Thesaurus Remediorum. A Treasury of choice MEDICINES Internal and Externall. Exactly composed according to Art, peculiarly and properly fitted and appointed against the infirmities of the principal parts of Man's body. Their Virtues faithfully discovered, with plain and easy directions to use them. Justly proportioned and dosed, for all persons according to Strength, Sex, and Age. Neat and securely sealed up in small quantities and parcels commodious for Use, Carriage and keeping, in long Journeys and Voyages, ready for emergent occasions. Prized very low, at set rates (for the public good) that inferior people may procure the benefit: None of them exceeding Two Shillings price. Very efficacious by often Experiments verified, against the Diseases and Symptoms mentioned in the Catalogue of the sixth page. By JULIUS DEGRAVERE, a learned Physician. Whereunto is added, Diagnostic signs to know the Temperament and Constitution of each Body; With a Physical Diet and select Counsels for each Complexion. Also, Indicating Signs, advice and cautions for purging, vomiting, sweeting, and bleeding; with their proper effects and benefits, Aphoristically and methodically digested. The Second Impression, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, The Medicines diligently viewed, sealed up, and duly ordered by the constant care and appointment of E. M. Doctor in Physic. London, printed by G. P. 1662. Literato Lectori. MEdicamenta in parvulo hoc opere sub nomine Julii Degraveri jam secundò edita, omnibus his infra in calee libri enumeratis morbis, ad quorum medelam peritè accomodantur, propria experientia in praxi medica saepe numero probata, per●tilia inveni. Nemo aegre ferat, nec cui sit mirum, si pauperum gratia, publicè illa exiguis praetiis sine dolo venalia fore quidam curaverint; quippe quòd agyrtae & impostores quam plurimi, quique experimenta per mortes agunt, sua pharmaca fraudulenta in vulgus perniciosè spargunt. Haec in conspectu meo fideliter dispensata, benè praeparata & secundum artem diligenter composita, meritò laúdanda, & in praetio habenda dico: porrò ne quis temerè in usum cujusvis horum quamvis saluberimi inconsultè ruat; rectus ●ractandi modus, & propria methodus medendi praeceptis observatu facilimis, dilucida brevitate ordineque utili demonstrantur, ut cuique sanae mentis errare difficile puto. Quibus igitur res est Angusta domi, aut quotidiano labore parcè vitam trahunt, quorum ●rumenae medicis honoraria nunquam emittunt aut argire possunt, eorum solummodò g●atia thesaurus hic instituitur, eo tanquam ad Asylum morbis laborantes confugiant, praeclara ubi auxilia suis cujusque malis validè occurrendum parata esse invenient. Vale lector benevole, & his laboribus cum opus fueris feliciter fruere, ut amissam fanitatem quam maxime desideratam tibi tuisque restituas, sic ex animo optat & precatur. E. M. MEDICINAE DOCTOR. E Mus●eo meo Londini, Prid. Calend. Maias. An. 1662. THE PREFACE. THe Abuses in Physic crept in by the man● pretenders to knowledge, and intruders neither qualified nor authorized in the faculty, is now the Epidemical Disease of this Kingdom, destroying like the Plague, each Town and Village affords variety of examples, how frequently people drop away by dangerous Medicines, and sinister advice of illiterate and unskilful person's, is too obvious and apparent to the learned Physician, whose assistance now of late is most frequently desired, to correct the errors and repair the breaches, that unknowing persons have made, by their ignorant and bold experiments upon the bodies of each other. Many there are the plenty of whose fortunes may well procure the best assistance and counsel the Art can afford; but such is their folly, rather than part with a Fee to an able Physician, will spend much more by a linger sickness, and perhaps cost them their lives too, by using improper, insufficient, or pernicious Medicines. You will not trust a Garment to be made, but by an exact Tailor, educated and trained up in that occupation, but your Body you dare venture with an illiterate bold Empiric, or some honest Neighbour or Friend, who out of his ignorant kindness and foolish friendship to you, gives you a Medicine, whose future Effects perhaps will be worse than your present Disease, and if the Doctor hears not of you now, he is sure to have you not long after, in a worse condition; Si populus vult decipi, decipiatur. These I have scarce charity to pity i● their Miscarriages, through their sordid and foolish covetousness. As for the meaner sort of people, and those of a scant and low Fortune, not able to purchase Advice and Visits from the skilful Physician; that they may not betake themselves to deceitful Refuges, and juggling Quacks, who will abuse both their Bodies and Purses: here is a Storehouse and Treasury to resort to, furnished with variety of choice Medicines, where at a very small charge, they may receive the benefit of wholesome Medicines and good Advice, for their several Maladies and Distempers. Here is for most occasions you will need, Cordial, sweeting, purging, vomiting, roborating, restaurative, diuretical, discussing, opening and astringent Medicines: and this I may boldly say, they are as good as the Art appoints for these purposes; and for their Prices do you judge, whose Purses have paid for your experience and knowledge, if ever you took proper and effectual physic for your purpose, at so cheap a Rate. A course in physic here at Spring or Fall, will not cause you to complain, how expensive your infirmities are; nor is here any large or loathsome Draughts to cause you to abhor the remembrance of physic; but the benefit you received from the last, with so little trouble and offence, will invite and encourage you to take again, when occasion calls for it. Nor will you doubt sophistication here, or careless and slovenly Composition, or ignorant and undue preparation; having once experimented the goodness of them, their operation and effects will speak, when I am silent, and prove what they are by evident demonstration, that you need not trust upon the credit of the Author but themselves. Nor shall you fear their goodness and integrity in their virtues, having kept them months, or quarters, besides you for emergent occasions, according to their several times of duration set down and limited in the 24.25, 26. Pages of this Book. And for the better security, to prevent any casualty mistakes or abuses that may happen by opening them, they are carefully sealed up, with a Coat of A●mes, that no prejudice arise to defame the Medicines, and wrong the Author or Patient. Reject not any Medicine, if you be not cured with the first Dose. I do not promise you Wonders (Mountebank-like) all are not curable, and those which are, require time and repetition of Medicines, especially where the Disease is great, or stubborn and contumacious, by long continuance, old age, complication of Diseases, imbecility of Nature to cooperate: So far I dare affirm what physic can do in opposing or eradicating a Disease, you may expect from these (rightly and prudently used) being well acquainted with the most and best Medicines now used in Europe. Defame them not by your peevish impatience, or irational indulgence to your own way and humour, by your mistakes and ignorance, in their taking or unfit ordering of yourself; by untimely, preposterous, or insufficient use of them; by unfit Diet, in time, quantity or quality: by cold or any irregular course, in or soon after physic, which brings discredit to the ablest Physicians, and best Medicines in the world. You see here following their Virtues declared and what they aim at in their operation, which they have often performed with great applause and satisfaction. Your own reason with those plain instructions may easily guide you in the right use of them, to perform the like with you; that what others have said of them, may be verified in you, and readily you may say also, they are worthy to be famed and used. Non satis est medicum suum fecisse officium, nisi suum quoque aegrotus, suum astantes faciant sintque externa ritè comparata. Aph. A CATALOGUE of the Diseases and Symptoms for which the Medicines are proper and peculiarly appointed: also the several Pages Figured, directing you to your Disease and Cure. Plague Page. 31 Poisons Page. 31 Measles Page. 31 Small Pox Page. 31 Intermitting Fevers called Ag●es Page. 45. 43 Vertigoes Page. 28, 29, 30. Palsies Page. 28, 29, 30. Convulsions Page. 28, 29, 30. catalepsy Page. 28 29, 30. Falling Sickness Page. 28, 29, 30. Distillations Page. 28, 30, 43. Headache Page. 28, 39 Sore eyes Page. 30. Coughs Page. 33, 34. Consumption Page. 33, 34. Short breath Page. 33. Faintings Page. 33. Palpitation of the heart Page. 33. Bad Stomach Page. 34, 35. Worm's Page. 38. Wind Page. 37, 33. Hypochondriac Melancholy Page. 36, 33, 43. Obstructions in the Liver or Spleen Page. 36, 43, 39 Scurvy Page. 37, 36. costiveness Page. 39 Cholic Page. 37, 39 Fluxes Page. 37, 43. Jaundice Page. 36, 43, 35 Dropsies Page. 36, 43. Stone Page. 39 Gonorrhaea Page. 40. French Pox Page. 41. women's Obstructions Page. 41, 43. them immoderate Page. 44. Fits of the Mother Page. 41, 30. Miscarrying Page. 42, 40. Hard Labour Page. 41. Weak backs Page. 40, 39 Ringworms' Page. 45, 43. Tetters Page. 45, 43. Scabs Page. 45, 43. Pushes Page. 45, 43. Pimples Page. 45, 43. Freckles Page. 46. Morphew Page. 46. Spots Page. 46. Sunburning Page. 46. Brown Skin Page. 46. Wrenches Page. 40. Strains Page. 40. Gout Page. 42, 45, 43. For Issues Page. 44. Multae aegritudines sua natura sa●●biles aegri negligentia & errore, consilia Medicorum saluberima respuentenis, fiunt incurabiles. Diagnostic Signs. WHereby every one may know their Constitution from thence, to order their Diet and Customs suitable to the same, for the prolongation and continuance of health: or reducing them from a distempered state, and Morbisic inclination, to their Primitive Constitution and good temperament. The diversity of Complexions or temperaments may be comprised under these four. Sanguine, Flegmatic, Choleric, and Melancholy. Sanguine Constitution. THe Sanguine person is moderately hot and moist, hath a lively pulse, vigorous actions, the veins full and large, of colour fresh and Rosy, for habit of body soft, fleshy and moderately fat, of a pleasant mind and good disposition. The Sanguine person being of the best Constitution is to be preserved in that state and purity, from degeneration and depraved alteration; which is done by a due observance and regular course, in diet, air, exercise and rest, sleeping and watching, voiding and retaining of Excrements, passions of the mind. In Diet observe the quality, that it afford good Nutriment, and not hard of Digestion: Avoid Onions, Leeks, Garlick, Mustard, very salt meats either Fish or flesh, or what else hath a manifest quality in extreme. Beware of strong Liquors, Spirits and Spices (except a little moderately for the stomach's sake) which inflame the blood and alter the purity of it, making it adust and choleric. In quantity be sparing, feed not high to a bestial satietety and fullness, intemperance vitiates and ruins the best tempered body, but rise with an appetite, the spirits being alleviated not dulled or oppressed. For times and manner of eating; observe you charge not the stomach again until the former be concocted; nor with variety or divers kinds at once, both which are the parents of crudity. Choose an Air temperate, serene and pure free from putrid vapours, arising from marish grounds, Lakes and stinking Ditches, Dunghills, or Carrions. Use exercise, not violently, nor so on after meat, sleep moderately and seasonably, by going to bed soon and rising early. Let no excrement of the first or second concoction be retained beyond its due time for evacuation, whether by stool, urine, women's monthly purgations; and use Venus moderately, and seasonably. Let no passion disturb thy mind, but endeavour a sedate tranquillity and cheerfulness, which is of great moment for presetvation of health. Sine animo Corpus, nec sine corpore animus, bene valere potest. Flegmatic Constitution. THe flegmatic person is cold and moist, to action more dull and heavy, not so witty, sharp, and acute, for habit of body, more gross and fat, not hairy, the veins small and hid, the hair white or flaxen, a soft, weak, and slow pulse; not so prompt to Venus, prone to sleep and ease; by cold things prejudiced, by hot things benifitted, incident to cold, and flegmatic distempers, the appetite greater than the digestion. Let the phlegmatics diet be warm meats, oftener roast then boiled. Sugar and Hony, mustard, salt and spices are lawful: Butter and Oil is good Physic. Olives, Capers, Broom-buds, Sampire, are good sauce. Abstain from raw fruits, Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Cucumbers, Melons, etc. as hurtful. Refrain green herbs and salads, as Lettuce, Purslane, Sorrel, except Sage, Rosemary, Time, Marjerom, and some hot herbs. Refuse Fish, milk, and milk meats, they increase phlegm and beget obstructions. Let thy drink be moderately strong; a cup of Sack sometimes is for thy health, to concock crude and sl●gmatick humours. Drink no Cider▪ Perry, Buttermilk or Whey, they are too cold and moist for a crude raw stomach. Indulge not thyself to sleep much, it is an enemy by increasing moisture and dulling the spirits. Seasonable exercise and moderate abstinence is physic, and great preservatives of health. Choose a warm air, and dry soil, remote from waters, the best place for thy abode. Hot baths are profitable, and Venus a friend. The former cherisheth the spirits, opens obstructions, and dries up superfluous moisture. The latter suscitates and stirs up the spirits, alleviates▪ and helps concoction. Choleric Constitution. THe Choleric person is hot and dry, eager and precipitate in his actions, contentious, hasty and angry; of body lean, slender, and hairy: the Veins big, a hard pulse and quick: of colour pale or yellowish the hair crisp or curled. Propense t● waking, and short sleeps: subject to tertian fevers, choleric bushes and break out upon the skin. Let this Constitution have a cool and moistening diet: most frequently boiled meats, rather than Rost or Baked, and fried meats never. Use Broths with cooling herbs: or Barley broths with fruit. Milk and milk meats are pleasant and not hurtful: Fresh fish is good diet. Mustard, salt and spices exasperates Choler and makes it more fierce and biting: Vinegar checks it. Refuse the fat and brown of meat, also the crust of bread. Butter and Oil is fuel to the fire; Sugar and Hony is like them, being soon assimilated and converted into choler. Stewed Prunes with Tamarinds are good to cool, humect, and keep the body soluble; to restrain and bridle this active humour. Prunella's have the like effect, but not solutive. Eat Salads of Lettuce, Purslane, Sorrel, spinach and Violet-leaves; th●y are medicamental aliment. Delight thyself with Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Pomegranates, Apples, Quince Peaches▪ Apricocks, Damasens, Respas, Currants, Barberies, Strawberries, they are profitable to contemperate choler, cool and quench thirst, and very much refresh the parched spirits. Avoid Wine and strong Liquors; they agitate choler, and rouseth up thy sleeping enemy to disturb thee. Buttermilk, Whey and Cider are good physic to extinguish and allay preternatural heat, to check the effrenation of raging choler, and are like water to fire. Fast not but satisfy thy stomach when it calls for it: biting choler must have something to feed on, or it will pray upon thy body. Cherish and indulge sleep, it cools and moistens. Use little and moderate exercise: be not laborious but take thy ease. Avoid violent motion, it fires thy spirits, and enrageth choler, Fly Venus as a pernicious foe. Gold Baths is profitable and refresheth much, by cooling the blood, allaying the Spirits and concentring them. Banish anger, immoderate care, peevishness and fretting which discomposeth the spirits, heats and wastes them, augments choler, dries the body, and hastens old age. Refrain Tobacco as an injurious custom, it exasperates Choler, by heating, drying, and evacuating phlegm which contemperates, bridles, and checks the fury of acrid, sharp bilious humours. Melancholy Complexion. THe Melancholy person, naturally so from the first principles, is cold and dry: but a Melancholy temperament, acquired by Education, Customs and Accidents, by degeneration and admixture of other Humours adust, is hot and dry. Which makes the signs and symptoms of Melancholy to be different and various, and a difference is to be made in diet and customs. If Phlegm be admixed and adust, they are stupid, dull and heavy: if from blood adust, they are commonly of a high Ruddy Complexion, and incline to laughter, wit, and mirth: if from Choler they are bold, fierce and angry: if from Melancholy adust, they are sad, fearful, and solitary. The common Symptoms are a Pale, Black, or high Sanguine colour, lean body, and hairy, a little Head, large Veins, given to be watchful, sad, solitary, sudden laughter; a slow weak Pulse, troublesome sleeps and dreams. Cold Melancholy hath mild Symptoms: if hot and adust, the effects are more churlish and furious. For cold Melancholy, let the Diet be hot and moist; for the hot Melancholy Person, let diet be cooling and moist: in both let their meats be of light Digestion, affording good Nutriment; and not windy. As Mutton, Lamb, ●eale, Capon, Chicken, Hen, Partridge, Pheasant, etc. Abstain from Venison, Hare, Goat's flesh, Pigeon, Eeles, Salt Beef, salt fish, Geese, Ducks; dried meats, fried or broiled; old Cheese, Beans, Pease, Rye-bread. Refuse Cabbage and Coleworts. Potatoes and Parsnips good; Carrots and Turnips not hurtful, if the person be consumptive, hot and dry. Capers, Broom buds, and Sampire are good sauce, they open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen. Mustard and Vinegar bad, and all sour sauces, they make melancholy more contumacious and fixed. Spices not good, if the person be hot, they cause adustion. Use borage, bugloss, Endive, Succory, Baume, Fumiterry, Lettuce, Marygold-flowers, Violets, Clove-gillyflowers, Saffron, they altar and qualify the humour, and cheer the spirits. Use Barley Broths with Prunes, Raisins and Currants. If melancholy be adust, and your body hot and costive; eat apples, Cherries, Plums, Strawberries, and such like fruits, to cool and moisten. Drink W●ey, Cider and small white wines. Refuse black wines and stolen Beer. Keep the body soluble, your head will be more free from fumes, pain, and heaviness. Cherish sleep it refresheth the spirits, pacifieth a troubled mind, and banisheth cares. Fly idleness, the nurse of melancholy: Exercise often, and follow business. Walk in the green Fields, Orchards, Gardens, Parks, by Rivers, and variety of places. Change of Aire is very good. Avoid solitariness and keep merry company. Frequent Music, sports and games. Recreate the spirits with sweet, fragrant, and delightful smells. Moderate Venus good. Banish all p●ssio●s as much as in you lies, fear Grief, Despair, Revenge, desire, jealousy, emulation, and such like. Opus est te animo valere, ut corpore possis. Cicer. Tobacco naught (especially if melancholy be adust and a hot body) it heats, and exhausts humidity, makes melancholy more contumacious, Give not yourself to much study, nor night watch, they both dry the body, and make humours adust, two great enemies to a melancholy person. Physiological and Diaeteticall Observations and Counsels. IN the disquisition and diligent observation to know and find out your own constitution by certain Characters, you must not expect all be signs before mentioned in the particular complexions to meet in ●●e single person demonstrating this or that temperament: For there 〈◊〉 not to be found a person so phlegmatic, without the admixture of choler; nor so choleric without some phlegm; nor singley melancholy, without both; nor purely sanguine, but participating of all. From ●hence it is, the signs in this or that person are not all homogenous declaring one humour in particular, but mixed, as the hu●●urs also are different and mixed: but by comparing them together, 〈◊〉 may easily discern, which do exceed in number and which are ●●ongest in signification; from thence conclude such a humour to be predominate▪ and that to denominate the constitution; to which you ●ust have a constant eye, that it grow not too luxuriant and abounding, from whence diseases will arise according to the nature of that ●umour, if not rightly moderated, qualified, and kept ●●der. Your temperament being thus rightly examined and found out; will be no small advantage for the regulating all your actions and cu●●mes suitable thereto, either to preserve it in that state, if temperate; or reduce it from a distempered condition and sickly inclination; which duly and rationally may be performed if you follow the rules and presciptions in each particular Constitution appointed in the preceding pages. If your Constitution be Flegmatic, do what the choleric person is forbidden; but if Choleric▪ cleave to that the Phlegmatic person must avoid; if Sanguine, keep a mediocrity between both; if Melancholy; observe its proper remedies. Change your diet according to the seasons of the year, the variation of your temperament, and inclination to such or such a distemper. In Winter more meat, and less drink: In Summer less meat, and more liquids: In hot weather a cooling diet, in cold weather, that which is warm and heating. Temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things, and their like; distempered bodies are rectified and reduced by their contraries and dissimilar: a hot and dry body, must have a cooling and moist diet; a cold and moist body, a hot and dry diet. The variety of humours in man's body, impugning one another with their contrary qualities, are not easily kept in subjection, but by a diligent watch and strict observance, in your daily customs and practice: for by a careless and irregular course the equality of opposition is broken, and some particular humour grows predominate, which produceth distempers according to its nature, power, and height arrived at, and the condition of the subject or parts it chief infests. As the external colour of the body is various and divers, such are the humours internal abounding. The purity of the humours in man's body, render the mind mor● active, light, cheerful and airy. The grossness, feculency and impurity, makes a heavy indisposed and depraved mind, clogging the soul as with fetters. Who so prizeth the integrity and perfections of the mind▪ must hav● an especial care for the preservation of the body; being bettered o● made worse by each others changes and affects; for the Actions and Passions of the mind do very much follow and ar● subjected, to the temperament, nature, and quality of th● body. Exceed not in any thing, but keep to a Mediocrity which is most Durable, and agreeable to Nature for its preservation. Altar no custom suddenly, but by degrees, although from bad to better; sudden changes are Dangerous and Injurious to Nature, which acts Gradually, and by fit Mediums. Think not yourself secure in any ill Course or Custom (contrary to the Rational Laws and Rule of Physic) because you are not immediately Chastised with the Consequents and ill Effects thereof, concluding from thence all is Well; but know though the Errors be but small in one single Act, yet often repeated, Accumulate and Swell into great Distempers which manifest themselves in that Season of the year, most suitable to their own● Inclinations and Disposition for such Productions. The Heats and Colds taken in Summer▪ and the Luxuriant feeding on the Fruits of that season, produce dangerous Diseases in Autumn following. The intemperate, Erroneous practice of Winter discovers itself, and Rebukes your Folly, by a sickly Spring. The change of the Air and Constitution of the Seasons, makes Impression upon the Humours of the Body, inclining to this or that Distemper, as they are predisposed and vitiated by your own irregular Customs and Practice. Contemn not small Changes and Alterations in the Body, they are the Praeludiums, or warnings of greater to follow, but oppose them by a Rational Practice and due Ordering of yourself, in Eating and Drinking, Exercise and Rest, Air, Sleeping, and Watching, Venus, and Possions of the mind; refraining what may promote and aggravate your Morbific inclination, and Accustoming to that which Suppresseth and Checks it: being persuaded of this truth; the beginning of most Diseases are better cured by Regular Diet, and due Order, than Physic. Magna pars sanitatis bene moratus venture. Signs indicating Purgation. A Thick or muddy Urine, pale and thin, red and ill savoured, or often changing. Lassitude and indisposition for motion or action. Prickings or pain●● in the skin or flesh, erratic or fixed. The complexion altered: dulness and unwonted heaviness: restless watch: disturbed and troublesome sleep: sweatings in the night: fullness or distension of the belly and hypochonders: shortness of breath. A looseness or flux of humours stimulating to expulsion: gripe in the belly. Heaviness, pain, or weakness (without manifest cause) about the loins, thighs, or knees. These signs declare the body wants purging, Satius est morbo ingruenti occurrere, quam invalescenti cum periculo mederi. Advice and Cautions in Purging. IF your body be Costive, of a hot and dry constitution, prepare it some days before purging, with cool and moistening Broths, stewed Prunes, Whey, or the like. Your physic will operate much better, with less gripe, and more effectual. For a hot and dry body sucks in the Physic so strongly, that it cannot work freely and kindly, as otherwise it would do. If the weather be cold, correct i● with a warm Chamber, and good fire: if very hot; take your physic e●●ly at 5. of the clock, and keep little or no fire: in so doing, you may take physic at any time of the year safely, and with success, if occasion require. Draw the Curtains before your Windows, and darken the Chamber, until your Physic have done working. If your stomach be very weak and nauseating; and not from repletion: or if you be in a high and acute Fever, then use clysters. In all violent pains, and inflammations of what part soever; in all contumacious obstructions of the Guts, take no purging physic but by Clyster, until the body be open, and th● spirits allayed. Retain no purging Clyster above an hour, but part with it. Esteem not the goodness of your purge by the quantity and number of stools; but by the quality of them, and the effects afterwards. Covet not strong purges, to have many stools in a day (a common Error) which offers violence to nature, and forcibly sweeping down both good & bad together: but rather endeavour to attract the offending cause gently, by degree●, intermitting a day or two, giving nature time for separation of humours, you will find it much more beneficial, nature more kindly assisting, and less weakened. On the intermitting days, keep a good diet, with opening Broth and spoon-meat, to keep your body fluid, and ready for the next day's operation: beware of cold that you obstruct not your body and occlude the passages & ductures before laid open, which will cause your Physic to work with torsions and gripe, and less effectual. If the Morbific Cause lie in the stomach or bowels being in the passage, ready and near the place of Evacuation: you will not need so strong physic, nor so often purging, as when it is seated in parts more remote and at distance. Delude not yourself with one day's purge, expecting great matters from it; you must know, the first Dose stirs up more humours than it can evacuate, and until they be carried away, you cannot expect your desired effect, which will be after 3. or 4 days purging (time little enough to cleanse a foul body) but let it be with intermission of a day or two. Take your purging Pills, or Electuary, early in bed, lie an hour, after that hour you may sleep, but not longer: when it gins to operate Sleep not, nor lie down until your Physic have done working; except you be weak, and your physic work, strongly; then towards the latter end, you may lie down to refresh you, but not sleep except there be occasion to stay the working. Drink a little thin Broth between your stools, made with a bit of Veal or Mutton, a Crust of bread, a Fennel and Parcely Root: if you be opposite to Broth, drink Posset drink of small Ale or Beer. But if you have a ho● Costive body, drink plain Whey, it is better then either, and your Physic will work more freely and easily. Eat your Dinner 5 or 6 hours after your Physic taken, abstain no longer. All Pills are most easily swallowed with a little Beer or posset drink in a spoon. Signs for Vomiting. Fullness or oppression at the Stomach nauseating, loathing or vomiting. Loss of appetite and digestion, through soulness of the stomach. Perturbation and trouble about the stomach and parts adjacent, by Humours floating upwards, having a tendency that way for Evacuation. Bitter, or Acide belchings into the mouth. Heat, and break out in the mouth and lips. Opprime dum nova sunt subiti mala semina morbi. Ovid. Advice and Cautions in Vomiting. TAke your Vomit early in the morning, your stomach will sooner nauseate and discharge itself, and your Vomit work more freely and easily, when humours are floating and active. If you be strong take it fasting; if weak or hard to vomit, eat a Mess of Water-gruel with Butter in it, a little b●fore. Be very lose about your Stomach and Belly, that the Muscles may distend and contract, without Compression and interruption of their motion. Drink small Beer Posset-drink, or warm water between your Vomits; and the more you drink the easier will you vomit, and sooner finish the operation. Lie not down until your Vomit have done working, except you intent to check the Operation: but if you be weak, and not well able to endure up longer; you may safely, it will refresh you, but sleep not. When it hath done working, take two or three spoonfuls of Claret Wine boiled with a little Mint and Cinnamon, and lie to sleep. Where there is Youth, or fit Age, strength of Nature, Custom or Facility and aptness for Vomiting; they may boldly and profitably use this way of evacuation, and discharge Nature's burden and oppression in the Spring, Summer, or Autumn, when some of the foregoing signs do prompt and indicate the s●me. But if there be decay in Nature, and great weakness, debility of stomach by long sickness, or old Age; if with Child, or subject to fits of the Mother, or Swooning; If the Head be weak and infirm, the Neck Long, Sl●nder, and straight-brested; the Lungs and Vital parts weak, or consumptive, or difficult and hard to vomit, or have a Rupture: let such persons avoid vomiting as dangerous and hurtful, but rather choose to draw the offending Cause downwards by Clyster, Pills, etc. Advice and Cautions for Sweeting, with its Effects and Benefits. CHoleric and dry bodies, neither sweat easily, nor well endure it. For Phlegmatic serous and Sanguine constitutions, sweeting is more facile and beneficial, and nature more prompt. In cold, and moist Diseases, sweeting profits much: as Palsies, Rheums, Gouts, Dropsy, etc. For Swarthy and muddy Complexions, discolourations and spots upon the skin, that arise from a foul Cachectic body; after due purgation, sweeting depurates, thinns and clears the skin. In cold Constitutions, and where the blood is gross, thick and impure, causing obstructions in the smaller vessels, or slow of motion; moderate breathing sweats clarifies the blood, attenuates, rarefies, and helps circulation. All inflations by wind, or serous and watery humours that tumefie the skin, sweeting transpires, evaporates and breathes out. In all Malignant, Contagious and Pestilential Fevers; as Plague, small Pox, Measles, spotted Fever, and the like; sweeting Cordials is your chiefest help. In all Contusions and Bruises, tumours and collection of Humours; after Phlebotomy and convenient purgation, by clyster or otherwise, to retract the confluence of humours resorting thither; sweeting and Diaphoritick Medicines, resolves, dissipates and scatters them, and relieves the part affected. Wind and flatulent vapours in any Concave part engirt and kept in, by inveterate obstructions of the Ductures and passages, sweeting opens the Pores, discusseth and by insensible transpiration sends them forth. In all Defluxions and destillations to the Eyes, Lungs, Joints or other parts; sweeting moderates and abates the Antecedent Cause, diverts the course and current of the humour, and is very profitable. In degenerations of the blood, Crudity, Acidity, Coagulation, putrefaction, etc. gentle breathing sweats procures fermentation, concoction, rarefaction, depuration, and conduceth much to its restitution. Body's subject to sweeting in the night, either want purging, or else feed too plentifully. Take no sweeting Medicine until you have first purged, unless the emergency and present necessity of the occasion, does not permit such a delay; as in Diseases of a Malignant, contagious, and venenate quality. First purge to cleanse and carry away the fi●th and grosser matter in the stomach and bowels, the fittest for that way of evacuation (that you drive it not into the habit of the body) then sweat to purify the blood and external parts. In the Venereal Disease, when the blood and spi●its is tainted and vitiated with a peculiar virulency and Malignity; to use proper and Specific Diaphoretics and sweeting Medicines, is the safest, and best way for cure. Praemissis praemittenda. Indications, Advice and Cautions for Bleeding, with its Effects and Benefits. IF your veins be full and distended, breathe a vein, or be very temperate, you are then subject to many distempers from plenitude. If you feel a heaviness or oppression of Spirits, a quick pulse and shortness of breath; open a Vein for Ventilation, and you will find alleviation and refreshment. In peracute and burning Fevers, and all dangerous inflammations, as Plurifies, Quinsies, Frenzies, etc. open a Vein speedily, by day or night, notwithstanding any contrary indication to forbid it. In all violent and sudden pains contusions, and hot tumours collecting, open a Vein to prevent a Fever, and to retract the Current of humours resorting to the part affected. In all Diseases from plenitude, or conjunct with it, threatening suffocation and sudden death; as Lethargies, Convulsion, Epilipsie, Suffocating Catarrhs, Hysteriacll passions, Palpitations of the Heart, rising of the Lungs, and such like, Blood-letting is very necessary, and beneficial. In all Evacuations of blood imoderate, and hurtful, whether at the Nose, by Stool, Urine, Vomiting, Spitting, Haemorrhoides, or monthly Purgations, arising from Plenitude. Heat, Acrimony, or attenuation of the blood; open a vein for revulsion to turn the course and current, take blood a little at once, by a discreet Chirurgeon; it is proper, safe and beneficial. In all Malignant and contagious Fevers, whether Plague, Small Pox, Spotted Fever or the like: in the beginning, and before there be any appearance outwardly upon the skin, if the Fever be intense and high, open a vein to mitigate and abate vehement Symptoms: but afterwards when Nature hath separated, protruded and brought forth the Malignity to the skin, opening a vein, retracts and draws back again; weakens and discourageth Nature, and is very dangerous and mortal. To prevent Abortion in Women with child, subject to miscarry by reason of plenitude and fullness of blood; breathing a vein at the Arm is very necessary for her safety. In all Fevers requiring Phlebotomy, let it be done in the beginning when Nature is strong, and the Distemper less prevalent. After long and wasting sickness, take heed of blood letting. In Women and fat bodies take blood sparingly; in men and lean bodies, and those who have large veins, take more freely. If the Mass of blood be wholly vitiated and naught, be sparing in Blood letting; but purify it by gentle Purgation, Sweeting, medicamental Aliment and proper diet. Before ten, and after sixty years' age, let no Vein be opened but upon urgent occasion. If the Disease be great and urgent, requiring large Evacuation, and Nature imbecile and weak; take blood at twice or thrice, itermitting 6 or 12 hours' distance, as the skilful Chirurgeon shall see cause. When Phlebotomy and Purgation are both required, and the Dis●ase seated in the Veins and habit of the body; first bleed then purge: but if otherwise, and chief in the stomach, bowels, and parts adjacent; first purge, then bleed. If there be suppression of a wont Evacuation, and detrimental, or obstruction contrary to the Law of Nature; open a Vein to exonerate and alleviate for the present, Nature will be betteer able to relieve itself for the future. In Symptomatical translations of a turgid humour, aestuations and ebullitions of the blood; causing a general perturbation, or erratic pains, restl●ssenesse and unquiet watch in the night; Breathing a Vein Refrigerates, Alleys, and checks the effrenation of humours. For Anniversary and imminent Diseases, arising from Plenitude, and Luxuriant blood: opening a Vein anticipates and prevents them. In vehement Distempers requiring Phlebotomy, look not upon the quality of the blood, but make detraction according to the quantity, having respect to the strength of the Patient. After Phlebotomy use a spare and good Diet, that you fill not your Veins with crudities, and ill humours. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Isiodor. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The Physician's ARMOURY, wherein you may view A Magazine of Rare Medicines, Classically distributed and digested: Specificly appropriated; properly denominated; moderately prized; the full Doses in each Medicine numbered; the duration of each Medicine in its full virtue justly limited. Appropriation. Denomination. Doses Duration months. Price. shil. pence To the Brain. Capital Pills, 2 18 1 8 Epileptic Powder. 3 24 1 6 Cephalic Electuary. many 12 1 6 Catarrh Pills. 4 18 1 4 Epileptic Amulet. 1 12 2 0 Fuming Powder. many 36 1 0 Eyes. Opthalmic Water. many 12 1 6 Heart. Bezoardic Antidote 3 24 1 8 Cordial Tincture. 3 24 1 6 Lungs Pectoral Electuary many 12 1 8 Asthmatic Pills many 18 1 6 Hectio Confection. many 6 1 8 Stomach. Digestive Electuary. many 9 1 6 Stomach Pills. 2 18 1 6 Great Elixir. many 24 1 8 Emetic Tincture. 1 12 1 0 Liver and Spleen Hydropic Powder. 2 18 1 6 Splenetic Pills. 2 18 1 6 Spleen Plaster. 1 12 1 8 Scorbute Tincture. many 24 1 8 Guts. Discussive Powder. 3 18 1 6 Retentive Electuary 2 9 1 6 Tincture for worms. many 18 1 0 Pills for worms. 3 12 1 6 Clyster Electuary. 1 12 1 4 Reins and Bladder. Nephritic pills. 6 18 1 8 Roborating pills. 5 18 1 6 Srengthning plaster. 1 12 1 6 Genital parts. Restringent powder. many 24 1 8 Antivenereall pills. 2 18 2 0 Expulsive powder. 1 12 2 0 Hysterical powder. 3 12 1 6 Feminine Pills. 2 18 1 8 women's preservative 4 12 2 0 Joints Arthritic pills. 2 18 2 0 Miscellaneous and General Medicines. Catholic Pills. 1 18 1 0 Aperitive Powder. 3 24 1 6 Sudorific Pills 1 18 1 0 Haematic Powder. 4 24 1 6 Purgative Electuary. 1 9 1 0 Issue Plasters. 4 24 1 0 Febrific Antidote. 3 12 1 8 Camphire Powder. many 24 1 6 Cosmetic water. many 12 2 0 General Instructions for the Doses, and Quantities, necessary to be observed in the taking of any Medicine: and the right Manner of keeping and preserving them from decay. A Dose is the just and due quantity of a Medicine to be taken, or used at once. The full Dose is for men and women of strength, but if they be weak and tender bodies, or by experience have found, that less will operate with them then other bodies require, let such take the Doses for the age 14 prescribed, I mean chief in vomiting, or purging Medicines. Observe the quantities prescribed for the several Ages, and rather offend under then over, the next Dose you may amend by taking a little more, if the first be too weak, there is no harm in that. After the first Dose of any Medicine taken, your own reason and ability of body, will easily direct you in the next, whether to keep to the same, to augment, or diminish: for you must know the difference of bodies is such in operation, that they require oftentimes a different quantity for their proportion to produce the like effect, which cannot exactly be determined and appointed, by the prescience of the most skilful Physician, until the first Experiment and trial of their bodies. Therefore slight not any Medicine if it answers not your expectation at the first, but prove it farther, and alter the quantity, more or less, as you find it requisite for your purpose and condition of body. But let me Caution you this: In Chronic Diseases that are slow of Motion, and gives you sufficient time for Cure, never desire strong Physic, but imitate Nature which acts Gradually and gently, does nothing Hastily and Violently. Physic can do nothing of itself, but as an Auxiliary and help to Nature; and if Nature does not Cooperate, you must expect no benefit: therefore if you go nature's pace, you will have Nature assisting with the means: but if you be hasty and put all your hopes in the strength of your Physic, and strive to do as much in one day as is fit for three day's work, you precipitate Nature, defame good Medicines, and wrong your own body. But when the Disease is vehement and acute, threatening sudden death, as Apoplexy, Lethargy and the like; then use sharp and quick Medicines, because the time for cure is but short, and will admit of no delay. Vehementi malo, forti omnino auxilio opus est. What Medicines you would keep for a long time, to serve for accidental occasions; set them in dry places, not near the ground, or damp walls, nor in the open air, and they will remain in their virtue and goodness according to their several times prefixed, in the preceding Table of Medicines. The Virtues, right Use, and Due Quantities of each Medicine particularly and distinctly Declared. For the Head; THe Capital Pills purge and cleanse the Brain from all superfluous Humours, that stupefy and dull the Rational Faculty, or obstruct and hinder the right Operation of the Sensitive: they quicken the Memory, open the Ventricles of the brain, and free the Nerves from obstructions; conducing much to the cure of all infirmities seated in the Head and Nerves; as Convulsions, Falling-sickness, Apoplexy, Palsies, Vertigoes, Rheums, Headache, dull sight or hearing: by taking away the Antecedent Cause that generates and produceth them. Take them 3 or 4 days with intermission of a day or two, observing the directions for purging, in the 16, 17, 18 pages. The full Dose is 5 Pills: for 14 years old 3 pills: for seven years, 2 pills. The Epileptic Powder, is a specific Remedy against Convulsions, and Convulsive motions in Children. In the fit, observe by laying your hand, if there be a rising or working at the child's stomach, than put a Feather anointed with Oil of sweet Olmonds into the throat, and cause the Child to vomit up that suffocating phlegm and crude matter that oppresseth; afterwards give a Dose of this Powder: but if there be no heaving at the stomach; apply a blistering plaster between the shoulders, and give the powder: you will see a good effect. The Dose for 7 years old is one paper: for 3 years half a paper: for a year old, ten grains: for half a year, 6 grains, to be given in small Cinnamon water or Sack, if the Child be two years old; if under, in black Ch●rry water or Paeony. For prevention, give it 2 or 3 mornings together, at the first quarter of the Moon, and Full. The Cephalic Electuary is a peculiar Medicine composed against infirmities of the Head; it Roborates the Brain and Nerves exceedingly, Concocts and Exsiccates abounding moisture, that produceth d●fluxions of Rheum's, Scrofulous tumors and swell of the Uuula, or Almonds of the Ears, confirms and restores the memory, acuates and sharpens the sight and hearing, very proper and beneficial for all persons that are Epileptic, Cataleptic, Apoplectic, Paralytic, subject to Convulsions, trembling of the Nerves, that hath a weak brain and infirm head. Take the quantity of a Nutmeg or more, fasting, upon a Knife's point, or in Rosemary posset which is better. You may eat an hour after, and follow your business. The Catarrh Pills, stops thin Rheums that distil from the Head into the Breast, procures quiet sleep, incrassates the the Rheum, and prevents coughing in the night; being intended only for such as are molested with coughing in the night, but in the day use Pectoral Medicines hereafter mentioned, for the Lungs. Take them when you first lie down in bed two or three nights together, or every other night: they purge not. The full Dose is two pills, no more: for ten years old, one pill. The Epileptic Amulet, is a good preservative against the Falling sickness, Apoplexy, conulsions, Catalepsy, fits of the Mother, Incubus, or Night Mare, and Vertigoes. Whose virtual scent comforts the brain, dissipates and expels all Noxious Vapours and Fumes that arise up to the head and afflict the brain and Nerves with those Symptoms, prevents, retards, or abates them in their return. To be worn about the neck constantly next to the skin, by all persons so diseased, young and old. The Fuming Powder, is very proper and fit for all those that have a cold, moist, or weak brain, it exsiccates and dries up Rheums, and all superfluous moisture, that causeth Distillations upon the Lungs, sore eyes, toothache and such like, and also strengthens the head and Nerves much. Use it morning and night, thus: strew a little upon hot Coals in a Chaffing-dish, and hold your head clothes, or cap over the swoake, so put them on warm. For the Eyes. THe Opthalmick Water, is excellent for sore Eyes, it restrains a Flux of Humours that resorts thither, cools any inflammation there, mitigates any sharp Humour that causeth itching, heat, or readness, clears the sight and strenthens it. Use it thus: Dip a fine cloth or feather in the water; and wash your eyes night and morning in bed. In the interim refuse no good means to take away the Antecedent cause, as blood-letting and purging, where it is requisite. For the Heart. THe Bezoardic Antidote, is a most Sovereign Cordial against the Plague; it powerfully expels poisons, removes oppressions at the heart, and any surfeit or overcharging of the stomach, drives out all Putrid matter and Malignity, whether received by infectious and unwholesome Airs, or otherwise generated in the body: very effectual in the small Pox, Mesels, spotted Fever to bring forth their Malignity to the skin, and to prevent returning inwards; of excellent use in all sudden sicknesses in young or old, to defend the heart and vitals, until the distemper manifest itself. Take it on a knife's point, or in posset-drink, or any Cordial water, and sweat as oft as occasion requires. The full Dose is the third part of the Medicine: for 14 years a fourth part; for 7 years old, a Dram; for 4 years half a dram, for 2 years 20 grains. This great Composition is made as followeth, Antidote Bezoard. Rec. Rad. Contrayer, untias tres. Scorzoner. gentian. Angel. histort. Petasit. Torment. Pimpinel. imperator. Dictam. alb. Zedoar. Vincetox. ana Uncias duas. Troch. de Viper. Unciam unam semis. C. Cer. philosoph. praep. Terrae Lem. boliarmen. ana unciam unam. Fol. Scordii galeg. Card. bened. 〈◊〉 ●cifae 〈◊〉 Cret: ana drachmas sex. Baccar. Junip. lauri, Cherm. sem. Citri. Acetoes, thlaspios napi Oeymi poenioe. gran● parad. ana semuncium. Flor. Calend. Tunicae. Croci macis Caryophill. lign. Aloes. resinost. Myrrhae Castor. alexiter. Vegiteb. nostr. ossis de Cord. Cerui ana drachmus tre●. Lap. Bezoard. oricut. & occident. Margaritar. praep. Alexipharmac. Mineral. nostr. Cap●ur. Elixir. Bezoard nostr. opii. Praep. ana drachmus du●r▪ Syr. Cimon. q. s. P. Elictuar un. S. artem. The Cardiall Tincture, is excellent for fainting fits, it cheers the heart, restores the Vital Spirits, and quickens decayed nature in feeble and weak persons,; comforts and warms a cold stomach, helps digestion, expels wind, and melancholy vapours that afflict the heart; very good in Palpitations of the heart, or oppression at stomach through Crudities and Indigestion. To be taken at any time night or day, when any the aforesaid distempers require it. The full Dose is a spoonful and half: for 14 years one spoonful: for 7 years old, half a spoonful, and so proportionably to younger. For the Lungs. THe pectoral Electuary stays defluxions of sharp rheums that fall upon the Lungs, mitigates their acidity and saltness which endangers Corosion, easeth your Cough, strenthens and defends the Lungs, prevents a Consumption, and is singular for these purposes worth your knowledge, and use. To be taken at any time, the quantity of a Nutmeg or more, when your Cough requires it, but chief at night and morning in bed. The Asthmatic Pills, is a great preservative to weak and decayed Lungs, opens Obructions and stops in the Breast, helps difficulty of breathing, old Coughs and shortness of breath, concocts tough Phlegm and brings it up easily, or prepares it to be purged downwards. Take them in the morning fasting, and at 4 of clock afternoon; 2 or 3 pills at a time; they purge not. These Pills are very beneficial for cold, moist, and phlegmatic constitutions; but if you have a Hectic Fever, or have a dry Cough, or it proceeds from a sharp, hot, and thin rheum; then this medicine is not so proper as the foregoing, and this that follows. The Hectic Confection, i● very well approved for Consumption coughs, and those that have a hot and dry constitution, or a Hectic Fever; it cools, moistens, and restores the Radical moisture very much: easeth the breast that's pained with couging, and loosens the phlegm: it helps a dry Cough and procures expectoration; is very restorative for consumptive and lean persons. Take the quantity of a Nutmeg or Chestnut as oft as you ●lease, and occasion requires, but not soon after meat. For the Stomach. THe Digestive Electuary, helps Concoction, and closeth the mouth of the stomach; repr●ss●th Fumes and Vapours that rise up to the head after meat; sh●rp●ns the Appetite, and is very pleasant and grateful to the stomach. Take the quantity of a Nutmeg half an hour after Dinner and Supper. The Stomach Pills ●ffectually cleanseth the first Region of the body; carries away all vicious Humours and indigested matter, that clogs the stomach, hinders digestion, dulls the Appetite, and which corrup●s good Nutriment received: prevents and cures Fluxes, Gripe and pains ih the Stomach and Bowels, from sharp biting Choler, or flatulent Crudity: Attracts and draws away all viscous, slime, and gross phlegm, that generates obstructions from whence many Diseases arise. Take them three or four times, Spring and Autumn, or at other temperate seasons, if occasion require, observing the directions and cautions for purging in the 16, 17, 18 pages. The full dose is six pills; for 14. years, 4 pills, for ten years old, 3 pills. The Great Elixir, strengthens a weak stomach very much, procures good digestion and appetite; takes away crudities, nauseousness and sour belchings from off a raw stomach, and fortifies it exceedingly, but if the stomach be very foul, stuffed and clogged with gross flegmatic humours, or hot Choleric humours fluctuating and broiling upon the stomach; then first cleanse downward with the stomach pills; or upwards by vomit with the Emetic Tincture: afterwards strengthen with this Elixit, and you will find a great alteretion both for Appetite and Concoction. To be taken in a little Sack, or other Wine most agreeable to your stomach (but not alone) in the morning, fasting an hour after; and at 4 of clock afternoon. The full Dose is 30 drops: but for young people and children so many drops as they are years old. Shake the Bottle when you use it. The Emetic Tincture dichargeth the Stomach by Vomit, of all Superfluous, Crude and Noxious Humours that fluctuate upon the Stomach, or lodge in the parts adjacent; it takes away bitter and Acid Eructations and Belchings, Vellications and Gripes in the Stomach from Bilious Humours, very proper and successful in the cure of Agnes Obstructions of the Liver and Gall, which causeth the Yellow Jaundice: takes away immoderate thirst and heat of the Stomach, by Evacuating Choler and Humours dust: Cleanseth from all impurities, and makes the Stomach fit for Reception of wholesome Food●; make it a little Warm and take it according to the Directions for Vomiting, set down in the 18, 19 pages. The full Dose is the whole Medicine, for Men and Women of strength: but for tender bodies, and for the age 15, take but three parts of it. Liver and Spleen. THe Hydropic Powder, is a peculiar Medicine that attracts all serous and watery humours from any par● of the body and evacuates them; opens obstructions of the Liver and Mesaraick veins, and is the most effectual purge for Dropsies that I know. Take it in a little Posset drink or white Wine warmed fasting, 2 or 3 mornings in a week and keep house, eat not until noon; observe the directions for purging in the 16, 17, 18 pages. The full Dose is one paper; for the age 14. three parts of a p●per, or but half if a weak or tender person; and so proportionably to younger. The days you purge not, drink a good draught of Wormwood wine, and eat some white Biscuit every morning, and at 4 of clock afternoon. The Splenetic Pills, opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, easeth their pains, and carries away the obstructing humours, abates their tumours, and distension of the Hypochonders and softens them: Very useful and proper in the cure of the Jaundice both Black and Yellow, Hypochondriac Melancholy, the Scurvy and such like seated in those parts, by purging away the feculent matter that subside and obstruct the vessels. Take them twice or thrice, observing the directions for purging in the 16, 17. 18 pages of this Book. The full dose is six pills; for 14 years, 4 pills: for ten years old, 3 pills. The Spleen Plaster, is excellent for Pains and tumours of the Liver and Spleen, to disperse the Wind, and dissipate collected humours, and to soften any scirrhus hardness in those parts. Apply it to the pained place, the hollous fide inward, towards the belly, and let it stick on a fortnight or three weeks. But with all remember the foregoing Pills, to Evacuate and empty the vessels distended and obstructed with wind and humours, and to clear the passages and Ductures, as the Plaster removes, agitates and drives back the offending cause. The Scorbute Tincture, is a specific and most certain Remedy against the Scurvy, sufficiently experimented and approved. To be taken (most exactly and properly) in Rhenish Wine and the juce of Orange, every morning, fasting, Spring and Fall, for two or three weeks; also at other time● of the year if occasion require. The full Dose is half a spoonful: for fourteen years a third part. If the body be soul forget not to purge. For the Guts. THe Discussive powder, pen●trates, opens, discusseth and expels wind and all flatulent Vapours that distend and puff up the Belly and Hypochonder●; helps the Colic, and iliac passion, and all distempers, pains, and gripes, from wind or cold In the Guts and Stomach. Take it in warm Posset drink, at any time when occasion requires: If you boil a little Liquorice in the Posset drink, you add to the goodness of the Medicine, The full Dose is one Paper: for 14 years old, half a Pap●r. Also that a more free passage and vent for the wind may be given, take the following Clyster, if your body be costive, or the occasion urgent and extreme. The Retentive Electuary, stop● all Fuxes of the belly, by attracting and collecting the peccant humour only, that stimulates to expulsion, and by and Evacuates and sends it forth, whether it be sharp, bilious, or acide serous humours; a saline irritating phlegm, a stinking corrupt Colliquation, or Acride and Adust Melancholy; having also an astringent Virtue to bind afterwards, and to roborate the Retentive faculty, the offending cause being removed; this is the only way to expel the cause, stop the Flux, and prevent danger that may ensue. To be taken on a knife's point fasting three or four mornings together, more or less as the greatness of the occasion requires, until the Cause be Eradicated, the Flux stayed, and all Symptoms allayed: Women with child may safely take it, or any person whatsoever. The full Dose is half the Medicine: for 14 years, a third part: for 7 years old a fourth part. Keep house, for cold provokes the Flux; neither eat or drink of two hours after the Medicine, and then Almond Milk or Whey is the best you can take; which you may drink freely night or day, if you be gripped in the belly. The Tincture for Worms, is excellent for young Children that cannot take the following Pills, having the same effects, save only it purgeth not: therefore give it in a little Syrup of Rhubarb, or Roses, if that cannot be had, 2 or 3 morning's new Moon and full. The Dose is 12 drops for six years old; 8 drops to 4 years; 4 drops to 2 years old. The Pills for Worms, both kills, and prevents their breeding, by carrying away the putrid matter whereof they are generated, cleansing the stomach and bowels from filthy corrupt humours; restores the stomach and complexion thereby decayed, amends the ill savour of the breath; and corrects many other Symptoms which worms produce. Take them two mornings together, new Moon and full; observing the general directions for purging in the 16, 17, 18, pages of this book. The Clyster Electuary, is very useful and of speedy help, in all pains and gripe of the Belly, Cholic, Stone, Spleen, Costiveness, Fevers, pains in the head and upper parts, by drawing the offending Cause downwards and evacuating it: very fit for those that can take no puring Physic but this way: it attracts Choler, Phlegm and Melancholy. Use it thus. Take a pint and half of Ale poss●t, half a handful of Fennell s●eds bruised grossly, or anise, boil these to a plat, strain it: in this liquor then dissolve the Electuary, put it in your Clyster bag fitted, and give it warm, then lie upon your back and retain it half an hour or 3 quarters if you can: you may repeat it if occasion require: you will find great ease, and sudden he●p. For children give but half, or a third part, more or less according to their age. For the Reins and Bladder: THe Nephritic Pills, cleanseth the Reins and Bladder of sand and gravel that generates the stone, opens the Urinary passages and frees them from slimy, or any gross matter that obstructs the Ureters, they provoke Urine, cool the Reins, prevents the stone, helps the Strangury and suppression of Urine. Take them 2 or 3 mornings in a week fasting, (at any time of the year, when occasion requires) an hour after drink a good draught of White Wine and Ale, then follow your business; they purge not by stool, but by Urine only. The Dose is 5 pills: for 14 years 3 pills. The Roborating Pills, are very good to strengthen a weak back in man or woman, to stay the whites, helps the retentive faculty of the Bowels and natural parts, strengthens the Old age and weak persons. Take them two or three mornings in a week, in bed early, sleep after them, when you rise drink a glass of Mulkadine, and follow your business. The Dose is 5 pills: for 14 years, 3 pills. The Strengthening Plaster is of excellent use in all strains and weakness of the back, removeth pain and Aches there, giveth strength to the Spine bone, and knits a lose back; it likewise helps all tumours, pain, and stiffness in any part, by falls, blows, hard labour or cold; it helps all Weakness, Spraines, and Wrenches of any joint, strengthens the Ligaments, comforts the Sinews, and draws out superfluous moisture that relaxeth any part, or causeth pain, and defends it from a flux of humours. Apply it to the grieved part, and let it stick on three or four weeks, it will restore and help you of your infirmity. For the Genital Parts. THe Restringent Powder, stays a Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins, so called; mitigates and assuageth pain that proceeds from any sharp or hot humour in the Privities of man or woman; heals any Exulceration there, takes away any itching or troublesome heat, cools much, and restrains effectually the debility and weakness of the spermatick vessels. Use it thus: take a pint of Plantain water, half a pint of White wine, one paper of this powder, mix them well, by shaking it together in a bottle; then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night, you will find great help and ease. But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent, and proceed from the Pox; than it is requisite also that you take the following Pills to purge and cleanse your body from that Malignity and virulency wherewith the humours are tainted and vitiated. For if you stop the Gonorrhaea and do not also take away the impurity of the Disease, you retain it in the body to your prejudice. The Antivenereall Pills, are a specific Remedy against the French Pox to cleanse and purify the body from any infection and putrid matter arising from thence; they purge downward, all foulness of the body, and by a peculiar propriety attract the venom of that Disease. The full Dose is 4 pills: for tender and weak persons 3 pills is sufficient. Take them 5 or six times every third or fourth day, according as you find the ability of your body, and the operation, observing the directions for purging in the 16, 17, 18, pages of this Book. After the first Dose of Pills, if you be young and sanguine, or of a hot constitution, or so acquired by this Disease, then let a a Vein be opened in the arm, and take blood at the discretion of your Chirurgeon. After purging you may sweat 3 or 4 times with the Sudorfiic Pills to purify the blood, see page 43. The Expulsive powder, is an approved help for the safe delivery of Women in labour when all other means have failed, giving strength both to the Woman and Child, and speedily procureth the birth by God's help. Give it in a spoonful of Cinnamon water, at the due time for delivery, and no time else. The Dose is one paper. The Hysterical Powder, is a specific remedy against fits of the Mother, very soon abates their violence, disperseth the Vapours, shortens the fit, and reduceth the Patient to her sense and reason. Give it once or twice that day you have them, in half a pint of Spring water cold. For prevention take it once in a fortnight or 3 weeks, in the morning fasting. The Dose is one paper. The Feminine Pills, cleanseth and opens all obstructions of the Matrix, cures the green Sickness, effectually, and restores the complexion, prevents fits of the Mother, in those that are subject to it, and disperseth the vapours; brings the terms into their right order according to the course of Nature, and purgeth women excellently. Take them 3 or 4 times observing directions for purging in the 16 17, 18 page's of this book The full Dose is 6 pills: for 15 years: 5 pills, or but 4, if she be a tender body and easy to operate. The women's Preservative; is an excellent Powder, very successful and of great use to prevent miscarrying in Women with child: also very Cordial and strengthening for weak women. Take it once or twice in a week fasting, in a glass of Muscadel; you may forbear taking the last month of your time. The Dose is one pap●r. Bu● beware of Dancing, stretching, leaping, carrying of any weighty thing, riding, sudden motion, fear, or grief straight lacing, surfeiting and ill diet which break out into Fluxes, and are very d●ngerous for woman in this condition. For the joints. THe Arthritic P●lls are a peculiar approved Remedy for the Gout, in the Feet, Knees, Hippolito, or Hands; whether fixed in one joint, or erratic from place to place: they Attract the Peccant humour from the Joints, and Evacuates it by siege; they also purge ou● Phlegmatic, Serous, and Choleric humours, and clang the body well. The Dose is 4 pills for man or woman: tender and weak bodies may take 3: observe the general directions for purging in the 16, 17 18 pages. For prevention, take them 2 or 3 days in the middle of March, and at the beginning of September; if blood abounds open a vein to abate it: but if the pain hath seized you already, and that violently, open a vein to prevent a Fever, to retract the current of humours, and to abate the fierceness of it: if pain be in the right Leg, open a vein in the right arm; if in the left Leg, open a vein in the left arm; if pain be in the right arm, open a vein in the left arm, and so the contrary: take blood according to age, strength, plenitude, & greatness of the cause, as the skilful Surgeons sees fit: In the interim make use of the Camphire powder to assuage pain, as it is directed in the 45 page. After bleeding, the day following take the pills, and the next night after. Miscellaneous and General Medicines. THe Catholic Pil's purge Choler, Phlegm and Melancholy from all parts of the body, carries away all superfluous and putrid humours that seetle or fix in any part to breed diseases: they prevent Fevers, Agues, Fluxes, break out upon the skin, Itch, Imp●st●umes; takes away all filthy matter that engender worms, and keeps the body clean and pure. Take them 2 or 3 day's Spring and Autumn, or at other temperate seasons if occasion require; ob erving the directions for purging in the 16, 17, 18 pages of this book. The full Dose is 4 pills: for 14 years old, or tender bodies 3 pills: for 7 years 1 pill. The Aperitive Powder very effectually opens all obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, Guts, Pancreas, Mesentery and Matr●x, and is very useful and necessary in ●he cures of Hypo●hondriae Melancholy, Scurvy, Dropsies, Cholic, tumours or p●in●s in the Liver and Spleen, the Green-sickness especially, and all Disease's arising from obstructions. Take it fasting in Rhenish, wormwood, or plain White Wine, 2 or 3 mornings together, before purging; and also th● intermitting days between purging, and stir about or use exercise after: it prepares and opens the body excellently, whereby your purging Physic will operate more effectually for your purpose and expedite your business. The Dose is one paper: for 14 years 3 parts of a Paper. The Sudorific Pills, procures sweat excellently and purifies the blood, dries up rheums and watery humours abounding; diverts distillations from the Lungs and other parts; are a great preservative against the running gout, or fixed; expels all putrid humours by transpiration; drives out all colds newly taken, or old; helps old aches; prevents & cures agues, fevers, small pox, measles and all Diseases generated of putrefaction, and is the most pleasant and easy Medicine you can desire for sweeting. You may take them two or three mornings fasting in bed covered warm; a quarter of an hour after, drink a good draught of Rosemary posset; or Lemmon posset if you be Feverish, and sweat 2 hours; then take off clothes by degrees and cool carefully, and beware of cold afterwards, the Pores of the body being open. The full Dose is 4 pills: for 14 year, 3 pills: for 9 years 2 pills. The Haematic Powder, restrains immoderate flowing of the terms, and stays all issues of blood, whether by Stool, Urine, Vomiting, or Spitting. Take it in a draught of Veriuce posset cold, morning and evening, and if the party be young or Sanguine, take away a little blood at the Arm, by a discreet Chirurgeon to divert the course; it is safe and proper. The full Dose is one Paper: for 15 years old, 3 parts of it. The Purgative Electuary is a general purge that clean seth all parts, and takes away both Choler, Phlegm, and Melancholy; very useful for those which cannot take Pills, or have a costive and dry body. Take it in the morning early, on a knife's point; or mix it with posset drink and make a potion if you please; observing directions for purging in the 16, 17, 18, pages of this Book. The full Dose is the whole Medicine: for 14 years old, 3 parts of it: for ten years, half: for 7 years a third part. The Issue Plasters, attracts and draws superfluous and corrupt humours from all parts of the body to the place: causeth your issue to run, and brings away filthy matter, which produced and inclined you to many Diseases and distempers; they keep your issue cool and prevent inflammation: very commodious in Journeys or Voyages, one of them will last a month in wearing; wipe it and turn the otherside to the place every dressing, and lay a paper upon it. The Febrifick Antidote, resist all Agues or intermitting Fevers, changeth the constitution and distemper of the blood, checks the Fermentation and Ebullition of it, mitigates and abates the Rigour of the Fits, altars the course of the Disease, and by degrees quite eradicates it. Mix it with a little juce of Lemmon in a spoon, and take it every fit day, 2 hours before the fit comes, and go to bed presently; lie to sweat, and sleep if it doth so dispose you: Lemmon posset, you may drink in your hot fit freely. The full dose is a third part of the Medicine: for 14 years a fourth part: for 8 years old a dram. Moreover, because these fits are accommanied with impurity and foulness of the Body, it is requisite there be some Evacuation made to cleanse the Stomach and parts adjacent; else from thence there will be a continual supply of Crude and Corrupt Nutriment sent into the Veins, whereby the Mass of blood shall never be Depurated, and so remain under the same Distemper a long time, or Degenerate into some other as bad or worse, when these fits of Febrific Fermentation cease: therefore if you have a fullness at the stomach, nauseating or inclination to Vomit in your fits, then forbear this Antidote once, and 2 hours before you expect the next Fit, take the Emetic Infusion to vomit, observing the same Order as is directed in the 18, 19 pages of this book for Vomiting. Those days you have no Fit, to take a Clyster is very proper and benefical, to cleanse and carry away the Morbific Cause: the Clyster Electuary is for your purpose, see page 39 If you refuse Clysters, take the Catholic Pil's, page 43. The Camphire Powder, cures all Tetters, Ringwormes, Scabs, Itch, Frettings and Galling of the Skin, Choleric Pushes and Pimples in any part of the Body: it assuageth all Pains of the Gout in the Hands, Feet or Knees, is a good preservative to defend the Joints from the Reception of any such Humour, by knitting, binding, and strengthening them: it Repels a Flux of Humours resorting to an infirm, depending or relax part: it cools and abates all outward inflammations, represseth tumours and mitigates their pain; it hardens tender and sweeting se●t and makes them bold upon the stones; kills chil-bla●es, and easeth pains of the feet molested with sharp pricking humours, is very good for old Ulcers and sores, by cooling, drying and healing. To be used thus: Put the powder into a pint and half of Smith's water, and boil it to a pint, and with this Liquor (milk warm) bathe the places affected twice a day, morning and ●ight But if you intent it for Pimples in the face, then boil it in White wine. This Powder will be damp and moist sometimes, it is the nature of it, and not the worse. The Cosmetick Water is of an abstersive faculty to cleanse, purify, and thin the skin, in a short time it altars a dull muddy complexion and makes it bright and clear: it takes away Sun-burning, Morphew spots and Freckles, and puts a lively colour into the face, without any future prejudice to the skin, as Mercurian waters and such like are wont. Use it thus; shake the Bottle well, then wet a fine cloth in it and wipe your face over (not your eyes) every morning: and at night when you go to bed, wipe your face with a cloth dipped in milk, thus doing, you shall have the desired effect. FINIS. 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