APPROVED MEDIcines and Cordial receipts, with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry Simples. Very Commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge. IMPRINTED AT London in Fleetstreet by Thomas Marsh. 1580. TO THE WORshipful, the Master, wardens, and general Assistants of the fraternity of chirurgeons in London. SENECA that noble Christian Ethnic (for so doth ERASMUS for his singularity of profound wisdom & judgement term ●im) willeth us in bestowing of any gift ●o be careful, that it be both such, as 〈…〉 s fit for the estate of the giver, and also meet for the Condition of the Recei 〈…〉 o. Else, in steed of expected thanks, disgrace may grow: and what the Gyer meaneth of goodwill, may (perhaps) 〈◊〉 the Receiver (either limping in judge 〈…〉 ent, or freezing in delight) be little 〈…〉 guarded, & less countenanced. For my 〈…〉 rt I have (as I think) not much swerved 〈…〉 erein, from the sound advise of the aforenamed Philosopher, in making you Patrons of this little work, and that for two special respects: the one, for that, it treateth of such matter, as is peculiarly appendent to your worthy faculty, whereby you are in profession best able thereof to judge: tother, because it was penned and gathered by one, whose name is to me unknown, who nevertheless seemeth hereby to be a hearty embracer and well. Willer of your excellent Art and function: and therefore in that respect, are you the meetest, and in my opinion the fittest to defend his labours, & to become Guardians to this his poor mangled and forsaken Orphan. The faults which (in deed) through negligence or ignorance of them that had the charge and oversight of the Prynting thereof, are unhappily chanced, I am to request you being shilfull, either gently to amend, or friendly a while to tolerate, till either letter opportunity serve to reform them, or that the author and compiler (if he be living) may himself peruse and recognyze the same. The holy Ghost bless you and your Labours in that your so noble an office & profession, having so excellent a Subject to work upon, as Man is, the perfectest and excellentest of all Creatures, and for whom all others were made and created. From Butley in Cheshire, the 19 of October. 1580. Your unfeigned well willer Thomas Newton. To the friendly Reader. Here haste thou Gentle Reader a brief and compendious collection of many good & approved medicines with the operation, & virtue of many simples. It was not meant at the first to have the same published, which is the cause that the Book now is not wholly without his blemishes, and some imperfections. But thy courteous and friendly acceptance at this time may cause the same to be hereafter better scoured over & polished for thy further commodity. Farewell. THE TABLE OF this Book. A ACacia. Fol. 65 Add 〈…〉 89 Agaricke. 20 Agnus casius. 41 Agalochus. 27 Alica. 20 Alkak●ngi 66 Almond 10 Alisaunders 38 Aloë 27 Allumme 80 Amber 1 Ambergryce 27 Ambrose 38 Amy 39 Anacardium 48 Anagallis 22 Anemone 19 Angelica 50 Anise 34 Antimony 75 Arabian thorn 61 Aristolochia 25 Artichoke 36 Ashes 51. 81. Aspalathus 15 Asphaltum 25 Assa foetida. 33 B BAy tree. Folio. 45 basil 23 Balm 12 Balaustium, see Pomgranade flowers. B●●ley 61 Bean 2 Bearbreeche. 30 Bearefoote 45 Bear barley 59 B●ellium 39 Beech 54 Bellragges 43 Ben●emin 33 Beete 71 Betony 43 Berberis 65 Be●erscodde 89 Bitumen, ●ee Asphaltum. Bitter fitch 15 Bowl armoniac 81 Borage 52 Bloudstone 83 Blyte 71 Bran 13 Bread 14 Briar 58. 59 Brine 30 bryony 46 Britannica 64 Brimstone 79 Brasle 76 Brazen stone 84 Broth of a cock 88 bugloss 21 Bulb●s or Scallions. 48 Bombast 19 Bushsage 58 Bushsage mushrun. Ibid. C CAlamus aromaticus. 28 Camomile 1● Capers 38 Cantharides 89 Calamint 42 Camphor 68 Caraways 37 Caret 24 Cassia fistula 1 Cassia Lignea 39 Castorium, look, Beavers cod. Cataputia. 50 Celandine 40 century 42 cedar tree 51 Ceruse 75 Cetrake 26 chicory 70 Cichpease 20 Cinnamon 35 Cinoper 79 citrul 72 Cheric 71 Chestnut 54 Christ's thorn 65 Cleavers 20 Clone 43 Cod tree 62 Colewort 14 Colophonia 23 Coloquintida 37 Colts foot 32 Comfrey 2 Coral 55 Coriander 15 Correcheruile 47 costmary 43 Cotton, see, Bombast. Coppewebbe 89 Copper 76 Copperess 77. 81 Cresses 49 Crowfoote 52 Cubebes 37 Cuckoo pint. 16 Cucumber 72 Comyne 37 Curryers' berries 65 Cuttle bone 95 Cyperus, see, English Galingale. Cypress tree 16 D Daffodil 31 Damsons 69 darnel 40 Dates 19 Date tree 59 Dill 44 Ditan●e 42 Dock 57 Doder 15 Doggestones 52 Doggeberye, or Eglantine 60 Doronicum 46 Dung 87 Doves blood 85 dregs of oil 22 Dragons 15 Dwale 65. 66 E EArth 81 Earthwormes 89 Echion 14 Egg 87 Eglantine, see, Doggeberry Egle stone 84 agrimony 20 Elder 36 El'campane 49 〈◊〉 55 emerald 85 Endine 70 English Galengale 26 Epythyme 34 Euphorbe 47 F FEnell 44 Fenigreeke 25 fern 17 Fetherfew 33 Figwort 40 Fig tree 28 Filbert 24 Flower deluce 33 foals foot 34 Fox lungs 89 Fumetory 19 G GAlangale 45 Galbanus 43 Gall 78 Garden Smallage 37 Garlic 48 Gentian 34 Germander 2● Gladen 35 Glue 62 Goats blood 86 Gold 80 Gold Soder 79 Gourd 73 Grape 7 Grains 19 42 Greenewort 54 groundsel 64 Ground pine 26 Grummell 19 Guiacum 22 Gum Ammoniacke. 35 Gum tragacanth. 62 Gum Arabic ibid. ginger 46 Gytt 44 H Hearts horn 88 Hearts Pizill ibid. Hearts tongue 67 Hawthorne 55 Hebenu●, See, Guiacum. Hemp 28 Hemlock 68 Henbane 67 Hip 60 Hollyhocke 12 Hoppe 64 Horehound 27 horsetail 62 Houseleek 74 Honey 27 Hyssop 35 I IAsperstone 83 jeatte 84 jewish stone 84 jesymyne 25 Incense 26 ivy 15 juorle 88 juniper 37 In●uba 71 K KItkeyes 53 Knottegrasse 74 L LAbdanum 15 Lark 90 Laserpitium, see, Beniemyne- Laurel 46 Lazule stone 84 Led 78 Leaven 13 Leek 50 Lettuce. 37 Lignum Aloes, see Agalochus. linseed 12 Lyntespurge 51 lily 30 Liquirice 71 Liverwort 58 Lote tree 59 Lounge 38 loadstone 83 Lupine 19 Lycium 2 Lie 80 lime ibidem Lysimachia 64 Lytharge 71 M MAce 1 Mader 17 Maioram gentle 39 Maioram 17 maidenhair ibidem. Malobathron 16 Mallow 71 Mandrake 67 Manna 16 Marchasite, jooke. Brazen stone. Marrow 87 Medicines 91. 92. 93 94. 95. Meddlers 56 Mehlote 12 Mercury 19 Melon 72 Mill 55 mint 39 47 Mysseltoe 25 Myrobalane 36. 56 Molen 47 Moss 54 Mulberry 61 Mummy 32 Musk 29 Muscle shell 89 Mushroome 〈◊〉 Mustard 52 Milk 86 Myrrh 32 Myrtle tree 53 N NArde ●7 Navewe 31 Neperyall 42 Neesewort 45 Nettle 21 Nightshade 65 Nu●●e of India 53 Nut migge 24 O OAde 16 Oats 60 Oak 54 Olyveberie 3 Onion 48 Organie 41 Orpiment 76 Olmund 17 Oils 4 Oyster shell 90 P PAlma Christi, look, Tykeseede. Panax 41 Panic 55 Paper herb 55 parietary 63 parsley 38 Paste 62 Patience 57 peach 73 Pear tree 58 Pease 59 Pellitory of Spain 50 pennyroyal 41 Penywoit ●3 Peonie 18 Pepper 5● Perilwort 2 Pervincle 40 Phu, See, Valerian. Pipe edge tree, See, Berberies' Pisticke nut 17 Pitch 31 Plane tree 70 Plaster of Paris 76 plantain 65 Poli●ll 24 Polipodie 34 Polygonaton 20 Pome cytron 3 Pomegranade 60 Pomegranade flowers, 61. 65. Pomegranade rind, ibi. Pompone, look, Melon. Popular tree ●3 Poppy 68, 69 Powder of a post 16 Privet 57 Prunes 69 Pumyso 84 Purslane 74 Pine tree 18 Q QVicksiluer 77 Quince 61 Quitche 59 R RAdish 40 Raison 8 Rampion 31 Rhaponticke 42 Rheubarbe 28 Rue 39 Reed 60 Rocket 32 Rose 57 Rose of Jerusalem, 36 Rosemary 44 Runner 87 Rice 11 S SAffron 25 Sage 22 Salt 82 Salt peeter ibidem. sarcocol 12 Saint johas wort 35 Saty●●on 52 savoury 42 Savyn 34 Sapphire 85 Scammony 40 Saunders 68 Sebesten 2 Seahollie ibidem Seawillowe ibidem Sene ●7 servis 57 Sesamum 10 Setwall 25 Sicomore 30 Silk 13 Singreene, look, house leek. Soldanella 14 Soap 51 Showbread 34 Sowfenell 37 Sorrel 57 sheeps greasy wool 88 Sheepskin ibidem Sowthistell 64 Sothernewood 43 Snakes skin 89 Snail 90 Sperage 2 Spikenard 17 Spinach 70 Spelt 59 Sponge 12 Spurge 49 Spodium 78 Squilla 31 Squinant 12 Starch 13 Stavefagre 36 Stechados 10 Storax 16 Storks bill 21 Sugar 11 T TAllow 86 Tamarix 13 tamarinds 68 Tatre 32 Tartar 83 Tasill 56 Terra sigi●lata 81 Thlaspi, or treacle mustard 49 Thapsia ibidem Tu●bith 44 Turmentill 11 Turneppe 30 Turpentine 23 Tykeseede 31 Time 37 Tutye 77 V VErdegresse 76 Verinyce 66 Vernyce 17 vervain 47 Vine 63 Vineygre 61 Violet 70 Virgin wax 22 Vomit Nut 24 W Walnut 24 Wallgelofers 31 Wallsage 68 Wallwort 36 Water lily 67 Water germander 44 Wax 1 Wertwort 64 Wheat ●3 White Lead, see Ceruse Wine 8 Wine lees 83 Wild Saffron 27 Wild oats 11 Wild smallage 38 Wild mint 39 Wild rocket 48 Wild Vine 46, 63 Wild Sage, or Tâsey. 64 Wielding 60 Wild bugloss 64 Winter cherry, see Alkakengi. Winter cresses 48 Wychwind 20 Willow 62 Woodbine 2● wormwood 1● Y Yellow Bottle, or Mayweede 23 Yellow carrot or Wild carrot 35 Iron 79 Z Zizipha, see, juiuba. FINIS. Medicines of Medicines of temperate heat. Cera. Wax. WAXE, is maturative, resolu●●ue, Remedy to the bloody flux. & mollificative. The material substance of Plasters, & Oynte●e●ts. It is taken in Gale. sim. Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. wa●dly in broths against the ●lousy flux, which is with ulcerations of ●e Bowels. Wax well washed is more ●mperate than Wax unwashed: for by ●e washing the sharpness, and acrimony 〈◊〉 it is taken away. Cassia fistula, Black Cassia. Lax. 7 THis is a certain fruit, or ●odde brought Serapi. Simple A●icen. 20 Canonico Mesue de simplo. from Egypt, the pulp of it is Laxative, 〈…〉 rgeth cholier, and tempereth the blood: 〈…〉 e Tree thereof now groweth in Italy. Macer, Macis, Mace. Flux. MACIS is the husk of the Nutmeg, Di●. li. 10. Gal. si. 0. Act●. li. 10. Pau. li. 70. it is contor●atiue unto the Stomach, ●o stayeth the flux of the body. Adiantum, Politrithon, Maiden hair. THis bear●● is of the kind of our maiden Stone. Dio two. 40 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. bayre: subtle in substance ins●ssiue of gresle vumours in the breast, and 〈◊〉. I● breaketh the Stone, and stayeth the flux of the Body. Trichomanes, Capillus veneris. true Maiden hair. THis is our true Maiden hair, and of the same virtue that Adiantum before Dio-li 40. spoken of is. Succinum, Ambra, Amber. AMber is thought to distill from the Popular Stop Blood Flux. Dio. li. 10 Avicen. 20 Canonico ●●ee iuto the Ficud of Euridan● and there to were hard. Beaten to poud and drunk, it stayeth the Flux of the 〈◊〉 macke and belly, and stoppeth blood. Symphiton Petrenum, unsavoury Marjoram. THis Herb is inscissyve and also binding. Purge● Breast. Flux Wounds Gal. li. 80. Acti, li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio, li, 40. Is purgeth the Breast, helpeth coughing of blood, stoppeth all manner of Fluxes, and healeth wounds. Symphiton magnum, Consolida maior. Comfory the greater. COmfory is of the same virtue that Symphiton Flux. Gal. si. 80. Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40 Petrenum is: but something hotter in virtue. Asparagus, Sperage. BOth the Seed, & Root of this herb Purgeth the liver Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. are abstersive, apertive, and do open both the liver, and Kidneys. Faba. The Bean. THe substance of the Bean is abster sive, Bloody Flux purgeth Gout, swelling. the Rind is binding and also abstersive: therefore the whole Bean decocted, and boiled in water and Vinegar is given for the flux of the Belly without blood, and against vomits. If it be eaten it is Gal. si. 60. & aliment. 10. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 20. windy, and hard to be digested. It purgeth breast and lungs, it easeth the gout made in a Pla●ster with swines grease: and also is good against inflammations & swellings. Lotus Pratensis. A kind of threeleaved grass. Handachocha. Eyes. Perellworte. THis herb is abstersive, mixed with Dio-li 40. Gal. si. 60. Acu. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Honey it purgeth & cleanseth the ties of gross humours. Lycium, The Lycian liquor. Ulcers. THe true Lycium is the juice of the root● Fiuxe. of a certain 〈◊〉 Cappadocia, and In Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 70. Acti. l. ●0 Pau. li. 70. dia. It is resolutive, austere siue, restrictive or 〈…〉 heateth Ulcers, and ma 〈…〉ous Soars: ●t stateth all manner of flux● 〈◊〉 of men and women. In steed of th● the Chyrurgrans 〈◊〉 use the Juice of Caprifolie, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 casted Woodbine. Mexa, Sebesten, Nuts of Graecia. THis fruit is Larative, good against the Lar. Worms Auicenna Canenico Serapi de Simplici. Laxe. Dio. li. 20. Galen de aliment. 10. & Sim. 60. Acti li. 10 Pau. li 70. cough: it doth mitigate and suage the burning of the dryne, & killeth the worms that be in the belly. The substance of this fruit stayeth and bindeth the belly, the liquor wherein it is decocted or boiled doth lare the belly, or is soluble: it gendereth evil humours and melancolious. Eringum: Seaholme. THis herb groweth by the Seasydes, Colic & stone. and is good against the Colic, and breaketh the Stone: provoketh the brine, and Dio li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70. the monthly course in women. The roots condite be uses to provoke lust & conrage, but of no authority, ne yet to any great effect in that behalf. Halimus, Sea Willow, or Prickwillowe. Increase of Milk & seed. THis plant groweth by the Sea sides it is salt in taste, and samewhat binding: Gal simp. Paul. li. Diosco. li. ●t engendereth milk and Seed●● the tender buds be eaten, & for the same use reserved. It groweth much in Cycill. Malum Citrinum: Malum medicum: The Pome Citron, or Citrine. THe Rind of the Pome Citrone is Sweet Breath. Poison. Gale. de aliment & Simplici. Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. temperate in heat, but ●ry in the second degree. It comforteth the Sinmacke, and maketh the Breath sweet. The middle substance which containeth the seed is sharped in taste, cold and dry in the third degree. The substance next v●t● that towards the Rind is gross, and engendereth Phlegm, cold in virtue: the Seed is hot and dry, and resolutive in the second degree. The leaves of the tree be dry, and resolutive. The whole fruit drunk with Wine is comminded against poison, and correcteth the corrupt Appetites in Women with Child. Oranges, and Lemons be much of the same kynoe, and of like virtue. Oliva, The olive Berry. THis olive Berry being ripe, is tempeperate Binding. Gale. sim Acti. li. Paul. li. Diosco. li. in heat: being unripe is tart & cold in the first degree. But the leaves & teuder crops of the olive tree be binding, and cold. Olyvae Conditae, the olive berries kept in Brine. THe olive herries that be preserved in Appetite. B 〈…〉 G 〈…〉 de aliment. 60 Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 70 brine comfort the stomach, and pro ●oke an Appetite. The brine wherein they be kept preserveth the Qummes from rheums & superfluous moistures, & if they be washed with it, and fasteneth also the teeth. Oleum, Oil. Oil of the ripe olive is temperate in Dio. li 60. Gal. si. 10. Acti. li. Pau. li. 70 heat, soluble and cesolutive: but Oil of the baripe olive declineth to coldness, bindeth and comforteth. Oil the older it is the more it exceedeth in heal. All Oil is good against Doyson often drunk, and often vomited. Oil washed, is more gentle of taste, and of less mordacity, or sharpness then that which is not washed. Oil is the material substance where with all Paysters, and Oyntmeates be made and tempered. All other Oils be referred for their virtues unto the Temperature and virtue of the substance whereof they be made. As for cremple it is more largely declared in these Oils after described. Oleum Rosarum, Oil of Roses. Oil of Ros●s is confortative of parts Burning. Diosco. li. Acti. li. 10 Gal. si. 10. Mesue de Oleis. that be resolved, resolutive, repercussive, and doth refrigerate such parts as be inflamed. Oleum Chamomelinum, Oil of camomile. Oil of Camomile is resolutive, and easeth pains. Oleum Violaceum, Oil of violets. Oil of Violets extinguisheth Inflan Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 10 Gal. simp. Mesue de Oleis. mations, and hot swellings. Oleum Cidoniorum, Oil of Quinces. Oil of Quinces is comfortative of parts Rheums Floxe Diosco. li. Gale. metho. 10. Acti. li. 11 Mesue de Oleis. 10. that be relaxed. binding and staying all rheums and fluxes. Oleum Amygdalarum dulcium, Oil of sweet Almonds. Oil of sweet Almonds ●solueth hardness, Mollificative. Galen. li. Simpli. 60. Mesue de Oleis. and doth smooth and lenigate the asperite and roughness of the wind pipe: it is good also for the Breast and loonges. Oleum Amygdaelarum amararum, Oil of bitter Almonds. Oil of bilter Almonds is a●●stersiue, The ●ares. Dio. li. 10. Acti. li. 10 Gal. si. 60. Mesue de Oleis. and aperti●●. It disselurth winds and sounds in the Ears, & killeth the worms also that oftentimes be in the same. Oleum Lilliorum, Oil of lilies. Oil of Lilies is mollitive of hard swell Cold Breast. Acti. li. 10. Mesue de Oleis. Avicen Cano. 10. lines, caseth pains, is good against colds Diseases of all parts, and specially of the Breast. Oleum A●eth●, Oil of Dill. Oil of Dill resolveth, and easeth Act●. li. 10 M●s●e de Oleis 50 Aui●enna Canonico pains. Oleum Laurinum, Oil of Bays. Oil of Baye● is good against all cold Cold but mou●s. Dio. l●. 10. Acti. li. 10 Me●●e de Oleis. Disease's, as Colics a●d pa●●es in the S●●ewes, and Joints that come of cold humours. Oleum Rutaceum, Oil of rue. Oil of rue is good against Inflan nations. Juflammations. Gale. metho▪ 120 Mesue de Oleis. and wind, and all disease's that come of cold. Oleum Spicatum, Oil of Spike. Oil of Spike is good against all cold ●assions and diseases: and specially of Cold in the Stomach. Gale. metho. 70. Mesue de Oleis. the stomach and parts that do nourish: and with all it is comfortable. Oleum Mastich●num, Oil of Mastic. Oil of Mastic is confortative of the stomach and liver, and of all parts Confortattue. that be needful to be comforted and warmed. Dio li. 10. Galen metho. 70 Mesue de Oleis. 10 Acti. li. Oleum Abs●thij, Oil of wormwood. Oil of Worm wood resolveth cold, Galen metho. 1●0 A●●cen Cano. 50 and gr●sse bum●urs, and it is confortative of the member or part that is diseased. Oleum Mel 〈…〉, Oil of Millelote Oil of Millelote resolveth swelliages bruises. Mesue de Oleis. and brusen, ●nd easeth the pains. Oleum benedictum, vel de Lateribus, THis Oil resolveth, and doth mitigate Mesue de Oleis. pains, and is good against all cold passions. Oleum Costium, Oil of Costus, THis Oil is apertive and comfortative Mesue de Oleis. Avicen Cano. 50. of the Sinews: good also against all cold diseases of the liver and stomach. Oleum Euphorbij, Oil of Euphorbium. Palunes & Cramps Mesue de Oleis. Avicen Cano. 50 THis Oil is special against all cold disease's of the Sinews and Joints: as Palunes, Cramps, and such other. Oleum Castoreum, Oil of Beaver. THis resolveth cold nassions, and is special Gale. metho. 120 Avicen Cano. 50 good for colics. Oleum Uulpium, Oil of a Fox. THis Oil of a Fox is good against all Back. Mesue de Oleis. Gal. si. 110 Acti li 20 Pau. li. 20 cold diseases and aches: as cold, gouts, aches in the Back, and Palsies. Oleum de Scorpionibus, Oil of Scorpions. THis Oil breaketh the Stone in the Stone. Mesue de Oleis. Ry●nies, if the Back be anointed therewith: cast in with a syringe it breaketh th● Stone in the Bladder. Oleum Nenupharis. Oil of the water lily. THis Oil is good against heats, and 〈◊〉 hot Swellings, and Inflammations. Inflammations. Mesue de Oleis. Oleum Papaveris, Oil of Popy. THis Oil refrigerateth strongly, and Sleep. Mesue de Oleis. ●aseth the pains that come of heats, and provoketh Sleep. Oleum Mirtinum, Oil of Mirtes. THis Oil doth refrigerate and comfort Heart. Mesue de Oleis. the Stomach, the Heart, and all other parts that be resolved and weakened by excess of heat. Una, the Grape. OF Grapes there be diverse Gale. de a liment. 20 kinds, some be sweet in taste, some●e ta●te, some be sharp, Acti. li. 10 and some be of a mean quality or taste betwixt these, neither notable sweet, neither sharp, neither Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 50. sower, which be called Uinosae in Latin, that is to say, having the taste of Wine, and this kind is temperate between ●oate and cold. The kind of them that be sweet is hot, and increaseth thirstiness. The sharp and sour be cold, the sweet also be sol●ble, and specially while they b●t f●ll of moistness. The sharp and sour do not only lack that property, but also are neither concocted in the stomach, Galen de a●●mēt. 20 Diosco. li. Acti. li 10 Pau. li. 10 neither well distributed into the body, ●e yet do well nourish●. The rip 〈…〉 Grape doth most nourish next to the fig 〈…〉 of all fruits, and engendereth none evil humours if it be thoroughly ripe. Howbeit of 〈…〉 the Grape cometh no Juice and stable nourishment, as doth of Flesh. The Grape 〈◊〉 it be green and in his moistens, doth in▪ flate the Stomach, and is soluble: if th● Grape be long retained within the body, it doth annoy and hurt, which fault doth not happen to the Fig: for although th● Fig be not down ward in short time avoided, yet if it be well digested in the stomach it giveth good nourishment: which property and virtue the Grape lacketh, fo● in case they be over long retained in the belly, they neither be digested nor altere 〈…〉 in the stomach, neither distributed to th● liver and veins, nor increase other th' 〈…〉 crude humours which cannot be altered i 〈…〉 to good blood. The Grape hath in it four 〈…〉 substances, the one is the stone, which 〈◊〉 cold, dry, & ●inding: the other three be th● utter skin, the substance adjoining an● contained within the same, and the Liquor. The ston● and skin do descend through the body in manner 〈…〉 o. The other parts be retained and do nourish. Una Passa, The great reason. THe reason is of like comparison to the Grape, as the ory Fig Galen de aliment. ●0 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. ●0 Pa●. li. 70 unto the green. The reason is maturative, binding, or stiptike, and resolu●●ue. The sweeter the Ra 〈…〉 the hotter, the ●arter the colder, the 〈…〉 r reason doth strengthen and comfort the stomach, and bind the be●●y: the sweet reason is in the mean, for it neither resolveth the stomach, neither laxeth the bel●y, neither yet bindeth g●ra●ly. The sweet sweet ra●son is a 〈…〉 ur, and doth temper and vanquish frea 〈…〉 g or bitings of the of the stomach. The best raisin is that which is most fatty and un 〈…〉ous, and ●ath a 〈◊〉 skin. The raisin doth not so lax the ●elly, neither is so abstersive as the ●ry Fig: Howbeit, it is better to the stomach. The raisin eaten is good for the wind pipe, good against the Cough, good for the Kydnies and B●ou●. Uinum, Wine. Wine is hot in the second degree G●l. 〈◊〉. 80 〈◊〉. li. 10 P 〈…〉. li. 70 Howbeit, if is 〈◊〉 very 〈◊〉, it is hot in the third degree: But must or new wine is hot i● the first: they be like in drieth, as they Gal. ●li. 30 D●o. li. 50 be in heat. Of all wines Red and gross wine is most meetest and conu●ment to 〈◊〉 crease and eagender blood. Next to that Galen de bonis Succis is wine that is black in colour, sweet, & gross. Thirdly red or black wine with grassinesse of substan●r & ta 〈…〉 es in taste, D●o. li. 50 Wy●● wine & gross substance with tartness in taste are reserved in the 4. place. Whyt● wine and thin in Substance nourisheth least of all. Sweet wine is better concot▪ concocted in the Stomocke than the tart or green wine, and better di 〈…〉ed into the body, and also is more soluble. Although gros 〈…〉 Galen de 〈…〉 ate Tuenda, 50 wines be meetest for the 〈◊〉 of blood, yet it is to be noted that 〈…〉 y gross wine is hardly concorted and altered in the Stomach, and slowly distributed, unless th● Stomach be good and strong, the gross 〈…〉 wines also be not commended for making▪ and provoking of brine: and besides that some of them do stop the liver, the splen, Dio-li. 50. Galen metho. 70 and kid 〈…〉 s, so that by the use of them, ●o●e men fall into Drops, some into the stone: and specially old men. The most 〈◊〉 somest wine for them that be in recovery from sickness (so that they have no Fever) is wine red in colour, thin in substance, and somewhat tart in taste. Wine among all other things doth moist, and soon increase natural heat: and therefore wine that is hot of nature, and subtle in substaunte, yellow in co●●er, old in age, of good odour, and smelling is most special to revive and restore such persons as fall into Hipocra, de ulceri. soundings or saynting, for it is soon distributed into all parts of the body, not with standing such yellow & strong wines do oftentimes trouble the head. Waterish and thine Wine doth little or nothing nourish, but doth only provoke the brine. Wine is meet for the cold natures of complexions: wine condite with honey is Hipocra. de ulceri. good for those that fear the stone universally. As Wine is good for old men, so it is evil for chi●oren: sweet wines ●e good for them that need to be restored, so they be subject to no 〈…〉 becillity or weakness of the liver, ●pleue, or Rydnies. To them that have gross humours in their Uaynes subt●●l wines are meet and good: to them that paien de 〈…〉 e ●uenda. 50. & 10. have cold humours in their veins hot wines and old ve meet: but to them that be not of this condition or state, wines that be pleasant and well smelling be meeter, so that they do not trouble and un 〈…〉 quiet the head Flee from gross & evil smelling Hipocra. ●●●een. wines, & such as be of great tartness▪ & or unpleasant taste. Also abstain from wine that is to old, or to new, special from all wines till they be fyned. Wine in the utter parts of the body be good 〈◊〉 wash and mundify ulcers or saares Wine also be confected with diverse substances as with Honey, ●ater, Vinegar, Tym● G●len d●●●tate Tu●n. 5●. Squ●●t●s, Roses, wormwood, Raison● and many other things, which wines confected and made, are to be esteemed a 〈…〉 tet the nature of such substances when with they ye confected. Wine thyone substance. & yellows in colo●●, heateth 〈◊〉 parts of 〈◊〉 body, provoketh urine, & po 〈…〉geth ●he blood. Wine doth ripe & matu● 〈◊〉 〈…〉 rs so ●uch as any thing els● prouo●eth 〈◊〉 e●tes, a●●●ryne, & ●isp●● to quietness and sleep. As wine is thought to ye unmeet for children, so it is partly for young men which are hot and dry, & yet being in their growth. For such natures it shall dispose to I●e and volupevousnes of body, & hastiness: and also shall trouble, and unquiet the mind and reason, if it be not taken moderately. Amygdala dulcis, Amarae. Amondes sweet, bitter. THe sweet Almond is temperate, but Purge the Drea●●a Liver Spl●ne. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 60 〈◊〉 l●. 20. Act. l●. ●0 Pau. Pau. li. 70. D●●. 〈◊〉. ●0 the better is suotill, and a●ster siue, and ●●oat● in the second degree: it purgeth the ●reast and Luonges of gross humours: o●ene●● operations of the Lyvet. Spleen, & Ryo●es, the sweet Almond hath the same ●reper●les, but much weaker than the viter, and belyo●s that, the sweet nourisheth ●e body, but the the nourishing that it ge●ets is little. Sesanij, & Sesanum, Oily seed. THe seed of this herb doth mollify, but Gal. si. 80. aliment. 20 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 20. by reason that it is some what oily & unctuous, it filleth the stomach anon if it be eaten, it overturneth, and troubleth the same: it causeth the Breath to stink if 〈◊〉 stick or remain between the Teeth the Oil of it also doth mollsie, and so doth the decoction of the herb itself. Stechas, Stichados. THis herb is apertive, abfter siue, co 〈…〉 Come in the Stomach. Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 30 Act. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. fortative of all the inward parts & ou 〈…〉 ward pa●es of the body, which are refrigrate: and specially good for the Breast if be decocted or boiled, and so received. MEDICINES hot and dry in the first degree. Absinthium, Seriphium, Ponticum, Santon 〈…〉 the kinds of Wormwood. OUr common wormwood is of the Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 60. Acti li. 20 Pau. li. 70. of Ponticum: it is hot in the first degree, and dry in the third: it is resolutine, abstersive, and comfortatine: it purgeth choleric humours from the stomach and from the veins by urine: openeth the liver, and killeth Worms. The kinds of Wormwood called Seriphium, and Santonicum, be hot in the second degree, more bitterer and not so comfortative, they kill Worms more strongly. Chamomelum, camomile. Camomile is of subtle substance, it resolveth Sorrow Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 swellings: openeth the poares of the Body, and doth mitigate and cease pains and dolours. Aegilops, Wild barren Oats. THis Herb is some part like to our Dio. li. 30 Gal. si. 60 aliment. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. wild Oats: it doth resolve hard swellings, and healeth the Fistula in the corner of the Eyes. Oriza, rice. RIce is of little nourishing, binding, & Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 80. & ali. 10. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 hard to be digested. Pentaphillon, Quinque folium, Tormentilba, tormentil, tormentil is dry in the third degree▪ & Tothach. Liver. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40 of subtle substance: the decoction os it ceaseth the Aothache, and bealeth v●cerations of the Mouth: it is also good for the Loonges, and liver. Sacharum, Succharum, vulgò Sugar. Sugar is lenitfue, abstersive, mundifica▪ Cold stomach. type, apertive, good for the stomach that 〈…〉 is not hot and choleric, for in the hot col●erike stomach it is soon turned to choler: ●t is good also specially for the Breast Dio. li. 20. Gal. si. 70. and Loonges. Of the Sugar which is 〈…〉 pressed out of certain Canes, or Reeds speaketh no old Author, for the Sugar they speak of was brought out of India, Arabia, and was a certaives substance, whic● was congealed upon the Canes, or Reeds of that Country, and esteemed to be a kind of Honey, and was of like complexion and virtue. Althaea, Ib●scus, Holihocke. THe Root and Seed of hollyhock, do Stone. Dio. li. 30 Acti li. 10 Pau. li. 70 mollify, resolve, and mature or ripe: the Seed also breaketh the stone. Sarcocola, sarcocol. THis is the Gum of a Tree in Persia: Wounds. Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 it drieth, and sic catrizeth wounds. Spongia, the Spounge. THe sponge laid to a Wound with Stone. Dio. 〈◊〉. 80. Gal. si. 50. Pau. li. 70 water or wine bealeth it, and with honey healeth old Ulcers and Soars: the stones found in the sponge be abstersive, and break the stone in the Kydnies. Mel●lotus, Melilote. MEllilote is resolutive, maturative of swelling. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Imposthumations and swellings, and is confortative of the members. The Mellilote that we now use, seemeth not by his description to be true mellilote, howebest the virtue of it is not much unlike. Schynanthas, squinantum, vulgò Squynante. SQuynante is of subtle parts or substance, it provoketh the urine, and the Liver. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 monthly course in Women: it is good against hot swellings of the liver and Stomach. Semen lini, Lynseede. THis resolveth and mollisieth the instam marions and swellings, taken and mixed swelling. Dio. li. 30 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. with Honey, Oil, and Water and make thereof in plaster: if it be taken 〈◊〉 wards it gendereth wind, and is hard t● be digested, and evil for the stomach. Melissa, Apiastrum, Balm. THis bearbe is resolutive and abstersive, Liver. Spleen. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 it munvifieth the liver, the Spleen, the Breast, and the Loonges. Seta, Sericum, Silk. Silk is Cordial, and good for the heart. Mesue de electuarijs Auicenna Cano. 20 Serapi de Simpli. Populus Alba The white Popular tree. THis is abstersive. The Juice of the leaves milk warm put into the Ears, Diosco. Gal. simp. Acti. li. Paul. lib. easeth the pains of them. Tamarix, Tamariscus. THis tree is inscissive, and abstersive. The Dio. li. 10. Gal si. ●0 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Root of it, the tender crops, the leaves decocted or boiled in vinegar, or wine, bealyeth the Spleen, that is endored or barred. Also boiled in wine and drunk, they have the same operation. Cups made of the root of the same thee are thought very wholesome for splenetike persons to drink in. Triticum, Wheat. Wheat is a nourishment not to 〈◊〉 Galen de aliment. 10 Dio. li. 20 eaten alone without flesh, fish, or other food: for it is of itself very Uiscous, & opilative, which fault and lack in it is corrected, and redressed Paul li. 70 Acti. li. 10. Gal. si. 80. by the mixture of Leaven with it. Put to the outward parts as medicine, it is hot in the first degree, temperate in moisture and dryth. Wheat chawed in the mouth is good against the biting of a mad Dog. The flower of it decocted and boiled with water, doth mature and ripe. Furfur, Bran. bran is of the least nourishment of any part of the Wheat, it is abstersive, Leper. Dio. li. 20 and mundificative: boiled in vinegar it helpeth the Leper. Fermentum, Leaven. Leaven is resolutive, and attractive from Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 the deep parts of the body. Amilon, Amidam, Uulgò, Sterche. STerch is colder & drier than the wheat, Rheums Galen do aliment. 10 Dio. li. 20. Pau. li. 70 and nourisheth less: it doth Lenigate & smooth parts that ●e exasperated & made rough, as the wind Pipe or Throat: it is good also against sharp distillations, & rheums into the Eyes. Panis, Bread. BRead is a nourishment most wholesome: Galen de aliment. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. that which is made of ripe red wheat well kneaded, well baked, and well leavened, is as a medicine: it is resolutive, by reason of the leaven. Panis Furfuracnis, Course or brown Bread. THe Bread that hath much bran is of Galen de aliment. 10 Pau. li. 10. less nourishing then that which is of flower, but more soluble, for it is laxative, & scoureth, by reason of the husky substance remaineth in it. Brassica, Caulis domestica. The colewort. THe colewort is abstersive, resolutive Ulcers. worms Gal. simp. Acti. Paul. Dioscori. of hot inflammations and swellings, and healeth ulcers and sores, the decoction of it laxeth the body, the substance of the Herb bindeth. The Seed killeth worms. Brassica Sylue●●ris. The wild colewort. THis groweth by the Sea sides, and is Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10. Paul li. 70 Dio. li. 20. of the same virtue that the garden Coleworts is, but stronger and of more efficacy. Brassica marina, vulgò Soldonella. THis groweth also by the Sea sides, it Laxe. Gal. si. 70. Acti. li. 10 Pa●. li. 70 Dio. li. 20 is salt and bitter in taste, and laxeth the belly. Echium. A kind of bugloss. THis herb drunk with wine doth no only heal them that be bitten with ve stinging. Dio. li. 40 Pau. li. 40 nemous serpents, but also drunk before doth preserve such from hurt as hap to be ●it of the same. Orobus, Erui, Bitter Fitches. THis corn is abstersive, inscissive, apertive Dio. li. 10. Galen de aliment. 10 Simpli. 10 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 of op●lacious: it is dry in the second degree, provoketh urine: if it be taken excessively, it maketh to piss blood, because it attereth and raseth in passage. Coriandrum, Coliander. COliander seed is abstersive, resolutive Worms Gal si. 70. Dio. li. 30. Pau. li. 70 Acti. li. 10 with a certain binding: it increaseth seed or nature. The seed also taken in a small quantity with must killeth worms: received in a great quantity bringeth to madness. Aspalathos. The wood Rhodium. THis tree decoct and gargarised healeth Ulcers. Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. Pau. li. 10 corrupt ulcers in the mouth, it groweth in Creta, an Island. Cuscuta, Dodder. THis Herb groweth with flax, it is Spleen. Serapi. Simple abstersive, confortative, and apertive of the oppilations of the liver, Spleen, & Kydnies, and purgeth Melancholy. Avicen. Cano. 20. Hedera, ivy. THe grieve leaves of the Juy boiled with Wounds. Dioscori. Gal. simp. Paul. wine heal great wounds, and malicious Soars that come of burning. The leaves boiled in vinegar profit the sp●eue: the flower is more vehement, and healeth brenuings: the Juice purgeth the head, and healeth old ulcers of the ears: the gum Stone. of it killeth lice, and taketh away hair: it is so hot that it burneth, and if it be drunk it helpeth them that have the stone. Laudanum. Ladan THis is a certain liquor that in the spring Falling of the hair Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of the year falleth upon a p●ante call●● Cischus: it is moistive, resolutive, maturative, and comfortative: it stayeth the falling of the hair. Dracunculus, Dragons. IT is abstersive, mundificative of op●●a Spleen. Eyes. Dio. li. 20 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li 70. tions of the liver, and Spleen, and t 〈…〉 Loouges: it helpeth old ulcers and snarethe fruit is of more strength than the leaves, or root. The Juice of the same cleanseth the Eyes. Aron, wake Robin, or Cuckoo pintell. Dragon's is of the same virtue that wake Dio. li. 〈◊〉. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Robin is, but not so strong. Tereniabin, Manna. THis is a certain dew that falleth upon Avicen Cano. 20, Mesue de Simpli. Serapi & Simpli. Galen de aliment. the leaves & trees in the East parts: also in Calabi ●a and certain per●es of Italy, and other hot countries: it is abstersive, purgeth Choiler, and is good for the Breast, and Loonges. Of this Galen seemeth to make mention in his book de Alimentis under the name of Aer●meli, and Drosomeli. St●rax calamita, Storax vulgò. THis is a ●umine of a tree in Syria, it Cough. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 8. Acti. li. 〈◊〉 Pau. li. 〈◊〉. is more 〈…〉 tive, maturative, good for the Cough and catarris, and for the Breast: it moveth the movethiy co 〈…〉 in Momen. St●rax liquida, Stacte. THis is the fatty & oy〈…〉 part of the Mirre Dio. li. Acti. li. when it is expressed The virtue of ●●●s like to the virtue of myrrh. Isatis, Glaston. woad. WOade, is resolutive of all manner swelling. Dio. li. ●0 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 swellings: it strauncheth the blood, it is good for persons that be splenetik, and also healeth green wounds. carries Lignorum. The powder of an old post. IT mundifieth, and healeth moist ulcers Ulcers. D●o. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. and Soars. Folium, Malobathron. A rare spicy leaf. THis leaf groweth in India it is abster urine. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 syve, and comforteth the stomach, an● liver: and provoketh dryne. Cupressus. The Cypress tree. THe fruit and tender crop of the braun Staunch Blood Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. che heal green wounds: staunc 〈…〉 blood: consume superfluous moistures dry and comfort the member or part, wh 〈…〉 is with such moistures oppressed and w 〈…〉 kened. Filix, Femina, The Brakes, or Ferne. THe roots of fern dry, and heal moist Dio. li. 1● Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. ulcers and sores. Filix, Osmonde. THe root killeth Worms, and diminisheth Spleen. Dio. li. 40. Gal. si. 80. Pau. li. 70 the increase of the Spleen. Nardus, Spicanardus. spikenard. spikenard is hot and biting in taste, & Rheums Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 dry in the second degree: it strengtheneth and comforteth the stomach, eaten inwardly ●nd also outwardly in Plasters, it provoketh drive, and cureth the gnawing or freaking of the stomach: it drieth the rheums of the belly, of the bowels, or Guts, and of the head, and breast. The kinds called ●ndica, and Siriaca be chief. Nardus Celtica. THis is of the same virtue and power the Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80. Nardus Indica and Siriaca is, but more weaker in all things, only except that it Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 provoketh urine more strongly. Nardus montania. THis is of the same kind and virtue that Dio. li. Gal. simp. Paul. lib. the other two before are, but not of like strength and efficacy. Sandarocha, vernix, Vernice. THis is a certain gum, the fumigation Rheums Avicen Cano. 20. Serapi. Simpli. of it drieth Catarrhs & the wmes. Sena, Colutea, Sene. Sene is thought to be described of Theophrastes, Avicen. Cano. 20. Serapi. Simpli. Theop. 30 de historia Plantarsi. under the name of Colutea: it purgeth choler. P●stacia, fistici vulgó, Pistickes. THis fruit is good for the stomach, apertive of opstations of the liver, and good Liver Loonges. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si. 80 Pau. li. 70 Acti. li. 70 for the breast and loonges. Rubea tinctorum, Rubea maiorum, Madder. MAdder is abstersive, mundificative of Liver. Dio. li. 30. Gal. si. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. the liver and spleen: purgeth their oppilations: provoketh urine, & the monthly course in women. Paeonia, Pionie. BOth kinds of Peony be abstersive, and liver. Dio. li. 30. Gal. li. 60. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li 70. comfortative, mundify oppilations of the liver and kydnies, provoke urine and the monthly course in women: it is written ●f old experience, that the root hanged a●out the neck of Children, cureth them of ●he falling Sickness. Phu, Valleriana, The wild Valeriane. THe wild Ualeriane is good and comfortab stomach and liver. Dio. li. 10 Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10 Paul li. 70 c for the Stomach, and liver: 〈…〉 rovoketh urine, and the monthly course 〈◊〉 women: i● is of like virtue to the Spike 〈…〉 arde, but somewhat weaker: neverthe 〈…〉sse it provoketh urine strongly. Pini Cortex. The Ryne or Bark of the Pine tree. IT doth so dry and bind that it healeth excoriation Br●ning. Dio. li. 10 Gal. si 80 Pau. li. 10 Acti. li. 10 that cometh by burning of fire. Pini folia. The leaves of the Pine tree. THese Leaves heal wounds. Wofides. Dio. li. 10. Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pini fructus, Nuclei pini. The Kernel of the Pine tree. THe fruit of the Pine tree is good for the Breast and Loonges: and helpeth Cough. Dio. li. 10 Gal. li. 80 Acti. li. 10 Paul li. 70 the cough. Fuligo Ex pini cortice, ex fructu, ex folijs. The fume of the pine Bark, fruit, leaves. THe soot gendered & made of these parts Falling of the ha●re Gal. li. 80. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of the Pine tree be good for falling or shedding of hair in the Brows, for running Eyes, and Ulcerations in the same. Cardamomum Arabum. Grains. THis spice hath two kinds: it both comforteth Serapi de Simpli. Avicen Cano. 20. the stomach, and conduceth to digestion: of this Cardamomum the Greek Authors speak nothing. Bombex, Gossipium, Cotten, Bombast. THis is a certain kind of Cotten growing Cough. Se●de or Nature. Serapi. Simpli. Avicen. Cano. 20. upon trees, the seed is good for the Breast, and the cough: it increaseth Seed or Nature in Man. Millium folis, Lithospermon. Grumwell. THis is subtle of substance: it breaketh Stone. Dio. li. 70. Gal. li. ●0. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li 70. the stone, and provoketh urine. Palmula, Dactylus. The Date. THe Dates be comfortative of the Stomach, Dio. li. 10 Galen li. and liver, both inwardly received, and outwardly in plasters: but they Pau. li. 70 engender ache and Rheums: they make great obstructions, and leprosy, eaten in great quantity. Mercurialis, Mercury. THis herb doth not only lask the belly, Laxe. Gal. li. 70. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 40. but also in plasters it is resolutive. Capnos, Fumus terrae, Fumaria. Fumitory. ALbeit this Herb is hot in the first Dio. li 40 Gal. si. 70 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. degree, yet is it dry in the third: it openeth the oppilations of the liver, comforteth the mouth of the stomach, and laxeth the belly, and purgeth choler by the urine. Anemone, Herba venti. Purge the Head. Phlegm. Dio. li. 10. Gal. si. 60. Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 THis herb is attractive, apertive, and purgeth the Nose, and the Head: if the root be chawed & mastichated in the mouth, it purgeth phlegm. Lupinus, Lupyne. worms Dio. li. 20. Galen de aliment. 10 & simp. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. THe Lupine is abstersive, and resolutive, it mundifieth the oppilations of the live 〈…〉 and spleen, and killeth worms. Choudros, Alicia. THis is a kind of corn: it is maturative, Dio. li. 20. Galen de aliment. 10 & simp. 80 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 and doth nourish: it stayeth the belly, and is good for the stomach. Eupatorium; Agrimonium, Egrymony. THis Herb is apertive, and abstersive Dio. li. 40 Gal. si▪ 90 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. of oppilations of the liver, and comforteth the same. The herb that now is called Eupatorium growing by the water sides is judged of experience to be of the same virtue, but not mentioned of old Authors, as far as it is known. Agaricus, Agaricke. agaric is inscissive, abstersive of the oppilations worms Dio li. 30 Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70 Mesue de Simpli of the liver and Kydnies: it purgeth gross phlegm and choler: and killeth the Worms: also it purgeth from the breast gross and vicious humours. Cicer, Chich peason. THis kind of pulse is windy, soluble, Stone. Gal. si. 60. & 〈◊〉. 10. Acti. li. 10. Pau. li. 70 Dio. li. 20. provoketh urine, and gendereth seed, & Milk. The decoction of it breaketh the stone. Smilax hortensis, Garden withwind. THe fruit of this Plant provoketh urine, Dreams Dio. li. 30▪ Serapi. Simpli. Auicenna Cano. 20 and the monthly course in Women: it is eaten and boiled with the Cod 〈…〉 as our common bearbes be: and it causeth troublesome Dreams. Poligonaton, Secacull. Scalacoeli. THis herb is stiptike or binding in taste with sharpness, and a certain vitternes. Cleanse the Face. Gal. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Paul. lib. Dio. li. Se●●pi S●m●li Avicen Cane. Mesue ●e Comidis. The root healeth wounds: the herb i 〈…〉 self is used to mundify and cleanse the fac 〈…〉 from syots. The Arabitanes seem by the description of it to call it Secacull, and to attribute to the root of it power and virtue 〈…〉 to provoke lust or courage. Philanthropos, Aparine▪ Cleavers. THis is abstersive & of subtle substance: stinging. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio. li. 40. the Juice of 〈◊〉 drunk with Wine, is good agayuste the biting of venomous Worms. Circium. vulgò Buglossum magnu●, A kind of Buglosle. THis is thought by the description of it Dio. li. 40 to be our bugloss: it easeth pains that come of great repletion of the veins in every part. Periclimenon, Caprifollium, Matrissilua▪ Woodbine. THe fruit and leaves of Woodbine be Soar 〈…〉 in the mouth. Dio-li 40. Gal. si. 80. inscissive, so that it provoketh to piss blood, if it be much used: and also it is good for the spleen: it is commonly used of experience to heal uleers & soars in the mouth, & parts of like temperature. Geranion, Gruinalis, Storks bill. THe first kind of Gruinalis is good for inflammations Dio. li. 30. Pau. li. 70. in Women: the second kind is of no use, neither profitable in physic. MEDICINES hot and dry in the second degree. URTICA, The nettle. THe Leaf and Seed of the Nettle resolveth swellings: purgeth Purge the Breast. Biting. Gal. si. 60 Acti. li. 10 Pau. li. 70. Dio-li. 40. the Breast and Lungs of grosie humours. The Seed drunk with sweet Wine, moveth lust and courage. The Leaves made in Plaster with Salt, heal the bitings of the mad Dog, and also Ulcers, and Soars: they provoke the urine, and the monthly course in Women. Amurca, The dregs of Oil. THis healeth wounds and ulcers Tothach. Dropsy. Gal. si 60. Acti. li. 20 Dio. li. 70. Pau. li, 10. in bodies that are of dry Complexion: for in tender bodies it doth rather exasperatt the wound, liquify and consume the flesh: with vinegar, or Wine it is good against the ache of the Teeth. Also spread upon Leather and put to the Body, it represseth watery swellings in such bodies as have the Dropsy. Propolis, Virgin Wax. VIrgin Wax is a certain gummy Pricking of thorn. Cough. Gal. simp. Acti. li. Pau. li. Dio. li. substance, whereby the honey Combs in the Hive, and the Wax of the same be joined & fastened together: it is attractive, in so much that it draweth out of the body stubells or thorns that are fastened in the same: the fume of it helpeth old & long Coughs. Hebenus, Guaicum, Lignum vitae. HEbenus is thought to be the tree th● now is called Guaicum or Lignum v 〈…〉 it is abstersive and of subtle substance, therefore it mundifieth and cleanseth the Ey●● and drieth the wmes & ulcers in the sam● At this time it is used of experience only and of no authority to extenuate the bod● and dry ulcers and the wmes of all parte● as in the sickness called the french Pack 〈…〉 Gouts, Melancholy passions, and ma● other diseases. Saluia, Sage. THe leaves and crops of sage provow brine: it is good for wounds. & staun 〈…〉 ●heth blood in them: it mundifieth also U 〈…〉 cers' and sores: besides that it is hot, 〈…〉 is also binding temperately. Anagallis, pimpernel. pimpernel is aftersive, and attractive the Juice purgeth the head, aswell ga● garised, as instilled into the Nose: also 〈◊〉 healeth wounds & corrupt ulcers & soars both kinds of Pimpernel be of one virtue 〈…〉 Ocimum, Basilicum, Basile. BAsile eaten gendereth superfluous Humours and moistures: wherefore taken ●wardes it is not wholesome: but used to ●e utter parts it is resolutive, and matuative. After Dioscorides it laxeth the bell 〈…〉, dissolveth wind, provoketh dryne, en 〈…〉 reaseth Milk, purgeth the Eyes and the 〈…〉 eade. It is esteemed good against melanholy passions. Buphthalmos, Cotula. yellow Bottle. THis hearhe is more hotter, and more resolutive than Camomile: so that it resolveth & consumeth hard swellings, mixed with Oil and Wax. Terebinthus, The Turpentyne tree. THe Bark, leaves, and fruit of this tree be strictive and binding: but the fruit dried moveth the urine, and helpeth splenetike persons. Resina Terebinthina, turpentine. TUrpentine is abstersive, attractive, mollificative, and resolutive: it is good for the breast: it provoketh urine: laxeth the belly, and healeth scabs. Resina Pini. The Rosin of the Pyneaple tree. THis resolveth, and mollifieth: and is more of efficacy than turpentyne, in that behalf. Colophonia, or pix Greca, A kind of blacker Rosin. THis is resolutive, and mollificative. Balsamum Liquor, the liquor, Fructus. the fruit, Lignum. the wood. of Balm. ALl parts of the Balm tree, the wood, the fruit, & liquor also, be subtle, abstersive, of great efficacy against all could diseases no sickness: they provoke urine: are good or ulcers & sores that be filthy & corrupt: 〈…〉 he liquor is of greatest virtue next unto 〈…〉: the Fruit or seed least of all. The lie 〈…〉 vour is called Opobalsamum: the Fruit Carpobalsamum: the wood Xilobalsamum. Nux muscata, The Nutmeg. THe Nutmeg is comfortative of the stomach, liver, and the spleen: it stay 〈…〉 th' vomittes, & sweeteth the breath. Nux juglans. The Walnut. THe utter Rind or husk of the fruit of the Walnut is very tart in taste, and binding, the Juice of it is good for the mouth, and throats that be inflamed: the Kernel is vnc●●ous and evil for the Stomach, the Dyle of it is resolutive. Nux vomica, The vomiting Nut THis Fruit moveth to vomittes, an 〈…〉 laxeth the Belly. Nux Auellana. The Filbeard, or hazel Nut. THe Filbeard and hazel Nut be some 〈…〉 what colder than the Walnut, & more binding: in other qualities like, but that 〈◊〉 hazel Nut maketh the head to ache, and a 〈…〉 so is not good for the stomach. Polinum. Poliell mountain. THis herb is abstersive, and aperti●● of oppilations of all the inward parts 〈…〉 it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: also it healeth malicious ulcer 〈…〉 and soars. Pascinaca, Baucia vulgò The Carrot tame and wild. THe G●rde in carrot is the weaker, the the wild carrot is the stronger in all qualities: the whole herb provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women, but specially the root & seed: the root provoketh lust and courage. Viscum, Misseltoe. THe Misseltoe is subtle, attractive, and resolutive: mixed with Incense it helpeth malicious ulcers. That which groweth upon the Dake is preferred before other. Aristolochia utraque, rotunda, longa, Astrology. BOth kinds of this herb, and specially the roots, be abstersive, resolutive, & good for the Breast and Loonges: they be comfortable also for the Sinews, and dry up ulcers. Zeodaria, Setwall. THis Root is comfortative of the Stomach that is cold: it consumeth wind, and resisteth poison: & is very wholesome in time of the plague. Crocus, Saffron. SAffron is maturative, and comfortative after Avicen it is a Cordial: ●ow ve it 〈◊〉 it be used in excess, it is not without dawnger: after Dioscorides it moveth lust and courage. Fenegrecum, fenugreek. fenugreek is resolutive, and mollitive of swellings, and some thing abstersive: if it be taken inward, it troubleth the Stomach. jeseminum, jesemyne. IEsemyne resolveth cold swellings: easeth pains and grief that cometh of cold Phlegm. Aspalathus, Bitumen. THis healeth green wounds, and is good for all passions: and for all wounds and sores that needeth to be dried with mean●●eate. Libanus, Thus. Incense. ●Ncense is dry in the first degree, and hath ascertain binding or strictivenesse. The ●arke of the tree is dry in the second degree: ●oth do help the spitting of blood: come 〈…〉 rt the stomach, and stay the bloody flux: 〈…〉 ey hyale also wounds, ulcers, & sores. Manna Thuris. Powder of Frankincense. THis is the subtle powder of Incense, & is of like virtue, but in some part of 〈…〉 over efficacy. Fuligo Thuris. The Soot of Frankincense. ●He soot of all things doth dry and partaketh the nature of the thing burned. ●he soot of Incense is used for Inflama 〈…〉 on's, rheums, & ulcers of the eyes. The 〈…〉 ote of Turpentine, and Myr●● be of like 〈…〉 tue to the soot of frankincense. The soot 〈◊〉 Storax is stronger than is the soot of Asphal 〈…〉 s: strongest of all is the soot of the Cedar 〈◊〉. Chamepitys, Aniga: Ground pine. THis Herb called Commonly Chamepitys is abstersive, and apertive of oppilations of the liver: it provoketh ●ryne, and the monthly course in women. This hear● being green healeth green wounds, corrupt ulcers and sores, and resolveth hardness in the breasts of women. Chamedrys'. Tyxago. Germander. THis herb openeth oppilations of the 〈◊〉 ver and spleen, provoketh ●ryne, and 〈◊〉 monthly course in women. Cyperus, juncus Anglosus. English Galengale. THe Root of this herb is incissive, breaketh the stone, provoketh ●ryne, the monthly course in women: it heal 〈…〉 moist ulcers and sores. Scolopendria, Asplenon. Ceterake. THis Herb is inscissive: it breaketh the stone, and resolveth the hardness of the splent. Colchichon, Hermodactylus. wild Saffron. THe Root of this herb is ●axatiue: it is given to them that have the gout, & ●aynes in their Joints: but it hurteth the stomach. Mell, Honey. Honey is abstersive, and mundificative: when it is boiled and scummed it doth mundify the less: it is sanative and consolative of ulcers and sores: it is good nourishment for old men and them that be of cold complexions: in young persons and ●oa●e natures it increaseth choler. Ambra, Ambergreace. THis is confortative of the Brain, and of all the Senses: it comforteth also the heart, and is good for cold complexions. Agalloction, Lignum Aloes. THis Tree consumeth superfluous moistures of the stomach, & comforteth them same, and the liver also: and maketh the mouth to smell sweet. Marinbium, Prassin, Horehound. HOrebounde is abstersive, and apertyve of the liver and spleen: it mundifieth the Loonges, and moveth the monthly course in women. Aloe. Aloes. ALoes is abstersive, & ●axatiue of the belly, and purgeth choler: it is less abstersive when it is washed: it is most comfortative to the Stomach of all Medicines ●axatiue: it mundifieth and healeth ulcers, and sores that be hard to close, and specially in the fundament, and secret Members: it drieth and healeth also Wounds. Cincus, Carthamus, Bastard Saffron. ●He seed of this herb waxeth the ●elly, and purgeth fleagmo: howbeit it ●ut●●th the stomach. cucumber Agrestis, wild Cucumbers. THis herb is abstersive, mollificative, resolutive, and strongly moveth the monthly course in women: the Juice of the fruit called Elaterum purgeth cholier and phlegm. Calamus odoratus, vel Aromaticus. A soot Reed. THis root groweth in India, and is of a subtle substance, as all other things that ●e Aromatical & of pleasant savour: it provoketh ●ryne, & the monthly course in Women, aswell taken inwardly as outwardly in fomentations: it is good & comble in plasters both to the liver & stomach. Rhabarbarun, Reubarbarum, Rhubarb. Rhubarb is abstersive, and purgeth Choler gently, and without danger: it is a special remedy against all choleric diseases: it openeth the obstructions of the liver, and provoketh ●ryne, as experience doth daily show: the old Authors both Greeks, and Arabikes wryre the same of Rhubarb, howbeit their descriptions seem not to agree in all points with out Rhubarb now used. Canabis, Hemp. Hemp seed consumeth & drieth somuch, that if it be eaten in great quantity, it drieth seed of Generation: it is hard to be digested, and maketh the head ache. Canabis Agrestis, wild Hemp. THe Root of wild Hemp, doth resolve hard swellings. Ficus Arbor, The Fig tree. THe liquor of the Fig tree, & the Juice of the leaves be abstersive, ulcerative, & apertive of the veins, and consume war●s. The Juice of the wild Fig tree is stronger than of the Fig of the Garden. Ficus, & Carica, The green Fig, and the dry. Figs are nourishing among all fruits, and commended to be best: notwithstanding that they engender evil humours, they have the commodity of they do soon pass down through the belly, and are shortly distributed into the whole body, they be abstersive, and purge gravel from the Kidneys: the nourishment that they give is not firm and stable to body, as the nourishment of bread and flesh, they be windy, but by reason of their short tarriance in the Belly the wind hurteth not much. The ripe Fig is of much more praise than the fig that is not ripe, the dry fig is colder than the green, so that he cometh to the second degree, and is subtle, and inscissive: of the great use of them cometh not very good blood: one discommodity of them is, that they cause the body to be full of Lice: if the stomach be full of evil humours they do much hurt, for shortly they be corrupted. Although the dry Fig be subtle and inscissive, yet it hurteth the liver and spleen that is inflamed, and so doth the green fig also: therefore when the liver or spleen is abstructed or hath oppilations, figs be eaten before other meats with Time, Peniroiall, savoury, Calamint, Pepper, or Ginger, and such like: who so eateth the green or dry figs after gross meats, doth incur damage. The dry fig is a medicine to the outward parts, and doth mature and ripe hard swellings, and the same in short space doth resolve, and the decoction of them also: but when ye will more mature or ripe than resolve, wheaten flower is to be mixed with them. And when you will more resolve than mature, the flower of Barley bread mixed with them is of the mean operation between ryping and resolving. The fatter the fig is, the more it doth mature or ripe. The sharper and heatter, the more it doth resolve. The green Fig, by reason of the superfluous moistures, is weaker than the dry Fig, but both do lax the belly. figs decocted to the thickness and substance of bonny are of the same virtue that Honey is, the fig decocted with Isope purge the Breast, and is good against long and cold coughs, and diseases of the Loonges. Moscus, Musk. Musk is pleasance in savour, it comforteth both the brain, & the heart. Acanthus, Branca ursina vulgò. bears Breech. THe leaves be resolutive, the root is inscissive and of subtle substance, and provoketh urine. artion, Personatia, Lappa vulgò. the Burr. THis is resolutive & dry with a certain binding, wherefore it is good against old ulcers and sores. Sycomorus, The Sycomore. THe fruit of this tree is of little nourishment, and evil for the stomach: the liquor & Juice of the tree is mollitive and resolutive of swellings, & healeth wounds: it consumeth also the hardness of the spleen. Muria, Brine. THis is a kind of brine, which is abstersive, & is used against corrupt ulcers of the bowels, ministered in glisters. Mariscus, A kind of Bulrushes. THis herb is abstersive, and attractiue● the root moveth vomittes, and healeth great wounds of the sinews, and cords. Lilium, the Lily▪ THe flower of the Lily is abstersive, mollitive, and sanative. The Oil of the said Lily is resolutive, and mollitive. The leaf abstersive, and sanative. The root abstersive, resolutive, and consolidative. Seseli massiliense, Siler montanum. Siler mountain. THe root and seed of this herb provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: it is of such subtlety that it healeth the falling sickness, and the shortness and difficulty of wind or breathing. Rapum The Turnip. THe seed of the Turnip is very wholesome, and moveth Just and courage: the root is hard to be digested, windy, and increaseth seed or nature. eaten in excess, it breedeth crude and gross humours. Rapum Agreste, Rampions. THe seed of Rampions is abstersive, and mixed with the flower of the Lupyne, or Wheat, or Tare doth cleanse the Face and the rest of the body: the root is commonly used in sallettes, more of use than of sufficient Authority. Bounias Napum, the Rape, or nanese. THe root boiled, doth inflate and nourish less than the Turnip: the seed is is good against all venom and poison, for if it be drunk it maketh the venom to take none efficacy. Lewcoyon, keiri, The wall Geloflovers. OF these Geloflowers be three kinds: yellow, white, and blue: the yellow is of more virtue, they be abstersive, resolutive, and subtle: they provoke the monthly course in women, and resolve swellings. Asphodelus, Albucum, Daffodil. THis herb is abstersive, resolutive, and provoketh the monthly course in Women. The ashes of this herb are hoarter and drier than the bearbe itself. And therefore it healeth a Disease in the head called Alopecia. Scylla, Squilla, Squilles. THe squill is inscissive of gross humours, and specially in the Breast: it is better boiled, or roasted, than raw. Cici, Ricinus, Kerua, palma Christi, Tike Seed. THe seed & leaves of this herb be abstersive, and resolutive. The Oil of the Seed called Oleum Cicinum, or Oleum de Kerua, is more hotter and more subtle than the oil olive, & therefore more resolveth: the seed purgeth choler & phlegm downward, & provoketh also to vomit. Pix Sicca, Pitch. Pitch is abstersive, maturative, and resolutive: it is more dry than hot, and healeth wounds. Pix liquida, Tar. THis is also abstersive, maturative, & resolutive of hard swellings: it is more ●oate than dry, and is also subtle: good for ●hem that be short breathed, and do void corrupt and matterishe humours out of the 〈…〉 rest. Mirra, Mirre. THis is the Gum of a tree that groweth in Arabia: it is abstersive, and exicrative: it healeth wounds in the head, and ●illeth worms: provoketh the monthly ●ourse in women: is good for the Breast, & against the cough. Mumia, Mumy. MUmia is not much different from Bitumen Indaicum: For in Syria they En 〈…〉 aulme the corpses of dead persons which Bitu 〈…〉 en Indaicum, which Enbaulming with por 〈…〉ions of the dead Bodies is brought from 〈…〉ence, & is called Mumia: it is used against 〈…〉 uses, aswell of the inward parts, as of 〈◊〉 outward. Eruca, Rocket. ROcket is so hot that it is not commō● eaten, without it be mingled with L 〈…〉 'tice leaves: it is thought to increase na●u 〈…〉 or seed, and provoke just: it maketh the 〈◊〉 to ache, if it be eaten alone: the seed pa〈…〉 k urine: the wild Rocket is strong 〈…〉 than the Rocket of the Garden. Huscus, Bruscus, Butcher's broom. THe leaves & fruit be drunk to provo 〈…〉 urine, and the monthly course in woe 〈…〉 and to break the stone. The root decoc 〈…〉 is of the same virtue. Tussilago, Farfara, Ungula caballina. Colts foot. THe fume of the leaves and root of fol 〈…〉 foot dried & taken by the mouth, heal 〈…〉eth the cough, & straightness of wind: th' 〈…〉 leaves green and made in plasters beal 〈…〉 hot inflammations, and swellings that 〈◊〉 hard to mature and ripe. Artemisia, Motherwort. BOth kinds of mother wort be of subtle substance: they break the stone in the 〈…〉 ydnies, used both in fomentations to the Belly, and taken by the mouth, they provoke ●he monthly course in Women. MEDICINES hot and dry in the third degree. IRIS. The Floure deluce. THe floure deluce is subtle, abstersive, maturative, and purgeth gross humours that be in the breast: provoketh the monthly course in women: mundifieth filthy & unclean sores with water and honey: it laxeth the belly, and purgeth gross and choleric humours, & also humours thath be waterish. Meoum, Mewe. THe root of this hear be is dry in the second degree: it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: it is windy, & therefore taken in excess, it causeth the head to Ache. Laserpitium, Assa, Assa faetida vulgó. THis tree groweth in Syria, & Armenia, The liquor or gum of this tree which is thought to be our Beniemin: it is attractive, abstersive, and consumeth superfluous flesh: it is good for the breast and liver, & provoketh the monthly course in women: the gum is sweet of odour. Assaf 〈…〉 d● which is described of the Arabikes, is displeasant in smell, and not mentioned of the greeks. Parthenium, Amaracus, Matricaria, Fetherfewe. FEtherfewe purgeth Phlegm, and Melancholy: and is good for the shortness of wind, and against the stone: and is used in Baynes & fomentations against hard swellings, and in Posthumations in the secret parts of Women Dioscorides calleth it Parthenium, Galen Amaracus, Serapion Matricaria. Anisum, Anise. ANise seed is resolutive: it provoketh urine, and consumeth wind in the belly: and provoketh lust & courage: and increaseth Milk. Asarum, Assarabacca, foals foot. THe roots of Assarabacca be abstersive, and resolutive: they provoke urine, and the monthly course in women: help the spleen which is hard and endured: are good against Dropsies and Sciatikaes: the leaves provoke to vomit. Savina, savin. SAuen is subtle, resolutive, and abstersive: it provoketh the monthly course in in women, and vehement'y moveth urine, & 〈…〉 ifleth corrupted bicers and loares. Epithinnum, Moss growing about Time. EPithinuum purgeth phlegm and melancholy: it helpeth such persons as be Melancholious, and windy: the quantity of it at the most is four drams. Polypodium. fern of the Oak. POlypodie purgeth phlegm, and Melancholy. Panis porcinus, Malum terrae, Sowebread. THis herb is abstersive, attractive, inscissive, & resolutive: it openeth the veins that be in the fundament called hemorrhoids, and provoketh the monthly course in women. Gentiana, Gentian. GEntian is abstersive, apertive of the oppilations of the inward parts, with much efficacy: it is also a remedy against the stinging or biting of venomous beasts, if it be drunk with Wine, Pepper, or rue. Dancus, wild Carrot. THere be three kinds of this herb, the chief is Dancus Creticus: the Seed of every of them provoke urine, and the monthly course in women. Cinamomum, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is of subtle substance, & comfortative of the stomach, & consumeth superfluous humours in the same, and keepeth it from putrefaction: provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: it is thought that we have not true Cinnamon: for that we have is called Cassia Lignea. Hypericon, Herba perforata. Saint john's wort. Saint John's wort is subtle, provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: this Herb being green is sanative of wounds and burnings: dried it healeth moist ulcers and sores. Ascyron, & Androsaemon. Tutsan. BOth these herbs be of the kind of Hi▪ pericon, & in some things of like virtue: drunken they be very good for the Sciatica, and purge Choler. Acorus, Hot Gladen. BY divers learned men's judgement the root called Galengale is the true Acorus: it is subtle and resolutive, provoketh urine, and helpeth the spleen that is indurate, & hard: in Baynes it is good for certain secret diseases in women. Hyssopus, Isope. ●Sope is subtle, and apertive: good for old Coughs, and doth extenuate gross humours in the breast, and provoketh the monthly course in women. Ammoniacum, Gum Armoniake. TH●s gum doth mollify, and resolve hard swellings, & in special the hardness of the spleen: also hard & stony matters of substances in the Joints, & other parts. Carduus, Scolimos. The Prickled Artichoke. THis herb boiled in wine, provoketh stinking urine abundantly: and thereof it helpeth the strong savour or evil smelling under the Arms, & in all the body. Chanelaea Alba, a kind of Spurge. THis herb is received inward, & the root thereof killeth the worms: and helpeth them that have Dropsies. Chamelaea Nigra, A less kind of Spurge. THis herb is not to be taken inwards: it is abstersive, & cureth letters, scabs, and morfewes. Staphisagria, Stavesagre. S●auesagre is abstersive, attractive, & ulcerative: it healeth scabs, & purgeth the head: if it be chawed or holden in 〈◊〉 mo●th, it draweth phlegm by the same. Glans unguentaria, Granum, Ben. Mirobalane. THis fruit groweth in Ethyopia, and Egypt: it is inscissive, abstersive, and binding: it purgeth the Skin from tetters, morphews, scabs, and such like passions, provoketh vomits, laxeth the belly, & purgeth oppilations of the liver & spleen. Sambucus, Elder. ELder is resolutive, and consolidative of ulcers and sores: the leaves purge choler and Phlegm. Ebulus, Wallworte. WAllworte is of the same virtue that Elder is. Amomnium, The rose of Hierechus, THis herb is subtle, resolutive, & provoketh urine: and in special resolveth the spleen indurated: and it provoketh the monthly course in women. juniperus, juniper. THe Juniper is hot and dry in the third degree: howbeit the fruit of the same 〈◊〉 but dry only in the first degree: it provoketh urine, it is good for the stomach, & 〈…〉 rest: it helpeth the cough, and consumeth 〈…〉 inde. Thymus, Time. ●Ime is inscissive, and mundificative of the inward parts: it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: cleanseth the breast and loonges, purgeth Fleag 〈…〉 metike humours downwards. Colocinthiss, Coloquintida. COloquintida purgeth strongly Crude phlegm, & undigested humours. Tencedanum, Sow fennel. THis herb is resolutive, subtle, & inscissive: good against cold diseases of the sinews, the breast, and loonges: helpeth the hardness of the spleen, and the ●●ote healeth malicious ulcers. Cyn●mum, cumin. COmyne is inscissive: provoketh urine▪ consumeth inflammations, and wind. Carpesion, Cububi, Cububbes, or Gourds. CUbubbes be abstersive, and mundificative of oppilations of the inward parte● provoketh urine, and break the stone in th● Kydnies'. Caros, Carum, Carowayes. CArowayes ●ee inscissive, & subtle: go 〈…〉 against the stone, provoke urine, consum 〈…〉 inflammations & wind A●ium Satinum, Garden Smaledge. THis herb is inscissive, and subtle: 〈◊〉 provoketh urine, & the monthly cour 〈…〉 in women: it dissolveth inflammations 〈◊〉 wind, and specially the seed of it. Eleofelinon. Apium Palustre, wild or water Smaledge. THis is thought by some men to be wild smaledge, it is of the same virtue that the other is. Stachys, Ambrose. THis Herb is abstersive, inscissive: it provoketh urine, & the monthly course in women. Olusatrinum, Hipposolimon, alexander's. THis root is eaten both raw and sodde: the leaves and Buds in like manner with meat: it provoketh urine, & the monthly course in women: and hath the other properties of Parseley. Ortoselmon, Streight Parsley. THe kind of Parsley that groweth upon hills and Coney places, provoketh urine, and the monthly course in Women, as Parsley doth. Petroselinon, Parsley▪ THe kind of Parsley that is properly c 〈…〉 led Petroselinon, groweth in the bills 〈◊〉 Macedony: it provoketh urine, & the monthly course in women largely: it consumeth wind, & inflations both of the Stomach, and gut called Colon, taken wi●● drink: it easeth pains of the Breast, th● Kydnies', and Bladder. Smyrinum, Black Lonage. THis herb groweth in a hill of Syci 〈…〉 called Mons Amanus: it is commonly eaten both the leaf and stalk: it prouoket● urine, and the monthly course in Wome 〈…〉 it healeth malicious ulcers and sores. Capparis, Capers. THe rind of the Root of Capers is abstersive, mundificative, inscissive, & resolutive with a certain binding & astringency, and therefore is good for the spleen tha● is indurate: it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women, healeth malicious ulcers and sores: the fruit is of like virtue, but not of such efficacy. Bdellinum, Dellium. THis gum is of a tree that groweth in the country of India, and in Arabia: it 〈◊〉 mollitive, and resolutive of hard and en 〈…〉 ured swellings it breaketh the stone: ●●ouoketh urine, and the monthly course 〈◊〉 women. Sampsuchus, Maiorana, Marierome gentle. MArierome is subtle, and resolutive: it provoketh urine, & the monthly course 〈◊〉 women. Ami, Ammeos, Amy. AMmeos is abstersive, resolutive, & subtle: it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women. Menta, the mint. THe mint is abstersive, and binding: it killeth worms, & stoppeth the spitting of blood, comforteth the stomach, stayeth vomiting, provoketh lust and Conrage. Mentastrum, the wild mint▪ THe wild mint is much of the same virtue, but not so perfect and good to be 〈◊〉 said in health. Serpillum, Running Time. RUnning Time is resolutive, and provoketh urine, and the monthly course 〈◊〉 women: decocted with vinegar, and mixe● with oil of Roses, it easeth the pains 〈◊〉 the head. Ruta, rue. rue is resolutive, & inscissive of gross● humours: it provoketh urine, and th● monthly course in women: dissolveth inflations & wind: extinguisheth and debateth lust and courage. Cassia Lignea, Cinnamon. THis is judged to be our Cinnamon tha● we do use: it is inscissive, and resolutive of gross humours of all parts of the body, and comforteth the same: it provoketh monthly course in women which be stayed by excess and grossness of superfluous humours. Scamonium, Scamony. ●Camony laxeth the Belly, and purgeth choler & Phlegm. Sagapenum, Gum serapyne. THis Gum is of an herb growing in Media: it is subtle, and abstersive: it mundifieth and cleanseth the sight that is ●●rkened: it is good against the Palsy, & 〈◊〉 cold diseases as come of cold & gross ●●mors. Silybion, The common Eryngium, or Seaholme. THe Juice of the root of this herb, with water and honey moveth to vomit: while ●e herb is young and tender, it is eaten ●yth salt and oil. Lolium, darnel. darnel is abstersive of the outward parts of the body, from letters, ring worms, ●nd such like: also good for ●rabbes and vl●●rations: taken inwards, saith Galende 〈…〉 limentis, it maketh the head to ache & be as 〈◊〉 man were drunk for the space: besides the 〈◊〉 increaseth evil humours Chelidonium maius, Celondyne. CElondyne is abstersive: the Juice of th● herb cleanseth & mundifieth the sighte● which is obscured & darkened by gross h●mors: the root helpeth the Jaundice, an● oppilations of the liver. Chelidonium minus, Figwort. THis herb is hotter and sharper tha● Celondyne, in somuch that it doth exulterate the skin in short space, and purgeth▪ head by the nose: it is counted hot in th● fourth degree. Raphanus, Radix, radish. radish is resolutive, and the wild R●dishe is of more strength than the Ga' 〈…〉 deyn radish: it is windy, and not good 〈◊〉 the stomach: the seed is of greater efficacy than the herb: it provoketh to vomi● and also urine: the root is commonly ea 〈…〉 for Sauce, more than for nourishing. Panax Heraclium, & Opoponax. Panax, and the juice. THe Juice of this herb is called Opoponax, it is resolutive, & mollitive, good against all cold dyleases: the 〈…〉 e of the root is abstersive, and healeth malicious ulcers, and ●oares. The Juice and Seed provoketh the monthly course in women: the Juice of it most commonly is called Opoponax. Panax ascl●pium, The second kind of Panax THis kind of Panax is not so hot as the kind called Heracl 〈…〉: the whole herb. the flower and seed mixed with honey, healeth ulcers and sores. Panax chironium, The third kind of Panax. THis kind of Panax is of the same virtue and strength, that Panax asclepium last before spoken, is. Agnus Castus, Uitex, Chaste tree. THis tree is subtle, with a certain binding: the seed or fruit of it is eaten: howbeit, it causeth the headache, the said leaves and fruit do consume wind, doth decay lust and courage, both taken inwards and laid outwards under the body: it openeth oppilations of the liver & spleen. Origanum Organ. ALl kinds of this herb be subtle, and inscissive, & provoke the monthly course in women: and with honey it helpeth the the cough: drunk with wine it resisteth the biting of venomous beasts. Tragagorinum, wild Marierome. THis herb is of the same virtue tha● Origanum is, and moreover:: t is good for the stomach that refuseth and abhorreth meat. Pulegium, Penieroyall. THis herb is subtle, it purgeth gro〈…〉 humours & vicious of the breast & lungs 〈…〉 moveth the monthly course in Women helpeth the biting of venomous beasts drunk with wine. Dictamnus, Dittany. THis herb groweth in Crete, and is of the same virtue that Pulegium before spoken is: but of more efficacy & strength. Pseudodictamnus, Bastard Dittany. THis is of the same virtue that Dictamnus is, but of less strength & efficacy. Calaminta, Nepeta, The calamint, Neperiall. BOth the Calamint & Neperiall be subtle, inscissive, and penetrative: they provoke sweats, & dry the whole body: they provoke the monthly course in women, purge the breast, and the oppilations of the liver: help the Jaundice. Thymbra, Satureia, savoury. Savoury provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women: it purgeth the breast of gross humours, and is of the same virtue that time is, but not of like strength. Cent aurum maius, Rapontike. This Herb provoketh the mon ethly course in women: it doth heal a ud incoryate wounds: strengtheneth & comforteth the Member also that is wounded: it helpeth the spitting of blood. Some men judge the toot of this herb to be that which we call Ra Pon●●cum. Centaurum minus, Centory. THe root of Centory is of no strength ne virtue: the leaves and Flowers be abstersive, & exiccative: they heal great wounds, sores, and ulcers: purge oppilations of the iyver, help the spleen endured, provoke the monthly course in women. Cardamomum Graecorum, Cardumenum, greekish Grains. THis seed is brought from India, & Armenia: it is good against all cold diseases of the sinews, it killeth worms, with urine it healeth scabs. This Cardamomum is called of the Arabikes Cardamenum, & is a thing much different from that they call Cardamomum, which is hot and dry in the first degree. Abrotanum. Sothernewoode. THere be two kinds of it, both be resolutive, and inscissive, in so much that the Flowers boiled in oil and anointed on the body, take away the cold and shivering in fevers: they move the monthly course in women, and kill worms. Costus. Cost marry. THis herb is abstersive, and attractive: good accaynst the Palsy and cold shiverings in fevers, killeth worms, provoketh urine & the monthly course in women, month to lust & courage drunk and taken with wine and honey. Gariophillon, The Clove. Cloves be comfortative of the stomach and liver: do stay vomiting and cause the body to smell sweet. Galbanum, Galban. THis gum is brought out of Syria, it is resolutive and mollitive: the smell of it reviveth and stirreth them that have the falling evil: and women that be in the passion called the mother. Coccus, Granum tinctorum, Charms, Grain to die withal. Grain is astringent & binding: it healeth great wounds, and piercing of the sinews, anointed with vinegar and honey. Betonica, Betony BEtony is inscissive, & abstersive: it breaketh the stone, purgeth the Breast, the Loonges, and the liver, provoketh urine, & the monthly course in Women, helpeth them that have the falling sickness: made in plasters, it helpeth the biting of venomous beasts. Ston, Berula, Bilders, or Belragges. BIlders is resolutive, provoketh urine. & the monthly course in women, and breaketh also the stone. Feniculum, Fenell. Although Fenell be hot in the third degree, it is dry in the first, and therefore 〈…〉 increaseth Milk: it is good for the eyes, 〈…〉 ovoketh urine, and the monthly course 〈◊〉 women. Feniculum Agreste, wild Fenell. THis fennel is of the same virtue & power that the Garden fennel is, only except ●hat it is much drier, and therefore it rather 〈…〉 cayeth milk, than increaseth it. Anethum, Dill. ●Ill is resolutive, and maturative: it ceaseth pains, & provoketh urine: burned 〈◊〉 bealeth moist ulcers and sores, & specially such as be in the secret parts: decorted ●nd boiled in oil, it resolveth, matureth, & 〈…〉 ypeth crude swellings, ceaseth pains, & 〈…〉 rovoketh sleep. Ros marinus, Libanotis, Rosemary. ROsemary is abstersive, mollificative, inscissive, & resolutive: the decoction of it helpeth the Jaundice: moveth urine, and provoketh the monthly course in women. Nigella, Melanthium, Herb Get. NIgella is abstersive, and inscissive, and subtle: the smell of it helpeth Catarrhs, and cold rhe●mes of the bead: it killeth worms, and helpeth the shortents of wind: provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women. Turbith, Turpetum, Turbit. THis root is laxative, & purgeth phlegm that is gross, from the extreme parts: howbeit if it be not corrected with Ginger and things Aromatical, which he comfortative of the Stomach, it purgeth painfully, and troubleth the stomach. Scordium, T●ixago palustris. water Germander. THis herb purgeth and mundifieth the inward parts: it provoketh urine, & the monthly course in Women, drunk it avayseth against all cold diseases. Being green it healeth great wounds: being dried it healeth ulcers & sores. Decocted in wine it helpeth against the biting of venomous serpents. Galanga, Galengale. THis root is good for the stomach, & consumeth cold humours in the same: it helpeth digestion: and increaseth se●●e of generation. These properties be not found in the root we call commonly Galengale, the which should have these properties. Wherefore it is thought that we lack the true Galengale, & that which we do now call Galengale to be the Root of Acorus after this description, as it is spoken of before in the Chapter of Acorus. Helleborus Niger, veratrum Nigrum, Bearefoate. THis herb is thought to be a common herb growing here in England called setterworte, or long wort: it is abstersive, purgeth melancholy down ward, mundifieth the outward parts from scabs, ringwormes, tetters, and such like infirmities of the Skin. Helleborus Albus, Ueratrum Albun, White Neese woorte. HElleborus albus, is much of the same virtue, and purgeth gross humours by vomit, and downwards also. Laurus, the bay tree. THe leaves and Berries of the bay tree be resolueive: but the Berry is of more efficacy and strength: the rind of the root doth break the stone, and is good for the liver, good for shortness of wind & rheums that fall to the breast. Laurus Alexandrina. The Bay of Alexandria. THis herb provoketh uryve, & the movethly course in women. Laureola, Laurel. laurel is of the some virtue the Laurus Alexandrina is, & besides that moveth 〈◊〉 vomit, & purgeth phlegm downwards, Chamaedaphnis, periwinkle. CHamaedaphnis is of the same power the Laurus Alexandrina is. Doronicum, Cummyne of ethiop. THis is a certain Root Aromatical, good for the stomach and the heart: good against pains & griefs that come of gross ●yndes, and inflations. Uitis Alba, Brionie. THe Root and Fruit of bryony is abstersive, and resolutive: it cleanseth the Skin from scabs, and Leaprosies, it provoketh urine, and helpeth the Spleen that is endured: the tender crops of it are ea●en in the spring of the year in Salads, & ●ee good for the stomach. Uitis Nigra, downy vine. This kind of vine is of the same vert 〈…〉 the Brionia before spoken is in all things, but that it is somewhat weaker in operation. Uitis Silvestris. wild vine. THis vine is different 〈◊〉 nature much from Labrusca, for it is hot and dry 〈…〉 if it be decocted or boil 〈…〉 in wine, or condite with 〈…〉ter of the Sea, it purgeth waterish humours, and is given to them th' 〈…〉 have the Dropsy: the fruit purgeth t 〈…〉 skin from sun burning, and other disco●● loring: the tender crops of it be reseru 〈…〉 in salt and brine, and eaten. Zinziber, Ginger. GInger doth not heat so soon 〈…〉 Pepper, by reason that his substan 〈…〉 is grosser: it is good for the col 〈…〉 stomach, helpeth concoction 〈…〉 looseth the belly: it purgeth the eyes, and is almost of the same virtue that Pepper is: it provoketh lust & courage after Avicen. Uerbascum. Tapsus Barbatus. Molen. ALl kinds of Molen be abstersive & dry, and good for passions that be rhewmatike. Uerbenica, Veruayne. BOth kinds of Ueruayne be so drying and binding, that they heal wounds, and stay blood. Sisimbrion utrnnque. water Mints, and red Mints. THere be two kinds of Sisimbrion, the one is a kind of wild Mints, the other is our water Cressis, which is hot and provoketh urine. Sandix, Corn chervil. THis Herb provoketh urine, & open 〈…〉 oppilations of the inward parts. MEDICINES hot and dry in the fourth degree. Ruta agrestis, Harmell, wild rue. THis Herb is subtle, inscissi 〈…〉 and resolutive of gross humour 〈…〉 it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women. Euphorbium, Euphorbe. THis Gum is brought from Lybia: is very subtle, and is good against cold diseases, as Palsies, and such like. Cepa, The Onion. THe Onion is abstersive, and apertyve of the veins that be in the fundament called Emeroides: if they be eaten they engender inflations and wind, and increase evil humours: if they be boiled, they be of less hurt. Bulbus Cibarius, The best Hyacinth. THis Herb eaten engendereth evil humours, and wind: how be it, it moveth appetite: purgeth the Breast, provoketh lust and courage. Bulbus vomitorius. The vomiting Hyacinth. THis kind of Bulbus is hotter than the kind before spoken of, called Bulbus ●ibarius, and provoketh vomit. Anacardium. heart berries. THis fruit groweth in Cycill, and Apulia: it sharpeneth the sight, and restoreth the memory. Erysimon, Irio, wild Rocket winter Cresses. Wild Rocket purgeth the breast, an● the loonges of gross humours: if 〈◊〉 be steeped in water and then corified it 〈◊〉 of more efficacy. Allium, Garlic. Garlic is inscissive of gro〈…〉 humours, apertive of opilatio 〈…〉 it consumeth wind, and kyleth worms, how be it 〈◊〉 much use of it engendereth e 〈…〉 humours, and hurteth them that be of ho 〈…〉 Complexions: and hurteth the eye sigh● Nastur●ium, Cresses. CRresses be inscissive, and good against the Sciatica, and all diseases: for they be in manner as hot as mustard seed: they help the shortness of the wind that cometh of gross humours: the herb dried is of like strength as the seed is, but green it is wea●●er: it killeth worms, & provoketh lust & courage. Elenium, Enula Campana. Elecampane. THis herb purgeth the breast of gross humours: moveth urine, & the monthly course in women: it is good for the Scitica, and all cold diseases, for it is rubificatyve, and exulcerative. Thapsia, Thapfene. THis herb is resolutive, and attractive from the deep parts of the body●it purgeth the breast & lungs of gross humours: and is good against all cold diseases, as sciatica, the ache of the head that commet● of cold humours, for it is exulceratyve. Thalspi, treacle mustard. THis herb is subtle, breaketh swelling and Impostumations within the body provoketh the monthly course in women in glisters it helpeth the Sciatica: it purgeth choler upwards, and down wards. Arabis, Nasturtium Orientale, Cresses of India. THe seed of this herb is used in Cappadocia with meat in stead of Peppe●▪ Tithymall● genera, Herbae! lactariae genera. Characias, Myrtites, Paralius, Hetrosc●pius, Cyparissus, Dendroides, Platiphy●los, The kinds of Spurge. There be seven kinds of Cithymall: 〈◊〉 be austere siue, inscissive, & of like verta● The liquor of them is strongest, next is the 〈…〉 eede, than the leaves, of less strength is the 〈…〉 oote: boiled in vinegar it doth help the 〈…〉 oothache: and so doth the liquor. The liquor also taketh away hair: ●ut because it is exulcerative, it must be mixed with Oil, the ●yquor also taketh away Warts, & tetters: and purgeth choler and Phlegm downwards: but with ●unny and water it provokes vomit. Porrum, The Leek. THe Leek is subtle and inscissive: it provoketh urine, and the monthly course in women. If it be much used for nourishing it increaseth evil humours: provoketh lust and Courage. Ampel● Prason, wild Leek. THis wild leek that groweth in vynebardes, is evil for the stomach, inscissive, and apertyve of oppilations: it proud●oketh urine, and the monthly course in women. Struthion, Condisi, Angelica. THe root of this heath is a●ster siue, & inscissive: it moveth urine, and is goo● for the breast, and provoketh sweeting. Chamelaea. Theophrastus' Rosemary. CHamelaea is abstersive, & mundificati●● with honey of unclean & filthy sores it purgeth also choler and phlegm. Lathyris, Cataputia vulg●: Spurge. SPurge is inscissive, & abstersive: the seed of it purgeth choler and phlegm, & provoketh to vomit. Pirethrum, Pellitory of Spain. THe root of this herb is hot, dry, a 〈…〉 burning: chawed & masticated, it draws phlegm largely from the head: decoted or boiled in vinegar it helpeth the toothache that cometh of cold humours: made into an Ointment with Oil, it provoketh sweat, and easeth the coldness that cometh with long Fevers: helpeth also all ●olde diseases, as Palsies, and such like. Piper, Longum, The three kinds of Pepper. Album, Nigrum, ALl kinds of Pepper be good for the cold stomach, and help cōc●●tion: are good against all cold Passions of all the inward and outward parts: the root of the Pepper is abstersive, and Attrac●yue. Sapo, Soap, SOye is abstersive, attractive, and ulceratyve. Cedru●, & Cedrea. The Gum of the Cedar tree. THe Gum of the Cedar tree, is putrificative, and adustive: it helpeth & easeth the payves of the Teeth, & if the Tooth be hollow it breaketh the same: it killeth all vermin or worms within the body: the Oil and v●ciiouse part of this Gum is more temperate than the Drags and gross part of it is, for the gross part doth exalcerate, th' other doth ory and heal. The tree is but hot in the third degree. Cinis, Ashes. THe substance of Ashes containeth in it two parts, the one is subtle and fiery, which whe● the Ashes be steeped in water remaineth in the Lee: the other is th● earthly part which descendeth to the bottom. All Ashes be not of one virtue: fo● some be stiptike and binding, some burning as the Ashes of the Fig tree, and of th● tithymal. Lepidium, Bastard Dittany. THis Herb is of the same virtue tha● Cresses are, and also doth ulcerate, an● therefore it is good for the sciatica. Pi●ynsa, Esula vulgò. Lintspourge. THis hear●e is of the same virtue that the kinds of Cithymalles are, and it lax●th the Belly. Sinapium, Mustard. Mustard is attractive: it provoketh sneesinge, and purgeth the head: it is good against all cold passions of the belly. Batrachium, Rannuculus, Apium risus, Crowefoote. ALI kinds of Crowfoote be so hot, that they exulcerate, and excoriate: they be ●bstersine, and resolutive: the root dried provoketh sueesing. MEDICINES hot and moist in the first degree. Borago, Buglossa Graecorum, Borage. BUrrage leaves in Wine incrase girth: decocted in Honey, and Water help the roughness & asperity of the Chroate. Satyrion, Testiculus vulpis vulg●. Lady Traces. THis Herb is sweet, and hath a superfluous moistness in it, wherefore 〈◊〉 provoketh lust, and courage: the root is 〈◊〉 the same virtue. Satyrion Rubeum, Another kind with red flowers. OF this kind of Satyrion speaketh Dioscorides, and Pliny: it hath the prop 〈…〉 ty to provoke lust and courage, more stronger than the other before spoken of. Orchis, Testiculus Ca●is. Dogstones. This Herb hath two Roots, the bigger is hot and moist, and full of h●midite, which provoketh lust and courage more stronger than the other before spoken of. Orchis Serapia●. Three stoned Orchis. THis Herb is drier than Testiculus Canis before spoken of: and therefore doth not a like provoke lust and courage: it is resolutive, and mundificative of filthy ulcers and sores. And the more effectually if it ●ee dried. MEDICINES hot and moist in the second degree. Beheun, Album, Herb Tunicle. Rubrum, THere be two kinds of this root the one is red, the other is white: they be brought from Armenia: they do Engender or increase Seed or Nature: they do comfort the heart, and help trembling of the same. Serapion judgeth them to be hot & moist, and Avicen hot and dry. Lingua avis, Kitkeies. THis is judged after the description of Serapion to be the A she keys: they increase nature or seed, and provoke lust, and comfort the heart. Nux Indica, The Nut of India. THis fruit is of subtle nature and little nourishing, and heavy to the stomach: it increaseth lust and Courage: the Oil of it is good for the Emeroides, and killeth little worms in the fundament. MEDICINES Cold and Dry in the first degree. Mirtus, & Mirtidanum, The Myrtle tree. THis tree, and every part of it is strictive, and binding: it stayeth all fluxes both inwardly taken & outwardly, of blood, as of other humours: Mirtidanum is a certain substance that groweth upon the Myrtle tree, it is drier & more binding or strictive than the Myrtle tree. Muscus, Usnea, Moss. THis is the Moss that groweth upon the Cedar tree, the Pine tree, the white Poplar tree, and the Oak tree: but that which groweth upon the Cedar tree is of most efficacy, for it is strictive, and with all resolutive, and mollityve. Aster Atticus, Herba juginalis, Grineworte. THis herb is binding, and resolutive: it is specially good against swellings in the Share or Gryne. Quercus, The Oak tree. ALl parts of the Oak tree be stryctive and binding, but the Inner Bark and Cup of the acorn more than the other parts: it helpeth the spitting of blood, & the flut in women, and old rheums of the stomach: the Leaves green heal green wounds. The acorn is of great nourishing, but it is hard to be digested, and engendereth gross humours: the Cup of the Acorn is very binding and strictive. Glans Castanea, The Chestnut. THe Chestnut is of the same virtue that the acorn is, but of better nourishment: both kinds do increase the headache. Fagus, & Ilex. The Beech, and the Ilex tree. THese trees be of the same virtue that the Oak tree is. The rind of the Root of the tree called Ilex, boiled in Water and mixed with an herb called Cimola coloureth the hair black. Spina Alba, Bedeguards, Hawthorne. THe Root of this herb is Strictive, & binding. Wherefore it helpeth weak stomachs: it stayeth also spitting of blood, and the increase of swellings: the decoction of it helpeth the toothathe: the Seed is subtle, and hot, and therefore drunk it helpeth the cramps, and the by●ing of venomous serpents. Coralium, Rubrum, All kinds of Coral. Album, N●grum, ALl the kinds of Coral be abstersive, & binding: good against the bloody flux, and spitting of blood: the red Coral is of most efficacy. Papyrus, Herb Paper. PApyrus groweth in the Water of Nile, ten Cubits high: of this, Antiquity made their Paper: the use in Physic of it was to keep Fistulas' open: the Ashes of it with vinegar or wine healeth green ulcers and sores. Milium, Milium Romanum vulgò. Millet. THis kind of corn is of little nourishing: it stayeth the flux of the belly, and provoketh urine: torpified and put into bags or Plasters, it easeth torsions and pains of gross humours and wind. Panicum, Panike. THis Corn is of the same virtue that Milium is, but of less nourishing: it stayeth rheums falling into the stomach: made in plasters, it doth dry & cool the outward parts. Oxisthoemus, A kind of Bullrushe. THis is a certain Junke or Rush which groweth in waterish places. The seeds of all kinds of it fried & drunk with wine stop the flux of the Belly, and the red Fiuxe in women. How be it they make th' 〈…〉 the Head to Ache, and procure overmuch sleep. Ulmus, The Elm tree. THe leaves of the Elm tree be binding, & abstersive, so that they heal a green wound. The Rind is so abstersive, that it healeth & purgeth with vinegar the rough and Leaprouse Skin, and healeth also wounds. The Root is of the same virtue in so much that it is used to join and fasten bones that are broken, Dioscorides saith, that the gross rind of it with mint, purgeth Phlegm. Dipsacus, Labrum veneris, Tasill. THe Tasill is dry in the second degree: it is also abstersive, the root boiled with wine, healeth the fistula in the Fundament, and chops or ryving in the same part. Mirobalani. Citrini, Indi, Kebuli, Eniblici, Bellirici. The kinds of Mirobalans. THese five kinds of Mirobalans be testringent, and something tart. Wherefore they all comfort the stomach. The Citryve purge choler. The Indi purge Melancholy, and Choler adust. Rebuli purge 〈…〉 Melancholy. Enib●●ci purge phlegm, an 〈…〉 refresh the Wit. Bellitici purge fleagm 〈…〉 also, and refresh the Wit and Brain Condite they be more delicate, and of no less virtue. MEDICINES Cold and Dry in the first degree. MESPILUS, Meddlers. THis Fruit is tart and binding, & g 〈…〉 for the Stomach, and stop the Fl 〈…〉 of the Belly. Epimelis. Another kind of Meddlers. THis kind of Medler is stiptike & binding: hard to be digested and good for the stomach: it eugendreth also the headache. Rosa, Rosa Damascena. The Rose. THe Rose is stiptike, and somewhat resolutive, & specially good against all hot inflammations, and swellings, in their beginning, and their augment or increase. The yellow Flower of it is more binding, and more drier. The Arabikes do ascribe to the Juice of the Rose, power and virtue to lax the Belly. The Damask rose is esteemed to be the more perfect and better smell. Sorba, The servis Services be binding, and good for the flure of the Belly, and be not much to be eaten, but rather as a medicine than a nourishment. Ligustrum, Alcanna. privet. privet is binding, and resolutive: good for burning of the fire, and hot 〈…〉 smations and swellings: it healeth ulcerations of the Mouth that often hap i 〈…〉 Children. Lapathum satinum, Rumex, Patience. THe root of this breaketh the stone, and moveth the monthly course in wome 〈…〉 the hot herb is resolutive. The seed i 〈…〉 binding, and stayeth all manner of fluxes. Oxilapathum, Acetosa vulgò. sorrel. sorrel is resolutive, and repercussive 〈◊〉 the seed is tart and binding, so that i 〈…〉 healeth the Flux of the belly more than th' 〈…〉 seed of Patience: the Root breaketh th' 〈…〉 stone: healeth the Jaundice, and provoketh the monthly course in women. Hippolapathum, Lapathumpalustre, The water Dock. THe water dock, is of the same virtue 〈◊〉 Patience and sorrel be, but mor 〈…〉 weaker. Lapathum Agresto The common Dock. THe Dock root boiled in vinegar or wine, & also the decoction of it warm holden in the mouth, fasteneth the teeth, & ●aseth the pains of the same. The root healeth the Jaundice, and moveth the monthly course in women. Tribulus, Terrestris, Aquaticus. The land, and water Briar. BOth kinds of this are repercussive, and good against hot inflammations & swelling in the beginning, but the kind that is ●alled cerrestris, is more binding: and the seed of it breaketh the stone. Lychen, Epatica. liverwort. LYuerworte besides that it is cold & dry, it is also abstersine: it availeth & is good against hot swellings: healeth ringworms, and tetters, and stopeth blood. Pirus, The Pear tree. THe leaves and tender Branches be stiptike and binding, the fruit with ●ar●nes or stipticknesse hath 〈…〉 certain waterish sweetness, s● that it is of a compound nature: it is good fo● the stomach, and stopeth the belly: debareth the thyrlle: beaten to a Plaster 〈…〉 doth ory and refrigerate temperately, in s 〈…〉 much that it healeth wounds. The wild Pear is of the same virtue. Cisthos, Bushsage. THis plant is Stiptike and binding the leaves heal wounds, & the floure● be of more efficacy, in so much that drunk 〈…〉 with wine they cure the bloody Flux, an● heal putrefied ulcers and sores. Hypocisthos, The Bushsagemushrum: THis groweth at the root of the plant called Cisthos, and of it is taken & gathered a certain liquor of the same name, which liquor is more stiptike and binding than Cisthos: it stayeth all Fluxes & rhewmatike Dispositions into all parts, and strengtheneth the part that is with overmuch moistness resolved: it is mixed with Plasters for the liver and Stomach, for it comforteth the said parts. Pisum, The Pease. THe Pease doth nourish, and is of like substance to the Bean, but that i● is not so windy, neither so abstersive: and therefore it remaineth longer in the belly than the Bean. Palma, The Date tree. THe Date tree is cold, stiptike, & binding in all his parts: the fruit is stiptike, and of temperate heat, comfortative to the utter parts in plasters: and to the inner parts received with other medicines if it be eaten alone it engendereth gross and vicious humours: procureth the oppilations both of the liver and spleen: and maketh the Head to ache. Grameum. The grass called quytche. THe root of this grass healeth green wounds: and the decoction of it breaketh the stone. Lotus Arbor. The Lote tree. THis tree is stiptike or binding, the decoction of the shaving of this tree stayeth the flux of the belly, the bloody flux, the flux in women: and fasteneth the hair that falleth. Trages, Spelta vulgò, Spelt. THis kind of Corn is hard to be conco 〈…〉ted and altered, it maketh the belly soluble. Zea, Beerebarly. THis kind of corn nourisheth less than 〈…〉 wheat, and more than Barley. Rubus, The Briar. THe leaves & huds o● this briar are stiptike or binding, they heal ulceration 〈…〉 in the mouth, and also wounds. The fruit being type is not so tart and stiptike, for it is some what sweet, and therefore it is eaten: howbeit before that it is ripe, it is tart and stiptike, and so are the flowers: both stop all kinds of fluxes: and the root breaketh the stone. Sentis, Cinosbatus, Rosa Canina. Hounds brier, or the hip. THe fruit and Canes be stiptike or binding: the ●y●he of the fruit is to be feared, for it hurteth the Wind pipe if it be eaten. Auena, Oates. THe oat after Galen is no nourishing for men, but for beasts: as a medicine it is of the same virtue that Barley is: for in plasters it drieth, and resolveth with a certain binding, whereby it stayeth the flux of the belly: after Dioscorides it helpeth the cough. Arbutus, The Wilding, or Crab tree. THis tree and the fruit of it be stiptike or binding: the fruit is evil for the Stomach, and the head. Arundo, Carna vulgò. A Reed. THere be diverse kinds of Canes or Reeds, only the kind called Phargnutes or Uallaris is used in physic, where of the root is attractive, and abstersive, & the green leaves heal hot inflammations, and swellings. The Ashes of the Rind 〈…〉 be stiptike and ●oate in the third degree, & ●eale the disease of the Head called Alopecia. Malum Punic 〈…〉, Malum Granatum. The Pomegranate. ALl kinds of the Pomegranate be good for the Stomach, although they be o 〈…〉 little nourishment: but the sweet is to b 〈…〉 for borne in Fevers: they that be sharp i 〈…〉 taste be good for the whole Stomach: the mean betwixt the sweet and the sharp, which is of the taste of 〈…〉 in is of a mean virtue and nature betwixt them both: the Juice that is expressed out of the grains, and specially of that kind which is sharp, mixed with honey, consumeth superfluous flesh in the nostril's. The grain dries and beaten to powder, stayeth and drieth rheums failing into the stomach and belly. Citimus & Malicorium, The flower dried of the Pomegranate. BOth the Flower and Rind of the Pomegranate be binding, and of more efficacy than the grains. The Flowers do glutinate and heal wounds. Spina rociarrabica, Spina Aegyptia●a. The Arabian thorn. THis kind of Thorn or Thistle stopeth the Flux in women: and healeth ulcers and Soars. Ordeum, Barley. BArley is resolutive, and abstersive, and of less nourishing than wheat, but more soluble: the P●isane made of Barley, is moist and abstersive. Morus, The Mulberry. THe Mulberry being ripe, is laxative: being not ripe, retaineth and stopeth: the Juice of the ripe is good against ulcerations of the mouth: the rind of the root killeth the worms: the fruit is lightly corrupted in the stomach if it be taken after meat, or if the stomach be not clean, Malum Cotoneum, The Quince. THe Quince is binding, and comforteth both the stomach and liver: it stopeth the Flux of the belly, and all other Fluxes. Acetum, vinegar. vinegar is cold in the first degree, but dry in the third: it is penetrative and inscissive: it hath mixed a certain hot substance with the cold: it represseth hot inflammations & swellings: & mixed with other convenient medicines, healeth ulcers, and soars. Xyloracta, Ceratia, Cod tree, or Horn cod tree. THis Fruit is tart with a certain sweetness: whiles the fruit is green it lax the Belly, when it is dried, it bindeth: the humours that come of it be evil. Salix, The Willow or Sallow. THe Willow leaves dry & be astringent, and heal green wounds: the Flower and rind be of the same virtue and power: but the rind is of more efficacy: the Ashes of the rind steeped in sharp vinegar, consumeth warts and Corns. Hippuris, Equisetum, Horse tail. THis herb is stiptike or byndiog, with bitterness: therefore it drieth strongly without sharpness or bitings, and healeth great wounds and sinews that be cut: it is good against the coughing of blood. and all Fluxes. Colla, Glutinum ●aurinum, Common Glue. THis is much like to the painters Size, but that it is made of the heads of bulls: if it be dissolved in vinegar it taketh away ring worms, and Leaprosies of the Skin: anointed with water upon any part that is burned, the part shall not bladder: mix-with Honey & vinegar it is good to heal wounds. Colla, Glutinum ex Polline. Paste. THis is our Paste, which is made of the finest Flower an● Water boiled together: it is emplastike or clea 〈…〉 to the parts that it is put unto, and also maturative. Ich●hiocalla, Glutinum piscium. Mouth Glue. THis is made of the Bellies of certain great and clammy fishes: it is good for plasters that be used to the head: it taketh away the toughness of the Skin, and maketh it fair and smooth. Tragachantha, Dragagantum vulgò. Gum tragacanth. THis g●mme is of very gummy and cleaving substance: mixed with medicines that be hot and biting, it tempereth the Actimony and sharpness of them: it is good for the Cough, and asperity of the wind Pipe: it is also good against ulcerations, Gummi Arabicum. Gum Arbike. gum Arabike is much of the same virtue, that gum Tragagante is: tempereth the sharpness and acrimony of hot medicines, and doth smooth parts that be asperate. Uitis vinifera, The vine tree. THe jeaves be stiptike or byuding: the Juice of them helpeth the bloody flux, and spitting of blood, and are good for the stomach that doth not retain meat, and also helpeth the corrupt Appetites and desires of strange & divers things, that do happen to women with child. The gum of the vine tree is hot, inscissive, and a 〈…〉 ersive, and drunk with Wine breaketh the stone: anointed, it mundifieth the skin from ring worms, ●etters, and such like. Oenanthe, Labrusca. The flower of the wild vine. THe wild vine differeth in nothing from the Garden vine, but only in Cultures: the leaves and branches be of like virtue that the garden vine is. The Flower of this vine, called Denanthe, is cold and dry in the second degree: it is stiptike or binding, confortative of the stomach: good against inflammations and hot swellings in wounds, & against fistulae; in the eyes, in the beginning of them: and also against ulcerations in the mouth, & the secret parts, mixed with Honey, Saffron, Myrrh, and oil of Roses, Helxine, Parietaria, Herba vitri. Perietary of the wall. PErietary of the wall is abstersive & binding, with a certain cold moistness: and after Galen is good against hot sweiling, both in their beginning, and increase. The late practitioners suppose it to be hot and dry, and use it to resolve wind, & in sacks, or bags to provoke urine. Lagopus, Pes Leporis. harefoot. THis herb drieth thewmes of the belly, and stomach strongly. Ambrosia, wild Sage. THis herb is stiptike or binding, and repercussive. Centunclus, Wertworte, or codweede. THis herb is stiptike and binding: and therefore taken with some tart & binding wine, helpeth the bloody Flux. Lupulus, Lupulus Salictarius, The Hoppe. THe Hoppe, after the Arabikes declineth to coldness: decocted it extinguisheth the hot inflammations: purgeth choler, and mundifieth the blood: it is good against hot inflammations of the stomach, and liver. Britannica, Astrology. THis herb is not certainly known: i● is stiptike or binding, & healeth wounds. Lysimachia, Herb Willow. THis herb is stiptike, & healeth wounds stopeth blood and the bloody Flux: spitting of blood, and the Flux in women. Anchusa, wild bugloss. THe root of this herb is stiptike, an● somewhat abstersive, wherefore it i● good for them that be splenetike, and tha● have diseases in the Rydneyes'. Sonchos, Rostrunum Porcinum. Sowthistell. ALl kinds of Sowthistell do cool, wit● a certain binding, eaten & used in pla●sters to the stomach. Senetio, groundsel. groundsel, besides that it cooleth, do meanly resolve: killeth worms, an helpeth them that have an hot liver. MEDICINES Cold and Dry in the second degree. OXYCANTHA, Berberis vulgò. The Barbery, or Piperedge tree. THe fruit of this tree is stiptike, betwixt moist & dry. Although it be cold in the second degree, it is not to be taken inwards but to the utter parts: it doth mollify and is repercussive: and is good against choleric swellings with oil of Roses or vinegar: it helpeth the ache of the Joints of hot humours. Balaustium. The flower of the wild pomegranate. THis is very stiptike or binding: dried to Powder it healeth excoriations, and ulcerations, and spitting of blood: and is good against the bloody Flux, and all other Fluxes. Plantage, Planteyne. PLanteyne is astringent, and binding: good against putrefied and malicious ulcers and sores: against the bloody Flux, and all other Fluxes: the root & the seed be of the same virtue, and the seed is more subtle. The leaves, Root, and Fruit 〈◊〉 good against oppilations of the liver and kidneys, and specially the Seed, for it is some what abstersive. Rhus, Simiake, Curriers berries. This seed is very stiptike & binding in taste, stayeth the bloody Flux, and all 〈◊〉 Fluxes. Rhamnus, Christ's throne. THis a certain kind of thorn why 〈…〉 healeth choleric inflammations, & swellings, & ulcerations called herpes which run from place to place. Solam, Satinum, Solatrum v●lg●. Night shade, or Dawle. THe Garden Nightshade is sometym taken with meaces: in Plasters it is good against hoa● and choleric swellings: and against ulcers that spread from place to place called herpes. Halicacabus, Uesicaria, Alkakenge, or winter Cherry. ALkakenge is of the same virtue, and strength that Nightshade is: the fruit of it provoketh urine. Solanum Somniferum, Sleepy Dawle. THis kind groweth by the sea side: the weight of a dram of the rind of it 〈…〉 unke in wine provoketh sleep: the seed of it provoketh urine greatly, and therefore ●ij. berries of the fruit are given against 〈…〉 opsies, more than xij. given, make a man mad. Some think this to be the bearve ●ee call Dawle, but the description seemeth not to agree. Solanum furiosum, Mad Dawle. THis kind is not to be taken in wards, for it maketh a man mad, but in plai●ers it healeth ulcers. Ribs, Gasell. THis fruit doth refrigerate, and comfort the hot stomach: assuageth thirst: stopeth vomits, and the Flux of the belly. Acacia, The fruit of the Egyptian thorn. THis Tree groweth in Egypt: the tree, the leaves, and the Juice 〈◊〉 st●ptike and binding in taste: th● Juice is the part most used in ph● sick: if it be washed it is cold in the second degree, unwashed in the first: the Juice 〈◊〉 good for eyes that be inflamed, and against hot Choleric inflammations: it health ulcerations in the mouth, and stopeth a 〈…〉 manner of Fluxes: because we lack the 〈◊〉 cacia, we use in steed of the Juice of it, th' 〈…〉 Juice of sloes or Bulleis. Omphacium, Agresta vulgò, Verinice. THis is the Juice of the wild grape, it cold in the second degree and, dry in th' 〈…〉 third, vynding and stiptike: it is good 〈◊〉 excorfations of the mouth mixed with bun 〈…〉 or'Must: mixed with Upneger, it is good against cold ulcers and sores, that do ●●te and run from place to place. Nypmhaea, Nenuphar, The water lily. BOth root and seed of the water lily do dry, and stay the rheums of the stomach, and nature or seed that voideth unwillingly in dreams or other ways: and also velpe the bloody Flux. That kind which bath the white root is more stronger: in so much that it stayeth the Flux in women: both kinds be abstersive, but the kind which hath the black root, is more abstersive. Phillitis, Lingua Ceruina. Heart's tongue. THis is thought to be out ●arts tongue: the leaves he druuke in Wine against the biting of serpents: against the bloody Flux, and other Fluxes. MEDICINES Cold and Dry in the third degree. Herba Apollinaris, jusquiamus vulgò, Henbane. THe kyne of henbane that hath the white flower & the white seed is used in Physic, to cease vehement pains and distillations of the head, and the eyes: given in a convenient quantity it provoketh sleep, the other kinds are not to be used, for they be stupefactive and perilous. Mandragora, The Mandrake. THe fruit of the Mandrake hath in it a certain superfluous moistness, whereby it provoketh sleep: the rind of the root is stronger, and also drieth. Caphura, Camphora, Camphire. Camphor resisteth hot swellings: and is good against pains of the head that come of Choleric humours, and abateth lust and courage. Sandali lutei, Albi, Rubri. The three kinds of Saunders. SAunders is good for the stomach, head, and liver that be hot: all kinds be cordials, but the yellow is of more virtue. Cicuta, Hemlock. THis Herb taken inwards is perilous: bowbeit with other medicines it is mixed in plasters to the utter parts, and so used it extinguisheth and debateth milk: & also doth stay the increase of the breasts in virgins and maidens. Tamarindi, tamarinds. tamarinds are thought to be a kind of wild Dates that grow in India: they repress choler, and purge the same, and extinguish thirstynes. Sideritis, Wall Sage. ALl kinds of Sideritis be stiptike and binding, they heal wounds, stop blond, the bloody Flux, and the Flux in women. MEDICINES Cold and dry in the fourth degree. PAP AVER, Popy. These be the kinds of Popy. Satinum, Erraticum, Siluestre, Corniculatum, sive Ceralites, Spumeum, siue Heracleum. THe seed of the guard in Popy provoketh sleep meanly, and is good against the cough, and distillations. Pa●auer Erraticum, Redcorne Rose. THis kind of Popy is so strong that no man can use it without danger. Papaver Siluestre, wild Popy. THe seed of this kind is medicinal, & specially if it grow in Thebes: the juice of it is called Opium, and taken in excess it doth refrigerate so much, that it stupifieth, and maketh the body without sense or freling: but taken in a convenient quantity, it doth cease pains, and provoketh sleep: stayeth and engrosseth rheums and distillations, the decoction of the leaves, & crops or heads of all these kinds be employed for a fomentation to the head. The Juice of this Poppy is called Opium. Papaver Corniculatum, Yellow Poppy. THis kind is inscissive, and abstersive: the root decocted helpeth diseases of the liver: the leaves and flowers do mundify filthy, and unclean ulcers and sores: it is hot in the fourth degree. Papaver Spumeum, White, or frothy Poppy. THE Seed of this kind purgeth Phlegm. MEDICINES Cold and moist in the first degree. PRUNA, Prunes, or Damsons. Damask Prunes be the best: prunes of Spain be next: green Prunes be more soluble than dried Prunes: the Prune of Spain is more soluble than the Damask prune: the leaves & Buds of the Prune tree have sensible tartness, & binding in taste. Wherefore the decoction of them are good to gargarise for inflammations of the Junla, and inward parts of the mouth: the wild Prune bindeth and stayeth the belly: the gum of the Prune tree drunk with wine breaketh the stone. Spinachia, Spinach. Spinach is abstersive, and lenitive of the belly: it extinguisheth choler, and is good for the breast and loonges that be distempered with heat. Uiola, the Violet. THe leaves of the violet both alone, and with barley meal, be good against heat swellings and inflammations: also they be good made in plasters, for the heat of the stomach, and the Eyes, after Mesue: the Uyolet doth lax and purge choler: it extinguisheth thrystinesse, is good in hot Fevers, & against the cough, & other passions of the breast, that come with heat: the flower is used both in syrups and conserves, and it is of more efficacy than the herb. Platanus, The Plane tree: THe leaves of the Plane tree, being green and made in plasters, beale inflammations, and hot swellings in their beginning: the bark and the fruit are drier than the leaves: the bark boiled in vinegar, easeth the pains of the Teeth: the fruit mixed with swines grease, healeth ulcers that come of brenning. Scariola, Intubus, Cychorea sativa, Scarill, or garden endive, Cychory of the garden. THe garden endive & Sychory be cold, and moist: the wild be cold, and dry. The garden endive and Sychory differ not much from the nature of Lettuce, but they be not so pleasant: they be good for the hot stomach, and the hot liver, & against all hot inflammations. Cerasus, The Cherry tree. OF Cherries, some be sweet, and they be solutive and not good for the Stomach: some be tart in taste, and they be binding and good for the stomach: some be sharp in taste, and good for the stomach that is Fleagmatike and full of superfluous humours. The gum of the Cherry tree is good for the roughness or asperity of the wind pipe, and drunk with wine, breaketh the stone. Atriplex, Arrege. ARrege is soluble, good against hot inflammations and swellings: the seed purgeth and mundifieth optiations of the liver, and therefore cureth the Jaundice. Glycbyriza, Liquirice. LIquirice extinguisheth thristinesse, le●ifieth and tempereth the roughness and asperity of the wind pipe, & doth the sa 〈…〉 in the Bladder which is excoriated. Beta, The Beete. THe root is abstersive, resolutive. & purgeth the head: it is soluble: but not good for the stomach. Malua, The Mallow. THe Mallow is resolutive, mollitive, & laxeth the belly: howbeit, it is not commended for the stomach. juiube, Zizipha, The fruit juiubeis. THis fruit is of little nourishment: hard to digest, and evil for the stomach. Blitium, Bleete. THis herb is commonly eaten: it laxeth the belly, and is of no other use. MEDICINES Cold and moist in the second degree. PEPON, The Millian. THIS Fruit is abstersive, and soluble: it provoketh brine, and the seed of it more specially: So that it breaketh the stone: not wythstanding the fruit engendereth evil humours, and chief if it be not well digested. Melopepon, The sweet Millian. THis seemeth to be of the same kind that the Pepon is, & of less power: both do provoke urine, & lax the belly: how be it this is of better nourishing. Cucumis, The Cucumber. THe Cucumber is abstersive, inscissive, 〈◊〉 provoketh urine, but not so much as th● Pepon doth: it is soon corrupted in the Stomach as the Pepon is: if the seed & Root be dried, they be dry in the first degree, an● therefore more abstersive: the seed wyt● milk is good against the ulcerations o● the bladder. Citrullus, Cucumis, Citrimus, The citrul. THe citrul is colder than the Cucumber, and engendereth crude and vittou● humours in the veins, if it be not correcte● with Ameos. Lens Palustris, Ducks meat. THis herb is good against inflamat●ens, and hot gouts, and is repe● cussyve. Melon magnus, Melon Saracenicus. The great Millian. THese seem to be the great Melons that be brought from the new founo lands: they be good for the stomach, ●nd against hot and burning tevers. Cucurbita, The Gourd. THe Gourd in Plasters, is good against all hot inflammations. The Juice of it with oil of Roses, help 〈…〉 th' inflammations or pains of the Ears: being raw or crude, it is evil for the Stomach, and hard to be digested: but boiled and decocted, it is not so evil, how be it, it nourisheth but little. Lactuca, Lettuce. LEttuce is good for the hot stomach: good against all hot affects and diseases: it taketh away thrystines, and moveth to sleep, the seed drunk retaineth & stayeth the seed or nature of Men or Women, that unwillingly avoideth either sleeping or waking: of all heat bes it engendereth the best humours: yet beware the excess o● it: the wild Lettuce, which is our wild endive, seemeth to be cold and dry, and is abstetsive, by reason of that it is bitter▪ and of the same virtue that the garden lettuce is, but of less efficacy. Malus Persica, The peach. THe leaves of the peach made in plaster to the Navel, killeth worms: th● fruit is good for the stomach: taken before other meats they do not only luxe belly, and shortly descend themselves, 〈◊〉 also give occasion to the rest shortly to follow. As the ripe laxeth, so the unripe bi●deth. Contyledon, Umbilicus veneris. Penyworte. PEnyworte is cold & moist, with a certi● binding, & bitterness mixed: whereby is repercussive, abstersive, and resolutive: it is good against hot and choleric swellings, and is also good for the heat of the stomach in plasters. MEDICINES Cold and moist in the third degree. PORTULACA, Purslane. PUrslane is somewhat tance in taste, and therefore is repercussive of hot inflammations or swellings: it extinguisheth intemperate and excessive heat of the stomach, and chief in Fevers hectickes: it helpeth the teeth that be edged with eating of sour Fruit: it is also good for the bloody Flux: the coughing of blood, and specially the Juice of it. Sedinum, Semperuiuum. Houselike, or Singreene. BOth kinds be somewhat binding and astringent: good against all hot and choleric inflammations and swellings in all parts of the body. Poligonon, Herba sanguinalis, Centinodium vulgò. Knotgrass. Knotgrass is binding: good against all hot diseases of the stomach: good for ulcers, and sores, and green wounds it stayeth the bloody Flux, and the course in women. Fungi, Musheromes. THe Musheromes do breed moist an● Fleagmatike humours: all kinds are t● be feared: the best are thought to be thos● that grow in sweet and temperate Meadows and pastures: all other be dangerous & poison: beware of those that grow near to the Dens of Serpents, vnt● Trees that bear dangerous fruits, unto the rust of Iton, or where any corruption or putrefaction is. MEDICINES Of Metals. STIBIUM, Antimony. ANTIMOny is cold and dry in the second degree, found in the mines of Silver: if it be burned it savoureth like Brimstone: that is most chief that is brightest: Besides the virtue and power of during, which is common to all metals, it is astringent 〈◊〉 binding: Wherefore it is mixed with m●●l 〈…〉 for the eyes: it doth refrigerate, and prohibit the increase of superfluous fl●she: it ●●opeth the Flux of blood that cometh from the reins, and paniculs that cover the brain: that part that is burned shall not blister, if it be anointed with Antimony, & with fresh grease: and in case it be blistered, and have gathered a scurf, yet if it be anointed with Antimony, Wax, and Ceruse, it will shortly be cicatrized, & briefly, it is of the virtue that lead burned is. Cerussa, White lead. WHite lead is cold & dry in the ijdegree: taken inwards it is poison it is made of Lead dissolved in vinegar: it is cold & dry cleaving or abstrictive of the poares: it represseth superfluous flesh, & mixed with ointments and plasters that be lenitive, i 〈…〉 doth cicatrize: if it be burned it is called Sandix, of the old Authors commonly Minium or red Lead, and is of more subtle substance than Ceruse is: howvei● there is a kind of Minium that is naturals and not made by Act. Gipsum, Plaster of Paris. GIpsum is cold, dry, and binding: with the white of Eggs, and Mill dust it ●asicheth blood: when it is burned it is not so cleaning or stopping of the poares of the ●ody: but it is drier, and of more subtlety of substance, and repercussive, specially with water and vinegar. Auripigmentum. Orpment. Yellow Orpment is hot and dry in the third degree, and doth putrefy the member both burned and unburned, but the burned is of more subtle substance: it is used to take away hair: if it remain long to the part it doth burn the Skin, ●●d is not to be taken inwards. That which now commonly is called Realgar is of the kind of Auripigmentum, & found with it in the same Mine, but it is not so perfect. Also Arsenike which is white, is Judged to be of like kind and virtue. Sandaracha, Auripigmentum rubrum, Red Orpment. THis is of the same power, & virtue that the other Auripmentum is. Erugo Aeris, Uiride Aeris, Verdegresse. VErdegresse is hot and dry in the fourth degree: it resolveth, and consumeth dead flesh: mixed with Oil and wax, it doth only mundify, and that without any great sharpness or taste. Aes ustum, Copper, or Brass burned. COpper or brass burned is very hot, & sharp: howbeit, it hath mixed a certain binding or stiptikenesse: if it be washed it is special to cicatrize sores and ulcers in tender flesh: unwashed also it doth the same in hard flesh. Flos Aeris, The scum of Brass. THis is subtler than is ustum or Squama Aeris: it is abstersive, and used to consume & mundify, specially in a certain disease of the eye lids which is called Sycosis. Squama Aeris & ferri, The battering of Brass, or Iron, when it is beaten with the Hammer. THe batteringes both of brass and Iron do dry strongly: but they differ in that the battering of Brass is more subtle: the battering of Iron is binding, and therefore it is meetest to heal corrupt ulcers and sores, more than the battering of Brass: but the battering of Brass doth more consume and waste the flesh: both kinds be sharp and biting. Atramentum sutorium, Calcanthos, Uitriolum vulgò. Copperess. Copperess is hot and dry in the fourth degree, and with all hath a certain binding and strictivenesse, by reason of that heat: it is a Corrosive, and consumeth flesh: by reason of the binding it both compact and strengthen the substance of the part where unto it is put: the weight of a dram of it taken inwards, killeth the worms after Dioscorides. Chalcitis. Vnslaked Copperess. THis is very hot and sharp, and also astringent: it doth burn the flesh, and gathereth over it a skurse: it is used in medicines for the eyes: if it be burned it is of less sharpness, & in substance more subtle. Argentum vivum, Quick silver. OF this there is both natural, and artificial: it is temperate in heat & cold, & abstersive without sharpness or biting: it is good for ulcerations in the eyes, and for all moist sores and ulcers that be in tender bodies, as Women and Children: for hard and dry bodies, it is of like efficacy. Pompholix, Tutia vulgò, Tutty. TUtty is cold in the first degree, and dry in the second: washed it doth dry without pain or smart, and therefore it is usen against cankers and like malicious sores: it is good for rhewmatike eyes, and for all blisters and ulcerations in them, and also for sores, and ulcers in the fundament and secret members. Spodium, brent ivory. SPodium, after the description of the greek Authors, is of the substance of metals, and is good for ulcers, & is much of the same virtue that Pompholix is: but Spodium that Avicen describeth, is made of the roots of Canes or Reeds burned: it is comfortative of the heart, as be writeth, and sliptike: but Spodium that we now use, is burned Ivory, and taken to be of the same virtue: for Ivory of itself unburned is strictyve and byndiuge. Lythargiros, Spuma Argenti, Lytharge of Silver. LYtharge is cold & dry made of divers substances, for there is of it of the colour of Gold, and of the colour of silver: it is temperate in heat and cold restrictive and abstersive: it drieth and healeth, and is a meant betwixt all other medicines of that Nature. Plumbum, Lead. Lead is cold and moist, and specially i● it be washed: it is good against ●oat inflammations, and ulcers of the fundament, & secret members: heaten as a thin Plate it is good for the hot bark, and for them that shed seed or nature in dreams. Plumbum ustum, Burned lead. BUrned lead washed, is cold: unwashed, it bathe a certain heat and sharpness mixed, & remaining in it: it is good against malitions sores and ulcers: if it be washed it increaseth flesh, and doth heal. Plumbago, Lead Oar. OF this there is natural, and artificial: the natural is found in a certain vain, containing in it silver and lead: the artifis 〈…〉 is made in the fyning of Gold and silver: it is something cold: it increaseth flesh, and doth heal ulcers and sores. Scorio Metallorum, Recrementum, The dregs, or dross of Metals. THe dregs of metals do dry, but the dregs of Iron most, which when they be powdered finely, and mixed with vinegar, do heal mattering ears. The dregs of lead are of the same virtue, that burned lead is. The dregs of silver are mixed with plasters that do dry. Ferrum, Iron. IRon is cold and dry: fired and extinct in water, it leaveth a certain drying in it, which if it be drunk, helpeth them that be splenetike: if it be extinct in wine, it is good for fluxes, and all weakness that cometh by choler to the Stomach. Sulphur, Brimstone. BRimstone untried is best: it is hot 〈…〉 third degree: it is attractive, and subtle: so that it is good against the stingig of venomous beasts: who turpentyne 〈…〉 healeth Scabs, Leaprosies of the Skin, ●etters, Ringwormes: it is good for the rough, doth taken inwards with a rer 〈…〉 Egg, and also the fumigation of it: also i● is good for the shortness of wind, and for them that who coughtug void the matter and corruption from the lounges. Cinnaberis, Cinopar. CInopar is hot and sharp, with a certain astringency, and binding: it helpeth blood, and assuageth burnings and blisters, mixed with wax. Chrisocolla, Borax, The Soder of Gold. OF this there is both Natural, & Artificial: both kinds consume the flesh▪ it is a medicine both alone, and also with other like things, for malicious ulcers, and soars. Aurum, Gold. Gold is temperate of complexion, and among all medicines of metals, is most commended to cauterize with, for the cauterization of it is soon healed: the substance of it reduced to powder, comforteth the heart, and putteth away melancholy fantasies: this is the judgement of the Arebikes only: but the great Authors make no mention thereof. Alumen, Alum. OF Alum there be three kind, in especial Alumen Liquidum, which is our Alum Plume, or Iching powder. The iij. is Alumen Rotundum, not well known in this our time: all kinds be binding, and of gross substance: the subtilest is Aiulumen Plumeum, the second Alumen Rotundum, grossest of all is Alumen Liquidum: all kinds be hot & dry in the third degree, binding, & abstersive, cleanse the sight, comlume superfluous flesh in the Eye lids: all kinds be burned, and do stay putrefied ulcers: stop blood, dry the gums that be moist: with Honey and vinegar stay and fasteu the teeth that be lose, and are good against ulcerations. Calx, lime Vnsleaked lime, is hot and dry in the third degree, and doth burn so strongly, that it doth make a scurf. lime that is fleaked doth also gather a scurf: but by little, & after a day or two: it burneth less than the other: if it be washed it putteth away his heat into the water, which is called Li 〈…〉 and the oftener it is washed, the less it doth smart or bite, for so it drieth gently without any pains or smarting. Lixinium, Lye. THe strength of Lie is after the nature and power of the Ashes whereof it is made: for some is sharper than other some it is corrosive, and ●oth putrefy & burn. Cinis Sarmentorum vitis, The Ashes of the vine. THe Ashes of the vine, is caustic: and with Oil and grease it is good against the brousing of sinews, and the fractures of the Joints: it consumeth superfluous flesh she, & is good against the biting or stinging of venomous Serpents, and mad Dogs. Terra, Earth. ALl Earth doth dry, & if it be pure without any strange qualties, it drieth gent 〈…〉 y: if there be in it any fiery or sharp quality, washing taketh it away: earth burned is of more subtlety than earth unburned, & sharper: if the sharpness be put away with washing, it doth dry with more efficacy soars and ulcers that be hard. Sigillum Lemnium, Terra Sigillata. TErra sigillata is cold, and dry: dissolved in vinegar it healeth corrupt, and malicious sores: dissolved in wine it healeth wounds: 〈…〉 p the spitting of blood is good against poison: infuled in 〈◊〉 with the Juice of plantain, it heaieth v●cerations of the Bowels or guts: 〈◊〉 have little or none of this, but such as 〈◊〉 counterfeit. Bolus Armenus, Bolearmoniake. BOlearmoniake is cold in the first, a 〈…〉 dry in the second degree: it drieth m 〈…〉 so that it is good for vicerations of the mou 〈…〉 all rheums of the stomach & breast: sp 〈…〉ing of blood, and also the ulcerations of Loonges: and against all sores and v 〈…〉 rations that need drying: it is also sp 〈…〉 all for the Pestilence. Mys●, Sorry, Chalcitis, kinds of unsleaked Copperess. THese three M●neralls be found in o 〈…〉 Mine in the Isle of Cyprus, in th' 〈…〉 veins: the lowest is Sorry, the second Chalcitis, the highest is Mysy, and they judged to be of one virtue, but that Mysy more subtle than the other two: Sorry is the grossest of the three: Chalcitis of a mean nature betwixt both: when they be burned, they be made more subtle, and less binding: they be so hot and sharp, that they consume the flesh, and be caustic: they be used in me●ycines for the Eyes: the one of them doth alter and change in process of 〈◊〉 to the other, as Sorry into Chalcitis, and Chalcitis into Mysy. Mysy is of the colour of gold, Chalcitis is of brass, & Sorry is black. Sal Ammoniacus, Sal Gemonae. Saltes of divers kinds. THere is salt digged but of the earth, & also salt that is made of the salt water: all kinds of salt be abstersive, and stiptike or binding, but some more, some less, after the diversity of the Grounds and Earth where they be made. Salt is hot & dry in the second degree, it doth consume all indystures, and condensate, and gather together the substance that doth remain, whereby the bodies be preserved from putrefaction. Sal Armoniake among all salts that be minerals is chiefest, and doth consume superfluous humours in the eyelids, whereby the hairs in them do prosper & increase: all salt doth repress & extenuate superfluous flesh, & is used in Glisters & in bags or sacks to cease paints. & consume cold swellings, as in Dropsies: with oil and vinegar also cureth the Itch of the body: and is also good in plasters against the stinging or biting of venomous Beasts 〈◊〉 and doth preserve from the gout. Salt burned is more subtle, and resolutive, & of jesse binding or restrictyvenesse, than salt unburned. Sal gemmae is of the nature of salt and moreover purgeth Phlegm, and Ch 〈…〉 ler: and helpeth medicines laxtive in th' 〈…〉 operations. Nitrum, & Aphronitrum, Salt Niter, or Saltpetre. BOth Nitrum, & Aphronitrum have t● power and virtue of Salt: they be a 〈…〉 stersive, and mundificative. Aphronitru● is more subtle, and resolutive. Nitru● burned doth dry, and resolve: taken into the body it is inscissive and extenuatyve of gross humours, much more thansalt. Aphronitrum is not taken inwardly, without great necessity, for that it is evil for the stomach: howbeit, it is good against the poison of Musheromes, and so is Nitrum, both burned, and unburned. Fex vini, Wine leyes, Tartarum vulgò. Tartar. Wine jeyes doth dry, and resolve: it is binding and restrictive, according to the nature of the wine whereof it is: It doth resolve swellings, and drieth Milk put to the breast: burned it is caustic: with Rosen it taketh away Leaprosies, and maketh the bayre yellow: washed it is abstersive, and is used with medicines for the Eyes: it is also used of certain Physicians to be taken inwards, to lax the belly: the leyes of vinegar is more binding. Lapis Haematites, The Blood stone. THe blood stone doth dry, and is styptic. and restrictive: it healeth the roughness and asperity of the Eye lids, if they be inflamed, mixed with the white of Eggs: without inflammations mixed inflammations, mixed with water: drunk, it helpeth the coughing of blood. It healeth also ulcers, and soars: and the powder represseth superfluous and proud flesh. Magnes, The Loadstone. THis stone draweth Iron to it, and is o 〈…〉 the virtue and power, that the blood 〈…〉 stone is. jaspis viridis, The green jasper. THe green Jasper, both borne at the st〈…〉 macke and in the ringeworme, comforteth the mouth of the stomach: also knit to th' 〈…〉 thigh of a Woman in labour of Child 〈…〉 doth Accelerate the birth. Lapis judaicus, The jewish stone. THis stone ground to powder, & drunk with Water, breaketh the stone in the Kidneys: and after Dioscorides, the stone in the bladder. Pyrites, Marchasita, The Copper, or Brasenstone. THis stone is resolutive of swellings of gross matter, and blood gathered and congealed within the flesh: there are of this divers kinds: for Aetius sayeth this stone is like to silver: Dioscorides like to Cop●er, or Brass, which burned is used to cleanse the sight, that is offended by any gross humours. Gagates, That is thought to be our Get stone. THis stone is black, and cast into the fire, savoureth like to Aspaltum: it is resolutive, and consumeth old swellings in the knees: the fume of it revoketh women out of their passions called the mother, and the felling sickness: it is written that there is great store of this kind in England. Pumex, the Pumishe stone. THe Pumishe stone is abstersive, & scoureth the Teeth: vurned & washed it doth incarnate hollow and deep ulcers. Lapides in sponges, The stones found in Sponges. THe Stones that he found in Sponges be abstersive, and break the Stone in the Kydneys. Lapis Aetites, Lapis Aquilae, The eagles stone. THis stone bound to the Arm of her that is with Child, doth stay all untimely births: in the time of the birth & labour bound to the League, it bringeth forth the child without pain. Lapis Cyaneus, Lapis Lazuli vulgó, The blue Lazule stone. THis stone is sharp, abstersive, and resolutive, more than Cinaberss is: and is also styptic or binding: it consumeth flesh & is caustic or burning. Lapis Armenius, The Armenian stone. THis stone is of the same virtue that Cbrisocolla is, and increaseth hairs in the Eye lidnes: taken inwards, it laxeth the belly, and purgeth melancholy. Saphirus, The sapphire. THe sapphire beaten to powder & drunk with milk, bealeth all inward ulcerations, and in like case with milk anointed to the utter parts. The powder of it laid upon cuts and chops of the tongue, bealeth the same: also drunk it helpeth them that be bit with Scorpions. Smaragdus, The emerald. THe emerald burned, and beaten to Powder, helpeth the dimness of the sight. Anointed with water, and with gum Arabic, it belpeth the Leper: & drunk with water, it bringeth forth the same Disease again. Born upon the body, it stayeth blood from what part soever it cometh. 〈◊〉 Saphirus, Smaragdus, Hyacinthus, Rubinus, Granata, Sardius, Margaritae. The sapphire, The Garnet The Emerald, the Sardine, the jacint, the Ruby, Pearls. THese precious stones of the Arabikes, & of late practitioners in physic, are esteemed & used for things of great price & virtue, to comfort the bearte. The Greek Authors make no mention of them for the purpose. MEDICINES Of the parts of Beasts. 〈◊〉 Sanguis Columbarum, Palumharum, & Turturum. Blood of all kinds of Doves. THe blood of the dove, the stockdoove, or Woodquist, and Cortle, is good against blood shedding in the eye, that cometh of a stroke: and also good in wounds of the bead where the Skull is perished: with inflammations of the Brain. Sanguis Hirci. The blood of a Goat. THe blood of the Goat breaketh the stone: and drunk with hunuy, is given against the Dropsy. Adens & seuum. Grease, and tallow of Beasts. BOth grease and suet, be moist & hot, and do mollify and resolve: but some more, some less, after the temperature of the beast: for swines grease is moistest of all, near unto the temperature of Oil: Goats suet is dryest, and doth shortly congeal and wax gross, & therefore it is refused in Glisters, to cease pains and freatinges in the lower Gut: Goose grease is hotter and more subtle: the grease of the Cock & Hen is of a mean betwixt swines grease, & Goose grease. The lions grease is hottest, & most subtle. Bulls suet is the mean betwixt swines grease, & lions grease. Lac, Milk. Molke containeth in it three substances. The cured, the Butter, & the Whey. Milk of itself is a good nourishment, the whey is abstersive, and laxeth the belly: the cured is gross and cleaving, or stopping of poares: and therefore it tempereth the sharpness of other medicines. Butter is maturative, & resolutive of swellings: Milk with Peable stones or Iron fired, and ertincte in the same, is good for the bloody Flure, and sharp rheums in the Belly: Milk is also good against rheums of the Eyes, ulcerations of the Loonges, and of all inward parts. The Asses milk is thynnest: the Cow milk grossest: the goats milk of a mean substance: most temperate milk is woman's milk: next to that goats milk, then followeth Asses milk, sheeps milk, & cow milk. Milk that hath most of whey & less of cured, is to all persons of less peril, as the milk that hath most cured & less whey is most dangerous for them that have oppilations of the liver, or spleen. Milk is not good for them that have weak heads & windy stomachs. Much use of milk doth perish the teeth, & specially that milk which hath most curds: therefore after milk, the teeth ought to be washed with honey and water. Ouum, the Egg. THe Hen Egg, & the Phesaunt Egg be best for the nourishing of the body: the Egg of mean temperature or rearenesse is preserved: the Egg that is so 〈◊〉, that it may be supped, is of less nourishing & doth lenify or smooth the aspetity & roughness of the windepipe: taken inwards with binding medicines it is good against the bloody Flux, & other fluxes of the belly. Eggs that be boiled, be of hard digestion, and much more they that be roasted in Ashes, but fried be worst of all: the white of the new laid egg is cold and of all medicines most gentlest, & of less binding: and therefore good for vicerations in the secret parts, that should be dried without smart or bycing: the Yolk is of the same virtue. Medulla, Marrow. Marrow is a nourishment which doth move the stomach to voine: but if it be well dilgested, it doth nourish as a medicine: it doth all so moilify. The marrow of the Hart is cheife●●: next is the marrow of young bullocks: for that of the goat & Bull be sharp and dry. Coagulum, The rennet. THe rennet is hot and dry, sharp and resolutive, the rennet of the Har doth cure (as it is written) the fa●ing sickness, and the Fluxes in women: and it dissoiveth Milk that is curdled in them. Fell, The Gall. THe Gallis the hottest humour of the body, tor it is hot and dry in the roveth degree: and if it there is much diversity, according to the diversities of the 〈◊〉: the weakest is the gall: of Swine, which is good for ulcerations of the Ears: sharper than that be the Galls of the Sheep, of the Goat, of the Boar, and Bull. The Gailes of birds be sharper & drier than the Galls of fourfooted Beaves, and among them the Gall of the Cock, and 〈◊〉 be chief: the Galls of ●aukes be so sharp, that they do exulcerate: Galies be used in divers medicines, & specta●●y tor eyes. Stercus, all manner of dung. THe dung of all beasts is hot & dry, and resolutive: Goats dung in playfter, is good for hard swellings: Dx. 〈◊〉 in plasters, is good for dropsies: Pigeons dung is good for long dileases, as Sc●as●caes, Megtimes', Headache, aches in the the Back, the Fe 〈…〉, the Joints, & universally in all passions, where need is of grease Attraction to the utter parts, for it is attactyve. Corium Ouis, The sheeps Skin. THe skins of sheep newly slain, & put to the body that is beaten and bruised, helpeth, the same briefly within one day and a night, more than any other thing, for it doth ripe and resolve. Oesipus, Succida Lana, The sheeps greasy Wool. THe fatness of the wool of the sheep is good against all brousing, & vy●●nge on any part howsoever it come, & is much of like nature with Burter. Wool without fattiness is a thing necessary often times to teteyne oil, and ointments to any parts, Wool burned is sharp and drying, and consumeth flesh in moist ulcers and sores. Ius Gallorum, The broth of an old Cock. THe broth of the old cock with Salt, applied to the utter most of the flesh, laxeth the belly: the broth of the Hen tempereth the sharpness of blood. Cornu Cerns, & Capri. THe borne of the heart, & of the goat burued skoureth the teeth, & drieth the moist gums if they be washed with it: it helpeth the bloody flux, the spitting of blood, & the weakness of the stomach: and it is good also for the Jaundice, & drieth rheums of the Eyes. Genitale Cerui, The Pyzill of the Hart: THe Pyzill of the Hart beaten to powder, and drunk with wine, is good for the biting or stinging of Adders. Ebur, ivory. THe shaving of Ivory, helpeth Whitflowes, or hot swellings under the Nail, for it is a stringent: it is used for the Jaundice by the common people. Pulmo vulpis, The Loonges of the Fox. THe Loonges of the Fox oryed, & made in powder, and drunk, helpeth them that have shortness of mind. Castorium, The Beavers cod. CAstorium is heat and dry in the second degree, and subtle of substance: good against al. cold passions that come to the live was by repletion: drunk it provoketh the monthly course in women. Scincus, The Loins of the Scinkes. THe parts of this beast, that be near to to the kidneys, drunk with wine, are thought good to proveke lust, and courage. Senectus serpentis, The slought or skin of a Snake or Serpent. THe skin of the Serpent boiled in byneger, (as it is written) helpeth the toothache. Caro viperae, The flesh of the Adder. THe flesh of the Adder is hot and dry, and purgeth the whole body by the Skin from the Leapry, and such other passions: wherefore it is mix o with treacle. Tela Aranearum, the Copwebbe. THe Copwebbe s●●yetd blaud, & preserured for wound from Inflammation. CAntharides, Green flies beyond Sea. CAntharides be heat and dry in the third degree, & do ●i●ster the skin: and mixed with other convenient medicines do take away skabbed, and scurvy Nails: they provoke urine, but taken in too great quantity, do excoriate the Bladder. Lumbrici terrestes, Earthwormes. THese worms made into a plaster, help the sinews that be bruised, and but: besides that, if they be drunk with sweet wine. they provoke urine. Conchula Indica, Blattae Bizantiae vulgò, The Indian Muskleshell. THis kind of shell burned, and taken for a fume, reviveth women that have the passion called the mother: and them that have the falling disease. Ostreorum testae Oyster shells. THe shells of Oysters burned, and dried, be abstersive: washed they increase flesh, and do replenish hollow ulcers, & soates, without smart or dyting. Sepiae Testa, O● Sepiae, The Cuttle bone. THe Cuttle 'bove is cold, & dry, & abstersive: burned, it taketh away scabs & spots from the skin: 〈…〉 burned, it cleanseth the teeth, and mundifieth scars in the ●yes, and taketh away roughness growing in the Eye lids. Ala●da, Galerita, The Lark. THis Bride roasted and eaten, helpeth the cyollicke. Cochlea Terrestris, Limaces vulgò, The Snail. THe whole Snail, with the shells burned, & mixed with pepper, & Galls, stop the bloody Flute: they must be beaten to powder with the shells, & made in a plaster to the belly: they help the dropsy, and swellings in the Joints of them that have the Gaw●e. MEDICINES Approved, and Tried. For the Colic, stone, and Strangury, an excellent perfect medicine. TAke five, or stre leaves oh the Heart called La●re● and stamp & strain th● in Ale, or if they be 〈◊〉 beat them to Powder, 〈◊〉 put them in Ale, and l 〈…〉 the Patient drink it first the morning and all that day keep him warm in to● chamber: for after the receipt thereof th● Patient shall be provoken to d. or ●j. store s 〈…〉 or more. This ●●a● 〈◊〉 Laurel, is growing in gardens, and 〈◊〉 like to M 〈…〉 den, 〈◊〉 hath Leaves like to the 〈◊〉 called 〈◊〉 sell which groweth out of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and beareth a Berry ●yke toe bygi●●sse 〈◊〉 of Werttes, and is commonly grieved to Bullocks for medicines. THe next day, make a powder of these thinns following, Filipendula, and Sarifrage, of each an ounce: Coriander seed, Gromell seen, Alexander seed, of each half an ounce: Juie Berries, the seed of Brome, of every an ounce: the B●othe of Elder flowers, and the Berries of smooth Holme, of every an ounce: anise Seen, Fenell Seed, of every an ounce: a quarter of an ounce of an Or● Gall: The Rome of ready berring, half an ounce: The Rounds of a Thorne● fish, which is a round nut, which you shall find within the dryckes which stand upon the fishes back, half an ounce: Polinonium, which is a fern growing one of an Oak, dried in powder, half an ounce: beat all these in powder, and mire them together, and by the space of four, or five Days following, take every Day fasting a Spoonful of the said Powder in Ale, and drink thereof, and eat, nor drink in four, or v. hours after. For a child or man that is burned, or scalded with fire, or water. TAke an Hen Egg, and roast it until it be very hard: and then take out the yolk, and bruise it with fresh buter, and anoint your grief there with. For a Copperesle Face, to wash it. TAke green and white Copueresse put a quantity in a sancer of water, & warm it over the Coals, and as hot as you can suffer it, anoint the pimples of your Face therewith, or such parts as are red & and this use till they be whole. For an akinge Head. TAke a Rose cake, & wet him with vinegar, and put thereunto the powder o● a Nutmeg, & the powder of Cloves, and bind them to the temples. For bleeding at the nose, a singular Medicine. TAke a Lynaen cloth, and wet it in vynyger, and wrap it about the pri 〈…〉 members of the patient, and he shall ●●ase bleading: que probatum est per joannen Lynsell, clericum Magestri Anthony Brown in Essex. For the tertian Agewe. TAke nine leaves of white stock Geloflouts, & five or six crops of rosemary, and stamp them together, & take the Juice thereof, and drink it in Ale lukewarm, a little before your fit. For an ague. TAke a toast of bread, and spread it over with treacle, & let the Patient care it before the fit cometh, three times several, at three days. per Guill●elmū Le●●hell, Oxon. Armigerum. etc. For a Bruse. TAke Brooke lime, Smaledge & bruise wor●r, and fry them in sheeps sewer, then strain it through a linen cloth, and it wild an O●le, & put thereunto the powder of Spermaceti, and anoint the grief therewith. For to destroy phlegm, & to avoid it. TAke Pa●s●●y roots, Fenell roots, peritory, & Isope, se●th them with good Ale, and Lycoris, with a quantity of cl 〈…〉 H 〈…〉, and use to drink it first & last etc. Mistress Castelyne. For the Chine cough. Take a mouse & slay him, & dry him to pou der in an Oven, & drink him in ale: the same is also good for them 〈◊〉 cannot hold their water. Probatum per magistrum lerueies. To break the stone. TAke the she'll of a Snail, and dry it leisurely, and beat it to powder, & drink it with white wine, & note the Snails be very good for a consumption, if they be first laid a day in bra●, and then st●wed. For the Plague. TAke an Onion, & make a hole in him, & take out the inner core: then take water of Dragon, Triatle, & Pepper, and bruise them a l●tle, and put them into the Onion, and roast the Onion in the embers, & afterwards bruise the Onion, and stranne him with Malmsey, & ●●ue it unto the Patient to drink: and if it be taken before the heart be infected, it is a present remedy. Per doctor 'em Uardenorte. For the Canker in the Mouth both White and Red, the Red will break out, and the White will not: and for scare Legs, and soar Lips, or any other Soars. TAke ij. handfuls of the leaves of woodbine, and one handful of Sage, shred them fine, & brat them very small in a mortar: then take ij. spoonfuls of Honey, & a piece of roche alum of the quantity of half an egg: then take a quart of fair runninning water, and s●ethe all these together, until it be thick: then take it, and strain it in a fair cloth, and put the liquor into a fair earthen pot, & cover it close: them anoint the Gums therewith, within on the soar side, or else your whole mouth: and if it he a white Canker, then anoint the v●ter side: and then wet a cloth in the Liquor, & lay it thereunto on the out side of the soar: and use this iij. times in a day, and when you are dressed, then lay your face to a warm chafingdish of coals, & the water will tun out of your mouth in great quantity. And if the Canker be in the nose, or in any place where it cannot be touched, then spout in this liquor with a Quill, and this this will beale you within short space. And this liquor willbe kept well xxi. days in his virtue, and no more. The good wife Baldwin of Wimbledon besides Fulham. For a Mole in a woman's body, otherwise called a wheston, or a moon Calf. TAke water Cressies', and eat them with Pottage sodden with Mutton, morning and evening, and use none other Pottage: then take Oil of Roses, & every evening anoint your body, breast, and belly there with. Per joannem Bell. For the piles. TAke Diaculum, & Oil of Spike, a little, melt them in a Saucer, & spread it on a linen cloth, and lay it very warm to the piles, and within two days fanabitur: and it must be new dressed daily. Per joannem Bell. For a Corn in your Toe. TAke a Knife, & pair the Corn hard to the Quick, and then take the inner part of a Fig, & a quantity of Uerdegrease, & mire them together, & lay it to the Corn, & bind it fast with a linen cloth, and this will eat out the root. Per joannem Bell. A Plaster for worms in a child's belly. TAke a handful of feather few, & another of rue, one of wormwood, & another of ●●set lyekes, and the leaven of Brown bread, and a vynte of white wine vinegar, and boil them all in the vinegar, until it be thick, & like a s●l●e: and then put it into a double cloth, and bind it to the Navel as hot as it may be suffered, and let it remain 〈…〉 j ●●wers Per joannen Bell. To purge a soar from dead flesh. TAke sorrel, and roast it in the Embers 〈◊〉 within ●ro 〈…〉 or white Paper. and make a 〈◊〉 thereof, & lay it as hot 〈…〉 in three dressinges sanabitur Per 〈◊〉 Bell For the Colic, and stone. TAke Black berries. ●awe●. & Arorns, and dry them upon tiles, then take the 〈◊〉 of them severally, of each a spoonful, & 〈◊〉 it ●●●e, and give it to the Patient in Malmosey For the Gout. TAke S●●e dried half a day, or 1 whole day, & lay it to the soar, and it will ●ase your pain in one night. Per Sergeant Waters. Another for the same. TAke Aquanitae, and wash & rub the soar therewith: and then take a linen cloth, and wet it in. Aquanitae, and lay it to the soar, and it will heal you within one hour or two at the most. Per Robert. Westo. For the Plague. TAke Mit 〈…〉 a dram, & geue it hetimes to the Patient with dragon water, white wine, or with any other liquor. For the gout, or any ache. TAke a Quarter of a pound of R 〈…〉 & asm 〈…〉 of ●itch, & a quantity of Frankincense a● m 〈…〉 as a 〈…〉 e, & ●smuch of 〈…〉 e: then take D●ere suet▪ or s 〈…〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 also ●ether in a ●●t, 〈◊〉 t●en 〈◊〉 it in clean ●●ter & was●● it as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●me, and then s●●●d it v●●● a 〈◊〉 of L●●t●er, and la● it to t●● soar, & let it remain there until it fa●l of. For a green wound, wherein is no dead flesh. TAke 〈◊〉, w●ic● 〈…〉 mith 〈◊〉 〈…〉 only vs●, 〈◊〉 it inlike A 〈…〉 & 〈◊〉 the ●ou●●● thereof v●●n the s●●●●▪ t●●n s●r●d t●● 〈…〉 v●●● a lie 〈…〉 cloth●, & la● it to the s 〈…〉, & let it rem 〈…〉 〈…〉 s▪ a●● chau●●e it once a day with ●ewe powder, & it will heal your wound without any other thing. Per David Denewe of Brainford. For the plague, a present remedy. TAke five spoonfuls of Dragon water, 〈◊〉. spoonfuls of strong ●y●●ger half a spoonful of 〈…〉 ac●e of I●ne, a qua 〈…〉 of a spoonful of Bole a●moniak● in 〈◊〉 powder, and the quantity of a piece of Bry●●sto●e beaten into fine powder, as●uch and some what more of the ●oote of S●twa●●e of Venyce beaten in powder: & drink this wh●n you ●●e g 〈…〉 d wy●● 〈…〉 fec●●on an●●ot ●ls, and take no other meat nor drink in twelve hours af●●●, vu●●s it 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 e of the same. Per 〈…〉 stris Knight de Andover. For your defence from the plague, a special preservative. TAke five spoonfuls of vinegar, three spoonfuls of r●nning Water, half a spoonful of 〈…〉 a●l●▪ & as much of Bol●●●●on●ake as a 〈◊〉 N●t made in fine powder, and drink this last to bed, and first in the morning. Per predictam mistress Knight. To make a salve for a tent. TAke the Yolk of an Eggt, Hun●y as much as a Walnut, T●●pentyne as much: beat these, and use it to the soar with lint. To kill the ringworm. TAke an ounce of ver degrece, d. ounces of vinegar, and grind them in a morcer, and ado three ounces of Hu●●y, and seethe them all v●on the fire t●●l they be as thick as Hu●●y. At London in fleetstreet by Thomas Marsh. 1580.