THE PEARL OF PRACTICE, OR PRACTISERS PEARL, FOR PHYSIC AND CHIRURGERIE.  
Found out by I. H. (a Spagericke or distiller) amongst the learned observations and proved practices of many expert men in both faculties.  
Since his death it is garnished and brought into some method by a well-willer of his.  
AT LONDON, Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriars. 1594.   

TO THE FAMOUS MAECENAS, OF ALL GOOD LEARNING, HIS HONOURABLE GOOD PATRON, SIR GEORGE CAREY, Knight, Knight Mareschall of her majesties household, Governor of the Isle of Wight, etc. Health of soul and body, be multiplied for ever and ever.  
THis piece of timber, which an other man had roughly hewn over, wanting a name (which I have given unto it) but not a defence & patronage, under whose covert, it may be shielded, from the venomous darts of carping tongues: think it not amiss, to present the same unto your excellent worthiness; sith you have even borne, as good and liberal a mind, to learning, and learned workmen, in any faculty, as any noble Gentleman throughout this Realm of England. The subject matter, whereon it consisteth, is charitable learning or learned charity, practised upon and performed unto those, which have stood in need: and published by those, that are not ashamed, to show their names (though for good causes two letters may yet serve to express them) being well known to the best, and may be compared with the best, in the faculty of Physic and keeping of a good conscience. The ground them being firm, and the title free hold, whereupon the frame standeth: how can the stormy winds, proceeding out of the mouths, of unwholesome Aeolus, infect it with their corruption, or one whit move it with all their violence? I learned this true position long ago amongst other axioms in the nursery at Cambridge. Non nobis solum nati sumus, etc. we are not borne for ourselves alone, but our country challengeth an interest in us, our children, our friends, and our posterity, do lay claim to us. Howbeit such wicked days are come upon us, though a man, for glory to God, love to his posterity, good will to his country, or other honest motives, makes private things public, for the common commodity, of the Church and common wealth; he is not praised of any, but reproved of many, and condemned of all malicious Momes. Bonum quo communius eo melius, hath been and will be a true moral principle: though some great learned men do scorn to put it in execution. The best Master that ever I served did reprove and condemn him, for an evil and ungracious servant, that hide his talon in a napkin, refusing to put it forth, to his masters advantage: Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness was, and will be the guerdon, of such private companions. As those practisers, are justly reproved, which (to toll in more customers) do hang out their signs, and gild their garlands, professing much cunning, and have little or no learning: so dare I not avouch, to be of their Religion, which purpose nothing less, then to practise their cunning. God gave Galene leave (as Sippontinus writeth) to live seven score years, what separation he made of impurities from any simple, or what parting of elements he used, I could never yet read or hear. But Paracelsus (nicknamed the Sectary) did more good in three score years by working with his own hands (according to nature's direction) concealing no Theory nor practice from posterity, showing much art, celando artem, though Filijs artis he is as plain as a pathway. His scholars and followers, that practised his teaching, and taught his practising, are a cloud of witnesses, to make demonstration of this true position. That with a few medicines, rightly compounded, and with some simples simply, and without covin prepared, more good hath been, and may be done, in one week against any disease, then in a month with all the gross confections (as Wecker terms them) in their blue pots, or with their hoary heard drugs, in their brave boxes, which once in a year or two (if all men deal truly) must be swept out of doors. Show me not the meat, but show me the man: talk not of the receipt, but speak truly of the effect. So many as are sand blind, and will not be stone blind, may verify the truth of the safest kind of curation; if they will bestow the pains, to peruse the book following. Herein is no bragging of cures done, nor promise of impossibilities: but the manner how, the persons who, and upon whom they were performed, is truly and plainly set down, even as they were delivered by writing or word of mouth. Briefly and in a word to conclude, I appeal unto their consciences that have found certainty in this kind of course, for all desperate diseases: albeit they will not be persuaded to give every one his due, but speak worse of Spagirickes, than they have found by them. Thus not to be further tedious unto your Worship, I do break off in the half way, not doubting, of your favourable acceptation of this poor gift, which I beseech your noble eyes, not so much to regard, as the true & serviceable heart of the giver, to pray for your felicity, for my good Lady's happiness, the health and prosperity of all your retinue.  
Your Worships in the possible performance of all kind of duty for yourself or your household, To command at all times, james Fourestier.   

TO THE FRIENDLY READER, AS MUCH HEALTH AS HE WISHETH OF SOUL AND BODY.  
MEn many times meddle in some matters, wherein they take more toil than thank for their labours: and he which thinks in the night, that he hath pleased all, shall find in the morning, that he hath angered some. So many as know me well, & whereto I was chief addicted, within these eight or nine years, that is unto the study and practise of the soul Physic; may now make a question, of my meddling so long with bodily Physic. But my two fold answer they may take with them, for their satisfaction. First that I keep still Depositum illud, which God hath committed unto me (and sealed the same, by mine own spiritual birth, and other men's sanctification) till he that hath said, Go, points the time, and gives the occasion, of my further service, in that weighty function. Secondly, as when I conversed in that calling, I was chargeable to none: so (not surceasing the same of mine own accord) I have since by God his blessing of my labours herein, as not greatly enriched myself: so not impoverished any. That wherein I have thus continued, sith it concerneth learning, and an honest man's maintenance, cannot or ought not offend any, that are well in their wits. These few secrets, contained in this Collection and Appendix thereto adjoining (which I have reduced into method for his sake that gathered them here and there) cannot or ought not to scandalise any, that have a sanctified cunning, in Physic or chirurgery. I must needs tell thee, that I lean more to that safe, speedy, and pleasant kind of curation with medicines rightly prepared, then to the careless composition, made by addition of other simples, clogged with more impurities, then are in that simple, which they labour to correct. I dare also avouch, that any poor body, may better commit his crazy body, to be healed or helped, of any outward or inward malady, by the right prepared medicines, for the value of ten shillings (which he can hardly spare) then a wealthy man, to their deceits) I would say receipts) for ten crowns, which he may well enough forbear: Many of the ignorant sort have counted the chemical or paracelsical Physic dangerous, and not without cause, for woeful experience hath brought it into that suspicion. But (good Reader) hear me in that which He tell thee, and so take thine answer for this time. Some of the learned, and most of the ignorant, have in general despised them, but by your leave after they have heard in particular of the excellent success attained by many of them; they have adventured upon those, without knowledge, experience, direction: and so have made many patients to smart for it. Therefore I would not that the fine fingered Physician should scorn to wear this pearl, which is as fit for Sir john Lacklatin, for the landleaper, or cogging quacksalver, as a pipe for an ass, or a cage for a cow. The salts, oils, waters, extractes, tinctures, simples prepared, and compositions of simples conjoined mentioned in this book or not mentioned, I mean not to make sale of (as the Grocer doth or the Apothecary:) but I keep them in store, and mean to increase them, for mine own use, and my friends, and for such as shall need them, as the learned counsel, of Physic rules, shall give occasion. The greatest part of them, were prepared by john Hester of Paul's wharf, now deceased, a man that spent much, & endangered his body, about such works, whereof many excellent men have enjoyed the benefit. The effect of his labour, hath and doth commend him, in England, and other countries, which have these many years made proof, of these his preparations. All which as not long since I bought of the Suruiver: so I am willing at all times, to part with any of them, to salve the wounded, or heal the diseased. In the mean while and for evermore, I commit thee (Gentle Reader) in health or in sickness, to the protection of the Arch-Phisitian, and creator of our souls and bodies, who always preserve us, and all that be his, unto the end and in the end.  
From my study in the blackfriars the 19 of january. Thy loving friend. james Fourestier.   

A NOTE OF SUCH PREPARED SIMples, and compositions, as are mentioned in this book: with other things, not mentioned therein, whereof there is particular use in Physic and chirurgery, and are to be had at the house of james Fourestier aforesaid.  

The names of the several kinds of Saltes.  

Salts of Herbs as, of  
WOrmwood.  
Mints.  
Carduus Benedictus.  
Chamomill.  
Radish.  
S. john's wort.  
Sea holy.  
Centaurie.  
Rosemary.  
Fennell.  
Time.  
bean stalks.  
Black Hellebore.  
Brionie.  
Sage.  
Maioram.  
Germander.  
Mehlote.  
Chamepitis.  
Hyssop.  
Feuerfew.  
Gentian.  
Alisanders'.  
Mugwort.  
fumitory.  
Origanum.  
Eufrasie, or Eyebright.  
Tartar Crystalline.  
Pockwood, or Lignum vitae.   

Saltes of trees and frutical plants, as  
ASh.  
juniper.  
ivy.  
Broome.  
Vine.   

Saltes of spices and other things, as of  
Cloves.  
Ginger.  
Cinnamon.  
Nutmegs.  
Urine.  
armoniac of Amber.  
Vinegar.  
Salt, or Sugar, of Saturn.  
Salt niter out of Ireland.  
Alum deal Plume.  
Tartar six times calcined.  
Sal conditum.  
Lapilli Vrinae.  
Salt common calcined.  
A caustic.   

The names of the divers kinds of waters as of  
Cinnamon.  
Cloves.  
Nutmegs.  
frankincense.  
Turpentine.  
Wax.  
Honey.  
Aqua fortis.  
Aqua Regis.  
Aqua Spermatis ranarum.  
Eggs.  
Heart's horn.  
Amber.  
Vinegar distilled.  
Spirit of wine.  
Fragariae with spirit of wine.  
Man's skull.  
Pockwood.  
Resinae pini.  
Percepier.  
Roses.  
Aqua vitae of roses.  
Sweet water.  
Aqua vitae of Percepier.  
Aqua vitae of juniper berries.  
Aqua vitae of Turkey balm.  
Aqua Benedicta.  
Walnuts.  
anise seed.  
Sal gum.    

Oils of Herbs as of  

The several kinds of oils drawn by distillation or otherwise prepared.  
SWeet margerome.  
Sage.  
Time.  
Origanum.  
Rosemary flowers.  
Hyssop.  
Mints.  
Lavender.  
Pennyroyal.  
Camomile flowers.  
Nenufar grossly prepared.  
betony and Camomile grossly prepared.  
Roses by distillation.  
Thorn apple.  
Wormwood.   

Oils of seeds as of  
ANise.  
Fennell.  
Dill.  
carvi or Caraway.  
Commin.  
Mustard.   

Oils of fruits, berries and spices, as of  
NVttes.  
Figs.  
Sweet almonds.  
Orange peeles.  
Lemon peeles.  
bay berries.  
juniper berries.  
mistletoe of apples.  
Nutmegs.  
Cinnamon.  
Ginger.  
Cloves.  
Maces.  
Pepper.   

Oils of trees, or woods, of gums, stones, and other things, as of  
LIgnum vitae.  
ash.  
Broome.  
Wax.  
Honey.  
Turpentine.  
Tar.  
frankincense.  
Colophony.  
Galbanum.  
Sagapenum.  
Mastic.  
Labdanum.  
Ammoniacke.  
Amber.  
jet.  
Benzoin.  
Storax liquid.  
Castoreum.  
Man's skull.  
Butter.  
Eggs.  
Tartar.  
Stinking oil of Tartar.  
Vitriol.  
Sulphur.  
Petroleum de Lateribus.  
deer's suet.  
Spermacaeti.  
Worms.   

The several kinds of Extractes of Essences, as of Herbs, roots, etc.  
WOrmwood.  
camomile.  
Sage.  
Celandine.  
Betonie.  
agrimony.  
tansy.  
Horehound.  
Eufrasie.  
Marygold.  
Fumitory.  
Henbane.  
Chamepitis.  
Tormentill.  
Philipendula.  
Black Hellebore.  
Aristolochie.  
Gentian.  
Angelica.  
Savine.  
Perwincle.  
Carduus Bened.  
Feuerfew.  
Percepier.  
Rue.  
Peonie.  
juniper.  
Broome flowers.  
Hermodactiles.  
Sena.  
Agaricke.  
Cnicus or bastard. Saffron.  
Rhubarb.  
Colocinthis.  
Soldanella.  
Laureola.  
Aloes.  
Polipodie.  
Bruscus.  
century.  
Enula campana.  
Mellissa or Balm.  
Ginger.  
Musk.  
Squilla.  
Sarcocolla.  
Cantarides.  
Spicknard.  
Zedoaria.  
Pepper.  
Orange peeles.     

A NOTE OF THE DIVERS KIND'S of compositions as followeth.  

LAudanu●●anodinum.  
Panchimagogon.  
Amuletum Palmarij.  
Oleum benedictum.  
Oleum sine Mumia Tartari.  
Oleum Heracl. Rulandi.  
Mumia vitrioli.  
Creta vitrioli.  
Crocus Martis.  
Balsamum sulphuris.  
Flos sulphuris.  
Oleum Camphorae.  
Essencia perlarum.  
Flores Antimonij.  
Mercurius Antimonij.  
Vitrum Antimonij.  
Turpetum minerale Quercetani.  
Turpetum Diaph.  
Sulphur vitriolatum.  
Mercurius sublimatus.  
Mercurius precipitatus.  
Aqua Theriacalis.  
Calx testarum ovorum.  
Emplastrum Fodicationis.  
gibson's balm.  
Petra Philosophale nostra.  
Pillulae Aquilone.  
Oleum Hypericonis compositum.  
Oleum Balsami.  
Aqua Balsami.  
Dia Aromatico.  
Electuario Angelica.  
Balsamum artificial.  
Electuarium magistrale.  
Aqua preseruans.  
Magno liquore.  
Cerotum magistrale.  
Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinth. & cera.  
unguentum ex Lytargirio.  
Aqua real.  
Sirupo del Ebulo composite.  
Unguent against contractions.  
Vnguento magno.  
Pillulae contra morbum Gallicum.  
Cordiale rosarum sine sulphur.  
Balsamus urinae descriptione Willichij.  
Our solutive liquor.  
Oil of Nicotian.  
Paracelsus his vulnerary oil.  
Water for the eyes.  
Water for pin and web.  
Aqua Persicariae.  
Vnguento nigro.  
Unguent to cause hair to grow.  
Unguent to cleanse wounds.  
Unguent defensative.  
Unguent stomachall.  
Unguent against aches and bruises.  
Extract against all obstructions.  
Adeps ursi.  
Medulla Mummiae.  
Our composition against the strangury, Ischury, or stone in the bladder, etc.  
Balsamum Tartari.  
Spirit of honey.  
Spirit of Tartar.  
Tincture of sulphur.  
Powder to mundify ulcers.  
Mater Balsami.  
A composition against burning and scalding.  
Vigoes' balm.  
Aqua del petra Vegetab.  
Tinctures of Spices.  
Spiritus tartari cum colcothare rectificat.  
Another water for the eyes.  
Syrupus spinae merulae.  
Cinnamon water.  
Unguent de Peto.  
Man's blood dried.  
Craneum humanum calcined.  
Our composition against all fevers.  
Our composition against the worms.  
Gum of the root and herb Henbane.    

A TABLE OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL matters contained in the Collection.  

In the poem are contained these things.  
THe duty of an expert Chirurgeon. pag. 1  
The general cure of wounds. 1  
Why wounds cannot heal quickly. 2  
How to deal generally with wounds in the head. ibidem   

Of Wounds.  
A Grievous wound on the head cruel. 3  
A dangerous wound cured in five days. ibidem  
A wound on the ear. ibidem  
Wounds in the head with the fracture of the skull. 4  
Concusions in the head or else where. 5  
Contusion qui●●ly healed. ibidem  
Wound in the head with the skull fractured. ibidem  
To heal wounds speedily. 6  
Wounds by shot or lance. ibid.  
A singular remedy for the speedy healing of wounds. ibidem  
Wounded eye with a splinter. 7  
Puncture in the eye. ibidem  
Another cure done in like manner. 7  
A squatted hand healed. 8  
A punctured arm healed. ibidem  
Five wounds in the breast healed. 8   

Of sores, ulcers, etc. and their cure.  
SOre mouths healed. 9  
Ulcer in the upper lip. ibidem  
Ulcer in the throat. 10  
Scald head healed. ibidem  
Another for the same, ibidem  
Ulcer on the thumb. ibidem  
Ulcerated leg. 11  
Two putrefied ulcers on the leg healed. ibidem  
Three ulcers in the leg healed. ib  
Old rotten sores cured. 12  
Ulcers in most parts of the body and head. ibidem  
Scabs like the leprosy. 13  
A child healed that had the French pocks. 14  
A canker cured. ibidem  
Pocky pustules with Serpigo healed. ibidem  
Tetters and ringwormes. 15  
Another. ibidem  
Tetters on women's breasts. 16  
Shingles healed. ibidem  
To break a plague sore. ibidem  
Scabs and itch, etc. ibidem.  
Three deep fistulas in the breast cured. ibidem  
Lichen or Impetigo cured. 18  
A great wen taken away.   

Seconnd part of the Collection.  

Of the cures of internal diseases.  
OF grievous aches and pain in the body. 19  
Aches coming of the pocks cured. ibidem  
An excellent unguent to ease any pain. 20  
To ease the gout. ibidem  
To cure aches coming of heat. 21  
The cure of the scurvy. ibidem  
Tumours throughout the body cured. 22  
Swelling of the cod. 23  
Another of the same. ibidem  
The Ischiatica cured. ibidem  
Against the cramp. ibidem  
Against contraction of sinews. 24  
A wry neck set strait. ibidem  
Another. 25  
Squinancy cured. ibidem  
Alopecia cured. ibidem  
To purge the head. ibidem  
Pin and web cured. 26  
An approved water for the eyes. ib.  
Another. ibidem  
To stay bleeding at the nose. 27  
Another for the same. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
Another. 28  
Other ways to do the same. ibid.  
Spatting of blood. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
Lift up the vulva. ibidem  
Cure of the hicket. 29  
Another. ibidem  
The falling sickness cured. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
jaundice cured. 30  
Another. ibidem  
Another. 31  
jaundice with obstruction of menstrues. ibidem  
Windiness in the stomach. ibid.  
Cough of the lungs. 32  
Another with stitch in the side. ib.  
Shortness of breath with a cough. 32  
Another. 33  
To stay vomiting. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
Vomiting of blood with a flux of the belly. 34  
Vomiting with a fever. ibidem  
Pleurisy cured. 35  
Pleurisy with spatting of blood. ibi.  
Pleurisy with inslamation of the tongue, etc. ibidem  
Pleurisy in a woman. 36  
Another for the same. ibidem  
Diaphoretical decoction. ibidem  
Pleurisy broken with a potion. ibid.  
Another. 37  
An inward Aposteme or bastard pleurisy. ibidem  
pain in the side. ibidem  
pain and wind in the body. 38  
Expelling of wind. ibidem  
Dropsy cured. ibidem  
Against worms in the stomach or else where. 39  
A quartain of long continuance. ibi.  
Against the pestilence, pleurisy & quartain. 40  
Swelling of the spleen. ibidem  
Frantic fevers for want of sleep. ib.  
Pestilent fevers. 41  
Against poison or the pestilence a diaphoretical potion. ibidem  
The signs of death in the plague. ibidem  
Counsels, preservatives, etc. against the plague. 42  
An inveterate Gonorrhoea in man or worman. ibidem  
Another. 43  
An Electuary against Gonorrhoea. ibidem  
To stop the immoderate flux menstrual. 44  
Another. ibidem  
To stop a flux. ibidem  
Bloody flux cured. 45  
Cures of the Hemorhoides. ibid.  
Ficus in ano. ibidem  
To provoke menstrues. 46  
Another of the same. ibidem  
Suffocation of the Matrix. 47  
Another for the same. ibidem  
To provoke urine. ibidem  
To provoke urine and to heal other obstructions. 48    


The first part of the supplement, or Appendix, etc.  

Of pain in the head & the cure. 49  
Of the catharre and rheum in the head. 50  
The second cause to cure the Catharre. 51  
Contusion in the head. 52  
The healing of the white scall, 53  
pain in the eyes. ibidem  
An unguent for sore eyes. ibidem  
To stay spatting of blood. ibidem  
The description and cure of the Squinancy. ibidem  
The description and cure, of scrophulae. 54  
Another cure for the same. 55  
Another for the same. ibidem  
Another. ibidem  
Of Panaricium and the cure. 56  
Ulcers in women's breasts. ibidem  
Of Astma and the cure of it. 57  
To know a confirmed dropsy. 58  
Against worms. ibidem  
Hardness of the milt & the cure. ibi.  
Another for the same. ibidem  
Of the Gonorrhoea & the cure. ibi.  
Of the hemorrhoids and their cure. 60  
Of the divers sorts & effects of the hemorrhoids & their cure. ibi.  
Suffocation of the matrix and the cure thereof. 61  
Of the rapture and the cure in the beginning. 62  
Another. ibidem  
Of retention of urine & the cure. 63  
Of the difficulty of urine and the cure thereof. 68  
Another for the same often proved. ibidem  
Of retention of urine with stitch in the side. 69  
Swelling of the legs and feet & their cure. ibidem  
Of Chilblains and their cure. 70  
Of corns in the feet and to take them away. ibidem  
Of a grief under the nails of the fingers and toes and the cure. 71  
Of Erisipela & the cure thereof. ibi.  
The cure of warts. 72    

The second part of the Appendix, etc.  

Of Danewort and his virtues. 73  
Of Eleborus niger and his virtues. 73  
Of Gratia Dei, & the virtue thereof. 74  
Of Rhubarb and his use. ibidem  
Of Tithymale and his virtues. 75  
Of Soldanella and his virtues. 76  
Of Cyperus and his virtues. ibid.  
Of Elder and his virtues. ibidem  
Of Tabaco and his use. ibidem  
Of sweet Margerom and his virtues. 77  
Of Persicaria and his use. ibidem  
Of man and the medicines taken from him. 78  
Of an hen and the Physical use thereof. 79  
Of Ecles & their medecinal use 80  
Of the barbil and her use in medicine. ibidem  
Of Bees & their medecinall use. ib.  
Of Frogs & their Physical use. 81  
Of Centumpedes, Crickets, etc. & their use. ibidem  
Of Tacca mahacca and the use thereof. 82  
Of the gum Caranna and the use thereof. ibidem.  
Of Liquid amber and the use of it in medicine. ibidem.      

Faults escaped in the Printing.  
In the Epistle Dedicatory, pag 1. lin. 17. for these words have even borne, read these have ever borne. Pag 8 of the book, lin. 5. for Carton, read Carlton. pag. 40. lin. 11. for Paraceli, read Paracelsi. pag. 54. after the 6. line before the tittle of the Chapter, read CHAP. 111. which is omitted in the number. pag. 3. lin. 6. for you find, read you shall find. pag. 12 lin. 17. for heat, read heal. pag. 77. last line thereof, for our part, read one part. pag. 31, last line saving one, for vicious cause, read, viscous cause. pag. 35. lin. 15. for lb. j read, Pj, page. 48 lin. 3. Add thid word Note in the margin. page. 63. lin. 13. for the vain, read the urine.   


THE poem, OR ENTRANCE, INTO THIS COLLECTION: CONTAINED IN THE first four Chapters.  

CHAP. I What the duty of an expert Chirurgeon is.  
A Good and true Chirurgeon, is no other, than a minister and helper of nature: who hath three operations to perform, in curing of wounds. The first is, that he join the separated parts close together, the second to preserve it from pain: the third, that he keep it from putrefaction: all the rest he may leave unto nature, which will work with good expedition. And this is a sure intention: concerning the cure of wounds. Never keep the flesh open, with tents or pledgets, neither weaken nature, by letting of blood, or by purging, nor yet by straight diet, to cause the pain to increase, but keep the wound always clean, washing it with Aqua balsami; and lay upon the wound, clothes wet in Magno licore. This is a good, and an approved order: whereof whosoever will know more, let him look in Leonardo Fioravante his book, of Rational secrets, where he shall be satisfied more at large.   

CHAP. TWO The cure of all manner of wounds in general.  
ALl kind of wounds, may be healed, with these medicines following (according to the method before mentioned) viz. with our balsamo, with Aqua balsami, balsamum artificial, quintaessentia vini, oleum resinae pini, oleum cerae & terebinthinae, magno licore, cerotum magistrale, elixir vitae, oleum hypericonis compositum, our secret powder, all which are set down, in the forenamed book, and for the most part, are to be had, for a reasonable consideration, at the house of M. james Fourestier, student in Physic dwelling in London, in the Black Friars, between the two tennese courts.   

CHAP. III. The cause why wounds cannot heal quickly.  
THough there be many more, yet chiefly they may be reduced unto two causes. The one is an immoderate & extreme diet, which weakeneth the stomach and body so much, that nature cannot prevail, to conglutinate or solder the flesh together. And thus through want of natural heat, the wound falleth to impostemation, Gangrena, fistulas. etc. and can hardly be cured. The second cause is, the keeping of them to much open, by reason of their tents or pledgets, so that they cannot join together again, but grow to Cancers, and Fistulas, whereupon many times, the patiented remaineth lame ever after, or else speedy death is the end thereof.   

CHAP. FOUR Of wounds in the head, how they must be dealt withal.  
ALl wounds in the head, must be close joyed and kept together, the blood must be crushed out, then wash it well, with something that hath virtue to liquifie the blood, as the Quintaessence of wine, or such like. Then lay thereon lint, wet in oleum benedictum: this medicine you shall change in four days, but every day once wash the wound round about, with that Quintaessence, and anoint with the said oil, and at the fourth days end, dress it again, and let it remain two days more, & after that for a day more, & the wound (by the help of God) shallbe cured in xii. or xiv. days. Thus may you deal, with all wounds, save those, that are made in the belly. As for all other, either simple or compound wounds: you find their cure, methodically showed, in the Rational secrets, of Leonardo Fioravante published in English.   

CHAP. V The healing of a grievous wound on the side of the head.  
THe wound was made, on the side of the head, almost to dura matter: and it was healed in this manner. First there was put into the same, the Quintaessence aforesaid, than a little balsamo, than there was applied a cloth which was wet in magno licore, made very hot, upon which cloth, was laid our secret powder, covered with lint, and thus he was dressed, once every day, till he was whole. You must note, that whensoever the skull is hurt, unto dura matter, there must be cast up at the nostrils, our balsamo: that the smell may pierce upward, and resolve the offence. Sometime also, in stead of a defensative, you may anoint round about the wound, with the foresaid balm; which preserveth from putrefaction, and alteration.   

CHAP. VI A dangerous wound in the head, cured in five days.  
IT was healed very quickly, by putting therein our Aqua caelestis, and balsamo, and by applying unto the same, very hot clothes, wet in magno licore.   

CHAP. VII. The cure of a wound, on the ear to the skull.  
A Sore wound was made on the care, which was cut unto the skull of the head, and was healed in this manner: first by anointing it with our Quintaessence, which caused it to wax very hot, the space of two hours. After that, there was put in, our oleum philosophorum, de terebinthina & cera, and so he dressed it every day once.   

CHAP. VIII. How three wounds in the head, with fracture of the bone or skull were healed by I. P.  
A Certain miller in Buckinghamshire, called Peter Bull, being sore wounded in the head, whereof one wound was in the midst of the head, with fracture of the skull, an other within an inch of that, six inches long, he had an other wound, over his eyebrow two inches long. Besides the wounds in his head, he had also a great wound, in the bout of his arm, beside the elbow, so that a man might have laid: his three singers in it, divers of his fingers were also cut, and he lost two joints. This man bled by the space of seven or eight hours, before it was stinted: neither was he dressed, until the next day, but yet he was cured in this manner. First the hair was shaven away, round about the wounds on his head, and the wounds were made clean, then was there dropped into the wound, balsamum sulfuris, made very warm: and a fine cloth wet therein was applied to the wounds, and round about the wounds there was a defensative applied: thus he was dressed once in 24. hours, and within the space of three weeks, he was perfectly helped, that he ware no plaster at all. Also you shall note that upon the wound, next the cloth, there was laid cerotum magistrale, of Leonardo Fioravante: Forget not that this balsam must always be used warm, with a fine linen cloth, or a piece of Cambric, and not with any lint. This balsam did cause the hair to grow so fast about the wounds: that it was fain to be shaven away very often.   

CHAP. IX. Of contused wounds on the head or other parts of the body.  
THe ancient practitioners, have esteemed contused wounds to be very dangerous. For they say contusions must first be brought to putrefaction, & turned into matter: which opinion is not to be allowed, for the bruises are to be dissolved without maturation, which hath been a thousand times proved in the wars, after this manner to have been performed. Recipe, magno licore, oleum benedictum, ana, mix them, & being very hot, wet clothes therein, & lay thereon twice a day, and in three or four days they willbe resolved. Also the oil of Franckinsence, or oleum philosophorum de tereb. & cera, will resolve any simple bruise in three or four hours, only by continual anointing the place therewith, so fast as it drinketh in any. Provided, that the bruise be not above six or eight hours old, for if it be, then will your work be somewhat the longer, before it be finished.   

CHAP. X. A contused wound in the head, healed by I. P.  
A Young man of 28. years of age, that had a great contusion on the head with a staff, was helped thereof in nine days; by applying thereunto balsamum sulfuris, before mentioned.   

CHAP. XI. A wound in the head, with fracture of the skull, cured by I. P.  
A Little boy, with a fall from an horse, had a fracture in the skull, which was healed with balsamum sulsuris, & cerotum magistrale Leonardo. The child, did at his dressing, vomit very often: which argued the breaking of his skull, yet was he healed in seven days.   

CHAP. XII. To heal wounds speedily.  
FIrst wash them very well with our aqua balsami, then join them very close together, and lay thereon a cloth wet in olco resinae pini: and (through God's help) they shall quickly be healed.   

CHAP. XIII. To heal wounds, by shot, or lance.  
HE that will cure wounds, that are made with shot, lance, arrows, etc. must first wash the wound well with urine, & dry the wound well, then let him put therein the Quintaess. of wine and forthwith join the wound close & hard together. Then let him put immediately therein, five or six drops of our balsamo artific. and lay a cloth upon the wound, wet in magno licore, which must be applied so hot, as he may suffer it: thus must he do the first day. That being done, he must put thereon our Quintaessence of wine, & then a little balsamo, after that, some magno licore (as before was said) and so let him hold on, unto the end of his cure.   

CHAP. XIIII. A most singular and wonderful remedy, to heal wounds quickly.  
WOunds must be helped, with drying medicines, (as was noted in the third Chapter) such medicines I say, as have virtue, to preserve the part offended, from putrefaction. This will be performed with our aqua balsami, and the oil distilled from vernice liquid: for these two, are apt to heal all sorts of wounds: if ye wash them with the water and anoint them round about with the oil, for they do not only keep the wounds from putrefying, but they help to cicatrise quickly, and in such manner, as it seemeth marvelous, most profitable for the wounded patient, but best for the good and honest Surgeon, which abhorreth in his work, to play the tinker, which in stopping of one hole, is wont to make three, but with as much safety and speed, as nature and art will yield, to bring to pass all his honest intentions.   

CHAP. XV. A wound in the eye, with a splinter, healed by W. H.  
A Splinter of wood, leapt into the eye of a certain maiden, as she was chopping of sticks. The wound was so grievous, that the jelly of her eye came forth, by the space of a month: all this while, she could neither see, nor take any rest. By the blessing of God within four days after, she could thread a needle, and was recovered in this manner. First there was dropped into her eye, balsamum sulfuris warm, and then a cloth wet therein, was applied thereunto by which only she was cured: the maid dwelleth in Nottinghamshire.   

CHAP. XVI. A prick in the eye, with a knife, healed by W. H.  
A Child of seven years of age, had a puncture in the eye, with a knife, which was cured, by dropping therein, balsamum sulfuris warm, and laying a defensative round about it.  

Another cure performed in like manner by W. H.  
ONe George Clarke, servant to the right worshipful, M. Butler of Denham (then high Sheriff of Bedford) was healed, of a punct●●● in his eye, with the foresaid medicine.    

CHAP. XVII. An hand flat squatted, and contused, healed by W. H.  
AN old man, called Thomas Smith, of Carton in Northamptonshire, husbandman, in lopping of a tree, had his hand caught between two boughs, and was squatted in pieces; this contused hand, was presently put close together, and anointed which oleum philosophorum de Tereb, & cera, and through God's goodness, was perfectly cured in eight days.   

CHAP. XVIII. A wou●● or puncture through the arm. I. P.  
A Young man called Hudson, a Carpenter of Carlton in Northamptonshire, being thrust through the arm, with a pitchfork, was thus cured. First there was injected Magno licore (as hot as he could abide it) into the wound. Then was there a linen cloth, wet in the same oil, applied unto the wound, upon the which cloth, was also laid, a pledget, of cerotum magistrale: this wounded man was healed in five or six days.   

CHAP. XIX. Five wounds in the breast.  
A Certain man, that had five stocadoes into the body, was thus cured. First there was put into the wounds, the Quintessence of wine. Then were the wounds dressed, with balsamo artific. which caused him to vomit, and to avoid much bruised blood. After that he drank, every morning a little aqua balsami, and in short time by God's help was perfectly cured.  
The manner to stay any flux of blood, or vain: you shall find in the 17. Chapter of the second part of this collection, and in the secrets of Leonardo Fioravante, where he entreateth of wounds.    

THE SECOND PART OF THE FIRST DIVISION.  
VErbum sapienti sat est, and a man may know by the half, what the whole means. By these few experimented secrets, you may proceed, unto the cure of any wound, contusion, or puncture: in what part of the body soever they shallbe. The things wherewith you are to work, as balsamum sulfuris, oleum philosophorum de Terebinth. & cera, cerotum magistrale, etc. you may have of M. james Forestier; dwelling in the Black friars. Now let us proceed unto the experimented secrets, concerning Ulcers, and Sores, either simple, or complicate with diseases, as they have been observed, by those which have proved them.  

CHAP. XX. The healing of sore mouths.  
THe Ulcers and Sores, that have been, in the mouths of young and old, have been healed, by the lotion or gargarism, made with plantain water, honey suckle water, and barley water, mixed with saccarum Saturni.   

CHAP. XXI. An Ulcer in the upper lip.  
A Certain porter of London, having an Ulcer on his upper lip, which was like a cancer (some called it Noli me tangere) continually running, with filthy stinking sanies, was thus cured. First he was purged, with Turpetum minerale: then was the sore dressed with this medicine.  
℞. aloes lotae, ℥ ss, salis preparati, ʒ ij, Mellis ℥ iiij, misce, & utere.   

CHAP. XXII. An Ulcer in the throat, ex morbo Gallico.  
A Young woman, that was much troubled in the throat, with a grievous Ulcer, was thus cured. First she was purged with Aromatico, & twice or thrice with our Quintaessence solutive, mixed with syrup of roses, than was the sore touched, with Aquarealis, two or three times, with a little lint, and lastly she used this gargarism.  
℞. mellis rosarum, ℥ ij, Diamorum, ℥ ij ss, honey suckle water, ana ℥ vi. oleum vitrioli, as much as will suffice, to make it tart: this hath been often proved in dangerous cases.   

CHAP. XXIII. The healing of a scald head.  
A Woman had all her head covered, with a most filthy scab, which was dry above, and moist underneath, very noisome to behold, who could neither be healed, by purging, or local medicines, that were used, till this medicine was applied unto her. Once in a day, oleum ligni guaiaci, was applied, and in short time, the scall fell away, like a skull of an head, and there began hair to grow underneath it: this cure was performed in twelve days.  

Another cure performed upon a scald head.  
A Maiden of eighteen years of age, having an huge great scall upon her head, was cured (after she had taken one dose of Aromatico) by often washing the part affected, with Mater balsami Fioravante.    

CHAP. XXIIII. An Ulcer on the thumb.  
ONe had such a filthy, & stinking Ulcer on the thumb, that the Chirurgeons, would have 〈◊〉 of the whole thumb. This party was afterward cured, by the application of Fodicationum emplastri.   

CHAP. XXV. An Ulcerated leg swollen.  
A Young boy, that had an ulcerated leg wonderfully swollen, was thus cured. He received at two several times, Quintaess. solutive, with syrup of roses. Then were the sores washed, with salt of vitriol, dissolved in plantain water: a cloth being wet therein, and applied thereto morning and evening.   

CHAP. XXVI. Two putrefied Ulcers on the leg healed by I. P.  
FIrst this patient was purged, with Aromatico Leon, once or twice: then his Ulcers were dressed, with this unguent, made of rubified vitriol: and a cerote, called the great Cerote. This was applied unto the Ulcers, with a pledget of lint, and was suffered to lie 24. hours, which mortified the sores. Then was more of the same unguent applied, and with an instrument the eschar was loosed round about, and in three or four days, the eschar came away easily, with a pair of Mullets: then he healed it up, with Magno licore, & saccarum plumbi, within a little while after.   

CHAP. XXVII. Three Ulcers in the leg, healed by W. H.  
A Certain woman of Bedford, had three Ulcers in her leg, who had sought her cure, at the hands of divers, the space of four years, but could find no help, yet she was afterward cured in this manner. First she took in the morning fasting Aromatico Leonardo, which evacuated her stomach and b●●ie. Then was there applied unto the sores, saccarum plumbi, three or four days together, which caused every day, a certain thin skin to come upon the Ulcers, much like the film of an egg, the same skin was taken away every day. With this medicine following, it was dressed the fourth day: which caused it, to look fair, and red, the next dressing: and so in short time it was perfectly cured. To one spoonful of magno licore was put as much saccarun Saturni, as would lie upon a three pence;: and so it was incorporated warm: the sores were dressed therewith every day.   

CHAP. XXVIII. The cure of old rotten sores by W. R.  
A Certain old woman, did in this manner, help divers old sores in the body. First she purged the patients, and then she applied this unguent to the sores. Take a pot of strong ale, and set it to boil over a gentle fire, till it wax thick, like a salve, and then use it. At the first this medicine will smart, and be somewhat painful to bear, nevertheless it will cleanse and heat.  

Note.  Also a friend of mine told me, that the juice of marigold leaves, or the leaves, boiled with milk to an unguent, will heal all ulcers and wounds.   

CHAP. XXIX. The healing of ulcers, in most parts of the body: but chiefly in the head by W. H.  
A Certain man being full of ulcers, coming of the pocks, in most parts of his body showing themselves, but chiefly in the head, was cured in this manner. First he was purged, twice or thrice, with Panchimagogon, after that, he kept his chamber, (that had a good sire in it) and took six grains of Turpetum diaphoreticum, mixed with ʒ j of Amuletum Palmarij. Half an hour before, he took a draft of fat broth, and kept his bed: and always as he ●…ited, he washed his mouth, with a convenient gargarism, and sweat thereon, one hour or two, and then was dried with warm clothes: That done, he reposed a day or two, and took the foresaid Turpetum again, in manner aforesaid: this he did three or four times. In the mean while, he anointed his ulcers with oleum guaiaci, which did both cleanse, and heal. Also divers times, he used this potion in the morning, which caused him to sweat. ℞. ℥ ij of the water of lignum vitae, made by distillation, and as much of the syrup of fumitory, and ℈ j of the salt of lignum vitae, mix them warm, and drink it fasting. Thus in very short time he was cured. This one thing must not be forgotten, that when there shall come, any inflammation or soreness in the mouth, you do use this gargarism following. Take plantain water, honey suckle water, ana ℥ iiij, barley water, ℥ vi. mel rosarum ℥ ij ss, Diamorum ℥ ij, oleum vitrioli, as much as will make it tart: this will heal any sore in the mouth. Remember also, that if the ulcers be very corrosive, and foul, you shall touch them, once or twice, with oleum vitrioli or oleum tartari faetens, whereby they will heal the sooner, this hath been often proved.   

CHAP. XXX. The healing of scabs, like the leprosy, by G. M.  
A Young man (which was thought to be infected with a leprosy) had on his head, and most parts of his body, hard and dry scabs, but he was cured in this manner. First he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo once or twice. Then every morning till he was cured, he took ℈ j of the extract of Camepiteos, either in a pill, or in drink as he thought good. After that, his sores were dressed, with this unguent. ℞. succi semperumi ℥ ij, sucei plantaginis ℥ iiij ss, succi solani ℥ iij, sacchari Saturni ℥ ij, ss, mix them, and stir them well together over a gentle fire, till all the saccharum be dissolved, and therewith dress the sores twice a day.   

CHAP. XXXI. The healing of a child, that was full of ulcers, coming of the pocks.  
A Young child four years old, that was grievously tormented with the French disease, having extreme pain in his body, and being full of sores, was thus cured. ℞ the distilled water of lignum vitae, ℥ j, salis eiusdemʒ j, mix them, and thereof the child drank, with syrup of furnitorie or hops, morning and evening, and sometime the child sweat thereon. Also the sores were anointed, with this unguent, ℞. oleum guaiaci, ℥ ss, balsamum sulfuris, ʒ ss, saccarum plumbi, ʒ ss, oleum camphorae, five or six drops, the caput mortuum of aqua fortis, ℈ j Mix them well, and grind them on a stone, with May butter, & therewith the sores were anointed morning and evening.   

CHAP. XXXII. A cancer cured by an old Empiric.  
A Certain Empiric, did help many cancers, in divers people (that were troubled with them) after this manner. He took certain worms, called in Latin Centumpedes, in English sows: they are such as lie under old timber, or between the bark and the tree. These he stamped, and strained with ale, & gave the patiented to drink thereof morning and evening. This medicine caused many times, a certain black bug, or worm to come forth which had many legs, & was quick: & after that the canker would heal quickly, with any convenient medicine.   

CHAP. XXXIII. The healing of pocky pustules, with Serpigo by W. H.  
A Certain man, having a number of so●es, all over his body, & a serpigo in the palm of his ●●nd, so grievous, that a man might have laid great straws therein, was healed in this manner. First he was purged three times, with six grains of Turpetum minerale Phaedronis, mixed with half a dram of Amuletum Palmarij. That done, he anointed all his sores twice or thrife, with oleum Tartari foetens: afterward with unguentum ex Lithargirio Fioravante. Now touching his hands, which had the serpigo, he held them morning & evening, over a bath of oats, or other warm herbs, that they might sweat: and then anointed them, with balsamum sulfuris, and in short time they were helped. An unguent made with saccarum Saturni and oil of roses, will do the like effect.   

CHAP. XXXIIII. A tetter or ringworm, cured by W. K.  
THere is a certain worm or tetter, which many times cometh on the back of the hand or arm, & doth corrode, like a serpigo, but it is none, which (after the use of many other medicines) hath been cured in this manner. The place was anointed 5. or six times a day, with the syrup of sugar, that the worm might come to the upper place or skin. Then within three or four days after, he anointed the place with oleum Tartari foetens: & in short time he was cured, though his disease, had continued three years, coming and going. Some have killed the worm, with oleum vitrioli.   

CHAP. XXXV. A man cured, that was full of tetters.  
THis was the manner of his cure. He took the rennet of a calf, and drunk it in milk three or four times, and sweat thereupon: then he anointed the parts affected, with saccarum Saturni, mixed with bile of roses warm.   

CHAP. XXXVI. Tetters in women's breasts, oftentimes cured as followeth,  
THey took five sponfulls of Madder, and boiled it in ale, and then strained it clear, without pressing it at all, and drunk thereof, three or four mornings. Then with the foresaid ointment, they used to anoint the parts grieved, and thereupon (with God's help) were quickly healed.   

CHAP. XXXVII. The healing of Shingles.  
THey took for them, doves dung newly made; and barley meal; stamped them well, and mixed them with half a pint of vinegar: they used it cold, to the place grieved, and applied vine leaves (to keep in the liquor) round about it. Then they bond it up with clothes, and suffered it to lie three days, and then (if need were) refreshed it again with a new plaster, and at the most, with the use of three applications, it was perfectly helped.   

CHAP. XXXVIII. The breaking of a plague sore, by W. K.  
HE took of elder leaves, as much as was sufficient, he stamped them very well with dry figs, and put thereto auxungiae porcinae, and applied it warm to the sore, three or four times a day, and it quickly broke it.   

CHAP. XXXIX. Scabs and itch, with small pustules, taken quite away by I. H.  
A Certain man greatly troubled, with i● hand pustules, in his hands, proceeding of a dissol●… in his body, could find no help, till he used this course. He took Panchimagogon, twice in three days: that done, he washed his hands, with the salt of vitriol dissolved in plantain water, and shortly after they went quite away.   

CHAP. XL. Three deep fistulas in the breast, cured by W. T.  
THere was a certain man, called R. B. dwelling in London, which having three deep fistulas in his breast, had been long under the hands of unskilful Chirurgeons, consuming both himself and his substance: but afterward by God's help, he using the course, that W. T. prescribed, was cured very speedily. First he was purged every second or third day for five or six times together, with Turpetum minerale Phaedronis, receiving thereof five or six grains in Amul: Palmarij. Afterward, he was caused to sweat five or six times, with this potion following.  
℞. the distilled water of lignum vitae ℥ ij, salis eiusdem ℈ j, water of Carduus benedictus ℥ ij, which being mixed, he drunk it warm in the morning, and sweat thereon two hours. After he was purged, he dressed the fistulas two hours, with this unguent (until they were mundified) upon tents of shoe leather. When the fistulas were cleansed, he dressed them only with Emplastrun Fodicationis (being made liquid, to wrap up the tent with) till they where whole.  

The mundificative ointment was this.  
℞. oil of wax, of succinum, of guaiacum, oleum hyperic. compositum, ana ʒ ij, mix them without sire & use it with the aforesaid tents. Also you shall note, that he drunk no other drink then this, all the while. ℞. lignum vitae, the bark, sarsaparilla, ana ℥ iiij, the roots of Tormentill, Bistorta, virga pastoris, liquorice, 〈◊〉 ℥ ij, juniper berries, ℥ j, Mallow leaves, Sanicle, Alchim 〈◊〉 Mugwort, Hypericon, Brunella, Comserie, ana M ij. Bring these into powder and for every gallon of new tunned drink, add thereto, two or three ounces of this powder, in a linen cloth: let it stand till it be stolen, and let him drink thereof.    

CHAP. XLI. The cure of Lichen, or Impetigo, by M. K.  
A Certain maiden 17. years old, had all the flesh on her thumb, and forefinger eaten away, with the foresaid disease: which was cured by strawing thereon saccarun Saturni, and applying thereto Cerotum magistrale Fioravante.   

CHAP. XLII. A great wen taken away by, W. H.  

〈…〉  ONe that was troubled, with a great wen, had it taken away, by washing it with strong lie made of oaken ashes. I have been since told, of a certainty, that if ye rub the wen often, with the hand of a dead man, until the wen wax hot, it will consume away in short time after. Some roast an egg hard, and cut it in the midst, and lay it thereon and using this often the wen will wear away.     

THE SECOND PART CONCERNING THE CURES OF INTERNAL DISEASES. Thus much briefly, in these short Chapters, is expressed and declared, concerning wounds and ulcers: wheresoever they be, or howsoever they arise. By which examples, the learned artist, may undertake other things, which are not here mentioned. But in any case, let him be advised by the wise Physician, in his business, when there is any difficulty and not run by and by to his receipt or experiment. It followeth now (in manner aforesaid) to set down the observed practices of those that have cured internal diseases, which have taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, outwardly or inwardly.  

CHAP. I. Of the cure of grievous aches, and pain, performed, by W. H.  
A Certain man was greatly afflicted, with divers woeful aches, and pains in his knees and shoulders, who was cured, by receiving a dose of Aromatico, and by application of emplastrum faetidum, unto the grieved parts.   

CHAP. II. The healing of aches, coming of the pocks, by W. H.  
ONe of a ver●● dark and melancholic complexion, to whom son●… in London, had given the fume, and the unction, three or four times: and yet left him possessed with most pitiful aches and pain in his joints; who for want of maintenance, was enforced to go into the country, where he was borne, and was there pitied of an honest Gentleman, which cured him in this sort. First he purged him twice or thrice with Aromatico Leonardo: which done, he took for four or five days together, ʒ ss, of the extract of Hermodactiles, with white wine. Then unto the articular parts that were grieved, he applied emplastrum faetidum, W. H. and thus in short time he was healed throughlie.   

CHAP. III. A notable experience, of a medicine that hath brought great ease, to any great ache or pain, as of the gout or otherwise.  
TAke one or two, of the foremost sucking whelps, of a mastif or bearebitch, kill them, and take forth the guts, fill them with black snails, roast them, and baste them with ℥ xii, of oil of spike, coloured with saffron. Reserve that, which droppeth from them, and mix it with as much oil of wax, and therewith anoint any ache or grief.   

CHAP. FOUR A particular way whereby the pain of the gout is soon eased or prevented, S. N.  
TAke minium, the yolk of an egg, oil of tartar, oil of roses, as much of each as you think sufficient, and with a little saffran make it in form of a plaster, and lay it on cold. I knew an other Gentleman, grievously vexed with the gout, who was in this sort soon eased. First when he supposed that the pain would come, he took a dose of Aromatico Leonardo: then the next day, unto those grieved parts, he applied this plaster. Take a pickle herring, and cut forth the bone, stamp it very small 〈◊〉 a little bowl armoniac, and rose water, and apply it cold to the grief, from place to place, as it goeth. Many men, after they have been well purged, have had great ease by anointing the place, three or four nights together, with aqua balsami Fioravamte. Also oleum cerae, is very profitable in that case.   

CHAP. V The cure of gouts, and all aches, coming of heat, by L. F.  
FIrst the patients were purged with Aromatico, then was this plaster applied, which is attractive, resiccative, resolutive, as being intentions far better fitting that purpose, than any other. Take the marrow, of the bones of a calf new killed, lb j vitriol in manner rubified, lb j ss, Cantarides in sine powder, ℥ j, the ashes of the vine, ℥ vi, mix them all on a small fire, until they be incorporated, them with oil of wax, make it in a liquid ointment, and spread it on a cloth, and lay it on cold. And when it waxeth dry, chafe it till the pain be ceased: this hath eased many in a short time.   

CHAP. VI The remedy against the Scorbute or Scurvy, and the gout, by W. T.  
A Young man of 26. years of age, mightily troubled with the gout, and scurvy was after this sorr cured. First he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo. Then he used the purging drink following every morning, that he might have each day 3. or four stools. At night, he took two ounces, of the distilled water of lignum vitae, with ℥ j of the syrup of Cowslips. Also he used to eat, these conserves following mixed together. ℞. conserve of Cowslips ℥ iiij. of sage, of rosemary flowers, ana, ℥ ij. of red roses ℥ j The quantity which he took at once, was as much as a walnut. Also he anointed the grieved parts with this unguent. ℞. auxungiae humanae distilled ℥ ij, oil of Turpentine, ℥ 〈◊〉, of wax ℥ ss, mix them together. Also in his usual dru●●●e, which he drunk with his meat, was mixed Chamepiteos, sage, rosemary, and betony, this was the purging drink. ℞ the strong decoction of lignum vitae, put therein of the leaves of 〈◊〉 ℥ iiij. Epithimum ℥ ij, Hermodactiles ℥ iiij, Turbith ℥ j, Coloquintid. ℥ ss. let them stand in warm sand 24. hours and strain it, this he drunk in the morning fasting.   

CHAP. VII. Tumours in all parts of the body, taken away, by R. A.  
THis was sent me by a friend of mine, who had seen the experience thereof divers times. First he purged the patients twice, with Aromatico Leonardo: then he gave unto them ℥ ij of Quintaessence solutive, with ℥ j of syrup of roses, four or five mornings together: and after it, they drank a little good broth made sweet with sugar: that done, they drunk this water following. ℞. herbegrace, sothernwood, mugwort, wormwood, ana M j juniper berries, three or four handful, cut the herbs and bruise the berries, and infuse them in a gallon of white wine vinegar .24. hours in a warm place. Then distill it with a gentle fire. This done, take that distilled vinegar, and infuse therein fresh herbs & berries, and distill it again as afore. Do so the third time, and distill it as afore. At the last infusion, you shall put therein ℥ iiij of good Mitridate, or treacle, and distill them together, and keep them close to your use. Thereof the patients took, at four a clock in the morning, ℥ iiij, very warm, whereupon they laid them down and sweat, two or three hours, always wiping it away with warm clothes. Every sweeting time, they changed their shirts. When this medicine was ministered to a woman, she took but ℥ ij thereof. To a child he gave ℥ ij. In this sort, he cured not only Tumours, but sores, pustules, fevers, jaundice, etc.   

CHAP. VIII. Swelling of the cods mitigated and resolved, by R. A.  
A Certain man, riding on a trotting horse, had his stones swollen, as big as one's fist, who was thus holpen. First he was purged once or twice, with Panchimagogon, them this Cataplasm was applied warm, unto the part twice or thrice a day. ℞. the crumbs of brown bread, bean flower, ana as much as is sufficient, boil them with new wort; when it is almost boiled, put thereto a little Comminsced, and a dish of fresh butter, and so apply it warm. I have seen the fat of an horse, to have cured the foresaid grief.  

Another for the same.  
Take a pint of pure honey, as much bean slower, and two spoonfuls of vinegar, of Comminseed ℥ ij, mix them well together, and spread it on a cloth, and warm it a little against the fire, and apply it.    

CHAP. IX. The cure of a painful Ischiatica, by I. H.  
A Certain man, that was grievously troubled with the Ischiatica, was healed in this manner. First he was purged with Aromatico, than he took for five or six mornings together, two drams of Quintaessence solutive, with syrup of roses, and after the taking thereof he drunk a little sweet broth. That done, he drew a blister with Cantarides, and when it had run enough, he anointed the place, with oleum de terebinth. & cera; and in short time he was helped. Since which time, I have known three or four persons helped in the same manner, by anointing the grieved parts with Aqua balsami Fioravante.   

CHAP. X. An excellent remedy, against the cramp, proved often, by R. G.  
THey that were affected therewith, did upon their bare skin & places grieved, wear the root of common Flag. Also the skins of twenty silver eels, new fleane, and chopped small, boiled in two pound of May butter, and four handful of Rue, scum it well, and anoint the place therewith work the same effect. A worshipful Gentleman, that had divers times proved the same, sent these notes unto me.   

CHAP. XI. Contraction or shrinking of sinews, with consumption of the party, helped, by W. H.  
A Man 26. years old, having a sore and grievous ulcerated leg, fell into the hands of inexpert Surgeons, who with their corrosives shrunk up his sinews, that he could neither go nor stand, but in short time after, he was cured in this manner. He was once purged with Aromatico, than he took Quintaesse: solutive two or 3. days together, in syrup of roses, and drunk thereupon a little broth. Then did he use the bath following divers times, & anointed him with the ointment, against contraction of sinews, described by Leonardo Fioravamte. Another man having his hand shrunk together, upon the like occasion, was healed in the same order. This is the description of the bath. Take two or three young whelps, that cannot see, boil them in water with mallows, Hollihock, melilot, walwort, Camomile, ana one handful: boil the whelps, till the flesh fall from the bones, this done strain it, and use to bathe therewith very warm.   

CHAP. XII. The cure of one, whose neck was drawn awry, performed, by W. T.  
A Child had her neck drawn awry, with a kind of convulsion, or cramp called Tetanus, and was thus cured. First she drunk, every morning and evening, a little Aqua balsami Fioravante, than was her neck anointed, with some of the said water mixed with Magno licore Fioravante, and in ten days she was cured.  

Another of the same, by W. T.  
TAke Oleum de lateribus. ℥ i, Oleum Terebinth, ℥ ss, of juniper berries, ʒ ij, of Cloves, ʒ j, Nutmegs, Maces, Ana. ʒ ss. mix them with Oleum Cerae, q. s. to make it in form of a lineament, and therewith anoint the parts.    

CHAP. XIII. The Squinancy cured by I. P.  
THis medicine following, did help one that was so swollen and grievously pained, that he could scarcely eat or drink. ℞ Olei philosophorum de lateribus, ℥ ij, olei lini, ʒ uj, olei cerae, ℥ j, mix them warm, and anoint the place affected, oftentimes in the day. Also one dram of the tooth of a wild Boar, being drunk with ℥ iij of oil of Lineseed, doth help it presently.  
Also another man, was forthwith cured thereof, which drunk one spoonful of Aqua balsami, and wetting a cloth therein, applied it to his throat.   

CHAP. XIIII. The cure of Alopecia, by I.P.  
MAgno licore Fioravante, being anointed on the head, causeth the hairs to grow again abundantly, which are fallen away, and to wax black. Balsamum sulfuris also doth the same.   

CHAP. XV. A gargarism to purge the head, by I. S.  
TAke Spikenard, Alizander seed, ana ℥ j beat them into powder, and boil them in vinegar till half be consumed. Then strain it, and put thereto lb ss of Mustard, and ℥ iiij, of Rose water, boil it a little, keep it close to thy use, and when you will, you may take a spoonful warm in the morning, and gargoyle therewith.   

CHAP. XVI. The Pin and Web, cured by M. R.  
HE took an handful of Centumpedes, or Sows, stamped and strained them with Ale, and gave the patiented to drink thereof, three or four mornings, and willed the patiented to stop his nose and mouth, and to hang down his head, and therewith he was healed, as I was credibly certified.   

CHAP. XVII. A water for sore eyes, proved by M. E.  
A Gentlewoman with this water hath cured a very great number of sore eyes. She took an Egg, hard sodden, cut it in the midst, and took forth the yolk, and put thereto as much white Copperas as a Nut. Then she closed it together, and wrapped it in red Fennell, and laid it to steep four and twenty hours in Rose water, than she strained it hard thorough a cloth, and dropped it into the eyes, morning and evening; it was held for a great secret.  

Another manner or way, to heal the Pin and Web in the eyes.  
TAke nine of the Worms called Centumpedes, or Sows, stamp and strain them, with the juice of Woodbine, or betony, for three or four mornings together warm: which being drunk, will consume the Web in the eye.    

CHAP. XVIII. The staying of the bleeding at the nose, done by M. R.  
TAke burnt Lome, M ij, sharp vinegar, lb ss, mix them well, and lay it between a linen cloth: and bind it to the forehead cold, and in short space it will stint.  

Another for the same. I. H.  
A Man of fifty years of age, had a great flux of blood at the nosethrill, which had continued a long time, and could find no remedy, till he used this order and medicine following. First his ring finger was bound hard with a thread, than was this cataplasm following, applied to his forehead and temples.  
Take burnt lome, made in powder, M uj, strong vinegar, as much as will suffice, to make it in form of a Cataplasm, to be applied cold, thus in few hours the blood stinted. Nevertheless he took morning and evening, the fume of Succinum album, at the mouth and nose: which stayed the flux: and comforted the vital and animal spirits. His diet was cold and drying, his drink was water, or red wine, wherein was put Crocus martis.   

Another kind of curing the same, performed by D. B.  
ONe bleeding at the nose a day and a night, was thus helped. He made a tent of lint, and dipped it in Ink, and put it into his nostrils, and laid a defensative over his eyes and nose, made with Sanguis draconis, bowl armoniac, and a little vinegar.   

Another way.  
MAny have been cured, by applying unto their cod, a linen  wet in Vinegar.   

Another.  
SOme have had the bleeding stinted, by applying the herb Peruinca unto the nose.   

Other ways to do the same.  
CArduus benedictus bruised, and put up into the nostrils, 
Note.  stinteth the bleeding at the nose. The same it performeth in a wound.  
The herb Geranium, which hath a red stalk, being put into the nostrils or wound, doth the same: very often proved.  
In like manner, and to the same effect, worketh Crocus martis.  
Also the blood of a man dried, worketh after the same order: both for the staying of blood at the nose, and in a wound.    

CHAP. XIX. Spatting of blood stayed, by I. H.  
A Certain woman spat blood three or four days in great quantity, who was cured by drinking the decoction of mints in vinegar.  

Another for the same.  
ALso five or six drops of Oleum Mastiche, drunk in Cinnamon water, stayeth the spatting of blood.    

CHAP. XX. The falling down of the Vuula, and the inflammation of the Almonds, in such sort, that they could not swallow their meat, nor fetch their breath well, cured by W. T.  
TAke white Amber grossly beaten ʒ j, and with a funnel take the fume thereof cast on a few coals, morning, noon, and night. Then take ℥ j of old leaven, and spread it plasterwise on a cloth, strew thereon a little Commin seed, and the powder of white Amber, and apply it half an hand breadth to the crown of the head, the space of an whole day, then at night lay on another, and in short time it will take away the swelling, often proved.   

CHAP. XXI. The cure of the hicket, by W. B.  
ONe that was divers times grievously troubled with the Hicquet, was cured, by applying a brown tossed warm to his stomach: the toast was steeped in treacle and Aquavitae.  

Another.  
divers have been cured thereof, by taking four or five grains of Landanum nostrum, in wine or Malmsey.    

CHAP. XXII. The falling sickness cured, by W. H.  
A Certain woman, being a barbers wife in Bedfordshire, which was grieved therewith every change of the Moon, was preserved, by taking each day three drops of Oleum Heraclei. with the extract of Peonie.  

Another performed by I. H.  
FIrst you shall purge them with the extract of Helleborus niger: the dose whereof is from eight grains to twelve, being before well corrected, and then drunk in some convenient liquor or potion. That done, he gave them morning and evening of this composition: the which the longer that they use, the better will it be for them. ℞ essenciae Peoniae, conserve of Rosemary flowers, of betony, ana q.v. mix them together in form of an electuary: then add thereto, for every ℥ of that composition, of oleum cranij humam ℈ j, and ℈ ss of oil of Rosemary flowers, and twelve grames of oleum vitrioli. Hereof let them take ℥ ss, at a time, either by itself, or with some convenient liquor, broth, or potion. Also the nuke of the neck, must be anointed with Oleum castorei: when they do fall, you shall anoint their nostrils with oleum succinum, for that will in short time recover them again. It will be also very expedient to use those things that comfort the brain and the heart.    

CHAP. XXIII. The cure of the jaundice, by I. P.  
A Young maiden, much affected with them, was in this sort cured. She was twice purged with Aromatico, and as often with Panchimagogon. This done, she felt herself very much eased, save only in her yellow colour, which was thus also taken away. She took three or four mornings ℥ iij, of the decoction of Goose dung, ℈ ij. of the extract of century, which she drunk warm, and so was cured.  

Another for the same, by W. H.  
A Woman that had the yellow jaundice ', above two years together, was thus cured. First she took ʒ j, of Balsamum artificial Leon. Fior. with a spoonful of white wine in the morning: which caused her the next day, to be as yellow as Saffron, all her body over, yea her hair of her head, and the nails of her hands, and feet, very strange to behold. The third day, she took the same again, and in three times she was perfectly cured. This was at Carleton, five or six miles from Bedford. Certain practitioners, have found a great secret, in the salt called Lapilli urinae, or Paracelsus his Rebisola, against the jaundice, and all obstructions.   

Another way, by the same Person W. H.  
TAke Nucis Cupressi, Cassiae ligni, ana ℥ j, extract Centaurij, ℈ ij, mix them, and drink it in white wine warm: and they shall after the receipt thereof, evacuate in their urine, great store of yellowish choler, but by taking this medicine, twice or thrice, it will vade quite away, as hath been often proved. Remember, that before you take this medicine (that it may work with better effect) you receive a dose or two, of Aromatico Leonardo.   

The cure of the jaundice, with obstruction of the menstrues, performed by W. H.  
A Young Gentlewoman, eighteen years old, was greatly grieved with the jaundice and suppression of her natural sickness: but was in this sort cured.  
℞ water of Madder roots, Sage, and betony, ana ℥ iiij, Spiritus Tartari, ℥ ij, oleum vitrioli, ℈ ij, mix them, and drink thereof morning and evening two or three ℥ warm. Also you shall note, that she was purged once (before she took this drink) with Arom. Leonardo, and so was perfectly cured, and had her courses again, which before she wanted seven months and more.    

CHAP. XXIIII. The healing and cure of great windiness in the stomach by I. H.  
A Certain Gentleman, who was afflicted with a windiness in the stomach, that many times with extreme pain, he fell into a sound. In this misery he continued three years and more, but in this manner he was helped. First he took Aromat. Leon. which evacuated upward and downward, the gross and viscous cause of this wind. After that he had used this potion following forty days together. He took every morning and evening, Spiritus tartari, corrected with his Cristaline salt half a spoonful, Aqua preseruans as much. This withdrew the cause, opened all obstructions in the body, so that in a month he remained perfectly cured.   

CHAP. XXV. Cough of the lungs, cured by W. T. after this manner.  
REcipe Aquae Marrubij, ℥ uj, syrup of juiubes, ℥ iij, mix them, and make thereof a julepe: whereof the patiented took four spoonfuls, with ʒ j of Balsamum sulfuris, every four hours till he was well.  

Another cured by W. T. which had also a sore stitch in the side.  
FIrst he took Aromat. Leon. and then took this potion following, for certain days. ℞ Carduus Benedictus, Hypericon, Folefoote, a little Enula compana, make thereof a decoction with Ale, and he drank every morning ʒ j of Balsamum sulfuris, and a spoonful of Aqua Balsami Fioravante, morning and evening, till he was cured.    

CHAP. XXVI. Shortness of breath, with a cough, remedied by M. R.  
FIrst he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo, than he used this diet, with hot and drying meats, roast or sodden. Enula campana, Hisop, and Liquerice, were infused in his wine. Also he used every morning, to drink or eat in a rear Egg. ℈ ss of Balsamum sulfuris, and thereby was safely and quickly cured.  

Another remedy for shortness of breath.  
THe worms called Centumpedes or Sows, are of great virtue, to discharge the lungs, that are stuffed with gross phlegm.    

CHAP. XXVII. An approved remedy to slay vomiting, by M. R.  
A Man of thirty years old, was troubled a long time with sore vomiting, throwing up presently whatsoever he ate or drank, and was thus relieved. ℞. Malmsey ℥ vj. Oleum vitrioli, vj. drops or more, mix them together, and take thereof every morning fasting, ℥ j, or there about, and in short time it will stay the vomit.  

To stay vomiting of blood.  
TAke five or six drops of oil of Mastic, and drink it in Cinnamon water.   

To stay vomiting, another way.  
A Pultus thus made, as followeth, and applied to the stomach, stayeth vomiting. Take Rye leaven, and mix it with the juice of mints, and a little vinegar, over the fire, in form of a pultus, when you do apply it to the stomach, strew thereon the powder of Cloves, and so oft as it cooleth apply it warm. Also a Rye toast steeped in vinegar, is profitable for the stomach.  
The oil of Wormwood (that cometh by distillation) being drunk with convenient liquors, or potions, and the same compounded with other convenient things, and applied to the stomach, doth work notable effect this way, and is good against many other maladies.    

CHAP. XXVIII. Vomiting of blood, with a cruel flux of the belly, stayed by M. R.  
A Man 45 years old, that had congealed blood in his body, did vomit abundance of blood, and avoided downward a certain black matter like unto pitch. He had a great stitch in his side, without a fever: and always when he vomited, it was thought he would have died, this man was by God's help thus cured. First he took this potion. Take the water of Nettle roots ℥ viii, Oleum vitrioli, as much as will make it tart. He drank thereof cold, which presently mitigated both the fluxes. Then unto the stomach and throat, was applied this pultus warm, both morning and evening, which wrought an excellent effect. ℞. the crumbs of Rye bread, M xii, Red wine or Aligant, strong Vinegar, ana q. s. boil them to the form of a pultus. Then he took at the mouth and nose, the sum of Succinum or Amber, which strengthened the vital and animal spirits. His side was anointed with this ointment, which took away the pricking and pain. ℞. Unguent. de Althaea, ℥ 4, amigdalarum dulcium, ℥ j, mix them, and therewith anoint the side, morning and evening. His diet was this, all his meat was boiled in Red wine, or Smiths water. His drink was the decoction of Nettle roots, or Red Wine, wherein Steel had been quenched diverse times.  

Vomiting joined with a Fever.  
A Gentlewoman affected with these griefs, was in this manner comforted. ℞. Aquae balsami, ʒ j, Aquae preseru. ʒ ij, oleum piperis, Grains uj, mix them well with a good spoonful of the syrup of Quinces, and so she drank it, at the beginning of the heat.    

CHAP. XXIX. A great and sore pleurisy cured, by M. R.  
A Certain man of xxiv. years old was vexed with a most grievous pleurisy, with pricking, shooting, and a cough, with a continual fever, and inflammation of the tongue. First, there was good store of blood taken from the liver vain, on that side where the pain was. Then were these syrups (that do decoct and purge) ministered unto him. ℞. Syrupi de liquericia, de Hysopo, acetosae ana ℥ j, Oximellitis squillitici, aceti squillitici, anaʒ iij, make thereof a loche, whereof in the morning he licked with a Liquorice stick, which caused him to spatte easily, and took away the heat or burning of the tongue, being used with this decoction. ℞. French Barley, ℥ iij, Carduus Benedictus, M j, Roses, Violets, ana lb j, liquorice scraped, ʒ iij, Figs iij, Raisin, ℥ j ss, Sugar Candie, ℥ ij, boil them in xvi. lb. of water, till two pound be wasted, and so drink it cold. Also his diet was light and thin, as broth and drink, etc.  

Pleurisy, with spatting of blood, cured by M. R.  
FIrst there was made this purging preparative. ℞. Senaeʒ uj, Carduus Benedictus, M ss. Sugar, ℥ ss. Ginger, ℥ ss, lay them to infuse one night in warm whey, made of goats milk, lb j ss, whereof ye shall give morning and evening, ℥ iiij warm: this purgeth gently, and causeth to spat easily. Then three days after, they must bleed well on the liver vain, and their drink at meals, was the decoction of hyssop, violets, liquerice, and raisins with sugar.   

Pleurisy, with inflammation of the tongue, and costiveness of the body. M. R.  
FIrst they were purged with Aromatico, and then used this gargarism. ℞. Semperuive, or howsleeke, M ij, boil them in a quart of water, till a third be wasted. Then strain it, and put thereto ℥ ij of wine vinegar, wherewith they gargarised warm oftentimes. Then they used Mel rosarum, which took away the blackness of the tongue. Their diet was moist and cooling as followeth. ℞. French Barley ℥ ss, Figs seven. Raisens' ℥ iiij, boil and strain them, and put thereto oleum vitrioli, q. s. to make it tart, and so drink thereof.   

Pleurisy in a woman cured.  
FIrst she was purged with Arom. Leonardo, then unto her side there was applied this unguent, seven or eight times a day, which took away her pain, ℞. unguenti de Althaea, ℥ ij, oil of sweet Almonds, ℥ ss. mix them together: the next morning she was let blood in the basilike vain, on that side where her pain was. Her diet was the same that was spoken of before. After meat, she used a Lochsanum sit for the purpose, and so in short time she was cured.   

Another woman cured of the same disease, by M.R.  
FIrst there was ministered unto her this potion, ℞. the water of Carduus benedictus, lb ss, Oleum vitrioli, q. s. to make it tart like a Pomegranate. The next day she was let blood in manner aforesaid, about ℥ x. After she had bled, she took this potion following, five days together, morning and evening: which caused her to sweat well, and thereupon she was quickly cured.   

The diaphoretical decoction.  
REcipe, Cardui Benedicti, M ij, liquorice scraped, ℥ iij, figs v. Raisens' ℥ ij, sugar candy, ℥ i ss, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, and strain them to drink.   

A pleurisy broken with a potion.  
FOr the breaking of his Aposteme, there was ministered unto him Aromatico Leonardo, with honeyed water. The next day, the basilicke vain, 〈◊〉 the pleuritical side was opened. His drink at dinner and supper was this decoction. Take Isope dried, M j, Violets, P ij, six Figs, liquerice scraped, ℥ ss, Raisens' ℥ iiij, boil them in ix. pound of water till one pound be wasted, then strain this pectoral decoction, and use it.   

Another cured in this manner.  
FIrst he took Aromatico Leon. and thereupon drank the water of Carduus Benedictus. The next day, they let him blood on the same side where the pain was. His diet was moist and cooling, and he drank Barley water, mixed with syrup of Roses, and oleum vitrioli, and shortly after was cured.    

CHAP. XXIX. An inward impostume, or bastard pleurisy, cured by W. M.  
A Man having an impostume in his side, which would have turned to the pleurisy, was thus cured. Take a good sweet Apple, and cut off the crown, take out the core, and fill it with powder ' of Olibanum, bind on the crown again, and roast it under the embers, till it be soft. Then mix with it three or four drops of Oleum vitrioli, and let the patiented eat it, and sweat thereon.  
Also with the same medicine, at the same time, there was a boy helped, that had a plague sore on his neck.  

Pain in the side with a cough, cured by W.T. after this manner.  
REcipe, Floris Sulphuris, ʒ ij. the extract of Enula Campana, ʒ j, Ireos and Liquorice, ana ℥ j honey, q. s. to make it in form of an electuary. Before it be made up, put thereto, ℈ ss, of Oleum sulfuris, and use it morning and evening.    

CHAP. XXXI. Pain and wind in the body, cured by I. H.  
A Certain woman 28. years of age, being often troubled with a griping pain and wind in her body, was presently eased, by taking four or five grains of Laudanum nostrum in Malmsey, with two or three drops of oil of Aniseeds. After this manner, diverse persons have been cured. Provided always that the body be lose, else must it be moved, either with some gentle clyster or suppository.  

The expelling of wind out of the body, by L. F.  
THis course following, hath been diverse times proved most effectual, against wind in the stomach, and other parts of the body. First let them take a dose of Aromat. Leonardo. Then let them take morning and evening, half a dream of this composition, three or four days togeter, either in potion or pills.  
℞. the essence of Gentian, ʒ ij, the essence of Ginger, oil of Aniseed, Fennel seed, ana ℈ ss, make thereof a mass, and keep it to your use.    

CHAP. XXXII. The cure of the Dropsy, performed by W. T.  
A Man of three and forty years old; troubled with the Dropsy, was in this manner cured. Take the roots of blue Flower de Lilce, sliced, and steeped in vinegar, three or four hours, and then dried, ℥ ss, the bark of Laurel roots, so prepared, as much; the leaves of Sena, in powder, one spoonful, Aniseed, and Ginger, anaʒ i, mix them, and take of that powder every morning, from the weight of four pence, till it give you four stools a day, continue herein so long, as you shall think it good.   

CHAP. XXXIII The kill and expelling of worms in the stomach or elsewhere, by I. H.  
AN infinite number of people, both young and old, have been cured thereof, with this composition following. Take the seed of Carduus sanctus, Wormseed, Dittanie, Semen Caulium, cornucerui usti, coralline, vermium terrestrium, ana ℥ ss, mix them in fine powder, and give thereof ʒ ss, either with honey, or sweet milk, in the morning and evening. Anoint also the stomach, and belly downward, with this unguent following, and apply a little unto the navel, with brown paper, and no doubt of it, within two or three days, the patient shallbe cured. For it doth not only kill the worms, but causeth them to come forth by siege, making the belly soluble, so that they shall have two or three stools in a day. The cataplasm or unguent is this. ℞. Farinae lupinorum, Aloes, centauriae, myrrhae, theriacae optimae, ana ℥ ss, beat them into fine powder, and make thereof an unguent, with the juice of peach leaves, and keep it to your use. Also two or three drops of Oleum vitrioli, being drunk with water of gramen, or such like, for three or four days, killeth worms. Also ʒ ij, of Quintessencia solutivo Phiorau. drunk with ℥ j, of syrup of Roses, killeth the worms, and expelleth them by siege.   

CHAP. XXXIIII. A quartain of long continuance, cured by L. F.  
FIrst the patient was purged, with 12. grains of La petra Philosophale, Leon. Phiorau. mixed with ʒ ss of good Mithridate, the next day he took of this decoction warm, ℥ uj, and so continued 14 days, morning and evening. ℞. Chamepiteos lb j, white wine lb viii. white honey lb j, distill them with a gentle fire, till five pound be come forth. Then let it cool, and filter that which remained in the vessel, & mix it with that which was distilled afore, keep it in a glass, close stopped, and use it. Also the rains of the back, was anointed every night with Balsamum artific. Leon. Phior. and so he was well cured.   

CHAP. XXXV. An approved remedy against the pestilence, pleurisy, and quartain.  
divers people have been cured of these foresaid diseases, by taking a dose of Turpetum Diaphoreticum, Paraceli, either with Amuletum Palmarij, or with some excellent good Mithridate, in the morning fasting, and sweeting thereupon. Sometime it is given with other potions or compositions, according to the disease.   

CHAP. XXXVI. The swelling of the spleen, in a melancholic person, cured by W. T.  
A Certain melancholy man, was much grieved in his milt, heart, and head: but he was thus cured. First he was twice purged, with ℈ j of Panchimagogon, and one ℈ of the extract of Sena, mixed with syrup or Roses, and two or three drops of oil of vitriol. That done, he took a quart of posset Ale, made of white wine and Burnet, and drank thereof, morning, noon, and night, a good draft, with half a spoonful of Aqua Balsami Fioravan. Also now and then, he took morning and evening, a toast of white bread, steeped in Aquam preserved, and within ten days after, he purged again, and so remained in good health.   

CHAP. XXXVII. Frantic fevers, for want of sleep, often cured by I. P.  
MAny that were so grievously vexed, with a burning fever, that they could not sleep, and were in manner frantic, have taken five or six grains of Laudanum, with conserve of succory flowers, and therewith were speedily delivered out of their extremities.  

Pestilent fevers, with great thirst cured, by I. H.  
FIrst they were purged once or twice with Aromatico Leonardo: then was the stomach comforted with some pectoral potion. That being done, there was Barley water made with raisins, liquorice, and cool herbs, if you may have them. Then strain it clean, and put therein as much Oleum vitrioli as will make it tart, like a Pomegranate, Drink thereof when you are dry, for it comforteth nature, suageth heat and thirst wonderfully, openeth all obstructions, and defendeth the body from putrefied fevers. If they be grieved with the headache, you shall cause them to be let blood under the tongue, cutting those veins overthwart, and they shall presently be cured.    

CHAP. XXXVIII. Against poison, or the Pestilence, a diaphoretical potion, by W. T.  
REcipe Mirrhae, croci, ana ℥ ij, Amuleti Palmarij ℥ j, Spiritus vini lb j, Oleum piperis, Oleum gingiberis, anaʒ j, mix them in a glass, and give thereof ℥ ss in old Sack at once, against the pestilence or poison.   

CHAP. XXXIX. Signs of death in the Plague. W. K.  
TAke a quick Frog, and lay it with the belly next the sore: if the party will escape, the Frog will burst, in a quarter of an hour. Then lay on another, and this you shall do, till no more do burst, for they draw forth the venom. I have been told that a dried toad will in better sort do the same. If none of the Frogs do burst, the party will not escape, this hath been often proved.   

CHAP. XL. Counsel, antidotes, and preservatives, against infectious airs, on the water, or land, by W. T.  
YOu shall use to chew, or hold in your mouth, a little of Essentia Angelicae. Also it would be very profitable to drink three or four drops of the same fasting. Also Oleum Camphorae being drunk, effecteth the same. In like manner, aqua balsami Phioravante, if it be drunk in the morning with wine, or Allome, preserveth a man from all poison and pestilent airs: and is a most singular remedy against surfeits, or the pestilence. Also, if you be in any infected ship, or house, it were necessary to wear a bag of Saffron under your arm pits to defend the heart.  
Also it were very necessary, to drink two or three drops, of the essence of saffron, for the same purpose.  
Amuletum Palmarij, is also very excellent, being taken in the morning fasting.  
Dissolved pearl, eaten or drunk, defendeth the heart purifieth the blood, and reviveth the spirits above all other things. You may make it in lozengings, or drink it in any cordial, in what quantity you will.   

CHAP. XLI. An inveterate gonorrhea, either in man or woman, oftentimes cured, by W. T.  
MAny have been cured of this, and such like infirmities, with this composition following. Among the rest, one Gentleman in Buckinghamshire, who was vexed therewith, above seven years continually.  
A Gentlewoman also, was so grievously afflicted with slux. albo, that she waxed lame, and went with a staff: these were both cured in 12. days. But one thing must be remembered that if it come ex lue venerea, it were necessary, first to be purged, and then to use these pills.  
℞. magisterij perlarum, ʒ j, Gum Tragacanth, ʒ ss, fine bowl Armeniack, terra sigillata vera, ana. ʒ j Laudanum nostrum, ℈ j, make an hard mass, with Turpentine, and take thereof, ʒ ss, when you go to bed, until this quantity be spent. In the mean time also, you shall anoint the reins of the back, with this unguent.  
℞. unguentum album camphoratum, ℥ ij, saccarum Saturni, ʒ ij, misce, fiat unguentum.  

An other for the same. W. T.  
First purge them with Aromatico Leonardo, once or twice, then let them take, morning and evening, half a dram of the pills following: and anoint the reins of the back, with the foresaid unguent.  
℞. Symphyti, crassulae, ana ʒ ij. Magisterij perlarum, dissolved coral, anaʒ j, Laudani nostri, ℈ j, nucis moschatae, numero ij, boli Armen. terrae sigillatae verae sem. papau, albi, Tragacanth. ana ʒ ij, make them up in a mass, with Turpentine and use them in manner aforesaid.   

An electuary against gonorrhea, by W. T.  
A Certain man, being troubled with a stinking gonorrhea, was in this order cured. First he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo: the next day, he took a pill or two, of Venice Turpentine, washed in plantain water, That done, he used to eat morning and evening, the quantity of an hazel nut, of this electuary, until he was helped which was not long after.  
Take the kernels of hazel nuts, blanched, ℥ iiij, magisterij perlarum, laudani nostri, ana ℈ j, terrae sigillatae, boli, veri, sanginnis draconis in grain, ana ℈ ij, Seminis Plautaginis, rasurae Eboris, ana ℈ j, nucis moschatae. 3. or 4. Cinamomis, ʒ j, Saccari, ℥ iij. mix them well together, and use it. Also in the mean time, he anointed the rains with the foresaid unguent.    

CHAP. XLII. The immoderate sluxe menstrual, suppressed or stared, by W. T.  
A Certain woman, being grievously weakened with that disease, and having great heat and pain in her body, was thus cured. Take the roots of Orpine, and comfery, thin sliced, Clarey q. v. boil them with a chicken, and with that broth make Almond milk, and to every handful of Almonds, add one ℈ of Laudanum nostrum, Grind them well together, and drink thereof morning and evening. Also you shall anoint the rains and grieved parts, with the unguent mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing.  

Another against the same.  
I Was informed, that the powder of a land Frog, bound about the woman's neck, doth stay the foresaid flux.    

CHAP. XLIII. A Flux stopped by G. F.  
Dissolve Bay salt in Malmsey, and therewith wash the soles of your feet, and in three or four days it will stay the Flux. diverse Soldiers in the wars have been cured thereof, by setting their fundament in warm Horse dung. Also the powder of red Roses, drunk in Red wine, is very profitable for the stopping of the Flux.  

Bloody Flux of long continuance, cured by W. T.  
REcipe, conserve of red Roses, Marmilade of quinces, electuary of Sulphur, of Leon. Fiorau. his description, ana ℥ ij, Amuletum Palmarij, ℥ ss, essentiae croci, Laudanum nostrum, ana ℈ ss, aquae preseruantis, ℥ ss, oleum vitrioli, & sulfuris, ana ℈ ss, mix them, and take thereof, ʒ j, morning and evening.    

CHAP. XLIIII. The cure of the Hemerrhoides or Piles, performed by I. H. And many other.  
TAke Mullen, and fry it with Butter, and therewith anoint the part divers times.  
The oil of Eggs is a notable remedy, to withdraw the said infirmity.  
Balsamum sulfuris, anointed upon them, doth with great speed and good success, cure them: this also hath been oftentimes proved very excellent.  
If they be anointed with Oleum Tartari faetens, it drieth them up in short time. But first it were necessary, to purge the body of the melancholic original of that disease, both by vomit and siege.  
Some use to take them away, by applying a caustic unto them.  

The cure of Ficus in ano, ex lue venerea, performed by I. P.  
MAny have been sore troubled with warts or blathers in the fundament, which have in very short time been cured, by anointing them with Balsamum Tartari faetens. Among other men, there was a strong lusty fellow fifty years old, of complexion melancholic, which was beastly beraied with the Pocks, about whose fundament, or Longanon, there remained 14 or 12 growing, whereof some were so big as a little sigge, all of them did run or yield, a loathsome yellow sanies or matter. This man was cured, with Balsamum Tartari foetens: without any pain to him and the warts were so dried, that they were pulled of, with a pair of mullets: after which he remained whole. This man was healed in Bedfordshire.    

CHAP. XLV. The provoking of menstrues, by I. H.  
BY this composition following, many more than it is here requisite to speak of, have had their menstrues provoked, and many other obstructions opened: especially if it be given with broths, liquors, or medicaments, appropriate thereunto.  
℞ extractionem Chamomillae, Calendulae, Gentianae, Briomae, Chamepitcos, Paeoniae, Centaurij, juniperi, Genistae, Sabinae, Spicaenardi, Rutae, Melissa, Chelidoniae, Philipendulae, Matricariae, anaʒ j Essentiae Zedoariae, Croci, anaʒ ss, Mirabolanorum, Castorei, ana ℥ ss, mix them, and keep it close. The dose is from ℈ j, to ʒ j, upon extremity, either in pills or convenient electuaries. It must be ministered four or five days before the new Moon, and as many after, with the infusion of Sena, or in syrup of roses, for the intent above named.  

To provoke menstrues, in melancholic people. W. H.  
TAke of the extract of Helleborus niger, five grains, Panchimagogon 15. grains, make it into three small pills, and anoint the pills, with Oleum anisi, and thereof take once or twice. After that take this composition following.  
Take of the Essence of Gentian, Sabinae, Angelica, ana ʒ j, Essencia Croci, ℈ j, Castorei ℈ ss, mix them, and make them up in form of pills, and take thereof each night, when you go to bed, ℈ j, either in pills, or dissolved in some convenient liquor, about the foresaid time of the Moon. A very melancholic maiden, was cured in this manner.    

CHAP. XLVI. Suffocation and pains of the Matrix, with retention of menstrues, cured, by I. P.  
REcipe extract. Brioniae, ʒ j ss, the leaves of Sena, ℥ ss, ginger, ℈ j, Cinnamon, ʒ j, sugar, ℥ j, lay them to infuse one night, in a pint of warm whey, made of goat's milk. Then strain it, and drink thereof three mornings warm, about the new Moon; keeping a warm and drying diet, your wine must be infused with rosemary flowers.  

Another that hath cured, the rising of the mother, by R. C.  
REcipe the flowers or buds of a walnut tree, in May, give the patients as much thereof to drink, as will lie on a groat, and with two or three doses they shall be cured.  
Also if you give. ℈ j, of oleum succinum album, in wine, it will presently cure the same disease, a thing oftentimes proved with good success.    

CHAP. XLVII. To provoke urine, and to cause the jaundice to flow. W. K.  
THe powder of earth worms, drunk with white wine, povoketh urine and cureth the jaundice and Tertians.  
Also grey soap, ℥ ij. bay salt, finely beaten, ℥ j, mix them, and therewith anoint the navel, and belly.  
Also Castille Soap being drunk, with warm wine, provoketh Urine.  
Also, if you shall apply quick earth-worms, upon a whit blow, called Panaricium (of some Panaricies) they will cure the same.   

CHAP. XLVII. To provoke Urine, and to heal other obstructions, a most excellent, and procued receipt, by I. H. and many other.  
THis composition of artificial salts, breaketh, and (after a sort) consumeth all tartarous diseases, as hath been very often and truly experimented by diverse and sundry persons: yea it prevaileth much against the Gout, being taken with potions, electuaries, and syrups, appropriate unto the particular ministrations.  
℞ the salt of Radish, of Eringus, bean stalks, Broome, Alizanders, juniper, ash, Aniseed, Fennell, Camomile, Wormwood, Urine, Tartar Crystalline, ana, mix them in a warm mortar, and keep it close, and in a dry place, for in the air and moisture it will quickly resolve. The dose hereof, is from half a scruple, to an whole scruple, and may be very safely administered, without peril, to any age or sex: upon good occasions, and at times convenient, after that the body it prepared for the same purpose.   
The end of the second part of this Collection.   

A SUPPLEMENT, OR ADDITION, UNTO THE FORMER COLLECTION.  
This Appendix or Addition, containeth both Philosophical discourses, of the causes and cures, of divers and sundry diseases: as also many pithy discourses, of the virtues and use, of many vegetables, animals, etc. culled and translated, out of the Physics and chirurgery, of Sr. Leonardo Fioravante, and left to pass forth in Print, with this Collection.  


CHAP. I. Of pain in the head.  
THe pain in the head, is an infirmity, whose cause until this time hath not been sufficiently known: as by mine own experience I shall prove unto you.  
All or the most part of Physicians, in the world, do hold this position, that pain in the head, is no other thing, than vapours arising from the stomach: and ascend unto the head, which do offend membrana, whereupon ensueth pain. Herein they speak some part of the truth. But (in my judgement) they are not yet come perfectly, to know all the cause of this infirmity. For I see that in the cures, which these Theorickes would perform, it falleth not out, according to their expectation and desire, for that they know not the whole or the principal cause of the malady, therefore what certain medicine can they find out to cure the infirmity? They may perchance (as the blind man hits the crow) help, they know not what, which thing I speak not, to backbite or injury any of them: but to tell them of love that I bear to them and others, the whole and true cause of that, whereof heretofore they have been ignorant. The first cause is putrefied blood, in Leonichie, the second is, the vapours that ascend from the stomach and offend the head: the third is, the humidity or moisture, between the skin and the flesh. So that the causes are three, and the remedies as many, to dissolve the antecedent causes. I have now showed thee, the original and root of the pain in the head; about which thou shalt never more need to beat thy head, or break thy brains, either in seeking the Aphorisms of Hypocrates, the Commentary of Galene, or the authority of Auicene: for in these four or few words I have said all. Now of the cure of this disease, as I have experimented the same an infinite sort of times in my life: which way soever the cause cometh, work thou after this manner, and thou shalt never sustain blame, or discredit.  
When the pain in the head is confirmed, and that thou canst find no help, by common Theoric or Practic, do these things following. First let them blood on Leonichie, cutting it overthwart, and let the patiented spat as much as he can. Then the next morning, let them take our Aromatico fasting. The next day let the head be shaven, and lay thereon an attractive plaster, drawing out the humidity: whereof I have made mention in my Caprici medicinale. In the end, cause them to neese, and hereby all the pain in the head will cease.   

CHAP. II. Of the Catarrh, and rheum in the head.  
THe Catarrh, is a moist vapour, which assaulteth the head, and afterward falleth down again, into the stomach: where it engrosseth and corrupteth. This moisture, hath his beginning of the moisture of the lungs, and until such time, as the lungs be discharged thereof, the Catarrh will continue in his force. This infirmity reigneth more in phlegmatic, and melancholic bodies, then in any of other constitutions. Such as are troubled with it, are not long lived, because their lungs consume, by little and little, and thereupon they are troubled with the Phthisic: and consequently they perish, if they be not quickly relieved. I will now show thee a rare secret to cure the same.  
Take Pulmonaria and Sena, that is fresh, and new; infuse them in wine and water, over a small or gentle fire, till the wine have drawn out the virtue. Then strain it, and put thereunto our Quintaessence, & keep it close in a glass, let the patiented drink thereof every morning ℥ iij, lukewarm, for twenty days together: let him eat good nourishing meats, for they agree well with this disease. If the patiented be not too far spent, you shall see your cure performed in short time. In the mean while, if the patiented be weak, you shall give him new laid eggs, and good white wine. If the humidity be perceived, not to be quite expelled and evacuated, then give him our Aromatico: afterward comfort him again, with restoratives and cordials, to make him strong, and no doubt by the help of God he shall be cured. This method, of curing this infirmity, differeth from the common course that Physicians take, which would cure it, with diet, bleeding, and mollifying lineaments, and causing them to spat, and such like, which are means rather to augment the Catarrh, then to diminish the same.  

The second course, to cure the descension: that cometh from the head to the stomach.  
Use these five things if you will cure this disease: first our Electuario Angelica, 2 Quintaessence solutive, 3 our pillulae pro descenso, 4 Unguents for the stomach and head, 5 our Quintaessence vegetable. The electuary cleanseth the head and stomach, the Quintaessence solutive evacuateth the body, the pills take away the cause of the descension: the unguents dry, and the vegetable Quintaessence preserveth the body from all ill and noisome infirmities. The Electuary must be taken first in the morning: of the Quintaessence solutive, you must take a spoonful, in the morning, in a little broth and sugar keeping a reasonable good diet: and do this four or six days. Then take the pills in the evening, and in the mean time, anoint the head and stomach, with Oleum cerae, and drink every morning, a little of our Quintaessence, which if you do use continually (by the blessing of God upon it) there is no doubt, but the body shall be free from many troublesome maladies.  
There was a certain woman, of the age of 58. years, who being greatly troubled, with a Catarrh: was cured by the use of our Aqua preseruans, morning and evening, and by anointing the stomach with balsamo.  
One that was affected with a Catarrh, and a stitch in the side, was thus cured. He took our Aromatico twice. Then he took every morning a spoonful of our Quintaessence solutive, with the broth of a capon for seven or eight days together: and every night when he went to bed, he anointed his stomach, with oleum incompostibile, and thereby was soon after cured.  
A woman that had great pain in her head and stomach, and had her menstrues stopped; with loss of her appetite, was thus helped.  
First she took two doses of our Pillulae Angelica, that done she took every morning, a spoonful of Quintaessentia solurtuo, with broth and sugar, for five or six mornings together. After that, she took every morning, one spoonful of our Aqua preseruans: whereupon in short time after she was cured.   

A contusion in the head.  
A Certain man, had a great fall from an horse, wherewith he bruised his head most grievously, who was cured in four days; by anointing the place, with Oleum benedictum nostrum.   

The taking away, or healing of the white scall.  
THis noisome malady, is perfectly cured, by purging the patients with our Aromatico, and anointing the head with our Oleum Philosophorum.  
Also the Artificial balsam of our description: doth the like, and Oleum benedictum nostrum effecteth the same.   

pain in the eyes with great dimness of sight.  
A Certain man that had great pain in his eyes, and was almost blind, recovered his sight; by letting blood, under the tongue. The next day he took Aromatico once: after that he used our Quintaessence solutive, seven or eight days together, and every night he anointed his stomach, with Oleum cerae rectified: then was dropped into his eyes, our Quintaessence for the eyes, and thereof was he well cured.   

An unguent for sore eyes.  
TAke rose water, fennel, and cufrage water, ana, put therein a small quantity of Verdi grece: & boil it a little on the fire. Then let it settle, till it be clear, and power it of. With this water, see that you wash Anxungia porcinae seven or eight times: and of that, put a little into the eye, when ye go to bed.   

To cure or stay the spatting of blood.  
ONe that spat blood, was cured in ten days, by drinking the liquor of honey, morning and evening. An other was healed by drinking the decoction of mint in vinegar, another by drinking of Crocus martis.   

The description and cure of the Squinancy.  
THis disease, is a windy moisture, and a suffocation of blood, as you may see by experience, that such as are possessed therewith, have a great alteration, or many changes of fevers; with a swelling in the throat: and many times if it be not quickly helped, it will choke them, and this is the cure thereof. You shall give them ʒ j, of the powder of a wild Boar's tooth, with ℥ iij, of oil of linseed, and forthwith by the help of God they shallbe greatly eased.   

The description and manifold cures, of the disease called Scrophulae, or for unculi, which some do call waxing kernels, but rather the kings evil.  
THe Scrophulae or waxing kernels (so called of some) which use to come in the throat, or other parts of the bodies, of young children, do arise and are caused, of great quantity of melancholic humours, because that doth for the most part reign in persons, that are weak of complexion. For you may easily see that such as are vexed with that infirmity: are not very quick spirited. These Scrophulae, are a long time ere they will come to suppuration: and before they break, and when they are broken, they cause excessive pain, and are hard to be cured. For all infirmities that come of melancholy, are troublesome to cure or resolve, as you may see in the quartain and such like. But here I will show thee a secret, to cure these Scrophulae. First you must remove the cause, and then cure the effects: for otherwise it were impossible to cure them with outward medicines. This melancholy is purged, with our syrup against melancholy, which you must use eight or ten days. The dose is about ℥ 4 cold. That done give them our Aromatico, which cleanseth the head, and stomach, and purifieth the blood. As touching local medicines, to break it, you shall lay thereon our caus● 〈◊〉 24. hours: which mortifieth and drieth, for it will dra●… a great deal of moisture. After this, anoint it with ●… agno licore, until the escare be fallen out: and when it is mundified, apply thereon the cerote of Gualtifredo di Medi, & use no other medicine, for it will incarnate, and cicatrise, without scare.   

Another cure for Scrophulae.  
A Certain young boy of 14. years, of complexion choleric, and melancholic, who had Scrophulae in his throat, on both the sides, was cured thus. The first medicine that he took, was the infusion of rhubarb, with the trochiskes of Agarick, and acetum squilliticum, and water of maiden hair, mixed together, which he used by the space of ten days. Then was laid upon the Scrophulae, a plaster of cerote magistral with Cantarides: which drew forth the malignity of the ulcer, and great store of Sames, being applied for 15. days together. This done, I gave him the decoction of Salsa parilla, with a good diet, for twenty days together. Then I applied unto the sore a cerote of Gualtifredo di Medi, which in a short time cured him, that had been vexed with them four years before.   

Another for the same.  
ANother which was a maid of 13. years of age, was vexed with Scrophulae in her throat, which was also in this manner cured. First I gave her the extract of Elleborus niger, with mel rosarum; which doth very effectually purge the melancholic humour. That done, I gave her our syrup against the melancholic humour, for eight or ten days together: and applied unto the sores an unguent of Lytarge, boiled with the powder of Scrophularia: thus was she in short time cured.   

Another against Scrophulae.  
REcipe Verdigreee, pelitory of Spain, dock root, the juice of leeks, of the herb Scrophularia, ana, mix them, and lay on lint, and apply it unto the Scrophulae, but take some care thereof.    

CHAP. FOUR Of Panaricium, or Panaricies, called the whit blow.  
THis grievous and intolerable malady, (as those know well that have felt them) cometh on the end of the finger; and is an infirmity, bred in the liver, whereof nature being willing to discharge herself, sendeth it to the extreme parts of the fingers: and most commonly it cometh to the finger next the thumb, but seldom in the other. The reason or cause whereof is hidden, save that we may conjecture (as we have said before) an accident in the liver, which nature sendeth forth unto those parts to ease herself. When it cometh to the end of the singer, that it can go no further; it causeth a sharp and excessive pain: and the accident coming unto that place, not having passage, is so hot, that in short time it putrefieth the sinews, muscles, and cartilages, and in the end rotteth both flesh and bone. The secret of this grief, is not commonly known, of the most Surgeons: who with all their learning, cannot devise to cure it, as it ought to be cured. The most part of such, as have that infirmity, lose their finger: but if thou wilt quickly help them, follow this method.  
First let them bleed on the liver vain: then let them be well purged. Afterward dress the finger, with oleum sulfuris: which will cause some pain, nevertheless (to have some ease) you must abide it. The next day dress it with Magno licore, until it be whole, which will be in short time, as I have often proved.   

CHAP. V Of greevotu ulcers, in women's breasts.  
FIrst they must be touched with oleum sulfuris: then make this unguent. Take of the yolks of eggs, ℥ ij, turpentine, butter, barley flower, honey of roses, ana ℥ ss: incorporate them all in a mortar, and therewith dress them, until they be whole. But if they come of any kind, or spice of the pocks, this unguent will be to very small purpose. But then shall you dress them, with our Vnguento magno: which is appropriate unto the disease, and look that you purge them with our Aromatico.   

CHAP. VI Of the disease called Asthma, and the cure thereof.  
THis disease, which is called the Phthisic, is a certain infirmity, contained in the lungs, which doth harden and dry them in such manner, that such as are troubled therewith, cannot fetch their breath. It proceedeth of adustion of the blood, that cannot run in the veins: and so the lungs lacking sustenance, worketh that effect. This disease is cured four manner of ways. First you shall let them blood under the tongue cutting, those veins overthwart, and suck them as much as they can: for it evacuateth and openeth the oppilation of the blood, and easeth the lungs of all that evil matter which offendeth. Secondly you shall give them a dose of Aromatico, which evacuateth the stomach, of all evil qualities, that offend the lungs. The third is, to let them eat for a month together, every morning ℥ j, of our Electuario de Althaea. The fourth, to anoint the stomach, every night with Magno licore. But every ten days, you must take a dose of our Electuario Angelica, whereby thou shalt help them quickly. You must also keep a sober diet: refraining fish, pork, slimy things, spice, baked meats, cheese and such like, which nourish grossly, and do infect the blood.   

CHAP. VII. To know the Dropsy confirmed in a man the cure whereof, is showed in the xxxij. Chapter of the second part of the Collection.  
THere are three signs or tokens, of a confirmed Dropsy. First look whether the tongue be white and cold: then, whether the yard be shrunk into the belly, and lastly if there do any veins appear, on the belly. If you perceive these, they are infallible declarations of a confirmed Dropsy.   

CHAP. VIII. An excellent remedy, against the Worms.  
YOu shall give the patiented ʒ ij, of our Vnguento magno, to drink with Mel rosarum, three mornings together; anoint the nostrils therewith, and in three days, they will be expelled were they never so many.   

CHAP. IX. Of the hardness of the milt, and the cure thereof.  
THe spleen or milt is hardened, by reason of superfluous humidity, that it taketh from the liver, and lungs. Therefore if you will help this infirmity, it were necessary, to use medicines abstersive, and drying, which thou shalt do thus. First give them our Aromatico, then let them use this Electuary, which is of marvelous virtue in that operation. Take Crocus Martis, Scolopendria, ana ℥ j, spikenard, lapis lazuli, ana ℈ ij, Cinnamon, ℥ ss, mix them, and make an Electuary thereof with purified honey, and take thereof every morning one spoonful, and every night, (two hours before supper) an other spoonful, and anoint the outward part part, where the grief is, with our Balsomo artific. and in short time, the disease shall be cured.  

Another remedy, very effectual, for the former disease.  
LEt them blood on the two veins, under the tongue. That done, mix mustard seed with the urine of a boy, and lay it between two clothes: and apply it to the part affected, one night, and then (if thou feel not good ease) use it again till the disease be gone. Also the decoction of oak, helpeth the swelling of the milt.    

CHAP. X. Of the gonorrhea, or running of the reins, and the cure.  
THis disease, is a corruption, caused of the superfluous use of women, that are infected therewith: for such men as have knowledge of them, they receive the said corruption which afterward cometh forth of the yard, with great pain and difficulty in making water; and moreover in the night, when that part is erected, it causeth great torment: which for fifteen or twenty days, causeth extreme pain. This is the beginning of the French pocks, a fit sauce for that sweet sin of Lechery. It bringeth most commonly pain in the interior parts, or pain in the reins, arms, and legs: in so much that in fine, it cometh to that fowl disease. For such as have this gonorrhea, never suspecting or fearing the afterclaps, suffer their disease, to grow on further and further till their cure will very hardly or never be accomplished. Therefore I wish every man, to seek help in time, lest by letting it pass; in the end, it turn to his destruction. The cure is as followeth.  
First you shall give them our Aromatico, once in white wine. Then morning and evening, for seven or eight days, use this potion following: anointing also the reins, and those parts, with our Aqua saetida, being cold, and in short time they shallbe healed.  
℞. the whites of sour or five new laid eggs, ℥ ij of fine sugar, ℥ iij of rose water mix them well, and drink it morning and evening. This is a rare secret, and often proved, the drink must be drunk cold.   

CHAP. XI. Of the Hemerhoides, and their cure.  
THe Hemerhoides, are an alteration in the Hemerhoidall veins, caused of a corrupt and putrefied humour, whereof nature being willing to discharge herself, sendeth forth by those veins unto the extreme or outward parts, where it cannot pass through, and causeth the alteration and inflation that is called the Hemerhoides. This corruption and putrefaction, is caused of the evil quality of the liver, which corrupteth the blood, and is the cause of all this inconvenience. Commonly the original and beginning thereof, is caused of the pocks, a thing that must be considered of in the cure. Now for the cure, it were necessary to help the liver, to purify the blood, to alter the Hemerhoides, and to discharge nature of that impediment. First therefore, give them our Electuario Angelica, the next day, they shall take our Sirupo solutino, whereof they shall take five or six doses. Then let them anoint the Hemerhoides, with our Caustike, once or twice, and they shall soon after be cured.  

Of the divers sorts, and divers effects of the Hemerhoides, and their cure.  
BY reason of this disease, that cometh always at the end of Intestino, or Longanon, some have marvelous pain about the fundament, some burn wonderfully, and others do scald: which cometh, because of the good or bad qualities in some, more than in other some, as experience showeth. For (as I said) some have such a burning, that they can take no rest, some have such pain, as they cannot sit, some have it so scalding hot, that it is intolerable. Though this infirmity is more hurtful in one complexion, then in an other, and the cure hard: yet you shall cure them in this manner. First give them Aromatico, then purge the body five or six times, with our Sirupo solutivo. Then give him our fume at the lower parts, three or four times, and then anoint the parts with our Balsamo artisic. of that will dry, and take away the pain altogether, and the patient shall be surely healed.  
There are divers kinds of Hemerhoides, but two in principal. The one sort is in the fundament, and causeth great pain when they go to the stool. The other sort cometh forth of the fundament, and are not so painful as the first. To cure those within the fundament, you shall give the patiented eight or ten days together, our Sirupo magistral warm, then let them take our Aromatico, once, and use clysters, wherein is put half an ounce of Aqua real Phioravante at a time, and so thou shalt help them. The best way for those that are come forth, is to make incision, or to make a little hole in them, that the blood (which is putrefied) may come forth, and so by evacuation thou shalt help them. Also you shall understand, that vomiting is very necessary in the cure of both sorts, because it openeth the veins. Also Oleum ovorum, doth ease the pain of the Hemerhoides very greatly: so doth the oil of figs, if you anoint them therewith. ¶ The tooth of an horsefish bein gworne in a ring on the finger after the body is purged taketh them away by a secret and hidden quality, a thing proved more than an hundred times.    

CHAP. XII. Of the cure of such, as were troubled with suffocation of the Matrix.  
A Certain woman, affected therewith having much pain & grief, in her stomach, was cured, by taking a dose of our Electuario Angelica. Then she used our syrup against pains of the mother, eight or ten days, and anointed her stomach, with Magno licore every night.  
A certain young woman, afflicted in manner aforesaid, wanted also her natural sickness, and began to lose her natural heat: so that nature could not digest, the superfluous matter in her body, was thus helped. First she took our Electuario Angelica, and every night, anointed her stomach, nostrils, and pulses, with Magno licore, and every morning drunk of our Quintaessence, and so was cured.   

CHAP. XIII. To cure a rapture in the beginning.  
IN every ten days once, give them our Aromatico, and every morning fasting give them ℥ j, of white Tartar, in water or wine; and two hours before supper, you shall take the like: Let your bread be rye, also you must wear a truss fit for that purpose, and use this remedy following. Take of the spirit of wine ℥ xii, frankincense Olibanum, mastiche sarcocolla, ana ℥ ss, infuse them in the said Aqua vitae, and therewith wash the rapture twice a day, then presently cast thereon, the powder of Bislingua, and the herb Balsamina, and lay thereon a cloth, wet in the said water, and bind on the truss so hard, as he may possibly abide it; and hereby shalt thou heal any great rapture in an hundred days, but see that you keep a diet accordingly.  

Another for the same.  
TAke very stiff and thick paper well gummed, chew it in thy mouth till it be soft: then lay it upon the rapture, and wear thereon a truss fit for the purpose.  
Some use to steep the paper in lie, and wring the same out till it be dry, and apply it to the rapture, changing it once in 24. hours.    

CHAP. XIIII. Of retention of Urine, and the cure thereof.  
THe retention of urine, ariseth of many causes, one is gravel, that stoppeth the conduits, where it should pass, an other is the want or weakness of the virtue expulsive; so that nature cannot expel; an other is a carnosity, which is an alteration caused of corrupt and putrefied humours, which do so restrain the powers, and urine, that it cannot pass. There is another, and that is viscosity of the reins, so gross, that it hindereth the urine from passing. Another cause, which is too too common, is the gonorrhea, when it changeth into Stranguria, that it is a stopping or choking of the conduits, that carry the vain to the bladder. All these foresaid causes, proceed of one original, even of the distemperature of nature, whereof if you ask the reason, you shall understand, that it ariseth of that filthy beginning, the French pocks. That which moveth me to believe it, is the observation thereof divers and sundry times, for I have cured many that were infected with the pocks, which were troubled, some with Carnosity (before spoken of) some with gravel, some with debility of the virtue expulsive, some with gonorrhea; all which when I had cured of the pocks: the other distemperatures were therewith also cured. For that disease, is the cause of twenty mischiefs, and the reason, why many Physicians, make a long cure of the former distemperatures, is for that they know not the main and principal cause of them. But now I will show thee a true and excellent manner of curing the retention of urine, which way soever it cometh.  
First give them a dose of Aromatico, then give unto them our Syrupo solutivo, eight or ten days, but in any wise keep no strait diet, but a good government as you do most commonly use: and eat such meat as pleaseth thy stomach best: cause them also to sweat, and in short time, thou shalt thoroughly cure them.   

CHAP. XV. A most excellent remedy to cure the difficulty of urine.  
THe difficulty or retention of urine, caused divers ways, as of gravel, viscosity, exulceration, etc. is in this sort very well and safely cured. When the cause of this difficulty of urine, is in the reins or kidneys; so that it be not a stone in the kidneys: or some great store of gravel, see that thou work thus.  
℞. Rognoni of a male hare, boil it in good wine, when it is well boiled, stamp it small, and pass it through a strainer with the said liquor wherein it was boiled. Remember that when you boil it, there must not remain much liquor in the vessel. Then take the said matter, that you strained, and put thereto as much purified honey, and boil it on a soft fire, until it come to the form of an Electuary. When it is boiled, put thereunto, for every pound of that Electuary, these things following, made into fine powder, of Lignum aloes, of Cinnamon, ana ℈ j, cloves, saffron, ana ℈ j, musk, grains four, Aquae rosarum ℥ j, our Quintaessence ℥ i ss. Incorporate these well together, while it is warm, and keep it in a glass, close stopped. And when you will use it, you must first take a dose of our Electuario Angelica, and while you use the Electuary, remember to anoint the reins, with our Aqua faetida, when you go to bed. Of the Electuary you must take ℥ j, in the morning, and fast thereon four hours, and use some exercise, and in short time, thou shalt see a marvelous good work performed. For the reins will be strengthened, the viscosity will be resolved, the powers will be opened, and the urine will be expelled, and cleansed, all which are effects, necessary for him to regard, that will with honesty and credit, help the former malady.  

Another often proved.  
If thou wilt presently help one, that cannot make water, by reason of wind, viscosity, or other grievous cause, vexing the party: anoint their reins, and all the privy parts, with our Balsamo Artificiato, and keep them very warm, and forthwith they shall make water, to their great satisfaction.   

Retention of the Urine, with stitch in the side.  
ONe was in very short time cured of these infirmities, after he had taken our Aromatico: and anointed him, in manner above specified, with our Balsamo Artificiato.    

CHAP. XVI. The swelling of the leg, and foot, cured in manner following.  
FIrst the patient took one dose of Aromatico, than he used our Quintaessence solutive, three or four mornings together, in a little broth. That done, he drunk every morning, a little of our Quintaessence vegetabile, fasting, and every night, he anointed his leg, with Oleum Philosophorum nostrum. Also now and then he took a dose of Pillulae Angelica, to keep the body soluble, he kept a reasonable good diet, he used not much walking, so that very shortly after he was well cured.   

CHAP. XVII. Of Chilblains and their cures.  
YOu shall understand, that Chilblains (as we term them) are caused of no other thing, then of humours dried, and restrained in our bodies. For in the winter, when it is cold, the pores do shut so close together, that the humour cannot pass, or come forth, neither by sweat, nor other exhalation or expiration. For that cause, the humours in a young man (who is hot of complexion) may not be kept in; for then nature (which would ease herself) sendeth that exhalation, unto the extreme parts of the body, that is unto the hands and feet; where remaining there is caused that alteration: and in process of time, the skin doth open, and the humour goeth forth; but cannot heal, till the spring, when warm weather cometh in. Howbeit I have found out a secret to cure them quickly, and with great ease. First let them blood, then give them a dose of our Electuario Angelica: after that let them take our Syrupo solutivo, six or seven days together not keeping any strait diet or rule. After this anoint them with Oleum philosophorum de cera & terebinthina, at night when they go to bed: and do thus one week at the least, and then no doubt thou shalt cure them as I have often proved. Also the oil and water of franckinsence, will do the like.   

CHAP. XVIII. Of Corns on the feet, and the manner to take them away.  
THe corns that come on the feet, are a kind of hard tumour, or thick excrescence, caused of corrupt and putrefied humours, whereof nature being willing to discharge herself, sendeth them to the lower part of the feet, whereout because they cannot pass, there do they make residence: engendering that kind of tough excrescence, which is grievous and painful. Many times, the cause hereof, ariseth of that noisome disease, Morbus Gallicus, as some writ, and then must it be remedied with medicamentes appropriate thereunto. But if they come otherwise, then to take them away follow this order. When they are in their, greatest state, and cause most pain, cut them until they bleed, then anoint them with our Balsamo Artificiato applying it so hot, as you may suffer it; thereupon go to bed. Then touch them once or twice with Oleum sulfuris, and anoint them with Oleum Philosophorum de terebinthina & cera, until they be whole.  
Some take the juice of Semperuiwm, and anoint the corns therewith. Then they take wormwood, and lay it upon an hot tile stone, and sprinkle it with strong vinegar, and being hot, bind it upon the Corns, and in three or four times so doing (as I have been credibly certified) the Corns will be taken away.   

CHAP. XIX. Of an infirmity that cometh on the finger's ends, and in the feet, under the nails, and the cure of it.  
MAny men are greatly troubled herewith, and in such manner, as thereby they are made altogether unfit to go. It cometh on the great toe, under the nail, or the side of the nail: for the most part, and a man would think, that the nail grew in the flesh, but it is not so, for the flesh groweth upon the nail, though this infirmity appear not, to be a thing of great importance (whereof the ancient writers have made little mention) yet is it a thing greatly to be regarded. For many great personages, that live easily, and are tormented with the gout, have also this grief in those parts: but the order to cure them is this. First you shall cut the nail, on that part where it most grieveth them; then take it away which you may do easily, without any great pain to the patiented: for the nail is already separated from the grieved place. Thus when the nail is taken away, touch it with our caustic, whereof mention is made in our treatise of the plague. Let it so remain three days together: them dress it every day, with Magno licore, until it be whole, which will be in a very short time.   

CHAP. XX. Of Erisipela, and the cure thereof.  
THis disease (as experience showeth) is caused of an hot and fiery moisture, arising in the face, arms and legs; for where it is, the powers and pores are stopped, that the said moisture, cannot have expiration, whereupon cometh tumour: as also a shutting & closing up of those pores, by means of the ordinary anointing them, with fats, oils, etc. or other cold things: a common course used of common Surgeons. Against this there cannot be found a more present remedy, than the spirit of wine, or Aqua arden's, or bathing it with hot water: and if you wash the parts affected with our Quintaessence, the powers will be opened, and it penetrateth and assubtilateth that humidity, causing it to come forth.  

Note.  Also you shall find, that by drinking our Quintaessence, and anointing the stomach with Oleumcerae, divers are cured of a certain heat, retained in the stomach.   

CHAP. XXI. The cure of Warts.  
THere is an herb, called in the Italian tongue Herba di vento: in the juice whereof, if you wet a cloth, and bind it upon the warts, they will wear away in short tune after.  
The end of the first part of the Appendix.    

THE SECOND PART OF THE APPENDIX OR ADDITION, UNTO THIS COLLECTION, containing the use and virtues, of sundry vegetables, animals, etc. gathered out of the Physics, of St Leonardo Phioravante.  

CHAP. I. Of the use and virtues, of Ebulus or Danewort.  
TAke the buds of this vegetable, when they are young and green, 
To purge phlegm.  parboil them in water, and make thereof a salad, and give it unto those, that have costive bodies, and it will provoke them to the stool. 
Strengthen the sinews.  It is an herb, very profitable for the sinews, it comforteth the weak parts, and preserveth such, as are weak in the joints from many accidents: it purgeth phlegm, which (for the most part) causeth debility of the nerves. Whosoever useth to drink of a syrup, made of the berries thereof, shall not be troubled with the gout, nor any disease. 

Prevent the gout.  
The general use.   in the articular parts. The seed dried, is profitable, against all infirmities caused of humidity.   

CHAP. II. Of Elleborus niger, and the use thereof.  
THe root of black Hellebore, 
To purge melancholy.  being dried and kept two years, may be safely used, without other preparation, and may be ministered against any infirmity, that hath his original, of a melancholic cause. Therefore it is most appropriate, against the fever quartain, and lunatic persons, vexed with melancholy.   

CHAP. III. Of the use and virtues of the herb called Gratia Dei, a kind of Geranium in English blue Storks bill.  
TAke of Gratia Dei, dried in the shadow, and beaten into sine powder, ℥ j, Cinnamon ʒ j, cloves, ℈ j, wheat flower, lb j, oranges condite, ℥ j, make thereof a past, with honey, and bake it in the oven with bread: but take great heed, 
Cure of Scrophulae.  that it burn not. Of this you shall give ℥ j, to purge against many infirmities: but above the rest against Scrophulae, against scabs, and the white scall. For it evacuateth only the superfluous humidity of the body, it drieth and is appropriate for such kind of infirmities. 
Note.  Howbeit you must note, that all soluble medicines are not fit, for one disease or complexion: for chief and properly, Rhubarb purgeth choler, black Hellebore avoideth melancholy, Danewort dispossesseth the body of phlegm, and this herb cleanseth the blood. 
One medicine may work upon divers causes.  Therefore every one hath his peculiar property: though sometime either of them, may work, upon more causes than one, yet not so properly or simply, but by accident, and in regard of circumstances.  

Provoke vomit.  Two drams of the powder of this herb, drunk in wine, or broth, provoketh vomit and siege, and is very good for such as are lunatic. 
Fever.  It helpeth or at the least delayeth the extremity of the fever. It is good against griefs of the stomach, and wind in the belly.  

putrefied ulcers.  A decoction thereof made with ley, helpeth putrefied ulcers, if they be washed therewith: for as it purgeth the stomach, so it cleanseth the sore, and healeth it quickly, if you wet a cloth, in the said ley, and apply it thereunto.   

CHAP. FOUR Of Rhubarb, and his virtues.  
THe herb called, in the Italian tongue, Lappacia maggiore, or Rombice domestic, is a kind of Rhubarb, which among the learned Herbaristes is termed by the name of Rharecentiorum: whereof ʒ j, when it is new will lose the body, evacuate choler, as the Rhabarbarum doth. 
Purge choler.  It is very good against oppilations: it purgeth the blood, and taketh away scabs.  
You shall have, 
The correction or use.  a most precious medicine thereof: if you mix the green root, with honey, cinnamon, saffron, ginger, and the powder of roses.  
If you roast the root in the embers, 
Scrophulae.  and mix it with condited sugar it breaketh the Scrophulae, and mundifieth them, and healeth them in short time. Some do mix it with the gum, called Ammoniacum; and so do bring it into the form of an unguent, and apply it unto the parts affected with Scrophulae.   

CHAP. V Of Tithymale, and his virtues.  
GAther the herb Tithymale (called Spurge) in the month of May: take forth the juice and mix it with sugar roset, or sugar violet, in fine powder: 
The use.  then make of them both a moist past, and keep it in a glass, close stopped.  
When you purpose to use it, minister two scruples thereof, in broth or any other convenient syrup. It purgeth without pain, helpeth all fevers that come of heat: 
Fevers.  working not only by the stool, but provoking sweat also.  
It resolveth all continual and quotidian fevers, 
Grievous agues.  when the parties affected therewith be hot, and their sweat cold, yea though they be brought very low, it will by Gods help deliver them of their troublesome adversary.  
Laureola doth also move the body, by vomit and siege, 
Note.  but it may not be used in any continual fever or quotidian; because it will inflame too much.   

CHAP. VI Of Soldanella, and his virtues.  
THis herb groweth, in sandy and salted ground, and is hot and dry. 
Dropsy.  It purgeth by vomit and siege, and is excellent against the dropsy, all windiness, and unwholesome moisture in the body. Being taken in lozenges, with Aromatico, 
Purge ill moisture.  the quantity of ʒ j, it sendeth forth all the noisome wateriness, out of the body, drying and heating those parts, in an excellent manner.   

CHAP. VII Of Cyperus, and his virtues.  

Passions or windy torments.  THe herb Cyperus, called in English Galingall, being put into new wine, giveth it an excellent good taste, and smell, prevailing against inward passions, caused of wind. It is good for such as are bursten, for it resolveth the wind: if you take the powder thereof being stamped very small, and make a plaster thereof, 
Rapture.  with other things appropriate thereunto, applying the same to the rapture, and changing it once every day. Also if the patiented do once in a day eat of the root, he shall in short space be helped of that disease.   

CHAP. VIII. Of Elder, and his virtues.  
TAke the roots of Elder, wash them clean, and scrape them till you come to the wood, stamp that substance, and take the juice, and strain it, boil it, & scum it well, and for every ℥ of the juice, 
Cool the stomach purge the blood.  take one ℥ of Mel rosarum, and drink it, for it will cool the stomach, help hot fevers quickly, and purge the blood.   

CHAP. IX. Of the virtues and use of Tabaco.  

The use.  TAke of the green herb and root lb iij ss stamp it in a mortar with a little salt, then put it in a glass with ℥ vj. of the spirit of wine, and set it thirty days to putrefy in horse dung. Then distill it in Balneo, till all the substance be come forth: and put therein as much Oleum sulfuris as will make it tart. Then keep it close, and give thereof every morning a spoonful, to any one affected with the fever, 
Fever.  and it will help him in short time.  
If any man be affected, or greatly troubled with ulcers or scabs: let him drink thereof every day one spoonful, 
Ulcers.  and wash the sores therewith, and in short time it will most wonderfully cure them.   

CHAP. X. Of sweet Margerom, and his virtues.  
TAke sweet Margerom, and stamp it, and take of the juice, ℥ j oil of bitter almonds ʒ j, and ℈ j of Mastic, and snuff it up at the nose, three or four mornings together: and anoint the head with oil of eggs. This purgeth the head, of all pains, dissolveth tumours, 
pain in the head.  quickeneth the sight, and provoketh sleep.   

CHAP. XI. Of Persicaria, his use and virtues.  
YOu shall understand, that this herb, doth work (in a manner) against all infirmities, most strangely to behold. For if you take the powder thereof, and put it upon copper melted, it will in the projection, become like gold, and will draw it to a small quantity, and make it malleable, 
The chemical use.  and soft like gold, except the colour.  
Also if you make a strong ley of the ashes of Persicaria, 
Another chemical use.  and therein boil yellow brimstone, it will draw out of it quick silver, which is the Philosophers Mercury. This herb doth also most notably preserve a man from many infirmities, if one part thereof be taken whiles it is dry, and our other part of Specie venetianes; being both of them well incorporate together, and used in your meats.   

CHAP. XII. Of man, and the medicines that are made of him.  
MAn is a rational, or reasonable creature, whereof we have written at large in our book called Phisica del Fioravante. But here we will only write of certain medicines, that may be made or derived from him: which are for the ease, help and remedy of divers infirmities which are in men and women. The reason whereof is very good, for every like rejoiceth with, and helpeth his like, and therefore man serveth for man. 

The nature and quality of the parts of man.  
The fat.  
The blood.   The fat of a man is (as every man knoweth) hot, and penetrative, and mollifying if you anoint the parts therewith, (where the sinews be hard) and drawn together, or contracted, therefore it will quickly resolve them. I have made the Quintaessence of man's blood, rectified and circulated, with the which I have done most wonderful cures, for if you give thereof ʒ j, it will restore those, that lie at the point of death.  
It is most profitable, against those infirmities that are in the blood: for it correcteth the malignity of the blood, and preserveth it, as well as the spirit of wine. If you put a little of it into an hogs head of wine▪ 
Purify wine.  it will purify it, and preserve it a long time: more than any other thing whatsoever. So that this Quintaessence, worketh more effects, for the cure of great and dangerous infirmities than any other.  

The liver of a man.  Also from the liver of a man, will be drawn by distillation, a water and an oil. If the water be drunk every morning together, by the space of a month, in the quantity of ʒ j, with ℥ ij of liverwort water, it will recover such as are half rotten thorough diseases of the liver, and hath divers other properties, whereof I will not speak at this time.  

Flesh of man.  From the flesh of man distilled, there will come forth a stinking water, and an oil, which is most excellent, to anoint wounds withal, when they are badly healed, and that there remain any hurt about those parts, that they are out so sensible and pliant, (as they were wont to be before) this resolveth them. And it mollifieth and softeneth all hardness of any tumour, of what original soever it shall come.  
From the forepart of a man's skull, 
Mans●●ll.  there is drawn by distillation, a water and oil, and a salt, which is most profitably used, against the falling sickness.  
Finally, from each other part of man, there are medicines to be made, for the cure of sundry diseases in man, and woman, as you may also read, more at large, in the spagiricke preparations of josephus Quercetanus published in English by john Hester Practitioner in the spagirical art.   

CHAP. XIII. Of an hen, and the Physical use thereof.  
SOme writ, that the flesh of an hen, will dissolve gold, and that the bones will calcine it easily.  
Another told me, that the ashes of hens feathers, 
Dissolve and calcine gold.  being calcined white, doth mundify, incarnate and cicatrise ulcers.  
Also there is made, 
A restorative.  an excellent restorative of an hen, after this manner.  
Take a good fat hen, and pull her quick, and take forth the guts only, and stamp her in a mortar. Then boil it, in xii, lb of fair water, with ℥ j of salt, till lb viii be consumed. That done, pass it thorough a strainer, and distill it in Balneo, till all the substance be come forth. Hereof you may give, unto the sick at all times, with a little of a plain and simple julepe. When you find any evil accident, in the belly, you must add thereunto, a little oil of sweet almonds, newly made, (while it is warm) for then is it one of the best restoratives, that can be found out or devised in the world.   

CHAP. XIIII. Of Eels, and the medicinal use them.  
MAny have used, the fat of an eel, against deafness, but to small purpose. But if you will distill the eels, with Aqua vitae, 
Against●●easnesse.  you shall have a most subtle oil, which doth most excellently prevail, against that infirmity.  
Also if you boil the skins of the eels, in strong lay until they be dissolved, then strain it and boil it to a thickness: and it will be a most strong glue for wood or other works.  
Also if you anoint a corroding ulcer therewith it will greatly repress the rage thereof and comfort it.   

CHAP. XV. Of the barbil, and to what use she serveth in medicine.  

Lose the belly.  IN the month of May the Barbill hath eggs, which are of a soluble quality, and of some those eggs being eaten; they shall be provoked to vomit.  

The use and quality.  They have a quality contrary to other purgers they must be dried in the sun, mixed with a little Sena, and then ministered in wine or water that is sodden. When it hath well wrought, the patients must eat good meat to nourish them, and may drink wine, and (when they are disposed thereto) suffer them to sleep.   

CHAP. XVI. Of Bees, and their medecinall use.  
Bees' are of nature hot and moist, having a generative property. 

Sterelitie prevented.  
To quicken dead bees.   For if they be given to any barren creature they shall conceive in short time after.  
Also if yond lay dead bees in a dry place to putrefy, wetting them sometime with wine, they will revive again, though not as they were before, but they will be much bigger and of an other form.  
These bees if you bring into powder with as much Cantarides; boil them a little with oil of Chamomill, 
cause hair to grow.  and anoint any part where the hair is fallen away, and it shall quickly come again, and in a short space, a most strange thing to behold.   

CHAP. XVII. Of frogs, and their use.  
THe skins of frogs being boiled and made into the form of a plaster with wax and frankincense, 
Hot affluctions.  is very profitable for such as have any malign or troublesome accident about their legs thorough heat.  
The fat of frogs is a wonderful medicine against Fuoco sacro, or S. Anthony's fire, 
S. Anthony's fire.  a disease happening unto children and others through the great heat that is in their blood.   

CHAP. XVIII. Of Centumpedes, called in English, Sows.  
IF you minister the powder of these creatures in wine, it hath many excellent properties, but chief, 
Stitch in the side.  it hath been experienced, greatly to prevail, against the stitch in the side, for it will help that grief presently.  
If you burn the little crieking creature, called a Cricket, and minister the powder thereof, in some Diuretic liquor, 
Provoke urine.  it provoketh urine.  
Mallows, Alkakengi, Centum nodi, Centumgrana, and the roots of Rapes: are of like property, being handled and used according to art.  
These are oftentimes found in standing pools, and putrefied waters, certain small creatures, which are round like a cherry, having a tail and two feet, which are in Lombardie called Comazz●. Take these, and distill thereof of a water or liquor, 
Dissolve Iron.  wherewith you may very soon consume or break iron: a very great secret observed in nature.   

CHAP. XIX. Of the resine or gum, called Tacca Mahacca, and the use thereof.  
TAke thereof as much as you will, distill it in a retort of glass, & from it there will come both oil and water. Of which I have seen divers medicines made, against sundry diseases. Anoint the belly, with this oil cold, when you go to bed: 
Crudity of the Matrix.  and it helpeth against the crudity of the Matrix.  
If the genital part of the man be anointed therewith before the act of generation, 
Help conception.  the woman shall be the more fit for conception: for by this means some kind of sterility is taken away.  

pain in the head.  It helpeth and easeth pain in the head, proceeding of a a cold stomach.  

Help digestion.  It helpeth digestion, and resolveth pain, throughout the body, in what part soever, they shall come: specially, when they have their beginning of cold.  

Wind in the stomach.  The water hereof, dissolveth wind in the stomach, helpeth digestion, provoketh urine, mitigateth all fevers that come of cold.   

CHAP. XX. Of the gum Carrana, and the medecinall properties of it.  
TAke it, and distill it in a retort with the yolks and whites of eggs, and there will come forth oil, and water, the oil whereof will be black, and the water red.  

Chilblains.  The water of Carranna helpeth Chilblains, and all chops or clefts in the lips arising of cold in the winter.  

Sore breasts.  It is a great ease, for the sore breasts of women, that give suck.  
The oil worketh wonderful effects, 
Wo●●  in wounds of the head, arm, or legs.  
Anoint a simple wound therewith, once or twice: 
heal quickly.  and it will very speedily be healed.  
Take a quantity of this gum, and mix it with as much of the seed of water cresses, and the white of an egg, and make thereof a cerote, to apply unto a rapture: 
Rupture.  wherewith it will in short time be healed, all other circumstances being also observed.   

CHAP. XXI. Of liquid Amber, and the medecinall virtues thereof.  
TAke liquid amber, and distill it in a retort: and from thence, there will come a red oil.  
This oil is used, against all indispositions of cold, 
Cold and windiness.  and moisture, or wind.  
The same healeth scabs, and is good for wounds. 
Scabs.   
If you anoint the stomach therewith, 
Comfort the stomach.  it will exceedingly comfort the same: for it is a thing uncorruptible, and like unto Balsamum.    
The end of the Appendix unto the former Collection.