A TREATISE CONCERNING THE PLAGUE AND THE POX,  
Discovering as well the means how to preserve from the danger of these infectious Contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them.  
LONDON, Printed by Gartrude Dawson, 1652.   

The Printer to the Reader.  
THis Treatise hath passed the view and approbation, both of judicious physicians and chirurgeons, and hath been judged worthy to have a new vesture put upon him, and to be vindicated from the obscurity and darkness it hath lain involved and eclipsed in this many years; being collected out of the Authorities of the most excellent, both former and later Writers, and confirmed, strengthened, and approved, by the late experiences of many well practitioned chirurgeons; being formerly commended to public view, by the approbation of a late famous Servant, and chirurgeon to King James deceased; who seriously considering the facileness of providing the Medicines, with their approvedness in a necessitous time, and in places remote, both from able physicians and chirurgeons, the danger of the present Infection requiring speedy help, to such as might have occasion to make use of these Medicines; not doubting, but the charitable intentions of the careful author, publishing it on purpose for the public good, shall find the acceptance of so necessitous a work, as is wished by  
A. M.   

The Author to the Reader.  
WHereas there are divers receipts set down in this Book, which are written in Latin, in Characters used by physicians and Apothecaries, which cannot so fitly be brought into our English phrase; and because their quantities are set down according to the Latin order observed in the making up their receipts prescribed, I have, for the better ease and understanding of the Reader, set down the signification of their weights and measures, according to their Characters.  

A handful is written thus M. 1.  
Half a handful thus M. ss.  
A little small handful thus P. 1.  
A Scruple thus ℈. 1.  
Half a Scruple, x. Grains, or thus ℈. ss.  
A Drachm thus ʒ. 1.  
An Ounce thus. ℥. 1.  
Half an Ounce, or half a Drachm ℥. ss. ʒ. ss.  
A Grain thus Gra. 1.  
A Drop thus Gut. 1.  
The number of any thing thus Nu. 1. &c.  
Half of any thing thus ss.  
A Pound, or Pint, thus lib. 1.  
Twenty grains make a Scruple.  
Three Scruples make a Drachm.  
Eight Drachms make an Ounce  
Twelve Ounces a physic Pound.  
Ana. is, of either of them so much.  
P. ae. is, equal parts, or parts alike.  
S. a. Secundum Artem, according to Art.  
So much as shall suffice is marked thus q. s    

A defensative against the Plague.  

The first Treatise  

CHAP. I. What the Plague is.  
THe ancient physicians in times past have greatly doubted, what the essential cause of this disease, which we commonly call the Plague or Pestilence, should be; yet all do agree, that it is a pernicious and contagious Fever, and reckoned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia, chiefly proceeding of adusted and melancholy blood, which may be easily perceived, by the extreme heat and inflammation, which inwardly they do feel, that are infected therewith; first assaulting the heart, and astonishing the vital spirits, as also by the exterior Carbunkles and botches which it produceth; whose malignity is such, both in young and old, rich and poor, noble and ignoble, that using all the means, which by Art can, or may be devised, yet in some it will in no sort give place, until it hath by death conquered the party infected therewith.   

CHAP. II. Cause of the Plague.  
THere are divers causes whereof this disease may proceed, as sundry Writers do allege, as by over great and unnatural heat and drought, by great rain and inundations of waters, or by great store of rotten and stinking bodies, both of men and beasts, lying upon the face of the earth unburied, as in the time of wars hath been seen, which doth so corrupt the air, as that thereby our Corn, Fruits, herbs, and Waters, which we daily use for our food and sustenance, are infected: also it may come by some stinking dunghills, filthy and standing pools of water, and unsavoury smells which are near the places where we dwell, or by thrusting a great company of people into a close, narrow, or straight room, as most commonly we see in Ships, common gaols, and in narrow and close lanes and streets, where many people do dwell together, and the places not orderly kept clean and sweet. But most commonly, in this our time, it is dispersed amongst us, by accompanying ourselves with such as either have, or lately have had the disease themselves, or at least have been conversant with such as have been infected therewith: But for the most part it doth come by receiving into our custody some clothes, or such like things, that have been used about some infected body, wherein the infection may lie hidden a long time, as hath been too too often experimented, with repentance too late in many places, It may also come by Dogs, Cats, Pigs, and Weasels, which are prone and apt to receive and carry the infection from place to place. But howsoever it doth come, let us assure ourselves, that it is a just punishment of God, laid upon us for our manifold sins and transgressions against his divine Majesty: for as Seneca saith, Quicquid patimur ab alto venit, What crosses or afflictions soever we suffer, it cometh from the Lord, either for a trial of our faith, or a punishment for our sins. Wherefore to distinguish any farther thereof I think it needless, for my intent is in brief sort, so exactly as I can, to show the means how to prevent the same, as also how to cure it when we are infected. But before I enter to treat thereof, I think it not amiss, to show what forewarnings and tokens are given us before hand of the coming thereof, thereby the better to prevent the same by prayer and repentance.   

CHAP. III. Warnings of the Plague to come.  
AVicen, a noble physician saith, that when we see the natural course of the air, and seasons of the year to be altered, as when the spring time is cold, cloudy, and dry, the harvest time stormy, and tempestuous, the mornings and evenings to be very cold, and at noon extreme hot, these do foreshow the Plague to come. Also when we see fiery impressions in the firmament, especially in the end of summer, as comets and such like, and that in the beginning of harvest we see great store of little frogs, red to ades, and myse on the earth abounding extraordinarily: or when in summer we see great store of toads creeping on the earth having long tails, of an ashy colour on their backs, and their bellies spotted and of divers colours, and when we see great store of gnats swimming on the waters, or flying in great companies together, or when our trees and herbs do abound with Caterpillars, Spiders, moths &c. which devour the leaves on the trees and herbs on the earth, it showeth the air to be corrupt, and the Plague shortly after to follow. Also by the beasts of the field we may perceive it (especially sheep) which will go mourning with their heads hanging down towards the ground, and divers of them dying without any manifest cause known unto us. Also when we see young Children flock themselves together in companies, and then will fain some one of their company to be dead amongst them, and so will solemnize the burial in a mournful sort, this is a token which hath been well observed in our age to foreshow great mortality at hand. Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause, or suddenly vanish away and become dry: And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foul and troubled. Also when the small-Pox doth generally abound both in young and old people, all these do foreshow the Plague to come.   

CHAP. iv. showeth how to prevent the Plague.  
THere are three principal means how to prevent this contagious disease: The first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifold sins and wickedness unto almighty God our heavenly Father, with a hearty repentance and amendment of our former sins committed against his divine majesty.  
The second means is to fly far off from the place infected, and as Rondoletius saith, not over hastily to return thither again for fear of an after-clap: which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these words, Non enim morietur in bello, qui non est in illo: and the farther from it, the safer shall we be, yet were it a very uncharitable course that all which are of ability should do so, for then how should the poor be relieved, and good orders observed: but for Children it were best to send them far off from the place, because their bodies are most apt to receive the infection, as also for that they cannot so continually use antidotes and preservatives, which by their great heat may endanger them almost so much as the disease itself.  
The third means consisteth chiefly in three points, which are these: Order, Diet, and physical helps. For the first you shall have a care that your houses be kept clean and sweet, not suffering any foul and filthy clothes or stinking things to remain in or about the same: and in summer season to deck your windows, and strew your floors with sweet and wholesome herbs, flowers, and leaves, of Mints, balm, Penniroyall, Lavender, Time, Majoram, red-Roses, Carnations, Gelliflowers and such like for your windows, your floors to be strewed with green Rushes, and Mints, Oaken and Willow leaves, Vine leaves and such like: your windows which stand towards the North and East, do you always keep open in the day time, if the air be clear, and that no infected and unsavoury smell be near the same, as Fogs, dunghills, &c. and every morning before you open either your doors, or windows, as also in the evening when you go to bed, cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber, and burn some odoriferous o●… sweet perfumes in the midst thereof, as hereafter I will show you, or in stead thereof some Juniper, Frankincense, Bay leaves, Rosemary, Lavender, Majoram, or such like, which you must always have dried in a readiness, and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to wear.  

A good perfume in summer season.  
℞. Rose water and Vinegar, of either six spoonfuls: Rinds of sour Citrons and Lemons, bayleafs, of either the weight of two pence which is ℈. i. Camphire, the weight of three pence, which is ʒ. ss.  
The herbs and rinds must be dried and put altogether in a perfuming pan, or instead thereof a pewter dish, set on a chaffer of coals, will serve the turn.   

Another good perfume in winter.  
℞. Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles, of either a little handful: Callamint, iuniper berries, Laudanum, Benjamin, Frankincense, of either ʒ. i. which is the weight of seven pence.  
The herbs, berries, and Roses being dried, must be made in gross powder, as also the gums, and so mixed together, and when ye list, cast some part thereof on a chaffer of coals, and receive the fume thereof.    

CHAP. V.  
NOw having received the fume as aforesaid, before you go forth of your chamber, eat some Cordial electuary or preservative, as hereafter you shall find choice, which I have always used with good and happy success, after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water, wherein you must put a little Vinegar, and then if you list, you may break your fast with some good bread and butter, and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar, and for plethoric and melanchole bodies, it were good to drink a draught of wormwood wine, in the morning fasting, because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethoric, and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholy.  

An excellent good preservative which I have always used with good success.  
℞. Conserve of Roses and Borrage flowers, of either two ounces: Minardus Mithridate, Andromachus' treacle, of either half an ounce: Dioscordium, two drachms, Dialkermes one drachma, Powder of the seed of Citrons peeled, one drachma, syrup of Lemons and sour Citrons, of either half an ounce.  
Compound all these together in the form of an opiate, you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beans, and drink a draught of Rhenish wine, Beer, or Ale after it: but for Children and such as are of tender years, so much as a bean thereof is sufficient, and give them only Beer or Ale after it: the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice, if you go not into any suspected company.   

Another excellent good preservative.  
℞. Kernils of walnuts and Figs, of either four ounces: Leaves of Rue, one ounce and half, Tormentill roots, four drachms, Rind of sour Citrons, one drachma, right Bolarmoniak, six drachms, fine Myrrh, two scruples, Saffron, one scruple, Salt, half a drachm: syrup of Citrons and Lemons, four ounces.  
The herbs, roots, and rinds must be dried, the nuts must be blanched, and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder, and then washed in the water of Scabios, and dried again, you must pound the figs and walnuts in a stone mortar severally by themselves very small, all the rest must be made in fine powder, and so mix them altogether in the mortar, and then add thereto syrup by little and little, and so incorporate them altogether: you may give this in the same quantity, and in like sort as the other before.   

Another very good.  
℞. Of the confection aforesaid made with nuts ℥. iiii. Minardus mithridate, four drachms, Andromachus' treacle, ʒ ii. fine terra Sigillata, four scruples, syrup of lemons, ℥. i.  
Compound all these together in the mortar, as the other before, you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence, every second or third day, and drink a draught of Rhenish or white wine after it in Winter season, but in the heat of the year, Sorrel water is best, and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water.  
Also, so much treacle of Andromachus' description eaten every morning as a bean, with a little conserve of Roses, is a very excellent good preservative.  
Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the bezoar stone every morning, in a spoonful of Scabios water.  
I cannot here sufficiently commend the electuary called Dioscordium, which is not only good to resist the infection, but doth also expel the venomous matter of those which are infected, being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean, and drink a draught of Rhenish or White wine after it in winter season, but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best.  
In strong and rustical bodies, and such as are daily labourers, garlic only eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast, drinking a cup of beer or ale after it, hath been found to be very good, which is greatly commended by Galen, who calleth it the poor man's treacle, but in the sanguine, dainty, and idle bodies it may not be used, because it over-heateth the blood, causeth headache, and universally inflameth the whole body.    

CHAP. VI.  
NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives, it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart, some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venom, and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander, Nodule, or Nosegay, that will comfort the heart, resist venom, and recreate the vital spirits, as here following is specified and set down.  

An excellent quilt or Bag.  
℞. Arsenike cristaline, ℥. i. Diamargaritum frigidum, ℈ ii. Diambrae, ℈ i.  
You must grind the Arsenike in small powder, and then with some of the infusion of Gum tragacanth in Rose water, you must make a paste, then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long, and five inches broad, and spread it thick: then cover it with another cloth, and so quilt it together, which being done, fasten it in another bag of crimson taffety or Sarse●…et, and so wear it against the heart all the day time, but at night leave it off: and here you must take heed, that when you sweat, you do take it away, for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little. There are some writers which do utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike, but thus much I can say, that I have given this bag unto divers to wear, with most happy and good success, for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag, and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid, that hath been infected with the plague, but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby, I never found any hitherto, other than the ampring of the skin as aforesaid.   

Another Bag.  
℞. Ireos, ℥ ss. Calamus aromat. Ciperus, ana. ʒ. i. ss. Storax Calam. root of Angelica, ana. ʒ. iii, Cloves, Mace, anaʒ. i. Red roses dried, ʒ. iii. Pellemountain, Penniroyall, Calamint, Elder flowers, ana. ʒ. i ss. Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Yellow Sanders, anaʒ. i. Nardi Italicae, ʒ. i. Amber grease and Musk, ana. six grains.  
You must pound all these in powder, and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson ●…affatie as aforesaid.   

A Pomander good in the Summer time.  
℞. The rind of Citrons, Red Roses, Nenuphare Roses, Yellow sanders, anaʒ. ss. Storax liquid, Benjamin, ana. ʒ. i. Myrrh, ℈. ii. laudanum, ʒ. i. ss. Musk and Amber, ana. six grains.  
Powder all that is to be powdered, and then work them together in a hot mortar with a hot pestle, adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of tragacanth dissolved in sweet Rose water, or rose vinegar, and so make your Pomander.   

Another good one for the winter time.  
℞. Storax liquid, Benjamin, Storax calamint, laudanum, and Myrrh, ana, half a drachm, Cloves one scruple, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, of each half a scruple. Red Roses, Yellow Sanders, Lignum aloes, and Ireos, of each half a dram. Calamus aromaticus, rind of a Citron, ana. four grains, Amber grease, Musk and Civet, of each six grains.  
You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum tragacanth, infused in Rosewater.   

A good Nodule for the Summer season.  
℞. Flowers of Violets, red Roses, and Nenuphare, of each one drachm, Red, White, and Yellow sanders, of each half a drachm. Camphire, xii grains.  
Cause all these to be beaten in gross powder, then knit them all together in a piece of taffeta, and when you will use it, than wet it in Rose water and a little Vinegar, and so smell to it.   

Another Nodule for the Winter season.  
℞. The dried leaves of Mints, Majoram, Time, Penniroyall, Lavender, Pellemountain and Balm, of each a little handful. Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Angelica roots, Lignum aloes, of each one drachm. Saffron, two scruples.  
Cause all these to be infused in Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night, then wet a sponge in the liquour thereof, and knit it in a piece of taffeta, or your handkerchief, whereunto you must smell oftentimes.   

A Nosegay for the same purpose.  
℞. Herb grace, three branches: Rosemary, Majoram, Mints, and Thime, of either one branch: Red-Rose buds and Carnations, of either three or four.  
Make your nosegay herewith, then sprinkle him over with Rose-water, and some rose-Vinegar, and smell often unto it. Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company, do you always carry in your mouth a piece of the root of Angelica, the rind of a Citron dried, or a great Clove, which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar.    

CHAP. VII.  
FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness, both in the time of the Plague and otherwise, I have here set down how and by what means you may keep yourself soluble, which you must use once four and twenty hours, if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custom.  

A Suppository.  
Take two spoonfuls of Honey, and one spoonful of Bay-Salt small pounded, boil them together until it grow thick, always stirring it in the boiling, then take it from the fire, and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it, and so stir them well together, and when it is almost cold, make up your suppositories of what length and bigness you list: and when you minister any, you must first anoint it with Butter or salad oil: you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease, and so cover them up close therein.   

A good Glister.  
℞. Mallows, Mercury, Beets, Violets, Red-fennel, of either one handful: Seeds of Fennell, anise, Coriander, of either one drachm.  
Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water, until half the water be consumed, then strain it, and keep it in a glass close stopped until you need, for it will keep a whole week. Take of the same decoction, a pint.  
℞. Mel Rosarum, or common Honey, one spoonful: oil of Violets or oil of Olives, three ounces, Salt, one drachm, The yolk of an Egg or two.  
Mix all these together in a mortar and so give it warm in the morning, or two hours before supper: and if you add unto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will be the better.   

Raisins laxative how to make them.  
℞. White-Wine, three pints and a half, Senuae, half a pound, Fine white sugar, one pound, Currants, two pound. You must infuse the Senuae in the wine in a pot close stopped, and let it stand in a warm place four and twenty hours, then strain it and add to the straining the Currants, being clean picked and washed, and lastly the Sugar, boil all together on an easy fire, until the wine be consumed, having care that you do always stir it about in the boiling for fear of burning, then take them from the fire, and put them up into a clean galley pot, you may eat one spoonful or two of them a little before dinner, at any time.   

A good ointment to keep one Sollible.  
The gall of an ox, oil of Violets, of either one ounce: Sheeps ●…allow, six draehms.  
Boil them together on a soft fire until they be incorporated, then take it from the fire and add thereto aloes cica●…ine, one ounce. Bay-Salt half an ounce.  
The aloes and Salt must be both made into fine powder before you put them into the oil, then stir them together until it be cold, and when you are disposed to have a stool, then anoint your fundament therewith, both within side and without, and if you anoint your navel therewith, it will work the better.   

Good pills to keep one soluble, and they do also resist the Pestilence.  
℞. aloes Cicatrine, one ounce, Chosen Myrrh, three drachms, Saffron, one drachm and half, Amber Greece, six grains: syrup of Lemons or Citrons, so much as shall be sufficient to make the mass.  
You must grind the Aloes, myrrh, and Saffron into small powder severally by themselves, then incorporate them together with the syrup: you may give half a drachma or two scruples thereof in the evening half an hour before supper twice or thrice in a week: races would have you to take half a drachma or two scruples of these Pills every day, without using any other preservative at all, and he hath great reason so to esteem of them, for Galen, Avicen, and all ancient Writers in physic do hold opinion, that Aloes doth not only comfort, but purge the stomach from all raw and choleric humours, and doth also purge and open the veins called Miserayick, and resisteth putrefact on: Myrrh doth altogether resist, neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomach: Saffron doth comfort the heart, and hath also a propriety in it to carry any medicine that is given therewith unto the heart, but to conclude, these Pills will purge all superfluous humours in the stomach, and principal members, and preserveth the blood from corruption.    

CHAP. VIII.  
I Must here give you to understand that the infection doth oftentimes lie hidden within us, without any manifest sign or knowledge thereof at the first, and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies, and such as do abound with blood, in the summer season to draw six or eight ounces of blood out of the Basilica vein in the right arm, which is a good means to prevent a further danger, (as Avicen witnesseth) but for full and plethoric bodies, it were best to purge themselves once in seven or eight days with some easy and gentle purgation, as hereafter ●… will show you: but for lean and spare bodies, once in fourteen days will be enough at most: for wisely saith Rondoletius, that it is not only the venomous and contagious air which we receive that doth kill us, but it is the present communicating of that contagion with some superfluous humours in our bodies, as in his treatise De Peste appeareth: therefore now will I show you how to purge the body.  

Pills good to purge.  
℞. aloes Cicatrine, ten drachms, Agaric of the whitest, ℥. iiii. Myrrh, mastic, of either two drachms: Saffron two scruples.  
Make these into fine powder, then compound them together in a mortar, with so much oxymel simplex, syrup of Lemons, or of Staecados, as shall be sufficient, you may give one drachm, or a drachm and half of these Pills, half an hour before supper: but for a choleric body, you must leave out two drachms of the Agaric in making of the receipt, and in place thereof add two drachms of rhubarb, and for the melancholy, two drachms of Epithimum, and give the same quantity in weight.   

A good purging potion.  
℞ Raisins, the stones being picked out and washed, of either one ounce: Polipode of the Oak, Elecampane root dried, roots of wild small Sorrel, Succory roots cleansed, of either half an ounce: Leaves of borage, Bugloss, Burnet, Scabios, Morsus diaboli, of either a little handful: flowers of borage, Bugloss, Rosemary, Violets, Broom, of either a little handful: Seeds of Fennell, sour Citrons, of either two scruples: Shaving of heart's horn, half a drachm.  
Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of fair water until half be consumed, then strain it. Take of the decoction aforesaid, three ounces.  
Rhubarb, two drachms and half, Cinnamon, half a drachm.  
Slice them both, and put them with the liquour in a close cup, and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours, then strain it out strongly, and add thereto one ounce of the syrup of maidenhair, and so drink it warm in the morning about six of the clock, and refrain from meat, drink, or sleep two hours after it, this is good in lean and spare bodies: you may for the phlegmatic body, add in the infusion, one drachm of Aggarick Trosciscated.   

A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills.  
℞. aloes Ciccatrine, one ounce, Myrrh, Cinnamon, of either two drachms, Saffron, one scruple.  
Make them all in fine powder, and give one drachm in a draught of White-wine.   

Flowers stopped, how to provok them.  
For that women which have not their natural course o●… them, are most prone to receive and take the infection, I have here set down good Pills, which I have always found excellent not only for that purpose, but will also resist the danger of infection.  
℞. aloes Ciccatirne, one ounce, Roots of Gentian, Aristolochia rotunda, Dittander, Saffron, of either half a drachm: Roots of garden Madder, mithridate, of either one drachm.  
Cause them all to be ground in small powder, then mix it with the mithridate and some syrup of Artemesia, or Mugwort, give one drachm of these Pills every morning twelve days togerher, or until her terms break.   

Issues commended against the Plague.  
IN plethoric and full bodies, I have found nothing more safer in the time of the Plague, then to make them an artificial Issue, either in the leg or arm, for never hitherto have I known any one which hath had an Issue, or Ulcer running on him that hath been infected with the plague. Palmarius and Forestus, do both affirm it to be true and certain, but here some ignorant people do hold opinion that having once an Issue, he must be constrained to keep it always, which is most erroneous, for then those which have had Ulcers running upon them, some six, ten, yea sixteen years, may not be cured without some Issue to be made in some other place, but therein they deceive themselves, for myself by good proof have often found the contrary in divers people which I have cured, some six, some ten, yea sixteen years past, and yet to this day do remain in perfect good health without any Issues.    

CHAP. ix.. What Diet we ought to keep.  
FOr our diet as Hippocrates teacheth us, we must have a care not to exceed in eating and drinking but to keep a mean therein, and in any case to beware of surfeiting and drunkenness, which are enemies both to the body and soul, but as we may not exceed in eating and drinking, so to endure great hunger and thirst is most dangerous, our meat ought to be of a facile and easy digestion, partly tending to a drying quality; as Cocks, Capons, Hens, Pullets, Partridge, Pheasants, quails, Pigeons, rabbits, Kid, Veal, Mutton, Birds of the Mountains, and such like; but Beef, Pork, Venison, Hare and goat's flesh is to be refused, and so are all water fowls, as Duck, Swan, Goose, Widgen, Teal, and such like, because they are hard to digest, and do increase ill blood, and naughty juice in the body: Lambs flesh, because of his exceeding moisture is also to be refused, Eggs in the Summer not good, but in Winter tolerable: All Fishes which are of a hard flesh, whether they be of the Sea, or fresh Rivers are to be allowed. In fresh Rivers the Perch, Barble, Gudgeon, Loch, Cool, Trout, and Pike are good; and for Sea fish, the Gilthed, Turbet, Sole, Rochet, Gurnard, Lobster, Crab, prawns, Shrimps, Whiteing, and such like eaten with vinegar. There are some Authors which hold opinion, that Fish is better to be eaten then flesh in the great fervent heat of the year, because they do make a more cold blood in the body than flesh; another reason is, because they do live under the water, they are not infected with any contagion of the air, as Beasts and birds may be, and therefore more wholesome, but in my judgement flesh is more wholesome, because it doth-breed a more pure, and fine juice in the body than any Fish whatsoever; your bread ought to be made of pure wheat, not too new, nor too old, but of one days baking, or two at most is best: rye bread is to be eschewed, because of his great moisture: your drink is best beer or ale, not too strong or new, but the staler and clearer it is the better, at your meals a draught or two of Claret wine is tolerable, but in hot weather it were good to allay it with a little water, for wine doth warm the stomach, help digestion, and comfort the heart.  

For your Pottage you may take in the Summer.  
Parsley, lettuce, Sorrell, Endive, succory, sparagus, Hopbuds, Burnet, borage, bugloss, Thime, Mints, hyssop, but in Winter, Balm, Bittanie, Thime, Marigold, hyssop, Majoram, Mints and Rue are good. For your salads take pimpernel, Purslane, Mints, sorrel, horehound, young coal, Hop▪ buds, sparagus, Thime, Tops of Fennell, Tarregon, lettuce, and watercresses are good.  
Capers are greatly commended being preserved in Vinegar, and eaten with a little oil and vinegar, and so are Olives very good also.  
For your sauce, the juice of a Limon, Citron, or Orange is best, the juice of sorrel and Vinegar is also good.  
All raw fruits are to be refused, except those which tend to sour taste, as pomegranates, damask Prunes, Pippins, red and sour Cherries, and walnuts, Quinces, and pears preserved are very good eaten after meals.  
All kind of Pulse is to be refused, as Beans, Pease, and such like, because they increase wind, and make raw humours and ill juice in the body.  
Refrain from garlic, onions, Leeks, Pepper, Mustard, and Rocket, because they do overheat the body, make adustion of the blood, and cause fumes to ascend into the head.  
Cheese is not good, because it doth engender gross and thick humours. Milk is also to be refused, because it doth quickly corrupt in the stomach.    

CHAP. X. showeth what Exercise and Order is to be kept.  
YOu must beware of all vehement and immoderate exercise, which doth provoke sweat, as is Tennis, dancing, leaping, running, football, hurling, and such like, because they do overmuch heat the body, and open the Pores of respiration, whereby the infected air hath the more scope to enter our bodies, but moderate exercise is very convenient, the use of hot houses at this time I think very dangerous, because it doth too much open the pores.  
Walk not into the open air in the morning before the Sun hath had some power to cleanse and clear the same, and in any case go not abroad when great fogs and mists are upon the earth, for it is dangerous: but if urgent occasions move you, then before you goeforth of your doors be sure to eat some preservative first, and then take some good and odoriferous Pomander, Nodule, or Nosegay in your hand, as before is showed you. The extreme heat of the day is likewise to be refused to walk in, because it chafeth the blood; as also in the evening after the Sun is set, for then unsavoury and unwholesome Fogs arise out of the earth, and in any case if you can avoid it come not near any any place infected, but use to walk in the open air and dry ground.  
Use Venus combats moderately, but none at all were better, the best time to use them is three or four hours after supper, before you sleep, and then rest upon them.  
Beware of anger, fear, and pensiveness of the mind, for by their means the body is made more apt to receive the infection.  
Use pleasant and merry recreations, either with music, pleasant company to talk withal, or reading some good books.  
Bewar of sleeping at noon, but specially in the Winter season, but in Summer to take after dinner a nap of half an hour or an hour is tolerable in elderly bodies.  
Watch not long in the evenings but two or three hours after supper is a good time to take your rest.   

CHAP. XI. Teacheth what orders Magistrates, and Rulers of Cities and towns, should cause to be observed,  
FIrst, To command that no stinking dunghills be suffered near the City.  
Secondly, Every evening and morning in hot weather to cause cold water to be cast in the streets, especially where the infection is, and every day to cause the streets to be kept clean and sweet, and cleansed from all filthy things which lie in the same.  
Thirdly, And whereas the infection is entered, there to cause fires to be made in the streets every morning and evening, and if some Frankincense, Pitch, or some other sweet thing be burnt therein, it will be much the better.  
Fourthly, Suffer not any dogs, cats, or Pigs to run about the streets, for they are very dangerous, and apt to carry the infection from place to place.  
Fifthly, Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voided from the infected places be not cast into the streets or rivers which are daily in use to make drink, or dress meat.  
Sixtly, That no chirurgeons, or barbers which use to let blood, do cast the same into the streets or rivers.  
Seventhly, That no faults or Privies be then emptied, for it is a most dangerous thing.  
Eighthly, That all ●…nholders do every day make clean their stables, and cause the dung and filth therein to be carried away out of the City: for by suffering it in their houses, as some do use to do, a whole week or a fortnight, it doth so putrify that when it is removed, there is such a stinking and unwholesome smell, as is able to infect the whole street where it is.  
Ninthly, To command that no Hemp or ●…lax be kept in water near the City or Town, for that will cause a very dangerous and infectious savour.  
Tenthly to have a special care, that good and wholesome Victuals and Corn be sold in the markets, and so to provide, that no want thereof be in the City, and for such as have not wherewithal to buy necessary food, that there to extend their charitable and godly devotion: for there is nothing that will more increase the Plague, than want and scarcity of necessary food.  
Eleventhly, To command that all those which do visit and attend the sick, as also all those which have the sickness on them, and do walk abroad, that they do carry something in their hands, thereby to be known from other people. And here I must advertise you of one thing more which I had almost forgotten (which is) that when the infection is but in few places, there to keep the people in their houses, not suffering any one of them to go abroad, and so to provide, that all such necessaries as they shall need may be brought unto them during the time of their visitation: and when it is stayed, then to cause all the clothes, bedding, and other such things as were used about the sick, to be all burnt, although at the charge of the rest of the Inhabitants you buy them all new, for fear lest the danger which may ensue thereby, do put you to a far greater charge and grief: all these aforesaid things are most dangerous, and may cause a general infection, to the destroying of a whole City, and therefore I do wish that great care be had thereof.   

CHAP. XII. Doth show what you must do when you go to visit the sick.  
FIrst before you enter into the house, command that a great fire be made in the chamber where the sick lieth, and that some odoriferous perfume be burnt in the midst of the chamber, and before you go to him, eat some cordial preservative, and smother your clothes with some sweet perfume, than wet your temples, ears, nose, and mouth, with Rose-water and Vinegar mixed together, then take in your mouth a piece of the root of Angelica, the rind of a sour Citron, or a Clove prepared as before is showed, and have some Nosegay, Nodule, or Pomander, appropriate in your hand, which you must always smell unto, so may you the more bouldlier perform your intent: but herewithal you must have a special care, that during the time you are with the sick, you stand not betwixt the sick body and the fire, for that is dangerous; because that the fire of his nature draweth all vapours unto itself; but keep you always on the contrary side, so that the sick may be betwixt you and the fire: and for such as are to let any sick infected body to bleed, it were good they did cause the keeper of the sick body to lay open that arm or leg which is to be let blood before he approach near: the reason is, for that most commonly all that are sick in this contagious disease, are for the most part in a sweat, and therefore suddenly to receive the breath thereof, would be very dangerous.  
Now when you have been with any one so infected, before you go into the company of any whole and sound people, it were necessary you do stand by a good fire, having all the clothes about you which you did wear when you were with the sick, and then turn and air yourself well thereby, so shall you be sure the less to endanger others by your company. Thus have I as briefly as I can devise set down all the ordinary means which myself have used, and by others known to be used for preserving you from this contagious and dangerous disease, which in the most part of people will suffice, but for such as dwell whereas they may have the counsel of a learned physician, I do wish them to take his advice, especially for purging and letting blood, because none can so exactly set down in writing the perfect course thereof (which may be understood rightly of the common sort) so well as he which hath the sight of the body: for that many bodies are oftentimes troubled with some one humour abounding more than another, which here to treat of would be too tedious, neither can it profit the common people, for whose sakes I have taken this pains: and now will I show the signs to know when one is infected therewith, as also which are the laudable signs, and which are the contrary, and lastly the means (by God his assistance) how for to cure the same.   

CHAP. XIII. Showeth the signs of infection.  
THe signs and tokens hereof are divers, as first, it is perceived by the sudden weakness, losing and overthrowing of our natural strength, without any manifest cause thereof going before, and sometimes it doth begin with a gnawing and biting in the mouth of the stomach, the pulse will grow weak, feeble, and unequal, with a great straightness and heaviness about the heart, as if some heavy burden or weight were laid thereon, with shortness of breathing, vomiting, or at least a great desire to vomit, great pain in the head: insatiable thirst proceeding of their great interior heat: sluggishness, and universal faintness of all the body, with a great desire to sleep, and an astonishment of the mind and vital spirits: and for the most part they complain of a great pain which is felt in some one place or places of their bodies, where the botch or blain is by nature intended to be thrust forth, yet some at the first have them appearing: and for the most part, they are taken at the first with a sharp and rigorous fever.  

Good signs.  
When the botch or carbuncle cometh out in the beginning of the sickness with a red colour, and yellowish round about it, and that it doth quicklycome to maturation, the fever to cease, and the party findeth himself eased of his grief, and quickened in his spirits, these are good and laudable signs of recovery.   

Evil signs.  
When the botch at the first cometh out blackish, or black in colour, also when the botch is opened, the flesh within doth look blue, and that then there appear not any matter or quitture in the wound, but as it were a spume or froth issuing out thereof, are ill and deadly signs,  
When the botch waxeth so hard that by no means it will come to suppuration, but resisteth whatsoever is done unto it for the furthering thereof, and so returneth in again into the inward parts suddenly, is a token of sudden death at hand, and so it is if either before or after it is broken it look of a bluish colour, or of divers colours, like the Rainbow, round about it.  
When the Carbunckle or Blain doth suddenly dry up, as if it were scorched with the fire, and that the place round about it doth show to be of a wannish blue colour, is a deadly sign: if in the skin appear green or black spots, the excrements of divers colours with worms in it either dead or living, having a vile stinking savour, and spiteth stinking and bloody matter, doth betoken death.  
When the sick complains of great and extreme heat in the inward parts, and yet cold outwardly, the eyes staring or weeping, the face terrible, the said excrements or urine passing away, and the party not knowing thereof, are evil signs.  
When in the fourth or seventh day they are taken with a frenzy, or do fall into an extreme bleeding at nose, or have a great flux with a continual vomiting, or a desire to vomit and do it not, extreme pain at the heart, watchfulness, and the strength clean gone, are deadly signs. When the party being very sick, yet saith he feeleth himself well, his eyes sunk deep in his head, and full of tears, when he thinks all things do stink, his nails looking blue, the nose sharp, and as it were crooked, the breath thick and short with a cold sweat in the breast and face, and turning and playing with the clothes, the pulse creeping or scarcely to be felt, and grievous unto him to speak, these are infallible signs of death at hand. Some, before any of these signs are perceived, do die, and some likewise which have divers of them appearing, and yet do escape, such is the uncertainty of this disease: there are many other symptoms which do happen in this contagious disease, which would be too tedious to declare, but these as the chiefest may suffice.    
The end of the first Treatise.   

The Second Treatise, showing the means how to cure the Plague.  

CHAP. I.  
WHen we perceive any to be infected with this contagious disease, we must with all possible speed seek all the means we can how to prevent the malignity thereof, whose property is at the first to assault the principal part, which is the heart, and therefore requires present help; for unless something be done within eight or four and twenty hours, little will it then prevail to attempt it, for by that time nature is either subdued, and clean overthrown, or else hath thrust the same to the exterior parts, or otherwise digested it: yet may we not neglect at any time, to use all the means we can, in helping and furthering of nature to the uttermost of our endeavour, because we do oftentimes see nature so wearied, and weakened in expelling of this venomous matter, that unless some help be added to assist and comfort her, the party, for lack thereof, dyeth, which otherwise might be saved: For I have oftentimes seen by diligent helping of nature, that to be effected and brought to good pass, which I have judged most desperate. There are four intentions required for the curing thereof; that is, by blood-letting, Cordials, sweat and purging: but the manner how to execute the same, hath bred great contention both amongst the old and later Writers, which here to treat of were too tedious, for unto the learned it were needless, and for the commonalty little would it avail them, therefore in brief will I show you what I have observed touching the cure.  
First, if it be in a plethoric, sanguine, and strong body, and hath pain in the head, great heat at the heart, thirstiness, the pulse strong, and labouring, or beating strongly, and hath great and large veins appearing; these aught presently to be let blood in that side where ye perceive the grief doth proffer itself to come forth, and not visibly appearing, tending to maturation: For than we may not draw blood, but use all other means we can devise, in helping nature to expel it, neither may you draw blood, if the party have a flix or lask (which is an evil sign) in the beginning of the disease, for by that means you shall hinder nature greatly, but only give the party Cordials; neither may you stop the flix in the beginning, but if it be extreme, and that it stay not the second day, then must you give some purgation, which may leave an astringency behind it, as hereafter in the cure of the flix shall be showed. For as Hippocrates, in his first book and one and twentieth aphorism, doth admonish us, we must consider and mark, how nature doth incline herself, for that will teach us what we are to do.  
Now if you perceive the botch or carbuncle to appear underneath the chin about the throat, then presently draw blood in both veins under the tongue, and immediately after that apply a cupping glass; with scarrification in one side of the neck next unto the fore, thereby to draw it from the throat, for fear least suddenly it choke him up, and then apply Chickens rumps, or Hens rumps to the botch, the feathers being first plucked away from the rump, and a grain of Salt put into the tewel, and so hold the bare place to the grief until the Chicken die, which will be within half an hour, and then apply another, and so continue in changing them so long as they do die, and lastly apply a mollificative cataplasm or plaster to the same place, as in the fift Chapter following is showed, which is made with Unguentum basillicon, and to the botch apply the Epithemation and cataplasm in the seventh Chapter following. But if it be in the neck, he doth complain, then let him blood in the Cephallica vein in the arm, of the same side where he complaineth.  
If in the groin or flank he doth complain, then let him blood in the foot on the same side, and open the vein called Maleola, or Saphena, the quantity must be according as the age and strength of the party requireth, but at most draw not above six or eight ounces: For Avicen willeth us, to preserve blood as the treasure of nature.  
But in a weak, spare, and cachochimious body (as Galen teacheth us) we may not draw blood at all, for thereby should you greatly endanger the Patient, but help such by Cordials and sweat.  
And here you shall understand, that unless Phlebotomy be done at the first, that is, within six or eight hours atmost, it will be too late to attempt it, neither may you do it if the sore do appear up in height tending to suppuration, for then should you hinder nature, which like a diligent workman, hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter, which otherwise would have killed us.  
And here touching Phlebotomy or blood-letting, you must have this special care, that you draw not blood on the opposite side, as if it be on the left side the sore appear, then draw not blood on the right side; if it appear in the flank, then draw not blood in the arm, but in the foot, for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts, and so kill the body.  
And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other, yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venom lieth hidden, for on that side where nature is oppressed, there shall you find the pulse more weak, feeble, and uneven, greatly differing from the other side.  
And here you shall understand, that in some it hath been seen, that nature of itself at the first, hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body, with a botch appearing high, and tending to suppuration, or a carbunckle, or spots called purples. Now here if you draw blood, you do then greatly endanger the body; but in this case you must only give Cordials, and use all the means you can to bring it outward, either by maturation, or evaporation, as hereafter shall be showed you.  
And here you shall further understand, that where the age, constitution, nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done, yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses, with reasonable deep scarrification, unto the next place adjoining, where the party complaineth, thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficial parts, and there to apply the rumps of Chickens, as before is taught you, and so apply to the place some strong maturative, and atrractive plaster, or cataplasm, as hereafter shall be showed you. If the grief be in the head or throat, then apply Ventoses to the neck: If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart, then apply them to the shoulders: If in the emunctuaries of the liver, then apply them to the buttocks or thighs, now when this is done, either by Phlebetomy, or Ventoses, than within an hour or two at the most after it, you must give the sick some good cordial Medicine, which hath power to comfort the heart, resist the venomous matter, and also procure sweat, whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list.  

An excellent good Powder to expel the Plague, which also provoketh sweat.  
℞. Roots of Gentian, Bittanie, Petasitis, ana, ʒ. i. Roots of Tormentill, Dittander, ana, ʒ iii. Red Sanders ʒ. ss. Fine pearl of both sorts, ana, ℈. i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared, fine Terra sigillata, ana, ʒ. vi. Rinds of Citrons, red coral, Roots of Zedoiar, shaving of Ebony, bone of a stag's heart, ana, sixteen grains: Fragments of the five precious stones, ana, ℈. ss. Shaving of a unicorn's horn, Succini, ana, ℈. ss. Leaves of Gold and Silver, ana, one and half in number,  
Make all these in fine powder, every one several by himself, and then mix them all together, and give thereof ʒ. i. or ℈. iiii. more or less as occasion requireth, either in sorrel, Scabios, or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces, whereunto you must add a little syrup of Lemons, or sour Citrons, and give it warm, the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small, then washed in Scabios water, and so dried.   

Another good Powder.  
℞. Leaves of Dittander, called Dictami cretici, Roots of Tormentil, Bittanie, pimpernel, Gentian, Zedoiar, ana, ʒ. i. Terra lemnia, aloes Cicatrina, fine Myrrh, Rinds of sour Citrons, anaʒ i. Mastic, Saffron, ana, half a drachm. Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid, ʒ ii.  
All these must be made in fine powder, and so mixed together, you may give two scruples, or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters.   

A good opiate to expel venom, and provoke sweat.  
Conserve of the flowers of borage, Bugloss, Violets, Bittanie, ana, ℥. ii. Venus' treacle ℥. ii. Red Terra sigillata, Terra lemnia, Mithridate, ana ℥. i. Shaving of ebony, And hartshorn, Orient Pearls, Roots of Tormentill, anaʒ i. Shaving of unicorn's horn, Root of Angelica, ana half a drachm. Syrup of the Juice of small sorrel and Bugloss, ana, so much as shall suffice.  
Mix all these together in the form of an opiate, then take of the same opiate, one drachm and half. Scabios water, Balm water, ana ℥ ii.  
Dissolve the opiate in the waters, and drink it warm, then walk a little upon it, and then go to bed and sweat.   

Another excellent good means to expel the venom, and procure sweat.  
Take a great white onion, and pick out the coat or middle of him, then fill the hole with good Venus' treacle, or Andromachus' treacle, and Aqua vitae, then stop or cover the hole of the onion again, and roast him in the hot ashes until he be soft, then strain it strongly through a cloth, and give it the sick to drink, and the rest that remains, pound it small, and apply it to the sore, and sweat upon it.  
Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials, if he chance to vomit it up again, then wash his mouth with rose-water and Vinegar, and then give him more of the same again, which must be proportioned according to the quantity vomited, for if all were vomited, then give so much more: (if less) then according to the quantity vomited, and if he vomit that also, then give him more, and so continue it to the third or fourth time, if cause so require, but if at no time he do retain it, than is there small hope of recovery; I have known divers, which have vomited their Cordials three or four times, and at last, giving the juice of the onion as aforesaid, hath kept that, and sweat upon it, and so recover their health.  
Also Minardus treacle, or Andromachus' treacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscordium, and dissolved in two or three ounces of this water following, or Carduus benedictus, Sorrell, and Scabios water, hath been found excellent good and available, both to procure sweat, and expel the venomous matter.   

An excellent good water against the Plague, and divers other diseases, which is to be made in May or June.  
Take Angelica, Dragons, Scabios, ana three handfuls. Wormwood, Sage, Salendine, Mugwort, Rue, Rosemary, Varvein, Endive, Mints, ana one handful. Tormentill, pimpernel, agrimony, Bittanie, ana two handfuls. St. John's wort, Fetherfew, and peony, ana a little handful.  
You must mix all these herbs together, then bruise them in a stone mortar grossly, than put them into a clean vessel of glass or earth, and add thereto a pottle of White wine, or three quarts, a pint of Rose-water, and a pint of Vinegar: then mix them well together, and press down the herbs close together with your hands, then stop the pot close, and so let it stand to infuse two days and two nights, then distil it in a stillatory, this water hath been found excellent good, both to preserve one from the Plague, being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting, as also to expel the disease, being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid.    

CHAP. II. showeth what is to be done after taking of the cordial.  
NOw so soon as the party hath taken his cordial, (if he be able) cause him to walk upon it in his chamber a pretty while, then lay him into his naked bed, being first warmed if it be in cold weather, and so procure him to sweat, but in any case have a special care to keep him from sleep all that day, because thereby the blood and vital spirits are drawn to the inward parts, and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart; but if the sore appear, or be perceived to present itself in any place near the heart, then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat, it were good to anoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with treacle, or with this Unguent following.  

A good defensative Unguent.  
Take treacle, ℥. ss. Terra lemnia, Red sanders, anaʒ. i. Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a mortar, to the form of an Unguent, and so use it as aforesaid.  
And unto the sore place apyly chickens rumps, as before hath been told you, and then anoint the place grieved with oil of lilies; and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following.   

Epithemation.  
Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum, ℈ i. Triasandalum, ʒ. vi. Ebeni, ʒ ii. Saffron, ℈. ss. lettuce seed, ʒ i. Waters of Roses, Bugloss, and Sorrel, ana ℥ vi. Vinegar ℥. ii. boil them altogether a little.   

Another.  
Take the waters of Roses, Balm, Bugloss, Carduus benedictus and white wine, ana ℥ iiii. Vinegar of Roses ℥ ii. Powder of red Roses, Cinnamon, Triasandalum, Diamargaritum, Frigidum, anaʒ ss. Mithridatum, ℥ i. treacle, ℥ ss. ●…oil them together a little, and being blood warm, Epithemate the heart therewith, which being done, then procure him to sweat, and after sweat, and the body dried, then apply this quickly to the heart.   

A Quilt for the Heart.  
Take the flowers of Nenuphare, borage, Bugloss, ana, a little handful: flowers of Balm, Rosemary, anaʒ iii. Red sanders, Red coral, Lignum aloes, rind of a citron, ana, ʒ i. Seeds of Basil, Citrons, anaʒ i. Leaves of Dittander, Berries of iuniper, ana ℈ i. Bone of a stag's heart, half a scruple, Saffron, four grains.  
Mix all these in gross powder, and put them in a bag of crimson taffeta, or Lincloth, and lay it to the heart, and there let it remain. All these things being done, then procure him to sweat, having a good fire in the chamber, and windows close shut, and so let him sweat three or four hours more or less, or according as the strength of the sick body can endure, and then dry the body well with warm clothes, taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof, and then give him some of this Julep following, and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart.   

A cordial julep.  
Take Waters of Endive, Purslane, and Roses, ana, ℥. ii. Sorrell water, half a pint, juice of pomegranates, and for lack thereof Vinegar, ℥ iiii. Camphire ʒ iii, Sugar, one pound. Boil all these together in the form of a Julep, and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time.   

Another julep.  
Take syrup of ribs, sorrel, Nenuphare, ana ℥. i. Juice of lemons, ℥ i. Sorrell water, ℥ eight. Mix all these together, and take two or three spoonfuls thereof oftentimes, which will both comfort the heart, and quench thirst.  
And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirsty, then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water, clean barley, and Licorice scrapped clean and bruised, boil them together, then strain it, and unto a quart of the liquour add three ounces of syrup of lemons, and give thereof at any time; small beer or ale is also tolerable, or you may give a spoonful of this Julep following at any time.   

A julep to quench thirst.  
℞. Sorrel-water, four ounces, borage-water, Scabios water, of either one ounce, syrup of Lemons and sour Citrons, of either one ounce.  
Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time: and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi, made with Perls for him to eat. But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoon, then apply to his temples, and the region of the heart, this mixture following.  
℞. Conserve of Roses, borage, Bugloss, Broom flowers, of either one ounce: Mithridate, four ounces, treacle, one ounce, flowers of Violets, Pellamountaine, Red Roses, of either one drachma, Roots of Ireos, one drachm, Musk, Sivet, of either eight grains.  
Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an opiate, this must be spread on plasters, and applied to the heart and temples, and to the soles of the feet apply this plaster following.  
Take of the aforesaid opiate, ℥ ii. unto the which you must put so much more of an onion, which must have the middle part thereof taken out, and the hole filled with Mithridate; and Aqua vitae, and so roasted in the ashes, and then mix it with the opiate, and apply it to both soles of the feet.  
Now when all this is done, and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid: it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth, although he vomit it up again, then let him rest two hours, and then offer him more, which you must do oftentimes, and but little at a time.  
And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment, then give him another cordial, as ye did at the first, and so caufe him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it, and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid, for by this means you shall oftentimes see the sore, which did offer itself to come forth, will be clean discussed and consumed away: but if it do not by this means go away, then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration, and then open it with some caustic or incision, as hereafter shall be showed you at large.  
The next day after his sweat, you may tolerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon, whereby to prevent pain or lightness of the head, which may chance through want thereof: and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint, then immediately give him some good cordial, according as the state of his body requireth, either in temperate or extreme heat, as before is showed: and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with veal, Mutton, Chicken, or such like, wherein some borage, Bugloss, pimpernel, and a little hyssop, with some Parsley roots, the inner pith being taken out, must be boiled, whereof he must take a little at a time, three or four times a day, and betwixt times in taking of his broth, give him three or four spoonfuls of this Julep following, which doth resist venenosity from the heart, and also quench thirst.   

A julep to quench thirst and resist Venenosity.  
℞. Water of Scabios, borage, Sorrell, ana ℥. ii. Syrup of Lemons, sour Citrons, and the juice of Sorrell, of either one ounce.  
Mix all these together, and give thereof as cause requireth.  
Then at night he may sleep three or four hours more, and the next day, being the third or fourth day of his accubet, you may purge him with one of the purgations here following, but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine, because it may cause an extreme flux, which will be most dangerous, because it will overmuch weaken the body, and hinder concoction, for most commonly in this disease the body of itself is subject to fluxes.   

A good Purgation in a strong body.  
℞. Rad. Cichoriae, ʒ. iiii. Rad. Petasitis, ʒ. ss. Fol. Scabiosae, Card. Benedictus Pimpinellae, Acetosae, ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Prunorum dammas no. x. Sem. Coriandri, ʒ. ss. Aquae font. ℥. ix.  
Boil them until a third part be consumed, then strain it.  
℞. Decoct. col. ℥. iiii. Fol. Senuae, ʒ. iii. Rhab. elect. ʒ. iiii. Spicae. G. iii.  
Infuse them together twelve hours, then strain it strongly, and add thereto these things.  
Sir. de Cichoriae, cum Rhab. ʒ vi. Oxisacchari, Simp. ʒ. ii.  
Mix them altogether, and drink it in the morning refraining from meat, drink, and sleep three hours after, and then eat some good broth.   

Another in a plethoric and full body.  
℞. Fol. Scabiosae, Buglossae, Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae. ʒ. iii. Rad. Fenic. licho. anaʒ. iiii. Passularum enucleat, ℥. i. Prunorum dammas. no. vi. Sem anis. Coriandri, Oxialidis, ana ℈. i. Sennae, Polipod. q. ana ℥. i.  
Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half the water be consumed, then strain it, and keep it.  
℞. Rhab. elect. ʒ. ii. Agarici, tros. ʒ. i. Croci. ℈. ss. Aquarum scabiosae, Borraginis, Card. B. anaʒ. iiii.  
Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place, then strain them strongly, and add thereto Sir. ros. lax. Mannae. Calabriae ana ℥. i. Decoct. col. ℥. ii. vel ℥. iii.  
Mix all these together, and take it as the other before.   

A good purgation for a weak body.  
℞. Fol. sennae, ʒ. iii. Rhab. elect, ʒ. i. Sem. anis. ʒ. ss. Schenanthi, ℈. ss. Aquae Acetosae, ℥. v.  
Boil them a little, then take it from the fire, and let them stand infused together twelve hours, then strain it out strongly, and add thereto Sir. ros. lax. ℥. i. and then drink it as the other before.   

Another gentle purgation.  
℞. Aquarum scabiosae, Card. B. Aquae ad pestem, ana ℥. i. Rhab elect, ʒ. ii. ss. Cinamomi, ʒ. ss.  
Infuse them together twelve hours, and strain them strongly; then add to the straining Sir. ros. lax. ℥. i. Sir. de limonibus, four ounces.  
Mix them together, and so drink it as the other before, you may either add or diminish of the rhubarb unto any of these potions as you list.  
Now when you see the purgation hath done working, then give the sick some cordial thing, as hereafter followeth, which he must also take the next morning following.   

A good cordial to be taken after Purging.  
℞. Conserva Burrag, Bugloss, Mali Citri, anaʒ. iiii. Confect. Alkermis▪ ʒ. i. Boli Veri, ʒ. ss. Specierum diarhod abb. ℈. ii. Diamarga. frigid. ʒ. i. Manus Christi perlati, ℥. i. Sir. de Lemon, ʒ. iiii.  
Mix all these together, and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time, you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat.   

Another good cordial to be given where great heat is.  
℞. Conservae Bor●…g, ʒ iiii. Conservae fol. acetosae, ℥ i. Bolarm. veri▪ ʒ. i. Manus Christi cum perlis, ℥. i. Sir. de Lemonibus, q. v. misce.  
You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is, so much as three beans at a time.   

A good cordial potion.  
℞. Aquarum buglossae, Acetosae, ana ℥. i. Pul. diamarga. frig. ʒ. ss. Confectio alkermis, G. ii. Sir. de aceto, Citri, vel de Lemon. ℥. i. misce.  
All this you may take after purging as aforesaid, at any time.  
And here you must understand, that if it be in a plethoric body full of ill humours, it were good that you purge him again the next day.    

CHAP. III. showeth what symptoms often chance, and how to help them.  
FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance, I will here show you good means how to help the same.  

For lightness of the head through want of sleep.  
℞. Hordei mundi. P. i. Amigd. dull. depilatum ℥. i. ss. Sem. iiii. Frigid. ma. mund. ana ℈. i. Aqua font. q. 5. fiat decoctio. Decoct. col. l. i. Sir. de Lemonibus, de Papa, ana ℥. i. ss. Sacchari perlati, ℥. i.  
Boil them together a little, and then keep it to your use, you must often times give two or three spoonfuls thereof to drink, and anniont his temples with this ointment.   

Ointment to provoke sleep.  
℞. unguent popillionis, ʒ. iiii. Unguent. Alabastrini, Ol. Nenuphariae misce, ana. ʒ ii.  
This ointment is not only good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head, if the place grieved be anointed therewith.   

For raving and raging▪  
If the party rave, then give him one scruple of the powder of hartshorn burnt, with half an ounce of the syrup of Violets and Lemons, and apply this sacculus following to the head.   

A good Sacculus for raving and raging.  
℞. Florum Nenupharis, P. i. Cort. Pap. ʒ. ii. Santali albi, Rub. Citri, ana. ʒ. i. Florum ros. rub, P. i. Florum Viol.. P. ss. Florum camomile. Betonicae, anaʒ. i.  
Shred them all small, than pound them grossly, and quilt them in a bag, and apply it to the head, and it will help you.   

Aphtham, to help it.  
In this contagious disease, there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth, which is called Aphtham, it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sickness, which if it be not well looked unto in time, it will greatly endanger the body, for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism.   

A good Gargarism for the mouth.  
℞. Clean barley, one handful, wild daisy leaves, Plantalne leaves, Strawberry leaves, Violet leaves, of either one handful: Purslane seed, one scruple, Quinse seed, one scruple and half. Licorice bruised, four drachms.  
Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water until the water be half consumed, then strain it, and take one pint and half thereof, and add thereto syrup of Roses by infusion, and syrup of dried roses of either four drachms: Diamoron two ounces.  
Mix these together, and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm, and it helpeth.   

Vomiting extremely, how to help it.  
If it come in the beginning of the disease, as most commonly it doth, there is no better means to stay it, then by giving of Cordials and by sweating, by which means that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled, and breathed out, but if after Cordials given, and sweat, it doth not stay, it is a very ill and dangerous sign: yet what means I have used to stay the same, I will here show you.   

A good bag for the stomach.  
℞. Dried leaves of Mints, Elder, Origanie, Wormwood, Calamint, Mugwort, Thime, balm, Pellemountaine, tops of Dill, of either a little handful: Seeds of Carduus Benedictus, Fennell, anise, of either four drachms: Roots of Ciperus, Calamus aromaticus, of either four drachms: Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, of either half a drachm.  
Make all these in gross powder, than put it into a linen bag, which must be made so broad and long, as will cover the stomach: then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar, of either ten spoonfuls, wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate, then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine, and let him soak therein a little while, the liquour being first warmed on a chaffer and coals, and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm, and so apply it to the stomach, and when he waxeth cold, warm him therein again, and let him remain half an hour in all, and then take him away, and dry the stomach with a warm cloth, and then anoint it with this ointment following.  
℞. Chemical oils of Rosemary, Sage, of either one drachm: Vinegar, Mithridate, of either one drachm.  
Mix all these together, and so use it, and if the party be costive, then were it good to give him a glister, wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate, it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighs.   

Yoxe, or yexing, to stay it.  
℞. Dill seed, two scruples and half: White Poppy seed, Purslane seed, of either one scruple and a half.  
Bruise them a little, then knit them in a fine linen cloth, and let it soak in the drink which he useth, and when you give him drink, wring out the bag therein, and let him drink it, and that will stay it, also the order aforesaid to help vomiting, is good to stay the yoxe, or yexing, but if neither of them prevail, then will the sick hardly escape death.   

Flix, how to stop it.  
You must first give the patient this purpation following, which doth not only purge away those slimy humours which is the cause thereof, but doth also leave an astringency behind it.  
℞. Rhab. elect. ʒ. iii. Cinamoni, ℈. ii. Aquarum Endiviae, Borraginis, ana ℥. ii.  
Infuse them together twelve hours, then strain it out strongly, and add thereto one ounce of syrup of roses laxative, and so drink it warm, refraining from meat, and drink, and sleep three hours after it: and at night when it hath done working, give this confection following.  
℞. Conservae ros. ʒ. iiii. Dioscordii, ℈. i. ss. Pul. Diatragag. frigid. ℈. i, Dialkermes, G. x. Sir. de Lemon. ʒ. ii. misce.  
When you have given this confection, then do you Epithemate the region of the heart with this Epithemative following,   

Epithemation for the heart.  
℞. Aquarum Buglossae, Burrag, Rosarum, Oxialidis, ana ℥. iiii. Throchiscorum de camphera, ℈. i. Pul. diamargarit. frigid. ʒ. i. Aceti alb. ℥. i. Offa de corde cervi, ℈. ss. Santal. Rub. Coral. Rub. misce. ana ℈. i.  
With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of an hour, and if by this means it stay not, than the next day give some of this confection following, which I have found excellent good for the stopping of any flix whatsoever.  
℞. Conservae ros. siccae. ℥. i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat ℈. i. Térrae lemniaeʒ. ss. Lap. Hemattitis, Sang. Draco. Bolarmoni. anaʒ. ii. Mithridatii, misce, ʒ. i.  
You must every morning and evening give two drachm hereof, and drink some plantain water after it.  
Now here you must understand, that if the flix come in the beginning of the sickness, and that no botch, Carbunkle, nor▪ spots appear in the body, then in any case you may not go about to stop it, but suffer nature to discharge itself, and only help nature with Cordials, and Epithemations applied to the heart, but if by the continuance thereof, the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith, then is it to be repressed, as before is showed, but it must be the third day before you attempt to do it.  
But if this flix come when the botch or carbuncle doth appear, and tending to maturation, than is it very dangerous, for by that means the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principal parts, and so killeth the Patient.    

CHAP. iv. showeth the general cure of a botch when he appears outwardly.  
FIrst, give Cordials, and use the defensive before taught you in the second Chapter, thereby to keep it from the heart, and then bring it to maturation as followeth.  

A good Maturative.  
Take a great onion and roast him in the ashes, than pound him with some powder of white mustardseed, and for lack thereof some treacle, and pound them together, and so apply it to the grief warm, and renew it twice a day, which within three or four days at most will bring it to suppuration.   

Another.  
Take white lily roots, Enulacompane roots, Scabios, and onions, of either two ounces.  
Roast all these together in a coal leaf, or a wet paper, than pound them with some sweet Butter, and a little Venice treacle, whereunto do you add some Galbanum, and Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar, and strained from the fesses and dregs, and so mix them altogether, and apply it, renewing it twice a day.   

Another, where no inflammation is.  
Take Unguentum basilicon ℥. iiii. sour Leaven ℥. ii. Oil of Lilies, sweet Butter, ana. ʒ. iiii. treacle ʒ. i. ss. yolks of two Eggs.  
Mix them together, and so apply it, and when it is come to suppuration, then open it in the lowest part, either with a potential caustic, or by inscition, but the caustic is best, and when you have opened it, if no matter flow out, then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore, as before hath been showed: after that put into the wound a digestive as followeth.   

A Digestive,  
Take the yolk of an egg, clear Turpentine ʒ. iiii. clarified Honey ʒ. ii. Mithridate, or treacle ʒ. ss.  
Mix all these together, and use it in the wound until it be well digested, which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and thick matter that will flow out of it, and upon the sore lay this cataplasm until it be digested   

A digestive cataplasm.  
℞. Fat Figs, and Raisins the stones picked out, ana. ℥. ii. Sal nitrumʒ. iv. sour leavens ℥. iii. Honey ℥. i. oil of camomile ℥. i. ss.  
You must shred and pound the Figs and Raisins very small, then commix it with the rest in a mortar, in form of a poultice, and use it.  
And when it is digested, than you must mundify it with a mundificative, to which purpose Unguentum virid. or else Apostolorum mixed with Unguentum basilicon will serve, and when it is clean mundified, then to incarnate and heal it up, do you only anoint or strike it over with a feather wet in Arceus linament, which must be molten in a saucer, and over all lay a plaster of Diaculum, or a plaster of Kellebackeron, which is excellent good in all Imposthumes and tumors, and in this order do you proceed, until the grief be whole.    

CHAP. V. showeth how to bring the botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh.  
FIrst you must consider, that oftentimes the botch, or carbuncle doth offer itself to come forth in some place of the body, and yet no apparent sign thereof, but lieth deep hidden within, because nature is not of sufficient strength to thrust it forth; which is easily perceived by the great and almost intolerable pain, that by some is felt in the place where nature intends to expel it, which in the most part of people, by blood-letting, Cordials, and sweat, is clean taken away and evacuated; but if after all this is done it go not away, then unto these you must use all the means you can to bring it to the outward parts. First, by giving to the sick oftentimes some cordial Electuary to keep it from the heart, than (if no great pain be in the outward part) you must apply a cupping-glass with scarrification, directly against the place where the grief is felt, and let it remain thereon a quarter or half an hour, then take it away, and presently apply the rumps of Chickens, Hens, or Pigeons to the place (as before hath been showed) that being done, then lay some attractive and maturative plaster or cataplasm to the place, which here following is showed, and every sixth hour you must apply the cupping-glass, as also the rest, until such time as you have brought the venomous matter to the outward parts, there to be visibly seen, or at least, by feeling to be perceived, which commonly is effected at the second time, then use no more cupping, but only apply a maturative to the place.  

A good Maturative cataplasm.  
℞. Rad. simphyti, ma. Liliorum, Ceparum, Allium, ana, ℥. i. Fol. Oxialidis M. i.  
You must pound all these together a little, then wrap them in a coal leaf, and so roast them in the hot embers, than pound them in a mortar, whereunto add Ol. liliorum, Auxungiaepor●…. ana. ℥. i. Fermenti acrisʒ. vi. Mithridatiiʒ. i.  
Mix them altogether in form of a Pultus, and so apply it warm, and renew it twice a day.   

Another  
℞. Galbani, Apopanacis, Ammoniaci, ana. ʒ. iiii.  
Dissolve these in Vinegar if the botch be hot and inflamed (but if it be not) then dissolve them in Aqua vitae, and being dissolved, then strain it from the dregs, and add thereto Unguent. basillici, Mithridat. Fomenti acris, ana, ℥. iiii.  
Mix all these together, and apply it.   

Another which is sooner made.  
Take a great onion, make a hole in the middle of him, then fill the place with Mithridate or treacle, and some leaves of Rue, then roast him in the hot embers, and when it is soft, than pound it with some Barrowes grease, and apply it to the sore, and that will ripen it in short time, then open and cure it as in the Chapter before,  
But if the pain and inflammation in the place be so great, that the party cannot endure cupping glasses to be used, then must you apply a Vesicatory to the place, in the lowest part of the grief.   

A Vesicatory.  
Take Cantharides bruised in gross powder ʒ. ss. sour Leaven ʒ. ii. mix them together in a mortar with a little Vinegar, and apply it, which within twelve hours will raise a blister, which you must open, and then lay an ivy or coal leaf to the place, and upon all apply any of the cataplasms aforesaid, and dress it twice, a day, and once a day at least, give the Patient some cordial, and when it is come to a sortness, and that you perceive it is imposthumated, then open it, and so proceed to the cure, as before is showed.   

When the botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth always hard.  
Sometime it is seen that the botch, although it appear outwardly, yet will it not come to maturation, which commonly is accomplished within three or four days, but will resist whatsoever you apply to it, and remain and continue always hard; now here you must presently open it, either with a caustic or by inscition, for fear lest it strike in again, or at least grow to gangrena, but before you open it, you must Epithemate the grief with this Epithemation following, and every morning and evening give the sick some cordial, and betwixt the sore and the heart anoint it with the defensive before in the second Chapter.   

An Epithemation.  
Take leaves of mallows, Violets, camomile, ana, M. i. flowers of Dill, melilot, ana. ℥. i. Hollehock roots ℥. iiii. Linseed ℥. ii.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half the water be consumed, and then wet some wool or Flax therein, being first well beaten and picked clean, and lay it upon the sore warm, and as it cooleth, do you take it away, and lay on another warm stewse, and so continue it half an hour together, and then open it as beforesaid, and immediately apply to the wound Chickens or Hens, as before in the first Chapter hath been showed you: and if you cannot get Chickens nor Hens, than a whelp or a Pigeon clov●…n asunder by the back, and so applied warm will suffice, which must be renewed so oftentimes as cause requireth, and when that is done, then apply unto the wound a digestive, made as followeth.   

A Digestive.  
Take Turpentine ℥. ss. Honey ʒ. ii. Mithridate, or treacle ʒ. ss. the yolk of a new laid egg.  
Mix all these together and use it in the wound, and upon all lay the digestive cataplasm beforesaid, which is made of Figs, or a plaster of Kellebackeron, or of Diaculum magnum, and dress it twice a day, and every dressing Epithemate the grief as beforesaid, when it is digested, then mundify, incarnate, and sigillate it, as in the Chapter before is showed you.    

CHAP. VI. Showeth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again.  
SOmetimes you shall see the sore will appear outwardly, and suddenly vanish away again, which is a very dangerous and deadly sign; now when this doth chance, then presently give some good cordial that hath power to expel the venom, as in the first Chapter of this Treatise you may find choice of, and immediately apply this Pultus to both the soles of his feet, which must be made with Culver-dung, and Vinegar mixed together, and spread on a coal leaf, and so applied; you must give the cordial every third hour, and immediately after the first giving of the cordial, you must Epithemate the heart with the Epithemation before expressed, in the second Chapter of this Treatise; and when that is done, than cause the sick to sweat, if you may, and after his sweat, and the body well dried, then give him an easy Glister, the next day parge him with some gentle pargation, as before is showed you. And if by these means you prevail not, then small hope of life is to be expected; yet Petrus Forestus willeth you, first to give a Glister, and then within two hours after it, to draw some blood in the same side where the grief is, and to anoint the place grieved with Unguentum resumptivum, mixed with some Oil of camomile, and then two hours after it to give a cordial, and procure sweat upon it, and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid, did recover divers.   

CHAP. VII. Showeth how to draw a botch from one place to another, and so to discuss him without breaking.  
FIrst you must apply a cupping glass next adjoining to the lower part of the sore, on that side where you would have him to be brought, and next unto that glass apply another, so near the first as you can, and if that be not so far as you would have the sore to be brought, then apply the third glass, and let them all remain a quarter of an hour, than takeaway the last glass, but suffer the first to remain, then presently apply him again, and let it remain a quarter of an hour more, and do so three or four times together, but always suffer the first glass next the sore for to remain; now when you have thus done, then take all the glasses away, and presently apply a Vesicatory to the place where the last and uttermost glass did stand, suffering it to remain there twelve hours, then open the blister, and lay an Ivy or Cole leaf to the place, and upon all lay a pla●…ster of Kellebackeron, or Diaculum magnum, and dress it twice a day, the longer you keep it running, the better it will be, and at length ●…eal it up as other Ulcers are cured.  
Now so soon as you have applied the Vesicatory, you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation.  

Epithemation.  
Take mallows, Violets, camomile, Dill, and melilot, ana, M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces, linseed one ounce and a half.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half the water be consumed, in this decoction you must wet some unwashed wool or Flax made clean and well beaten, then being wrung out a little, apply it warm to the place, and renew it every hour, during the time that the Vesicatory is in working, and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby, then only apply this cataplasm to the botch itself.  
Take mallows, Violets and camomile flowers, of either one handful.  
Boil▪ them in water until they be tender, then cut them very small with a shredding knife, and add thereto Oil of camomile and lilies, of either two ounces: Barrowes mort two ounces, Wax one ounce.  
M●…lt the Wax in the oils, and then put it to the herbs, and boil them together a little, then take it from the fire, and add thereto barley and Bean flower, a handful of either of them, and so mix them altogether, and apply it to the grief, renewing it twice a day, which within three or four days will resolve and discuss the botch; but if it do it not by that time, then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration, as before is sufficiently showed you.    

CHAP. VIII. Showeth how to know a carbuncle or blain, as also the 〈◊〉 of the same.  
THe carbuncle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal, and sometime with divers pustulas or weals together, with a great burning and pricking pain in the place, which pustulas are like a scalding bladder, seeming to be full of water or matter, yet when you open it, little or nothing will come out of it, and when they are broken, will grow to a hard crust or scar, as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or caustic, with a great ponderosity or heaviness in the place. In some it comes in the beginning, without any Pustula at all to be perceived, but with a hard black crust or a scar; sometimes it lieth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all, as if it be in the lungs, than there is a difficulty of breathing, with a Cough and foul spitting.  
If it be in the Liver or Spleen, than the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side; if in the kidneys or Bladder it doth chance, than is there suppression or stopping of the Urine, or great pain in the making of water; if it be in the Brain, than a delirium followeth, but howsoever it chance to come, the party infected therewith hath a Fever, with other accidents, as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared; if it begin with a green, black, or blue colour, or of divers colours like the Rainbow, than is it a deadly sign, and so is it, if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away; but if it be red or yellowish, so it be not in any of the principal parts, or emunctuaries of the body, as the heart, stomach, armpit, flank, jaws, or throat, than it is laudable, otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured, but wheresoever it doth chance, unless it may be brought to suppuration, it is deadly.  

The cure of the carbuncle.  
First, the universal means must not be neglected, as blood-letting, cordials, epithemations, sweet and gentle evacuation by purging, as the time and cause requireth, which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been showed at large, and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch, is also to be kept in the cure of a carbuncle, and to rectify the air of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves, red Roses and such like, as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar, and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in rose-water and Vinegar is very good: these things being done, then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration, for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good   

A Maturative Cataplasm.  
Take Fat Figs ℥ iiii. Mustard seed, ℥ i. ss. Pound the seed small by itself, the Figs must first be cut very small, and then pounded likewise, and then add thereto so much oil of lilies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiff Pultis, and apply it warm, renewing it twice a day, this must be continued until the scar begin to grow loose and movable, and then apply this following to remove the scar.  
Take unsalted butter, the yolk of an Egg, and wheat flour, mix them together, and apply it until the s●…ar do fall away, then do you mundify it with this mundificative.   

Mundificative annodine.  
Take clear Turpentine, ℥ iiii. Syrup of red Roses, ℥ i. honey of Roses, ʒ iiii. Boil them altogether a little, then take it from the fire, and add there to barley and wheat flour of each ʒ. vi. the yolk, of a new laid Egg, and mix them altogether, and apply it three days, and then use this following.   

Another Mundificative.  
Take clear Turpentine, ℥ iii. Honey of Roses, ℥ ii. Juice of Smallege, ℥ ii. Barley flower, ℥ i. ss. Boil them altogether saving the barley, until the Juice be consumed, then take it from the fire, and when it is almost cold, add the barley thereto, and mix them together, and use thereof to the grief until it be clean mundified, and then incarnate it with Unguentum Basilicon, and lastly sigillate it with Unguentum de cerusa decocted.  
Sometime you shall find a little pustule to appear, without any elevation of the parts adjoining, or outward hardness. Now here to bring it outwardly you must apply this Cataplasm.  
Take lily roots, onions, and sour Leaven, of either one ounce. Boil them in water until the water be consumed, then bruise them in a mortar, and add thereto Mustard seed, Culver-dung, White soap, anaʒ. i. ss. Snails without shells, vi. in number. Mithridate, treacle, ana, half a drachm, Yolks of four Eggs.  
Mix all these together, and apply it warm to the grief, renewing it thrice a day, this order must be continued until you see the place elevated tending to suppuration, then apply a Maturative, and so proceed as next before this is showed you, and during the whole time of the cure, I hold it better to use rather Poultises than plasters, because they do not so much stop the Pores, but give more scope for the venomous matter to breath out.   

When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation, how to help it.  
You must first bathe and soak the place well with this bag following, and then presently apply the Cataplasm ensuing, for by this means you shall not only ease the pain and abate the Inflammation and Fever, but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby.   

The Bag.  
Take mallows, Violets, Plantain, Liblong, ana one handful. Fat Figs, ℥ i. Hollihock roots, lily roots, ana ℥. i. linseed; ℥ i.  
You must shred the herbs grossly, and cut the figs and roots small, then bruise them in a mortar, and mingle them altogether, then put them into two little bags of linen cloth, and boil them in a sufficient quantity of clean water, until the water be half consumed, then take out one of the bags, and wring out the water a little, and apply it to the grief warm, and when it is cold, take it away, and lay on the other, and do so half an hour together every dressing, which must be twice a day at least.   

The Cataplasm.  
Take Mallows, Violets, sorrel, Liblong, ana two handfuls, Henbane, a little handful.  
Wrap them all in a ball together, and roast them in the ashes, then bruise them in a mortar, and add thereto, Mel rosarum, ℥ iiii. treacle, ʒ i. ss. Saffron in powder, half a drachm, Yolks of five Eggs.  
Mix them together with the rest, adding some barley flower thereto to thicken it, and apply it warm, renewing it always before it grow dry and stiff, and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the bags aforesaid, and this order must be continued until the pain and Inflammation be gone, then to bring it unto Suppuration, if you add to the foresaid Cataplasm some oil of lilies, and sweet Butter unsalted, it will be very good, or you may make this Cataplasm following.  
Take Soot of the chimney, ℥. iii. Bay salt, ℥. i. ss. Yolks of two or three Eggs.  
Mix all these together in a mortar, and apply it to the grief warm, which must be always renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiff, this order must be continued until the ●…ore come to suppuration, then to remove the scar, and finish the cure, do you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter.  
There are other dangerous accidents which do sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle, which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people, because they know not the means how to execute the same, but if any such thing chance, then do I wish you to seek the help of some learned physician, or expert chirurgeon, whose counsel I do wish you to follow.    
The End of the Second Treatise.   

A Short Treatise of the Small Pox, showing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith.  

CHAP. I. showeth what the Small Pox and measles are, and whereof it proceedeth.  
FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague, are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or measles, as also by good observation it hath been seen, that they are forerunners or warnings of the plague to come, as Salius and divers other writers do testify: I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise, to show the aids and helps which are required for the same.  
I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease, because it is a thing well known unto most people, proceeding of adusted blood mixed with phlegm, as Avicen witnesseth, which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth always begin with a Fever, then shortly after there ariseth small pustulas upon the skin throughout all the body, which do not suddenly come forth, but by intermission, in some more or less, according to the state and quality of the body infected therewith: for in some there ariseth many little pustulas with elevation of the skin, which in one day do increase and grow bigger, and after have a thick matter growing in them, which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata: and after the Latins Variola, in our English tongue the small Pox, and here some Writers do make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata; for say they, that is called variola when many of those Pustules do suddenly run into a clear bladder, as if it had been scalled, but the other doth not so, yet they are both one in the cure, they do most commonly appear the fourth day, or before the eight day, as Avicen witnesseth.  

What the measles or Males are.  
Avicen saith, That the measles or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh, with many little Pimples which are not to be seen, but only by feeling with the hand are to be perceived, they have little elevation of the skin, neither do they grow to maturation, or end with ulceration as the Pox doth, neither do they assault the eyes, or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth, neither are they so swift in coming forth, but do grow more slowly, they require the same cure which the Pox have, they proceed of choleric and melancholy blood.   

The cause of the Pox and measles.  
The primitive cause as Valetius saith, is by alteration of the air, in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality unto it, which doth cause an ebullition of our blood.  
The cause antecedent is repletion of meats, which do easily corrupt in the stomach, as when we eat milk and fish together at one time, or by neglecting to draw blood, in such as have accustomed to do it every year, whereby the blood doth abound.  
The conjunct cause is the menstrual blood, which from the beginning in our mother's wombs we received, the which mixing itself with the rest of our blood; doth cause an Ebullition of the whole.  
The efficient cause is, nature or natural heat, which by that menstrual matter mixing itself with the rest of our blood, doth cause a continual vexing and disquieting thereof, whereby an unnatural heat is increased in all the body, causing an Ebullition of blood, by the which this filthy menstrual matter is separated from our natural blood, and the nature being offended and overwhelmed therewith, doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skin as the excrements of blood, which matter if it be hot and slimy, than it produceth the Pox, but if dry and subtle, than the measles or Males. But Mercurialis an excellent writer in physic, in his first Book, de morbis puerorum, cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his Book De abditis rerum causis, c. 12. doth hold opinion, that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceed of menstrual blood, but of some secret and unknown corruption, or defiled quality of the air, causing an Ebullition of blood, which is also verified by Valetius, and now doth reckon it to be one of the hereditable diseases, because few or none do escape it, but that either in their youth, ripe age, or old age, they are infected therewith. The contention hereabout is great, and mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides, therefore I will leave the judgement thereof unto the better learned to define; but mine opinion is, That now it proceedeth of the Excrements of all the four humours in our bodies, which striving with the purest, doth cause a supernatural heat and ebullition of our blood, always beginning with a Fever in the most part, and may well be reckoned in the number of those diseases which are called Epidemia: as Fracastorius in his first Book, De morbis contag. cap. 13. witnesseth this disease is very contagious and infectious, as experience teacheth us: There are two special causes why this disease is infectious: The first is, because it proceedeth by ebullition of blood, whose vapour being entered into another body, doth soon defile and infect the same, the second reason is, because it is a disease hereditable; for we see when one is infected therewith, that so many as come near him, (especially those which are allied in the same blood) do assuredly for the most part, receive the infection also.    

CHAP. II. showeth to know the signs when one is infected, as also the good and ill signs in the disease.  
THe signs when one is infected are these, first he is taken with a hot Fever, and sometime with a Delirium, great pain in the back, furring and stopping of the nose, beating of the heart, hoarseness, redness of the eyes, and full of tears with heaviness and pain in the head, great beating in the forehead and temples, heaviness and pricking in all the body, dryness in the mouth, the face very red, pain in the throat and breast, difficulty in breathing, and shaking of the hands and feet with spitting thick matter.  
When they do soon or in short time appear, and that in their coming out they do look red, and that after they are come forth they do look white, and speedily grow to maturation, that he draweth his breath easily, and doth find himself eased of his pain, and that his Fever doth leave him, these are good and laudable signs of recovery.  
When the Pox lie hidden within and not appearing outwardly, or if after they are come forth they do suddenly strike in again and vanish away, or that they do look of a black, bluish, and green colour, with a difficulty and straightness of drawing breath, and that he do often swoon, if the sick have a flix or lask, when the Pox were found double, that is, one growing within another, or when they run together in blisters like scalding bladders, and then on the sudden do sink down and grow dry with a hard black scar or crust, as if it had been burnt with a hot iron, all these are ill signs.  
Avicen saith, there are two special causes which produce death unto those that have this disease: either for that they are choked with great Inflammation and swelling in the throat called Angina, or having a flix or lask which doth so weaken and overthrow the vital spirits, that thereby the disease is increased, and so death followeth.  

How to know of what humours this disease cometh.  
If it come of blood, than they appear red, with general pain, and great heat in all the body.  
If they come of choler, then will they appear of a yellowish red and clear colour, with a pricking pain in all the body.  
If they come of phlegm, then will they appear of a whitish colour and scaly, or with scales.  
If they come of melancholy, then will they appear blackish with a pricking pain.    

CHAP. III. showeth the means to cure the Pox or measles.  
THere are two special means required for curing this disease, the first is to help nature to expel the same from the interior and principal parts unto the exterior: the second is to preserve both the interior and exterior parts, that they may not be hurt thereby.  
For the first intention, if the age and strength of the sick will permit, and that the Pox or measles appear not, it were then good in the first, second, or third day to draw blood out of the Basilica vein in the right arm, if he be not under the age of fourteen years, but the quantity must be at the discretion of him that draweth it, either more or less as occasion is offered: but for children and such as are of tender years, and weak bodies, it were not good to draw blood out of the arm, but out of the inferior parts, as the thighs, hams buttocks, and the Emeroidall veins, especially if the party be melancholy, or else to apply ventoses to the loins, buttocks, or hams, which may boldly be used both before and after they do appear, either with scarrification, or without, as cause requireth, which is a special good means to draw that Ichorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts; but for sucking Children, it were best to apply bloodsuckers unto any of the foresaid places, which is a thing that may be used with more ease than ventoses, neither do I wish either of them to be used unless necessity require it, which is, when the matter lieth lurking in the interior parts, not offering itself to appear outwardly: otherwise I hold it better to leave the whole work unto nature, specially in sucking children: for when we see that nature is ready, or doth endeavour to expel the malignity which is in the interior parts to the exterior, which may be perceived by reviving of the Spirits, and mitigating of the Fever: here we ought not to use any means at all, but leave the whole operation to nature, which we must only help by keeping the sick body in a reasonable heat, being wrapped in a scarlet, stammel, or red cloth, which may not touch the skin, but to have a soft linen cloth betwixt them both, and then cover him with clothes in reasonable sort, and keep him from the open air and the light, except a little, and also from anger, using all the means you can to keep the sick in quietness, and if the body be very costive, then to give an easy Glister.  

A Glister.  
℞. Barley, two handfuls, Violet leaves one handful: boil these in three pints of water until half be consumed, and strain it: then take of the same decoction twelve ounces.  
Oil of Violets three ounces, red Sugar and Butter, of either one ounce,  
Mix them together and give it to the sick warm; you may increase or diminish the decoction or ingredients according as the age of the party requireth: but if the sick have great heat, then may you add one ounce or four drachms of Cassia newly drawn unto it, and when he hath expelled the Glister, then rub the arms, hands, legs, and feet, softly with a warm cloth, which is also a very good means to draw that chorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts, when all this is done, then if the body be inclined to sweat, you must further the same by covering him with warm clothes, having a care that you lay not more on him than he can well endure, for otherwise you may cause faintness and swooning, which are ill in this case, yet must you always keep the sick warm, and suffer him not to sleep, or permit very little until the Pox or measles do appear: and here you must have a special care to preserve the eyes, ears, nostrils, throat and lungs, that they be not hurt or offended therewith, as hereafter shall be showed you, which you must use before he sweat and also in the sweat if need be.   

Eyes, how to preserve them.  
℞. Rose-water, plantain-water, of either two ounces, Sumack, two drachms.  
Let them boil together a little, or stand infused a night, then mix therewith half a spoonful of the oil made of the white of an Egg, then wet two clothes five or six double therein, then lay them upon either eye, cold, which must be always kept upon the eyes until the Pox be all come forth, and as they grow dry, wet them in the same liquour again, and apply them, but if there be great pain and burning within the eye, then must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye: take quinse-seed, half a drachm, bruise it a little, then let it stand infused in three ounces of Rose-water a whole night, then strain it, and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at least, or take of this water.  
℞. Rose-water, ℥. ii. Woman's milk, ℥. i. Myrrh finely powdered six grains.  
Mix them together, and use it in the eye as before is showed: this doth ease the pain, resisteth putrefication, and preserveth the sight.  
For the ears, you must put a drop of oil of Roses warm into them before he sweat.  
For the nostrils, cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar, or else Vinegar, red-roses and Sanders boiled together.  
For the throat, let him always hold a piece of white sugar-candy in the mouth, and as it melteth swallow it down.  
For the lungs give the sick oftenimes some syrup of quinses, or conserve of Roses, a little at a time.  
And for his drink, the decocted water of barley, boiled with a little licorice is best, being mixed with the juice of a Lemon, Citron, Pomegranate, or Rybes: which the sick best liketh, for either of them is very good.  
And for his diet, he must refrain from all salt, fat, thick and sharp meats: and from all sweet things either in meat or drink, his meat must be of a facile and easy digestion, and that hath a cooling property in it, as broth wherein borage, bugloss, sorrel, and such like are boiled, and for ordinary drink, small beer or ale is best.    

CHAP iv. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or measles are flow in coming forth.  
NOw when you perceive the Pox or measles are slow and slack in coming forth, then must you help nature, with cordials, and by sweat to thrust it out from the interior and principal parts, unto which purpose I have always found this drink to be excellent good here following.  
℞. Hordei mund. M. i. Lentium. excort. P. i. Ficuum. No. x. Fol. capil.. v. Lactucae. ana M. ss. Fol. acetosae. M. i. Florum cord. P. i. Semen fenic. ʒ. ii. Semen. 4. frigid. ma. anaʒ. ss. Aqua font, lb. iiii.  
Boyle all these together until a third part of the water be consumed, and then strain it.  
℞. Decoct. col. lb. i. Succus granatorum vel ribs, ℥. iiii.  
Mix all these together, and give the sick four or six ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening, which will provoke sweat, and expel the disease, and if you cannot get the juice of pomegranates, nor Rybes, than you may take so much of the syrup of either of them.  

Another good drink to expel the Pox or measles.  
Take a quart of posset-ale, a handful of Fennell seed, boil them together till a third part be consumed, then strain it, and add thereto one drachm of treacle, and one scruple of Saffron in powder: mix them together, and give two, three, or four ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening as cause requireth.  
But if it be for a strong and elderly body, you may give any of the expelling electuaries which are used to expel the Plague, as in the first Chapter for the curing of the Plague doth appear.  
But if the sick be so weak that he cannot expel the disease in convenient time, than it is good to epithemate the heart with this epithemation following.   

Epithemation for the heart.  
℞. Aquarum ros. Melissa, Card. b. Buglos. Morsus diaboli, vini alb. ana ℥. iiii. Aceti Ros. ℥. ii. ss. Pul. Ros. rub. Trium santal-Cinamoni, Elect. diamarg. frigid. anaʒ. ss. Mithridati, ℥. i. Theriacae, ʒ. iiii.  
Mix all these together, and let them boil a little, and so warm Epithemate the heart: and when you have done it, then give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth, and then cause him to sweat upon it, for by this means you shall obtain your desire by God's permission.   

Thirst, how to quench it.  
Now if in the expelling of the pox, the sick be very thirsty and dry, then give this Julep to drink morning and evening, which I have found very good.  
℞. Syrup of Jujubes, Nenuphare, and borage, of either four drachms: Water of borage, Cichore, and Bugloss, of either two ounces.  
Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning, and the rest at night, and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following.  
Take the conserves of Nenuphare, Violets, and borage, of either six drachms: Manus Christi made with pearls, four drachms: syrup of Nenuphare and ribs, of either one ounce and half.  
Mix them together: and with a Licorice stick clean scraped, and a little bruised in the end, let the sick lick thereof.    

CHAP. V. showeth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skin.  
FOr that oftentimes the face and hands, which is the beauty and delight of our bodies, are oftentimes disfigured thereby, I will show you what means I have used with good and happy success for preventing thereof: which is, you may not do any thing unto them until they grow white, and that they are come to maturation, which when you perceive, then with a golden pin, or needle, or for lack thereof a copper pin will serve, do you open every pustulae in the top, and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linen cloth, and if you perceive the places do fill again, then open them again as you did first, for if you do suffer the matter which is in them to remain over long, then will it fret and corrode the flesh, which is the cause of those pits which remain after the Pox are gone, as Avicen witnesseth: now when you have thus done, then anoint the places with this ointment following.  
Take Elder leaves, one handful, Marigolds, two handfuls, French mallows, one handful, Barrowes morte or grease, six ounces.  
First bruise the herb in a mortar, and then boil them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chaffer and coals, until the juice of the herbs be consumed, then strain it, and keep it to your use, the best time to make it is in the middle or the latter end of May.  
You must with a feather anoint the places grieved, and as it drieth in, anoint it again, and so continue it oftentimes, for this will soon dry them up, and keep the place from pits and holes, which remain after the Pox are gone.  
Also if you anoint the Pox with the oil of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day, which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation, it will cure them without pits or spots, and easeth the pain and burning, and helpeth excoriation.  
Some do only oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season, and in winter the juice of the roots will serve: and by that only have done well.  
Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the pustulas are opened.  
Take Barley, one little handful, red Roses, a handful, red Sanders, white Sanders, of either one o●…nce: Saffron, two scruples, Salt, four drachms, Clean water, three pound.  
Boyle all together until a third part be consumed, you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith, with a fine cloth wet therein, and as it drieth in, wet it again, this in a short time will dry them up.  
I have heard of some, which having not used any thing at all, but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching, have done very well, and not any pits remained after it.  

When the Pox, after they come out, do not grow to maturation, how you shall help it.  
Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation, or grow white: now here you must help nature to bring it to pass, which you may well do with this decoction.  
Take mallows, one handful, figs, twelve in number, Water, a quart.  
Cut the figs small, and boil altogether, until half and more be consumed, and then wet a fine soft linen cloth therein, and touch the place therewith oftentimes, which will soon bring them to maturation, and also ease the pain, if any be.   

Ulceration, to help it.  
If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations, which is oftentimes seen: then for the curing thereof use this order here following.  
Take Tamarinds, leaves of ●…entils, Mirtils, buds of oaken leaves, red Roses dried, of either a l●…le handful.  
Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water until half be consumed, than strain it, and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well, then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linen cloth, and then cast into the place some of this powder following.  
Take Frankincese, mastic, sarcocol, and red Roses, of either two drachms.  
Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves, then mix them together, and so reserve it to thy use.   

A very good unguent for the same purpose.  
Take oil of Roses, vi. ounces, white Wax, one ounce, Ceruse washed in Rose and plantain-water, one ounce and half, clear Turpentine, iii. drachms, Camphire, half a drachm.  
You must first melt the wax in the oil, then put in the Ceruse by little and little, always stirring it with an iron spalter, and let it boil on a gentle fire of charcoles until it grow black, but stir it continually in the boiling, for fear lest it burn: then take it from the fire, and add thereto the camphire, and lastly the Turpentine: this unguent is good both to mundify, incarnate, and sigillate.   

For extreme heat and burning in the soles of the feet, and palms of the hands.  
Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water, and that will ease the pain and burning, and may boldly be used without any danger.   

For to help the soreness and ulceration of the mouth.  
Sometime it chanceth in this disease, that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jaws, called Aptham, which if it be not well looked unto in time, will grow to be Cankers,: now to cure and prevent the same, this gargarism is excellent good.  
Take barleywater, a quart, red Roses dried, a little handful, Sumach, and Rybes, of either two ounces, juice of Pomegranates, ℥. iii.  
Boil them altogether, saving the juice of Pomegranates, until a third part be consumed, then strain it, and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates, with this you must often wash and gargarise, as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while.  
Also to prevent the same, the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good, and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron, or juice of a Pomegranate.   

For inflammation and pain in the tonsils and throat.  
Take plantain-water, a pint, syrup of Pomegranates, two ounces.  
Mix them together, and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm.   

Another.  
Taste Nightshade-water, a pint, Seeds of Quinces, four scruples.  
Boil them together a little, then strain it, and add thereto two ounces of the syrup of Pomegranates, and gargarise therewith oftentimes.   

How to open the eyelids that are fastened together with the Pox.  
Sometimes the eyelids are so fastened together that you cannot open them without great pain and danger: then to open them you must foment or bathe them well with a decoction made of Quince seed, mallows and water boiled together, wherein wet some fine linen clothes five or six double, and apply them warm, and continue it until you may easily open them, and then if you perceive any web or film to be grown over the sight, than thrice a day do you put some powder of white sugar-candy into the eye, or if you list, you may dissolve the sugar in Rose-water, and so use it in the eye, which will fret it away, and preserve the sight.   

A good Collery for a Web or Ungula in the eye.  
Take the juice of Rue, Fennell, Salendine, mallows, of either two ounces.  
Boil them together in a vessel of glass, or pewter, over a chaffer with coals, and scum away the froth that doth rise thereof, then add thereto the gall of an Eel, one drachm, and let them boil together a little, then put thereto four scruples of white copperas, and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder, boil all together a little, then let it run through a fine linen cloth, and keep it in a glass, you must every morning and evening put one drop thereof into the eye, provided that first due evacuation be made so well by phlebotomy as purging.    

CHAP VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone.  

For redness of the face and hands after the Pox are gone, how to help it.  
TAke Barley, Beanes, Lupins, of either one handful: bruise them all in a mortar grossly, and boil them in three pints of water until it grow thick like a jelly, then strain it, and anoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day, for three or four days together, and then you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with this water following.  
Take Vine leaves, two handfuls: bean-flower, Dragons, wilde-tansey, of either one handful: Camphire three drachms, two Calves feet, the pulp of three Lemons, a pint of raw cream.  
You must shred the herbs small, as also the Lemons, and break and cut the calves-feets small, then mix them together, and distil it in a glass still, also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour, or redness of the face.   

For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone.  
Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt, and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day; for it is excellent good.   

A good ointment for the same purpose.  
Take oil of sweet Almonds▪ oil of white lilies, of either one ounce: Capons-grease, Goats-tallow, of either four drachms: sarcocol, half a drachm: Flower of Rice, and of Lupins, of either one drachm: Litharge of gold, one drachm and half: Roots of briony, and of Ireos, of either one scruple: Sugar-candy white, one drachm.  
Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder, and searce them through a searce, than put them all in a mortar together, and labour them with a pestle, and in the working do you put the water of Roses, bean-flower▪ and of white lilies ana a great spoonful, which must be put in by little and little in the working of it, and so labour them altogether until it come to an unguent.  
You must every evening anoint the face therewith, or hands, and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley, Wheaten-bran, and the seed of mallows hath been boiled.   

For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone.  
For helping of this accident I have showed many things, yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me, but the best means that I have tried, is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar, and the next day with the water wherein Bran and mallows have been boiled, and continue this order twenty days, or a month together.   

Running of the ears, how to help it.  
Sometimes the ears do run very much in this disease, which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning▪ but suffer it so to run, and the ears to remain open: but if there be great pain in them, then wet a sponge in warm water and oil of Roses mixed together, and lay it upon the ears.   

For stopping of the nostrils, to help it.  
Sometimes the nostrils are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them, which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them, therefore to prevent the same, take red-Rose, and plantain, of either one handful: myrrh in powder half an ounce.  
Boyle all these in a quart of water until half be consumed, and so being warm, cause the sick to draw the fume thereof into his nostrils oftentimes.  
Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar, it is good.   

For hoarseness remaining when the Pox are gone.  
Take Licorice, Sebesten, Jujubes, of either two ounces: Fat-figs, four ounces, clean water, four pints.  
Boil all these together until half be consumed, then strain it, and give one spoonful thereof to the sick oftentimes, and it helpeth.   

For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone.  
Take Lapis calaminaris, Litharge of gold, and of silver of either two drachms: Quick br mstone and Ceruse, ana 3. ii.  
Bring all these into fine powder, and then labour them in a mortar with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent, and anoint the place therewith every morning and evening.   
FINIS.   

Some other few additional observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise.  
PAge the eighth of this precedent Book, a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent; it is reported to be Pope Adrian's Bag, which he used against infection, and in the great last sickness in London, it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries, who kept it as a great secret, and affirmed, it would prevent infection, and preserve them safe in that dangerous time; and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate: But that you may not be deluded in the prescription, I have set down the true receipt thereof, as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend.  

A Preservative against the infection of the air, and the Plague, often approved by Pope Adrian, and many others of great rank and credit.  
Take arsenic two ounces, Auripigmentum one ounce, make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs, and Gum Dr●…gacanth, and hang them about the neck against the heart.   

I have also set down a red cordial water, very good against infection, which I had also from that noble friend.  
Take a quart of good spirit of Wine, or very good Aqua vitae, infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate, with as much good Venice treacle: let it be close stopped some few day●… in the infusion before you use it, then pour the spirit clear off, and reserve it for your use.  
But to discover what opinions other physicians have held of that and the like, I have annexed hereunto their several judgements hereafter, that amongst so many choice Medicines, they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations, when need shall require.  
And to give them the better satisfaction, I have annexed, out of some choice Manuscripts, some approved Experiments, of some of our London ablest Doctors, as also out of some other Authors.    

Several opinions against wearing of arsenic annulets, as Preservatives against the Plague.  
THe poisonous vapours of arsenic being sucked or drawn into the body, when they find no contrary poison with whom to wrestle with, as with an enemy, (for in an infected body there cannot be health; but we suppose him to be well, whom we desire to preserve so) those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart, most adverse and pernicious to nature.  
And by Galen's own doctrine, all Alexiteries do in a mann●…r, if they be used too liberally, greatly offend and weaken our bodies; how can we then think, that rank poisons and Dilaet●…ries, (such as arsenic is) being applied, as to penetrate in●…o the noblest region of all other, will no whit violate and wast our natural, vital, and radical heat? Galen libr. de ●…mp. cap. 1●….  
Nor did Galen, or any of the ancient Fathers and Professors of ●…hysick, use to preserve from the Plague, or any other poison, by administering some other poison inwardly, or prescribing outwardly Applications, but proceeded by Antidotes, and Alexiteries, as will appear in libr. de Theriaca ad Pis. cap, 16. Wherefore, unless we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy ancients, and prosecute new ways and inventions, to oppose this man-yelling Monster, we must attempt it not with poisons but Antidotes. And Galen defineth those to be poisons, which agree not with nature, either well or ill affected at any time; for though there are some poisons, which if they meet in the body with a contrary venom, so fight with it, and oppose it, that both do perish in the conflict betwixt them; so that the party, by their colluctation and struggling together, escapes with his life: yet all of them agree in uniform opinion together, that where they meet with no opposition, they ruin the party: And therefore conclude, that arsenic, worn by a healthy man, finding not only no contrary poison to make conflict with, but no poison at all, must necessarily thwart, and oppose, and make an onset on nature herself.  
And to confirm their opinions, I have purposely introduced the judgements of other learned physicians concurring with them.  
Gerardus Columbus, a learned physician, reporteth, that it hath been observed, that the wearers of these annulets, upon unusual heating their bodies, have fallen into sudden Lipothimies, and swoonings, with other fearful accidents, which continued upon them till the annulets or Placents were removed from them; and that others, though not instantly, yet after some time, have by late and woeful experience discovered their malignity, by falling into malignant and pestilent Fevers, some of them ending with death.  
Franc. Alphanus, a physician of Salerne, relateth of one, who wearing arsenic, and heating himself with playing earnestly at tennis, fell down suddenly dead.  
Mattheus Hessus also thus writeth, As cordial Bags or annulets ought not to be disavowed, so empoisoned annulets can be no way commended; nor do I remember, that ever any received good from them, who abstained from other Antidotes: But this I certainly know, that divers persons, who carry about them quicksilver in a Nutshell, by the vain persuasions of some impostors, have died of the Plague, and the counsellors and advisers of such like annulets, have been the first have betaken themselves to their heels, confiding more in their running than cunning: and yet these Quacks persuaded the ignorant people, with glorious promises and protestations, that whosoever carried quicksilver or arsenic about his neck, should be as safe, as if he had purchased a protection from the King of Heaven  
Historians also report, that Caracalla, though he were a wicked Emperor, prohibited by public Edict or Proclamation, that no man should wear about him superstitious annulets.  
And Theophrastus the great (not without cause) esteemed P●…ricles to have a crazed brain, because he saw him wear an Amulet about his neck.  
And hereunto Doctor Francis Herring, an able physician, as a Corollary to what hath before been written, addeth the experience of some London physicians, who report, they have seen foul holes made in the breasts of those that have worn those annulets, and have observed divers to die, who have religiously worn them about their necks, as well as others.  
And whereas the ventures and setters out of these deceitful wares, make them as a scout, to discover the infection when it beginneth to seize on a man, by clapping close to the heart, to guard that principal part, as the chief Tower: It is a mere deceit and collusion: for whensoever the body is heated, this event followeth necessarily, though no other infection be near, but the poisonous and venomous arsenic itself, whose salutation is rather joab's embracing, or Juda's kissing, than friendly preservatives.   

Causes of the Plague.  
There are two special causes of the Plague.  
First, An infected, corrupted, and putrified air,  
Secondly, evil and corrupt humours engendered in the body.  
The air is infected, when the temperateness of the air is changed from his natural state, to excessive heat and moisture, which is the worst temperament of the air, the vapours drawn up by the heat of the Sun being unconsumed, rot, putrify, and corrupt, and so with the venom infect the air: Also dead carcases lying unburied, as it often chanceth in wars, evaporations of pools, Fens, Marishes, stinking and noisome scents and Kennels, and Astronomers say, Aspects, Conjunctions and Oppositions of ill Planets, and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.  
Also disordering one's self, either in diet or exercises bringeth one into the Pestilence; therefore in time of contagion, outrages and surfeits are to be avoided, as also all excess of eating, drinking, sweating, bathing, lechery, and all other things that open the pores of the body, and enter thereby ill airs, which envenom the lively spirits.   

Signs of the Plague.  
The signs which declare one infected already are many; but the secret token of all to know the infected of the Plague is, if there arise botches behind the ears, or under the armholes, or about the share; or if Carbunkles suddenly arise in any member, for when they appear, they betoken strength of nature, which being strong, laboureth to drive the poison out of the body; but if botches do not appear, it is more dangerous, for it showeth, that nature is weak and feeble, and not able to expel and thrust forth the venomous humours, and then you must have respect to the signs before rehearsed.   

The infection of the Plague entereth into a man after this sort.  
In a man are three principal parts (that is) the Heart, Liver, and Brains, and each of these hath his cleansing place: If they appear in the neck, they show the Brains to be chiefly vexed, if under the armholes the Heart, but if they appear in the share, the Liver is most infected,  
For when a man hath taken infection, it presently mingleth with the blood, and runs to the heart, which is the chief part of man, and the heart putteth the venom to his cleansing place, which is the armholes; and that being stopped, putteth it to the next principal part, which is the liver, and it passeth it to his cleansing place, which is the share, and they being stopped, pass it to the next principal place, that is, the brains, and to their cleansing places, which are under the ears, or under the throat, and they being stopped, suffer it not to pass out, and then it is moved twelve hours before it rest in any place, and if it be not let out within the space of four and twenty hours by bleeding, it brings a man into a pestilential Ague, and causeth a botch in one of those three places, or near unto them   

The Cure of the Plague.  
When thou feelest thyself infected, bleed in the first hour, or within six hours after, drink not, and tarry not above twelve hours from bleeding, for then when the blood is flitting too and fro, the venom is then moving, and not yet settled, and after it will be too late; those that are fat may be let blood, or else not.  
If the matter be gathered under the armholes, it comes from the heart by the cardiacal vein, then bleed on the same side by the Basilica vein, the innermost vein of the arm,  
If the botch appear behind the ears, above the chin, or in any other part of the face or neck, bleed out of the Cephalica vein on the same side; you may bleed with cupping Glasses, and scarrification, or Horseleeches.  
If the botch appear in the share, bleed in the ankle on the same side, in any case not in the arm, for it will draw up the matter again.  
But if no botch appear outwardly, draw blood out of that side where you feel greatest pain and heaviness, and out of that vein, the grief of the members affected shall point thee out.  
If you perceive the Plague invade you at meat, or on a full stomach, vomit speedily, and when your stomach is empty, take some Medicine that may resist poison, as Mithridate, or treacle, or some of these following, which, as choice Medicines, I have inserted, as being Doctor Edward's Experiments.   

For the Plague.  
Infuse two pieces of fine pure Gold in the juice of Lemons four and twenty hours, and drink that juice with a little Wine, with powder of the Angelica root: It is admirable, and hath helped divers past all hope of cure.   

Another.  
Take two drachms of iuniper berries, of Terra lemnia ℈ i. make both into fine powder, and mix it with Honey, and take of it as much as a ha●…ell Nut in three drachms of honeyed water made up thus: Take a pint of Honey, and of water eight pints, seeth and scum it at an easy fire, till the fourth part be wasted: It is an excellent Antidote against poison and Plague; if the poison be taken before, it will expel it by vomit, if not, the Medicine will stay in the stomach.   

Another.  
Take Zedoary roots the best you can get, great Raisins, and Licorice, champ it with thy teeth and swallow it, if you be infected it preserveth without danger.   

Another for botches, boils, and tokens.  
Take of ripe Ivy berries dried in the shade, as much of the powder as will lie upon a groat or more, and put it into three or four ounces of white Wine, and lie in bed and sweat well; after your sweat is over, change shirt, and sheets, and all the bed clothes if he may, if not, yet change his shirt and sheets.  
Some have taken this powder over night, and found themselves well in the morning, and walked about the house fully cured.  
One having a Plague sore under the thigh, another under the left arm-pit, taking this powder in the morning, and again that night, the sores broke of themselves, by this excellent Medicine sent by Almighty God: It is good for Botches, boils, Plague-sores, Tokens, Shingles, Erisipella, and such like, &c.   
Thus far Doctor Edward's Doctor in physic and Chirurgery.   

Experiments tried by myself.  

For the Plague.  
TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales, called Ruffi, or of Pan●…hy Magogon (or for want of it) of extraction Rudii, of each half a drachm, mingle these, into six pills for two doses, whereof take three at a time in the morning fasting, for two days together.   

Another excellent approved Remedy.  
Take eight or nine grains of Aurum vitae, either in treacle water, or made up in Diascordium, fasting.   

Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague.  
Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrorum, of Aromatitum rosatum, and of Cerusa Autimonii, of each half a scruple, mingle these up together in a diaphoretic powder, and take it in four spoonfuls of treacle water well mingled together.    

The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions.  

The Calenture,  
HAppeneth to our Nation in intemperate Climates, by Inflammation of blood, and proceedeth often of immoderate drinking of wine, and eating of pleasant fruits, which are such nourishers thereof, as they prevent the means used in curing the same.   

To know the Calenture.  
At the first apprehension it afflicts the Patient with great pain in the head, and heat in the body, which is continual or increasing, and doth not diminish and augment, as other Fevers do; and is oft an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence, but then the body will seem very yellow.   

To cure the Calenture.  
So soon as you perceive the Patient possessed of the Calenture, (except the chirurgeon, for danger of the sign defer it) I have seen the time of the day not respected, open the Median vein of the right arm, and take such quantity of blood, as agreeth with the ability of the body; but if it assuage not the heat by the next day, open the same vein in the left arm, and take so much more like quantity of blood at his discretion; and if the body be costive, (as commonly they are) give him some meet purgation, and suffer him to drink no other than water cold, wherein Barley and aniseeds have been boiled with bruised Liquorice. And if within 4. days the party amend not, or being recovered, take it again, open the vein cephalic in one or both hands, bathing them in warm water, until there come so much more blood as cause requires. Suffer not the Patient to drink seven days after he is perfectly recovered, any other drink, than such water, as is before herein directed.   

The Taberdilla,  
IS a disease so called by the Spaniards, by the Mexicans, Cocalista, and by other Indians is named Taberdet, and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious, that whole kingdoms in both the India's have been depopulated by it, for want of knowledge to redress themselves of it.   

To know the Taberdilla.  
It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back: and the body seeming yellow, is some sign thereof, and within 24 hours it is so torturous, that the possessed thereof cannot rest or sleep, turning himself on either side, back or belly, burning in his back most extremely. And when it grows to perfection, there will appear red and blue spots upon the patient's breast a●…d wrists. And such persons as have not presently requisite means applied to them to prevent it, will be, by the vehement torment thereof, deprived of their wits, and many to cease their pain by loss of their lives have despairingly slain, and drowned themselves.   

The Cure of the Taberdilla.  
When you perceive it afflict the Patient, permit him not to lie very warm, nor upon feathers (for of what quality soever he be in Spain, having this sickness he is laid upon wheatstraw:) Then immediately open the Median Vein, first in one arm, and the next day in the other, taking a good quantity of blood: Let him have water cold, wherein barley and aniseeds have been sodden without Liquorice (for the Spanish physicians hold Liquorice to be hurtful unto them) so much as he will desire, which will be every moment; but no other drink, nor any raw fruits: Assoon as the spots appear, give him some cordial potion: and laying him upon his belly, set six Ventoses together on his back, between and beneath the shoulders; and scarifying them, draw out (if it be a body of strong constitution) 18 ounces of blood. After which, and that he hath slept, he will find ease within twenty four hours, and such alteration in himself, as he will think he is delivered of a most strange torment. Then give him moderately nourishing meats, (for he will desire to eat much) the fourth day, give him some convenient Purgations. And if in the mean while he is costive, provoke him every day by clysters; and warn him to forbear 15 days all other drink than what is ordained: And be very careful of his diet, for if this Taberdilla, which we call here in England God's Tokens, come again unto the Patient, he can hardly escape it. And it is no less Infectious, than the usual English Plague.   

The Espinlas  
IS a strange sickness, usual in those parts to such as take cold in their Breasts, after great heat or travel. It comes most times to those that lie with their breasts upon the ground (especially) in the night.   

To know the Espinlas.  
The Party having it, will be giddy in the head, and have pain and pricking at his breast, as with many thorns; from whence I think it is called, for Espina in Spanish signifies a thorn; and there will be upon the Focell, being the upper bone of his arm, a hand breadth above the wrist, a little kernel by the which it is certainly known: He that hath this disease, will have appetite neither to meat, nor drink, nor can digest meat, though he be invited and moved to take it.   

To cure the Espinlas.  
The Espinlas appearing by the former signs, take presently oil Olives, and therewith chafe the kernel upon the patient's arm, using so to do twice every day, until it be dissolved; and laying oil likewise upon his breast, struck it upward somewhat hard with the hand; then spread fine flax upon it and the kernel, making it fast with a roller, and within two or three days the diseased will be recovered thereof▪ whereas else it is very dangerous to deprive them of life.   

Camera de Sangre.  
LAxativeness, or Blondy Flux, proceed in those parts of divers causes: As by eating Grapes, Oranges, lemons, Melons, Plantains, and especially a great fruit growing in the West-Indies called Pina, like a pineapple, but bigger than four of the greatest which I have seen, which the Spaniars hold for the most delicate fruit that is there, and many other fruits. Also by sudden cold, or sitting (being very hot) upon a cold stone, or being hot by drinking water abundantly. And also eating of Butter, oil, and Fish is so hurtful to the parties that have it, that they must refrain to eat thereof, and whatsoever else, that may engender any slimy substance in the entrails.   

The Cure of the bloody Flux.  
There is more possibility of cure, by how much more expedition the medicine is ministered: and detracting it, the Patients often die suddenly, without feeling much grief. For speedy and assured remedy, the patient's body must be cleansed of the slymines, engendered in the passages of the nutriments, before any sustenance can remain in his body. To that purpose purge him in the morning, with half a pint of white wine cold, wherein half an ounce of Rubard being small cut hath been sodden, putting some Sugar candy to it, to sweeten it, and immediately after he hath so purged, keep at his navel Rosemary sod in strong Vinegar, applied in the morning and evening very hot, until it be stayed; giving him often Quinces bruised, and rolled in Marmalade like Pills, which he should swallow whole, and none of the fruits or meats before recited, nor any more white wine, but red wine of any sort: And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats, (especially) Sheeps, or Bullocks roasted; not willingly permitting the Patient to eat any other meat: And if at Sea, Rice only sodden in water, rather than any thing else usual there, until the infirmity be perfectly assuaged.   

The Erisipela,  
REigneth much in those Countries, proceeding from the unwholesome airs and vapours those hot Countries do yield, whereof many perish; and if it be not prevented by Medicines presently ministered to the Sick Patients, it proveth incurable.   

To know the Erisipela.  
He will be swollen in the face, or some part of him, and it will be of yellow colour mixed with red. And when it is pressed with the finger, there will remain a sign or dint of the same, and then by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion. It speedily infecteth the inward parts, because such swellings come sooner unto perfection in hot places, than in temperate Countries, and therefore the diseased thereof, must immediately be provided of remedy.   

To Cure the Erisipela.  
The Savage people first found out perfectly how to cure this disease, (though it is the Spanish name of the malady) by bruising so much Tobacco as will yield four spoonfuls of juice, and to drink it presently after they are infected therewith, and to lance the places swollen, thereunto putting Casade wet, and made into paste, continuing in cold and shady places near Rivers: and not to travel and labour till they be recovered: The Spaniards in India do recover themselves by taking the same juice of Tobacco, and setting so many Ventoses upon the swollen places as they can contain, scarifying them, and drawing out the corrupted humour so congealed, using the like in two or three other parts of the body, where the disease doth not appear.  
The juice of Tobacco is very excellent to expel poison, and is the ordinary remedy used by the Indians, and other Savages when they are poisoned, and bitten with Scorpions, or other venomous creatures: But they make presently some incision where they are bitten or stung, and wash it with the juice of Tobacco, then applying the same bruised thereunto two or three days, they heal it up with dried Tobacco.   

The Tinoso or scurvy.  
IS an infecting disease sufficiently known unto Sea-fayring men, who by putrified meats, and corrupted drinks, eating biscuit flourie, or foul crusted, and wearing wet apparel (especially sleeping in it) and slothful demeanour, or by gross humours contained in their bodies get the same,   

To know the scurvy.  
Many have perished when they returned out of hot Regions into cold Climates, where they have had the parts of their bodies, which with heat, were nimble and tractable to every motion of the Spirits, dulled and benumbed with cold, which is a token that this disease is engendering in their joints; and soonest appears by swelling of their ankles, and knees, and blackness of their gums, or looseness of their teeth, which will sometimes come forth, when there is no remedy used in season.   

Preservatives against the Scurvy.  
You must have a care to preserve those things before rehearsed well conditioned, the badness whereof, in part breed this disease; they must use exercise of body, and such as are exempted from doing of labour, must hang or swing by the arms twice or thrice every day; they must not have scarcity of drink in hot climates, and coming into the cold, must be daily relieved with Aqua vita or Wine: It is also an assured Medicine against this disease, to have such quantity of Beer brewed with grains and long Pepper, as in the morning, twice every week, there may be given a good draught to a man, proportioning three quarters of a pound of grains, and three quarters of a pound of long Pepper, to a Hogshead of Beer: Also white Wine, or cider, boiled and brewed with grains and long Pepper in like quantity, is very singular good: And it is not fit to suffer the gums to abound with flesh, and therefore sometimes let them bleed, and clear them with strong Vinegar.   

To cure the Scurvy.  
If the Scurvy be settled in his mouth, the corrupted and black flesh must be taken away, and his mouth washed with strong Vinegar, wherein grains and long Pepper have been infused and brewed, and give him daily the drink that is before prescribed; and as well such as have it in their mouths, as those that are swollen in their limbs, must have some meet Purgation presently; but those so swollen or stiff (for so some will be without swelling) to scarify the parts infected, and to apply thereto a poultice or cataplasm of barley meal, more hot than the Patient will willingly suffer it; so doing every morning, permit him not to rest two hours after, although being numbed or faint, he be supported to walk, and suffer him not to eat any salt meats, if other meats may be had.  
Myself having eighty men, eight hundred leagues out of England, sick of the Scurvy, I used scarifiing, and to the places scarified (being destitute of the helps mentioned) I applied poultices of biscuit beaten in a mortar, and sod in water, which, with the comfort of some fresh meats obtained, recovered them all except one person, and they arrived in England, perfectly sound.   

Other Observations concerning the Scurvy taken out of other Books.  

1. THose that are troubled with the Scurvy, their thighs are stained with a violet colour, that one would think, that something of that colour were spread upon it, their gums are corrupted, and their teeth loose; these ever are signs of that disease.  
2. Some are only pained in their teeth and gums, some otherwise; some do never break out, others their whole thighs are stained.    

Observations out of Sennertus, concerning the Scurvy.  

1. MUltitude of passions, and change of diseases in it.  
2. Grief of mind, and uneasy breathing and stopping.  
3. Corruptness of the gums, and ill savour of the mouth.  
4. Ache of the teeth.  
5. Spots.  
6. Urine.  
7. Pulse.  
8. Vein of the legs about the ankles, together with the hands and fingers, the nuch, the knees, and the moving of many parts, with swellings.  
9 Pain in the belly, about the forepart of the belly, about the short ribs.  
10. Feebleness and ache in the joints.  
11. Pains of the reins, and strangury.  
12. Headache.  
13. Pleurisy.  
14. Gout.  
15. Benumbing, and the palsy.  
16. Trembling, and panting of the heart, and shaking.  
17. Cramp, pricking or shooting Aches, and epilepsy▪  
18. Contractions, and stiffness of limbs.  
19 Apoplexy.  
20. overmuch 

Sleeping.  
Watching.    
21. Fear and sadness.  
22. Madness.  
23. Abundant bleeding about the nose.  
24. Memory weak.  
25. Ache in the shoulders.  
26. Appetite decayed, thirst and dryness of mouth.  
27. Belching upwards.  
28. Disposition to vomit, or vomiting.  
29. Continual spitting.  
30. Looseness in the belly, sometimes with blood.  
31. Belly bound at other times.  
32. Muck sweat, with ill savour of the body, and P●…ysick.  
33. Ill colour of the face, and yellow jaundice.  
34. Swelling of the legs, and dropsy of the belly.  
35. Mighty heat.  
36. Fevers. 

1. Quotidian.  
2. Tertian.  
3. Quartain.  
4. Continual.    
37. Plague or Pestilence.  
38. Swelling, or puffing up of the flesh.  
39 L●…menesse of the thighs and whole body.  
40. Saint Anthony's fire.  
41. Gangre●…n, when the sore parts rot and mortify.     

Cures for several Diseases.  

A Water to make a man see within 40. days, though he have been blind seven years before, if he be under fifty years of age.  
TAke Smallage, Fennel, Rue, betony, Vervain, egrimony, Cinquefoil, Pimpernel, Eyebright, Celydonie, Sage, ana a quartern, and wash them clean and stamp them, do them in a fair mashing pan, put thereto a quart of good white wine, and the powder of thirty Pepper corns, six spoonfuls of life honey, and ten spoonfuls of a man child's urine that is innocent, and mingle them well together, and seeth them till the half be wasted, and then take it down and strain it, and afterward clarify it, and put it in a glass vessel well stopped, and put thereof with a feather into the eyes of the blind, and let the Patient use this Medicine at night when he goeth to bed, and within forty days he shall see. It is good for all manner of sore eyes. Wild Tansey water is good for the eyesight; and eating of Fennell seed is good for the same.   

For the Web in the Eye.  
The Leaves of white honeysuckles, and ground ivy, ana, ground together, and put every day into the eye, cureth the Web.  
Salt burnt in a flaxen cloth, and tempered with Honey, and with a Feather anointed on the eyelids, killeth worms that annoy the eyelids.   

For Wind in the Side, that maketh the Head swim.  
Take of camomile three ounces, a pennyworth of powder of Cummin sewed in a Poke like a stomacher, boil it well in stale Ale, lay it to the side hot, and when it is cold renew it again hot.   

Contra Surditatem.  

1. Betonica saepe injecta tepid●…, mire proficit contra aurium dolorem & surditatem, & alia vitia, & sonos extraneos non sinit manere.  
2. Roast an Onion as hot as you may suffer it, lay it upon the ear with a linen cloth laid between. Probatum est.    

Contra lupum, venit saepe super oculum aut pedem.  
If it be incurable, it stinketh, fretteth, and the wound waxeth black.  
Take Salt, and Honey, and Barley, ana, burn them in an Oven, wash the wound with Vinegar, and dry it with linen clothes, and then lay on the powder, and do so till it amend,   

Pro Cancro & Lupo.  
Take half a pint of juice of Mollein, and half a pint of Honey, sodden to the thickness of honey, and mingle with these powders, and lay on the sore. Take Orpiment and verdigris, of either a drachm and a half, juice of Walwort a pound and a half, honey a quartern, Vinegar, boil them altogether till it be as thick as honey, lay thereof on the hole of the sore twice every day, with juice of Ribwort, and drink juice of Avence.  
Ribwort stamped and laid on the sore will kill it.   

Pro Oculis.  

1. Lac mulieris quae masculum genuit, sed praecipue quae geminos masculos genuit, mixtum cum albumine ovi, & in lana compositum passiones & lachrymas oculorum mitigat, et desiccat, si fronti lacrymantis imponatur: & proficit, etiam ad oculum ictu percussum, & sanguine●… e●…ittentem, vel epiphoras habentem, vel in dolore constitutum.  
2. Si quis duarum faeminarum, matris & filiae lacte perunctus fuerit, qui uno & eodem tempore masculos habent, in omni vita sua dolorem oculorum non habebit.  
3. Eyebright juice, or water, is excellent good for the eyes.  
4. Anoint a red cole leaf cum albumine ovi, & quando is ●…ubitum oculo applica.    

For Bleared Eyes.  
Take the juice Peritory, temper it with the white of an Egg, and lay it all night to your eyes, & quando removes, lava cum succo.   

Corns.  
Anoint thy corns often with fasting spital: Or cleave a black Snail to it.  
Take Woodsoure and lay to the corn, and that shall gather out the calum thereof, and be whole, but you must first cut it about with a knife.   

Apostema.  

1. Gentian used twice or thrice in a week ad quantitatem pili d●…struit Apostema.  
2. Drink water of Endive, Petty Morrell, with the pulp of Cassia Fistula.  
3. Take Scabios, red Pimpernel, Solsickle and fumitory, make these into powder; and use a spoonful thereof in the morning, especially in May. Probatum est.    

Pro stomacho frigido.  

1. Oates parched and laid in a satchel upon a cold stomach, is an approved cure.  
2. The crust of a brown loaf made hot and sprinkled with vinegar, and laid on a cold stomach, Salvabit. 3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar, easel or Ale, wrapped in a clout, and laid to the stomach, is good.    

Pro dolore stomachi.  
1. Stamp Fennell, and temper it with stale ale, & bibat tria cocleari●… simul. Seeth Penniroyall and bind it to his Navel as hot as he may suffer it.   

For wind or gnawing in the Belly.  
Take Calamus Aromaticus, Galingale, and a little Fennel seed, Cloves, and Cinnamon, grate or beat them together, and take them in powder, or drink them with ale.   

For the Small Pox.  
Take Almonds, and make Almond milk, and take the cream thereof, and hath the face twice or thrice, though all the Pocks be pulled away, it shall not be Pock fret.  
Anoint oft the patient's eyes with a linen cloth wet in the juice of Sengreen, and it will save them from the Pox.   

For a stroke in the eye.  
Juice of Smallage and Fennel, and the white of an Egg, mingled together, and put into the eye.   

Bloodshed in the eye.  
Five leaved grass, stamped with swine's grease, and with a little salt bound to the eye.   

Pro Oculo & Aure.  
Sint calida quae aure imponuntur, & frigida quae in oculo.   

For a Venomed sore.  
Take Lavender, Marigolds, Sengreen and betony, and stamp them together, and lay them to the sore.   

To make a swelling break.  
Take piss and Vinegar, and Sage M. i. stamped, and flour, and boil them together, and lay it hot on a cloth to the sore.   

For the squinsy.  
Bray Sage, Rue, and Parsely Roots, and lay them hot to the throat.   

For Biting of a mad Dog.  
Stamp Mint, and clear Leeks, and lay it to the sore.   

To break a Botch.  
Make a plaster of Woodbine leaves, and lay to the sore.   

For gnawings.  
Take herb Bennet, and sheep's tallow, and oil Olive, fry them together, and lay it to the sore place.   

To increase Milk.  
Powder of anise, and the juice of the bark of Fennell root drunk.   

If milk be thick.  
Eat mints, and boil mints in wine and oil, and lay on the breasts.   

For Botches, Wounds, and Sores, a salve.  
Boil black Rosin, red Lead, and oil Olive together; & flat emplastrum.  
Qui bibit novem dies simul propriam urinam, nec habebit epilepsiam, paralysin, nec colicam.   

Venenum.  

1. Qui bibit propriam urinam, sanabitur a sumpto veneno.  
2. Garlic, Rue, Centaury, grains of iuniper, valent contra venenum.  
3. Powder Hempseed, and mingle it with goat's milk, and let them boil a little, and use this drink three days, valet contra inflationem, venenum, Bubonem, Felon, & squinanciam.    

Pro Auribus.  
Green Ash leaves burnt, and the liquour that drops out of them impositum valet.  
Euphorbium pounded with Oil Citron, and laid hot on the ears, cureth sounding of the ears, tingling, and fistulas.   

Caput-purgium.  
Take the juice of Ivy, and powder of Pepper, mingle them, together, and drink it.   

For the bloody Flix.  
The yellow that groweth in red Roses put into pottage, and so eaten, is good for the bloody Flix.   

Vermes Stomachi.  
The same yellow drunk in Ale. valet contra Vermes.   

For a Felon.  
Scabious stamped small, a good quantity of Tar, and grease ana temper them together, and all raw, lay them to the sore place.   

For the reins of the back.  
Boil your own water well, scum it, then take a quart of that water, oil of Bayes one ounce, oil of Roses one ounce, boil all in a pot, and therewith anoint well the reins in the hot sun, or against the fire.  
Unge renes, cum nasturtio & propria urina jej●…nus saepe, & juvat renes.  
Coque mel & butyrum simul & unge renes coram igne.  
Seeth Smallage, and temper it with Wine, and drink it fasting, and you shall be healed.   

For them that cannot go upright for pain in their back and reins.  
Take a fat Hen, and scald her, and draw her, and fill her with Sen●… cod Id weight, and Polipody of an Oak, and of anise, Id weight, boil her well, and strain her into a vessel, and take two spoonfuls thereof, and give it the sick first and last.   

For the Stitch.  
Take three handfuls of mallows, seeth them in a litte raw Milk, and put thereto a handful of wheat bran, and let them boil together, and then wring out the Milk, and lay it hot to the Stitch, apply it often.  
Take a few leaves of Rue, and Yarrow, stamp them together, and wring out the juice, and drink it with a little Ale.   

For the Stitch in the side.  
Make Balls of red Wortes sodden, and burn them in a new pot, and then grind them to powder, and mingle them with Honey and old grease, and make a plaster, and lay it thereto when it is well sodden.   

To heal Wounds.  
Take Ribwort, Plantain, Smallage, ana. take well nigh as much May Butter as of the juice, mingle it together, that it be standing, and put it in a Box that no air come thereto, and make an Ointment, and this is the securest Medicine for healing Wounds.   

For swelling of joints.  
Bray mallows, and boil them in new Milk, and make it into an emplaster, and apply it to the place.   

To knit Sinews or Veins that are kicked or broke.  
Take two Onions in summer, when thou findest two worms knit together, cut off the knots, and lay them to dry against the Sun, and make thereof powder, and cast it in the Wo●…nds, and it will do as aforesaid.   

Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur.  
Formicas istas pulverisabis, misce cum vaccinio lacte & da cuivis in potu &c.   

Verrucae, Porri, ficus.  
Cortix salicis combustus & temperatus cum aceto, & appositus, verrucas, porros & ficus tollit. Portulaca fricata tollit verrucas▪ Agrimonia trita & emplastrata cum aceto verrucas tollit  
Stercus ovis si misceatur cum aceto, & fiat emplaistrum, tollit variolas & verrucas.   

For corns.  
Take beans and chew them in thy mouth, and ●…ay them to the Corn, do this at night.   

For Warts.  

1. Purslane rubbed on the Warts maketh them fall away.  
2. The juice of the roots of Rushes applied, healeth them.    

For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly.  
Take Filago, and temper it with Ale or Wine, and give it him, and anon the blood shall go out by his mouth; and if the Patient cannot open his mouth, open it with a key, and put it in, and he shall receive his speech, this hath been proved.   

If men have any blood within them of any hurt.  
Let them drink Eufrase sodden with water, and anon they shall cast it out by vomit.   

Aqua pro scabie, tumore, & prurita.  
Ashes made of green Ashen wood sifted clean, and mingled with clean water, and often stirred, all a whole day, the water thereof, that is clear gathered, and mingled with a little Vinegar, and a little Allome, and sodden together, is a precious water to wash with, sores of swellings, and for itchings, and cleansing of divers sores.   

An vulneratus vivat, vel non.  
The juice of pimpernel drunk with water, if it come out at the Wound of a wounded man he shall die, if it come not he shall live.  
Also give him trefoil to drink, if he cast it out he shall die▪   

To destroy an impostume, in what place soever it be.  
Take the roots of marshmallows, wash them and boil them, afterwards take the same water, and boil it with the seed of Fenugreek, and Line, then bake it with the bran of barley, afterwards fry it with boar's grease, make thereof an emplaster, and apply it hot, and within a short time the Patient will be cured.   

For Warts.  

1. Agrimony stamped with Salt, and tempered with Vinegar, and laid on the Warts, within four days doth take them away.  
2. Take the yolk of an Egg well roasted, stamp it with oil of Olive, or oil of Violets, and make it in manner of a plaster, and this will do away the Warts in a night.  
3. Rub them oft with oaken Apples, and bind a plaster thereof on them, and bray blossoms of Golds, and Agrimony with Salt, and lay them to as a plaster.  
4. Burn Willow tree rind, and temper the Ashes with Vinegar, & utere.    

Oleu●… Nucum.  
Take Nuts whole, seeth them in water, and then break them, and take out the kernels and stamp them, and then wring them through a cloth, and that oil is noble and mollificative.   

Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pr●… p●…dagra.  
Take brock's grease, swine's grease, duck's grease, capon's grease, gander's grease, suet of a Deer, sheep's tallow, ana. p. ●…. melt them in an earthen pan, then take the juice of rhubarb, marshmallows, Morrel, Comfrey, daisy, Rue, Plantain, Mace, Heyrif, Matfelon, and Dragons, ana. p. ae. fry them in a pan with the foresaid grease, secretum pro podagra.   

For the colic and Stone.  
℞. Cepas Rubras, pista commixta cum mulvasceto, & bibe ealide.   

Aqua propter ulcera & malum mortuum.  
℞. Aquam fabri ●…otell. i. salviae, cuprif●…lii ●…asturtii & m●…dicum melli●…, coque ad medium, & lava locum.   

Aqua pro alceribus.  
℞. Apii, Salviae, Semperviv●…, ana. M. i. pista & coque in una 〈◊〉. 8. aquae currentis, postea ●…ola & add, ℥. iiii. Aluminis, Medis, 〈◊〉. ss. Bulliet alumen m●…dicum, add ℥. iiii. Camphorae & reserv●….   

Capitis dolour.  
Coqu●… 〈◊〉 in malvazeto, & lava caput. Pista r●…um, ●…um sale, & fiat emplastrum.   

For Bones broken in a man's Head.  
℞ Agrimoniae Contisam fiat emplastrum. Item bibe Betonicam p. i. & resurgant ●…ssa & sanatis pro acto vusnera.   

Capitis dolour.  
℞. Rutae, ●…derae terrestris, folia lauri, coque in aqua vel vino & fiat emplastrum super caput.  
℞. Celidoniam, pista & coque cum butyro versus dolorem capitis etsi cranium cecidit de loco, &c. & lava cum decoctione ejusde●… herba.   

Corvi albi.  
Attende cum ●…orvus habet ova, & unge ter vel quater cum melle, & pulli eorum eru●… albi.   

Ebrii.  
Qui prins biberit crocum quam ad p●…tationem inierit, crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret.   

Acetum.  
Ut acetum redeat in vinum semen porri im●…itte per duas noctes. Ova rotunda producunt gallinas, longa vero gall●…s.   

Fistula.  
Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata, vel succu●… ejus in eam pos●…ta eam curat.  
Succus caprifolii naribus impositus, polypum recentem & caverum, & fistulam curat.   

Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere.  
℞. Sume morellae & sedi & axungiae poreinae, p. ae. frixa & suppoue.   

Contra exitum ani.  
℞. Urticas rubras pista, & in olla terrea ●…oque in vino albo ad medium, postea bibe mane & sero calide, & faeces superpone.   

Contra fluxum.  
1. ℞, Cornu cervi, & conchas ostrei, combure & da pulverem mane & sero ꝰ dies.   

Plaster of Paris.  
2. ℞ Pulverem alabastri misce cum albumine ovi, pone super tempora & alia loca.   

An virgo corrupta.  
Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores, da ei comedere de illo pulvere, & si est corrupta statim minget.   

Ut dens cadat.  
Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem, facit cadere: cave alia.   

Pro combusto cum muliere.  
Take powder of a linen cloth when it is well burnt, and take the yolks of eggs, and mingle them well together, and therewith anoint the sore, and put the powder into the hole.   

A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaiste●… or 〈◊〉 Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly.  
Take Sanicle, Milfoil, and Bugle, ana, p. ae. stamp them 〈◊〉 a mortar, and temper them with wine, and give the sick that is wounded to drink twice or thrice in a day till he be whole. Bugle holdeth open the wound, Millfoil cleanseth the wound. Sanicle healeth it, but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head, if the brain pan be broken, for it will slay him, and therefore it is better in another place▪ This is a good and tried Medicine.   

Unguentum genistae.  
Take Flores genistae, flowers and leaves of woodbine; ana, p. ae. stamp them with May Butter, and let them stand so together all night, and in the morning make thereof an ointment, and melt it, and scum it well: This Medicine is good for all cold evils, and for sleeping of hand and foot.  
Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot.  
Take groundsel and Petty Morrell, and stamp them, and temper them with May Butter, and put them in a pot fast closed, and let them stand so nine days, and then fry it over an easy fire, and strain it through a cloth, and put it in a box for your use.   

Unguentum viride is good pro erection virgae, and for the mormale; no ointment worketh stronger than this.  
Take a pound of swine's grease, one ounce of verdigris, half a scruple of Sal gemmae, this ointment may be kept 40. winters: Valet contra cancros, and for running holes, it fretteth away dead flesh, and bringeth new, and healeth old wounds; put it within the wound that it fester not: Put to this ointment, Pitch, rosin, and wax, and it will be a fine heat for old bruises, swellings, and Mormales.   

Unguentum nigrum, for wounds, heating and burning.  
Take a quart of oil of Olive, and boil it well, then cast in a quart of red lead, and stir it well with a slice, and boil it till it be black, and then let it cool; and keep it for drawing and healing.   

Unguentum Rubrum.  
Take a pint of honey, half a pint of Vinegar, and a portion of verdigris, boil them together, and it is good for all manner of sores.   

Contra v●…mitum.  

1. ℞. Rosewater, powder of Cloves, and mastic, and drink it hot.  
2. Take Mints three ounces, Roses half an ounce, mastic one ounce, barley meal, and a crust of bread toasted, and this manner of plaster apply to the stomach.  
3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia, multum valet.  
4. Powder of gillyflowers strewed on his meats, staneheth immediately.   
Note, He must eat no meat whilst he casteth (ut virtus maneat.   

Fluxus sanguinis narium.  

1. Hen's feathers burnt, and the smoke thereof applied to the nostrils stinteth it.  
2. A pig●… turd b●…nt, and made into powder, blown into the nostrils.  
3. The juice of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding. Probat.  
4. Succus menthae & rutae mixtus cur●…t fluxum narium.    

Contra Sciaticam.  
Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma empla stri dolori.   

F●…eckens of the face.  

1. Grease your face with oil of Almonds, & bibe succu●… plantaginis▪  
2. Anoint your visage well and often with hare's blood.    

To know if a man be a Leper or no.  
Let him bleed, and put the blood into water, and if the blood swim above, he is a Leper, and if it descend, he is clean.   

For ache in the loins.  
Take Waybread, and Sanicle, stamp them, and put thereto boar's grease, & forma ●…plastri calide dolori applica.   

For a scald Head.  

1. Wash thy head with Vinegar, and camomile stamped and mingled together, there is no better thing for the Scall. Probat.  
2. Grind white Hellebor, grind it with swine's grease, applica capiti.  
3. Take Culver dung, with Salt, and a little Vinegar, and stir them well together, and therewith wash thy head, & sanabit capitis faeditates.    

Ad ornatum faciei.  
Take fresh boar's grease, and the white of an Egg, and stamp them together, with a little powder of bays, and therewith anoint the visage, and it shall clear the skin, and make it white.   

If the Liver rot.  
Eat raw Parsely 9 days, and 6. days after eat Sage, and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought.  
Note, All herbs whose roots be medicinable, are best in April.   

For stopping of the Pipes.  
℞. Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound, stamp them and seeth them well in Butter, then wring it through a cloth, cool it, and add to that powder of Liquorice, and of hyssop, mix them together, and keep it in a Box, and when thou wilt, take a spoonful, and temper it with hot wine, and use it when thou goest to bed.   

Aliud.  
℞. A good quantity of hyssop, seeth it in half a gallon of good wine, till half be sodden away, and let the sick use it first and last, at evening hot, and at morning cold. Probat.   

Aliud.  
℞. The juice of Cinquefoil stamped, and drink a sup thereof with wine or ale, and it shall clear thee of much phlegm, above and beneath.   

The Plague Water.  
TAke a handful of Sage and a handful of rue, and boil them in three pints of Malmsie, or Muscadine, until one pint be wasted, then take it off the fire, and strain the wine from the herbs, then put into the wine two pennyworth of long Pepper, half an ounce of Ginger, and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg, all grossly bruised, and let it boil a little again: This done, take it off the fire, and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venice treacle, and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate, and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water; so keep it in a glass close stopped for your use: For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonful warm, and lay you down to sweat upon it, and so continue to take it twice a day until you perfectly recover. This water likewise cureth the small Pox, the measles, surfeits, and pestilential Fevers.   

A cordial Water good for the Plague, Pox, measles, all kind of Convulsions, Fevers, and all pain of the stomach.  
Take Sage, Rosemary, Rue, Celandine, Seabios, agrimony, Mugwort, Woormwood, Pimpernel, Dragon, Carduus benedictus, Rosa solis, betony, Marigold leaves and flowers, century, Polipodium, scurvy grass, of each a handful, wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry, then shred them small, and take the roots of zedoary, Tormentill, Enula campana, Angelica, Licorice, of each half an ounce scraped, and sliced, then take of the best white wine eight pints; put them all into an earthen pot well leaded, let them stand two days close covered, and stir them once in the day, than still them in a Limbeck, with a temperate fi●…e; it will be two days and a night in the still: keep the first pint by itself; of which you may take a spoonful at a time; of the next quart take twice so much; of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time: Lute the still well, that no air come forth, and keep it in close glasses.   

For a Child that hath the Ague.  
Take the herb called Hartshorn, stamp it, then mingle it with bay Salt, and three or four hours before the fit come apply it, spread upon a linen cloth, to the child's wrists, and when the fit is past, apply a fresh one before the next fit, and in a few fits, God willing, she shall be cured.   

For a burning Fever.  
Take red mints two handful, boil them in a quart of running water, to the consumption of half, strain it, and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar, and as much Honey, boil it to the height of a syrup.  
Take of Endive two handfuls, boil it in a quart of water, to the consumption of half, take two spoonfuls of this, and one of the syrup, in the morning fasting, and at any other time you please.   

For the jaundice black or yellow.  
Take of White Wine one pint, steep therein of the root of Calydon, the weight of twelve pence, of Saffron one pennyworth, a race of Turmarick; bruise all, and bind them in a fine piece of Laun, and let it infuse in the Wine a night, drink a part thereof in the morning, one other part at noon, and the rest at night.   

To bring down the Flowers.  
Take of Alicante, or Muskadine, or claret, a pint, burn it, and sweeten it well with Sugar, put thereto two spoonfuls of salad oil, then take a good Bead of Amber in powder in a spoon with some of the wine after it, take it evening and morning.   

To stay the Flowers.  
Take Amber, coral, Pearl, jet, of each alike, grind them to a fine powder, and searse them; take thereof as much as will lie upon six pence with conserve of Quinces, and drink after it a draught of new milk, use it every morning.   

For the Mother.  
Take a brown tossed of four bread of the nether crust, and wash it with Vinegar, and put thereto black soap, like as you would butter a toast, and lay it under the navel.   

For the Stone.  
Take Saxifrage, pellitory, Parslie, Eyebright, wild Thime, of each two handfuls; of radish roots two or three, steep all in a pottle of red cow's milk a night, than still it, make of this quantity two stillings.  
You must take at a time nine spoonfuls, as much Rhenish or White wine, and the juice of a Lemon, sweeten all with Sugar, and take it fasting, if your stomach be cold, slice a little Ginger, and put into it.   

For a cold, cough, Ptissick, or any defect of the Lungs.  
Take Horehound, Maiden hair, Liver-wort, heart's tongue, Germander, hyssop, agrimony, of each a handful, wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin, till four pints be consumed at least, strain it, and put the liquour into another clean Pipkin, put thereto of the root of Ennula campana in powder and searsed one ounce, of Licorice so used two ounces, of pure honey eight or nine spoonfuls; boil it till it wax somewhat thick, then set it to cool: Take the quantity of half a nut at a time, as often as you please.  
The best time to make it is in May.   

For a Stitch.  
Take of stale Ale, two pints, clarify it, and boil therein of the tops of green broom a handful, then sweeten it with Sugar, and give thereof to the sick warm to drink.  
Also take Beer, make it very Salt, put a little Nutmeg thereto, and drink thereof blood-warm.  
Apply upon the grief outward, Fennel seed, and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie, as hot as can be suffered, three or four days together.  
Or take a tossed of rye bread toasted on a gridiron, and spread Tar thick thereon, lay it hot next the skin, and let it lie 9, or 10 hours, and if the pain be not gone at first, apply it again.   

For a Consumption.  
Take a Leg of Veal, cut away the fat, and take a red Cock, scald him, and wash him clean, then let the Cock and Veal lie in water the space of three hours, seeth them with two pottles of fair water, and scum it clean: as the fat riseth, take it off, and seeth it till half ●…e consumed, then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine, and let it seeth together till it come to a qua●…, clarify it with three or four whites of Eggs; let it run through a Jelly bag; then set it on the fire again, and put to it of Sugar a pound, let it seeth a little, then drink of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time, as often as you please.   

For the Green sickness.  
Take an Orange, cut off the top, and pick out some of the meat, then put therein a little Saffron, roast it gently, when it is roasted, put it presently into a pint of white Wine, keep it covered, and drink thereof fasting.   

A special Water for all Sores.  
Take of running water four pints, of Sage, Smallage, of each three handfuls, of houseleek a handful and a half, seeth them together to the consumption of half, then strain it, take of alum two ounces, of white Copperis an ounce and a half, of Camphire two drachms, beat all severally into fine powder, put all into the water, and let it boil a little, then put thereto of clarified, honey half a pint, and let it simper a while, then reserve it in a glass close stopped.  
Wash the sore therewith, and wet a cloth therein, and lay thereto; if it heal too fast, lay dry lint therein.   

For the trembling of the Heart.  
Take a spoonful of the spirit of Tartar when you find yourself troubled.  
Or take Lignum aloes, Riponticum, Eupatorium, red Sanders, of each two ounces, beat them, and boil them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed; of the four pints that remain, being strained, make a syrup with Sugar, and while it is hot, put thereto of Saffron one scruple, of Ginger one drachm, of Musk two carats, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each a scruple and a half, keep it in a glass close shut, take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth, or borage water, fasting.   

For a Flux of the Womb.  
Take chalk finely scraped, stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick, spread thereof on brown paper, and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire until it stiffen a little, bind it hot upon the navel.  
Take Milk and set it on the fire, when it seethes, throw in a piece of alum, which will turn it to a Posset, of the thin thereof, give a Glister in the morning, and at four in the afternoon.   

A purging drink for superstuous humours, for Aches in the joints, sinews, and for Agues.  
Take Sarsaperilla, Sasafrass, Polipodium, of each a handful, Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce, Licorice one ounce, cut and slice the above named, and put them into a new Pipkin glassed, and having a cover, and put the●…o five quarts of spring water, let all infuse four and twenty hours, then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces, Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces, Carduus benedictus, red Sage, Agrimony, maidenhair, of each a handful, put all into the Pipkin, and close it with paste, set it within a pan of warm water on the fire, and let it boil two hours, then put thereto of Sena one ounce, let it boil again half a quarter of an hour, and take it out, letting it stand covered two hours, then strain it without wringing, and keep it in a glass or stone bottle.  
You must take at a time half a pint in the morning, and fast one hour after, it will not purge in five or six hours, you may use it at any time in the year, but in extreme heat, and in frosts.   

A precious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes, often proved.  
Take of the best white Wine two little glass fulls, of white Rose water half a pint, of the water of Selendine, Fennell, Eyebright, and Rue, of each two ounces, of prepared Tutia six ounces, of Cloves as much, Sugar rosate a drachm, of Camphire, and Aloes, each half a drachm.   

The Tutia is thus prepared.  
In a Crusible (such as the goldsmith's use) put your Tutia and with a charcoal fire let it be made red hot six several times, and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixed together; the last time cast the water away, and grind the Tutia to very fine powder.   

You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner  
Put the Aloes in a clean mortar, and pour upon it of the mixed waters, with the pestle grind it too and fro, and as it mixeth with the water pour it off, putting more water to it, till it be all dissolved.   

To bring the Camphire to powder.  
In a clean mortar beat one Almond, then put in the Camphire, and beat it to a fine powder, without which it will no●… come to a powder.  
Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder, then mix all together in a strong glass, stop it close and lute it, that no air enter, and let it stand forty days and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer, and shake it well thrice a day.   

The use.  
Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black hen's Feather, the infirm lying on their back, and stirring the eye up and down.   

If there be any thing grow upon the eye.  
Take four drops of oil of Amber rectified, and mix with half an ounce of the water, dress the eye as before.   

For any Ague.  
Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack, put into it a pennyworth of oil of Spike, a pennyworth of syrup of Poppyes, and one grain of bezoar, mingle these together, and let them stand infused all night, and exhibit it next morning to the Patient fasting.   

For an Ague.  
Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin, in a pint of Ale, about a quarter of an hour or better, then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm, some two hours before the fit cometh, about half of it, and what the party cannot drink at the first draught, let it be warmed against the second fit, and give it as before, after two hours be past, let the party drink as much posset drink as he can.   

Another.  
Take the quantity of a walnut of black soap, and three times as much crown soap, mix them together, then shred a pretty quantity of Rue, and half a spoonful of Pepper finely beaten, and a quarter of a spoonful of fine wheat flour; mingle all these together, then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linen cloth, whereof make two plasters, and lay to each wrist one, and sow them fast on for nine days; this must be applied as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them.   

To make Pills to cleanse the back.  
Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water, then take the Turpentine, and bray it in a mortar to very fine powder, take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber, powder of Oculorum cancrorum, and powder of Nutmeg, of each half a drachm: mix them up into Pills, and take three of them in a morning.   

A Bath.  
Take Mallow leaves, Violet leaves, Endive, Motherwort, Mugwort, Rose leaves, lettuce, camomile, Bay leaves; boil of all these one handful, in a sufficient quantity of pure running water, and set in the Bath about an hour, then go into a warm bed and sweat awhile, and when you come out of your sweat, and are pretty cool, eat Strawberries and Sugar, this will clear the body and purify the blood.   

For the Cough of the Lungs, and defluxions.  
You may take sometimes of syrup magistral, of Scabious and of oxymel jutianizans, of each one ounce, and of Diacodium half an ounce, and of syrup of Diasereos half an ounce: Mingle these all well together, and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely seared; and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day, at morning, an hour before dinner, an hour before supper, and last at night; it will cut the phlegm, and carry it gently away, without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing, and cause quiet rest.   

To cause a woman to have her Flowers.  
Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful, boil them in Vinegar, or in white Wine till they be very tender, and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool, so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped, so that the heat may strike up into her body: This Medicine is reported never to fail, but to bring them down: But you must have a special care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administered to her.   

For the Cough of the Lungs.  
Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls, of hyssop, and the tops of red Nettles, of each one handful, of Horehound, and maidenhair, of each half a handful, of Raisins of the sun, having their stones taken out three ounces, of Liquorice sliced half an ounce, and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce, of aniseeds half an ounce grossly bruised, boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire, till the third part be boiled away, then strain it, and take a quart of the decoction, and put to it two ounces of Sugar-candy beaten, and let it boil a little over the fire again, till the Sugar candy be melted, then take it off the fire, and put it up into a glass close stopped, and drink of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth, a little warmed.   

For Cramp or numbness.  
Take a pennyworth of Saffron, put it into a little bag, then put it into three ounces of rose-water, and stir it well in the rose-water, then take four pennyworth of Camphire, and infuse that in the rose-water, and being so infused and mixed; chafe the place with it warm, and smell to it, as he baths the place.   

For a Cough, wind, and a cold stomach.  
Take four ounces of good aniseed water, mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint, and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candy, beaten into very fine powder; set it upon a chafing-dish of coals in a pewter dish, and when it beginneth to walm, burn it with a paper as you do wine, stirring it well together with a spoon, then take it off the fire, and evening and morning, take a good spoonful of it first and last. It will comfort the stomach, and is good against cough and wind.   

For a Cough and Consumption.  
Take of Lungwort, Liverwort, hyssop, Violet, and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful, Licorice sliced, and scraped, aniseeds, and Fennel-seeds, of each one pennyworth a little bruised, a parsley and a Fennel root clean scraped, pithed, and cut into small pieces, twelve figs sliced, four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out; boil all these together in a pottle of clear running water, till it come to three pints, then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar, dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction, then take it off, strain it, and drink thrice a day of it, that is in the morning, about four in the afternoon, and last at night, three or four ounces of it at a time, and it will assuage the dryness and thirst, and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and cause your phlegm to come away with more ease.   

For a Cold dropsy.  
Take Olibanum, and roast it in a Fig, and apply it to their great Toe: But if they be swelled in their face or head; then take anew laid Egg roasted hard, take out the yolk, and put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it, and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck.   

For the dropsy.  
Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine, an ounce of Cinnamon, and a pint of green Broom ashes, put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty hours, the Cinnamon being first bruised; stir them all often, and then put them up into a white Cotten bag, and let the liquour drain out of them, put it up again twice upon the lees, and then use four times a day of it, drink it cold, in the morning, one hour before dinner, one hour before supper, and when you go to bed, at each time drink a quarter of a pint; if the grief be not fully removed, use a second or third pottle so made up, but with most persons one pottle sufficeth.   

For an Ague.  
Take as much black soap as a walnut, and three times as much crown soap, and mingle them together, then shred about a pugil of Rue, and put thereto half a spoonful of Pepper very finely beaten, and with a quarter of a spoonful of fine wheat flour, or as much as shall suffice; mingle all these together, then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linen cloth, and make it up into two plasters, and apply to each wrist one, and keep them fast on for nine days together; you must apply the plasters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them.  
Sweat is held by all experienced physicians, to be very good to cure an Ague, but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them; you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured; and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together, but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae.   

To comfort and strengthen the joints and sinews.  
℞. Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint John's Wort three steep them three days in sufficient Wine, and then seeth them in a brazen vessel till the Wine be consumed, then strain them▪ and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint John's Wort stamped, and steep it again three days, and afterward add thereunto, of Turpentine three ounces, of old oil eight ounces, of Saffron one scruple; of mastic 3. ss. of Myrrh, of Frankincense, ana. 3. ii. ss, afterward put in the straining the space of a month, of the flowers and seed of Saint John's Wort one handful and half, of Madder brayed, of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died, ana. three drachms, of the juice of Yarrow two ounces, seeth them to the consumption of the juice, with earth worms washed with Wine two ounces, and a little Wine odoriferous.   

For obstructions of Liver and Spleen.  
℞. Flowers of borage, bugloss, Marigolds, Violets, Endive, of each a handful▪ Dates stoned three ounces, of the best blue currants two ounces, sweet Fennell▪ seed half an ounce, grains and Coriander, of each one drachm, whole brown Watereresses nine leaves, hyssop stripped downwards nine little branches, of french barley three ounces; boil all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed, then strain it, and when it is strained add of the conserve of Barberries three ounces, syrup of Lemons and of Quinces, of each three ounces, this is to be taken morning and evening, nine spoonfuls at a time.  
The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries, dry all the year.   

For the palsy in the head.  
For the palsy in the head, take of the oils, of Amber, Fox, and Beaver, and mingle them together, and anoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning, chafe it in with a warm hand, and chafing-dish of hot coals.  
And take of the oil of Amber alone, and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose, and take two or three drops of it, and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof.  
And take two or three drops of the same oil, and put it into your Beer or Ale for your morning's draught, especially at the change or full of the Moon, for four or five days together.  
Be sure to keep warm, and avoid going abroad in rain, misty, or moist weather.   

Oil of Saint John's Wort for ache and pain.  
Take a quart of salad oil, put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint John's Wont well picked, let them lie therein all the summer, until the seeds of that herb be ripe, the glass must be kept warm, either in the Sun or in water, all the summer until the seeds be ripe, then put in a quart of Saint John's Wort seeds whole, and so let it stand twelve hours, the glass being kept open, than you must seethe the oil eight hours, the water in the pot full as high as the oil in the glass, when it is cold strain it, that the seed remain not in it, and so keep it for your use.   

For the knitting together and strengthening of bones.  
Give inwardly knotgrass, Plantain, or Ribwort water, with syrup of the greater Comfrey, to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the syrup, so often as they use it: There are also v●…lnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories.   

For the Courses.  
When you give Oculos cancrorum (truly called Lapides cano●…) to provoke a woman's Courses, you must give her almost a spoonful of it, mixed with some water of Motherwort, called Artemisia, causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it; the best time to exhibit it, is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock, and let her sleep after it, you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses; if you cannot get Morherwort water, you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water.  
You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum, either with juice of Lemons, or with distilled Vinegar, and spirit of vitriol; If you put a greater proportion of vitriol, then of the other, it will sooner dissolve, you need but cover it with the juice or spirits, and after some few hours pour off the spirits from the powder.   

A cordial excellent good for melansholy, panting and trembling of the heart, swooning, fainting, coldness, and rawness of the stomach, and also for many other griefs arising from a cold and moist complexion, ●…ften proved with happy success.  
Take of Saffron half ●…n ounce, of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce, of Cloves six drachms, Balm two handfuls, Rosemary tops four handfuls, shred the herbs and roots, and beat the spices grossly, than put them, with half a pound of Sugar, into three pints of small innamo●… water, or of small Aqua vitae, and let them stand infused three or four days together, after boil them, and let the Aqua vitae burn, stirring them well together, till near a pint thereof be consumed away, then strain it, and when it is settled pour off the clear from the bottom; keep the clear for your own use, and reserve the bottom, which you may give away unto poor people, for it will be good and comfortable, though not so strong: The way to use it, is to take every morning fasting a spoonful, and after every meal, at each several time, a spoonful.   

A sudden way to make up this excellent cordial.  
Take of the best of Doctor Mountford's water, ana. ℥. iiii.  
Of very good Angelica water ana. ℥. iiii.  
Of Clove water, ana. ℥. iiii.  
Of Rosemary water, ana. ℥. iiii.  
Of Balm water, ana. ℥. iiii.  
Of spirit of Saffron ℥. ii.  
Mingle all these together, and with as much syrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled, make it up, and put into either of these two Medicines, of Musk and Ambergrease, of each a grain. Both these are excellent Cordials for all the griefs before rehearsed.   

Pills to purge phlegm and Wind.  
Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms, of rhubarb, Jallop, and Agaric, of each six drachms, of mastic four drachms, of red Rose leaves three drachms, let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder, and seared, then mix them well, and beat them up into a paste, with syrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice, at the end add unto it twenty drops of oil of Anniseeds: when you have occasion to use these Pills, take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills.   

For the Gout.  
Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls, a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised, mingle them well together, and apply it to the Gout: Let the party drink every third day for a seven-night in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk, of a red or black Cow.   

For the Gout, My Lord Denni's Medicine.  
Take burdock's leaves and stalks, cut them small, and stamp them very small, then strain them, and cleanse them, and when you have so done put them into glasses, and put pure oil of Olives a top of them, and stop it close from the air, and when you would use it for the Gout, pour it into a porringer and warm it, and wet linen clothes in it, and apply it warm to the grieved place, warming your clothes one after another, as they grow cold that are on.   

Another, very good for the Gout.  
Take the yeast of Ale, and spread it upon brown paper, and apply it upon the grieved place pretty warm, the space of twelve hours: some first warm the pickle of Olives, and then bathe the grieved place therewith, putting their feet into it, and after use the former Medicine.  
My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three days after the change of the Moon, then after it must be taken six days together, then six days before the full it must be taken twice a day.   

To stay the Courses when they come down too violently.  
Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium, dissolve it in a drachm o●… posset Ale, wherein formerly hath been boiled half a handful of shepherd's purse, and as much knotgrass, and of the greater Comfrey, and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening.   

For the Whites.  
Take a quarter of a handful of white archangel, Plantain, sheaphards' purse, and of the greater Comfrey, of each half a handful, of the herbs horse-tail, and cats-tail, of each half a handful, boil all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away, then strain it, and sweeten it with good white Sugar ●…andy finely beaten, and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen days together.   

To keep the body soluble and to purify the blood.  
Take Maydenhair, wild Germander, wood-sorrel, and Balm, of each a pugil, of wild Mercury half a handful, of damask Roses two handfuls, of clarified Whey six pints, let it stand scalding hot for an hour stirring it sometimes, after an hour is past strain it, and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it; and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it, it will take away all roughness and hairs of the hands, it may be taken safe of a woman with child   

For the green sickness, or yellow jaundice.  
For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation▪ ℞. of Hiera picra four scruples, of rhubarb, and Trochisces of Agaric, of each half a drachm, of rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of each half a scruple, of Cinnamon six grains, of Saffron four grains, of Diacatholicon half an ounce; infuse these things in the Whey of cow's Milk, or in the distilled water of Alkakengie, or in Dodder water, or Endive water, you may add oxymel thereto.   

An Electuary for the green sickness.  
Take of Diatrion santalon, and Diarrhodon abbatis, of each one drachm, of Diacurcuma, and confection of Alkermes, of each half an ounce, of Diamargariton frigidum, and Calidum, of each two drachms, of rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of each one drachm, of all these make an Electuary, and give it evening and morning by itself, or with Dodder or Endive water, the dose is one drachm, pro tempore uno.   

An excellent Powder for the green sickness.  
℞. four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder, of rasped Ivory, and Hartshorn, of each two scruples; make these into a fine powder, and give a spoonful thereof with white Wine, or the like, at once.   

Another Medicine.  
℞. Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder, boil it in two quarts of white Wine, with a piece of Sugar, to the consumption of half of it, strain it, and let the Maiden drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm, and walk, or use some exercise to heat the body, but take no cold; use this for eleven or twelve days together.   

A singular purging Potion against the green sickness, and all oppilations of the Liver, and causeth young Maids to look fresh, and fair, and cherry-cheeked, and will bring down their Courses, the stopping whereof causeth this grief, and it is good against all manner of itch, scabs, breaking out, and manginess of the body, purifying the blood from all corruption.  
℞. Of the roots of monks rhubarb, that is red Do●…k, and of red Madder, ana. half a pound, of Sena four ounces, of Anniseseed, and Licorice, of each two ounces, of Scabious, and Agrimony, of each one handful; slice the roots of rhubarb, and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice, break the herbs small, and put them all into a pot with four gallons of strong Ale, and infuse them all the space of three days, then drink of this drink, for your ordinary drink, for three weeks at the least, the longer the better, and make new as need requireth; it eureth the dropsy, and yellow jaundice also, if you put in of camomile one handful.   

For the green sickness, or jaundice.  
℞. Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce, boil it in a pint of Ale gently a quarter of an hour, and drink a good draught thereof, and sweat, and in your sweat drink it all, or as much as you can, the next day make new and drink again, but without sweating, and use some exercise to keep the body warm; use this last order twelve days together, use good Cordials and Restoratives, with syrup and conserve of Fumitory.   

For the green sickness, and jaundice.  
Boyle of Rue, and Sage, of each a bundle, in a quart or three pints of Ale, with one scruple of Saffron.  
To cure this disease, the Electuary of Steel is excellent, if the body be first purged, for it doth open all obstructions: but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it, to stir up natural heat the better; the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it.   

The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared.  
℞. Of the filings of the best Iron, or Steel, as much as you please, grind it subtly and finely, upon a Porphiry, or red Marble stone, with Vinegar, then dry it at the Sun, or at the fire, and grind it again with Vinegar as at the first, and do thus seven times one after another, and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you.   

The Electuary of Steel is made up thus.  
℞. Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce, Cinnamon, Nutmegs condited, of each three drachms, of chosen rhubarb two drachms, of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm, of chosen Honey, and of fine white Sugar, of each one pound and one ounce; mingle these all together over a soft fire, and make it up into an Electuary. After the taking of this Electuary, let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises, being first universally purged, for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver, Spleen, or other disease, and for the green sickness.   

For the green sickness, or green jaundice.  
The green sickness, or jaundice cometh of yellow choler, mixed with corrupt or putrified phlegm, and corruption of blood, debility of nature, and faintness of heart; it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into blood, but the digestion is raw and crude, so that the whole body is filled with water and phlegm instead of good blood; it is chiefly found in young Maidens, who desire to abate their fresh colours, and, as they conceive, to be fine, and fair, and foolishly feed upon trash (which altereth the colour and state of their bodies) as of unripe Apples, pears, Plums, Cherries, and raw Fruits, and herbs, or meal, Wheat, barley, raw Milk, Chalk, Lime, and the like, and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish; if they chance to cut their finger, no blood, but water, will follow; they feel great pain in their head, with continual beating, are faint, short-breathed, and their natural Flowers are stopped and stayed, to the prevention and cure whereof, the body must first be well and orderly purged, as by the Medicines before prescribed.    
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