thereof, could never be hurt by any kind of poison. Thesame Mithridates being overcome in battle of the Romans, would have killed himself with the most swiftest poison that could be devised, but when he had drunken many sorts of such, and never a one wrought any thing to purpose, he caused himself to be slain of his servants, after whose death Pompeius, the grand captain of the host, found in his secret coffers, a certain bill written of his own hand, in effect thus.  
Twenty leaves of rue ii fat figs, two walnuts, and a little salt, whosoever eateth of this shall be sure from all kind of venom that day.  
The good treacle also hath a great virtue, but there ought to be a punishment of them that do abuse it with counterfaicted stuff, which deceiveth many people and causeth them to die, that put their trust in it.  
Some other take in time of cold, a clove or ii of garlic, which is called the housebandmans' treacle, & after drink a draught of good wine, and in hot time take and eat a few leaves of sorrel, and drink a draught of the water thereof distilled, for it is excellent & good in all complexions, times and ages. Also it is good to drink every morning a draught against the pestilence that is thus made.  
¶ A drink for the pestilence. Take in the month of june or at any other convenient time, our lady thistle, burnet, scabious, gentians, sorrel, of every one a like much, flowers of bugloss, red roses, herb dragons, and matfelon or marsus diaboli, twice as much as all the other, stepe them all in white wine & rose-water, during one night, than set them all in a common stillatory, weighing in for every pound of herbs, half an ounce of bull armeny powdered, augmenting the proportion, according to the quantity of the herbs: then still a water, and for every pint of it, take the weight of a crown of saffron, half an ounce of yellow sanders finely powdered, and put them all in a viol with the foresaid water stopped, and set them in the sun one month. This is a noble water for a man which hath the pestilence, to drink.  
And he that will, may put a little sugar, and powder of cinnamon in it, that it may be more pleasant in the taste. He that can not find the said herb called matfelon, or morsus diaboli in latin, let him take the double weight of dragons. It hath a root as it were half eaten of by the mids, and it is so called, because the fable is, the devil bitten it of, for thenuy he hath to man, lest we should obtain the great virtues of the same.  
The horn of an unicorn put in the drink, whole or in powder, hath a great effect against the said disease, and against all kinds of poison.  
¶ Here followeth a very good preservative for the common people, ready at all times and of small cost. Take an ounce of leaves of rue, half an ounce of good figs, one ounce of juniper buries, two ounces of walnuts piked four ounces of vinegar, & a good quantity of saffron, stamp all the foresaid things together, and reserve them in an earthen cup, or a glass fast stopped, that no air issue, whereof if ye receive in the morning upon a knife's point, the quaintity of a bean, or more, ye shallbe sure by the grace of god not to be infected in four and twenty hours after.  
¶ An other powder for the same. Take pure and elect bull armonyacke, not counterfeit, but such as is without gravel, smooth, somewhat shining, and to the eye a far of most like a very stone, not to brittle, nor to high coloured, for such is commonly sophisticate. Take I say, the said bull armoniac, & grind it unto fine powder, than wash it in white wine or in rose-water, or water of bugloss, sorrel, or wormwood, or scabious, afterward dry it and powder it again, and do so .v. or vi times, ever washing, drying and powdering the same, and at last set it up in a clean vessel, till ye need to use it.  
Men of hot complexion, if they will receive it, must take of it a spoonful with vinegar, or water of sorrel.  
And they that be of cold complexion, may take it in a little wine, or scabious water in the morning. For it preserveth the body, from all corruption, consumeth the superfluous humours, and driveth away the venom from the heart.  
another singular remedy preservative for rich men and delicate of complexion. TAke zedoary, lignum aloes, agrimoni, saffron, aristologia rotunda, if it may be gotten, white dyptanye, gentian, the rind of a citron, the seed of citron, of every one a scruple, corianders preparate, turmentil, red sanders, red coral, red roses, ivori, mirabolanes, emblike, of every one a dram, terra sigillata, two drams, bull armonyake three drams, powder all these, and with fine sugar, and syrup of acetositate citri, make a noble electuary, and keep it as a treasure of man's health, in the time of pestilence.  
another sovereign and goodly receipt both preservative and curative. TAke a hens egg, newly laid, and make a hole in the crown, by the which ye shall draw out all the white thereof, and leave the yolk within the shell, which done fill the same egg, with good english saffron whole, as much as may be stuffed in the shell, than dry this egg against the fire, or in an oven, when the bread is out, so long till the shell be utterly black and brent, and the rest sufficiently brittle and dry, make it in powder in a mortar, and add to it asmuch powder of mustard seed as shall weigh all the hole egg: than take this ingredience at the apothecary's. Ditamy, turmentille, nux vomica, of each a dram, powder every one of them by itself, than put them altogether, and put to it rue, peony root, zedoarye, camphor, and fine treacle, of each equal portion, so that the weight of them v. be asmuch as all the rest, beat them in a mortar by the space of ii hours, till all be incorporated together in a lump, than put it in a glass, and keep it covered with a leaf of gold, in a cold place, for it will last thus xxx years, without corruption, and is a thing of inestimable value in this case: the dose of it to preserve, is but one half penny weight, or less, yea the weight of one barley corn, hath in it a marvelous strength, in defending the body.  
But if one were infected already, than he must receive afore letting blood two. or iii grains, after his bleeding give him in the name of god, an hole scruple, or, two. or, iii. (if his strength will serve) tempered with wine for a hot taking, and in great cold with a little aqua vite, and thereupon sweat. ¶ I have known when the sick hath been utterly desperate, and could retain nothing, yet by the grace of god, through the means of two scrupules hereof, mixed with a little aqua vite, both the vomit immediately ceased, and nature recovered, escaped the danger of death.  
AS concerning sweet waters to sprinkle upon your clothes and things of pleasant odour, to be cast upon the coals when ye arise on mornings, and also the making of good and wholesome pomaunders, to smell upon in time of pestilence, for the contentation of them that are desirous, I shall here rehearse i or ii of every sort, to the intent ye may (when ye be disposed) either use them, or devise other of the same making: as it shall be requisite according to necessity.  
first a sweet water that is made thus. TAke water of roses, violets or nenuphar, or one of them, or of all together one pound, good vinegar two ounces, ma●ueseie, muscadyne, or other pleasant wine, three ounces, of both the sanders, of each one dram & an half, ●amphore, one scruple, and if ye have any gallia muscata, add thereto half a dram, mingle them together, and sprinkle upon your clothes, when ye be disposed. The right excellent, and famous doctor johannes Manardus also, in the third epistle of his fifth book, doth show, how to make in time of Pestilence, two sovereign perfumes, the one for to serve in summer which is made thus.  
A Fumigation for Summer. TAke red ambre ii parts, the leaves of mirte, flowers of nenuphar, roses, violets, saffron, maces, & yellow sanders, of either of them i part, camphor, ambre, benjamin, half a part, musk the tenth of one part, mingle all together, this is a pleasant and comfortable savour in the time of summer.  
¶ But in winter season ye may use this. TAke storax calamita, yreos, mastic, of each two parts, cloves, maces, nutmegs, cinnamon, saffron, of each one part, aumbre the fifth of one part, mushe the tenth of one part, mingle all together and make a fumigation.  
And of these powders ye may make little balls or pomaunders, to bear about with you at all times, but the last receit must be well incorporate with a little storax liquida, and lapdanum, & the other with lapdanum, gum, dragagant, and rose-water.  
¶ An other goodly pomaunder for gentlewomen and ladies. TAke the rind of an orange, cloves, lignum aloes, of each, one dram, calamus aromaticus half a dram, alipta muscata one dram, roses, myrtles, of every one half a dram, nutmigge, cinnamon, benjamin, of every one a scruple make it up in a mortar, with Storax liquida, with sufficient wax, and malvesey adding in the end, of camphor half a scruple or more.  
ANd in the time of pestilence, ye ought to keep the house every day till the son be up, and if it chance that ye go among a great multitude of people, where is any danger to be feared: ye may chew a little zeddary in your mouth, ones in an hour or two, but hold it not continually for hurting of the gums, zedoary (as sayeth Auicenne in his book de viribus cordis) comforteth the heart, and engendereth good blood, it is wholesome for the stomach (as affirmeth Pliny) maketh good digestion, and provoketh appetite.  
¶ Constantyne in his book of degrees, sayeth it hath a great power against venom, and the stinking of the mouth, it breaketh wind, and cureth the bitings of venomous beasts and serpents.  
When the sun shineth in a clear day, ye may walk in gardens, meadows, hills & by rivers, but beware of lakes, standing pools, and fens, for oftentimes the enfection of the air, ariseth of the corrupt vapours, boiling out of such unwholesome places.    

The second part, of the cure of one that is infected with the pestilence already.  

How to know a man that is infected, the first chapter.  
WE said in the beginning, how the pestilence was engendered of the corrupt and noughty air, turning all the humours of the body quickly to corruption & to venom. Wherefore we must take heed be times, lest the vital members be infected of the said poison, for it ever seeketh to the heart, and if it come unto the heart, afore the medicine, then is there no recovery, for not one among an hundred liveth. For the said venom is so swift, so fierce, and so boistous of itself, that it will not (without great difficulty) be put out of possession, but driveth away the medicine from the heart again.  
But if the medicine come unto the heart afore the venom hath the upperhand, than he driveth it out, by the help of the virtue expulsive, of the spiritual membres, and that expulsion commonly is by sweat.  
And for because sometimes a man is poisoned, & can not tell himself, nor none that is about him, whereof many dangers doth arise, for as the proverb is, one scabby sheep infecteth a hole flock, therefore it shallbe necessary that every man take heed unto himself, & consider all the signs & tokens that shall be said hereafter: for the more care that he hath about that, the sooner shall he escape out of the danger.  
And if a man feeleth himself infect, above all thing let him remember god, for it is a sickness that in a twinkling of an eye may bring a man to death.  
first let him look whether in his arm holes, flanks, or under his neck there be any apostume or swelling, or whether in any other parts of his body there appear any green, black, or evil coloured sore, for that is the sign that never faileth, but the person certainly is infected, Notwithstanding every man infected with the pestilence hath not such ulcers, botches or sores, wherefore ye must take heed of the other signs hereafter, that ye be not deceived for lack of the said apostemes. But what is the cause that such apostemes sometimes doth appear, & sometimes doth not? no doubt, but because that when the venom is so vehement & so furious, and hath gotten hold in the body of man, nature by reason of the swiftness of the infection, is so troubled, letted, and entangled, that she cannot tell which way to succour, & so can drive out none apostemes, & that is more perilous, than if there were many sores. But again, when the venom is but meanly furious, & the nature of the patient strong enough by reason of good humours, them it defendeth itself and driveth the venom from the heart & principal membres, to such places as it may be best avoided at, which breaketh forth by comuulsion in botches, carbuncles and other sores.  
The second sign is, if ye feel a great pricking and shooting in your body, and specially in any of the iii cleansing places, that is to say the neck, the armholes and the flanks.  
The third sign is when ye feel an outrageous heat within you, as if ye were in the fire. Which heat sometime spreadeth itself abroad through all the hole body, and otherwhile there ariseth such a cold, that it maketh a man to shake as if he were in a fever. Wherein all ye that be infected, must take heed: for some there be that in the beginning feel not such a fervent heat outwardly, but it is within as great as if they burned, with moche heaviness of the head, dryness of the mouth, & extreme thirst. Whereby many one are compelled for to sleep even for very labour of the spirits, and some other watch, and are so out of quiet that a man would think they were fallen in to a phrenesye.  
The fourth sign is, if great vapours and fumes arise out of the body, when a man is in a bathe, and would fain sweat, but he can not.  
The fifth sign is if the patient can not draw his breath easily, for many one is so straight winded, that he can not speak, and when he breatheth it is with great labour and difficulty.  
The sixth sign is vehement pain of the heed, such as is wont to be in a frenzy. But there be some for all that, that in the beginning of the infection, feel nothing so great pain as we have spoken of in the heed. Notwithstanding this is a general rule, that the pestilence can not be in the body, without some pain, or heaviness in the heed▪ The vii sign is great desire to sleep, from the which many one can not abstain himself in any wise, nor can not be kept waking of them that are about him. The viii sign is changing of the sight, for sometimes there cometh to the pacientes eyes, as it were a yellow colour, sometimes all that he beholdeth he thinketh it to be green.  
The ix sign is pain of the mouth, or an unnatural taste, bitter, sour, orstinkinge. The tenth sign is often vomiting, bitter, & of divers colours. The xi is heaviness and dullness of all the hole body, and swooning, and weakness of the limbs, These be the principal signs & tokens whereby ye may perceive when any man is infected. notwithstanding all these signs are not ever manifest, for sometimes it is seen, that one hath had the pestilence, & felt nothing at all, yea and sometimes the urine will be as fair and as good to sight, as in a hole man, because the humours come not at the liver, and the fever willbe small or none, for that the venom is not in a hot humour, and so driveth out no heat, and yet the patient by and by dieth.  
Sometimes also he shall think himself hole, because that nature in the first brunt drove the venom from the heart, and yet anon after his life passeth from him, for that nature was not strong enough at the next assult, either by reason it was vexed & wearied in the first, or else the venom peradventure multiplied or changed into more malignity or nearer to the heart than it was afore. Every one in the beginning seem lightly to be better, for then the strength of nature is gathered all together to stand against his enemy, but it is not so in other evil sicknesses. The patient also many times thinketh himself strong enough, because the venom worketh not so cruelly upon the other members as it doth upon the heart.  
Wherefore in time of pestilence, when ye feel yourself in any thing diseased, drive not forth the time in looking when the signs aforesaid should appear, nor stand not in examining or doubting whether ye be infected or no, for ye may be sure, that so long as this disease reigneth in the country where ye are, ye shall have few sicknesses, but either is pestilence already, or else will be within a while: and so give yourself to the cure of the Pestilence, for while the naughty influence of that infection dureth, all superfluous humours may lghtly be infected, and that is the only cause, why in time of pestilence, there is so few of other infirmities. For as soon as many sorts of other sicknesses do arise, the pestilence abateth and is gone.  
And here is to be noted, that whatsoever child in the time of pestilence, be vexed with the worms, ye may safely affirm that he is infected, for it is a matter so disposed to the pestilence, even as is brimstone, to be kindled of the fire. This have many physicians not considered, & because of that, have been deceived in their cure. Here I have declined by occasion, but now to our intent.  
When one or two, or more of these signs aforesaid are known to be in a body, let him not despise them, nor put any foolyssh trust in the strength of his complexion, as many one have done, & by and by died, nor let no man trust the colour of his urine, or moving of the pulse: for sometimes the strength is so excessive in the venom, that a man is deed afore the natural virtues are able for to secure him, or to drive away the venom from the heart. And herein have many wise physicians also been deceived, and have evil judged of the pacientes prognostic.  
Therefore by and by without delay, ye must administer some good and wholesome medicine, as shallbe said hereafter, or else the stilled water that we spoke of in the former Chapter, or some other valiant medicine against the pestilence, that it may descend unto the heart afore the venom have the upperhand of nature.  
For if it be once settled at the heart, I affirm plainly, there is no hope at al. Yet there be some fools, that tarry till the twelfth hour, or the four & twenty, after the infection, and they boast themselves that they will heal the patient, but that is a manifest & a a shameful error, for if any by chance is so recovered, it cometh of God, & not of any medicine, for where as one so escapeth, an hundred other perish.  
notwithstanding if the case so be that ye be not called, or can get no remedy afore the said time, cast not yourself into despair, or put not the patient in discomfort, take or give your medicine in the name of God, and if ye can not brook it, take asmuch again and do so many times till ye may retain it, them lay ye down to sweat, and life up your heart to God, calling upon him, without whom there is no health, and by the grace of jesus, ye need not to be fearful of death, for that the is impossible to man, is easy enough with God, yea many times nature worketh itself, above all natural expectation. But I counsel at the first beginning to receive the medicines, when any of the foresaid signs appeareth, or when ye feel yourself diseased, for the venom pierceth sooner to the heart, of the choleric, them either of the sanguine or the melancholic, although the sanguynes are apt to infection, than the other are, chiefly if the sickness be in summer.  
They that are of melancholy be not lightly taken, but in case they be, them the cure is very dangerous and hard.  
Therefore I say take heed at the beginning as the proverb is. Principiis obsta, sero medicina paratur Lū mala per longas invaluere moras.  
Take the medicine quickly, and let thyself blood, and remember god the physician of thy soul, and without doubt, thou shalt well enough recover.  
Now we have declared the signs by which ye may easily know when a person is infected, and we said it was convenient to take the medicine as soon as any of them appeareth, without any longer tarrying, afore the venom cometh to the heart, here we will inform you, how ye shall perceive whether the said venom be settled in the heart or no.  
Take a dram of bull armeny made in powder according to the doctrine of the last chapter in the first part, and if ye can not get it, take some other excellent medicine against the pestilence, namely one of the receipt that shall be said hereafter, and give it to the patient, but there can nothing be better, than the foresaid powder if ye have it at hand.  
Take I say thereof one dram, & an ounce of white wine, and odoriferous, with two ounces of water of roses, mingle them, and give them to the patient. The black receipt declared in the Chapter of preservatives, may be well used in stead of the bull.  
And if he may retain the drink within his stomach, it is a good sign that the venom was not at the heart afore he took the medicine, and therefore he may be let blood well enough.  
But if the patient cannot broke the said drink, but cast it up and vomit, than ye may be sure, that the venom hath been at the heart afore the medicine.  
Therefore by and by wash his mouth with wine, or with water of scabious, of sorrel, or of roses, and it ought to be very well mundified and cleansed.  
Then give him an other dose of the said drink, and heat a crust of bread, and hold it to his nose, that he may the better keep the foresaid potion▪ And if the second time he cast it up again, and is not able to retain it, wash his mouth as is said before, and give it him the third time, with a little vinegar, that it may pierce the better, and so vi or vii times, if he do not hold it, give it him again, and then whether he retaineth it, or retaineth it not, by and by ye ought to let him blood.  
But in case the patient were infected xxiiii. hours afore ye give the drink, never let him blood, for the can nothing help him, but rather make him feeble, but administer a medicine ordained for the pestilence, as is said afore, or such as shallbe spoken of hereafter, and that done provoke him to sweat.  
Now to our purpose as concerning diet.   

¶ The second Chapter, of the cure of pestilence, by the way of diet.  
first as soon as ever the patient feeleth himself infected, it is very good to avoid the corruptaire, by changing into some other place: or else if he can not so, let him rectify the air of his own house, or of his chamber, with water of roses and vinegar, or else with fumigations as is spoken of before, according to the quality of the time, & the complexion of his own body.  
Moreover it is good for him to shiften his bed out of one chamber into another, and from that to the first again the next day, ever rectifying the air, of them both, as is aforesaid.  
And as touching meat and drink, he ought not to abstain, or yet to take any superfluities, for to eat good meats measurably (though it be against his stomach) yet in this disease it shall do him much good; Let him eat the broth of chickens, capons, or coleyses of rabbettes, and such like meats, with a little sorrel sauce, or vinegar, & rose-water, or wine of pomegranates, (if they may be gotten) or wine of barberries, and such other.  
If ye will have other kind of sauces, or a powder to strow upon your meat, ye may make it after this sort.  
Take grains of paradise, white dyptanye, of each an ounce, fine powder of cinnamon, and cloves, of each half an ounce, make them all in powder, and mingle it with sugar. In this disease ye may eat no quesye meats, as eyes, geese, ducks, and other such as be evil.  
I call them evil meats, which (according unto Galene De differentiis febrium) are either evil of their own nature, or else if they be naturally good, yet by reason of some putrefaction, are as much or more unwholesome, as the other are, partly so, because of long keeping, unclean and naughty dressing, or when they be laid up in a filthy or stinking place, and partly by some ill infection, when they were alive: for he that useth such kind of meats, is oftentimes accoumbred with many naughty sicknesses, as corrupt & pestilencial fevers, scabs, pustles, lepries, and other evil infirmities.  
All fish in this case are to be avoided. broth or gruel, made with borage, bugloss, endive, succory, sorrel, porcelain, and other like herbs, with a little saffron, and clean wheat flower, or the crumbs of bread in a broth of chickyns, or without a broth, may be well administered.  
Potched eggs also with sorrel sauce and cinamome, vinegar & rose-water, are marvelous good in this case.  
And if the heat be very vehement, as well after meat, as afore, he may well drink a draught of sodden water with the juice of oranges, lemons, citrons, or of sour apples, well mingled together, to quench the venomous fumes, that might rise up to the brain. And if the patient be young, and strong having a good stomach, hole winded, hot of complexion, and in time of heat, not subject to the colic, nor to none hydropsye, nor apostomes in the bowels, he may drink a good draught or two of clear and cold water coming out of a rock, or of a running water, or of a fair spring. For when nothing else can mitigate the thirst, yet will clear water by little and little, dymynishe all the heat. But ye must beware ye take no great excess.  
Aptisane with sugar of roses, is very good to drink between meals.  
The patient ought not for to sleep during the first xxiiii hours, and in the time that he receiveth his medicines. Afterward he may sleep a little at once, to comfort the weakness of the spirits, and he ought every day to go to siege once.  
And above all other things let him not despair, but bid him be of good comfort, and doubt not of his health, so he take no thought, but as much as is possible, make him to rejoice, as well by communication as by music, and bringing in unto him good and wholesome herbs, fruits, boughs and other things of comfort, but yet notwithstanding see that he remember God, and notforget his own conscience, for in this sickness the worst is ever to be feared.   

¶ The third Chapter, of the cure of pestilence by the way of medicine.  
AS soon as ever ye feel yourself infect, take of the powder of bull armoniac, in manner and form afore declared, or of the black receipt the weight of half a crown, more or less according to the virtue of the patient, mingled with the water of roses, and a little vinegar, as is said afore, and drink it all at one draft.  
And if ye can not get the foresaid powder, or peradventure ye will abhor to take it, them drink a little potion of the receipt following, which is very excellent.  
¶ A receipt against the pestilence. TAke the rote of turmentile dried in the shadow, of saffron, and of mustard seed asmuch of one as of an other, make of them a powder, and incorporate it with the third part of mithridatum, or of fine treacle, with a little strong venyger, in manner of an opiate, keep it in an earthen vessel close, and in time of need use it. The weight of it at once is from half a dram upward▪  
This receipt worketh more upon the venom than it doth upon the fever. And every day following it is good to take a little syrup of lemons, with water of sorrel, or of matfelon, or of our lady thistle.  
And he that hath none of the said syrups, let him use the waters of the same herbs, or the good water that I have described in the chapter of medicines preservatives.  
Auicenne sayeth that whosoever taketh an onion & drinketh it in milk fasting in a morning, he shall be safe that day from all infections of the pestilence. Therefore some are wont to roast two or three onions, and to eat them with vinegar and brown bread next their heart afore they enter into any suspect air. And have found health in their so doing.  
Johannes Manardus, ● man of high knowledge in the art of medicine, and of great authority amongs all learned men, describeth in his book of Epistles, a very good receipt aswell preservative as curative devised by himself for lack of good treacle, and is of marvelous operation, as well in this disease, as in healing all manner venomous wounds, both of adders, snakes, and other kind of serpents. The receipt of this noble medicine is this.  
¶ Manardus medicine for the pestilence. TAke the dried blood of a drake, and of a duck, of a goose, and of a kid, rue, fennel seed, the seed of cumine, dill, and of wild nepes, or garden nepes, or rapes, of every one iii drams, the root of gentians, trifoile, squinantum, frankincense, roses dried, of each iiii, drams. White pepper and long, cost, valerian, anise, cinnamon of each ii drams, myrrh, nard, of each vi drams, benjamin, assarum, gum armoniac, of each three drams, aloes, agaric, of each two drams, carpobalsami twenty grains, ireos, saffron, rhubarb, and reupontike, ginger, mastic, of each one dram, stechados, five drams.  
Make a fine powder of these, and with four times asmuch of clarified honey, mingle all together, and keep it in a silver vestel or a glass stopped, for it is an high treasure, in such a case. The dose of it is two drams in wine or water of sorrel.  
¶ Here followeth an electuary of a wonderful virtue, in the time of pestilence, THis electuary is of so great virtue, in them that do receive it once in xxiiii hours, that they may be sure from all evil infections of corrupt airs and contagious, all the day after.  
But in them that are infect already, and are taken with the pestilence, if they drink of it but one spoonful, as shall be said hereafter, (specially after letting blood if it be convenient to the patient) and lay him down and sweat upon the same, if the venom hath not utterly overcome the heart, he shall undoubtedly recover.  
It hath been lately proved, that after drinking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an urinal, the glass hath burst in pieces, by reason of the venom that it purged out.  
¶ This is the making of the said electuary Take cinnamon elect, one ounce, terra sigillata vi drams, fine myrrh three drams, unicorns horn i, dram the seed and rind of citron, roots of diptany, burnet, turmentille, zedoary, red coral, and, drams ii yellow sanders four scrupules, red sanders, two. scruples, white been and red, flowers of marigolds, ana. one dram, iverye razed, scabious, beronicis tunicis, anise, cinnamon of each ii drams, myrrh, nard, of each vi drams, benjamin, assarum, gum armoniac, of each three drams, aloes, agaric, of each two drams, carpoba●sami twenty grains, ireos, saffron, rhubarb, and reupontike, ginger, mastic, of each one dram, stechados, five drams.  
Make a fine powder of these, and with four times asmuch of clarified honey, mingle all together, and keep it in a silver vestel or a glass stopped, for it is an high treasure, i such a case. The dose of it is two drams in wine or water of sorrel.  
¶ Here followeth an electuary of a wonderful virtue, in the time of pestilence, THis electuary is of so great virtue, in them that do receive it once in xxiiii hours, that they may be sure from all evil infections of corrupt airs and contagious, all the day after.  
But in them that are infect already, and are taken with the pestilence, if they drink of it but one spoonful, as shall be said hereafter, (specially after letting blood if it be convenient to the patient) and lay him down and sweat upon the same, if the venom hath not utterly overcome the heart, he shall undoubtedly recover.  
It hath been lately proved, that after drinking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an urinal, the glass hath burst in pieces, by reason of the venom that it purged out.  
¶ This is the making of the said electuary Take cinnamon elect, one ounce, terra sigillata vi drams, fine myrrh three drams, unicorns horn i, dram the seed and rind of citron, roots of diptany, burnet, turmentille, zedoary, red coral, ana, drams ii yellow sanders four scrupules, red sanders, two. scruples, white been and red, flowers of marigolds, ana. one dram, iverye razed, scabious, beronicis tunicis, sede of basile, the bone of a stags heart, saffron, ana ii scruples, make a fine powder, and add unto it of bull armoniac preparate two ounces, white sugar three pound, and with a syrup of acetositate citri, make a goodly electuary, and keep it in a glass.  
If the pestilence cometh with great excess of heat, drink it upon rose-water, and vinegar, but if ye feel it cold, take it in a draft of wine, and cover ye with clothes, so that ye may sweat as long as is possible, for without doubt, it is a present remedy as I myself have oftentimes proved.  
¶ An other divine medicine, in a liquid form. TAke rue, wormwood & balm the herb, of each a like portion, of celidony, both herb & rote asmuch as all the other, so that ye have of them. iii● a good big handful, wash the rote of celidony, very clean & purely, in wine or in fair clear water, than put them all into a new pot of earth neled within, and pour upon the herbs, half a pound of the most strongest vinegar ye can gettte, cover them just, and lute the mouth of the pot, with luto sapiencie, which is made of wheat flower and the white of an egg, that no breath may issue, and seeth it eight or ix hours, with a soft fire, than let it ●ole by little and little, and after strain the herb, and set the liquor in the son to rectify.  
¶ When a person is infected with the pestilence: First as I said afore, let him bleed in a due vain, than give him a spoonful of this liquor, with as much as a nut of treacle, if so be ye have any, lukewarm, by and by let a crust of bread all hot, be dipped in vinegar, and holden to his mouth, that he may the better broke the medicine.  
And if he chance to vomit, incontinente wash his mouth with wine, and cause him to receive again an other spoonful, and so if need be .v. or vi times, till ye see that he retain it, which is a very good sign, if he so do.  
After this set him in a warm bed covered, that he may sweat out the residue of the venom, and by the grace of God he shall escape the danger. This is a medicine of infinite virtue. But if the patient have a great heat give him no treacle, or else very little.   

¶ The four chapter of the cure of pestilence, by letting of blood, ventoses, and purgations  
ALthough phlebotomy or letting of blood, be one of the chief things that are required to the cure of the pestilence, yet for lack of understanding, and letting blood otherwise than behoveth, many one is cast away: and therefore every good barboure ought for to take heed, that he hurt not them, which come unto him for help (for that were a great shame) which he shall never do, if he ponder well the things, that shall be said hereafter.  
¶ This is a general rule. IN the time of pestilence when a body is infect, ye may not have respect either to the sign, the day or the hour: but whether the moan be there or not, or what aspects so ever be in the planets let him bleed forth with in the name of God.  
Young men and sanguine, and they that have abundance of ●●e●, and of blood mingled with other ●ors, aught to bleed somewhat more in quantity, but always keep a moderation, that ye take not out to gre●● quantity at once.  
It is better to let him blood twice, leaving the wonde of the first stroke open, and anoint it with a little oil, and after four or five hours, let him bleed in the same wound again, but without striking if it be possible.  
But always give an eye, to the strength of the patient, that it be not enfeebled, and again beware that ye have taken away the rankest, and the strongest venom, wherein if ye be doubtful, take the counsel of some good expert physician.  
Also ye must note, that ye may not let blood, to any children within the age of xiiii year, nor to old men above fifty year old, nor to women great with child, specially near unto their time, nor when their due purgations is upon them, nor to them that are newly brought to bed, or within a wekeor, two. after she is purified, generally to none which is weak & feeble in his body. Ye shall also note, that there are some old men of better strength & complexion, than many young are of, & again divers young children often or twelve years old, are of higher courage, and of as good strength, as they that are many years elder. In such cases, a little eventation of the infected blood, may be the saving of their lives, so that all things be done with good discretion.  
It is wisdom also to let them blood lying upon their backs, whom ye think would faint in standing or in sitting. And if the case do require the letting of blood, and the patient be not able to bear it for any of the causes afore rehearsed, it is good to apply ventoses, in manner and form as I shall declare hereafter.  
And here we should say somewhat of the great error that many do commit in taking one vain for an other, for by such errors is the venom drawn many times unto the heart, and so procureth death unto the patient.  
Wherefore that ye may not be dis●eyued, ever in the pestilence let him blood on that side that the sore is on, and not on the contrary side, in any wise, for that should draw the venom overthwart the membres spiritual, and so destroy the man.  
But or ever ye let him blood, it is good to give some good and wholesome medicine against the venom, such as is declared in the chapters herbefore.  
If the botch appear underneath the ears, let him blood in the head vain of the same arm, or else in the branch of the same vain, which is upon the hand, between the middle finger and the next that is adjoining,  
If it appear under the throat, take the same vain, and within a while after, it is good to open the ii veins underneath the tongue.  
If the sore be set within the armholes, take the vain called messana, which is between the foresaid head vain, and the vain coming from the liver.  
If the sore be set within the stankes, than ye must open the vain called saphena, which is about the ankle of the foot, on the inner side: and if ye can not find it there, take the branch of it, that is between the great too, and the next unto him, but the letting of blood in that vain is forbidden unto women when they be in health.  
And if there apere ii botches, one on every side, Manardus giveth council to take the right side and not the left. And in case there doth appear no sign of botch or swelling, than he biddeth you to open both the veins saphenas on the right side and the left.  
notwithstanding, Marsilius Ficinus is of a contrary opinion, and sayeth that it is best when there doth no sore appear, to take the common vain on the right arm.  
I think herein Manardus council rather to be followed.  
But if ye see the botch standing outward more toward the bounche, than ye must open the vain called sciatica, which is about the ankle of the foot on the outside. The which opening of the veins must be done as soon as is possible, alway presupposed, that he hath received one or other medicine against the venom, and that he sleep not in any wise, as is afore mentioned.  
And to them that can not lawfully be let blood, ye must in all hast apply many ventoses, with scarification or without scarifienge, as it seemeth best to your discretion, so ye take a reasonable order thus. If the sore be under the ears, or about the throat, let your ventoses be applied behind upon the neck.  
If the botch appear under the arms, set your ventoses behind upon the shoulders. If the sore be in the flank, or thighs, let your ventoses be set upon the buttocks.  
And if the patient be replete with humours and strong, having no flux nor other impediment, & ye think he needeth to be purged: ye may give him in the morning i ounce of cassia, or of manna, with a little die aprunis laxative more or less, according to the pacientes necessity, tempered with water of scabious, sorrel, or endive, ever taking heed, that he do receive some medicine against the venom, during all the time of his disease.   

¶ The fifth Chapter, of application of outward medicines.  
HEre is to be noted that no manner plaster repercussive, may be set upon any botch of pestilence. But assoon as is possible, after letting blood, it is good to take an onion, & to make an hole in the midst of it, them fill it full of good treacle, after that stop it, and set it on the hearth to roast, as it were an apple. And when it is roast so long till it be tender, let it coal a little: and set it hot upon the botch, and when it hath been there by the space of two hours, take it of, and lay an other on.  
Or take a cock and pull the feathers of, about his fundament, & put a little salt in it, and set his fundament upon the said botch, keeping him on a good while, stopping many times his bill, that his breath may be retained, & let him blow again. And if the cock die, it shall be good to take another young cock, and splytte it quick asounder, and lay it on the botch, but ye must command them that take them of, to cast them in the fire, and not to take the savour when it is removed: for that is very dangerous. Some there be that lay about the sore, water leeches called bloodsuckers, and it is very good, so they be well prepared, & cleansed, from corruption. Other apply ventoses with scarification, but they ought first to be applied withouten any scarifying, so they shall the better draw the venom out.  
Other lay thereto a plaster made of galbanum, diaquilon, & armoniac, incorporate together, & some other lay on it a plaster made of figs, sour leaven, & raisins without kernels, brayed & incorporate altogether in oil of camomile. There be also that set upon the botch an herb called crowefoote, which is very hot, & maketh a blister on the skin, & that same they break, and keep the place open many days after. And in that case, if the botch be in the very arm holes: it is best to set the said herb a fit upon the arm.  
And some other break the foresaid botch with a strong ruptory, having part of maturation, as for example thus. Take sour leaven four ounces, mustard, rue, scabious, wormwood, of every one an handful, white lily roots, the third part of all, green copporose two drams, cantharides in numbered ten galbani one ounce, old nuts, and somewhat fusty, or else new if ye can not get them, in numbered four oil of white lilles, as much as shall suffice, seeth all the herbs and roots in oil, according to art, with a double vessel, that is to say: the oil being in one pan may seethe only by the boiling of the water in an other great pan, and make a plaster with the residue of the stuff in a good form. It hath a great virtue to break a pestilence sore without much pain, and afore ye lay it on, wash the sore with a sponge dipped in the straining of the foresaid herbs and roots.  
Other take oil olive & seth it with oaken ashes, adding unto it a little of black soap, & quick lime, and make a plaster of the same, it is not to be used, but in strong complexions.  
And all the foresaid ways are to be commended. But after one hath used them a while, & saith they begin to come to maturation, let him take the counsel of a learned surgeon, or any other of good experience, and to set maturative emplasters, unctions, & baths, according as becometh, piercing the apostume in the softest place, afterward proceed with mundification and incarnation, even as in other kinds of appostemes: wherein I humbly desire them to have some pity of the poor, that be diseased, & not to favour them that have enough, but rather take so much of the rich, that they may the better have wherewith to help the needy. And for because the sick may have some comfort, if in case they should be destitute of surgeons, I will (besides the said medicines which they may confidently use,) describe some maturative emplasters that are expert and proved in this cure of pestilence.  
¶ A plaster to ripe a botch coming of the pestilence. TAke mallows, & the roots of hollyhock, & onions, asmuch as shall suffice, wash them and seeth them in water, & afterward bray them in a mortar with powder of lineseed, and of fenugreek, and a good quantity of swine's grease fresh, laying on the plaster every day once.  
¶ An other for the same. TAke white diptany an ounce & an half, the rote of walwort an ounce, the roots of cresses half an ounce, white onions ii ounces, seeth the roots in water, and roast the onion upon the coals, then stamp them all together, adding of oil of camomile iii ounces, rosin one ounce, nettle seed two drams, wax, asmuch as shall suffice, and make a goodly plaster or an ointment at your pleasure, for it ripeth the said botch in a short space and consumeth the venom, and is good aswell for young men as for old.  
And afore that it be through ripe, cause it to be pierced as it is said afore. And if after the said piercing there be great pain, take the yolk of an egg well beaten, and a little oil of roses, & anoint a tent therein, and put into the sore, for to cease the pain. Afterward mundify the place with a salve made of yolks of eggs, fine barley flower, & a little honey of roses. Last of all, for the perfect incarnation, take the juice of dayses, and with a little wax make a soft ointment, and use it, or ye may lay thereto any other salve incarnative as ye are wont to do in other clean sores. Provided alway that it is better in this case, to break that sore betimes than to tarry for the ryping long, lest perchance the venom being included, gather strength by the putrefaction, & so return again unto the heart: therefore open it, afore it come to riping, & after proceed with your maturatives, and other wholesome plasters.  
THus moche have I spoken of surgery, in the exterior cure of one that hath the botch, so far is god hath given me understanding to perceive, according to the minds of such famous clerks, as have most effectually written of the same. Now will I declare a little of the exterior ●●re of him that hath no botch at all. ●nd yet is sore infected with the pestilence. For the noble handy work of surgery, is convenient to them both, as witnesseth Marsilius Ficinus, in his book of pestilence in the xi Chapter. And the form of it is this.  
After that the patient hath received some good & wholesome medicine against the pestilence, and sweat (or after letting blood, if the case do so require) by & by ye must apple your labour to take away the residue of the venom, that remaineth in the body. And to that intent ye ought to make a ruptory o● sour leaven & cantharides, or other above rehearsed, & set it on the muscule of the right arm, under the cubit, o● the part where as the pulse lieth, bu● not upon the pulse itself, and so procure a blystre, which ye shall immediately cut of, and keep the sore running many days after, the longer the bette● for the patient.  
another issue ye may make in the same manner, upon his right leg, four fingers above his heel toward the i●steppe, and keep it open likewise, till month or two after he be recovered   

¶ The vi Chapter, of the cure of carbuncles and anthrax.  
AS concerning the curation both of a carbuncle & the pestilence sore called anthrax, ye may do every thing according as we spoke afore in the general cure of the pestilence, both as touching diet, medicines against the venom, cordials, laxatives, blood lettings, & ventoses, ye shall heal them as ye heal the botch, in all things. But as touching leting blood, when ye see a carbuncle or an anthrax by himself without aposte me of the emunctories, be it upon the neck, or upon the throat, or the face, or the head, ye must let him blood in the head vein. If it be upon the shoulders, breasts, or arm or other place above the ●auyl, take the vein called mediana.  
And if it be beneath the said places, down unto the knees, take the vain saphena, but if it be on the outside of the thigh, take the vain sciatica, ever upon the side that the sore is on, (as is said afore) considering the complexion, the strength, the age, and the quality of the blood, even as is said in the chapter of the botch, and likewise apply the ventoses upon them that can not bear phlebotomy.  
Which things presupposed, it is good to set upon the carbuncle, whether it be with botch or without botch, the yolk of an egg, incorporate with as much salt as ye can temper with it, renewing it every hour during a hole day. Or else apply the said leeches or blood suckers round about the sore, & after they have sucked out the blood, set thereon a cock as is said of the botch, or else a dove all hot split in the middle. And he that can not get the leeches, yet let him not fail to apply the residue of the said medicines, every one after other as afore is said.  
Or a hot loaf coming out of the oven, or take a sour pomgranad, an● cut and seethe it in vinegar, or scabious bruised between two stones, or the rote of daises, or good sour dough, incorporate with salt and a little oil olive: all these medicines are good to kill the carbuncle.  
The precious stone called a sapphire hath also great virtue against venom and specially against a carbuncle, if ye touch it with the stone, and draw it round about the sore by the space of an hour. But whatsoever medicine ye set unto a carbuncle, ye must lay a defensive about the sore, which is made as hereafter followeth.  
¶ A good defensive. Take sanguis draconis, and bull armeni, of each a like much, make them in powder and incorporate them with oil of roses, and a little vinegar, and lay it in a cloth all about the sore, without touching any part of it, & renew it when it is hard and dry. But if the person be of good ability and the carbuncle veri fierce and burning, cannot be quenched with the means aforesaid, than ye must proceed with an actual or potencial cautery, and to remove the eschar, lay on capons grease or a little butter, or else a plaster made of mallow leaves, holihokes, violets, lily roots sodden in broth of netes feet or other flesh, & afterward stamped, strained, & upon the fire mingled with powder of linseed, barley flower, bean flower, fresh butter, and swine's grease, adding in the end when ye take it of, two yolks of eggs and a little saffron, and stir it well about.  
This is good also to ripe the foresaid sore, afterward mundify and heal as is said in the other chapter.  
I could declare many other remedies, but I set than that have been often proved, and that be most easy for to gett● at need, desiring all them that shall use these my simple labours, to accept my good will unto the best, and to pray to God almighty for his grace, unto whom only be all laud glory and honour, world without end, Amen.     

¶ A declaration of the veins in man's body, and to what diseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them do serve.  
IT is not unknown to any which have seen Anathomies, how there be in a man's body ii hinds of veins, general and special.  
General or common veins are iii. which appear in the midst of every man's arm on the inner side, & of them the highest is called of learned men cephalica, or the head beine, and the lowest of all three, is called commonly basilica or regia, in the right arm by an other name epatica, or the vein of the liver, but in the left arm, it is called pulmatica, the vein of the longs. The iii common vein, lieth between the other ii in the mids, and is named cordiaca, or the vein of the heart.  
The first that we did speak of, that is to say cephalica, is a vein most apt to be let blood, in all the higher parts of man's body, and is opened for the head ache, and the eyes.  
This vein if by chance ye touch it, and if it bleed not at the first stroke ye may be bold to strike it once again, for there is no jeopardy of cutting of any muscle. And if ye cannot find it out, take his hraunche that is about the thumbs end.  
The vein epatica, emptieth from the middle parts of all the body, and it is ever opened against diseases of the stomach, and the spleen, but ye ought therein to be very diligent, that there be no muscule pierced.  
If ye can not spy it in the arm, seek the branch of it between the little finger and the fourth.  
The cordiaca vein draweth blood as well from beneath, as from above, for it is componed of cephalica and epatica. If any feeleth a weakness at his heart, he ought to take good heed that he be not opened in that vein cordiaca, but if necessity be of bleeding, let him bleed in the cephalica or else mediana.  
So likewise of the other ii The cordiaca, is good to cure the passions of all the hole body, when they do proceed of heat, specially of the heart and of the longs.  
But in the piercing of it, ye must exceedingly beware, for under it is a certain muscle, which if it be very deeply cut, the patient is in jeopardy of his life.  
When ye intend to let a person blood in any vein, ye must bathe the arm wherein ye pierce, in good hot water, & draw the hole abroad, that the gross blood may the more easily pass. And here is to be noted, that in all sicknesses and times (except only infection of the pestilence) ye must take the same vain of the iii that doth appear fuller & bigger than the other are, for by that ye may perceive that the members which belong unto it, are full of superfluities of to hot blood, and this shall be sufficient of the foresaid veins general: now we will rehearse the veins special. ¶ The vein in the higher part of the forehead, is good to be opened in all diseases of the head, & of the brain, specially if they be of long continuance, and it cureth the new begun lepry. ¶ The ii veins that are behind the ears, are opened to preserve the memory, mundify the face, and to take away rheums and distillations from the head, and are good generally in all diseases of the mouth, and of the gums. ¶ The ii veins of the temples of the head, are good to void humours from the eyes, and they serve also for all diseases of the ears.  
The ii veins in the corners of the eyes are opened in the cure of webs, spots, clouds, mists, pearls, redness, corns, and other infirmities and weakness of the sight.  
The ii veins in the hollowness of the ears, serve to heal the shaking of the head, swiming of the eyes, dosines, sounding of the ears, new deafness, and uncleanness of the mouth.  
The vein in the tip of the nose, is good against apostemes of the head, rheums, and fluxes of the eyes, it purgeth the brain, and comforteth the memory.  
This vein must be sought very wisely, for it lieth deep, therefore he that will be sure of it, shall find it even in the very mids between the two sides of the nose end.  
The two veins within the nostrils, are opened against the heaviness of the head.  
The vein of the lips, is good to take in all diseases of the mouth.  
The ii veins within the mouth, are opened in diseases of the head, tooth ache, pain of the jaws, mouth and throat, and against frecles of the face.  
The four veins in the palate of the mouth, are good to be opened in the tooth ache, revines and catarrhs of the head.  
The two veins in the hinder part of the head, are good against the phrenesye, swimming, astonying, and all other pains of the head.  
The ii veins underneath the tongue are opened against the fluxes of the head, palsies, quincies, scrofulas, apoplexia, cough, pains of the mouth, teeth, & gums, against impediments of the speech, and generally in all diseases of the breast, heart, longs and arteries. The vain that is between the chin, and the neither lip, is good to open in curing of a stinking breath.  
The vein that lieth right underneath the chin, is good against the same disease, and also in diseases of the head & of the breast, polipus in the nose, pains of the cheeks, stinking of the nosethriles, scrofulas and spots about the face. The ii, veins of the neck (one afore, another behind) are exceeding good against the pleurisy, new lepry, shaking of the members, humours, and distillations of the head, and to much stiffness of limbs.  
The ii veins under the arm holes, serve against the straightness of the breast, pain of the midriff, and the longs, and against difficulty of breathing, called asthma.  
The two veins above the elbows are taken in all diseases of the breast, swimming of the head, spasm, and epilepsia, commonly called the falling evil. Vena purpurea, or the purple vein lying in the right arm next epatica, toward the hand, is opened against diseases of spiritual members, and of the bowels.  
The vain illiaca next unto the purple vain, if it be well taken, is good to heal the pains of all the inward members.  
Vena pulsatilis, or the beating vein is good against the trembling of the heart, swooning, and cardiaca passio.  
The ii veins of the thumbs, are opened in diseases of the head, bleared eyes, and against the most part of all fevers.  
The vain between the forefinger and the thumb, is good for stoppyng● of the head, and to purge the super●tuitye of choiere, is good in agues, and in all diseases of the eyes.  
The vein that is between the ring● finger, and the little (if it be opened taketh away diseases of the head, th● longs, and of the spleen.  
The vein called salvat in the right hand, between the little finger and th● next adjoining, is opened in opilac●ons of the breast, against the gummy matter of the eyes, parbreaking, yellow jaundice, pains & colikes in the ryg● side of the belly. And in the left hand it is opened against all diseases of the spleen coming of repletion and oppilation, and is good to heal the hemoroides, frenzy, colikes in the left side, diseases of the veins, & to much abundance of the flowers.  
The vein of the right side, if it be opened, is good in lyenteria, dissuria, dropsies and other infirmities caused of cold matter.  
The vein of the left side is good against apostemes and excoriations of the bladder, pains of the loins, swelling and stopping of the spleen.  
The vein of the belly is good against diseases of the reins, and purgeth out the melancholy blood.  
The four veins about the place called pecten, on either side the privy members, are good against super●tuous issues of the hemoroides, and to suage pain in ●l diseases of the bladder, & the secret places, they stop the bleeding of the ●se, & of other members, and are good to heal the lienterye and strangury. The vein over the foreskin of the yard, is opened against the dropsy and all diseases of the same member. The vain underneath the said skin is wholesome to be taken for the cramp, or spasm, colic, swelling of the cods, strang●rye, dyssurye, and diseases of the stone, both in the reins and in the bladder.  
The two veins of the thighs have a singular virtue in the curing of diseases in the bladder, and the reins. The two veins in the legs, do serve against the dropsy, pain and apostumations of the bladder, and the reins, and the privy members, and against gout and swelling of the knees. The vain saphena on the inner side of the leg, is opened against retention of the flowers, and in all diseases of the matrice, reins, hips, privy places of men and women.  
The outward saphena, otherwise called sciatica, descending from the legs on the outside, is exceeding good in curing the pain of the huckle bone, whereof it hath the name sciatica, and over that it healeth all diseases of the bladder, and the bowels, gout of the hands and of the feet, with other pain of the joints, and the palsy. The two outward veins upon the ankles, are good to be opened for retention of the flowers, they take away the sickness of the spleen, and ease the pain of the back, strangury, and stone.  
The two veins under the little too, are good to purge the superfluity of the matrice, and to heal scrofulas of the face and the legs.  
The two veins adjoining to the little too, cure the apoplexy, yellow colere, palsy, and all diseases of the ●eynes.  
The two veins in the lesser joint of the little too, are opened in curing of an old cough, pustles, and ophthalmia in the eyes.  
The two veins in the middle too, are good against the scrofulas, and diseases of the face, spots, redness, & pimples, watering of the eyes, cankers and knobs, and against the stopping of the flowers.  
The vein on the left joint in the great too, is good against ophthalmia of the eyes, spots of the face and the legs, itch, and ulcers of evil complexion, and purgeth super●tuities of the matrice. Thus much I have declared of the utility of veins.  
FINIS.   

The book of children.  
TO begin a treatise of the cure of children, it should seem expedient, that we should declare somewhat of the principles, as of the generation, the being in the womb, the time of proceeding, the manner of the birth, the binding of the navel, setting of the members, lavatoryes, unctions, swathinges, and entreatementes, with the circumstances of these & many other: which if I should rehearse in particles, it would require both a longer time, and increase into a greater volume. But forasmuch as the most of these things are very trite & manifest, some pertaining only to the office of a midwife, other for the reverence of the matter not meet to be disclosed to every vile person: I intend in this book to let them all pass, and to treat only of the things necessary, as to remove the sicknesses, wherewith the tender babes are oftentimes afflicted, and desolate of remedy, for so much as many do suppose that there is no cure to be ministered unto them, by reason of their weakness. And by that vain opinion, yea rather by a foolish fear, they forsake many that might be well recovered, as it shall appear by the grace of god hereafter, in this little treatise, when we come to declaration of the medicines. In the mean season for confinitye of the matter, I intend to write somewhat of the nurse and of the milk, with the qualities, & complexions of the same, for in that consists the chief point and sum, no● only of the maintenance of health, but also of the forming or infecting either of the wit, or manners, as the Poet Vergyl when he would describe an uncourteous, churlish, & a rude condishioned tyrant, did attribute the fault unto the giver of the milk, as in saying thus.  
Nec tibi diua parens, generis nec Dardanus author,  
Perfide, sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens  
Caucasus, hircaneque admorunt ubera tigers.  
For that divine Poet being thoroughly expert in the privities of nature, understood right well how great an alteration every thing taketh of the humour, by the which it hath his alyment and nourishing in the youths which thing also was considered & alleged of many wise Philosophers: Plato, Theophrastus, Xenophon, Aristotle, and Pliny, who did all ascribe unto the nourcement as much effect or more, as to the generation. And Phavorinus the Philosopher (as writeth Aulus gelius) affirmeth that if lambs be nourished with the milk of goats, they shall have course wool, like the hear of goats: and if kids in like manner suck upon sheep, the hear of them shallbe soft like wool. Whereby it doth appear, that the milk and nourishing hath a marvelous effect in changing the complexion, as we see likewise in herbs and in plants, for let the seed or imps be never so good & pure, yet if they be put into an unkind earth, or watered with a naughty and unwholesome humour, either they come not up at all, or else they will degenerate and turn out of their kind, ●o the scarce it may appear from whence they have been taken: according to the verse 
Pomaque degenerant, succos oblita priores.  Wherefore as it is agreeing to nature, so is it also necessary & comely for the own mother to nurse the own child. Which if it may be done, it shall be most commendable and wholesome, if not ye must be well advised in taking of ●nource, not of ill complexion and of worse manners: but such as shall be sober, honest and chaste, well formed, amiable and cheerful, so that she may accustom the infant unto mirth, no drunkard, vyeyous nor sluttish, for such corrupteth the nature of the child.  
But an honest woman (such as had a man child ●ast afore,) is best not within two months after her deliverance, nor approaching near unto her time again. These things ought to be considered of every wise person, that will set their children out to nurse. Moreover, it is good to look upon the milk, and to see whether it be thick & gross, or to much thin and watery, blackish or blue, or inclining to redness or yellow, for all such are unnatural and evil. Likewise when ye taste it in your mouth, if it be either bitter, salt, or sour, ye may we● perceive it is unwholesome.  
That milk is good, that is white and sweet, and when ye drop it on your nail, and do move your finger, neither seateth abroad at every stering, nor will hang fast upon your nail, when ye turn it downward, but that which is between both is best. Sometime it chanceth that the milk wasteth, so that the nurse can not have sufficient to sustain the child, for the which I will declare remedies leaving out the causes for brevity of time.  
¶ Remedies appropriate to the increasing of milk in the breasts. PAsneppe roots, and fenelle roots, sodden in broth of chickens, & afterward eaten with a little fresh butter, maketh increase of milk within the breasts.  
¶ An other. The powder of earth worms dried and drunken in the broth of a neats tongue, is a singular experiment for the s●me intent.  
Also the broth of an old cock, with mints, cinnamon and maces.  
rice also sodden in cows milk, with the crumbs of white breed, fennel seed in powder, and a little sugar is exceeding good.  
¶ An other good medicine for the same. Take Crystal, and make it in fine powder, and mix it with asmuch fennel seed and sugar, and use to drink it warm with a little wine.  
A plaster for the increase of milk.  
Take fennel and hoorehounde, of every one two handfuls, ●ys seed four drams, Saffron a scruple in powder, sweet butter three ounces, seeth them in water, and make a plaster to be laid upon the nurses breasts.  
These things have property to augment the milk, dill, anise seed, fenelle, crystal, horehound, fresh cheese, honey, lettuce, beets, mints, carette roots, parsneppes, the dugs or ydder of a cow or a sheep, goat's milk, blanched almonds, rice porrigge, a cows tongue dried and made in powder, poched eggs, saffron, and the juice of roasted veal drunken.  
Thus moche of the nurse, and of the milk: now will I declare the infirmities of children.  
Although (as affirmeth Pliny,) there be innumerable passions & diseases, whereunto the body of man is subject, and as well may chance in the young as in the old: Yet for most commonly the tender age of children is chiefly vexed & grieved with these diseases following.  

apostume of the brain.  
Swelling of the heed.  
Scales of the heed.  
Watching out of measure.  
Terrible dreams.  
The falling evil.  
The palsy.  
Cramp.  
stiffness of limbs.  
Bloodsho●en eyes.  
Watering eyes.  
Scabbynesse and itch.  
Diseases in the ears.  
sneezing out of measure.  
breeding of teeth.  
Canker in the mouth.  
Duynsye, or swelling of throat.  
Cough.  
Sreaytnesse of wind.  
Feebleness of the stomach & vomiting.  
Yeaxing or hycket.  
colic and rumbling in the guts.  
Flux of the belly.  
Stopping of the belly.  
Worms.  
Swelling of the navel.  
The stone.  
pissing in bed.  
Brusling.  
Falling of the skin.  
Chafing of the skin.  
Small pocks and measles.  
Fevers.  
Swelling of the cods.  
Sacer ignis or chingles.  
Burning and scalding.  
rib.  
Consumption.  
Leanness.  
Goggle eyes.   
¶ Of apostemes of the brain. IN the fylme that covereth the brain chanceth often times apostemation & swelling, either of to much crying of the child, or by reason of the milk immoderately hot, or excess of heat in the blood, or of cold ●teume, and is known by these signs.  
If it be of hot matter, the heed of the child is unnaturally swollen, red, and hot in the ●eelyng: if it come of cold matter, it is somewhat swollen, pale, and cold in the touching, but in both cases the child can not rest, and is ever loath to have his heed touched, crieth and vexeth itself, as it were in a frenzy.  
¶ Remedy. Make a bath of mallows, camomile, and lilies sodden with a sheeps heed, till the bones fall, and with a spong or soft clouts, all to bathe the head of the child in a cold apostume, with the broth hot as may be suffered, but in a hot matter wet the broth luke warm, or in the cooling, & after the bathe, set on a plaster, thus.  
A plaster. Take fenugreek, camomile, wormwood, of every one an handful, seeth them in a close vessel, till the third part be consumed, then stamp them in a mortar, and stir them, to the which ye shall put of the same broth again enough to make a plaster, with a little bean flower, yolks of eggs & saffron, adding to them fresh butter or ducks grease sufficient, & apply it. In a cold matter let it lie a day: but in a hot cause ye must remove it every six hours.  
Of swelling of the heed. TNstation or swelling of the heed, cometh of a windy matter, gathered between the skin and the flesh, and sometime between the flesh and the bones of the skull, the tokens whereof are manifest enough to the sight, by the swelling or puffing up, and pressed with the finger, there remaineth a print, which is a sign of wind and viscous humours, ye shall heal it thus.  
¶ Remedy. first let the nurse avoid all things that engender wind, salt or slimy humours, as beans, peason, eyes, salmon, saltfish, and like: then make a plaster to the child's heed, after this fashion.  
Take an handful of fenel, smallache and dill, and seeth them in water in a close vessel, afterward stamp them, and with a little cumin, and oil of bitter almonds, make it up, and lay it often to the child's heed, warm. In default of oil of almonds take gosegrese, adding a little vinegar. And it is good to bathe the place with a soft clout, or a sponge in the broth of these herbs: Rue, time, maiorym, hyssop, fennel, dill, common, sal●itre, mints, radish roots, rocke●, or some of them, ever taking heed, that there drop no portion of the medicines in the babes eyes, mouth, or ears.  
¶ Scalles of the head. THe heads of children are oftentimes ulcered, & scalled, aswell when they suck, and then most commonly by reason of sharp milk, as also when they have been weaned, & can go alone. Sometimes it happeneth of an evil complexion of humours by eating of raw fruit, or other evil meats, and sometime by long continuing in the son, many times by dropping of resty bacon, or of salt beef on their bare heads. Other whiles they be so borne out o● their mother's womb, and in all the● is no great difficulty till the here b● grown: but after that, they require greater cure, and a cunning hand, not withstanding as God shall give m● grace, here shall be said remedies for the cure of them, such as have been of●tentymes approved: wherein I have intended to omit the disputations o● the difference of scales, and the humours whereof they do proceed, and will go straight to the composition o● medicines, following the good experience, here ensuing.  
¶ remedies for scales. If ye see the scales like the shelle● of oysters, black and dry, cleauing● upon the skin, one within an other ye may make a fomentation of hoots and moist herbs, as fenugreek, hol● hocke, bears breach, linseed, an● such other, sodden all or some of the● in the broth of netes feet, and so t● bathe the sores, and after that apply a soft plaistre of the same herbs, with gosegrese or butter, using this still, till ye see the scab removed, and then wash it with the juice of horehound, smallage and betony, sodden together in wine, and after the washing put upon it powder of myrrh, aloes and frankincense, or hold his heed over a chasyngdisshe of coals wherein ye shall put frankincense and sanders in powder. But if ye see the scabs be very sore and mattrye with great pain, & burning of the heed, ye shall make an ointment to cool the matter thus.  
¶ An ointment to cool the burning of a sore head. Take white lead and lytarge, of every one .v. drams, lie made of the ashes of a vine iii drams, oil of ●ses, an ounce, wax, an ounce, melt ●he wax first, than put to the oil ●nd lie, with the rest, and in the end ●. yolks of eggs, make an ointment, and lay it to the head. This is the composition of Rasis.  
¶ An other ointment singular for the same purpose. Take betony, grounswel, plantayn● fumytorie, and dayses, of every or like moche, stamp them, and myng● them with a pound of fresh swin● grease, and let them stand closed in moist place viii days, to putrefy, t● fry them in a pan, and strain the● into a clean vessel and ye shall have green ointment of a singular operac● for the said disease, and to quenc● all unkind heats of the body.  
Also ye must use to shave the hea● what so ever things ye do lai ●nto ● If there lacketh the cleansing of the ●res, and the child weaned, ye shall d● well to make an ointment of a ly● turpentine, bulls gall, and honey, a● lay upon the sores.  
Also it is proved, that the urine o● bull, is a singular remedy to mundi● the sores, and to loose the hears by the roots, without any pain or pill.  
The juice also of morel, dayfye 〈◊〉 and groundswell fried with grease and made in an ointment, cooleth all unkind heats, and pust●es, of the head.  
Here is to be noted, that during this disease in a sucking child, the ●ourse must avoid all salt, and sour meats that engender choler, as mustard, vinegar, and such: and all manner fruits, (except a pomegranate) and she must abstain in this case, both from eggs, and from other kind of white meats in general, and above all be may eat no dates, figs, nor porcelain, for many hold opinion that porcelain hath an evil property to need scabs and ulcers in the head. Moreover the child's head may not be kept to hot, for that is oftentimes the cause of this disease.  
Sometimes it chanceth that there ●readeth in the head of children as it ●ere little warts or knobs somewhat hard, and can not be resolved by ●he said medicines. Wherefore when ye see that none other thing will help ye shall make a good ointment to remove it, in manner as hereafter is declared.  
¶ An excellent remedy for warts or knobs of the head. Take lytarge and white lead, of ec● a like quantity, brymstome & quicks silver quenched with spittle, of eche● less quantity, twice as much oil of roses, and a sponefulle or ii of vinegar mix them all together, on a marble, t● they be an ointment, and lay it on the head, & when it hath been dry an hour● or ii wash it of, with water, wherein was sodden maiorym, savoury and mi●tes, use it thus twice a day, morning and evening till ye see it hole. Th● thing is also good in all the other kind of scales.  
¶ Of watching out of measure. Sleep is the nourishment and food of a sucking child, and asmuch requisite as the very teat, wherefore wh●● it is deprived of the natural rest, all the hole body falleth in distemper, crudity and weakness, it proceedeth commonly by corruption of the milk, or to much abundance which overladeth the stomach, & for lack of good digestion, vapours and fumes arise into the head, and infect the brain, by reason whereof the child cannot sleep, but turneth and vexeth itself with crying. Therefore it shall be good to provoke it to a natural sleep thus, according to Rasis.  
Anoint the forehead and temples of the child, with oil of violets and vinegar, putting a drop or two in the nostrils, and if ye can get any syrup of poppy, give it the child to lick, and than make a plaster of oil of saffron, lettuce, and the juice of poppy, or wet clouts in it, and lay it overthwart the temples.  
Also the seeds and the heads of poppy, called chessbolles, stamped w●th rose-water, and mixed with woman's milk, and the white of an egg, beaten all together and made in a plaster, causeth the child to receive his natural sleep.  
Also an ointment made of the seed of poppy and the heads, one ounce, oil of lettuce, and of poppy, of each ii ounces, make an ointment and use it.  
They that can not get these oils, may take the berbes, or juice of lettuce, porcelain, houseleke, and poppy, & with woman's milk, make a plaster, and lay it to the forehead.  
Oil of violets, of roses, of nenuphar, are good, and oil of populeon, the broth of mallowessodden, and the juice of water plantain.  
¶ Of terrible dreams and fear ●the sleep. Oftentimes it happeneth that the child is afraid in the sleep, and sometimes waketh soodainly, and sterteth, sometime shriketh and trembleth, which effect cometh of the arising of stinking vapours, out of the stomach into the fantasy, and senses of the brain, as ye may perceive by the breath of the child: wherefore it is good to give him a little honey to swallow, and a little powder of the seeds of peony, and sometimes treacle, in a little quantity with milk, and to take heed that the child sleep not with a full stomach, but to bear it about waking, till par● be digested, and when that it is laid, not to rock it much, for overmuch shaking letteth digestion, and maketh the child many times to vomit.  
¶ The falling evil called in the greek tongue epilepsia. NOt only other ages but also little children, are oftentimes afflicted, with this gryevouse sickness, some time by nature received of the parents, and than it is impossible, or difficile to cure, sometime by evil & unwholesome diet, whereby there is engendered many cold and moist humours in the brain, whereupon this infirmity proceedeth, which if it be in one that is young and tender, it is very hard to be removed, but in them that are somewhat strong, as of seven years and upward, it is more easy.  
I find that many things have a natural virtue against the falling evil, not of any quality elemental, but by a singular property, or rather an influence of heaven, which almighty god hath given unto things here in earth, as be these and other.  
sapphires, smaragdes, red coral, peony, mystletow of the oak taken in the month of March, and the moon decreasing, time, savein, dill and the stone that is found in the belly of a young swallow being the first brood of the dame. These or one of them, hanged about the neck of the child, saveth and preserveth it, from the said sickness. Now will I describe some good & wholesome medicines to be taken inward for the same disease.  
If the child be not very young, the maw of a leveret, drunk with water and honey cureth the same.  
¶ A medicine for the falling sickness. Take the root of piony, and make it into powder and give it to the child to lick in a little pap and sugar. They that are of age, may eat of it a good quantity at once and likewise of the black sedes of the same peony. Item the purple violets that creepeth on the ground in gardens with a long stalk, and is called in english and fried meats, but abstain from milk and all manner fish. And it shall be good for her, to eat a lectuary made after this sort.  
Take nuntiss, cinamone, cumine, rose leaves dried, mastic, fenugreek, valerian, ameos doronisi, zedoarye, cloves, sanders, and lignum aloes, of every one a dram, musk half one dram, make an electuary with clarified honey, and let her eat of it, and give the child as much as half a nut every day to swallow.  
A plaster. Take an ounce of wax, and a dram of euphorbium, at the pothecaries, and temper it with oil olive on the fire, and make a serecloth, to comfort the back bone, and the sinews.  
¶ A goodly lavatory for the same purpose. Take lie of ashes, and seeth therein bay buries, and asmuch peony sedes, in a close vessel to the third part and wash the child often with the same.  
Item a bathe of savoury, maiorym, time, sage, nepte, smallage, & mints, or some of them is very good and wholesome.  
Also to rub the back of the child and the limbs, with oils of roses, and spike, mixed together warm, and in stead of it ye may take oil of bay.  
¶ Of the cramp or spasmus. THis disease is often seen among children and cometh very lightly, as of debility of the nerves and cords, or else of gross humours, that suffocate the same: the cure of that which is declared of authors to be done by frictions and ointments that comfort the sinews & dissolve the matter, as oil of floure-deluyce, with a little anise, saffron and the roots of peony  
Item oil of camomile, fenugreek, and mellilot●, or the herbs sodden, betony, wormwood, vervain, and time, are exceeding good to wash the child in.  
Item the plaster of exphorbium, written in the cure of palsy.  
Of the stiffness or starknes of limbs. SOmetime it happeneth ● the limbs are stark, ● can not well come together, without the greater pain, which thyng● proceedeth many times of cold, as when a child is found in the frost or in the street, cast away by ● wicked mother, or by som● other chance, although I am not ignorant that it may proceed of many other causes, as it is said of Rasis, and o● arnold de villa nova, in his book of the cure of infants.  
And here is to be noted, a wonderful secret of nature, many times approved, written of Auicenne in hy● first Canon, and of Celius Antiquarium electionun, libro xiii capit xxxvii▪ that when a member is utterly benumb 〈◊〉 and taken through cold, so tha● the patient cannot feel his limbs nor move them according to nature, by reason of the vehement congelation of the blood, in such case the chiefest hel● or remedy is not to set them to the fire to receive heat, for by that means, lightly we see that every one swowneth and many die outeryghte, but to set the feet, legs, and arms in a pail of clear cold water, which immediately shall dissolve the congelation, and restore the blood to the former passage and freedom, after that ye ma● lay the patient in a bed to sweat, and give him hot drink and caudles or a coleiss of a capon hot, with a little cinnamon & saffron to comfort the heart. An argument of this cure ye may see thus.  
When an apple or a peer is frozen in the winter set it to the fire, and it is destroyed: but if ye put it into cold water it shall as well endure, as it did afore, whereby it doth appear, that the water resolveth cold, better with hi● moisture, than the fire can do by reason of his heat: for the water relenteth and the fire draweth and drieth as affirmeth Galene in his book o● elements.  
Hitherto have I declined by occasion, but I trust not in vain to the reader, now to my purpose.  
When a young child is so taken with a cold, I esteem it best for to bathe th● body in lukewarm water, wherein hath been sodden maiorim and time, ● soap, sage, mints, & such other goo● and comfortable herbs, than to relieu● it with meats of good nourishment according to the age and necessity, and if need be, when ye see the limbs y● to be stark, make an ointment after this form.  
¶ An ointment for stiff and stoyned limbs. Take a good handful of nettles, and stamp them, then seth them in oil ● the third part in a double vessel, kep● that ointment in a dry place, for it w● last a great while, and is a singular remedy for the styfnes that cometh of cold, & whoso anointeth his hands & feet with it in the morning, shall not be grieved with cold all the day after. The sedes of nettles gathered in harvest and kept for the same intent, is exceeding good sodden in oil, or fried with swine's grease, which thing also is very good to heal the kibes of heels, called in latin Perniones. The urine of a goat with the dung stamped and laid to the place, resolveth the stiffness of limbs.  
When the cause cometh not by extreme cold, but of some other affection of the sinews and cords, it is best to make a bath or a fomentation of herbs that resolve and comfort the sinews, with relaxation of the gross humours, to open the pores, as by example thus. Take mallows, hollyhock and dill, of each a handful or two, seth them in the water of netes feet, or in broth of flesh without salt, with a handful of bran ●nd comine, in the which ye shall bathe the child, as warm as he may suffe● and if ye see necessity, make a plaist● with the same herbs, and lay it to th● grief with a little gosegrece, or duck● grease, or if it may be gotten, oil of camomile, of lilies, and of dill. Clouts wet in the said decoction, and la● about the members, helpeth.  
Of blood shotten eyes, and other infirmities. Sometime the eyes a● bloudeshotten, and oth● whiles increasing a fil● and white humour, cou●ring the sight, the cause● often of to much crying, for the whi● it is good to drop in the eyes a little the juice of nighteshade, other w● called morel, and to anoint the for head with the same, and if the eye sw● to wet a clout in the i●ice, and 〈◊〉 white of eggs, and lay it to the gre●  
If the humour be clammyshe a● tough, and cleaveth to the corners o● eyes, so that the child can not open them after his sleep, it shallbe removed with the juice of meek dropped on the eye with a feather.  
When the eye is bloudeshotten and ●edde, it is a singular remedy to put in it, the blood of a young pigeon, or a dove, or a partridge, either hot from the bird, or else dried and made in powder, as subtle as may be possible.  
A plaster for swelling and pain of the eyes. Take quinces and crumbs of white head, and seeth them in water till they be soft, then stamp them, and with a little saffron and the yolks of two eggs, make a plaster to the child's ●yes and forehead. Ye may let him al● receive the fume of that decoction. It is also good in the meigrim: if ye ●il have further, look in the regiment of life, in the declaration of pains of ●he head.  
Of watering eyes. IF the child's eyes water overmuch without crying, by reason of a distillation coming from the head, Manardus teacheth a goodly plaster to restrain the rheums and is made thus.  
Hearts horn brent to powder, and washed twice, guaiacum, otherwise called lignum sanctum, corticum thuris, antimony, of each one part, musk the three part of one part, make a fine powder and use it with the juice or water of fenel. These things have virtue to staunch the running of the eyes. Th● shells of snails brent, the tick tha● is found in the dugs of kine, phily● pendula, frankincense & the white o● an egg laid upon the forehead, flewor● or the water wherein it is steeped, tutie the water of duds of oak stilled, bea● flower finely sisted, and with the gūm● of a cheritree steeped in vinegar, & lay● over all the temples.  
¶ Of scabbynesse and itch. Sometime by reason of excess of heat, or sharpness in the milk, through the nurses eating of salt & eager meats, it happeneth that a child is seen full of itch by rubbing, freting, and chafing of itself, increasing a scab called of the Greeks Psora: which thing also chanceth unto many after they be weaned, proceeding of salt and adust humours, the cure whereof dyfferethe in none other, but according to the difference of age, for in a sucking babe the medicines may not be so sharp, as it may be suffered in one that is already weaned. Against such unkind itch, ye may make an ointment thus. Take water of betony ii good handfuls, daysye leaves, & alehofe otherwise called tunnour or ground ivy, of each one handful, the red dock roots, two or three, stamp them all together, and grind them well, then mingle them with fresh grease, and again stamp them. Let them so stand viii days to putrefy till it be hore, then fry them out and strain them and keep it for the same intent.  
This ointment hath a great effect, both in young and old, and that without repercussion or driving back of the matter, which should be a perilous thing for a young chld.  
The herb water betony alone, is a great medicine to quench all unkind heats without danger, or the seething of it in clear well water, to anoint the membres. It is a comen herb, & groweth by rivers sides & small running waters, and wet places, arising many times the height of a man out of the ground, where he rejoiceth, with a stalk four square, and many branches on every side, and also it beareth a whitish blue flower very small, & in harvest it hath innumerable seeds, black, and as fine as the seed of tutsone or less, the leaves big and long, according to the ground, full of juice, jagged on the sides like a saw, even as other betony, to whom it approacheth in figure, & obtemeth his name of water betony. The savour of the leaf is somewhat heavy, most like to the savour of elders or walwort, but when it is bruised it is more pleasant, which thing induceth me to vary from the minds of them that think this herb to be Galiopsis in Dioscorides, written of him that it should stink when it is stamped, but the more this herb is stamped, the more sweet and herbelyke it savoureth: therefore it can not be galeopsis: and besides that, it is never found in dry and stony ground as the Galiopsis is. Neither is this herb mentioned of the new or old authors, as far as I can see, but of only Vigo, the famous surgeon of our time in italy, which writeth on it, that this herb exceedeth all other in a malo mortuo (so calleth he a kind of ●eprye elephantyk, or an universal & filthy scab of all the body:) and in like manner he sayeth it is good for to cure a canker in the breasts. Ye may read these things in his second book. Capitul iii and his fift book of the French pocks, in the third chapter: where he doth describe this aforesaid herb, with so manifest tokens, that no man will doubt it to be water betony, conferring the book and the herb duly together. Moreover he nameth in italy a bridge where it groweth in the water in great abundance, and is called of that nation Alabeveratore, which in deed the Italtons' that come hither and know both the place and the herb, do affirm plainly, it is our water betony.  
And where as he allegeth Dioscorides in climeno, which by contemplation of both hath but small affiniti or none with this herb, it was for nothing else but lack of the tongues, which fault is not to be so highly rebuked in a man of his study, applying himself more in the practise of surgery, & to handy operation, wherein in deed he was near incomparable, than he did to search the variance of tongues, & rather regarded to declare the operation of things with truth, then to dispute upon the properties or names with eloquence.  
Thus have I declined again from my matter, partly to show the description of this wholesome herb, partly to satisfy the minds of the surgeons in Vigo, which have hitherto red the said places in vain, and furthermore because there is yet none that declareth manifestly the same herb.  
¶ An other remedy for scabs and itch. Take the roots of docks, and fry them in fresh grease, then put to it a quantity of brimstone in powder, and use to rub the places twice or thrice a day. Brimstone powdered & souped in a rear egg healeth the scabs, which thing is also very good to destroy worms.  
¶ A goodly sweet soap for scabs and itch. Take white soap half a pound, and stepe it in sufficient rose-water, till it be well soaked, then take two drams of mercinye sublimed, dissolve it in a little rose-water, labour the soap and the rose-water well together, & afterward put in it a little musk or cyvette, and keep it. This soap is exceeding good to cure a great scab or itch, and that without peril, but in a child it shall suffice to make it weaker of the mercury.  
another approved medicine for scabbynesse and itch. Take fumyterrie, dock roots, scabious, & the root of walwort, stamp them all, & set them in fresh grease to putrefy, then fry them and strain them, in which liquor ye shall put turpentine a little quantity, brimstone, and frankincense very finely powdered and sifted a portion, and with sufficient wax make an ointment on a soft fire: this is a singular remedy for the same purpose. But in this cure ye ought to give the child no eggs, nor any eager or sharp meat, and the nurse also must avoid the same, and not to wrap it in to hoot, and if nedde be, to make a bathe of fumitory, centaury, fetherfewe, tansy, wormwood, and sage alone, if ye see the cause of the itch or the scab to be worms in the skin, for a bitter decoetion shall destroy them and dry up the moistures of the sores.  
Of diseases in the ears. MAny diseases happen in the ears, as pain, apostemes swellings, tinkling and sound in the heed, stopping of the organs of hearing: Water, worms, & other infortunes gotten into the ears, whereof some of them are dangerous and hard to be cured, some other expelled of nature without medicine.  
¶ Remedy for pain in the ears. For pain in the ears without a manifest cause, as often chanceth, it is a singular remedy to take the chest worms, that are found under barks of trees, or in other stumps in the ground & will turn round like a pease, take of them a good quantity, and seeth them in oil, in the rind of a pomegranarde on the hot ymbres, that it burn not, and after that strain it and put into the ears a drop or two lukewarm, and then let him lie upon the other ear, and rest. Ye may give this to all ages, but in a child ye must put a very little quantity.  
¶ An other. The hame or skin of an adder or a snake, that she casteth, boiled in oil, & dropped into the ears, easeth the pain, & it is also good for an ear that mattereth mingled with a little honey, and put in lukewarm. It is also good to drop into the ears the juice of organye and milk.  
¶ For swelling under the ears. Painters oil, which is oil of linseed, is exceeding good for the swelling of the ears, and for pain in the ears of all causes.  
Item a plaster made of linseed and dill, with a little ducks grease & honey, If ye see the aposteme break, & run, ye may cleanse it with the juice of smallage, the white of an egg, barley flower, and honey, which is a common plaster to mundify a sore.  
When the ears have received water or any other liquor, it is good to take and stamp an onion and wring out the juice with a little gosegrese, & drop it hot into the ear as it may be suffered, and lay him down on the contrary side an hour, after that cause him to sneeze if his age will suffer, with a little pellitory of Spain, or sneezing powder, and then incline his ear downward, that the water may issue.  
¶ For worms in the ears. Take myrrh, aloes, and the seed of colocinthiss, called coloquintida of the apothecary's, a quantity of each, seeth them in oil of roses, & put a little in the ear Myrrh hath a great virtue to remove the stench that is caused in the ears by any putrefaction, and the better with oil of bitter almonds, or ye may take the juice of wormwood with honey and salt peter.  
¶ For wind in the ears and tinkling. Take myrrh, spykenarde, cumin, dill, and oil of camomile, and put a drop in the ears. They that have not all these may take some of them, and apply it according to discretion.  
To amend deafness ye shall make an ointment of an hare's gall, and the grease or dropping of an eel, which is a sovereign thing to recover hearing.  
¶ Of neezing out of measure. WHen a child neseth out of measure, that is to say, with a long continuance, and thereby the brain and virtues animal be feebled, it is good to stop it, to avoid a further inconvenience.  
Wherefore ye shall anoint the head with the juice of porcelain, sorrel, and nightshade, or some of them, and make a plaster of the white of an egg, and the juice, with a little oil of roses, & emplaster the forehead and temples, with the milk of a woman, oil of roses, and vinegar a little.  
If it come of cold rheum, ye shall make a plaster of mastic, frankensens, myrrh, wine, and apply it to the former part of the head. A fume of the same received in ●axe, and laid upon the child's head, is wholesome.  
¶ Breeding of teeth. ABout the seventh month, sometime more, sometime less after the birth, it is natural for a child for to breed teeth, in which time many one is sore bere, with sundry diseases & pains, as swelling of the gums & jaws, unquiet crying, fevers, cramps, palsies, ●tuxes, rheums, and other infirmities, specially when it is long or the teeth come forth, for the sooner they apere, the better, and the more eafe it is to the child. There be divers things the are good to procure an easy breeding of teeth, among whom the chiefest is to anoint the gums, with the brains of an hare, mixed with asmuch capons grease and honey, or any of these things alone, is exceeding good to supple the gums and the sinews.  
Also it is good to wash the child two or three times, in a week, with warm water, of the decoction of camomile, hollyhocke and dill.  
Fresh butter, with a little barley flower, or honey, with the fine powder of frankincense & liquorice, are commended of good authors for the same intent. And when the pain is great, and intolerable, with apostume or inflammmation of the goummes, it is good to make an ointment of oil of roses, with the juice of morelle, otherwise called nightshade, and in lack of it, anoint the ●awes within, with a little fresh butter and honey.  
For lack of the hare's brain, ye may take the conies, for they be also of the kind of hares, and called of pliny Dasypodes, whose maws are of the same effect in medicine, or rather more, than is written of authors, of the maws of hares.  
If ye see the gums of the child to apostume or sweet with soft flesh, full of matter and painful, the best shall be to anoint the sore place with the brain of an hare, & capons grease, equally mixed together, and after that ye have used this, once or twice, anoint the gums, and apostumations with honey.  
thirdly if this help not, take turpentine mixed with a little honey in equal portion: And make a bath for the head of the child, in this form. Take the flowers of camomile and dill, of each an handful, seeth them in a quart of pure running water, until they be tender, and wash the head afore any meat, every morning, for see purgeth the superfluity of the brains, through the seams of the skull, and withdraweth humours from the sore place, finally comforteth the brain and all the virtues animal of the child. To cause an easy breeding of teeth, many things are rehearsed of auctors besides the premises, as the first cast tooth of a colt set in silver & borne, or red coralle in like manner, hanged about the neck, where upon the child should oftentimes labour his gums, and many other like, which I leave out at this time, to avoid tediousness, only content to declare this of coral, that by consent of all authors, it resisteth the force of lightening, helpeth the children of the falling evil, and is very good to be made in powder, & drunken against all manner of bleeding of the nose or fundament.  
¶ Of a canker in the mouth. MAny times by reason of corruption of the milk, venomous vapours arising from the stomach, & of many other infortunes there chanceth to breed a canker in the mouths of children, whose signs are manifest enough, that is to say by stinking of the mouth, pain in the place, continual running of spittle, swelling of the cheek, and when the mouth is opened against the son, ye may see clereye where the canker lieth. It is so named of the latter sort of physicians, by reason of creeping and eating forward and backward, and spreadeth itself abroad, like the feet of a creves, called in latin cancer, notwithstanding I know that the Greeks, and ancient latins, give other names unto this disease, as in calling it an ulcer, other whiles ●the, neme, carcinomata, and 〈…〉 all in english, known by the 〈◊〉 of canker in the mouth, and although there be many kinds according to the matter whereof they be engendered, & therefore require a diversity of curing, yet for the most part, when they be in children, the cure of them all differeth very little or nothing, for the chief intent shall be to remove the malignity of the sore, and to dry up the noisome matter and humours, than to mundify and heal, as in other kinds of vicers, sores, and wounds.  
¶ Remedies for the canker in the mouth of children. TAke dry red roses, & violets, of each a like quantity, make them in powder, and mixed them with a little honey, this medicine is very good in a tender sucking child, and many times healeth alone, without any other thing at al. But if ye see there be great heat & burning in the sore, with exceeding pain, ye shall make a juice of porcelain, lettuce & nightshade, & wash the sore with a fine piece of silk, or drive it in with a spout, called of the surgeons a spring.  
This by the grace of God, shall abate the brenning, assuage the pain, and kill the venom of the ulcer.  
But if ye see the canker yet increase with great corruption & matter, ye shall make an ointment after this manner.  
Take myrrh, galls wherewith they make ink, or in default of them, oaken apples dried, frankincense, of each a like much, of the black buries growing on the bramble, taken from the bush while they be green, the iii part of all the rest, make them all in powder, and mixed them with asmuch honey and saffron, as is sufficient, and use it.  
¶ A stronger medicine for the canker in the mouth of children. Take the root of celidonye dried, the rind of a pomegranate, red coral in powder, & the powder of a hearts horn, of each a like, roche alum a little. first wash the place with wine, or warm water, and honey, and afterward put on the foresaid powder, very fine and subtile.  
another singular medicine for the canker in the mouth of all ages. ℞. hyssop, sage, rue, of each one good handful, seeth them in wine and water, to the third part, then strain them out, and put in it a little white coperose, according to necessity: that is to say, when the sore is great, put in the more, when it is small ye may take the less, than add to it a quantity of honey clarified, and a spoonful or two of good aqua vite, wash the place with it, for it is a singular remedy, to remove the malice in a short while, which done ye shall make a water incarnative and healing thus.  
℞. rybwoort, betony and daisies, of each a handful, seeth them in wine and water, and wash his mouth, two or three times a day with the same juice. Moreover some writ that crystal made in fine powder, hath a singular virtue to destroy the canker, and in like manner the powder of an hearts horn brent with asmuch of the rind of a pomegranate, and the juice of nightshade, is very good and wholesome.  
Of quinsy and swelling of the throat. THe quinsy is a dangerous sickness, both in young & old, called in latin angina, it is an inflammation of the neck with swelling and great pain, sometime it lieth in the very throat, upon the weasand pipe, and than it is exceeding perilous for it stoppeth the breath, & stranguleth the patient anon.  
Other whiles it breaketh out like a bonche on the one side of the neck, and than also with very great difficulty of breathing, but it choketh not so soon as the first doth, and it is more obedient to receive curation. The signs are apparent to sight, & besides that the child can not cry, neither swallow down his meat and drink without pain.  
¶ Remedy. It is good to anoint the grief with oil of dill, or oil of camomile, and lilies, and to lay upon the head, hot clouts dippeth in the waters of rosemary, lavender, and savoury.  
The chiefest remedy commended of authors in this outrageous sickness, is the powder of a swallow brent with feathers and all, and mixed with honey, whereof the patient must swallow down a little, and the rest anointed upon the pain. They praise also the powder of the child's dung to the child, and of a man to a man, brent in a pot, and anointed with a little honey. Some make a componed ointment of both, the receipt is thus. ℞. of the swallow brent, one portion, of the second powder another, make it in a thick form with honey, and it will endure long for the same intent,  
Item an other experiment for the quinsy and swelling under the ears.  
Take the musherun that groweth upon an elder tree, called in english, jews ears (for it is in deed croncled and ●at, much like an ear) heat it against the fire, and put it hot in any drink, the same drink is good & wholesome for the quinsy.  
Some hold opinion that whoso useth to drink with it, shall never be troubled with this disease, and therefore carry it about with them in journeys.  
¶ Of the cough. THe cough in children for the most part, proceedeth either of a cold, or by reason of rheums, descending from the head into the pipes of the longs or the breast, and that is most commonly by overmuch abundance of milk, corrupting the stomach and brain: therefore in that case, it is good to feed the child with a more slender diet, and to anoint the head over, with honey, and now and than to press his tongue with your finger, holding down his head that the rheums may issue, for by that means the cause of the cough shall run out of his mouth, and avoid the child of many naughty and slimy humours: which done, many times the patient am endeth, without any further help of medicine.  
¶ For the cough in a child. Take gum arabike, gum dragagant, quince sedes, liquorice and peridies, at the apothecaries, break them all together, and give the child to sup a little at once, with a draft of milk newli warm, as it cometh from the cow.  
Also stamp blanched almonds, and wring them out with the juice of fennel, or water of fennel, and give it to the child to feed with a little sugar.  
¶ Against the great cough, and heat in the body. The heads of white poppy, and gum dragagant, of each a little much, long cucumber seeds, as much as all, seth them in whey, with raisins and sugar, and let the child drink of it twice or thrice a day lukewarm, or cold.  
¶ Of straightness of wind. AGainst the straightness of breathing which is no quinsy, the consent of authors do attribute a great effect, to lyvesede made in powder, & tempered with honey, for the child to swallow down a little at once. I find also that the milk of a mare newly received of the child with sugar, is a siguler remedy for the same purpose, Which thing moreover, is exceeding wholesome to make the belly lax without trouble.  
¶ Of weakness of the stomach, and vomiting. Many times the stomach of the child is so feeble that it cannot retain either meat or drink, in which case, and for all debility thereof, it is very good, to wash the stomach, with warm water of roses, wherein a little musk hath been dissolved, for that by the odour and natural heat giveth a comfort to all the spiritual members.  
And then it is good to roast a quince tender, & with a little powder of cloves and sugar to give it to the child: to eat conserua quinces, with a little cinnamon and cloves, is singular good for the same intent. Also ye may make a juice of quinces and give it to the child to drink with a little sugar.  
¶ An ointment for the stomach. Take gallia muscata at the apothecaries twenty grain weight, myrrh a very little, make it up in ointment fourine, with oil of mastic, and water of roses sufficient, this is a very good ointment for the stomach.  
¶ An other singular receipt. Take mastic, frankincense, and dry red roses, as much as is sufficient, make them in powder, and temper them up, with the juice of mints, and a spoonful of vinegar, and use it.  
¶ An other. Take wheat flower, and parch it on a pan, till it begin to burn and wax red, than stamp it with vinegar, and add to it, the yolks of two● eggs hard roasted, mastic, gum, & frankincense sufficient, make a plaster and lay it to the stomach.  
To recover an appetite lost.  
Take a good handful of rank and lusty rue, and seth it in a pint of vinegar to the third part or less, and make it very strong, whereof if it be a child, ye may take a tooste of brown bread, and stamp it with the same vinegar, and lay it plaisterwyse to the stomach, and for a stronger age besides the plaster, let him sup morning and evening of the same vinegar. This is also good to recover a stomach lost, by coming to a fire after a long journey, and hath also a singular virtue to restore a man that swowneth.  
¶ An experiment often approved of Rasis for the vomit of children. Rasis a solemn practitioner among physicians, affirmeth that he healed a great multitude of this disease, only with the practice following, which he taketh to be of great effect in all like eases.  
first he maketh as it were an electuary of pothecarye stuff, that is to say, lignum aloes, mastic of every one half a dram, galls half a scruple, make a lectuary with syrup of roses, and gallia muscata and sugar.  
Of this he gave the children to eat a very little at once & often. afterward he made a plaster thus. ℞, mastic, aloes, sloes, galls, frankincense, and brent bread, of each a like portion, make a plaster with oil and syrup of roses to be laid to the child's stomach ho●e.  
¶ An other ointment for the stomach, described of Wilhel. Placentino. Take oil of mastic or of wormwood ii ounces, wax iii ounces, cloves, maces, and cinnamon of each three drams, make an ointment, adding in the end a little vinegar.  
The yolk of an egg hard roasted, mastic, frankincense and gum, made in a plaster with oil of quinces, is exceeding good for the same purpose.  
Of yeaxing or hicket IT chanceth oftentimes that a child yeaxeth out of measure. Wherefore it is expedient to make the stomach eager afore it be fed, & not to replenish it with to much at once, for this disease commonly proceedeth of fuines, for if it come of emptiness, or of sharp humours in the mouth of the stomach, which is seldom seen: the cure is then very difficile and dangerous.  
Remedy. When it cometh of fullness that child yeaxeth incessauntlye without measure and that by a long custom, i● is good to make him vomit with a fe●ther or by some other light means, that the matter which causeth the yeaxing may issue and uncomber the stomach, that done, bring it a sleep, and use to anoint the stomach with oils of castor, spike, camomile, and dill, or two or, iii. of them, joined together, warm.  
Of colic and rumbling in the guts. pain in the belly is a common disease of children, it cometh either of worms, or of taking cold, or of evil milk, that signs thereof are to well known, for the child cannot rest, but crieth and fretteth itself, and many times cannot make their urine, by reason of wind, that oppresseth the neck of the bladder, and is known also, by the member in a man child, which in this case, is alway stiff, & pricking, moreover the noise and rumbling in the guts, hither and thither, declareth the child to be grieved, with wind in the belly, and colic.  
¶ Cure. The nurse must avoid all manner meats, that engender wind, as beans peason, butter, hard eggs, and such.  
Than wash the child's belly with hot water wherein hath been sodden comine, dill and fenel, after that make a plaster of oil and wax, and clap it hot upon a cloth unto the belly.  
another good plaster for the same intent. Take good stolen ale and fresh butter, seeth them with an handful of comine powdered, and after put it all together into a swine's bladder, & bind the mouth fast, that the liquor issue not out, then wind it in a cloth, & turn it up and down upon the belly as hot as the patient may suffer, this is good for the col●ke after a sudden cold, in all ages, but in children ye must beware ye apply it not to hot.  
Of flux of the belly. MAny times it happeneth either by taking cold, or by reason of great pain in breading of teeth, or else through salt and eager steume or choler enge●dred in the body, that the child fa●●eth into a soodayne lax, which if it long continue and be not helped, it may bring the patient to extreme leans, and consumption: wherefore it shall be good to seek some wholesome remedi, & to stop the running of the flux thus.  
Remedy for the flux in a child.  
First make a bath of herbs that do restrain, as of plantain, saint john's weed called ipericon, knotgrass, bursa pastoris and other such, or some of them, and use to bathe him in it as hot as he may well suffer, then wrap him in with clothes, and lay him down to sleep.  
And if ye see by this twice or thrice using, that the belly be not stopped: Ye may take an eggs yolk hard roasted, and grind it with a little saffron, myrrh and wine, make a plaster, and apply it to the navel hot. If this succeed not, than it shallbe necessary for to make a powder to give him in his meat with a little sugar and in a small quantity thus.  
Take the powder of hearts horn brent, the powder of goats claws, or of swine's claws brent, the powder of the sede of rose which remain in the berry when the rose is fallen, of every one a portion, make them very fine, & with good red wine or almond milk, and wheat flower, make it as it w● a paste, and dry it in little balls till ye see necessity, it is a singular remedy in all such cases.  
Item the milk wherein hath been sodden wh●te paper, and afterward quenched many hot irons or gads of steel, is exceeding good for the same intent to drink.  
And here is to be noted, that a natural flux is never to be feared afore the seventh day, and except there issue blood, it ought not to be stopped afore the said time.  
Powder of the herb called knotgrass or the juice thereof in a possette drunken, or a plaster of the same herb, and of bursa pastoris, bolearmeny, and the juice of plantain with a little vinegar, and wheat flower is exceeding good for the same cause.  
Also the rindle maw of a young sucking kid given to the child, the weight of ten grains, with the yolk of an egg soft roasted, and let the patient abstain from milk by the space of ii hours before and after, in stead whereof ye may give a roasted quince or a warden with a little sugar and, cinnamon to eat.  
Item an other goodly receipt for the same intent.  
Take sorrel seed and the kernels of great raisins dried, acorn cups, and the seed of white poppy, of each ii drams, saffron a good quantity, make them in powder and temper them with the juice of quinces, or syrup of red roses, this is a sovereign thing in all fluxes of the womb.  
Many other things are written of authors in the said disease, which I here leave out for brevity: & also because the afore rehearsed medicines are sufficient enough in a case curable: yet will I not omit a goodly practice in the said cure. The pesyl of an hart or a stag dried in powder and drunken, is of great & wonderful effect in stopping a flux. Which thing also is approved in the liver of a beast called in english an otter. The stones of him drunken in powder, a little at one's thirty days together, hath healed men for ever of the salling evil.  
¶ Of stopping of the belly. EVen as a flux is dangerous, so is stopping & hardness of the belly grievous & noyesome to the child, and is often cause of the colic and other diseases.  
Wherefore in this case ye must always put a little honey into the child's meat, and let the nurse give him honey to suck upon her finger, and if this will not help, than the next is to mix a little fine and clear turpentine, with honey, and so to resolve it in a saucer, and let the child sup of it a little. This medicine is describe of Paulus Agineta, and recited of divers other as a thing very wholesome and agreeing to the nature of the child: for it doth not only loosen the belly without grief or danger, but doth also purge the liver and the longs, with the spleen and kidneys, generally comforting all the spiritual membres of the body.  
The gall of an ox or a cow laid upon a clout on the navylle, causeth a child to be lose bellied, likewise an emplaster of a roasted onion, the gall of an ox, & butter, laid upon the belie as hot as he may suffer. If these will not help, ye shall take a little cotton, and roll it, and dipped in the said gall, put it in the fundament.  
¶ Of worms. THere be diverse kinds of worms in the belly, as long, short, round, ●at, and some small as lice, they be all engendered of a crude, gross, or phlegmatic matter, & never of choler nor of melancholy, for all bitter things killeth them, & all sweet meats that engender phlegm, nourisheth and feedeth the same. The signs differ according to the worms. For in the long & round, the patient commonly hath a dry cough, pain in the belly about the guts, sometime yeaxing & trembling in the night, & start suddenly, and fall asleep again, other whiles they gnasshe and grind their teeth together, the eyes wax hollow, with an eager look, & have great delight in slumbering, and silence, very loath when they are awaked. The pulse is incertain, and never at one stay, sometime a fever with great cold in the joints, which endureth three or iiii ●oures in the night or day, many have but small desire to meat, and when they desire, they eat very greedily, which if they lack at their appetite, they forsake it a great while after, the hole body consumeth and waxeth lean the face pale or blue: sometime a luxe, sometimes vomit, and in some the belie is swollen as stiff as a taberet. The long and broad worms are known by these signs, that is to say, by yelownesse or whittishnesse of the eyes, intolerable hunger, great gnawing and groping in the belly, specially afore meat, water coming out at the mouth, or at the fundament, continual itch and rubbing of the nostrils, sunken eyes and a stinking breath, also when the person doth his easement, there appeareth in the dung little flat substances, moche like the seeds of cucumbers or gourds.  
The other less sort are engendered in the great gut, & may well be known by the exceeding itch in the fundament within, & are oftentimes seen coming out with the excrements. They be called of physicians, ascarydes'.  
¶ Remedy for worms, in children. The herb that is found growing upon oysters by the seas side, is a singular remedy to destroy worms, and is called therefore of the Greeks Scolytabotan●, that is to say, the herb that killeth worms: it must be made in powder, and given with sweat milk to the child to drink. The Physicians call the same herb coralino.  
¶ A singular receit for to kill worms. Take the gall of a bull or ox, newly killed, and stamp in it an handful of good common, make a plaster of it, and lay it over all the belly, removing the same every six hours.  
Item the gall of a bull with seeds of colocinthiss, called coloquintida of the pothecary's, and an handful of bay berries well made together in a plaster, with a spoonful of strong vinegar, is of great effect in the same case.  
If the child be of age or strong complexion, ye may make a few pills of aloes, and the powder of wormseed, than wind them in a piece of a singing loaf, and anoint them over with a little butter: and let them be swallowed down hole without chewing.  
¶ Of swelling of the navel. IN a child lately borne, and tender, sometime by cutting of the navel to near, or at an inconueniente season, sometime by swaddling or binding amiss, or of moche crying, or coughing, it happeneth otherwiles, that the navel ariseth and swelleth with great pain and apostemation, the remedy whereof is not much different from the cure of ulcers, saving in this that ye ought to apply things of less attraction, then in other kind of ulcers, as for an example, ye may make an ointment under this form. Take spike or lavender, half an ounce, make it in powder, and with three ounces of fine and clear turpentine, temper it in an ointment, adding a portion of oil of sweet almonds. But if it come of crying, take a little bean flower, and the ashes of fine linen clouts brent, and temper it with red wine and honey, and lay it to the sore.  
¶ A plaster for swelling in the navel. Take cows dung, and dry it in powder, barley flower, and bean flower of each a portion, the juice of knotgrass a good quantity, comine a little, make a plaster of all and set it to the navel.  
¶ An other. Take cows dung and seeth it in the milk of the same cow, and lay it on the grief. This is also marvelous effectual to help a soodayne ache, or swelling in the legs.  
Of the stone in children. THe tender age of children as I said afore, is vexed and afflicted with many grievous and perilous diseases, among whom there is few or none so violente or more to be feared in them, then that which is most feared in all kinds of ages, that is to say, the stone, an huge and a pitiful disease, ever the more increasing in days, the more rebelling to the cure of physic, Therefore is it exceeding dangerous when it falleth in children, for as much as neither the bodies of them may be well purged of the matter antecedent, called humour peccans, nor yet can abide any violent medicine having power to break it, by reason whereof the said disease acquireth such a strength above nature, that in process of time it is utterly incurable.  
Yet in the beginning it is oftentimes healed thus.  
first let the nurse be well dieted, or the child, if it be of age, abstaining from all gross meats, and hard of digestion, as is beef, bacon, salt meats and cheese, than make a powder of the root of peony dried, and mingle it with as much honey as shall be sufficient, or if the child abhor honey, make it up with sugar molten a little upon the cools, and give thereof unto the child, more or less, according to the strength, twice a day, till ye see the urine pass easily, ye may also give it in a rear egg, for without doubt it is a singular remedy in children.  
¶ An ointment for the same. Oil of scorpions, if it may be gotten, is exceeding good to anoint withal the membres, and the neither part of the belly, right against the bladder, ye may have it at the apothecaries▪  
¶ a singular bath for the same intent. Take mallows, hollyhock, lily roots, linseed, and parietary of the wall, seeth them all in the broth of a sheeps head, and therein use to bathe the child oftentimes, for it shall open the straightness of the condites, that the stone may issue, suage the pain, and bring out the gravel with the urine, but in more effect when a plaster is made, as shall be said hereafter, and laid upon the reins, and the belly, immediately after the bathing.  
¶ A plaster for the stone. Take parietary of the wall, one portion, and stamp it, doves dung an other portion, and grind it, than fry them both in a pan, with a good quantity of fresh butter, and as hot, as may be suffered, lay it to the belly and the back, and from four hours to iiii let it be renewed.  
This is a sovereign medicine in all manner ages.  
Item an other powder which is made thus.  
Take the kernels or stones that are found in the fruit, called openers or mespiles, or of some, medlars.  
Make them in fine powder, which is wonderful good for to break the stone without danger, both in young and old.  
The chestwormes dried and made in fine powder, taken with the broth of a chicken, or a little sugar, helpeth them, that can not make their urine.  
¶ Of pissing in the bed. MAny times for debility of virtue retentive of the reins or bladder, as well old men as children are oftentimes annoyed, when their urine issueth out either in their sleep or waking against their wills, having no power to retain it when it cometh, therefore if they will be holpen, first they must avoid all fat meats, till the virtue retentive be restored again and to use this powder in their meats and drinks.  
Take the weasand of a cock, and pluck it, than burn it in powder, and use of it twice or thrice a day. The stones of an hedgehog powdered is of the same virtue.  
Item the claws of a goat, made in powder drunken, or eaten in pottage. If the patient be of age, it is good to make fine plates of lead, with holes in them, and let them lie often to the naked back.  
¶ Of brusting. THe causes of it in a child are many, for it may come of very light occasions, as of great crying, & stopping the breath, binding to straight, or by a fall, or of to great rocking, and such like, may cause the film that spreadeth over the baly, to break or to slack, and so the guts fall down, into the cod, which if it be not utterly uncurable, may be healed after this sort.  
first lay the patient so upon his back, that his head may be lower than his heals, than take and reduce the bowels with your hand, into the due place, afterward ye shall make a plaster to be laid upon the cods, and bound with a lace round about the back, after this form.  
Take rosin, frankincense, mastic, common, linseed, & anise seed of every one a like, powder of osmonde roots, that is to say of the broad fern, the four part of all, make a plaster with sufficient oil olive, and fresh swines grease, and spread it on a leather, and let it continued (except a great necessity) two or three weeks, after that apply an other like, till ye see amendment. In this case it is very good to make a powder of the hears of an hare, & to temper it with sugar or conserua roses and give it to the child twies every day.  
If it be above the age of vii year, ye may make a singular receit in drink to be taken every day twice, thus.  
¶ A drink for one that is bursten. Take matfelon, daisies, comfery, and osmundes, of every one a like, seet them in the water of a smiths forge to the third part, in a vessel covered, o● a soft fire, than strain it and give to drink of it, a good draught at one's morning and evening, adding evermore in his meats and drinks, the powder of the hear of an hare, being dried.  
¶ Of falling of the fundament. MAny times it happeneth that the gut called of the latins rectum intestinum, falleth out at the fundament, & can not be gotten in again without pain and labour, which disease is a common thing in children, coming oftentimes of a sudden cold or a long lax, and may well be cured by these subscribed medicines.  
If the gut hath been long out, and be so swollen that it cannot be reposed, or by coldness of the air be congealed, the best counsel is to let the child sit on a hot bathe, made of the decoction of mallows, hollyhock, lineseed, and the roots of lilies, wherein ye shall bathe the fundament, with a soft clout or a sponge, and when the place is suppled thrust it in again, which done, than make a powder thus.  
¶ A powder for falling of the fundament. Take the powder of an hearts horn brent, the cups of acorns dried, rose leaves dried, goats claws brent, the rind of a pomegranate, and of galls, of every one a portion. Make them in powder, and strow it on the fundament. It shall be the better, if ye put a little on the gut, afore it be reposed in the place, & after it be settled, to put more of it upon the fundament, than bind it in with hot linen clothes, and give the child quinces, or a roasted warden to eat with cinnamon and sugar.  
¶ An other good powder for the same. Take galls, myrrh, frankincense, mastic, and aloes, of every one a little make them in a powder, and strow it on the place.  
A little tar with gosegrese is also very good in this case.  
¶ An other good remedy. Take the wool from betwenethe legs, or of the neck of a sheep, which is full of sweat and fatty, than make a juice of unset leeks, and dip the wool in it, and lay it to the place as hot, as may be suffered, and when it waxeth cold remove it and apply an other hot, this is a very good remedy for falling of the fundament.  
If the child provoke many times to siege, and can expel nothing, that disease is called of the Greeks tenesmos, for the which it shall be very good to apply a plaster made of garden cressis & a comine in like quantity, fry them in butter, and lay it on the belly as hot as he may suffer. It is also commended, to fume the neither parts with turpentine and pitch, and to sit long upon a board of cedar or juniper, as may be possible.  
¶ Chafing of the skin. IN the flanks, armholes, & under the ears, it chanceth often times that the skin fretteth, either by the childs own urine, or for the default of washing, or else by wrapping and keeping to hot.  
Therefore in the beginning, ye shall anoint the places, with fresh capons grease, then if it will not heal, make an ointment, and lay it on the place.  
¶ An ointment for chafing and galling. Take the root of the fleur-de-lys dried, of red roses dried, galingale and mastic, of each a like quantity, beat them into most subtile powder: than with oil of roses, or of linseed make a soft ointment.  
Item the longs of a wether dried, and made in very fine powder, healeth all chafings of the skin: and in like manner the fragments of shoemakers leather, brent and cast upon the place, in as fine powder as is possible, hath the same effect, which thing is also good for the galling or chafing of the feet, of whatsoever cause it cometh.  
Item bean flower, barley flower, and the flower of fitch's tempered with a little oil of roses, maketh a sovereign ointment for the same intent.  
If the chafings be great, it is good to make a bath of hollyhock, dill, violets and linseed with a little bran, than to wash the same places oftentimes, and lay upon the sore, some of the same things. The decoction of plantain, bursa pastoris, horsetaile and knotgrass, is exceeding good to heal all chafings of the skin.  
¶ Of small pocks and measilles. THis disease is common & famil●er, called of the greeks by the general name of exanthemata, and of P●●nie, papule et pituite erupciones, notwithstanding the consent of writers, hath obtained a distinction of it in ii kinds: that is to say, varioli the measils, and morbilli called of us the small pocks.  
They be both of one nature, and proceed of one cause, saving that the measils are engendered of the inflammation of blood, and the small pocks of the inflammation of blood mingled with choler.  
The signs of them both are so manifest to sight, that they need no farther declaration, for at the first some have an itch and a fretting of the skin as if it had been rubbed with nettles, pain in the head and in the back, the face red in colour and flecked, fear in the sleep, great thirst, redness of the eyes, beating in the temples, shooting and pricking through all the body, than anon after, when they break out, they be seen of divers fashions and forms, sometimes as it were a dry scab or a lepry spreding over all the members, other while in bushes, pimples, and wheels, running with much corruption and matter, and with great pain of the face and throat, dryness of the tongue, hoarseness of voice, and in some quivering of the heart with swooning.  
The causes of these evil affections, are rehearsed of authors, to be chief four first of the superfluities which might be corrupt in the womb of the mother, the child there being, and receiving the same into the poors, the which at that time for debility of nature, could not be expelled, but the child increasing afterward in strength, be driven out of the veins into the upper skin.  
secondarily it may come of a corrupt generation, that is to say when it was engendered in an evil season, the mother being sick of her natural infirmity, for such as are begotten that time very seldom escape the disease of lepry.  
The third cause may be an evil diet of the nurse, or of the child itself, when they feed upon meats that increase rotten humours, as milk and fish both at one meal, likewise excess of eating and drinking, and surfitte.  
Fourthly this disease cometh by the way of contagion, when a sick person infecteth an other, and in that case it hath great affinity with the pestilence.  
¶ Remedy. The best and most sure help in this case, is not to meddle with any kind of medicines, but to let nature work her operation, notwithstanding if they be to slow in coming out, it shall be good for you to give the child to drink, sodden milk and saffron, & so keep him close, and warm, whereby they may the sooner issue forth, but in no case to administer any thing that might either repress the swelling of the skin, or to cool the heat that is within the members. For if this disease which should be expelled by a natural action of the body to the long health afterward of the patient, were by force of medicine couched in again, it were even enough to destroy the child Therefore abide the full breaking out of the said weals, and then (if they be not ripe) ease the child's pain by making a bath of holihock, dill, camomile & fenel: if they be ripe & matter, them take fenel, wormwood and sage, and seeth them in water, to the third part, wherein ye may bathe him with a fine cloth or a sponge. Always provided that he take no cold during the time of his sickness. The wine wherein figs have been sod, is singular good in the same case, & may be well used in all times & causes.  
If the weals be outrageous and great, with much corrosion and venom, some make a decoction of roses & plantain, in the water of oak, and dissolve in it a little english honey & camphor.  
The decoction of water betony, is approved good in the said diseases. Likewise the ointment of herbs, whereof I made mention in the cure of scabs, is exceeding wholesome after the sores are ripe.  
Moreover it is good to drop in the pacientes eyes .v. or vi. times a day, a little rose or fennel water, to comfort the sight, lest it be hurt by continual running of matter. This water must be ministered in the summer cold, & in the winter ye ought to apply it lukewarm.  
Thesame rose water is also good to gargoyle in his mouth, if the child be then pained in the throat.  
And lest the condites of the nose should be stopped, it shallbe very expedient to let him smell often to a sponge wete in the juice of savoury, strong vinegar, and a little rose water.  
To take away the spots & scars of the small pocks and measles.  
The blood of a bull or of an hare is much commended of authors to be anointed hot upon the scars, & also the liquor the issueth out of sheeps claws or goats claws het in the fire. Item the dripping of a cignet or swan laid upon the places oftentimes hot,  
Fevers. IF the fever use to take the child with a great shaking, and afterward hot, whether it be cotidian or tertian, it shall be singular good to give it in drink, the black seeds of Peony made in fine powder, seared and mingled with a little sugar.  
Also take plantain, fetherfew and verneine, and bathe the child in it once or twice a day, binding to the pulses of the hands and feet a plaster of the same herbs stamped, and provoke the child to sweat afore the fit cometh.  
Some give counsel in a hot fever, to apply a cold plaster to the breast, made in this wise. Take the juice of wormwood, plantain, mallows and meek, and temper in them asmuch barley flower as shall be sufficient, and use it. Or thus, and more better in a weak patient.  
Take dry roses and powder them, then temper the powder with the juice of endive or porcelain, rose water, and barley flower, and make a plaster to the stomach.  
Item an ointment for his temples arms and legs, made of oil of roses, and populeon, of each like much.  
A good medicine for the ague in children. Take plantain with the root, and wash it, then seeth it in fair running water to the third part: whereof ye shall give it a draft (if it be of age to drink) with sufficient sugar, & lay the sodden herbs as hot as may be suffered, to the pulses of the hands and feet. This must be done a little afore the fit, & afterward cover it with clothes.  
The oil of nettles whereof I spoke in the title of stiffness of limbs, is exceeding good to anoint the members in a cold shaking ague.  
of the grief. If there be much inflammation or heat in the cods, ye may make an ointment of plantain, the white and yolk of an egg, and a portion of oil of roses, stir them well about, & apply it to the grief twice or thrice a day.  
When the pain is intolerable, and the child of age, or of strong complexion, if the premises will not help, ye shall make a plaster after this sort. Take henbane leaves, an handful and an half, mallow leaves, an handful, seeth them well in clear water, then stamp them and stir them, and with a little of the broth, bean flower, barley flower, oil of roses and camomile sufficient, make it up and set on the swelling lukewarm. Henbane as Auicenne saith, is exceeding good to resolve the hardness of the stones by a secret quality. notwithstanding, if it come of wind, it shallbe better to use the said plasters that are made with comine, for that is of a singular operation in dissolving wind, as affirmeth Dioscorides writing of the qualities of cumine.  
Of sacer ignis or chingles IN Greek herisipelas, and of the Latins Sacer ignis, our English women call it the fire of Saint Anthony, or chingles, it is an inflammation of members with exceeding burning and redness, hard in the feeling, and for the most part creepeth above the skin or but a little deep within the flesh.  
It is a grievous pain, & may be likened to the fire in consuming. Wherefore the remedies that are good for burning are also very wholesome here in this case. And first the green ointment of herbs described in the chapter of itch, is of good effect also in this cure: more over the medicines that are here described. Take at the apothecaries of unguentum Galeni an ounce and an half, oil of roses two ounces, unguenti populeon one ounce, the juice of plantain, & nightshade one ounce or more, the whites of three eggs, heat them altogether, & ye shall have a good ointment for the same purpose.  
An other. Take earthwormes and stamp them in vinegar, then anoint the grief every two hours.  
Item the dung of a swan, or in lack of it the dung of a goose stamped with the white and yolk of an egg, is good.  
Item doves dung stamped in salet oil or other, is a singular remedy for the same purpose.  
Of burning and scalding. FOr burning and scalding whether it be with fire, water, oil, lead, pitch, lime, or any such infortune: Ye must beware ye set no repercussive at the first, that is to say no medicine of extreme cold, for that might chance to drive the fervent heat into the sinews and so stopeth poors, that it could not issue, whereof should happen much inconvenience in a great burning (but in small it could not be so dangerous:) wherefore the best is when ye see a member either brent or scalded, as is said afore.  
Take a good quantity of brine, which is made of water and salt, not to exceeding eyger or strong, but of a mean sharpness, and with a clout or a sponge bathe the member in it cold, or at the least blood warm, three or four hours together, the longer the better: For it shall assuage much of the pain, open the pores, cause also the fire to vapour and give a great comfort to the weak member. Then anoint the place with one of these medicines.  
Take oil of roses one part, sweet cream two parts, honey half a part, make an ointment and use it.  
Item all the medicines described in the last chapter, are of great effect in this case, likewise the green ointment made of water betony.  
Item a sovereign medicine for burning and scalding, and all unkind heats is thus made. Take a dozen or more of hard roasted eggs, and put the yolks in a pot on the fire by themself, without liquor, stir them and bray them with a strong hand, till there arise as it were a froth or spume of oil to the mouth of the vessel, then press the yolks and reserve the liquor, this is called oil of eggs: a very precious thing in the foresaid cure.  
Moreover there is an ointment made of sheeps dung fried in oil or in swine's grease, than put to it a little wax, and use it.  
Also take quick lime and wash it in veriuce ix or ten times, than mingle it with oil, & keep it for the same intent. Item the juice of the leaves of lilies v. parts, and vinegar one part, honey a little, maketh an excellent medicine, not only for this intent, but for all other kind of h● and running ulcers.  
Note that whatsoever ye use in this case, it must be laid unto, blood warm. Also for avoiding of a scar keep the sore alway moist with medicine.  
¶ Of kibes. The kibes of the heels, are called in latin perniones, they proceed of cold, & are healed with these subscribed remedies. A rape rote, roasted with a little fresh butter, is good for the same grief. Item a dozen figs, sodden & stamped with a little goosegrece, is good. Earth worms sodden in oil, hath the same effect.  
Item the skin of a mouse clapped a● hot upon the kibe, with the hear outward, and it should not be removed during. ●ii. days.  
¶ A plaster for a kibed heel. Take new butter, oil of roses, hens grease, of each, an ounce, put the butter and the grease in a big rape rote, or in lack of it, in a great apple, or onion, & when it is roasted soft, bray it with the oil, & lay it plasterwise upon the kibe.  
¶ An oth● Take the 〈◊〉 of apples and rapes roasted on the coses, of each iii ounces, fresh butter ii ounces, ducks grease or swans grease, an ounce, stamp them all in a mortar of lead if it may be had, or else grind them on a fair marble, and use it.  
¶ Of consumption or leanness. When a child consumeth or waxeth lean without any cause apparent, there is a bathe commended of authors, to wash the child many times, & is made thus. Take the head and feet of a wether, seeth them till the bones fall a sunder, use to bathe the child in this liquor, and after anoint him with this ointment following. Take butter without salt, oil of roses and of violets, of each i ounce, the fat of raw pork, half an ounce, wax, a quarteron of an ounce, make an ointment, wherewith the child must be rubbed every day twice, this with good feeding shall increase his strength by the grace of God.  
¶ Of goggle eyes. THis impediment is never healed but in a very young child, even at the beginning, whereunto there is appointed no manner kind of medicine, but only an order of keeping, that is to say, to lay the child so in his cradelle, that he may behold direct against the light, & not to turn his eyes on either of both sides. If yet he begin to goggle, than set the cradle after such a form, that the light may be on the contrary side: that is, on the same side from whence he turneth his eyes, so that for desire of light he may direct them to the same part, & so by custom, bring them to the due fashion, and in the night there aught to be a candle set in likewise to cause him to behold upon it, & remove his eyes from the evil custom. Also green clothes, yellow, or purple, are very good in this case to be set, as is said afore. Furthermore a coif or a biggen standing out besides his eyes, to constrain the sight to behold direct forward.  
Of lice. Sometimes not only children but also other ages, are annoyed with lice, they proceed of a corrupt humour, and are engendered within the skin, creeping out alive through the poors, which if they begin to swarm in exceeding numbered, that disease is called of the greeks Phthiryasys, whereof Herode died, as is written in the acts of apostles: & among the Romans Scylla, which was a great tyrant, and many other have been eaten of louse to death, which thing, when it happeneth of the plague of god, it is past remedy, but if at proceedeth of a natural cause, ye may well cure it by the means following. first let the patient abstain from all kind of corrupt meats, or the breed phlegm, and among other, ●ygges and dates must in this case be utterly abhorred. Than make a lavatory to wash and scour the body twice a day, thus. Take water of the sea, or else brine, & strong lie of ashes, of each a like portion, wormwood a handful, seth them a while, and after wash the body with the same liquor.  
¶ A goodly medicine for to kill lice. Take the grounds or dregs of oil, aloes, wormwood, & the gall of a bull, or of an ox, make an ointment which is singular good for the same purpose.  
¶ An other. Take mustered, and dissolve it in vinegar, with a little salt peter, and anoint the places, where as the lice are wont to breed.  
Item an herb at the apothecaries called stavisacre, brimstone, and vinegar, is exceeding good.  
It is good to give the patient often in his drink, powder of an hearts horn brent.  
Stavisacre with oil is a marvelous wholesome thing in this case.  
¶ An expert medicine to drive away lice. Take the grounds or dregs of oil, or in lack of it, fresh swine's grease, a sufficient quantity, wherein ye shall chase an ounce of quicksilver till it be all sonken into the grease, than take powder of handsacre serced, and mingle all together, make a girdle of a woollen list meet for the middle of the patient, & all to anoint it over with the said medicine, than let him were it continually next his skin, for it is a singular remedy to chase away the vermin. The only odour of quyckesiluer killeth lice.  
These shall be sufficient to declare at this time in this little treatise of the cure of children, which if I may know to be thankfully received, I will by god's grace, supply more hereafter: neither desire I any longer to live, than I will employ my studies to the honour of god, and profit of the weal public.  
¶ Thus endeth the book of children, composed by Thomas Phayer, studious in Philosophy and Physic.   

¶ The contents of the regiment of life.  

Of diseases and remedies of the heed.  
pain coming of choler.  
pain caused of phlegm.  
pain caused of melancholy.  
Regiment for all heedache.  
Remedy for heedache of all causes.  
Of diseases in the face.  
To passifye a face uncurable.  
For redness of the face.  
For cankers, ulcers, & Noli me tangere.  
For worms in the face.  
A purgation for the same.  
diet for the same sickness.  
For the eyes, and to quicken the sight.  
For pain in the eyes.  
For bloodshoten eyes.  
For swelling of the eyes.  
For sore eyes.  
For great pain in the eyes.  
For redness in the eyes.  
For hardness in the eyes.  
For all redness of eyes.  
To dry the eyes.  
For webs in the eyes.  
Regiment for diseases in the eyes.  
For infirmities of the ears.  
For stinking of the nose.  
For nosebleading.  
Remedy for toothache.  
To make teeth white.  
remedies for diseases in the breast.  
For a hoarse voice.  
For the cough.  
For shortness of wind.  
For asthma.  
An ointment for the breath.  
Regiment for the same.  
Remedies for phthysyke.  
For the pleauresye.  
For diseases in the rib.  
Weakness of the heart, and the cure.  
Swooning.  
For diseases of the stomach.  
For weakness thereof.  
For abhorring of meat.  
For belching.  
For windiness thereof.  
For the hicket.  
Regiment for hicket.  
For vomiting.  
To comfort the stomach.  
pain in the stomach.  
Remedies for diseases of the liver.  
A singular purgation for colere.  
Other medicines laxative.  
For heat in the liver.  
For stopping of the liver.  
Remedy for diseases of the gall.  
For jaundice.  
For diseases in the spleen.  
A goodly purgation for melancholy.  
For the black jaundice.  
For all oppilations.  
Diseases of the bowels.  
For colyke and yliaca passio.  
For the windy colyke.  
A supposytorye.  
A purgation for colic of phlegm.  
A glister for all colic.  
pain of the reins, and remedy.  
Diet for colic & pain of the reins.  
Fluxes of the belly.  
Remedy for the flux lienteria.  
For the flux diarthea and other.  
Lectuaries for the flux.  
For flux of all causes.  
Diseases of the matrice.  
To staunch the flux of women.  
For strangling of the matrice.  
For all pains of the mother.  
Of the stone in the rains and bladder.  
with the perfect cure and diet for the same.  
Of the gout, with the causes and remedies.   
¶ Finis.   

The contents of the treatise of the pestilence.  

In the first part.  
A preface of the authore.  
What is signified by this word pestilence.  
The first root or cause superior of the pestilence.  
The second root superior.  
The third root, inferior.  
The fourth root, or cause intersor.  
Of election of the air.  
Of eating and drinking.  
Of sleeping and waking.  
Of exercise.  
Of emptiness and fullness.  
Of accidents of the mind.  
Of medicines preservatives.  
A drink for the pestilence.  
A good preservative for the common people  
A powder for the same.  
another singular remedy for rich men.  
another sovereign and goodly receipt  
both preservative and curative.  
Of sweet waters.  
Perfumes against the pestilence.  
Pomaunders for pestilence.   

¶ In the second part,  
How to know a person infected.  
Of the cure of pestilence by the way of diet.  
Of the cure of pestilence by the way of medicines.  
A receipt against the pestilence.  
Manardus medicine.  
A lectuary of great virtue.  
another medicine liquid.  
Of letting blood, ventoses & purgations.  
Of application of outward medicines.  
A plaster to ripe a botch coming of the pestilence.  
An other for the same.  
The use of surgery for him that hath no botch.  
Of the cure of carbuncles and anthrax.  
A good defensive.  
A declaration of the utility of veins commonly to be let blood in the body of man.   
Finis.   

¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Sun over against the condite, by Edward whitchurch.  
i. 5.50.  
¶ Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.