A NEEDFUL, new, and necessary treatise of Chirurgery, briefly comprehending the general and particular curation of Ulcers, drawn forth of sundry worthy writers, but especially of  
Antonius Calmeteus Vergesatus, and joannes Tagaltius by, john Banister Gent. practiser in Physic and Chirurgery.  
Hereunto is annexed certain experiments of mine own invention, truly tried, and daily of me practised.  
Imprinted at London by Thomas Marsh. Anno. 1575. Cum Privilegio.   

The Contents.  

First a treatise of chirurgery, containing the general and particular curation of Ulcers.  
Certain experiments of mine own invention, truly tried, and daily practised.  
A general diet, necessary to be observed in the curation of Ulcers, taken out of Angerius Ferrerius.  
A certain compendious and profitable description of the natural temperatures, and divers operations of simple medicines, diligently collected, and truly practised.    

To the right worshipful master Thomas Stanhope Esquire, and high sheriff of Nottingham shire, this present year of our Lord 1575. john Banister prayeth prosperous life, continual health and daily increase of worship.  
IN those days (right worshipful) when the world was unformed, orders unprovided, and laws not established, but all sorts of men and ages, enjoyed and embraced their own licentious liberty: Before Princes took power, Magistrates authority, and Rulers government: At what time art was unknown, miseries unsearched, and studies neglected, the people of all Nations lived in beastly and brutish manner, following their own fancy as a God, and their will as reason. But after it pleased God (of his inestimable providence) to illumine the shadowed sight of the world, and of his divine pleasure, to inspire and breath into certain of his Creatures, the prudent knowledge of sapience skill, than wisdom begat policy, policy diligence, and diligence a desire to know, so that the working of the one, found out the nature of things, and the experience of the other, invented arts for the use and practise of the same, whereby Laws after were confourmed, justice feared, and raw things ripened, Rules regarded, Sciences searched, and mysteries unfolded. At this time the world began to bud the blossoms of a delectable fruit, and sow the seed of a happy harvest (if worldly delights may so lawfully be termed) for every man now delighted to excel, all sorts embraced knowledge, and each degree laboured to profit his country. Yea all men so allowed labours, and contemned idleness, that immediately all the world flowed with liberal arts and sciential Artificers. As Philo 
Philo.  first brought into Greece, the invention of Letters. Polihimnia, 
Polihimnia.  had the first use of Rhetoric, Orpheus 
Orpheus.  found Music, Zoroaster 
Zoroaster.  Magic, Errato 
Errato.  Geometry. etc. And so far they searched, that some found out Astronomy, some Astrology, some cosmography, and such like, some one thing, and some an other, so that in few years there seemed nothing left in nature unsearched or unknown. Among which Physic (whom it pleased God to predestinate a succour and aid to the universal world (though not at first or presently, yet in space of time, among many other things, as a princely pearl) was created, the Theoric part, whereof the most do attribute to Apollo's 
Invention of Physic Apollo.  speculation, and the practic to Aesculapius' 
AEsculapius  proof, so that in short space it was so sought, searched, and experienced in every Nation, and so brightly displayed her beams to each Region, that as Princes could not cease to praise and study it, neither could the common people leave of to worship it, but extolled the Artistes as Gods, and embraced the fruits thereof as incomparable. From time to time (right worshipful) as it hath increased, so hath it been esteemed unto this day in great honour, worthy fame and princely dignity, and never valued of so little price, nor prized for so small a treasure as in this our age and pre●●●t days, wherein all Nations are geue●●re to esteem private gain, then p●●aque commodity, and more to regarde●●esser profit, then favour a further utilize. Such is the property of this mutable world, and in such wise is it altered by the course of ages, that where as (in time passed) all expert persons (whosoever excelled in any quality or property) was magnified to the skies, erecting their pictures in Cities, Towns, and Temples, as Claudius 
Claudius.  was in Rome, Armodius 
Armodius  in Athens, and Hannibal 
Hannibal  in the Temple of Pallas, with an infinite number more, whom the people thought not enough commended in words, but extolled their fames by Pictures and Epigrams, and they which with lesser skill, wit, or cunning, did their diligence, were laudably encouraged, contrariwise, now a days the best that writ, reap scant commendation, but have their works skornefully skanned, and a silly fault found, with curious Momes derided, and the younger Students (who no less desire their Country's commodity, then hate to walk in darkness) are flouted for trifles as doltish dreamers, and their works dispis●d as error holder's. My meaning here is of such, ● have and do take pain daily (for their natural Nations sake) in penning forth and opening unto ot●●● the secret mystery of Physic and Chyrurgeri●●euealing and publishing forth to all people, tha● Talent which God hath lent to them, thinking nothing to worthy which may profit others, nor that any thing aught to pleasure one privately, which might benefit many openly: following the old and often recited saying of Cicero: 
Cicero.  Non solum nobis nati sumus. etc. Why should we wallow thus in disdain? and why is amity so furiously fettered? shall Heathens surmount us Christians? and shall tyrants surpass us in enbracing the learned? Hyppocrate● 
Hippocrates.  was so esteemed of the great king Artaxerxes, 
Artaxerxes.  that he could never procure himself to be merry without his company. Philip of Macedon, 
Phil. Macedo.  so regarded Aristotle, 
Aristotle.  that he called himself happy because his son Alexander the great was born in his time. And Auerois 
Auerois.  was so beloved of that Turkish Emperor and terrible Tyrant Bayazet, 
Bayazet.  that (when he had finished his bloody broiling wars, and rested at his own palace) he took pleasure in no company, nor esteemed any man's council like to his Physician. A thousand more examples could I infer, wherein the very Pagans' seem to excel us Christians in lauding the learned, and encouraging all willing favourers of learning and sciences. But affection (at this day) so ruleth the roast, and disdain stirreth such contempt (among the bleting babes of Momus charm) that a slender fault, 
Tritunest. invidia est serra animi,  or slight escape, they deride without ceasing, and a learned work doth even saw their minds asunder. For this cause right worshipful) some perhaps would demand of me, how I dare put pen to paper to entreat of any matter or part of Physic, considering the scrupelous state of time present, together with the barrenness of my wit, and want of learning, or lay in my dish this saying of Terence. 
Terence.  Quid dici possit quod non dictum sit prius? Whereto I answer, tha● neither the curious cracks of the envious can stay me, nor yet the bragging bolts of the vain glorious, are of force to hold me back, since I am moved hereto by three notable causes. 
The first cause.  The first is, to pleasure my country and friends (amongst whom your worship is chief,) and therefore some fruit of my pooer painful practice, are due unto you, hoping also, (as other more learned do in the publishing of their books) that these few lines (partly by the study of other good authors, partly also by mine own experience collected) may under your worship's protection be defended against Sicophantes and faultfinders, of you, whose wit, prudence, and authority (in this country to this respect) is of great force among us. This little labour therefore it may please your worship to accept, as the hearty present of a friend poor and faithful, to you offered this present year, of your new Office, to be a monument to posterity of that good will I bear towards you in words, and would declare the same in deeds (if ability were correspondent to my will.) 
The second cause.  Another cause is, for that I protest myself to have set forward and finished this my present enterprise, devoid altogether (as knoweth God) of haughty mind or stout courage, but with so simple and zealous heart, that neither ill will with all his mischievous darts, vainglory, with his pranked pikes, nor envy, with his sudden shot, are once able to give me repulse or touch. 
The third cause.  And the last cause is, the remembrance of Aristotle 
Aristole.  his saying, Bonum quo communius tanto prestantius, So that to pleasure and profit, other men is best, and most to be desired, but seeing (as the proverb monisheth,) Non datur cuique adire Corinthum, I shall think my pen and time well employed, if I may profit some men.  
One sort of people there are (and that is the learned) who are commonly given to disdain the reading over of such simple collections, chief of this part of Physic, fulfilling the common saying, Aquila noncapit muscas and such peradventure will little regard, or less esteem it then the meaner sort (to whom this book is chief left) who (I know) will not disdain or despise the perusing of this treatise of chirurgery, as necessary as the other (more exquisite) though some of late more precise than wise have fond affirmed, foolishly feigned, and frantickelye faced that the Chirurgeon hath not to deal in Physic, small courtesy is it to break faithful friendship or atonement, but it is mad dotage, to part that which can not be separated. How can Physic be praised, and chirurgery discommended? can any man despise Chirurgery, and not defame Physic? no sure, he that speaketh evil of the one, slandereth both, and he that robbeth the one, spoileth the other. For although they be at this time made two distinct Arts, and the Artistes severally named, yet sure, the one can not work without some aid of the other, nor the other practice without the help of both. For further assurance whereof, learn of Hippocrates, 
Gal. li. de tum. preter naturam De mittendo sang. & De meth. medendi.  who practised both together, and in reading galen's books, you shall clearly see how they embrace one an other with firm friendship and inseparable ●amitie. Without diet (I say) and purgation, Vlcus sordidum, or Cacoaethes' (with other like diseases) may not be healed. here-hence cometh it divers times, that many men almost in every country, decay and perish in the Art of Chirurgery, by the ignorant dealings of Chyrurgians, unskilful in Physic. Hereby also it cometh, that so many Runagates and Idle livers, make such daily incursions, and oft entringes into those worthy and mysterious sciences, who dared not rout if they were at unity, but that can not be, so long as this error is maintained, that the one aught not to participate with the other, for so neither of them can be perfect. Seeing that thing is only perfect, Cui ne minima pars quidem deest. Great ruth and pity it is, that so many idle Idiottes and Erroneous Asses, are permitted to practise this Art of great difficulty, that requireth so many helps and sundry knowledge of things, as the nature and names of diseases, Simples, Roots, plants, parts of man's body, and a thousand things more, whereof the greatest sort of them are utterly ignorant, whereby they ruin the body with their blind and desperate dealing, oft to the utter subversion of li●e: for as the body hath need of the government of the mind, so hath the mind need of the service and ministery of the body, which is the Tabernacle of the Soul, and lodge of the mind. 
●. Pet.  A man shall have ill lodging or rest in a ruinous dropping house, and the mind less quietness in a sickly body, which may be through the occasion of local Plaster, or Powder, or Cerote, unaptly applied. Therefore the Poet wisely wished (in his prayer for a friend) Mentem sanam in corpore sano. 
Juvenal.  And Galene proveth that the dyscrasy of the one infecteth the other: for a solitary sad mind maketh a Melancholy body; and a Melancholy body engendereth Melancholy passions of the mind. This Art therefore well manifesteth the needefulnes of divers sciences and qualities, whose subject (Et materia circa quam) is man's body worthily compared to a City or common wealth. For in a City there is but one governor (if it be well ruled) and that in man's body is reason, the Prince is placed on high, ●or peril of rebellion, as here reason inhabi●eth the brain, the prince hath his watchers ●nd guard, so hath the body memory as ●hief councillor with the other senses for ●is guard, retaining wrath in his heart and concupiscence in the Liver, like Pensioners, ●o repulse all injuries, and the mind riff going between reason and these affections, which foresee, and let all commotions or tumults, ●ls the inferior savage members, would soon ●cale the Tower and dislodge reason their Prince. But as that common wealth, who hath ●ainefull and circumspect governors, can ●aue no common uproar or seditious descension, so hath the body that is healthful, like diligent artificers, to maintain his quiet ●ate, as the stomach to boil the meat for ●ll the body, 
The body his office.  the Liver to strain and forge ●od blood, the milt to drain the Melan●lie, the Bledar urine, and the Gall Choler, the Veins convey blood to all parts and places, the Arteries have the transporting of the vital spirits, and the sinews, the ani●al, whereof cometh all ceiling and moong. Discords in a City, happeneth through ●ill and unruly rages, and in the body through vile and vicious humours, which unordinatly flow and overrun their place● and must be corrected and chastened diversly. For even as your worship (and such like ● Authority) punisheth not all offences wit● one kind of pain, that is to say, every of fence is not repaid by death, so every dyscrasy and grief of the body, meriteth not extreme dealing, nor the dangerous affects slight respect, or slow administration. An● as offenders often times are rebuked, and ye● pardoned, in hope of amendment, but again ta●ken in like crime, without grace or repen●taunce, are shortly executed, lest their graceless acts and pernicious counsels should● entice others to like lewdness of living. In like manner doth the Art of chirurgery (th● Artist being expert) procure and purchase healthful members to the body, abating th● malice of every humour, so long as in due tim● it is followed: but when such abundance of rebellious matter, hath so settled itself a●mong the common or exterior labour i● parts, and so rooted in space of time, that n●● there nature nor medicine can prevail, th● we chose rather to separate it from the bod● then to suffer it further to corrupt, since th● old proverb is that, To much pity m●reth a city, and untimely pity differeth little from plain cruelty. This I speak of such Ulcered members, as may not be both cured and also preserved. Notwithstanding, that I have known many in my time, that have most ruinously lost their limbs by the desperate dealings of wilful wretches, whose ignorance hath spoilt that which might have been saved, whose blindness hath marred that which the wise could have made, and whose wilful arrogancy hath cut of, that which might safely have grown and continued: such as in mending one grief, make commonly two more, and the best success they have, is chance medley, the blind man so layeth hold on the hare, but no wise man will prefer hap before cunning, Fortune before Art, or chance before reason, which is the infallible foundation of all sciences. To whose judgement (right worshipful) I willingly commit these my labours, knowing that in reason's school, neither envy reigneth, partiality ruleth, nor arrogant faultfinders have access, but in their steeds, art, equality, and godly reformation are in greatest authority, fulfilling the law of Christ through charity, which envieth not, but furthereth all men and hindereth none. 
1. Cor. 13.  They therefore that are not able to swim, may here with me wade till they have got the courage to enterprise further. And notwithstanding that Ulcers be taken for a base part in Physic, yet (as Quintilian 
Quintilianus.  writeth of Grammar) Plus reces●u praestat quam front promittit. Every Art is necessary, and each part of Physic is needful: no age can be without them, no country miss them, neither will any nation despise the goodly creature of God (for so is Physic in the book of Ecclesiasticus 
Eccle. 39  named.) The same God therefore (who instituted this Art for the health of mankind, as also all other sciences for our succour) preserve guide, and govern your worship (and all other that love and encourage the professors of good arts and godly mysteries) the right way to eternal bliss and heavenly happiness.  Your worships always to command, john Banister.  

The Author in the commendation of Physic and Chirurgery.  

IF things which have been much esteems  
in perfect plight remain:  
And profitable practices,  
may commendations gain.   

If things which famous men have found,  
do most of all excel:  
And that which needful is deserve,  
to win and wear the bell.   

If virtue thou will't truly scan,  
canst thou aught better have:  
Then that which saves a perishing man,  
even from the greedy grave.   

If thou wouldst seek what moste of all,  
doth passing things attain:  
Then that regard which from the death,  
so many doth detain.   

And Physic sith it yieldeth such,  
as thou canst aptly crave:  
A sightly seat above the rest,  
of force it needs must have.   

For if thou wander searchingly,  
from East unto the West:  
Thou shalt perceive that every where,  
for Physic there is rest.   

Moore profitable nothing is,  
(although the world abound:)  
And nothing more that man can need,  
in all the world so round.   

For lands and livings though thou have,  
abundant gold and fee:  
With such like plenty very huge,  
which seemeth good to thee.   

Yet if with sickness thou be grieved,  
and eke to pain subject:  
What will avail thy plenty store,  
can it thy health direct?   

Lo Physic can the so much give,  
if thou unto her lore  
Attentive be, and crazed corpse  
before her do deplore.   

Hippolytus it did revive,  
and eke his life restore:  
And (AEson) young it caused to seem,  
as he had been before.   

It Phaon fairest of others made,  
and so he did endure:  
And Philip, Alexander great,  
it made from poison pure.   

Who else no doubt had perished,  
by drinking in a Lake:  
Such horror great and anguishement,  
this art did undertake.   

Examples many do abound,  
whereby a man may see:  
If that no Physic could be found,  
great were our misery.   

Who could the force of herbs attain,  
or sickness well discern?  
Who could diseases with their names,  
that be so many learn?   

It would exceed all humane wits,  
no reason could it know:  
It would appear unpossible,  
to all that devil on low.   

Sigh then such wonders it doth work,  
of force we must maintain:  
And love the same exceedingly,  
as chiefest health and gain.   

What men (alas) abjected are,  
by wan●ing of this art:  
When as they may no salve obtain,  
to cure their urging smart.   

And but that it doth quickly help,  
it daily doth appear:  
That many should in grave be closed,  
whom yet remains here.   

What number should here never live,  
nor see the light of Sun:  
But that this art doth secure them,  
oer in the world they come.   

It doth also not only bring,  
the pained from the woe:  
But even the healthful sort it makes,  
their state not to forego.   

What health Chirurgery doth yield,  
also in every land:  
In long discourse or praise thereof,  
it needles is to stand.   

Since that her virtues passing rare,  
in every town doth flow:  
And warlike armies every where,  
her benefits do know.   

How could Machaon and his mate,  
Whom Podalirius height:  
Have spared been in Trojan wars,  
and Greecians gristy fight.   

When thousands there they saved alive,  
in Agamemnon's band:  
Of worthy Greeks which else had died,  
and perished out of hand.   

What Ulcered parts also it doth,  
restore unto their kind:  
I leave, the sooth let each man say,  
and praise it as they find.  q. I B.  
Finis.   

To the worshipful the Master, Wardens, and general assistauntes of the fraternity of Chyrurgians in London, john Banister, (a member of the same) wisheth to them a●l, the true direction in the perfect way of knowledge to this mysterious science, according to their profession.  
BEfore the gracious goodness of God, had created medicine on the earth, before (I say) he unfolded the mystery thereof to worldly wights, and mortal creatures, no man knew what plants could prevail, not one could show the nature of herbs, every man was ignorant of the properties of simples, many minerals were unknown, most gums unfound, an● all seeds unsought. (To conclude) all nature's benefits (that now so oft preserve and keep man's healthful state frihurt) lay hugely heaped in the boisterous bowels of confused Chaos, distant from light, absent from knowledge, and far from doing good. Which now (being brought to light by the same almighty his providence) not only ministereth health to the sick, ease to the painful, pleasure to the sorrowful, & health to the healthful, but oft-times as we daily prove (even by fine force) encountereth the merciless might of fell diseases, and preventeth the dreadful darts of death (whilst the skilful only have her in use. But as envy that subtle Serpent hateth all virtue, contemneth all good things, and spiteth the prosperous success of famous sciences: so hath she of late procured and stirred vp● such a sort of beastly abusers, or devilish dissemblers, as (study only to deceive the world) invent willingly to embase the worthy art, and seek shamefully to slander the godly students thereof. As it is not unknown unto you (therefore needless for me to tell) how Physic and Chirurgery have in time passed been renowned throughout the world: Not more is it to you ignorant, how little it is in these days regarded, which if we compare time present with that is past, we shall see and plainly perceive it, rather despised (as needles) then regarded as necessary, such slender judgement and fond affection reigneth at this day, and so is the world upside down turned: that what so afore time hath been best accounted of, the same is now the basest, that which was principal, is (at this time) the poorest, and the chiefest become jest esteemed. In this case (therefore) as I must needs blame the fickle state of the world and most of all accuse the frail estate of man's nature (I mean the common sort of people, who are always ready to turn with every blast of Aeolus wavering wind without steadfastness or consideration of righteous●causes) So can I not altogether excuse them, unto whom authority is given, to establish orders and reform malefactors with the causes of offence, whose only slackness, and untimely clemency is the greatest encouragement that offenders have. I speak not this as seeming to control your worships (knowing you will rightly conceive, it cometh of a zealous heart) but if the love of our country, & eminent desolation (which might hap by want of this art) do not draw us all hereunto, yet (at the lest, if we love ourselves) we are forced to cry out upon abuses, deplore double dealing, and seek for speedy reformation. Very hard it were for such a rout of Rogishe livers, so boldly to practise, and to fill all places with the slanderous shavings of their devilish practices, were they not permitted of some (in authority) & winked at of such as should them punish. I do not a little marvel also, how and by what means or merit, so many get their authorities or licenses to practise, when as in examination they (not only) show themselves ignorant Asses, and in their works bussardly beyardes, but also of themselves altogether disposed to incontinency, and daily dissimulation, without either fear of God, or obedience to their Prince, I (my self) know them at this day, the most beastly deceivers, and licentious livers that ever professed any art, (having neither knowledge, modesty, nor honesty, and yet practise their accustomed deceits, under the colour of admittance from our hall, being (in deed) far fit for the cart them Chirurgery. Smally shall it avail the learned to take pains, & less encourage the willing to spend their time in opening things obscured, & revealing mysteries unknown, when every saucy sycophant shall (not only by peevish permission) defame us with their desperate doings, & suck our commodity with ●their chattering charms: but also wrist & construe our labours at their poopishe pleasures, accounting the best basest, & the worst worthiest (like spiting spiders, which turn good to bad, sweet to sour, and bonny to poison. If therefore your worships would prevent these proud practisers, & pluck up these wicked weeds, which thus pollute the vineyard (as already you have godly begun) I doubt not but more commendations will grow of the art in short space then there was in the time that Apollo 
Apollo.  first found it, more estimation than when Aesculapius 
AEsculapius.  amplified it, & more fervently embraced then in the time of Hypocrates 
Hyppocr.  who made it perfect. And you for discrete governance & politic orders shall (not only) win a greater fame perpetually, then either the Romans for their hardiness, or the Lacedæmonians for their valiawt courages have gained, but also so stimulate & prick forward the hearts of mindful students (such as God be praised, are of late fruitfully sprung up amongst us) so as they shall rightly account their travails worthily taken, & their labours well bestowed. At the like stay stand I at this present time, offering these my loitered labours, to the scanning eyes of the stately world, & abiding (as at a view) to see if courage willbe moved (by the thankfulness of such godly patrons as you be) to resort to me again, for recompense, which then (as I have here debated of the curation of Ulcers, as the most necessary part of chirurgery at this day) I will shortly (if God lend me life) enforce my pen to extend her travail to the curation of Tumours against nature. In the mean time (craving your worship's assistance in protecting these my first enterprises (so much as you may) from the tempestuous taunts of such witless wisardes as always love to find faults in the best, & themselves not amending the simplest. I commend to you at all time, present health, and lasting joy in the world to come.  
At my house in Nottingham, the. vi. of june. 1575.   

john Banister against evil and counterfeit dealers in the art of Physic and Chirurgery.  

Even as it can not be,  
by reasons rule denied:  
That Physic skill deservedly,  
by trusty truth is tried.   

To be the thing whereto,  
dame Fame is chief bond:  
Above all earthly arts below  
that are, or may be found.   

The Artistes which profess  
the same, likewise are they:  
Which worthiest are to wear (I guess)  
the wreathed twist of bay.   

Such men of honest life,  
as godly gains frequent:  
Without deceit, debate, or strife,  
or forged fond intent.   

But few of those there are,  
(God knows) the greater ruth:  
Among a sort whose dealings far,  
distaunced are from truth.   

For Roisters now do range,  
and ruffle every where:  
And men to much delight in change,  
without regard or fear.   

Each jacke that wanteth grace,  
and ●dle life hath spent:  
And that to jet from place to place,  
hath fixed his intent.   

Such naught have now to feign,  
their fond and foolish trade:  
But that they health can plant for pain,  
and sickness fallen invade.   

Leave of you jugglers vain,  
let Physic live in rest:  
Most worthily with them to reign,  
that learn and love her best.   

Fie fie you stain the art,  
of worthy surgery:  
Moore fit far to fill the cart,  
then use Anathomie.   

Your falsely feigned grace,  
is but for certain time:  
You run & range from place to place,  
and still augment your crime.   

You promise' help for pennies,  
where as you do but noye:  
O secret foes departed from hence,  
poor people you destroy.   

Our ancients often have scanned,  
and told that some disease:  
Cannot be cured, you take in hand,  
the dead (to life) to raise.   

Nothing may miss you sure,  
if pennies be in the ward:  
O misers mad, confess some cure,  
for healing to be hard.   

Be warned once by fear,  
and of your friend take heed:  
The price of blood is passing dear,  
as we in scripture reed.  qd I B.  
Finis.   

Ars Chyrurgica alloquitur Lectorem.  

YOU learned dames that do delight,  
in sciences divine:  
Refuse not now to taste a while,  
this sacred sap of mine.   

Which I abundantly do yield,  
to every man each where:  
Like Tellus with her fertile fruits,  
when Autumn doth appear.   

Or Nilus when it overflows,  
doth fat and feed the soil:  
Which after that abundant fruits,  
doth yield withouten toil.   

Who can depaint the passing joy,  
that bird and beast do taste:  
In new return of Lady Ver,  
when Hiems fits are past.   

Even so do I to mortal wight,  
more by a thousand part:  
Sand sweet relief in hard distress,  
To appease the pinching smart.   

The woeful wounds and sundry sores,  
that mortal men oppress:  
And do consume the crazed corpse,  
by me they have redress.   

Let Cronos tell (that ancient dame)  
which bear all things in mind:  
How bountiful lo, I have been,  
always to humane kind.   

And these our days can well declare,  
how many men I save:  
Were not for me which had been shut,  
long since within the grave.   

My virtues they are known beyond,  
the farthest part of Ind:  
I help, I heal, in every coast,  
I comfort all mankind.   

Since that my fountain flows so far,  
and serveth each degree:  
How can you say that any art,  
is equal unto me.   

Although there be a number now,  
for pleasure counted chief:  
Yet none to man I dare well say,  
it bringeth such relief.   

When Atroppos to line of life,  
his mortal ●aunce would say:  
Then step I in with helping hand,  
and can set him to stay.   

Among the sundry skilful arts,  
by hands that handled are:  
Disdain me not though with the best,  
myself I do compare.   

My genitour is high jehove,  
a parent without peer:  
My mother height Experience,  
by tract of many a year.   

As Hybla's hill of peerless praise,  
that sweetest honey brings:  
So was I weighed in all their time,  
with Emperors and with kings.   

How famous was Phillirides,  
that first found out my skill:  
And taught me to Apollo's Imp,  
and he the world did fill.   

With knowledge of my worthiness,  
and what great fame he wan●  
When that he called back from death,  
Sir Virbius, twice a man.   

As Phisons' flood ay full I flow,  
what need you any more:  
I have all things that may do good.  
a salve for every sore.  q. Rich. Smith.  
Finis.   

Tho. Lond. de natura & cura Vlceris & Vulneris.  

ASpicis in parvo medicamina multa libello,  
scripta Banisteriae dexteritate manus.  
Vlcera quot quot habet mala carnis machinae nostrae,  
En facili methodo continet iste liber.  
Pro specie morbi, mutatur forma medendi,  
dicaturque malo propria cura suo.  
Vulnera continui divortia dicimus esse:  
hinc tamen ut sanies fluxerit, Vlcus habes.  
Ergo mihi dices, distinguis ab Vlcere vulnus?  
Tempore, quando alias vulnus & ulcus idem.  
Vulnera vi fiunt quae coctio vertit in Vlcus:  
sic quod vulnus erat, posteàid ulcus erit.  
Sic etiam virus faetens, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
vix hoc à medicae tollitur artis ope.  
Namque locum succus vitiat, succumque vicissim  
cancrosi sanies inficit ipsa loci.  
Non poteris molli curare malagmate cancros,  
et mag is hos reddes asperiore feros.  
Vlcus tale animipotes appellare Papismum,  
haec bene sunt multis assimulata modis.  
Vlcus olet, mundum foris, at pus gignitur intus,  
multa ita dissimulans faeda Papista tegit.  
Consimili ratione nequis curare Papistam:  
hunc bene simoneas, surdus ut Aspis eri●.  
Corporeus medica cancer sanabitur arte,  
at mentis, solus tollere Christ potes.  
Ergo precemur eum, sit mens cum corpore sana.  
●arnis homo medicus, pneumatis ipse deus.   

Thomas Newtonus.  
Non minimum meruisse decus laudemque videtur  
Grata Banisteri cura laborque mei.  
utile cuius opus cunctis, cunctisque salubre  
Qui sua ab vlceribus corpora tuta velint.   

F. T.  
Huc citus appropera, qui corpore cumque laboras,  
Plurima sunt isto pharmaca sana libro.  
Vlcera depingit, generalem artemque medendi  
Vlcera, tu Lector perlege, vive, vale.    

Against the Treacherous trade of paltry Practisers.  

How can that common wealth endure,  
where governance doth lack?  
The happy state will soon decay,  
and all things go to wrack.   

How should the ships that shreds the seas,  
in dark and trembling tide,  
From perishing preserved be,  
without a skilful guide?   

And all things else under the Sun,  
without good government:  
Can not in steady stay long stand,  
but fall to languishement.   

Then how should man which subject is  
to all infirmity:  
Without the help of Physics art,  
in sickness saved be?   

Who can of fountains dried up,  
sweet waters justly crave?  
Who seeks of Codrus simple soul,  
a Princely gift to have?   

And can a man in griping grief,  
have aid to ease his smart,  
Of such as have no skill at all,  
in noble Physics art?   

A reckless rout of doltish dorres,  
have overspread our soil:  
Which do bereave the bees alas,  
of that wherefore they toil.   

O noble school of cunning skill,  
that bears the branch of Bay:  
In haste come with your helping hand,  
to drive these Drones away.   

They trot about from place to place,  
as Frogs hop in the rain:  
And thus this noble art God wot,  
they do nought else but stain.   

But most of all I do lament,  
to see them blind men's e●es:  
In every coast where they do come,  
and give them chalk for cheese.   

Such success have those in the end,  
which practise without skill:  
Where one or two by hap they heal,  
a hundredth more they kill.   

This is their trade to promise' help,  
and health to every one:  
But when they once have cropped their coin  
away they willbe go.   

This g●ar must needs all good men grieve  
and grate them on the ga●l:  
To see these caterpillars spoil,  
the tree, the fruit and all.   

Flee, flee (I say) this hurtful kind,  
much worse than furies fallen:  
If they do scape unpunished here,  
they willbe hanged in hell.   

When that the Lord shall come t'inquire,  
for blood shed in the land:  
I fear the blood of some willbe,  
required at their hand.   

Leave of this lewdness & repent,  
for former fences made:  
And henceforth look to bend yourselves●  
to use some other trade.  R. S.   

George Baker Chirurgeon, in praise of the Author.  

THe thing where any cunning lies,  
to speak in praise were vain:  
As that which can commend itself,  
without an others pain.   

And where no cunning is, to say,  
that cunning doth abound:  
For winning credit to the thing,  
is but a silly ground.   

Even so the credit of this book,  
doth not consist in speech:  
Words therein be but spent in vain,  
it hath a further reach.   

The matter it entreateth of,  
is needful both and good:  
And he that pend it for thy use,  
no little pains it stood.   

first read it well and after judge,  
upon that you shall find:  
That as it needs no foreign praise,  
praise should not be behind.   

The book both dares and doth itself,  
adventure in your hands:  
The author of it with his pains,  
At your good courtesy stands.  G. B.   

To the gentle Reader, john Banister sendeth salutation, in the name of the highest.  
AS no man without diligent travail, can merit commendation, nor any man by his idle living deserve to be praised: Not more doth it behove such lazy livers, as sup gains without sorrow, and enjoy pleasure without toil, to bark at other men's labours, to deride the diligent, scorn the skilful, and disdaining those who never think their bodies busied in helping others, esteem their wits weakened to further many, nor account their members martyred (for any pains) to profit their country, but would God such (as be lulled with the sleepy songs of self-love, and rocked in the lustles cradle of security) would either rise to light, and see their loathsome lives, or else wallow their fill in sloughtfull delights, and suffer the diligent to escape their dreaming parts, but since no writer ever had that hap, nor any author that fortune, since (I say) that Graecian sweet Maecenas, and that eloquent Roman orator, could (in no wise) shun their saucy charms: Let my barbarous brain and wilful pen, never hope of look to purchase praise of all men. If therefore (gentle Reader) thy modest mind be any thing addicted to the commendation of virtue, banishment of vice, augmenting of sciential knowledge, or thy nature inclined to love light, and hate darkness, or desire to know the secret shapes of nature, then praise painful practisers, commend cunning artificers, and well-willers to worthy professions, cease never to encourage, and that the rather, because all writers do account themselves satisfied, if thou accept their labours with a cheerful countenance and grateful heart, rather commending then dispraising, amending then despising, and encouraging rather then contrariwise by thy ingratitude to force them fly such virtuous enterprises, as lead all men to the light of truth according to the saying of Plato, Per argumenta multorum cernitur veritas, So might the world in short space, not only decay and barbarism, but also become more brutish than were the Athenians before Draco taught them, more senseless than the Argives, before the instruction of Phoroneus, and more Awlesse than were the Lacedæmonians before Lycurgus laws. My pen, labour and diligence, therefore (loving Reader) shall I account worthily employed, if (according to my expectation) thou thankfully accept my travail. And as for such ambitious Idiottes, as neither mean to do good themselves, nor willingly would suffer others, let them bark ●t their own banes, and sink in their own sins (without heed of me) since I know the wise will way my good will, and the honest my true meaning. And when thou hast perused this pamphlet comprehending the curation of Ulcers, partly extract from worthy ●riters, and partly by mine own expe●●ence collected, with a general diet for Ulcered bodies, and natural properties of simple medicines) if (by proof) thou therein find commodity, refer the same (with humble thanks) to thy maker the giver of goodness and no more but think well of him that herein did his diligence.  
Far well.   

William Clowes Chirurgeon in praise of the Author.  

SO far as Pen and skill will guide,  
this simple verse I frame:  
Which may be said I rove to wide,  
and strive against the stream.   

¶ Yet friendship bides me still,  
Master Banisters works to praise:  
Which deserves therefore good will,  
That thus doth spend his days.   

Although that Zoilus would him spot,  
Let him do what he may:  
●o spit his spite and stay it not,  
force you not what such say.   

¶ For they I kn●w will scoff,  
as is their wont guise:  
But such they are but chaff,  
and known among the wise.   

I read that one Thessalus a Tesaler of will,  
despised Hypocrates, whose knowledge excelled:  
But Galen in colours, so painted that fool,  
for his rude rashness wherein he dealt.   

Such witless heads which seeks the overthrow,  
of things unknown that passeth much their rea●  
Doth plainly there, their poverty but show,  
whose school wants skill them better for to teach.   

What humour leads my verse astray  
I mean to praise the man:  
Whose work right perfect is I say  
if you it rightly skan.   

Behold therefore and read this book,  
peruse it to the end:  
And mark what pains he undertook,  
to show the authors mind.   

He hath such sweet and sugared sap  
within this book compiled:  
As grievous collars will abate,  
and great wounds easily healed.   

My simple skill wants Tully's quill,  
to written of this my friend:  
For barren head my pen hath led,  
wherefore I here will end.    

john Griffin Chirurgeon, in commendation of this Book.  

Sith healthful body helpeth much,  
to make a healthful mind:  
In lusty plight to pass the days,  
by God to man assigned.   

Great reason willeth thankfully,  
to celebrated the praise:  
Of skilful wights: whose painful style  
for man's avail and ease.   

All times and tides refuseth not,  
such fruitful seed to sow:  
As may be to the benefit,  
of him and many more.   

Among the rest john Banister,  
of right may challenge place:  
Whose travail hath at length brought forth,  
this work: with open face.   

Of young and old to be perused,  
and learned: if cause be such,  
That loathsome Ulcers should their limbs,  
infest and trouble much.   

Not only this, but sundry sorts:  
of other practice here  
Is well set down: and may do good,  
to all both far and necre.   

Accept his pains, afeerd good will,  
like well his Book and him:  
And suffer not uncourteous speech,  
thy sense amiss to dim.   

So thinketh he his pains to be  
requited: so likewise  
Shall he receive encouragement,  
and greater works devise.    

ULCERS IN general.  
The definition of an Ulcer, and the difference between an Ulcer and a wound.  
AS my chiefest intention is in this part, to entreat of Ulcers, so do I purpose first to define what an Ulcer is, 
Vlcus quid sit.  which after the mind of Avicen, is a solution of continuity in the flesh, containing corruption and putrefaction. For by the name of an Ulcer, we understand that separation of union, which is not simple as a wound, but is alway found annexed with other dispositions and accidents, hindering the cure ●hereof. 
Quid per nomen ulc. intelligatur.  Whereupon it cometh, that in Ulcer is to be understanded as a compound affection, or unnatural motion: Notwithstanding, no man is so ignorant (bearing the name of a Chirurgeon) but he knoweth, that in wounds also is contained certain dispositions necessarily chancing: as bigness, littleness, straitness, crookedness, equality, inequality, depth and height, etc. Which make the differences in wounds. 
Discrimen inter ulcus & vulnus.  To conclude therefore, that is to be called as Ulcer, where as there is corruption. And that a wound, where (as yet) there is no putrefaction. Of the like opinion also is Corn, Celsus, 
Cor. Celsus.  and in manner also Hypocrates, 
Hippoc.  affirming the to be a wound which is yet new and bloody, & an Ulcer, when it is become old or inveterate. And thus far as touching the definition of an Ulcer, and the difference between the Ulcer and the wound: the differences general with the acccidentes, after followeth.  

The differences of Ulcers and whereof they be taken.  
THe differences of Ulcers are diversly taken, but especially of three causes, viz. from the causes provoking them, from the members, and from the accidents or dispositions joined with them. Other take them only of two, as from the causes and accidents, and also from the natural dispositions themselves, to which they are enwrapped, and pass over those differences, which are taken of the members or labouring parts, because they belong not to an universal treatise. These therefore be the divers sorts of Ulcers, & true differences taken of the causes, that is to wit, a virulent Ulcer, a corroding Ulcer, a filthy rotten or putrefied Ulcer, a hollow & deep Ulcer, and Ulcer full of holes and a cankered Ulcer. And the differences which do come of the accidents & natural dispositions, to which the wounds themselves be joined, are also divers. Which of the Chirurgeons of later time are thus described. viz. an Ulcer with intemperatnes, which the Grecians call Discratum, a dolorous Ulcer, an Ulcer with a swelling or tumour against nature (commonly called impostumation) a broken Ulcer, an Ulcer overgrown with superfluous flesh, which the Grecians call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, a hard Ulcer, a cankered Ulcer, a hollow ulcer, ●n Ulcer corrupt at the bone, an Ulcer with divers separations, & an Ulcer called Cacoethes, which is a wicked, cruel, & very hard Ulcer to be healed, and others of that sort. But these many and divers differences of Ulcers, are not supposed of Galene to be true differences of Ulcers, but only agreeings of other effects with the Ulcer, of which sort are, the cankered Ulcer, the overgrown, putrefied and hollow Ulcers. And the Ulcer with some swelling, as the Ulcer called Phlegmonodes, and Resipelatodes, or the cankered rottenness, the inflammation of blood, the canker, and residue of that sort, are of the kind of effects besides nature, corrupting the actions which severally and by themselves may exist and be. For that thing (says Galen) which can consist severally, shall never be the difference of an other.  
Let this therefore be as a precept and rule, by which thou mayst discern whether the difference of an effect be any otherthing, or the enwrapping of an other natural motion, but after an other sort. Also the vexing and dolorous Ulcer, and the filthy ulcer, are called (as it were certain differences of ulcers when as in deed they are not true & proper differences, but the joining rather of an accident with an ulcer. etc. In like sort the Ulcer called Vlcus cacochymon, is an Ulcer replenished with evil juice, or troubled with a rheumatic matter there caused, being joined with the|effecteffect. Many such therefore are usurped of common Chirurgeons & Physicians, for the differences of Ulcers which are in deed no differences, but only (as Galene says) binding together other dispositions, or the effects of that which is compounded. The proper and true differences of a simple Ulcer are taken of the nature thereof. And that (says Galen) is a simple Ulcer, which doth only exist, that is, whereto no other affect or accident is joined. 
Vndepropriae ulc. differ. sumendae.  It shall not therefore be a simple Ulcer if any other part be exulcerated, or be ●exed with a rheumatic matter, or evil juice, or altogether without natural temperature, full of hollowness. etc.  
Therefore the differences taken of the ●ature of the ulcers are most proper, 
Different. ulcerum sunt magis propriae.  & ●f the substance of the thing, and coming outward. They are taken of the substance of the thing which are brought from the form & bigness or quantity of the division, & from the measure of space. 
Forma ulcerum.  Fron the form, as the straight Ulcer, the Ulcer declined or bowed, the round or compassed ulcer, the writhen and the crooked ulcer: from the bigness of the division or quantity, as a great ulcer, a little ulcer of the measures or spaces, as a long ulcer, a short ulcer, a broad ulcer, a narrow ulcer, a high ulcer, or an ulcer in the top or height of any part, a deep ulcer, an equal ulcer, an unequal ulcer.  
And the differences of the ulcers coming extrinsical, 
Diffe. ulc. extrinsec.  are taken of the time, of the way of generation, as all the ulcer or scarce part thereof cannot be seen or beholden, the differences of the time, as a new ulcer, or old ulcer. Of the reason of the generation, as a cut ulcer, a broken ulcer, an ulcer partly cut, partly broken. O● the placing in thaffected part, as an ulcer evidently appearing or out of sight, an ulcer hidden within or not appearing. Also an ulcer in the beginning of the muscle, in the midst, or in the end of the muscle. The differences of ulcers taken of the affected place, though they are to be judged. ulcers, yet not (as Gal. says) of their own proper nature, as the aforesaid differences are taken: for the places wherein the ulcers do consist are similar, and organical, therefore to show the differences of places wherein the ulcer is, the division must be after this sort, from thaffected place. An ulcer in the similar organic or instrumental part, dividing also the differences of ulcers in the similar part after this sort. viz. Ulcers in the veins, ulcers in the arteries, ulcers in the skin, and ulcers in the muscles, for the muscle and the similar part, is easy to be discerned by sense. And the differences of the affects in the organicke part, are of this sort. The ulcer of the ear, the ulcer in the jaws, the ulcer in the sharp or rough artery, ulcer of the lungs, ulcer of the breast, ulcer of the yard, ulcer of the fundament and seat, and so forth in like order discoursing the singular parts of the body, which we call instrumental. And this is the complete and absolute division of a simple and only ulcer, and of an ulcer to whom no other affect is joined in his differences taken of his proper nature. Also if any affect or disposition do consist by itself, as Phlegmon, Gangr●na, or putrefaction, there cannot the differences of ulcers be taken thereby, or at lest be so called properly. But for because it is spoken of Galen at lest in 600. places, let us not hold any contention upon the names. 
Non esse de nominibus contendendum.  For if any man should call the putrefied ulcer, the corrosive ulcer, Gangrena, Erisipelas, the cankerous ulcer, the holed or cornered ulcer, the ulcer with putrefaction at the bone, the ulcer called Cacoethes, the painful ulcer, and all others of that sort: If any man (I say) should prescribe these as differences of ulcers, we aught not to contend with him, so that he minister right curation to every of them. And they are called differences of ulcers taken of that whereto they are joined, that is to say, the differences of the things contained with the disease: the differences of the things contained with the accidents: and the differences of the things contained with the causes and others (if any be) of like sort.   

Of the causes of Ulcers.  
THe latter sect of Chirurgeons have instituted two general causes throughout all ulcers, 
Causae ulceris.  that is to say, the Antecedent causes named of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, And the conjunctive causes also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The antecedent causes are these, viz. cutting, breaking, tearing, and such like solution of continuity, which cannot even by & by stir up Sanies, Pus, or Sordicies', which are judged necessarily to associate the ulcers, although it may be done in time, & that in removing the antecedent and corporal causes. Therefore the antecedent causes of ulcers is Cacochima, which is evil juice, and that is, when the humours have only default in quality and not in quantity: and also to much abundance of those perverse humours being in the body, may at length corrupt and putrefy the said parts of the same body. Furthermore, the wickedness of the said juice, is either engendered by a perverse kind of diet, or through the whole body, or else some particular member: as through default, which may be either in the liver or spleen, as Galene in divers places hath sufficiently testified.  
The conjunctive causes is said to be that intemperature, 
Causae coniunct.  which is called the malice of complexion in the wounded parts through the antecedent causes, or through the wounds and hurts themselves, or other tumours against nature, but especially through malignant ulcers, either broken, opened or stirred. For even the corroding ulcer is engendered Ex herpete & miliari, called of the Greeks Cenchrias, & also of Esthïomeno, which is an eating ulcer proceeding of choler more gross & thick, so may it also happen of the carbuncle, chief if it be venomous, which maketh an escharous ulcer, full of banks, filthy, and full of deep hollows. 
Tres modi aegrè sana biliu● ulc.  Wherefore these three are accounted ulcers rebellious & hard to be cured. First because of intemperature, which cometh to the subject flesh. Secondly through default of the blood thereto resorting. And thirdly through copy and quantity of the matter flowing, 
Gal. lib. 4. meth. medendi.  as Galene credibly hath us informed. He also affirmeth that the same division may be made otherwise, that is of curable, and also rebellious ulcers, the one for intemperature of the ulcerated flesh, and the other in respect of the humour flowing, and the same intemperature also may be divided two manner of ways, viz. when the flesh is subject to the only quality of nature above measure, or otherwise when there is present some access or certain tumour. Now also that flowing may be divided into two parts, that is as well in the quality as also in the quantity of the humour flowing.  
There shallbe therefore four kinds of ulcers, 
Quatuo● gen. ulc. aegrè sana bilium.  contumelious or hard to be cured: that is to wit, the only intemperature of the subject flesh, which we call Discrasia, intemperature with an accessive tumour, the humour flowing, or vicious, or much, for the humour which floweth abundantly into the grievous part of the ulcer, yea although it be not vicious, yet (for because it engendereth therein excrements) it hindereth the healing with long detraction of tyme. Galen seemeth also to make and add hereto a fift kind in his Commentary upon the Aphorism of Hypocrates, 
Hippocra.  which beginneth thus. Vlc. quaecunque annua sunt. etc. which is the passion of the corrupted bone in the ulcered place. For when the flesh which covereth the bone having applied (according to art) exiccative medicines) receiveth cicatrice: by and by it seemeth perfectly restored and amended, but shortly after some matter thither resorting from the corrupt bone, reduceth in the healed part a present inflammation, so that after, there followeth not only generation of matter, but also erosion of the aforesaid cicatrice & exulceration of flesh. 
Gal. lib. 4. Therapent. meth.  And as we may plainly gather by Galen, among the aforesaid affects and dispositions, all others to be united and knit, and that many and divers differences of ulcers do spring of those above mentioned. Furthermore, there must be a method of healing showed and declared, not of all together, but every one by himself, which shall follow after, beginning only with the cure of simple things, that thereby the way and mean to heal the compound affects may the more easily be attained.  
Now, seeing that as we entreat thoroughly of ulcers, these words Sanies, Pus, virus, Ichor, Sordes, and such like, are much in use, I think it not much forth of the way, if in this place we show what those words do signify among the Chyrurgians, and that in few words, how they agreed and disagree. Sanies. 
Sanies quid.  i ichor, is properly that thin humour, which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, such as is in a wound, neither new nor old, but between both, and some kind of this Ichor is interpreted Sanies sanguinis, the matter of blood. And of Sanies 
Sanei spec. duae celso.  says Celsus, be two kinds, the one named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, being thin and half white, proceading of an evil ulcer, and chief where as a sine we being hurt, inflammation is gathered. Meliceria is more gross, gluey, and like to white honey, proceeding also of evil ulcers, where the sinews about the joints be hurt, in which places it greatly floweth.  
But now amongst the new and later Physicians and Chyrurgians, who not observing the true propriety of voice, or agreeing upon the nature of the thing, do wrongfully usurp the name of Pus, in steed of Sanies, 
Sanies vul go pro pure male usurpatur.  sometime they make Sanies a kind of Sordes, Virus, Virulentum, and Purulentam collwiem, called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and of the Latins Pus. For the name of Sanies being truly defined, signifieth all humidity altered above nature. Wherefore if the humour be thin which proceedeth from the ulcer, it is called Virus 
Virus.  or virulentia. If it be thicker, Sordes. 
Sordes.  And if it be in a mean betwixt both, it hath to name by proper appellation Sanies. 
Sanies.  And it is said to be found abundantly in ulcers, and but little in deep wounds. Sanies therefore is properly among the vulgar Physicians and Chirurgeons, the same that Pus is among the Latins, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among the Grecians. Celsus calleth it the Genus, having under it two kinds contained called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the which ichor of the Latin interpreters is called and turned to Sanies and Meliceria called Pus, 
Puris generatio.  having the beginning of contused flesh or blood. But in the generation thereof, there is a doubtful or half evil transmutation or alteration. 
Gal. lib. 5. Simpli.  For as Galene says, there is in the bodies of living creatures three alterations. One plain and according to nature, that is when the meat is digested in the belly, bowels, or vessels, wherein the juices are engendered, and from whence every part receiveth nourishment. 
Tres alterationes.  An other plainly against nature. viz. in putrefying all things, & this (after a certain manner) is contrary to itself. The third is mixed or in a mean doing, partly according to nature, & partly contrary to nature.  
Therefore the transmutation or alteration, which doth engender Pus, hath the midst place among the best transmutation, which is the nourishment of the parts of living things, and that which is simply the worst, which is made stinking with putrefaction. For neither of only heat against nature, neither of heat obtained according to nature is suppuration or Pus engendered. But the heat of the inflammation is (after a certain manner) mixed of them both, which whilst it gathereth to suppuration, moveth great pain, and by the heat above nature of the inflamed part, fevers oftentimes are raised, and that by extreme heating that heart. And these two do chance (as it were of a certain boiling or burning of the blood, which being thoroughly exusted or burned, the remnant of it is made Pus, as by the altering of wood into ashes by burning, as Galene hath left testified in his Commentary upon Hypocrates, thus beginning. Dum pus conficit. etc. By this now it is manifestly proved what pus is, how it is engendered, and what is the efficient cause and matter thereof. Now we will show in few words what Virus, Virulentia, and Sordes are amongst the Chirurgeons. Virus 
Virus.  or Virulentia, is a subtle superfluity begotten of abundance of watery humours, which (saith Guydo) is of two sorts, hot and cold, whealike or ruddy. But Sordes 
Sordes.  is a certain superfluity more thick, engendered of humours having a thicker substance, which truly is of three sorts, for some is thick, unequal, heaped, and white, & some black and like dregs mixed with ashes.  
Furthermore, that which they call Virus, Galene calleth it in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in latin Sanies. 
Sanies seu virus quid.  But to say at one word Sanies or Virus, is that thin excrement in ulcers which continually moisteneth them, even as Sordes thickneth them, which procureth the ulcer named Rhyparon, that is Sordidum. 
Gal lib. 3. m●●h.  For even as (Galen says) the excrements whether they be thick or thin, do follow every mutation of the quality of the nourishment. So is there wont to be a double kind of excrement, and that chief in hollow ulcers: that is to say a thinner, called in Latin Sanies, in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and a thicker also named Sordes. Of the thin excrement, the ulcer is made moist, and of the grosser, filchie, whereof it cometh, that the said ulcer needeth two sorts of medicines, viz. to dry that which is moist, and to mundify the filthy, but these things do belong to an other contemplation. But Pus 
Pus est medium inter saniem & sordem.  doth choose (as it were) a middle substance between thick and thin, especially if it be that which is good. For that is best (says Hypocrates) which is white, 
Boni ac mali puris notae.  light, equal, and without noisome savour. And that is evil (sayeth Celsus) which is thin, watrishe (especially if it be so from the beginning) also if the colour be like whey, pale, yellow, or like dregs, and besides that, if it smell evil. There is an other kind of Pus 
Pus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  faith the same Corn. Celsus, called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which is abundantly found in great ulcers beginning to heal, which is thin, half white, and as it were unctuouse, not unlike the white fattiness of oil. That Sanies is evil which is much in quantity, 
Malae saniei notae.  over thin, yellow, pale, or black, gluey, or of evil savour, or if it corrode in the same ulcer, or the skin near thereto, & is little better, if it be somewhat more gross, half read or whitish. Therefore the better that the excrements aforesaid appeareth in ulcers, the better hope is to be had in their curation: even as that wound is like to be cured with expedition, which hath good and fresh blood flowing from it, wherefore the signs both good and evil, in every of these, must of the Chirurgeon be diligently weighed. So that he may either reprehend, or pronounce what ulcers be uncurable, which be easy to be cured, and which be hard to be cured. Which thing is of no small weight, and the Chirurgeon thereby may laudably be wondered at and avoid cavillouse slanders. And this said, shall suffice as touching Pus, Sanies, and Sordes. Now it rests that we speak of the signs of ulcers, and likewise of the judgements.   

The signs to know the differences of ulcers taken of the definitions.  
Every ulcer hath his proper note or token, whereby he is diseried and known from an other, and they are taken of the definitions of every of them. Wherefore I suppose it to be worthy the labour here to recite by the way, the short definitions of the chief differences above mentioned, wherein doing, we would not have the Reader to regard so much the words as the thing itself. For we had rather use the common definitions allowed long ago of all professors, though they be more rude and common, then with eloquence (though it were more pure style) to ●ast a mist upon that thing which is obscure enough of itself. Notwithstanding ● have eschewed, in every place as much ●s I might lanfully, that gross and idle ●arbarousnes. Therefore to go to the purpose, that is a virulent Ulcer wherein is ●oyson, which is a certain thin, and liquid excrement, called properly of the La●nes Sanies, abounding about erosion, called also by an other name Saniosum. The ulcer which by the malignity and malice thereof doth stir up evil and biting juice, which eateth and gnaweth the affected part, & is made by the increase of humours more ample daily, is named Corrosiwm, or Arrodens. 
Vlcus corrossi. sive arrod.  But if the malice thereof do so much increase, that not only it ulcerateth the corrupt flesh, but also wastefully consumeth the sound with daily increasing, it is then called Depascens. 
Vlcus depascens.  All the Physicians of Grece, (Galene also witnessing) do call this affect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  because it was wont to feed and carry to the sound parts, the corruption of the affected, and to the affected, that which was in the sound. Whose species or kind is Phagedena, 
Phagedena.  which is an ambulative Ulcer, which creeping here & there in that ski● and subject flesh, doth corrode and feeds on the top or outward parts, but it never perseth inwardly. Wherefore it hat● to name also Vlcus, in summo residens, ●● never Profundum. That Ulcer with● Galene is called Sordidum, 
Vlcus sordidum.  which hat● more gross & viscous excrements, which we call Sordem, but in Greek Rhyparon but the later writers have otherwise defined it, affirming that it hath certain crusts thick and gross, or (as they say) some flesh soft, thick and superfluous. The ulcer named Putridum, 
Lanfrancus sic definite. Vlc. putrid.  is that from whence some vaporous & evil smelling fumes do proceed like to dead carcases, or to that which putrefieth and corrupteth the flesh, having evermore thereto annexed Sorditiem, with outward heat, superfluous humidity, and oft-times a fever, and differing from the filthy ulcer by the malice thereof. They call that ulcer Cavernosum, 
Vlcus cuniculosum.  whose orifice is strict & narrow, but in the bottom larger, without sense hid, and having many corners, and like the Coney, running many ways, but without callosity or hardness, but others call it contrarily Cuniculosum. The fistulous ulcer differeth little from the hollow or cuniculouse ulcer, 
Vlcus fistulosum.  but that the wynding and turning ways thereof are ●callouse and hard. The cankerous 
Vlcus cancerosum.  ulcer is in sight horrible and stinking, having edges hard, thick, swelled, and inversed, the colour in the midst betwixt read and black, as one should say dusky or leadie, and about the ulcered part certain Veins appearing black, puffed up, swelled, thick, and replet with black blood. Vlcus 
Vlcus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. id est intemperatum.  discraton, commonly called Discrasiatum, is that, wherein Quaedam discrasia (that is intemperature) reigneth, a certain evil quality ruling above nature, as immoderate heat, cold, moisture or dryness, or many of them together, and such are properly called among us Vlcus intemperatum. That is called Vlcus crucians, 
Vlcus crucians.  or Dolorosum, which in labouring, doth cruelly vex or torment, or (as Guydoa Cauliaco saith) wherein Sense of the contrary thing is felt. Which may be called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  That (says Galen) is Vlcus rheumaticum, 
Vlcus rheumaticum.  which by the Flux and resort of humours, refuse to be healed. And that is called Verminosum 
Vlcus veminosum.  ulcus, which avoideth Worms, called of the Greeks Scolesondes, whose generation is putrefact. And those Ulcers, both of Galene, as also of all the Physicians of Grece, are called Cacoethes, 
Vlcus cacoaethes'.  who having all things applied, and each thing diligently administered and ordered in all points according to art, and yet refuseth utterly to heal, for because that in the ulcered or affected part, some malign & pernicious matter, lieth hid to us unknown, and hindereth the healing of them: We call those Ulcers malign, rebellious, and hard to be cured. Vlcus varicosum, 
Vlcus varicosum.  is that, which hath certain Ueines in parts above the Ulcer appearing swelled, and replet with thick & gross blood, which swelling, is called Varices, which by flowing to the said Ulcers, doth prohibit and hinder the healing thereof. And the Apostumouse Ulcer 
Vlcus apostemosum,  is that, which hath a tumour against nature, proceeding of some humour, such as Phlegmon or Erisipelas. All other Ulcers are sufficient easy to be descried by these aforesaid.   

The Prognostications or judgements of Ulcers.  
WHat Ulcers soever says Hypocrates, 
Aphor. 45. lib. 6.  do continued the space of a year or longer, the Orifice must needs be taken away, and the Cicatrice made hollow. What Ulcers soever (saith Galene (in his Commentary upon this Aphorism) are of long continuance, 
Vlcera anua & diuturna,  or having no Cicatrice by any means coming, or once received, breaketh again, and yet nothing left in the curation that aught to be taken away, it signifieth Cacoethes, which is a certain malignity, hard in receive curation. And that chanceth through the Flux of vicious humours, or through evil disposition of humours of long time gathered, and contained in the member, or else some affect or corruption of the bone in that member. (Avicen says) that what Ulcer soever, after it be filled with Flesh and a Cicatrice induced, if it suddenly break forth again, it is in danger to degenerate into a Fistula, 
Vlcera dura viridia aut nigra.  and Ulcers that be hard, black, or greenish, are evil: for in such there is extinction of that natural heat in the Ulcered part. 
Vlc. frig.  Cold Ulcers (says Arabs) are known by softness and whiteness.  
But the hot Ulcers decline to a redness, 
Vlc. call.  and are eased by cold Medicines, and are discerned by feeling. Therefore, every one are known, partly by colour, partly by touching, 
Lively 4. Therap.  and partly (says Galene) by the sense of the patient. Some say they feel a burning, others, a manifest cold in the part, and do take pleasure in hot or cold Medicines. etc. Dry and moist Ulcers, also have their proper Signs, and known chief by feeling. For feeling doth discern and judge dry and moist things, and such as follow those qualities, as hardness and softness, sharpness and lenity And if malign Ulcers do represent the colour of the rest of the Body. viz. white, purple, 
Vlc. totius corp. colorem representantia.  duskish or citrine, it showeth some default worthy reproof in the liver, whereby the blood there engendered is corrupted.  
Ulcers succeeding other diseases, are hard to be healed. 
Aliud.  Vlcera circumglabra 
Vlc. circumglabra.  prava sunt, that is to say. 
Aliud. Apho. 4. lib. 6.  When thou seest about the compass of the affected place, the Heeres to fall away, or Scales to arise, judge that Ulcer to be perverse and froward, for it signifieth evil humours, and malign juice to flow to the ulcered part, which do vehemently erode. Therefore such malign juice, doth neither clean abolish the roots of the Heeres, nor yet suffer the Ulcered place to receive Cicatrice or Curation. But when those Heeres had fallen before, do spring anew about the Ulcer, it is a good token or sign.  
The Ulcer (saith Hipocrates) whether it come before the disease, 
Aliud. Lib. i predictionum Vlcus ante morbum vel in ipso morbo enascens.  or in the sickness, aught diligently to be looked upon, for if the sick shall die, the Ulcer will be dry, black, or very pale before death.  
Ulcers wherein (after long emission of Sanies, and Virulentia) perfect and laudable pus beginneth to appear, is a good sign, for it signifieth both strength of nature, and obedience of the matter. What are the signs of good Pus, is before spoken of.  
Ulcers in the outward muscles of the back, legs, or arms, are not without danger. 
Aliud. Vlc. in quibus partibus periculosa.  Very perilous are they deemed also which occupy the inward members, or reach unto them. In what Ulcers so ever incarnative medicines be applied, 
Vide Hip. apud Gal. li. 4. The.  before they be well mundified: evil and superfluous Flesh will in them increase. But contrarily, which soever be duly, & as they aught to be mundified and made, (as it were) dry before, the Flesh in such (saith Hypocrates) can never increase superfluously, unless contusion happen thereto. Ulcers round in compass, 
Vlc. rot●da.  are wont to be the worst, and not to come to a Cicatrice, but difficultly and with much business, they bring children to utter ruin: Therefore in such, the Chyrurgians counsel aught to apply a Cautery actual, made after the quantity and fashion of the Ulcer compassed. In the outward members, 
Artuum ulcera.  that is to say, in the hands, feet. etc. Ulcers and Tumours against nature, as Phlegmon and such like, do oft happen, and commonly in the Glandulouse parts, especially in those bodies that be Plethoriques', that is, given to much repletion, for these parts, for as much as they be rare, are easy and (as it were) ready to receive every humour flowing. For so it cometh to pass, that through an Ulcer, either in the finger of the hand, or Foot, the Kernels about the armholes or privy parts, do also swell or receive inflammation, for when the blood floweth, or other humours should have recourse to the outward parts, strait by their looseness and rarity, part of the said flowings are in them retained, 
coli & capit. ulc.  sometime also the glandulous parts of the neck (either by Ulcers of the head, or parts nigh to them, or else in themselves) do swell. And Galene calleth these glandulous parts, which in that order do swell, Bubones. 
Bubones.   
When medicines applied to Ulcers, 
Aliud.  do profit, or (at lest) do no hurt or discommodity: 
Si auxilia profuerint aut nocue ●int.  it is a sure agrument, that such medicines were rightly administered. But if they 'cause any present hurt, or do make the Ulcer more dry, hot, or cold, it is a token that the things ministered are not fit for that present grief, for that things more dry or more moist (as the thing requireth) should be applied.  
Also if (by the things applied) the Ulcer become more soft by & by, use things more astringent. 
Si ulc. arro d●tur.  Nevertheless, if the Ulcer do erode and become more deep, then beware diligently, for that springeth of sharp and vicious juice together with malignity of the Ulcer, else through the faculty of medicines applied, which do more then sufficiently mundify: 
Nota.  for such by arroding the ulcered part, do increase much Sanies, and make the Ulcer very moist, whereby it happeneth that unskilful Chyrurgians, are so oft deceived in their purpose, for thinking the Ulcer to be Cacoethes, that is, that the matter therein contained to proceed of malignity, or (as they term it) of virulent and superfluous humidity, and while they earnestly minister things sharply to mundify, and thereby maketh not only the Ulcer more deep, and hollow, but also more hot, & sometime maketh it Phlegmonodes. Hereby the parties affected, do feel erosion and mordication. Furthermore, amongst many things which hurt or hinder Ulcers, saith Guy do de Cauliaco, the South wind is unprofitable, and also a moist air joined with heat. 
Ventus merid●onalis officit ulceribus  For they induce putrefaction in Ulcers, even as all things that putrefy, proceed of heat and moisture. Hence cometh it (says he) that Ulcers of the Legs, are harder & difficulter to be cured in the South parts then in the North, but in wounds of the head, it is contrary. And even as many tokens and judgements in wounds, are common to Ulcers, so likewise the judgements of Ulcers, whereof we now speak, may be to wounds compared. Wherefor● whatsoever is spoken before in the judgements of wounds convenient, or agreeing to Ulcers, revoke them in this place.   

Of the curing of Ulcers in general.  
IN the curation of Ulcers, 
Duo spectanda in curatione ulcerum.  there are two things to be considered and propounded unto us, that is, the contemplation of the Ulcer itself, by what means it is an Ulcer, with consideration of the cause of the Ulcer, of the Accidents, and every disposition therein contained, as also what part here or there it occupieth. For every Ulcer (as we have said before) either is alone and by himself (that is, having no other affect, neither conversant with it, neither going afore, nor following it) or else is joined with one or more, of which some have not only stirred up the Ulcer from the beginning, but also do now make it greater. Others be of that sort, without the which it can not obtain the reason of the scope of curation. But every Ulcer, in that it is an Ulcer, hath some common indication of the cure (even as Galene says) the way of healing Ulcers, 
Vlceris sa natio mediocris siccatio est.  is by a mean drying: this indication also is common to wounds, if (at lest they be wounds) that is, received of some stripe. This only is their difference, this needeth less: and the other (through the great humidity) requireth greater desiccation: If the Ulcer be joined with any other affect, curation aught not to be applied to the Ulcer, but first to cure the affect, & lastly the Ulcer. For whether Phlegmon, Erisepelas, or the tumour called Oedema, or blackness, or Ecchimosis, do besiege the Ulcered part, the cure must be gentle. But if there be some strong intemperature (which is wont to bring weakness to the affected part) and be joined to the Ulcered flesh, then, that is first to be cured. And when thou hast cured the intemperature, afterward thou shalt easily heal the affect. So must we first help the tumours called Varices, which are oft above the Ulcered place, and then to cure the Ulcer. But none of these curations (saith Galene) is of the Ulcer itself, but of some other affect, which either maketh the Ulcer or nourisheth it. 
In tollendis dispositionibus cum ulcere complicat. duplex consilium esse. Gal. li. 4. Meth. med.  Furthermore, Galene affirmeth that in taking a way the dispositions contained in Ulcers, there are two things to be considered: that is to say, either utterly to take away such like affects in the body, or else to destroy that which is therein unprofitably contained. But this he means to be done where affect is little and plain, for where it is great, it can not be brought to a Cicatrice before, till the other affects have remedy. 
Partic. in curandis ulceribus scopi.  Of such like Ulcers therefore as are joined with other affects or dispositions, there be four particular ways of curation.  

1 The first prescribeth a convenient diet fit for the curation of such Ulcers.  
2 The second is to divert the matter antecedent.  
3 Thirdly, in correcting and removing the accidents and dispositions joined with the Ulcer.  
4 Fourthly, those accidents being corrected, doth teach and instruct us to cure them after the manner of hollow wounds.   
But we do follow the first and second intention, both by amending, emptying, diverting and preventing that same flowing, wherewith the body of the affected, doth abound, and flow in the ulcered part. Furthermore, the ways whereby we may aptly amend and divert the abundance of humours, & take away their corruption is thus. viz. by Phlebotomy, Purgation, Approved diet, Cautery potential, Uomiting & others of that sort. We prevent flowings with hinding, washings, epithmes, ointments Exbolo armeno, and other restrictives. When as therefore the humour flowing in the Ulcered places, is neither more, nor yet much worse than convenient, sufficient repercussives, & binding above the Ulcered place shall suffice, & which binding doth shut the pores whereby the matter should flow into the Ulcer: it is meet therefore that the medicines applied to such Ulcers, be more dry than they that serve for the simple Ulcer. But if it happen that this flowing can not be stayed or kept under, the cause then must be searched forth, and that must first be taken away, which if it come by weakness of the part that receiveth it, it must be strengthened with proper curation of the ulcered place. But if it come by abundance of blood or evil humours, either in the whole Bodies, or in any of the parts, they are first to be cured but the imbecility of the part, whereto by reason thereof more of humours than is convenient doth resort, doth come altogether of intemperature, notwithstanding, not of every intemperature. Whereupon it cometh to pass, that the ulcered flesh is oft-times only temperate & not weak, and oft-times both untemperate & weak, for strong intemperature bringeth weakness to the affected part.  
The third and last intention, which is in amending and taking away the accidents and dispositions, joined with the Ulcer, is brought to pass by due consideration of the qualities of the humours and nature of the affected part.    

The second part.  
¶ The second discourse of Ulcers, with their particular cures.  
HEretofore I have expressed the causes, signs, differences, and universal or general cure for all kinds of Ulcers, with their Prognostications or judgements. Now also will I prosecute the matter without ceasing, until I have prescribed to every Ulcer his particular distinction, and several cure, gathered forth of divers Authors, and especially out of Antonius Calmeteus Vergesatus.  

Of an Ulcer with intemperature.  
WHat kind of intemperature 
De intemperie cu●●vlcere.  soever it be, it may be abated by universal remedies, as by diet & convenient purgations, 
Calid. quo modo emendetur.  and (if it be joined with any humour) by rewlsions of all sorts. hot in temperature, whether it be alone, or joined with the Flux of humours, it may be amended with Vnguentunalb. or Rub. cum Camfora, or Vng. ex Pompholig. vel de Plumbo, vel de Cerusa, aut aqua Rosacea, & Succis Plantaginis, Solani, & Semperuivi.  
Cold intemperature may be amended by fotibus, 
Frigid. ut curetur.  only of wine, heated or boiling therein Wormwoode, Mints, Isope, Penirial, Calamint, Organi. Rosemary, Stechados. etc. or Lee with Allom, or vnguem. Basilic. or ung Citrin. vel Dealthea. The moist intemperature, 
Quomodo humid. intemp. ad natural. ●educitur.  is brought to a natural (by exiccative unguentes, as De Pompholi, de Plumbo, de Cerusa, de Gratia Dei, Diacalcitis The humours respected for that intemperature happeneth seldom without a humour, neither must we pass the nature of thaffected part, which must either more or less, receive drying medicines.  
The dry intemperature, may be restored natural (sayeth Galene) by fotions of water, or Vng. Basilicon, or ung 
Sic Intemperatura ficca alteratur. Galen. 4. Metho.  de Pice, or Diachilon dissolved in oil, to every ounce whereof is added Pulueris Rosarum. I dram.   

Of an Ulcer with pain.  
Pain in an Ulcer proceedeth most commonly of hot and sharp intemperature with corrosion. 
De dolore cum ulcere. Sic accidit dol. ex caliditate.  And then profiteth public medicines, as Succus Plantaginis, Solani, Semperuivi, Hiosciami, or their stilled waters, mixed with Vinegar, and Oil of Roses. It profiteth also to minister the white of an Egg, or the whole Egg, mixed with Oil of Roses, Bolo armeno, and Terra sigillata, and Aceto.  
A Cataplasm also is commodious, made with Mallows, Plantain, and Bran, and boiled and mixed with oil of Roses. Or it shall not be incommodious to use the white of an Egg, with Oil of Roses, & Litharges, diligently mixed in a Leaden mortar, & after boiled at a gentle fire in a pound of the juice of Houseleek, to the consumption of the said juice. Else the whole Egg mixed with Oil of Roses, and Terebentine, or ung Popillionis, half an ounce, cum oleo. Vitelli ovorum one ounce. Or ung Album Camforati, or ung de Lithargi. De minio. de Tutia. De Plumbo. ung Rub. cum Camfora.  
If the pain come of cold intemperature, 
Si ●l●●●●it ●●●●a.  wash the place with wine, wherein hoot things is boiled, such as is spoken of before, and these or such like also are profitable. viz. Basilicon, unguentum Fuscum, & Citrinum.  
But when the pain springeth by dissolution of continuity, 
Si per dissolutionem continuitatis.  stupefactives than are exceeding commodious. Notwithstanding, those are much more profitable, which increase the natural heat, 
Anodina. hic confe●unt,  as the yolk of an Egg, Saffron, Terebentine, and Oil of Roses, together mixed and applied to the Ulcer. And about the circuit of the Ulcer, Ping. Gallinarum, Anseris, Anatis, Suis etc. Muccagi. sem. Lini. Fenugreci, & Maluae, a●e good and necessary. Also Oleo Rosa Amig. Chamomeli Aneti, Violacei. Vulpini. etc. Or else.  

Rec.  Maluae. one handful and a half. Farmae. Sem Lini, ana. half an ounce. Fenugreci, & Hordei. Olei Camomeli, ana. vi. drag. & Lilij.  
Ol. Ros. iii ounc. Muccag. sem. Altheae, one ounce and a half, Vitellos, num. two. mix them and make thereof a Cataplasm.  
When the pain is great, and the precedent medicines prevail not, then Add Narcotica accedendum, 
Ad narcotic. accedendum.  and make a Cataplasm with Far. Hordei, Oleo Ros. & Nimpheae, vel Mandrag. cum lact vel passo coctis, or with bread crumbs infused in water with Oil of Roses, the yolks of Eggs, and Saffron, adding thereto Opij half a scruple. Or a Cataplasm made with the leaves of white Poppy, Mandrag, and Henbane, with the powder of Camomile. So is it good to apply Philonium, or Theriaca, or HEY. de papavere, Mandrag. vel Hiosc. cum Opio. or Succus Hios. cum lact. mulie. cum Ouillo & Opio. And great commodity hath been found ex Oleo Ranarum.   

Of an Ulcer with a tumour.  
IF with the Ulcer through pain, 
De ulc. cum tumore.  a tumour do chance, it must be assuaged, (the cause of pain considered) whether it come thy dissolution of continuity or with biting, or intemperature. But if the swelling come by the malice or abundant Flux of humours to the place, then prescribe a diet thin and cold. mollify or purge the belly (respecting the humours nature) use Phlebotomy, restrain the humour flowing, and resolve that which is already flowed● which all must be considered in tumours against nature. If the tumour proceed of hot humours, 
Si tumour ab hu. call.  it shall be expedient to boil in tart wine a sweet Orange bruised, or Quinces and sour Pears, boiled with the powder of Myrtles, else Lintels decoct with the powder of the rinds of Pomegranettes, mixed with Roses and Terebintine.  
In the augmentation the like medicines adding to, Hordei Fabarun, Tritici, Farinae & Camomel. In the state make a Cataplasm ex decoct. Mal. & Absinth. in vino dulci cum Far. Sem Lini. Fenug. & furfure. But if Pu● first appear, make a Cataplasm ex Mal. in aqua coctis ●● Farina Sem. Lini, Fenugr. & axungi●●suilla, vel ex Farina Tritici, Oleo & ● Croco, boiled in water to the form of ● pulteise. If the emunctory places (through pain of the Ulcer) be afflicted with tumours the matter being hot, coquito Mal iii ounces, cum Furfure in aqua, 
Respice materiae temperament.  and apply it, which also prevaileth much against the tumour in the Ulcer, but if the matter be cold.  
Rec. Mummiae in vino ad crassitiem coctae, i ounce. Oesipi. two. ounc. Fari. Tritici, half an ounce. Boil these together, and make thereof a Cataplasm.   

Of the Contused Ulcer.  
AN Ulcer contused, requireth things moistening, 
De ulcere Contuse.  and engendering Pus, as a pulteis ex Fari. triti. Oleo & aqua coct. aut Triticum aqua calida diutissime maceratum, which being boiled apply it. Or one made ex radi. altheae & caricis simul coctis ad mellis crassitiem, cum Fari. triticea fiat Cataplas. and then resort to the cure of wounds.   

Of Flesh excreasing in Ulcers.  
THis being commonly called proud flesh, must be taken away, 
De carni● in ulcere excrescent.  either with cautery actual, or corrosive powders, the weaker sort be these, Alumen vst, hermodact. 
Corrodent imbecilla.  & cum tartaro, Nuclei dactil, combustorum, aqua vitae cum Sulphur, ung. Aposto. Sem. urticae, Serpentaria squamma aeris, es ustum, Radix asphodeli, Cinis Erinacei, Stupa minutim incisa: Somewhat more vehement be these, Pul. 
Paulo vehement.  Mercurij solus, vel admixtus alumine usto ad parts equales, ung. Aegiptiacum vel Apostolorum cum aerugine rasili: vel aqua vitae. ij. ounces, Eruginis rasilis. two. drag. misceantur, vel linimentum aqua sublimata ter aut quater imbutum & exiccatum.  
The strongest be these. viz. 
Valentissima.  Calx viva, Calcitis, Calcanthum ustum sublimatum, Hydrargyrum, and like these in form following.  

Rec.  Hydrargyri sublimat. two. drag. Aluminis crudi. u drag. Aqua Ros vel plantag. vi. ounc. Bulliant ad consumptionem quart partis. And this water is of marvelous operation.  

Rec.  Salis nitri. Vitrioli Romani. an. half an ounce. Aluminis. Hydrargyri sublim. half a drag. Aqua plantagis, vi. ounc. Aceti. two. ounc. Bulliant ut dictum est.  
But when this is applied, have in a readiness ung de Bol. armeno, and apply it to the places round about, to preserve the parts nigh thereto, duly considering the quantity of superfluous flesh.   

Of the discoloured Ulcer with hardness of the edges.  
VUhen the Ulcer is discoloured, & the edges hardened, note if the hardness be but small, it may be cured by resolutive medicines, which be these. 
De ulc. de colore cum labiorum duritie.  Ping. Anser, Gal. Anatis, Vituli, Bovis, Vrsi, Leonis, & ●orum medullae, and of them, those that be newest are best, much profitable also be these viz Ole. lil. Amigdal. dull. Lumbric. Vulpinum, Oesipus, Muccag. Alth. Lini, Fenugr, omnia gummi genera, Bafilicon, Diachilon, Emplastrum de muccagine, Medulla cruris bovis, cum Muccag, all thee, Dragagan. & Terebent. Ole. Omphacino & exigua cerae part.  
If by gentle medicines the hardness amend not, then scarify the edges, and lay on them Mercury in powder, then apply some of the aforesaid medicines, or use a cautery, or incision, else strong medicines, as is above mentioned, first knowing the Pacientes mind, and then the sense and situation of the member.  

Rec.  Lithargyrij. an. two. drag. Lapid hematitis. Vitrioli Ro. Hydrargyri sublimati. two. dram. and a half. misce.   

Of the Ulcer with tumour in the the Veins.  
OF this we have little to entreat, 
De ulc. cum varicibus.  when (as touching this matter) we have spoken sufficiently in the Ulcer with tumour. This only resleth, that the Ulcer can not be cured till the tumour in the veins be taken away with often bathings, and after a sort nourishing, the which being taken away with the accidents aforesaid, either it will cure itself, or else receive the cure of a simple Ulcer.   

Of the Ulcer with putrefaction in the Boon.  
IF in an Ulcer the Boon be also putrefied, 
De ulc. cum ossis carry.  the Boon is first to be bared by corrosives, or other wise as is aforesaid, & so much of the boon as is corrupted must be taken away, till the Boon appear bloody, and afterward apply this following.  

Rec.  Radic. Aristolo. rotund. Ireos, Peucedani, Corticis panacis, an. two. drag. Corticis Pini, Thuris, Aloes.  
Puluerizentur subtilissi. Which being mixed cum Melle, ung. Regis, vel Egiptiaco, apply to the place, & lay aloft Emplastrum Diacalcitis vel divinum. When the Boon putrefied lieth so deep that it cannot be come by with instrument, prepare this iniection following.  

Rec.  Rad. Aristolo. utriusque an. i ounc. &. s. Iridis Florentiae. Cen taurea minor. Agarici, iii drag. Simphitum. Hiperici, an. i m. Pes Collumbini, Herb. Roberti. Cortic. Pini. two. ounces. Ros. rub. an. P. sem. Anthos.  
Mel Ros. cola i quart. Infuse them all in wine, and still them in Limbeck, and iniec●e into the Ulcer of the water thereof twice in one day.  
Nevertheless if the Boon be greatly corrupted, nothing can be better therefore then Cautery, for safely and speedily it drieth both the bottom and top. 
Rationem habe ad cauterij ca lidiratem.  Notwithstanding, so order the heat of the Iron, that it serve aptly, both for the depth and quantity of the Boon corrupted, for we have seen that to hot and vehement cauteries, expelleth not so soon the Boon corrupted, but have spoiled it with corruption. But if the corruption lie ye● deep, after those of your first cautery (to the end it may be more easily avoided) to make the Boon sound and whole, 
Terebra erit multis foraminibus apericnda.  it shallbe moste expedient to pierce it with many holes, until some blood appear, & in those holes to apply a cautery, by means whereof, the Boon may be very well dried. Or else fill them with Aqua forti, so shall the Boon be dried, and by little and little, expel that is corrupted. 
Sub eaque natura car nem generabit, ne sa nun os aere externo iterum corrumpatur.  And under that shall nature incarnate flesh, to preserve the sound boon from the corruption of outward air. To conclude, the Boon corrupted shallbe excluded, and none, or very little humour shall follow it. After the Cautery hath been applied the three first days, and the Escar removed, them good it is to power into the Ulcer Ol. Ros. cum Oui albumine, and the three days following, use a digestive made Ex Oui vitello & Rosaceo, deinde Butyrum cum Melle. The rest of the cure for the Boon corrupt, may happily be wrought by this water following.  

Rec.  Aquae vitae ter distill. an. three ounces. Aquae Rosarum. Sublimati. i drag. Bulliant lento igni ad sublimati dissolutionem, and keep it to thy use in pure Uial. And after the use thereof the sequel is profitable.  

Rec.  Aristolo. rotun. three drams. Cort. Pini, sing. Radi Peucedani an. two. drams. Arundinis, Agarici albi. an. i dram and a half Tartari. Euphorbij. i dram. Powder them together very small, and put thereof into the Ulcers orifice. Else mix it with honey, or ung Regis cum melle or ung Egiptiaco, and apply that to the Boon corrupted, after the use of the water, and lay on aloft, Emplastrum Diacalciteos, or divinum, or this plaster following, which enduceth the Boon corrupted, doth mundify, and incarnate, by use whereof I never failed.  

Rec.  Corticis ovorum, Ossium humanorum, an. two. drag. Pann. combustorum, & in pul. redact. Radi. Peucedani. an. half an ounc. Lumbric. puluerizat. Emplastri de gratia Dei. an. two. oun. Diachilon come. Picis navalis. Mix them together, and make thereof a plaster, which apply after the use of the water and powder, or linament as is aforesaid.  
And finally, if the Boon be corrupted through usque ad medullam, the remedy is only to separate the member, except it be capite coxendicis, vel spina dorsi, and then it is best to flee the cure.   

Of the malignant Ulcer called Cacoethes.  
IN curing these kinds of Ulcers, 
De ulc. malig. quae Cacoethe vocantur.  the causes must first be diligently searched, to wit whether it be Plethora, Cacochymia, or Cachexia, else an universal intemperature, or of some inward part, as the Liver, Spleen, Uentricle, Ulcered part, swelling of the Ueines, hard edges, weakness of the affected part brought to pass by evil humours therein heaped, or the causes aforesaid. 
Tolle cau●fam ante affectum.  Therefore let us take away the causes according to their natures then by diet, Phlebotomy, and purgation to suppress the members intemperate, whatsoever it be, and in what part. As for intemperature, look before in the chapter of the Ulcer with intemperature. And commonly in these kind of Ulcers, we have prescribed to the patient the use of Guiacum, 
Guiacum his procest  with happy success, after the use of common purgation, but in them whose humours and juice is profitable, a diet is sufficient, but if the ulcer seem bathed in humours, it is time to restrain them. For the tumours Varices, thou hast a proper chap. but for intemperature of the inner parts, take counsel of the Physician. And as touching Ulcers malign and hard to receive Cicatrice, 
V●l emens ●xi●●atio est summa curatio.  the sum or chief scope of curation is vehement exiccation of the biting humours, which is brought to pass per repellentia, and discutientia. Having good respect to re●resseth at which floweth, and to take a●aye that which is infixed. And for this purpose these following are most expe●ient. Aristoloch. Corticis Radi. Caparis. Malicorium, Radix Pannacis, Sarcocol●ae, Vitrum Combustum, Testae piscium Vstae. All metals burnt likewise are profitable, as Cadmia, Calchitis usta, & ●ota sub Canicula, & cum aceto trita, Antimonium, Diaphriges, Plumbum ●vstū lotum, Squamma aeris & ferri, Sco●ia plumbi, Erugo rasilis usta & lota, on ●nia Aluminis genera, Terra sigillata.  
But a further respect must be had to the body, for that in some bodies the metals and such like aforenamed medicines, must be washed before they be ministered, but in harder bodies, without danger, certain of them may unwashed be applied, because in such parties the members sense is more dull. 
Habe rationem ad corporis habitum & sensummé brorum.  Wherefore first let the Ulcer be washed with an astringent decoction made with Allome water, like as followeth.  

Rec.  Succi Agrimoniae, an. half a pound. Solani, Plantaginis, Vinum album, iiii. ounces. Aluminis crudi, iii ounc. s. Auripigmenti, half a scru. Albumina ovorum. vi. Stir these together and distill them, let the Uler with the water thereof ●● washed twice in the day, which wa●●● also much availeth to conglutinate wounds. afterward.  

Rec.  Olei. Rosar. vi. ounces. Cerusae. three ounces. lethargy auri. an. i oun● and a halfe● Lap. Calaminaris. Tuthiae preparat. an. one ounce. Boli Armeni. Camforae dissolute. in aqua Ros● two. drams, Olei. de papavere. ii● ounces. Cerae albae. q. s. Make thereof an unguent.  

Rec.  Olei. Ros an. two. ounces and a half. & Mirt. Succ. Solani. an. one ounce and a half. Plantag. Semperuivi. Sepi Hircini, an. two. ounc. & Vitulini. Ping suillae liquefact. three ounces. Calcis tertio in aqua extinct. vi. drag. & Lota, Malecorij. an. seven. drams. Balausti●. Mirobal. citrini. Aerug. rasilis u. drams. Scoriae ferri. x. drams Sarcocollae. two. drams. All which being bruised, and mixed together, infuse them one whole day, & boil them a little, adding thereto.  
Litarg. utriusque. an. x drams. Cerusae. vi. drams. Plumbi usti. u drams. Antimonij. i ounce. Camforae. i scruple. Cerae. q. s.  
Mix them well in a Marble mortar. Hereto also may be added Argent. vivi, i ounce, but it profiteth more, first to use the powder of Mercury, after the water aforesaid, and after the unguent.   

Of the virulent corroding and feeding Ulcer.  
THese kind of ulcers which differ ou● Secundum maius & minus, must ha●ue the Method of their cure consist ●● three things only. 
De ulcere  first in a diet col● and dry, secondly by evacuation of the a●●●ecedent matter, both by Phlebotomy ● it seem profitable as also by medicines siccative, as is said in Herpes and Eri●● pelas. Also particular rewlsions are ● modious, as cupping, frication, and b●●ding the contrary member, or use of vn● de Bolo, to beat back the matter flowing. 
Catartica Particulares rewlsiones con●erent.  The third scope is referred to medicines cold and dry astringent and discutient. Convenient simples be these, Le●tes, Arnoglos a Solanum, Summitates ●●bi, Fol. Vlmi & Papaveris, Fol. & fruc● Cydoniorum, Mirti, Balaustia, Cort●● Granatorum, Galla omphacitis, Accas● Bolus armenus, Cortex thuris, Nucl● Mirobal. Mastiche, Simphitum, Plum● vst. & lotum, and all metals mentioned in the aforesaid chapter. Of which both fotions, linimentes, unguentes, cerotes and emplasters, profitable for thy purpose may be made. 
Sit malitia ulc. primo extinct●.  And some use to apply the powder of Mercury, first to take away the malice of the Ulcer and corrosion, and leave it the space of a whole day in the Ulcer, applying aloft ung de Minium, until the malice of the Ulcer be quite extinct. afterward wash the Ulcer and the parts nigh thereto, with alum water, as in the chapter a foresaid, or as followeth.  

Rec.  Succi. rub. Sumach. Virga pastoris. an i quart. Plantaginis. Solani. Acetosae. Albumina ovorum. vi. Aluminis pulue. iiii. ounces.  
Distill them all in a leaden still, and use it, or else these waters following, which is right profitable for Ulcers, filthy and corrosive.  

Rec.  Cerusae. an. one ounce. lethargy. Plumbi. usti. an. half an ounce. Lapid. Calaminaris. Boli armeni. i ounce and a half. Sang. Draconis. an. one ounce. Terrae sigillatae. Aluminis combusti. half an ounc. Calicum glandium, Gallarum viridium. Baccarum mirti. an. i m. Psidiae, Balaustiarum. Sumach. Coriandri. an. half an ounce. Sem. Plantaginis. Rosar. rub. two. p.  
Boil all these in sufficient quantity of Smiths water, which done, in that water wash the Ulcer, which in wonderful manner will dry. All these may be taken to the decoction, or some of them, whereof also if it be thought convenient, you may add more cold things, as henbane, mandrag, and Popie, if there be much hot intemperature joined with the Ulcer. To the addition, further may be annexed bonny, to mundify if thou use it to a filthy ulcer. Or.  

Rec.  Aquae Rosarum, an. one quart. & Plantaginis, Aluminis, two. ounces. Zacchari. one ounce.  
Boil them altogether till the Allome and Sugar be melted, & there with wash the Ulcer. Whereto also if thou ad Mellis, one ounce, It shall not be a little profitable for all filthy Ulcers.  
Els.  

Rec.  Aquae Plantag. vi. ounces. Hidrargyri sublim. i dram. Salisamonniaci. one drag. &. s. Salis commu. two. drams. Aluminis. i dram.  
Boil them together in a glass vessel, to the consumption of the fourth part. And this water or the other, shallbe proved profitable.  
After the Ulcer be washed, apply thereto ung de Minio, or de Plumbo, or ung rub. cum Camfora, or ung Album Cam●forat. or ung de Pompholigo.  
Or else.  

Rec.  unguentum de Plumbo. two. ounces. ung Popul. two. drag. Succi. Plantaginis. i ounce. Albumi. ovi. i  
Mix them diligently in a leaden mortar, or if you will, this.  

Rec.  Tuthiae preparat. half an ounce. Plumb. vst. an. i ounce. & Loti. Cerusae lotae.  
Mix them in a Leaden mortar, with water of Plantain, and add thereto. Bol arm. an. two. drams. Terrae sigil. Olej Rosarum q. s. Cerae albae. Fiatque unguentum.  
Or.  

Rec.  lethargy, three ounces. Olej Rosa. q. s. Aceti. to be mixed, and if thou add to a little Ceruse, it shall better prevail for all cankerous dispositions, but it willbe better if thou add thereto Lead macerated in white wine. Or by putting to Nucem cipressi, Tuthiam, Boracem, Aes ustum, & Antimonium, of it shallbe right excellent for Ulcers that be hard, to receive cicatrice.  
Or.  

Rec.  Olei Ros. an. two. ounces. Mirt. Succi climenon depurat. two. ounc. s. Succi Plantaginis, i ounce. Sepi Hircini. i ounce s. Aluminis usti. i dram. lethargy auri an. one ounce. & argenti. Scoriae ferri. two. drams.  
Puluerizen `` `` `` `` `` `` `` `` tur tenuissime ac simul coquantur tres horas, adding to. Cerae alb. one ounce. Terebentinae. vi. drams. Mercurij extinct. three drams. Camforae. i scruple. Erugi. rasilis, one ounce. Make thereof an unguent.  

Rec.  Ceruse, lethargy. Bole. armeni. an. i ounce. Terrae sigillat. Lapid. Calamin. Sandal. alb. & rub. an. two. drag. Baccarum mirti. Rosarum rub. Sem Papaveris, an. one dram Hiosciami. Mandragora. Olei Rosarum an. three ounces. & Violarum. Cerae albae, tantundem,. Camforae. one dram. Make thereof a cerote.  

Rec.  Olei Rosar. an. two ounces. & Mirtini. Succi. Clymenon. iiii. ounces. Succi. Plantaginis two. ounces. Pinguedinis Vituli i ounce. s. Folium Caprifolii, an. i m. & Climenon.  
Boil them together (the herbs being first bruised) to the consumption of the juices. Then add to. lethargy. two. ounces. Minij. i ounce. Camforae. i dram. Mastices. half an ounce. Cerusae. an. u drams. Antimonij. Plumbi usti. Cerae alb. q. s. Make thereof a Cerote.  
If the Ulcer be not overcome by these or such like medicines, but exepeth more and more, than Cautery is to be used, or this following.  

Rec.  Hidrargyri sublimati. two drag. s. Vng. Populionis. vel Dealtheae. (Which represseth the sharpness of the sublimate) i dram, mix them, or Sublimatum mixed with Vng. album. And after the escar be removed, use unguentum de Calce & de Pompholigo, mixed by equal portions, or the aforesaid medicines.   

Of the filthy and putrefied Ulcers.  
TO this kind of Ulcer, 
De sordido acputri ulcere.  diet, Phlebotomy, and purgation belongeth, and after purgation, the use of Guiacum is right excellent, to dry & expel superfluous excrements together with sweat, whereby they shall not resort to the affected place. Simples in this case prevailing are these viz. Farinae Hordei. Fabarun, Cicerum, Orobi, Lupinorum, Aristol. Iris. Hypericon. Centaureum minus, the juice whereof mixed with honey, is good against all filthy Ulcers. Also Marrubium, Gentiana, Absinthium, Apium, Mel, and all bitter things, salce, etc. Whereof make lotions, Imimentes, and unguentes. Wash the filth with Hidromel, Oenomel, or sea water, or ex Lixivio iiii. ounc. cineris Caulium, & Cortices Fabarum, cum aquae plwiae. i li. or iiii. ounces. Lixivij mellis. i ounce, Precipitat. two. drams, or wash the Ulcer cum decoctione Rois, Balaust. Cortices Mirobalani Citrini, Rosarum & Mellis. Whereto also it may profit to ad Alumen. Notwithstanding, you must diligently mark lest in filthy ulcers, thou use medicines to much astringent, seeing such things doth greatly harden the filthiness, and make it after, more difficult to be removed and mundified. It doth profit else to wash it with Lie, in which is dissolved Egiptiacum, and then to use Egiptiacum alone, or mixed cum ung. regis, respecting the great store of filthiness. Else to use this mundificative following which is excellent.  

Rec.  Succi. Apij. an. iiii. ounces. & Mellis, Terebintinae. two ounces. pulvis ireos exiccat. vi. drams. Farinae Hordei. three drams. Make an unguent thereof.  
Or,  

Rec.  Succi absinthij. an. two. ounces. Apii, Plantaginis. Farinae Hordei. an. one ounce and a half. & Orobi. Terebintinae. i ounce. Mellis. i quart. s.  
Make thereof an unguent, adding of Myrrh. iii drag. or in steed thereof the yolks of Eggs.  
Els.  

Rec.  Succi Centaureae mino. u ounces. Succi apii. iiii. ounces● Succi Plantaginis. two. ounces● Mel. half a pound. Terebentinae. two. ounces● Farinae Hordei, & Orobi. an. two ounces. Pulueris iridis. half an ounces  
Let the juices boil with the honey, the● add Farinas, and being mixed and taken from the fire, and thereto Terebentinae & iridem, And for this scope of cure, these also are profitable, unguentum de Resina, or unguentum Fuscum Nicolai, or ung Apostolorum, or ung de Gummi, or ung Diapompholi. cum Mercurii pulu. for that doth very well mundify. So likewise availeth Emplastrum Gratia dei● Emplastrum divinum, Emplastrum rub. Grec. 
Gal. ij. ad Glautonen  bis coloratum, which as Galene affirmeth, doth aptly mundify, and draweth the filthy matter and corrupted bones from the bottom to the outward part of the Ulcer.  
Or else,  

Rec.  Galbani, Opopanacis, an. one ounce. Bdellij, Amonniaci. Cerae novae, one pound. Olei Ros. vel commu. two. pound. Resinae, three ounces. Lithargy. auri. i pound. and s. Olibani, Mirrhae, Aloes, an. one ounce and a half. Thuris, Masticis, Aristolo. rotum. Stiracis calamity. half an ounce. Succi Betonicae, Verbenae, Caprifolij, an. one ounce. Plantaginis, Pimpenel. Cynoglos●. Lapid Hematitis. two. drams. Eruginis rasilis. i ounce.  
Dissolve the Gums in vinegar, boil the Litarge with the Oil, Wax, and Rosin, and in the end put in Eruginem Rasilem and the rest.  
But if the filthiness grow to putrefaction, then must the Ulcer be washed with Oxicrate or Muria, and then to apply ex Carnibus piscium salsorum, Farinae Orobi. Aristolo. long. Scylla, & mel, Boiled in wine, in form of an Emplaster, or unguentum Egiptiacum, and in deep Ulcers, the decoction aforesaid, or Aenomelle or Egiptiacum Lixivio dissolute. is to be injected. Or the excellent medicine of Avicen, 
Medicamentum Auicennae.  made in this form.  

Rec.  Auripigmenti. one ounce. Calcis vivae. an. vi. drams. Aluminis, Corticis mali punici. Thuris. an. half an ounce. Gallarum. Cerae, an. q. s. & Olei.  
Make thereof an unguent.  
But whilst we go about thus with vehement medicines to mundify the Ulcer, it behoveth to use unguentum de Bolo & Puluilli ex Stupis oxicrato, to avoid inflammation, which is conversant with pain, 
Vitanda est inflammatio qua dolour accersitur.  which must needs be increased by such vehement medicines.  
Nevertheless, if this feeding or eating do daily more & more corrode the parts nigh thereto, than medicines that belong to malign Ulcers are here expedient, and now and then to take away by incision, that which is putrefied and corrupted, which may also be done by hot Iron, or sharp medicine, such as Trochisis, Asphodeli & Trochis de arsenico, or this following, which pierceth vehemently within the space of an hour, and causeth less pain than either Arsenic or sublimatum.  

Rec.  Calcis vivae, two pound. Cineris Ilicis, an. i pound Caulium, Fabarum ac tartari. Soldae ex qua fit vitrum. half a pound Axungij veteris. one quart.  
Let them all remain mixed with Liee whereof Soap is made, the space of seven days, afterward strain it, and boil it to the hardness of a stone, or to a sufficient thickness and dryness, ad to (if you will) Saponis moll. one ounce. And this not only availeth to take away flesh, but also to consume Fistulous hardness. I● shallbe good also to use Aqua sublimata, as is in the aforesaid Chapter, which without great pain doth corrode & heal both the Ulcers of the mouth and other parts. Or use this in liquid form following.  

Rec.  Terebentinae lotae. half an ounce. Cerae albae. two. drams.  
Melt them together, and add thereto Hidrargyri sublimati, one ounce. So stir them together till they be cold.  
Or,  

Rec.  Hidrargyri sublimati. i ounce. Sanguis Draconis, two. drams.  
Make it in powder, and strew it into the Ulcer, else roll Bombast on thy instrument, & fasten it in the Ulcer or Ueine, where hence the blood floweth. Which is is astringent and hath power to cauterize, and then to finish, fly to the cure of Gangrena, or Sphacelus, and also for this purpose many things are to be found profitable in the chapter aforegoing.   

Of the deep and Crooked Ulcer.  
THe method in curing deep and crooked Ulcers, 
De profundo ac simi● so ulc.  appertaineth to diet and other universal order, according to the disposition of the body, and Ulcers, foreseeing and preventing all pain, intemperature. etc. associating the Ulcer, for alway the causes both efficient and favouring, must be resisted. The part affected must be so ordered, that the Ulcers orifice, may decline downward, whereby the matter may more easily auoyde●, but if that can not be done, incision is to be made from the orifice to the bottom of the Ulcer, chief if the hollowenes be along or near the skin, else if the imminent danger prohibit the same in the bottom, at the lest it aught to be opened, and anointed with a mundifying unguent. The which if it cannot be fitly applied, then in to the hollow and crooked corners, must injections mundicative be ministered, for which purpose, these or such like, are profitable. viz. oxymel, Oenomel, of astringent wine, Aqua alluminosa cum melle, Lixivium, Aqua marina, Egypt. ac pulueris Mercurii. Dissolved in honey & lie, as in the aforesaid chapter.  

Rec.  Aquae Plantaginis, an. two. ounc. Peculi rosar. Caprifolii. Vng. Egiptiacum. i ounce and s. Make thereof iniection. Or,  

Rec.  Aquae Plantaginis, an. four ounces. Peculi Rosarum. Vini albi. two ounces. Aluminis usti. half an ounce. Baccarum mirti. an. one dram. & Aloes. Make iniection. Or,  

Rec.  Hordei integri, i P. s. Ceterach. an. one handful. Agrimoniae, Centaureae minor. an. half a handful. Absinthii.  
Coquantur in Mellicrato, and make thereof iniection.  
And when the Ulcer is sufficiently well cleansed, then use this following to regenerate the substance.  

Rec.  Hordei. i P. and a half. Radicis ireos. Foliorum olivae. an. half a handful. Plantaginis. Agrimoniae.  
Boil them in water, & in half a pound of the strained liquor dissolve, Mel. Rosar. colata. two. ounces. Mirrhae. two. drams and a half. Thuris. an. one dram. Masticis. Make thereof iniection. Or,  

Rec.  Decoct. Hordei. one pound. Mel. Rosar. col. three ounces. Sarcocollae. two. drams. Mirrae. an. one dram. Thuris. Vini. vi. ounces.  
Boil them to the consumption of the third part, whereto may be added if it seem requisite some Aloes.  

Rec.  Farinae Hordei. an. one ounce. & Lupinorum. Mel. iiii. ounces. Thuris. an. one dram. Mastices. Mirtice. half an ounce. Terebentinae lotae. i ounce. s. Olei hiperici. q. s.  
Make thereof an unguent, and this or the aforesaid, shallbe available. afterward apply this cerote following.  

Rec.  Nitri tenuiss. pull. i quart. Aquae Rosar. two. ounces and a half.  
Boil them together at a gentle fire, to sufficient thickness, ever stirring it, and after add to it. 
Rec.  Terebentinae. an. one quart. Olei veteris. Cerae. q. s.  
Boil them together again, stirring them still, and make thereof a cerote.  
Fit also to be applied aloft is Emplastrum de Minio, vel Apostolo. Chirurg. vel Diacalchiteos, whereto to increase exiccation and astriction, we may mingle Nonnihil calchitidis, Corticis Granat. & Gallarum Omphacitidun in pul. redact.  
In the mean season, let us defend the nigh parts with medicines partly repellent, and partly discutient, or wash it with this decoction following.  

Rec.  Calamithi, Origani, Saluiae, an. one handful. Matricariae, Adsinthij, Rosmarini, Camomeli, an. one P. Stecados, Ros. rub. Nucis cupressi. x. Salis, two. ounces. Aluminis, x. drams. Mellis. one pound.  
Boil them in Lee or sour wine to the third part, and make a fotion, or take other astringentes, namely Sumach, Plantago, Balaust. Herb. Rosar. Mirt. And boil them in wine. Also it were profitable to apply a piece of Lead in the orifice, and to use ligatures, so that the matter may avoid, or a sponge likewise in the orifice, that by the sucking and drawing thereof, the Ulcer may be dried.   

Of the Fistula.  
DUe diet being prescribed, 
De fistula.  and the body according to that nature of humours, being providently purged, the inner parts are next to be strengthened, and this decoction following to be given in drink. Which hath been proved and tried by sundry Authors, exceeding commodious in this kind of case.  

Rec.  Osmunde regalis ana. parte● (Filix mas, Diosc. dicitur) Scrophulariae. Agrimoniae. an two parts. centaury minoris. Aristolo. an. half a part. Gentianae. Radi. filicis. partem. Filipendulae. two. parts.  
Boil them in white wine, adding to Zacchari, q. s. and let the party take of the decoction daily a pretty quantity. And good it were to add to the same decoction, Guiacum. And after Callus be removed and taken away, the use of Guiacum in wine or water boiled, having respect to the strength and humours, and how much or how little drying is expedient.  
Injections 
Iniectiones conferunt.  here are also profitable, such as is afore in the chap. of the crooked Ulcer, or else make a decoction ex Radic. filicis, Agrimoniae, & foliorum Olivae, wherein dissolve Egiptiac. or Apostolo. as shallbe needfully required.  
Or,  
Rec. Lixivij ex cineribus brassicae & cortic. Fabarum. iiii. ounces, whereto add Mel. Rosar. one ounce and a half, Aluminis, half an ounce. Boil them a little, then take the decoction. three ounces, whereto ad Pulueris Precipitati, half an ounce. Make thereof an iniection, or use the distilled water Stercoris humani.  
Els.  

Rec.  Terebintinae. one ounce. Thuris. two. ounces. Mastic. Aloes, Gariofilorum, Galangiae, an one ounce. Cinamomi. Nucis muscatae Cubebarum, Croci. Gummi Hederae. vi. ounces.  
Infuse them in white wine, and Aqua vitae, and distill them, and use this distilled water for an iniection to the Fistula. And after the infection, apply one of the Emplastres aforesaid, as Emplastrum Divinum, or Gratia Dei. Some appoint to fill the Fistula with Hellebory, and so to remain three days, Notwithstanding, I having proved the like once in a Fistula of the ridge of the back, next the region of the heart, there chanced to the patient Lipothimia. 
Helleborus in aliqua part thoracis tutus non videtur.  To conclude, I judge it nothing profitable, chiefly if the Fistula be in any part of the breast. If the Fistula be new, it is cured with the aforesaid remedies, but if it be old, & the orifice straight, it must well be enlarged, either with Penicillo, or a tent of Gentian, or a Sponge often prepared.  

Rec.  Cerae. an. one ounce. Resinae. Hidrargyri sublimati. one drag. vel one dram and a half.  
Melt the wax with Rosin, and then add to the sublimate, and in that mixture dip the Sponge, and strait take it forth lest it be burned, and press it diligently and so apply it to the orifice of the Fistula, the which when it is large enough, must be rooted out, either with sharper medicines, incision or cautery, else cut it in the bottom, and apply thereto a cautery.  
Medicines which take away the Fistula are these. viz. Trochi. Asphedi Helleborum. Auripig. rub. sublimatum, or the sublimated water aforesaid, Arsenicum, or Trochi. de Arsenico, but if thou minister Arsenic three or four times, mixed and dried with the juice Solani, & Mandragorae. two. ounces, then use thy defensitive round about, as Vng. de Bolo arm. etc. lest perhaps by the pain, inflammation do happen.  
When the Fistula is where it may not safely be cut, nor yet any cautery fit to be applied, then make sharp injections, amongst which we have often proved this very profitable.  

Rec.  Vng. Egypt. half an ounce. Sublimati. half a dram. Arsenici. one scruple. Lixivij. one ounce. Aquae Ros. two. ounces. Aquae Plantaginis. iiii. ounces.  
Boil these to the half, and use these for iniection three days together.  
The iniection being done, close up the orifice of the Ulcer, with wax, or bombast, so that that within, may move and consume the Fistula, else use Aqua forti, or the cautery above written. After the use of the cautery and sharp medicines, endeavour to take away the eskar, and after to remove Callus, and wash the Ulcer, cum mulso, or decoction erui cum melle. Furthermore.  

Rec.  Terebint. in aquae vitae lotae●●oū. Succi. Apij. an. vi. drams. Cinoglos.  
Mel. Rosar. col. one ounce and a half. Make thereof a decoction, to the consumtion of half the juices, afterward add to 
Rec.  Aristolo rot. two. drams. Farinae Lupinorun. half an ounce. Whereto if thou ad Radi peucedani, Ireos' Myrrh and sarcocol. It shallbe profitable to regenerate flesh. Other order is to be used like as in the chapter of the deep Ulcer. When it seemeth not expedient to cut away Callus, neither to use cautery, nor sharp medicines, it only rests to avoid the cure. Yet purge often the phlegmatic humours, and melancholic, and with medicines meanly drying, and Emplastrum Diachilon Ireatum, or Diacalciteos.   

Of the Ulcered Canker.  
THe method of curing the Cankered Ulcer, 
De cancro Vlcerato.  by diet and purgation, shall be the same, prescribed in the tumour Canker. If it be in the outward part of the body, which may be safely taken away with the roots, must be cut wholly, and the gross blood of the veins nigh thereto pressed out, afterwards the lips of the Ulcer to be taken away, and finish the cure in some with medicines cauterizing, in others to consume it with a cautery, or after incision & expression of the veins, to apply the cautery. And amongst cauterizing medicines, Arsenic in this case is principal, or the cautery above written, but then use defensatives to avoid inflammation. Then take away the eskar, and proceed as in other Ulcers. But if the Canker be great, and have deep roots, or be near some principal member, or inward part, or the party cannot suffer excision, either through weakness or fear, or that by the cure thereof, he should incur greater danger, it is enough then to hinder the Canker to increase, by diet, purgation of adusted or melancholic humours, and that gently with drying medicines, without mordication or biting. And this potion is exceeding profitable to be used nine days before excision, taking every day two ounces thereof, which prevaileth also though the cure be desperate.  

Rec.  Radi. tapsi barbati. an. two ounces. & Scrophularie. Filipendulae, an. one handful. Ceterach. Herb. Roberti. Agrimoniae. Turmentillae. Scabiosae. Gariofilati. Linariae. Sem. Vrticae. three drams. Florum Sambuci. an. one. p. & Rosimarinae.  
Make thereof a decoction, wherein dissolve zacchari. q. s to make it pleasant, wash the place also with the one part thereof, and apply Magma thereto in form of a Cataplasm, which is thought much to delay pain. And among simple medicines, these following, do most prohibit the increase of the Canker. The juice of Night shade, sorrel. etc. and their stilled waters, also Plumbum, Antimonium, & other like cold & drying things, as unguentum Album, ung. lethargy, ung. de Plumbo pulu●r. cum vino albo aut Succo acetosae, ung. de Pompholig. or those mixed with the aforesaid herbs in decoction, or waters of Camfer. Or this water following cannot be in vain applied.  

Rec.  Succi solani, Semperuivi, Acetosae, Scabiosae, Caprefolij, Tapsi barbati, an. half a pound. Scrophulariae, Fili pendulae, Plantaginis, Linariae, Agrimoniae. Succi om● hacij. one pound. Carnis, L●macum. an. half a pound. Ranarum, Cancrorun flwiatilium. Albumina ovorum. vi. Aluminis. three ounces. Caphurae. one dram.  
distill them all in a Leaden still, and with the water wash the place, and lay upon it a cloth, dipped in the same water, which water is esteemed excellent.  

Rec.  Vng. Pompholig. half a quart. unguentum album. two ounces. Litargyri. an. half an ounce. Plumbi usti & loti. Succi. Scabiosae. an. two ounces. Solani. Olei Omphacini, an. four ounces. vel de ranis.  
Stir them in a Leaden mortar together to a white ointment. Or.  

Rec.  Tuthiae preparat. Cerusaelotae, Plumbi, & an. one ounce and a half. lethargy loti. Coriandri prepar. Amili. Cerae albae. two ounces. Olei Rosar. vel de Ranis i pound. Muccaginis sem● Psilij cum succo. Scabiosae. Herb. Roberti. three ounces Linariae. Tapsi Barb. extracti.  
Mix and make thereof an ointment in a Leaden mortar. Or,  

Rec.  Cerusae vst & five times i ounces washed in Rose water. Plumbi usti. loti. Tuthiae preparatae. half an ounce. lethargy nutriti. three drams. Succi solani, an. one ounce. Semperuivi, Hiosciami, Lactis, Sem. Papaveris, cum aq● Rosa extract. two ounces. Lactis mulieris. i ounce. Olei Rosar. iiii. ounces. Cerae albae. one ounce.  
Make thereof an ointment according to art. Or,  

Rec.  Succi fol tapsi barbati. iiii. oun● Mellis. half a pound. Pul. spongiae bedega●●s. three dra● Pulueris Ma●ecorij, an. two drams. & Ossium Mirobal.  
Boil them to the consumption of t●● juices, and ad to the powders.  
Some use to wash the Ulcer dayl● with wine, wherein Tapsi barb. hath be● boiled. Others with water of Nightshade, Plantain, Roses, cum Corticae Mirobal. & modico Aluminis, somewhat boiled, then to stir the juice of Nightshade in a Leaden mortar, to the form of a lineament, and so apply it.  

Rec.  Plumbi usti lot. three drams. Antimonij pariter lot. two. drag. Pomphol. iiii. scruples. Cerusae. i drag. s. Camforae. i dram. Lapid. Hematitis an. two scruples. utriusque Corallij. Cineris cancrorum flwiat. two. drag. Succi plantaginis, an. two ounces. & Solani. Olei Rosar. omphacini, q. s. vel de Ranis.  
Stir them in a Leaden mortar, to the form of a lineament.   

Of the Ulcer containing worms.  
TO prohibit the generation of worms in Ulcers, 
Devlce●e Verminoso.  it is requisite first to take away all moisture & putrefaction whereof they may be engendered, worms are destroyed by the juices or decoctions, Absinthij, Eupatorij, Centaureae, and such bitter things, so doth the juice of t●● leaves and flowers of Peaches, bein● bruised and applied. Or,  

Rec.  Olei Absinthii. two. ounces. Succi Absinthii. vi. ounces. Pulueris Cumini. an. two. ounces Dictamni, Aloes, Cerae. q. s.  
Boil them to the form of an Emplaster, which thou mayest use in any par● where worms be. yarrow also is commended for the kill of worms, both men and beasts, giving one dram the●● of for worms in the belly, & that in ch●●●dren, and to bigger folks greater qua●●titie, and an in●ection made thereof, kille● worms in the ears.   

Of burning.  
If it be great, 
De Combustione. i problem.  a thin diet then, and ●●ders universally must be prescribed, according to the dominion of humour sin ●● body. Aristotle esteemeth it profitable, that the part or member burned, may be held somewhat to the fire, that thereby one heat may draw forth another, and keep it from blistering. Others with the same reason do apply Onions with salce. But the common remedies are these. viz. Aqua Solani, Rosar. vel Endiviae, long beaten with the white of an Egg, but to mingle Vinegar therewith, I allow not, because of the sharpness thereof, but ung Album & rub. cum Camfora, Albumine Oui, & aqua Rosar. is very good and prohibit the generation of blisters.  
Or,  
Rec. Butiri recentis, vel Olei sepe loti. three ounces. ung Populionis, one ounce and a half, Oua. two.  
Mix them in four me of a lineament, else ex Succo Solani, & Semperuivi, oleo violarum & Cera, make a lineament.  
Or take the water wherein a Limestone hath been quenched, & boil it with the Oil of Nuts, then stir it till it be thick, and anoint the place therewith seven days, and it is a present remedy, the seven days ended.  

Rec.  Olei Nucum coct. two. ounces. Cerae half an ounce.  
Stir them together, which is not to be used before the generation of blitters, but after they be opened.  

Rec.  Vng. Albun camforatum. an. two ounce. Vng. Popu. Mucaginis sem. Cidoneorum in aqua Rosar. extract. one ounce. s. Make thereof an unguent.  
If the burning seem very great, and to Mucaginis, sem. Psilii, and Olei de Nimphea. There is another unguent made of Lime, mentioned before, which willingly I use not to the face, for that it to much draweth a Cicatrice. Or,  

Rec.  Calcis lot. one ounce. Cerae albae. half an ounce, Olei Rosar. three ounces. Stercoris columbi vst. two. drams. Aquae Rosar. one ounce. Albumen ovi. one.  
If need be to mundify use this following.  

Rec.  Terebentinae lotae, in decoction Hordei. two. ounces. Siru. Rosar. iiii. ounces. Mirt. & ana. one dram. Aloes. Hordei. q. s. To thick it.  
And then to induce and excellent Cicatrice.  

Rec.  Diachilon common. two. ounces. unguentum Pop. an. three ounces. Ole● Rosar. Muccag. sem. Cidoneorun in aqua Rosar, extract. iiii. ounces. Vitellos. Ouo. two. Make the unguent.  
The Cicatrice being made, anoint it daily with the oil of the yolks of Eggs, and after the combustion for the repletion of the Ulcer, This following is laudable.  

Rec.  Olei Rosar. viii. ounces. Olei Ouorum. two. ounces. Vitri albiss, tenuis. pulueri. i ounce Corticis medii sambuci. i m. Ceraealbae. one ounce and a half.  
Boil them together, and make thereof an unguent.    

Of the particular cure of Ulcers.  

Ulcers of the head.  
THe curation of Ulcers of the head, 
De capitis Vlceribus.  differ not from the aforesaid method, viz. corroding Ulcers are cured by the method of corrosives, and the putrefied Ulcer by like medicines, save that the outward skin of the head of natural temperature, requireth strong exiccatives, & if Craneum be putrefied, how it shallbe removed, is afore mentioned.   

Of the mouth.  
IN this disease is requisite a thin diet, 
De Achoribus seu tinea.  and such as may decay all Phlegmatic and Melancholy humours, and besides that to have evacuation of humours, partly by Phlebotomy, if strength and age do permit, and partly by purging medicines like as is prescribed in Oedema & Scirrho wherefore this following, also is profitable.  

Rec.  Cassiae, an. half an ounce. Catholiconis. Tripherae persicae. i ounce Mirobal. Indorum & citrinorum confricat. an. 2 dra. Olei Amigdalarun dulcium. Senae. three drams. Sirupi violarum. q. s. fiat opiata.  
Then approach to common or simple medicines, first therefore shave or poll the head near, and wash it six days together, with the decoction ex Fumaria, Oxilapatho, Folijs Hederae, Oleastri, Salicis, Sic●ae, Acetosae, Herbae Roberti, or Lixivium exciner●bus sarmentorum vitis, Fraxini & braslicae conficito, wherein boil, Calamentum, an one handful. Fol. Lauri, Camomel. an. two. P. Mel●loti. Stichados.  
Therewith wash the head, five or six days. Afterwards.  

Rec.  Olei Laurini. an two ounces. Olei sem. Lini. Pinguedinis suillae. vi. ounces. Terebentinae. two. ounces. Pul. Apij risarum. i ounce. s. Elleborialbi, & an. two drams. Aluminis usti. Eruginis. Rasilis, an. i dram. Auripigmenti.  
Make thereof an unguent. Notwithstanding, those sharp medicines are not to be applied to Ulcers. Or,  

Rec.  Nuces communes, cum corticibus assas. xx. Aluminis, an. half an ounce. Vitrioli. Lithargyrij. two. drams. Cinabrii, half an ounce. Olei luniperi, & an. two ounces. Nucum. Resinae & Picis. q. s.  
Make thereof a lineament, wherewith anoint the head, being shaven before, and chaffed with a rough clot till it be very reed.  

Rec.  Emplastri Oxicrocei. one ounce. Ceronei. two. ounces. Ammoniaci vino dissoluti albo. half an ounce.  
Make thereof a plaster, and apply it to the head. We have often anointed the head (being pulled) with honey, and sprinkled aloft the powder of Rosin, and after applying Placentam ex farina Triticea, in form and manner of a cap, and after eight days more, taking the hear away, use this ointment following, until the cure be finished.  

Rec.  Aluminis vst. an. one dram. Vitrioli. Aristologiae. an. half an ounce. Eruginis Rasilis. Picis navalis. two. ounces. Axungiae equi. i ounce Butiri veteris. one pound.  
Make thereof an unguent, wherewith anoint the head, after the use as aforesaid, and this kind of curation, is more safe & with less pain than others, which we have proved.   

To increase hears.  
FIrst consider the cause of hear falling, 
Ad pllor● generationem.  viz. whether through rarity of the skin, or defect of nourishment, I es through corruption of humours, as in Morbo Gallico. If through rarity of the skin, then are they to be thickened moderately if through want of nutriment, then apply nourishementes plentifully, but if it proceed of corruption of humours, then prescribe a convenient diet for the same, and purge the body according to the nature of the humours, mundify the skin of the head, & use after such medicines following.  

Rec.  Cinerun capillorum Veneris. i drag. Labdani puri. three drams. Mirrhae. two. drams. Pulueris abrotani usti. half a drag. Olei Sesamini. an two ounces. Olei Mirt. Vini rubi i ounce. Aceti. vi. drams. Adipis Vrsi, & an. half an ounce. Anseris. Cerae. q. s.  
Make thereof an unguent, and apply to the places where hear wanteth.  
Or,  
Rec. Sterco●is Muris, Cineris Apum, parts equales, cum Olei rosar.  
Make thereof an ointment. Or,  

Rec.  Mellis, two pound. Cineris abrotani. two. ounces. Apum ustarum. i ounce. Politrici, iiii handful. Labdani. i ounce. s.  
Bruse altogether, and infuse them nine days in read wine, and then distill them in a double vessel.   

Of the Ulcers of the eyes.  
FOr the cure of these Ulcers, use the general orders, both by diet, evacuation, and all other universal remedies prescribed in Cap. de Opthalmia, with a special respect to the nature of humours in the body. 
De oculorum Vlceribus.  As for medicines meanly mundifying and ceasing dolour, and biting, use the like as in wounds of the eyes, viz. Sir rosar● Mel Virgineum, Saccharum Candium, Aloe lota, Myrrha etc.  
To glutinate or join: Rec. Tuth●ae. preparat. Collirium de plumbo, Collirium album, sive Apio, Which being fine ground together, dissolve them in aquis rosar. Plantag. Caudae equinae, vel● lact. Caprino, vel muliebri.  
Many mother fourmes of medicines, as wel● simple as compound, are diversly in Authors prescribed, nevertheless full little commodity have I at any time by them found.   

Of the Fistula in the corners of the eyes.  
THe order aforesaid. viz. 
De Fistula lachrimari  both diet, pu●●gation, & other universal medicines, is excellent good in the beginning, when the Fistula is not confirmed, filling the hollowness of the Ulcer, with a certain light or woolly substance, found about the root of the reed, until it be clean mundified. Also a Collirium made ex Thure, Sarcocollae. Sang. Draconis, Balaust. Antimon. Alumi. mixtis ad parts equales, whereto ad quartam partem floris aerise, and the Collirium cum aqua pluuiali. And I myself have never founde● more excellent medicine than this following.  

Rec.  Aquae vitae, seu viniopt. an. one drag. & Mel. rosar. col. Mirrhae, two drams.  
Make thereof a lineament, wherewith evening & morning anoint the place, Amoniacum also dissolved in A ceto cum erugine rasili, wastes this Fistula.  
If the bone do not putrefy, but only tallous flesh abound, it may be consumed with ung Egypt. or the powder of Mercury, or Asphodel. Afterwards being well mundified, seek to regenerate the flesh.  
But● if there be putrefaction at the boon, 
Si fuerit ossis carries  use cautery actual, for in this case it excels the potential, the largeness of carries will show the form of the cautery, so that the eye be safely regarded by laying upon bombase in the white of an Egg, and covered with a silver spoon.  
An old Fistula in this place, is scarcely curable, for the great default of the bone, and if it be cured, the eye will water continually.   

Ulcers of the Nose.  
IN curation of Ulcers of the Nose, 
De Nasi Vlceribus.  called Phagedenici, or Cancrosis, others call th● Noli me tangere, some prescribe diet and other orders, as In curatione Cancri, and use cauteries, Other caustiek medicines, as is written in the chapter De Polipo. Or a Sponge dipped in Aqua Arsenici adding Olei De Euphorbio, which separateth the putrefied flesh, but some would have those used only in the beginning. And that wisely to be done, for oft-times much use of corrosives, maketh the Ulcer worse (as experience teacheth) but whe● the Canker is confirmed, it is best to leau● the cure, which if thou do, to preserus the party prescribed a convenient die● wherein all sharp things, and whatsoever shall heat the blood, must be forbidden, opening a vein in the spring time using purgations to avoid burned or Melancholy humours, such as be in the char● De Cancro tumore. Letting this medicine following be in use twice in a moneth●  

Rec.  Catholic. one ounce. Confect. Hamech an half an ounce. Diasenae solut. Elect. de Psilio, an. three dra,ss. de Citro, & de succ. Rosar. syrup. Viol. q. s. Fiat opiata.  
To be vsed● of the party twice in a month. The medicines likewise expressed in Cap. Vlc. virulent. ac Cancricuratione, ac de tumore nasi, may hitherto be referred, and such as followeth.  

Rec.  Aquae Rosar. an. two. ounces. Plant. & Solani. Mirobal. cit. an. two drams. & Balaust. Aluminis. half a dram.  
Boil them all a little, than strain them and wash the Ulcer therewith.  
Further,  

Rec.  Olei rosar. one pound. Olei Mirt. an. two. ounc. Vng. ros. mesue. Vng. Popul. Succi plantag. solani, an. two. ounces. & Semperuivi. Boil them to the consumption of the juice, then add to. Litharg. auri. u ounces. Tuthiae. preparat. three drams. Cerusae lot. x. drams. Plumb. vst. lot. vi drams. Camforae. i dram. Cerae. q. s.  
Stir them together in a Leade● mortar, the space of one hour. Or,  

Rec.  Olei rosati. u ounces. Suc. Planta. an. one ounce. Solani, & Semperuivi. Mali punici contus. two. ounces. Tuthiae preparatae. half an ounce. Plumb. vst. lot. Cerusae lot. an. three drams. Lithargy. Antimon. loti. Cerae. q. s.  
Stir them diligently in a Lead●● mortar. Or,  

Rec.  Olei Amigdal. dulc. recent. an● oūe● s. Vng Succi utriusque Granati, Succi solani. Vnguentumdeplumbo. two. ounces.  
Make thereof an unguent in a Leaden mortar. Or,  

Rec.  Butiri bubulini loti, an. parts equales. Suc. Semperuivi.  
Stir them together in a Leaden mortar, to the form of an unguent, which greatly assuageth pain & delaieth heat.  
If the edges of the Ulcer swell, then apply diligently Pul. Mercurii loti.   

Ulcers of the mouth.  
LEt universal medicines be first used, (according to the nature of humours) then further prescribe. 
De oris v● ceribus. Topica. Si ab hum. call. & acri.   
And if the Ulcer be corroding, proceading of hoot and sharp humours, this following is profitable.  

Rec.  Mel. rosat. col. one ounce. Suc. mali punici, vel Omphacij. two. ounces. Aquarun Plantag. an. three ounces. Rosa●. seu Acetosae. Make thereof a gargarism.  
If the Ulcer come of Phlegmatic humours, 
Si abhum. pituiteo.  wash the orifice cum vino albo, & modico Aluminis usti. Apply also the Ulcer water sublimated.  
This gargarism following, 
E, quocumque humoresit iuua● haec decoctio.  much in this case availeth, of what humour soever the Ulcer do proceed, Calices Glandium; Nuces Cipressi, Fol. Olivae, Sumach, Plantaginem, Saluiam, Rosemarinam, Lent●● & Rosas. Make a decoction of these in good form with a little Aluminis usti, adding to Mellis vel Zacchari. q. s. an● therewith wash the mouth. Or, Olivae fol. cum succo mali punici, & mell● ad colluendum coquito, and if there ●e● great putrefaction, and thereto Egiptiacum.  
But if the Vuula 
Si Vuula corrosa.  be therewith pearced● touch or rub the Ulcered place with lint, rolled in A quaforti, and then v●● the afore said decoctions.  
Notwithstanding, if it proceed A morbo venereo, 
Si a morbo Venereo.  than first begin with du● purgation, & prescribe the party a thi●●● diet, with the decoction of Guiacum, an● use ointmentes requisite for that disease● strengthening the inner parts. Mundi●● the Ulcer with the decoctions due, and prepare it to a Cicatrice. Then restrain the flux of humours to come from the head. Use twice a day sublimated water, as is afore written, to touch the Ulcer with Lint rolled therein. Or,  

Rec.  Åqua Rosar. an. two ounces. & Plantag. Sublimati. i dram.  
Boil them in a glass bottle, till the sublimate be dissolved, after let him wash his mouth with these following.  

Rec.  Aqua decoct. hord. quart. 3. an. iii ounc. Aqua Plantag. Mel. rosar. col. Make thereof a gargarism. Or,  

Rec.  Hord. i p. Lentium. p s. Cort. Granatorum. half an ounce. Fol. Olivae, Sumach. Mirt. an. one handful. Lentisci. Balaust.  
Make thereof a decoction, and take of the strained liquor two pound, wherein dissolve, Sir Aceto. Simpl. an. 2. ounces. ●● Sir rosar. & Diamoron. Succi mali punici. three ounces. Mel. rosar. colat. two. ounces. Clarify it, & make thereof a gargarisms  
Or,  

Rec.  Aquae Plantag. half a pound. Mel. rosar. colati. three ounces. Mirtini, & an. one ounce. Cidoneorum. Such mali punici two. ounces. Dianucum. two. ounces and a half Mivae Cidoneorum. one ounce.  
Mix and make thereof a gargarism or use to wash it cum succo Pilosella● vino & melle, which is excellent.  
In the beginning therefore mundify it, then with astringent medicines fro●● the weaker to the strongest, and lastly induce the Cicatrice, for which use as followeth.  

Rec.  Pul. rosar. an. two. ounces. Balaust. Gallarum. Mirob. citrin. Ciperi. half a dram.  
Mix them, and either blow it up or rather being rolled upon lint, apply it, for the blowing of powders in the mouth, doth minister danger to Aspera arteria, sometime provoking vehement cough. And to stay defluxions from the head, these following are available.  

Rec.  Ammonia. ana. one dram. Galbani,  
Make it in form of a plaster, & apply it to the hinder part of the head.  

Rec.  Auripigmenti, one dram. Mirrhae, an. two drams. Thuris, Mastices. Suffitus communis, two. ounces.  
Make thereof trochis, to be applied to the temples of the head, the party keeping the chamber close.  

Rec.  Boli armeni, two drams. Boli armeni, two drams. Gummi Arabici, an. one drag. Tragagantae, Assatorum, Cortici thuris, half a scruple.  
And with syrup. de ros. siccis, make them in form of lupines, which he shall in the night hold in his mouth, and in the day Saccharum Candium.  
If the Ulcer be in the palate, then be more circumspect, both for rarity of the flesh or corruption at the boon, which can hardly be taken away, but by cautery, which as a hurt perpetual, for that they can never after speak perfectly, lest the hole which remains be stopped, which may be done with wax, or better with an instrument of silver, made in hollow form. And further, with the bone of the palate, the bone of the jaw also, may easily corrupt, and the teeth after fall fourth.   

Ulcers of the Ears.  
Ulcers of the Ears, 
De a●rium ulceribus  are to be cured, (both by diet and medicine) as the tumours in those parts, if after purgation, flegmes abound in the brain, which may be avoided by the ulcer, use these following.  

Rec.  Theriacae vet. two drams. Staphisagriae, ana. one scruple. Pirrethri, Mastic. half a dram.  
Make thereof chewittes to be used in the morning before meat.  

Rec.  Suc. anagal, Mercurialis, Sampsuci & Mellissae. q. s. Et naribus sepe attrahantur. And the decoction of Guiacum profiteth much.  
In this case (considering the nature of the party) things greatly drying & mundifying, are most necessary (according to the nature of the parties) and drop in Olei de vitellis ovorum, cum melle & tantillo sarcocollae. Else when the pain is vehement, Olei de vitellis ovorum only stirred in a Leaden mortar, till it be brown or black, than drop it in the ear.  
Or,  

Rec.  Aqua decocta Agrimoniae, & AbAbsinthij, half a pound. Vini alb. & ana. two ounces. Mel. rosa. Drop in thereof warm. Or,  

Rec.  Succi mali punici dull. an. 2. ounce Succi Poligoni, & Virg. pastoris. Mel. rosar. one ounce and a half.  
Boil them, and distill thereof into the Ears, and if the Ulcer be new, that shall suffice.  
But in old and filthy Ulcers, we have need of stronger mundificatives, in which case Egiptiacum dissolved, is necessary. And after some detersion, and to Myrrh, you may also dissolve in Vinegar Trochisc. Andronij, & drop into the ears, the composition of the which Trochis. followeth.  

Rec.  Balaustiae, two drams. Aluminis, one dram. Atramenti Sutorij, two. drams. Mirrhae, one dram. Thuris, ana. two drams. Aristo. Gallarun Salis Amoniaci. one dram. Cummellicrato. Make the Trochis.  
Scoriae ferri, five times quenched in sharp wine, then dried and ground with fresh butter, in form of a lineament.  

Rec.  Vini austeri, one ounce. Aluminis. one dram.  
When it is therein dissolved, wet therein clotheses, four or five times, & dry them, and of them make tents, which being anointed with the aforesaid lineament, apply them.  

Rec.  Suc. Poligoni, & ana. one ounce. Hederae, Pompholig lot. in aqua rosarum & Plantag. q. s.  
Mix them, and drop thereof in the Ears.  
First, institute diet and other general orders, 
De axillarum & inguinum Vlceribus.  according to the disposition & nature of the body, Ulcer, and humours, and for as much as these Ulcers are commonly deep, and cornered, with hardness of the edges, injections that mundify & dry, are to be used as afore, in like Ulcers.  
Or,  

Rec.  Lixivij tonsoris, six ounces. Mel. one ounce. Pul. precipit. three drams.  
Mix and make thereof in●ection, and let thereof remain in the Ulcer twelve hours afterward, iniecte Lixivium cum melle rosar. vel decoctum Hordei cum sacch. or Oenomel, else strong things to mundify, as a mundificative de Apio, and to strengthen the part, lay aloft Stupes dipped in sour wine.  
If the orifice be narrow, 
Si orificium augustum.  enlarge it with sponge prepared, as aforesaid, or Radice gentianae.  
If the lips be indurated, 
Si labia dura.  remove the same, either with a hot Iron, or a cauterising medicine.   

Ulcers of the breast.  
Ulcers of the breast are to be cured by died, 
De pectoris ulceribus.  Phlebotomy, and purgation, according to the nature of the body, and disposition of the humours and part affected, wherein therefore let us have recourse to the curation of tumours.  
Guido appointeth the decoction, Virg. pasto●is cum mel. Others to drink daily a draft of agrimony water.  
And some give Aqua consolidae cum Rubarbari, & Mummiae. an. half a drag. If the Ulcer pierce not to the inner part of the breest, 
Cur●nda sunt quae non pene●ant thoracis inter nam.  it is curable as is spoken in the universal chapters. But those which have pierced the inner part (if they be narrow) must be enlarged, either with sponge prepared, or the root of Gentian, put into it fastened to a thread, jest it ship into the body. giving good heed that the matter may be outwardly avoided, jest it fall into the hollow parts of the breest.  
But where no jeopardy of the inner parts is eminent. Rec. Calcanthi, one ounce, Mel, rosar. two. ounces. Mix them and use it with the sponge. If there be inflammation, use Vng. rosar.  
Use injections into the hollowness with Melicrato or Oenomilitae. Or  

Rec.  Radic. Asari. Gentianae, ana. one ounce. Aristolo, Ireos● Fol. Agrimoniae, Pentaphilon, Pedis columb. ana. one handful. Ceterac. Centauree mi. Hipericonis. Mirrhae, half a dram.  
Make the decoction in equal parts of water and wine, and in two pound of the strained liquor, dissolve Mel. ros. col. vi. ounces. Fiat iniectio.  

Rec.  Succi Apij, iiii. ounces. Succi Agrimoniae, Absinthij, ana. two ounces. Plantag. Crassulae, Succi Cinoglossi. one ounce. Far. Hordei, & ana. three ounces. Fabarum, Mel. iiii. ounces. Terebentinae lot. in aqua Pantag. two ounces. Pul. Thuris, half an ounce. Mirrhae, one ounce. Olei rosar. & Cerae alb. q. s.  
Make thereof an unguent.  
Rec.  

Rec.  Vng. regis, iiii. ounces. Pulueris Ireos, Aristolo. ana. one dram Mirrhae, & Aloes, Fiat unguentum sarcoticum. Or,  

Rec.  Pul. rad. Arund. ana one drams. s. & Peucedani. Thuris, ana. two drams. Masticis, Mirrhae, Pulueris ireos ana one dram. & Aristolo. Cortic. Pini, one dram. s. Vnguenti comitis, three ounces. Mel. rosat. col. q. s.  
Make thereof a lineament.   

Ulcers of the Belly.  
Ulcers of the neither Belly, 
De ventris infer. ulc.  which have not pierced the hollow parts, are cured with the universal methods aforesaid, according to the nature & kind of the Ulcer.  
But those which pierce the parts contained therein, the cure is rather to be thought desperate then true, like the Ulcers which pierce the inner parts of the breast, for as much as such commonly grow to be Fistulas, which be either seldom, or never cured.   

Ulcers of the privy parts.  
THe Ulcers in these parts, 
De pudendi ulceribus.  do requ●●● both diet, Phlebotomy, and purgatie due, according to the nature of the bod●● and humours, especially if they be great.  
Ulcers in the outward parts of the yard, are to be dried Cum aqua rosar. & Plantag. ana. two. ounces, & Trochisc. alb Rasis. two. drams, aut aqua aluminosa, ● unguento alb. cum Camfora, or vngue●●tum de Plumbo, or Pul. Balaustiorum, ● Bedegaris: vel pul. Cucurb, sicc. & vst.  
If the Ulcers be new and virulent creeping, and corrosive, administer mi●●●ralles, burned & washed, and Aloe & cortex Pini. Or,  

Rec.  Plumb. vst. & lot. three drams. Lithargy. half an ounce. Lapid. Hemat. one dram. Aloes. one dram. s. Tuthiae prepar. two. drams. Cortic. Pini sicci, iiii. scruples. Sem. Anethi combusti, an. two scruples. Cucurb. sicci & usti. Olei rosacei omfacini. three scruples. Cerae alb. q. s.  
Make thereof an unguent. Or,  

Rec.  Corticis Camomeli usti, two. drag. Gallarum, Balaust. ana. three drams. Malecorij, Acatiae. Erug. ras. half a dram. Pompholig. Aloes, Thuris, an. two. drams. Sarcocollae, Corallij rub.  
Make thereof a fine powder, & cum Oleo ros. & Cera. Make thereof an unguent.  
If the Ulcers be putrefied and old, strew thereon Pul. Mercurij, and wash it with this water following.  

Rec.  Aquae Plantag. two. ounces. Vini alb. i ounce and a half. Tuthiae preparatae. ana. two. drag. Eruginis rasilis vst.  
Boil them a little, and therewith wash the Ulcer, then after sprinkle aloft this powder following.  

Rec.  Corticis Thuris, Aloes lot. Sarcocollae, an. half a drag. Mirrhae, Gummi elemi. Anethi vst. one scruple. Cortic. Pini. two. scruples. Tuthiae preparatae, Antimonij, ana. one dram. Plumb. vst. Cerusae,  
Make it in fine powder, and thereto San●● Draconis. two. scruples, & with that powder sprinkle the Ulcer. Or,  

Rec.  Vitreoli, ana. ● ounces Aluminis crudi, & usti. Auripigmenti. two. drams. Aquae rosar. & ana. four ounces. Plantag. Aceti alb. half a pound.  
Boil them together, then add to Erug. rasilis, three drams, therewith wash the Ulcer. Or,  

Rec.  Vini albi, one pound, Aquae plantag. ana. one quart. & rosar. Auripigmenti, two. drams. Floris aeris, one dram.  
Grind them small, and boil them a little, and make thereof a collyrium, some in steed of Auripig. do use Alumen vst. which I judge rather to be done in Ulcers not putrefied.  
Oua. iiii. hard boiled, and grind the yolks diligently, & put thereto Aquae vitae, two pound, then after ad Aluminis, half an ounce, Camforae, two drag. Eruginis rasilis, half a dram, which being strained, wash thy lineaments therewith three or four times every day, and thou shalt wonder at the effect thereof.  
Some do wash the Ulcer first with Lixivio & melle, afterward, cum Lixivio & Alumine usto, then cum Lixivio & Ostraciorum pul. And lastly Aqua vitae, cum pul Ostraciorum.  
After lotions (if the Ulcer be filthy or virulent) the powder of Mercury or Egiptiacum, are commendable.  
But if the danger of Gangrena be eminent, 
Si gangr. osculum emineat.  then scarify it deeply, and apply thereto a cautery, either actual or potential, and defend the circuit of the Ulcer, cum ungento de Bolo are.  
It fortuneth many times, 
 balanus preputio sit obtectus  the yard doth marvelously swell, and chief the skin, called Preputiu●●, where with sometime the head of the yard is so covered, that it can not be seen, and that the Ulcer betwixt the head and the skin, may not be mundified, and then make a cataplasm, ex decoct. Maluae, sem Lini, ●●●ding thereto Butyrum & ouum integrum.  
Now if (by application of this cataplasm, it cease not to swell, neither may be uncovered, & in the mean season, the Ulcer do more and more corrode (which is discerned by dolour) than the skin longwyse is to be cut, whereby the Ulcer may come to sight and be cleansed. And if it be but small, peradventure it shall suffice to make iniection with the aforesaid colliery, or such like, but if it be great, apply one day a colliery, cum Aloe & Mirtha, and an other day, pul. Mercurij.  
Notwithstanding, 
Si ad meatus corrodat.  if the Ulcer so corrode, that it be comen to the ways and conduits of the urine, administer the collirie aforesaid, cum Myrrha & Aloe, & if it cease not therewith, or grow to amendment, apply a cautery. But if the pain thereof do oppress, use thereto unguentum Pop. cum succo Solani, Plantaginis, Semperuivi, Fari. Hordei, & Olei Violacei, & ovi albumine. And for Cankerous Ulcers of the yard, & hard edges or lips, the lotions aforesaid, are praise worthy. Or,  

Rec.  Vini albi ciathum, Aquae plantag. & ana. ciath. s. Rosarum. Aluminis cocti, two. drams. Mel. i quart. Rosarum, one handful.  
Boil them together, and with the decoction thereof wash the place, or use it as iniection, then further apply ung de. altheos & aureum, to mollify the part. And lastly the powder of Mercury, and ceratum de minio.   

Ulcers of the womb and privy parts of women.  
THese (as all others) do require curation, 
De vuluae ac uteri vlceribus.  both by diet, and purgation, according to the disposition of humours and natures of the body, the excrements by the urine, are not to be brought to that place, nor the belly vehemently to be moved, but vomits which may profit by way of revulsion, Phlebotomy also sometime is to be used, or the use of Guiacum● after purgation, and these Opiatae following, being used once in a week, an● very profitable.  

Rec.  Cassiae extrac noviter. iiii. ounces Tamarindorun, two. ounces. Pulpae prunorum, ana.i. ounce and a half. & Sebesten, Muccaginis one ounce. Sem psyllij, Seine Orientalis, three ounces. Anisi, half an ounce. Liquiritiae rasae tenuissimè pul. two. drag. cum syr. rosaceo sol. fiat opiata.  
Whereof let the party take once a week, the quantity of a nut, with the decoction of Mercury.   

To prepare the humours.  

Rec.  Ligni sancti, iiii. ounces. Corticis eiusdem, one ounce. s. Infuse them in three pound of aqua Buglossi, Cichorij, & Absinthij.  
Boil them at a soft fire to the half, & dissolve in the strained liquor, Syrup de Fumo terrae, one pound, and let the party take thereof morning and evening, six ounces unto the end.  
Furthermore.  

Rec.  Polipodij quercini recent. half an ounce. Passularun mundatarum, ana. u part. Prunorum, Sebesten, Tamarindorum, three drams, Senae Orientalis, half an ounce. Fol. Mercurij, & ana. half an ounce. Boraginis, Florum trium communium. ana. p. s.  
Make thereof a decoction, and in one quart of the strained liquor, dissolve confectionis hamech, two. drams, electuarii diacartami, one dram, Syrupi rosati solutivi, two ounces. Which must be taken after the aforesaid preparative.  

Rec.  Conseruae radicum Buglossi i ounce. Conseruae corticis citri, half an ounc. Pul. Diamarg f●igidi, ana. two. drams. & Diarrhodom abbatis, Pulueris de gemmis, one dram. cum syrupo capil. ●eneris, fiat opiata.  
To be taken twice or thrice in the week, drink after it a little wine.  
And to conclude, those do much avail which we have prescribed in the chapter of Ulcers of the yard. For in those as also these things strongly drying without biting, are most available. And in these ulcers we may use incisions, suffi●ures, fotions, lotions. etc.  
In the beginning wash the Ulcer, or make iniection with whey and Sugar, or ex vino cum melle rosar. vel decoct. hord. cum syrup rosar. & melle rosa. vel Saccharo rosat. Or,  

Rec.  Hord. integri parum torrefacti. two. p. Corticis gaiaci. one ounce. s. Radicis ireos, one ounce. Passularum, one ounce. Mirobal. citrin. two. drams.  
Make thereof a decoction, in aqua Fabrorum, and in two pound dissolve, 
Rec.  Mel ros. col. & ana. three ounces. Syrup. iosatis.  
Make iniection therewith in the beginning, and also whilst the patiented useth the syrup preparing humours. After this following.  

Rec.  Hordei integri modicè assi. i p. Ligni sancti two. ounces. Pilosellae, ana. two handful. Ceterac. Virgae, & ana. one handful. Bursae pastoris. Plantag. & ana. half a handful. Absynthii. Corticis malipunici. one ounce. Sumac, half an ounce. Rosar. rub. one p.  
Make a decoction in water, wherein Lead hath been quenched, and in four pound of the decoction, dissolve, 
Rec.  Mellis rosati colati, & an. 3. ounc. Sacchari rosati, vel Syrupi de rosis siccis.  
And make thereof an iniection after the use afore said. Further,  

Rec.  Vng. Pompholigos. iiii. ounces. Cerusae lotae, an. i ounce. Plumbi usti & loti, Antimonii. Aloës lotae, ana. half an ounce. Sang. draconis, Thuris, Mastiches, Olei rosati, three ounces. Cerae rubrae. two. ounces.  
Make thereof a lineament, wherewith anoint the pessary, or dissolve it in part of the aforesaid iniection, and use it so, but if this Ulcer do spring ex lue venerea, ad to that lineament Hidrargyri, two. ounces.  
But if they be virulent corrosive, or Cacoethe, by and by in the beginning use the powder of Mercury, or injected with the decoction of Barley, with a little Allome thereto added. Or if the Ulcer be filthy, dissolve ung Egiptiacum, vel Apostolo. or other of the aforesaid mundificatives. But where it seemeth sufficiently mundified, use the aforesaid injections or lineament, then increase the dose of astringent medicines, or with powders prescribed in the lineament, sprinkle the Ulcer, to induce a Cicatrice. And for a more speedy way of exiccation, use this suffiture following, chief if these aforesaid, do not avail.  

Rec.  Corticis thuris, two. drams. Mastiches. Gummi hederae, & luniperi, ana. half an ounce. Labdani puri, & Hypocistidos. Auripig. rub. vel citrini. iii drag. Cinabrii, one ounce. or half an ounce.  
Excipiantur terebinthina, and make thereof Trochises, which must be put upon fire, and the fume received by a funnel.  

Rec.  Olei mastichini. three ounces. Olei de absynthio ana one ounce. & Rosarum. Cerae parum.  
Make thereof a lineament, wherewith anoint the region of the womb, and whilst it is anointing, and to a little wine.  
When the Ulcers proceed through the French pocks, a thin diet must be used with the decoction of Guiacum, or use univer sall unctions, ex Hidrargyro. 
Cum ulc. sunt a lue venerea.   
If inflammation abound, wash it with the decoction of Barley, cum mucagine psilii, & cydon. 
Si inflammatio saper●●nit.  juiubarum, Sebesten, cunsucco plantag. Portulacae, lact bubulo, aqua rosacea, Oui albumine & Saccharo.  
Or,  

Rec.  Hordei integri, ana. two p. Lentium. Portulacae, an. two. handful. Plantag. Virg. pasto. Capita tria papau●ris, ana. two. p. Rosarum rubrarum, Make thereof a decoction in aequis part. aquae fabrorum, & rosar, and in two pound thereof, dissolve syrup. de ros. siccis. iiii. ounces, Trochisc, albor. Rasis sine opio (if the heat and pain be vehement) half an ounce, Croci, two. scruples, Passi three ounces. mix them and make thereof an iniection, whereto may be added Vitellos two, vel Muccag. sem. psyllii.  
Sharp grief is to be delayed with incessions made of wine, Camomile, Roses, and others.  
If the Ulcer be grown to a cankerous effect, the cure is to be used as despered & ●o be fled, and then availeth (as in all other Ulcers of the womb, decoction of taps. ●arb. and the aforesaid colliery. After prepare ung succi Solani, stirred in a leaden mortar & pestle, to the thickness of honey.  
You may use also other unguentes to dry and delay the sharpness of humours, whereof we have spoken in the chapter of the Canker afore.   

The Hemerhoides.  
THe reason of curing the Hemerhoides, 
De hemor rhoidibus.  requireth a diet sufficiently thin, & of those whereof excellent blood was wont to be engendered, and greatly to be avoided, are all sour, Melancholy & gross things: It shall be good sometime to open the liver vain, and use purgation purging gross, sharp and melancholy humours. And as touching due purgation and diet, therefore peruse the curation of tumours. Notwithstanding, those which were accustomed to flow, and have been long stopped, are to be opened, either with a lance aptly applied, or else a horseleech put to the place, first anointed with blood, whereby she may the better take hold, or open them with a plaster made ex alo● & fell bovis cum aceto, or make a suffiture ex decoct calamenti, origani, maluae in vino factae: Then make a cataplasm ex Helleboro nigro, mixed cum succi cepae, aut lacteficus, aut ex stercoris columbini, one ounce, & succi tithymali, one ounce and a half. And it shallbe far better if thou add thereto Felbubulum, & pulueris Staphysagria, vel ciclaminis. Or it sufficeth to use Fol. fici trita.  

Rec.  Fellis taurini, an. one ounce and a half. Stercoris columb. Sem. Staphis. three drams. Amigdalarun amararum. i dram. Colocynthidos. half a dram. Succi Cyclaminis, ana. two drams. & Cepe. Olei de Absynthio, & q. s. Amigdal. amararum.  
Make thereof a form of anemplaster.  
But when these aperitives do sometime induce vehement pain, and the sick party not able to abide it, there is no other counsel, but with scissoures to cut them that appear, whereby the blood may flow. And in the mean time, to mitigate the pain, it shall be profitable to use a fotion, ex decocto Altheae, Maluae, Camomeli, Meliloti, seminis Lini. etc.  
Or,  

Rec.  Maluae, Parietariae, Tapsi barbati, ana. m. s. Chamomeli, Meliloti. Sem. Lini. three ounces.  
Make thereof a decoction to wash therewith the fundament, after mix Vitellum ovi cum Oleo rosaceo, ung. Pop. Opij, gra. two. & tantillo Croci. and put it into the fundament.  

Rec.  Butyri recentis. one ounce. Olei de papavere. two. drams. Succi Solani sensim mixti. unc. s.  
Stir them long in a leaden mortar, or Cepe aslum cum butyro misceto, aut oleum de sem. Lini, cum butyro & ●ouo aut oleum de vitellis ovorum, aut oleum de nucleis persicorum. Or,  

Rec.  Olei de sem. Lini, ana. half an ounce. & Butiri recentis. Sagapeni. half a dram. Succi tapsi barbati. ana. one ounce. & Mali punici. Scarabeos. vi.  
Boil them to the consumption of the juices, which being strained, use it both outward and inward. Certain Imperickes apply Scrophularia, vel Scabiosa, affirming that those herbs do profit wondrous well. Or,  

Rec.  Olei Lumbricorum, i ounce. Ouum. one. Opij. one dram.  
Mix them, and minister them with bombast. Else,  

Rec.  Radicum tapsi barbati, ana. two ounces. & Altheae. Chamaemeli. p. i sem.  
Boil them, and add thereto Vitellos ovorum elixatorum. two. Aloes. ana. one dram. Mirrhae. Croci. Fari. sem. Lini. ana. fix drams. & Foenugraeci. Butyrum sine sale. q. s.  
Make thereof the form of a plaster, which shallbe much better, if thereto you add Opij. one dram. But if the Hemethoides lie hidden within, they must be drawn forth by boxing, or with the unguent applied with bomdast, else cum oleo Lumbricorum aforenamed, to delay the ●ayne.  
When the Hemerhoides do flow immoderately, the diet must be appointed with the use of astringent and engrossing things. Medicines also to be used (according to the nature of the humour) which (notwithstanding though they loose) may leave with them a certain astriction, such as is Myrobal. tamarindi, rhubarb. etc. The use also of this electuary following, shallbe much available.  

Rec.  Mirobalanorum embelictiarun, Indarum & bellericarum lotarum in aqua plantag. donec amarorem exu●●erint. ana. half an ounce. Radic. Tapsi barbati. three drams. Zinziberis, Cinamomi, Nucis muscati, an. one drag. Galangae, Olibani. Spicae nardi. ana. half a drag. Squinanthi. Ammeos. Scoriae ferri praeparatae & in acet: coctae. three drams. Conseruae rosarum veteris, succi de ribs & de berberis, ana. unc. s. Zacchari. q. s. make thereof an electuary in morsels.  
As touching outward medicines, wash the fundament with water quenched with flint, else wherein Nuces cipressi, alumen ustum, and other astringentes have been boiled, and let the party receive the fume thereof, or of the like things, make a bath or incession, but in winter.  

Rec.  Absynthii. one handful. Saluiae. half a handful. Matricariae, a quarter of a handful, contundantur in sartagine, frigantur cumoleo rosa.  
And in form of a plaster apply it to the fundament, and inwardly minister this unguent following.  

Rec.  Rosarum. an. half a dram. Myrtillorum. Centinodiae. Thuris. one dram. Sanguinis draco. two. drams. Boli armeni, ana three drams. terrae sigilla. Tuthiae praepar. ana. one drag. s. Lithargiri utriusque. Farinae volatilis, ana. two drams. & fabarum. Succi tapsi barbati. Caudae equinae. ana. three drams. Plantaginis. Simphiti maioris. Albumina ovorum. two.  
Mix them, and ad to them de pilis Leporinis, cut very short. Or,  

Rec.  Psidiae, Conchillae marinae adust. Balaustiorum, Puluer. pilo. leporis vst. an. i drag. s. Thuris. Mastiches. Sanguis draconis. Telae araneae. Terrae sigillatae.  
Mix them come ichthiocolla & glutine fabrorum lignariorum dissolutis aqu● pluuiali calibeata, make thereof an e●● plaster.  

Rec.  Extremitatum rosar. two. ounces. Albumina ovorum. two. Lapidis haematitis. one dram. Gypsi. half an ounce.  
Make thereof a plaster. To conclude, whosoever will retain or stay, the immoderate Flux of terms, & in like sort, the Hemerhoides must beside medicines use all kind of re●ulsions.  
Rasis to strengthen the Liver, applied to the regions thereof Mastichen, Spicam, Cal. aromat. Ciperum, Squinanthum, Crocum, & Mirrham.   

The Fistula of the fundament.  
THe fistulous Ulcer of the fundament which is only in the flesh, is cured by the same means and method, whereof we have spoken in the chapter of the Fistula, 
De ani fistula.  the diet being thin and good, with other medicines and purgations, chief by the upper parts, if it seem necessary, likewise with Phlebotomy, and enlarging the Ulcers orifice, and the callous substance diminishing.  
But if it have, 
Quando intestinum penetrate.  pierced the intrelles, put the finger anointed with oil of Roses, into the fundament, & also Phaceolus that chanceth in the fistula, is in like manner with the finger to be drawn forth, so that it may not err, lest perhaps by cutting the callous substance, thou cut also the hemorrhoical veins, yet incision seemeth better in my judgement, than detraction of Callus done by ligature. After incision apply Albumen ovi cum pulvere restrictorio, and then a digestive ex terebentina & oleo.  
Notwithstanding, great heed is to be taken, that Callus pierce not above four fingers in length into any intrel, for if it do, the cure is desperate and to be eschewed.  
Now when it cometh, ad vesicam veloes sacrum, passing beyond the part called Sphincter, so that the said part named Sphincter, must be cut away: then followeth vnuolunt●rie excretion of egesrion. And then wash it twice every day, with the decoction of Tapsus barb. in wine, & iniecte of the decoction inwardly.   

Fissures of the fundament and other parts.  
FIssures 
De fissuris a●, al●a●ūque partium.  in what part soever they be, must be anointed cum oleo de vitellis ovorum, vel de sem. Lini, cum mellis trita tertia part. Or,  

Rec.  Mellis rosati col. ana. one ounce. Olei rosarum. Cerae citrinae. half an ounce. Mirrhae, & ana. two scruples. Zin ziberis. Lithar giri. iiii. scruples.  
Make thereof an unguent, which before it be ministered, moisten the fissures with the spittle of the sick, it profiteth also for the Fissures, both of the breasts & lips, as experience hath taught me. Else wash them with the decoction ex radic. altheae & sem. Lini, in vino & aqua.  
Furthermore.  

Rec.  Olei de sem Lini one ounce. Ouum. one. Lithargiri. two. drams.  
Make thereof an unguent to mitigate the pain, and soften the hardness of the Fissures.  

Rec.  Olei amigd. dulc. ana. one ounce. Olei de papavere. v●g alb. rasis cum camfora. one ounce. s. Aloës, Mirrhae, ana. one ounce and a half. Cortic, thuris, Aluminis. Terrae sigillatae. two drams. Albumina ovorum. two.  
Make thereof an unguent, which is very commodious, both to the Fissures, as also to the Ulcers of the fundament.  
Or,  

Rec.  Muccag● seminis Lini, extractae in aqua maluarum. one ounce. Butyri recentis. ana. half an ounce. Sem. Lini. Cerae. q. s.  
Make thereof a cerote.  
Also Oleum Lini applied alone, or Oleum nucum, shallbe much available.   

Ulcers of the Thighs, Legs, and Feet.  
Ulcers of those parts, 
De femorum tibiarum & pedum ule.  of what sort or kinds soever they be, are to be cured by method universal, with the institution of diet, Phlebotomy, and inward medicines, according to the habit of the body, and quality of the humours, with the disposition and kind of the Ulcer, as in the cures of certain tumours hath been diligently handled.  
And as touching outward remedies, the nature of the parts affected, must be advisedly noted, & if the refuse of humours fall thereto, they are before all things to be stayed, both by universal medicines, simple and local.  
In Summer they are to be washed cum aqua Plantag. wherein some Alum is dissolved, and to be anointed cum unguento de Minio, and if they be round, apply thereto a cautery of some other form and shape, and ease the parts from time to time.    

Certain Additions of divers medicines of mine own invention, and often by me experimented and practised in the curing of Ulcers, as followeth particularly.  

first an Oil which I used in hollow & deep Ulcers, whereby great commodity ensued, having not only virtue to mundify without erosion, but also aptly applied to hollow caved Ulcers, within the space of four and twenty hours, obtaineth Pus perfect of kind, chief if the body be before prepared, and the member void of accidents and evil dispositions. The right making thereof must be in the beginning of the year, when the force of herbs is in them fully contained. This is the making thereof. viz.  

Rec.  Olei communis, one pound. s. Olei Liliacei. two. ounces. Olei ex floribus Meliloti. i ounce. Olei Ipericonis. three ounces. Olei Violacei. two. ounces. s. Terebinthinae. Venetae. two. ounc. Resinae purae, ana. two. drams and a half. Resinae pini. Galbani. two. ounces. Opopanacis. one ounce. Sarcocollae. three drams. Boracis. one ounce. Stiracis liquid. two. drams. s. Olibani. ana. three drams. Mirrhae. Succorum Plantag. ana. two ounces. & Saluiae. Vini albi. one pound.  
Dissolve the gums in as much good malvesey as will cover them, and boil them altogether (until the wine & juices be consumed) at a soft fire of Charcoal. Then strain it, and add thereto Flos aeris. two ounces, in fine powder, and boil it a while after it, and then put thereto Mel. rosarum. iiii. ounces, & again boil it four walmes, after that strain it, and stir it till it be through cold, and reserve it.  
It must be ministered warm in form and manner of an iniection, a biding four and twenty hours, till the next dressing.   

¶ The second oil, whose making fol. loweth, mollifieth, assuageth pain, moveth Pus, and heals safely, if the body be orderly governed and prepared.  

Rec.  Olei Rosar. half a pound. Olei Lumbrici, iiii. ounces. Olei Liliacei. two. ounces. Olei Nenufar. three ounces. Olei Aneti. one ounce. Olei communis. one pound. Terebentinae Venetae. x. ounces. Resinae pini iii dagmes. Sarcocollae. one ounce. Mirrhae. i ounce and a half Galbani. half an ounce. Olibani. vi. drams. Masticis. half an ounce. Gummi Amoniaci. two. drams. s. Euforbij. i dram. Sanguinis drac. half an ounce. Suc. Malua. Violarum. ana. two. drams. Plantag. Semperuivi. Vinialbi. vi. ounces.  
Put altogether in a proper vessel, to infuse the space of one and thirty hours, with often stirring, then boil them on a soft fire until the wine and juices be consumed, your gums before being resolved in Maluesey, then in the end put to Croci subtiliss. puluer. half an ounce. When the oil is strained, then reserve it. Note that this oil is good, as well for wounds as Ulcers, but before it be ministered, give good heed that the place affected, be well mundified & made clean with line or otherwise.   

¶ An other oil followeth of great force, which is not only quickly made, but also aptly mundifieth, and largely causeth the flesh to grow in bodies of good constitution. viz.  

Rec.  Olei Balsami. iiii. ounces. Olei. come. half a pound and two. ounc. Terebentinae Venetae. three ounces. Galbani. two. ounces. s. Opopanacis. one ounce. Sarcocollae. half an ounce. Virid. aeris. pull. i ounce and a half.  
Dissolve the gums in Vinegar, and infuse them altogether twelve hours, then boil them together on a soft fire, that space of ten hours, and in the end add to Mel. Rosar. opt. two ounces, & boil it again four walmes, than strain it, & so occupy it as occasion serveth.   

A sparadrap to resolve, assuage pain, and moderately cool.  

Rec.  Resinae. three drams. Cerae alb. one pound. Sepi ceruivi. iiii. ounces. Butiri recent. three ounces. Terebentinae. three drams. s. Amoniaci. Gummi dragaganti. an. half an ounce. Arabici. Olei Anethi. two. drams. Olei Nenuphar. i ounce. Olei Rosar. iiii. ounces, s. Olei Lili. i ounce and a half. Olei Violacei. one ounce. Ping. Caponis, iiii. drams. Vng. Rosar. one ounce. Ping. Anseris, & ana. three drams. Anatis. Olei Amigd. dulc. one ounce. s.  
Resolve the gums in vinegar, and melt them altogether according to art, and in the end ad to Camforae puluerizatae, two drams, and thereof make a sparadrap in good form, which is of an excellent efficacy.   

¶ A black plaster to be applied upon and about Ulcers, having the property of a defensative, and also most easily enduceth a Cicatrice.  

Rec.  Olei Rosar. omphacini. two. pound Olei Nimph. one pound. Olei Liliacei. half a pound. Succi Solatri. two drams. Succi Plantag. half an ounce. Succi Semperuivi. one ounce. Succi Violarum, half an ounce. Terebintinae clarae, two ounces. Cerae albae, one pound. Muccag. Altheae, two ounces.  
Boil these upon a soft fire until the juices be consumed, then put to these following finely powdered. Cerusae, three ounces. Plumb. alb. three ounces and a half. lethargy auri, ana. two ounces. & argenti. Lap. Calamin. half an ounce. Boli Armeni, three drams. Corallij alb. ann. two drams. & rub.  
These powders being put to the former things, boil them on a soft fire of charcoal (lest the flame take hold of the oil) unto the form of a plaster, foreseeing that it be continually stirred with an Iron spatter till it be cold, in which cooling, and to Camforae, one ounce, puluerizat. Then make it up in rolls of what bigness you will, and (together with the virtues aforesaid, it cicatrizeth and heals excellently all excoriations or frettings in the skin, in any exterior part.   

¶ An other excellent plaster of small cost, and great effect for all plain Ulcers, when the body is purged.  

Rec.  Resinae clarae, two pound. Sepi Ceruivi albis. half a pound. Vini albi, two pound.  
Boil them in the wine, till they be all melted, & wash them in the wine, them melt them again, & power it into another pint of white wine somewhat warmed, & stir it till it be cold, then take it from the wine, and mix withal these powders. viz. Masticis electi, half an ounce. Merc. precipit. one ounce. Cinabrij. three drams.  
All these being well mixed, make it up in rolls, and reserve it to your use, and I refer the commendation that it deserveth to the judgement of the practizer.   

¶ An excellent unguent for Ulcers that be mundified, which swiftly doth incarnate, and that without pain.  

Rec.  Cerae citrinae mundat two. pound. Terebintinae. i pound and a half. Resinae clarae. one pound. Butyri recentis, half a pound. Mel ros. one pound. Sepi ovini, vi. ounces. Vini Cretici. three ounces. Olei Rosacei, one pound.  
Boil these on a soft fire, till the wine be consumed, then strain it into a fair vessel, and stir it with a wooden slice till it be cold, and in the use, thereof you shall find it a treasure.   

¶ An other unguent to mundify old and hollow Ulcers, the body being prepared with interior medicines.  

Rec.  Cerae citrinae, one pound. Resinae purae. half a pound. Terebintinae Venetae, one pound. Butyri recentis. iiii. ounces. Galbani. two ounces and a half. Bdellij. ● one ounce. Olei communis. one pound. Amoniaci. one ounce. Mellis despumati. viii. ounces. Succi Saluiae. iij. ounces. Vini albi, two ounces.  
Dissolve the gums in vinegar, and boil them altogether till the wine and juices be consumed, then add to Viridis aeris, one ounce and a half, subtilis pul. Then giving in a walm or two, strain it, and reserve it to your use, applying it warm.   

¶ A digestive marvelous profitable for old filthy Ulcers, of me often proved.  

Rec.  Terebintinae, i pound and a half. Olei rosar. iiii. ounces. Olei Liliacei. two ounces. Olei comm. iiii. ounces and a half. Mel●rosa. half a pound. Vitelli ovorum. vi.  
Labour them well together, and put thereto Mastices, half an ounce, Mercurij praecipit. one ounce and a half, been pul. Mix them well together, and use it when occasion serveth.   

¶ An iniection which being astringent, doth also mundify, and must be used in deep and filthy Ulcers.  

Rec.  Hord. excorticati, three handful. Aque fontan. vi. pound. Vini alb. two. pound. Passul. three ounces. Glicyrrizae. two ounces. Plantag. one handful. Labrusci, id est fol. vitis rosarum. two. drams. Saluiae. ana. half a handful. Chelidoniae. Gran Mirtillorun. half an ounce. Nucum cipressi. two. drams. Aluminis, vi. ounces.  
Boil these to the half, than strain it, and add thereto Mel. rosar. half a pound, after boil it four walmes, and so use it for an iniection to Ulcers deep and bollowe, and to a plain Ulcer with warm Stuphes.   

A fume to be used in Ulcers of the inferior parts or feet in moist bodies, & such as be subject to putrefaction, by reason whereof, the Ulcers often become rebellious and hard to be cured, wherefore this fume) after the body is purged, & the Ulcer mundified) is very commodious to be used.  

Rec.  Styracis liquid, three ounces. Masticis. one ounce. Thuris, two. ounces. Mirrhae, three drams. Gariofilorum, half an ounce. Terebintinae, half an ounce. Sandracae, one dram. Baccis Lauri. half a dram. Cinabrij, vi ounces. Puluerizentur puluerizanda.  
Then mix & make it according to art.  

The true use thereof.  
Prepare a coffer for the purpose, made of Pine tree, both ends made to open & shut closely, having in the midst a proper hole or place for the leg to lie in at, and in the inner part of the other side of the coffer, a rest for the heel, than place in eiether end of the chest, a chaffingdishe of coals, laying upon the coals some of the fume, and the feet being duly placed, bolster the same in close, that no smoke come forth. So let the patient continued that space of time, according to their strength. viz. one hour or more, foreseeing that the body be soluble, and every third day, use this so long as need shall require, and great commodity shallbe found thereby.    

¶ An ointment which chaseth away inflammations about Ulcers, and heals the fretting of the skin, which in gross bodies often cometh thereby, and of me often practised.  

Rec.  Axungiae porc. lot. in aqua plantag. half a pound. Olei rosar. iiii. ounces. Olei Liliacei. two ounces. Plumbi alb. iiii. ounces. lethargy auri, ana. three ounces. & Argenti. Lapi. Calamina. i ounce and a half. Muccag. altheae. two. ounces. Succi Plantag. ana. half an ounce. Semperuivi. Albumina ovorum. two.  
Encorporate them well in a mortar, & add thereto Aluminis usti, puluer. i ounce, and reserve it.   

¶ An other for tender bodies, which assuageth pain, and mitigateth the raging heat.  

Rec.  Vng. rosar. ana. three ounces. Olei rosar. Olei Nenuphar. ana. i ounce and a half. Olei Liliacei. Olei Amigda. dulc. one ounce and a half. Plumbi albi. vi. ounces. Cerusae. two ounces. Terrae sigillatae. one ounce. Carae albae. three drams. Muccag. an. 3. dra. Gummi dragaganti & Arabici. iiii. sem. Frigi. maior. an two. drag. Camfora. half a dram. Aqua rosar. ana. three drams. Plantag. Alb. unius ovi.  
Powder that which is to be pouldered, and mix it in a leaden mortar, & reserve it to your use.   

¶ A gentle corrosive powder, profitable for any Ulcer, not much painful, but very good for every expert man to have ready.  

Rec.  Mercurij precipit. two ounces. Cinabrij. half an ounce. Masticis. three drams. s. Vitrioli combusti. two. drams. Corallij rub. half a dram.  
Make them in fine powder, and use as occasion serveth for spongy flesh. etc.   

An other more sharp and corrodeth more.  

Rec.  Mercurij precipit. one ounce and a half. Masticis. two drams. Vitrioli combust. i drag. and a half. Aluminis usti. two. drams. Corallij rub. one dram.  
Powder them finely, and make it to your use.   

¶ Trochisis corrosive, very strong, but exceeding commodious being used with good discretion.  

Rec.  Mercurii precipit. one dram. s. Mercurii sublim. i ounce. i drag. Cinabrii. two. drag. and a half. Masticis. one dram. Vitrioli combusti. half an ounce. Corallii rub. two drams. Amyli. three drams.  
Powder these fine, and make thereof trochisis with Mucilage of gum tragacanth and Plantain water, dry them not at the fire, but otherwise, and to occupy them make one in powder, and apply it.   

¶ A resolutive plaster to be used, where any hardness, swelling, or inflammation, or pain, is about the Ulcer.  

Rec.  Muccag. altheae. three drams. Muccag. psilii. two. ounces. s. Muccag. dragaganti. one ounce. s. Olei rosar. half a pound. Olei meliloti. three drams. Olie Chamomillae. half an ounce. Olei liliacei. three ounces. Olei nenupharis. two. ounces. Olei violacei. one ounce and a half.  
Boil them together till the muscilages be consumed, after add to, Ammoniaci, one ounce. Bdellii. ana. half an ounce. Galbani. Gummi Arabici. three drams. Opopanacis. one ounce. two. drag. Sagapeni. three drams. Ping. Anseris. ana. half an ounce. Anatis, Resinae purae. iiii. ounces. Terebintinae. two. drams. Cerae albae. one pound. Cerusae. vi ounces. Plumbi albi. vi. ounces.  
Dissolve the gums in vinegar, powder that which is to be powdered, & make it (according to art) in form of a plaster, in rolls, of what bigness you will, and so use it.   

¶ A potion preparative for Ulcers.  
THis I used in the curing of gross Ulcered persons, such as be engrossed & replete with much corrupt humours, for in such bodies the Ulcers do become rebellious and difficult to be cured, for that is one of the principal things, which maketh Ulcers hard of curation. Nevertheless, it must be used advisedly, and with good discretion, that is to say, to what body it is given, for as much as that which helpeth a moist body, harmeth a dry, and that which succoureth a gross body, offendeth the lean. etc.  

Rec.  Ligni sancti. one pound and a half. Corticis eiusdem. seven. ounces. Salxza Parilia, two. ounces and a half. Aquae fontanae, twelve pound. Vini albi, four pound. Herbarum saluiae, ana. i handful and a half. Fumariae Eupatorii. one handful, Scabiosae, ana. half a handful. Betonicae. Epithimi. Lapathi acuti. seven. ounces. Rubarbari. three drams. Agarici. ana. one ounce. Sem. Cartami. Senae Alexandrinae, vi. ounces. Zinziberis, half an ounce. Polipodii, three ounces. Galangae. one ounce. Sem. Anisi, half an ounce. Glicyrrizae rasae, ana. one. p. Florum cordial,  
Put all these into a narrow mouthed pot, close stopped, that no air go forth, then set it within an other vessel of water, and let it boil the space of forty hours, than strain and clarify it, and add thereto Mellis rosarum, half a pound, and let the patient take thereof morning and evening, the quantity of four or five ounces at a time, a little warmed, the term of three days together, and on the fourth day, give the patiented four ounces of the decoction, adding thereto Confection hamech● two drams and a half, Syrupi Cichorii cum Rubarbare, one ounce. Use it in this order to your patient, so long as you think convenient.   

¶ An excellent and most profitable ointment, which extinguisheth the heat of all Choleric humours, flowing to any Ulcered part, and most chiefly circa ulcera virgae, as if the heat be between Glans and preputium, it yieldeth a wondrous commodity.  

Rec.  Axungiae porcinae purae, i pound and a half. Pomorum dulcium scissorum, half a pound. Pingued. caponis, ana. four drams. & Cigni. Succi Limonis. iiii. ounces.  
Let them boil between two pewter ●ishes, on a chaffingdishe with coals, the space of four hours, or until the juices be perfectly consumed, then let it run through a linen clot into a fair hasen, and add thereto Muccaginis psilii (extracti cum aqua Plantag.) one ounce and a half, aquae rosaceae. iiii. ounces, aquae Semperuivi, two ounces. Labour them altogether, so long until all be encorporated & brought to one uniform substance, and no water perceived, then have in readiness these following, finely powdered, viz. Boracis one ounce and a half, Camforae, half an ounce, Plumbi albi, two ounces, Aluminis usti, half an ounce. Mix all these together, and labour them a whole hour, and reserve it, the goodness whereof is sufficient to commend itself, as the learned (who ministereth advisedly) shall plainly perceive.    

What meats are to be used as touching diet in Ulcered bodies.  
GALENE saith, that in the curing of Ulcers, 
Lib. de partibus artis medic. ca 1 Et lib. experiment. cap. ultimo  (which have their beginning of other matters or humours) there be three principal ways viz. Diet, aid of medicines, and operation of the hand. 
Apho. 1 & 1. de ratione victus in acut. morbis.  And sithence diet is the most noble, and excellent instrument among the rest (as Galene supposeth) I have accounted it worthy the labour, only in this treatise or part, to set forth the only order of diet, to be used in curation of Ulcers: but amongst those things whereof our bodies do chance necessarily to be altered, (as Galene says) and wherein also the whole way, 
Lib. 3. artis medicinalis.  or consideration of diet doth consist is (especially) the air which doth environ and compass us about. Whereto also Galene adding saith, that which doth compass and environ us, 
3. method. curate. ca 8.  is that without the which, neither the disease can be taken away, nor the health be kept and preserved, 
1. De tuenda sanitate  further he says also, that there is no small strength or force of preserving the health by choosing the good air, and for this cause it is meet, first to show what air the body corrupt with Ulcers, doth require. It is worthy to be noted how the disease is driven away by the changing of the air to the sick body, and that is by changing to an other kind of temperature in the air, which the disease (which is driven away by his contrary) doth aptly require, as if the disease be of nature cold, the air must be hot: and somewhat more, that is to wit, of a greater inequality of the temperature of the air, to the property of the disease, whereby it may the more easily be driven away (as for example.)  
If the disease be cold in two degrees & moist in one, 
Maior inequalitas a●ris ad proprietat. ●nor.  the air must be of greater heat than of two degrees, and of more dryness than one degree. But how shall we be able to know, or discern exquisitely this proportion or excess in degrees, sithence Galene hath said, that the certain quantity of the thing, can neither be written with pen, nor pronounced with the tongue. The Chirurgeon must therefore endeavour to find it forth by conjecture, for it sufficeth to the driving away of the disease, if the propulsative cause of the disease do obtain a certain proportion of a greater inequality than the disease or fore. Therefore, it is good for them that are vexed with ulcers, to inhabit the hot air, both because the naughty humours are made ready thereby, to breathe forth by the pores of the skin, & also because the sine we members, which suffer much damage by Ulcers, do take strength by heat. As Hippocrates and Galene affirmeth. 
Aphor. 5. tepr. & comment. 18.  Yet let not the heat be unmoderated, or to much inequality, lest the putrefaction be thereby burned, and the disease made more sharp and fierce, and also lest the body fall the more readily into distillation, coming by dissolving of the strong heat, into the which distillation that body doth chiefly decline, from the which distillation also, inflammations may easily grow, and heap together. Let the air therefore convenient to him, be more dry, that the Ulcers superfluities and moist excrements, may the more easily be consumed, and let him therefore eschew the cold and moist temperature of the air, since the disease doth proceed of such like untemperature, as by Galene plainly appeareth The affected bodies therefore shall live better in places where Hills and Mountains are, (though not in the highest of them.) 
3. Artis medicine.  But worst of all, 
Gal. 5. metho-curativae.  in low, fenny, or plain countries, in which places moisture doth abound, but in the other dryness. Avoid therefore such places as be cloudy, misty. etc. by reason of pools and marrishes which be there at hand, for that air is corrupt, and increaseth superfluous moisture, whereby the Ulcers are nourished and maintained, whereby they oft purchase pain in the head, and increase distillations, which fall to the lower parts, which is most familiar to Ulcers. Therefore where the profitable air can not naturally be had, let it be prepared by art in the mansion, or abiding place of the party, for if the place and air be not only disagreeing to him, but also the constitution of the time, let him use gentle perfuminge with spices, because their head is also commonly replete with evil and vicious humours, as says Hypocrates, 
5. Aphor. 18.  and if the affected body do feel hurt by receiving the fumes of sweet spices, then let it suffice, that he behold or have them present by him, for the breath or savour of them, is a safeguard to all cold diseases. But when as in the winter season, 
Galen. 5. Apho. comment. 18.  the fire shallbe agreeable to it, then burn therein the wood of Rosemary, juniper, Laurel, or of the wood called Terebinthus, or of the larch tree, or the Pineaple tree. Furthermore, let the party cover his head moderately with hot things, for an extrinsical heat is hurtful unto him, both of those things wherewith the head is defended and covered, as also of the air which is about it, for superfluities do issue forth from it, to the members below, by a certain dissolution, by the which Ulcers are not only nourished, but also stirred and exiccated. The bread which doth little nourish, I suppose to be profitable for Ulcered bodies, and not their meat to be equal to their appetite, for the concoctive faculty being weakened in them by to much repletion, many superfluities are engendered, greatly hurtful unto them, let their bread be such as maketh the belly soft, whereby the inner parts may be cleansed, and dejection made of the naughty humours. Therefore let the bread be much brannie, the finest meal bolted forth, which is proved fittest for such, 
1. De poten. alimentorum. cap. 2  as Galene witnesseth, further, let not their bread be to much leavened, for the tartness thereof is hurtful to the brain, and to the sinews, which suffer much damage and anoiaunce of the Ulcers, and yet let not the bread be utterly without leaven, for Galene says, in the same place rehearsed, that that bread which is altogether without leaven, shall not be meet or fit for any body.  

Of the wine which Ulcered bodies aught to frequent.  
OF this opinion is Galene, 
L●●de s●●●nitatis tu●●la.  that all excess is to be eschewed especially, that which bringeth damage, both to the body and mind. Wherefore, since wine doth engender to small damage to Ulcered bodies: I suppose it best, not only to counsel them to drink but one draft, but utterly to refrain all sorts of wine, for wine hurteth the body, in so much that it sendeth gross vapours to the head, which being afterward expelled by the painful travail of the brain, doth ruinously fall into the lower parts, & much hinder and endamage the healing or curation of the Ulcered. And also for because the nature of the members is much delighting in wine, and therefore do draw it covetously to them before it be concocted, which then wonderfully doth increase superfluities in the body, the which superfluous abundance, nature (not being able to redress or amend) expulseth them to the outward members so plenteously, that in short space they engender Ulcers of one kind or other. I therefore unfeignedly do suppose, that Hidromel ex decoctione Hisopi, & Betonicae, should be a meet and convenient drink for them, the operation whereof is hot and dry, diminishing cold, gross, & moist humours, and aptly strengthening the power of brain says Galene, and whosoever readeth Galene in his first book De tuenda sanitate, 
Lively 8. Simplic. medicament.  and in his book Exhortationis ad bonas arts, and in his third book De temperaturis, shall plainly see the hurt that is received by drinking of wine. But in Ulcered bodies, where doubt is also of dropsy, and in those, who (through vehement appetite and breach of custom by the physicians counsel) do wax sick for the taste of wine, to such (I say) we must be compelled to pardon them for the drinking of a little, or as need requireth. The wine that is white in colour, is lest hurtful for them, the fuming force thereof being delayed, so saith Galene, 
Gal. lib. 1. de tuenda sanita. Et li. 5. de loc. affect. ca 5.  for such wine doth not only little sand to the head, but also maketh the stomach strong and forcible, but strong wine or undelaide, doth the contrary.   

Of the flesh meats which they aught to eat.  
Flesh meats which in continuance of time, do get to them the nature of earthy food, substance or nourishment, are very evil for those that be troubled with Ulcers, 
Galen. 3. De potentijs alimentorum.  because they engender a grosser blood than is convenient, so says Galene, for that their nourishment is rebellious and stubborn, & not strengthening the virtues in the body, as the flesh of Beef, Stags, Rams, and old beasts that be gealte, neither is Swine's flesh altogether convenient for such meats do grieve the stomach, engendering a gross nourishment saith Galene, 
Gal. lib. 7. Meth. curate. cap. 6.  and nothing assistant to nature in digestion. Those meats therefore are very fit which be hot and dry in temperature, for in the first beginning the causes of Ulcers, are judged to proceed of cold and moisture, and if any sudden heat chance thereto, it is thought to be through putrefaction lying aloft. As by Galene we are plainly taught. 
Gal. in lib. de curatione per sanguine. missionem.  Wherefore the thrush, Ouzel, wood Plovers, and all that get their living in dry places, are most of others convenient. Also domestical birds, as Capons, Hens, and household Doves, are nothing unmeet, but greatly allowable, and together with these the pheasant, Partriche, Quails, and such like, are much agreeing. The meat of four footed beasts which is alloweable to Ulcered bodies, are these and such like. viz. Young Coneys, young Hares, which with their moist nourishment do cherish & sustain the natural heat, increasing also the strength of the whole body, which is a true mean to restore the health of the body, wherefore by this it followeth consequently, 
Vlceribus infest● aquatiles minime prosunt.  that all waterfoules by their moist temperature and hardness of digestion, are to bodies thus affected, most hurtful & unprofitable. viz. Gese, Ducks, etc. Neither is it doubtful to any man, that the flesh of Lambs is hurtful to those, and that because they engender a substance to moist, for so we be taught by Galene. 
Galen. de cibis boni & mal. suc. Galen. 12. De temp. med. sec●ndum locos  Let them also which be affected, beware of to much powdered meat, for Galene says, that salt is noisome, especially to Ulcers in the head.   

¶ Of Fish.  
BEcause fish of their own proper nature exceadeth in abundance of moisture, 
Gal. 6. us. part. cap. 9  which (says Galene) is rebellious to Ulcers, they are to be eschewed, both because they augment the cause of the Ulcer, and also for that they be hard of digestion, most chief (says the same author) those which are full of excrements, 
Gal. 3. De fac. aliment, cap. 24.  of the which sort are the fish of Lakes, Marrishes, Muddy pools, and stinking Ponds, for their meat is so excremental, and so slimy, that thereby filling all the pores of the body, empaireth the strength of the members, and grieveth or depriveth their functions, whereupon, pain, lothesomenes, rottenness, and corruption of humours are engendered. But those fish, which are engendered in Land floods, and are nourished in hard stony and gravely waters, especially in quick streams, are less hurtful, the meat therefore of those fish which swim in the pure and clean sea, is very little hurtful to them, chief being taken when the sea is at a full water, and tossed with a quick wind, as manifestly it is to be found in Galene. 
3. De pot, aliment. cap. 24.  For by so much the fish is the worse, by how much it is less exercised tossed, and troubled. Let them also beware of powdered fish, as I said even now of powdered flesh. And we prohibit generally all kind of fish, by what means soever they be taken or kept, for by their slimines they corrupt the humours, being very hard in passing, and difficult in digestion, and the more slimy the worse.   

Of Eggs.  
GAlene sayeth, 
Galen. li. 3 De potent. aliment. cap. 21.  that the Eggs of creatures do engender good and perfect blood, as the Eggs of Hens. etc. For by the reason of the equality of their temperature, they are judged convenient and agreeable to all bodies, as well diseased as sound, for they do not only engender good humours and commendable juice, but also are of light digestion, & easy passage, grieving very little the natural strength, as is evident in Galene. 
Lib. 3. De fac. aliment. cap. 21.  But let the eggs be new laid, or else they be rebellious to the nature of man, and be evil to digest, engendering sundry accidents and evil dispositions. Let their Eggs also be boiled in water, for the roasted are harder of nourishment. etc Furthermore, it shallbe best only to eat the yolk of the Egg, because the white is of cold and moist temperature. Let the Eggs also boiled, be rear, for they be of swift transiture, engendering the best juice, and strengthening the faculties of the body. But as Galene 
Gal. 3. De fac. aliment. cap. ●1.  says, the Eggs which are fried, of all other are most pernicious, and hard of digestion, wherefore all meats fried with Eggs, are utterly to be eschewed of bodies affected with Ulcers.   

Of Milk.  
BOth Milk, and what meat soever is compounded or made of Milk, are very rebellious to Ulcered bodies, for the fuming to the head, whereby gross humours are engendered. 
5. Aph. 64.  For Hypocrates says that Milk to those affected with pain, causeth ache in the head, and is evil both to fevers and pain in the belly. Also Galene 
Gal. comment. 60.  saith, that Milk well boiled, doth nourish well, and engendre good humours, ●●t in affected persons doth touch the head, it is dangerous, inducing the dropsy in Ulcered bodies, therefore all forces of meats made with Milk, must be of such persons eschewed.   

Of Cheese.  
TO all that be affected with Ulcers, we forbid the eating of Cheese, both for the abundant slimines, which is thereby engendered in humours, as also for that it maketh them slowly to digest. 
Lib. 3. De fac. aliment. cap. 16.  Galene being witness, whereby says he, the members (by the passage of those slimy humours) are altered, 
Lib. 2. artis medici.  and maketh oft solution of continuity, causing pain in such persons, and that so much the more, by how much the cheese is more salt, and older, 
Galen. 3. De potentijs alimen torun. ca 16.  for thereby it is tarter, and therefore harder to digest, and maketh worse nourishment. And note that although Cheese be of a diminishing faculty of gross humours yet is it unprofitable, for by the naughtiness of the juice & boiling heat, it bringeth more inconvenience, than the attenuation of gross humours can profit. Since therefore there is a common fault to all kinds of Cheese, let persons thus affected, ab stain from it.   

Of Fruits.  
OF Fruits (says Galene) which men do eat, 
Li● 2. fac. aliment. cap. ●.  which the ancient writers call Horarios, for because they spring in the hour of the year, which hour of the year Galene calleth that time, in the midst whereof the star (whereof the Caniculer days be named) appeareth. Of the which some are called fruits of the earth, of which sort are Gourds, Pompions, Citrons, Melons, Coucumers● etc. Which because they are of a moist nature, and endued with large humidity, they do not only engender a moist nourishment, but a slender humidity, and that which is easily purged forth of the body. Galene says also, 
Lib. 2. De pot. alimento. cap. 2.  that that fruit both contain a naughty juice, increasing the disease, and weakening the members, & almost depriving their functions, wherefore to be taken as an usual service in Ulcered bodies we must flatly dame. And those fruits which Galene calleth arboreous, 
2. De pot. aliment. cap. 7.  are those growing upon trees. viz. Figs, Pears, Apples, Peaches, Mulberries, together with the fruit which the Italians call Armelini, being a fruit accounted among the Peaches, and Cherries, Plums, etc. Whose substance is soft and moist, not only engendering the like nourishment, but also by their wyndines do attribute no small hurt and pain to the affected bodies, and therefore are altogether to be forbidden. But if the body affected do fervently desire and earnestly (as it were) long after fruit, then may we permit him to eat Figs that be well ripened, as things less hurtful, less engendering evil humours than the Autumn fruits, although they be not altogether void of fault, for so they be not (saith Galene) Notwithstanding as is aforesaid, 
2. De pot. aliment. cap. 8.  they be less hurtful than all the rest, yet now and then, an Apple roste● under embres may be pardoned, for the fire diminisheth the moist juice thereof, and abateth the wyndines. Whereby otherwise it cometh to pass that the eaters of fruits, do oft suffer pains & torments in the belly, viz. such as Quinces, Oranges, Medlars, Sorbes, Nuts & such like, which are not only slow in passage, but also being gross, & gluey, do engendre astringent juices, retaining the naughtiness of humours. Notwithstanding, we account not sweet Almonds unprofitable, sith in them is contained no binding force, for that they do make clean and extenuate, and therefore probably allowed in Ulcered bodies. 
2. Fac. aliment. cap. 29.  And Galene also affirmeth that Almonds do purge the bowels, whereby it cometh to pass that virious humours (being propulsed to the skin, and forbidden to abide in the inner parts) are driven out by the pores of the skin, as it were by breathing, whereby pains of the belly and other exterior inconveniences are prevented: wherefore sweet Almonds are a convenient & fit meat for affected bodies.  
But Filberdes and Walnuttes, because of their binding strength, and the cause aforeshewed, are most unprofitable, and very unwholesome for Ulcered bodies.   

¶ Of herbs to be used in broths. etc.  
Herbs fit for such bodies, are those which be hot and dry. viz. Hyssop, Calamint, Watermint, fennel, Sage, betony. etc. And when herbs that do attenuate and make soft, be with these compounded, then do they easily cleanse and expuise all gross and slimy humours, and therefore must needs be granted commodious for such persons, & the herbs of contrary temperature. viz. cold and moist, are as much hurtful, such as lettuce, Endive, Mallows, Spinach, and such like, which by their cold nature, do compact and heap together naughty humours in thinner parts of the body, hindering their passage or expulsion, for which cause the depth of the body is not purged, but the disease more augmented and a great deal the more when the patiented through fond and greedy desire, shall have eaten herbs cold and dry, with astringent faculty, which to the patients are most obnoxious, of which sort be these. viz. Plantain, Sorrel, Nightshade and of like sort.   

¶ Of Onion's, Garlic, Musheromes, or Toad stools. etc.  
ONions, Garlic, Scalians, & Leeks, for their sharp and biting tartness together with the obscurity of their substance both more damage to the body than their force of extenuating can pleasure again. Of the earth also proceedeth funges, or Todestoles, which any way prepared, are to be eschewed, since they are not only of evil juice, but their nutriment is cold and phlegmatic, and to all accidents and dispositions (proceeding of Ulcers) most hurtful. Of that mind is Galene, saying further, for as much as Toadestooles can not dry, 
2. De pot. aliment. cap. 60. li. de cibis boni & mali succi.  it is a manifest token that in them is evil contained. And Avicen says, that prefocation happeneth to them which use to eat Toadstoles.   

¶ Of Pulse.  
SInce there is no Pulse endued with good & perfect pleasure, but do greatly fill the body, with wind, by which means pains in the body, may arise to Ulcered bodies, therefore unneedful: I do not without cause account them unprofitable (Galene being author) of which sort be these. viz. 
1. De potent. alimentorum.  beans, Fitches, Rise, and such like, let us straightly command the Ulcered patientes, clearly to eschew these kind of grains in what order soever they be altered: but to an immoderate appetite, the broth of read Rice, may indifferently be permitted, for that doth attenuate and cleanse gross and clammy humours & open the obstructed ways, which means are much assistant to the healing of Ulcers.   

¶ Of motion and rest.  
Understanding by Galene, 
De tuenda sanitate.  that reasonable motion is not only healthful to the body, but also maketh the said body of a good form, and habit, and keepeth it in healthful plight. It shallbe moste expedient that the person affected, do moderately frequent the motion and exercise of his body. But yet (says Galene) I would not have him to use it when he is full, for endamaging or hurting the head with vapours, which by much motion may arise from the meat newly taken, and undigested. Exercise is good before meat, for them it increaseth the force and strength of the body (says Galene,) and thereby purgeth the pores of the body, 
6. De loc. affec. ca 6.  and expelleth the excrements. Galene therefore affirmed it profitable, 
2. De sanitat. tutela.  to use exercises before meat: yet it is convenient also to use exercises sometime after meat, not alway, but (as Galene sayeth) when the meat is entered into the second digestion, 
2. De tuenda sanit.  and the time of eating is at hand again. But if either before or after that time, the exercise be used, it either filleth the body with raw superfluities, or else hasteneth the coming of Melancholy. For (sayeth Galene) if the exercise after meat be not gentle and easy, 
2. De tuenda sanitate  it hasteneth down the meat from the stomach before it be digested. Wherefore the exercises before meat, must be more hasty and quick, to the end that the superfluities which lurketh in the hollow places of the body, may more easily be expulsed, nature being assisted by exercise.   

¶ Of sleep and watching.  
GAlene says, that sleep and watching, doth come on every side, 
2. Aphor. comment. 1.  according to the motions of unpleasant heat, sleep to the inner parts, and watching to the outward. The natural heat being moved forward, for the which cause, when as in much sleep the natural heat (being called to the inner parts) a great quantity of vapours doth rise up to the head (whereby fluxions do distill to the members below, I think it expedient that the Ulcered body refrain from much sleep, lest superfluities multiplied by reason of sleep, should heap and gather to much to the members, which lie and rest. Day sleeps must be altogether forbidden. For in watching, the breathinges may be moved from the heart to the outward parts, they do attenuate and dissolve the gross and clammy humours engendered in the members (natural heat being adjoined) For the which thing, it is expedient for the party to use watching for the longer distance of time. And when daily sleep would possess an accustomed order, let it be shaken of and lost by little and little, according to the precept of Galene.   

¶ Of joy or Mirth.  
GAlene says, 
●●De sim●●●, causis  that mirth proceedeth by motion of the mind to the outward parts of the body. For the breath being gathered at the heart at the going forth, doth yield a comfortable heat to all the members, whereby all phlegmatic superfluities in them hid, is scattered and put forth, therefore profitable to Ulcered bodies. But by sadness (by reason) cometh the contrary, for that revoketh all the spirits and heat unto the heart, so that the outward parts are utterly destitute of heat, therefore greatly moving and augmenting the cause of Ulcers, wherefore use mirth, and avoid sadness.   

Of repletion and Inanition.  
REpletion, whether it be of meat, or of evil humours, filling the vessels of the body, it is evil, and straightly to be reproved (as sayeth Galene). For when the vessels be filled above mean or measure with meats and drinks, 
1. Aphor. comment. 3.  the parties are in jeopardy of burstnes, obstruction of natural heat. etc. I counsel therefore all those that be infected with Ulcers, to flee from unmoderate filling of their bodies, (according to the causes rehearsed) for that thereby all pains, anguish, and perturbations with evil disposition, accompanying the Ulcers, may be incited. Let the patientes therefore use a slender kind of diet, and yet not an unmoderate kind and excessive form, spare feeding, sithence such may easily engender the falling sickness, which when the stomach shallbe inordinately emptied, hath readiest access, for so says Galene. 
In lib. de ven●. sec. contra Erasi●trat.  But a thin diet (by moderate use observed) resisteth the same. Galene therefore hath this sentence, a mean & moderate diet usually kept, 
Lively de attenuante vict. ratione.  doth safely cure young folks of the falling sickness newly begun, & doth meetly assist them, though they be old, and the disease inueterated.   

De Coitu.  
FOr as much as generally all Ulcers do proceed of intemperature, with cold and weakness of natural heat, and that nothing more augmenteth the malice of such affects, nor increaseth their continuance, than exercises decaying natural heat, & those of things that weaken, cool and dry the body. And again since nature in such parties is sufficiently busied in strengthening and sending due nourishment to the affected parts, it must needs be great damage to the patiented, and hindrance of the curation, to use Coiture, which (as Galene affirmeth) doth make the body more weak, 
Lively de san. tuenda. 3.  slack, cold and dry, which sure is needless in Ulcered bodies, who are commonly given to be of that intemperature. And Paulus Aegineta, 
Lively 1. art. med. ca 7.  says that Coiture hurteth bodies sound, that be of cold and dry complexion. Wherefore to affected bodies, which have nothing in them natural that may be wanted, we aught without pardon, to prohibit the use of venery.    

A Table of Simples  
AND since I have so narrowely touched the curation of Ulcers in the former treatises, I think it more expedient than unneedeful, and more worthy the labour, than out of the way, to set forth in order the natural temperatures, and divers operations of such simple medicines, as my slender diligence at opportunity of time, hath collected and drawn out of divers worthy and approved writers: and for the more easy finding of them. I have tradured and brought them into the order of an alphabet, as followeth.  

Aqua, water, cold and moist, in the first degree, repercussive.  
Acetum, Vinegar, cold in the first, dry in the third degree aperitive.  
Aqua aluminosa, Alom water, dry in the fourth degree, abstersive and repercussive.  
Agresta nota, Ueriuse, cold in the second degree, in the third repercussive.  
Acasia, the juice of Sloes, cold and dry in the third degree, repercussive.  
Acedula, little sorrel, cold and dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Anthera, the yellow of the Rose, cold & dry in the first degree, repercussive.  
Atriplex, Arage, cold and moist temperately, maturative and lenitive.  
Absinthium. Wormwood, hot in the first degree, dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Apium, Smaledge, hot in the first, dry in the second degree maturative, and mundificative.  
Agrimonia, agrimony, hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Acusmuscate, vide pes Columbinus.  
Aristolochia, aristology, hot and dry in the fourth degree, adustive and attractive.  
Allium, Garlic, hot and dry in the fourth degree, adustive and attractive.  
Aloes, a Gum, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, consolidative.  
Auena, Dates, hot and moist temperately, maturative and abstersive.  
Amilum, Starch, cold and dry in the first degree, lightly binding.  
Axungia, fat or grease of a swine, hot and moist in the first degree, mollifieth and ripeneth.  
Argentum vivum, Quicksilver, the temperature whereof is diversly supposed and judged of, for Avicen says, it is cold and moist in the second degree. Dioscorides says, it is hot and moist in the fourth degree. Paulus says, it is hot and dry in the fourth degree, & Montanus (whose judgement I suppose most allowable) says it is cold and moist vehemently, it is penetrative.  
Anisum, Anysseede, hot in the third, dry in the second degree, dissolveth and correcteth windines.  
Anethum, Dill, hot and dry in the second degree, resolutive.  
Asphodeli radices, Daffadil roots, hot & dry in the second degree, abstersive, and corrosive.  
Anacardus, A kind of fruit, hot and dry in the fourth degree, ulcerative.  
Arsenicum, Arsenic, hot in the third, dry in the second degree, mortificative.  
Auripigmentum, Orpiment; of the property of arsenic.  
Alumen rochinum, roche alum, hot and dry in the third degree, styptic.  
Argilla, Clay, cold in the first, dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Antimonium or Stibium, cold in the first degree, dry in the second, mundifieth and purgeth with correctives.  
Ammoniacum, a gum, hot in the third, dry in the first degree, mollifieth with attraction.  
Assa foetida, a Gum, hot in the third, dry in the first degree, abstersive and attractive.  
Asphaltum, a foam hardened of a part of the sea, named Mare mortuum, & it is hot and dry, and consolidative.  
Acanthus, Bearfoote, hot and dry in the first degree, maturative.  
Atramentum, a mineral, hot & dry in the third degree, corrosive with stypticity.  
Aconitum woulfes wort, it is deadly by reason of putrefaction.  
Acorus Gladin, hot & dry in the third degree, resolutive.  
Adiantum, vide capillus veneris.  
Aiuga, seu abiga, Ground pine, hot in the second, dry in the third, astringent.  
Aizoon, vide Semperuiuum.  
Altea, High Mallow dry without notable heat or cold, loseth and scattereth humours.  
Alcibiadicum, wild bugloss, hot without manifest dryness, expelleth venom.  
Alisma, Water plantain, hot, abstersive.  
Amaracum, Fetherfew, hot in the third, dry in the second, it mollifieth and delaieth inflammation.  
Amarantus, flower amour, hot and dry aperitive.  
Ambubeia, vide Endivia.  
Ammi, Ameos, hot and dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Anagallis, Thickweede, hot and dry, conglutinative.  
Anagallis aquatica, Water pimpernel, hot and dry, aperitive.  
Androsemon, vide Ipericon.  
Anetum vaccinum, Ox eye, hot and dry, resolutive.  
Angelica, Angelic root, hot & dry in the third degree, dissolveth and openeth.  
Angurium, vide cucumber.  
Anisum, Anise, hot and dry in the third degree, digesteth and dissolveth.  
Annonis, Arkangel, hot and dry in the first degree, abstersive and aperitive.  
Anthemis, vide Camomilla.  
Apium agreste, Wild smaledge, hot & dry vehemently, ulcerative.  
Apium hortense, Garden smaledge, hot in the second, moist in the third degree, openeth and mundifieth.  
Arnoglosson. vide Plantago,  
Artemisia, Mugwort, hot and dry in the second degree, aperitive.  
Aron. wake Robin, hot and dry in the third, it wipeth and maketh tender.  
Asarum or Asara bacca, Hot and dry in the third degree, the leaf is astringent, and the root is aperitive.  
Asperagus, vide Speragus.  
Atractilis, vide Carduus benedictus.  
Auricula muris, Mouseare, cold & moist attractive, and mundificative.  
Agaricus, Agaricke, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive.  
Amigdala, Almonds, hot and moist in the first degree, provoketh urine.  
Ambra, Amber, hot and dry in the second degree, comforteth the brain.  
Argentum & scoria eius, Silver, and the dross or filinges thereof, cold & dry, conglutinative.  
Aurum, Gold, temperately hot, comfortative.  
Alcakengi, Winter cherry, a kind of nightshade, cold and dry in the second degree, aperitive.   

B  
Basilicon, vide Ozimum.  
Blacte bizantia, a kind of Cocles, hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative.  
Been, hot and dry in the second degree, confortative.  
Bombax, Bombast or Cotton, hot and dry, constringent.  
Balaustia, Pomegranet flowers, cold & dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Berberi, Berberies, cold and dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Brionia, Brionie, the root hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive and maturative.  
Bolus armenus, Bolarmoniacke, cold and dry in the second degree, repercussive restringent.  
Baucia, wild persenep, hot and moist in the first degree, maturative.  
Borago, Borage, hot and moist, temperately, cleanseth the blood.  
Buglossum, Bug●osse, is of like temperature, but more dry, maturative.  
Balsamum, a Gum of a tree so called, hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive, attractive, and confortative.  
Butyrun, Butter, hot in the first degree, and more moist, maturative.  
Bdellium, A gum, hot and moist in the first degree, mollificative.  
Bursa Pastoris, shepherds purse, cold and dry, astringent.  
Borax, Borase, hot and dry, temperately, consolidative.  
Bugiae, the Barbary bark, cold & dry, consolidative.  
Berbena, Ueruaine, hot and dry, meanly, consolidative.  
Betonica, betony, hot and dry, in the first degree, mundificative.  
Bedegar, Eglantine, cold in the first degree, dry meanly.  
Ballote, vide Prassium faetidum.  
Batrachium, vide Pes corui.  
Barba caprina, goats beard, hot and dry, abstersive,  
Beta, Betes, cold & moist, mundificative.  
Bellis, Little Daisies, hot and dry, consolidative, and abstersive.  
Blitum, a kind of beat, rare in England, cold and moist in the second degree.  
Botris, Oak of Jerusalem, hot & dry, resolutive.  
Bulbus syluestris, wild Onion, dry, astringent.   

C  
Camomilla, Camomile, hot and dry in the first degree. resol. mollif.  
Crassula, Orpin. Fuch. says, it is hot & dry in the third degree. Vigo & Guido, cold in the third, moist in the second, repercussive.  
Corallus, Coral, cold in the first, dry in the second, restrictive.  
Cerusa, Ceruse, cold and dry in the second degree, consolidative.  
Caulis, Coleworts, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, maturative, and abstersive.  
Centaurea, century, hot and dry in the third degree, consolidative.  
Cera, Wax, temperate, maturative.  
Crocus, Saffron, hot in the first, dry in the second, resolutive and comforta.  
Costus, a root, hot in the third, dry in the second.  
Cinamomum, Cinnamon, hot and dry in the third degree, confortative.  
Cepa, Onion, hot in the fourth degree, abstersive, aperitive.  
Ciperus, the Cypress root, hot and dry in the second degree, consolidative.  
Chelidonia, Salendine, hot and dry in the third degree, abstersive.  
Cuperosa, Coperise, hot and dry in the beginning of the fourth degree, stiptic, and corrosive.  
Cupressus, Cypress tree, hot in the first, dry in the second, consolidative.  
Cauda equina, Mares tails, cold in the first, dry in the second, consolidative.  
Calx viva, Lime unquenched, hot and dry in the fourth degree, adustive.  
Curcuma, the less Salendine root, dry, consolidative.  
Cantharides, Flies, hot and dry in the third degree, adustive, ulcerative.  
Castoreum, Beaver stoves, hot and dry in the second degree, comforteth the sinews.  
Canabis, Hempseed, hot and dry, maturative.  
Capitellum, Lee, hot adustive.  
Cinis, Ashes, hot and dry in the fourth degree, abstersive.  
cucumber asininus, wild Cow●umer, hot and dry in the second degree, resolutive.  
Cresones, vide Nasturtium aquaticum.  
Ciminum, Coming, hot in the third, & dry in the second degree, carminative.  
Calamentum, calamint, hot and dry in the third degree, resolutive, attract.  
Caseus recens, new Cheese, the new is consolidative, but the old is contrary.  
Cichorea, vide rostrum porcinum.  
Caltha, Marigouldes, hot and dry, aperitive.  
Candelaria, Tassill, dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Capillus veneris, Maidenhere, dry without notable heat or cold, astringent.  
Caprifolium, Woodbine, hot and dry vehement, restringent.  
Cardopatium, Woulfes thistle, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Carduus benedictus, Our Lady's thistle, hot and dry, inflative, and moderately piercing.  
Cartamum, garden Saffron, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, maturative and digestive.  
carvi, Caraways, hot and dry in the third degree, aperitive, abstersive.  
Castrangula, Water betony, dry, mundificative.  
Cataputia, Spourge, hot in the third degree, moist in the second, purgeth gross humours.  
Centumnodia, Knotgrass, cold in the second, dry in the third, astringent.  
Centumcapita, Sea holly, dry, and of a mean temperature.  
Camedris, vide quercula minor.  
Cherifolium, chervil, dry astringent.  
Cheiri, white Violet, hot, astringent.  
Cicer nigrum, Black fetches, hot and dry in the first degree, flatuous.  
Cicuta, Hemlock, cold immoderatlye, a poison to man, and stupefactive.  
Cidonium malum, Quince, cold in the first, dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Citrulli, Citrons, cold and moist in the second degree, abstersive, penetrative.  
Coloquintida, Hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative.  
Consolida maior, the great Comfrey, hot and dry in the second degree, conglutinative.  
Consolida minor, little Daises, hot and dry, resolutive, conglutinative.  
Coriandrum, Coriander, cold and dry, somewhat astringent.  
Cotum, vide Bombax.  
Cresio hortensis, vide Nasturtium hortens.  
cucumber, Cucumber, cold and moist in the second degree, mundificative.  
Cucurbita, Gourds, cold and moist in the second degree, delayeth inflammation.  
Cassutha, Doder, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, mundificative, restringent.  
Ciclamen, vide panis Porcinus.  
Cinoglosson, Hounds tongue, cold and dry in the second degree, restringent.  
Cassia fistula, of an equal temperature, and resolutive.  
Colophonia, Greek pitch, hot & dry in the third degree, conglutinative.  
Calamus aromaticus, hot and dry in the second degree, aperitive.  
Cardamomum, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive.  
Camipitheos', hot and dry in the second degree, mundificative, resolutive.  
Cubebes, hot and dry, meanly mundificative.  
Capparus, the root, hot in the first degree, dry in the second, mundificative, comfortative.  
Cassia lignea, hot and dry, mundificative, and aperitive.  
Calcanthum, A mineral constringent, adustive.  
Camfora, Camphor, cold and dry in the third degree astringent.  
Cinabrium, Uermilion, hot and dry in the second degree, styptic.   

D  
Digitalis, Lady finger, hot and dry, mundificative, and aperitive.  
Digiti citrini, Dogs stones, hot and dry in the second degree, helpeth the sinews.  
Damasonium, waterplantaine, hot, mundificative.  
Daphnoeides, vide Laureola.  
Daucus, Wild perseneppe, hot & dry, provoketh urine and Menstrua.  
Dragunculus, Dragon's, hot and dry, astringent.  
Dulcis radix, vide liquiritia.  
Dragagantum Gum tragacanth, hot and dry consolidative.  
Dactili, Dates, hot and moist in the second degree, resolutive.  
Diptanum. Ditanie, hot and dry in the second degree, attractive.  
Doronicum, Doronick roots, hot and dry in the third degree, resolutive, attractive.  
Diagredium, hot and dry in the fourth degree, resolutive, mundificative.   

E  
Epatica liverwort, Guydo. cold and moist, repercussive.  
Enula campana, Elecampane, hot and dry in the second degree, comfortative  
Ebulus, Walwoort, hot and dry in the second degree, resolutive.  
Euforbium, A gum, hot and dry in the fourth degree, abstersive.  
Aeris flos, Uerdegrease, hot & dry in the third degree, corrosive, and styptic.  
Ermodactilus, vide Asphodeli radices.  
Ematitis lapis, A stone, which unquenched is hot in the first degree, & dry in the second, consolidative.  
Elleborus albus, white Glebor, hot and dry in the third degree, provoketh menstrua, and vomiting.  
Endivia vera, true Endive, cold & dry, astringent.  
Equina mentha. Horseminte, hot in the third degree, dry in the second, astringent.  
Eruca. Rocket, the seed, hot and dry, expelling venom and worms.  
Esula, Woulfes milk, hot in the fourth degree, dry vehemently, mundificative.  
Euiscum, vide Althaea.  
Eufrasia, Eye bright, hot & dry, it quickeneth the sight and memory.  
Eupatorium adulterinum, counterfeit agrimony, hot and dry in the second degree. Mundifieth and loseth.  
Epithymum, hot and dry in the third degree, purgeth melancholic humours.   

F  
Flammula, vide pes corui.  
Fabaria. wild mint, hot in the first● degree, dry in the beginning of the third mundificative.  
Fumus terrae. fumitory, cold in the first, dry in the second, mundificative.  
Feniculus, fennel, the seed is hot and dry in the second degree, resolutive.  
Frumentum, Wheat, hot and moist temperately, maturative, and mundificative.  
Furfur, Bran, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive.  
Fabae, beans, cold and dry, resolutive, and mundificative.  
Fex cerae, dregs of the Wax, hotter than the wax, and more mollifying.  
Fex olei, dregs of Oil, hotter & drier than the Oil.  
Ferrum, Iron, cold and dry in the second degree, constrictive, and consolidative.  
Ferrugo, Rust, hot and dry in the second degree, restringent, and consolidative.  
Fenugrecum, Fenugreeke, hot & dry in the first degree, maturative and resolutive.  
Ficus recentes, green Figs, hot and moist, the dry be hot and dry, maturative, and mollificative.  
Fermentum, leaven, hot and moist with mixed operations.  
Fuligo, Soot, hot and dry, marvelously drying.  
Farina volatilis, Myldust, cold and dry, conglutinative.  
Fraxinus, ash tree, cold and dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Folia Olivarum, Olive leaves, cold and dry, styptic.  
Filex, Fearne, hot and dry in the second degree, mundificative, and resolutive.  
Faba crassa, vide crassula.  
Faseoli, vide Dolichi.  
Ficaria, water betony, dry, mundificative.  
Filago, vide Papyrus.  
Filipendula, hot and dry in the third degree, diuretic.  
Flos amoris, Purple violet flower, hot and dry, aperitive.  
Feniculus porcinus, Hogs fenel, hot in the second, dry in the third degree, mundificative, incarnative, and cicatrifative.  
Fortis herba Dry, astringent.  
Fuga Demonun, Saint john's herb, hot and dry, mundificative, and aperitive.  
Fungus, Funges, cold and moist in the third degree, constringent.  
Fel, Gall, hot and dry, more or less according to the creature, mundificative, and abstersive.   

G  
Galla, Galls, the green are cold in the second degree, and dry in the third, styptic.  
Glandes', Acorns, cold and dry in the second degree, consolidative.  
Gratia Dei, Pinkenedle, hot and dry in the second degree, mundificative, and consolidative.  
Gariofili, Cloves, hot & dry in the third degree, confortative.  
Gluten, Glue, hot and dry in the first degree, conglutinative.  
Gentiana, Gentian, hot and dry in the third degree, abstersive.  
Gallithricum, vide Speragus.  
Gummi Arabica, Cold, with a certain drienes, and glewenes.  
Granum Tinctorum, Madder, dry, consolidative, and intarnative.  
Gipsum lime, vide Calx viva.  
Galbanum, hot in the third, dry in the second degree, attractive.  
Genista, Brome, hot and dry in the second degree, diuretic.  
Guadum, Woad, dry astringent.  
Galanga, galangal, hot and dry in the second degree, confortative.   

H  
Hiosciamus, Henbane, cold in the third degree, stupefactive.  
Herba divi johannis, vide Fuga demonum.  
Herba Stellae, vide pes corui.  
Hermodactilus, vide Ermodactilus.  
Hispanach, spinach, cold and moist in the first degree, mollificative.  
Hordeum, Barley, cold and dry in the first degree, mundificative.  
Humulus, Hops, hot and dry, aperitive, and mundificative.  
Hypericon, vide fuga Demonum.  
Hissopus. Hissope, hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative, and aperitive.  
Harmel, Some call it wild rue, hot and dry in the third degree, it cutteth● and mundifieth gross humours.   

I  
Isatis, vide Dragagantum.  
Iposistis, Toad stools juice, cold and dry in the second degree, styptic.  
Issopus, vide Hissopus.  
juniperus, juniper, hot and dry, consolidative.  
Ipericon, vide fuga Demonum.  
jarus. vide Aron.  
Ireos, Flower deluce root, hot and dry in the third degree, resolveth, mundifieth and incarnateth.  
jacobi flos, hot and dry astringent.  
Indicum, vide Gnadum.  
iovis barba, vide Semperuiva,  
Iringus, vide centum capita.  
jua muscata. Ground pine, hot in the second, dry in the third degree astringent.  
jusquiamus, vide Hiosciamus.  
juiubes, a fruit so called, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive.   

KING  
Keirim. white Violet, hot, mundificative.  
Kerna. vide Catapucia.  
Karaba. Amber, hot in the third, dry meanly, astringent, confortative.   

L  
Lithargyrus. Letharge, dry, regenerative, and consolidative.  
Lupini. lupines, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, mundificative.  
Lilium. Lilies, the root hot & moist in the second degree, maturative.  
Lini semen. linseed, hot and dry, maturative.  
Lac. Milk, temperate, whose mitigative is water, consolidative.  
Lapathum, Dock, cold and dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Liquiritia, Licorise, temperate, with a certain humidity, maturative.  
Licium. temperate and moist in the second degree, mitigative.  
Labdanum, hot and moist in the first degree, mollificative.  
Lentes, Lintelles, temperate & styptic.  
Lingua canis, vide Cinoglosson.  
Lixivium, Lee, hot & dry in the third degree, abstersive.  
Lactuca, Let●use, cold & dry in the third degree, loseth and cooleth.  
Lactucella, Sowthist●e, being green it is cold, but dried, hath some heat and astriction.  
Lappa muersa, clot burr, hot and dry, separateth and mundifieth.  
Lappa maior, the great burr, dry, digestive, and astringent.  
Larga, the larch tree, astringent.  
Laureola, Ribwort, hot and dry aperitive.  
Linaria, Toad staxe, hot and dry, aperitive, mundificative.  
Lingua bovis, vide Buglossum.  
Lingua ceruina, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Luparia, vide Aconitum.  
Lapis spongiae, Sponge stones, dry, conglutmative.  
Lignum aloes, hot and dry in the second degree, comforteth the brain.  
Laurus, Laurel, or Bay, hot and dry in the third degree, abstersive, & mundificative.  
Lapis smaragdus● The smaragd stone, cold and dry, driveth away venom.  
Lapis Adamas, cold and dry in the fourth degree, abstersive.  
Lapis hematitis, vide Ematitis lapis.  
Lapis lazulus, Azure, cold and moist, purgeth melancholy.  
Limon, the Lemon fruit, cold and dry, confortative.   

M  
Margarita, Pearl, cold and dry, confortative.  
Merda ferri, Iron dross, cold and dry, consolidative.  
Malua, Mallows, cold and moist, mitigative.  
Malmaviscus, vide Althaea.  
Mandragora, Mandrake, cold and dry in the third degree, stupefactive.  
Marubium, Whore hound, hot in the second, dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Mastix, Mastic, hot and dry in the second degree, mollificative.  
Melilotum, Melilot, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive.  
Medulla, Marry, hot and moist, mollificative.  
Mel, Home, hot and dry in the second degree, mundificative.  
M●r●ha, Mirre, hot and dry in the second degree, incarnative.  
Memitha, The less Salendine, dry in the first degree, restrictive.  
Mespila, Medlars, constrictive.  
Mummia. Mummy, hot and dry in the second degree, constrictive.  
Minimum, Read lead, cold & dry, cicatrix.  
Maiorana, Maioram, hot and dry in the third degree, digesteth.  
Mater syluae, vide caprefolium.  
Matricaria, Mugwort, hot and dry in the second degree, aperitive.  
Malavinzana, Mad apples, cold & mo●●●● stupefactive.  
Melissa, Balm, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, abstersive, conglobe  
Mentha, Mint, hot in the third, dri● in the second degree, astringent.  
Mercurialis, the true Mercury, hot & dry in the first degree, solutive.  
Millium, Millet, cold in the first, dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Millefolium, yarrow, dry astringent.  
Millemorbia, vide Ficaria.  
Mora vaticana. Bramble, hot and dry astringent.  
Morella. Less nightshade or Alkakengi, cold in the second degree, and mean between moist and dry, astringent.  
Morsus Diaboli. devils bit, hot and dry, dissolveth and ripeneth.  
Morsus Gallinae. Mouseare, cold and moist, mundificative.  
Morus Mulberry, Cold and moist, abstersive.  
Malum Granatum. Pomegranates, the sour be cold and dry, the sweet cold and moist, comforting the stomach.  
Malum medicum. Orange, cold and moist in the first degree, the rind is hot and dry, and comforteth the stomach.  
Macis. Mace, dry in the third degree, without manifest heat, astringent.  
Manna, hot and dry in the second degree, constringent, saith Paul Egineta.  
Mirobalani, Mirabolanes, cold in the first degree, dry in the second, stiptickes.  
Malacidonea, vide cidon Malum.  
Marathrum, vide Foeniculum,  
Marcasita, hot and dry, consolidative, and astringent.  
Malecoria, the rinds of Pomegranetes, cold in the second, dry in the third, restrictive.   

N  
Nenuphar, Water Lilies, cold & moist in the second degree, delaying inflammations.  
Nuces avellanae, Small nuts, hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Nux Indica, hot and moist in the first degree, confortative.  
Nuces cupressi, Cypress nuts, hot and dry, astringent.  
Nux vomica, the vomiting nut, hot & dry, provoking strong vomit.  
Nux Muscata, Nutmigges, hot & dry in the second degree, confortative.  
Nepita, vide Calamentum.  
Nux iuglans, wall nuts, the withered are hot in the third degree, and dry in the beginning of the second, but the green are not so hot and dry, they loose the belly.  
Nasturtium sativum, Garden Cresses, hot and dry in the fourth degree, abstersive.  
Nasturtium aquaticum, water Cresses, hot and dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Nasturtium tectorum, wild mustard seed, hot and dry in the fourth degree, aperitive.  
Nil, vide Guadum.  
Nigella Romana, A seed so called, hot and dry in the third degree, cleanseth the skin.  
Nitrum, Salt peter, subtillative & mundificative.   

O  
Opium, The juice of black Poppy dried, cold and dry in the fourth degree, stupefactive, and mortificative.  
Ordeum, Barley, cold and dry in the first degree, maturative and abstersive.  
Oleum olivarum. Oil Olive, temperate, and according to the qualities of simples altered.  
Oleum muscelinum. hot, mollificative.  
Orobus. Fetches, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, apertitive and abstersive.  
Oua. Eggs, temperate, the white cold, the yolk hot, mitigative.  
Opopanax, A gum, hot and dry in the third degree, remollitive.  
Occularia, vide eufrasia.  
Oculus boui●. Ox eye, hot & dry, resolutive.  
Oleander. hot in the third, dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Opthalmia, vide Eufrasia.  
Origanum. Pen●rial, hot & dry in the 3. deg.  
Os mundi A fetch, hot & dry, astringent  
Oriza. R●se, hot & dry in the first degree, astringent.  
Ocimum, ●ariofilatum basil, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, mundificative, and confortative.  
Olibanum. A gum, hot and dry in the second degree, consolidative.  
Ossa combusta. Burned bones, dry, astringent.   

P  
Plantago. Plantain, cold and dry, repercussive, and consolidative.  
Portulaca. Purslane, cold in the third, moist in the second, mitigative.  
Populus. The Poplar tree, cold & dry repercussive.  
Psilli●m. Fleewort, the seed is cold in the second degree, and moist in the first.  
Psidia● vide Malecoria.  
Polium. Wild time, hot in the second, dry in the third degree, resolutive.  
Parietaria. Pellitory, hot and dry in the third degree, resolutive.  
Piper Pepper, hot & dry in the fourth degree, attractive, mundificative.  
Petroleum. A stone of a rock, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Pix. Common pitch, hot and dry in the third degree, maturative, abstersive.  
Pinguedo. Fat, hot and moist, maturative, mollificative.  
Palma● The Date tree, cold and dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Pentaphilon. Vide quinque folium.  
Pimpenella, pimpernel, hot and dry, consolidative.  
Porrum, Leeks, hot & dry in the third degree, attractive.  
Pinus, The Pine tree, the kernels of the which be hot & moist, but the bark is cold and dry, with much stypticity.  
Plumbum, Led, cold and dry in the second degree, resolutive.  
Peonia, Pionie, hot and dry, astringent.  
Pagana lingua, great Laurel, hot and dry, aperitive.  
Palma Christi, Spourge, hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative.  
Panis cuculus, Cocowes meat, cold and dry, conglutinative.  
Panis Porcinus, hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative.  
Papaver sativum, Garden Popie, cold in the fourth degree, stupefactive.  
Pastinaca, Persnep, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, aperitive.  
Pastoris bursa, vide Bursa pastoris.  
Perforata, vide Fuga demonum.  
Persica, Peaches, cold and moist in the second degree astringent.  
Peruinca, vide Laureola.  
Pes Anserinus, Goose foot, cold in the second degree, astringent.  
Pes Columbinus, doves foot, dry, astringent.  
Pes Corum, Crow foot, hot and dry, Uehement Ulcerative.  
Pes Leonis, Lion's foot, dry, astringent.  
Pes Vituli, vide Aron.  
Petroselinum, Perseley, hot in the second, dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Pilosella, vide auricula muris.  
Podagra lini, vide Cassutha.  
Polipodium, Oak fern, hot and dry in the third degree, mundificative, attractive.  
Pollitricon, vide capillus veneris.  
Potentilla, Wild tansy, hot and dry in the third degree, astringent.  
Prassium, Whorehound, hot in the second, dry in the third degree, aperitive.  
Prassium fetidum, the stinking black horehound, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Primula veris, Primrose, hot and dry, conglutinative.  
Prunella, Burnette, hot & dry, conglut.  
Prunu● Damacens, cold & dry, meanly astringent.  
Pseudomelanthion. Coccle, hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Pu●egium, vide Origanum.  
Pirethrum sy●uestrae. Wild Pellitory, hot and dry in the second degree, mundificative.  
Papirus. Paper, cold and dry, astringent.  
Panis. Bread, hot and dry in the first degree, resolutive, attractive.  
Passulae. Reasins, hot & moist, resolute.  
Penidiae Penittes, hot and moist in the first degree, conglutinative.  
Panicum. A grain like grommell, cold in the first, dry in the beginning of the second, astringent.  
Pira. Pears, the ripe are cold and moist in the first degree, the sour or green, are cold and dry in the second degree, and the half ripe, are cold and dry in the first degree.  
Pruna. Prunes, cold and moist in the second degree, loseth the belly.   

Q  
Quercus the Oak, hot & dry, astringent.  
Quinque folium. Five leaved grass, dry astringent.  
Quercula minor. Germander, hot and dry in the third degree, resolutive, aperitive.   

R  
Rosae flos. Rose flower, cold in the first, dry in the second, lightly binding, this is the white, the read is more astringent and less cold, the damask is partaker of both in lighter substance.  
Rubus arbustus. Bramble, cold and dry, styptic, and consolidative.  
Rubea tinctorum, vide granum tinctorum.  
Raphanu●. radish, hot and dry, incissive, abstersive.  
Rapa. Rapes, hot in the second, moist in the first degree, maturative.  
Realgar● Roseager, hot, mortificative.  
Rapiastrum. Charlocke, hot and dry resolutive, mundificative.  
Remora aratri, vide amonis.  
Rhabarbarun monachorum. Monks Rhubarb, cold & dry in the second degree astringent.  
Ribs. Small reasons, cold and dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Rosmarinus. Rosemary, hot and dry, abstersive, resolutive.  
Rosemarinus aculeatus, Gorse, dry astringent.  
Rostrum Ciconiae, Pinkenedle, dry, astringent.  
Rostrum Porcinum, Suckerie, cold and dry, astringent.  
Ruta, rue, hot and dry in the third degree, Ulcerative, aperitive, digestive.  
Resina, Rosin, hot & dry, mundificative.   

S  
Solatrum, great nightshade, cold & dry in the fourth degree, stupefactive.  
Salix, Willows, cold and dry in the second degree, styptic meanly.  
Siligo, Rye, cold and dry, abstersive.  
Sumach, cold in the second, dry in the third degree, styptic.  
Semperuiva, Houseleek, cold in the third dry in the first, repercussive.  
Spica nardi, Spikenard, hot in the first, dry in the second, confortative.  
Sal, Salt, hot and dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Sulphur, Brimstone, hot and dry in the third degree, attractive.  
Squinantum, Squinant, hot and dry, styptic.  
Saluia, Sage, hot and dry in the second degree, styptic,  
Sandalus, Saunders, cold and dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Spodium, cold in the second, dry in the third degree, consolidative.  
Scroffularia, The less Salendine, dry, resolutive.  
Serapinum, A gum, hot and dry in the second degree, mollificative.  
Squilia, Sea Onion, hot and dry in the second degree, attractive.  
Stercus, Dung, hot and dry, according to the temperature of the creature.  
Sepium, Suet, hot and temperate according to the temperature of the creature.  
Sarcocolla, sarcocol, hot in the second dry in the first degree, incarnative.  
Sanguis Draconis, Dry in the second degree, consolidative, constringent.  
Sanguis animalium, Creatures blood, this hath temperature according to the nature of the creature.  
Scoria, Filinges, dry and much consolidative.  
Sapo, Soap, hot aduslive. Guydo.  
Spongia maris, Sponges, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, consumptive, and desiccative.  
Spuma maris, Foam of the Sea, hot in the first, dry in the third degree, abstersive.  
Sinapis, Mustardseed, hot and dry in the fourth degree, attractive  
Staphisagria, staves acre, hot and dry in the third degree, attractive.  
Scabiosa, Scabious, hot and dry in the second degree regenerative.  
Stirax calamit. A gum, hot and dry, mollificative.  
Simissomis, Blessed thistle, cold, & maturative.  
Sambucus, Eldar, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, resolutive.  
Sacerdotis virile, vide Aron.  
Salicaria, Lowstrif, dry astringent.  
Sanamunda, Bennet, hot and dry in the second degree, consolidative and astringent.  
Sancti spiritus radix. vide Angelica.  
Sanguisorba, A kind of pimpernel, dry astringent.  
Sanicula, Sanicle, hot and dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Sardiana glans, Chestenuttes, hot and dry in the first degree, astringent.  
Satureia, savoury, hot and dry in the third degree, abstersive, aperitive.  
Sabina, Sa●in, hot and dry in the third degree, dissolveth and openeth.  
Saxifraga, Saxifrage, hot and dry astringent.  
Scariola, vide Endivia.  
Scelerata, vide pescorui.  
Scolopendria, Hearts tongue, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, astringent.  
Sena, S●nec, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, abstersive, and aperitive.  
Serratula, vide Que●cula minor.  
Serpentaria, vide Aron.  
Serpillum, vide satureia.  
Serpillum Romanum, Time, hot and dry in the third degree, aperitive, dissolving and separating.  
Seruilla, vide Pastinaca.  
Sirutum ibidem.  
Sigillum Salamonis, Salamons' seal, of a mean temperature, astringent.  
Siler montanum, Siler mountain, hot and dry in the second degree, aperitive.  
Simionis herba, vide Althaea.  
Sorbes, the Sorbe tree, cold and dry astringent.  
Sorgi, an Italian grain, which is cold and dry, astringent.  
Asparagus, Sperage, abstersive, without manifest heat or cold.  
Spatula foetida, A slagge bearing cods with read berries, hot and dry, abstersive.  
Stellae herba, vide pes corui.  
Sebesten, a fruit, temperate of complexion and lenitive.  
Sal armoniacum, Salt armoniac, hot and dry in the fourth degree, abstersive.  
Sal gemmae, an other kind of Salt, hot and dry, abstersive, mundificative.  
Siseleos, a Seed, hot and dry in the end of the second degree, provoketh brine.  
Scamonia, vide Diagredium.   

T  
Thimus, vide Serpillum Romanum.  
Thus, Frankincense, hot in the second, dry in the first degree, incarnative, consolidative.  
Terebentina. Terebentine, hot & dry, consolidative.  
Thucia, lapis. A stone or mineral, cold in the first, dry in the second degree, quickeneth the eye sight.  
Tartarum. Wine Lees, hot and dry in the third degree, abstersive.  
Tanacetum. Tansey, hot and dry, consolidative.  
Tapsus barbatus. Mollen, dry, abstersive.  
Turmentilla. Turmentil, hot and dry, abstersive.  
Tamarix. Brier, dry, astringent.  
Taraxacon. vide Rostrum porciwm.  
Testiculus canis. dogs stones, hot & moist, resolutive.  
Tilia. A kind of birch, hot and dry, astringent.  
Tinctorius flos. vide granum tinctorum.  
Trifolium. Three leaned grass, hot and dry in the third degree, aperitive, abstersive.  
Trinitatis herba. jupiters' flower, hot hot and dry, abstersive, and conglutinative.  
Triticum. Wheat, hot in the first degree, without manifest drienes or moisture, attractive, and digestive.  
Turcium frumentum. Turkish corn, hot and dry meanly abstersive.  
Tela aranea. Copweb, cold & dry, astringent, and consosidative.  
Tamarindi. Tamarindes, cold and dry in the third degree, mundifieth and separateth.  
Titimalus. A kind of spourge, hot and dry in the fourth degrr, abstersive.  
Terra sigillata. hot and dry astringent.  
Tubera. round puffs like Musheromes, they engender gross humours.  
Turbita. Turbith, hot and dry in the third degree, mundifieth and loseth the belly.   

V  
Vinum, Wine, hot and dry, or moist even according to the age there of, maturative, and consolidative.  
Vua passa, vide passulae.  
Viola. Violet, cold and moist in the first degree, ripeneth hot impostumes, & coleth inflammations.  
Vmbelicus veneris. Penigrasse, cold an ᵈ moist in the second degree, delaieth inflammations.  
Veruena. vide Berbena.  
Vrtica. Nettle, hot and dry, mordificative.  
Virga pastoris. Wild casill, cold in the third degree, dry temperate, consolidative, and astringent.  
Vrina. Urine, hot and dry, abstersive, adustive.  
Vernix. Uernish, hot and dry in the second degree, incarnative, abstersive.  
Vermes terrestres, Earth worms, conglutinative, & comforting the sinews.  
Vsnea quercina. The white moss of the Oak, hot and dry, confortative.  
Verdetum. vide aeris flos.  
Vitrium● Glass, hot in the first, dry in the second degree, abstersive.  
Vitriolum. Vitriol, hot and dry in the third degree, styptic and corrosive.  
Vzifur. vide Cinabrium.  
Valeriana. Ualerian, hot and dry in the second degree, aperitive, abstersive.  
Veronica. Speedewel, hot and dry, consolidative, constringent.  
Vinca pervinca. Perwinke, dry astringent.  
Viscum. Miscledine, hot, attractive, resolutive.  
Vitealis. withwind, hot and dry, digestive.  
Viticella. vide Brionia.  
Vngula caballina. Horsehouse, cold and moist, mundificative.  
Volubilis maior. vide Caprefolium.  
Vrinaris he●ba. Toadstax, aperitive, mundificative.  
Vua Lupina. A kind of nightshade, cold & dry in the second degree, repercussive.  
Vua vulpina vide Aconitum.  
Vuularia. great Laurel, hot and dry, aperitive.   

X  
Xilobalsamum. The wood of the tree Balsam, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Xilo aloes. vide lignum aloes.  
Xilon vide Bombax.   

Z  
Zinziber caninum. Indie pepper, hot and dry vehemently, attractive, and abstersive.  
Zea. A kind of wheat, hot and dry, meanly abstersive, and consolidative.  
Zedoaria. A ●oote, hot in the third, dry in the second degree, comforteth, and mundifieth, and scattreth humours.  
Zaccharum. Sugar, hot and moist, meanly consolidative.  
Zinziber. Ginger, being green, it is hot in the third degree, and moist in the first, but being dried, it is dry in the first degree, it heateth the stomach, and scattreth moist humours.    

Now that I have fulfilled my promise, and so briefly handled this short appendix of simples, I purpose next to tell the only temperatures of the medicines aforenamed, every kind by themselves, (for the Reader his more easy finding of them) that is to say, which be hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. etc. and first these which he hot and dry, as followeth in alphabet manner. viz.  

ABsinthium. Hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Apium. Hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Agrimonia. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Abrotanum. Hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Aristolochia. Hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Allium. hot & dry in the fourth degree.  
Aloes. Hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Anisum. Hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Anetum. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Asphoden radices. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Anacardus. Hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Arsenicum. Hot in the third, dry in the second.  
Auripigmentum. Of like temperature.  
Alumen. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Ammoniacum. Hot in the third, dry in the first.  
Assa fetida. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Asphaltum. Hot and dry.  
Acanthus. Hot & dry in the first degree.  
Atramentum. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Acorus. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Aiuga. Hot in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Amaracum. Hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Amarantus. Hot and dry.  
Ameos. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Anagallis. Hot and dry.  
Anagallis aquatica. Of like temperature.  
Androsemon. Hot hot and dry.  
Anetum vaccinum. Hot and dry.  
Angelica. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Annonis. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Anthemis. hot & dry in the first degree.  
Apium agreste. Hot & dry vehemently.  
Artemisia. Hot and dry in the second.  
Aron. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Asarum. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Asperagus. Hot and dry.  
Apios. Hot and dry.  
Agaricus. Hot & dry in the first degree.  
Ambra. Hot & dry in the second degree.   

B  
BRionia. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Balsamus, Hot & dry in the second deg.  
Borax. Hot and dry.  
Ballote. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Batrachium. Hot and dry.  
Barba caprina. Hot and dry.  
Bellis. hot and dry.  
Botris. Hot and dry.  
Betonica. Hot & dry in the first degree.  
Basilicon. Hot in the first degree, dry in the second.  
Blacte Bisantia. Hot & dry in the third degree.  
Been. Hot & dry in the second degree.  
Bombax. Hot and dry.   

C  
CAstoreum. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Cassia lignea. Hot and dry.  
Capparis. Hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Crassula. Hot and dry in the third degree. Fuchsius.  
Caulis. Hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Centaurea. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Costus. Hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Cinamomum. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Ciperus. Hot and dry in the second degree.  
Chelidonia. Hot and dry in the third degree.  
Cuperosa. Hot and dry in the beginning of the fourth degree.  
Cipressus. hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Calx viva. hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Cantarides. hot and dry in the third degree.  
Castoreum. hot and dry in the second degree.  
Canabis. hot and dry.  
Cinis. hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
cucumber asininus. hot and dry in the second degree.  
Cresones. hot and dry in the second degree.  
Ciminum. hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Caltha. hot and dry.  
Caprefolium. hot and dry.  
Cubebes. hot and dry.  
Camepitheos'. hot and dry in the second degree.  
Cardo patium. hot and dry in the third degree.  
Cardus benedictus. hot and dry.  
Cartamus. hot in the second, dry in the first.  
carvi, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Camedris, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Cheiri, hot and dry.  
Cicer, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Coloquintida, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Consolida maior, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Consolida minor, hot and dry.  
Cassutha, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Ciclamen, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Crocus, hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Colophonia, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Calamus, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Cardamomum, hot and dry in the first degree.   

D  
DIgitalis, hot and dry.  
Digiticitrini, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Diptanum, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Daphnoeides, hot and dry.  
Daucus, hot and dry.  
Dragunculus, hot and dry.  
Dragagantum, hot and dry.  
Doronicum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Diagredium, hot and dry in the fourth degree.   

E  
ENula campana, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Ebulus, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Euforbium, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Eris flos, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Ermodactili, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Elleborus albus, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Equina mentha, hot in the third, dry in the second.  
Eruca, hot and dry.  
Esula, hot in the fourth degree, dry vehemently.  
Euiscum, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Eufrasia, hot and dry.  
Eupatorium, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Epithimum, hot and dry in the third degree.   

F  
FLammula, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Fabaria, hot in the first, dry in the beginning of the third degree.  
Feniculus, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Furfur, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Ferrugo, hot and dry in the second deg.  
Fenugrecum, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Fuligo, hot and dry.  
Filix, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Faba crassa, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Filipendula, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Feniculus porcinus, hot in the second, dry in the third.  
Fuga Demonum, hot and dry.  
Fel, hot & dry, according to the nature of the creature.   

G  
GRatia Dei, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Gariofili, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Gluten, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Gentiana, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Gallitricum, hot and dry.  
Gipsum, hot and dry.  
Galbanum, hot in the third degree, dry in the second.  
Genesta, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Galanga, hot & dry in the second degree.   

H  
HVmulus, hot and dry.  
Hypericon, hot and dry.  
Hissopus, hot & dry in the third degree.   

I  
IVniperus, hot and dry.  
jarus, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Ireos, hot and dry in the third degree.  
jacobi flos, hot and dry.  
juamuscata, hot in the second dry in the third degree.  
juiube, hot and dry in the first degree.   

KING  
KArabae, hot and dry in the third degree.   

L  
LVpini, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Lini semen, hot and dry.  
Lixivium, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Lappa inversa, hot and dry.  
Laureola, hot and dry.  
Linaria, hot and dry.  
Lingua ceruina, hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Lignum Aloes, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Laurus, hot and dry in the 3. degree.   

M  
MArubium, hot in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Mastix, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Melilotum, hot and dry in the first deg.  
Mel, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Myrrha, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Mummia, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Maiorana, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Matersilua, hot and dry.  
Matricaria, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Melissa, hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Mentha, hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Mercurialis, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Millium, hot and dry.  
Mora vaticana, hot and dry.  
Morsus diaboli, hot and dry.  
Mali medici cortex, hot and dry.  
Marcasita, hot and dry.  
Manna, hot & dry in the second degree.   

N  
NVx iuglans, hot in the third, dry in the beginning of the second deg.  
Nuces avellanae, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Nuces cipressi, hot and dry.  
Nux Muscata, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Nux vomica, hot and dry.  
Nigella, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Nasturtium tectorum, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Nasturtium aquaticum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Nasturtium sativum, hot and dry in the fourth degree.   

Orobus, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Opopanax, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Occullaria, hot and dry.  
Oculus bovis, hot and dry.  
Oleander, hot in the third, dry in the second degree.  
Origanum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Os mundi, hot and dry.  
Oriza, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Ocimum gariofilatum, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Olibanum, hot and dry in the second degree.   

P  
POlium, hot in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Parietaria, hot and dry in the third deg.  
Piper, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Petroleun, hot & dry in the fourth degr.  
Pix, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Pimpenella, hot and dry.  
Porrum, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Paeonia, hot and dry.  
Pagana lingua, hot and dry.  
Palma Christi, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Panis porcinus, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Pastinaca, hot in the second, dry in the first.  
Perforata, hot and dry.  
Peruinca, hot and dry.  
Pes vitul●, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Petroselinum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Pillosella, hot and dry.  
Podagra lini, hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Polipodium, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Potentilla, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Prassium, hot in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Prassium faetidum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Primula veris, hot and dry.  
Prunella, hot and dry.  
Pseudomelanthion, hot and dry.  
Pulegium, hot & dry in the 3. degree.  
Pirethrum sylu. hot & dry in the 2. degree.  
Panis, hot and dry in the first degree.   

Q  
QVercus, hot and dry.  
Quercula minor, hot and dry in the third degree.   

R  
RVbea tinctorum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Raphanus, hot and dry.  
Rapiastrum, hot and dry.  
Rosemarinus, hot and dry.  
Ruta, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Resina, hot and dry.   

S  
SPica nardi, hot in the first, dry in the second.  
Sal, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Sulphur, hot and dry in the third deg.  
Squinantum, hot and dry.  
Saluia, hot and dry.  
Serapinum, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Squilla, hot and dry in the second deg.  
Stercus, hot and dry.  
Sarcocolla, hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Sapo, hot and dry.  
Spongia maris, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Spuma maris, hot in the first, dry in the third.  
Sinapis, hot and dry in the fourth deg.  
Staphisagria, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Scabiosa, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Sambucus, hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Sacerdotis virile, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Sana munda, hot & dry in the second deg.  
Sanicula, hot & dry in the second degree.  
Sardiana glans, hot and dry in the first degree.  
Satureia, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Sabina, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Scelerata, hot & dry in the fourth degree.  
Scolopendria, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Sena, hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Serpillum Romanum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Siler montanum, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Spatula fetida, hot and dry.  
stechados, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Seseleo●●, hot and dry in the end of the second degree.  
Sal Armoniacum, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Sal gemma, hot and dry.   

T  
THus, hot in the second, dry in the first degree.  
Terra sigillata, hot and dry.  
Tithimalus, hot and dry in the fourth degree.  
Tanacetum, hot and dry.  
Tartarum. hot & dry in the third degree.  
Tillia, hot and dry.  
Turmentilla, hot and dry.  
Turbita, hot & dry in the third degree.  
Trifolium. hot & dry in the third degree.  
Trinitatis herba, hot and dry.  
Turtium frumentum, hot and dry.  
Terebentina, hot and dry.   

V  
Vinum, hot and dry.  
Verbena, hot and dry.  
Vrtica, hot and dry.  
Vrina, hot and dry.  
Vernix, hot and dry in the second deg.  
Vinea quercina, hot and dry.  
Verdetum, hot and dry.  
Vitrium, hot in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Vitriolum, hot and dry in the third degree.  
Vzufur, hot and dry in the second deg.  
Valeriana, hot and dry in the second degree.  
Veronica, hot and dry.  
Vitealis, hot and dry.  
Vitecella, hot and dry.  
Volubilis maior, hot and dry.  
Vuularia, hot and dry.   

X  
XIlobalsamum, hot and dry in the second degree.   

Z  
ZInziber caninum, hot and dry vehemently.  
Zea, hot and dry.  
Zedoaria, hot in the third, dry in the second degree.    

Simple Medicines hot and moist.  

AXungia, hot and moist in the first degree.  
Apium hortense, hot in the second, and moist in the third degree.  
Amigdala, hot and moist in the first degree.   

Baacuia, hot and moist in the first degree.  
Borago, hot and moist,  
Buglossum, hot and moist.  
Bdellium, hot & moist in the first degree.   

Cataputia, hot in the third, moist in the second degree.  
Cotifructus, hot and moist.   

Dolichi, hot & moist in the first degree.  
Dulcis radix, hot and moist.  
Dactili, hot & moist in the second degree.   

Ficus recentes, hot and moist.  
Frumentum, hot and moist.   

Lillij radices, hot and moist in the second degree.  
Labdanum, hot and moist in the first degree.  
Lingua canis, hot and moist in the first  
Lingua bovis, hot and moist in the first degree.   

Maluaviscus, hot and moist in the second degree.  
Medulla, hot and moist.   

Pinguedo, hot and moist.  
Pini nucleus, hot and moist.  
Passulae, hot and moist.  
Penidiae, hot & moist in the first degree.   

Rapa, hot in the second, moist in the first   

Testiculus canis, hot and moist.   

Vua passa, hot and moist.   

Zaccharum, hot and moist.  
Zinziber, hot in the third, moist in the first degree.    

Simples that be cold and dry in Alphabet manner as followeth.  

ACetum, cold in the first, dry in the third degree.  
Agresta nota, cold in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Acasia, cold and dry in the third degree.  
Acedula, cold & dry in the second degree.  
Anthera, cold and dry in the first degree.  
Acusmuscate, cold and dry.  
Amilum, cold & dry in the first degree.  
Argilla, cold in the first, dry in the second,  
Antimonium, cold in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Aizoon, cold in the third degree, dry meanly.  
Ambubeia, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Arnoglosson, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Argentum & scoria, cold and dry.   

BAlaustia, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Berberi, cold and dry in the third degree.  
Bolus armenus, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Bursa pastoris, cold and dry.  
Bugiae, cold and dry.  
Bedegar, cold in the first, dry meanly.   

COrallus, cold in the first, dry in the second.  
Cerusa, cold & dry in the second degree.  
Cauda Equina, cold in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Centumnodia, cold in the second, dry in the third.  
Cidoneum malum, cold in the first, dry in the second.  
Coriandrum, cold and dry.  
Cinoglossum, cold and dry in the second●● degree.  
Camfora, cold and dry in the third deg.   

EPatica, (Vigo) cold and dry in the first degree.  
Endivia, cold and dry.   

Fumus terrae, cold in the first, dry in the second degree.  
Fabae, cold and dry.  
Ferrum, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Farinae volatilis, cold and dry.  
Fraxinus, cold and dry in the second deg.  
Folia Olivarum, cold and dry.   

GAllae, cold in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Glandes', cold and dry in the second degr.  
Gummi Arab. cold, and somewhat dry.   

HOrdeum, cold and dry in the first degree.   

IPocisthis, cold and dry in the second degree.  
iovis barba, cold in the third, dry in the first degree.   

LImon, cold and dry.  
Lactis aqua, cold and dry.  
Lapathum, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Lactuca, cold and dry in the third degr.  
Lapis smaragdi, cold and dry.  
Lapis Adamas, cold and dry in the fourth degree.  
Lapis hematits, cold and dry.   

MArgarita cold and dry.  
Merda ferri, cold and dry.  
Mandragora, cold and dry in the third degree.  
Minium, cold and dry.  
Millium, cold in the first, dry in the third degree.  
Malum Granatum, the sour in cold and dry.  
Mirobalani, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Mala citonea, cold and dry in the first degree.   

Opium, cold & dry in the fourth degree.   

PLantago, cold and dry.  
Populus, cold and dry.  
Psidia, cold in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Palma, cold & dry in the second degree.  
Pini cortex, cold and dry.  
Plumbum, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Panis cuculus, cold and dry.  
Prunus, cold and dry.  
Panicum, cold in the first, dry in the beginning of the second.  
Pirae viridae, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Pirae semimature, cold and dry in the second degree.   

RVbus arbustus, cold and dry.  
rhubarb. monach. cold and dry in the second degree.  
Ribs, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Rostrum porcinum, cold and dry.   

SOlatrum, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Salix, cold and dry in the second degree.  
Siligo, cold and dry.  
Sumach. cold in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Sandalus, cold and dry in the 2. degree.  
Spodium, cold in the second, dry in the third degree.  
Stirax, cold in the first, dry meanly.  
Sorgi, cold and dry.  
Sorbus, cold and dry.   

THucia, cold in the first, dry in the 2. deg.  
Tamarindi, cold & dry in the 3. degr.  
Tela aranea, cold and dry.   

Vua lupina, cold & dry in the 2. degree.    

Simples cold and moist ensue. viz.  

AQua, cold & moist in the first degree.  
Attriplex, cold and moist temperately.  
Argentum vivum, cold and moist.  
Angurium, cold & moist in the 2. degree.  
Auriculamuris, cold and moist.   

Beta, cold and moist.  
Blitum, cold and moist in the second deg.   

Crassula, cold in the third, moist in the second degree.  
Citrulli, cold & moist in the second deg.  
cucumber, cold and moist in the second deg.  
Cucu●bita, cold & moist in the second deg.   

Epatica (Guydo) cold and moist.   

Fungus, cold & moist in the third degree.   

Hispanach, cold and moist in the first deg.   

Lapis lazulus, cold and moist.   

Malua, cold and moist.  
Mala●zana, cold and moist.  
Morsus Gallinae, cold and moist.  
Morus, cold and moist.  
Malum Granat, dulcis, cold and moist.  
Malum medici carnis, cold and moist in the second degree.   

Nenuphar, cold and moist.   

Psillium, cold in the second, moist in the first degree.  
Persica, cold and moist in the second deg.  
Pirae maturae, cold and moist in the second degree.  
Pruna, cold & moist in the second degree.   

Viola, cold and moist in the first degree.  
Vngula caballina, cold and moist.    

The properties of degrees, and what effect is contained in every degree, with examples of simple medicines for each degree.  

1 The first degree, doth altar & change sensibly.  
2 The second, enduceth and infereth some labour.  
3 The third, worketh with great efficacy and much labour.  
4 The fourth degree, banisheth & putteth forth the sense by his exceeding temperature.   
Temperate medicines be such, as do neither manifestly heat, cool, moisten, nor dry.  
These be untemperate medicines, which are plainly to be called hot or cold, & chief such as be of the first, second, third or fourth degree.  
¶ Medicines hot in the first degree.  
These do augment an unnatural heat●, yet not fiery, and therefore are fit for digestives, maturatives, and such like natural actions. viz.  
Absynthium, 
Althaea,  Amigdala dulc. 
Aloe,  Agaricum, 
Brassica,  Buglossum, 
Camomelum,  Eupatorium, 
Lini semen,  Labdanum. 
  
¶ Simples hot in the second degree.  
These do rarefie, open, and ateunate the ways, and beginneth to have a fiery heat. viz.  
Apium, 
Anethum viride,  Artemisia, 
Balsamum,  Calamus odoratus, 
Crocus.  Foenugrecum, 
Mastix.  Nux Muscata, etc. 
  
¶ Simples hot in the third degree.  
These do dry, stir thirst, attract and inflame, waste the body and melt. viz.  
Abrotanum, 
Ammi,  Asarum, 
Anisum,  Aron, 
Cuminum,  Cinamomum, 
Galanga,  Nigella, 
Origanum.  Mentha. etc. 
  
¶ Hot in the fourth degree.  
These do blister, heat, burn, mortify, and extinguish. viz.  
Allium, 
Cepa,  Costus, 
Euforbium,  Lepidium, 
Tith●mali.  Nasturtium, 
Pirethrum,  Po●rum, 
S●●api,  Ru●a s●luestris● 
  
Thus far is sufficient for example sake of the hot intemperature of simples, from the first to the fourth degree, and after as orderly as I can, shall ensue the cold, moist, and dry entemperatures, with like order of their natural degrees, and first of such simple medicines as he cold in the first degree.  
Cold in the first degree, diminisheth natural heat, and hindereth digestion, & maturation. viz.  
Attriplex, 
Pruna,  Hordeum, 
Malua,  Mirtus, 
Pira,  Rosa, 
Viola,  Cotonea, etc. 
  
¶ Cold in the second degree.  
These do thicken and manifestly delay the heat. viz.  
Acasia, 
Blitum,  Cucurbita, 
Lactuca,  Endivia, 
Persica,  Plantago, 
Psillium.  Solanum. etc. 
  
¶ Cold in the third degree.  
These bind the inward passages, putting forth the natural juice, hindering distribution, astonishing the sense, and inducing leadie colour. viz.  
Camfora, 
Portulaca,  Mandragora, 
Hiosciamus,  Sandali, 
Semperuiuum.   
¶ Cold in the fourth degree.  
Such do congeal, extinguish heat, & interfect with poison. viz.  
Cicuta, 
Papaver.  Opium. etc. 
  
Of the moist intemperature, there are also which do exceed in like degrees rehearsed, as moist in the first degree, and they make the body gentle and slippery. viz.  
Buglossum, 
Glycheriza,  ●ndiuia, 
Malua,  Zaccharum, 
Sesamium.   
¶ Moist in the second degree.  
They do away the sharpness of humours, loseth, engrosseth and weakeneth the natural motion of members. viz.  
Attriplex, 
Cucurbita,  Lactuca, 
Pruna,  Blitum. 
Portulaca.  Violae. etc. 
  
¶ Moist in the third degree.  
Those make the body slow and dull, astonishing all the actions, provoking vomittes, loathing, and the flux Lienteria. viz.  
Succus Cucumerum. 
Succus Cucurbitae  Succus lactucae. etc. 
  
Moist in the fourth degree.  
Which are poison clean extinguyshing natural heat, as water putteth outfier.  
Of the dry intemperature with the degrees exceeding. Of those therefore which ●e dry in the first degree.  
The first degree maketh the body strong and lusty. viz.  
Brassica, 
Beta,  Camomelum, 
Crocus,  Hordeum, 
Foeniculum,  Faba. etc. 
  
Dry in the second degree.  
They are manifestly astringent, and do bind as the taste of sour things in eating. viz.  
Artemi●ia, 
Anethum viride,  Balaustia, 
Cotonea,  Plantago, 
Lentes,  Mastix. etc. 
  
Dry in the third degree.  
These make strait passages, preventeth the course of humours, hindereth excretion, consumeth the body's juice, and enduceth a consumption. viz.  
Asarum, 
Acasia,  Anethum vst. 
Aloe,  Acetum, 
Cuminum,  Piper. 
Sal.   
Dry in the fourth degree.  
These do suffocate and extinguish life. viz.  
Allium, 
Ruta siluestris.  Nasturtium, 
Sinapis.   
Here followeth the operations & workings of the simples aforegoing, namely which do consolidate, astringere, abstergere, mundificare, and so forth, and first of those which do repercute, and beat back humours flowing, restraining them to resort to that place whereto they are applied, and are called by the name of repercussives. viz.  
Aqua pura, 
Aqua Aluminosa.  Agresta nota, 
Acasia,  Acedula, 
Anthera,  Argilla. 
  
Balaustia, 
Berberi,  Bolus a●menus. 
Bursa pastoris,  Crassula, 
Centumnodia.  Coriander. 
  
Epatica, 
Fraxinus,  Morella, 
Populus,  Solatrum, 
Semperuiva.  Sandalus, 
Sonchus.  Vmbelicus veris, 
  
Astringentia.  
These bind the body, and forcibly restrain the flux of subtle humours.  
Amilum leviter. 
Adianthum,  Aiuga, 
Aizoon,  Ambubeia, 
Arnoglosson,  Asarum, 
Attractilis,  Bursa pastoris, 
Bulbus siluestris,  Centumnodia, 
Cherifolium,  Cheiri, 
Cidoneum malum.  Coriandrum, 
Camfora,  Dragunculus, 
Endivia,  Equina mentha, 
Filago,  Fortis herba, 
Guadum,  jacobi flos, 
jua muscata,  Karabae, 
Lappa maior,  Larga, 
Lingua ceruina,  Lappa maior, 
Mentha,  Milium, 
Millefolium,  Mora vaticana, 
Morus, mediocriter,  Macis, 
Manna,  Marcasita, 
Nuces cipressi,  Os mundi, 
Osatis,  Oriza, 
Ossa combusta,  Palma, 
Peonia,  Persica, 
Pes anserinus,  Pes collumbinus, 
Pes Leonis,  Podagra lini, 
Potentilla,  Prunus, 
Papirus,  Panicum, 
Quercula,  Quin● folium, 
Rubarbarun mona.  Ribs, 
Rosmarinus accu●  Rostrum ciconiae, 
Rostrun porcinum.  Salicaria, 
Sanamunda,  Sangui sorba, 
Sanicula,  Sardiana glans, 
Saxifraga.  Scariola, 
Sigillun Salamonis,  Simeonis herba, 
Sorbus,  Sorgi, 
Tamarix,  Taraxacon, 
Tilia,  Terra sigillata, 
Tela aranea,  Virga pastoris. 
Vinca pervinca.   
Abstergentia.  
Abstersives have power to mundify, and wipe away gross humours, and to cleanse the pores. viz.  
Absynthium, 
Agrimonia,  Abrotanum, 
Acusmuscate,  Auena, 
Asphodeli radices.  Assa faetida, 
Alisma,  Angurium, 
Anonis,  Apium hortense, 
Asperagus,  Auricula muris, 
Brionia,  Balsamus, 
Ballote,  Barba caprina, 
Bellis,  Caulis, 
Cepa,  Chelidonea, 
Cinis,  Candelaria, 
carvi,  Citrulli, 
Cresio hortensis,  Castoreum, 
Euforbium,  Esula, 
Fel animalium,  Gentiana, 
jarus,  Lapathum, 
Lixivium,  Laurus, 
Lapis adamas,  Melissa, 
Morus.  Nux, 
Nasturtium sativum,  Ordeum, 
Orobus,  Oleander, 
Pix,  Podagra lini, 
Prassium faetidum,  Psudo melanthion. 
Rubea tinctorum.  Raphanus, 
Remora aratri,  Rosemarinus, 
Siligo,  Spuma maris, 
Sacerdotis virile,  Satureia, 
Sena,  Serpentaria, 
Serpillum,  Spatula faetida, 
Tartarum,  Tapsus barbatus, 
Turmentilla,  Trifolium, 
Trinitatis herba,  Turcium frumentum 
Tithimalus,  Vrina, 
Vernix,  Vitrium, 
Valeriana.  Volubilis maior. 
Zinziber.  Zea. 
  
Mundificantia.  
Such do mundify an cleanse gross humours, but more weakly than abstersives, and stronger than lavatives.  
Apium. 
Betonica.  Beta, 
Basilicon.  Blacte bisantia, 
Castrangula.  cucumber. 
Cassutha.  Cubebes. 
Cassia lignea.  Capparis, 
Ciclamen.  Coloquintida. 
Camepitheos'.  Digitalis. 
Damasonium.  Diagredium. 
Eupatorium.  Fabaria. 
Fumus terrae.  Frumentum. 
Fabae.  Ficaria. 
Faba crassa.  Fel animalium. 
Hermodactilus.  Hordeum. 
Humulus.  Hypericon. 
Hissopus.  Harmel. 
Keirim.  Lupini. 
Lappa inversa.  Linaria. 
Laurus.  Mel. 
Millemorbia.  Morsus Gallinae. 
Nigella.  Occularia. 
Psillium.  Palma Christi. 
Panis porcinus.  Peruinca. 
Polipodium.  Pirethrum silvester. 
Turbita.  Tamarindi. 
Rapiastrum.  Refina. 
Vrinaris.  Xilobalsamum. 
  
Aperientia.  
Aperitives do open and pierce with mundifying. viz.  
Acetum. 
Amaranthus.  Ameos. 
Anagallus aquat.  Androsemon. 
Angelica.  Annonis. 
Apium hortense.  Artemisia. 
Asari radix.  Amigdala. 
Cresones.  Caltha. 
carvi.  Camedris. 
Ciclamen.  Cubebes. 
Cassia lignea.  Digitalis. 
Dolichi.  Fuga Demonum. 
Herba divi johan.  Humulus. 
Hissopus.  Laureola. 
Linaria.  Marubium. 
Matersilua.  Millium solis. 
Nasturtium tectorum.  Nasturtium aquat. 
Orobus.  Pagana lingua. 
Pastinaca.  Pe● forata. 
Petroselinum,  Prassuum. 
Querc, minor.  Remora aratri. 
Ruta.  Satureia. 
Sabina.  Sena. 
Serratula.  Serpillum. 
Siler montanum.  Tinctorius flos. 
Valeriana.  Vrinaris herba. 
Vuularia.  Xilobalzamum. 
  
Maturativa.  
Maturatives do open and make ripe, with a heat equal to the member, not once altering his substance or property, and yet changeth the matter and ripeneth the same, such as follow.  
Atriplex. 
Apium.  Auena. 
Axungia.  Acanthus. 
Brionia.  Baucia. 
Buglo●●um.  Butyrum. 
Caulis.  Canabis. 
Fenugrecum.  Ficus recentes. 
Lilium.  Lini semen. 
Liquiritia.  Lingua bovis. 
Maluaviscus.  Morsus diaboli. 
Ordeum.  Pix. 
Pinguedo.  Rapa. 
Semissomis.  Vinum, (secundum aetatem.) 
Viola,   
Stupefacientia.  
These do stupefacte or astonish the members by putting the substance of the spirit into a cold complexion, whereby the virtue animative loseth her force and power, which be these that follow.  
Cicuta. 
Hiosciamus.  Mandragora. 
Opium.  Papaver sativum. 
Portulaca.  Psillium. 
Solatrum.  Semperuiuum. 
Succus lactucae.  Succus papaveris. 
  
Consolidativa.  
By their stypticity and drying they have power to skin and heal, equally incarnating flesh and skin, of which kind be also all abstersives with these following.  
Aloes. 
Aspaltum.  Borax. 
Bugiae.  Beibena. 
Bellis.  Balaustia. 
Cerusa.  Centaurea. 
Ciperus.  Cipressus. 
Cauda equina.  Curcuma. 
Caseus recens.  Dragagantum. 
Ematitis lapis.  Ferrum. 
Glandes'.  Gratia Dei. 
Grana tinctorum.  Isatis. 
juniperus.  Lithargyrus. 
Lac.  Merdaferri. 
Malecoria.  Myrrha. 
Mercasita.  Olibanum. 
Plantago.  Pimpenella. 
Plumb. ustum.  Rubus arbustus, 
Sanguis Draconis  Scoriae ferri. 
Sanamunda.  Thus. 
Tanacetum.  Telaaranea. 
Vinum.  Zea. 
Zaccharum.   
Conglutinativa.  
They have a gluey property, and being ministered to wounds, have power to conglutinate and join the orifice together. Such be they that ensue, as.  
Argentum & scoriaeius. 
Aspaltum.  Anagallis. 
Balausti●e ustum.  Consolida ma. & mi. 
Cauda equina.  Cerusa. 
Colophonia.  Farina volatilis. 
Gluten.  Gummi Arabici. 
Gipsum.  Hordeum ustum. 
Lac acerbum.  Lapis spongiae. 
Melissa.  Mala citonia. 
Panis cuculus.  Pilosella. 
Primula veris.  Prunella. 
Nux cipressi.  Sarcocolla. 
Trinitatis herba.   
Constringentia.  
Such do restrain humours by stopping and drying, as those.  
Amathites. 
Acetosa.  Aloes. 
Bombax.  Cauda equina. 
Calcanthum.  Fungus. 
Gallae.  Gummi pini. 
Lutum sigillatum.  Lutum armenicum. 
Mori succus.  Mespila. 
Nucum cortex.  Oriza. 
Plumbum ustum.  Papyrum ustum. 
Passularun par. lap.  Pellis caprae cinis. 
Querci cortex.  Sumach. 
Salix.  Scoria ferri. 
Sanguis draconis.  Thus. 
Telaaranea.   
Resoluentia.  
These do resolve humours by changing them intovapours, & drawing them from part to part, of what sort be these.  
Anethum. 
Acorus.  Anthemis. 
Agaricus.  Botris. 
Crocus.  cucumber asininus 
Capillus veneris.  Camedris. 
Consolida mi.  Cassia fistula. 
Cardamomum.  Camepitheos'. 
Dactili.  Doronicum. 
Ebulus.  Diagredium. 
Foeniculus.  Furfur. 
Fenugraecum.  Filex. 
Hispanach.  Hissopus. 
Ireos.  juiubes. 
Labdanum.  Lapis spongiae. 
Melilotum.  Oculus bovis. 
Polium.  Parietaria. 
Pollithricon.  Panis. 
Quercula mi.  Scroffularia. 
Sambucus.  Sticados. 
Sisamae.  Testiculus canis. 
Verbena.  Viscum. 
  
Attrahentia.  
By their attractive property, they do exhale and draw forth matter and other accidents unto them, like as these under named.  
Aristolochia. 
Amoniacum.  Allium. 
Assa faetida.  Auricula muris. 
Allium.  Balsamus. 
Calamentum.  Ciclamen. 
Centumnodia.  Castoreum. 
Dip tanum.  Doronicum. 
Fer mentum.  Galbanum. 
Lapis spongiae.  Leporis axungia. 
Mumia.  Piper. 
Porrum.  Polipodium. 
Pulegium.  Panis. 
Sulphur.  Squilla. 
Stercus columbinum.  Sinapis. 
Staphisagria.  Stercus canis. 
Serapinum.  Stercus lacerti. 
Triticum.  Zinziber. 
  
Corrodentia.  
Corrosives by their heat do consume moisture, and corrode and waste superfluous flesh, such as these.  
Asphodeli radic. 
Atramentum.  Anacardus, 
Allium.  Acetum. 
Cuperosa,  Cepa. 
Aeris flos.  Fel animalium. 
Hermodactili ra.  Mercurius precipi. 
Mercuri. sublima.  Sinapis. 
Sal niter.  Verdetum. 
Vitriolum.   
Adustiva.  
These do waste and consume by heat, the subtility of humours.  
Aristolochia. 
Allium.  Anacardus. 
Calx viva.  Cantarides. 
Capitellum.  Calcanthum. 
Parietaria.  Staphisagria. 
Spuma maris.   
Vlcerativa.  
The properties of ulcerative medicines, is to break & blister the skin, in what places they are laid, as these beneath.  
Anacardus. 
Apium agreste.  Allium. 
Batrachium.  Cepae. 
Cantarides.  Fici. 
Herba stellae.  Lac. 
Persicaria.  Ruta. 
Squilla.  Vrtica. 
  
FINIS.