AN EXACT COLLECTION OF THE Choicest and most Rare EXPERIMENTS AND SECRETS IN Physic and Chirurgery, (both Chemic and Galenick.) viz. Of Leonard Phioravant, Knight, and Doctor in Physic and Chirurgery, His Rational Secrets and Chirurgery, etc.  
Whereunto is annexed PARACELSUS' One hundred & fourteen Experiments. With certain excellent Works of G. B. à Portu Aquitano.  
ALSO, ISAAC HOLPANDUS his SECRETS concerning his Vegetal and Animal Work. With QUERCETANUS his Spagyric Antidotary for Gun-shot.  
ALSO, Certain Collections out of some Manuscripts of Dr. EDWARD'S, and other Physicians of note, expert in both Faculties, never before printed: which heretofore were accounted of (by them) as their very choice Medicines.  
LONDON, Printed for William Shears, at the Bible in Bedford street in , and in the New Exchange, 1659.   

To the Reader.  
Courteous Reader,  
I Have carefully, though not curiously, disrobed that worthy Knight, and excellent Doctor in Physic and Chirurgery, Leonard Phioravant out of his Italian Vesture, and put him into our English habit, that such an excellent Piece may not lie cloistered in the Precinct of one Principality, but that our own Nation may participate of the Honey, this Laborious Bee hath brought to his Hive: If all relish not at the first gust, the fault is not in the Work, but their judgements that understand him not, nor the jewels presented unto them. Avicen King of Arabia in the Arabic, Hypocrates and Galen in Greek, and Pliny and Celsus in Latin; besides many English and French, have testified their love to their native Countries, by publishing in their own Languages such rare Treasures as these. Nor fear I detraction from any for these my Labours, unless it be from some runagate Varlets, that carry all their cunning in a Chirurgeons Box in their Pockets, and their learning in a Capcase behind at their backs; who through Ignorance, neither regarding the quantity, nor quality of those excellent Medicines, abuse, and sophisticate them in making them up, but this must be obtruded unto the Men, not the Medicines; for prevention whereof hereafter, that honourable Society of London Physicians have chose out a Chemic Artificer, whom they have placed in their own College, and over whom they have set discreet, and learned overseers to oblige the public for their care to their Medicines hereafter. So wishing you the happy fruition of health is intended you by these labours; I rest,  


J. H.  
W. J.     



The Table of the First Book.  
WHat thing Infirmity is, and whereof it proceedeth 1  
To heal the falling sickness 2  
To help certain gross scabs in the head 3  
To help young children of the Rupture 4  
Of the small Pox that cometh to children ibid.  
To help the Measles 5  
Of Kernels or Scrophule ibid.  
Of divers sorts of scabs 6  
Against Worms in children 7  
Of certain Warts or Carvoli on the Yard. 8  
Of Gonorrhoea Passio ibid.  
Of a Botch caused of the Pox 9  
Of Pellarella Ibid  
Of scabs that come through the Pox 10  
Of certain tumors or swell in divers parts of the body 11  
Of Ache in divers parts of the body ibid.  
Of the Cough in the stomach 12  
Of the white scab in the head 13  
Of Erisipela 14  
Of the Squinancy 15  
Of the Emeroids and Piles 16  
An easy way to help all sorts of Fevers ibid.  
Another cure of the said Fevers 18  
Of the continual Fever 19  
A great Secret against the continual Fever 20  
Of the Fever Tertian ibid.  
Of the Fever of Repression 21  
Of the Fever Hectic 22  
A new Order wherewith thou mayest help most part of the Fever Hectic 23  
Of the Fever Quartane 24  
To help the Quartain of all sorts 25  
A great secret against the Quartain 26  
A secret to help all Fevers in their beginning 27  
A secret of one simple that helpeth all Fevers 28  
Of the Gout ibid.  
A Note concerning the cure of the Gout 29  
Another discourse of the Gout 30  
What order must be had in the said cure 31  
To preserve a man from the Gout 32  
The cure of the Gout with pain in the side ibid.  
A discourse of the Sciatica 33  
Of pains of the Mother 34  
Of pains in the head 35  
Of diseases in the ears 36  
Of the Infirmities in the eyes ibid.  
Of the Toothache 37  
Of a stinking breath 38  
Of spitting blood 39  
Of diseases of the Liver 40  
Of diseases of the Lungs 41  
Of the Spleen 42  
Of the flux of the body ibid.  
Of costiveness in the body 43  
Of the Flux of Urine ibid.  
A discourse of the retention of Urine 44  
Another discourse of the same 45  
Of the retention through heat ibid.  
Of the retention through dryness 46  
Of the retention through cold ibid.  
Of the retention through moistness 47  
Of the difficulty of Urine ibid.  
Against burning of the Urine 49  
A discourse upon the carnosity of the yard 50  
Another cure for the same ibid.  
To stay the flux of Urine 51  
To break the stone 52  
Of the gravel in the Reins 54  
Against the Itch ibid.    


The Table of the Second Book.  
WHat Chirurgery is 55  
The order in curing Imposthumes 56  
What Imposthumes are 58  
Of Imposthumes in the groin ibid.  
The second kind of Imposthumes in the groin 59  
The third kind in the groin ibid.  
Of Imposthumes under the arms 60  
Of Imposthumes in the throat ibid.  
Of Imposthumes in the throat caused of melancholy humours 61  
Of Imposthumes in the throat caused of the Pox ibid.  
Imposthumes in the throat of hot humours 62  
Imposthumes in the throat caused of cold 63  
Imposthumes in the throat of hot humours ibid.  
Imposthumes in the eyes 64  
Imposthumes in the ears ibid.  
Imposthumes in the mouth 65  
Imposthumes in the joints ibid.  
Of inward Imposthumes 66  
Of Ulcers and what they are 67  
To help Ulcers of all sorts 68  
Of Ulcers in the feet 69  
Of Ulcers in the legs ibid.  
Of Ulcers in the knees 70  
Of Ulcers in the groin ibid.  
Of Ulcers in the arms 71  
Of Ulcers in the breast, back and belly ibid.  
Of Ulcers outwardly 72  
Of Ulcers in the head ibid.  
Of Ulcers in the mouth 73  
Of Wounds, and their kinds ibid.  
What Medicines are fittest for wounds 74  
Of wounds in the head with offence of the brain 76  
Of wounds in the head with fracture of the bone 77  
Of wounds in the head where the bone is not offended 78  
Of Contusions or bruises in all places ibid.  
Of wounds in the neck 79  
Of wounds in the arms 80  
Of wounds in the breast ibid.  
Of wounds in the belly 81  
Of wounds in the legs 83  
Of wounds that pierce into the body 84  
A discourse upon old wounds 85  
To heal wounds of Gun-shot ibid.  
To heal a wound quickly ibid.  
To help a wound quickly that is in danger 86  
To stay the flux of blood in wounds ib.  
Another for the same 87  
A defensive for wounds ibid.  
Our secret powder for wounds ibid.    


The Table of the third Book.  
TO make our Petra Philosophale 88  
To make our Balm 90  
To make our Aromatico 92  
To make our Electuario Angelica 93  
Our Sirrupo Solutivo 94  
Our Syrup Magistral 95  
Our Syrup against the Melancholy humour 96  
Our Potion of Lignum Sanctum ibid.  
To make the water of Lignum Sanctum 98  
An Electuary against the Cough 100  
Our Magistral Electuary of Sulphur ibid.  
Our Electuary of Consolida majore 101  
Unguentum magnum 102  
Oil of Hypericon 103  
Our Oleum Philosophorum of Turpentine and Wax 104  
Our Magno Liquore 105  
Pillole Aquilone 106  
Our Quinta essentia solutiva ibid.  
Pillole Magistrale 108  
Aqua real that maketh the teeth white 109  
Of the secrets of Frankincense ibid.  
To make oil of Honey 110  
Our great Cerot 111  
A Magistral Unguent that helpeth in manner all sores 112  
A Magistral Cerot against the white Scall ibid.  
A divine Cerot against divers infirmities 113  
A miraculous plaster for Flegmon or Erisipella 114  
A resolutive plaster of great virtue 115  
A maturative plaster of great virtue ibid.  
A composition against Ulcers and sores 116  
A strange composition of great virtue ibid.  
An Unguent of great virtue against Ulcers ibid.  
A Discourse upon sundry sorts of Unguents 117  
Medicines appropriate against all poisons 119  
A water that preserveth the face and teeth fair 120  
To take away spots out of the face 121  
To cause hair to grow ibid.  
To make our Syrup of Bays 122  
To make a Syrup of Cinnamon and Ginger 123  
Our Syrup of a Capon 124  
A magistral Syrup of Quinces, the which is restorative 125  
A Magistral Syrup of Lignum Sanctum 126  
A Syrup of Juniper berries 127  
A Syrup of the Bran of wheat ibid.  
A Syrup of Salsa Per●lia 128  
To make a potion of China 129  
A potion of Alchachengie 130  
A pectoral Potion of our invention ib.  
To make a Potion of Camedrios and Iva Artetica, which dissolveth all Fevers that come of cold 131  
A potion that helpeth against all infirmities 132  
An Infusion of Wine that is good against the Gout 133  
Another artificial wine against the stitch in the side and gravel 134  
To make a Quintessence of great virtue 135  
To make Diatartaro the which is soluble 136  
A composition of great value to comfort the stomach 137  
A stomachall plaster to cause digestion ibid.  
A rare secret for the eyes 138  
A liquor that comforteth the smelling, and preserveth the head ibid.  
A decoction of the Vine 139  
A composition of Mercury the Herb 140  
A Medicine of Lapaciole minore, against the Catarrh 141  
Of Pollipodie and his virtues 142  
Of the Olive, and his virtues 143  
Of Ciperus and his virtues ibid.  
Of Rue or Hearb-grace, and his virtues 144  
Of Wormwood, and his virtues 145  
Of Gratia Dei, and his virtues ibid.  
Of walwort, and his virtues 146  
Of Millefollie or Yarrow and his virtues 147  
Of Gentian and his virtues 148  
Of Imperatoria, and his virtues 149  
Of Carduus sanctus, and his virtues ibid.  
Of sweet Majoram, and his virtues 150  
Of the herb Lutiola, and his virtues 151  
Of Hypericon, and his virtues ibid.  
Of Nettles, and his virtues 152  
Of Hyssop of the Mountain ibid.  
A great secret of a kind of betony 153  
Of the Effects of Wine, and what cometh thereof 154  
Of Vinegar, and his qualities 156  
Of the Faeces of wine, and his secrets 157  
Of Verjuice made of Grapes ibid.  
Certain secrets of Animals, and first of the Ox ibid.  
Of the Goat, and his virtues 158  
Of the Horse, and his virtues 159  
Of the Dog, and his secrets 160  
Of the Cat, and his secrets ibid.  
Of the Hare, and his secrets ibid.  
Of the Frog, and his secrets 161  
A discourse upon certain stones, and their qualities, both in Physic and Chirurgery, and first of the marble ibid.  
Of the stone Lapis Ematites 162  
Of the Stone of Iron called Loppa 163  
Of Lapis Judaicus ibid.  
Of Lapis Lazuli 164  
Of the Flintstone 165  
Of Alumen scaleola or Gesso ibid.  
Of Lapis Amiantis 166  
Of the Saphire 167  
Of Read Coral ibid.  
Of the stone Salt 168  
The urives of certain Minerals and mean Minerals, and first of Vitriol 169  
Strange secrets of Roch Alum 170  
Of Orpiment and his nature ibid.  
Of Cinaber Mineral 171  
Of the secrets of Salt, and his virtue ibid.  
Of common Salt, and his virtues 172  
Certain secrets of Salt peter ibid.  
Certain secrets of Alum du Fez 173  
Of Gold ibid.  
Of Silver 174  
Of Lead ibid.  
Of the secrets of Copper 175  
Of Tin 176  
Of Iron ibid.  
Of the secrets of Mercury 177    
FINIS.   

To the Reader.  
HAving taken upon me to writ a brief Treatise of Chirurgery, in the which I will writ the mere verity, and that with as much brevity as may be, because the truth useth but little room, for the Philosopher writeth, that the truth is such a light as all men do hid, covering it with divers abuses, as the Poets many times do; for when they writ one of their tales, they go about to hid it, and thus to our purpose: Those that writ great volumes cannot choose many times but hid the truth; for in much matter there entereth both good and bad, and therefore I will writ not more than is necessary, declaring what Chirurgery is, and in what order it should be used with all his accidents, showing what Wounds are, with Imposthumes and Ulcers, how they engender, and when they are engendered, how to cure them and dissolve them: A discourse which will please many, because it is only truth, and of great importance: Let every one therefore know, that Science with experience do appear to be one thing, and at this present every one is certain thereof, that the experience of Physic as well as of Chirurgery, cannot be good without Science or Method, as a man may term it; but I say, that Experience is better than Science in these two Arts, that is, in Physic and Chirurgery, for Science only showeth the virtue, the which may be done with Practice that hath no Theoric; of which I have written sufficiently in my Caprici Medicinale, and that this which I writ is truth, I will prove it, for I say, that none can help with the only Method, but always it is necessary, that there be some experience or practise, therefore those that do delight to understand, let them follow this my short Treatise, in the which I will treat of things most necessary to be known, and will show how easy it is to work in that Art, declaring all the difficult matter, so that every one may see and perceive it plain, and afterwards I will show how to make many new Medicines, as well for Wounds, as for the other sorts of sores, which have not been used neither of old Doctors nor of new; the which Remedies are of such virtue and strength, that the world will wonder at them for their notable quick working, and hereafter I will writ what Chirurgery is.   

The Contents of the Chapters of this Book.  

WHat chirurgery is fol. 3  
What Wounds are 7  
Of Ulcers, and what they are ibid.  
Of Imposthumes, and their kinds 8  
Of Fistulaes' and their kinds 9  
Of all sorts of scabs 10  
Of Formicola, and his effects 11  
A discourse of wounds, and other kinds of inward sores ibid.  
An Order to use in healing all manner of diseases appertaining to the Chirurgeon 13  
Of Medicines to be used in all kind of wounds outward, with case and brevitic 14  
To help Ulcers of all sorts 16  
The Order to be used in curing Imposthumes of divers sorts 17  
The Order to cure all manner of Fistulaes' 18  
To help all manner of Scabs 19  
To help Mal di formica 20  
Of the Tow which is laid upon wounds by common Chirurgeons 21  
Of the digestive, with the which they dress wounds after the aforesaid Tow 22.  
Of the mundificative Unguent, wherewith they dress the wounds after they are digested, to mundify them ib.  
Of their Incarnative wherewith they dress the wound after it is mundified 23  
A rare secret, the which this Author did sand unto a very friend of his, being in the wars in Africa, the which helpeth all wounds, either by cut, thrust, galling with arrows, or Harquebush-shot, or otherwise ibid.  
Of those Unguents that cicatrize wounds 24  
A remedy to help a wound with great speed of our Invention ibid.  
An excellent secret to heal wounds of Gun-shot or Arrows without any danger ibid.  
A Discourse upon old wounds that are not yet healed, and their sovereign remedy 25  
To dissolve a bruise in short time, when it is new done ibid.  
To help a wound quickly that is in peril of any accident 26  
To stop the flux of blood in wounds with great speed ibid.  
Another remedy to stay the Flux of blood in a wound 27  
Of our Cerot magno, that helpeth against all sorts of sores and wounds ib.  
Of our Magistral Unguent that helpeth divers sorts of sores 28  
To make Oil of Frankincense 29  
Of Oil of Wax and his effect ibid.  
To help the toothache that is caused of rotten teeth, or that cometh of a descension of the head 30  
Against a stinking breath 31  
To help those that have a great Cough in the stomach ibid.  
To help those that cannot hold their water 32  
To help those that cannot make water 33  
To help those that have great burning of their Urine ibid.  
To help those that have great pain of the Gout 34  
A remedy against the Pestilence, that preserveth those that use it 35  
To help Pellaria, a disease which causeth the hair and beard to fall away 36  
To help a carnosity in the yard ibid.  
To help a white scall 37  
To help those Carvoli that come upon the yard, and their causes 38  
A Discourse of those sores that come of the Pox, and how to help them quickly 39  
The cure of one that had the Pox in his head 40  
The cure of a wound in the head, and the hand ibid.  
A great secret particular for the Flux and Dissenteria. 41  
The cure of one that was poisoned with Arsenic 42  
The cure of an ulcerated leg 43  
The cure of the Gout on a certain Gentleman ibid.  
Of the causes of the Sciatica, and how ye may help it. 44  
A most excellent remedy to help the Flux of the body, with a certain discourse ●●thereon 45  
A Discourse as concerning Corns in the Feet or elsewhere, with their Remedies ibid.  
Of an Infirmity of Importance, that cometh upon the extremity of the Toe, upon the nail 46  
A Discourse upon the Emeroids, with the order to cure them, with most excellent Medicines of our Invention 47  
A great Secret to help those that are burst or have the Rupture ibid.  
A rare secret and divine, to help those that are troubled with the Spleen 48  
Another great secret to help the Spleen with great speed 49  
The cure of a certain Spaniard called Carabasall di Cordonet, which was troubled with the Pox ibid.  
The cure of the stitch in the side with retention of Urine ibid.  
The cure of a Spaniard in Naples, who was wounded in the head 50  
The cure of a certain Gentleman, who had Mal di Formica. ibid.  
Certain cures that this Author did, when he traveled into Africa 51  
The cure of the Flux, wherewith I helped the Army of the Emperor in Africa 53  
A goodly remedy found out by me for wounds in the head ibid.  
The cure of one that had his nose cut of, and set on again 54  
The cure of an arm of S. Giordano Ursino 55  
A great chance that happened at the assault in Africa ibid.  
The cure of Wounds being poisoned, and of other sores 56  
A Remedy found out by me, against the poison of a Fish. 57  
Of the taking of Africa and its destruction ibid.  
The cure of a great Wound on the head 58  
A very strange thing that happened in the aforesaid year. ibid.  
The cure of a Fistula in the lower parts 59  
Of many that I cured in Naples 60  
A cure of Ulcera putrida, which was in the arm 61  
The cure of Ethesia in the beginning 62  
The cure of a certain man, wounded in thirteen places ibid.  
Of Remedies that help many diseases 63  
Here beginneth the order to make divers and sundry Medicines of our invention, never found out before by any man. And first to make our Petra Philosophale, that helpeth against all manner of diseases that happeneth unto man or woman, or any other Animal Terrestrial 64  
To make our Balm artificial, with the order to use it, and wherefore it serveth 66  
To make our Aromatico, the which helpeth against all manner of infirmities, of what quality soever they he 68  
To make our Electuario Angelico, and the order to use it, and in what diseases 69  
Of the vegetable stone of our invention, to transmute a body of one complexion into another, and to make him sound for ever 70  
Our soluble Syrup, with the order to use it 71  
Our Sirrupo magistrale Leonardo, the which serveth against an infinite number of diseases, and is a rare Medicine 72  
Our Syrup against the melancholy humour, and especially where there is ventosity in the stomach 73  
Our Potion of Lignum Sanctum, which is miraculous to dissolve crude and malign humours, with the order to use it in the French Pox, and such like diseases 74  
A most marvellous Water and rare, to 'cause a man to avoid the Gravel in Urine, and to mundify the Reins 75  
To make the water of Ligum Sanctum most wholesome against the Pox, with a a new order 76  
Our distillation for the Etesia, which is of marvellous virtue, and without comparison, with the order to use it 77  
Our Vegetable Syrup, which is miraculous and divine 78  
An Electuary that helpeth the Cough with great speed and ease 79  
Electuario benedicto Leonardo, which purgeth the body without any grief, and is miraculous in his operation 80  
An Electuary against the evil disposition of the Liver and Stomach 81  
Our magistral Electuary of Sulphur, the which serveth against divers sorts of infirmities Ibid.  
Our Electuary of Consolida major, that serveth for many diseases inwardly 82  
Our imperial Electuary for the Mother 83  
Pills against Poison, the which are of marvellous virtue Ibid.  
Unguento magno Leonardo 84  
Oil of Hypericon, the which is most miraculous for Wounds and Bruises 85  
To make our Oleum benedictum, the which healeth Wounds divinely 86  
A magistral Water, the which preserveth the fight a long time, and mundifieth the eyes of all spots Ibid.  
To make oil of Vitiol compound, the which preserveth nature in his strength 87  
Oleum Philosophorum de Termentiva & Cera 88  
Our Magno Liquore, the which is of great virtue 89  
Pillolae Angelicae, the which evacuate the body without any impediment, and are most profitable 90  
Pillolae Aquilonae of our invention 91  
Our Quinta essentia solutiva, which is of marvellous operation in divers matters Ibid.  
Our Syrup of Quintessence, the which is of marvellous virtue 92  
Pillolae magistrales, which are good against divers infirmities Ibid.  
A compound Aqua vitae, the which serveth against all cold diseases of the stomach 93  
A compound oil against Poison, the which is of a marvellous virtue ibid.  
A marvellous Soap, that helpeth those which cannot spit but with great pain 95  
To make the Quintessence of Honey 96  
To make our Elixir vitae, or Aqua Coelestis 97  
To make Aqua Reale vel Imperiale, the which maketh the teeth white presently, incarnateth the gums, and causeth a good breath 98  
A kind of Pill most convenient for the eyes, and comforteth the stomach 99  
A discourse upon a Composition that preserveth a man or woman in health a long time 100  
A marvel'ous Water to be used of all Chirurgeons in curing of their Patient's ib.  
To make our Caustick 101  
To make oil of Antimony ibid.  
A precious Liquor above all other 102  
A secret of marvellous virtue ibid.  
Our secret of marvellous virtue in act and strength 103  
To rectify and preserve the sight of those that are weak sighted ibid.  
Of Lac Virgins, and the order to make it 104  
To calcive Tutia, and to bring it into a salt ibid.  
To precipitate Mares, and to bring it into a read powder, called Crocus martis, the which serveth for divers purposes 105  
A secret of Turpentine of Cyprus ibid.   
FINIS.   

Short Amimadversions upon the Book lately Published by one who styles himself NOAH BIGGS, Helmontii Psittacum.  
Friend,  
YOu set a big Sail to a little Vessel: I believe your Ark doth not like Noah's, contain all the vitality of Rationals, and Sensibles.  
You writ Pag. 205. concerning Mastication. Seeing all Aliment aught to pass into a liquid Reduction, or tendance to Chilificative mutation, or alimental conversion, therefore Mastification is to be highly commended.  
You have like the great Fish, that swallowed jonah, received in Van Helmont, though not digested him; and the same tax may pass on you, which sometimes did on a Noble Courtier, devorasti, non edisti. It was the judgement of Doctor Charlton; a Learned Physician, a favourer of Van Helmont, that he had a better Faculty, Evertere opiniones Veterum, quam extruere, & stabilire Novas.  
When was ever Practice amongst the Physicians so narrowly confined, as they kept themselves to one Author? Do not some of them follow Minfect, others Hartman, others Grulingius, others will have their prescriptions made after Quercetan, Faber, or Poterius, some after Begvinus, Millius, Billich, Burgravius, Becherus, or other Authors; And some disgust all, which are not Paracelsian, or accord with Basilius, Valentinus his Master, and are pleased to practise after their Medicines, with the additions of their own Experiments, out of their reading, and judgement on their several Authors. I would gladly know who ties himself to Sennertus, Riverius, or any one Modern Author, as if universal Learning were contained in the sphere of one Microcosm: Yet you are so much for Helmont, as if he were the great Luminary of the World. I confess, I honour Van Helmont, but if you do no cures out of the tract of his Method, I believe you must study more knowledge in his Medicines than barely how to Translate them, or otherwise you will fail in the honour you aspire unto, and from teaching others, come yourself to learn from those you unworthily vilify.  
You say Pag. 12. The Schools are ignorant of the Quiddities, and Dihoties of things, do you yourself understand either your own, or the essence of the lowest inferior Animals? Pag. 15. Why did you not by the golden Trident of Chemical Theorems, whom as a Lady of Honour you have courted, devoutly kissed, and profess your strict observance to, becalm this Sea of distraction? And as you say, Pag. 16. writ in that, in which there is no beaten path, which you think most honourable, because he that leads hath this advantage above others, if others follow him, he hath the glory of the first undertaking, if not the excuse of prejudice: But had not Van Helmont traced out this Path to you, I could think you would have acquiesced to the ancient opinions, and not have aspired to be reckoned amongst the public Benefactors of Civil and Human life.  
Pag. 35. You have a jerk at Bartholomeus Carichterus, but I believe your own learning and judgement will hardly bring you to be a Physician to so great an Emperor as Maximilian the Second. For your threefold Character you give of a good Purge, Pag. 80. I hardly believe your Patients will be so happy as to meet with such from you. The London Dispensatory hath variety of medicines, some following one Author, and some another, for which purpose it was so enlarged, as thought necessary in respect of the several variety of judgement, and practices of our Modern Physicians.  
You say, Pag. 11. reading is no way conducible to knowing: If you had never read Van Helmont, you had never written in this stile. You say, Pag. 11. The disease known is not the half way to the cure, but if you know not the disease, I conceive you would hardly, or blindly come to the cure of them. You writ, Pag. 15. The Physicians like to the self-conceited Laodiceans, while they presume they keep the keys of the Science, they neither enter themselves into the Closet, and inner Parlour of Nature, nor admit, willingly, others that would. But observe your own incircumspection and levity: For had you perused their Pharmacopoea, published 1650. A Capite ad Calcèm, you could not have committed so gross an error, (nor did their former want prescriptions of Chemic medicines) but if you please to cast your eye on it, from Pag. 187. ad finem Libri, you may see many good Chemic preparations, besides the multitude of other prescriptions, which are left to the judgement and choice of Ingenious Practitioners, to fetch out of other Chemic Authors.  
And had you but cast your eye on their careful expression, in fine Pharmacopoeae, you would have been silent, or written more temperately, which I must expose to your knowledge in their own words.  
Ne nos (Amice Lector) in hac operis suscepti meta, simulque cum calamo nostro curam deposuisse tui videamur, certior ut fias, cupimus, nos etiam saluti tuae, publicaeque utilitati, nihilo segnius invigilare, adeoque officinam Chymicam, seorsum in horto Collegii erigendam cuirass, artificemque Idoneum accersivisse, eidemque instruendo & corrigendo Collegarum peritissimos destinasse, ut medicamenta, quanto efficaciora, tanto cautius, quanto difficilliora, tanto diligentius, quanto pretiofiora, tanto sincerius componerentur. Denique eidem suffragia nostra, locumque ac lucrum omne gratis dedisse, & concessisse, ut ad tam singularem benevolentiam promerendam pari honestate impelleretur. Tu Quisquis es, nobiscum fruere, vove & vale. Now judge of the condition you stand in with knowing men.  
Hath not Rome, France, Augusta, Collen, Amsterdam, and other Nations their several Pharmacopaeas'? Must all be drowned, if Noah, your petty Ark hold them not up. Pag. 107, and 108. Concerning Glisters, that they never reach to the Ileon, or have any nourishing quality.  
Bartholinus in his Physical exercitations, hath a tract against that opinion; where, by his authorities, experiments, and reasons, you might be somewhat staggered, if you do not jurare in verba Magistri: against whom Doctor Heers, in his tractate de Fontibus spadanis, casteth forth bitterrer language than I will throw upon you; yet I desire you to remember what Doctor Metcalfe of Cambridge not long since said, on the censures of some nimble-tounged Scholars on the grave Academians: You young men think us old men fools, but we old men know you are so. And be not offended that I advice you, that would be held Magistrum in Artibus, to study also to be Magistrum in Moribus. But I will conclude with these two Grammar verses, 
Add quod ingenuas dedicisse fideliter Artes  
Emollit mores, nec sinit esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  And must tell you, for your rash extravagant censures, you are worthy to be transmitted back to the College Censors, or Deans.  
W. I   

FRIEND CULPEPR,  
I Had thought the sober animadversions were given you lately upon the publishing of the translation of Papius, would have reform your insolent Language you formerly used against your bettters; but I see Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu. The Vessel cannot put of the first foetid smell it received, for in your disponsatory Epistle, and in these of your Midwifery with a great deal of railing, and nonsense, as if it were Cuckow-moneth with you, you chatter still in one note, against Priests, and Physicians, and cry out, We are Prisoners, and kept in darkness, and who are our Jailers but Scholars: Out of which by your selfe-conceited omniscience you undertake to deliver them, from the unsufferable ignorance men and women are now trained up in, and teach them a desperate unwarrantable practice. And this is done, you say, to uphold a Company of Lazy Doctors, most of whose covetousness outweighes their wits, as a Millstone outweighes a feather, etc. I cannot but smile at your nonsense similitudes; but I shall accounted you an exact Mathematician, if you can tell me how many feathers would counterpoise a millstone, but that task would make your brain as light as your tongue. I always conceived men were bred up in callings, to enable them in future to preserve themselves and their Families, and in their professions to be serviceable to the Commonwealth, and might lawfully live by them. I pray, why do you translate but to live by it not agere stultum, & Zoilum? I wonder whether gain put you not at first (when other Trades failed you) to writ, or rather translate Physic in your mother tongue: and it seemeth you rather know how to translate Latin, than transfer it into a Sentence, as you do legere, & non intelegere, neglegere est. But I will admit the excuse, 'tis the Compositors overfight. You say, If any want wisdom, let him ask it of God, not of the College of Physicians; and yet you undertake to teach them; for you say, You intent to lay down some Rules, whereby a man may as well prevent a sickness before it comes, as remedy it when it comes, and that you will writ of the preservation of man, even from his conception to his grave: a great undertaking, and I believe too high Mr. Culpeper for your reading, and will scarce be gained out of your translating some fragments of Galens, and some pieces of modern Anatomy. You say, Physicians of our times keep our understanding in as great bondage as Pharaoh kept the Hebrew Midwives bodies, I pray did the other Physicians before them walk in your tract? but why transcend you the text with your foolish additions? what bondage do you read of either the Egyptian Midwives, or women suffered under Pharaoh themselves, though the males were overcharged with rigour. You confess God hath given you some little sparks of Knowledge, and you will not wrap up your talon in a napkin and bury it in the ground: Truly I think you need not hid any you have; and for that of railing you will not. You desire others to judge charitably of you, for Charity and Honesty you say always walk hand in hand together, and think ill of no man: If your own rule be your judge, you are neither Charitable nor Honest: you say in your Epistle to the Reader, The water may be muddy in the stream, which is clear in the Fountain, but yours is clear in neither: You say, The Translators have given us a Translation of the Bible (such a one as it is) but have given all the proper names in Scripture in pure Hebrew words in an English Character, and yet all the Scripture was written for our instruction: Had you been as well versed in the Translations, as you are in rash Censures, you might have found the Hebrew words exactly interpreted, adjoined to many translations: not conceived so necessary to be joined to all; because whosoever understood the language well (as God be praised many of our Nation do) they needed not that key to open it to them: Besides you say, whole Sentences in Scripture are so translated, that it would make a man sick to see them, I believe you mean read them; but why quoate you not the places, as you did before, the fourth or fifth first Chapters of the Book of Chronicles. If you had said some sentences of Scripture are omitted, or perverted, you might justly have taxed the lazy ignorant Printers, both here and beyond the Seas, in these times, that have not had so much care of their Presses in putting forth those sacred Books, as your Printer hath had of yours. You say, The first virtue a Child aims at so soon as it is born is knowledge. I would gladly learn what Virtue is native; I conceive them dative, and that scientia is rather acquisita, than nata, if it be true nemo nascitur artifex; or the Platonic opinion hold, man is Tabala rasa, capable of impressions, but hath none written in it. The desire to be as Gods was the cause of our Parents first fall, knowledge of good and evil, but the knowledge of Good comes only from God, the Fountain of goodness, in whose stream you must be dipped, before you desert your pride, and self-love, and put on humility. You say, Had not the Priests formerly absconded the mysteries of Truth from us, Sermons would have been so cheap that they would have been cried about streets for three halfpennies a dozen; You might have done well to have expressed yourself, whether you meant our Priests, or the Roman, for I dare justify a few of the Sermons of our late reverend Divines, as Andrew's, Hierons, Holsworth, Adams, and many others which I could name, are of far greater worth and esteem, than your dispensatory, unless with some ignorants and women: Though you undervalue Sermons at a less rate than sparrows, when your learned labours are prized at five or six shillings a piece. For Gardiner, I think every good Christian abhorreth his name and life; and I know no man desires to die his death. Giant proportions have often Pigmy conceits, but our gentleman's fancy fare outstrips. Bayards leap, who brings Diana's Image from Ephesus to jump to England at one leap, where silver shrines must be made for her still. It is a Riddle to my understanding, where the Image and Shrines are; and I should be glad to see you clear that passage, of the Image fell down from Jupiter, and that of the silver shrines from impertinent nonsense, and show how you can make them correspond with our Physicians. 'tis true you put an effigies Image, or sculpture before every book you writ; I conceive you mean not your own, I confess I have that in your Book at Amen Corner, but for your Silver smith and shrines you writ of, I hardly believe you will have one, unless the Midwives you flatter so, make you one. For Amen Corner, I persuade myself, 'tis a formidable place to you, for fear of dissection, for you never durst hitherto venture your approbation there before the Doctors for your sufficiency in your trade you were bound to, and somewhile brought up in: And for your judgement in Physic, I know you dare not come thither to the test, though you rail against them. Pray let me not trouble your weak brains with a relation of a Gentleman and Scholars, censure upon your Book, who perusing some passages in it in a Booksellers shop, asked whether Culpeper made that obscene book or not, and being answered he did, replied, truly Culpeper hath made Cul-paper, paper fit to wipe one's breech withal. Where you writ, You could have written deeper notions in Physic than shall be found in this book: I must tell you, you would seem to be a Physician, who have scarce aspired to the Apothecary. But the College hath wrapped up their Children in blankets of ignorance, have they not shut them up in a Chamber, as 'tis related your Patron sometines did you: you say, man may meddle with generals, but before he meddle with particulars, let him look to himself: But you have Lynceus eyes in others affairs, sed non vides manticae quod in tergo est. He is a saucy insolent Soldier speaks irreverently against the Gerall under whose Colours he marcheth, you profess yourself student in Physic, but want some Physic yourself to purge away the Malignant humour possesseth you, against the honourable Society of the College of Physicians: A little Hellebor would do well to purge your brains with, if you could but jump over as easily to Italy or Greece, where it grows, as Diana's Image did hither. Were you asleep or awake when you saw it jump so far, otherwise I shall think it like one of the stories in the Mirror of Knighthood. Every bird thinks his own young one fairest suum cuique pulchrum, you acknowledge the direction for Midwives to be your own child, but whether you are more properly a borrower or translator, than Father, Judicent Medici. 'tis a slovenly Bird betrays his own nest and though you seem to adhere to Hypocrates you shall never be counted Harpocrates for he was borne with one hand on his mouth, and the other on his members, but you will close yours upon neither. But I will conclude with our Mercury, with a story of Mercury out of our Latin Emblems. Mercury having a good conceit of himself (as our Mercury hath) desirous to know what opinions mortals conceived of him, would needs descend, and fixed on a Statuaries shop, where lighting and coming in, he spies many Images of the Gods and Goddesses, and inquires the price of them but not seeing his own, inquires whether he had the Statue of Mercury or not, he replied he had, and fetched him forth of a buy corner he had in his shop of whom Mercury demanded what price he would ask for it, the Statuary replied, Sir, If you mean in good earnest to buy the other Statues you Cheapened, you shall have him into the bargain, whereupon Mercury went away discontented, I leave the Moral to your own application: and yourself also; wishing you more government in your tongue, and discression in your pen, hereafter, concluding with that saying, His tongue is no slander, whose tongue is all slander,  
Your well willer, and a wellwisher to the Substances not shadows of Physic. W. J. From Amen Corner,   

The Epistle to the Reader.  
COURTEOUS READER,  
THere having come to my hands three several Books; Phioravants Secrets, and also his Chirurgery, to which is added The jewel of Practice: Published a good while since by JOHN HESTER, a Spagyric Professor, in his time of eminent note: And knowing the Books very scarce, and out of Print, much desired by Ingenuous Practitioners in Physic, I have for the Public good communicated those three several Books to my Friend: assuring myself out of my knowledge of the Books, that there are in them contained many Chymica arcana, which will be much advantageous to Spagyric Students, with the more confidence, because whosoever desireth to have, and make use of the choicest Secrets delivered in them, may have them faithfully made up, and dispensed in Amen-Corner, by W. I Chemist to that honourable Society, and College of London Physicians, who hath heretofore made up the choicest of them, for sundry Physicians, who have earnestly desired them, and with good success used them: And I doubt not, but they will receive as good satisfaction in their compositions, as that worthy Spagyric, (that from an Italian Coat, put them into an English Vesture) formerly gave them: Desiring you for your fuller approbation to peruse his Epistle prefixed before his translation, which I presume, will give you that content is desired from  
your Friend, W. I. M. B.   

A SHORT DISCOURSE OF THE SECRETS OF THE Most Famous Knight and Excellent Physician and Chirurgeon, Lord PHIORAVANT●.  

CHAP. I What thing infirmity is, and whereof it proceedeth.  
Sickness or Infirmity is no other thing than a distemperature of humours in the bodies of creatures, as well reasonable as unreasonable, which are subject to sickness and to death. And these do not proceed of any other thing, than of the divers and sundry disorders committed many ways, which disorders every man might very well defend himself from, if he would. And these disorders which are thus committed are very many, whereof I will name you a few, and will tell you also of the infirmities which follow them.  
There are many which disorder themselves in their eating, and in the variety and superfluity of meats, and so corrupt themselves; and of such corruption engendereth ill disposition of the stomach, and loss of appetite, and thence cometh the Itch, and diseases of the legs, and other like matters, which commonly proceed of much repletion▪ Others disorder themselves in the excess of Lechery, of which disorder cometh debility of the Reinss, want of the sight, weakness of the brains, and oftentimes diseases about the Yard, and other kind of infirmities hanging upon the French sickness. Some disorder themselves in fishing, standing much in the water; and of this access cometh coldness of the Nerves, pains of the legs and feet, and such other things which such access causeth. Other some disorder themselves in hunting, in such sort, as they take heat, cold, weariness, hunger and thirst; of which disorder there followeth Agues, Oppilations, Rheums, Numbness, and such like things; which, with such disorder and great travel, commonly are want to be caused. And in divers other manners men may disorder themselves, which at this time I will omit, because I will not be over-tedious to the Reader. It sufficeth, so that I show the substance of the thing, and to do it, that every one may understand it. If than the causes are infinite, by which infirmities or sickness come, and the remedies a great many more than enough to cure them: I mean therefore to set down in the Chapters following the infirmities, together with the remedies, with the which they may be healed, beginning with the infirmities which men have from their birth unto their death, discoursing of them one after an other. And first I will speak of Infants and children, which hap into the falling sickness assoon as they are born.   

CHAP. II. To help the falling sickness in young Children.  
THe Falling Sickness is a disease, the which in young Children is caused of great humidity in the head, and the cure thereof according to our Order, is with drying things which dissolveth that humidity, and the Remedy is this: Take our Cerot Magistrale, and spread it on a cloth the breadth of two fingers square, and strew thereon the powder of Cantharideses: the which of his own quality and nature is attractive, and bringeth forth great quantity of water: than lay this Cerot in the nuke of the neck, and there let it lie at the lest eight or ten days, taking it of every day, and making it clean, than lay it on that place again. Likewise you shall anoint the head with Oleum Petroleum, the which is very drying and penetrative; because it cometh forth of a Mine under the earth, the which continually doth boil, and so cometh forth with the water, and than is separated. This Oil hath a marvellous virtue in himself, that it defendeth the fire, for if a man anoint his hands therewith, he may wash his hands with molten Lead presently, and never hurt him: and that cometh through a certain hidden virtue in that Oil. Also you shall understand, that this Oil will burn being set on fire, and yet it will not hurt or scald any thing which it falleth on, or toucheth it.   

CHAP. III. To help young Children of certain gross Scabs, that come in the head and face.  
THese gross scabs that come in the head and face, are caused of abundance of fatness, and moisture of the milk of the Nurse; for the child being tender and weak of complexion, is not apt to digest that superfluous humour, and so Nature driveth it forth in that order, with great abundance of humidity, And the best remedy is, That you shall give the child every morning one scruple to drink, of our Elixir vitae, because it is a friend to Nature, and nourisheth the body, and drieth up superfluous moisture, and so the child shall be helped. Also you shall anoint the child with our Magno liquore, the which is temperate of nature, and doth penetrate, and so causeth solution of that humour.   

CHAP. iv To help young Children of the Rupture.  
THe Rupture is caused two ways, the one through weakness of the place, and the other through much crying, and the remedy is thus: You shall make a Truss fit for the child that shall come very close, and than let them use our Electuary of Consolida majore, the which is written in my discourse of chirurgery, with divers of my Medicines: And also you shall give the child to drink the powder of Alkimilla in wine; and every night you shall anoint the Rupture with our Oleum Philosophorum, made of Turpentine and Wax: the which is so piercing, that it warmeth the place that is broke, and helpeth it to siccatrize. And so using these three Medicines, thou shalt help him quickly, for this have I proved an infinite of times, and always have had good success, thanks be to God.   

CHAP. V Of the small Pox that come to Children.  
THe Small Pox are caused of superfluous choler and phlegm, the which is mixed with the blood, and so continuing a certain time it doth increase so much, that Nature cannot bear it, and so driveth it forth with a great accident of a Fever, the which commonly doth continued four or five days together, and than cometh forth certain wheals or bladders full of corruption, which within three days will break and run forth, and many dry. You shall understand that there are some so weak of Nature that they cannot come forth, but remain within, and so having no evaporation outwardly, it doth choke them, and so die, and that is the cause why so many creatures from four years old to ten do die without help. And therefore I considering the true cause of the disease, I have also found out the true remedy to help them, and that is this. When the child feeleth that Accident, give him presently one drachm of our Aromatico to eat: The which hath such force and virtue attractive, that it joining unto the stomach draweth unto it all the humours that offend, and carrieth them forth both by vomit and siege, and so leaveth Nature eased, and the party out of danger. Than after that anoint him four evenings with our Balsamo artificiato, and lay him down to sweated, and so he shall be well.   

CHAP. VI Of the Fersa or Measles that come to young Children.  
THe Measles that cometh to Children, commonly cometh after the small pox one year or two, or three, and is caused of the aforesaid cause; and there is no other difference between them, but that the person is of more age and strength, and both come with an accident of a Fever, but in this cause they come forth thicker, and they dry without breaking or running. Nevertheless, this many times causeth death, if it be not helped quickly, and with the remedies appropriate. You shall understand that this doth not come with so great vehemency as the other doth. You shall only defend the heart and preserve the stomach from corruption, and putrefaction, and so you shall help them quickly. The Remedies are these: You shall give them four or five mornings this drink: Take Julep of Violets, ℥ two. Rosewater, ℥ iiii. Oil of Vitriol four grains, mix them and drink it cold: for this is a rare Medicine.   

CHAP. VII. Of Waxing Kernels, which are called of some Scrophulae.  
THese Kernels that commonly come in the throat of young Children, are caused of superfluous melancholy humours corrupted, and are a kind of Ulcer, very hard to be helped, and evil to have, for when they are broke they 'cause excessive pain, because thereunto runneth great abundance of humours, and are so hot and corrupt, that it is impossible to help them with outward Medicines only, because they proceed of an inward cause. Therefore if thou wilt help them, first remove the Cause, and than cure the Effect.  
First therefore thou shalt give them our Syrup against Melancholic humours, written in our discourse of chirurgery, and than give him a Dose of our Aromatico fasting, and that will evacuate the stomach of choler and phlegm, and dry up those humours that run to the sores. The Medicines that you shall use to the sore, are two: The first is our Costick, which being laid on the sore, doth mortify it in four and twenty hours, and taketh away the corruption. Note, that you may not take away the Askar, until such time as it falleth out of himself, than lay thereon the black Cerot of Godfredo de Medic. the which Cerot is written also in Galen. And in short space it will be holp, as I have proved divers times.   

CHAP. VIII. Of divers sorts of Scabs, and their Remedies.  
SCabs proceed of divers and sundry causes; Nevertheless, they all are caused of putrefied blood, as you may see by daily experience. But the said putrefaction may be caused of divers accidents, as by eating much moist and fat meat. It may be caused of a corrupt humour of the French Pox, and of divers other causes, which I will leave at this time. Therefore if thou wilt help any of the aforesaid causes, it would be necessary to use Purgations, and Unctions: The Purgations are two, and the Unctions also two. The first Purgation is half an ounce of our Electuario Angelico, which take in the morning fasting thereon at the lest four hours: than take for ten days together our Soluble Syrup; the dose is from ℥. iiii. to ℥. vi. And than if the Scabs come of the Pox, you shall anoint them five or six nights with our Vnguento magno, and they shall be helped. But if the scabs come of any other cause, you shall anoint them with Vnguento de Lithargiro simple, after they are well purged. The Unguent is made with Vinegar, with the Oil of Roses, and with Litarge.   

CHAP. IX. Against Worms in Children.  
THis is a rare secret against the Worms, the which I have used a long time, and always have had good success. Take the seed of Levant, the which is sweet, and is called in Italian Sementina, and the seeds of Carduus Benedictus, and of a certain Herb growing on the Sea, called Carolina, ana: stamp it very fine, and give thereof one drachm in honey, and it will kill the Worms, also thou shalt understand that I have a great secret against the Worms, the which I will show thee; for it may be used more safer than any of these Herbs above named: You shall anoint all the body over (leaving no part) with our Balm Artificial, and give the Patient thereof to drink ʒ. i. with Wine or Broth. Thou shalt understand, though the child have no Worms, yet the Medicine will do him great good, because it helpeth against all manner of diseases that may hap unto children, and also to other persons.   

CHAP. X. Of certain Warts or Carvoli, that come on the Yard of a man.  
When Children have passed the foresaid diseases, and that they come to the age of fourteen years, or fifteen, or more, and that they begin to fall among women, many times by some accidents, they get these Carvoli, or Warts on the Yard. And they are of divers kinds, for some come on the very skin, and some come on the flesh or end of the Yard. Some are as though they were burnt or scorched, and other like Ulcers, and other like Warts. Those that come as though they were scorched are of small importance, and may be easily helped, for if you touch them once or twice with our Aqua real, they will be whole. Those which are Ulcerated are evil to heal, yet you shall use no strong Medicines thereto, but only dress them with our Magno liquore, and in short time they will be whole. Those that are like Warts are very evil to be helped, for you must mortify them with our Costick, one after another. But if they be not mortified at once, touch them again, and again. if need require; and when they are mortified, help them only with our Magno liquore, until they be whole: And with this Order I have cured a number.   

CHAP. XI. Of the Running of the Reinss.  
THe running of the Reinss most commonly cometh of the much use of women, or because those women are corrupted with a certain distemperature of heat, that is able to corrupt a man using with her. And of this running there may grow divers diseases, as you may see by those that are troubled therewith, if they be not helped as they aught to be. One of the diseases that may come of this, is great pains in the back, because it doth weaken the virtue of the Reinss. There may come also a great burning in the Yard, and botches in the Groin, and such like, all which are hard to be dissolved. The cure of this disease is, You shall take three times our Pills called Pillolae Aquilonae, every third day once, that being done, he shall use this Electuary seven or eight days together.  
Take a certain shell which is smooth, and is called of some Calcinelli, and of some Toninole, and of some Telline; Take them and burn them, make it into fine powder, and take thereof ℥ i the buds of Cankers or wild Eglantine that the Rose cometh of, it is called in Italian Rose canine, ℥. di. Hyssop of the Mountain ʒ. two. white honey crude ℥. vi. Make thereof an Electuary without fire. The dose is, ℥. i, in the morning fasting, and at night before meat. Note, that when you use this Medicine, you shall eat no Pork, nor Fish, nor slimy things.   

CHAP. XII. Of a Botch which is caused of a corrupt humour, which is a kind of Pox.  
I Would here show the cause more plainer, but that there are divers which have showed it plain enough: but I will show thee the true secret and remedy to help them. First, Thou shalt give them ten mornings together our Soluble Syrup, and than take our Aromatico three times, that being done, and that the botch is open, you shall dress it with our Magno liquore upon a tent, and lay upon the sore our Magistrale Cerotte, and with these two medicines thou shalt help it from the beginning to the ending, as I have seen the experience divers times.   

CHAP. XIII. Of Pellarella that causeth the hair to fall of.  
PEllarella, or Morphewe, is a kind of Pox, and is one of the first Presagia of that disease, and is a corrupt humour, and so drying, that in short time it mortifieth the hair of the head and beard, and eyebrows, and causeth them to fall of. You shall understand that this disease is such a thing, that it cannot be helped by any means, except it be taken in time, before the hair be mortified. Nevertheless I will show a secret unto the World, to know when a man hath that disease or not, and in what time he may help it that they shall not fall. The secret is this, Thou shalt understand, that the beginning of Pellarella, is one Carvoli or more that cometh upon the Yard, the which seemeth to be of little importance, because they are helped with ease, but within ten, or fifteen days after they are whole, there will come a certain alteration in the throat, which will not suffer him to swallow his meat, which doth endure commonly eight or ten days, and so go away by itself without any medicine, and in that time the hair is mortified, and than within two or three months the hair will fall: so that this is the cause why they cannot be helped when they fall away, for the time was passed before, and the roots mortified. Therefore if thou wilt keep thyself from running into such a great danger, thou mayest do it easily if thou take it in time: and the remedy is this. When you have had any of these Carvoli, and that after there cometh an alteration in the throat, than presently purge, and use a defensive unction that the hair may not mortify. You shall purge him nine days every morning with our Sirupo Magistrale, and fast thereon four hours. The dose is from ℥ iii to ℥ vi. that being done, you shall give him ℥. di. of Electuario Angelica, according to the receipt, and in the mean time anoint all his face and head with our Magno liquore, and doing thus, it is not possible that the hair should fall of. This is a secret, the which few men have known, and never written of any before this time, and is of so great importance, that it were necessary to be known for an universal health, that every man might keep himself from this disease.   

CHAP. XIIII. Of Scabs that come through the Pox.  
THe Scabs that come through the Pox, are of divers sorts; as you may see by experience: yet all may be helped with one order of medicine, because they proceed of no other thing than of the evil disposition of that disease. And these most commonly do proceed and come after Pellarella, and this is the cure. You shall give him our Soluble Syrup every morning warm, with two ounces of Mel Rosarum, and lay him down to sweated, and cover him well, and than at night anoint him with Vnguento di Lithargiro, and thus doing five, or six days, he shall be helped. For with this order I have helped an infinite number, to my great honour, and satisfaction of the Patient.   

CHAP. XV. Of certain tumors, or swell in divers parts of the body.  
Swell, which use to come to man, are called tumors against nature, and may come of divers causes, as by cold, and they do cause inflammations without pain, and most commonly they come in the articular parts: There are others which are caused of hot humours, and those are called Risepelli: There are other that come of the Pox, and these come in the head, and on the legs and arms, and are of evil digestion, because they are engendered of corrupt, viscous, and crude humours. You shall understand that these three kinds do differ in quality, and are also helped with sundry medicines. Those that come of cold, are windy humours, and may be helped with baths of herbs, and hot unctions that have virtue to dissolve the wind. The herbs to make the bath, are these: Nettles, Mallows, Pelletory of the wall, Bran and Ashes, and make thereof a bath; and than anoint them with our Oleum Philosophorum, made of Turpentine and Wax. Those that come of hot humours, you shall wash with Aqua Vitae, because it openeth the pores, and dissolveth that heat. Those that are come of the Pox, are evil to heal, and his cure must be with great purging: and the chiefest thing that you can give him, is our potion of Lignum Vitae, because it doth make thin those gross humours, and dissolve the swell, if it be taken according to the order of the receipt, the which is written in this Book. And so with this order thou shalt help them perfectly.   

CHAP. XVI. Of Ache in divers parts of the body.  
AChes, that come to divers parts of the Bodies, do spring of divers causes, as it is said before of the Swell, or tumors: but for the most part now in this our time, they are caused of the Pox, and those kinds of Aches are evil to be helped, because they are engendered of viscous humours, and putrefaction of the blood, and of evil disposition of the Liver. And the cure of those Aches, is to purge the body, and purify the Liver: and that thou shalt do with our Soluble Syrup, taking it ten days: and than take our Electuario Angelica, or Pillole Aquilone, and than use your wine of Lignum sanctum, and sweated therewith as much as thou canst, for it is warm and dry, and apperative, and provoketh sweat, and so they shall be helped. But if it hap that this will not help, than anoint them three or four times with our Vnguento magno, and without all doubt by God's grace, they shall be helped and sound of that disease.   

CHAP. XVII. Of the Cough in the stomach.  
THe Cough cometh divers and sundry ways to the stomach, as by cold, and that is one of the most common causes that may be, and is of small importance, because it will go away of itself without medicine. There is another kind of Cough that troubleth much old folk, and that is of a Catarrhous humour. The third kind of Cough written of by us, is that which cometh to those that have the Fever Hectic. Also there is another kind which is caused of the French Pox. And these are the four kinds of Coughs that do commonly hap unto men and women. The first kind of Cough that happeneth unto man through cold, is easy to be helped, for nature of itself will help it without any other help: but if thou wilt help nature thou mayest with ease, and that shall be with eating dry and apperative meats, and drinking good wine, and so the Cough will go away quickly. But the Cough which cometh to old folk, is caused of a Catarrhous humour, which is nothing else but debility of nature, for lack of natural heat, the which causeth the stomach that it cannot digest his meat in such order as it should, but engendereth those superfluous humours, that cause the Cough. And this must be helped with keeping of diet; that is, to eat little meat, and to use thing that warm the stomach and help digestion, and this thou shalt do in this order. Take ʒ. two. of our Aromatico, which hath virtue to evacuate the stomach, and than use our Quintessence of Wine, and anoint the stomach with our Balm artificial, and so shalt thou help this kind of Cough. The third kind of Cough, which is caused of the Fever Hectic, is of evil nature, that I dare say nothing nor show a Medicine, because the most part that are troubled therewith, go to Church and never return again to their houses, as you may see by experience. The fourth kind of Cough is devilish and evil to help, because it is caused of the Pox, and doth not only hurt the stomach, but causeth great pains to the party beside. Nevertheless, thou shalt understand that this is easy to he helped by God's grace, for them that know the true secret, which is thus: You shall give him eight or ten days together our Soluble Syrup, than take two drachms of our Aromatico, and than perfume him with Cinabar five or six mornings, or so long until that he feel pain in his gums, and than he shall be whole. For this is a great secret, to help that kind of Cough caused of the Pox, as I have proved a thousand times with good success.   

CHAP. XVIII. Of the white Scab that cometh in the Head.  
THis Scab is of an evil corruption in the superior parts, which is caused of abundance of moisture, and heat of the Stomach, which sendeth these vapours up to the head, and so goeth out that way. This is of two kinds, the one is hot and dry, and that is with a certain white crust, without any other kind of putrefaction: the other kind is hot and moist, and that causeth a certain crust, which is full of matter under it; so that as they differ in quality, they differ also in cure. Those that are hot and dry, must have Medicines that cool the heat, and extinguish the dryness, and this thou shalt do with Syrup of Citarch, and purge often with Cassia, and use cooling things, as Succory, Melons, Lettuce, and such like. The other kind which is hot and moist, you must first help the heat, and than dry the humidity, which you shall do with vomiting, and purging, and keeping diet, and eating of drying meats. The first drying scab you shall anoint only with our Magno liquore, which without help of any other thing, will cure it after they be purged, as is before said. The second kind you shall help, after the body is purged with our Cerot Magistrale, strewing thereon Cantharideses in fine powder, which have virtue attractive; by which means it mundifieth the head of that superfluous humidity, and than anoint him with our Vnguento magno, and in short space it will be whole, because it is cold and dry. And so by this means thou mayest heal these two kinds of Scabs, as I have done divers times, having respect to the cause. Ye shall understand that this disease is many times taken from the Nurse, the which is infected with the Pox, and so her milk being corrupted, it corrupteth the child, and therefore there must be good consideration thereof in the cure.   

CHAP. XIX. Of Risipella.  
THis Risipella is an inflammation with swelling and redness, the which commonly cometh in the face, arms and legs, and in no other places of the body, and it is caused of alteration of the blood, as I will show you an example by a pot that you seethe your meat in: When it is set on the fire, and is full of liquor, lacking one or two inches of the top, and when it beginneth to boil through the great heat of the fire, it runneth over the pot: and so by the like example we may say, that Risipella is a great alteration of the blood, through superfluous heat; and this occasion of heat proceedeth of great quantity of phlegm, that is in the stomach; for because assoon as they have vomited the phlegm, they are helped of Risipella, for I have seen the experience thereof divers times. Therefore give them of the juice of Elder-Roots ℥. iiii. and of Honey of Roses ℥. two. in the morning fasting, for this purgeth the Stomach of phlegm, and cooleth the blood, than hold the parts over the fume of hot water, and bathe it with pure Aqua vitae, distilled without phlegm: for this is one of the most excellent Medicines that can be found, because it is aperative and attractive, and presently dissolveth that alteration, and taketh away the pain. Also it would be good to use five or six mornings to drink ℥. i. of Julep of Violets, with six grains of Vitriol, for this mundifieth the stomach, and causeth digestion, and of himself is most wholesome, for that it mortifieth all hot diseases.   

CHAP. XX. Of the Squinancy.  
THe Squinancy is a certain alteration in the throat, which is caused of a flatuous or windy humour, and this cometh with such a vehemency, that if it be not helped quickly, it will choke him, for it stoppeth the conduits where the breath cometh through, and letteth a man to swallow his meat, and the Remedy is this: Take of our Electuario angelica, ℥. di. and than touch the throat within with our Aqua real three or four times, and without anoint it with Oleum Philosophorum of Turpentine and Wax, because it is very drying: And thus using the aforesaid remedies, thou mayest help them without letting blood, or any other thing in short space: for herewith I have cured a great number. You shall understand, that oil of Linseed is very appropriate to that matter, if you give the Patient four ounces. Also the tooth of a Bore made in powder, and drunk the quantity of ʒ. two. in Linseed oil helpeth the Squinancy. These I have proved divers times.   

CHAP. XXI. Of the Emeralds that come in the Fundament.  
THese in Naples be called Moricole, and in Venice, Maroelle, and in Spain, Almorane; and are an alteration of blood in the Emorodiall veins, which many times come forth in the lower parts with great pain, and these are caused of putrified humours of the body, and corruption of the blood, which corruption many times cometh of the Pox, or such like diseases. There are also divers kinds, but principally two: The one sort is within the fundament, and causeth great pain when they go to stool: The other sort cometh forth of the fundament, and are not so painful as the other are. To cure them that are within the Fundament, you shall give the Patient eight or ten mornings our Syrupo Magistrale, and than let him take of our Aromatico, ʒ. two. and use Glisters wherein is put half an ounce of Aqua real at a time, and so thou shalt help them. The best remedy for those that come forth is to make incision, or to make a little hole in them, that the blood may come forth which is putrified, and so by evacuation thou shalt help them. Also thou shalt understand, that vomiting is necessary in the cure of them both, because it openeth the veins. Also oil of Eggs, and oil of Frankincense, and oil of Linseed are very profitable to anoint them therewith to ease the pain.   

CHAP. XXII. A goodly and easy way to help all sorts of Fevers according to our Order.  
THe Fever Quotidian or continual Fever, or any other kind whatsoever, do proceed only of two principal causes, that is, of corruption and putrefaction, as you may perceive how that when the Fever is entered, the Patient is all corrupted, beginning at the stomach, the which is first corrupted. For proof you may always see that assoon as a man is sick, presently he looseth his appetite and cannot eat; afterwards it corrupteth the blood, for by experience, if you let them blood, it is always found corrupted, and not as it is in a sound body. It corrupteth also the senses, so that the sick is not stable sensed, nor cannot sleep, or rest by any means whilst he hath that accident. That it is caused also of Putrefaction you may see by them, that have the Fever. For always when the Fever cometh, presently the stomach doth putrify, and spiteth forth filthy spittle: Also it doth putrify the body, because their Excrements that they voided are putrified and stinking more than others, and their Urine putrified and alterated from his natural course. Than seeing the Fever is caused of corruption and putrefaction, there are four things necessary to be done in the cure thereof. The first is, to evacuate the stomach: The second, to purge by urine: The third, to evacuate the body: And the fourth is, to purge by sweat: Which four operations may be done one after another with great ease, and will restore the Patient to his health. But you shall understand, that all cannot be holp, for that God almighty hath made us to die, and when that time cometh, medicines will do no good, but if that time be not yet come, by the help of God, with these Medicines he shall be restored to his former health. The first thing, as I said, is to take a vomit, which doth evacuate the stomach of choler and phlegm, that doth much offend the body diseased: After that, evacuate the body with those things that the Physician thinketh most convenient for that purpose, for there be many purgations to dissolve the body, and to evacuate malign humours: After that, make him purge by urine. Fourthly, and last of all, give him medicines that open the pores, and that provoketh sweated. And thus with these four operations, the most part shall be holp of that infirmity with great ease, and in short time: And as I have said, this is a most true order that never faileth, except (as I said before) when the Lord will call them. And as for these medicines, you shall found them written in this book severally with their uses and quantities.   

CHAP. XXIII. Another cure of the said Fevers.  
IF thou wilt help the said Fevers according to our order: when the Patient is greatly alterated therewith, thou shalt use five ways wherewith thou shalt easily help them, the which are these. The first as I said before is Vomit: the second evacuation of the body: the third evacuation by urine: the fourth to provoke sweat: and the fifth by unction. Nevertheless each of these alone is sufficient to help the said Fever: but yet using them all five, there is no doubt but thou mayest dissolve any evil sort of malign Fever, except as I said before, God will call them out of this World: but to the purpose of the cure. First thou shalt set on five or six boxing glasses, according to the complexion and age of the infirmed: than the next morning give him one dose of our Electuario angellica, with Syrup of Sorrell, and water of Sorrell. Than the next morning following give him some Syrup appropriate for that disease, and put thereto ℥. two. of Sirrupo Magistrale, with Rhabarbe: that being ended, give him three or four times Julep of Violets with Oil of Sulphur, made per Campana, the dose of the Julep is ℥ two. and of the Oil of Sulphur four or five grains mixed together, and this you shall take in stead of Syrup betimes in the morning, and it will make them sweated and purge by urine, which are most necessary for the sick: and in the mean season you shall anoint them every night with Magno liquore, which will make them rest well, and take away all their pains throughout the body, and so by this means the Fever shall be perfectly taken away. Also take great heed that you take no more blood than is necessary, neither let them keep any strait Diet, but let them keep a good regiment of Life. But when this Fever doth come through some other cause, than it were necessary to remove the principal cause, if thou wilt cure them: For if it be caused of a Catarrh, of necessity you must dissolve the Catarrh first; and than help the Fever. Also if the Fever be caused of a wound, it were necessary first to take away the pain of the wound, and than the Fever will departed. And thus in every kind of Fever, it is most necessary to know the original from whence it is caused: And this is the true way to cure these infirmities, which I have proved infinite times.   

CAAP. XXIIII. Of the continual Fever.  
THere are many kinds of Fevers, therefore I will mention of them that are most known unto the world, and first of the continual Fever, that is of those that are only hot, and continued in one order both day and night, the which is caused of alteration and corruption of the humours in the body, which engender so much corruption in the stomach, and in the blood, that they 'cause that accident of Fever: And the very order to cure it is this. In the beginning of the alteration let him keep a good diet, and drink no wine: and that is done because that corruption is apt to corrupt all that entereth into the body during that alteration, and therefore meats of great substance or nourishment, are sooner turned into greater putrefaction in the body: But when the third day of the Fever is past, than take of our Aromaticoʒ. two. which will evacuate the stomach of that corruption: and that day that you take this Aromatico, drink as much crude water as you will: which is done because the stomach shall remain clear washed of that corruption, which being done, you shall give him three or four mornings our Soluble Syrup, and give him good meats, and let him drink Wine, because it cannot hurt in any wise, for it cannot putrife in the body: For the syrup doth evacuate every day the corruption: and when the blood is alterated of that putrefaction, it goeth to the veins, and so disperseth through the whole body. It would be good to set on boxing glasses to take away blood, and also to use drying unctions, as our Balsaemo artificato, and Oil of Turpentine and Wax, and thus doing (if the Patient be not called of God) thou shalt help him within short space. And this is the true secret to use for that Fever, which I have revealed unto the world, that every one might have it at their pleasure.   

CHAP. XXV. A great Secret that helpeth the continual Fever.  
THese Fevers that are not accidental, that is, not caused of a wound or imposthume, or other kind of infirmity apparent, are caused of a certain humour between the skin and the flesh, which would have exhalation: as you may see by experience in this kind of Fever, how that sweats and boxing is very appropriate to their solution. And in this case I will show thee a great remedy, with which after convenient purging thou mayest help in manner all those kinds of Fevers. And this is the remedy: Take Oippa ofir, the which is a simple well known to all the world, take of that herb a small quantity, and stamp it a little, and lay it upon the wrist, and bind it hard, and there let it lie until it have made a blister full of water, which you shall break, and there will come forth great abundance of water, and by that place the Fever shall be dissolved. And the reason is, because it evacuateth that humour which engendereth the accident: than the cause being removed, the effect will cease, and the Patient shall be whole.   

CHAP. XXVI. Of the Fever Tertian.  
THe Fever Tertian doth not continued in one manner, but cometh and goeth, and is caused of choleric humours: for assoon as the fit cometh it moveth choler, and in many it provoketh vomit. There are two sorts of those Fevers, The one cometh with an accident, first cold, and than hot: and the other sort cometh always hot, when the accident cometh: and sometimes that accident cometh twice a day, and that is called a double Tertian, which is hard to help, because letting blood, the diet, and purging of the body are all hurtful and contrary to that disease, therefore I will open to thee a secret wherewith thou shalt help them. Thou shalt give him three hours before the fit ʒ ss. of Eleborus niger in powder, with ℥. i. of Mel Rosarum: and after it drink ℥. i. of common water, and this you shall take twice, and than use this potion ten days every morning. Take Julep of Violets ℥. i. fine Aqua vitae ℥. di. Oil of Sulphur, that is perfect iiii. grains, and mix them together, this mundifieth the stomach, and purgeth by urine, and provoketh sweat, and warmeth the blood: which effects are necessary to the solution of that Fever, giving you great charge that you keep no strait diet in any wise, because it weakeneth the stomach, cooleth the blood, and hindereth nature, so that the Patient can scarce be helped. But with our order thou shalt help the most part of that Fever.   

CHAP. XXVII. Of the Fever of Repression.  
THis Fever is an alteration of the blood, which is caused of being over hot, and than cold and this is called a Fever propter accidens, and is not holp as the other Fevers are: for thou shalt help only the Repression, and the Fever will go away without any other help. Thou shalt give the Patient of our Aromatico, ʒ. two. that being done, give him two Syrups every day, the one in the morning, the other at night two hours after Supper, as hot as you may suffer to drink, and these are the Syrups. Take Syrup of Quinces, Stecadoes, Mel Rosarum, ana, ℥. i new Must boiled, ℥. vi. and in the mean time while you take this Syrup, it were necessary to make a moist bath with herbs, as Nettles, Mallows, agrimony, Carduus Benedictus, Rosemary, Origanum, and Calamint, ana lb. iii Commin, aniseed, Coliander, Sileri montani, ana lb. i than boil all those in a great Kettle with water, and than let the Patient sit over the fume, and cover him with clotheses until he sweated. And thus you shall do three times one day after another: and thou shalt help him perfectly, as I have had experience.   

CHAP. XXVIII. Of the Fever Hectic.  
THis Fever is a viscous and putrified humour in the stomach and lungs, the which is caused of a debility and weakness of nature that cannot digest the offensive humours. There are divers sorts of this Fever, nevertheless they are all evil to be holpt, and are counted uncurable. Nevertheless, I will show thee some excellent remedy very wholesome, that may pleasure them, although they are nigh their death. The first medicine that shall do them good, is our Electuario angellica, of which you shall give half an ounce in the morning fasting, for this presently joineth unto the stomach, and draweth to it all the offensive humours, and carrieth them forth by vomit and siege, and so leaveth the stomach eased and clean, that the Patient thinketh himself whole: But yet the stomach beginneth again to fill with a great suffocation, that will not let the Patient take rest, so that this medicine may well ease them, but not help them quite. Also our Elixir vitae doth much good in this disease, and also our Balm artificial: if you anoint the stomach therewith at night when you go to bed. Also use our distillation for the Hectic: these may all help a little but not cure. The Fever Hectic may come also of a Catarrh, of the Pox, and such like causes, and than they require medicines according to the cause: as if the Fever be caused of a Catarrh, let them use our Magno liquore to drink, the dose is one ounce at a time, with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum, and these use for a month at the lest. And if it be caused of the Pox, let him take Sarsaparilla, or Lignum vitae, Pillole Aquilone, or such like that will help the Pox: and thus doing, the cure will have good success: but when it is caused of debility of Nature (as is said before) they spit blood until the end.   

CHAP. XXIX. A new order wherewith thou mayst cure and help the most part of the Fever Hectic.  
MAny have thought that the Fever Hectic is altogether desperate and uncurable, and that by no means it might be resolved: But because it is caused of divers and sundry accidents, I say that many kinds may be helped and cured: For I found it may come of infinite causes, as aforesaid. There is one kind that cometh through the weakness of nature itself, and that beginneth to destroy the Lungs, and that kind I found to be incurable, because it is caused of the evil nature of the man, and not through any accident, and in that case I believe it cannot be dissolved by any means. Also there are many other Hectics caused of the French-Pox, of which I have seen and cured an infinite, and they are easy to cure: For curing the Pox, the Fever will be dissolved. There is another kind that dependeth of a salt humour, and some other of a Catarrh, and of many other things: Therefore if thou wilt help the said Fever, it were necessary to know the true cause whereof it dependeth, the which in my judgement is hard to be known, if that the Patient himself do not tell it: and therefore it is necessary for the Physician to examine them well, and to inquire whether they have had any kind or spice of the Mal Francese before, whereof the said Fever might have his original: and so doing, he with his judgement may be resolved of the nature of that infirmity: and if it chance that the said Fever had his original of the Pox, the Physician may resolve it with medicines appropriate for that disease, with purging him strongly, and giving him Lignum Sanctum, or Salsa pariglias, and also perfume him with Olibanum Sinaber and Myrrha, ana: and so by the help of God, and means of these medicines thou shalt help them all, or at lest the most part of that kind of Fever Hectic. But if the Physician found that kind of Fever to be caused of a Catarrh, than use the medicines that help the Catarrh, and so the Fever shall be whole. But when he findeth it to be of the weakness of Nature, in that case there is no help that is sure. Nevertheless, I have cured some of them with great difficulty, and with Medicines of great efficacy: And that was with giving them every morning one drachm of good Soap in tablets according to our invention, and that they used for a month together: the which Soap hath virtue to dry that abundance of spittle, and to heal the Lungs ulcerated, and it also strengtheneth the Stomach marvellously: After that I caused them to use our distillation of a Hen for the Hectic, and this they did continually drink: Also I caused them to use our Balsamo artificiato to anoint therewith every night after Supper, the which is piercing, and comforteth and augmenteth natural strength, and comforteth much the infirmed: Also I caused them to use Aromatico Rosato, the which comforteth the weak Stomach. And by this means I have helped some of them as it well known.   

CHAP. XXX. Of the Fever Quartane.  
THe Fever Quartane is a motion of a certain accident cold and hot, which is caused of melancholy humours corrupted and putrified, the which every third day doth 'cause that accident to come, and beginneth with great cold and continueth a good while, and than cometh hot. And this Quartane both the ancient Doctors, and these in our time do count in a manner uncureable. Nevertheless, I that have sought always to help those diseases which were counted uncurable, amongst the rest have found the true and perfect cure for the Quartane Ague, and to dissolve the melancholy humours, which is done with three Medicines that are rare and marvellous to dissolve any Quartane. The first is, Mercury Precipitate without corrosive, giving thereof ten grains, with half an ounce of Sugar Rosate, and that day eat little meat; that being done, take a pound of Iva Artetica, and boil it in eight pound of white wine, and common Honey one pound, until a third part be consumed, and of that drink morning and evening six ounces warm one hour after supper: And in the mean time anoint every night his Reinss with our Balsamum artificial. Thus doing thou shalt help any Quartane. I have also found other rare ways to cure this Fever Quartane, as hereafter followeth.   

CHAP. XXXI. The Order to help the Fever Quartane of all sorts, in short time.  
THe Fever Quartane is caused of a melancholy humour as aforesaid, with a continual distillation of the head, descending to the stomach, and augmenting the evil disposition of the body; and by reason of that distillation, provoketh much sweat when the accident of the Fever cometh: And likewise that distillation causeth such cold in the Marrow of the Reinss and Back, and an infinite of other disorders which trouble the body greatly. But to avoid all these inconveniences, and to dissolve wholly that accident of the Quartane according to our order, because I have helped more than any Physician of our time. I will show thee how with these Remedies following thou shalt help them, though not all, yet the greater part truly most miraculously, and the Order to dissolve it is thus. You shall give the Patiented a dose of our Aromatico in the morning to eat, and drink thereon two or three ounces of good wine, and fast thereon six hours, and this Medicine is most convenient the day of the fit, because the infirmity removeth great quantity of humours, and the medicine evacuateth them; and thus giving it three times in the day of the fit, it will work a great operation. But if the Fever be in a person of melancholy complexion, than it is where it would be; for you may see that in a melancholy person, the Fever hath more force, than in any other complexion, which proveth, that the Fever, and that complexion are most like: But in that case you shall cure them in this Order: You shall give him ten or fifteen days out Syrup against the melancholy humour, which is written in this Book, which you shall take two hours before day hot, and than sleep one sleep thereon, and thus do every morning, and every night anoint all the parts of the body with our Balsamo artificiato, and he shall be helped. But if it hap that this doth not cure him, let not to give him this remedy, which most surely (God willing) will help him, and that remedy is our Aqua Balsami, of which he shall take every morning two Drachms fasting, and so continued until the Fever be gone quite: so that of force using all the aforesaid remedies, the Fever must needs departed. And the reason is this, that our Aromatico evacuateth the stomach of all impediments by vomit, and letteth the descension of the head, which causeth the accident. Our Syrup evacuateth the melancholy humour, and dissolveth it by his proper quality. Our Balsamo the which is subtle and penetravive drieth and comforteth the place offended, in such order, that it casteth forth all the matter that may offend Nature. Our Aqua balsami also being drunk, doth dry the evil humours, and augment strength, in so much that it quite extinguisheth the said Quartane. And this may be used in all manner of persons, and in all times of the year without any doubt of inconvenience: and it is a new remedy that never was set out before of the Ancients, which I have used to the great profit of the Patients.   

CHAP. XXXII. Another discourse a marvellous secret against the said Quartane.  
THe Fever Quartan is caused of melancholy humours, which hath his fit coming every third day, first cold with great thirst, and than cometh the heat, which remaineth with some longer than with other some, and the cause, hereof is hard to be known. Nevertheless, I seeking out continually natural things, and the quality of the accidents, I do found that this Fever beginneth always in some particular place, as in the head with a certain pain round about it, or in the nose and ear, or in the Reinss and Legs: And therefore he that can found out the place where first beginneth the accident, may easily help them, because the Fever is dissolved with two things only, that is, exhalation and exsication, and herein consisteth the secret. The order to make the Exhalation shall be thus: Make a Cerot of Frankincense, Pitch, Wax, Turpentine, Myrrh and Aloes, upon the which Cerot you shall put the powder of Cantharideses, and than lay it upon the place where they feel the Fever come first, that is on the particular part where the accident cometh, and this you shall change twice, except the first day of the Fever. And to make the exsication, give him every day in the morning to drink, ℥. di. of our Aqua balsami for twelve days, and with the Balsamo artificiato anoint every night his Stomach and Reinss, and so he shall be helped, giving you charge also that before you use these Medicines, that he take three times our Aromatico, and so he shall be quite helped.   

CHAP. XXXIII. A secret to help all Fevers in their beginning.  
When the Fevers are new begun or taken, and that the putrefaction is not yet confirmed, than may it be helped with great ease, but after they have taken their beginning, they are hardly helped. Therefore when the Fever is new begun, you shall give them ʒ two of our Aromatico fasting in the morning: and the next day about the same hour you shall give them ℥. i. of our Vegitabile Syrup: and the third day you shall give them four Drachms of our Electuario angelica with broth, the which taketh away the Fever altogether. And this operation intendeth only to the continual Fever, Quotidian, Tertian, and putrified or pestilential, but not to the accidental, or Hectic, nor Quartane: For these three kinds are much differing from the rest, because the accidental is caused of another infirmity anterior or going before. The Fever Hectic is caused of weakness of nature, and the Quartane is caused of great quantity of melancholic humours, and they are cured by contrary means unto the first. The accidental are cured with helping the principal infirmity: The Hectic is cured by helping of Nature, and preserving the Liver and Lungs from putrefaction: The Quartane is cured with Vomits, Unctions, Cerottes, and drying drinks, and these are great secrets to be known: For in this Chapter consisteth a great part of Physic, and Chirurgery if you consider well thereon.   

CHAP. XXXIIII. A Secret of one Simple that helpeth in manner all Fevers.  
THere are an infinite of medicines that dissolve the Fever, but above all other this seemeth to me of great authority, because it helpeth it with such ease, that it is to be wondered at. With this remedy through the Divine goodness, I have cured a great number, and the Secret is this. You shall gather in the Month of August a certain herb, which the Italians do call Oreula, which you shall dry and make into powder, of the which you shall give the sick as much as will lie upon a sixpences, with water or wine, and give it warm in the morning, and fast thereon three or four hours, and thus doing, the Patient shall be helped with great ease, and in short time: for this is a great secret which may be used in all times and in every occasion, and always it worketh an operation in one manner.   

CHAP. XXXV. Of the Gout.  
THe Gout which cometh to men, is a distemperature and alteration, which is caused of corrupt and undigested humours, and also of feeding on meats that nourish much, and than to use no exercise, as you may see by the most part of them that be troubled with that disease. Also this disease, both of the old and new Doctors hath been counted uncurable, as it is known to every one: But yet I, which have done nothing else but sought out the nature and quality of things, have found divers inventions in sundry Arts, as thou mayest read in my Caprici Medicinali, and so amongst the rest, I have found (through the help of God) the true and perfect Secret to help the Gout, so that it shall never come again: Of which disease I have cured a great number in divers Cities of the world, as in Palermo, in Sicilia, in Messina, and in divers places of Calabria, in Naples, in Rome, and in Venice, as it is well known unto the most part of the Inhabitants of those Cities.   

CHAP. XXXVI. A Note concerning the Cure of the Gout, taken out of a Letter which this Author wrote unto a certain noble Signior, the Duke of Urbine.  
Sirs; t you shall understand, that the Gout of what kind soever it be, either hot or cold, or of any other temperature, they all come of one only cause, although they work divers Effects, which Effects come through the complexions of them that have that infirmity: As for example, to show it more plainly, you may see that in fat men, the Gout cometh always with inflammation and redness and great pain: In lean persons it cometh always with pains, but with less inflammation. In choleric and melancholy persons, it cometh with tumors, and that is Nodosa. And the cause of this infirmity is, of an evil quality engendered in the stomach, in the Liver, and in the blood: And the cure thereof, is to ease the stomach of that evil, and to purge the Liver and the blood, and to mitigate the pain: All which thou mayest do with these three Remedies following, viz. our Pillole Magistrale, our Unction for the Gout, and our Quinta essentia solutivo: for the Pills do discharge the stomach, and our Quinta essentia solutivo purgeth the Liver and the blood, and our Unction taketh away the pain, for if you remedy the cause which is only one, the effect will cease. As concerning the Gout you shall cure it in this Order: First, when you feel the pain begin to come, you shall take two doses of those Pills in the morning fasting, one day after another, or if you will, rest a day or two according to your strength, that being done, you shall take every morning ʒ. two. of our Quinta essentia solutivo in half a Porringer full of the broth of Veal, and a little Sugar, and this take five hours before meat; and keep no straight Diet, but eat reasonably, and every night after Supper anoint the grief with our Unction for the Gout, and thus through the help of God, and the virtue of these Medicines, the Gout shall be cured.   

CHAP. XXXVII. Another Discourse upon the same infirmity of the Gout, and the Order to cure it, taken out of his Book called, Thesaurro della Vita Humana.  
ALthough the wise & learned of the world, have always believed that the Gout is of divers kinds, yet they have all been deceived; for that infirmity is one only, and cometh of one only cause, although in some it come in manner of Phlegmone, and in some other like Risipilla, and in other Nodosa, and in other with pain without alteration, and in some other in divers manners; all which is caused through the diversity of complexions, for that one man is phlegmatic, the other sanguine, the other choleric, and the other adust, and thus by these means, many have thought the Gout to have been of divers kinds, whereas indeed it is only one, and is cured with one only order, and dissolved altogether for ever; for that infirmity is caused of no other than of rotten humours caused of indigestion, and to say truth, we see that the said infirmity never cometh in manner, but unto those persons that feed well on meats of great nourishment, which for want of exercise, that Nature might digest it, they wanting natural heat, cannot have their orderly digestion, and for that cause the humours do ingrossse out of measure, and engender that infirmity, and than Nature that always seeketh to ease herself of that which offendeth her, driveth forth that humour unto the extreme parts, as the hands, and feet, or other particular parts, and this is the Gout: And these humours many times are cause of Malipiero francese, and this is all the secret. He therefore that is advertised by me, shall be most cunning in curing of it.   

CHAP. XXXVIII. What order must be used in curing of the said Gout.  
SEeing the Gout (as I said before) are gross humours undigested coming of the aforesaid cause, it were most necessary, if thou wilt cure them to do three operations. The first of them is Phlebothomie, which must be done under the tongue, cutting overthwart one of those two veins: For that Phlebothomie evacuateth the stomocall humours that are cause of that corruption. The second operation that is to be done, is to assubtiliate the gross and rotten humours, and to evacuate them quite. The third operation that is to be done, is to preserve nature in good temperature, and to help the digestion, and thus doing, the said infirmity shall be extincted. If therefore thou wilt help the Gout, and after they are helped, keep the Patient in good temperature and prosperity of life, it were necessary to do these three operations. After the first is done, as I have said, it were needful to come to the second, which is to assubtiliate the gross humours, which will be done with four remedies. The first of them is our Quinta essentia solutiva, which subtiliateth the humours, and evacuateth them downwards. The second remedy is our Electuario angelica, which evacuateth the humours hanging in all parts, and leaveth nature so eased, that it may well prevail. The third remedy is a Fomentation, which drieth up the humidity of the head and stomach, and by means of that operation the disease shall remain extincted. The fourth and last remedy is our Balsamo against the pains, with which you shall anoint upon the place grieved, for it mittigateth the pains greatly. And thus with these four remedies thou shalt help the Gout perfectly, as I have often times done in Venice, and at Rome, and in divers other places of Italy, well known there unto all men.   

CHAP. XXXIX. The Order to preserve a man from the Gout, when he is once helped.  
AFter that a man through the divine goodness of God shall be helped of the Gout, he may if he will preserve himself in health, with these three noble Remedies. The first of them is our Vegetable Quintessence, the which doth cause good digestion, warmeth the stomach, and defendeth it from corruption, by which Effects it will return Nature in manner as it was in youth, and it preserveth the sight and the hearing, and divers good operations which are all necessary. The second Remedy is our Oleo incompostibile, with which you shall anoint the stomach, and that will 'cause digestion, comfort the heart, provoke sleep, and keep the stomach, that therein shall breed no evil quality of humours. The third Remedy is, our Pillolae aquilonae, which doth evacuate the humour hanging, always when it engendereth in the stomach, they cleanse the head, and are by their nature against all sorts of pains. And thus with these three Medicines, every one may preserve himself from that infirmity, as it is daily proved, and seen in Venice, and in divers other places in Italy.   

CHAP. XL. The cure of a certain Gentleman that was troubled with the Gout, and a great Stitch in his side.  
THe Cure of this man was with these five Remedies following, that is, with our Aromatico, Quinta essentia solutiva, Pillole angelica, Oleo incompostibile, and Quinta essenti Vegitabile: For you shall understand, that our Aromatico taketh away the pains of the Stomach, so that the other Medicines may work their operations the better. Our Quinta essentia solutiva, taketh away the cause of the infirmity, and the Pills take away the evil quality. The Unction taketh away the pain: And the Vegitabile Quintessence, preserveth them that it cometh not again. The Dia Aromatico must be taken in the morning fasting, the dose is ʒ. two. at once. The Quinta-essentia solutiva you shall take with broth of a Capon and Sugar fasting, without any observations, the dose is two or three drachms at a time. Our Pillole Angelica you shall take two hours before supper, the dose is from ʒ i to ʒ. two. The Unction you shall anoint after Supper upon the sore places, so often until the pain be gone. Our Vegitabile Quintessence you shall drink every morning half an ounce, and thus continuing thou shalt be perfectly whole by God's help.   

CHAP. XLI. A Discourse upon the Sciatica, and his remedy.  
THe Sciatica is so called, because it is upon the bone which is called Scio, and of that it taketh the name Sciatica, the which is caused of an evil quality in the Stomach and Liver, the which you may see by the cure; for if ye cure the Stomach, and help the Liver, the Sciatica will cease, and by this means thou mayest see whether I say the truth or no. Seeing than that the Sciatica is caused as is said before, ye shall understand that it is so caused, by reason that the stomach cannot well digest that which it should, and so it causeth crude and undigested humours, of the which Nature would be discharged, he casteth them forth of the stomach, and having no other way to come forth of the Stomach but by the ordinary ways, they do pass, and of force they must pass by those powers that pass by the Liver, and so the Liver which is able both to resolve the good and the evil quality, remaineth still infected of that indisposition, and not being able to digest them according unto the order of Nature, they engross and become malign, and than Nature the which with all industry would discharge himself of that burden, sending them to the higher parts, sendeth them downwards, and when they come unto Scio, where they must pass with difficulty by certain small muscles, they engross in that place, and cause inflammation and pain, the which Inflammation or swelling, after the body is well purged, is resolved with Vesicatores Ventosos, and attractive Cerots and such like things. Also attractive Glisters are most wholesome, because they discharge the humour in the lower parts, and comfort the Sciatica. Nevertheless, ye shall understand that there are certain and true appropriate Medicines to resolve it with brevity, the which are these that follow. First, when the Patient is in most extreme pain, let him blood under the tongue, the which is such a singular remedy, that it causeth the world to wonder thereat: after that purge him with our Soluble Syrup, six or seven days, that being done, take away the water which causeth the pain, than comfort the Patient with the Oil that is separated from the flower of flowers, and distilled in a Retort, than all this being done, the Patient shall remain helped to thy great honour. And therefore he that will cure the Sciatica, it were necessary that he consider well of the nature and quality of the infirmity, and when they are satisfied to be the Sciatica, in that case cure them according to this our Order, the which by the grace of God, and virtue of these Medicines, they shall remain helped of that indisposition, for this is a great Secret.   

CHAP. XLII. Of the Pains of the Mother.  
THe Pains of the Mother which women are troubled withal, is an alteration in the Matrix, that may come of divers causes, as of cold, of moistness, of dryness, of melancholic humours, of phlegmatic, and of choleric, the which is to be proved divers ways. Nevertheless, I will show thee the Secret to cure it generally, and the order is thus. You shall give the Patiented a dose of Pillolae Aquilonae fasting, and sleeping thereon one sleep, for these Pills do purge the Matrix, than take Electuario Angelica half an ounce, which purgeth the blood and choler: That being done, take Cantharideses in powder ℈ i Galingale, and the roots of Mercury, ana. di. ℈. mix them altogether, and put it into a little piece of Sarsenet, and bind it like a button, and put it into the Matrix as high as you can, and there let it remain four and twenty hours without moving of it, for it purgeth divinely; and herewith thou mayst cure any great impediment in the Matrix: That being done, they shall use our Syrup against the pains of the Mother, the which comforteth and purgeth all humours in the body that offend the Mother: And this is a great secret which was found out by me. You shall understand, that whosoever would know the truth of this disease, it were necessary for him to be expert in Philosophy, because it is an operation of natural things, the which cannot be well understood without great knowledge in natural Philosophy.   

CHAP. XLIII. Of the pains in the head.  
THe pain in the Head is a disease of the brains, which is caused of putrified humours in the stomach, the which is like unto a pot that boileth, causing the vapours to ascend, which if they be evil, the fume is evil to the taste and smell; but if there boil any good thing therein, the fumes are pleasant both to the smell and taste. And so likewise our stomach being filled with good juice, filleth the brain with good fumes; but being filled with evil corrupt humours, it hurteth the brain, and causeth pains of the head. The like pains of the head may come of alteration of the blood, and to help that accident, you must first remove the cause principal, which is done with purging, and evacuating of the stomach of those putrified humours; which thou shalt do with our Aromatico, giving it to the Patient two or three times, every five days once. The dose is ʒ two. and than the pain will cease, of what cause soever it do come; this done, take the juice of a Beet root one ounce, Oil of bitter Almonds one drachm; mix them well together, and snuff it up into the nose every morning until it come into the mouth, for this doth purge the head marvellously; this being done, it would be " good to take our Soluble Syrup four or five mornings cold, and so the Patient shall be helped.   

CHAP. XLIV. Of deafness of the Ears.  
Deafness in the Ears do proceed of divers causes, as of a Catarrh, cold, and humidity of the head. But of what cause soever it come, I will show thee a true secret to cure them quickly. First purge them eight or ten days with our Sirupo Magistrale, and than take our Pillole Aquilone, three times, and than perfume them five mornings with this: Take Synabar ℥. i. Olibanum, and Myrrh, ana one scruple, mix them and divide it in five parts, the which you shall occupy at five times, standing over them with your mouth open, that the fume may enter in, for it drieth and resolveth the evil humours in the head that himder the hearing; and thus doing thou shalt be helped. Nevertheless, it would be good to put the fat of a silver Eel into the ear, which hath a principal virtue to comfort the hearing. Also our Aqua balsami being put into the ear, comforteth the sight and hearing marvellously, and all impediments in the head, and evil humours it destroyeth through his quality and nature, and augmenteth the good, in such order that using of it thou shalt see great marvels: for these are the true secrets for that disease.   

CHAP. XLV. Of the Infirmities of eyes, and their causes and cures.  
THe Infirmities of the Eyes cometh of divers and sundry causes, of the which I will make mention, especially of those that are of most importance, and most dangerous to hurt the sight. There is one that is called in Italian Razoni, and that is caused of the heat of the blood, and his effects are certain small wheals that run round about the eyelids, and this Infirmity is of small importance, for only with linament of Tutia they may be healed, anointing them three or four times. There is another kind of infirmity in the eyes that cometh to many, and is caused of moisture and heat in the head, and that is a redness with watering and great burning: And although this be troublesome, yet it is not dangerous to heal. For with purging the head and body, and with Boxing glasses, and with certain Unctions appropriate they shall remain whole. There is another kind of infirmity in the eye, and that is when the ball of the eye waxeth out of measure in greatness, and this is called Dilatatio pupillae, the which is very hard to heal. For my part I never saw but one remedy that did preserve it, and that is our Balsamo Artificiato, of the which you shall put every night one drop into the eye, and it will do thee great pleasure, because it is temperate hot, and hath a penetrative virtue and resolutative, by the which means it doth hinder the relaxation, and preserveth the eye. There is yet another sort of infirmity that causeth the eye to be full of pain, and cometh all thick and filthy, and blindeth it, and this indisposition is caused of Morbo Gallico; and although it seem foul and uncurable: Nevertheless, it is easy to be cured if you help the principal cause, and fume the head with Cinabar, Myrrh, and Olibanum, they shall be quickly helped. There is another infirmity that cometh in the eye, the which is a cloud that engendereth in the point of the eye upon the ball, and hindereth the sight, and that is easy to be helped, for if you drop therein one drop of our Balm twenty or thirty days together, it will resolve it throughly. There are divers other infirmities which do trouble the eyes, the which I will let pass till another time.   

CHAP. XLVI. Of the pains in the Teeth.  
THe pain of the teeth is an accidental disease, which cometh of divers and sundry causes, of the which causes, I will show the chiefest. It cometh sometimes of a Rheum in the head, or of a Catarr, or of humidity in the head, and divers other ways. Nevertheless, let it come which way it will, it proceedeth of the head and stomach, the wihch sendeth up vapours, and than fall down again, and 'cause that pain, and the remedy is this: First, give them our Magistrale Syrupo five or six days, the which purgeth the blood, and evacuateth the body; that being done, take our Electuario angelico, three times according to the receipt, for this evacuateth the stomach and purgeth the head; and than take our Aqua real, and hold it in thy mouth a Paternoster while, and than spit it forth again, and with this order thou shalt help all manner of pains in the teeth, except they be rotten stumps; and than the best way is to take them forth with an Instrument: but if thou wilt not take them forth and ease the pain, thou mayest touch them with Aqua fortis until the marrow be mortified? that being done, you shall hold our Aqua balsami two or three times in your mouth in a day, until the pain be gone, and so with this order thou mayest keep them without pain. Also I will show thee another easy way. Take Henbane seed, and mix it with white Wax, than cast it on the coals, and hold thy mouth over it to receive the fume, and than thy pain will cease if they be rotten teeth; and this it doth by stupefaction. Also it will be good to hold in thy mouth Mastic, Pellitory, and Allom, after ye have purged, for this draweth down the matter.   

CHAP. XLVII. Of a stinking breath.  
THe stinking breath is a putrefaction the which is caused of the stomach, being corrupted and foul, as you may see by experience of those that have that infirmity, and the remedy is this. You shall give them of our Aromaticoʒ. two. fasting, every third day for three times, and than use our Quintessence for a month continually; The dose is ʒ. i. every morning, and after supper two hours, for this comforteth the stomach and the heart, and taketh away the stinking: That being done, take five or six mornings together, every morning f oil of Turpentine one scruple with white Wine, and so they shall remain helped.   

CHAP. XLVIII. Of spitting of blood.  
THe spitting of blood is an alteration of blood in the veins, which alteration is so much, that Nature provoketh it to the stomach, from whence it had his Original, and doth not come of a vein broken as many have said, as thou mayst well see the truth; for if the vein were broke, the blood would come forth at one time or instant without any tarrying, and they would die quickly, the which cometh not by spitting of blood, for they spit none until the alteration cometh: and this is caused of a kind of Fever that cometh inwardly, that engendereth that alteration, and when his fit cometh, the blood doth altar, and the veins swell, and the blood doth come forth at the proper mouths of the veins, and so they spit it forth; and when they spit blood, it is the beginning of the Fever Hectic. the which when it is confirmed, is uncurable and mortal: But if thou wilt take it at the beginning when they spit blood, it may be helped with ease, and that thou shalt do with giving them three or four times of our Petra Philosophale twelve grains, with half an ounce of Sugar Rosate, every third day once; that being done, let him take every morning Oil of Vitriol iiii. grains, with Julep of Violets ℥. i. because there is no better medicine in the world that disposeth the alteration of the blood, than our Petra Philosophale, and the oil of Vitrial mittigateth the heat and extinguisheth the accident. You shall note, that this which I have written is not understood of many as I understand it. And likewise the Medicines to use in that case hath not been put in practice of any man, and the cause is this. That since Physic hath been in use until this time, the Physicians have not understood of other than the Theoric, and none they cured of practice and experience, and that is the cause that so few have found the truth. But I that continually do travel in practice, have found rare things, as I will set forth to the world hereafter.   

CHAP. XLIX. Of diseases of the Liver.  
THe sickness of the Liver is caused of divers and sundry accidents of the body, as you may see by experience, when a man is never so little sick, by and by the Liver is alterated, and doth no more work well, and that is because the Liver is the receptacle of the blood and of the Gall, and the master which ruleth and governeth our bodies, and distributeth the blood into the veins, and doth purify it, separating the sharp and evil parts, and sending it to a certain bladder, which we call the Gall; and when it is so full that it can receive not more, it runneth over, and so causeth the body to become yellow, and thereupon the Urine is yellow, and is so evil, that in short time it drieth that body, so that the Liver being dispensator both of the good and bad qualities of the humours, it cannot be but through the infirmities of the body. Also when the Liver is over hot and dry, it causeth the Patient to be lean and dry, and with great heat: and when the Liver is troubled with humidity and cold, it causeth the Patient to become full of sores and scabs, and these are the effects that come of the Liver when it is distempered. But if thou wilt help it from that indisposition, it were necessary to evacuate the body and stomach of superfluous humours, which thou shalt do with our Soluble Syrup, giving it eight or ten days together cold, and than purge the Stomach with our Aromatico fasting in the morning; that being done, you shall use remedies that help the Liver, which a● many, as Citrake, Liverwort, Scolopendria, Cycorie, and such like; and so observing this order thou shalt help them. For I have had an infinite of experience of it.   

CHAP. L. Of diseases of the Lungs.  
THe infirmities of the Lungs are of two kinds, that is cold and moist, and hot and dry, the which infirmity is caused of evil temperature of the body. You shall note, that when the Lungs is infected with cold and moist, it will easily turn to that kind of Hectic that causeth the Cough, and to spit matter at the mouth. But when it is grieved with heat and dryness, it is in danger to turn to a Phthisic, the which disease causeth a man to become lean and dry, and keepeth back his breath, and so the one with another they are mortal diseases, so that there can scarce be found any remedy; and therefore I will begin with the first kind, and than with the second, and than the third, and than with the fourth and last, for the which there is no redemption or hope of life. But for the first and second, there are a number of remedies that do help, the which be these. First, give the Patient of the juice of the Roots of blue Lilies, ℥ two. with Mel Rosarum, ℥. i. in the morning fasting, and that use three times, every third day once: That being done, let him use our Elixir vitae for thirty or forty days together morning and evening; the dose is ʒ. two. at a time, and also put therein every time half an ounce of our Magno liquore, and drink it a little warm, for this is a perfect remedy, with which I have cured an infinite number in my days. And of all the Medicines that ever I found, I never had any like this, because the juice of the Lilly-root hath virtue attractive that mundifieth the stomach, and the Elixir vitae comforteth and resolveth all Ulcers in the Lungs, and the Magno liquore dissolveth the Catarr, and healeth the stomach, for I have proved it a number of times, as is said before. I remember me that in the year of our Lord, 1557. I being in Rome cured a young man which was a Painter, that was in the house of the Cardinal de Medici, the which had his Lungs ulcerated, and did spit great quantity of blood, and had a great Catarr and Cough, and did spit also matter, in the which there was no hope of life. I caused him to use the aforesaid remedies, and so in short time he was helped, and not only he, but a great number more at sundry times.   

CHAP. LIVELY Of the Spleen.  
THe Spleen is never sick but through other diseases, as you may see by experience, how that those that have the Fever Quartane, for the most part have their Spleen alterated and hard, and this proceedeth of evil temperature of the body and Liver, that cannot digest the humours, and so Nature sendeth them forth in the weakest parts that are most apt to receive them. So that the Spleen is like a sponge, and very apt to receive that humidity, that Nature cannot dissolve otherwise, and so by this reason it is most apt to be sick or diseased: therefore if thou wilt cure it, first cure the disease which causeth that alteration, for that being once helped, Nature of itself will help the Spleen without any other Medicine, and therefore strive not to help the Spleen with particular Medicines, for it is vain; but look what kind of disease the Patient is troubled with, and cure that, and than the Spleen will heal well enough. And this is the true way to cure the Spleen.   

CHAP. LII. Of the Flux of the body.  
THe Flux of the body is a distemperature of the guts and stomach, which is caused also of an evil disposition in the Stomach, as well as of all other interiours, and is very troublesome to the Patient, and hard to be helped. Nevertheless, I will show thee a secret and that is this. Take of our Petra Philosophale twelve grains, which doth evacuate the humour hanging, and dissolveth the Flux. But when it is a hot Flux with a Fever in the Summer, let him stand two hours after supper in a bath of salt-water of the Sea that is cold: for it is of great effect. You shall understand, that our Petra Philosophale must be taken with Sugar Rosote di. ℥. Also when you have done the aforesaid things, you shall take our Syrup against the melancholy humours five or six mornings. And so using this order, thou shalt help any kind of cruel Flux, as I have proved infinite times.   

CHAP. LIII. Of costiveness in the body.  
THis disease is caused of great dryness and adustion in the body, through the which cause there cometh many diseases: and that is, that our meat lieth long in the body: and of that cometh indisposition of the stomach, pains in the head, Flux of Urine, alteration of blood, augmenting of choler, and such like. Therefore if thou wilt help these inconveniences, it were necessary to seek the principal cause, and to 'cause the body to be lose: and that thou shalt do with our Syrup Magistrale, using it according to reason every morning. For it evacuateth the lower parts, and cooleth the Liver, and purgeth the blood, and consumeth choler, and helpeth digestion. And with this only shalt thou help them perfectly.   

CHAP. LIV. Of the Flux of Urine.  
THe Flux of Urine is an alteration of the pores, and opening of the reins, caused of indigestion in the body, as you may see by experience. This Flux weakeneth the stomach, and the reins, and taketh away the taste, and letteth sleep: so that many times of these effects come cruel diseases, as Gonorhea, the Strangury, Ulcerations in the Yard, and such like: and therefore if thou wilt help the aforesaid disease, use this Medicine. Let him take of our Aromatico two drachmas, and drink thereon a little water, and than let him use of this Syrup every morning warm ℥. iiii. Take Sage, Carduus Benedictus, Egrimony, Betony, Citrake, Scolopendria, Chicory, of each one handful, read Saunders, Box, ana ℥. iiii. Aloes, Epatick, Coloquintida, Sin, Turbit, Hermodactiles, ana ℥. i. course Sugar one pound and a half, commom Hony one pound: than lay all the aforesaid things to infuse in five and twenty pound of White wine the space of twelve hours: than boil them close until half be consumed: than strain it without expression, and put thereto a carat of Musk dissolved in ℥, iiii. of Rosewater: and of this take every morning three or four ounces, and fast thereon at the lest four or five hours, and in the mean time that you use this Syrup, you shall not eat Hog's flesh, nor Fish, nor salt things, nor Rapes, nor Radish, nor Parsley, nor any other aperative thing: This being done, take Hyssop of the Mountain that is dried lb. two. and boil it in thirty pound of White wine, and put thereto one pound of Honey, letting them boil till the fourth part be consumed, and than strain it, and drink it continually for fourteen or fifteen days. And by this means thou shalt have help God willing.   

CHAP. LV. A discourse upon the retention of Urine, and his cure.  
THe causes of the retention of Urine are many, among the which, there are three principally above the rest, and are so manifest, that every one may understand them: and are these. Stones, as well great, as gravel, viscosity in the Reinss and Bladder, and alteration in the pores: And thus through those three accidents, most commonly they cannot make water: the which if thou wilt help, it will be somewhat hard, because you must understand the cause thereof, the which is not easily done of every man: for he that knoweth not the cause, can less help the effect, and he that knoweth not the effect, can less help them. And therefore, I say, he that will help those that cannot make water, because of the stone in the bladder, he must seringe them to take forth the Urine: but if thou wilt help those that cannot make water through the gravel, you shall give them our Pillole Aquilone: and than give them a Flintstone made in fine powder, to drink with water of Saxifrage, and thou shalt see thereof miracles. And if thou wilt help them that cannot make water, because of viscosity, give them our Aromatico, and anoint the reinss with our Balsamo Artificiato, and also his Testicles, and so by these means you shall help them quickly of that accident: as I have proved divers times.   

CHAP. LVI. Another discourse upon the retention of Urine; and his remedies.  
THe retention of Urine is caused divers ways, as by overmuch heat, or overmuch cold, or through too much dryness, or too much moistness. And therefore he that will cure this infirmity, must first know the cause, and also the virtue and quality of his Medicines wherewith he will cure them: for if he do otherwise, he shall walk in the dark, and be as a Diviner: for many have written receipts, wherewith they show to help many infirmities, without giving any reason at all. But to the purpose of the retention of Urine, as as I have said, that it may come through four principal causes. So will I show it in four Chapters, and also their remedies wherewith they may be helped.   

CHAP. LVII. Of the retention of Urine that cometh through heat, and his remedies.  
THe retention of Urine which cometh through heat, is that which engendereth the stone and gravel, for through that superfluous heat it engendereth. And this is one of the four causes of the retention of Urine, the which is helped with Instruments and Medicines concerning the stone. The most certain Medicine is, to be cut and take it forth. Nevertheless, there are many Medicines that may pleasure them of our invention: As concerning the gravel, there are many things that dissolve it, of the which I have spoken of in divers places: As concerning the remedy of the cause, that is easy: for by purging the stomach and the body, the heat will be dissolved, and the body left in good temperature. And the purging of the body shall be done with our Syrup against the melancholy humour, and to use our Aromatico, and Electuario Magistrale, de Althaea with Sulphur. And thus much concerning that heat.   

CHAP. LVIII. Of the retention of Urine through cause of dryness, and his Medicine.  
THe retention of Urine through dryness, is, because the Reins and the Conduits where it passeth are to much dried, and that dryness is cause of adustion of the Liver, the which must be helped with taking away a little blood: and to purge the body with Cassia, Syrup de Pomis, de Succuria, de Lactutia, de Malvis, de Siterache, and such like, that cool and take away the adustion of the Liver: than anoint the Reins, the Members, and Yard with Hog's grease, because that fat doth mollify and moisten: and give him to drink Sero lactis, because that enlargeth and moisteneth, and provoketh Urine without burning.   

CHAP. LIX. Of the retention of Urine that cometh through cold, and his remedies.  
THe alteration of Urine that cometh through cold, is that kind which maketh a man that he cannot make water, without the help of some warm thing laid upon the body, and upon the bottom of the belly, and the cure thereof is to vomit those cold humours out of the stomach, and to purge the body with solutives of warm Nature, and with warm Decoctions, with the Decoction of Lignum Sanctum, of Carduus Benedictus, and of Rosemary, and anoint the back with our Oleum Philosophorum, de Terebinthina, & Cera,, or Oil of Frankincense, or such like things that warm the coldness. And so by these means the Patient shall be helped of that retention of Urine.   

CHAP. LX. Of the retention of Urine through cause of moistness, and his remedy.  
THe retention of Urine caused of humidity, is that which causeth the pores to swell through moistness, so that the Urine cannot pass, as those say, which are troubled with the carnosity: which carnosity is not alteration of the pores through cause of humidity. For the way to cure this kind of retention, is to purge the body with drying Medicines, as Turbite, Scamonie, Euforbium, Eleborus, and such like: and to use drying Unctions, as Vnguento de Lithargirio, or Balsamo, water of Frankincense, Oleum Benedictum of our invention, and such like things, and than eat dry meats; and drink good Wine; and thus the humidity shall be dissolved: So that hereby every one may have the understanding of the cause, and the effect of the same, and the Medicines.   

CHAP. LXI. Of the difficulty of Urine, and of what it is caused, with the order to cure it.  
THere are divers kinds of difficulty of Urine, and are also caused of divers causes, as aforesaid, of the which one is caused of a corrupt humour of the French Pox, and this is one of the chiefest causes that may be in that matter. For we see manifestly, that the said kind of infirmity corrupteth the blood, engendereth evil qualities in the Liver, and distempereth all the body of those that are troubled therewith. Also we may see, that those which are infected with that kind of disease, most commonly have Warts, or Carvoli, Pellaria, Botches, Scabs, tumors, pains of the Stomach, in the Arms and Legs, with a number of other more strange accidents that come through that disease, But when that infirmity infecteth inwardly, it worketh these effects: It bringeth Emeroides, pains in the Entrails, Fluxes of the body, continual spitting, Gonorrea, or running of the Reins, such like effects. All the which cause difficulty of Urine, of the which difficulty, there useth to engender the Stone, Gravel, Viscosity, Stitch in the side, and divers other mischiefs very hurtful unto the body. The difficulty of Urine may also be caused of divers other infirmities, as of a rotten Catarrh, descension of the head, of the evil quality of the Liver, and such like, as by excessive cold, or heat of the Reins, but let it be as it will, I know these are hard matters to be helped, because it behooveth certain manual practice in that faculty, the which I cannot show in writing: although I have great and high secrets for that indisposition, as concerning the Physic part, the which thou mayest found in divers places of my works. Nevertheless, because I will not leave this Chapter unperfect, I will here name unto thee a most excellent rare man of that Profession, the which is both Doctor and Knight, and is most excellent in cutting out the Stone, and the Rupture, and can remedy the great difficulty of Urine, and heal the Rupture, and heal the infirmities of the eyes, and such like things most excellently, and his name is called Prastecio Stelin Venetiano: the which is at this present dwelling in Venice. And this I have written of that Doctor, because he is one of the most excellent that may be found in that Art.   

CHAP. LXII. To help those that have great burning of their Urine.  
THis infirmity may come of divers and sundry causes. Nevertheless, I will treat of some of the principal, and of most importance; and also will show the true order to help them with ease and brevity. The first cause assigned by me is the Stone in the Bladder, and this is in a manner uncurable. The second cause is, the running of the Reinss, the which is taken by companying with women corrupted with the Pox. The third cause is, the proper French Pox, the which is that kind that is called Gonorrea. The fourth kind is a certain corruption that is called Stranguria, the which moveth continually to make water. The fifth cause is the Gravel: there are also other causes, as scorching in the Yard, carnosity, and such like things, the which I will leave for troubling of the Reader. The first cause which is the Stone, is helped by two remedies, the one is with cutting and taking it forth of the bladder, the other remedy is written in this book. The remedy for that which is caused by the running of the Reinss, shall be to take three mornings our Aromatico, because it resolveth that heat, and extinguisheth the burning. The remedy for that which is caused of Gonorrea, is none other than to cure the principal disease, and to anoint them with our Vnguento magno, and perfume them, and so they shall remain whole. That which is caussed of the Strangury, is cured by great purging, and by taking oftentimes our Aromatico. That which is caused of the Gravel, is cured by taking oftentimes our Electuario Angelica, and using to drink Wine distilled with Cherry stones, and Medler stones. That which cometh through carnosity, is cured with an Unguent made of oil of Sulphur, and Vitriol, Aqua real, Oil of Frankincense, and new Wax, all Medicines devised by us, giving you charge, that before you begin to cure them, to seek out the right cause from whence it proceedeth, and so thou shalt help it with brevity and great ease.   

CHAP. LXIII. A Discourse upon the carnosity in the Yard, and the Order to cure it.  
ALthough we have something touched this Infirmity before in the Chapter of the burning of the Urine. Nevertheless, in this place, I mean, something to discourse thereof, because that Surgeons may not be voided of such a noble Secret, to do them honour in their cure of the like disease, for there are many troubled with that infirmity: You shall understand, that this carnosity is an infirmity whose original dependeth of the corruption of the French-Pox, and to show it plainer, it is an Ulcer in the neck of the bladder where the Urine entereth into the Yard. And therefore, if thou wilt help that infirmity, cure the principal disease, and the carnosity will heal; but if thou wilt cure them with the Candle, take that Unguent which is written for the carnosity in the Chapter of the burning of the Urine; but if thou wilt cure the principal disease, give him three times, Pillole aquilone, and than take our Sirrupo Solutivo, ten or twelve days together; that being done, let him take twenty days the Wine of Lignum Sanctum, written hereafter in this Book, and those which understand not this Chapter well, let him look over this Book, and he shall find those Medicines with their Uses.   

CHAP. LXIIII Another Cure for the said carnosity.  
THat carnosity which hindereth the Urine that it cannot come forth, is a certain kind of matter that is engendered in the mouth of the bladder as is showed before, the which is like in all points unto the Emeroids, that come in the neck of the Intestivall about the Fundament, and because it is a gross matter and ulcerated, the Urine passeth with great difficulty, and great burning and pain unto those that are troubled therewith, the which inconvenience if thou wilt help, it were necessary that the body were well purged, and that they keep a diet, and drink the decoction of Hypericon, with a little Honey, and use to eat dry meats, and than make certain small long Candles with Wax, and Frankincense, like unto searing Candles, than make this Unguent. Take read Lead, white Honey, of each an ounce, fresh Butter two ounces, white Wine as much as will suffice to incorporate all the aforesaid together in a liquid form, than boil it on a soft fire, and have ready ten or twelve quills fresh pulled out of the wing of a fat Pigeon; and note that when ye take them forth of the wing, that they may be full of blood in the ends, than take one of the quills and stir the said Unguent upon the fire continually while it boileth, and when one quill is dried take another, and so do until the wine be consumed, than take it from the fire and keep it, and when ye will occupy it, take one of those Candles, and upon the end put the said Unguent, and put it into the Yard until it touch the carnosity, and this do from time to time until the Candle pass without pain, and than the Patient shall be whole; for this is a great Secret and hath been proved many times.   

CHAP. LXV. A Discourse as concerning those that cannot hold their water, and his Remedy.  
THis Impediment cometh of two principal causes, the one is, through heat and moisture of the body, and this is commonly in young children, which commonly do be piss themselves, because they are by Nature hot and moist. The other cause is through opening of the Pores where the Urine doth pass; the which are so stretched or opened, that they cannot retain the Urine, because the Urine is a voluntary motion, and a natural motion together, they are hard to agreed together, because the natural motion maketh his voluntary motion; so that Nature first moveth the man, and thereof cometh the motion; for if a man would make water, and that Nature doth not move the motion, he cannot piss; for sometime Nature doth not give his natural motion because of some impediment, for when a man cannot hold his water, it is a sign that Nature hath no retention; and to redress the same, it were necessary to reduce Nature into good temperature, so that it may retain the Urine; the which thing thou shalt do with purging the body, and the stomach wherein is the matter that causeth that retention of Urine. And to purge the body you shall use our Syrup against the melancholy humour: And to purge the stomach, you shall take our Electuario angelica, and to restrain the pores, you shall use the decoction of wild Hyssop, with the powder of Mastic, for you shall understand, that the purging taketh away the cause, and the decoction of Hyssop with the Mastic, doth restrain the pores, and so by these means thou shalt remedy quickly that infirmity.   

CHAP. LXVI. To break the Stone in the Bladder and also the Gravel, and to 'cause it to avoid by Urine.  
THere is found a certain bird called Solone, of Albertus Magnus in his Book of Secrets; the which birds are very plenteous in Rome, and are called Palmum bellae, and in Lombardy, Sassarvoli, the which in English I suppose, is called a Ring Dove, or Wood-colver, or the Stock Dove, which Birds are subject to the Stone, that if you keep them in a Cage, and feed them with such meat as they commonly use, being deprived of their medicine, within the space of four or six months at the most, there will engender a Stone in the belly so great, that their meat cannot pass through them, and so choketh them, and they die, and that is because the poor Bird cannot go and help himself with that Medicine which Nature hath taught her. For those that are at liberty in the field, fly unto the Seaside, and there they found a certain kind of small stone very hard, the which stone hath virtue to dissolve the stone in the body of the Bird, and this Bird knoweth it by the instinct of Nature, and eateth great abundance of them, and so dissolveth the stone in their bellies, and live a long time after it without any trouble of the Stone. You shall understand, that this stone is impossible to be found in any other place, than in the belly of the said bird, because they are very little, and man's reason cannot discern them from other Stones, the which being beaten in powder, with the flowers of Elders, and Cinnamon, of each a like, and given to drink with broth, in short time it will dissolve the Stone, and 'cause them to avoid it with their Urine most miraculously: But if you ask me the reason, I know not what I shall answer, but I hold it to be his proper hidden quality and virtue. For truly this I have taught to many, and have seen the experience thereof sundry times, and it cured the most part that did use it. For truly the virtue of Stones are very great unto those that know them. I saw once two Stones in Rome of inestimable virtue; The one was a round Coral like unto the Serpentine Purphire, but therein was much green, and was of that virtue that being laid upon the flesh of a man or woman, it causeth them to piss great abundance, so that it were to be wondered at. The other Stone was of Diasper, but bright and through shining with certain white veins, and was of such virtue, that being laid on a wound, presently the blood stenched so that there fell not down one drop, The which Stones were in the hand of an old Spaniard, who said, he brought them out of India, from Nova Hispania. I have seen also divers and sundry Stones of most strange virtues. You shall understand, that those Stones of the Bird must be gotten in this order. You shall get a number of the said Birds, and take the stones out of their bellies, and wash them clean, and keep them to thy use. The quantity is as much as you can hold upon a Sixpences, as well of the Stones as of the other matters: You shall drink the said quantity seven or eight mornings together, and let your Diet be according, and drink good wine, and so in short time you shall be helped.   

CHAP. LXVII. Of the Gravel in the Reinss.  
THe Gravel (as is said before, is a disease of the Urine undigested, which is caused of superfluous heat of the reinss and blood, the which sometimes doth stay itself in the Conduits, and causeth great pains; and sometimes it doth engross so in the Bladder, that it letteth the Urine, and this is an evil disease to be troubled with, and the remedy is to purge often, and use that water against the Gravel that is written in my discourse of chirurgery, for it is one of the most excellent remedies that can be found for that disease; and the order to use it is also written after the Receipt, and the best Purgation that you can use for that purpose is our Pillole Aquilone.   

CHAP. LXVIII. Of a certain Scab or Itch that cometh over all the body.  
THis Disease cometh in all places of the body, and in Naples it is called Prurito, and in Rome, Rosura; in Venice, Pizza; and in Spain, Lomezon: And it is a salt humour that cometh forth of the veins, and so disperseth through the whole body between the flesh and the skin, and hath in it such an heat, that they cannot abide it, and is caused of alteration of the blood, the which is corrupted and distempered; and the remedy is, to purge the stomach, and to purify the blood, which thou shalt do with giving them three times our Pillole aquilone every third day once; that being done, make this Bath: Take Nettles, Mallows, Pellitory of the wall, agrimony, Sage, and Coleworts, ana. lb. iiii. the Bran of Wheat almost a peck, common Ashes half as much: Mix them altogether in a great kettle of water, and let it boil an hour, and than take it from the fire and sit over it, and cover thee with clotheses, that thou mayest sweated an hour, than dry thee with warm clotheses, and than wash all thy body with pure Aqua vitae, and this thou shalt use three times at the lest, for the oftener the better, and so thou shalt be perfectly whole.    

The Second Book of the Secrets of PHIORAVANTE.  

CHAP. I What Chirurgery is.  
CHirurgery is a manual Art, with the which the Chirurgeon doth cure Wounds, Ulcers, and Imposthumes: And this was found of Husbandmen, and Experimenters of natural things. For there is no Art in the world, that hath more need of the knowledge of divers things than this Art. It is also necessary to the knowledge of natural things belonging to Chirurgery, to have skill in Husbandry. It is also necessary to understand the Art of Painting, whereby you may set broken bones in their places, and to join or close wounds well. It were needful also to have skill in the Art of Joining, whereby he may make Instruments for broken bones in the Arms, or Legs, or Hands, or other parts. It would be also necessary to have the Art of a Smith, whereby he may make his Instruments. It is chiefly needful to be expert in the Art of an Apothecary, to make his Unguents. And last of all, it is most necessary to know the Art of Alchemy, whereby he may distil his Oils and Waters appertaining unto Chirurgery. Also it is necessary to have a good judgement, and to help in all causes of Chirurgery, and to have a light hand in working. And when the Chirurgeon is expert in all the aforesaid things, he may help without any suspicion of any thing. And hereafter I will show thee what Wounds, Ulcers, and Imposthumes are, and all other things appertaining to Chirurgery, and the order to cure them: a discourse grounded on true reason and approved by experience, showing to all men, which are the true and perfectest Medicines, and which are false and naught: writing and opening the true secrets of Chirurgery, with a new order found out by me, to exercise the same Chirurgery with more ease and brevity, so that every one may be satisfied: For they are true, and are Medicines, with the which thou mayest do much good to the sick: and great honour will redound to the Chirurgeon, if he use it according to our order: for they are Medicines proved of us infinite times in divers places of the world, as well in the Fields as in the Cities, or on the waters▪ in the wars, where we healed Wounds, Gunshot, Ulcers, Imposthumes, and other diseases appertaining unto Chirurgery: and always (thanks be unto God) I have had good success, as it is well known in most parts of Christendom. And so I make an end.   

CHAP. II. The order to be used in curing Imposthumes of divers sorts, taken forth of the short discourse of the Chirurgery of this Author.  
THere are divers kinds of Imposthumes that come unto man's body, and are caused of divers and sundry accidents, and therefore they must be cured in divers orders, and with sundry Medicines, according to his nature: for some Imposthumes are caused of contusions or bruised flesh: Some are certain humours, of which Nature would discharge herself, and so sendeth them forth: some are caused of cold; othersome are melancholy humours, and others are caused of the Pox: And these are the kinds of Imposthumes that most commonly do come, and I will show thee the order to cure them one by one, and than after I will speak of that sort which is caused of contusions, because it is bruised flesh: for every contusion doth putrify and turn into matter, unto which it were necessary to lay Ma●ur●tives, and bring it to suppuration, and as soon as thou perceivest there to be any matter, than presently lance it: and his Medicine shall be the yeolk of an Egg mixed with our Magno liquore, and with that dress it as well within as without, without any other thing, for it will help any great Tumour: but you must make your Unguent fresh every day, and with new Eggs. Furthermore, as concerning those Imposthumes that come through the indisposition of Nature, and are certain Sborine (a word so called in Italian) by which Nature would prevail: and those would be left unto Nature, until such time as they break alone, and than thou shalt dress them with this Unguent. Take Oil of Roses ℥. vi. Litarge of gold finely ground, Turpentine, ana ℥. two. Storax liquida ℥. i New Wax ℥. iii boil them on a soft fire until it be black, which if it be too hard, you may put thereto oil of Roses, and make it in form of an Unguent, and therewith dress those kinds of Imposthumes: and lay thereon the Cerotte of dia Palma, and so with these Medicines thou shalt work miracles. As concerning these Imposthumes that are caused of cold, you shall use hot Medicines and attractive, as the Cerotte called Oxicroxi, which is a perfect Medicine in these kinds of Imposthumes: also our Balsamo artificiato, and Aqua balsamo, and such like things which are by nature temperate hot, are very convenient. But those Imposthumes that have their original of the French Pox, are evil and malign, because their original is malign and evil. The cure of these is with great purging, and to let the Imposthume increase of itself, and when it is ready to lance, than lance it, and make this Medicine. Take Vnguento magno ℥. two. Magno liquore ℥. i Precipitate di. ℥. mix them well together, and therewith dress the Imposthume, and lay thereon our Magistrale Cerotte, and it will be perfect whole in short time: Letting you to understand, that in all the aforesaid cures, if you will cure them perfectly, it were necessary that the body were well purged of those corrupt humours that hinder the cure, and to use defensives appropriate to that kind of Imposthume: as the oil of Frankincense, of Turpentine, of Wax, of Honey, Aqua vitae, and such like, which every one is a sufficient defensive, anointing it round about the Imposthume: And hereafter I will show thee the cure of these Imposthumes particularly by themselves.   

CHAP. III. What Imposthumes are.  
IMposthumes are certain tumors or swell, that come in divers parts of the body: the which are caused of blood and choler putrified, which cannot pass through the pores, and therefore engross in that place, and so cometh to putrefaction, and that is an Imposthume: which thou shalt help in this order. First purge the body to take away the humours which would go to the Imposthume: which thou shalt do with our Magistrale Syrup, taking it eight days together: that being done, give him our Aromatico: this being done, thou shalt quickly help the Imposthume, as I will show thee hereafter, with their perfect cure.   

CHAP. IU. Of Imposthumes that come in the Groin.  
THe Imposthumes that come in the Groin are of three kinds, of which one is called in Venice, Pannochi, and at Rome, Tinconie, and at Naples, Dragonello, and in Spain, Incordio. To these after the body is purged, as is aforesaid, you shall lay a Maturative plaster, the which is made thus. Take Marsh Mallows, common Mallows, the mother of Violets, the leaves of Coleworts, Wheat flower, Auxungia, Oil of Lilies, of each alike, and boil them together, and than stamp them in form of an Ointment, and lay it on the Imposthume until it look read and is soft, for than it ●s apt to be lanced: Giving you charge, that when you lance them you go not too deep; but only that the matter may come forth, and than put therein a little tent, and anoint it with our Magno liquore, for because it is the best Medicine that can be found for wounds: for it mundifieth, incarnateth, and siccatrizeth without any other help, and lay upon the Imposthume our Magistrale Cerot, and never change your Medicines until you be whole; for this is the true secret found out by me to help these Imposthumes, which I have proved infinite times.   

CHAP. V The second kind of Imposthume that cometh in the Groin.  
THe second kind of Imposthume in the Groin is called Glandulae, both this and the aforesaid are caused of humours infected with the Pox, and these Imposthumes seldom come to maturation; but if it do, it will be long first, and it is evil to heal, because it requireth great cure and terrible medicines. But if thou wilt cure them perfectly, it were necessary to cure the principal cause, and that is the Pox. But when these Imposthumes are broke, the best remedy will be this. Take Wax, Litarge of gold; Oil of Frankincense, ana. and boil them together until it become black: and therewith dress these Imposthumes, for this is a perfect remedy, and a great Secret.   

CHAP. VI The third kind of Imposthume that cometh in the Groin.  
THe third kind of Imposthume that cometh in the Groin, is caused of much travel or heat of the blood, and these are called Anguinaglie, and they use to come with a great accident of a Fever, cold and than hot, and in seven or eight days at the most, they come to maturation, and than lance them, and his medicine shall be this: Take Turpentine well washed, the yolk of an Egg, and oil of Roses, as much of the one, as of the other, and mix them well together, and with this only thou shalt help them, because it digesteth the Imposthume, and mundifieth and incarnateth with great speed; giving you great charge that the body be well purged first with our Magistrale Syrup.   

CHAP. VII. Of Impostumes under the arms.  
THese Impostumes are caused of gross and viscous humours, the which Nature cannot digest by any other part, and these commonly are called Topinaxia, because they are like to a Molehill. And although this seem to be a great matter, yet it causeth little pain, and may be helped with ease. First purge the body with Soluble Medicines, and than lay on this plaster until it be ripe. Take grated bread, leaven of bread, Cow Milk, Oil of Lilies, ana, and boil them together and lay it on; for this hath virtue attractive and putrifactive, by means whereof it will bring it quickly to maturation; and when it is ripe, open it with a lance, and dress it the first time with the white of an Egg and Salt beaten together with a tent, and lay on a stopine wet with the white of an Egg, the which thou shalt let lie at the lest four and twenty hours, and than dress it with digestive until it be incarnated, and than lay thereon a plaster of Dia aquilone magno di Mesue, and so thou shalt help them quickly.   

CHAP. VIII. Of Impostumes in the throat.  
THese Impostumes are of divers and sundry kinds, as you may see by experience; for some are Scrophule, others are melancholy humours, others are caused of the Pox, and others are caused of heat, or of cold; the which are all cured sundry ways, as I will show thee hereafter.   

CHAP. IX. Of Impostumes in the throat caused of melancholy humours.  
THese Impostumes in throat caused of melancholy humours are hard and crude, and are long before they come to maturation, and you may not in any wise cut them, because the place is full of Muscles, Arteries, Vene capillari, Cartilagines, Sinews, and such like; the which although there come an Impostume there, it shall not hurt them; but if ye cut them with an Instrument you may offend them greatly, and for that cause you may not cut them by any means, but leave it unto Nature, the which will 'cause it to break, and than use this remedy. First, you shall take our Syrup against the melancholy humour for twelve days, continually in the morning, fasting; that done, you shall give him our Pillole Aquilone, and help the Impostumes with Vnguento negro di Godfredo di m●●i, written in the Antidotary of Galen, Cap. 45. for that is miraculous to help those kinds of Impostumes, as I have proved it divers times.   

CHAP. X. Of Impostumes in the throat coming of the Pox.  
THe Impostumes that come in the Throat which are caused of the Pox, are commonly of evil quality, because they are much alterated, and 'cause great pain, and these likewise are dangerous to be cut for the aforesaid causes: but when they are broken, they go creeping over the body, healing in one place, and breaking out in another, and these are evil to be helped, for them that know not the perfect secret, and the order to cure them is this. You shall give them eight or nine mornings our Soluble Syrup; that being done, you shall give them our Aromatico twice, and than let them use Sarsa Parilia, or our wine of Lignum vitae, and let them sweated ten or twelve days together, and than perfume them with Sinabar, Myrrh, and Olibanum, the which fume you shall use only at the mouth, and so thou shalt help any crude kind of Imposthume coming in the throat: for this Secret never faileth, as I have proved divers times.   

CHAP. XI. Of Imposthumes in the throat coming of hot humours.  
THese Imposthumes in the throat coming of superfluous heat, are caused of the blood being alterated with heat, and because of that alteration, it engendereth gross vapours and viscous in Vena Capillari, the which through their grossness and want of digestion cannot dissolve, and so engender that kind of Imposthume in the throat, because in that place there is much blood, and less flesh than in any other place, but yet these be not troublesome to help, and his cure is thus: You shall purge him with aperative things, and refriscative that purge the blood; and when the Imposthume is open, you shall dress it with a digestive until it be mundified, and than dress it with Vnguentum de Tutia until it be siccatrized: Also you shall 'cause them to keep diet ordinary, and to drink no wine but only this drink: Take Citrake, Liver-wort, and Scolopendria, ana a handful, Aniseed ℥. i common white-Honey one pound, than put them all to infuse in four and twenty pound of fair water, and let it boil until a third be consumed, and than strain it without expression, and keep it in a glass close shut, and this shall be his common drink: but let him eat no salt, nor slimy meats in any wise, neither Hog's flesh, nor other hot meats that may altar the blood: And this doing you shall be quickly helped, for the drink cooleth the blood, and purgeth it, and helpeth the Liver of all infirmities, as I have proved divers times.   

CHAP. XII. Of Imposthumes in the throat caused of cold.  
IMposthumes in the throat caused of cold humours are small and without pain, and this goeth creeping by little and little until such time as it breaketh of itself, and are an evil kind to help, because all Unguents are an enemy unto them, and all cold meats. Therefore if thou wilt help them, let the Patient use twenty days together our Quinta essentia solutiva, which purgeth all cold humours, and warmeth the blood, and causeth the Imposthume to heal with ease; and when they are broken, you shall help them with our Balm artificial, which doth subtiliate the humours, and mundify the Imposthume, and incarnate and heal: And this Order of curing is effectual and of great profit for them that shall use them. And of this opinion are many excellent Physicians, and chief M. Decio an ancient man, who hath been an experimenter a long time both in Physic and chirurgery, with a number of others, which I will leave to name until another time.   

CHAP. XIII. Of Imposthumes in the throat coming of hot humours.  
THese Imposthumes coming in the throat of hot humours, is a kind that cometh with redness, and causeth great pain, with an accident of a Fever, and in short time they come to maturation, and break, and than the matter will come forth, and the pain will cease; and these kinds are not evil to heal, and the remedies are these. Assoon as they are broke thou must press it out with thy hand, that being done, you shall have Oleum Benedictum of our invention, anointing the Imposthume within, and lay thereon our Magistrale Cerot, and so thou shalt help those kinds of Imposthumes. For this is our Secret never written before of any man.   

CHAP. XIV. Of Imposthumes in the Eyes.  
IMposthumes in the eyes are like certain white bladders that come about the nose, and the matter that is within them is like the white of an Egg, and these are caused of humidity and moistness of the head, and because they have a conference with the head, they are evil to heal, for they turn to watering Fistula's, which, when they come to Fistula's, continued for ever. But if thou wilt cure them perfectly that they never come again, you must first purge the head with our Aromatico, and that you shall do every five days once for three or four times; that being done, thou shalt anoint the head with Oil of Frankincense the space of a month, and into the eye where the Imposthume is, thou shalt put once a day one drop of our Balm artificial, which will help it and dry the Imposthume, and so in short time thou shalt be helped. For this is the true Secret wherewith thou mayest help those Imposthumes, never known before of any man, and they are much contrary to the Medicines of Mesue, by which our Physicians now adays make their Medicines.   

CHAP. XV. Of Imposthumes in the Ears.  
IMposthumes in the ears are caused of cold and viscous humours, which engross in that part of the body, and 'cause great pain until such time as they are broken, and these Imposthumes are evil to heal. Nevertheless, I will show thee a Secret to take away the pains, and to help it quickly, and that is thus. There is found a certain kind of shell in the Sea, the which is of the length of an hand, and somewhat more, the which, in Venice, and in Istria, in Dalmatia, in Puglia, and in divers other places of the Adriatic Sea, are called Asture, which is like unto a pair of bellowss, the which hath a certain beard, like the hair of a man's head, and it hath a certain attractive virtue, that if they put it into the ear, presently they take away the pain, though it be never so great or extreme: the which virtue cometh through the saltness of it. For this I have proved divers times, and did learn it of our old Fishermen, which knew it by experience. But if it chance that one be troubled and cannot get that thing, they shall take Cantharideses in powder, and put it into the ear, the which will work the same effect, because they be attractive and mundificative: And these are two natural remedies, found out by true experience, and doth more good than any other that I could found.   

CHAP. XVI. Of Imposthumes in the Mouth.  
THese Imposthumes are of divers kinds, and may breed of divers causes: but let them come of what cause soever they will, they 'cause great pain to them that have them, for that they cannot swallow their meat without pain. And therefore I will show thee a general cure for all Imposthumes in the mouth, and that is thus. You shall take our Pillole Aquilone twice: that being done, take our Aqua balsami, and hold it in your mouth as long as you can, and this do three times in a day: than take the juice of Beet roots ℥. i. oil of bitter Almonds ʒ. i. than snuff it up at the nose until it come into the throat: And thus doing, thou shalt help any Imposthume in the mouth, as I have proved divers times. For the Pills cleanse the head, and evacuate the stomach, and hindereth the alteration, the water of Balm doth cure and mittigateth the pain, and the juice with the Oil mundifieth those secret places at the nose and mouth.   

CHAP. XXVII. Of Imposthumes in the Joints.  
THese Imposthumes in the Joints are evil, and of hard and crude digestion, because they are caused of great abundance of gross and viscous humours, the which through their grossness cannot pass the Joints, and there remain and come to Imposthume, and these cause extreme pain, because thereunto cometh great abundance of matter, and the remedy is thus. First give him a general purgation, and let him blood on the common vein, and than lay on this plaster. Take Marsh Mallows, common Mallows, Pellitory, and the Mother of Violets, and boil them in water till it be consumed, than stamp them, and put thereto Leavens of bread, Barley flower, Hen's grease, and Hog's grease, according to thy discretion, and set them on a small fire until they be incorporated, than lay this on once a day until it be ripe, and when it is read and soft open it, and dress it with our Magno liquore, and lay thereon our Magistrale Cerotte: and so with these two thou shalt help them, except the Imposthume be of the Pox, for than it will do small good.   

CHAP. XVIII. Of inward Imposthumes.  
THese Imposthumes inwardly are evil to know, and uncertain to cure, because the Patient himself cannot tell in what place they be, though he feel the pain: and therefore all that we reason of in that matter, may be to the contrary. For where a man cannot see with the eye, nor touch with the hand, the matter is doubtful whether it be, or no● and therefore it is best to say little, For these Imposthumes may come of divers causes, and yet cannot tell of what certain cause, and therefore you cannot know which is the true Medicine to help them: but by experience you may do them some good; For (as I said before) Imposthumes never come but through distemperance of Nature, and alteration of the blood. Therefore if thou wilt help them, help first the principal cause, than give them eight or ten mornings our Magistrale Syrup, and than take twice, our Aromatico: that being done, use morning and evening our Vegitabile Syrup, and herewith thou shalt help them.   

CHAP. XIX. Of Ulcers, and what they are.  
Ulcers are of divers and sundry kinds, and are engendered of many causes, as hereafter I will show. But first I will writ of those kinds of Ulcers that are caused of Wounds. You shall understand, that wounds in what part of the body soever they be, being imposthumated or cancrenated, they change their names, and are not more called wounds, although their original was a wound. For when it is cancrenated, it is called Vlcera corrosiva, because it goeth eating and creeping on the flesh: but when the wound is imposthumated and full of matter, it is called Vlcera putrida, that is putrified, and it is because it is filthy and stinketh. But when it is neither cancrenated, nor yet aposthumated, but that through some evil disposition the wound is closed, and that there cometh in it evil qualities without alteration, than is it called Vlcera sordida, because therein is evil quality, and it appeareth but little, but it is evil to heal. There be other sorts of Ulcers also, which are caused of divers and sundry kinds of tumors: and the most evil and mischeivious are those that are of tumors caused of the Pox: for unto those there run abundance of evil humours that augment the Ulcer, and they be the worst sort, for they cannot be healed by themselves, except the body be well purged and evacuated of all the humours that are offensive. There is another kind of Ulcer that cometh of an Imposthume as well hot as cold, and those are more gentle and easy to be helped, if you know the Medicines that are apt to help and dissolve those kinds of Ulcers. These are the three kinds of Ulcers that commonly hap unto men and women through divers causes, as before is said, so that these are the principal causes of those malign Ulcers.   

CHAP. XX. To help Ulcers of all sorts.  
SEeing that Ulcers are of divers and sundry kinds, it were necessary to know of what kind and quality they are, so that thou mayst help them in form and order convenient. And first I will writ of the corrosive Ulcers, as of a wound cancrenated, of Mal di formica, and of other sorts of Ulcers that go creeping upon the flesh. The cure of these kinds of Ulcers is, to apply quickly our Caustick to mortify the evil, which thou shalt do thus. Wet a little Bombast in our Caustick, and therewith wash all the sore, and than leave it so open four and twenty hours without binding it fast, and when four and twenty hours are past, wash the sore with strong Vinegar, and water of a like quantity, with charge that there remain none of the Caustick in the sore: than lay thereon Butter washed with a Colewort leaf, until the asker or dead flesh fall: than take our Cerot Magistrale, with a little Precipitate strewed thereon, and than anoint it with Magno liquore, and lay it upon the sore: for this Cerot helpeth all manner of corosive Ulcers without any other help, and every plaster will serve three or four days, taking them of every four and twenty hours, and making them clean, and than lay them on again. And as for the filthy Ulcer that I have showed of in this Chapter, you shall dress it only with our Vnguento magno, the which, without any other help, will heal them quickly. But you must every four days touch them with Aqua fortis drawn from Precipitate, which water draweth forth the offensive matter, and leaveth it purified and clean. And in all other sorts of Ulcers, our Balm artificial, our Magno liquore, Oil of Wax, and Turpentine, the black Cerot of Godfredo di me di, our Cerot Magistrale with Precipitate, are able to help, be they never so evil. And hereafter I will writ of Ulcers particularly with their cures.   

CHAP. XXI. Of Ulcers, that come in the feet, of corns, or of chaps.  
ULcers that come in the feet may come of divers causes, and are also of divers kinds, as of chaps, of corns, and such like. When they are chaps they come of an hot matter and fiery, as you may see by experience: For the Patient feeleth great heat in his feet, and is always thirsty, the which giveth manifest signs that the humour is hot: and their cure is with cooling purgations, as our Syrup against melancholy humours, taking it ten days together: than take our Pillole Aquilone twice, and so thou shalt take away the heat in the feet: and to help the crepature or chaps, make this Unguent. Take oil of Roses, Vinegar, and liquid Pitch, ana, and boil them until the Vinegar be consumed, and so being warm, wet a cloth therein, and lay it thereupon, and in short time it will be whole: but if they be corns, you shall cut them unto the quick, and than lay thereon a cloth wet in Oleum benedictum, which doth comfort and dry, and quickly take away the pain. But when they are scratching, or as it were scorched, you shall lay thereon Vnguento de Lithargiro crudo, and so thou shalt help them, as I have seen the experience.   

CHAP. XXII. Of Vleers in the Legs  
THese Ulcers in the Legs are of two kinds, that is, filthy, and corrosive. The filthy Ulcers are caused of cold and moist humours: The corrosive are caused of humours hot and dry: and these are those Ulcers that go creeping in the flesh, healing in one place, and breaking out in another. The filthy Ulcer is stinking and full of matter, and causeth little pain, and their cure is with our Balm artificial, which hath virtue to penetrate, digest, mundify, and incarnate, and heal, when that the body is first well purged: but those that are caused of heat and dryness, you shall cure with the remedy written in the Chapter next abovesaid, and than dress them with our Magistrale Cerot, and put thereon a little Precipitate, and anoint it with Magno liquore, and so thou shalt help them. But if so be it chance the said Medicine do not heal it, you shall perfume them five times with Sinabar, Incense, and Myrrh, and without all doubt thou shalt heal them.   

CHAP. XXIII. Of Ulcers that come in the Knees.  
THese Ulcers in the Knees are gross humours that cannot pass by the Joints downwards, and so remain in those places, and 'cause a fastidious Ulcer, which putteth the Patient to great pains, by reason of abundance of humours that cometh there. And the cure of this Imposthume ulcerated is thus, purge the body with our Soluble Syrup, seven or eight mornings warm: and than give him di. ℥. of Electuaria Angelica, and so thou shalt help them quickly: than dress the Ulcer with Vnguento magno, putting therein a little Precipitate and Magno liquore, and so in short time it will heal.   

CHAP. XXIV. Of Ulcers in the Groin.  
THese Ulcers for the most part are tumors, or Botches, the which through the evil disposition of Nature, and evil Medicines are ulcerated. And of that may come many infirmities, which I will leave to treat of at this time, and I will show thee a remedy. Give the Patient seven or eight mornings our Soluble Syrup cold, and than give him our Aromatico, and after let him use Lignum Sanctum according to our order, and dress the Ulcer with this Unguent. Take Vnguento magno ℥. two. Magno liquore di. ℥. and common Precipitateʒ. two. Mix them well together, for this is the true secret of our invention, never made before of any man, the which I have proved infinite times.   

CHAP. XXV. Of Ulcers in the Arms.  
THese Ulcers are not of so evil nature as those in the Legs, because thereunto come not so many humours, and these are commonly caused of the Pox, the Cure is this. Purge them well with our Magistrale Syrup, seven or eight mornings together, than take Pillole Aquilone, and than anoint them with Vnguento magno every night until the Ulcers remain whole and without pain. Thus have I used divers times.   

CHAP. XXVI. Of Ulcers that come in the Breast and Shoulders, and in the Back and Belly.  
ULcers that come in the foresaid parts, are all caused of Imposthumes of evil qualities, that have not been well healed of the Chirurgeons, which knew not how to remove the cause, and by that means the Imposthumes are become malign Ulcers. He therefore that will cure these Ulcers, it shall be necessary for him to do that which was not done; that is, to remove the cause first, and than the cure will follow with more ease and speed, so there be good regard and consideration had thereof. And yet amongst Ulcers there is one kind that will receive no curation, and they are called Cancri, that are crude and of evil digestion, and go creeping along the flesh, and have a root as it were a Plant: And for those kinds there is found no better remedy to mitigate them, than is our Quinta essentia Vegitabile, for if you put it therein, and lay a cloth wet in the same thereon, it taketh away the pain, in such sort, that it is to be wondered at, and will not suffer it to putrify; it taketh away the stinking, and comforteth the place very much. As concerning the other kind of Ulcer, you must first found out the cause before you can help it, and the cause being found, the cure is easy to found and sure. He therefore that will be diligent, shall not only heal those kinds of Ulcers, but also all other Ulcers.   

CHAP. XXVII. Of Ulcers that come outwardly in all the body.  
THese Ulcers are a kind of fat sore that causeth abundance of matter, which cometh through superfluous humidity of the body and blood, and these are evil to heal, because their Original cometh of the inward parts, and the cure is thus: Give the Patient fourteen days our Potion of Lignum Sanctum, the which is soluble and drying, and purgeth the blood, that being done, anoint the Ulcer with Vnguentum de Lethargiro simple, and so they shall be helped perfectly.   

CHAP. XXVIII. Of Ulcers in the Head.  
ULcers in the Head are of divers kinds, as of Wounds, Contusions, Swell, Scabs and white Skalls, and such like, which come of sundry causes, and are helped divers ways. For the Wounds Ulcerated, are mortified with our Castick, laying it on four and twenty hours, and than wash it with strong Vinegar, until all the Castick be come forth, and after help it with our Magno liquore: The like cure is done in Contusions ulcerated, but the Swell do differ much, for that they are caused of the Pox, and thou shalt cure them with Soluble Medicines: Viz. Take Sarsa-Parilia, and than perfume him five or six times with Sinaber. The Scabs or Crusts are helped with taking three times our Electuario angelica, and than anoint them every night with Magno liquore. The white Scab is helped with our Magistrale Cerot laying on Cantharideses, and so let it lie three days, than take it of, and lay on another like the first, and let it lie other three days, and than anoint the head with Oleum Benedictum continually.   

CHAP. XXIX. Of Ulcers in the mouth, their Kind's and Remedies.  
ULcers that come in the mouth are of divers and sundry kinds, for some proceed of heat in the head, others of cold, others are humours Gallico. Those that come of heat in the head, are as it were scorched with great burning within them, and the cure thereof is in letting blood in the veins under the tongue, and the next day give him one dose of our Electuario angelica, and let him wash his mouth with Planten water, wherein is boiled Tutia prepared, Roch Alum, and Honey of Roses, and this is the true order to cure those kind of Ulcers with speed. Those Ulcers which are caused of cold, are a certain hardness alterated, which cause little pain; and the cure of these is to drink our Vegitabile Quinta essentia, with Mel Rosarum: and dress the Ulcer with Oil of Sulphur and Tartur mixed: And herein consisteth a great Secret worthy to be known, and is of our invention. Ulcers that are caused of Morbo Gallico, if you will cure them, you must first remove the cause, as I have said divers times, and touch them with our Castick. and let the Patient hold his mouth open a good while after, that the Water may run out: And than make a Lavatory of Aqua vitae, Honey, and Oil of Vitriol, and therewith wash the mouth, for these are great Secrets which bring both health to the Patient, and honour to the Professor of this Art.   

CHAP. XXX. Of Wounds and their kinds, and of their secret Remedies.  
Wounds are of divers and sundry kinds. Nevertheless, they consist in two, that is Simple, and Compound. The Simple wounds are those, where the flesh is only offended. The Compound are those, where there is offence of flesh, sinews, veins, and bones, and the cure of either of them is in three manners. The first is a cure pertaining to Nature and not to Art, and that is it which Dogs and other Animals do use, who being wounded, use no other Medicine than to keep the wound clean with their proper tongues, and keep a Diet, and the rest is left unto Nature which worketh well without pains of Medicine, and this is the first. The second is that which is called Canonico, in which there be four operations. The first is, Digestion. The second, Mundification. The third, Incarnation. The fourth, Siccatrisation. The third order is of our invention, and is done in this order, that is; Whensoever a man hath a wound either simple or compound, the first thing that is to be done therein is, to join the parts close together, and stitch them, and dress them with divers sorts of drying Medicines, as I will show thee hereafter in the cure of Wounds, in sundry parts of the body.   

CHAP. XXXI. What Medicines are fittest to heal Wounds outwardly with ease, and in short time.  
HAving declared already what wounds are outwardly, it is necessary also to show the true order to cure them with as much ease, and brevity, as is possible to be done: And first, I will begin with simple wounds that are only in the flesh, without offence of vein, sinew or bone. Although these sorts of wounds are not to be helped with artifice, but only to join the parts together, and if it be necessary also to stitch them, and so leave it unto Nature, the which in short time will heal it, nevertheless if thou wilt help it with artifice the faster, you shall anoint it once a day with oil of Frankincense made by Distillation, as is showed in this Book. But those wounds where there are veins cut, have need to be succoured presently with ingenious artifice, and perfect Remedies to ease and heal them with the most speed that can be, because the veins may join together, without greater offence of the wound, and this Mystery thou shalt do in this order: The first is to join the wound together quickly, and stitch it close as they use to sow bags, and not to leave great wide stitches as they most commonly do; that being done, dress it upon the wound with our Magno liquore, wetting therein a cloth, and laying it on as hot as you may suffer it, than strew thereupon our secret powder, and also round about it, for that subtiliateth the matter that runneth to the wound, and taketh it forth with great ease, and without pain of the wound, and therefore this is one of the most safest Remedies in that case, that Nature with Art can make, and hath been proved an infinite of times by me, and always have had goodly experiences thereof. Also understand that these wounds, where the bones and sinews are cut, have need of great artifice, for they are of great importance. But when there is offence only of the sinews, you shall stitch them presently, and do as I have said before of veins that were cut, but dress them not with Magno liquore, but in stead of that take Oleum Benedictum, and oil of Frankincense, of each alike, because these Oils do comfort marvellously those sinews that are cut. If it chance so, that a sinew had a puncture, or cut half away, in that case it is necessary to cut it overthwart, jest it should bring a Spasm in the wound. But in case afterwards that the bone be offended, and that there be some part to come forth, it were necessary to leave the wound open until the bone be come forth, and than incarnate it; and this thou shalt do with our Balsamo Artificiato, and lay thereon the Cerot of Godfredo di medi, the which helpeth with great speed. And this is the order wherewith thou mayest help all those sorts of wounds before named, and the defensive to use in these wounds is this. Take perfect Aqua vitae made of good Wine, and put therein Hypericon, Millefolly, Viticella, Betonie, and with that Infusion wet clotheses, and lay them for a defensive round about the wound, and thou shalt have good success. Wounds in the head are helped in the order, as those in whom the Sinews are offended. There are divers other sorts of wounds, which may be healed with the aforesaid remedies, as hereafter shall be showed particularly.   

CHAP. XXXII. Of Wounds in the Head, with offence of the brain, and how to cure them.  
Wounds in the head, where there is offence of the brain, are mortal: and there is no Physician that will take them in cure, but he counteth them dead men without any hope. But I by the grace of God and gift of Nature, have found the order to cure and heal them in short time. I remember that when one was wounded in the head in the famous City of Naples, yea, although the brain were not hurt, but that the skin were cut unto the bone, they counted him mortal, but I dressed them, and closed their wounds, and helped them in short space, so that they wondered thereat; and that order I used for the space of seven years that I tarried there, and caused them to walk in the streets, as it is well known unto all those that devil there. And among a number of other, I cured a Portugal that was called, Il Signior Diego di mena, of whom I took away all the bone of the forehead, and every day he came to my lodging to be cured, which I did with great speed, so that it caused every one to marvel thereat. Afterward I went to Rome in the time of Pope Paulus the iiii. Carafa, and always I cured in the same order, and did miracles, of which I call to testimony the Romans. And among the rest, I cured a certain Gentleman called M. Alessandor (I cannot remember his Surname) who was wounded in divers places, and I cured him quickly. After that I cured, and that in short time, a young man that was in manner cut in pieces, and of that M. Jacomo da Perugia, M. Alessandro da Civita, M. Daltilo Hebraeo, all learned Doctors can testify, for they were present. And such like cures I have always done in Venice: But among the rest I will not leave to writ of a great chance, the which is true, and is thus: There is in Venice a rare Poet and Orator and Historiographer, well known unto the world called M. Dionigio Antanagi, who through his evil destiny was wounded in the head, so that it penetrated the flesh and the bone, and entered half a finger breadth into the brain, and there that virtuous man fell to the ground as a dead man, and he lifted himself up to rise, but he could not, but fell down again, and there came a dimness over his eyes, with a vomiting and and a Fever, and the blood would not stint, and he lay in extreme pains, which were all mortal signs: than I being called unto that cure, because he and I were of great familiarity, and presently I shut the wound, and put therein our Aqua balsami, and I anointed all his head with our Balsamo artificiato; that being done, presently the blood stenched, and the pain went away, and the night after he took his rest, and in the morning the Fever was also gone: After that, I dressed him with Magno liquore, wetting clotheses therein, and upon the cloth I strewed the powder of Hypericon: And this Medicine I used eight days, in the which time he came forth of his bed; and shortly after he was perfectly whole, and before six months were passed, it was so siccatrized, that no man could perceive any wound. And of this I have to testimony Venice, Rome, Urbine, Caglie, and all Italy. To conclude this Chapter, I say, that wit the aforesaid order, thou mayest cure any such sort of wound.   

CHAP. XXXIII. Of Wounds in the Head, with Fracture of the Bone.  
Wounds in the Head, with Fracture of the bone, of the common Physicians and Chirurgeons, are counted difficile to be healed, because thereunto belongeth great art or cunning, for they open the flesh and raspe the bone, with many other things, of which here I accounted it superfluous to treat of, because that many be helped without them. For always when the Physician or Chirurgeon, doth defend the wound from alteration and corruption, nature itself will work very well, and heal it without any other aid; but with our Medicines they may be helped with much more speed, because they let the alteration, and defendeth them from Putrefaction, and mittigateth the pain, and the order to cure those kinds of wounds is thus: The first thing that is to be done in those wounds is, to join the parts close together, and dress them upon the wound with our Oleum Benedictum, and upon the oil lay clotheses wet in our Magno liquore, as hot as you may suffer it, and so with these Remedies thou shalt help them quickly, because our Oleum Benedictum taketh away the pains, and keepeth it from putrefaction, and repercusseth: Our Magno liquore digesteth, mundifieth, and incarnateth, and healeth. And therefore this is the best Medicine that can be used in these kinds of wounds. For hereof I have had an infinite of experiences, the which have been counted Miracles, and therefore I have let the world to understand thereof, that they may help themselves, if occasion shall serve; therefore he that will follow this our order in curing, shall work Miracles on the earth.   

CHAP. XXXIV. Of Wounds in the Head, where the bone is not offended.  
Wounds in the head where the bone is not hurt, are not of so great Importance, but are easy to be helped; for you shall need to do nothing, but to keep it from putrefaction, and defend it from inflammation, which are easy to be done, and so Nature will work well with great speed. To keep the wound from putrefaction, you shall anoint it round about with our Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina & Cera. And to keep it from Inflammation, you shall wash it with our Quintessence, and upon the wound dress it with our Magno liquore. Thus doing thy cure shall prospero happily, and you shall not need to take away any blood, nor yet to keep any diet, nor yet to keep the house, but to go where you think good, without any peril or danger. And this Order I have used a long time, as divers Cities can testify.   

CHAP. XXXV. Of Contusions▪ or bruises, as well in the head, as other places.  
COntusions, or bruises in the head, or any other place of the body, of the ancient Physicians hath been counted dangerous to heal. For, they say, that Contusions must be brought to putrefaction, and turned into matter: which opinion I do not allow: For by me those Contusions or bruises, are very easy to be dissolved without maturation: And that I do with our Oleo benedicto, and Magno liquore, as much of the one as of the other mixed together, and made very hot as you may suffer it, and than wet clotheses therein twice a day, and in three or four days at the most, they shall be resolved: and this it doth, because this remedy assubtiliateth the humours, and openeth the pores, and draweth forth the matter that is run unto the place offended, and so by those means they shall be helped. With this remedy I have cured hundreds when I was in the wars in Africa, in Anno 1551. when the said City was taken and destroyed by the Camp of Charles the fifth Emperor.   

CHAP. XXXVI. Of Wounds in the neck, and the order to be used in curing them.  
Wounds in the neck are very perilous, and hard to be cured, and long before they will heal: and this cometh because in it are all the ligaments of the head, as bones, sinews, veins, flesh, and skin, all instruments that hold the head and the body together, without the which a man cannot live: and therefore those wounds are so perilous to be healed, seeing thereunto runneth so great quantity of humours, that they will not suffer the wound to be healed. The true way therefore to help these wounds, is to stitch them well in his place, and dress it upon the wound with clotheses wet in Oleum benedictum one part, and Magno liquore three parts mixed together, as hot as you can suffer it: and upon the cloth lay the powder of Mille folly: and this thou shalt do once in four and twenty hours, and so thou shalt help them quickly; giving you great charge, that you change not your Medicine, for this mundifieth, incarnateth, and healeth the wound without any further help: For I have proved it an infinite of times.   

CHAP. XXXVII. Of wounds in the arms, and their importance, and Medicines.  
Wounds in the arms are dangerous, for that there also are a great number of Sinews, Cartiligines, Veins, Muskles, and other dangerous things, as it is well seen in wounds of the arms, how that many times thereunto runneth abundance of humours, and there cometh alteration, inflammation, and imposthumation, which hurteth the Patient much. Therefore in this case, I will show thee a rare secret, wherewith thou shalt help any sort of wound in the arm, without any alteration, and with little pain, and the secret is this: Dress the wound upon the upper parts with our Magno liquore very warm, without any tenting at all: and this do once a day and no more, and in any wise change not your Medicine: For with this thou mayest help all wounds in the arms with great speed: and it is one of the greatest secrets that can be used for wounds in the arms, and proved by me infinite times.   

CHAP. XXXVIII. Of Wounds in the breast, as well piercing through, as other.  
ALl wounds in the breast are troublesome, and very dangerous, as well they that pierce into the body, as others. And the cause is, for that the parts of the breast are compounded of Skin, Cartilages, Sinews, Flesh, and Bones. So that it cannot be but troublesome and perilous. For where the sinew parts be hurt, there ariseth ever great pain, which for the most part bringeth Fevers, and other accidents, and therefore is evil to cure. The cure of them is with our Balsamo and Quinta essentia. For the one taketh away the pain, and the other keepeth from alteration. But when they are piercing into the body, they are most dangerous, because the Chirurgeon cannot tell certainly what part within the body is offended or hurt. Either the Liver, or the Lungs, or the Milt, or any other particulars. Moreover, there is another matter which maketh it dangerous, which is, when they are penetrating, the matter that proceedeth from the Wound falleth into the body, as well as out. And remaining in the body causeth putrefaction, than Fevers follow, and commonly death. Wherhfore in this case, 'cause the Patient to vomit, and to keep slender diet, because the humour should not altar to the damage of the wounded. And to preserve him from putrefaction, you shall anoint all his body over with our Balsamo, and let him drink our Quintessence morning and evening. And this done the cure shall prospero, or else there is no hope by any other means.   

CHAP. XXXIX. Of Wounds in the belly, and in the reins, and their affects and Medicines.  
Wounds in the belly are doubtful, and very uncertain to cure, because it is impossible to know how they are, or of what importance they be: for although ye may see the Orifice where the Weapon went in, yet ye cannot know what offence it hath done in the interior parts, and therefore they are bard to be helped, and worse to judge of, and for that cause I will not stand long in reasoning thereof: for I have determined not to speak of things uncertain and doubtful, but only of things that may be proved by reason and experience. And because those wounds be uncertain, I will writ nothing of them, for fear of hiding the truth: but I will writ of those in the reins or back, and first I will show what the reins are, because every one may comprehend my reason. It is to be understood, that our bodies are made all of sensible things: as inwardly, the Stomach, the Heart, the Liver, the Lungs, the Belly, the Milt, the Guts, with a number of other things which are not common, or known to all men, as those which I have spoken of. The rest of the man is made of Cartilagines, of Veins, of Muskles, of Flesh, of Skin, and other particulars of small importance to know, because the wise, learned, and reverend, my Lord Canan Ferrarese, hath writ thereof better than ever any in the world hath done, and therefore if you believe not me, believe his writing set forth in print. But to return to our purpose, I say, that God hath compounded the m●n naturally of all these things that I have spoken of: and because they are soft and tender, he hath placed the bones in the midst of them to strengthen them, and to keep them straight, etc. And from the shoulder to the thigh, he hath made a great pillar, of many pieces of bones joined together: On the one part whereof groweth the ribs, which holdeth the flesh, skin, and other particulars fare from the interiours: and upon that bone on the outward side, are the magistral sinews that descend from the head, and bind all the back together, and reacheth down unto the feet. Therefore (this being true that I have said) wounds in the head are very dangerous in all his actions, and their cure very hard, because all those senses that give nourishment, pass by the reins downward to the lower parts: and most commonly when a man is wounded in those places, he remaineth lame on the leg that is on that part, and being, as it is, hard and dangerous, the cure of it, according to the Canons of the Ancients, is also perilous; because in those places where so many particulars do meet and communicate, there aught not in any wise to be putrefaction, or digestion, but to preserve: You may not bring it to maturation, but to keep it from it; you may not incarnate, but with speed heal it up: and so in this order the cure shall succeed well, and without danger. And this I will show unto every one, because he shall profit by our doctrine to the glory of God, and health of the wounded. When one is wounded in those parts, I counsel that the Chirurgeon presently shall close the wound with all his diligence, putting thereupon of our Quinta essentia, and instead of a defensive our Balsamo, and upon the wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno liquore, and upon the cloth strew our secret powder for wounds, and following this order, he shall be reputed for an excellent Chirurgeon above all other: and this is the mere truth as by most evident proof thou shalt more largely found.   

CHAP. XL. Of Wounds in the Legs, and those parts.  
Wounds in the Legs are in manner of the same quality as those in the arms, because the Legs are of their proper quality and Nature compounded of the like substance that the Arms are, that is, skin, flesh, muskles, veins, sinews, and bones. And these when they are offended, or wounded, are very perilous, because unto them runneth great quantity of humours. And in the Legs are certain deadly places as a man may say: As the hinder part of the Caulf of the Leg: And the middle of the inner side of the thigh: The Ankle and the foot are all places troublesome and curious to heal, when they are wounded. And therefore to heal them according to the manner of the Ancients, it were great trouble to the Chirurgeon, and pity to see the pain of the Patient. Wherhfore in no wise use not the Medicines of the Ancients, but when thou hast occasion, join unto the skill of thy Art, the use of these Medicines, our Quinta essentia, Balsamo, Magno Liquore, Oleo Benedicto, Oleo di Rasa, Oleo Philosophorum, any of these, or such like, which are incorruptible, which by their proper quality assubtiliateth contusions, pierceth to the bottom of Wounds, keepeth the flesh in his natural calidity and humidity, preserveth from putrefaction, and naturally maketh the flesh to join and grow together, and that in short space. Therefore consider well which worketh better effect, ours or the Ancients: And use them at thy discretion.   

CHAP. XLI. Of wounds that pierce into the body, and of their danger.  
Wounds that pierce into the body are very perilous and mortal, because the most part of them cannot be cured by ordinary means, and especially when the interiours are ulcerated: In that case the Physician not seeing it, nor knowing the truth of the wound, cannot apply convenient Medicines, therefore he shall be much less apt to heal them, and therefore you must stand to the benefit of Fortune. And of this I will discourse nothing, for that it will be hard for me to show that thing, that I cannot see with mine eyes, nor touch with my hands: And because this discourse cannot be approved of the truth, and of experience, I will not meddle therewith in any wise: Nevertheless, I will writ of those sorts of wounds that are penetrative, and yet not offend the , for those may be helped with ease, as I have cured a great number, and among the rest in Anno 1551. in the month of June (as I remember) the 17. day, being in the Army of Naples to go to Africa, there happened a great chance which was thus: The Captain General of the Galleys of Fiorenza, named Il Signior Giordano Orsino sitting at the Table with divers Captains and Gentlemen, among the rest there was one Captain falling in talk with another, sitting at the same Table, took a loaf of bread, and flung it at his face, than Signior Giordano seeing that little respect of the Captain, rose from the Table and took him by the collar, and gave him five Stoccadoes in the breast to have slain him, and left him lying: That being done, the said Signior Giordano repent him, and seeing that he was not yet dead, called for me being in the Galley with Don Garsia de Toledo my General, and when I came, I found the poor Captain almost dead; whom I dressed with our Balsamo artificiato, and twice a day I gave him to drink of our Quinta essentia, and gave him meats of good nourishment, and I never put tent into the wound, and in three days he was helped, and of this the whole company, that was in the Galley can testify, and especially the said Signior Giordano who did the fact. Than afterwards in Africa I cured an infinite number that were wounded in divers manners. And of these Experiences I have done and do yet daily, in so much that if I should writ of them, it would be tedious, and therefore I will stand not longer about matters concerning wounds, because I have written a Discourse upon Chirurgery, and Il Capricio Medicinale, in the which I have declared many things most profitable in the same.   

CHAP. XLII. A Discourse upon old wounds which are not yet healed, with their Remedies.  
WHen that wounds are evil healed, and that therein cometh Imposthumation, and that the part wounded be indurated and full of pain. Than use this Secret of our Invention, which was never yet seen or heard of by the Ancients, nor yet in our time but of us. When thou findest such a case, wash the wound well, and make it clean round about, and than wash it with our Quinta essentia Vegitabile, and bathe it well through, for that the said Quintessence doth open the pores, and assubtiliateth the matter, and causeth the humour to come forth. This being done, anoint all over with our Magno liquore, and this doing, within three days the Patient shall feel great ease, and in short time after he shall be whole. This is one of the noblest Medicines that can be made, for it taketh away the hardness, healeth the wound, and comforteth the place offended.   

CHAP. XLIII. A rare Secret to heal wounds of Gun-shot, Arrows or such like in the wars, when they require haste.  
IF thou wilt cure those wounds, presently join the parts together, and wash it with our Aqua Celestis and Oleum Balsami of our invention, and lay a cloth wet in the same thereon.   

CHAP. XLIV. To heal a Wound quickly.  
Wash the wound well with our Aqua Balsami, and close it up, and thereupon lay a cloth wet in the Oil of Frankincense, and so by this means thou shalt help any great wound quickly, for I have proved it infinite times, to my great honour.   

CHAP. XLV. To help a Wound quickly, that is in danger of any accident.  
Wounds in some parts of the body, are very dangerous of life, and specially where the sinews be cut or pierced, or veins or muskles hurt, or bones broken, and by an infinite of other particulars, which being open, or evil healed, the Patient may be in danger of life, because the wind entereth in, and they 'cause pains and inflammation, and therefore to avoid all these aforesaid matters, so that the wound shall have no detriment, use this remedy. First, join the parts close together, and put therein our Quintessence, and lay thereon a cloth, wet in our Balm, and bind it fast that the air get not in, for it is very hurtful. Ye shall understand that these are two of the excellentest Medicines that may be found, because our Quintessence doth assubtiliate the blood, and taketh it forth, and taketh away the pain, and the Balm doth warm and comfort the place offended, and will not suffer any matter to run thereunto by any means, for this is most true, as I have proved divers and sundry times, and always have had good success.   

CHAP. XLVI. To stay the Flux of Blood in Wounds.  
When there is a Flux of Blood in any wound, by reason of some vein that is cut, and that the Chirurgeon would stop it. It is necessary that he put into it our Quintessence, and than to stitch it up very close and hard, and upon the wound strew the blood of a man dried, made in powder, and lay upon the blood a cloth wet in our Balm artificial very warm, and upon that bind the wound very strait with ligaments. And every day twice wash it with our Quintessence, and round about it anoint it with our Balm, and also cast thereon our secret Powder for wounds; and that do Morning and Evening every day, without opening the wound. And in short time it will remain well. Giving you charge that the wounded person do keep no strait diet, because Nature being weak, relaxeth the veins, and that causeth the flux of blood.   

CHAP. XLVII. Another for the same.  
FIrst, stitch the wound close, than cast thereon man's blood, and bind it somewhat hard, so let it remain 24. hours, and when you unbind it, take heed you remove nothing, and cast thereon more dried blood, and anoint it round about with Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina & Cera, and bind it up again other four and twenty hours, and than bind it gently, and anoint the wound with Oil of Frankincense, and in short time it will be perfectly whole.   

CHAP. XLVIII. A Defence to be laid upon wounds.  
TAke perfect Aqua vitae, of good wine, what quantity you will, and put therein Hypericon, Millefolie, Viticella, and and betony, ana, than let it stand certain days close stopped, and when ye will use it, wet a cloth therein, and lay it round about the wound. And thou shalt have thy intent, to the great satisfaction of the Patient.   

CHAP. XLIX. Our Secret Powder for Wounds.  
TAke Hypericon flowers and leaves, Millefolie, and Viticella, ana, stamp them well together, and strew it upon the wound, and round about the wound when it is dressed, for it doth defend it from accidents.    

The Third Book of the Secrets of LEONARDO PHIORAVANTE.  

CHAP. I. In this third book is showed the order to make divers Compositions, appertaining both to Physic and Chirurgery, with the hidden virtues of sundry Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals, well approved by this Author, and first of his Petra Philosophale, the which helpeth against all diseases that happeneth unto man and woman.  
THere hath always been a great questioning among the Philosophers, whether that one Medicine might help against all diseases or no. The which I affirm, and will approve with sufficient reason, that the Petra Philosophale, made of our invention, may help against all the infirmities that cometh unto man's body▪ and two only reasons I will show thee with brevity: The first of them is this, that all sorts of infirmities have their original and beginning of the Stomach, and to know the truth, ye may see manifestly, that if the body be never so little infirmed, the stomach is also grieved: For ye may see how the Animals terrestrial, never help themselves of other infirmity than of the stomach, and when they will help themselves, they eat herbs, the which causeth them to vomit, and this doth signify that they have no other infirmity, than the aforesaid; so by the experience of the Animals, I approve that the infirmity is caused of the stomach, and this is the first reason. The second is, that all the Medicines, wherein our Petra Philosophale is put, as soon as they are come into the stomach, it draweth unto it all the evil humours of the stomach, and also of the whole body, and mixeth with them, and so nature sendeth them forth by vomit, or by siege, or both, and so the stomach shall be evacuated of that matter, and the body remain free from all impediments of infirmities, so that by this reason I affirm, that our Petra Philosophale may help against all sorts of infirmities. And to know the truth, I have proved it by experience in all manner of infirmities, and always have found it to do much good unto all men, and hurt none unto my knowledge, and the order to make this Petra Philosophale, is thus.  
Take Sal Niter, roche Allome, Vitriol Romain, of each two pound.  
First, dry the Vitriol in an earthen pan, and than beaten it to powder, and mix it with the other matters, and put thereunto four ounces of Sal Gemmae, than put it in a Gourd with his head, and a Receiver well luted, and distil it in a wind furnace, so that ye may make fire with wood, and at the first make small fire, and so increase it according to Art, and always lay wet clotheses on the Head and Receiver, and that thou shalt do, because the spirits of the water shall not fly away. Ye shall understand, that in the beginning of your distillation, the Receiver will wax read like blood, and than turn white, and at the last, when ye give it strong fire, it will turn read again, and those are the pure spirits of the Aqua fortis, and than at the end, the Receiver will turn white again, and than it is ended▪ than let it wax ●old, and than keep it in a glass close shut, to make our Petra Philosophale.  
Than take Mercury one pound, quick Lime ℥. vi. ●ope ℥. iiii. common Ashe● ℥▪ ●●●. Mix them together in a Mortar of stone, and than put them into a Retort 〈◊〉 and distil it with a strong fire until all the Mercury be come forth into the Receiver, than take it forth▪ and keep it in a glass to make thy Composition, the which is made thus▪  
Take the water that thou modest first, and 〈…〉 a Gourd of glass being well luted, and than put in the Mercury that thou didst distil before. After that take S●●●l in thin plates ℥ i Iron also in thin plates ℥. two. Fine gold in leaves, the weight of 〈◊〉. two. and put them altogether in the glass, and presently set on the Head, for it will begin to boil, and 'cause read fumes like blood, the which thou shalt receive in a Receiver, and presently set thy glass in the Furnace, and give it fire until all the water be come forth with the fume. Than let it cool, and keep that close in a glass, than break that other glass that stood in the fire, and in the bottom thou shalt found our Petra Philosophale, the which thou shalt grind fine, and searce it into most fine powder, and than wash it well with Vinegar distilled, and dry it again, and at the last wash it with Rosewater, and dry it very well, stirring it continually over the fire, than keep it as a precious Jewel close in a Glass.  
For the order to use it, I will writ hereafter in sundry places: Ye shall understand, that the water which ye distilled away from the stone; will serve for the same purpose again: But ye must take but half the quantity of the aforesaid matters, and when ye have distilled it again from the stone, ye shall preserve it for an infinite number of purposes, as I will show thee hereafter.   

CHAP. II. To make our Balm artificial, with the order to use it, and wherefore it serveth.  
THis Balsamum hath all the virtues of the natural Balm, although not in quality, yet in virtue, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Veni●e Turpentine one pound, Oil of Bays that is perfect without mixture ℥. iiii. Galbanum ℥. three Gum Arabia ℥. iiii. Olibanum, Mirrba elect, Gum Hedera, of each ℥. three Lignum Aloes, Galingall, Cloves, Consolida minore, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Zedoaria, Ginger, Diptamum album, of each ℥. i. Musk of Levant, Ambergriece, of each ʒ. i. Beat all those aforesaid things together, and put them into a Retort of glass well luted, and put thereto six pound of rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm, and so let it stand eight days, and than distil it by Sand, and there will come forth a white water mixed with Oil, and so keep thy fire small, until there come forth a blackish Oil, than change thy Receiver, and set thereto another, and increase thy fire until all the spirits be come forth, than separate the Oil from the black water, and keep them by themselves, and the like shall ye do by the first water. The first water that is white, is called Aqua del Balsamo, and the Oil separated from that, is called Oleum del Balsamo. The second water that is black, is called Mater Balsami, and the Oil separated from that water, is called Balsamo artificiato, the which would be kept as a precious Jewel.  
The first water is most excellent to clear and preserve the sight of the eyes, also the face being washed therewith, it maketh it very fair, and preserveth it youthfully, it keepeth back age, it breaketh the gravel in the reins, and provoketh Urine, the which is stopped through carnosity, it helpeth all manner of wounds, in what place of the body soever they be, if ye wash them with the said water, and wet therein clouts and lay thereon, for his operation is so strange, that it seemeth rather divine than human. It helpeth much against the Etisie, and against all sorts of Catarrhs, and Cough. If ye wash a Sciatica therewith, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same, it taketh away the pain presently.  
The other water called the Mother of Balm, helpeth Scabs in short time, if ye wash them therewith: so doth it help the white Scall, Lepra, and all sorts of Ulcers that are not corrosive, most miraculously to see, and without any trouble. It serveth also against a number of other infirmities, the which I will let pass at this time.  
The Oil of Balm doth serve for an infinite number of things, and especially for wounds in the head, where the bone and pannicle is hurt, putting it therein. It preserveth the face if ye anoint it therewith. It is most excellent against the Pleurisy, giving thereof ʒ. i. at a time with the water of Balm.  
The Balm artificial is a miraculous liquor, for if any have the stitch in the side, and take ʒ. two. thereof, it presently will help him. It is also good against the Cough, and Catarrh, and coldness in the head and stomach, and for wounds in the head. It is a most Sovereign remedy, if ye anoint all the head therewith once a day, because it pierceth into the brain, and also unto the stomach beneath. It resolveth a Quartan in short time, if ye anoint all the body therewith, leaving no part. And to be short, I know no disease, neither hot, nor yet cold, but that this Balsamum doth good unto, as well the hot diseases as the cold, because it cooleth the hot and heateth the cold, and this it doth by his quality and hidden virtue, so that I have found in this precious liquor, such great virtues, that I am not able to declare them all; so that every one, the which is furnished with this precious Balm, may be kept from infirmities, and shall not need to seek the natural Balm, with so much expenses, and danger of the life, as hath been many times seen.   

CHAP. III. To make our Aromatico, the which helpeth against all manner of infirmities, of what quality soever they be.  
ARomatico Leonardo, is so called, because it was compounded and made by his invention, and is a miraculous Medicine, that serveth against all manner of diseases, of what quality soever they be, for it worketh this operation, that is, assoon as it joineth to the stomach, it draweth to it all the evil humours of the body, and embraceth them, and carrieth them forth by vomit and siege, and so leaveth Nature unburdened, the which may prevail to his pleasure because it hath no impediment, and by this reason I approve that our Aromatico helpeth against all diseases; as is said before, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take fine Sugar ℥. iiii. pure Pearls, Musk, Saffron, Lignum Aloes, Cinnamon, ana. ℈. i. Petra Philosophale, ʒ. iiii. mix them together, and make thereof Lozanges with Rosewater according to Art, the which ye shall keep in a box of wood close shut, and the order to use it is thus, that when the Physician doth go to visit any sick person, and that he will prepare him some Medicine to take inward, the best and most perfect Medicine that he can ordain is our Aromatico, because it evacuateth the stomach by vomit, and the body downward, and his operation is such, that it doth in manner help any crude sort of infirmity, and the quantity is from i ʒ. to two. and may he taken in broth, in wine, in water, or mix it with any Pills, or Potion, giving you charge, that when ye put it in any Potion, that ye leave none in the bottom of the cup where ye drink it out, because the Petra Philosophale, is heavy, and will remain in the bottom, for if that remain it will not work at all, giving you also charge, that the said day that ye give this Medicine, that ye let the Patients drink as much crude water as they will, and give them little meat to eat that day, and this is the order to use this Medicine.   

CHAP. FOUR To make our Electuario Angelico, and the order to use it, and in what diseases.  
ELectuario, Angelico Romano is so called, because it was compounded of me in the City of Rome, in the time of the Pope Paulo quarto, and because this composition worketh divinely, I called it Angelico, and is most excellent against many diseases, it is good against all sorts of Fevers, giving it Perminorativo, and for the Stitch in the side it is most rare, because it taketh away the viscosity in the Stomach, and openeth the Pores, and is good against the Gout; for if they take it every third day once, in ten days they shall be helped. It is also good against the Cough, Catarr, and for the Milt, and for those that have the Pox, or the running Gout, and such like influences, and the order to make it is thus:  
Take Saffron, Lignum aloes, Cinnamon, read Coral, anaʒ. iii Elliborus niger, without preparation, ℥. two. Electuario de succo rosarum M●fue, that is not too much boiled ℥. vi. Sugar Rosate ℥. viij. Musk of Levant ʒ. i. Petra Philosophale, ℥. iii our Quintessence of wine ℥. two. purified Honey as much as will suffice to make it in form of an Electuary, mix them on a small fire in an earthen-pan, and when it is made, keep it in a vessel of glass, for any other vessel will not be good. This Electuary ye may mix with any soluble Medicine, but ye must take it fasting, the quantity is from ʒ two. to ʒ. iiii. Ye shall understand, that this in a manner reviveth the dead by his great virtue, as hath been seen many thousand times in Venice, and in Rome, most worthy of memory: And therefore if any Physician desire to get fame in the world, let him use our Electuario Angelica, the which worketh miracles on the earth.   

CHAP. V Our Syrup Solutivo, with the Order to use it.  
SOluble Syrups made in decoction are very wholesome and of great faculty, and specially in the crudity of humours, and the reason is this, because it disperseth the matter, and evacuateth it with great ease, and without danger or trouble of the Patient, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Sage, Rew, Rosemary, Wormwood, Chicory, Carduus Sanctus, Nettles, Organie, of each a handful; Figs, Raisins, Dates, sweet Almonds, Sal gem. ana ℥. iiii. Coloquintida, Aloes hepatica, Cinnamon, Mirabolani citrini, ana ℥. two. common Honey two pound, stamp them all grossly, and put them to infuse in eighteen pound of fair water, than boil it till half be consumed, than strain it, and distil it by a filter, and aromatise it with two carats of Musk, and a pint of Rosewater, and than it is made, the which ye shall keep in a bottle of glass close stopped, the quantity is from ℥. iiii. to ℥. vi. In Winter you shall take it very warm, and in the Spring and Autumn, ye shall take it but warm. In Summer ye shall take it cold, for this purgeth the gross humours of the body, and hurteth not the stomach, you may use it in a Fever four or five days together, and it will help it. In crudity of humours, as the French Pox, Gouts, Catarrhs, Doglie Artetich, and such like matters, where there is no accident of Fever, ye may take it ten or fifteen days together, and cannot hurt by any means, for it purgeth most excellent; it is given against the Cough, against Flux of of the Urine, and pains in the head, and carnosity in the Yard, for the Emeroids; and in sum, it is good against all diseases c●●●ed of corrupt humours, for it hath such virtue, that it draw●●● from all parts, and evacuateth the humours intestinall, for of this Syrup I have had great experience, in such persons as were in manner banished and had lost their taste, and presently using this, they came to their good tempera●●●●, and I have used it an infinite number of times in persons that were ulcerated, and full of sores, evil handled of Fortune, and of the infirmity, and finding no means to cure them as they should be: I gave them this Syrup fourteen or fifteen days, and than they were cured, with a number of other things, the which would be too long to writ, and therefore I would wish every one to use this, not only in the aforesad matters, but in all other diseases.   

CHAP. VI Our Sirrupo magistrale Leonardo, the which serveth against an infinite number of Diseases.  
THis Syrup is solutive, and very pleasant to use, and cannot hurt in any wise, the which is seldom seen in other Medicines, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the leaves of Sine, ℥. two. fumitory, Maidenhair, H●rts-tongue, Liverwort, Epitimum▪ Ellemo, Pollipidie of the Oak, the flowers of Borage, of bugloss, Liquorice, of each ℥. three Coloquintida, Elleborus niger, Aloes Hepatica, Mirabolani Indi, ana ℥. i Prunes xiiii. Sebestien xii. Tamarise ℥. i. Stamp them grossly, and infuse them in ten pound of fumitory water, than boil it until the consumption of the third part, and than strain it, and in that which is strained put these things: Syrup of St●cados one pound, Saffron ℈. i. Mel Rosarum, ℥. vi. rectified Aqua vitae, ℥. iiii. Musk ʒ. i. The Mullege of Marsh Mallows ℥. iiii. Benzoin, ℥. i. Rosewater, ℥. iii and than it is made, the which ye shall keep in a glass close stopped▪ and keep it in a temperate place, and this you must take warm; the quantity is from ℥. two. to ℥. iiii. and it is a most safe Medicine to be used without keeping of any diet. It helpeth those much that have Pellaria, Scabs, Emeroids, and such like diseases, and may be given unto a woman with child, without any danger, when she shall have occasion to use any.   

CHAP. VII. Our Syrup against the melancholy humour, and specially where there is ventosity in the Stomach.  
IT were necessary for those that will make this Syrup, to be expert in the Art, for it would be made with great diligence, and the order to make is thus:  
Take water of fumitory, of Hops, of Wormwood, of Maidenhair, of each five pound. Than with this water thou shalt make a decoction with these things that follow.  
Take Pollipodium of the Oak, one pound, Sine leaves, Epitimum, ana ℥. iiii. Cordial flowers two handfuls, Maidenhair one handful, Liquorice, Raisins, Cinnamon, of each ℥. two. The four Cold seeds, ℥. two. Make thereof a decoction according to Art, and strain it, than take four pound of that Decoction, and put thereto the juice of Bourage, of bugloss, of Hops; of each ℥. two. common Honey, ℥. vi. than with white Sugar make a Syrup in good form, and aromatise it with Musk and Amber, putting thereto i ℥. of Plyris without Musk, and than it is made. The dose is from ℥, iii to ℥. iiii. in the morning warm, and fast thereon at lest three or four hours, for this purgeth marvellously the melancholy humours, and all other gross humours, and dissolveth wind, and comforteth the heart, etc.   

CHAP. VIII. Our Potion of Lignum Sanctum, the which is miraculous to dissolve crude, and malign humours, with the order to use it, in the French Pox, and such like diseases.  
BEcause the Pox is a disease contagious, putrified, and corrupt, and worketh many evil Effects, as I have written in my Caprici Medicinali. Therefore it were necessary to prepare most excellent and rare Remedies to dissolve the same, which Medicines are infinite.  
But in this Chapter I will writ one, that purgeth the crude and viscous humours downwards, and doth assubtiliate the gross humours, and drieth all sorts of subtle humours that offend Nature, and sendeth them forth by sweat: It drieth the melancholy humour, and dissolveth choler, and is most wholesome for those that are troubled with that disease, because it drieth much and dissolveth the disease, with many other good effects, as by experience thou mayest see, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the Bark of Lignum Sanctum grossly beaten one pound, and lay it in steep in fourteen pound of fair water, 24 hours, than boil it until four pound be consumed, than put thereto Pollipodie of the Oak, ℥. two Cicory one handful, Aloes hepatica, ʒ. iiii. and let them boil for an hour, and put thereunto the leaves of Sine, Epitimum, ana ℥. i. Coloquintida, ʒ. vi. Sugar ℥. viij. than let it boil till half be boiled away, and that there remain seven. pound, than strain it, and put it in a glass with xii. grains of Musk, and keep it very close stopped, and this is the Syrup, the which ye shall take twice a day, that is morning and evening; than make this drink following, the which shall be the common drink at all times to your meat.  
Take a pound of Lignum Sanctum, Raspead, and steep it in ten pound of white wine that is ripe, and let it boil an hour, than put thereto fifteen pound of fair water, and let it boil a little more, and than strain it, and keep it in a glass bottle, for this is to be used all the day time, and the order to use these is thus.  
First, when any feeleth himself grieved with the Pox, or any such like disease, he must keep his bed at lest twenty days, and use to take of the first Syrup or Potion every morning a good draught, being as warm as he may suffer it, than cover him well with clotheses that he may sweated as much as he can, than take of the clotheses by little and little, and dry him with warm clotheses, and so let him repose for two hours, and than let him eat, and his meat must be dry, as Biscuit, Roast-meat, Raisins of the Sun, Almonds, and sometime a rear Egg, and his drink at meals, and all the day beside, shall be the last made with wine and water: than at night give him of the first Syrup as ye did in the morning, and 'cause him to sweated, and than dry him: and this order thou shalt use twenty days together, not coming forth of thy Chamber, and by the grace of God thou shalt be helped of any such grievous infirmity, as I have seen the experienee thereof an infinite of times, to my great honour, for it may be occupied in all complexions with safety, as by the Ingredients thou mayest see.   

CHAP. IX. To make the water of Lignum Sanctum, most wholesome against the Pox, with a new order.  
COmmonly they use to take the water of Lignum Sanctum against the Pox, the which surely is most wholesome, but it must be taken in good order and form, and must be made with great discretion, and not as they use it now adays, for they give it some three or four times, and never the better, although the would be sufficient enough to help them, and therefore I would wish every one that will use this water, to take it in such order as it aught to be, the which I will show thee hereafter.  
Take Lignum Sanctum, Raspead small one pound, the bark being beaten ℥. iii infuse them in twelve pound of fair water one night, and the next morning put therein one pound of Honey, the which is put in, because it is aperative and warm, and helpeth to provoke sweat, and causeth it to have a good taste: than boil it till half be consumed, than put thereto Carduus sanctus ℥. iiii. strong Wine three pound, than boil it until a third part be consumed, and than it is made; than strain it, and take forth the Carduus sanctus, and put therein twenty pound of fair water, and one pound of Honey, and let it boil until four pounds be consumed, than strain it and keep it in a glass bottle, for this is the common drink to drink all the day long, and the order to take it is thus. First before ye will take this water, it were necessary to take our Sirrupo Solutivo seven or eight days, after that take of our Electuario Angelica ℥. ss. That being done, in the name of God take this potion of Lignum sanctum in this order. Take in the morning at the appearing of the day ℥. viij. very warm as he may suffer, and presently lay clotheses on him, and 'cause him to sweated two hours, and than dry him with warm clotheses, and so let him remain two hours, and than give him to eat, and his meat shall be Biscuit, Raisins, Almonds, and sometime a little roast meat, and no other: than in the evening about the 22. hour, ye shall give him the said Syrup as ye did in the morning, neither more nor less, and 'cause him to sweated, and about the 24. hour give him only Biscuit and Raisins, and the other common drink that was made last, giving you warning that ye make this drink fresh every third day, because it shall not hurt the stomach, and every week once, ye shall take a pill of Marte millitare, and that day thou shalt eat Birds flesh because of weakening: Also ye shall take very great heed to one thing, and that is this. If it hap, that at the beginning of this cure there cometh a Fever, or other accident unto the Patient, that in any wise ye leave not the cure, but follow the order, for that is a certain sign of health: for many times I have given this water, and unto some in the fourth or fifth day the Fever came, and tarried many times ten or twelve days, and than the Fever went away with the corrupt disease, and all for company, and so in short time they were cured, so that, as I have said before, when that sign appeareth and is delivered, it is a certain sign of health: Also I will advice thee of another thing, and that is this: If the Patient cannot sweated ye shall anoint him all over with the Oil of Quinces, the which shall 'cause him to sweated apace; for without sweated the cure will not be perfect, and this order thou shalt keep, at the lest forty days together within thy Chamber, so that there come no air in, for it will hinder the cure.   

CHAP. X. An Electuary that helpeth the Cough with great speed and ease.  
THe Cough is caused of a Catarrous humour, and coldness of the stomach, and therefore if ye will help it, it were necessary to have a remedy that doth ripen the Catarrh, and mollify the stomach, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Enula Campana ℥. iiii. Marsh Mallows ℥. xii. Quinces ℥. xuj. But if ye cannot get Quinces, ye may take Marmalade ready made, and boil it in fair water with the said roots until they be dry, than stamp them in a mortar, and strain them through a streiner, than take for every pound of that matter two pound of white Honey, and boil them together, but boil them not too much: than take it from the fire, and put thereunto for every pound of the aforesaid matter ℈. i. of Saffron, and ʒ. i. of Cinnamon, and ℥. two. of Sulphur, and ℈. i. of Licorice, and than incorporate them well together, and aromatise it with musk and Rose-water, and this ye shall use morning and evening, for this is of so great virtue, that it is to be wondered at, because the Mallows do mollify, the Enula Campana doth warm, and causeth digestion, and comforteth the Stomach: the Quinces are cordial and warm, the Sulphur is a great drier, the which destroyeth the evil humours of the body, the Saffron comforteth the heart, the Cinnamon is stomackall, the Licorice is mollificative, and digesteth the matter: so that of force this Electuary must help any kind of Cough, except it come of the Pox, for than it will do small pleasure▪ as I have proved.   

CHAP. XI. Our Magistral Electuary of Sulphur, the which serveth against divers sorts of infirmities.  
AS the fire hath virtue to heat and dry material things: so hath the Sulphur virtue to warm and to dry the humidity and coldness of our bodies, for I have occupied it divers and sundry times, and always have seen divers and sundry good effects, but for the better commodity, and more ease to use it, I have compounded this Electuary, the which thou mayest use with ease and benefit unto a number, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take very fine Sulphur that is without earth, and make it into fine powder one pound, Cinnamon ℥. ss. Saffron ℈. i. Ginger ʒ. two. Musk dissolved in Rosewater two Carats, white Honey crude, as much as will suffice to make it into an Electuary without fire, than keep it in a dry place; and this ye shall use in the morning fasting, and his quantity from four drachms to seven, This drieth up Scabs, provoketh Urine, breaketh the stone in the Reinss, it helpeth the Cough, drieth up the watering of the eyes, causeth a good appetite, with divers other things, the which I will leave to the Experimentors.   

CHAP. XII. Our electuary of Consolida majore, that serveth for many diseases inwardly.  
THis Consolida majore, is a herb so called, because of his effect that it doth in healing of wounds, and other places of the flesh separated, for if ye eat thereof it will help the Rupture, and all sorts of Wounds penetrating, and Ulcers of the Lungs, it drieth the Milt, and such like effects: but because thou mayest use it more commodious, I have compounded an Electuary, the which is excellent and rare, and is made thus.  
Take the root of Consolida majore one pound, and boil it in water until the water be consumed, than stamp them in a Mortar, and pass them through a Streiner, than put thereto as much white Honey as the matter weigheth, and boil them on a small fire, until it be come to the form of an Electuary, and when it is boiled, put thereto these things.  
Take the Rinds of Pomegranates in fine powder ℥. i. Lignum aloesʒ. vi. Myrrh, Mastic, Sarcocolla, Sanguis draconis in grain, ana. ʒ. two. Cinnamon, ʒ. i. Musk of Levant dissolved in Rosewater, one Carrot, than incorporate them well while it be warm: You must note, that the body must first be well purged, ere ye take this Electuary, and ye must also keep a diet, that the Medicine may work the better, for this helpeth all the aforesaid disease inwardly, as is said before: You may use it emplaster wise upon the wounds, and on broken bones, and use it inwardly, and so the Patient shall remain helped. With this I have seen men of great age helped, that were burst below, and wounded from one part to the other, and also broken bones and bruises, the which if I should writ them, it would not be credited.   

CHAP. XIII. Vnguento magno Leonardo.  
THis Vnguento magno is so called, by reason of his great virtue and operation, for it worketh so strange in some diseases, that it in manner reviveth the Patient, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Otnegra oviu. ℥. vi. Oximel Squilliticum, ℥. ss. mix them together in an earthen dish, until the Otnegra oviu. be become like ashes, than it is deisitrom, than put therein ℥. two. of Vinegar, and wash it well, until it remain pure and clear, than take Olibanum ℥. ss. Cerusae ℥. i. Beaten them fine, and mix it in a stone Morter, with as much Magno liquore, as will serve to incorporate them well, than put thereto the Otnegra oviu. and mix them very well together, that being done, put thereto Auxungia porcina, ℥. viij. And mix them very well together, and than it is made, the which keep in a vessel well glazed, for it will keep a long time without corruption, and is apt to help those that are lame, full of pains, and sores and swell, pains of the eyes, the stone in the reinss, and such like matters, it helpeth all man's of French Pox, if ye anoint them therewith, until the Gums be sore and than leave. But ye shall note, that the body must first be well purged before ye anoint them. This Unguent cooleth all corrosive Ulcers, and helpeth them in short time, it helpeth all pains in the eyes, if ye put it therein; and taketh away all burning with speed. And to be short, it helpeth those diseases in most short time, so that it is to be wondered at.   

CHAP. XIV. Oil of Hypericon, the which is most miraculous, for Wounds and bruises.  
THis Oil of Hypericon compounded by us, is of great virtue in divers and sundry accidents, and specially in wounds, for it helpeth them without any pain, although the veins, sinews, or bones were hurt or cut, and that in very short time: It preserveth the wound from corruption, and taketh away the pain, and incarnateth and cicatrizeth, as by experience thou mayest plainly see. It dissolveth Contusions, and is most marvellous aghasted poison. It helpeth against any crude sort of venomous Fever, if you anoint all the body therewith, leaving no part; and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the flowers, leaves, and seed, of Saint Johns-wort, as many as ye will, and stamp them together, and put them in a Glass, with as much strong white wine as will cover it well, than set it in the Sun ten days together, than put thereto as much pure Salad oil, as the herbs and the wine doth weigh, than let it stand in the Sun other ten days, giving you warning that you weigh your oil before you mix them; that being done, put thereunto for every pound of oil ℥. two. of Turpentine, and ʒ. i. of Saffron, of Nutmegs, Cloves, Myrrah elect. of each ℥. ss. Frankincense ℥. i. Viticella ℥. two. for every pound, stamp them altogether, and put them into a great glass, and set it to boil in Balneo Mariae, with a head and Receiver close shut, and to know when it is boiled enough, is, that there will ascend not more vapours into the head, and that will be within 24. hours, or thereabout, than take forth the Glass being yet hot, and strain it, and keep it in a Glass close shut as a precious Jewel. Ye shall note that this Oil must always be occupied very warm, and in any wise ●ent no wound, but wet clotheses therein, and lay it thereon, and thy cure shall prospero well, for this I have proved a thousand times in divers places.   

CHAP. XV. To make our Oleum Benedictum, the which healeth wounds divinely.  
THis Oleum Benedictum serveth chief for wounds in all parts of the body, and especially for wounds in the head: If there were fracture of bone, and offences of the Pannicle, and in other places where sinews were hurt, or muskles, or veins, or in any other noble place of the body, with this Oleum Benedictum, and with our Vegetable Quintessence, thou mayest help them easily, and in short time, without any danger or detriment of the wounded person, as is said before, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the whites of Eggs being hard sod in water, ℥. xii. Clear Turpentine ℥ xiiii. Pure Myrrh ʒ. iii Mix them, and put it into a Retort of glass, and give it gentle fire at the first, and than increase it according to Art, until all the substance be come forth of the Retort, the which will be both water and oil, the which separate, and keep the Oil by itself in a Glass as a precious Jewel, for this worketh miracles in wounds of what sort soever they be. Moreover, it causeth hair to grow on the head or beard, the which were fallen away, and that it doth in short time by the only anointing the place therewith. Also if any have a stitch in his side, and retention of Urine, let him take a Glister, wherein he shall put a little of this Oil, and he shall be helped; and this effect it doth, because it drieth mightily that alteration made in the secret parts of the Reinss inwardly, where no local Medicine can be applied.   

CHAP. XVI. Oleum Philosophorum de Terementina & Cera.  
THis Oil of Turpentine and Wax, is a most precious Balm, and his virtues are infinite, because it is made of simples in manner uncorruptible, and is most miraculous for those that are corrupted, or strucken with the Pestilence, because it is most penetrative, and of nature drying, and comforteth all weak parts in man's body, of what infirmity so ever they be, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take new yellow wax, ℥. xii. clear Turpentine, ℥. xviii. Benjamine, ℥. two. Fine rectified Aqua vitae, ℥. xxx. common ashes, ℥. vi. mix them, and put them into a Retort of glass well luted, and than distil it in a wind Furnace, until the sustance be come forth, and in the Receiver thou shalt found three things: The first is Water, the second Oil, the third phlegm, the which thou shalt separate one from another, and keep them close stopped in a glass, the which is most excellent in time of the Pestilence, as well for unction, as for to help the sores, for if you put it into a sore or botch that is broke, presently it taketh away the pain, and being mixed with other of our Medicines, as I have showed in my Regiment of the Pestilence, it helpeth them with great speed. If any anoint all his body with this Oil twice a month, it will preserve him youthful, and in health a long time, it preserveth also dead flesh or fish, that is put therein from corruption. Also if any be wounded in any part of the body, let him anoint it with this Oil four or five times, and it shall be whole: Also if any cannot make water, give unto him ʒ. two. of this oil to drink, and presently he shall make water. It is also good against the Stitch in the side and Pleurisy, and Worms, and the Cough and Catarrh, and against the Pestilent Fever, and such like indispositions, if ye drink a little thereof; it hath a number of other virtues, the which I will leave unto the Experimentors.   

CHAP. XVII. Our Magno liquore, the which is of great virtue.  
THis is of my invention, and the order to make it, is thus Take sweet Salad oil twenty pound, white wine two pound, boil them together until the wine be consumed, than put it in a vessel of stone, and put thereunto these things following:  
Take the flours of Rosemary three pound, Lignum aloes, ℥. vi. Olibanum, Bdellium, ana. ℥. x. than stop it very close, and bury it in the ground four foot deep, and this would be buried in the beginning of August, and there remain until the month of March, than take it forth of the ground, and set it in the Sun, and put thereto these matters following, Sage, Rosemary, Rue, Betonie, Millefolie, comfery roots, Tamaro, Viticella ana, one handful: Galingal, Cloves, Nutmegs, Spikenard, Saffron, ana ℥. i. Sarcocolla, Sanguis Draconis in grain, Mastic, ana ℥. two. Aloes Epatica, Frankincense, ana ℥. viij. yellow Wax, Auxungia ana ℥. xviii. Colophony one pound, Hypericon with the seed and all two pound. Musk ʒ. i. mix these all well together, and boil them in Balneo, until the herbs become dry, and have no more substance, than take it forth, and strain it, and put thereunto for every pound, ʒ. vi. of our Balm artificial, and when the month of September cometh, put thereunto two pound of the fruit of the herb called Balsamina, the which are read, and than it is ended, the which thou shalt keep in a glass close shut, for the older it is, the better it is, and is of such virtue, that it helpeth the Etici, and Hidropsie, if ye give them every morning ʒ. ss. with ℥. i. of Syrup of Roses warm, the space of forty days, as I have proved: And this is the true and perfect Unction, that helpeth Petecchie, a disease so called in the Italian: If any were wounded, and had cut veins, sinews, and bones, let him join the parts close together, and dress it with this Oil very hot upon the upper parts, and in short time it shall be whole, without any alteration. It helpeth also the white Scall if ye anoint it therewith: It helpeth coldness in the head, and Catarrhs, if ye anoint it within the nostrils at night when ye go to bed: If ye anoint the Stomach therewith it causeth perfect digestion of the meat, it provoketh Urine where it is let through carnosity or Gonorrea, or such like matter; It causeth hair to grow, it preserveth the beard black, and it is good against Worms, and all these Experiments are true, and proved of me divers and sundry times, in the aforesaid infirmities, and also in divers others, the which I leave until another time: Ye shall note, that if ye anoint any all over that is grieved with the Pox with this Oil, it will increase his pain, and so by that means ye may know whether he be infected or no.   

CHAP. XVIII. Pillole Aquilone of our invention.  
THese Pills are above all other in operation, as the Eagle is above all other Birds, and therefore I thought good to call them Pillole Aquilone, and the order to make them is thus.  
Take conserve of Damask Roses made with Hony ℥ iii Lignum Aloesʒ. i. Oil of Vitriol twelve grains, Cinnamon elect two scruples. Petra philosophalis of our invention. ℥ ss. Sugar-candy ℥ two. Mix them, and make thereof a paste with Syrupo Acetoso and keep them in a glass. The Virtue of these Pills I will not at this time writ: but only I say they help against all sorts of infirmities, and hurteth none in any wise. The Dose is from ʒ. i. to ʒ. two. in the morning fasting, but ye may not gilled them in any wise, but drink after them a cup of water or wine, to carry them down, than sleep thereon, and that day eat little meat. and light of digestion.   

CHAP. XIX. Our Quinta essentia solutiva, the which is of marvellous operation in divers matters.  
THis Quinta essentia solutiva evacuateth the body with great ease, and without any detriment, and it purgeth all parts of the body that are troubled with gross and viscous humours, it resolveth swell, and taketh away the pains, it preserveth the sight, and killeth worms, and causeth a good appetite, with many other good qualities, the which I will leave at this time, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Aloes, Cinnamon, Turbite, Aloes Epatica, ana ℥. i Coloquintida ℥. two. Cloves, Saffron, of each ʒ. i. Musk of Levantʒ. i. Julep of Violets one pound. Mix all the aforesaid matters together in a glass, and put therein two pound of our Quintessence, and so let it stand twelve days, and than strain it, and put it into a vessel of glass close shut, this may be taken with broth, wine, or with what syrup or potion ye will, the quantity is from ʒ. two. to ℥. ss. in the morning fasting, without keeping of any diet at all, and it shall work well without any trouble.   

CHAP. XX. Pillole Magistrale, the which is good against divers infirmities.  
THese Pills are of great virtue, and specially against all kind of pains coming of corrupt humours, for they purge the putrified humours, and preserve the body from corruption: and the order to make them is thus.  
Take Olibanum, Mastic, Myrrh, Sarcocolla, Aloes Epatiee, Elleborus niger, Saffron, Turbith, Colloquintida, ana q. v. Stamp them finely, and for every ounce of the aforesaid matters, put thereunto two Carats of Musk, and than incorporate it with Honey of Roses, and Aqua vitae, of each alike, and this paste thou mayest keep for six months in a vessel of Lead, the quantity is from ʒ. two. to ʒ. iii in the morning fasting, and drink thereon a little wine. These pills are most excellent to take away the pains of the Gout, and to preserve a man from it, they are also good for those that have the French Pox, because they evacuate the gross and viscous humours, and maintain the body in good temperature, and using them in those diseases, it preserveth the body in good state. They are also good for women that are troubled with pains of the Mother, and retention of their Terms, for these are aperative, and provoke them, and purgeth the Matrix of all impediments contained therein: They serve against the Megrem, and all pains of the head, and also against all kind of putrified Fevers, as I have seen the experience thereof sundry times.   

CHAP. XXI. To make Aqua real, vel Imperiale, the which maketh the teeth white presently, incarnateth the Gums, and causeth a good breath.  
THe teeth being black and rusty, and full of filth, and the Gums putrified or corrupt, are the worst things that may be seen in man or woman, and are also very unwholesome; and the Remedy to make the teeth white, and to help the gums, is thus: Make this water, and use it in this order as I will show thee.  
Take Sal Gemmae, Roch Alum, Brimstone of each two pound, Borax ℥. x. Pearl beaten fine, Coral, each ℥. two. Pure distilled Vinegar ℥. iiii. Put all the aforesaid matters in a Gourd, with his head and receiver, and give it fire according to Art, and at the last there will come forth a white water like Milk, the which after it hath stood a while, will wax clear. You shall understand, that this water is above all other waters in the world, to help Ulcers in the mouth, and to incarnate the gums, and to make the teeth white, and causeth a good breath in those which are troubled with the aforesaid matters. For of this water I have made great quantity, and it hath been carried into Spain, into Almain, into Poland, into Constantinople, and in divers other Countries, as though it had been a Divine thing, and not material.  
For truly this experience doth 'cause the world to wonder at it, the use hereof I have written in this Book, and hereafter I will writ it again in some of my Books, where occasion shall serve to use it in cures.   

CHAP. XXII. Of the hidden Secrets of Frankincense.  
THe Pine is a tree, the which by nature is uncorruptible, and the gum that runs from it is of great virtue and strength, because it preserveth those things wherein it is put, and when his Elements are separated out of that Gum, the Physician may work strange things therewith, against most part of infirmities that hap unto man's body, if he apply them where they are convenient: For the water being drunk helpeth wind in the stomach: Also it helpeth the white Skall, and all such like scabs, if ye wash them therewith morning and evening. It drieth up Ulcers, also it is of marvellous virtue against chilblains and kibed heels, and chaps, and such like, in the hands or feet that come through cold, being used thus. You shall first perfume the parts that are sore over the fume of hot water, so that they may sweated, than dry them and wash them with the aforesaid water, and anoint them with the Oil, and put on a pair of gloves or such like, and in very short time they shall be whole. The air helpeth much in wounds in any part of the body, because it preserveth the flesh from putrefaction, and keepeth it from alteration, and taketh away the pain and healeth the sore: Also it preserveth the face if it be anointed therewith. Moreover, it is marvellous in old diseases inwardly, if ye give them thereof every morning ʒ i. with ℥ ss. of our Sirupo Vegetabile. The fire cureth sores and such like, and the earth remaineth in his state. Ye shall understand, that these are great secrets of importance, the which I have revealed of this Gum, and happy shall he be that useth them in the time of need: And the order to make this Oil is thus.  
Take as much Frankincense as thou wilt, and put it into a Retort of glass, with the fourth part of common Ashes, and set it to distil, and give it first a small fire until the Oil change colour, than presently change the Receiver, and augment the fire until all the substance be come forth. Ye shall understand that this Oil is best fresh, for when it is old, it will wax thick, and cannot pierce so well.   

CHAP. XXIII. Of the Oil of Honey, and the order to make it.  
THat which most men call Oil of Honey, is not an Unctous Oil like unto other Oils, but rather a certain Element, the which is neither oil nor water, although it be clear, and this serveth not much in Chirurgery, because it is not convenient in sores, but much rather it is a perfect remedy in things appertaining to Physic, because it comforteth the Stomach, and fortifieth the virtue, and extinguisheth all sorts of Fevers. It helpeth the Colic, it dissolveth the Stone in the Reinss, and provoketh Urine, and also maketh the hair yellow as gold, if ye wash it therewith, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take pure Honey two pound, and put it into a Retort of glass, that holdeth at the lest fifteen or twenty pounds, and set it in a Furnace, and give it a fire of the second degree, and first there will come forth a clear white water, and when it changeth colour, change the receiver, and give it strong fire until all the fumes be come forth, the which is the Oil, and that keep by itself as a precious Balm against malign Infirmities that are cured with Physic.   

CHAP. XXIV. To make our great Cerot, the which is of marvellous virtue.  
TAke Galbanum, Armoniacum, Oppoponax, ana ℥. two. Olibanum, Verdigrease, ana ℥. i. Bdellium, Gum Arabi, Lapis ematites minerale, ana ℥. two. Turpentine, Frankincense, ana ℥. iiii. Oleum Philosophorum of Turpentine and Wax, ℥. iii common Oil four lb. new wax ℥. seven. beaten all those that are to be beaten, and searce them, than dissolve the Gums in distilled Vinegar according to Art, than vapour away the Vinegar until it come thick, than take thy Oil and Wax, and melt them together, than put in the rest, and stir them until it be boiled, and to know when it is boiled, is this. First, in the beginning it will begin to rise marvellously, and than fall down; than let it boil until it begin to fume or smoke, than strain it into a vessel of Copper, and presently put therein ℥. iiii. of Precipitate, and stir them well together until it be cold, than make it in rowls, and keep it as a precious Jewel in chirurgery, because it mundifieth, incarnateth, and healeth all sorts of Ulcers, better than any other Cerot that ever I could find.   

CHAP. XXV. A Magistral Unguent that healeth all manner of sores.  
THis Unguent is most rare in the cure of Ulcers when they are already mundified, because it incarnateth, drieth, and siccatrizeth, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take common Oil one pound, Litarge ℥. two. new Wax, ℥. three Turpentine, ℥. vi. boil them as the aforesaid Cerot, and when it is boiled, put thereto ℥. iii of the dead cope of Aqua fortis, the which is made of Vitriol Romain, Roche Allom, and Salt-Peter, and stir them well together, and keep it to thy use. Ye shall understand, that the maker must be expert in the Art, lest he overboil it, or boil it too little, for if it be not in order as it should be, it will not work his effect.   

CHAP. XXVI. A Magistral Cerot of our Invention against the white Scall.  
THis Cerot is of great virtue, and of marvellous experience, to resolve the white Scall, because it is penetrative, mundificative, and resolutive, and causeth the hair to grow that is fallen away, to the great content of the Patient and honour of the Physician, and it is made in this order. Take Frankincense that is strained from his filth, what quantity you will, and distil it in a Retort, and give it fire at the lest forty hours, than let it cool and break the glass, and in the bottom thou shalt find a black maze, the which make into powder, than for every pound of the said powder, put thereto one ounce of Wax, and four ounces of the said oil that ye distilled, and half an ounce of the heads of Bees, the which are easy to be had in Summer: Mix all the aforesaid things in a Vessel of Copper, and with a small fire make them in form of a liquid Unguent, and when thou wilt use it, shave the head, and wash it, and lay thereon this Cerot upon a fair cloth warm, and every two days change it, and so in short time thou shalt see strange effects of his virtue, as I have done divers and sundry times to my great honour. This serveth also against breaking of bones, dislocations, and for Scabs ulcerated, because it drieth, and comforteth, and resolveth all the evil qualities; giving you charge in the distilling, because the fire many times consumeth it so, that in the bottom there remaineth nothing that good is, and therefore beware in the making.   

CHAP. XXVII. To make a divine and blessed Cerot against divers infirmities.  
ULcers are of divers sorts, and are caused of sundry causes, as of Choler, Blood, Phlegm, Melancholy, and for that cause the Medicines would be agreeable; nevertheless, I will show thee a Cerot of such a temperature, that it will serve to help any sore in any place of the body, of what quality soever it be, except it be Scirro, or Noli me tangere, the which are in a manner counted uncurable, of the common Practitioners: but not by me, for I have cured them, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take oil of Frankincense one pound, oil of Sulphur ℥. i. Vitriol rubified ℥. iii Precipate ℥. i fresh Butter ℥. iii and as much Wax as will suffice to make it in form of a Cerot, the which will have all the aforesaid intentions: because the Precipitate doth mundify the Ulcer; the oil of Frankincense taketh away the pain, and incarnateth; the oil of Sulphur cleanseth; the Vitriol drieth; the Butter mundifieth; and the Wax consolidateth, in such sort, that any one may perceive his virtue.   

CHAP. XXVIII. To make a miraculous Emplaster for Flegmon, or Erisipella.  
THis Flegmon or inflammation, called Saint Anthony's fire, is a tumour caused of the alteration of the blood, by reason of superfluous heat, and this most commonly cometh unto Choleric and Sanguine bodies, that are full of flesh, and have much blood: And the Erisipella is caused of a windy humidity, and of a hot humour, and to show it, ye may see how that Flegmon is no other than blood that runneth to the place offended: And when it cannot found way to resolve, it putrefieth and turneth into Sanius matter, so that by this ye may see that to be true which I have said. Also Erisipella is a wind hot and moist, for when it cometh to suppuration, than cometh forth nothing but wind and water, and this is the true proof by demonstration, and therefore seeing that these two infirmities are in a manner alike, or little differing: this Medicine shall be appropriate as well to the one as to the other, because it resolveth and cooleth, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take fine Clay that hath no stones nor gravel in it, and searce it very fine, and put it in a pot, and for every pound thereof put thereto ℥. iii of Oil of Frankincense, that cometh forth last in the distillation, and as much of our Quintessence as will serve to make it in form of a liquid Unguent, and this ye must mix without fire, and than lay it upon a cloth, and warm it over the fire a little, and lay it upon the Flegmon, or Erisipella, but first ere ye use this remedy unto those that have Flegmon, ye shall give them a dose of our Electuario Angelica, and in Erisipella give them a dose of our Aromatico, and so thou shalt help them perfectly, as I have proved divers times, and may be used although ye take no blood; but if ye take blood, let it be in augmentu, and not in statu, nor in declinatione, because it would so weaken Nature, that afterwards it cannot defend itself to drive forth the humour peccant, that is cause of the disease.   

CHAP. XXIX. To make a resolutive Plaster of great virtue.  
THis Plaster is to resolve tumors and hardness, if it be laid thereon very hot, and when it is cold to lay on another: and this ye shall do until the hardness be resolved, and it is made in this order.  
Take common Ashes that are well burnt and white, and finely seared one pound, Clay beaten into fine powder half a pound, Carabe ℥. iii mix all these in an earthen dish on a small fire, with Oil of Roses in form of a liquid Unguent, and that ye shall lay upon the place grieved as hot as ye may suffer it, and change it morning and evening, and thou shalt see it work a marvellous effect. Moreover, when that Petecchi cometh forth of a diseased, let him be folded in the same remedy very hot, and in 24 hours he shall be helped, if he be first well purged, for this is a great secret that I have revealed. This word Petecchi is, as it were, certain spots like those which we call Gods Tokens, the which commonly come unto those that have the Pestilent Fever.   

CHAP. XXX. To make a maturative Plaster of great virtue.  
THis Maturative doth open an Imposthume without Instrument and pain, and the order to make it is thus  
Take the yolks of Eggs ℥. two. white Salt finely ground ℥. i Snails with their Shells stamped ℥. ss Hens dung that is liquid, and read like Hony ℥. i. Mix all these well together without fire, and when you will bring an Imposthume to suppuration and break it, lay on this plaster morning and evening a little warm, and in short time it will draw forth the Imposthume, and break it, and heal it, without any other help. Keep this as a secret.   

CHAP. XXXI. A composition of great virtue, against all Ulcers and Sores.  
TAke Oil of Vitriol that is perfect, as much as you will, and put it in a glass, with as much oil of Tartar made by dissolution, and so let it stand ten days. Than take ʒ. i. of that and ℥. i. of pure Aqua vitae, and mix them together, and therewith wash the hollow Ulcers, and they will heal in short time. It helpeth any crude kind of scab or sore that is caused of the evil quality of Nature.   

CHAP. XXXII. A strange composition of great virtue.  
THis Composition is divine in his operation, because it healeth many indispositions in our bodies, when it is applied rightly, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take water of Carduus Sanctus one pound, Oil of Honey, one ounce, oil of Sulphur, ʒ. ss. Mix them together, and let it settle till it be clear: for this helpeth Ulcers in the mouth, and maketh the teeth fair and white, if ye wash them therewith. It causeth a sweet breath, and preserveth the Gums, and maketh the hair and beard fair, if ye wash them therewith. And this it doth because the water of Carduus Sanctus preserveth where it is applied: Also the oil of Honey hath a virtue preservative and retentive of the hair, and the oil of Sulphur mundifieth, and cleanseth, and incarnateth, so that by these means the said water hath these virtue's aforesaid.   

CHAP. XXXIII. To make an Unguent of great Virtue against Ulcers.  
THis Unguent hath a great virtue in healing all sores that are putrified and corrosive, except they be Cankers or Noli me tangere, the which are counted among the uncurable cures: But when they are other sores, this will heal them quickly, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take a good quantity of Calex vivae, and put it into a great Tub, and cover it with water four fingers high, and stir it well together, than let it settle, and thereon will come a thin scum the which ye shall gather together with a Scummer, and keep it until ye have sufficient quantity, than take oil of Linseed, oil of Nuts, oil of Almonds, and of the said scum that is gathered, of each one pound, than distil it in a Retort, until all the substance be come forth, than separate the oil from the water, and than make this composition.  
Take of the said oil distilled one pound, Tallow such as they make candles of, Hog's grease, new Wax, Mercury precipitate of each two ounces, fine Aqua vitae three ounces, mix them all together in a Copper pan on a soft fire, until the Aqua vitae be consumed, and that it remain a liquid Unguent, than take it forth, and keep it in a close vessel, that it take no air: and this ye shall apply cold unto Ulcers, upon a fine linen cloth, for first it doth mundify, and than incarnate, and last siccatrize, it helpeth sores, scabs, scrophule, mall de Formica Setole on the Nipples of women's breasts, Emeroids, pains in the privy members, and such like, for it is temperate.   

CHAP. XXXIV. A Discourse upon sundry sorts of Unguents, and their qualities.  
THere are many sorts of Unguents that are found out, of which I believe that many Chirurgeons are greatly abused of their operation, but for that which I do find, that some sorts of Unguents are occupied for one effect, and they work another; as for example, Vnguento Camphorato which many do occupy to cool hot sores, in stead of cooling heateth them more than they were before, which cometh by means of the Camphire which is a hot substance, as I will prove by sufficient reason that it cannot be denied. For you shall understand, that into Vnguento Camphorato, is put Camphire and oil, both hot materials, as for experience: Take Camphire and lay it by the fire, or set it nigh a candle, and thou shalt perceive, that assoon as it feeleth the heat, it will fly into the fire and burn fiercely; and the like will the Oil do; for if you wet a cloth therein and hold it over the fire, presently it will burn, which are manifest signs that they be both hot, becuse they are friends unto the fire; whereas if they were cold and moist, the fire would not burn them with such force. As for example, take water, earth, stones, and metals that are cold and moist, and lay them on the fire, and you shall see that the flame of a candle shall not be able to kindle the fire with such ease as it doth with the Camphire and oil. So that you may see that Camphire and Oil are hot and friends unto the fire which is most hot, and earth, stones, and metals, are moist and cold, and are enemies unto the fire, and therefore I conclude, that Vnguento Camphorato is very hot, and cannot by any means cool hot Ulcers. Also Vnguentum Apostolorum is a composition in which there is put Verdigriece, a material which is most enemy unto the sore, for laying it thereto causeth great pain, as you may understand of those that have proved it, and in my judgement this is no Unguent to be laid on a sore, because they cannot suffer it, neither is it possible to heal the sore with that Unguent, for that it corrodeth the flesh and will not let it heal. Also Vnguento de minio is a mixture not very profitable for Ulcers, because it is too much drying; for applying it unto a sore that is not mundified, it drieth it in Superficie, so that if Nature sand humours unto those parts, and they found no exhalation or vent by reason of that drying, it will 'cause the gathering of abundance of humours, and be a means of greater mischief: But if the sore be well mundified and cleansed, you shall have little need of that Unguent, because Nature will do it alone without any other help, so that this Unguent is of small profit to be used of any. But to the contrary, there are many sorts of Unguents which are most necessary to dress sores, as Vnguento di Rasino, which by his Nature is friendly to the sore, because it mundifieth and healeth, helping Nature that it may work with greater speed. The Diachilone common is also an Unguent very profitable to mundify or purge sores, and likewise to siccatrize them. The Unguent of Litarge is refriscative and drying, and healeth scabs, and cooleth the heat of the flesh alterated. Vnguento Rosato doth mitigate the pains of foul Scabs. And thus discoursing from time to time, there are many sorts of Unguents very hurtful, and not to be used, and also there are many sorts that are wholesome and good, without which in a manner they cannot work. Nevertheless, it were necessary to know how and where to apply them rightly.   

CHAP. XXXV. Medicines appropriate against all kinds of Poisons, as well Vegetables as Minerals.  
THere are an infinite number of Poisons, and they are differing in their operation, but yet they work in manner one effect, as you may see by experience in those that are poisoned, for after that they be dead, they are swollen and become black, and in their Stomach is abundance of aquosity: And the cause is this, that if a poison have power to kill or strangle a man or woman, of necessity it must be corrosive, and being corrosive, it will work this effect, that is, assoon as it arriveth at the stomach, it beginneth to make alteration and quickly congealeth the blood, and inflameth the parts round about it, it draweth unto it great quantity of water; and it causeth the congelation of the blood on the one part, and the inflammation of the stomach on the other part, and the gathering of the water on the other part. And in a manner all poisons work one effect, and there are great number of these Poisons, of which I would show their qualities, but that I fear I should 'cause such as are ignorant to know them, and therefore I leave them. But I will writ the order wherewith thou shalt help all those poisons that are curable, with as much facility as is possible. Poisons, as I said before, do work three evil Effects, they inflame the stomach, congeal the blood, and draw unto them great quantity of water, which three things being in a man killeth him out of hand; and the necessariest cure in that matter of poison is this. First cause the poisoned person to vomit so much as he can, and as soon as he can, and that thou shalt do with ℥. ss. of our Electuario Angelica, which provoketh vomit, and evacuateth the stomach of the poison, and of the matter drawn by the poison into the stomach, and it is excellent against all kind of poisons; that being done, anoint all his body with our Balsamo artificiato, the which will keep the blood liquid, and will not suffer it to congeal by any means: after that let him take every morning ʒ. iii, of our Pills against poison, which are written in my discourse upon Chirurgery; and when he hath taken those Pills, let him drink thereon a little good wine: and after let him drink the decoction of Diptamo bianco, and dress his meat with herbs that are good against poison, as there are a great number: And this doing, by the help of God thou shalt help all those that are curable, for it is a rational Medicine and experimented, which worketh incredible operations.   

CHAP. XXXVI. A water that preserveth the Face and Teeth.  
THis water is miraculous, for if ye wash the face therewith, and rub the teeth, it will make the face shining and bright, and the teeth like fine Ivory, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Mother of Pearl in powder one pound, the juice of Lemons pressed with their pills and all three pound, put them in a glass, and let it stand fifteen days, than put thereto so much strong distilled Vinegar as there was of the juice, and distil it in a Retort of glass, with a small fire, until the spirits do appear, than presently change thy Receiver, and keep it, wherewith thou shalt wash thy face and rub thy teeth: Note, that when ye will occupy that water, it were necessary that the face were washed so clean as is possible, and to rub the teeth with a clean cloth, for with this I have seen many goodly experiences in those matters.   

CHAP. XXXVII. To Clarify and take away spots out of the Face.  
TAke Lac virgins two parts, pure Oil of Tartar one part, fine Aqua vitae six parts, mix them, and when thou goest to bed anoint thy face therewith, and in the morning wash thy face with the decoction of Bran, and dry it well, than anoint it with the Oil of Almonds, and so using this order, in short time thy face will be bright and clear without any spot. For this Composition is of marvellous virtue to preserve the flesh, and to defend it from all impediments of Nature, and preserveth the head from many infirmities.   

CHAP. XXXVIII. The order to make a goodly Remedy, to 'cause the hair to grow.  
THe beard and hair commonly do fall through two causes, the one is, when the Patient hath a Pestilent Fever, that is, Mal di Mazzucco, for when they are cured, all their hair will fall away, and many times most of them do change that subtle skin, called of the Doctors Epiderma, and this is one of the causes: The other cause is, when they accompany with unclean women, and that they get those Carvoli on the Yard, the which as soon as they are cured, there cometh an alteration in the throat, so that they cannot well eat their meat, than after that in short time the hair will begin to fall, and these are the two causes of falling of the hair. In that which cometh after Mal di Mazzucco, ye shall need nothing else but to anoint the head when ye go to bed, with our Oleum Philosophorum a little warm, and that will 'cause the hair to grow, restore the sight and hearing, the which those commonly do loose when they are sick, through their long sickness. But when the hair doth fall through the other cause, ye must use forcible Medicines to 'cause it to come again, and that thou shalt do with this Cerot. Take Turpentine, Ship-pitch, Rosin of the Pine tree, and new Wax, and make thereof a Cerot, the which spread upon a cloth, and strew thereon Cantharideses in powder, than lay it upon the head, and there let it remain five days without moving it, and when ye take it away, take Magno liquore, and our Oleum Philosophorum, of each alike, and therewith anoint the head once a day very hot. And while ye use this Unction, take Sinaber ℥. i. Olibanum, Myrrh, and Colles, of each two scruples, and grind them together, and divide them in six parts, and every night when ye go to bed, perfume the bed with one of these parts, the which thou shalt do in this order: Take Coals in a Chafing-dish, and cast it therein by little and little, and than cover thy head with a cloth, and receive the fume, and than go to bed with the said cloth about thy head, and this thou shalt do six evenings, and continually use the Unction until it be helped, the which will be in short time.   

CHAP. XXXIX. To make our Syrup of Bays.  
THis Syrup being well made, is of marvellous virtue for those women that are troubled with pains of the Mother, and pains caused of wind and cold, because the Bays of their nature are hot and drying, and resolveth the wind, and warmeth the cold, and drieth the humidity, so that whosoever doth use this Syrup oftentimes, shall be free from the stitch in the side, and gravel in the Reinss, because it doth mundify the Reinss, and resolve the humour hanging, and therefore this would be used in Polonia, and Almaign with great profit, because those Countries are cold, and they feed on most meats which are contrary to those aforesaid infirmities, and the order to make it is thus. Take a branch of Bays weighing one pound, and put it in a glass with eight pound of white Wine, and two pound of purified Honey, and distil it in Balneo three hours, than take it from the fire, and keep that by itself, than take that which remained in the glass, and distil it by a filter three or four times until it be clear, than take two pound of Sugar, and clarify it with the white of an Egg, and than mix it with that which ye distilled by a filter, and give it a little walm or two, but not too much, than when it is boiled, before it be cold, put therein the said water that ye distilled in Balneo, and aromatise it with six grains of Musk, and ℈. i. of Cloves, and another of Saffron, and ʒ. ss. of Cinnamon, and ℥. iii of Rosewater, and than keep it in a glass close stopped, and it will preserve a long time: The dose of this Syrup is from ℥. i. to ℥. two. and no more. And therefore if any will sweated for any indisposition in the body, let them take four ounces as warm as they may suffer, and lay them down to sweated, and it will resolve great infirmities.   

CHAP. XL. The order to make a Syrup of Cinnamon and Ginger.  
THis Syrup is exceeding hot, and preserveth a weak stomach through cold, resolveth the Cough, and the Catarrh caused through want of natural heat: but ye shall note, that if the indisposition were of a hot and dry cause, in any wise ye shall not use this. It causeth digestion, and provoketh venereous acts, and killeth many that oppress themselves therewith, for they will do more than Nature is able to carry, and so fall into a disease called Apoplexia, and die, or else live with great pain; and therefore I would wish those that have no great need thereof, not to use it for Lechery sake, for better it were to leave it in Vase spermatico, but as for those that have need thereof, it will revive them if they were in a manner dead, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Ginger, Cinnamon, of each one pound, beaten them in powder, and infuse it in half a pound of Rosewater, and there let it remain four or five days, and than put thereon ℥. iiii. of the water of a Herb called Mortella, in the Italian tongue, and six pound of the best white wine, and distil them altogether until all the substance be come forth; than take as much white Honey as the matter purified weigheth, and while it is yet hot on the fire, put therein the said Water which you distilled, and six grains of Musk powdered with Sugar, and incorporate them well together, and keep it in a glass close shut, and when ye will use this, ye shall take it in the morning warm, fasting thereon four or five hours, because it may pierce the better, and do his operation; the quantity that you shall take ordinary is ℥. i but if it do not work his operation well, augment the quantity, and take somewhat more or less according to thy stomach, and the time shall be two or three weeks, or more or less, according as thou feelest thyself, for it is of so much virtue that it will not be credited, except it be of those that have seen the experience thereof, therefore keep it as a thing of value.   

CHAP. XLI. Our Syrup of a Capon, that is made with Consumato.  
THis Syrup is a restorative of great virtue, never seen or heard of before, and is of such virtue that it is able to sustain a sick person many days without taking any other meat, because it is of flesh and blood, for the flesh sustaineth the flesh, and the blood sustaineth the blood, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take a great fat Capon that is well-fleshed, and pull it while it is alive, and take forth only the guts and the belly, and when he is dead, stamp it in a Mortar grossly, and put it in a distilling glass with twenty pound of good white wine, and ℥. ss. of Salt, and four ounces of Sugar, and ℥. ss. of Cinnamon, than distil it in Balneo until the two thirds be consumed, than keep that which is distilled, and that which remained in the glass strain through a cloth, and press out all the juice of the flesh with a Press, than pass all that through a filter, and than with Sugar make it in form of a Syrup, but boil it not too much, than put therein that which ye distilled from the Capon, and aromatise it with Cinnamon half a dram, Saffron one scruple, Musk four grains, Rosewater ℥. two. than keep it in a glass close stopped, and this hath no dose, because it is taken only to sustain a weak nature; you may put it in broth, or in any other meats, or by itself, and always it will work his operation, in strengthening those that are weak.   

CHAP. XLII. A Magistral Syrup of Quinces, the which is Restorative.  
THis Syrup of Quinces is of great virtue, because it restoreth strength, helpeth digestion, comforteth the Stomach, and maketh the heart merry, as you may see by the Ingredients; it comforteth also the sight, and quickeneth the memory: And the order to make it is thus.  
Take of the best Quinces you can found, and cut them in small pieces, with seed and all three pound, Cinnamon half an ounce, Cloves, Saffron, of each a scruple, Lignum Aloes, ℥ i ss. Bengewine ℥. i. stamp all these and infuse them in seven pound of strong white wine, than distil it in Balneo, until all the liquor be come forth, and when it is in manner done, take it from the fire, and put it into an earthen vessel well glazed, and put therein that which ye distilled, and mix them well together, than strain it hard through a Canvas, and pass it by a filter, or a linen cloth, and make it as clear as you can possible, than take that, and with refined Sugar, make a Syrup according to Art, and when it is made, aromatise it with Musk, and Rose-water, and keep it in a glass close stopped, that it take no air, giving your charge that it be not over-boyled. And this thou shalt give unto those that cannot digest their meat, because it warmeth the stomach, with a temperate heat, the which resolveth the crudity of humours, that are in the stomach, and disposeth Nature to digestion, for because the Quinces by nature are hot, and helpeth it to digest, the Cloves and Saffron make the heart merry, and the Lignum Aloes, preserveth from Corruption, in such sort, that all these being together, worketh wonderful effects in the body of many, the quantity thereof is ℥. i. in the morning, and two hours after supper cold.   

CHAP. XLIII. A Magistral Syrup of Lignum Sanctum.  
THis Magistral Syrup is of such virtue in his operation, that it will help the Mal' Francese, if it be made according to the order, and taken as it should be: And the order to make it is thus.  
Take Lignum Sanctum rasped ℥. vi. the Bark of the same ℥. iiii. and lay it to infuse in twelve pound of good white wine, with one pound of white honey, than distil it until ye have received three pound, than take it from the fire, and keep the water by itself; than take that which remained in the glass, and distil it by a filter until it be clear, than put thereto the water that ye distilled away, and for every pound of that water put thereunto ℥. iii of Julep simple, and mix them well together, and keep it in a Bottle of glass well stopped, for this is marvellous in the cure where Sweatings is needful: For if ye give five or six ounces of this, as hot as he may suffer it, and cover him in the bed, he shall sweated marvellously, the which sweeting resolveth cold tumors, pains, and divers other indispositions, that are to be resolved by sweat. And as for the cure of the Pox, this is a most sovereign remedy, when there are tumors, or pains, or inflations. But when there are Ulcers, Scabs, or Inflammations, in that case you may not use it by any means, because it is very hot, and will 'cause greater inflammation. And therefore if any will use this Syrup to cure pains, swell, or inflammations, it were necessary first to take our Aromatico, written in this Book, with divers other Medicines of our Invention, that being done, let him take seven or eight times our Sirrupo solutivo,, and than begin to take this Syrup, and sweated thereon morning and evening: His meat shall be roast Mutton, or a Bird, Raisins, Dates, Almonds, and such like, but he must not eat too much. His bread shall be Biscuit, and his drink good wine at meals, and if it do hap that he be bound in the body, ye shall give him every week once our Sirrupo Solutivo, and so continued with his sweeting until he be helped.   

CHAP. XLIV. A Syrup of Juniper Berries.  
THis Syrup of Juniper Berry's is of great virtue, because it is one of those fruits that continueth green all the year: of the which herbs I have written a discourse in my book called La Physica del Phioravante, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Juniper Berries when they begin to wax black four pound, and stamp them, and infuse them in twelve pound of strong white Wine six days, than distil it with two pound of white Honey, and ℥. i. of Cinnamon, until ye have received two pound, than take it from the fire, and strain out the Fesses that remained with a press, than strain it by a filter again, than with Sugar make a Syrup in good form, and when it is boiled, put therein the said water distilled from the berries, and so without fire incorporate them well together, and keep it in a glass close shut that it take no air: the dose is an ounce and a half to be taken warm. This is excellent for those that are troubled with wind, or coldness of the stomach, because it warmeth, drieth, and helpeth digestion, and therefore this would work miraculous effects in Almaign, because it is a cold Region, and that they eat many moist meats, the which Nature cannot well digest: It is also appropriate against pains of the Mother, because it provoketh menstrua, and purgeth the Matrix, and helpeth digestion, and causeth sleep, with divers other virtues.   

CHAP. XLV. To make a Syrup of the Bran of Wheat.  
THis Syrup is of marvellous virtue against divers infirmities, for by nature it is hot, and provoketh sweated, and urine, and serveth very much against the French diseases, if you can use it in his time and place, and it is made in this order.  
Take Bran one pound, and infuse it in twelve pound of white Wine, and so let it remain two days, than boil it in a glass with a Head and Receiver, until the third part be consumed, the which ye shall reserve to mix with it afterwards, than strain that in the glass, and pass it by a filter, and when it is clear, put thereunto the aforesaid which ye reserved: Than take Hony and Sugar, of each alike, and therewith make a Syrup according to art, and when it is made, aromatise it with a little Cinnamon, Cloves, Saffron, Lignum Aloes, and Musk, according to thy discretion, and for every pound of the said matter, ye shall put thereto half an ounce of our Vegetable Quintessence, and it shall be finished, the which keep close shut, for it is of such virtue, that it will not corrupt, the dose is from ℥. two. to three, to be taken warm, and than lie down to sweated, for this will resolve all infirmities that may be resolved by sweat. It is very profitable for those that are troubled with any old indisposition, as the Cough, the Catarrh, indisposition of the Stomach, and such like: Ye shall note, that this would not be used in the Summer, for because it is too hot for that time.   

CHAP. XLVI. To make a Syrup of Sarsa parilla, of our invention.  
THe Sarsa parilla is a Root that cometh from the Indieses, the which is hot and drying, of the which Physicians make Syrups and Potions for divers infirmities, wherein it is needful of drying by sweat: but until this time they have all abused themselves in the order, because all hot and dry things are spiritual, and so in making their decoction the spirits go away in fume, and the decoction remaineth senza anima, and virtue, in respect: ye shall understand, that the Sarsa parilla is a root miraculous in his operation, because it warmeth the cold, and drieth the humidity, and resolveth tumors, and healeth sores, and helpeth pains, when it is made according to our order, and because it is a Medicine in so common use, I will show thee the order to make this Syrup, that shall have both anima, and virtue, in so much that the world shall wonder at it: and the order to make it is thus.  
Take one pound of the best Sarsa parilla that ye can found, and cut it very small, and put it in a glass with one pound and a half of Honey, and ℥. i. of Cinnamon, and ℥. two. of Lignum Aloes, and put them in twelve pound of white Wine, and so let it stand four and twenty hours, and than distil it, until ye have received three pound of water, giving you charge, that the Receiver be great, and lute not the mouth but stop it with Tow lest it break, than take it from the fire, and let it wax cold, and when it is cold, pour forth that which is clear, and put it unto the water that ye distilled first, and keep it close, for it is a blessed Syrup: this being done, put upon the Fesses twenty pound of white Wine, and one pound of fine Sugar, and let it boil half an hour, and than strain it, and when the Physician will give it, he may give ℥. viij. at a time as hot as he may suffer it, and than lay him down to sweated as much as he can. And with his meat let him drink the last decoction, and thus the Physician shall reap honour, and the Patiented health, and therefore if any will have his intent, let him not break this our order in any respect.   

CHAP. XLVII. To make a Potion of China as it aught to be.  
THis China is a root like unto the root of Canna, the which is brought unto us out of India, from an Isle called China, from whence it took his name China, and there are of two sorts: the one is white and heavy, the other is great, and read, and light, and of this I have made no experience at all: But of the other I have had great experience, and by the help of God have resolved great and terrible diseases, and the order to condite them after our order is this.  
Take ℥. vi. of China, and ℥. iii of Lignum Aloes of the best that ye can find, and ℥. iiii. of Pollipodie, and ℥. i. of Coloquintida, beaten all these grossly, and put them into a distilling glass, with twenty pound of good Wine, than give it fire until ye have received three pound of water, than let it cool, and strain it, than put therein the water that ye distilled first, and incorporate them well together, and of this give ℥. iiii. at a time warm, than cast away the Fesses, for they are unprofitable. But the Syrup is of such virtue, that it resolveth tumors, sores, pains, and all other indispositions caused of the Pox. It serveth also for Doglie Artetich, for pains of the Gout, and for many other indispositions caused of crudity, and coldness of the humours, because it is of nature hot and drying, and his virtues are to dry: I have seen of this Syrup great experience in divers and sundry causes.   

CHAP. XLVIII. A Potion of Alchachengie, and wherefore it serveth.  
THis Herb Alchachengie with his fruit is aperative, and most profitable for those that cannot make water, by reason of alteration of the pores that are altered through cold, for this is hot and drying, by the which means, it resolveth the alteration of the aforesaid cause, and causeth the Urine to pass with ease; It helpeth the digestion, and comforteth the stomach, when it is grieved through wind or cold: And the order to make it is thus.  
Take that Herb, with Root, Leaves, fruit and all, and lay it to infuse in the water of Mallows, with the Herb pelitory, and there let them remain five or six days, than put thereunto course Sugar, and let it boil one hour and not more, and than strain it, and put thereunto a little Cinnamon, and than it is finished: and when you will occupy it against difficulty of Urine, give them thereof ℥. iiii. and keep them warm in bed, and they shall feel great ease.   

CHAP. XLIX. A pectoral Potion, of our new Invention.  
THis Potion is appropriate against the indisposition of the Breast and Stomach, and is of a marvellous operation, because it is aperative, softening the stomach, and mundifieth the breast, and maketh the heart merry: And this is most sovereign for the Cough, Catarr, and all the other indispositions, that come unto the breast through crudity, and viscosity of humours, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Pomi Calimani, and Pomi Apiae, of each one pound, Quinces half a pound, common Honey, ℥. iiii. fine Sugar one pound, sweet white wine ten pound, water of Bugloss four pound, boil all these together in a Copper Vessel, that is well tinned within, until the Apples do begin to fall in pieces, than take it from the fire, and strain them through a strainer, without pressing of the Fesses, than put into that two drachms of Cinnamon, and than strain it by a filter four or five times, until it be clear, than keep it in a vessel of glass close stopped, that it take no air. The quantity is ℥. iiii. as warm as ye may, take it in the morning, fasting at lest five or six hours after it, and if it be possible sleep thereon in your bed, for it is a thing of great virtue, in resolving the indisposition of the breast and stomach.   

CHAP. L. To make a Potion of Camedrios, and Iva Artetica, which dissolveth all Fevers that come with cold.  
THe Herb Iva Artetica, as I have showed in another place, is of marvellous virtue, also the Camedrios is of great virtue, and is hot and dry by nature. The Iva is good against the accident of the Fever, and the Camedrios dissolveth the melancholy humour; and therefore when a decoction is made of these two Herbs, it will work a marvellous effect in the cure of the said Fever, because it provoketh sweated, and assubtiliateth the grossness of the humour, and extinguisheth the accident of the Fever in such sort, that the Fever shall resolve with good success, and the order to make that Potion is thus.  
Take Camedrios, and Iva Artetica, of each one pound, and dry them in the shadow, Lignum Aloes ℥. i. the seed of Walwort ℥. iiii. common Honey ℥. vi. fine Sugar one pound, strong white wine xvii. pound: Mix all these together in a distilling glass, and so let it stand three days, than distil forth three pound, and let it cool, and strain it through a Searce, and put thereunto the water that ye distilled out before, than pass it by a filter three or four times until it be clear, than keep it in a Glass close shut that it take no air, and it will last a long time without corruption, and when any will take it against the said Fever coming with cold, give him every morning fasting ℥. v. warm, and let him lie down to sweated as much as he may, and fast thereron at the lest four hours, and take heed ye eat no things that are cold, and moist, for they will hinder the cure very much, and at night when he goeth to bed, give him ℥. iii warm, and if it hap that in his sleep he sweated, dry him well with warm clotheses, and thus doing, in short time he shall be delivered of that infirmity, for this I have used divers and sundry times to my great honour, and profit of the Patient.   

CHAP. LIVELY To make a Potion that is good against all Infirmities.  
THis is a Magistral Potion, the which helpeth against all Infirmities, by reason that it destroyeth all the evil qualities in our bodies, it comforteth Nature, helpeth digestion, provoketh Urine, and looseth the body, the which things are most comfortable to our bodies, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the seed of Quinces, ℥. x. the Pills of Citrons, ℥. vi. Balm, Nettles, of each, ℥. iiii. beaten all these grossly, and infuse them in twelve pound of strong white wine, and there let it remain six days, than distil it with ℥. vi. of Honey, and ℥. xv. of Sugar, until ye have received two pound of water, than take it from the fire and let it cool, and strain it by a filter, and than put therein the first water, and eight grains of Musk, dissolved with a little Rose-water about ℥. two. and than for every pound of the said matter, put thereunto ℈. i. of Oil of Vitriol, and incorporate them well together, than keep it in a glass close stopped that it take no air, and of this ye shall take ℥. i. in the morning cold, and fast thereon; for whosoever doth use this in his health shall seldom be sick, but live in health. For in this composition there entereth the seed of Quinces, that resolve the evil quality of the Stomach, and make the heart merry: The Pomcitrone pills preserve and help digestion: The Balm purifieth the blood, healeth the Liver, causeth good digestion, and comforteth the Heart: The Nettles warmeth, provoketh Urine, and mundifieth the Reinss, and resolveth the malignity of the Sinews: The Wine comforteth Nature, strengtheneth the Head, and sustaineth the strength: The Musk is warm by Nature, and resolveth the windiness, and purgeth the blood: The Oil of Vitriol healeth all the Scoriaciones of the Mouth, the Breast, and Stomach, and preserveth the body from all corruption: So by this ye may see of what importance this Composition is, through the virtue of the Simples that are therein: so to conclude, I say, that this is one of the best Compositions that can be made, because of his nature: It letteth alteration in our bodies, and helpeth against all diseases or infirmities, and prolongeth life.   

CHAP. LII. An Infusion with Wine most precious against the Gout.  
THe Gout is a putrified and rotten disease, as I have written of in divers places, and the cure thereof is hard, because it were needful to help many inconveniences before ye come to the cure. Nevertheless, it is a strange thing to see divers, that after they are cured they have no care to preserve them: so that look which way they got it, that way it will come again, but if they would use defensives and preservatives, they may remain well, and therefore I have devised this Wine, the which they shall continually drink: for as long as they use this Wine, the Gout shall never trouble them, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Vino negro that is sweet and pleasant, about twelve gallons, and put it in a vessel that is well seasoned, and in that Wine put fine Lignum Aloes in powder ℥. iii Pollipodie of the Oak ℥. iiii. Sena of Levant ℥. two. Musk dissolved in Rose-water ten grains, common Honey two pound, than let it repose until it be clear, and than begin to drink thereof; for this Wine purgeth, the which if it purge too much, ye shall refrain it now and than, according as ye found your body: This doth not only help the Gout, but all kinds of pains caused of corruption of humours, because it drieth, resolveth, and preserveth, the which are convenient to preserve the body.   

CHAP. LIII. Another artificial Wine, against the stitch in the side, and gravel.  
THe stitch in the side, and the gravel in the Reinss, are somewhat of kin together, because they are caused of one cause, that is, of vapours corrupt and rotten, and of grossness, and evil qualities of the humours, the which, one with the other, engender that infirmity, which in some men is no other than an evil indisposition inwardly, the which is very hard to be helped, for if thou wilt resolve it, it were necessary, first to remove the evil quality, and than cure it, and after they are cured to preserve them, that the said indisposition return not again, and in so doing thy cure shall have good success, and therefore I have made this Wine to preserve thee from that indisposition, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take as it were a Hogshead or a Barrel of good white Wine, that containeth about eighteen gallons of Wine, in the which ye shall put Carduus Benedictus ℥. two. Saxifrage ℥. vi. Walwort ℥. iiii. Pollipodie ℥. iiii. Cinnamon ℥. i. Spikenard half an ounce, Lignum Aloes ℥. two. fine Sugar three pound, than let it repose three or four days, and than begin to drink it, for ye may use it with small wine, or water, or in what order ye william. And in the mean time that ye take this drink, ye shall not eat fat Pork, nor any other fat meat, nor Butter, Milk, Cheese, or Pie-crusts, or such like things, that are of gross and hard digestion, because they will let the operation of this wine. For whosoever doth use this wine, shall never be troubled with those kinds of infirmities, because it doth losen the belly, mundify, cleanse, and preserve from all evil qualities. I call to remembrance that in the City of Naples, where I dwelled six years, I caused divers and sundry persons to use this Wine, and they found such profit thereby, that it was to be wondered at, for in that City▪ there were many troubled with the said indisposition, in respect of Hog's flesh, fish, and such other moist things as they commonly eat in that City, and therefore whosoever useth this Wine shall not be troubled with the said infirmities.   

CHAP. LIV. To make a Quintessence of marvellous virtue.  
THe Quintessence is so called, because it is an essence taken from the Elements without corrupting the said Elements; and therefore it is called Quinta essentia: for it is an essence above the four Elements, the which hath a marvellous virtue in preserving, and conserving all things from putrefaction, and is of so much virtue, that drinking thereof every morning half an ounce when they rise out of their bed, it preserveth them for ever in health. It healeth wounds and all sores, washing them therewith. It preserveth all flesh, fish, and fruits, that is put therein, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take good strong Wine fourteen pound, common Honey one pound, Aniseed, Coriander, Lignum Aloes, Calamus Aromaticus, of each ℥. iii Rosewater ℥. iiii. Beaten all the aforesaid things grossly, and infuse them in the said Wine two days, and than put them in a Gourd of glass, and distil it by Balneo, so long until the water that cometh forth do burn, and when it will not burn, distil not more, than keep that which is distilled in a glass close stopped that it take no air, and so keep it until thou have occasion to use it, for it is a most rare liquor, because, as I have said before, it resolveth all the indispotions that hap unto man's body. For of this Composition the ancient Doctors had small knowledge, nor of many things more written in this book. If any man desire to have this Quintessence more perfecter, let him take a tenth part of good Honey, with a little fine Cinnamon, and distil it again by Balneo, and the Phlegm will remain all in the bottom of the vessel, and the Quintessence will be so fine, that the air will take it away, and therefore he that can make this well, shall work strange cures therewith, so that the world will wonder thereat:   

CHAP. LV. To make Diatartaro, the which is marvellous in divers infirmities.  
THis Diatartaro is good against pain of the stomach, of the body, and for those that are slipticke of body, that cannot go to stool, and such like matters, because it is of nature temperate and lenitive, and hath virtue to heat and dissolve the evil quality, and it is made in this order.  
Take Pears of what sort ye will, and cut them in four pieces, than boil them in water till they be soft, and that the water be almost consumed, than pass it through a strainer, and put thereunto as much white Honey purified as it weigheth, and thereof make an Electuary in good form, and when it is made, aromatise it with Musk, than for every pound of the said Electuary, put thereunto ℥. i. of perfect oil of Tartar, made by dissolution after it is calcined white: But ye shall note, that the Oil must be put in when the Electuary is cold, and so mix it together, than keep it in a glazen vessel: The dose is from ℥. ss. to an ounce in the morning fasting, and eat no meat in four hours after: for this, as I have said, will cure the indisposition of the Stomach, pains of the Milt, pains of the Body that have continued long, pains of the Mother, and such like things that are caused of cold and moist humours.   

CHAP. LVI. A Composition of great value to comfort the Stomach.  
AMong all the compositions that the Apothecaries have, this is one of the best and most perfectest, because it comforteth the stomach that is weak, and spoilt through a long and fastidious infirmity, for it is of a temperate heat, and helpeth to digest, causeth sleep, and comforteth the breast, and the composition is this.  
Take the best Honey that ye can get, and clarify it with Rose-water and the white of an Egg, as ye would do Sugar, and scum it very well, than take as much fine Sugar as ye have of Honey, and incorporate them together on a small fire, and when it is come to the thickness of an Electuary or thereabout, for every pound of the said matter, ye shall put ℥. i. of our Quintessence Vegetable, and ℥. two. of Oil of Almonds newly made, and stir them well together being cold, than put thereto a little Musk and Cinnamon to give it a pleasant smell, than keep it close: The quantity is ℥. i more or less▪ according to the strength of the stomach; ye may temper it with good broth if ye will, and fast thereon four hours at the lest, and thou shalt see strange effects of this composition.   

CHAP. LVII. To make a stomachall Emplaster to cause digestion where it wanteth.  
THere are many causes that hinder digestion, as through coldness of the Stomach, through heat, through moistness or dryness, or through superfluous choler, or phlegm, or melancholy, of the which things the Physician cannot certify himself which it is, so by that means many proved divers Remedies for that indisposition, and cannot found the way to help it. And therefore I will show thee a plaster that hath all these four principal intentions; that is, to help digestion, strengthen the stomach, make the heart merry, which things are all necessary to preserve a man within good temperature and health, and the Remedy is this.  
Take these Herbs gathered in their times and dried, that is, Sage, Rosemary, Wormwood, Balm, Saint Johns-wort, Nettles, of each as much you will, beaten them finely, and searce them: than take for every pound of that powder of Cinnamon, ℥. i half an ounce of Cloves, and as much Lignum Aloes, and ten grains of Musk dissolved in Rosewater; than take for every pound, of good Honey ℥. two. and as much Vinegar, and make them into the form of a liquid Plaster, and when thou wilt occupy it, spread it upon a cloth warm, and lay it to the stomach, and in the mean while eat restorative meats, and drink small wine.   

CHAP. LVIII. A rare Secret to help the Eyes.  
THis is a great Secret for those that have lost the sight of their Eyes, and was never written of before of any man, but of me, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Swallows and stamp them feathers and all in a Mortar, than take for every pound of that, ℥. iiii. of bread, and four pound of white wine, and so let it stand six days to infuse, than distil it by Balneo until all the substance be come forth, than keep that water in a glass close stopped, and set it in the Sun twenty days, and than use morning and evening to drop it in the eyes, and thou shalt see strange operations of the same Experiment, for it taketh away the dimness of the eye, quickeneth the sight, and comforteth the brain, that it cannot be hurt by any means.   

CHAP. LIX. To make a Liquor to comfort the Smelling, and to preserve the Head.  
THe Smelling is one of the five Senses of our Body, of the which fourfooted beasts have great use; for they will not receive any thing into the body before they have smelled unto it, and than if it be against their nature, they will not eat it, and therefore this smelling is that which preserveth the hearing, the seeing and the taste; for if the nose take an evil smell, all the other senses have part: For if ye smell to Onions or Scallions, the taste will be troubled, the eyes will weep, the ears will also be troubled: And to the contrary, when a man smelleth a good smell, it comforteth the eyes, the hearing, and taste, and for that cause I have made this liquor, to comfort the Smelling, for by that the whole body is comforted, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Lignum Aloes ℥. two. anise seed, ℥. iiii. Calamus Aromaticus ℥. i. calamint dried, three ounces, common Honey two pound, strong white wine twelve pound, let all these be infused for four days, and than distil it in Balneo, and when ye distil it, put into the Receiver six grains of Musk dissolved in two ounces of Rosewater, and distil away but three pound, the which keep in a glass close stopped, and when ye will comfort the smelling, wash the face and beard therewith, and thou shalt smell a savour of marvellous effect, the which comforteth Nature marvellously: It comforteth the Stomach, and helpeth a stinking breath: It helpeth the mouth being ulcerated, and those that have the Rupture in short time, if ye wash it twice a day therewith. It helpeth also women that are troubled with dissension of the Matrix, if ye wet a cloth therein and lay it upon the Mother, in short space it shall receive great health. Also it helpeth those that are troubled with the Meagrum, or pains in the Head coming of cold or wind, if ye wash the Head with the said Liquor, presently they shall feel ease, with divers other virtues, the which I will leave until another time.   

CHAP. LX. A Decoction of the Vine, and wherefore it serveth.  
THis Decoction is a composition of our Invention, and may be made in the same order as ye do with Lignum vitae, or Sarsaparilla, and hath no less virtue against contagious diseases, and hath so great virtue in drying and resolving, that it is to be wondered at, and may be used in all causes in stead of Sarsaparilla, or Lignum vitae, or China, and this I have found out by great travel and experience, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take the Roots of the Vine, or the stalks, and cut them small, than take thereof two pound, and infuse them in strong Vinegar until they be covered, than put thereunto xii. pound of common water, and one pound of white Honey, and boil them until the consumption of the third part, so that there remain eight pound, than strain it, and put thereunto ● ss. of Julep simple, than keep it in a glass close shut to thy use, for it serveth against many diseases or infirmities, and for those that have lost their appetite, if they take thereof four ounces morning and evening warm, and fast thereon four or five hours, in short time they shall recover it again. It is also good for those that are troubled with the Colic: It also engendereth Milk in women's breasts; it ceaseth pains of the Matrix, and also the Cough, Catarr, and pains of the Reinss, and such like, the which I will not speak of at this time. Also of the seed of the Grape I have made an oil by Expression, as they make oil of Linseed and other seed, the which is of so much virtue, that it helpeth in manner against all indispositions, and especially against Ulcers and Wounds by his proper quality, for unto this oil ye can neither attribute heat, not dryness, moistness nor cold, but only a temperate thing, the which thou mayest know by his experience. If ye use to eat of this oil, it mittigateth and healeth all the indispositions of the body, for it is of so much sustenance and virtue, that it preserveth the body in temperature: And these have I found out by experience.   

CHAP. LXI. To make a composition of the Herb Mercury.  
THis Herb Mercury is of so much virtue that the tongue cannot express it, and many Philosophers have assigned unto it Celestial virtue, because it preserveth a man in a youthful state a long time, and from infirmities: It maketh the heart merry, the which it doth by his secret and hidden virtues, and the order to make the said composition is thus.  
Take the Juice of this Herb in May when it is with flour, and strain it through a filter until it be clear, than take of that juice i. pound, Julip simple half a pound, fine rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm ℥. vi. Pure Oil of Vitriol, ʒ. two. fine Musk two Carrots; Mix these together in a glass, and stop it very well, and set it in the Sun forty days together, and look that ye take it in every night: that time being expired, you may use it when ye will, and the order to use it s thus. Ye shall take in the morning ℥. i. with two or three ounces of the broth of a Capon, or other flesh, and fast thereon four or five hours at the lest, and thus using it two months together, it will be impossible to have any infirmity a long time after, by the virtue of the said composition. Among the rest I saw once a Gentleman that had the Palsy one and twenty months, the which by using of this composition the space of ten months was perfectly whole. Another Composition also I have made, the which is of marvellous virtue, and is in this order.  
Take the Herb Mercury when it is flowered, and accompany it with Wine and Honey, than distil it, and separate the Elements according to Art, and thou shalt have a most rare Medicine, wherewith thou mayest help many infirmities. But first I would counsel you, ere you use this, to prepare the body with taking once our Aromatico, the which cleanseth both the stomach and body, and thus doing thou shalt reap fame.   

CHAP. LXII. A Medicine of Lappaciole Minor, the which is marvellous in curing any sort of Catarrh.  
THere are four kinds of these, according to the writing of Dioscorides, but that which the Author doth writ of in this place, is that which Dioscorides calleth Xanthium, and in the Shops it is called Lappa Minor, and Lappa Inversa, and in the Italian Lappaciole Minore, and in English it is called the Ditch-Bur, and Louse-Bur. Take that herb with the root and all, what quantity ye will, and distil thereof a water, the which keep unto thy use, and when ye will use it against the Catarrh, take of that water four ounces, with white crude Honey half an ounce, mix them well together, and drink it in the morning warm as soon as ye rise, and fast thereon four or five hours, and use a reasonable diet in your meat and drink, and eat nothing that may offend the Catarrh, and so using this remedy for a month together, thou shalt help any sort of Catarrh perfectly, by virtue of that herb. For this I have experimented divers and sundry times in poor and simple Catarrhs. But ● if they come of the Pox, or Hectic, in that case it may pleasure them much, but yet not cure them. Ye shall note, that it would be necessary for the Patient to take a dose of our Aromatico before he take the said Medicine, because our Aromatico disposeth the Catarrh to solution, whereby it may be the sooner cured.   

CHAP. LIII. Of Pollipodie, and his virtues.  
THis herb is well known to most men, and hath great virtue against old griefs, and oppilations, and all indispositions that come through distemperment of humours, because it evacuateth the body, cleanseth the head, and purgeth the blood: and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Pollipodie two ounces, Seen one ounce, Lignum Aloes half an ounce, mix these well together in a stone mortar, than take white Wine as much as ye will, and for every pound of Wine put thereto ℥. i. of that mixture, and so let it stand four and twenty hours, and than drink it, for it will purge without any pain, those that have any indisposition of the stomach, weakness of the legs, and faintness of the body, and such like. For ye shall understand, the Pollipodie purgeth Phlegm, and the Seine purgeth Choler, as by the viscosity is known: The Lignum Aloes preserveth nature, so that by the ingredients ye may know the virtue of this composition. Ye shall understand, that this root would be gathered when the Sun is afar of; and that the cold time of the year doth begin to draw on, for than they are of most force.   

CHAP. LXIV. Of the Olive, and his virtues.  
TAke common Oil, the which is made of the Olive, two pound, Frankincense one pound, Turpentine one pound, distil them together in a Retort two days long, than separate the oil from the water, and keep each alone, than take forth the Fesses out of the Retort, the which is a miracle of Nature, because it serveth against all Infirmities, where it is applied. It helpeth broken bones wonderfully, and these secrets I have found out by experience. There is also drawn out of the wood a liquor by dissension, the which is black of colour, and is of marvellous virtue against pains. A little of this Oil being mixed with Oil of Sulphur, helpeth all putrified and corrosive Ulcers that are caused of putrefaction of humours. The Lie made of the Ashes of Olives, preserveth the beard and hair in their natural colour, if ye wash the head often therewith. Of this Oil I have made a great discourse in my Chirurgery.   

CHAP. LXV. Of Ciperous, and his virtues.  
THis herb being put into new Wine, when it worketh in the Hogshead, giveth it a pleasant savour, and whosoever useth to drink of that Wine, it will defend him from all interior passions that are caused of ventosity, and helpeth those that are troubled with the Rupture, because it resolveth the wind, and hath a restrictive virtue. It purgeth the blood marvellously, and causeth digestion, and of this I have seen the experience. Also I saw one, that in the months of April, May, and June, took the roots of Ciperous and beaten them to powder, and made thereof a plaster, and laid it upon the Rupture, changing it every day once: and also he eat of the said roots, and so in short time he was helped; and that experiment I have seen divers times. Also if ye take those nodes or knots that are on the roots, and stamp them, and boil them with common Oil, Frankincense, and yellow Wax, until it become black of colour, it will cure wounds marvellously, it mittigateth the pains in all old sores, it cureth all pains coming of humidity and wind: Moreover, if ye anoint the body with the said Oil, and drink the Wine wherein hath lain infused the said root, it will preserve it marvellously. And among all other things that I saw of this Ciperous; there was a Merchant called Nicolo Carbolo, the which was of the age of thirty years, and was troubled with a kind of scab like a Leper, and had carried it long, the which I caused to make this Oil, and he did not only anoint him therewith, but also drunk thereof every morning ℥. ss. with wine, so that in short time he became so whole and sound, that it was to be wondered at.   

CHAP. LXVI. Of Rew, and his virtues.  
TAke Rew when it is seeded, but yet not dry, and stamp it in a Mortar, and for every pound of Rew, put thereto ℥. vi. of Turpentine, and as much of the yolks of Eggs hard sod, and incorporate them well together; than put it in a glass close stopped, and set it to putrify in warm dung five and twenty days, than distil it by a Retort according unto art, until all the substance be come forth, the which will be both Oil and water, the which ye shall separate. The water serveth against all pains of the belly that are caused of cold and moistness; the dose is ʒ. ss. in some warm broth, and may be taken at any time. Also giving it to any that hath a ●ever coming with cold, it will help him in short time: yea, some have been cured at once or twice taking the same. Moreover, the Oil is most sovereign against cold griefs, as well inward as outward, it preserveth those greatly, that take every morning a drachm with sweet wine, and fast thereon four or five hours. Also for outward griefs it is most excellent, if ye anoint them therewith cold, because it resolveth and drieth all evil qualities of our bodies: besides these experiences, I have made an Oil of the seed of Rew by expression, the which is of so much virtue, that if ye anoint the head therewith, it causeth a good memory unto those that have lost it, or are weak by reason of humidity, or cold.   

CHAP. LXVII. Of Wormwood, and his virtues.  
THis herb Wormwood is of great virtue, if ye can use it well: for if any lean persons or evil coloured use the same, it will bring them to their perfect health and colour, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take Wormwood and distil it in Balneo, than put thereunto Oil of Vitriol, as much as will suffice to make it tart, and thereof use every morning one spoonful fasting, and in short time it will restore thee to perfecter health than ever thou wast before, and bring thy colour again.   

CHAP. LXVIII. Of Gratia Dei, and his virtues and operation in divers infirmities.  
THis Gratia Dei is an herb well known unto most men, and is like unto Germander, and bitter in taste, and it aught to be gathered in July and August, and must be dried in the shadow, hanging so that it may touch nothing, and than ℈ i of this powder will provoke vomit, and ease Nature. It helpeth also putrified Ulcers, if ye make a decoction thereof with Lie, and than wet clotheses therein, and lay them upon the sore; for as it causeth to vomit and evacuateth the stomach, so neither more nor less it causeth the Ulcer to vomit, or purge, and healeth it with great speed: It helpeth much those that are Frenzy, by reason that it mundifieth the stomach and body from such putrefaction.  
A most excellent composition of this Herb. Take thereof in fine powder, ℥ i Cinnamon, ʒ. i. Cloves, ℈. i. Wheat flower one pound, Zucche compost conduit. ℥. three Oranges condited, one ounce, beaten them altogether, and make thereof a past with Honey, and form it like a loaf, and set it in an Oven to bake, but take heed it do not burn, and when thou wilt use it, give thereof one ounce, and it will purge gallantly, and is very delectable to be eaten. This Purgation is divine in many infirmities, but above all other against Scrophule, the white Scall, and Scabs, because it evacuateth only the superfluous humidity, and drieth, and is appropriate for these infirmities: For ye shall note, that all Soluble Medicines do not serve in one infirmity, because one is Choleric, the other Sanguine, one Phlegmatic, and the other Melancholy, and for that cause it is necessary to found the proper Medicine for the infirmity. The Rhabarb purgeth Choler: The Eleborus Melancholy; the Ebulus or walwort Phlegm, and the Gratia dei the bloody, so that every one hath his property.   

CHAP. LXIX. Of walwort and his Virtues and Operations.  
Wallwort is an Herb▪ well known, and groweth in a fat ground, and hath leaves, flowers, and seed like Elder, and is of such virtue that it is to be wondered at, for if it were brought unto us from far Countries, it would be accounted above all other herbs, but being so familiar among us, we make no account thereof. This Herb called walwort or Dainwort, by his property and nature provoketh vomit and dissolveth the body, if ye drink the juice thereof, or eat the Herb green: The water distilled of this Root being drunk, and applied outwardly with wet clotheses unto the Gout, it taketh away the pain. If ye give the juice of this Herb with Syrup of Acetose to drink, it will help frantic Fevers. The powder of his leaves hath great operation in all sorts of putrified Ulcers, because it taketh away the pain, mundifieth, and incarnateth, with divers other virtues, the which if I should writ them they would not be credited, and therefore I leave it to the Experimentor.   

CHAP. LXX. Of Millefolie or Yarrow, and his great virtue.  
THis Herb Millefolie, is well known unto most men; and of many is little esteemed, because it groweth so commonly amongst us. This Herb being green, is a miraculous and divine remedy, to help any sorts of fresh and bleeding wounds, if ye stamp a handful thereof, and lay it thereupon the lips being close joined together, within the space of four and twentie-houres it shall be perfectly whole. If ye drink three ounces of the juice of this Herb with new Milk, morning and evening, it will help Gonorrea in short time. It is also an excellent remedy for those that have their Liver and Lungs ulcerated, for this I have proved divers and sundry times in Goats, the which are troubled with a certain infirmity, the which is called Bissole of the Goat-keepers, for they are certain Imposthumes that do engender in the Liver and the Lungs, and causeth them to die. I than seeing that in the interior parts of the Goats, made this experience, I took Millefolie made in powder, and gave it unto the Goats with Salt, and for the most part they were helped; and after that I cured a number of men and women of that disease, for of that infirmity there die a great number in the world. And with the said order aforesaid, thou mayest save a number, but it must be mixed with Sal artificiato Leonardo. Those that are Ettici and Tesici die commonly through Imposthumes and Ulcers that are caused in the Liver, for of this I have seen above an hundred. For after they were dead, I have caused them to be opened to see the experience. You shall understand, that this Herb Millefolie hath a great property to heal those Ulcers. And therefore the Chirurgeon that understandeth not Physic, can ill help those Ulcers inwardly, because he cannot apply his Unguents and Plasters, as he doth outwardly. And those kind of Ulcers cannot be known, but of those which have seen them, and have seen the success of their diseases, and therefore I may well discourse thereof, because of them have passed a great number through my hands, and I have seen them with mine eyes. So that I conclude, that all which I have said is two things, the one is, to see the thing in fact, the other, to have approved Medicines to help them. A most excellent composition of this Herb, the which helpeth wounds in very short time.  
Take this Herb when it is flowered, and ready to seed, and put thereunto Bdellium, Frankincense, and common oil, and make thereof as it were Mustard, than distil it with a gentle fire, with great diligence, as ye distil our Oleum Benedictum, and thou shalt have a rare Secret against all manner of wounds, so that it causeth the world to wonder at his operation.   

CHAP. LXXI. Of Gentian and his Experiments, approved by me many times.  
THis Herb is well known, and his virtue is most in the Root, and is a miraculous and divine remedy for those that have pains within the body caused of wind, and also for those that have the Stitch in the side, if ye give the powder thereof in sweet white wine, for presently it taketh away the pain, because his nature is to dissolve wind, the which is caused of oppilations of the Pores through abundance of humidity, and the Gentian hath virtue to dry and dissolve wind, and so Nature doth evaporate the ventosity: And this is the reason why the Gentian doth that effect.   

CHAP. LXXII. Of Imperatoria and his great experience that it doth against pains of the Mother.  
THis Herb is of great virtue in his operation, if his Root be made in powder, and given to eat with Honey unto a woman that is troubled with the Mother, either through cold or heat. For if they be grieved through cold, the Imperatoria which is hot, doth dissolve it, and they shall be delivered. If it be through heat, the heat is always windy, because the heat is none other thing, than a humour retained in those parts, the which this herb by his proper virtue and quality doth resolve. So that whether it be cold or hot, this virtuous herb helpeth them with great speed, for this I have proved an infinite number of times. Moreover this herb hath great virtue to comfort the stomach, and causeth digestion, and to preserve all the body, and for that cause the Ancients have called it Imperatoria.   

CHAP. LXXIII. Of Cardo Sancto and his virtues particular, the which I have proved.  
THere are many kind of herbs, the which are called Cardi, but unto that which they call Cardo Sancto; they have added Sancto, because the people should know, that it is an herb of great value in certain diseases, so that it is to be wondered at for his operation. And that which I have seen, thereof will I writ in this place, that is, if ye stamp this herb when it is green, and lay it upon the wound, it will heal it miraculously, and with great speed. Also the juice or powder of the said herb being given to drink unto those that have worms, presently it helpeth them. This Herb being dried and infused in Aqua vitae, and given to drink to any that is grieved with any grievous pains, in short time he shall be whole. This Herb is also good for the sight of the eyes: If ye make a past thereof with Bread and Honey, and distil it with white wine, it is most excellent. It hath also two great Virtues to preserve human bodies, the which I have proved, the one is outwardly, and the other inwardly, and they are made in this order.  
Take Carduus Benedictus when it beginneth to flour, and stamp it grossly, and infuse it in common oil and Aqua vitae, with a little Frankincense, and there let them remain, until they be macerated, than boil them and strain it, than take thereof a third part, and put thereto a little Virgin wax, and let it boil, until it begin to fume, and turn to a black colour, than strain it, and keep it in a glass close shut, that it take no air, than if ye take one drachm of the oil with sweet wine cold, it will resolve any infirmity, and preserve them that use it in health; with the black liquor ye shall anoint all the body when ye go to bed, cold, the which doth not only resolve the evil quality, but preserveth a man in good state. It maintaineth the hair black, so that it shall not wax white: It killeth worms in the body, with divers other things, that I will leave until another time.   

CHAP. LXXIV. Of sweet Marjoram, and of his Secrets the which I have proved.  
MArjoram hath great and rare virtues, the which I have proved, because others might know them and use them, when occasion shall serve. And first I will writ of the juice, the which is of such strength and virtue, that one ounce thereof being mixed with one drachm of Oil of bitter Almonds, and one scruple of Mastic in powder, being snuffed up at the nose, until it come unto the mouth, it purgeth the head of all pains, dissolveth tumors, quickeneth the sight, and causeth sleep, and helpeth the head of all infirmities: Also Margerum put into Vinegar, with Cloves and Cinnamon, and make thereof an Epithema, it dissolveth the evil disposition of the stomach, and quickeneth the appetite, and provoketh sleep, and being eaten in Salads, it comforteth the Stomach marvellously, with divers other virtues, the which I have not seen.   

CHAP. LXXV. Of the Herb called Laciola, or Ophio Glossen, of some Adder's tongue, or Lancea Christi.  
THis Herb is of marvellous virtue, for if it be laid upon a wound, either green or dry, it healeth it marvellously, and with speed, and that it doth by his hidden and secret virtue. The decoction of this Herb healeth wounds inwardly, and also other offences, it helpeth the Rupture in young children, being new done, if ye lay it thereon, and bind it hard with a Truss, these Virtues I have seen of this Herb.   

CHAP. LXXVI. Of Hypericon or Saint Johns-wort.  
THere is an Oil made of the Seed of this Herb by expression, the which being anointed upon a wound, it doth heal it with great speed. It is also excellent for those which have the Pitechie that is, a certain disease so called in the Italian tongue, it is also most excellent against all Poisons. This Herb is also good against scabs, if ye anoint them with the juice, and drink his decoction, because it quencheth and cooleth the superfluous heat. And this it doth by his proper quality, and hidden virtue.   

CHAP. LXXVII. Of Nettles, and his virtue in many operations.  
THis herb is commonly known among us, and is of marvellous virtue, and his effects are uncredible. Nevertheless, I will not let to show one experiment of it, the which is marvellous, and is this: Take a Capon, and pull away all his feathers from his breast, and beaten him with Nettles, and he will call in the young Chickens, and govern them like the Hen. Nettles being dried and made into powder, and given to eat unto a man, it will provoke venereous acts, being used to be eaten in meats, it purgeth the Matrix, it helpeth scabs, if you wash them with his decoction, and mittigateth all pains coming of cold, making a bath thereof; his decoction helpeth the toothache, with many other virtues that I have not proved. But truly I believe, that if any would give himself to seek experience in this herb, he should see strange things. For I have always seen that in these kind of herbs, that naturally will not be touched, God and Nature hath given great virtue.   

CHAP. LXXVIII. Of Hyssop of the Mountain.  
THis herb hath great virtue, for if his decoction be given to drink unto those that have the flux of Urine, in short time it will help them: The like doth his decoction in wounds imposthumated, for if ye wash them therewith, it will mundify, and restrain, and bring it presently to be whole. Also if ye make powder thereof, and lay it upon a fresh wound, it will help it presently, and that it doth by his great estranged virtue. It helpeth the Cough, being infufed in Wine and drunk.   

CHAP. LXXIX. A great secret of a kind of Betonie.  
THere is found in the field a certain kind of betony, the which is the length of an arm or more, and as big in the stalk as a Goose quill, and it is four square, and the leaf is much like unto the Oaken leaf, and his flour is much like the colour of a Violet, and his seed is black, and much like unto the grains of Gunpowder, and this herb in Lombardy is called Betonica, and in the Realm of Naples it is called Centra galla, and of this herb I have seen great virtues and experience, and especially when it beginneth to flour until it be seeded: for if ye distil it with sweet Wine, and receive thereof only the fourth part, it will restore the sight unto those that are almost blind: It comforteth a weak stomach very much, if ye drink thereof every morning three or four drachms. The Fesses which remain in the glass being mixed with Hony and a little Zedoaria, helpeth women that are troubled with the Mother, if they drink thereof every morning ℥. viij. warm. This herb being bruiesd with Wine and Salt, and laid upon a fresh wound every three days once, helpeth the same with speed: Also if ye put one of his seeds into the eyes, and there let it remain so long as ye may suffer it, it will clear the sight marvellously, for it hath been proved many times. It helpeth those kind of Scabs the which are most evil to be helped, being mixed in this order.  
Take the juice of this herb, although it be somewhat dry and hard to get forth, and for every ounce of that juice, put thereunto ℥. iiii. of the Oil of Frankincense that cometh forth last in the distillation, and boil them a little together until it begin to fume, than take it from the fire and strain it through a cloth, and when ye go to bed anoint all the scabs therewith cold, and thou shalt see a most strange cure, never written of before by any man, the which I have proved divers and sundry times, and is a secret to be used on noble personages, because it doth his effect without letting of blood, and purging, most wonderful to behold: So that it is to be accounted rather a divine Medicine than human; for truly I have done more cures with this herb than with any other that ever I used.   

CHAP. LXXX. Of the effects of Wine, and what cometh thereof.  
FIrst I will speak of Wine and his qualities. You shall understand, that Wine is a liquor the which changeth into divers kinds differing from his own nature: And first it changeth into Vinegar of itself without any artifice, the which can never be turned into Wine again. Also they separate from Wine Aqua vitae, the which being separated cannot be turned into Wine again. Also Wine maketh, by settling itself, a certain stone called Tartar, the which can never be turned into Wine again, nor yet into Vinegar. And thus when the workman doth transmute or change it, it cannot be turned again into his first quality. Wine is very apt to corrupt, and to change into other kinds, but after that it changeth or transmuteth, it is uncorruptible: for when it is turned into Vinegar, it is apt to conserve all things. Vegetable and Animal that is put therein, but not the Minerals, for by nature it is enemy unto them. There is also separated from Wine Aqua vitae, the which is conservatrix of all Medicines; for when it is circulated and made into a Quintessence it becometh celestial, as I have showed in my other books, and therewith thou mayest help many infirmities, because it mittigateth all pains, and dissolveth in a manner all infirmities, and especially when it is compounded in this manner.  
Take of that Quintessence four parts, Oil of Sulphur and Vitriol of each one part, Julep of Violets sixty parts: Mix them all together, and it will be of such virtue, that if ye give ʒ. i. thereof to drink to one that lay at the point of death, it would recover him, because it breaketh choler, preserveth the stomach, causeth an appetite, and helpeth any sort of Fever, and preserveth both men and women in lusty state, if they use it oftentimes; for these experiences I have seen divers times. Also of the Tartar ye may may make Oil, the which is of marvellous virtue, both in Physic, chirurgery, and Alchemy. There is also drawn forth of Tartar, his spirit and oil in this order, as Andernacus writeth, the which is most profitable against sundry infirmities, and the order to make it is thus.  
Take white Tartar and beaten it to powder four pound, and put it into a stone pot or glass well luted, and set it in a furnace to distil with a great Receiver close luted, lest all the fumes come forth or break the glass, than give it first a small fire, and so increase it as though thou wouldst draw a strong water, and so continued it until there come forth no more spirits, than let it wax cold, and take forth the liquor, and put it into an upright glass with his head and receiver, and distil away the water in Balneo, than take that oil which is in the bottom, and distil it in Sand or Ashes, and there will come forth at the first a yellowish oil, and so by little and little it will change colour, and become blacker and blacker, and thick like unto a Balm, or a Syrup. You shall understand, that the first Liquor separated in Balneo, is called Liquor fecularum vini, or Spiritus Tartari, the oil which ye rectified in Sand, is called Oleum fecularum vini, sive Mumia fecularum vini the which is most effectual and profitable in curing all running Ulcers that goeth creeping upon the flesh, and especially those that come Ex lue venerea, for this Mumia doth so cure those malign Ulcers, that their malice can hurt not more, but shall be quite extincted: Being drunk with wine, it doth break and expel the Stone in the Reinss and Bladder, it provoketh Urine and purgeth Ulcers. Furthermore, ʒ. i. of the liquor or spirit of Tartar, being drunk with water of fumitory or Hirundinariae or such like, as is most convenient for Pustulas gallicas ex anthemate ericipelas, the Dropsy, Water betwixt the skin and the flesh, Fevers, Menstrua, and all obstructions of those parts; it will work all those effects more effectual if it be taken with water of treacle, the which is made as hereafter followeth. Also ye shall understand that this spirit of Tartar must be rectified four or five times from the calces of his Fesses in Balneo, to take away his stinking smell, and than it will be the purer and more effectual, and this is the making of Aqua Theriacalis.  
Take treacle of Alexander that is perfect good▪ ℥. v. read Myrrh, ℥. two. Saffron, ℥. ss. mix them together in a glass, and pour thereon, ℥. x. of the spirit of Wine, and than set them close stopped to digest, than distil it according unto art; sometime they put into this water ℈. two. of Camphire especially when it is used in hot burning Fevers and Inflammations, and and than it is called Aqua theriacalis camforata, this Composition following being drunk, hath a singular piercing virtue. Take Spiritus calcanthi, ℥. i. Liquoris fecularum vini correcti, ℥. three Aqua Theriacalis ℥. v. give thereof ʒ. i. in strong wine or other convenient liquor both for the aforesaid defects, and also to prevent and cure infinite other diseases.   

CHAP. LXXXI. Of the quality of Vinegar, and his Secrets.  
VInegar is made of wine, and of water. Whereas there is wine, they make it of wine, but in those Countries where there groweth no wine, they make it of beer and ale, in stead of wine, the which Vinegar is very strong. Nevertheless, it hath not the virtue and quality of that which is made of wine, because his nature is to preserve those things which are put therein, as is said before. If ye do distil Vinegar in Balneo until it remain dry, and than burn those Fesses until they come white, and than lay them in a moist place, it will turn into Oil, the which is of such virtue for man's body, that it is not to be credited, for if ye give thereof a small quantity to drink, it will dissolve the Gravel, and Stone in the Bladder. And therefore this is a worthy secret to be known, the which was never revealed before to any man: As for his other virtues, they are known to all men. Distilled Vinegar being mixed with a little oil of Tartar and Aqua vitae, preserveth the face, and maketh it fair, but if it were not a sin to offend God, I could say such great and strange things of distilled Vinegar, that it would 'cause the world to wonder at it, but for troubling my conscience, I will hold my peace for this time, and leave this to be sufficient, which I have written already.   

CHAP. LXXXII. Of the Fesses of Wine, and of his Secrets that I have found out.  
THat which is called Alum du Fez, is the Fesses of Wine burnt, the which I have spoken of in other places, but here I will show thee a great and rare Secret, never written before by any man, the which shall be to the honour of the Physician, and this is the Secret.  
Take the Fesses of Aqua fortis, made with Roch Allom, Sal Niter, and Vitriol two pound, Alum du Fez two pound, mix them well together, and put them into a Furnace to calcine, until it become to a hard stone: and when it is calcined, make it presently into powder, and set it four or five nights in the air, and it will turn moist, than take six pound of pure Aqua vitae without phlegm, and put therein the same powder, and so let it remain eight days, every day stirring it once, than pour of that part which is clear, and keep it as a precious Jewel, than take the Fesses and calcine them again, as ye did at the first, and make them in powder again: And this powder mundifieth all filthy and stinking sores, and with this water thou mayest help them, if that the workman can apply it with reason. Also with this water may be done great cures in Physic, if it be given as it aught to be. Also of the said powder there may be made Pills and Potions, that worketh miracles in the world, as I have seen divers times.   

CHAP. LXXXIII. Of Verjuice made of Grapes, and his Secrets.  
Verjuice is the Juice of unripe Grapes, the which is kept to dress and season meats, to give them a better taste, and it is of great virtue, and appropriate for many things. But when it shall be distilled with Hony, and Alum du Fez in a Limbeck of glass, it will be a miraculous remedy for Imposthumes that are very hot. It maketh women fair and shining, if they wash them therewith. But if this be mixed with oil of Talk, it will restore the sight unto those that are almost blind. Also two drachms of distilled Verjuice, with two drachms of the juice of betony, and four ounces of Milk being used, will make a man very luxurious, and help a weak back. Also Verjuice being distilled, will bring an appetite unto those that have lost it. And all these are with great reason, for ye shall understand that the Verjuice without any other Artifice, doth mundify the stomach, and lose the body, and purify the blood: The Honey is Cordial, and is hot by nature, and dissolveth wind, the Alum du Fez drieth, and destroyeth all the evil humours: The Talk is bright and shining, and his whiteness doth penetrate very much: The betony comforteth the stomach, and is windy: The Milk is aperative and nutritive, and therefore consider well thereon, and thou shalt found it reason and experience that I have said.   

CHAP. LXXXIV. Certain Secrets of Animals, and first of the Ox.  
THe fat of the Ox is very appropriate to Unguents, to help all manner of sores, because it comforteth the place offended, and mittigateth the pain; but when this grease or fat shall be distilled with Turpentine and Wax, it will work Miracles in divers operations, of the which I will not speak in this place. There is in the throat of divers old Oxen certain knots or kernels as a man may term them, the which are of the bigness of an Olive, some are bigger and some lesser, according to the age of the Ox. Take of those kernels, and hung them up to dry in the shadow, and make thereof powder, and of that powder give every morning, ss. ℥. unto those that have the Dropsy, and in short time they shall be helped. Also the sinews of an Ox being dried, and made lint to make tents or stops, is most excellent, and will work great effects, and this is one of the Secrets, the which I never meant to reveal until death. The blood of a young Bull that is not gelded, being drunken as it is warm, is most strong poison, there are also divers other things, the which I would writ of this Beast but for tediousness sake.   

CHAP. LXXXV. Of the Goat.  
THe fat of the Male Goat before he is gelded is of much virtue, because it comforteth all members that are offended, as well inwardly as outwardly: If ye anoint any that hath the Flux with the said grease, it will do him great pleasure. Also the dung of the Goat is most excellent to mollify sinews that are indurated in any place, and therefore this dung being put into Unguents appropriate, of force must work great Effects.   

CHAP. LXXXVI. Of the Horse and his Virtues.  
THe Dung of the Horse is of great virtue, for if a man were lame, and indurated through gross and viscous humours, let him be buried in fresh warm Horse dung two hours, and in ten or twelve days he shall be helped. The fat of the Horse is very hot and penetrative, and especially that in the neck, where the Main groweth. Also the fat being distilled with the rosin of the Pine tree and Myrrh, is miraculous against shrunk sinews.   

CHAP. LXXXVII. Of the Dog and his Secrets.  
THe Dog is an amiable Animal above all other unto man, for he understandeth in a manner what a man doth say; and from the Dog is taken many wholesome things for man, for of the skin they make Gloves, and such like, the which are wholesome for them that wear them. The fat of the Dog is very hot and piercing, and dissolveth all pains that come of cold. The dung of a Dog is profitable to dress Leather withal, also his blood mixed with Hog's grease, and the Ashes of a Vine, dissolveth all manner of swell, that come in divers parts of the body.   

CHAP. LXXXVIII. Of the Cat and his Virtues.  
THe Cat is very hot, above all other animals, that appertain unto the house, and his fat is of such heat, that it is uncredible to be spoken of, and he is never in love, or goeth a caterwauling, but in the coldest weather. The Brain of the Cat is of such a heat, that if any do eat thereof, it will make him mad; if ye anoint certain places of the house with the fat, it will 'cause the Mice to run away, fearing lest the Cat were there, and that is by a hidden property. There engendereth in the flesh of a dead Cat certain putrified Worms, the which afterwards become a kind of Fly, that are called Taphaeni, the which is a very great enemy to the Ox, and all other Cattles, for they will run away from them, for if they be bitten therewith, they will in a manner be mad.   

CHAP. LXXXIX. Of the Hare and his Secrets.  
THe blood of the Hare being dried in the Furnace, and made into powder, helpeth those much, which are troubled with the stone and gravel, giving it to drink with the juice of Pelitory. The hair of the Hare serveth to stench blood in wounds. The Testicles of the Hare dried in a Furnace, and made into powder, and being drunk, provoketh venereous acts. The Gaul of the Hare being distilled with Hony and Aqua vitae, is a miraculous remedy for the sight of the eyes, putting therein every night one drop when ye go to bed. There is yet a great virtue in the Hare, that if I should reveal it, the world would wonder at it, and therefore I omit it unto the ingenious.   

CHAP. XC. Of the Frog and his secrets.  
THese Frogs are of great virtue in divers operations; for their fat helpeth the Leprosy if ye anoint them therewith, and is a most miraculous thing for those that are burnt, or scalded with water; for if ye anoint them therewith, it will help them quickly, and leave no scar. But if this fat be distilled with Myrrh, and Aqua vitae, and accompanied with Aloes, and the juice of Brassica Marina, called Soldanella, and thereof made Pills, they will be of so much virtue, that one scruple or two of those Pills being given oftentimes unto one that hath the Dropsy, they shall be helped quickly, and hereof I have had great experience, to my great honour and profit of the Patient.   

CHAP. XCI. A discourse upon certain stones, and their qualities in Physic and Chirurgery: and first of the Marble stone.  
THere are a great number of stones that the Majesty of God hath created in the world, of the which I will make mention of some, as well Mineral as Artificial, because the Physician as well as the Chirurgeon, may be served thereof in their affairs, although it be hard to have knowledge of those things, because they are much differing one from another, and grow in divers parts of the world: yea, and although they be brought unto us, yet they are so unknown, that we cannot know the thousand part of their virtues and qualities. And to begin, I will writ of the Marble, the which is a white stone, like unto Sugar when it is broken, and it is of great virtue in Chirurgery, for when it is brought into calkes, thereof may be made an Unguent of great virtue in this order. Take of that calkes, and lay it to steep in fair water, so that it may be covered four fingers, than stir it eight or ten times a day, and than let it wax clear and settle, than pour it of, and put on more, and do as ye did before, and when the water is settled clear pour it of again, than take of that calkes what quantity you will, and with Oil of Roses make it into an Unguent, the which is marvellous for such as are troubled with heat, for it drieth, and cooleth, and setteth it in good disposition, so that with ease it may be healed.   

CHAP. XCII. A Discourse upon Lapis Ematites, and his virtues in Chirurgery.  
THis Lapis Ematites is a stone like unto the Mine of Iron, the which if it be ground into powder will be read like unto Sinaper, and thereof thou shalt make an Unguent in this manner. Take Oil of Roses four ounces, Auxungia two ounces, new Wax half an ounce, Turpentine one ounce, Lapis Ematites in most fine powder three ounces, mix them well together in a Copper pan with a small fire, until it begin to give certain fumes, or smell, and it will be black, than take it from the fire, and always stir it until it be cold; and than it will be hard like a Cerot, the which is miraculous in healing corrosive Ulcers. Also this stone being in fine powder, and made into a Lineament with Vinegar, Oil of Roses, and a little Litarge, helpeth Scabs, and quencheth their heat, and cooleth the blood. Also two drachms of this powder being eaten with Sugar rosate, helpeth those which have inflammations in their stomach with speed. This stone hath also divers other virtues, the which I will leave at this time.   

CHAP. XCIII. Of the stone of Iron, which some call Loppa.  
THese stones which the workmen take from the Forge, that are called Loppa diferro, are of great importance, if we may believe the Alchemists, because they say, that this stone is the beginning of their Stone, etc. Ye shall understand, that this stone is most necessary both in Physic and Chirurgery, when it shall be well prepared as it aught to be: and his preparation is in this order. Take that mass of matter and stamp it, and searce it very fine, and than put it into a vessel that is apt to resist the fire, and set it in a glass Furnace for twenty or thirty days, and than it will be a read mass, the which ye shall beaten into an impalpable powder, the which if thou wilt use in Physic thou mayst dissolve in Vinegar, and when it is dissolved keep it for inflammations of the Liver and Stomach, the which thou mayest give with any kind of Syrup appropriate, for this is a miraculous Medicine against the flux of the body. Also if ye make an Unguent of the said powder with Oil of Wax, of Frankincense, and Eggs, it will work strange operations in Contusions and Dislocations of bones, laying it thereon very warm, because it resolveth all alteration, mittigateth the pain, and comforteth the place offended. Ye shall understand, that it was never made of none but of us, which ever seek new Medicines and goodly experiences, to pleasure the world with that Art.   

CHAP. XCIV. Of Lapis Judaicus and his form, and wherefore it serveth in Physic and Chirurgery.  
THis Lapis Judaicus is a certain stone, the which is like unto the similitude of the Cuckoos Egg, and is of a grayish colour and rough, and within it is another stone like unto a Nut, and this stone is of a great virtue in his operation; for if it be beaten into powder, and dissolved in distilled Vinegar, and than mixed with Syrup of Saxifrage, and given to drink to those that are troubled with gravel, it will 'cause them to avoid it in their Urine: and to break the stone, they shall mix the powder with Honey, and lay it on plasterwise upon the Reins, and it will break the gravel with speed. Moreover, this Stone hath two rare virtues, the which I will not writ of in this place, but I would counsel those that carry them upon their bodies to have two, a Male and a Female, and look upon them every day once, for of this stone I have seen great experience.   

CHAP. XCV. Of Lapis Lazuli and his operation.  
CErtain wise men in the world that have made great consideration of this stone, say, that this is the stone of gold, because it is mixed with Azure, white and yellow, and also other colours; but I found that in many places of the world, they have the Mine of gold, and yet they found no Lapis Lazuli; and therefore it is a sign that it groweth in places where Nature doth produce it in that form. And for that which I have seen of Lapis Lazuli is, that if ye give it inwardly it provoketh vomit, and helpeth the Quartain Ague: And I have proved to calcine it in the Furnace where they bake Bricks, and when it was calcined to dissolve it in Aqua vitae: the solution helpeth many infirmities, giving it inwardly, and especially malign Fevers. Also being put in malign sores, it bringeth them to so good a temperature, that it is miraculous, and not credited, except of those that see the experience. And at this time I am seeking to bring it to a certain perfection, the which shall work miracles, and hitherto I have had good success, for thereof I have seen great miracles that causeth the world to wonder: And yet of late I have found an Oil made of the same Stone, that provoketh sleep, and causeth quiet rest, and is marvellous for the sight of the eyes, anointing the head, the eyes, and the stomach therewith when ye go to bed: For of this I have seen an infinite of experiments, and I swear by that I am, that with all the travel that I have had, I never found a better thing than this Oil; for if ye anoint the Gout therewith, presently it taketh away the pain, and inflammation, or alteration, but the reason thereof I know not, because as yet I had no leisure to consider thereof: But by the grace of God, at the next impression I will set forth some notes of their experience that I have seen in the Art.   

CHAP. XCVI. Of the Flint-stones and their virtues.  
THe flint is a stone, the which if it be stricken with Iron or Steel it will give fire, and his virtues are great both in Physic and Chirurgery, and also in divers other Arts. First in Physic it hath virtue to dissolve the gravel in the Reinss and Bladder, if ye give thereof two drachms with unriped Wine, and this it doth by his proper quality and hidden virtue. In Chirurgery it hath great virtue, for being ground into most fine powder, and made into an ointment with Oil of Roses, and Wax, it mittigateth all inflammations, and taketh away the pain of the sore, because it cooleth and drieth Moreover, this stone is used of those that make Glass, to make their composition with their Ashes and Maganese. There are yet a great number of virtues, the which I leave unto the Experimentour.   

CHAP. XCVII. Of the white stone which some call Alum, Scaleola, or Gesso.  
THis Alum, Scaleola, or Gesso is used much in Italy to make Lime of, I suppose it to be that which is called Muskovie Glass, or Lapis Specularis; this is very necessary both in Physic and chirurgery, because it is by virtue attractive and drying, and helpeth much against burning Fevers, tempering it when it is burnt like flower with Vinegar, and when it is tempered, lay it presently upon the Reinss, and lay it just the length and largeness, and so let it remain three or four hours, because it draweth like Boxing Glasses, and so leaveth the Reinss cold and eased: and so by that effect it doth great pleasure in those kind of Fevers. It helpeth also in Ulcers if ye make a paste thereof with common lie, and lay it thereon eight or ten hours, and than change it, for of this I have seen strange effects.   

CHAP. XCVIII. Of the Stone called Lapis Amiante.  
THis Stone called Amiante, as all they which have written thereof say, is a stone like unto Cycile, or Alum du plum, but not so white, of the which stone there is found great quantity in Cyprus, and there they spin it like as it were Flax, and do make thereof Napkins and such like, and when they are foul, in stead of washing them, they make a great fire, and lay them thereon, and so make them clean and white, for the experience thereof I have seen, and that which I have said, is in the Lapidary of Dioscorides and Pliny, and Petro Andrea, Mathiolus Sanesie. And hereof I will show thee a marvellous strange secret, the which I have proved, and is this. Take of the said stone and make it in powder, and mix it with crude Lead being in powder, as I have showed in my Caprici Medicinale, with Tutia prepared, the composition thereof is this. Take of the stone ℥. iiii. Led, ℥. xii. Tutia ℥. two. Mix them and calcine them in the fire, and when they are calcined, beaten them to powder, and lay them to steep in strong Vinegar in a glass, and so let it stand a month stirring it every day once, and than at the month's end let it boil on the fire a quarter of an hour, and than let it settle until it come clear, than take of that Vinegar as much as ye will, and mix it with as much oil of Roses, stirring it until it come to a body, the which is a precious linament and rare, for if ye anoint the white scall or such like scabs on the heads of young children, it will heal them with great speed. Also for Scabs and Itch in the legs it is excellent, if ye anoint them therewith every night when you go to bed. This Stone serveth also when it is dissolved by itself in Aqua vitae and Sugar, for those women that are troubled with the whites; for if they drink thereof every morning a little, it helpeth them quickly. I believe this Stone hath many other virtues which I know not.   

CHAP. XCIX. Of the Saphire, and his virtues in Physic.  
SAphires are certain stones, like unto Azures, small, and are transparent, the which if thou wilt use, it were necessary to be cunning in the knowledge of them, for otherwise ye may be deceived. And furthermore, above that which many Philosophers have written thereof, I have found two goodly experiences never known before, and are these. First to make the heart merry, and to help the passions of the same, the which ye shall use thus.  
Take thy Saphire, and stamp it very finely, and dissolve it in Vinegar, or with the juice of Lemons, and when they are dissolved, take thereof ʒ i. with as much of our Elixir vitae, and of Oil of Honey ℈ i and a little of the Julep of Violets, and give it to drink unto those that have the aforesaid infirmities, and thou shalt see miracles of their operation. I hope ere it be long, to set forth a great and strange secret of these Stones.   

CHAP. C. Of Read Coral.  
Read Coral is a stone, the which most commonly doth grow upon baked stones or bricks, and to approve it to be so, there is a certain Island of Barbary, the which is called Tobacco, the which was sometimes inhabited, but since the Sea hath overrun a great part thereof, and so the stones of the houses, and the Bricks were scattered in the bottom of that Sea, and at this time the Genoes' gathered a great quantity of Read Coral, the fairest in all the world. I call to remembrance that in the year 1549. I being in Messina, a famous City in the Realm of Cicilia, I saw a Fisherman cast his Net in the gate hard by the tower called Salvatore; and he took up a branch of read Coral that was grown upon a Brick, and was of such greatness and beauty, as had not been seen in two hundred years before. So that by this I have proved, that the Coral doth grow upon Bricks, or baked stones, and these have great virtue in Physic and chirurgery, when they be dissolved in the juice of Lemons, or distilled Vinegar. For howsoever it be taken inwardly, it comforteth the stomach, and maketh the heart merry, dissolveth the Fever, and not without great cause. For it is so good of nature, that our nature doth desire it. Coral being calcined and dissolved with Aqua vitae, or with our Quintessence of Wine, helpeth very much against Ulcers, because it taketh away the pain presently, and mundifieth, and incarnateth, and cicatrizeth. Of this Coral ye may make Lozenges, or such like, the which are very Restorative.   

CHAP. CI. A Discourse upon the Stone Salt.  
THere is found a Salt in the Realm of Naples, in the Province of Calabria, in the state of the Prince of Besignano, in certain Mountains that are of the Mine of Salt: I do verily believe that this Salt is a fifth Element, because Salt would be called no other than wisdom, as a man may say, taste. And to prove that which I have said, ye may see that the world cannot live without it. Moreover this Salt serveth much in Physic and Chirurgery, for they put it into Clysters, and lay it also upon wounds. But I have found a way to prepare this Salt sweet like Sugar, but yet Salt, and is of such a pleasant taste, that it comforteth them that use it, and this is called Sal conditum Leonardo, the which Salt is good against Worms, and comforteth the stomach, causeth an appetite, purgeth the Urine, with a number of other virtues. And the order to take it is thus. Ye shall take thereof half a spoonful in the morning at one time, and also use it in stead of Salt to your meat, and season your meat therewith. Also if any have pains in any part of their body, anoint it with this Salt, and bind a cloth thereon, and it will be helped.  
Hereafter followeth the Virtues of certain Minerals, and mean Minerals. And first of Vitriol.   

CHAP. CII. Certain Secrets of Vitriol.  
IN Vitriol are many Secrets which until this time have been hidden, by means of which there may be done many strange and great matters in divers operations, not only in Physic and Chirurgery, but in many other things. Ye shall therefore take Vitriol and put it in a pot; and make him sweated until ye see him weep; the which sweat being taken from him, is a mortal enemy unto sharp Fevers, when it is drunk with sodden or distilled waters. Also if those that have the Etica or Phthisic do drink it with Mel Rosarum, it will do them great pleasure, it serveth also to make the hair of the head or beard black. Than if that by force of fire ye 'cause him to vomit a black liquor, it will be a thing very apt to dissolve any humour, the which in short time will dissolve any pain. For if ye put it into Gangrena, or other putrified Ulcer, it doth mundify it with great speed: It mortifieth Warts Chaps, Fistulaes', and any kind of those humours. If it be drunken with Wine or other liquor, it is good against Fevers of any quality. Than his Feces being reduced into water with Vinegar, and his Salt being taken out, it is of such virtue, that in a manner it will make men immortal. And above the aforesaid matters, in Alchemy it worketh strange things, for by the means thereof they may make the great Amalgam of Mercury and Mars, wherewith may be done great matters, and happy shall he be that goeth to work that way. For with Vitriol, Mercury and Mars is made full glad the Master of the Art.   

CHAP. CIII. Strange secrets of Roch Alum.  
IN Alum are great virtues, and especially in Roch Alum; for the water being separated from the Feces, and accompanied with our Quintessence, worketh most strange cures, and especially in desperate diseases: And the Feces which cannot dissolve, when with fire they shall be brought to perfection, and accompanied with Mars, they shall be apt to heal any sort of Ulcer inwardly, and with speed take away the pain, and not without great reason: for the Roch Alum is Anima Terrae, a firm Element, and that which dissolveth and turneth all things into his nature. Mars also is Anima Terrae, and is that, in which is found all virtue and richness: But he that is not expert, let him not settle himself to this enterprise, lest it fall not out right; for he that cannot prepare, calcine, dissolve, and congeal, shall never do any thing that is aught worth, therefore it were better to leave than meddle.   

CHAP. CIV. Of Orpiment and his nature.  
THis Orpiment is a stone, as it were, made of scales, and is of divers colours; there is white, and yellow, and read like blood; nevertheless, they are all of Sulphurous matter, the which burneth visibly like Sulphur, of the which I know no use, neither in Physic nor Chirurgery, although that some Chirurgeons do lay it upon sores to dry them, the which they do for want of reason or knowledge: With this Orpiment, being mixed with Calx viva, and strong Lie, and so made into an Unguent, they use to take away hair: It serveth also for Painters to make a yellow colour like Gold, the which if it be burned, it changeth into another colour. This serveth for infinite uses in Alchemy; for his sublimation being made with Sul niter, and Tartar, when it is white, and Amalgamed with Quicksilver and fine Silver, and given in projection upon Venus purged, it will make it very fair and white, and much like Lime. Orpiment is dissolved, by way of calcination with strong Vinegar, until such time as his substance be taken away; than let it settle and wax clear, and vapour away that clear part, and in the bottom ye shall found the whiteness of Sulphur, the which being fixed with sufficient order, it doth blanche all metals, and this is called the Quintessence of Sulphur Mineral: This serveth for many other uses in Alchemy, the which I will leave until another time: But this which I have written is most true.   

CHAP. CV. Of Cinaber Mineral, and wherefore it serveth.  
THis Cinaber is of two kinds, Mineral and Artificial; the Mineral is a stone of the colour of Iron, the which being ground into powder it will be read like blood, the which is of a great drying nature, by the reason that it containeth in it Sulphur, it drieth malign Sores, and being made in a Perfume, it helpeth the mouth being ulcerated, and being made into an Unguent, it cooleth greatly; also being dissolved in Vinegar, it mittigateth the pain in malign Ulcers, and healeth them in short time; his sublimation being made with Salt and Tartar, blancheth Copper and Latin like to Silver.  
This stone serveth also to burnish Metal or Silver therewith. The artificial Cinaber is made of Sulphur and Mercury by way of sublimation, the which serveth for divers uses; as for the Painters, or to writ with; also to make drying Unguents, and for fumes against the Pox, with divers other uses, the which I leave at this time.   

CHAP. CVI Of the secrets of Salt, and his royal virtue.  
THere is in Salt a great virtue, and his secrets are of great force, for if Salt be dissolved in the mighty water of Vitriol, together with Mars, and than caused to vomit with great heat, until it remain in a dry powder, and than circulate it with our Quintessence of Wine and Honey the space of a month, the which if the workman can do, he shall make a miraculous Medicine, which by his virtue and hidden quality, will serve against divers great infirmities, because his nature is to preserve the body in his strength, and to discharge all evil humours that may offend Nature. But to speak of some particular thing, I say, that this glorious Medicine doth help the Fever Hectic when they are new begun, giving thereof a little quantity with water of Vervane, agrimony, and betony; with the water of Fennel and Selandine, it restoreth the sight unto those that are obscure; it helpeth also the flux of the body, with divers other things, the which I will not utter in this place.   

CHAP. CVII. Of the secrets of common Salt, and his virtues.  
THere are three sorts, or kinds, found of common Salt, the one is natural, the which is found in Mountains, as in Naples in the Province of Calabria, where are great Mountains of it, and also in Spain in the Isle of Anvisa, and this is the Mineral Salt. The second kind is Artificial, as is made in Germany in their Cauldrons. The third kind is also natural of the Sea, which is made upon dry sands in pits, by force of the Sun; but the most sweet and savourest is that which is made with fire, because it is purified and clean: The Salt of the Mountain is of more virtue than all the rest in Physic; for when it shall be calcined forty days together in a Furnace, and than dissolved with our Quintessence of Honey, so that there remain no Feces, it will be of such virtue, that in manner it will revive the dead, if you give them thereof a spoonful. With this the ancientest Doctors did marvellous things, and they called it the Salt of Wisdom, for he that knew well his virtues would marvel thereat. This Salt serveth also against the infirmities of Oxen.   

CHAP. CVIII. Certain secrets of Salt-Peter.  
SAlt-Peter is a certain kind of salt of Urine, the which is taken out of the earth by art, and is most wholesome against divers infirmities; for when it shall be calcined thirty days together in a Furnace, with as much Tartar, and than dissolved with our Quintessence, accompanied with the spirits of Cinnamon, Ginger, and Cloves, it will be a most wholesome Medicine, and will 'cause the Professors of the Art to be amazed at his operation, for it helpeth the Hectic, and Dropsy, and divers such like infirmities, the which I will not speak of in this place, fearing that they will not be credited: Nevertheless, those that are disposed to travel on that matter shall found their desire, and reap great fame in the world.   

CHAP. CIX. Certain secrets of Alum du Fece.  
THis Alum is made with the Feces of Wine, in this manner. You shall understand, that in those Countries where they make Wine, they put it in vessels, and lay them towards the East, and than in certain space there settleth great quantity of Feces, the which being put into certain bags, and hanged up to dry, the humour runneth out, and the Fesses remain in a hard mass, the which afterwards is dried and burned, and the ashes thereof is called Alum du Fece, in the which are found great secrets; for without this certain colours cannot be died: It maketh also women's hair yellow, and taketh away all spots or stains, and the like virtue it hath in our Physic, if that the workman were able to prepare it as it should be, for it will transmute one complexion into another.   

CHAA. CX. A great secret of Gold.  
GOld, which Alchemists do call Sol, is a metal of such importance, that it is superior of all the rest in virtue, weight, and prize, and of brightness and fairness, and is that, with the which may be made a Medicine, that in manner giveth life unto the dead, when it is prepared with the fire, and accompanied with Mercury: Than with our two Quintessences it may be dissolved by and by, and by way of circulation it may be separated from all company, and when it shall be dissolved, you may give it to help against any great infirmity, if thou knowest how to apply it conveniently.   

CHAP. CXI. A great Secret of Silver.  
SIlver, which we call Luna, is a Metal very bright in whiteness and next unto gold, for of it may be made marvellous things, especially in dangerous infirmities that are of importance. For being prepared and reduced into his first matter, it may be accompanied with our Quintessence, and make thereof a drink that will be very profitable against the Leprosy, and this composition shall be given in the broth of a Chicken unto those that are Asmatick, for it will do them great pleasure, and cure all those that are troubled with the Leprosy. It maketh also women's faces shining and marvellous fair. But when it shall be further prepared, it will restore the sight unto those that are almost blind through debility. Also if it be used in Alchemy, it will work strange effects.   

CHAP. CXII. Certain Secrets of Saturn.  
SAturn is that metal which we call Led, in the which is found great secrets both in Physic and Chirurgery. For when it shall be brought into powder without fire or other mixture, but only grinding it in a brazen mortar with the spittle of a man, until it become into fine powder, it comforteth much against all corrosive and malign Ulcers, because it cooleth and drieth miraculously, but when Saturn shall be calcined and dissolved in Vinegar, and his Salt taken forth, and than that Salt dissolved in our Quintessence, will help many infirmities, and especially those that are caused of humidity, and calidity, because it drieth and cooleth by his Nature. Also an Unguent made of the calx of Lead, serveth against divers sorts of Sores. Also if the Workmaster were diligent, with Lead, Feretto of Spain, Vitriol, and Tutia, he might make a metal like unto Gold of the Ducat, of the which he might receive a great benefit.   

CHAP. CXIII. Of the secrets of Copper.  
When Venus shall be well prepared, and with art of fire shall be well calcined, and done thereunto what is convenient, it will be valiant in his operation. For of it is made an unguent, that mundifieth sores with great speed. Also therewith is made a water, that helpeth all kind of crude infirmities in the eyes: It helpeth Scabs, and is of great profit against the white scall, warts on the privy parts, and sores in the secret parts. For it resolveth them very well. Moreover if the workman be his craft's master, he may bring it into such an extreme whiteness, that it shall appear like Luna. Also if he can amalgam it with Mars and Mercury, and give him his cocture, he may draw forth a great quantity of Sol.  

A great Secret of Copper, as concerning chirurgery.  
Take Sal Niter lb. two. Roch Allom half a pound, Sal Gem. four ounces, Vitriol Roman one pound, Soot of the Chimney three ounces, mix these together, and distil thereof a strong water according to art, that being done, put the water into a Retort, and for every pound of water, put thereto four ounces of Verdegriese finely cearsed, than set thereunto a Receiver, and give it fire according to art, until all the fumes be come forth, than let it cool, and break the glass, and take forth that which remained in the bottom, and beaten it to powder, than put that into another Retort, and put thereon as much distilled Vinegar as the powder weighed, and distil it again, until there come no more fumes, than let it cool, and break the glass, and take forth the matter, and grinned it to powder, and keep it in a glass that it take no air. For this is most marvellous in ulcerated and putrified sores, because it mundifieth, cleanseth, and incarnateth, and with great speed bringeth them to be whole with small pain, or none at all: If ye make an unguent thereof with oil of Roses, Wax, and Frankincense, it helpeth all manner of sores with speed.    

CHAP. CXIV. Of the Secrets of Jupiter or Tin.  
IVpiter is a shining Metal, by the means of which all the other Metals become shining, and are preserved, and in this is found great virtue and experience, both in Physic and chirurgery, and also in Alchemy. For when it is well prepared, and reduced into a potable water, it will be a glorious Medicine for the solution of the Hectic, Phthisic, and Dropsy. But if it be brought into a Quintessence, and accompanied with our Quintessence, and the Quintessence of Honey, it will be a precious Medicine to restore the sight of the eyes. Also if the Chirurgeons could well prepare it, after it is calcined, and make thereof an Unguent with things appropriate, they might do strange cures therewith. Moreover if the Alchemists could reduce him to his perfection, it would be a Medicine of great price. For if they could join it with Venus purged and well prepared, it would be as white as Luna, and than he that had a Medicine appropriate, might bring it to a perfect body.   

CHAP. CXV. Certain Secrets of Iron.  
IRon, which the Alchemists do call Mars is a Mineral, the which is appropriate against divers and sundry infirmities when it is well prepared and dissolved, the which is done in this manner.  
Take Iron filled in powder, and dissolve it in strong water, the which solution will be read like blood, than vapour away that water until it remain in a read stone that hath no moisture left in it, than break the glass, and grind it to fine powder, and wash it with fair water, until the water remain sweet, than dry it on a great fire, and grind it again, than put it into a glass with a long neck, and put thereon Vinegar distilled likewise, and set it in warm horse-dung thirty or forty days, and the powder shall be dissolved into clear clear water, of the colour of blood. And when that thou seest it all dissolved into water, vapour away the Vinegar, and there will remain a stone blackish of colour, which take forth of the glass, and grinned it to powder, than dissolve it in rectified Aqua vitae, and than shall be finished the solution of Iron Physically, the which thou mayst give safely when need shall require, and chief against Fluxes of the body, against spitting of blood, the Emeroids, Scabs, and also for the Leprosy, and Phthisic, and Hectic. And this is the true solution of Iron devised by me, and I promise' thee, that this is one of the greatest Secrets that may be found in the world: and his virtues are such and so many, that I cannot express them. And therefore I would wish all Physicians and Chirurgeons, to follow this glorious enterprise worthy of praise, by the which means men may come to great perfection in Physic and chirurgery, if they can use it when time and place shall serve.   

CHAP. CXVI. Of the Secrets of Mercury.  
QUicksilver is a liquid Mineral and Volatile, the which the Alchemists call Sulphur volatilis, and will accompany with all other Metals, but with small fire they may be separated again, and will fly away in Fume, and for that cause the Philosophers call it Servus fugitivus, as a man would say, it can hold friendship with none, but so soon as he hath done his service he flieth away, as it is seen by Goldsmiths that gilled Plate. For when they have laid him on with the Gold, they put it to the fire, and he flies away, and the like it should do when any man doth occupy him in any sort of infirmity, and the order to calcine it is thus.  
Take a long pot of stone that is very well glazed, and that hath a neck of a foot and a half long, and that hath a very narrow mouth as is possible, and put therein two or three pound of Quicksilver, than set the same pot in a Salad of Iron, and lute them close together, and set it upon a Furnace, and give them fire according to Art, until the Quicksilver remain calcined; giving you charge, that your head and receiver be very well luted, lest you lose some part of the Quicksilver; and thus in eight days it shall be finished, the which shall be apt unto solution: Also this calcination serveth to divers and sundry Medicines: It mortifieth corrosive Ulcers without any pain; the solution is made in this order.  
Take the said Calx, and put it into a glass with a long neck, and put thereon distilled Vinegar, and set it in warm sand four and twenty hours, and than give it one walm, and when it hath boiled, pour out the Vinegar, and than if there remain any Feces in the bottom, put thereon fresh Vinegar, and do as thou didst before; and this thou shalt do so often, till it be dissolved into water, and when all is dissolved, evaporate away the Vinegar, that there remain but little in the bottom; than put thereto water of Honey made by distillation according to our order; and so the solution of Mercury shall be finished, the which is miraculous in many infirmities: It serveth against the Cough, Catarhe, and for those that have their stomaches putrified with the Pox, causing them to use it with other Syrups or Potions: It helpeth those whose Milt is indurated; and also for those, that have any sort of Fistula in any part of the body: It is also good for divers other things, the which I will not writ in this place, because I would have other men to exercise themselves in the practice thereof, whereby they may found out divers other secrets as I have done.  

The virtue of this Balm.  
IT preserveth all things from putrefaction that is put therein, or anointed therewith, as the natural Balm doth in all respects.  
If any be touched with the Pestilence, so that the heart or brain be not yet infected, give them ʒ. two. thereof to drink, and anoint his stomach with the same, and lay him down to sweated, and in once or twice using it, by the grace of God they shall be helped, for it will suffer no venom to remain within the body: Being taken in the aforesaid order, it helpeth those that have surfeited by any means.  
Being anointed on the stomach morning and evening, it causeth an appetite, and consumeth cold humours: Also if ye drink thereof every morning ʒ. i. fasting, it will purge the head and stomach of all superfluous moisture, and sharpeneth the sight, if ye drop now and than one drop into the eye.  
Being drunk as is aforesaid, it helpeth those that are troubled with the Rheum, Catarhe, and Cough, and Stitch of the side caused of wind.  
Being put into the ear, it comforteth the sight and hearing marvellously, and all impediments in the head, and consumeth all evil humours by his proper quality and nature, so that if ye use it, ye shall wonder at the operation.  
It helpeth all manner of Wounds, in what place of the body soever they be, if ye wash them therewith, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same.  
If ye wash the Sciatica therewith, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same, it taketh away the pain presently.  
It expelleth gravel in the Reinss, being drunk with Parsly water.  
It is good against the Fever quartain, if ye drink thereof ten or twelve days together every morning ʒ. i or two. after that the stomach hath been evacuated.  
It resolveth aches and swell coming of cold, if ye bathe them therewith.  
It helpeth the toothache, if ye hold it in your mouth so long as ye may suffer it.  
It helpeth those that are troubled with the Cramp, or that have their mouths drawn awry by that means, if ye drink a small quantity, and hold the same in your mouth, and than anoint the parts therewith.  
FINIS.     

A TREATISE OF CHIRURGERY: PUBLISHED Wih many EXCELLENT EXPERIMENTS AND SECRETS;  
Found out by the Same Author.  
LONDON, Printed by G. D. 1652.   

How that our Physic and chirurgery is better than that, the which the Ancients have commonly used.  
I Here is no doubt, but that our new Physic and chirurgery, is better than that, the which the Ancients have used, because it helpeth the sick with more ease and speed, and much more safer, and to show the truth, the Ancients had never knowledge of our Dia Ar●matico, nor of Electuario Angelica, nor of our Pillole Aquilone, nor did not make our Sirrupo solutivo, nor yet our magno liquore, with a number of other Medicines found out by me, the which are written in the end of this Book, with the which I have done wonderful cures, as thou mayest read in my Thesauro de la vita humana, and truly most necesary for all Professors of this Art, because therein thou shalt found so many goodly experiences, as it would 'cause the world to wonder thereat: But to return to our purpose, I say that the Ancients, which had not knowledge of our remedies, they wanted also knowledge of the true Physic and chirurgery, as by the experience thou mayest see; I say not this to speak evil of those wise and Ancient Doctors, that were Inventors thereof, but I say it to say the truth, and many shall be my testimony of this truth. Because in many countries, where our works that are Imprinted are come, they begin to practise after our order. And this order of curing, I repute it not to my Science, but a work that God would reveal unto the world through my means, and to show the truth, there hath been none, that hath found the Medicines for wounds with so much ease and brevity, as I have done.  
Who hath ever found the true Remedy for the Gout, for the Quartan, for Fluxes, and all sorts of Fevers, as I have done? Or what is he that ever brought the whole Art of Physic and chirurgery into eight small Volumes, as I have done? What is he that ever writ of the Pestilence, and of his quality, and remedies, and orders to be used in the same, as I have done? And if there be any that doth not credit me, let them make experience of all that I have said; and I promise' you, and swear as I am a true Knight, they shall find more truth than I will writ at this time, being as I have said, a Work given of God, for a universal benefit of all the World, and therefore I exhort every one of the Professors of Physic and chirurgery, to follow this our truth, because they are of so great experience, that it seemeth miraculous unto man, as I have seen many years ago, to my great honour, and satisfaction of the people of the world, and thus doing and working, thou shalt come to know that our Physic and chirurgery is better and wholesomer, than that which hath been used of the Ancients until this present time.  

Certain Remedies for all Captains and Soldiers that travel either by Water or Land.  
THere are three Infirmities, that offend the Soldiers in the camp above all the rest, the which are these, Fevers, Wounds, and Fluxes of the body, the which thou mayest help in this Order following, with these Medicines, that is, our Quintessence of Wine, our Balsamo, Magno liquore, Quinta essentia solutiva, and Specie Imperiale, and the order to use them is thus. When any hath a Fever or a Flux, than presently, when the disease beginneth, let him blood in one of the two Veins under the tongue, cutting it overthwart, and this thou shalt do in the evening, than the next morning, take a dose of our Imperial powder mixed with wine, and this ye may do without any diet or strait order, that being done, give him three mornings together, half an ounce of our Quintessence solutive with Broth. But if it be a Flux, and that the Patient is not cured, let him stand in a cold bath of salt-water of the Sea, three or four hours or more, and he shall be perfectly helped.  
Than as concerning wounds, as well cuts as thrusts, and as well gallings with arrows, as Harquebusse-shot, and other sorts, thou shalt cure them thus. The first thing that ye shall do to them is to wash them very clean with Urine, and than dry them well, than put therein our Quintessence of Wine, and presently join the parts together, and sow or stitch them close, than put thereupon five or six drops of our Balsamo, and upon the wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno liquore, as hot as he may suffer it, and this ye shall do the first day. Than the next day follow this Order: First put thereon our Quintessence, and a little of our Balsamo, and than our Magno liquore, very hot, and never change that Medicine, and thus doing the wound shall heal with great speed, and in a quarter of the time, that the common Chirurgeons are able to do it, by the grace of God.    

A short discourse of the most excellent Doctor and Knight Leonardo Phioravante Bolognesse upon Chirurgery, with a declaration of many things necessary to be known. Never written before in this order; whereunto is added a number of notable secrets found out by the said Author.  
The Preface.  
IT is to be understood, that when the Almighty Creator had made the world, he also created all manner of Beasts, as well on earth as in the water, with other Fowls, after which, saith the holy Scripture, he created man after his own Image and similitude, and to him gave power over all things created, and with the same grace and reason, through the which he was apt to rule, and have knowledge of all through the Spirit of God, as to have knowledge of all things whereunto he gave his mind and understanding, as it is at this present to be seen among men in the world, that have knowledge of divers and sundry things, all necessary for those that will live in the world with honour: For some understand the Art of Husbandry, which was the first Art used in the world, for so much as without it we cannot well live, as it is plainly seen. There are others that have knowledge in keeping beasts of all kinds, apt or meet for man's body, as Goats, Kine, Hogs, Hens, Geese, Horses, Mules, and such like. There are others that have knowledge in Navigation, without the which also the world would be unperfect, as it is seen by experience. There be others that have knowledge in Cosmograhie, whereby they know divers parts of the world whether men may travel. There be others that have knowledge in the Art of Wars, whereby they may help to defend their Prince and Countries in executing of justice. There be others that understand Astrology, by the which they know the course of Planets, and their effects: Others understand the Mathematics, whereby they measure land and all other things: Others study Music to accord voices together: And others understand Physic to help the diseased bodies of human Creatures, and also Animals of divers and sundry infirmities. There be others that understand Chirurgery, to help all manner of sores that hap unto men: upon which Chirurgery we will writ a brief discourse, and pleasant reason, and will leave apart the Science that is doubtful, because there is no Science in the world wherewith a man may do good, if therewith be no practice or experience, as a man may say. The which experience is master of all things, as it is plainly seen; and therefore we will give you to understand, which of those parts be best or most necessary in this Chirurgery, either to help those that are hurt, or the Science, or experience. And we will show the mere truth without any dissimulation or fraud, as I have always done in my Works which are printed, and at this present do intent to do, if Almighty God give me grace, and quicken my spirits or wits, in writing that which shall be to his honour, and profit to the world.   

What Chirurgery is.  
CHirurgery is both Science and practice, and to say the truth, he that will know the composition of man's body, must of necessity have some Science, and be Anatomist, although the same Science be a thing to be learned by practice, for I have seen many times, those which were unlearned, to be expert in the Anatomy of man's body, and those were Painters and Drawers, the which was necessary for them to know to frame their figures accordingly: and therefore I take not that for Science, but practice: For Science is only that wherewith the causes of every infirmity is found out, and is of small effect to our purpose, because Chirurgery helpeth not only the cause, but also the effect after it is known, and therefore I may say, that Chirurgery is no other than a pure and mere practice, and that it is only necessary for the Chirurgeon to know how to stitch a Wound well, to mundify an Ulcer, and to keep it from putrefaction, and keep it from alteration, so that there run no evil humours unto the place offended, and to know all kind of Unguents that are apt to heal all kind of Wounds and Ulcers, which thing must be known by practice, And likewise to make all manner of Unguents necessary for Chirurgery, and for that cause I conclude most truly, that our Chirurgery is only practise or experience. And that which causeth me to believe it is, that I have always seen the most part of Chirurgeons, when they should have any case in Chirurgery, they knew not what Unguent would help the sore, but many times they prove this, and that, and so continued until they have found one that is convenient for the sore, whereunto it is applied, and therefore this is a certain sign, that they know not by Science their Medicine to help the sore, but with experience they search it. Therefore if it be so, it is a sign that I have said the truth, and so conclude, that Chirurgery is a practice to help sores on men's bodies, and also on beasts, when occasion shall serve.  

What Wounds are.  
Wounds are those which in Latin are called Vulnus, and of the vulgar Vulnera, and they are of two kinds, that is, simple, and compound. The simple are those that are only in the flesh, the compound are those where are cut Sinews, Veins, Musckles, and Bones, and these are of divers and sundry kinds, And the difference that is among them is, by the variety of the place where they are wounded, and by the difference of the weapon wherewith they were hurt, for some go right, some overthwart, some long, some broad, some are thrusts or stocate, that offend divers parts of the body. The simple are of small importance, because if ye keep them clean and close shut, nature will heal them without any kind of Medicine. But those, where Veins are cut, have need of some art or practise, with the which they may stop the blood, and in any wise not to suffer the wound to remain open, but to sow it up very close, so that the Vein may heal. Also those where Sinews are hurt are of great importance, and would be healed with great speed, so that the Sinews may join with more ease. But those where Bones are hurt, are of greater importance, for if the Bone be separated from the other, of necessity it must be taken forth before the Wound be healed. So that by this means every one may know what Wounds are, and their kinds.   

Of Ulcers, and what they are.  
ULcers are of divers and sundry kinds, and are engendered of many causes, as hereafter I will show. But first I will writ of those kind of Ulcers that are caused of Wounds. You shall understand, that Wounds, in what part of the body soever they be, being imposthumated, or cancrenated, they change their names, and are not more called Wounds, although the original was a wound. For when it is cancrenated, it is called Vlcera corrosiva, because it goeth eating and creeping on the flesh. But when the wound is imposthumated and full of matter, it is called, Vlcera putrida, that is putrified, and it is because it is filthy and stinketh. But when it is neither cancrenated, nor yet aposthumated, but that through some evil disposition the wound is closed, and that there cometh in it evil qualities without alteration, than it is called Vlcera sordida, because therein is evil quality, and it appeareth but a little, but it is evil to heal. There be other sorts of Ulcers also, the which are caused of divers and sundry kinds of tumors, and the most evil and mischievous are those that are of tumors caused of the Pox, for unto those there runneth abundance of evil humours that augment the Ulcer, and they be the worst sort, for they cannot be healed by themselves, except the body be well purged and evacuated of all the humours that are offensive. There is another kind of Ulcer the which cometh of an Imposthume, as well hot as cold, and those are more gentle and easy to be helped, if ye know the Medicines that are apt to help and dissolve those kind of Ulcers.  
These are the three kind of Ulcers that commonly hap unto men and women through divers causes, as it is said before, so that these are the principal causes of those malign Ulcers.   

Of Imposthumes, and their kinds.  
IMposthumes are a certain kind of Tumour that are called after divers manners, because they come in divers places of the body, as those sorts of Imposthumes that come in the Groin, which in Venice are called Pannoche, in Rome, Tencone, in Naples, Dragonselly, in Spain, Incordi, and the Ancients called them Buboni, and some with other names. There are other that come in all parts of the body, and when they come they 'cause great pain, and than they ripen and break of themselves for the most part, and these in Naples, are called Autrax, and in Rome, Chicholini, in Venice, Vn-nasito, in Lombardy, Vn bungo, and in Spain, Vn nacido mui viliaco. There is another kind of Imposthume, that is engendered of a contusion or bruise, and is properly called Apostumatio pro Amacatura. In the Head there grow certain kinds of sores that are called Talpae, or Topinare, the which are of small Importance, for they may be healed in short time, and these are seen in childrens heads, that are often troubled therewith, and sometimes in their throats, and for the most part about the ears.   

Of Fistulaes', and their kinds.  
ALl manner of Sores that do not siccatrize perfectly, and have communication with the inward parts, are called Fistulaes', and we term them in Italian Sofio, or Spiraculo, as ye may see by experience, and this is perilous, when a Fistula closeth, being in the body, and specially those Fistulaes' that are in the Fundament, for Nature herself doth engender it for ease. But these Fistulaes' that come in divers parts of the body are troublesome, but not perilous: Also all such sores as tarry long before they be incarnated come to Fistulaes', and many times it cometh through their being long curing, by tenting with their tents, which are the causes that Nature maketh a Callow, and leaveth the sore so hollow, that it will never be filled with flesh, but so remain hollow, as it is seen easily by experience. There be other sorts of Fistulaes' in form of a sore, and they be those sores that most commonly come on the legs, the which do purge a long time, and are also very hard to heal, because if ye heal one of them presently, there will rise another hard by it, and that is a kind of Fistula▪ There is another kind of Fistula that is caused of those sores that are upon the bone, the which by his continuance do break and consume the skin and the bone, and these many times remain Fistulated, but who so taketh away the cause of the sore, nature itself will prevail mightily, and will heal it, as may be seen daily by experience, in those that be so troubled. The Fistulaes' that come in the eyes, are called Fistula Lachrymosa, and they have some communication with the inward parts, and are evil to be healed. Because first the cause must be taken away inwardly, and than nature will heal it by itself, as I have seen by experience, so that these are the kinds of Fistulaes' most known unto all men, and the causes of these Fistulaes' are two, and for my part I am fully persuaded it is so. The First is of wounds evil healed, that remain Fistulated. The Second cause, I found to be of sores caused of the Pox, and to show a truth, ye shall cure them of the Pox, and their Fistulaes' will heal of themselves without any other help, as it is daily to be seen. There may be many other causes the which as yet I know not, but these two are a sufficient reason, and to be considered of the Professors of this Art, if they desire to come to any excellency; and therefore I will reason not more of the matter, because the Science, and my experience will reach not further.   

Of all sorts of Scabs.  
THere be divers kinds of Scabs, but I will only treat of those in which I have had most experience, and will set them forth as plainly as I can, that every one thereby may have profit. The first kind of Scab is that which is caused of Ripletion of the body, by eating much meat of great nourishment, and than not to digest it, so in that cause nature, to ease itself, sendeth forth that humidity, and when it joineth to the skin, it engrosseth and causeth an Imposthume, and passing to the outward parts, it is already corrupted, and so causeth the Pustulaes', as by experience may be seen, and this kind is a viscous and fat humour with great humidity. There is another kind of Scab that is always dry with redness, and is small, with great heat and Itching, and the same in my judgement is caused by much heat of the Liver; and adustion of blood, and may be healed easily. There is another kind of great scab that hath a great dry crust on them, and they grow big, and the same is of the French Pox being new taken. There is another kind like Serpigo, that goeth creeping, and hath a dry craft, and hath no matter under it; and the same is also of the French Pox inveterated. There are also divers other kinds, the which I will leave at this time, because they are of small importance, and may be helped with those Medicines which are fit for the ●inds aforesaid.   

Of Formicola, and his Effects.  
THose kind of Ulcers that are commonly called Mal di Formica, are so called, because they are a kind of malign Ulcers and corrosive, that goeth creeping upon the flesh, and maketh many holes that are lifted up on the sides, and are read, and these for the most part are caused of the Pox, as may be seen by experience, and these sores are evil to be healed, because thereunto runneth abundance of humours, the which cannot be resolved but with inward Medicines, that is, with exquisite Purgations that purify the blood, and that cutteth away the evil humours that run thereunto, and 'cause great alteration with burning. This kind of sore cometh many times in the head, and when it cometh in that part, it is called Tigna, or the white scall, and to show that this is the truth, ye may see that those Medicines which heal Formicola, doth also heal the white Scall, for this is a kind of the Pox, as by the Effects ye may plainly see; for if any should say the contrary, I would answer him again, that this may well be, because the same infirmity may be taken in the mother's womb, or as soon as the child is borne, it may take it of the Nurse that giveth it suck, if she be infected with that disease, so that I conclude it may be so. But there are a number of that kind of disease, which I let pass, because I have seen no experience of them.   

A Discourse of Wounds, and other kinds of Inward Sores.  
Wounds that are within the body, as in the stomach, or belly, or Intestinals, in the bladder, reinss, or guts; The Milt, Liver, Lungs, Heart or other Muskles or Arteries, as there be a number, I confess to know nothing therein, and I will show you the reason: You shall understand, that when a wound doth offend the Interior parts, the Physician or Chrurgian, or great Anatomist whatsoever he be, cannot know all those parts offended in the body, for after the weapon is within the body, it may turn, and with the point hurt other parts afar of the wound, and offend divers particular parts one different from the other, and therefore I beseech you, excellent Chirurgeons, when such a case cometh, how do you know or discern which parts are hurt? but to say the truth, I believe in that case they know all alike, but what should I say of the cure of such a wound, if the Chirurgeon know not where it is, nor of what importance, but worketh by imagination, and if that Nature doth prevail, and that the wound doth heal, it is by the good fortune of the Physician, so that for wounds inwardly I, conclude no other at this time, but will leave it to those that know more than I, and hereafter I will discourse of Ulcers and Imposthumes inwardly, what they are, and how to cure them with our order: ye shall understand that there are a number of kinds of Ulcers and Imposthumes that may engender inwardly, but it seemeth to me so hard to understand, that I can determine nothing that were true, and the cause is this, that we have seen an infinite of Physicians and Chirurgeons that have visited one Imposthumated, or Ulcerated, and the Physician could not know the place, and particular of that Imposthume or Ulcer, if that the Patient do not tell him and show him, and 'cause him to feel with his hand, and this is most true, and therefore if one cannot resolve him of outward things, that he may see and feel with his hand, how can he resolve him when one of those accidents is within the body, where the Patient knows not himself, which is grieved? Truly, I would gladly know what judgement they would give of that matter, for because if there be any Imposthume or Ulcer in any part of the body, the sick shall feel great offence and pain, nevertheless he cannot tell where it is, nor what part is hurt, so that I conclude, if that the Patient know not, much less the Physician knoweth, and of this I have made a large discourse in Caprici medicinale, for as I have said before, in this case I know nothing. Nevertheless, when it shall come to his place, I will writ a discourse of the order to cure the most part o●●liters, and Imposthumes, but touching wounds, I will promise' not more than I have said before. Also I will writ excellent Remedies of great experience, with the which all wounds, so they be not mortal, may be helped and healed, and also the reasons convenient in that matter.   

An order to use in healing all manner of Diseases appertaining unto the Chirurgeon.  
Wounds and all other sorts of sores, are of sundry and divers kinds, as is aforesaid, nevertheless the order to help them is not much different one from the other, if we should say only the truth without abuse. For ye shall understand, that Nature is the master of all things created, and the Physician and Chirurgeon are helpers of that Nature, as the ancient Professors of the Art have affirmed. Than seeing this is so, what need we to make such ado, having Nature that worketh so gently, if it be not hindered by the Minister, and therefore if we will speak of Wounds, I say, that the Minister hath three operations to do and not more, and the rest leave to Nature that worketh gently. The three operations that the Master hath to do are these: To defend the Wound so that there runneth no humours to it, and that it putrfie not, and to keep it clean, and when the Minister hath done that, let Nature work that which she will work well, and if any desire to see if it will be so in effect, ye may see by a Dog, for if he hath a great wound upon his body, he healeth it without any Medicine, only with diet, and keeping it clean with his tongue, and this is most true, that those which do help Wounds by enchantment, do nothing but keep the Wound clean, and 'cause the Patient to keep a diet, and so nature worketh as well on a Man as on a Dog, therefore let none marvel of this authority of a Dog, although I approve the like of a Christian. But for so much as it would be good to help Nature, that it might work with more speediness, as Husbandmen and Gardeners do, who because they would have Nature to work the better, and quicker in their ground, do cast thereon divers sorts of dungs, etc. The which is done only to help Nature to work the quicker, and to conclude, I say, that the Chirurgeon should do the same in helping of Wounds. But as for Ulcers of divers sorts, it were necessary to found out the cause, because they come of divers causes, for when the cause is found, it will be more easy to be helped, because Ulcers cannot come but by great distemperance of Nature in our bodies, as by great heat or cold, or by repletions of the body. Therefore in this case it is necessary to purge the body: First, to ease Nature which is offended, and to extinguish the superfluous heat or cold that is in the body: That being done, the minister or helper of Nature hath three things to do. The first is to mortify or kill the sore, the second to mundify, and the third to incarnate, and than Nature will cicatrize it, and these three operations are to be used in Ulcers. Also Imposthumes are caused of divers accidents, in the which it is also necessary to seek out the cause, whereby to know what purgations are fit to purge the body of the superfluous humours, and than the Minister hath three things to do in that case. First to bring it to maturation quickly, than when it is ripe and broke, to mundify it well, and thirdly to incarnate it, and these are the three operations that are to be done in an Imposthume to help Nature to work well, and so following this order thy work shall prove well, and go the right way, as hereafter I will show in his place, the operations to use in the effect, with the order to help them, and also to make thy Unguents, showing their quality and virtue, and will prove by reason those things that are doubtful, so that every one shall be satisfied in that matter.   

Of Medicines to be used in all kind of Wounds outward, with ease and brevity.  
HAving declared what outward Wounds are, it is also necessary to show the order how to cure them, with as much speed and ease as it is possible, and therefore I will begin first with simple Wounds that are only in the flesh, without offence of Veins, Sinews, or Bones, although these need no help, but only to join the lips close together, and if need be, to stitch them close, and than let Nature work, the which in short time will heal them, but if thou by Art wilt help nature, thou shalt anoint them with oil of frankincense once a day. But Wounds, where Veins are cut, have need of present help, and artificial means, and sufficient remedies to help it, with as much speed as may be, so that the Veins cut may join again together, without any great offence of the Wound, and that is done in this order. The first thing is to join the parts close together, and stitch it well, not as the common Chirurgeons do, but as they do use to stitch bags, and when it is stitched close, anoint it only upon the Wound with our Magno l●quore, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same Oil very warm, than take Hypericon with the seed, Millefolie, Viticella, ana and make thereof a powder, the which thou shalt strew upon the Wound being dressed, and round about it, for this Medicine doth assubtiliate the matter that runneth unto the Wound, and taketh it forth with great ease, and without pain of the Wound, for this is the most sovereign Medicine in that case, that Nature with Art may make, and hath been proved a thousand times by experience in divers places. But those Wounds where Bones and Sinews are hurt, have need of great artifice and cunning, because they be of importance; But when the Sinews be only offended, it were necessary to stitch them presently, as I have said of those where Veins are cut, but not to dress it with Magno liquore, but instead thereof to take our Ole●m Benedictum, and Oil of Frankincense, of each alike, for those Oils do exceedingly comfort the Sinews that are cut, and when it happeneth that a Sinew hath a puncture, or is cut half way, in that case it were necessary to cut it overthwart, because it shall bring no Spasmus to the Wound, but if so be than that the Bone be hurt, and that there be any part to come forth, it were necessary to leave the Wound open until the Bone cometh forth, and than to incarnate it, and this thou shalt do with our artificial Balm, for the same serveth for Wounds, and lay thereupon the Cerot of Gualtifredo di Medi, the which healeth it with speed, and so with these orders thou mayest help all the aforesaid sorts of Wounds, and the defensive to use in these Wounds is this. Rec. Aqua vitae made of pure wine, and that will burn all away, and put therein Hypericon, Millefollie, Viticella, Betonica, and than wet a cloth in that infusion and, lay it for a defensive round about the Wound, and so thou shalt have thine intent to the great satisfaction of the Patient. Wounds in the head are helped as those are where the Sinews are offended, there are also divers other sorts of Wounds which are helped with the Remedies by us formerly mentioned.   

To help Ulcers of all sorts.  
SEeing that Ulcers are of divers and sundry kinds, it were necessary to know of what kind and quality they are, so that thou mayest help them in form and order convenient, and first I will writ of the corrosive Ulceras of a wound cancrenated, mal di Formicola, and other sorts of Ulcers that go creeping upon the flesh. The cure of these kinds of Ulcers is to apply quickly our Caustike to mortify the evil, the which thou shalt do thus, wet a little bombast in our Caustike, and therewith wash all the sore, and than leave it so open twenty four hours without binding it fast, and when twenty four hours are past, wash the sore with strong Vinegar and water, of each a like quantity, with charge, that there remain none of the Caustike in the sore, than lay thereon butter washed, with a colewort leaf until the asker or dead flesh fall away, than take our Cerot Magistrale, with a little Precipitate strewed thereon, and than anoint it with Magno liquore, and lay it upon the sore, for this Cerot helpeth all manner of corrosive Ulcers without any other help, and every Plaster will serve three or four days, taking them of every twenty four hours, and make them clean, and than lay them on again, and as for the filthy Ulcer that I have showed of in his Chapter, ye shall dress them only with our Vnguento magno, the which without any other help will heal them quickly: But ye must every four days touch them with Aqua fortis drawn from Precipitate, the which water draweth forth the offensive matter, and leaveth it putrified and clean; and in all other sorts of Ulcers, our Balm artificial, our Magno liquore, Oil of Wax and Turpentine, the Black Cerot of Gualtifredo, di Medi, our Cerot Magistrale, with Precipitate, are able to help, be they never so evil.   

The Order to be used in curing Imposthumes of divers sorts.  
THere be many sundry kinds of Imposthumes that cometh to man's body, that are caused of divers and sundry accidents, and therefore must be cured by divers orders, and with sundry Medicines according to his kind, because some Imposthumes are caused of a contusion or bruised flesh, some are certain griefs, that Nature would discharge herself of, and so sendeth forth that matter, some are caused of cold, others of melancholy humours, and others are caused of corruption of the Pox, and these are the kinds of Imposthumes that commonly come, and hereafter I will show the order to cure them one after another.  
And first of those that are caused of a contusion, because it is bruised flesh, for every contusion must be putrified and brought to matter, therefore make a maturative, and bring it to suppuration, and when you know there is matter, presently lance them, and dress them with this Medicine as well within as without, the which without any other help will heal any great contusion. But you must make the Unguent fresh every day, and with new Eggs, ye shall mix the yoalk of an Egg with our Magno liquore, and therewith dress them. And as for those Imposthumes that come by indisposition of Nature, are certain Sborine, a word so called in Italian, by the which Nature would prevail: it were necessary to let those have their cures according to Nature, until they break of themselves, and when they are broken, dress them within with this Unguent. ℞ Oil of Roses, ℥. vi. Litarge of Gold in fine powder, ℥. two. Storax liquida, ℥. i. Turpentine two ounces, yellow Wax, ℥. iii mix them and boil them one the fire until it be black, and if it be too hard, put thereto more oil of Roses, and make it in form of an Unguent, and therewith dress those kinds of Imposthumes, and lay thereon the Cerot Diapalma, and therewith will be wrought miracles. Also for those Imposthumes caused of cold, ye shall use hot Medicines and attractives: The Cerot of Oxicrocii is excellent in those kind of Imposthumes, our Balm artificial, or the water, and such like things as are temperate by Nature. But those Imposthumes that have their Original of the French Pox, are evil and malign, because their cause is malign and evil, and therefore their cure is with great purging, and to let the Imposthume ripe of himself, and when ye lance it, dress it within with our Vnguento magno, mixed thus, ℞. Vnguento magno ℥. two. Magno liquore ℥ i. Precipitate, ℥. ss. mix them well together, and therewith dress the Imposthume, the which will heal quickly and well, and lay thereon our Cerot Magistrale, with this charge, that in all the cures aforesaid ye purge the body well, so that the humours run not unto the place offended, and use defensives according to the kind of Imposthume, as oil of Frankincense, of Turpentine of Wax, of Honey, Aqua vitae: all these are excellent defensives by themselves, anointing them round about the Imposthume.   

The Order to cure all manner of Fistulaes'.  
Fistulaes', as I have said before, are of divers kinds, and caused of divers accidents, and so likewise they have need of divers Medicines, and first I will writ of those Fistulaes' that come of Wounds evil healed, and that have made a callow in that order that Nature cannot siccatrize, and so remain Fistulated, and the cure of these kind of Fistulaes' is to put therein a Rupture that doth cut and mortify the callow, and causeth it to fall away, and than with incarnating Medicines, incarnate them, and siccatize them, and this is the true cure of these Fistulaes'. But those kind of Fistulaes' that nature causeth to ease herself of some accident, commonly come in the lower parts about the fundament, and they be very perilous, and and not to be healed as they before were. But they must be with purging the body, stomach, and head, the which is to be done thus, First, purge them ten or twelve days with our Magistral Syrup, than give them our Aromatico, and drink thereon a little white Wine, than purge the head with a perfume made of Myrrah and Cinaber, after these things be done ye shall rectify the Liver with some decoction fit for that purpose, as of Lignum Sanctum, or Sarsa parilla, or such like that work effect, for this Medicine doth also help Fistula lachrymosa, that commonly come about the eyes or ears. There be other Fistulaes' in form of a sore, which must be helped with purging, and lay upon the sore our Cerot Magistrale with Precipitate, and anoint it with Magno liquore, for with this Cerot only may all Fistulated sores be healed, for it doth mundify and afterwards siccatrize it, there be also divers such like matters that are easily cured, if ye apply thereunto those Medicines that are appropriate.   

To help all manner of Scabs.  
THe kinds of Scabs be many, and caused of divers causes, and their cures are also divers ways. Those that are caused of repletion of the body, and of gross blood, the which are caused by eating abundance of such meats as are of great nourishment, the which if thou wilt cure them, it were necessary to purge them with our Sirrupo Solutivo, ten or twelve days, than give him or her one drachm of our Aromatico in the morning fasting, and drink thereon a cup of sweet Wine, than let him sweated three or four times, and after anoint him with our Vnguento magno two or three times, and it will heal him of those kind of scabs.  
Now to cure that kind of seab that is read and small, and causeth great itching, you shall make a decoction of Herbs, that cool the liver and purify the blood, as Borage, bugloss, Endive, Maidenhair, Liver-wort, Harts-tongue, Agrimony, Citrach, Succory, and such like Herbs, than purge with Alves, the juice of Elder roots, Hiera pigra solutiva, and such like, as doth cool the Liver and Blood, and than anoint them with Vnguento di Lithargirio, and therewith you shall help all those kinds of seabs'. There be also certain great scabs over all the body, the which are very thick, and those are a kind of the Pox, the which may be helped with giving them our Pillole contra il mal Francese, the quantity is according to the discretion of the Physician, and these Pills ye shall take three times every third day, and than anoint them with our Vnguento magno, and he shall be helped. There is another kind of scab that goeth creeping with a dry crust like unto Petigine, and those are the mere Pox inveterated, and and the order to cure them is thus, give them our Syrup against the melancholy humour, because it purgeth the blood and cooleth the Liver, and dissolveth that viscous humour that engendereth that crust, that being done, give them our Aromatico, and anoint them with our Magno liquore, and he shall be perfectly helped in short space. There are other kind of Scabs that come through great cold, and those are healed only with anointing them with oil of Frankincense three or four times.   

To help Mal di Formica.  
THose be certain Ulcers which go creeping in the upper part of the flesh, and have many orifices or mouths, and these are caused of the Pox being inveterated, the which are cured in that order that the Pox is, and that is this: First, purge the body with our Electuario Angelica, the which purgeth away gross and malign humours, and evacuateth the stomach of choler and phlegm, this being done, cause the Patient to sweated, for that will assubtiliate the humours, and 'cause them to come forth, that being done, take our Cerot Magistrale, and strew thereon Precipitate, and than anoint it with our Magno liquore, and lay it upon the sore, and there let it lie twenty four hours before ye change it, than make it clean, and lay it on again, for that Plaster may serve four days, making it clean every 24. hours, and when the Plaster will draw not more matter, you shall use our Vnguento magno, the which will help it in short time. But if it do hap that this Order do not cure them, than it would be necessary for them to be anointed with the Unction for the Pox, and to anoint them so long till the mouth be sore, and when that sign doth appear, anoint them not more, for he will spit or vapour at the mouth for twelve or fifteen days, and as soon as he vapoureth make a Bath and wash him well, and wash the mouth with Wine, and without all doubt it shall help him God willing; now hereafter I will writ of certain things which are used of common Chirurgeons, with a brief discourse upon them.   

Of the Tow which is laid upon Wounds by common Chirurgeons.  
THe pleggits of Tow, which are laid upon Wounds when they are first stitched is made in this order. ℞. The white of an Egg, Salt, and Rosewater, and beaten them together, and when the Wound is stitched than lay it thereon, because the blood should stint, and the Wound remain shut, so that it may be helped with more ease. Now touching this, I will show thee a reason why they use it in their first cure, ye shall understand, that every like desireth his like to secure him, or keep company with him, and therefore the Ancients, our ancient Professors of Art, willed the white of an Egg to be occupied in Wounds, because it is a substance of flesh like unto the other flesh; and to declare the truth, I will prove it by natural reason, for ye shall understand, that the white of the Egg is that part which engendereth the flesh, the skin, and the feathers of the Hen, and the yolk engendereth only the guts and other  of the Animal, than seeing the white is that which engendereth the flesh only, it is like unto flesh, as it is said before; than the Salt is a material which preserveth all things from putrefaction, as is seen by experience daily, and for that consideration it was put in this Composition to preserve the flesh, the Rose-water by nature is cold and dry, and by his coldness defendeth the inflammation, and by his dryness is repercussive, and mittigateth, so that these are the reasons why the said Tow is laid upon Wounds, but I would to God that such things were used, as by their excellent operations would help and heal from the beginning to the latter ending and to leave of such trifling orders.   

Of the digestive with the which they dress wounds after the aforesaid Tow.  
AFter that the Tow is taken away from the Wound they dress it with a Composition called digestive, because it digesteth the Wound, although this Medicine be somewhat scrupulous, and against Science, and the reason is this, ye shall understand, that when a man is wounded, the place before was sound, and therefore being wounded, our true duty is to help the same Wound, and not to digest or rot it, as commonly all Chirurgeons do, for by rotting of it in that order it is perilous, and more dangerous to be cured, as is daily seen by experience, and this no man can deny. But now I will follow our Regiment in showing what this digestive is, the which is made thus.  
℞ The yolk of two Eggs, Turpentine washed ℥. i. Oil of Roses ℥. ss. mix them in an Unguent, and this is the digestive wherewith they dress it until the sore have made matter enough, and than they use to dress it with Medicines much differing from the same; but I marvel much at the diversity of this matter, that this digestive being applied to a putrified Ulcer worketh divers effects, for it healeth it divinely: and moreover, ye shall understand, that if it be applied unto when they be incarnated, it will sicatrize them marvellously, for truly these are things worthy to be known, and he that understandeth the reason, I account him to be wise, for if this digestive be laid on fresh wounds it putrefieth and rotteth them, again being laid on a filthy sore it doth mundify and heal, and than if it be applied on a Wound incarnated, it sicatrizeth and healeth it, for this I have done divers and sundry times, the which is to be wondered at.   

Of the mundificative Unguent wherewith they dress the Wounds after they are digested to mundify them.  
When Wounds are come to digestion, and that they purge, always they change Unguents, and they apply Unguents that have virtue to mundify the Wound and make it clean, so that it may the better incarnate, and that Unguent is called properly a mundificative, the which is made of Barley flower, and Honey, or Honey of Roses, and Oil of Roses, and this is the mundificative they use eight or ten days together, for if the Wound were not well mundified, it would never incarnate well, so that this Unguent is most necessary in that operation, in respect of the ingredient.   

Of their incarnative wherewith they dress the Wound after it is mundified.  
When that the Wound is mundified, so that thereunto cometh small quantity of matter, than it is necessary to apply Unguents that incarnate, so that they may siccatrize with more ease, and this kind of incarnative is in the most use among the common Chirurgeons, the which is made of Turpentine, Wax, and Frankincense, and a little Oil of Roses mixed on the fire, and this is their incarnative.   

A rare secret, the which this Author did sand unto a special friend of his, being in the wars in Africa, the which helpeth all Wounds, either by cut, thrust, galling with Arrows, or harquibush-shot, or otherwise.  
THe first thing that ye shall do is, to wash the Wound very clean with Urine, and than dry it very well, than put therein our Quintessence of Wine, and presently join the parts close together, and stitch or sow them well, but in any wise sow nothing but the skin, for otherwise it would 'cause great pain, than put thereon five or six drops of our Balsamo, and upon the Wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno liquore, as hot as he may suffer it, and this do the first day, than the next day follow this order, first put thereon our Quintessence, and a little Balsamo, and than our Magno liquore very hot, and never change this Medicine until it be whole.   

Of those Unguents that siccatrize Wounds.  
THe Unguents that siccatrize Wounds after they are incarnated be of divers kinds, although they work one effect in siccatrizing, or causing a skin. The digestion that is written of before, being applied upon a Wound incarnated, doth siccatrize it with speed, the like doth Diachilon, and Vnguentum de Tutia. The Cerot called Gratia Dei, although these be sundry Compositions one differing from another, yet in effect they serve all to this siccatrization, as ye may see by experience, and this they do, because they be temperate and of good qualities, and so they help nature to work more quickly, and they are called helpers of nature. But these kind of Unguents that work by themselves, as Vnguento Apostolorum, the Caustick, Aegypciacum, the Rottery, and such like Unguents as work with violence, and suppress nature, and do that which nature cannot do by itself without help, but all those Unguents that are not violent neither in heat or cold, are apt to siccatrize Wounds, and all sores, that are mundified and incarnated.   

A Remedy to help a Wound with great speed, of our invention.  
Wounds of divers and sundry sorts are very perilous of life, but to help them quickly, because the Patient may take no harm, ye shall use this secret, wash the Wound with our water of Balm, and cleanse it well, and lay thereon clotheses wet in Oil of Frankincense made by distillation, and therewith thou shalt heal any great Wound in short time, as I have proved divers and sundry times, in sundry causes.   

An excellent secret to heal Wounds of Gun-shot, or Arrows, without any danger.  
IF thou wilt help the aforesaid Wounds, it were necessary first to join the parts close too, and wash it with our Aqua celestis, and lay thereon our Oleum Balsami, and therewith thou shalt save the lives of many wounded persons.   

A Discourse upon old Wounds that are not yet healed, and their sovereign Remedy.  
When that Wounds are evil healed, and that they imposthumate, and that the Arm, or Leg, or other parts where they were wounded, is indurated and full of pain, thou shalt use this secret of our invention, never known before of old nor new Writers, for it is of great virtue, and many times proved: first ye shall wash the Wound well, and make it clean round about, than wash the Wound with our Quintessence, and make it to fume, because our Quintessence doth open the pores, and assubtiliateth the matter, and causeth the humour to come forth, that being done, anoint it all over with our Magno liquore, and thus doing, before three day's end he shall feel great ease, and in short time it shall be helped, because this Medicine taketh away the hardness, and healeth the Wound, and comforteth the place offended.   

To dissolve a Bruise in short time, when it is new done.  
THese are called Contusions, unto the which nature sendeth quickly great quantity of humidity, and in that place it causeth Imposthumation: But if our Chirurgeons would be diligent and quick, all Contusions might be helped with great ease in short time, and therefore if thou wilt work miracles in the cure, use this our means, and it will turn to thy great honour, and the remedy is this.  
℞. Liquid Varnish three pound, yellow Wax ℥. iv. common Ashes ℥. vi. Aqua vitae rectified two pound. Put all the aforesaid matters in a Retort of glass, and distil it with a gentle fire until all the substance be come forth, the which will be Oil and water, the which ye shall separate, and keep them, and when occasion serveth, anoint the Bruise therewith, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same, for this is a miraculous Medicine, experimented and proved by reason, for an experiment without reason is as a man without clotheses, and therefore if thou wilt know great and rare secrets never written before, look in my Spechio del scientia universali, and in my Thesauro del vita humana, and therein thou shalt found strange things proved by reason and experience, the which books God willing, I mean to set forth in the English tongue to the profit of my Country.   

To help a Wound quickly that is in peril of any accident.  
Wounds in some parts of the body are very dangerous of life; and especially where Sinews be cut or pierced, or Veins or Muscles hurt, or Bones broke, and by an infinite of other particulars, which being open or evil healed, the Patient may be in danger of life, because the wind entereth in, and they 'cause pains and inflammation, and therefore to avoid all these aforesaid matters, so that the Wound shall have no detriment, use this remedy. First join the parts close together, and put therein our Quintessence, and lay thereon a cloth wet in our Balm, and bind it fast that the air get not in, for it is very hurtful; ye shall understand, that these are two of the excellentest Medicines that may be found, because our Quintessence doth assubtiliate the blood, and taketh it forth, and taketh away the pain, and the Balm doth warm and comfort the place offended, and will not suffer any matter to run thereunto by any means, for this is most true, as I have proved divers and sundry times, and always have had good success.   

To stop the flux of blood in Wounds with great speed.  
When there is any great flux of blood in Wounds, by reason of some vein that is cut, and that the Chirurgeons would stop it, it were necessary to stitch it well, but not as the common Chirurgeons do, with wide stitches, but stitch it very close and hard, and put therein our Quintessence, and upon the Wound strew the blood of a man dried in powder, and lay upon the blood a cloth wet in our Balm artificial very warm, and upon that bind the Wound with ligaments very straight, and every day twice wash it with our Quintessence, and round about anoint it with our Balm, and also cast thereon our secret powder for Wounds, and that do morning and evening every day, without opening of the Wound, and in that time the Wound will remain well, and the veins will be in a manner healed so that they will not bleed, giving you charge, that the Wounded man keep no diet, because the virtue being weak relaxeth the veins, and that causeth the flux of blood.   

Another Remedy to stay the flux of blood in a Wound.  
When there is a great flux of blood in a Wound, the perfectest remedy is to stitch it very close, than take man's blood being dried, and made into powder, and cast it upon the Wound, and bind it somewhat straight, and so let it remain four and twenty hours, and when ye unbind it, take heed that ye remove nothing, and cast on more dried blood upon the Wound, anoint it round about with our Oleum Philosophorum de Turpentina & Cera, and bind it up again other four and twenty hours, and than bind it gently, and anoint the Wound with Oil of Frankincense, and so in short time it will be whole, giving thee great charge, that ye put in no tent or such like, and than thou shalt see miracles.   

Of our Cerot Magno, that helpeth against all sorts of Sores and Wounds.  
THis Cerot is of great virtue, and healeth all manner of Sores and Wounds, if it be spread on a cloth and laid thereon, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Galbanum ℥. i. Ammoniacum ℥. two. Oppoponax ℥. two. Aristolochia longa ℥. i new Wax ℥. xviii. fine Myrrh, Olibanum, Verdiguieco, ana ℥. i. Bdellium ℥. two. Gum of the Proin tree ℥. two. Lapis h●matites ℥. two. Turpentine, Frankincense, of each ℥. iiii. Oil of Wax ℥. iii Beaten all those that are to be beaten, and searce them finely, and keep every one by himself, than dissolve the Gums in distilled Vinegar, according to Art, and than vapour away the Vinegar again, and strain the gums through a cloth, than take the Wax with as much sweet oil and melt them on the fire, and when they are melted, put thereunto ℥. two. of Litarge of gold finely seared, and stir them continually until it be boiled, the which ye shall know by this token. Put a feather therein, and if it be boiled enough, it will burn straightways, or else let it boil until it burn it, than take it from the fire, and cool it a little, and than put in the gums and stir them well together, and set it on the fire again, and it will rise with a great noise, and therefore let it boil until it do fall down again, than take it from the fire, and put thereunto all the aforesaid powders, and stir it until it be cold, and therewith thou shalt work marvellous cures, if it be made well, according to Art.   

Of our Magistral Unguent that helpeth divers sorts of Sores.  
THis Unguent is appropriate for many kind of sores, because it comforteth the sore, and taketh away the pain, and draweth the matter from the lower parts or bottom of the sore, the which matter is cause of the pain: It keepeth also from accidents, giving you charge that it be made artificially, for otherwise it will not be of so much virtue, and this is the Unguent.  
℞. Litarge of Gold, four ounces, Oil of Roses, two pound; boil them in a Copper pan so long, as if ye put a feather therein, it will burn it, than it is sod, than put thereto of new Wax, ℥. vi. Storax liquida, two ounces, common Honey, three ounces, than let it boil awhile until they be well incorporated, than take it from the fire, and put thereto Olibanum, Myrrah, Mercury Precipitate, Oil of Wax, Oil of Turpentine, Oil of Frankincense, of each two ounces, mix them well till they be incorporated, than put thereto pure rectified Aqua vita, ℥. iiii. and mix them well, and than it is ended; and this is of my invention, wherewith I have done very strange cures.   

To make Oil of Frankincense.  
TAke a Retort of glass well luted, and fill it half full of Frankincense, and for every pound of Frankincense, put thereunto ℥. iii of common Ashes finely seared, than distil it in sand, and the first that cometh forth will be water, the which will be clear, than increase the fire, and there will come forth an oil of the colour of a Ruby, the which keep close in a glass, the first water is of marvellous virtue in divers operations, but one miraculous experiment I will not leave to writ of, because it is a thing very necessary, and it is this. For those that have chilblains, or kibes, or chaps in the hands or feet that cometh through cold, ye shall first perfume the parts that are sore over the fume of hot water, so that they may sweated, than dry them and wash them with the aforesaid water, and put on a pair of gloves, and in short time they shall be whole, it helpeth also the white scall and scabs, and such like things. The Oil serveth in many operations, and specially in all cold diseases; if they be inwardly, give thereof every morning one scruple to drink, and if they be outward anoint. Also it helpeth all manner of wounds be they never so great: If ye anoint them therewith, and keep them close from the air.  
And in any wise use no tenting to keep them open, but wet a cloth therein, and lay it thereon, and in short space they will be healed, also it dissolveth a bruise in short space if ye anoint it often therewith, this oil serveth also for Painters to make Varnish.   

Of Oil of Wax, and his Effect.  
THis Oil of Wax is marvellous excellent, for so much as it serveth for the most part against all diseases; which Oil Raymond Lulli doth approve to be a more heavenly and divine Medicine than human, and is most rare for wounds, but it is not good for common Chirurgeons, because it helpeth a great wound in ten or twelve days at the most, but as for small wounds, it healeth them in three or four days, anointing only the wound therewith, and lay thereon clotheses wet in the same. Also this oil worketh miracles against divers diseases inwardly, if ye give thereof one drachm with white wine, and as for those whose hair and beard do fall away, it is a rare thing and of great profit, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. A retort of glass well luted, and put therein what quantity of Wax you will, so that it be not half full, and for every pound of Wax, put thereunto four ounces of the powder of Bricks, than set it in a furnace, and give it gentle fire until all the substance be come forth, the which oil will be congealed hard, the which is his perfection, for if you will distil it so many times that it congeal not more, it will be too hot and sharp, and not to be used within the body in any wise, but the first distillation you may use safely inwardly, and make Unctions for any kind of disease where need shall require, and always it will be good, and do no hurt in any wise in any disease, and therefore this Oil aught to be had in great regard of all men.   

To help the Toothache, that is caused of rotten teeth, or that cometh of a descension of the Head.  
THe teeth being rotten or corrupted always causeth great pain, and many times it cometh of a descension from the head and such like humours, as Catarrhs, Erisipella, but let it come of what cause it will, I will show a remedy of great importance, and it is very short, ye shall take our Aqua real, and hold it in your mouth a good while, and than spit it out again, and this ye shall do for three days together every day once, than afterwards it were necessary to wash your mouth in like manner with our Aqua balsami for the space of a month, and so the toothache shall be taken away with ease, for this is our Secret, and may be used in all times of the year.   

Against a stinking Breath.  
THe Breath may stink through many causes, as by Ulcers in the mouth, or by corrupt and rotten teeth, and sometime it cometh of the stomach, and that is evil to be helped, and therefore if thou wil● help these, thou must use divers Remedies, and first to help those that have their mouths ulcerated, ye shall give them a quantity of our Pillele aquilone, and than let them wash their mouths with our Aqua real, and so the Ulcers shall be helped, and the mouth shall not stink. But when the stench cometh of rotten teeth, use the aforesaid remedy or Medicine that is written for the toothache, the which will make the teeth as white as snow, and will ache not more, but when the stink cometh from the stomach, it were necessary to purge the body with our Syrup Sclutivo, six or seven days, and than to take our Aromatico, that being done, take rectified Aqua vitae, and the water of Honey, and oil of Turpentine, of each alike, mix them well together, and every morning drink thereof ℥. ss. fasting, for the space of of a month or thereabout.   

To help all such persons that have a great Cough in the Stomach.  
THe Cough doth come of divers and sundry causes, but let it come of what cause it will, it always offendeth the stomach and the head, for always when the stomach is offended, of necessity the head is offended, because it hath communication with the Stomach, so that the Stomach ●● cause of the pains in the head, and therefore it is necessary to help the stomach first, and that thou shalt do with our Pillole aquilone, the which is written in this Book following, and if so be you cannot take Pills, take our Aromatico, this being done, if there be no Fever, give him every morning, ℥. i. of our Electuary Magistrale per la toss, and every night anoint his stomach with Magno liquore, and also his head and nostrils, but if it hap that the aforesaid things help it not, than take the blood of the Liver-vein, and purge the body with our Syrup against the melancholy humour, and so by the grace of God they shall remain healed.   

To help those that cannot hold their water.  
THis proceedeth of two causes principally, the first is, of superfluous heat of the body, through the which heat, nature doth assubtiliate too much that humid part, and continually doth sand it down into the Bladder. The second cause is, that the pores are too much relaxed or opened, by the which operation the Urine doth pass without retention, and these are the two causes why the Urine cannot stay, and this cometh commonly to young children, because they are very hot of complexion, and the order to help them, is this.  
Give them our Pillole Aquilone three times, the quantity is from ʒ. i. to one and a half; that being done, ye shall make them a decoction of Hyssop of the mountain, and put therein Sugar, and this they shall use ten or twelve days at the lest, for this mundifieth the place offended, and disposeth it to solution. Than after this is done, ye shall give him for ten days together half a drachm of Mastic, with a little Plantain water, for this is hot and restringeth the pores, and engrosseth the Urine, and so the Patient shall remain whole of that infirmity, by the virtue of the aforesaid three Medicines, and it is a very easy cure, and sovereign for that purpose. But sometime there happeneth a Flux of Urine somewhat like this, and it is not of the aforesaid causes, but of causes much different from them,, for this is in men and women of age, and thi● I found to be caused of the Pox that causeth the Flux, and they voided certain threads which some call G●norea, and the remedy thereof is only with great purging and sweeting, and than to anoint them five or six nights with our Vrguento magno, and keep them warm in bed until ye have ended to anoint him, and than go to the stow, and he shall be helped of that infirmity.   

To help those that cannot make water.  
THe Urine is stayed through divers and sundry causes, and the principal are three, of the which one is the Stone that engendereth in the Bladder, for always it hangeth down in the neck of the Bladder, and stoppeth the Meatus, or pores that the Urine cannot pass, the which grieveth the Patient marvellously. The other is caused of gravel, or gross and viscous humours that cannot pass the pores, and so 'cause that retention of Urine with great pain. The third is caused of an obstruction or restriction of the pores or conduits, where the Urine doth pass, and so keepeth the Urine within with great pain, so that these be the three chiefest causes of the retention of Urine  
The cure of the first cause which is the Stone, is to purge them well, and than to use our most sovereign Remedy that is written in this Book following, the which is of great virtue to break the Stone, as I have proved many times, but when this Medicine is not able to break it, than it is necessary to cut it forth, and this is all concerning the first cause.  
To help the second cause, it were necessary to use Purgations that purge the Reinss well, and than to give them our Aromatico, and than to anoint the Reinss six days every day once with Vnguento magno, and with this Medicine thou shalt help him perfectly.  
To cure the third cause it were necessary to purge with aperative things, and than to anoint his Reinss, and under the members and belly with our Balm artificial, and give him to drink the powder of Hoglice, or Centum pedes, that are found under stones, and by the grace of God he shall be perfectly whole.   

To help those that have great burning of their Urine.  
THe burning of the Urine may come of divers and sundry causes, but I found four principal, of which one is the Stone in the Bladder being great or small. The second cause is a certain heat, the which corrupteth the place where it passeth and carrieth forth, as it were, certain long threads, the which causeth that burning. The third cause is a certain viscousnesse, the which holdeth to the bottom of the Urinal, and it will not well break, and this is called Gonorrea. The fourth cause is certain fluxes of Urine caused of some kind of the Pox, as ye may see by those that use company with evil women, and take harm, for presently this burning cometh, and therefore this showeth me plainly, that it is the Pox that causeth the burning of Urine.  
But if thou wilt help the aforesaid four causes, thou mayest do it with ease having the true Art of a good Physician, and the remedy of the first cause coming of the Stone, is to take it forth of the Bladder.  
The second cause is to be helped with purging with our Sirrupo Solutivo, and than after that, to use our oil of Vitriall compound, taking thereof every morning, ℥. i and so they shall remain helped.  
The third cause is helped with taking every ●en days a quantity of our Aromatico, and so with this only Remedy they shall be helped.  
The fourth cause is helped with Medicines appropriate for the Pox, and to anoint them with Vnguento magno.   

To help those that have great pain of the Gout.  
THe Gout is a corrupt and malign infirmity, and properly engendered of corruption, as it is plainly seen in those that are troubled therewith, and to prove it to be true, Nature doth show it well, because you may see how great the alteration is of that accident, and seeing that humour is caused of a windy humour, and alteration of the blood, as is seen by experience, I believe the same disposition hath his original and beginning of the stomach, for so much as all those that are troubled with that disease, the first sign that appeareth unto them, is a great pain in the Stomach, three or four days or more before the grief cometh, and than the pain increaseth exceedingly, so that by the said sign, I judge this accident cannot proceed of other place than the stomach, and to affirm it better, ye shall understand, that those which are troubled therewith can found no better remedy than to evacuate the stomach from all corruption, and therefore if thou wilt help them of that accident, the first thing that ye shall do is, to give them a quantity of our Aromatico in the morning fasting, and drink thereon a little white Wine, that being done, it would be necessary to make a fomentation with Nettles that be well boiled in water, and than to anoint them with our Balsamo artificiato, and so for that time the Gout will be gone, and will remain away for a long time.  
But if God permit me life, I will hereafter set forth the order to help the Gout that it shall never come again, with a certain order to be observed in the same, found out by this Author, and hath been proved an infinite number of times in divers places, and on divers noble men, as ye may well understand in his Thesauro della vita humana.   

A remedy against the Pestilence, that preserveth those that use it.  
THe Pestilence is a certain corrupt humour, which is the cause of the evil disposition of the air that is corrupted and poisoned, and it is so contagious, that in six and thirty hours it corrupteth the body, and causeth them to dye, and therefore if any will defend them from that infection, they may do it by the help of God and the Physician with these Medicines; the first thing is to confess ourselves unto Almighty God, and to pray hearty unto him, and than as concerning Physical Medicines, three things are to be used, which may save the lives of many: The first thing is to evacuate the stomach, the second to sweated, the third unction. And touching the first, ye shall use every three days our Pillow Aquilone, for they evacuate the contagiousness, and will not let it corrupt the body. For the second, ye shall cable them to sweated by artificial means, for that evacuateth a certain matter very apt to corrupt. And the third is, to anoint all the body with our Balm artificial, for that preserveth the body, and defendeth it from the contagiousness, so that by these three means men and women may be preserved from that violent death.   

To help Pellaria, that is a disease which causeth the hair and beard to fall away,  
THis Pellaria is a certain kind of fantastical infirmity, of the which we by practice do know the cause, which is by using company with women corrupted with the Pox, and by the same practice we see, that those whose hair do fall away, do fall into great infirmities of the Pox, although not all, yet the most part, and therefore if thou wilt help that accident, it were necessary to purge them with our Sirrupo Solutivo eight or ten days together, that being done, give them our Arcmatico, and than anoint the place where the hair is fallen away every evening with our Balm artificial, so that with the use of these three Medicines the Patient shall remain perfectly whole of that matter, because the Syrup purgeth the whole body universally, and the Aromatico purgeth the stomach and the head, and the Balm comforteth and defendeth the place where the hair is fallen, so that it shall fall not more, for this I have proved an infinite of times. You shall understand, that there be two other kinds of Pellaria, the which will not be helped in the aforesaid order, for the one cometh of a great fear, and the other cometh because they have had Mal di Massuca, and their heads be corrupted by that means, and for these two I know no remedy, but to let nature have her course.   

To help a carnosity in the Yard.  
THe carnosity that cometh in the Yard hindereth the Urine so that it cannot pass, and groweth in the mouth of the bladder, and is a kind of matter engendered in that place, the which is much like unto an Emerode that cometh in the neck of the intestine about the fundament, and because it is a gross and ulcerated matter, the urine passeth with difficulty and great burning, the which is very painful unto those that have it, but if thou wilt help that inconvenience, it were necessary to purge the body well, and to keep a diet, and to drink the Decoction of Hypericon made with Hony, and use to eat dry meats as much as is possible, and than make certain little wax Candles of Wax and Frankincense, and than make this Unguent.  
℞. Read Lead ℥. i white Honey ℥. i. Butter ℥. two. white Wine as much as will suffice to incorporate them in a liquid form on a soft fire, and than take ten quills that hath blood in them, out of the wing of a young Pigeon that is fat, and therewith stir the Unguent when it boileth, and when one quill is dried take another, and so change them until the Wine be consumed, and than it is made, and when thou wilt occupy it, take one of the said Candles of wax, and upon the end put of this Unguent, and put it into the Yard until it touch the carnosity, and this thou shalt use day by day, until the Candle pass without any impediment, and than the Patient shall be helped, for this is most true, and I have proved it an infinite of times, to my great credit, and content of the Patient.   

To help the white Scall.  
THis disease being so odious is a corrupt humour, which is not only in the head as many do think, but it dependeth of the inward parts, and hath communication with the head, and this humour is like unto the Fume, for continually it vapoureth up, and when it can ascend not more because it is hindered in the skin, than it settleth, and engrosseth, and causeth the head to break forth in that grievous order as is seen. But I will show a secret to help it, so that it shall never come again, and the order to make it is thus. You shall give them our Sirrupo Solutivo eight or ten days together, that being done, give them our Pillole Aquilone three times, the which pills must be taken every three days once, that being done, take Sinaber finely beaten ℥. two. Olibanum, Myrrha, ana. ʒ. i. mix them together, and divide it into ●ive parts, and make thereof five perfumes in five mornings, and cover their heads with a cloth, so that it touch not the head, than let the powder be cast on by little and little until it be spent, upon a chafingdish of coals, and so let them stand covered one hour without moving, and this do every one of the times, that being done, anoint the head for the space of a month with Oil of Wax, and Turpentine, and they shall be helped, for this is a remedy that cannot fail, for I have proved it an infinite of times, in Palermo, in Mesina, in Naples, in Rome, and in Venice, and always I have had good success, to my great credit, and profit of the diseased person.   

To help those Carvoli that come upon the Yard, and their causes.  
THose Carvoli that come upon the Yard are of divers kinds, as by reason and experience thou mayest see, but the most part are taken by using the company of lewd and corrupt women infected with the Pox, and those are the worst kind, for they are the first original of the Pox, and of those Carvoli come, Pannochi, or Botches, and certain great Scabs, Pellaria, Aches, and tumors, and an infinite of other evil effects, and these are the first kind. There are another kind, which commonly come of their own accord by reason of heat, and those are easy to be helped, and are not perilous or painful. There is another kind, the which is as though it were scorched or burnt, the which cometh through debility of the Yard, and having company with women, and these are also of small importance.  
The first kind are certain Ulcers that come upon the end, and some upon the proper substance of the Yard, and some upon the skin, and the order to cure them is thus. Ye shall mortify them within and without with our Caustick and when they are mortified ye shall dress them with our Magno liquore, and they shall be whole quickly.  
But ye shall well note, that many times after they are healed before fifteen days do pass, there will come a certain alteration in the throat, so that they can scarce swallow their meat, and this alteration many times endureth eight or ten days, and than it resolveth by itself, and that is a certain sign of Pe●aria.  
And therefore if thou wilt avoid that inconvenience that the hair fall not of, assoon as ye feel any of the aforesaid griefs, than presently take a quantity of our Electuario Angelica, and than take our Sirrupo Magistrale, four or five days, and anoint thy head ten or twelve days with our Magno liquore, and so by these means the hair shall not fall. Because our Electuario Ang●lica, doth evacuate the stomach, and cleanseth the head, and drieth up the matter, the which is already alterated by that disease. Also our Sirrupo magistrale, doth evacuate the body, and purify the blood, and soaketh the fury of the disease. Our Magno liquore preserveth the hair from drying and falling.  
There cometh many times, after those Carvoli are healed, certain Imposthumes in the groin, of the which we will speak in another Book particularly. The other kind of Carvoli that come upon the Yard, are helped only by washing them with some ●ath, that is restrictive and comfortative. The other kind which are like scorching or burning, are helped by keeping them clean, and anointing them with a Lineament of Tutia camphorata.  
And thus I make an end, giving to understand to those that practice, how that they may avoid that disease called Pellaria, or falling of the hair or beard, for this is one of my Secrets, whereof I mean to writ a great number, if God permit me.   

A Discourse of those Sores that come of the Pox, and how to help them quickly.  
THe Pox, as I have written of divers times, being a putrified and corrupt disease, the sores coming thereof of force must be of his nature, that is corrupt and stinking, therefore if thou wilt help them, and take away their pain quickly, thou shalt use three operations, the first is to give them our Pillole Aquilone, and than to wash the sore with oil of Sulphur, and than lay thereon our Cerot magistrale, with Precipitate, and anoint it with Magno liquore, and therewith thou shalt help them quickly, because those Pills are appropriate for that disease, and the oil of Sulphur draweth forth the filth from the Centre, and the Precipitate draweth forth the gross matter, so that of force it must heal.   

The cure of one that had the Pox in his head.  
BEing in Naples, among all other that I cured, there came unto me a Spaniard called, Il Siegnior Diego di Menas, a man of the age of 36 years, of complexion choleric adust, the which had the Pox, and in his forehead he had a certain tumour, the which had perished a great part of the skull, and was open, and he had been taken in hand of divers men, and none could do him good: I seeing that took him in hand, and gave him our Sirrupo solutivo eight or nine days together, afterwards I gave him our Aromatico, and than gave him the roots of Cina in decoction, and than perfumed him with Olibanum, Mastic, Myrrah, and Sinaber, and so by these means he was helped of that infirmity, but the bone remained bore, and I laid thereon our Cerot Magistrale, and so in short time, the bone did separate of his own accord, and one day I took it of altogether, it was so great, that it covered the fourth part of the head, than presently this Signior Diego went abroad, showing what was taken from his head, as divers can testify.   

The cure of a Wound in the Head, and in the Hand.  
THere was a certain Gentleman called Gionan Jacobo Veniciane, the which had a great Wound one the head, and in one of his hands, the which being taken in hand of divers Chirurgeons, was brought to a very evil case by reason of great alteration in the Wounds; and the Physician that had him in hand, was one called Realdo Polumbo cremense, the which dressed his head with Wine and Oil, and the hand with Turpentine and Oil of Roses. Than I being in company told him, that it were good to change those Medicines, because in wounds of the head, those Medicines were not convenient, for the oil being crude, putrefieth, and the Wine is repercussive▪ and will not suffer the Putrefaction to come forth that the oil engendereth, and for that reason the said Medicine would not be used.  
And as for the Medicine for his hand, I say that the Turpentine is not convenient, for where there is offence of skin, veins, sinews, and bones, Turpentine is not good, because it is hot and putrefactive, by means of the Oil, and causeth inflammation, and therefore it aught not to be used.  
Put if thou wilt help the head and hand both, ye shall use a kind of Medicine that comforteth the place offended, and that doth assubtiliate the matter, and incarnate, to the which the said Realdo answered and said my reason was good, if I could found Remedies that will do that Effect, the which I sent for to my house, and used them in this order.  
First, I did put our Quintessence into his wound in the head being cold, and than a little of our Balsamo cold, the which seemed strange to Realdo, and than I laid thereon our Magno liquore, and upon the cloth I laid a little of our secret Powder, and the like I did to the hand, and so in fourteen days the wounds were whole, to the great marvel of a number.   

A great Secret particular for the Flux, and Dissenteria.  
THe Fluxes of the body are no other but a distemperance of Nature, and are of two kinds, the one is caused of an evil quality and distemperance of the Liver, and that is called Flusso Epatico. The other is caused of great heat, Fever, and distemperament of Nature, and this is called Dissenteria, that is a distemperament of the guts, and both these sorts are hard to be helped of the ancient Doctors, as it is well seen by experience of those that practice, for they will help them with repression and restrictives, but that is not the way if we shall believe Galen, the which writes, Fluxus Fluxum curate, the which is most true, for I have cured a thousand of the Flux with giving them our Aromatico, and three or four doses of our Si●●●o solutivo, therefore Galen saith true.  
But the Dissenteria is cured with giving them our Electuario Angelica, and than every day after dinner stand in a bath of water of the Sea cold two hours at the lest, and so in this order thou shalt help any crude kind of Dissenteria in short time, and with great ease, use this as a Secret.   

The cure of one that was poisoned with Arsenic.  
THere was a certain man poisoned with Arsenic given him in a mess of Rice-pottage in an evening at supper, and as soon as it was in his stomach, he began to groan, and sweat, and vomit, in such order as it was strange to see, and it happened that at the said time there was a learned man in the house, who seeing this man in that case, suspected him to be poisoned, and so sent for me, and when I came, the poor man was almost dead, than presently I called the wife of the house, and told her that her husband would die, and that she should have the Law for poisoning of him, but if that she would tell him what poison she had given him, perhaps he might recover him again, with many words more: so to conclude she told him, that she had given him two grains of Arsenic in Rice-pottage, than presently I called for a cup of Sack, and caused him to drink, and than he vomited and went to the stool, and than I anointed him with our oil of Hypericon, and Scorpions, all the body over, and still caused him to drink that he might evacuate that poison, but all his mouth and throat remained swollen, and he did spit great abundance, and I caused him to use that Unguent, and every morning gave him treacle with Wine, and every three days, I gave him a quantity of Pillule Aggregative, and last of all I caused him to use Aqua vitae compound, and so ere forty days he was perfectly whole, and rid of a terrible disease, the which he had before he was poisoned.   

The cure of an Ulcerated Leg.  
THere was a certain man of the age of six and thirty years, of complexion choleric and sanguine, the which had his left leg all ulcerated, in such order that the Physicians and Chirurgeons of the City would have cut it of, but in any wise I would not consent thereunto, but took it in hand, and gave him first our Magistral Syrup in the morning eight or nine days together, and in the mean time I washed the leg with Wine wherein was boiled Mallows, Consolida majore, Carduus benedictus, and Honey, and than wet clotheses therein, and laid them on twice a day, than I caused him to use a decoction of Lignum vitae, and the bark with Iva artetica, Carduus benedictus, Pollipodie, Ripontico, Wine and Sugar, and his common drink was wine and water boiled on the Fesses of the same, and this he used four and twenty days, than I perfumed him with Cinaber three times, and ere three months were passed, he was perfectly whole, for his disease came of the Pox, and those sores are commonly called Mal di formica.   

The Cure of the Gout on a certain Gentleman.  
IN the aforesaid year, in the month of August, I was called to visit a noble Gentleman called, Il signior Don Christ of alo, della roca, a man of five and thirty years, of complexion choleric, and sanguine, the which was sore troubled with the Gout, and because it was in the beginning of August, our ancient Doctors have forbidden to take any soluble Medicine in that time, in respect of the Canicular days. Nevertheless, I called Armellio, and Leonardo Testa, two excellent Physicians, the which gave their counsel to take no Medicine, nevertheless I proved that the Gout was extreme hot, and for that I ordained a cold Syrup to mitigate the superfluous heat, the which was made of Liverwort, Harts-tongue, Dates, Raisins, Figs, Sugar, and Succory water, and aromatised it with Musk and Rose-water, of the which he took every day four ounces, and for the alteration of the Gout, I washed it three or four times a day with our Aqua deal Balsamo, because it penetrateth and openeth the pores, and assubtiliateth and dry-the humour offensive: also I ordained him bread of Barley, because it cooleth the blood, and is of good digestion, and caused him to refrain from all fat Broths, and his drink was temperate, and to this one of the Doctors did agreed, but the other would not, nevertheless the Gentleman was content with my advice, than I began to give him the aforesaid decoction, with our Soluble Quintessence, and therewith he had every day two or three Stools, and I washed the Gout three or four times a day with our Aqua Balsami, and the first day he began to feel ease, and the second he felt more, so that in seven days all his pains were taken away, and than I applied thereunto our Secret of Secrets for that kind of disease, the which in three days delivered him; than I caused him to use certain Medicines to defend the Gout from coming again, and so he continued whole to his great satisfaction.   

Of the causes of the Scyatica, and how ye may help it.  
THe Sciatica is a disease so called, because it cometh in that place of the body called Sio, and is caused of an evil quality, and gross humours that are stayed in that place, because they cannot pass down, and this is seen by experience daily, for where that pain is, there is alteration, and the cure thereof is with Glisters, Vomits, Purgations, and Unctions, because the Glister doth evacuate those places next unto it, and so easeth the humour, the vomit cleanseth the Stomach, the Purgations do evacuate the body downwards, the Unctions dissolve the Wind, and so by these means thou mayest help the Sciatica, as I have done many times to my great honour, and satisfaction of the Patient.   

A most excellent remedy to help the flux of the body, with a certain discourse thereon.  
IF thou wilt help the flux of the body, it were necessary to know first from whence it proceedeth, for he that knoweth not the cause, is less to be credited to cure the effect, and therefore I will show thee what the Flux is, and from whence it cometh, and than I will show the order to cure it, and also to make the Medicines.  
The Flux of the body is caused of a superfluous heat conceived in the stomach, the which make a continual solution inwardly, as ye may see by experience of those that are troubled therewith, for so long as the cause is not taken away, all their meat doth turn into that matter, the which if it be so, that is true which I do say, that the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body, caused of hot and corrupt humours in the stomach, and therefore if thou wilt cure it, it were necessary to extinguish the heat, and to take away the corruption, the which thou shalt do with the redness of Marte Militare written in this book following; for that is the most sovereign remedy that can be found But first ye shall take twelve grains of our Petra Philosophale, with ℥. ss. of Mel Rosar●m, and than take for four mornings together one scruple of the redness of Mart, with ℥. ss. of Sugar Rosat, and therewith thou shalt work miracles.   

A discourse as concerning Corns in the feet or elsewhere, with their remedies.  
THis callous matter is a certain hot humour, of the which Nature would discharge herself, and when that humour is driven forth of Nature, it goeth unto the lower parts into the end of the Toes, for in that extreme part of the toes, that skin that is called Epiderma, is hard, and will not suffer it to pass or exalate, and there many times it engendereth a tumour in the skin with great hardness, and many times that tumour doth increase and 'cause such pain, that it doth not only hinder their going, but hindereth them from sleep in the night, and this kind of tumour is called commonly calo, or Corns in English, and I thought it good to call them Crest, because they are always growing, and are of great importance among the Chirurgeons, for an infinite number of persons are troubled therewith, and therefore I will show thee our secret to help them quickly, and with great ease; which secret was never known before of any. First ye shall pair them with a sharp knife unto the bottom, and there ye shall found a certain thing like matter, but if ye found no matter, ye shall pair it until the blood doth appear, than touch it once with Oil of Sulphur, and than dress it with our Balsamo artificiato once a day until it be whole. Keep this as a secret.   

Of an Infirmity of Importance, that cometh upon the extremity of the toe upon the nail.  
THere are many men that are troubled with a certain infirmity under the nail of their great toe, the which seemeth as though that the nail grew in the flesh, which is not so, but the flesh groweth over the nail, and although this seemeth to be a thing of nothing, and that the Ancients have had small consideration thereof: Nevertheless, it is an infirmity of great importance, and to be considered of, because many are troubled therewith, and especially men of authority, and especially those that are troubled with the Gout. I call to remembrance, that in the time that I was in Naples, I cured a great number, and especially those that were of great authority, to my great honour and profit. The first thing that I did, I cut the nail on the part which was grieved and took it away, the which was done easily and with little pain, which thing being done, I touched it with our Caustick, and so let it remain three days together, and than I dressed it every day with our Magno liquore until it was whole, which was in short time.   

A discourse upon the Emeroids, with the order to cure them with most excellent Medicines of our invention.  
THe Emeroids are a certain kind of evil tumour, caused of the blood in the veins ●merodiall, and these come always in the extremity of the Intestinals about the Fundament, and some of them cause great pain, and some of them do burn excessively, or do scald; the which cometh through the quality of the good and evil humours, as ye may see by experience, how that some have such burning that they cannot rest in the night, the other have such pain that they cannot sit, the other are so scalded that they cannot abide it, ye shall understand, that this infirmity is more painful in one complexion than in another, and the cure thereof is difficile Nevertheless it may be cured, and the order is this.  
First take our Aromatico, than take our Sirrupo Solutivo three or four days, than take our perfume three or four times on the Fundament, that being done, anoint the place with our Balm artificial, for that drieth and taketh away the pain altogether, and so the Patient shall remain perfect whole.  
There is also a great secret in the tooth of a Horse-fish, if it be worn on a man's finger, to take away the Emeroids, the which tooth I have known proved at the lest seven or eight times, for I have a ring made thereof, and have used it.   

A great secret to help those that are burst, or have the Rupture.  
THis is a rare secret, never known before of any man, and especially for those that have not been burst long time, and that the Rupture hath not yet made a Callow, and the order to cure it is thus.  
First ye shall give them our Aromatico every ten days once, and every morning fasting give them one ounce of fine Tartar beaten into powder, with water or wine to drink, and likewise in the evening, two hours before supper give him as much, and his bread shall be Biscuit made of Rye, also he must wear a Truss made fit for that purpose, and use this remedy.  
℞. Rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm ℥. xii. Rosin of the Pine tree that is dry, Olibanum, Mastic Sarcocolla, ana. ℥. ss. Mix them altogether, and with this water wash the Rupture every day twice, and than cast thereon presently the powder of a herb called Bislingua and Balsamina, ana. and than wet a cloth in the said water, and lay it thereon, and bind the Truss very hard, and keep thy house with as much ease as thou mayest, and strain not thyself in any wise, and thus within a hundred days thou shalt help any great Rupture, keeping the aforesaid order.   

A rare secret and divine, to help those that are troubled with the Spleen.  
THe Milt is alterated and becometh hard, by reason of a superfluous humidity, which it receiveth by the evil disposition of the Liver and Lungs, and therefore if thou wilt help it, it were necessary to use Medicines abstersive and drying, and to give them our Aromatico once, and than to use this Electuary, the which is of marvellous virtue in that operation.  
℞. Squamma ferri ℥. i. Scolopendria ℥. i. Spicknard, Lapis Lazuli, ana. ℈ two. Cinnamon ℥. ss. beaten them fine, and make thereof an Electuary with purified Honey according to art, and take thereof every morning a spoonful, and as much at night two hours before supper, and anoint the place where the Milt lieth with our Balsamo artificiato, and so by the grace of God, and means of these Medicines, thou shalt be helped quickly.   

A great secret to help the Spleen with great sppeed.  
THe Milt, as is aforesaid, is grieved through abundance of humidity which it receiveth, and therefore thou must only seek to dry that humidity, and for that purpose I will show thee two great secrets wherewith thou shalt work miracles, and are of great reason and experience, The one is to be let blood under the tongue in one of these two veins, that is on that side where the Milt lieth, that being done, ye shall take Mustard, and mix it with the Urine of a Boy, and say it between two clotheses, and lay it on the sore place one night, and than if it be not well, use it still until it be helped, for this I have proved an infinite of times.   

The cure of a certain Spaniard called Carabasall di Cordonet, the which was troubled with the Pox.  
THis Soldier, being of the age of two and thirty years, was mightily troubled with the Pox, with extreme pains and sores, among the which, he had all his thigh so eaten away, as though he had been gnawn with Dogs, with most extreme pain, and the way that I cured him was thus. I gave him twelve grains of our Petra Philosophale, with Sugar Rosate, the which caused him to vomit and to evacuate downward, of the which he found great case: that being done, I prepared him our decoction of Lignum sanctum solutivum, the which is written of hereafter, with a certain drink made with Wine, and Lignum vitae, and this he used five and twenty days, and than I anointed him with our Vnguento magno, and in the space of forty days he was perfectly helped to the sight of all men.   

The cure of the Stitch in the side with retention of Urine.  
THere was a certain Gentleman called, Marco di Chiuffunt of the age of six and thirty years, the which was troubled with a terrible stitch in the side, and had proved many Medicines, and none did him pleasure, the which, after I took him in hand, I gave him our Aromatico, and after that the pain slacked, than I caused him to anoint all those parts with the oil of Nutmegs, and the oil of Eggs mixed together, and so he remained quite whole, for in this order I have cured an infinite of persons to my great honour.   

A cure of a certain Spaniard wounded in the head in Naples.  
THere was a certain Spaniard called Zamora, of the age of four and thirty years, of complexion choleric and sanguine, the which was wounded in the left side of the head, with incision of the bone; also you shall understand, that in Naples the air is most evil for wounds in the head, by reason that it is so subtle, and for that cause the Doctors did fear the cure, nevertheless I dressed him with our Magno liquore, and Balsamo artificiato, keeping the wound as close as was possible, anointing it only upon the wound, and so in fourteen days he was perfectly whole, to the great wonder of a number of Chirurgeons of that City.   

The cure of a certain Gentleman that had Mal' di formica.  
THere was a certain Gentleman Neopolitan, the which was called, Il Signior Giovan Francisco Gaetavo, of the age of thirty eight years, the which was marvellously tormented with a sore arm, and a sore leg, called Mal' di formica, and he was of complexion choleric and melancholy, and these sores went creeping upon the flesh, healing in one place and breaking out in another, and in his arm he had nine sores, and in the leg fourteen, and this Gentleman had sought help the space of two years, and could found none, and had twice taken the Diet, and yet could found no help, the which Gentleman I took in hand, and the first thing that I gave him was this: ℥ i of Hierapiera Galeni, with twenty grains of our Petra Philosphale, the which provoked both vomit and siege divers times, that being done, I gave him our Sirrupo Solutivo 12. mornings together, that being done, I gave him a Medicine with our Petra Philosophale and Eleborus niger, the which caused him also to vomit and purge downwards, that being done, I caused him to make a Syrup of Lignum Sanctum, and the Bark, Iva Artetica, and Carduus Benedictus, in the which I put seven pound of Wine, and one of Sugar, and than I caused him to make a drink with water, and wine, and Honey, to drink continually, and that I caused him to use five and twenty days, and than I anointed him with our Vnguento magno five times without fire, the which Unguent caused him to spit abundance of filthy matter, and at the last it caused him for to spit blood, after the which I caused him to make a Bath the which is written in our Regiment of the Pestilence, called the Joyful Jewel, and I ●aid on the Sores our Cerot Magistrale, and thus within thirty eight days he was perfectly whole.   

Certain Cures that this Author did when he traveled into Africa.  
IN the year 1550 he traveled into Africa, and there he was chosen by Il. S. Don Pietro di Toledo viceroi di Napoli, to be Physician unto the camp under Don Gracia his son, and so in the year 1551. in the month of May he departed from Naples with all the army of the Emperor, Carolo quinto D' Austria, and so having a prosperous wind, arrived in Barbary by a certain old city called Monasterio, and there gave an assiege, and took it without any remission or ransoming, and made slaves of all those that were left alive, and it remained utterly destroyed, but not without great mortality of our Christian Soldiers, and beside those that were killed, there was a great number wounded, the which were brought into the Galleys, and carried to the Isle of Sicilla, in a certain city called Tarpano, the which say they, was builded by a great Idolater called Tarpos, and there in the Hospital those wounded persons were left, with certain Chirurgeons that were under my jurisdiction, and with certain Medicines of my invention, and so in short time the most part were helped, and than the Army returned unto Naples again, and refreshed them with new men and victual. And than on the fifteenth of June, we set up sail and failed, and when we were in the midst of the gulf between Naples and Palermo, there happened a great misfortune, the which was thus.  
In the Galley of Si. Giordano Captain General of the Galley's Duke of Florence, it happened that he being at the table with divers Captains and Gentlemen, and as they were, at dinner, a certain Captain being grieved with another, multiplied words, and took a loaf of bread, and threw it at his face, without any reverence or respect of the said General Sig. Giordano. That being done, the said General risen from the table, and took him by the bosom, and gave him five stocadoes in the breast, the which pierced within the body, and there he fell for dead: that being done, the said General repent himself of his rashness, and presently sent for me being in the Galley of Don Gracia to come and dress him, and so my General caused me to do with all diligence, and when I came, this poor Captain lay as though he had been dying, nevertheless I dressed him with great diligence, and that Medicines which I used were these: First, I put into the wounds, of our Qiuntessence, and upon the wound I dressed it with our Balm artificial, and gave him a vomit, the which caused him to cast great quantity of blood, and than every morning I gave him half an ounce of our Aqua Balsami, and thus within two days after we arrived at Palermo, the Captain was perfectly whole, to the great marvel of a number. After that we departed from Palermo, and went to the City of Trapano, where the rest of the galleys were, and there continued four days, and than on Saint Johns even, we went to an Island called Fanignana, and there kept the feast of Saint John, and than we departed with all the army, and went on the side of Africa, and on Saint Peter's day we landed in the Gardens of that City, and there began to offer battle, and there remaining about 24. or 25. days, the army began to be infected with a certain kind of flux, whereof a great number died every day. My General seeing that called me, and asked if it were possible to found some remedy for that flux, unto the which I answered willingly, and said, I would device by the help of God some remedy, because it was my duty, to labour for the health of the Soldiers of the Emperor, the which thing I did in short time thorough the whole camp; as I will writ hereafter in the next chapter.   

The cure of the Flux, wherewith I helped the Army of the Emperor in Africa.  
BEing as I have said before in the camp, where they were marvellously tormented with a Flux, and many died thereof, and could found no help, although they had Medicines. Than I which had the experience in hand, began to laugh to myself, and the remedy wherewith I helped them all, was this. First, I caused them to eat well, and than in the morning I gave them a vomit, and than every day after they had eaten, I caused them to go into the water of the Sea, and there to re-remain four or five hours, and so doing within four or five days they were helped, for I swear as I am a Knight, that if I had not been there, the whole Army had died of that Flux, for of fourteen or fifteen thousand that were there, there was not left two thousand but they were infected with that Flux, or distemperance of the Liver caused of superfluous heat, the which heat distempereth the Stomach, and causeth the continual Flux; you shall understand that our vomit doth evacuate the stomach of the putrefied humour, and the salt-water cooleth the heat, and restraineth the Flux, so that by these means they were helped.   

A goodly Remedy found out by me for Wound in the head.  
Wounds in the head were very perilous in that place, so that if a hundred were hurt in the head, it was not possible to recover ten, and that came through two things, the which were much contrary in that Region, for the day was so hot that it burned all things, and the night to the contrary so extreme cold, that it was intolerable, and not to be credited, and so by this distemperance, when the Craneum was uncovered that the air might touch it, presently they died without any help, than I seeing that, began to consider of the matter, desiring to found some mean to help them, and so studying, it came in my memory, that the air was cause of their death, as it was in truth. Than presently I commanded all those Chirurgeons that were under my jurisdiction that they should not meddle with any wound in the head without my presence, the which thing was done, and as many as were wounded, the first thing that I did, in stead of cutting or lancing or discovering, according to the common order, I joined the parts, and sowed them close, and dressed them upon the wound with our Quintessence, and with Balsamo, and Magno liquore, and so in short time the most part were helped, and there died none so desperate as they did before, and therefore to my judgement, this was a good invention, and never used of any before, and this order of curing is very natural, for Nature doth show it in herbs, plants and stones, how that they cannot stand disunited, than much more our flesh cannot stand disunited, without great torment of the Patient, for until it be joined together again, it is impossible to be helped, than seeing that is true, it is most natural for the wound to be joined together, and to use those Medicines, that where they be applied, will not suffer the humour to come thereunto, nor putrify the place that is hurt, and seeing it is so, as by experience is seen, we must believe this to be a natural and most wholesome remedy, so that I affirm that the joining of the parts of the wound in the head, and other parts of the body is most sovereign, and of great satisfaction to the sick, for they never felt pain, nor have no Fever, nor other sort of accident, for of those I have cured a great number with good success.   

The cure of one that had his nose cut of, and set on again.  
IN that time when I was in Africa, there happened a strange and that was thus.  
A certain Gentleman a Spaniard that was called Il Signior Andrea's Gutiero, of the age of twenty nine years, upon a time walked in the field, and fell at words with a Soldier, and began to draw, the Soldier seeing that, struck him with the left hand, and cut of his nose, and there it fell down in the sand, than I happened to stand by and took it up, and pissed thereon to wash away the sand, and stitched it on again very close, and dressed it with our Balsamo artificiato, and bound ●t up, and so let it remain eight days, thinking that it would have come to matter: nevertheless, when I did unbind it. I found it fast conglutinated, and than I dressed it only once more, and he was perfectly whole, so that all Naples did marvel the real, as is well known, for the said Sig. Andrea doth live yet, and can testify the same.   

The cure of an arm of S. Giordano Ursino.  
AT the same time the said Sig. Giordano Vrsino, and Si. Antamo Savello Romano, and Sig. Astor Baglione, with divers others, took their Horses and rid about two miles from the Camp, and there perceived certain Moors on horseback, the which did assault these Gentlemen, and one Moore with his Lance did thrust through the arm from the elbow through the shoulder, than the said Sig. Giordino returned to the Camp with great pain, and presently I was sent for, and when I had seen it, I put therein our Quintessence, and upon the Wound I said our Balsamo, and Magno liquere, and bound it straight, and so left it, and in five days it was whole and sound, and than went to the assault most valiantly, as many can testify, because he was general of Firenze.   

A great chance that happened in the assault in Africa.  
AT the same time there was a Gentleman Florentine, that was with the said Si. Giordano Vrsino, that was called Millematti, the which fought with his Sword and Target, and defended many shot of Calivers, and such like, at the last one pierced his Target, and struck him upon the breast, and bruised him marvellously, and yet broke no skin, and therewithal he fell to the ground for dead, and the carrier of dead men, or Becamort, as they call them, would have buried him in a Mine, I than being present, caused him to be brought into the Tent of Sig. Astor Baglione, and there I put our Quintessence into his mouth, and that caused the blood to liquifie and come forth at the mouth, and laid upon his stomach a plaster of Ashes and Oil as hot as he could abide, and that I changed morning and evening, and always I gave him of our Quintessence to drink, so that in short time he was helped, and yet liveth in health: and this was one of the most strangest things that ever I saw, that a pellet of a Caliver could not break the flesh, and that came by certain words that the said Millematti did carry written upon his breast, as he persuaded me afterwards, for he said, In verbis, & in herbis, & in lapidibus sunt virtutes, etc.   

The cure of Wounds being poisoned, and of their Sores.  
While that wars dured in Africa, many times the Chirstians were poisoned with venomous Arrows and such like, for the Moors commonly when they fight against the Christians, they stick the heads of their Arrows in a Squill, and poison it with the juice, and when those Arrow heads or other weapon goeth into the flesh of a man, it causeth so great burning, that it bringeth Spasmus, and so in short time they die. And until this time there hath been no other Medicine found, but to cut away all the flesh that the weapon hath touched, or else to cauterize it two or three times with a read hot Iron to extinguish the venom, but I, through the grace of God, have found the true and perfect way to help them quickly, and with great ease, and without detriment of the wounded, and the remedy is this; ye shall put our Quintessence into the Wound, and lay thereon our Magno liquore, the which are two Medicines that kill the poison of the Squill, and therefore if any will prove this to be true, to see the experience, take a piece of a Squilla, and scratch it with thy nail, and than put thy finger into thy ear, or scratch any other place that ye may touch the flesh, and presently thou shalt feel a terrible burning, and to quench it, presently take of our Quintessence, and wash the place therewith, and presently the pain will cease, and therefore use this as a secret, for therewith I have cured a great number.   

A remedy found out by me against the poison of a Fish.  
When that I caused so many sick of the Flux to go into the sea, whereby they were helped, there was a certain kind of fish, that as soon as they touched the flesh of a man, presently it inflamed, and the poison so increased, that in two or three days it caused corrosive Sores, the which caused many to dye, and many were stung with that fish which never could found help: I than seeing that desperate case, upon a time visited a young man being a Roman, the which was hurt on the Cod's and Yard with such a Spasmus, that it was wonderful to behold, and having a glass full of my Quintessence in my hand, I opened the sore and washed it therewith, and presently the pain ceased, than afterwards I dressed it with an Unguent made of the fat of the fish, and so therewith he and a great number more were helped in short time, and these are secrets of my invention.   

Of the taking of Africa and his destruction  
IN the year 1551. the eleventh of September about the nineteenth hour the general assault was given to the City of Africa, and in the space of two hours it was taken, and destroyed by the soldiers of Carolus Quintus Emperor, whereat was slain a great number of both parts, and there was such a number hurt, that it was to be wondered at, the which were healed with our Magno liquore, and Balsamo, and when the City was taken and all ended, the Galleys remained there all September, and the fourth of October every man went to serve at their ports appointed, and so we returned to Naples to pass the winter, but yet we remained but a while, for there was occasion to go to Sienna, the which rebelled against the Emperor, and so we went with Don Pietro da Toledo the which died after at Firenza, etc.   

The cure of a great wound on the head.  
IN this year 1551. in the month of November, there came unto my house a Spaniard, the which was called Giovan Ruiz di Zamora, the which had a great wound over the ear, on the left side that reached half over the head, with great fracture of the bone, the which I presently stitched with diligence, and put therein our Quintessence, and upon the wound I dressed it with Magno liquore, and Balsamo, and made a gentle ligature with a piece of silk, and sent him home to his lodging, and commanded him to come again the next day about the said hour, and those that were about me, fell a laughing at my words, and said that he would die of that wound, because I let him go forth in the air, to the which I answered that he might safely go forth, and so the next day he came again, and I took of the ligament, but not the cloth, and thereon I put of our Quintessence and Balm, and so in three days I touched it not, and than I took of the Ligament again, and dressed it upon the cloth, and let it remain until the 8. day, and than I opened it, and took away the cloth, and found the wound so healed that ye could scarce perceive any scar, and many said that it was impossible to be healed, for it would come to imposthumation, nevertheless it remained perfectly whole for five or six months that he remained in that City, in the which time I cured a great number in the same order that were wounded in the head, to the great wonder of those that dwelled in Naples, for they count all wounds in the head to be mortal, because the air is so pestilential-, for as soon as it toucheth the scull it corrupteth the wound.  
But using our order thou mayest safely help them, so that the wound be not mortal, for by keeping it close shut it is preserved.   

A very strange thing that happened in the aforesaid year.  
THere was a certain young Mariner of the age of 26▪ years, the which was called, Francisco di Giovanni Raguseo, of the Isle of Mezo, the which being in fight fell down, and the other that fought with him out him over the side and bacl a handful long, in so much that a piece of the Milt was cut overthwart, than he was carried to a Chirurgeon, and he stitched him up, than the next day I was called, and there I found the Wound not well stitched, the which I ripped up again, and found the belly full of blood, and when I saw that, I caused divers to make water, and therewith I washed him, and with taking forth of the blood, there came a piece of the Milt that was cut, the which I washed, and gave it to a Mariner that stood by, and the Patron of the ship took it from him and carried it away, than I stitched him up again and left a little hole or orifice beneath, where the matter might come forth, and dressed him with our Quintessence, with Balsamo, and Magno liquore, and in the space of 22. days he was whole perfectly.   

The cure of a Fistula in the lower parts.  
IN the year, 1552. in the month of March, I was brought unto a man of the age of forty years, of complexion choleric and melancholy, the which had a Fistula in the lower parts, the which was of this Nature, that it had alterated the cod, the member, and all the parts thereabout, with eleven holes infistulated, at the which holes he made water with great burning, and intolerable pain, and which are accidents of a Fever in manner continual, the which Patient had been taken in hand of divers, and none could do him pleasure. Than the first thing that I did, I gave him our Aromatico, that being done, I gave him xii. day's together our Quintessentia solutivo, that being done, I gave him a quantity of our Electuario Angelica, and than he used one of my secrets, the which I will not writ in this place, that being done I caused him to spit with one of my confections, written hereafter, and so by these means he was perfectly whole.   

Of many that I cured in Naples.  
IN that time that I remained in the famous City of Naples, until the year 1555. in the Month of February, and than I thought it good to go to Rome, where at this time I cured a number of persons, and have helped so many by the help of God, which if I should record them, it would be sufficient to fill a great volume, for there came such a number to my door, that the people wondered thereat, and with four Medicines compounded by me, I helped in manner all of every disease, and the Medicines were these, one Pill made with our Petra philosophale, Elbero negro, Olio di sulpho, Olio di melle, mixed with Marchpane, and made in Pills. The second Remedy was soluble Pills, made with Aloe hepatico, Colloquintida, Sienna, and oil of vitriol made in pas●e with sugar, and common honey. The third Remedy was an unction, made with Sage, Rosemary, Wormwood, R●w, Mint, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mastic, Trankincense, Turpentine and wax with common oil. The fourth Remedy was our Quintessence, and these four Remedies, I gave unto those people to help their griefs: and I willed them that took these Medicines to eat well, and of good meats, and so always they praised these Medicines, the which was not without great reason, because the Pills first evacuate the stomach of all Impediments, and leaveth nature eased, the second Pills evacuate the body of the corruption.  
The unction comforteth the stomach, and helpeth digestion, and mitigateth the pain. The Quintessence comforteth the stomach, causeth good digestion, purifieth the blood, and comforteth the head, so that by these aforesaid Reasons, ye may understand that these four Remedies may help against all indispositions inwardly, and for cause of those Remedies those people honour me like a Prophet, and always have had me in great Reverence, as long as I remained among them.   

A cure of Ulcera putrida which was in the arm.  
IN the year aforesaid, and in the month of August, there came to my hand a certain Gentleman of the Ambassadors of Portugal, that was called Il signior Jari, a man of the age of two and thirty years, of complexion melancholy, the which had a putrified Ulcer about the left shoulder, that he had carried above three years, and was as big as a hand, and very deep, which could not be healed of the common Chirurgeons, nor yet be eased of his pain, than I reasoning with this Gentleman, told him that the cause of that sore, was corrupt and putrified blood, and by that means the Liver received evil qualities, and that if he would be helped, the cause must be removed, the which was hard to be done, because the blood must be evacuated a little, and than the stomach must be evacuated of moist matter that offendeth it, and hindereth digestion of the meat, and will not suffer good blood to engender; than will it also be necessary to evacuate the body downwards, that the corruption sand not up his vapours unto the upper parts of the body, and hinder the cure of the Ulcer, all this being done, it were necessary to evacuate the humour between the skin and the flesh by sweat, so that all the parts of the body may remain purified, and so by these means the Ulcer may easily mundify, incarnate, and siccatrize, and shall be a perfect cure: to the which thing the Gentleman was willing, for he had as willingly died as lived, and so in the name of God I took him in hand, and the first thing that I gave him was a vomit that purged the stomach, and took away great part of his pain: than I purged him with our Quinta essentia solutivo eight days together, that being done, I made him a Fomentation that caused him to sweated well, and to spit abundance, than I caused him to be let blood under the tongue, and than I anointed all the Ulcer with our Caustick, the which mortified all the filthiness therein, and than I dressed it with Magno liquore, and our Cerot Magistrale, and so with these Remedies in short space the said Gentleman was cured, to the great marvel of the said Ambassador, and all those that saw it: By reason of that cure came another of the same house unto me, called Il Seignor diego jaimes, the which was troubled with a difficulty of Urine, which did trouble him mightily, to whom I gave three times our Petra Philosophale, and once the juice of Elder Barks, and he was helped: I cured another in the same house of a Fever with our Oil of Honey, and with Balsamo: The Ambassador likewise being troubled with the Gout, willed me to take him in hand, the which I did, and cured him, so that in three years after while I continued in Rome he never felt pain, and of these cures I helped an infinite in Spain, as is well known to the Inhabitants thereof.   

The cure of Ethesia in the beginning.  
IN the year 1555. in the Month of March, there came to my hands a young man of milan, the which was a Painter, of the age of five and twenty years, the which was fallen into a spice of Etisie, and did spit much blood with a continual Fever, whom I cured in this order.  
First, I let him blood under the tongue on the right side, and after that I gave him a quantity of our Aromatico with Plantain water, because the bleeding taketh away the superfluous blood of the breast, which nature sendeth forth by itself, and the Aromatico with Plantain water is cold and dry, which are most necessary for that disease, for they evacuate the stomach, repercute and mitigateth the alteration, those things being done, I caused him to use our Quintessence solutive to evacuate the body in respect of the Putrefication already conceived within the intestinals, also I caused him to use the Quintessence of the Flower of Flowers, and I anointed his stomach with Magno liquore, and also he used our Electuary of Althaea, and so by these means he was helped perfectly.   

The cure of a certain man wounded in thirteen places.  
IT happened that a certain man called Alessandro Orefice, was wounded before my lodging in thirteen places, and there fell for dead, and than by a certain friend was brought into my Lodging, and there I laid him upon a Table, and took of his clotheses, and sowed all those wounds which were to be sowed or stitched, and dressed him with our Quintessence, and Balsamo, and Magno liquore, and our secret Powder, and so by those means in 15. days he was perfectly whole.   

Of Remedies that help many diseases.  
THere are divers and sundry diseases, and they be helped with divers and sundry Medicines; therefore I will make a note only of those which are most used.  
And first I will writ of those Remedies that help the Fevers of all sorts, which are these, the Syrup of Borage, Bugloss, Endive, Cicory, Hops, fumitory, Rhabarb, Cassia, Scamony, Sine, Barleywater, Syrup of Scytrones, and such like.  
The Remedies that help the Pox are these, Aloes, Coloquintida, Turbit, Hermodactils, Scamony, Precipitate, Oriola, Olivella, the Unction of Mercury, Lignum sanctum, Cina, Salsa perilla, the perfume of Sinaber, a stove of herbs, our Ceroto Magistrale, and such like things. Those Remedies that help the Cough, are Enula Campana, Garlic, Sulphur, Honey, Lapaciolle, the Oil of Sulphur, and such liket: Those Remedies that help the Scabs, are the juice of Aureola, Sulphur, Litarge, Aqua Real, Roch Allome, those that are troubled with pains in the body, may use Genciane, Nutmegs, Dictamus albus, Euphorbio: those that are wounded shall use Turpentine, our Balsamo, Magno liquore, Aqua Balsami, Elixir vitae, Ceroto Magistrale, Oil of Hypericon, of our invention, and such like. Those that provoke urine, are the flours of Mallows, Alkekengi, Hog's life, Cantharideses, and such like, and therefore I will not trouble you further, because I have written sufficiently in my other Books in sundry places, and hereafter I will writ of divers; and sundry Medicines of our invention never found out before of any man.   

Here beginneth the order to make divers and sundry Medicines of our invention never found out before by any man. And first to make our Petra Philosophale, that helpeth against all manner of diseases that happeneth unto man, or woman, or any other Animal terrestrial.  
THere hath always been a great questioning among the Philosophers, whether that one Medicine might help against all diseases or no. The which I affirm, and will approve with sufficient reason, that the Petra Philosophale made of our invention may help against all the infirmities that cometh unto man's body, and two only reasons I will show thee with brevity, the first of them is this, that all sorts of infirmities have their Original and beginning of the stomach, and to know the truth, ye may see manifestly, that if the body be never so little infirmed, the stomach is also grieved: For ye may see how the Animals terrestrial never help themselves of other infirmity than of the stomach, and when they will help themselves, they eat herbs, the which causeth them to vomit, and this doth signify, that they have no other infirmity than the aforesaid, so by the experience of the Animals I approve that the infirmity is caused of the stomach, and this is the first reason. The second is, that all the Medicines, wherein our Petra Philosophale is put, as soon as they are come into the stomach, it draweth unto it all the evil humours of the stomach, and also of the whole body, and mixeth with them, and so nature sendeth them forth by vomit, or by siege, or both, and so the stomach shall be evacuated of that matter, and the body remain free from all impediments of infirmities, so that by this reason I affirm, that our Petra Philosophale may help against all sorts of infirmities, and to know the truth, I have proved it by experience in all manner of infirmities, and always have found it to do much good unto all men, and hurt none unto my knowledge, and the order to make this Petra Philosophale is thus.  
℞. Sal niter, Roch Alum, Vitriol Romain, of each two pound.  
First, dry the Vitriol in an earthen pan, and than beaten it to powder, and mix it with the other matters, and put thereunto four ounces of Sal gemma, than put it in a gourd with his head, and a Receiver well luted, and distil it in a wind Furnace, so that ye may make fire with wood, and at the first make small fire, and so increase it according to Art, and always lay wet clotheses an the head and Receiver, and that thou shalt do, because the spirits of the water shall not fly away. Ye shall understand, that in the beginning of your distillation, the Receiver will wax read like blood, and than turn white; and at the last, when ye give it strong fire, it will turn read again, and those are the pure spirits of the Aqua fortis, and than at the end, the Receiver will turn white again, and than it is ended, than let it wax cold, and than keep it in a Glass close shut to make our Petra Philosophale.  
Than take Mercury, lib. 1. Quick-lyme, ℥. vj. Soap, ℥. iiij. Common ashes, ℥. iij.  
Mix them together in a Mortar of stone, and than put them into a Retort, and distil it with a strong fire until all the Mercury be come forth into the Receiver, than take it forth, and keep it in a Glass, to make thy composition, the which is made thus.  
℞. The water that thou madest first, and put it into a gourd of Glass being well luted, and than put in thy Mercury that thou didst distil before. After that, take Steel in thin Plates, j ℥. Iron also in thin Plates, ℥. two. Fine Gold in leaves, the weight of two French Crowns, and put them altogether in the Glass, and presently set on the head, for it will begin to boil, and 'cause read fumes like blood, the which thou shalt receive in a Receiver, and presently set thy Glass in the Furnace, and give it fire until all the water be come forth with the fume. Than let it cool, and keep that water close in a Glass, than break the other Glass that stood in the fire, and in the bottom thou shalt found our Petra Philosophale, the which thou shalt grinned finely, and searce it into most fine powder, and than wash it well with Vinegar distilled, and dry it again, and at the last wash it with Rose-water, and dry it very well, stirring it continually over the fire, than keep it as a precious Jewel close in a Glass.  
For the order to use it, I will writ hereafter, in sundry places: Ye shall understand that the water which ye distilled away from the stone, will serve for the same purpose again: But ye must take but half the quantity of the aforesaid matters, and when ye have distilled it again from the stone, ye shall preserve it for an infinite number of purposes, as I will show thee hereafter.   

To make our Balm artificial, with the order to use it, and wherefore it serveth.  
THis Balsamum hath all the virtues of the natural Balm, although not in quality, yet in virtue, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Venice Turpentine, pound 1. Oil of Bays, that is perfect without mixture, ℥. iiij. Galbanum, ounces iij. Gum Arabia, ounc. iiij. Olibanum Myrrha elect, Gum Hederae, of each, ℥. iij. Lignum Aloes, Galingal, Cloves, Consolida minore, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Zedoaria, Ginger, Diptamnum album, of each, ounce 1. Musk of Levant, Ambergriece of each one Drachma. Beaten all those aforesaid things together, and put them into a Retort of Glass well luted, and put thereto vj. pound of Rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm, and so let it stand viiij. days, and than distil it by sand, and there will come forth a white water mixed with Oil, and so keep thy fire small, until there come forth a blackish Oil, than change thy Receiver, and set thereto another, and increase thy fire until all the spirits be come forth, than separate the Oil from the black water, and keep them by themselves and the like shall ye do by the first water. The first water that is white, is called Aqua del Balsamo, and the Oil separated from that is called Oleum del Balsamo. The second water that is black is called Mater Balsami, and the Oil separated from that water, is called Balsamo artificiato, which would be kept as a precious Jewel.  
The first Water is most excellent to clear and preserve the sight of the eyes, also if the face being washed therewith, it maketh it very fair, and preserveth it youthfully, it keepeth back age, it breaketh the gravel in the reins; and it provoketh Urine, the which is stopped thorough carnosity; it helpeth all manner of Wounds, in what place of the body soever they be, if ye wash them with the said water, and wet therein clouts, and lay thereon, for his operation is so strange, that it seemeth rather divine than human. It helpeth much against the Etisie, and against all sorts of of Catarrhs, and Cough. If ye wash a Sciatica therewith, and lay thereon a cloth wet in the same, it taketh away the pain presently.  
The other water called the Mother of Balm, helpeth scalls in short time if ye wash them therewith; so doth it help the white scall, Lepra, and all sorts of Ulcers that are not corrosive most miraculous to see, and without any trouble; it serveth also against a number of other infirmities, the which I will let pass at this time.  
The Oil of Balm, doth serve for an infinite number of things, and especially for Wounds in the head, where the bone and pannicle is hurt, putting it therein. It preserveth the face if ye anoint it therewith. It is most excellent against the Pleurisy, giving thereof j ʒ at a time with the water of Balm  
The Balm artificial is a most miraculous Liquor, if any have the stitch in the side, and take two drachms thereof, it presently will help him. It is also good against the Cough, and Cattare, coldness in the head and stomach, and for Wounds in the head. It is a most sovereign Remedy, if ye anoint all the head therewith once a day; because it pierceth into the brains, and also unto the stomach beneath. It resolveth all tumors in all parts of the body with speed. It resolveth a Quartain in short time, if ye anoint all the body therewith, leaving no part.  
And to be short, I know no disease neither hot nor yet cold, but that this Balsamum doth good unto, as well the hot diseases as the cold, because it cooleth the hot, and heateth the cold, and this it doth by his quality and hidden virtue, so that I have found in this precious Liquor such great virtues, that I am not able to declare them all; so that every one which is furnished with this precious Balm, may be kept from infirmities, and shall not need to seek the natural Balm with so much expenses and danger of the life, as hath been many times seen.   

To make our Aromatico, the which helpeth against all manner of infirmities, of what quality soever they be.  
ARomatico Leonardo, is so called, because it was compounded and made by his invention, and is a miraculous Medicine, that serveth against all manner of diseases of what quality soever they be, for it worketh this operation, that is, as soon as it joineth to the stomach, it draweth to it all the evil humours of the body, and embraceth them, and carrieth them forth of the body both by vomit and siege, and so leaveth nature unburthened, the which may prevail to his pleasure, because it hath no impediment, and by this reason I approve, that our Aromatico helpeth against all diseases, as is said before, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Fine white Sugar ℥. iv. pure Pearls, Musk, Saffron, Lignum Aloes, Cinnamon, ana. ℈. i. Petra Philosophaleʒ. iv. Mix them together, and make thereof Lozanges with Rose-water according to art, the which ye shall keep in a box of wood close shut, and the order to use it is thus, when the Physician doth go to visit any sick person, and that he will prepare him some Medicine to take inward, the best and most perfectest Medicine that he can ordain is our Aromatico, because it evacuateth the stomach by vomit, and the body downward, and his operation is such, that it doth in manner help any crude sort of infirmity, and the quantity is from one drachm to two drachms, and may be taken in broth, in wine, in water, or mix it with any pills, or potion, giving you charge, that when ye put it in any potion, that ye leave none in the bottom of the cup where ye drink it out, because the Petra Philosophale is heavy, and will remain in the bottom, for if that remain, it will not work at all, giving you also charge, that the said day that ye give this Medicine, that ye let the Patients drink as much crude water as they will, and give them little meat to eat that day, and this is the order to use this Medicine.   

To make our Electuario Angelico, and the order to use it, and in what diseases.  
ELectuario Angelico Romano, is so called, because it was compounded by me in the City of Rome, in the time of Pope Paulo quarto, and because this Composition worketh suddenly, I called it Angelico, and is most excellent against many diseases, it is good against all sorts of Fevers, giving it Perminorativo, and for the stitch in the side it is most rare, because it taketh away the viscosity in the stomach, and openeth the pores, and is good against the Gout, for if they take it every third day once, in ten days they shall be helped, it is also good against the Cough, Catarrh, and for the Milt, and for those that have the Pox, or the running Gout, and such like influences, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Saffron, Lignum Aloes, Cinnamon, read Coral, ana. ʒ. three Elleborus niger without preparation ℥. two. Electuario de succo rosarum Mesue that is not too much boiled ℥. vi. Sugar Rosate ℥. viij. Musk of Levantʒ. i. Petra Philosophale ℥. iii our Quintessence of Wine ℥. two. purified Honey as much as will suffice to make it in form of an Electuary, mix them on a small fire in an earthen pan, and when it is made, keep it in a vessel of glass, for any other vessel will not be so good: This Electuary ye may mix with any soluble Medicine, but ye must take it fasting, the quantity is from two drachms to four drachms. Ye shall understand, that this in a manner reviveth the dead by his great virtue, as hath been seen many thousand times in Venice, and in Rome, most worthy of memory, and therefore if any Physician desire to get fame in the world, let them use our Electuario Angellico, which worketh miracles on the earth.   

Of the vegetable stone of our invention, to transemute a body of one complexion into another, and to make him sound for ever.  
THe way to make the vegetable stone is rare, and his virtues are infinite, and without comparison, and the cures that are done therewith are so miraculous, that the world will no● believe them, although it be the mere truth, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Tartar of white Wine that is thick and shining, Turpentine that is clear and pure: The herb called Aloes, that hath leaves as long as an arm, and dented on both sides, and some call it Semper-vive, take of each of these one pound, and stamp them together, and put them into a Urinal with a Head and Receiver, and distil them in a Wine Furnace until all the substance be come forth, than take the Fesses out of the glass, and grinned them with the said water, and than distil them as thou didst before, and always at the last give it a strong fire that the fesses may remain well burnt, than take out the fesses again, and grinned them with the water as thou didst first, and distil it again, and this thou shalt do fifteen or twenty times, until all that water be consumed, and the fesses remain white like salt, than lay that fesses on a smooth stone in a moist place, and it will turn into water, the which keep in a glass close shut, and that is the water of the vegetable stone, which water is of so much virtue, that one scruple thereof being put into two ounces of Julip of Violets, and given to drink to any that is infirmed or evil complexionated, in less than four and twenty days he shall be helped of any grievous disease, and this must be taken in the morning fasting, when the stomach is empty, for than it worketh better his operation.  
This is also an excellent remedy against the worms, giving it in the aforesaid manner, it mundifieth the Liver, and drieth the humidity of the Milt, it dissolveth the Cough, and Catarrhs, it provoketh Urine where it is let, with divers other virtues, the which I will let pass until another time, for if I should writ them all, they would not be credited, and therefore we Physicians should not rest to practise in all things that seemeth to us convenient, and I promise' thee truly, that he which shall occupy this thing, shall work miracles on the earth, and win great fame and honour. Ye shall understand, that this is the stone that the Philosophers have long sought to fix their Medicine Mineral, so that making the projection they join the Medicine with metalling bodies, and not to go away in fume, because this stone resisteth all great fires without consuming, and fixeth Sulphur and Orpiment, so that they shall abide the fire, and maketh them white: If ye make projection therewith on Copper, or on Latin, it will turn it into the whiteness of pure silver, and that I have seen with my eyes, so that ye may see of what importance this vegetable stone is, the which worketh such goodly transmutations, as well in mettalling bodies as in human bodies, and therefore it is to be accounted of, because it may save the life of many that use it in their Medicines.   

Our soluble Syrup, with the order to use it.  
SOluble Syrups made in decoction are very wholesome, and of great faculty, and especially in the crudity of humours, and the reason is this: because it disperseth the matter, and evacuateth it with great ease, and without danger or trouble of the Patient, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Sage, Rosemary, Wormwood, Cicory, Carduus sanctus, Nettles, Organy, of each a handful, Figs, Raisins, Dates, sweet Almonds, Sal gem, ana ℥. iiii. Coloquintida, Aloes hepatica, Cinnamon, Mirabolani citrini, ana. ℥. two. common Honey two pound.  
Stamp them all grossly, and put them to infuse in eighteen pound of fair water, than boil it till half be consumed, than strain it, and distil it by a filter, and aromatise it with two carats of Musk and a pint of Rosewater, and than it is made, which ye shall keep in a bottle of glass close stopped, the quantity is from four ounces to six ounces.  
In Winter you shall take it very warm. And in the Spring and Autumn, ye shall take it but warm. In Summer ye shall take it cold, for this purgeth the gross humours of the body, and hurteth not the stomach, ye may use it in a Fever, four or five days together, and it will help it. In crudity of humours, as the French Pox, Gouts, Catarrhs, Doglie, Artetica, and such like matters, where there is no accident of Fever, ye may take it ten or fifteen days together, and cannot hurt by any means, for it purgeth most excellently: it is given against the Cough, against Flux of the Urine, and pains in the head, and Carnosity in the yard, or the Hemeroids: And in sum it is good against all diseases caused of corrupt humours; for it hath such virtue, that it draweth from all parts, and evacuateth the humours intestinal, for of this Syrup I have had great experience, in such persons as were in manner banished, and had lost their taste, and presently using this, they came to good temperature; and I have used it an infinite number of times, in persons that were ulcerated, and full of sores, evil handled of Fortune, and of the infirmity, and finding no means to cure them as they should be, I gave them this Syrup fourteen or fifteen days, and than they were cured, with a number of other things, the which would be too long to writ; and therefore I would wish every one to use this, not only in the aforesaid matters, but in all other diseases.   

Our Sirrupo Magistrale Leonardo, which serveth against an infinite number of diseases, and is a rare Medicine.  
THis Syrup is solutive, and very pleasant to use, and cannot hurt in any wise, which is seldom seen in other Medicines, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. The leaves of Sine, two ounces. Fumitory, Mayden-hair, Harts-tongue, Lyver-wort, Epitemum, Ellemo, Pollipodie of the Oak, the flowers of borage, of bugloss, Licorice, of each three ounces. Colloquintida, Elleborus niger, Aloes hepatica, Mirabolani Indi ana. ℥. j Proynes 14. Sebestien. 12. Tamarise. ℥. 1. Stamp them grossly, and infuse them in ten pounds of Fumitory water, than boil it until the consumption of the third part, and than strain it, and in that which is strained put these things: Syrup of Stacados, lb. i. Saffron, one scruple, Mel rosarum, six ounces: Rectified Aqua vitae, four ounces: Musk, ʒ. i. the Muslege of Marish Mallows, four ounces, Benjamin, one ounce, Rose-water, three ounces And than it is made, which ye shall keep in a Glass close stopped, and keep it in a temperate place, and this you must take warm, the quantity is from two ounces to four ounces, and it is a most safe Medicine to be used without keeping of any diet. It helpeth those much that have Pellaria, scabs, Hemeroids, and such like diseases, and may be given unto a woman with child, without any danger, when she shall have occasion to use any.   

Our Syrup against the Melancholy humour, and especially where there is ventosity in the stomach.  
IT were necessary for those that will make this Syrup, to be expert in the Art, for it would be made with great diligence, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Water of fumitory, of Hops, of Wormwood, of maidenhair, of each five pound. Than with this water thou shalt make a decoction with these things that follow.  
℞. Pollipodium of the Oak, one pound, Sine leaves, Epitimum, ana. four ounces Cordial flours, two handfuls. maidenhair, one handful, Licoris, Raisins, Cinnamon, of each two ounces: The four Cole seeds two ounces. Make thereof a Decoction according to Art, and strain it, than take four pound of that Decoction, and put thereto the juice of Borage, of bugloss, of Hops, of each two ounces; Common Honey, vi. ounces. Than with white Sugar, make a Syrup in good form, and aromatise it with Musk and Amber, putting thereto one ounce of Plyris without Musk, and than it is made. The quantity is from three ounces to four ounces in the morning warm, and fast thereon at the lest three or four hours, for this purgeth marvellously the melancholy humours, and all other gross humours, and dissolveth wind, and comforteth the heart, etc.   

Our Potion of Lignum Sanctum, which is miraculous to dissolve crude, and malign humours, with the order to use it in the French Pox, and such like diseases.  
BEcause the Pox is a disease contagious, putrefied, and corrupt, and worketh many evil effects, as I have written in my Caprici medicinale; therefore it were necessary to prepare most excellent and rare Remedies to dissolve the same, which Medicines are infinite.  
But in this Chapter I will writ one, that purgeth the crude and viscous humours downwards, and doth assubtiliate the gross humours, and drieth all sorts of subtle humours that offend Nature, and sendeth them forth by sweat, it drieth the melancholy humour, and dissolveth choler, and is most wholesome for those that are troubled with that disease, because it drieth much and dissolveth the disease, with many other good effects, as by experience thou mayest see, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. The bark of Lignum sanctum grossly beaten lb. 1. and lay it to steep in lb. xiiii. of fair water 24. hours, than boil it until four pounds be consumed, than put thereto Pollipodie of the Oak, two ounces, Cicory one handful, Aloe Epatikeʒ. iiii. and let them boil for an hour: Than put thereunto the leaves of Syve, Epitemum, ana, ℥. j Coloquintida, ʒ. vj. Sugar, seven ounces, than let it boil till half be boiled away; and that there remain lb. seven. than strain it, and put it in a Glass with 12. grains of Musk; and keep it very close stopped; and this is the Syrup which ye shall take twice a day, that is morning and evening; than make this drink following, which shall be the common drink at all times to your meat.  
℞. One pound of Lignum sanctum, Raspead, and steep it in ten pounds of white Wine that is ripe; and let it boil an hour, than put thereto lb. xv. of fair water, and let it boil a little more; and than strain it, and keep it in a glass bottle, for this is to be used all the day time; and the order to use these is thus. First, when any feeleth himself grieved with the Pox or any such like disease, he must keep his bed at the lest twenty days, and use to take of the first Syrup or Potion every morning a good draught, being as warm as he may suffer it, than cover him well with clotheses that he may sweated as much as he can; than take of the clotheses by little and little, and dry him with warm clotheses, and so let him repose for two hours, and than let him eat, and his meat must be dry, as Biscuit, roast-meat, Raisins of the Sun, Almonds, and sometime a raw egg, and his drink at meals, and all the day beside shall be the last made with Wine and Water, than at night give him of the first Syrup as ye did in the morning, and 'cause him to sweated; and than dry him; and this order thou shalt use twenty days together not coming forth of thy Chamber, and by the grace of God thou shalt be helped of any such grievous infirmity; as I have seen the experience thereof an infinite of times, to my great honour; for it may be occupied in all complexions with safety, as by the ingredients thou mayst see.   

A most marvellous water and rare, to 'cause a man to avoid the gravel in Urine, and to mundify the Reins.  
THe gravel in the Reins of the back is caused, and engendered of great heat, and dryness in those parts, as thou mayst plainly see by those which are troubled therewith; for their Reins are so hot that they cannot abide any heavy garment to lie thereon, and they always make their water with great pain and burning: therefore if thou wilt help that infirmity, it were necessary to refrigerate the Reins, and moisten it with good juice, and take away that burning of the Urine; and so in that order the Patient shall be helped; and this thou mayst do in short time, and with great ease with this Remedy.  
℞ The seed of small Lemons, the seed of Oranges, and one pound, Saxifrage, six pound, Balm, Scolopendria, Pellitory of the wall, Sparagus, Crisoni, Isop, Fenel-roots, Parsley roots, ana. ℥. vi. stamp them altogether, and make them in form of a liquid Unguent with the juice of Lemons, than distil it in a common tin Stillitory being luted, until the matter remain dry, than keep the water in a Glass close stopped, and when ye will occupy this water, ye must first purge the body of the crude and viscous humours, and likewise evacuate the stomach of choler and phlegm; that being done thou shalt take every morning and evening ℥. vj. warm, and it would be necessary for those that take it, to use a diet, and to refrain moist and cold meats, and use only dry things, and so this water shall help those aforesaid griefs; as I have proved divers times.   

To make the water of Lignum Sanctum, most wholesome against the Pox with a new order.  
COmmonly they use to take the water of Lignum Sanctum, against the Pox; the which surely is most wholesome, but it must be taken in good order and form, and must be made with great discretion, and not as they use it now adays; for they give it some three or four times, and never the better, although the would be sufficient enough to help them; and therefore I would wish every one that will use this water to take it in such order as it aught to be, the which I will show thee hereafter.  
℞. Lignum sanctum, Rasped small one pound, the bark being beaten ℥. iii infuse them in twelve pound of fair water one night, and the next morning put therein one pound of Honey, the which is put in, because it is aperative and warm, and helpeth to provoke sweat, and causeth it to have a good taste, than boil it till half be consumed, than put thereto Carduus sanctus ℥. iiii. strong Wine three pound, than boil it until a third part be consumed, and than it is made, than strain it, and take forth the Carduus sanctus, and put therein twenty pound of fair water, and one pound of Honey, and let it boil until four pounds be consumed, and strain it, and keep it in a glass bottle, for this is the common drink to drink all the day long, and the order to take it is thus: First before ye will take this water, it were necessary to take our Sirrupo Solutivo seven or eight days, after that take of our Electuario Angelica ℥. ss. that being done, in the name of God take this potion of Lignum sanctum in this order, take in the morning at the appearing of the day ℥. viij. very warm as ye may suffer, and presently lay clotheses on him, and 'cause him to sweated two hours, and than dry him with warm clotheses, and so let him remain two hours, and than give him to eat, and his meat shall be wisket, Raisins, Almonds, and sometimes a little roast meat, and no other: than in the evening, about the two and twentieth hour ye shall give him the said Syrup as ye did in the morning, neither more nor less, and 'cause him to sweated, and about the four and twentieth hour give him only Biscuit and Raisins, and the other common drink that was made last, giving you warning, that ye make this drink fresh every third day, because it shall not hurt the stomach, and every week once, ye 〈◊〉 take a pill of Marte millitare, and that day thou shalt eat birds flesh, because of weakening, also ye shall take very great bee● to one thing, and that is this, if it hap, that at the beginning of this cure there cometh a Fever, or other accident unto the Patient, that in any wise ye leave not the cure, but follow the order, for that is a certain sign of health, for many times I have given this water, and unto some in the fourth or fifth day the Fever came, and tarried many times ten or twelve days, and than the Fever went away with the corrupt disease, and all for company, and so in short time they were cured, so that, as I have said before, when that sign appeareth, and is delivered, it is a certrin sign of health: Also I will advice thee of another thing, and that is this, if the Patient cannot sweated, ye shall anoint him all over with the Oil of Quinces, the which will 'cause him to sweated apace: For without sweated the cure will not be perfect, and this order thou shalt keep at the lest forty days together within thy Chamber, so that there come no air in, for it will hinder the cure.   

Our distillation for the Etesia, which is of marvellous virtue, and without comparison, with the order to use it.  
HAving written sufficiently of the quality of the Fever Hectic and his cure, in my Caprici Medicinal, 〈◊〉 I will writ of nothing but the order to make this precio us Liquor, with the order to use it, as well for that disease as for other such like, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. A young Hen that hath not yet laid Eggs, and pull her quick, and than take forth her guts only, and stamp her in a stone Morter, and put thereto as much crumb of white bread as the flesh doth weigh, and stamp them together, and put thereto a handful of fresh Scabious, and as many leaves of Gold as weigheth a French Crown, than put thereto as much water of Mortella as all the aforesaid matter doth weigh, and so leave it one night, and than distil it in a Urinal of glass, with three pound of strong Wine in Balneo Mariae, until the fesses remain dry, and than it is ended.  
Than for every pound of this distillation, put thereunto ℥. i. of the water of Honey made according to our order, and keep it in a glass unstopped, that the strong savour may go away, and the order to use it in the Fever Hectic I have written in his Chapter, this serveth also for those inward causes which are most troublesome, and for those that have a burning Fever. Also for women that have a Fever in their childbirth.   

Our vegetable Syrup, which is miraculous and divine.  
THis Syrup is one of my seven secrets, with which I have done many miracles many times, in divers operations on many infirmities, and have been so chary of it, that I meant never to set it forth in my life time, but yet I considering what great benefit it might be unto the world, I thought good to set it forth, that every one might be served according to his pleasure: and the like I will do of many other secrets of great importance, which shall be dispersed among my books, and the order to make this Syrup is thus.  
℞. Lignum Aloes, Riopontico, Eupatorio, read Saunders, of each ℥. two. Beaten them, and make thereof a decoction in good form, and with lb. iv. of this decoction make a Syrup, and put thereto these things following while it is hot, Saffron ℈. i. Ginger ʒ. i. Musk two Carats, the solution of our Petra Vegetable ℥. three Cloves, Nutmegs, of each ℈. i and a half, than keep it in a glass close shut, and this is our vegetable Syrup which worketh miracles in divers infirmities, for by his nature it purifieth the Blood, mundifieth the Liver, comforteth the Heart, preserveth the Stomach, provoketh Urine, dissolveth gravel in the Reins, it helpeth the Cough, and helpeth digestion, and quieteth all the humours in the sick person, with divers other virtues, which I will leave till another time. This may be taken with broth, with distilled waters, or with any Decoction, or Medicine fasting, the quantity is from one drachm to two drachms, and happy shall they be which shall use it.   

An Electuary that helpeth the Cough with great speed, and ease.  
THe Cough is caused of a catarrous humour, and coldness of the stomach, and therefore if ye will help it, it were necessary to have a remedy that doth ripen the Catarrh, and mollify the stomach, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Enula campana, ℥. iiij, Marsh Mallows. ℥ xij. Quinces ℥. xuj. But if ye cannot get Quinces, ye may take Marmalade ready made, and boil it in fair water with the said roots, until they be dry, than stamp them in a Mortar, and strain them thorough a strainer, than take for every pound of that matter two pound of white Honey, and boil them together, but boil them not too much, than take it from the fire, and put thereunto for every pound of the aforesaid matter, one scruple of Saffron, and one Drachm of Cinnamon, and two ounces of Sulphur, and one scruple of Licoris, and than incorporate them well together, and aromatise it with Musk and Rose-water, and this ye shall use morning and evening; for this is of so great virtue, that it is to be wondered at, because the Mallows do mollify, the Enula campana doth warm and causeth digestion, and comforteth the stomach; the Quinces are cordial and warm; the Sulphur is a great dryer, the which destroyeth the evil humours of the body; the Saffron comforteth the heart; the Cinnamon is stomachall, the Licorice is mollificative, and digesteth the matter; so that of force this Electuary must help any kind of Cough, except it come of the Pox; for than it will do small pleasure; as I have proved.   

Electuario benedicto Leonardi, the which purgeth the body without any grief, and is miraculous in his operation.  
THis Electuario benedicto, is a compound of our invention many years ago; and is so called, because of his marvellous operation, and the order to make it, is thus.  
℞. Of a certain kind of fruit called of some, Spina merula, of other Spini cervini, with his berry they make a kind of sap green, take of these berries when they be ripe, and stamp them, and take thereof the juice, and strain it by a filter, and for every pound of the aforesaid Juice ye shall put therein these things; Cinnamon, Safron, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, ana. 1. Drachm Sena, Aloes, ana 3. Drachm mix them well together, and set it in the sun till it be dried like a paste, and than make it liquid again with these following.  
℞. Rose-water, our Quintessence, ana ℥. two. for a pound. Musk 2. carretes for a pound, Myrrha 1 Drachm for a pound. Incorporate all the aforesaid things together, and set it in the sun until it be thorough dry, and may be made in powder, of the which ye shall take what quantity ye will, and mix it with as much Honey purified, and that is our Electuario benedicto, the which purgeth the body without pain, and preserveth the stomach, purgeth the head, and helpeth putrified Fevers, with divers other things the which I will not writ at this time. Ye may keep this mixture 6. months after it is mixed with Honey: the dose is from half an ounce to a whole ounce. Ye may take them in Pills in broth, in an Electuary, or in Wine, or how ye will, and always they shall make his effect well.   

An Electuary against the evil disposition of the Liver and Stomach.  
THe Liver is troubled with divers and sundry causes: but for the most part it is of heat: For the heat showeth some outward sign, as is seen by experience; for their Face and Nose are read; they have heat in their Legs, chaps in the palms of their hands and feet. It engendereth Fluxes in the body, burning of Urine, running of the Reinss, and such like effects. And the order to cure them is thus.  
℞. Citraca, Scolopendria, Epataca, Eupaterio, ana ℥. iij. beaten them in fine powder, Lignum aloes three Drachms, Saffron ij. scruples, Cinnamon, two Drachms, white crude Honey one pound and a half, mix them and incorporate them together without fire, than take thereof morning and evening ℥. j at a time; but before ye begin to take this Electuary, ye shall take a quantity of our Electuario Angelica, and than in short time they shall be helped, as thou mayst well see by the ingredients that goeth into this composition.   

Our magistral Electuary of Sulphur, the which serveth against divers sorts of infirmities.  
AS the fire hath virtue to heat and dry material things, so hath the Sulphur virtue to warm, and to dry the humidity and coldness of our bodies; for I have occupied it divers and sundry times, and always have seen divers and sundry good effects; but for the better commodity, and more ease to use it, I have compounded this Electuary, the which thou mayst use with ease and benefit unto a number, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Very fine Sulphur that is without earth, and make it in fine powder, one pound, Cinnamon half an ounce. Saffron one scruple, Ginger ij. Drachms, Musk dissolved in Rose-water, ij. Carrots, white honey crude as much as will suffice to make it in an Eelectuary without fire, than keep it in a dry place: and this ye shall use in the morning fasting, and his quantity is from four Drachms to seven. This drieth up scabs, provoketh Urine, breaketh the stone in the reinss, it helpeth the Cough, drieth up the watering of the eyes, causeth a good appetite, with divers other things, the which I will leave to the experimentors.   

Our Electuario of Consolida majore, that serveth for many diseases inwardly.  
THis Consolida majore is an herb so called, because of his effect that it doth in healing of Wounds, and other places of the flesh separated; for if ye eat thereof, it will help the Rupture, and all sorts of Wounds penetrating, and Ulcers of the Lungs, it drieth the Milt, and such like effects; but because thou mayest use it more commodious, I have compounded an Electuary, the which is excellent and rare, and is made thus.  
℞. The root of Consolida majore, one pound, and boil it in water until it be consumed, than stamp them in a Mortar, and pass them thorough a strainer, than put thereto as much white Honey as the matter weigheth and boil them on a small fire until it be come to the form of an Electuary, and when it is boiled, put thereto these things.  
℞. The shells of Pomegranates in fine powder, ℥. j Lignum Aloes vj. Drachms, Mirra, mastic, Sarcocolla, Sanguis drachonis, in grain, ana ij. Drachms. Cinnamon, j Drachm, Musk of Levant dissolved in Rose-water, one Carrot, than incorporate them well whiles it be warm: Ye shall note that the body must first be well purged ere ye take this Electuary, and ye must also keep a diet that the Medicine may work the better; for this helpeth all the aforesaid diseases inwardly, as is said before: ye may use it implaister wise upon Wounds, and on broken bones, and use it inwardly, and so the Patient shall remain helped. With this I have seen men of great age helped, that were burst below, and wounded from one part to the other; and also broken bones and bruises, the which if I should writ them, it would not be credited.   

Our Imperial Electuary for the Mother.  
THis Electuary for the Mother, is by Nature temperate hot, and by his heat provoketh Menstrua, and comforteth the Matrix, and all other weak parts, of what causes soever they be; and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Cinnamon, elect, ℥. j Nutmegs, Maces, Cloves, Ginger, ana one Drachm, Cassiae lignae, six Drachms. Marmalade ℥. xij. Lignum aloes iiij. Drachms, read  ij. Drachms, Aqua vitae well rectified ℥. iij. fine Musk two Carrots, purified Honey lb. ij. than make thereof an Electuary according to art, which is most excellent against the indisposition of the Mother: But first ere ye begin to take this Medicine, it were necessary to take a quantity of our Pillole Aquilone, and than to take this Electuary in the morning fasting thereon four or five hours, the quantity is from half to one ounce; also that time that ye eat this Electuary, ye shall eat no evil meats, as Hog's flesh, fried meats, or baked meats, or such like as might hinder the operation of the Electuary: This Electuary ye shall use at the lest forty days together; and so thou shalt see marvellous effects thereof, as I have done a thousand times in Cicilia, in Naples, and in Rome; and also in Venice, and always it fell out in one order, and yet the Regions are much different one from another, and the inhabitants are contrary of complexion; nevertheless this Medicine wrought always one effect in operation, as well in one place, as in another; and therefore I approve it to be a most blessed Medicine, and of great experience.   

Pills against poison, the which are of marvellous virtue.  
THese Pills are of such experience against poison, as is not to be believed, and the order to make them is thus.  
℞. Imperatrice, Bistorta, Tormentilla, Valeriana, Dittamobianco, Carlina, Ariostogia rotunda, Gencyana, Agarico electo, Sal gemma of each alike quantity, beaten them in fine powder, than take the juice of Carlike, and of Onions as much as will make it into a paste; also put into the juice ʒ. i. of Saffron, than let the said paste being mixed dry in the shadow, and than beaten it into powder again, and mix it with the aforesaid juice in good form, and keep it in a vessel of Lead until thou hast need, and when thou wilt occupy it, take thereof ʒ. iiij. and make thereof Pills with Syrup Acetoso in good form; which thou shalt give unto him that is poisoned; and in short time thou shalt see Miracles of that Medicine: for all the aforesaid simples in manner alone are sufficient to deliver one that were poisoned, but being mixed together it worketh greater effect.   

Vnguento magno Leonardo.  
THis Vnguento magno is so called by reason of his great virtue and operation; for it worketh so strange in some diseases, that it in a manner reviveth the Patient, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Otnegra oviu, ℥. vj. Oximel squilliticum half an ounce, mix them together in an earthen dish until the Otnegra oviu. be become like ashes, than it is deifitrom, than put thereon ℥. ij. of vinegar, and wash it well, until it remain pure and clear, than take Olibanum half an ounce, Cerusae, ℥. 1.  
Beaten them fine, and mix it in a stone Morter with as much Magno liquore, as will serve to incorporate them well, than put thereto the Otnegra oviu. and mix them very well together; that being done, put thereto Auxungia porcina, ℥ viij. And mix them all together, and than it is made, which keep in a vessel well glazed; for it will keep a long time without corruption, and is apt to help those that are lame, full of pains, sores and swell, pains of the eyes, the stone in the reinss, and such like matters, It helpeth all manner of French Pox, if ye anoint them therewith until their Gums be sore, and than leave. But ye shall note that the body must first be well purged before ye anoint them. This Unguent cooleth all corrosive Ulcers, and helpeth them in short time, it helpeth all pains in the eyes, if ye put it therein, and taketh away all burning with speed; and to be short, it helpeth those diseases in most short time, so that it is to be wondered at.   

Oil of Hypericon, which is most miraculous for Wounds and Bruises.  
THis Oil of Hypericon compounded by us, is of great virtue in divers and sundry accidents, and especially in Wounds, for it helpeth them without any pain, although the Veins, Sinews, or Bones were hurt, or cut and that in very short time, it preserveth the Wound from corruption, and taketh away the pain, and incarnateth, and siccatrizeth, as by experience thou mayest plainly see. It dissolveth Contusions, and is most marvellous against poison.  
It helpeth against any crude sort of venomous Fever, if ye anoint all the body therewith leaving no part, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. The flowers, leaves, and seed of Saint Johns Wort, as many as ye will, and stamp them together, and put them in a glass, with as much strong white Wine as will cover it well, than set it in the sun ten days together, than put thereto as much pure Salad Oil as the Herbs and the Wine doth weigh, than let it stand in the sun other ten days, giving you warning, that ye weigh your Oil before ye mix them, that being done, put thereunto for every pound of Oil ℥. two. of Turpentine, and ʒ. i. of Saffron, of Nutmegs, Cloves, Myrrha elect, of each ℥. ss. Frankincense ℥. i. Viticella ℥. two. for every pound.  
Stamp them altogether, and put them into a great glass, and set it to boil in Balneo Mariae, with a Head and Receiver close shut, and to know when it is boiled enough is, that there will ascend not more vapours into the Head, and that will be within four and twenty hours or thereabout; than take forth the glass being yet hot, and strain it, and keep it in a glass close shut as a precious Jewel; ye shall note, that this Oil must always be occupied very warm, and in any wise tent no Wound, but wet clotheses therein and lay it thereon, and thy cure shall prospero well, for this I have proved a thousand times in divers places.   

To make our Oleum benedictum, which healeth Wounds divinely.  
THis Oleum benedictum serveth chief for Wounds in all parts of the body, and especially for Wounds in the head, if there were fracture of bone, and offences of the Pannicle, and in other places where Sinews are hurt, or Muskles, or Veins, or in any other noble place of the body, with this Oleum benedictum, and with our vegetable Quintessence thou mayest help them easily, and in short time, without any danger or detriment of the wounded person, as is said before, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. The whites of Eggs being hard sod in water ℥. xii. clear Turpentine ℥. xiv. pure Myrrh ℥. iii Mix them, and put it into a Retort of glass, and give it gentle fire at the first, and than increase it according to Art, until all the substance be come forth of the Retort, which will be both Water and Oil, which separate, and keep the Oil by itself in a glass as a precious Jewel, for this worketh miracles in Wounds of what sort soever they be, moreover it causeth hair to grow on the head or beard which is fallen away, and that it doth in short time, by only anointing the place therewith, also if any have a stitch in his side, and retention of Urine: let him take a Glister, wherein he shall put a little of this Oil and he shall be helped, and this effect it doth, because it drieth mightily that alteration made in the secret parts of the Reins inwardly, where no local medicine can be applied.   

A Magistral Water, which preserveth the sight a long time, and mundifieth the eyes of all spots.  
IF thou wilt make a water that shall have virtue to preserve the sight long, and to mundify the eyes from all spots, that are therein, it were necessary, that therein were simples that are preservative and mundificative, as I will show thee hereafter.  
℞. The best and strongest white Wine that thou canst found lb. xii. new Bread well risen lb. iv. Celandine, Fennell, Cipolla squilla, ana. ℥. iv. Cloves ℥. ss.  
Stamp them, and than distil them altogether in a gourd, in Balneo Mariae until ye have received five pound, which keep by itself, for that is most excellent against pain in the eyes.  
Also if any drink every morning for a month the quantity of one ounce, it will help him of any grievous infirmity. Also I never applied this Water to any thing, but always it did great pleasure.   

To make Oil of Vitriol compound, which preserveth nature in his strength.  
THe order to make this Composition is thus.  
℞. Fine Sugar lb. iv. Riopontico lb. i Rhabarbaro ℥. i. the flowers of Mercury lb. i  
Stamp them altogether, and make thereof a paste, that being done, take pure rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm lb. iv. And put them altogether in a Retort of glass close stopped, than set it in warm horse dung six days, than take it forth and distil it in Balneo Mariae, until there will come forth no more substance, than take forth the fesses in the Retort, and put it in a canvas, and press it forth very hard: Than take bugloss water, Fumitory water, Scabious water, of each ℥. vi. and with the said waters wash well the fesses, and press it forth again as hard as ye can; than cast them away, and distil that water by a filter until it be clear, than mix it with the first that was distilled by Balneo, than take the best Oil of Vitriol that ye can get, and for every pound of the said matter, put thereunto ℈. ss. of the said Oil of Vitriol, and keep it in a glass close shut. This Composition I have caused to be used in the summer time, and yet continually do use it, whereof I have seen great experience; it procureth a good appetite unto those that have lost or spoiled it, it helpeth the Milt, it dissolveth the pains of the head and teeth, with many other virtues, which I will not writ at this time, it preserveth old men in their strength and lustiness, so that it hath been a thing to be wondered at, and the order to take it is thus. Ye shall take ℥. ss. in the morning fasting as it is, and fast thereon four hours at the lest, and that day eat but little meat, but let it be of good nourishment, and whosoever followeth this order long, shall live in perfect health of body, as I have seen divers and sundry times.   

Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina, & Cera.  
THis Oil of Turpentine and Wax is a most precious Balm, and his virtues are infinite, because it is made of Simples in manner uncorruprible, and is most miraculous for those that are corrupted or stricken with the Pestilence, because it is most penetrative, and of nature drying, and comforteth all weak parts in man's body, of what infirmity soever they be, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. New yellow Wax ℥. xii. clear Turpentine ℥. xviii. Benjamime ℥. two. fine rectified Aqua vitae ℥. xxx. common Ashes ℥. vi. Mix them, and put them into a Retort of glass well luted, and than distil it in a wind Furnace, until all the substance be come forth, and in the Receiver thou shalt found three things, the first is the Water, the second Oil, the third phlegm, which thou shalt separate one from another, and keep them close stopped in a glass, which is most excellent in time of the Pestilence, as well for unction as for to help the sores, for if ye put it in a sore, or botch, that is broke, presently it taketh away the pain, and being mixed with other of our Medicines, as I have showed in my Regiment of the Pestilence, it helpeth them with great speed. If any anoint all his body with this Oil twice a month, it will preserve him youthful, and in health a long time, it preserveth also dead flesh or fish that is put therein from corruption, also if any be wounded in any part of the body, let him anoint it with this Oil four or five times and it shall be whole: Also if any cannot make water, give him ʒ. two. of this Oil to drink, and presently he shall make water, it is also good against the stitch in the side, and Pleurisy, and Worms, and the Cough, and Catarrh, and against the pestilent Fever, and such like indisposition, if ye drink a little thereof, it hath a number of other virtues, which I will leave unto the Experimentours.   

Our Magno liquore which is of great virtue.  
THis is of my invention, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Sweet salad Oil xx. lb. white wine lb. ij. boil them together until the wine be consumed, than put it in a vessel of stone, and put thereunto these things following.  
℞. The flours of Rosemary, lb. iii Lignum alces, ℥. vj. Olibanum, Bdellium, ana. ℥. x. than stop it very close, and bury it in the ground four foot deep, and this would be buried in the beginning of August, and there remain until the month of March, than take it forth of the ground, and set it in the sun, and put thereto these matters following. Sage, Rosemary, Rew, Betony, Millifolly, Comfery roots, Tamaro, Viticella, ana, one handful, galangal, Cloves, Nutmegs, Spikenard, Saffron, ℥. j Sarcocolla, Sanguis Draconis in grain, mastic, ℥. j aloes epatike, Rasa di pino, ana, ℥. viij. yellow Wax, Auxungia, ana. ℥. xviij. Colophonie., lb. j Hypericon with the seed and all, lb. ij. Musk, ʒ. j Mix these all well together, and boil them in Balneo until the herbs become dry, and have no more substance, than it is boiled, than take it forth and strain it; and put thereunto for every pound ʒ. vj. of our Balm artificial; and when the month of September cometh, put thereunto lb. ij. of the fruit of the herb called Balsamina, which is read, and than it is ended, which thou shalt keep in a Glass close shut; for the older it is, the better it is; and is of such virtue, that it helpeth the Etisie, and Hidropsie, if ye give them every morning iiij. Drachms, with ℥. j of Syrup of Roses warm the space of xl. days, as I have proved: And this is the true and perfect Unction that helpeth the Petocchie, a disease so called in the Italian: If any were wounded, and had cut veins, sinews, and bones, let him join the parts close together, and dress it with this Oil very hot upon the upper parts; and in short time it shall be whole, without any alteration; it helpeth also the white scall if ye anoint it therewith: It helpeth coldness in the head and Catarrhs, if ye anoint it within the nostrils at night when ye go to bed; if ye anoint the stomach therewith, it causeth perfect digestion of the meat, it provoketh Urine where it is let thorough carnosity or Gonorrea, or such like matter; it causeth hair to grow, it preserveth the beard black, and is good against worms; and all these experiments are true, and proved of me divers and sundry times in the aforesaid infirmities, and also in divers other which I leave until another time: Ye shall note, that if ye anoint any all over that is grieved with the Pox with this Oil, it will increase his pain; and so by that means ye may know whether he be infected or no.   

Pillole Angelica, which evacuate the body without any Impediment, and are most profitable.  
IT is most necessary that all kind of Pills should be well prepared, and artificially handled; because they shall make no alteration in the stomach of those that take them; and therefore I will writ a kind of Pills of our invention, and are called Pillole Angelica Leonardo, which may be used in any kind of infirmity, and may be given to a woman with child without danger, for they dissolve the body without trouble, they purge choler and phlegm, and purge partibus along, and are good against all pains, they dry up Ulcers in all parts of the body, dissolve the Catarrous humour, and in a manner all Fevers, and the order to make them is thus, ℞. Coloquintida, ℥. iiij. and put it in j pound of pure rectified Aqua vitae without phlegm, and there let it remain three days, than strain it hard into a clean vessel, and put therein Aloes epatike, Myrrha, Eleborus niger, ana, ℥. i. Beaten them in fine powder, and mix them like a paste, than set it in the sun until it be almost dried: Than put thereto Saffron, Cinnamon, yellow Sulphur, ana, ʒ. iiii. and mix them well together, and let them dry altogether, than make it into a paste with white crude Honey, and keep it in a vessel of Lead, for that is best, the quantity is from one Drachm to two Drachms, for these are Pillole preparate, that may be taken without keeping of diet, and they do purge all humours hanging in the body, and preserveth the body from putrefaction, as I have seen the experience thereof divers times.   

Pillole Aquilone of our Invention.  
THose Pills are above all other in operation, as the Eagle is above all other birds; and therefore I thought good to call them Pillole Aquilone, and the order to make them is thus.  
℞. Conserve of Damask Roses made with Honey three ounces, Lignum aloesʒ. i. Oil of Vitriol twelve grains, Cinnamon elect. ℈. two. Petra Philosophale of our invention half an ounce, Sugar-candy, two ounces.  
Mix them and make thereof a paste with Sirrupo acetoso, and keep them in a Glass. The virtue of these Pills I will not writ at this time, but only I say they help against all sorts of infirmities, and hurteth none in any wise; the quantity is from ʒ. i. to ʒ. two. in the morning fasting, but ye may not gild them in any wise, but drink after them a cup of water or wine, to carry them down, than sleep thereon, and that day eat little meat, and light of digestion.   

Our Quintessentia solutiva, which is of marvellous operation in divers matters.  
THis Quintessentia solutiva evacuateth the body with great ease and without any detriment, and it purgeth all parts of the body that are troubled with gross and viscous humours, it resolveth swell, and taketh away the pains; it preserveth the sight, and killeth worms, and causeth a good appetite, with many other good qualities, which I will leave at this time and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Lignum Aloes, Cinnamon, Turbit, Aloes hepatica, ana, one ounce, Colloquintida, two ounces, Cloves, Saffron of each ℈. three Musk of Levant ʒ. i. Julip of Violets, lb. i  
Mix all the aforesaid matters together in a Glass, and put thereon two pound of our Quintessence, and so let it stand twelve days, and than strain it, and put it into a vessel of Glass close shut; this may be taken with broth, wine, or with what Syrup or Potion ye will; the quantity is from ʒ. two. to ʒ. iiii. in the morning fasting without keeping of any diet at ll, and it shall work well without trouble at all.   

Our Syrup of Quintessence, which is of marvellous virtue.  
THis Syrup is of marvellous virtue, as is seen daily by experience, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Of that pure rectified Aqua vitae, whereof we make our Quintessence ℥. xii. Oil of Sulphur, Oil of Vitriol, of each ʒ. i. Oil of Tartar perfect ℥. two. Julip of Roses lb. iv. Musk two carrots, Saffron ℈. i. Cinnamon ʒ. i. Mix them together, and keep them in a glass, for his virtues are innumerable, and in manner reviveth those that are half dead. It helpeth the Fever in short time if ye use it. This Syrup may be mixed with any kind of potion that is given to the sick, and may be given alone in broth, wine, or water, or in what sort ye will, the quantity is from ʒ. two. to ʒ. iv. and herewith I have done miracles, as thou mayest read, in my Thesauro della vita humana.   

Pillole Magistrale, which is good against divers infirmities.  
THese Pills are of great virtue, and especially against all kind of pains coming of corrupt humours; for they purge the putrefied humours, and preserve the body from corruption, and the order to make them is thus.  
℞. Olibanum, Mastic, Myrrha, Sarcocolla, Aloes hepatica, Elleborus niger, Saffron, Turbit, Colloquintida, ana, q v.  
Stamp them finely; and for every ounce of the aforesaid matters, put thereunto two Carrots of Musk, and than incorporate it with Honey of Roses, and Aqua vitae of each alike; and this Paste thou mayest keep for six months in a vessel of Lead; the quantity is from two Dramches to three Drachms in the morning fasting, and drink thereon a little Wine. These Pills are most excellent to take away the pains of the Gout, and to preserve a man from it; they are also good for those that have the French Pox, because they evacuate the gross and viscous humours, and maintain the body in good temperature, and using them in those diseases, it preserveth the body in good temperature. They are also good for women that are troubled with pains of the Mother, and retention of their Terms, for these are aperative and provoke them, and purgeth the Matrix of all impediments contained therein, they serve against the Megrim, and all pains of the head, and also against all kind of putrified Fevers, as I have seen the experience thereof sundry times.   

A compound Aqua vitae, which serveth against all cold diseases of the stomach.  
THis Aqua vitae, aromatised with simples of Levant, is of most excellent virtue, as by the ingredient thou mayest perceive, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Nutmegs, Cloves, Gallingall, Cardamomum, Cubebes, Mace, Cinnamon, Ginger, Saffron, Olibanum, ana. ℥. i. Beaten them finely, and put them in a gourd of glass, and put therein lb. vi. of pure rectified Aqua vitae, and so let it stand six days, than distil it by sand, and there will come forth a read water, which is most precious against all infirmities caused of cold, it mundifieth all sorts of Sores, and helpeth all Wounds without pain. It causeth a good memory, it helpeth the Cough, and maketh the heart merry, with divers other virtues, which I leave to the Experimentour.   

A compound Oil against Poison, which is of a marvellous virtue  
IF thou wilt help those that are poisoned, it were necessary to have remedies of such virtue that are apt to the solution of the poison, for the poison worketh those three effects, as is said berore, in the Chapter of the effects of poison, wherein it is written, how that it is necessary to keep the blood liquid, so that it congeal not in the veins, and likewise to let or stay that water which cometh to the stomach, and to let that alteration, or inflammation as we may term it. And all these operations are necessary to be done with most excellent remedies, in which there entereth part of poison, for the Proverb saith, that one poison killeth another, and that I will approve in this Chapter, and the order to make this Composition is thus.  
℞. The oldest Oil that thou canst found lb. i Aloes hepatica, Rhabarbaro, Spico nardo, Myrrha, Tormentilla, Dictamnum album, Gentiana, Bistorta, Consolida majore, Rubia di titory, ana. half an ounce, Theriaca Methridata, ana, ʒ. iii quick Scorpions to the number of sixty. First put the quick Scorpions into the oil, and let them boil in Balneo Mariae four hours than put thereunto the other matters, and let them boil altogether other four hours, than strain it, and keep it in a vessel of glass close shut, for truly this is a divine Oil for that accident, in which ye see entereth Scorpions which are venomous, and yet his poison is wholesome for those that are poisoned.  
The like ye may see by those that are burnt with fire, for the best Medicine that they can found, is to burn that place again: Also ye may see, that when great quantity of blood cometh forth of a Wound, the Chirurgeon presently letteth him blood in another place to turn the same. Seeing than that these are true, it is also true, that one poison doth kill another poison. And by this reason I approve, that if ye extinguish the poison, it were necessary to be done with his kind, nevertheless it must be prepared so, that the matter be not alterated, and become hurtful unto the poisoned person, and the order to use this Oil against poison is thus.  
When that a man is poisoned, presently anoint all his body with this Oil, and give him thereof to drink two drachms with white Wine Vinegar morning and evening, and God willing thou shalt help any poison be it never so strong: If he be poisoned with Sublimate, or a Diamoud, this remedy will not be good, because they are not poisons, but are deadly Minerals, which by no means can be digested, ere their evil effect mitigated. Therefore when one is poisoned with Sublimate, his remedy is no otherwise, but to make him baths of Vinegar, and let h●m drink Milk enough, and eat Butter, and drink Siero, for this is the true remedy; as for example, when that a sore is mortified with a rottery made of Sublimate, or Arsenic, presently it causeth great alteration, for which there is no excellenter remedies than Vinegar, Butter, and Milk: Than seeing that these remedies are so profitable to be used outwardly, there is no doubt, but that they will do the same effect inwardly: Also it would be necessary to 'cause them to vomit every day once at the lest, to keep the stomach evacuated of that matter, so that it come not to choke the infected person, or infect the sinews, so that the party remain not lame for a long time after, as is daily seen in divers places.   

A marvellous Soap that helpeth those which cannot spit but with great pain.  
THis Composition is called Saponea nostra, because it is made of Soap, but not of that Soap which is in the Apothecary's shops in Venice, but this is a confection, which being eat every morning a little quantity, it helpeth those that spit with pain, it openeth the stomach, and breaketh that evil matter contained therein, and casteth it forth at the mouth with the spittle, and so leaveth the Patient well disposed and merry, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. White Venice Soap, and beaten it into powder ℥. i pure Mastic ʒ. two. Cinnamon, Licorice, ana. ʒ. i fine Sugar as much as will suffice to make it in tables according to art, the which are most strange, nevertheless marvel not thereat, for I will show the reason, so that every one shall be satisfied.  
Ye shall understand, that the first ingredient being the Soap, is made with the Lie of Soda and Calx, which things do dry and mundify all sorts of Ulcers sordid, and cooleth them: Also therein is Oil olive, which is one of the most excellentest liquours in the world, for this of itself is able to cut that matter from the stomach, and to mundify it; than in this compound there is Mastic, which is most excellent for the stomach, and draweth down from the head, than the Licorice and Cinnamon are aperative, and comforteth the stomach, so that all these being mixed together, of force it must help against these infirmities of the breast, and the quantity thereof is from ʒ. two, to ℥. ss.   

To make the Quintessence of Hony.  
THis Quintessence hath all the virtues of the Quintessence of Wine, and is made in this order, and is rather to be counted a divine remedy than human.  
℞. The purest Honey that ye can get, which is not mixed with any thing lb. two. and put it into a gourd of glass with his Head and Receiver close luted, and give it first a gentle fire, until there appear certain white fumes in the Head, which will turn into a read water by laying of clotheses wet in cold water upon the Head and Receiver, than keep in thy fire according to art, until all the substance be come forth, which thou shalt keep in a glass close shut, and in short time it will turn into the colour of a Ruby, than distil it seven times in Balneo Mariae, and it will loose his read colour, and be of a very pleasant smell, and remain in the colour of Gold, and this Quintessence dissolveth Gold and maketh it potable, and also all manner of Jewels that is put therein; also if ye give two or three drachms to any that lie a dying, presently it will recover him again, as the Quintessence of Wine doth; if ye wash any Wound or Sore therewith it will heal it quickly; it is good against the Cough, Catarrh, and pains of the Milt, and many other sorts of diseases which I will not writ at this time, for few or none will believe his great operation or virtue. If ye distil it twenty times with fine Silver, it will restore the sight unto those that are almost blind. Moreover, I have given this six and forty days unto one that had the Palsy, and he was helped quickly.  
It helpeth also the Falling sickness, and preserveth the body from putrefaction, so that by these means we may see, that it is a celestial remedy given unto us by the Almighty God, and therefore I would wish some virtuous men to take a little pains in making of this precious liquor, and they shall see such wonders thereof, that the world will marvel thereat, as I have proved many times, to my great honour and profit of the Patient. For many times I have given it the sick that no man did see me, and presently they thought I had wrought by enchantment, by reason of his great virtue, and therefore all men that profess Physic and Chirurgery, aught to be provided of this liquor, and such like for their commodity, and profit of the Patient.   

To make our Elixir vitae, or Aqua Coelestis.  
THis Elixir vitae is a Medicine of such virtue and strength, that it helpeth in manner against all diseases that cometh to man's body, for those that are hot, it cooleth, and those that are cold, it warmeth, and that it doth by his proper quality and virtue, for this I have proved a thousand times, and have used it against sundry diseases, and always have had good success, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Ginger, Zedoaria, Gallingal, long Pepper, round Pepper, Juniper berries, Citron pills, Orange pills, Sage, Basill, Rosemary, Mint, Majorame, Bay berries, Penniroyall, Gentian, Calamint, the flowers of Elders, read Roses and white, Spica nardi, Cubebe, Lignum aloes, Cardamomum, Cinnamon, Calamus Aromaticus, Germander, Staecados, Camepiteos, Meligette, Mace, Olibanum, Aloes hepatica, the seed of Mugwort, of each ʒ. two. Figs, Raisins, Dates, Almonds, Grains of the Pine, ana. ℥. vi. pure white Honey lb. i. Musk of Levantʒ. i fine Sugar lb. iv.  
Mix them altogether, and infuse them in lb. v. of pure Aqua vitae without phlegm, and so let it stand eight days, than distil it in Balneo Mariae until the fesses remain dry, than take that and sercolate it in a Pelican in horse-dung forty days, than take the glass with the fesses, and distil it in sand until all the substance be come forth, which will be read like blood, and stinketh of the fire, and is thick, the which must be sercolated as the first, and this is the fiery part, which is of marvellous virtue, insomuch that it reviveth those that are at the point of death, and therefore I will writ of some of his virtues which I have proved.  
The first water distilled by Balneo, being taken every third day ʒ. i. preserveth the body in prosperous state, and defendeth it from many sorts of diseases It helpeth all sorts of wounds if ye wash them therewith three or four times, and is most excellent against all impediments in the eyes, if ye put therein one drop, and preserveth the sight a long time, so that ye shall not need to wear Spectacles. If a young woman doth wash her face therewith oftentimes, it preserveth her a long time in that state. If ye use to drink this Elixir, it provoketh venereous acts; and disposeth women to be delivered, with divers other virtues, which I leave to the Experimentour.  
The last water, which is read, is excellent good against the pains of the Mother if it be drunk. It dissolveth also the Pleurisy, if ye give thereof ʒ. two. and anoint the parts grieved therewith. It helpeth the pains of the Colic, and hardness of the Milt. It is also good against pains in the teeth, and stinking breath, and many such like things. It helpeth all manner of Fevers, and the reason is, because it drieth up all the evil humours that offendeth Nature, as well within as without, so by this reason it is apt to help all sort of diseases. If any were sick and could not speak, let him take ʒ. i. of this with ʒ. i. of the first, and presently he shall speak most miraculously, for this I have proved a thousand times, to my great honour and content of the Patient, and therefore I would wish all those that profess Physic, or Chirurgery, to be prepared with this liquor, and such like, for their own profit, and health of their Neighbour.   

To make Aqua Reale vel Imperiale, which maketh the teeth white presently, incarnateth the gums, and causeth a good breath.  
THe teeth being black, rusty, and full of filth, and the gums putrified or corrupt, are the worst things that may be seen in man or woman, and are also very unwholesome, and the remedy to make the teeth white, and to help the gums is thus. Make this water, and use it in the order as I will show thee.  
℞. Sal gemmae, Roch Alum, Brimstone, of each lb. two. Borax ℥. x. Pearl beaten fine, Coral, ana. ℥. two. pure distilled Vinegar. ℥. iv. Put all the aforesaid matters in a Gourd, with his Head and Receiver, and give it fire according to art, and at the last there will come forth a white water like Milk, which after it hath stood a while will wax clear. Ye shall understand, that this water is above all other waters in the world to help Ulcers in the mouth, and to incarnate the gums, and to make the teeth white, and causeth a good breath in those which are troubled with the aforesaid matters. For of this water I have made great quantity, and it hath been carried into Spain, into Almainy, into Poland, into Constantinople, and into divers other Countries, as though it had been a divine thing, and not material.  
For truly this experience doth 'cause the world to wonder at it, the use hereof I have written in this book, and hereafter I will writ it again in some of my books, where occasion shall serve to use it in cures.   

A kind of Pill most convenient for the eyes, and comforteth the stomach.  
THose Pills which comfort the stomach, by force must help the sight, for when the stomach is filled with malign humours, it distempereth those parts that are about it, and the fumes that ascend up to the head moisteneth Neruos opticos of the eyes, and by this cause the eyes are offended, therefore it were necessary for those Pills that help the eyes also to comfort the stomach, which must be done by evacuating the matter hanging by vomit, and the order to make these Pills is thus.  
℞. Marchpane made with Sugar and Almonds ʒ. i. Petrae Philosophale ten grains, Elleborus niger six grains, Diagridii three grains. Mix them well in a Mortar in form of a paste, and make thereof five Pills, and those thou shalt take in the morning fasting, for they are of so much force and strength, that they help not only the eyes and stomach, but in manner all diseases, because they cleanse the stomach, and evacuate the body, which two things are most necessary in all diseases.   

A discourse upon a Composition that preserveth a man or woman in health a long time.  
IF thou wilt make a paste that shall have virtue to preserve whole bodies, and to help the sick, it were necessary to look out simples that have virtue to do it, and when thou hast found out those drugs that have virtue to preserve, thou mayest put thy trust in them: which I discoursing by the way of reason, and conferring it by experience, have found out a number of drugs that are friends unto our nature, and preserveth it, of the which I will show thee some that are of great importance, which may be proved by reason and experience, and are these.  
℞. Aloes hepatica, Olibanum, Myrrha, ana. ℥. two. Beaten them into fine powder, and make them into a paste like a salve with rectified Aqua vitae, than dry it in the Sun, than beaten it into powder again, and make it into a paste with our Oleo del Balsamo, and than thou shalt have a past of most marvellous virtue, for if ye take thereof every morming ʒ. i. it will preserve him long in health, it is most excellent for those that be wounded, or have any sore upon them, because it keepeth the sore from putrefaction, as by the ingredient thou mayest perceive.   

A marvellous Water, to be used of all Chirurgeons in curing of their Patients.  
IT is necessary for the Chirurgeon in the cure of Wounds and Sores, to help the body as well inwardly as outwardly, to take away the evil qualities and corruption of the humours, and to preserve it from putrefaction, and than the sore will heal with little help, and in short time, and that thou mayest do with this Water, which is uncorruptible, and of great experience, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Of that Aqua vitae whereof we make our lb. x. and put therein these things following, 
Quintessence Cinnamon,  Lignum aloes, read Saunders, Carduus benedictus, ana. ℥. iii Cloves, long Pepper, Calamus Aromaticus, Saffron, ana. ℥. two. Almonds, Grains of the Pine, Dates, ana. ℥. iv. Melegette, ℥. i fine Sugar lb. iv. Musk four carrots; let all these stand in a long necked glass close stopped eight or nine days, and than distil it in Balneo until ye have received lb. v. which keep close stopped in a glass as a precious Jewel: than distil the rest in sand until the fesses be dry, and that will be a read Water, and will stink somewhat of the fire or smoke, which also keep in a glass, for in time it will lose his stinking smell, and be most precious. The first Water is of such virtue, that it helpeth all putrified Ulcers if ye dress them therewith. The second is also perfect, that if any man drink every morning ʒ. two. it will so preserve him, that it were impossible he should have any infirmity. For of this Water I have made great experience in many kind of diseases, and especially in the Pleurisy and Petecchie.   

To make our Caustick.  
ALthough I have written of this Caustick in my Regiment of the Pestilence, called now in English, a Joyful Jewel, imprinted by William Wright, dwelling under Saint Mildred's Church. Nevertheless, I thought good to writ it in this place, because every one hath not both these books, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Arsenike cristaline, Shall armoniac, Sublimate, ana. boil them, being finely ground, in as much strong Vinegar as the matter weigheth, until two third parts be consumed, and that there remain a third; than keep it in a glass close shut unto thy use, as I will show thee in divers places, when occasion shall serve.   

To make Oil of Antimony.  
REc. Antimony, and calcine it until it will smoak not more, and that it be of a grayish colour, and always as it cluttereth stamp it again, than take as much common Ashes as the Antimony finely searsed, and put them into a Retort well luted, and give it fire according to art, till all the fumes or spirits be come forth; giving you charge, that your Receiver be very great lest all break. This Oil is of marvellous virtue against Ulcers, if ye give thereof four grains with any Syrup; it helpeth the Fever presently; it helpeth Fistulaes'; and to be short, it is most wholesome in divers things. But it were necessary for the Chirurgeon to be expert in the use thereof, and to mix it according to his work. And therefore he that cannot use it well, were better to let it alone, because it is a perilous thing unto the unskilful, and precious unto those that know how to use it.   

A precious Liquor above all other.  
THis is the most precious water that may be made in the world, and his virtues are such, and so many, that they 'cause the world to marvel at them. The Myrrha and Aloes, with Varnish, and with as much of our Quintessence being mixed, which without Fire, Ashes, and Coals cannot be separated, and when the Air, the Water, and Earth are separated, each of them shall be apt to mitigate pains, dissolve humours, help wounds, dissolve pains within the body, and such like matters. This water I have used divers times, and caused the world to wonder at its operations, and so shall every one do, that desireth to follow the right way, and that will be a child of Art. Thou shalt understand, that I would have written this plainer, but that I writ it to those that have judgement both of the quantities and virtues; because Pearls are not for Swine.   

A Secret of marvellous virtue.  
REc. A new Brick forth of the Kill, and break it in small pieces like a Nut, than lay them in the fire until they be read hot, than take them forth, and quench them in sweet Salad Oil, than take them forth again, and lay them in the fire until they be read hot, than quench them again, and this ye shall do at the lest five times, and at the last time take them forth, and put them into a glass, with Aloes, Frankincense, and Myrrha, and distil it according to art; than separate each liquor by himself, and therewith thou shalt work wonderful cures, if thou knowest how to use it, and whereunto.   

Our Secret of marvellous virtue in act and strength  
THis Unguent is of marvellous virtue, and was never made by any before, neither Ancients nor of our time, which Unguent helpeth putrified Ulcers in the legs, so that it is to be wondered at: for it worketh divers operations, it mortifieth the evil, mundifieth, incarnateth, and siccatrizeth, which things to the Professors of the Art seemeth hard: Nevertheless it is true, as I have proved an infinite of times; and because the world should have it, I have written here the receipt.  
℞. Of our Magno liquore, and Oil of Mastic, made at the Apothecaries, and put them into a vessel of Copper, with as much Litarge as ye shall think good, and so let it stand a good while on the fire, and put thereto of our Cerotte Magistrale, and incorporate them well together, and so of yellow it shall become black; than take it from the fire, and put therein Mercury precipitate, and stir them well until it be cold, and herewith thou shalt work wonders. It would be necessary for him that will make this receipt, to consider well of the Ingredients of the Compositions, which are written in this book.   

To rectify and preserve the sight of those that are weak-sighted.  
IF thou wilt rectify and preserve the sight in those that are weak-sighted, of what cause soever it be; thou shalt make this water, and use it according to this receipt.  
℞. Fenell seed, the flours of Rosemary, Rew, Celendine, Carduus benedictus, Staveseaker, Eufrage, of each a handful, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, sweet Almonds, of each ℥. i.  
Stamp all these grossly, and infuse them in thirty pound of pure white Wine, than let it stand four days, and than distil it in Balneo, until ye have received four pound, which keep close by itself, and when thou wilt use it, put thereof one drop into the eye when ye go to bed, and in the morning when ye rise; and thus using it, it will preserve the sight a long time.   

Of Lac Virgins, and the order to make it  
THis Lac Virgins is a solution of Saturn, and Sal gemma, which is a thing most necessary for the Chirurgeon to use, and the order to make it is thus.  
℞. Litarge of gold as much as ye think good, and beaten it into fine powder, than put thereon strong distilled Vinegar, and so let it remain two or three days, stirring it every day, than boil it until half be consumed, than let it repose two or three hours, and the Vinegar will be clear and of the colour of Gold, than pour it forth into a glass, and keep it, than take Sal gemmae, and rain water, ana. and dissolve it on warm ashes, and when it is dissolved, keep it in a glass, and when thou wilt make Lac Virgins, take of each of these solutions alike, and mix them together, and thou shalt see a strange thing. For as soon as they are mixed together, they will turn into a white Unguent like Ceruse, or white Lead, which serveth in divers causes according to the intention of the Chirurgeon.  
The solution of Litarge by himself, with as much Oil of Roses, being mixed together, maketh a delicate Unguent, and refriscative, which siccatrizeth Ulcers with great speed.   

To calcine Tutia, and to bring it into a salt.  
Thou shalt dissolve thy Tutia in this water following.  
℞. Sal niter, Roch Alum, Vitriol, Sinaber, ana. lb. i Beaten them together, and distil them according to art; than take that water, and put therein thy Tutia, and let it dissolve upon the warm ashes, and when it is dissolved, vapour away the water until it remain dry, the which take forth, and put it into an earthen pan unglazed, and calcine it with a strong fire, than dissolve it in distilled Vinegar, and when it is dissolved, vapour away the Vinegar, and the salt will remain in the bottom, which serveth much for Tincture, and to make a Lineament for the eyes, the which is most precious and rare, for if ye mix a little thereof with Hog's grease and Camphire, and than put it into the eye, it helpeth them with such speed, that it is to be wondered at, and not without cause. For his nature is to give light, and to heal things imperfect. The Tutia mixed with Borax, and with our Varnish that we gild leather with, and given in projection upon Venus melted, it causeth it to be in colour not much differing from Sol, of the which thou mayest make strange things, for he that knew the virtue and quality of Tutia, as well in Alchemy, as in infirmities, was to be counted a wise man.   

To Precipitate Mars, and to bring it into a read powder, called Crocus Martis, the which serveth for divers purposes.  
REcipe, Sal niter refined, Roch Alum, Vitriol Romain, ana and thereof make a water according to Art, with all his spirits, and in that water dissolve thin plates of Iron or Steel, and when it is dissolved, vapour away the water, until it remain dry in a read powder, than take it forth, and calcine it in a Furnace of reverberation 24 hours. Than keep it to thy use, until thou knowest more thereof, for it is wonderful in his operation, as I will show thee hereafter.   

A Secret of Turpentine of Cyprus.  
THe Turpentine of Cyprus is a kind more finer than our Turpentine, and without comparison, and of more virtue than ours is, and this the Doctors say, doth dissolve pains and preserveth the body, if it be taken inwardly, because they say, That Turpentine is an uncorruptible Gum, the which is most true. But in that Gum there is one part thick and gross that hindereth his operation, and he that can separate this gross part from the noble parts, shall do great wonders therewith: It is needful than with the fire, and the means of our Quintessence, to make the separation of the Elements, the which are four, Water, Oil, Liquor and Earth. The Water is profitable, the Oil is perfect, the Liquor is noble, and the Earth that remaineth, is spoiled, and of no substance, and with those things thou mayest do high and great cures, when they are applied according as they aught to be, because many good and profitable things, through the want of perfect application in time and place, many times do hurt, and to show the truth, I will show thee an example of wine, the which is a precious liquor, the which being drunk in the morning is hurtful to many, to eat meat betwixt meals is not good, and many such like things, that when they be not done with order do hurt, and therefore it is necessary for those that will understand, that matter to be of a good intelligence, as well in making it, as in using or applying it to the sick.   
FINIS.   

THE EXCELLENCY OF PHYSIC AND chirurgery, Collected out of approved Practices, and learned Observations of many expert men in both Faculties.  
LONDON, Printed by G. D. 1652.   

To the Friendly Reader, as much health as he wisheth of Soul and Body.  
MEN many times meddle in some matters, wherein they take more toil than thank for their labours; and he, which thinks in the night that he hath pleased all, shall found in the morning that he hath angered some. So many as know me well, and whereto I was chiefly addicted within these eight or nine years, that is, unto the study and practise of the soul Physic, may now make a question of my meddling so long with bodily Physic. But my twofold answer they may take with them for their satisfaction: First, that I keep still Depositum illud, which God hath committed unto me (and sealed the same by mine own spiritual birth, and other men's sanctification) till he that hath said, Go, points the time, and gives the occasion of my further service in that weighty Function. Secondly, as when I conversed in that calling I was chargeable to none, so (not surceasing the same of mine own accord) I have since, by God his blessing of my labours herein, as not greatly enriched myself, so not impoverished any: That wherein I have thus continued, seeing it concerneth learning, and an honest man's maintenance, cannot, or aught not to offend any that are well in their wits. These few secrets contained in this Collection, and Appendix thereto adjoining (which I have reduced into method for his sake that gathered them here and there) cannot, or aught not to scandalise any, that have a sanctified cunning in Physic or Chirurgery. I must needs tell thee, that I lean more to that safe, speedy, and pleasant kind of curation, with Medicines rightly prepared, than to the careless Composition, made by addition of other simples, clogged with more impurities than are in that simple which they labour to correct. I dare also avouch, that any poor body may better commit his crazy body, to be healed or helped of any outward or inward malady, by the right prepared Medicines, for the value often Shillings (which he can hardly spare) than a wealth man to their deceits (I would say receipts) for ten Crowns, which he may well enough forbear: Many of the ignorant sort have counted the Chemical or Paracelsical Physic dangerous, and not without cause, for woeful experience hath brought it into that suspicion. But (good Reader) hear me in that which I'll tell thee, and so take thine answer for this time: Some of the learned, and most of the ignorant, have in general despised them, but by your leave, after they have heard a particular of the excellent success attained by many of them; they have adventured upon those, without knowledge, experience, direction, and so have made many Patients to smart for it: Therefore I would not, that the fine fingered Physician should scorn to wear this Pearl, which is as fit for Sir John lack-Latine, for the Land-leaper, or cogging Quacksalver, as a Pipe for an Ass, or a Cage for a Cow. The Salts, Oils, Waters, Extracts, Tinctures, Simples prepared, and Compositions of Simples conjoined, mentioned in this book or not mentioned, I mean not to make sale of (as the Grocer or the Apothecary doth,) but I keep them in store, and mean to increase them for mine own use and my friends, and for such as shall need them, as the learned counsel of Physic rules shall give occasion.  
Farewell.   

A Note of such prepared Simples and Compositions as are mentioned in this Book, with other things not mentioned therein, whereof there is particular use in Physic and chirurgery, and are to be sold in Amen Corner by W. J.  

The Names of the several kinds of Salts.  
SAlts of Herbs, as of Wormwood, Mints, Carduus Benedictus, Camomile, Radish, S. John's wort, Sea-holy, Centaurie, Rosemary, Fennell, Time, Bean stalks, Black Hellebore, bryony, Sage, Majoram, Germander, Melilote, Chamepitis, Hyssop, Feverfew, Gentian, Alisanders', Mugwort, fumitory, Origanum, Eufrasie or Eyebright, Tartar Crystalline, Pockwood, or Lignum vitae.  
Salts of Trees, and fruticall Plants, as Ash, Juniper, Ivy, Broom, Vine.  
Salts of Spices, and other things, as of Cloves, Ginger, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Urine, Armoniac of Amber, Vinegar, Salt or Sugar of Saturn. Salt Nitre out of Ireland. Alum deal Plume, Tartar six times calcined, Sal conditum, Lapilli Vrinae, Salt common calcined. A Caustick.  
The Names of the divers kinds of Waters, as of Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Frankincense, Turpentine, Wax, Honey, Aqua fortis, Aqua Regis, Aqua Spermatis Ranarum. Eggs, Heart's horn, Amber, Vinegar distilled, Spirit of Wine, Fragariae, with spirit of Wine, Man's scull, Pockwood, Resinae pini. Percepier, Roses, Aqua vitae of Roses Sweet water. Aqua vitae of Percepier. Aqua vitae of Juniper Berries. Aqua vitae of Turkey Balm, Aqua Benedicta, Walnuts, Aniseed, Sal Gummae.   

The several kinds of Oils drawn by Distillation, or otherwise prepared,  
Oils of Herbs, as of Sweet Majoram, Sage, Time, Origanum, Rosemary flowers, Hyssop, Mints, Lavendar, Penniroyall, Camomile Flowers, Nenafar grossly prepared, betony and Camomile grossly prepared. Roses by Distillation, Thorn apple, Wormwood.  
Oils of Seeds, as of anise, Fennell, Dill, Carvi, or Caraway, Cummin, Mustard.  
Oils of Fruits, Berries, and Spices, as of Nuts, Figs, Sweet Almonds, Orange pills, Lemon pills, Bay berries, Juniper berries, Misselto of Apples, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves, Maces, Pepper.  
Oils of Trees, or Woods, of Gums, Stones, and other things, as of Lignum vitae, Ash, Broom, Wax, Honey, Turpentine, Tar, Frankincense, Colophony, Galbanum, Sagapenum, Mastic, Labdanum, Ammoniack, Amber, Jet, Benzoin, Storax liquid, Castoreum, Man's scull, Butter, Eggs, Tartar, Stinking oil of Tartar, Vitriol, Sulphur, Petroleum de Lateribus, Dears suet, Sperma caeti, Worms.   

The Several kinds of Extracts, or Essences, as of Herbs, Roots, etc.  
Wormwood, Camomile, Sage, Celandine, Betonie, agrimony, tansy, Horehound, Eufrasie, Marigold, fumitory, Henbane, Chamepitis, Tormentill, Philipendula, Black Hellebore, Aristolochie, Gentian, Angelica, Savine, Perwincle, Carduus Benedictus, Feverfew, Percepier, Rue, Pionie, Juniper, Broom flowers, Hermodactiles, Sena, Agarick, Cnicus or Bastard, Saffron, Rhubarb, Colocinthis, Soldanella, Laureola, Aloes, Polipodie, Bruscus, Centaurie, Enula campana, Melissa or Balm, Ginger, Musk, Squilla, Sarcocolla, Cantharideses, Spicknard, Zedoaria, Pepper, Orange Pills.    

A Note of the divers kinds of Compositions, as followeth.  
LAudanum anodinum, Panchimagogon, Amuletum Palmarii, Oleum benedictum, Oleum sive Mumia Tartari, Oleum Heracl. Kulandi, Mumia vitrioli, Creta vitrioli, Crocus Martis, Balsamum sulphuris, Flos Sulphuris, Oleum Camphorae, Essentia perlarum, Flores Antimonii, Mercurius Antimonii, Vitrum Antimonii, Turpetum minerale Quercetani, Turpetum Diaph. Sulphur vitriolalum, Mercurius sublimatus, Mercurius praecipitatus, Aqua Theriacalis, Calx testarum ovorum, Emplastrum Fodicationis, Gibsons ●alm, Petra Philosophal nostra, Pillolae Aquilonae, Oleum Hypericonis compositum, Oleum Balsami, Aqua Balsami, Dia Aromatico, Electuario Angelica, Balsamum artificiale, Electuarium magistrale, Aqua praeservans, Magno liquore, Cerotum magistrale, Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinth. & Cera, Vnguentum ex Lytargirio, Aqua realis, Sirrupo del Ebulo composit. Unguent against contractions, Vnguento magno, Pillulae contra morbum Gallicum, Cordiale rosarum sine sulphur, Balsamus urinae descriptione Willichii, Our solutive liquor, Oil of Nicotion, Paracelsus his Vulnerary oil, Water for the eyes, Water for pin and web, Aqua Persicaeriae, Vnguento nigro, Unguent to cause hair to grow, Unguent to cleanse wounds, Unguent defensative, Unguent stomackal, Unguent against aches and bruises, Extract against all obstructions, Adeps ursi, Medulla Mumiae, Our composition against the Strangury, Ischury, or stone in the bladder, etc. Balsamum Tartari, Spirit of Honey, Spirit of Tartar, Tincture of Sulphur, Powder to mundify Ulcers, Mater Balsami, A composition against burning and scalding, Vigoes' balm, Aqua del petra Vegetab. Tinctures of Spices, Spiritus tartari cum colcothare rectificat. Another water for the eyes, Sirrupus spinae merulae, Cinnamon water, Unguent de Peto, Man's blood dried, Craneum humanum calcined, Our composition against all Fevers, Our composition against the Worms, Gum of the root and herb Henbane.   

A Table of all the principal matters contained in this COLLECTION.  


In the Proem are contained these things.  
THe Duty of an expert Chirurgeon p. 1.  
The general cure of Wounds ib.  
Why wounds cannot heal quickly ib.  
How to deal generally with wounds in the head 2    


Of Wounds.  
A grievous wound ●n the head cured ib.  
A dangerous wound cured in five days 3  
A Wound on the ear ibid.  
Wounds in the head with the fracture of the scull ib.  
Contusions in the head or elsewhere 5  
Contusion quickly healed ibid.  
Wounds in the head with the scull fractured ibid.  
To heal wounds speedily ib.  
Wounds by shot or lance ib.  
A singular remedy for the speedy healing of wounds ibid.  
Wounded eye with a splinter ib.  
Puncture in the eye 6  
Another cure done in like manner ib.  
A squatted hand healed ibid.  
A punctured arm healed ibid.  
Five wounds in the breast healed 7    


Of Sores, Ulcers, etc. and their Cure.  
Sore mouths healed 8  
Ulcer in the upper lip ibid.  
Ulcer in the throat ibid.  
Scald head healed ibid.  
Another for the same 9  
Ulcer on the thumb ibid.  
Ulcerated leg ibid.  
Two putrified Ulcers on the leg healed ibid.  
Three Ulcers in the leg healed 10  
Old rotten sores cured ibid.  
Ulcers in most parts of the body and head 11  
Scabs like the Leprosy 12  
A child healed that had the French P●● ibid.  
A Canker cured ibid.  
Pocky pustul●es with Serpigo healed 13  
Tetters and ringwormes ibid.  
Another 14  
Terrors on women's breasts ibid.  
Shingles healed ibid.  
To break a plague sore ibid.  
Scabs and Itch, etc. 15  
Three deep Fistulaes' in the breast cured ib.  
Lichen or Impetigo cured 16  
A great men taken away ibid.    


The Second part of the Collection of the Cures of Internal Diseases.  
OF grievous aches and pain in the body 17  
Aches coming of the Pox cured ibid.  
An excellent Unguent to ease any pain ibid.  
To ease the Gout 18  
To cure Gouts and Aches coming of beat ibid.  
The cure of the Scurvy ibid.  
Tumours throughout the body cured 19  
Swelling of the Gods 20  
Another of the same ibid.  
The Ischiatica cured ibid.  
Against the cramp 21  
Against contraction of sinews ibid.  
A wry neck set strait 22  
Another ibid.  
Squinancy cured ibid.  
Alopecia cured ibid.  
To purge the head 23  
Pin and Web cured ibid.  
An approved water for the eyes ibid.  
Another ibid.  
To stay bleeding at the nose 24  
Another for the same ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Another 25  
Another ib.  
Other ways to do the same ibid.  
Spitting of blood ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Lift up the Uuula 26  
Cure of the Hicket ibid.  
Another ibid.  
The falling sickness cured ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Jaundice cured 27  
Another ibid.  
Another 28  
Jaundice with obstraction of menstrues ibid.  
Windiness in the stomach ibid.  
Cough of the lungs 29  
Another with stitch in the side ibid.  
Shortness of breath with a Cough ibid.  
Another 30  
To stay vomiting ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Vomiting of blood with a Flux of the belly 31  
Vomiting with a Fever ibid.  
Pleurisy cured 32  
Pleurisy with spitting of blood ibid.  
Pleurisy with Inflammation of the tongue, &c ibid.  
Pleurisy in a woman 33  
Another for the same ibid.  
diaphoretical decoction ibid.  
Pleurisy broken with a Potion ibid.  
Another 34  
An inward Imposthume or bastard Pleurisy ibid.  
Pain in the side ibid.  
Pain and wind in the body 35  
Expelling of wind ibid.  
Dropsy cured ibid.  
Against Worms in the stomach or elsewhere 36  
A Quartain of long continuance ibid.  
Against the Pestilence, Pleurisy, and Quartain 37  
Swelling of the Spleen ibid.  
Frantic Fevers for want of sleep ibid.  
Pestilent Fevers 38  
Against poison or the Pestilence, a diaphoretical Potion ibid.  
The signs of death in the Plague ibid.  
Counsels, Preservatives, etc. against the Plague 39  
An inveterate Gonorrhoea in man or woman ibid.  
Another 40  
An Electuary against Gonorrhoea ibid.  
To stop the immoderate Flux menstrual ibid.  
Another 41  
To stop a Flux ibid.  
Bloody Flux cured ibid.  
Cures of the Hemeroides 42  
Ficus in ano ibid.  
To provoke menstrues 43.  
Another of the same ibid.  
Suffocation of the Matrix ibid.  
Another for the same 44  
To provoke Urine ibid.  
To provoke Urine, and to heal other obstructions ibid.    


The first part of the Supplement or Appendix, etc.  
Of pain in the head, and the cure 45  
Of the Catarhe and Rheum in the head 46  
The second course to cure the Catarhe 47  
Contusion in the head 48  
The healing of the white Scall 49  
Pain in the eyes ibid.  
An Unguent for sore eyes ibid.  
To stay spitting of blood ibid.  
The description and cure of the Squinancy ibid.  
The description and cure of Scrophulae 50  
Another cure for the same 51  
Another for the same ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Of Panaricium and the cure 52  
Ulcers in women's breasts ibid.  
Of Astma, and the cure of it 53  
To know a confirmed Dropsy ibid.  
Against Worms 54  
Hardness of the Milt, and the cure ibid.  
Another for the same ibid.  
Of the Gonorrhoea, and the cure ibid.  
Of the Hemeroides and their cure 55  
Of the divers sorts and effects of the Hemeroides, and their cure 56  
Suffocation of the Matrix, and the cure thereof. 57  
Of the Rupture, and the cure in the beginning ibid.  
Another 58  
Of retention of Urine and the cure ibid.  
Of the difficulty of Urine, and the cure thereof 59  
Another for the same often proved 60  
Of retention of Urine, with stitch in the side ibid.  
Swelling of the legs and feet, and their cure ibid.  
Of Chilblains and their cure ibid.  
Of Corns in the feet, and to take them away 61  
Of a grief under the nails of the fingers and toes, and the cure 62  
Of Erisipela, and the cure thereof ibid.  
The cure of Warts 63    


The second part of the Appendix, etc.  
Of Danewort, and his virtues 63  
Of Eleborus niger, and his virtues 64  
Of Gratia Dei, and the virtue thereof ibid.  
Of Rhubarb, and his use 65  
Of Tithymale, and his virtues ibid.  
Of Soldanella, and his virtues 66  
Of Cyprus, and his virtues ibid.  
Of Elder, and his virtues ibid.  
Of Tobacco, and his use ibid.  
Of sweet Majorame, and his virtues 67  
Of Persicaria, and his use ibid.  
Of Man, and the Medicines taken from him 68  
Of an Hen, and the Physical use thereof 69  
Of Eels, and their medicinal use ibid.  
Of the barbil, and her use in Medicines 70  
Of Bees, and their medicinal use ibid.  
Of Frogs, and their physical use ibid.  
Of Centumpedes, Crickets, etc. and their use 71  
Of Tacca mahacca, and the use thereof ibid.  
Of the gun Caranna, and the use thereof 72  
Of liquid Amber, and the use of it in Medicines ibid.    
FINIS   

The Proheme or Entrance into this Collection, contained in the first four Chapters.  

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

CHAP. II. The cure of all manner of Wounds in general  
ALl kind of wounds may be healed with these Medicines following (according to the method before mentioned) viz. with our Balsamo, with Aqua balsami, Balsamum artificiale, Quinta essentia vini Oleum refinae pini, Oleum Cerae & Terebinthinae, Magno liquore, Cerotum magistrale, Elixir vitae, Oleum hypericonis compositum, our secret Powder, all which are set down in the forenamed book, and for the most part, are to be had for a reasonable consideration, at the house of W. I in Amen Corner.   

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

CHAP. FOUR Of Wounds in the head, how they must be dealt withal.  
ALl wounds in the head must be close joined and kept together, the blood must be crushed out, than wash it well with something that hath virtue to liquifie the blood, as the Quintessence of Wine, or such like; than lay thereon lint wet in Oleum benedictum; this Medicine you shall change in four days, but every day once wash the wound round about with that Quintessence, and anoint it with the said Oil, and at the fourth days end dress it again, and let it remain two days more, and after that for a day more, and the wound (by the help of God) shall be cured in twelve or fourteen days: Thus may you deal with all wounds, save those that are made in the belly; as for all other, either simple or compound wounds, you shall found their cure, methodically showed, in the Rational Secrets of Leonardo Phioravante published in English.   

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

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

CHAP. VII. The cure of a wound on the ear to the skull.  
A Sore wound was made on the ear, which was cut unto the skull of the head, and was healed in this manner; First, by anointing it with out Quintessence, which caused it to wax very hot, the space of two hours. After that there was put in our Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina & Cera, and so he dressed it every day once.   

CHAP. VIII. How three wounds in the head, with fracture of the bone or scull were healed by I. P.  
A Ceriain Miller in Buckinghamshire, called Peter Bull, being sore wounded in the head, whereof one wound was in the midst of the head, with fracture of the skull, another within an inch of that six inches long, he had another wound over his eye brow two inches long. Besides the wounds in his head, he had also a great wound in the bow of his arm beside the elbow, so that a man might have laid his three fingers in it, divers of his fingers were also cut, and he lost two joints. This man bled by the space of seven or eight hours before it was stinted; nor was he dressed until the next day, but yet he was cured in this manner. First the hair was shaved away round about the wounds on his head, and the wounds were made clean, than was there dropped into the wound, Balsamum sulphuris, made very warm, and a fine cloth wet therein was applied to the wounds, and round about the wounds there was a Defensative applied, thus he was dressed once in 24 hours, and within the space of 3. weeks, he was perfectly helped, that he wore no plaster at all. Also you shall note that upon the wound next the cloth, there was laid cerotum magistrale, of Leon. Phioravante; Forget not, that this Balsam must always be used warm, with a fine linen cloth, or a piece of Cambric, and not with any lint. This Balsam did 'cause the hair to grow so fast about the wounds, that it was feign to be shaved away very often.   

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

CHAP. X. A contused wound on the head healed by I. P.  
A Young man of 28. years of age, that had a great contusion on the head with a staff, was helped thereof in 9 days, by applying thereunto Balsamum sulphuris before mentioned.   

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

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

CHAP. XIII. To heal Wounds, by shot, or lance.  
HE that will cure Wounds that are made with shot, lance, Arrows, etc. must first wash the Wound well with urine, and dry the Wound well, than let him put therein the Quintessence of Wine, and forthwith join the Wound close and hard together, than let him put immediately therein, five or six drops of our Balsamo artificiato, and lay a cloth upon the Wound wet in Magno liquore, which must be applied so hot as he may suffer it; thus must he do the first day. That being done, he must put thereon our Quintessence of Wine, and than a little Balsamo, after that some Magno liquore (as before was said) and so let him hold on unto the end of his cure.   

CHAP. XIIII. A most singular and wonderful remedy to heal Wounds quickly.  
Wounds must be helped with drying Medicines, (as was noted in the third Chapter) such Medicines, I say, as have virtue to preserve the part offended from putrefaction. This will be performed with our Aqua Balsami, and the Oil distilled from Vern●ce liquid; for these two are apt to heal all sorts of Wounds, if ye wash them with the water, and anoint them round about with the oil, for they do not only keep the Wounds from putrifying, but they help to siccatrize quickly, and in such manner, as it seemeth marvellous, not only most profitable for the wounded Patient, but best for the good and honest Chirurgeon, who abhorreth in his work to play the Tinker, which in stopping of one hole is want to make three, but with as much safety and speed as Nature and Art will yield, to bring to pass all his honest intentions.   

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

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

Another cure performed in like manner, by W. H.  
ONe George Clarke, servant to the right worshipful Mr Butler of Denham (than high Sheriff of Bedford) was healed of a puncture in his eye with the aforesaid Medicine.    

An hand flat squatted and contused, healed by W. H. CHAP. XVII.  
AN old man, called Thomas Smith, of Carlton in North-hamptonshire, Husbandman, in lopping of a tree had his hand caught between two boughs, and was squatted in pieces; this contused hand was presently put close together, and anointed with Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina, & Cera, and through God's goodness, was perfectly cured in eight days.   

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

CHAP. XIX. Five wounds in the breast.  
A Certain man that had five stocadoes into the body was thus cured. First there was put into the wounds the Quintessence of Wine, than were the wounds dressed with Balsamo artificiato, which caused him to vomit, and to avoid much bruised blood; after that he drunk every morning a little Aqua Balsami, and in short time by God's help was perfectly cured.  
The manner to stay any flux of blood, or vein, you shall found in the 17. Chapter of the second part of this Collection, and in the Secrets of Leonardo Phioravante, where he treateth of Wounds.    

The Second Part of the first Division.  
VErbum sapienti sat est, and a man may know by the half what the whole means; by these few experimented secrets, you may proceed unto the cure of any Wound, Contusion, or Puncture, in what part of the body soever they shall be. The things wherewith you are to work, as Balsamum Sulphuris, Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinthina & Cera, Cerottum magistrale, etc. you may have of Mr. William Johnson dwelling in Amen Corner. Now let us proceed unto the experimented secrets, concerning Ulcers and Sores, either simple or complicate with diseases, as they have been observed by those which have proved them.  

CHAP. XX. The healing of sore mouths.  
THe Ulcers and Sores that have been in the mouths of young and old, have been healed by the lotion or gargarism made with Plantain water, Honeysuckle water, and Barley water, mixed with Saccarum Saturni.   

CHAP. XXI. An Ulcer in the upper lip.  
A Certain Porter of London having an Ulcer on his upper lip, which was like a Cancer (some called it Noli me tangere) continually running, with filthy stinking sanies, was thus cured. First he was purged with Turpetum minerale, than was the sore dressed with this Medicine.  
℞. Aloes lotae ℥. ss. Salis preparatiʒ. two. Mellis ℥. iiii. Misce & utere.   

CHAP. XXII. An Ulcer in the throat, ex morbo Gallico.  
A Young woman that was much troubled in the throat with a grievous Ulcer, was thus cured. First she was purged with Aromatico, and twice or thrice with our Quintessence solutive mixed with Syrup of Roses, than was the sore touched with Aqua realis, two or three times with a little lint, and lastly she used this gargarism.  
℞. Mellis Rosarum ℥ two. Diamorum ℥. two. ss. Honeysuckle water, ana ℥. vi. Oleum Vitrioli as much as will suffice to make it tart; this hath been often proved in dangerous cases.   

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

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

CHAP XXIV. An Ulcer on the Thumb.  
ONe had such a filthy and stinking Ulcer on the Thumb, that the Chirurgeons would have cut of the whole Thumb. This party was afterwards cured by the application of Fodicationum emplastri.   

CHAP. XXV. An Ulcerated leg wonderfully swollen.  
A Young boy that had an ulcerated leg wonderfully swollen, was thus cured. He received at two several times Quintessence solutive, with Syrup of Roses; than were the sores washed with salt of Vitriol dissolved in Plantain water, a cloth being wet therein and applied thereto morning and evening.   

CHAP. XXVI. Two putrified Ulcers on the leg, healed by I. P.  
FIrst this Patient was purged with Aromatico Leonardo once or twice, than his Ulcers were dressed with this Unguent made of rubified Vitriol, and a Cerot called the great Cerot: this was applied unto the Ulcers, with a pledget of Lint, and was suffered to lie four and twent● hours, which mortified the sores; than was more of the same Unguent applied, and with an Instrument the eschar was loosed round about, and in three or four days, the eschar came away easily with a pair of Mullets: than he healed it up with Magno Liquore, and Saccarum plumbi, within a little while after.   

CHAP XXVII. Three Ulcers in the legs healed by W. H.  
A Certain woman of Bedford, had three Ulcers in her leg, who had sought her cure at the hands of divers, the space of four years, but could found no help, yet she was afterwards cured in this manner. First, she took in the morning fasting Aromatico Leonardo, which evacuated her stomach and belly. Than was there applied unto the sores Saccarum plumbi, three or four days together, which caused every day a certain thin skin to come upon the Ulcers, much like the film of an egg, the same skin was taken away every day: with this Medicine following, it was dressed the fourth day, which caused it to look fair and read the next dressing: and so in short time it was perfectly cured. To one spoonful of Magno Liquore was put as much Saccarum Saturni, as would lie upon a threepences; and so it was incorporated warm: the sores were dressed therewith every day.   

CHAP. XXVIII. The cure of old rotten sores by W. R.  
A Certain old woman, did in this manner help divers old sores in the body. First she purged the Patients, and than she applied this unguent to the sores. Take a pot of strong Ale, and set it to boil over a gentle fire, till it wax thick like a salve, and than use it. At the first this Medicine will smart, and be somewhat painful to bear; nevertheless it will cleanse and heal.  
Note. Also a friend of mine told me, that the juice of Marigold leaves, or the leaves boiled with milk to an Unguent, will heal all Ulcers and Wounds.   

CHAP XXIX. The healing of Ulcers in most parts of the body: but chief in the head by W. H.  
A Certain man being full of Ulcers, coming of the Pox, in most parts of his body showing themselves, but chief in the head, was cured in this manner. First, he was purged twice or thrice, with Panch●magogon, after that, he kept his Chamber, (that had a good fire in it) and took six grains of Turpetum diaphoreticum, mixed with ʒ. i. of Amul●tum Palmarij. Half an hour before he took a draught of fat broth, and kept his bed; and always as he vomited, he washed his mouth with a convenient Gargarism, and sweated thereon one hour or two, and than was dried with warm clotheses: That done, he reposed a day or two, and took the aforesaid Turpetum again, in manner aforesaid: this he did three or four times. In the mean while, he anointed his Ulcers with oleum Guaiaci, which did both cleanse, and heal. Also divers times, he used this Potion in the morning, which caused him to sweated. ℞. ℥. two. of the water of Lignum vitae, made by distillation, and as much of the Syrup of fumitory, and ℈. i. of the salt of Lignum vitae, mix them warm, and drink it fasting. Thus in very short time he was cured. This one thing must not be forgotten, that when there shall come any inflammation or soreness in the mouth, you do use this Gargarism following. Take Plaintaine water, honey suckle water, ana, ℥. iiij. Barley water, ℥. vi. mel rosarum ℥. two. ss. Diamor●m ℥. two. Oleum vitrioli, as much as will make it tart: this will heal any sore in the mouth. Remember also, that if the Ulcers be very corrosive and foul, you shall touch them once or twice, with Oleum vitrioli, or Oleum tartari faetentis, whereby they will heal the sooner, this hath been often proved.   

CHAP. XXX. The healing of scabs, like the Leprosy, by G. M.  
A Young man (which was thought to be infected with a Leprosy) had on his head, and most parts of his body, hard and dry scabs, but he was cured in this manner. First, he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo once or twice. Than every morning till he was cured, he took ℈ i of the extract of Camepiteos, either in a Pill, or in drink as he thought good. After that his sores were dressed with this Unguent. ℞. Succi sempervivi ℥. two. Succi plantaginis, ℥. iiii. ss. Succi solani, ℥. three Sacchari Saturni, ℥. two. ss. mix them, and stir them well together over a gentle fire, till all the Saccharum be dissolved, and therewith dress the sores twice a day.   

CHAP. XXXI. The healing of a Child, that was full of Ulcers, coming of the Pox.  
A Young child four years old that was grievously tormented with the French disease, having extreme pain in the body, and being full of sores, was thus cured ℞. the distilled water of Lignum vitae, ℥ i, Salis ejusdem, ʒ. i. mix them, and thereof the Child drank, with Syrup of fumitory or Hops, morning and evening, and sometime the Child sweated thereon. Also the sores were anointed with this Unguent, ℞. Oleum guaiaci, ℥. ss. Balsamum Sulphuris, ʒ. ss. Saccarum plumbi, ʒ. ss. Oleum camphorae, five or six drops, the caput mortuum of Aqua fortis, ℈. i. Mix them well, and grinned them on a stone with May butter, and therewith the sores were anointed morning and evening.   

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

CHAP. XXXIII. The healing of pocky Pustulaes', with Serpigo by W.H.  
A Certain man having a number of sores all over his body ' and a Serpigo in the palm of his hand, so grievous, that a man might have laid great straws therein, was healed in this manner. First he was purged three times with six grains of Turpetum minerale Phadronis, mixed with half a Drachm of Amuletum Palmarij. That done, he anointed all his sores twice or thrice with Oleum Tartari faetentis; afterwards with Vnguentum ex Lithargirio Phioravante. Now touching his hands, which had the Serpigo, he held them morning and evening over a bath of oats, or some warm herbs, that they might sweated; and than anointed them with Balsamum Sulphuris, and in short time they were helped. An Unguent made with Saccarum Saturni, and oil of Roses, will do the like effect.   

CHAP. XXXIIII. A Tetter or Ringworm, cured by W. K.  
THere is a certain Worm or Tetter, which many times cometh on the back of the hand or arm, and doth corrode like a Serpigo, but it is none; which (after the use of many other Medicines) hath been cured in this manner. The place was anointed five or six times a day, with the Syrup of Sugar, that the Worm might come to the upper place or skin; than within three or four days after, he anointed the place with Oleum Tartari faetentis; and in short time he was cured, though his disease had continued three years, coming and going. Some have killed the Worm with Oleum vitrioli.   

CHAP. XXXV. A man cured that was full of Tetters.  
THis was the manner of his cure. He took the rennet of a Calf, and drank it in milk three or four times, and sweated thereupon; than he anointed the parts affected with Saccarum Saturni, mixed with oil of Roses warm.   

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

CHAP. XXXVII. The healing of Shingles.  
THey took for them Doves dung newly made, and barley meal, stamped them well, and mixed them with half a pint of Vinegar; they used it cold to the place grieved, and applied vine leaves (to keep in the Liquor) round about it. Than they bond it up with clotheses, and suffered it to lie three days, and than (if need were) refreshed it again with a new Plaster, and at the most, with the use of three Applications, it was perfectly helped.   

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

CHAP XXXIX. Scabs, and Itch, with small Pustulaes', taken quite away by I H.  
A Certain man greatly troubled with itch and pustulaes in his hands, proceeding of a dissolved salt in his body, could found no help till he used this course. He took Panchimagogon twice in three days; that done, he washed his hands with the salt of Vitriol dissolved in Plantain water, and shortly after they went quite away.   

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

The mundificative Ointment was this.  
℞. Oil of Wax, of S●ccinum, of Guaiacum, Oleum Hypericon, Compositum, ana. ʒ. two. mix them without fire, and use it with the aforesaid tents. Also you shall note, that he drunk no other drink than this all the while. ℞. Lignum vitae, the bark, Sarsaparilla, ana. ℥. iv. the roots of tormentil, Bistorta, Virga pastoris, Licorice, corice, ana. ℥. two, Juniper berries ℥. i. Mallow leaves, Sanicle, Alchimilla, Mugwort, Hypericon, Brunella, Comfery, ana. M. two. Bring these into powder, and for every gallon of new tunned drink, add thereto two or three ounces of this powder in a linen cloth; let it stand till it be stolen, and let him drink thereof.    

CHAP. XLI. The cure of Lichen, or Impetigo, by M. K.  
A Certain Maiden 17. years old, had all the flesh on her thumb and forefinger eaten away with the aforesaid disease, which was cured by strewing thereon Saccarum Saturni, and applying thereto Cerottum magistrale Phioravante.   

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

The Second Part concerning the Cures of internal diseases.  
Thus much briefly in these short Chapters is expressed and declared, concerning Wounds and Ulcers, wheresoever they be, or howsoever they arise; by which examples, the learned Artist may undertake other things which are not here mentioned: But in any ease let him be advised by the wise Physician in his business, when there is any difficulty, and not run by and by to his receipt or experiment. It followeth now (in manner aforesaid) to set down the observed practices of those that have cured internal diseases, which have taken effect, and brought forth symptoms outwardly or inwardly.  

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

CHAP. II. The healing of Aches coming of the Pox, by W. H.  
ONe of a very dark and melancholy complexion, to whom some men in London had given the fume, and the unction three or four times; and yet left him possessed with most pitiful Aches, and pain in his joints; who for want of maintenance, was enforced to go into the country where he was born, and was there pitied of an honest Gentleman, which cured him in this sort. First he purged him twice or thrice with Aromatico Leonardo, which done, he took, for four or five days together, ʒ. ss. of the extract of Hermodactiles with white Wine; than unto the articular parts that were grieved, he applied Emplastrum faetidum, W. H. and thus in short time he was healed throughly.   

CHAP. III. A notable experience of a Medicine that hath brought great ease to any great Ache, or pain, as of the Gout, or otherwise.  
TAke one or two of the foremost sucking whelps of a Mastiff, or Bear-bitch, kill them, and take forth the guts, fill them with black Snails, roast them, and baste them with ℥. xii. of oil of Spike coloured with Saffron; reserve that which droppeth from them, and mix it with as much oil of Wax, and therewith anoint any ache or grief.   

CHAP. FOUR A particular way, whereby the pain of the Gout is soon eased or prevented, S. N.  
TAke Minium, the yolk of an Egg, oil of Tartar, oil of Roses, as much of each as you think sufficient, and with a little Saffron make it in form of a plaster, and lay it on cold. I knew another Gentleman greivously vexed with the Gout, who was in this sort soon eased. First when he supposed that the pain would come, he took a dose of Aromatico Leonardo, than the next day, unto those grieved parts he applied this plaster. Take a pickle herring and cut forth the bone, stamp it very small with a little bowl Armoniacke, and Rosewater, and apply it cold to the grief, from place to place as it goeth. Many men after they have been well purged, have had great ease by anointing the place three or four nights together with Aqua Balsami Phioravante, also Oleum Cerae is very profitable in that case.   

CHAP V The cure of Gouts, and all Aches coming of heat, by L. F.  
FIrst the Patients were purged with Aromatico, than was this plaster applied, which is attractive, resiccative, resolutive, as being intentions fare better fitting that purpose, than any other. Take the marrow of the bones of a Calf newly killed, lb. i. Vitriol in manner rubified, lb. i ss. Cantharideses, in fine powder, ℥. i. the ashes of the Vine, ℥. vi. mix them all on a small fire, until they be incorporated, than with oil of wax, make it in a liquid ointment, and spread it on a cloth, and lay it on cold; and when it waxeth dry chafe it till the pain be ceased; this hath eased many in a short time   

CHAP. VI The remedy against the Scorbute, or Scurvy, and the Gout, by W. T.  
A Young man six and twenty years of age, mightily troubled with the Gout and Scurvy, was after this sort cured. First he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo, than he used the purging drink following every morning, that he might have each day three or four stools, at night he took ℥. two. of the distilled water of Lignum vitae with ℥. i. of the Syrup of Cowslips; also he used to eat these conserveses following mixed together; ℞. Conserve of Cowslips ℥. iiii. of Sage, of Rosemary flowers, ana ℥. two. of read Roses ℥. i. the quantity which he took at once, was as much as a Walnut; also he anointed the grieved parts with this Unguent; ℞. Auxungiae humanae distilled ℥. two. Oil of Turpentine ℥. two. of Wax ℥. ss. mix them together; also in his usual drink, which he drunk with his meat, was mixed Chamepiteos, Sage, Rosemary and Betony, this was the purging drink; ℞. the strong decoction of Lignum vitae, put therein of the leaves of Sena ℥. iv. Epithemum ℥. two. Hermodactiles ℥. iv. Turbith ℥. i. Coloquintida ℥. ss. let them stand in warm sand four and twenty hours, and strain it, this he drunk in the morning fasting.   

CHAP. VII. tumors in all parts of the body, taken away by R. A.  
THis was sent me by a friend of mine, who had seen the experience thereof divers times. First he purged the Patients twice with Aromatico Leonardo, than he gave unto them ℥. two. of Quintessence solutive, with ℥. i. of Syrup of Roses, four or five mornings together, and after it they drank a little good broth made sweet with Sugar; that done, they drunk this water following: ℞. Hearb-grasse, Sothernwood, Mugwort, Wormwood, ana. M. i Juniper berries three or four handful, cut the herbs, and bruise the berries, and infuse them in a gallon of white Wine Vinegar four and twenty hours in a warm place; than distil it with a gentle fire; this done, take that distilled Vinegar, and infuse therein fresh herbs and berries, and distil it again as before: Do so the third time, and distil it as before. At the last infusion you shall put therein ℥. iiii. of good Mithridate or treacle, and distil them together, and keep them close to your use. Thereof the Patients took at four a clock in the morning four ounces very warm, whereupon they laid them down and sweated two or three hours, always wiping it away with warm clotheses. Every sweeting time they changed their shirts. When this medicine was ministered to a woman, she took but two ounces thereof. To a child he gave two ounces. In this sort he cured not only Tumours, but Sores, Pustulaes', Fevers, Jaundice, etc.   

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

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

CHAP. IX. The cure of a painful Ischiatica, by I. H.  
A Certain man that was grievously troubled with the Ischiatica, was healed in this manner. First, he was purged with Aromatico, than he took for five or six mornings together, two drachms of Quintessence solutive with Syrup of Roses, and after the taking thereof, he drank a little sweet broth. That done, he drew a blister with Cantharideses, and Oleum de terebinthina & cera; and in short time he was helped. Since which time I have known three or four persons helped in the same manner, by anointing the grieved parts with Aqua balsami Phioravante.   

CHAP. X. An excellent remedy against the Cramp, proved often by R. G.  
THey that were affected therewith, did upon the bore skin and places grieved, wear the root of common flag. Also the skins of twenty silver Eels, new flaied, and chopped small, boiled in two pound of May-Butter, and four handfuls of Rue, scum it well, and anoint the place therewith, and this will work the same effect. A worshipful Gentleman that had divers times proved the same, sent these notes unto me.   

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

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

Another of the same, by W. T.  
TAke Oleum de lateribus, ℥. i, Oleum Terebinthinae, ℥. ss. of Juniper Berries, ʒ. two. of Cloves, ʒ. i Nutmegs, Mace, ana. ʒ. ss. mix them with Oleum Cerae, q.s. to make it in form of a lineament, and therewith anoint the parts.    

CHAP. XIII. The Squinancy cured by I P.  
THis Medicine following did help one that was so swollen and grievously pained, that he could scarcely eat or drink. ℞. Olei Philosophorum de lateribus, ℥. two. Olei liniʒ. vi. Olei Cerae, ℥. i. mix them warm, and anoint the place affected oftentimes in the day. Also one drachm of the tooth of a wild Boar, being drunk with ℥. iii of oil of Linseed, doth help it presently.  
Also another man was forthwith cured thereof, which drank one spoonful of Aqua balsami, and wetting a cloth therein, applied it to his throat.   

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another for the same.  
ALso five or six drops of Oleum Mastic, drunk in Cinnamon-water, stayeth the spitting of blood.    

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

CHAP. XXI. The cure of the Hicket, by W. B.  
ONe that was divers times greivously troubled with the Hicket, was cured by applying a brown tossed warm to his stomach; the toast was steeped in treacle and Aqua vitae.  

Another.  
DIvers have been cured thereof, by taking four or five grains of Labdanum nostrum in Wine or Malmsey.    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAP. XXV. Cough of the lungs cured by W. T. after this manner.  
REcipe Aquae Marrubii, ℥. vi. syrup of Injubes, ℥. iii mix them, and make thereof a Julepe: whereof the patiented took four spoonfuls, with ʒ. i. of Balsamum sulphuris, every four hours till he was well.  

Another cured by W. T. which had also a sore stitch in the side.  
FIrst he took Aromat. Leon. and than took this potion following, for certain days. ℞. Carduus Benedictus, Hypericon, Folefoot, a little Enula campana, make thereof a decoction with Ale, and he drank every morning ℈. i. of Balsamum sulphuris, and a spoonful of Aqua Balsami Phioravante, morning and evening till he was cured.    

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vomiting joined with a Fever.  
A Gentlewoman affected with these griefs was in this manner comforted. ℞. Aqua balsami, ʒ. i. Aqua preserv. ʒ. two. Oleum piperis, six grains, mix them well with a good spoonful of the syrup of Quinces, and so she drank it at the beginning of the heat.    

CHAP XXIX. A great and sore Pleurisy cured by M. R.  
A Certain man of twenty four years old was vexed with a most grievous pleurisy, with pricking, shooting, and a Cough, with a continual Fever, and inflammation of the tongue. First there was good store of blood taken from the liver-vein on that side where the pain was. Than were these syrups (that do decoct and purge) ministered unto him. ℞. Sirupi de liqnoritia, de Hysopo, acetosae ana. ℥. i. Oximellitis squillitici, aceti squillit ana. ʒ. iii make thereof a loche, whereof in the morning he licked with a Licorice stick, which caused him to spit easily, and took away the heat or burning of the tongue, being used with this decoction. ℞. French Barley, ℥. three Carduus Benedictus, M. i Roses, Violets, ana. P. i. Licorice scraped, ʒ. three Figs, iii Raisin, ℥. i. ss. Sugar-Candie, ℥. two. boil them in lb. xuj. of water, till two pound be wasted, and so drink it cold: Also his diet was light and thin, as broth and drink, etc.  

Pleurisy, with spitting of blood cured by M. R.  
FIrst there was made this purging preparative. ℞. Senae, ʒ. vi. Carduus Benedictus. M. ss. Sugar, ℥. ss. Ginger, ℥. ss. lay them to infuse one night in warm whey, made of Goat's milk lb. i ss. whhreof ye shall give morning and evening, ℥. iiil. warm: this purgeth gently, and causeth to spit easily. Than three days after they must bleed well on the Liver-vein, and their drink at meals, was the decoction of Hyssop, Violets, Licorice, and Raisins with Sugar.   

Pleurisy, with inflammation of the tongue, and costiveness of the body, M. R.  
FIrst they were purged with Aromatico, and than used this gargarism. ℞. Sempervivae, or Housleek, M. two. boil them in a quart of water till a third be wasted. Than strain it, and put thereto ℥. two. of Wine-vinegar, wherewith they gargarised warm oftentimes. Than they used Mel Rosarum, which took away the blackness of the tongue. Their diet was moist and cooling, as followeth. ℞. French Barley, ℥. ss. Figs, seven. Raisins, ℥. iiii. boil and strain them, and put thereto Oleum vitrioli, q. s. to make it tart, and so drink thereof.   

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

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

The diaphoricall decoction.  
REcipe Cardni Benedicti, M. two Liquorice scraped ℥. three Figs, v. Raisins ℥. two. Sugar-Candie, ℥. i. ss. boil them in a sufficient quantity of water, and strain them to drink.   

A pleurisy broken with a potion.  
FOr the breaking of his Aposteme, there was ministered unto him Aromatico Leonardo, with honeyed water. The next day the Basilick vein, on the Pluriticall side was opened. His drink at dinner and supper was this decoction. Take Hyssop dried, M. i Violets, P. two. six Figs, Liquorice scraped, ℥. ss. Raisins, ℥. iiii. boil them in nine pound of water, till one pound be wasted, than strain this pectoral decoction, and use it.   

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

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

Pain in the side with the Cough, cured by W. T. after this manner.  
REcipe Floris Sulphuris, ʒ. two. the extract of Enula Campana, ʒ. i. Ireos and Liquorice, ana. ℥. i. Honey, q. s. to make it in form of an Electuary. Before it be made up, put thereto ℈. ss. of Oleum sulphuris, and use it morning and evening.    

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

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

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

CHAP. XXXIII. The kill and expelling of Worms in the Stomach, or elsewhere, by I. H.  
AN infinite number of people both young and old, have been cured thereof, with this composition following. Take the seed of Carduus sanctus, Wormseed, Dittanie, Semen Canlium, cornu cervi usti, corallinae, vermium terrestrium, anaʒ ss. mix them in fine powder, and give thereof ʒ ss. either with honey, or sweet milk, in the morning and evening. Anoint also the stomach and belly downward with this Unguent following, and apply a little unto the navel with brown paper, and no doubt of it, within two or three days the Patient shall be cured. For it doth not only kill the worms, but causeth them to come forth by siege, making the belly soluble, so that they shall have two or three stools in a day. The Caraplasm or Unguent is this. ℞. Farinae lupinorum, Aloes, centauriae, myrrhae, theriacae optimae, ana ℥ ss. beaten them into fine powder, and make thereof an Unguent, with the juice of Peach leaves, and keep it to your use. Also two or three drops of Oleum vitrioli, being drunk with water of Gramen, or such like for three or four days, killeth worms. Also ʒ two of Quinta essentia solutiva Phiorav. drunk with ℥ i of Syrup of Roses, killeth the Worms, and expelleth them by siege.   

CHAP. XXXIV. A Quartane of long continuance, cured by L. F.  
FIrst the Patient was purged, with 12. grains of La Petra Philosophale, Leon. Phiorav. mixed with ʒ ss. of good Mithridate, the next day he took of this decoction warm, ℥. vi. and so continued 14 day's morning and evening. ℞. Chamepiteos lb. i white wine lb viij, white honey lb i distil them with a gentle fire, till five pound be come forth. Than let it cool, and filter that which remained in the vessel, and mix it with that which was distilled afore, keep it in a glass close stopped, and use it. Also the Reinss of the back was anointed every night with Balsamum artific. Leon. Phior. and so he was well cured.   

CHAP. XXXV. An approved Remedy against the Pestilence, Pleurisy, and Quartane.  
DIvers people have been cured of these foresaid diseases, by taking a dose of Turpetum Diaphoreticum, Paracelsi, either with Amuletum Palmarii, or with some excellent good Mithridate in the morning fasting, and sweeting thereupon. Sometime it is given with other potions or compositions, according to the disease.   

CHAP. XXXVI. The swelling of the Spleen in a melancholy person, cured by W. T.  
A Certain Melancholy man, was much grieved in his Milt, heart and head; but he was thus cured. First he was twice purged, with ℈ i of Panchimagogon, and ℈ i of the extract of Sena mixed with Syrup of Roses, and two or three drops of oil of Vitriol. That done, he took a quart of posset Ale, made of White wine and Burnet, and drank thereof morning, noon, and night a good draught, with half a spoonful of Aqa Balsami Phiorav. Also now and than, he took morning and evening a tossed of white bread, steeped in Aqua preservans, and within ten days after he purged again, and so remained in good health.   

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

Pestilent Fevers, with great thirst cured by I. H.  
FIrst they were purged once or twice with Aromatico Leonardo, than was the stomach comforted with some pectoral Potion. That being done, there was Barley water made with Raisins, Liquorice, and cool herbs, if you may have them. Than strain it clean, and put therein as much Oleum vitrioli as will make it tart, like a Pomegranate. Drink thereof when you are dry, for it comforts nature, assuageth heat and thirst wonderfully, openeth all obstructions, and defendeth the body from putrified Fevers ●f they be grieved with the headache, you shall 'cause them to be let blood under the tongue, cutting those veins overthwart, and they shall presently be cured.    

CHAP. XXXVIII. Against Poison, or the Pestilence, a diaphoretical Potion, by W. T.  
REcipe Myrrhae, croci, ana ℥ two. Amuleti Palmarii ℥ i Spiritus vini, lb i Oleum piperis, Oleum gingiberis, anaʒ i mix them in a glass, and give thereof ℥ ss. in old Sack at once against the Pestilence or Poison.   

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

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

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

Another for the same, W. T.  
First, purge them with Aromatico Leonardo, once or twice, than let them take morning and evening, half a dram of the Pills following; and anoint the reinss of the back, with the foresaid Unguent.  
℞. Symphyti, crassuli, anaʒ two. Magisterii perlarum, dissolved Coral, ana. ʒ. i. Laudani nostri, ℈ i nucis moschatae numero two., boli Armen, terrae sigillatae verae, sem. papav. albi, Tragacanth, anaʒ two. make them up in a mass with Turpentine, and use them in manner aforesaid.   

An Electuary against Gonorrhoea, by W. T.  
A Certain man, being troubled with a stinking Gonorrhoea, was in this order cured. First he was purged with Aromatico Leonardo; the next day he took a pill or two of Venice Turpentine, washed in plantain water; that done, he used to eat morning and evening the quantity of an hazel nut of this Electuary until he was helped, which was not long after.  
Take the kernels of hazel nuts blaunched, ℥ iiii. magisterii perlarum, laudani nostri, ana ℈ i terrae sigillatae, boli veri, sanguinis draconis in grain, ana ℈ two. Seminis Plantaginis, rasurae Eboris, ana ℈ i nuces moschatae, 3. or 4. Cinamomis, ʒ i Saccari, ℥ iii mix them well together, and use it. Also in the mean time he anointed the reinss, with the foresaid Unguent.    

CHAP. XLII. The immoderate Flux menstrual, suppressed, or stayed by W. T.  
A Certain woman being grievously weakened with that disease, and having great heat and pain in her body, was thus cured. Take the roots of Orpine, and Comfery, thinn sliced, Clary, q. v. boil them with a Chicken, and with that broth make Almond milk, and to every handful of Almonds add ℈. i. of Laudanum nostrum, Grinned them well together, and drink thereof morning and evening. Also you shall anoint the reins and grieved parts with the unguent mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing.  

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

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

Bloody Flux of long continuance cured by W. T.  
REcipe conserve of read Roses, Marmalade of Quinces, electuary of Sulphur of Leonardo Phioravante his description, of each two ounces, Amuletum Palmarii, half an ounce, Essentiae croci, Laudanum nostrum, of each half a scruple, aquae preservantis half an ounce, oleum vitrioli, and Sulphuris, ana. ℈. ss. mix them, and take thereof ʒ. i. morning and evening.    

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

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

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

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

CHAP. XLVI. Suffocation and pains of the Matrix, with retention of menstrues cured by I P.  
REcipe extract. Brioniaeʒ. i. ss. the leaves of Sena, ℥. ss. Ginger, ℈. i. Cinnamon, ʒ. i. Sugar, ℥. i. lay them to infuse one night in a pint of warm whey made of Goat's milk. Than strain it and drink thereof three mornings warm, about the new Moon keeping a warm and drying diet, your wine must be infused with Rosemary flowers.  

Another that hath cured the rising of the Mother by R. C.  
REcipe the Flours or Buds of a Walnut-tree in May, give the Patients as much thereof to drink as will lie on a Groat, and with two or three doses they shall be cured.  
Also if you give ℈. i. of Oleum succinum album in wine, it will presently cure the same disease, a thing oftentimes proved with good success.    

CHAP. XLVII. To provoke Urine, and to 'cause the Jaundice to flow, W. K.  
THe powder of Earthworms drunk with white Wine provoketh Urine, and cureth the Jaundice and Tertians.  
Also grey Soap, ℥. two. bay-Salt fine beaten, ℥. i. mix them and therewith anoint the navel and belly.  
Also Castle-Sope being drunk with warm wine provoketh Urine.  
Also note if you shall apply quick earthworms upon a Whiteblow, called Panaricium (of some Panaricies) they will cure the same.   

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

A Supplement, or Addition unto the former Collection.  
This Appendix or Addition containeth both Philosophical discourses, of the causes ●nd cures of divers and sundry diseases: as also many pithy discourses, of the virtues and use of many Vegetables, Animals, etc. culled and translated out of the Physics and Chirurgery of Sir Leonardo Phioravante, and left to pass forth in print with this Collection.  

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

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

The second course to cure the descension, that cometh from the head to the stomach.  
USe these five things if you will cure this disease; 1. our Electuario Angelica. 2. Quintessence solutive. 3. our Pillulae pro descenso. 4. Unguents for the stomach and head. 5. our Quintessence vegetable. The Electuary cleanseth the head and stomach; the Quintessence solutive evacuateth the body; the Pills take away the cause of the descension; the Unguents dry; and the vegetable Quintessence preserveth the body from all ill and noisome infirmities. The Electuary must be taken first in the morning; of the Quintessence solutive you must take a spoonful in the morning in a little broth and sugar, keeping a reasonable good diet, and do this four or six days; than take the Pills in the evening, and in the mean time anoint the head and stomach with Oleum Cerae, and drink every morning a little of our Quintessence, which if you do use continually (by the blessing of God upon it) there is no doubt, but the body shall be free from many troublesome maladies.  
There was a certain woman of the age of 58. years, who being greatly troubled with a Catarrh, was cured by the use of our Aqua preservans morning and evening, and by anointing the stomach with Balsamo.  
One that was affected with a Catarrh, and a stitch in the side, was thus cured. He took our Aromatico twice; than he took every morning a spoonful of our Quintessence solutive with the broth of a Capon, for seven or eight days together; and every night when he went to bed, he anointed his stomach with Oleum Incompostibile, and thereby was soon after cured.  
A woman that had great pain in her head and stomach, and had her menstrues stopped, with loss of her appetite, was thus helped.  
First she took two doses of our Pillulae Angelicae; that done, she took every morning a spoonful of Quinta essentia solutiva, with broth and sugar, for five or six mornings together; after that she took every morning one spoonful of our Aqua preservans, whereupon in short time after she was cured.   

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

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

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

An Unguent for sore eyes  
TAke Rosewater. Fennell, and Eufrage water, ana. put therein a small quantity of Verdigreace, and boil it a little on the fire; than let it settle till it be clear, and pour it of. With this water see that you wash Auxungia porcina seven or eight times, and of that put a little into the eye when ye go to bed.   

To cure or stay the spitting of blood.  
ONe that spit blood was cured in ten days, by drinking the liquor of Honey morning and evening Another was healed by drinking the decoction of Mint in Vinegar: another by drinking of Crocus martis.   

The description and cure of the Sqinancie.  
THis disease is a windy moisture, and a suffocation of blood, as you may see by experience, that such as are possessed therewith, have a great alteration, or many changes of Fevers, with a swelling in the throat, and many times, if it be not quickly helped, it will choke them, and this is the cure thereof. You shall give them ʒ. i. of the powder of a wild Boars tooth, with ℥. iii of oil of Linseed, and forthwith by the help of God they shall be greatly eased.    

CHAP. III. The description, and manifold cures, of the disease called Scrophulae, or forunculi, which some do call waxing kernels, but rather the King's Evil.  
THe Scrophulae or waxing kernels (so called of some) which use to come in the throat, or other parts of the bodies of young children, do arise and are caused of great quantity of melancholy humours, because that doth for the most part reign in persons that are weak of complexion; for you may easily see, that such as are vexed with that infirmity, are not very quick spirited. These Scrophulae are a long time ere they will come to suppuration; and before they break, and when they are broken, they 'cause excessive pain, and are hard to be cured: For all infirmities that come of melancholy, are troublesome to cure, or resolve, as you may see in the Quartain, and such like. But here I will show thee a secret to cure these Scrophulae. First you must remove the cause, and than cure the effects, for otherwise it were impossible to cure them with outward Medicines. This melancholy is purged with our Syrup against melancholy, which you must use eight or ten days, the dose is about ℥. iv. cold; that done, give them our Aromatico, which cleanseth the head and stomach, and purifieth the blood. As touching local Medicines to break it, you shall lay thereon our Caustick 24. hours, which mortifieth and drieth, for it will draw forth a great deal of moisture; after this anoint it with our Magno liquore until the escare be fallen out, and when it is mundified, apply thereon the Cerot of Gualtifredo di Medi, and use no other Medicine, for it will incarnate, and siccatrize without scar.  

Another cure for Scrophulae.  
A Certain young boy of 14. years, of complexion choleric and melancholy, who had Scrophulae in his throat on both the sides, was cured thus. The first Medicine that he took was the Infusion of Rhubarb, with the Trochisches of Agarick, and acetum squilliticum, and water of Maidenhair mixed together, which he used by the space of ten days. Than was laid upon the Scrophulae, a plaster of Cerot magistrale with Cantharideses, which drew forth the malignity of the Ulcer, and great store of Sanies, being applied for 15 days together. This done, I gave him the decoction of Salsaparilla, with a good diet for twenty days together. Than I applied unto the sore a Cerot of Gualtifredo di Medi, which in a short time cured him, that had been vexed with them four years before.   

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

Another against Scrophulae.  
REcipe Verdigrease, pelitory of Spain, Dock root, the Juice of Leeks, of the Herb Scrophularis, ana, mix them, and lay on lint, and apply it unto the Scrophulae, but take some care thereof.    

CHAP. FOUR Of Panaricium, or Panaricies, called the Whitblow.  
THis grievous and intolerable malady, (as those know well that have felt them) cometh on the end of the finger, and is an infirmity bred in the liver, whereof nature being willing to discharge herself, sendeth it to the extreme parts of the fingers, and most commonly it cometh to the finger next the thumb, but seldom in the other. The reason or cause whereof is hidden, save that we may conjecture (as we have said before) an accident in the Liver, which nature sendeth forth unto those parts to ease herself. When it cometh to the end of the finger, that it can go not further, it causeth a sharp and excessive pain; and the accident coming unto that place, not having passage, is so hot, that in short time it putrefieth the sinews, muscles, and cartilages, and in the end rotteth both flesh and bone. The secret of this grief is not commonly known of the most Chirurgeons, who with all their learning cannot device to cure it as it aught to be cured. The most part of such as have that infirmity loose their finger; but if thou wilt quickly help them, follow this method.  
First, let them bleed on the Liver vein, than let them be well purged. Afterward dress the finger, with Oleum Sulphuris, which will 'cause some pain, nevertheless (to have some ease) you must abide it. The next day dress it with Magno liquore until it be whole, which will be in short time, as I have often proved.   

CHAP. V Of grievous Ulcers in women's Breasts.  
FIrst they must be touched with Oleum Sulphuris, than make this Unguent. Take the yolks of Eggs, ℥ two. Turpentine, Butter, Barley flower, Honey of Roses, ana, ℥ ss. incorporate them all in a mortar, and therewith dress them, until they be whole. But if they come of any kind, or spice of the pox this unguent will be to very small purpose. But than shall you dress them, with our Vnguento magno, which is appropriate unto the disease, and look that you purge them with our Aromatico.   

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

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

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

CHAP. IX. Of the hardness of the Milt, and the cure thereof.  
THe Spleen or Milt is hardened by reason of superfluous humidity, that it taketh from the Liver and Lungs. Therefore if you will help this infirmity, it were necessary to use medicines abstersive and drying, which thou shalt do thus First give them our Aromatico, than let them use this Electuray, which is of mervellous virtue in that operation. Take Crocus martis, Scolopendria, ana. ℥. i. Spicknard, Lapis lazuli, ana. ℈. two. Cinnamon, ℥. ss. mix them, and make an Electuary thereof with purified honey, and take thereof every morning one spoonful, and every night (two hours before supper) another spoonful, and anoint the outward part where the grief is with our Balsamo Artificiato, and in short time the disease shall be cured.  

Another remedy very effectual for the former disease  
LEt them blood on the two veins under the tongue. That done mix mustardseed with the Urine of a Boy, and lay it between two clotheses, and apply it to the part affected one night, and than (if thou feel not good ease) use it again till the disease be gone. Also the decoction of Oak helpeth the swelling of the Milt.    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAP. XVI. The swelling of the leg and foot, cured in manner following,  
F●rst, the Patient took one dose of Aromatico, than he used our Quintessence solutive three or four mornings together in a little broth; that done, he drunk every morning a little of our Quintessence vegetable, fasting, and every night he anointed his leg with Oleum Philosophorum nostrum: also now and than he took a dose of Pillulae Angelicae to keep the body soluble, he kept a reasonable good diet, he used not much walking, so that very shortly after he was well cured.   

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

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

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

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

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

The Second Part of the Appendix or Addition unto this Collection, containing the Use and Virtues, of sundry Vegetables, Animals, etc. gathered out of the Physics of Sir Leonardo Phioravante.  

CHAP. I. Of the Use, and virtues of Ebulus or Danewort.  
TAke the buds of this Vegetable, when they are young and green, perboil them in water, and make thereof a Salad, and give it unto those that have costive bodies, and it will provoke them to the stool. It is an herb very profitable for the sinews, it comforteth the weak parts, and preserveth such, as are weak in the joints from many accidents: it purgeth phlegm, which) for the most part) causeth debility of the Nerves. Whosoever useth to drink of a Syrup made of the Berries thereof, shall not be troubled with the gout, nor any disease in the articular parts. The seed dried is profitable against all infirmities caused of humidity.   

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

CHAP. III. Of the Use and Virtues of the Herb called Gratia Dei, a kind of Geranium, in English, Blue Storks Bill.  
TAke of Gratia Dei, dried in the shadow, and beaten into fine powder, ℥. i. Cinnamon ʒ i cloves, ℈ i wheat flower, lb i Oranges condite, ℥ i make thereof a past with honey, and bake it in the oven with bread, but take great heed that it burn not. Of this you shall give ℥ i to purge against many Infirmities; but above the rest against Scrophulae, against scabs and the white scall. For it evacuateth only the superfluous humidity of the body, it drieth, and is appropriate for such kind of infirmities. Howbeit you must note, that all soluble Medicines are not fit for one disease or complexion, for chief and properly, Rhubarb purgeth choler, black Hellebore avoideth melancholy, Danewort dispossesseth the body of phlegm, and this herb cleanseth the blood, Therefore every one hath his peculiar property, though sometime either of them may work upon more causes than one, yet not so properly or simply, but by accident, and in regard of circumstances.  
Two drachms of the powder of this herb drunk in wine or broth, provoketh vomit and siege, and is very good for such as are lunatic. It helpeth, or at the lest, delayeth the extremity of the Fever. It is good against griefs of the stomach, and wind in the belly.  
A decoction thereof made with lie helpeth putrified Ulcers, if they be washed therewith; for as it purgeth the stomach, so it cleanseth the sore, and healeth it quickly; if you wet a cloth in the said lie, and apply it thereunto.   

CHAP. FOUR Of Rhubarb, and his virtues.  
THe herb called in the Italian tongue Lappacia maggiore, or Rombice domestice, is a kind of Rhubarb, which among the learned Herbalistes' is termed by the name of Rha recentiorum, whereof ʒ. i. when it is new, will loose the body, evacuate choler, as the Rhabarbarum doth. It is very good against oppilations, it purgeth the blood, and taketh away scabs.  
You shall have a most precious Medicine thereof, if you mix the green root with Honey, Cinnamon, Saffron, Ginger, and the powder of Roses.  
If you roast the root in the embers, and mix it with condited Sugar, it breaketh the Scrophulae, and mundifieth them, and healeth them in short time. Some do mix it with the gum, called Ammoniacum, and so do bring it into the form of an Unguent, and apply it unto the parts affected with Scrophulae.   

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

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

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

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

CHAP. IX. Of the virtues and use of Tobacco.  
TAke of the green herb and root lb. iii ss. stamp it in a a mortar with a little salt, than put it in a glass with ℥. vi. of the spirit of wine, and set it thirty days to putrify in horse dung; than distil it in Balneo, till all the substance be come forth; and put therein as much Oleum Sulphuris as will make it tart: than keep it close, and give thereof every morning a spoonful to any one affected with the Fever, and it will help him in short time.  
If any man be affected, or greatly troubled with Ulcers or Scabs, let him drink thereof every day one spoonful, and wash the sores therewith, and in short time it will most wonderfully cure them.   

CHAP. X. Of sweet Majoram, and his Virtues.  
TAke sweet Majoram and stamp it, and take of the juice, ℥. i. Oil of bitter Almonds ʒ. i and of Mastic, ℈. i and snuff it up at the nose three or four mornings together: and anoint the head with oil of Eggs. This purgeth the head of all pains, dissolveth tumours, quickeneth the sight, and provoketh sleep.   

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

CHAP. XII. Of Man, and the Medicines that are made of him.  
MAn is a rational or reasonable creature, whereof we have written at large in our book called Phisica del Phioravante. But here we will only writ of certain Medicines, that may be made or derived from him, which are for the ease, help, and remedy of divers infirmities, which are in men and women: The reason whereof is very good, for every like rejoiceth with, and helpeth his like, and therefore man serveth for man. The fat of a man is (as every man knoweth) hot, and penetrative, and mollifying, if you anoint the parts therewith, where the sinews be hard, and drawn together, or contracted, therefore it will quickly resolve them. I have made the Quintessence of man's blood, rectified and circulated, with the which I have done most wonderful cures, for if you give thereof ʒ. i. it will restore those that lie at the point of death.  
It is most profitable against those infirmities that are in the blood, for it correcteth the malignity of the blood, and preserveth it, as well as the spirit of Wine. If you put a little of it into a hogshead of Wine, it will purify it, and preserve it a long time, more than any other thing whatsoever: So that this Quintessence worketh more effects, for the cure of great and dangerous infirmities, than any other-  
Also from the liver of a man will be drawn by distillation, a water and an oil. If the water be drunk every morning together, by the space of a month, the quantity of ʒ. i. with ℥. two. of Liverwort water, it will recover such as are half rotten through diseases of the liver, and hath divers other properties, whereof I will not speak at this time.  
From the flesh of man distilled, there will come forth a stinking water, and an oil, which is most excellent to anoint wounds withal when they are badly healed, and that there remain any hurt about those parts, that they are not so sensible and pliant (as they were want to be before) this resolveth them: and it mollifieth and softeneth all hardness of any tumour, of what origin all soever it shall come.  
From the forepart of a man's scull there is drawn by distillation, a water and oil, and a salt, which is most profitably used, against the Falling sickness.  
Finally from each other part of man, there are Medicines to be made, for the cure of sundry diseases in man, and woman, as you may also read more at large, in the Spagyric preparations of Josephus Quercetanus published in English by J. H. Practitioner in the spagyrical Art.   

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

CHAP. XIV. Of Eeels, and the medicinal use of them.  
MAny have used the fat of an Eeel against deafness, but to small purpose. But if you distil the Eels with Aqua vitae, you shall have a most subtle oil, which doth most excellently prevail against that infirmity.  
Also if you boil the skins of Eels in strong Lie until they be dissolved, than strain it and boil it to a thickness, and it will be a most strong glue for wood or other works.  
Also if you anoint a corroding Ulcer therewith, it will greatly repress the rage thereof, and comfort it.   

CHAP. XV. Of the barbil, and to what use she serveth in Medicine.  
IN the month of May the Barbill hath eggs which are of a soluble quality, and of some those eggs being eaten, they shall be provoked to vomit.  
They have a quality contrary to other purgers, they must be dried in the sun, mixed with a little Sena, and than ministered in wine or water that is sodden. When it hath well wrought, the Patients must eat good meat to nourish them, and may drink wine, and (when they are disposed thereto) suffer them to sleep.   

CHAP. XVI. Of Bees, and their Medicinal Use.  
Bees' are of nature hot and moist, having a generative property. For if they be given to any barren creature, they shall conceive in short time after.  
Also if you lay dead Bees in a dry place to putrify, wetting them sometime with wine, they will revive again, though not as they were before, but they will be much bigger, and of another form.  
These Bees, if you bring into powder with as much Cantharideses, and boil them with a little oil of Camomile, and anoint any part where the hair is fallen away, it shall quickly come again, and in a short space, a most strange thing to behold.   

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

CHAP. XVIII. Of Centumpedes, called in English Sows.  
IF you minister the powder of these creatures in wine, it hath many excellent properties, but chief it hath been experienced greatly to prevail against the stitch in the side, for it will help that grief presently.  
If you burn the little crieking creature, called a Cricket, and minister the powder thereof, in some Dieuretick liquor, it provoketh Urine.  
Mallows, Alkakengi, Centum-nodi, Gentum-grana, and the roots of Rapes are of like property, being handled and used according to Art.  
There are oftentimes found in standing pools, and putrified waters, certain small creatures, which are round like a cherry, having a tail and two feet, which are in Lombardie called Comazzi, Take these, and distil thereof a water or liquor, wherewith you may very soon consume or break iron a very great Secret observed in nature.   

CHAP. XIX. Of the Rosin or Gum called Tacca Mahacca, and the use thereof.  
TAke thereof as much as you will, distil it in a retort of glass, and from it there will come both oil and water, of which I have seen divers Medicines made against sundry diseases. Anoint the belly with this oil cold, when you go to bed, and it helpeth against the crudity of the Matrix.  
If the genital part of the man be anointed therewith before the act of generation, the woman shall be the more fit for conception, for by this means some kind of sterility is taken away.  
It helpeth and easeth pain in the head, proceeding of a cold stomach.  
It helpeth digestion, and resolveth pain throughout the body in what part soever they shall come, specially when they have their beginning of cold.  
The water hereof, dissolveth wind in the stomach, helpeth digestion, provoketh urine, mittigateth all fevers that come of cold.   

CHAP. XX. Of the Gum Caranna, and the Medicinal properties of it.  
TAke it, and distil it in a retort with the yolks and whites of eggs, and there will come forth oil and water, the oil whereof will be black, and the water read.  
The water of Caranna helpeth Chilblains, and all chaps or clefts in the lips arising of cold in the winter.  
It is a great ease, for the sore breasts of women that give suck.  
The oil worketh wonderful effects in wounds of the head, arm or legs.  
Anoint a simple wound therewith once or twice, and it will very speedily be healed.  
Take a quantity of this Gum, and mix it with as much of the seed of water-cresses, and the white of an egg, and make thereof a Cerot to apply unto a Rupture, wherewith it will in short time be healed, all other circumstances being also observed.   

CHAP. XXI. Of liquid Amber, and the Medicinal virtues thereof.  
TAke liquid Amber, and distil it in a Retort, and from thence there will come a read oil.  
This oil is used against all indispositions of cold, and moisture, or wind.  
The same healeth scabs, and is good for wounds.  
If you anoint the stomach therewith, it will exceedingly comfort the same, for it is a thing uncorruptible, and like unto Balsamum.   
FINIS.   

ONE Hundred and Fourteen EXPERIMENTS AND CURES, Of the Famous Physician THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS.  
Whereunto is added certain excellent Works, by B. G. a Portu Aquitano.  
Also certain Secrets of Isaac Hollandus, Concerning the Vegetal and Animal Work.  
Likewise the Spagyric Antidotary for Gun-shot, by josephus Quirsitanus.  
LONDON, Printed by G. D. MDCLII.   

An Apologetical Preface of Mr. Barnard G. Londrada A Portu Aquitanus, unto the Book of Experiments of Paracelsus, wherein it is proved, that sick bodies, stuffed and filled with the seeds of diseases, can hardly be cured without metalline Medicines; contrary to the Writings of some, which deny, that Metals (after what sort or manner soever they be prepared) may profit or help the nature of man.  
IN sacred Scripture (gentle Reader) among others, we found this law, full of Christian love and Charity, Thou shalt restore again the wandering or straying Ox, or Ass of thy Neighbours unto him; Deut. 22.8. By which saw the eternal God would, as by an evident argument, confirm and establish amongst us mutual love and amity: For if in this sort God's laws do command us to take care of the straying Cattles of our enemies, how much more than, do they will us to help the miserable case, and great dangers, of the bodies of our friends, and to restore their health? Wherhfore, when as I (together with Theophrastus Paracelsus and other excellent men) understood the errors of many Physicians of our time, I began to device with myself, by what means I might attain to the knowledge of true Physic, which is derived out of the light of nature, not out of the dark writings of the Heathen. And I judged it to be necessary to travel, and to go unto fare places to seek out learning and knowledge, and not to hope or look for it, sitting at home idly. I prepared myself therefore to my journey, and with long travel and labour have searched out, and learned those things, which for Christian love sake I can not longer keep silent, that I might call back the wandering children into the path of true doctrine; and having declared my journey and labours, they also being excused and defended, which are laid open unto all manner of slanders, by those which so greatly commend the Heathenish Physic, whose deceits in some part I will endeavour to disclose; I will afterwards declare what those, that are desirous of true and natural Physic, are to look for at my hands, and what Books of true Physic I have gathered together in sundry places, being moved with compassion towards those that go astray, I will communicate and set forth for their public profit and commodity. But first, the matter so requireth, that to avoid the hatred of the common sort, as well from myself, as from all other favourers of the Art of Separation, I should duly answer unto the adversaries, whose frowardness and malice is such, that they will with proud words annihilate, reject, and condemn others inventions, which they themselves see and perceive they may use with great success and profit: and yet they in the mean season arrogate unto themselves the commendations due unto the Authors, and with a lying kind of stealth, rob the inventors of Arts of their due honour, which is a subtle kind of craft, springing out of the deceits of the old Serpent. For when as reports are spread of the strange cures of sundry grievous diseases, which are wrought by the benefit of tinctures, and vegetal, and mineral spirits, by the cunning and labour of those whom the common sort at this day call Chemists, or Alchemists; by and by on the contrary part they cry out, that those collier Physicians can do no good, but kill all men that put themselves into their hands with their venomous Medicines, so that they aught to be driven out of the Commonwealth, and that they are deceivers, and that their extractions, and preparations, their subtle and thin spirits will profit nothing, and that the spirit of Vitriol is poison, the essence of Antimony and Mercury is nothing, the extraction of Sulphur is nothing worth, neither the liquor of Gold, and to be brief, that all things are contrary to the nature of man, and more to be avoided, than the eyes of a Basilisk: and yet they, in the mean time, like cunning and crafty Thiefs, privily, and with fair promises, pick out from the poor Chemists the secrets of Physic, and secretly learn those things that they forbidden the common people as poisons, afterwards challenging them for their own practices; and by this wicked injury they derive unto themselves the favour, friendship, praise, gifts, and rewards of men, which by good right are altogether due unto those, that by their labour, sweat, watching, and diligent search in natural things, by Vulcan's art have found out such things, and published them for the common commodity of man: and yet not contented therewith, they also publish great volumes filled with toys, lies, and sophistications; going about, as much as in them is, to suppress, overthrow, and utterly to extinguish the light with darkness, and the truth with lies, and practise (the most plain and manifest workmistresse established even by truth itself) with a vain, feigned theoric, devised by their own subtle brain. I say to thee (thou notable Doctor, that so back-bitest Paracelsus) how canst thou by any means with thy trifling words deface the work itself, or with thy theoric refel the practice? Art thou so great a Doctor and knowest not, that thou hast profited so much, as by thy work thou canst bring aught to effect? Paracelsus teacheth, that the falling sickness is to be cured with the spirit of Vitriol, and performed it, and the work itself declares it daily, prove thou the contrary, and cure the same disease with thy Pills, Syrups, and Electuaries, than shalt thou have the victory. It is not sufficient for thee, by bringing thy reasons, to prove, that metalline Medicines are not agreeing for man's nature, neither that metals may be so prepared that they may heal. Why? Thou deniest that which indeed is performed, and openly seen with eyes. It is a foul thing to be ignorant in that that every man knoweth, for out of all doubt you have all heard, that most dangerous diseases have been cured with metalline tinctures, yea, with such as have not been rightly prepared by counterfeit Paracelsians, as with Vitrum Antimonii, which doth pluck up suddenly at once by the roots the impurities of the Fever, although not without great weakening of the powers, yet it healeth; and yet we allow not of such perilous cures: and so likewise of others. Now if the Minerals work this, not being rightly prepared, what think you will they do being rightly prepared, and purged from their venom and poison?  
And how can you with a safe conscience reject those things whereof you have no knowledge? It is not sufficient to affirm any thing, except it be confirmed by probable and grounded reasons: Every man will play the Ce●sor of Paracelsus, whom it is more easy to reprehend, than to follow: and whilst every man desireth to seem, or to be thought more learned than other, no man will learn of another. I say, every Paracelsian, which doth but only carry coals unto the work, can show you by eye three principles of Theophrastus' Physic. Have you tasted the most sharp Salt, or the most sweet Oil, or the Balm, that most delicate liquor? All those being hidden in every thing that is created, you have not once perceived. The metalline spirits, in whom Physic doth consist, by no means can be found out, neither what force they have, or fellowship with man's nature, but only by fire, for as fire did first show, that the smoke of Mercury was poison to man's nature without any subtle speculation, but thou didst never handle coals, neither canst draw any so small a Balm out of the Vegetals; therefore being ignorant in metalline Physic, thou canst not so much as once guess what it is, and therefore dost judge of things unknown, as the blind man doth of colours: Is it not a great folly to writ against a thing, and not to understand it well before? Such as are addicted to Paracelsus doctrine, when they perceive you have no stronger weapons, than those you have hitherto gathered, they will conclude, that you rather confirm and establish Paracelsus Physic, than confute it: It is not enough to say a thing is false, except there be more probable and better showed: Hereby it appeareth, that ye nourish a secret ignorance of natural things in yourselves.  
What, are you those great Physicians and excellent Philosophers? How cometh it than to pass, that the force of drugs are hidden and unknown unto you? Do you not in this point come near unto the Empirics, whom you with great pride and brag of knowledge reject, when as you say, the Chemist, be he never so excellent, is no Physician, but he that with judgement and reason hath learned to make and use all remedies for diseases; for in those points consisteth the chiefest glory and commendation of a Physician, and the only safety of the sick: How vain is this reasonable Physician, which prepareth his Medicines with reason and not with the hand? He is the very Physician that with his own hand purgeth his Medicines from their venom, and being so prepared, with sharp judgement doth apply them to their proper diseases, that the seed of the disease may be pulled up by the roots, and so must the speculation and practice, reason and the work concur and join together, because judgement without practice is barren. Tell me, how cometh it to pass that Mercury healeth the French Pox, and the filthy scab? Why do you command the miserable sick persons to anoint themselves with Quicksilver, as Shepherd's grease their Sheep? How happeneth it (I say) that Mercury is the special best remedy against these diseases? Do you deny that metals do any thing, yea, and the greatest part of these cures? Why do you command such as are infected with Leprosy to swallow Gold? Why do you boil it in broths with Capons? Why do you mingle leaf Gold in your Pills and Electuaries? You know that the force of the Leprosy is often delayed, that it breaketh not out into the upper part of the skin, by taking of crude Gold into the stomach: Than if Gold that is compact and not resolved do work this effect, what will not the spirit of Gold work being loosed from his gross substance.  
If you will not believe Paracelsus, that the cure of most dangerous diseases lieth hidden in metals, at the lest, credit those that lived long before him; amongst whom Arnoldus de villa nova is chief, who in his book of the preservation of youth saith thus; Pearls dissolved into liquor comfort the natural heat, help the trembling of the heart, and those that are fearful, and properly they clarify the blood of the heart, and many diseases are cured by them: For it is a Salt of the Mine, which the wise call their Animal stone, and some the Mineral Chifir, and all the mastery in the preparation of it is, that it may be resolved into a most pure and notable water, with such things as do not destroy his nature. This saith Arnoldus, who speaketh not of stamping, but of solution: but to what purpose do I allege this? Verily, that you may see how with your own swords you cut your own throats, you use Pearls, Corals, and precious Stones in your Electuaries and broths, and those you beaten into powder. You smell as it were a certain Medicinal virtue in precious Stones, but you deal as naughty Cooks & rude Country women do, that when Partridges or Hares come to their hands, they thrust them into the pottage pot, or else seethe them in water: even so you stamp and break your Pearls, which should rather be dissolved. Albeit you should make powder as subtle as the air, you should nothing profit; for as you put it into the stomach, so shall you see it pass away again; and hereupon of very necessity were the rules of Chemic preparations brought into Physic, which you do hate worse than a Serpent or a Dog, with the practisers of them.  
What shall need many words? If you will not yet grant, that the special cure of diseases consisteth in Minerals, harken what Andrea's Matheolus saith in the fourth book of his Epistles; the bodies of the sick being full of seeds of diseases, will hardly be healed without metalline Medicines: and in his Treatise of Antimony, he saith, Antimony doth no less purge the diseases of the bodies, than Metals, from superfluities. This did that learned man understand, when as yet he knew not the true preparation of Antimony: Likewise he greatly esteemeth the potable Gold, the preparation whereof, as the same Matheolus used it, I will declare unto you, because you shall not be ignorant. Take Gold twice or thrice purged with Antimony, make it into thin plates, and in a fit vessel hung the plates that they touch not one another, and let it be burned and calcined in a Furnace duly prepared by the space of half a year with a very strong fire, until at the length the plates being taken out and laid open in the air, they do dissolve, and there flow from it a certain oily humour, read of colour, and of taste sweetish. He drew out two ounces of Oil of Gold, but out of that which was not so well burnt, the liquor did not so readily run out: Sometimes he used to pour on the spirit of Wine rectified, and that so long, and so much, until the whole read colour was drawn out. You ●hall rectify those spirits, or essence of Wine, very subtly, if you put it into a glass cucurbite under a limbeck with a Receiver, and set it in most cold or snowy water, and cover the head round about with a linen cloth steeped in warm water, for than the subtler parts will rise up, leaving the watery substance in the bottom. Gold calcined and often infused with the spirit of Wine with many imbibitions, and again distilled by a Limbeck, leaveth in the bottom behind a reddish liquor. That Physician used first to purge the body, and than to shave and heat the crown of the head, and than to pour on a drachm of that Oil, and to give so much also to be drunk in Malmsey. The like is to be wrought with fine Silver for the diseases of the head, and so likewise of other Metals, for being duly prepared they do dissolve, because they are Salts.  
This man hath many other mineral Medicines, which were never known, either to Galen, or to Hippocrates, but brought to light by our Theophrastus Paracelsus, of whom you great Philosophers and Physicians only in name do undiscreetly writ. Do you think all things utterly impossible unto other men-which you yourself know not, or cannot do, or that you cannot compass with your divine knowledge? What will you say to this? I know a man, that within three, or at the most six days, can heal the French Pox with his Turpetum minerale, not with that which is made with Oil of Vitriol, but with another fare more excellent, which shall not come to your hands or knowledge, except you lay aside your frowardness, and cease to bring the Paracelsians in suspicion with the common people and noble men, and to defraud them of the fruit of their just labours. You say, What have you brought to pass? what have you found out whereby you should look for praise or profit? Than do we demand of you, What have you found out whereby Physic is the better furnished? We have brought into Physic, Essences, Oils, Balms, and Salts, all which the Alchemists schools have found out. And how great light is come unto Physic only by true distillation, it is known unto all men, and daily experience teacheth, how great commodity hath redounded thereby unto the sick. In the mean time, if you so much detest the labour, yet at the lest spare our good name. But it is no marvel, doth it not so always hap, that the best labour is worst accepted and recompensed? Every good man, inclined to virtue, wisdom, and fidelity, can witness the same, what reward they have often received for their fidelity and opening of the truth. So some men, when they can say not more, they object unto the searchers of nature their poverty, filling the ears of the common people with glorious lies, always chanting upon those things which follow upon the abuse and dangerous cures of the sergeant Paracelsians, judging all things by their contempt, poverty, vile estate, and baseness, but they will quickly avoid that despised poverty, which willingly they sustain, that the nature of things might daily more and more be known unto men, whereby the unaccustomed cures of most grievous diseases might at length be found out, with the which such as are diseased might through your sluggishness all die, if God, having compassion upon them now at the end of the world, had not provided wholesome Medicines, even by most contemned men. The Lepers, and Gouty, the infected with the Ptisick, Falling Sickness, and French Pox, devoured with the Canker, Fistula, and greedy Wolf, with the Dropsy, and Palsy, and that with the Plague, and other diseases, are thrust into their graves: these (I say) and many other more, whom you through ignorance, with your naughty and corrupt Potions and Purgatious, like Butchers have buried alive, will rise up against you: these (I say) will call you to answer, and accuse you, even the poor whom you have rob of their goods, will require your blood for the loss of their bodies, and consuming of their money. Than what a madness and cruel foolishness is this, that in the time of any great Plague, such as are infected you shut up in houses, set marks upon them, keep them in prison, strangle them with cares and solitariness, and kill them for hunger: Is the Plague so to be cured? Or whether, do you not think that all men may be infected from whence the first man was infected? why do you not preserve the whole with your Antidotes or Defensives, being so famous Physicians as you are? but you have tried almost all your Medicines to be of no force in this disease. Do you in this sort love your Neighbour as yourself? or thus spend your life for your fellow, when as at no time (if help be required) there is greater need of fellowship, company, comfort, and help, than in the time of Plague? O what great punishment have you deserved, that refuse those that are forsaken of their friends, fare from their kindred, and as it were thrust into exile, whose solitariness hath been more violent unto them than the disease, and grief of mind hath killed rather than the sickness? What I pray you is true and Christian friendship? Doth not this complaint of the sick stir you up unto pity? When I was in health, thou wert my friend, thou didst visit me, and help me, but now that I am sick, thou dost abhor me, and liest from me; when fortune laughed upon me, thou didst also laugh, but now that with grief and tears I crave comfort, thou dost deny it. What do you call visiting and helping? You will not only not help yourselves, but will persuade Prince's o● stop the passages, that no Travellers shall pass unto those places, when as you aught with courage to relieve them of their grief, and willingly to go thither to try your cunning. But when any plague beginneth, you are the first that tremble, are afraid, and despair. The sick are committed unto you, as children and infants which lack diligent cure, you aught to help them, as the father doth his children, and not to rob them of their money; than would the sick man smile upon you, if you would refresh his languishing life with some gentle Balm, than would he rejoice in the sight of you, and call you his father. Every natural Physician of necessity aught to make his Medicines with his own hands, and not to commit them unto an unskilful Cook, not to fill great volumes with receipts, with the which I see those that are studious in Physic are in a manner overwhelmed, that they be ready almost to fall down and die under so heavy a burden of receipts, Physic is not so learned but with the labour of the hands, practise being workmistresse, where Vulcan day by day doth show new and pleasant remedies which nature teacheth the good steward her workman, daily to purge better and better from their superfluities. Do you look for a rich harvest and do not first plough nor sow? Look for knowledge of the secret natural powers, and do not first seek it out by labour with the fire? for the most part of you all are dainty and slothful, and he that is slack in his works, goeth like a blind man unto his practice. If you did not so much abhor the Chemical Art, you would learn to separate the pure from the impure (which is the cause of the corruption of things) by long digestions, distillations, and imbibitions, whereby you should make your Medicines pure and clean before you minister it to the sick; so upon the sudden receiving, the sick nature should be refreshed, whereas the weak stomach cannot concoct, digest, and separate gross matters. But these great Doctors will not be Scholars, or young Soldiers, not more than an old Dog will be brought to hunting with whips, he'll gnaw his line, and show his grinning teeth to him that leadeth him, rather than he will be ruled; even so you will rather openly gainsay the truth, and like Dog's bark and by't at it, than you will confess your errors. What, aught this to be a reproach unto the Chemists, that for the true preparations of Medicines, whereof you are ignorant, and for their great labour and pain which you do eschew, they should be accounted beggars, poor, and ragged? Do you not think that the common people will at length found out your deceits? You have been sufficiently warned of many Doctors of Physic, who truly have not allowed your childish cures: Amongst whom, Conrade Gesner is one, and many other more, which if they were living, most certainly would deny your feigned Art. Likewise John Woz of Cullen, which flourished 1510. doth sharply reprove the Physicians of his time, who in his writings upon the Plague, and labyrinth of Physicians, most plainly and excellently treateth of metalline Medicines, and Quintessences, and showeth their use. What will you answer to those things which that Doctor Gorreus hath written, in the fifth book of the extraction of the Quintessence out of Herbs, where in his Comments he so excellently extolleth metalline Medicines, and did use them, little esteeming your Medicines; for he saith, the distillations of waters out of Herbs, and other such like things, wherein the Apothecaries do boast, are almost of no force, for it is nothing else but the phlegm of the thing, whose principal liquor consisteth in the oil of Salt.  
But that I may stir up in you an earnest desire to know the marvellous property of things, I will repeat unto you the judgement of Fernelius Ambianus in his second Book and eighteenth Chapter De Abditis rerum causis: When first (saith he) I gave myself unto the study of that sensible and metalline Philosophy, called Chymia, through long travel (as many other had) I getting a most perfect Master or Teacher, did draw out of every Plant, and other living things, very divers and sundry substances; first water, and that very plentiful, if the Plant were green, more scarce if it were dry; than Oil, but not that fat and filthy substance which by press is drawn of our men, but the workmanship of a more excellent Art, which neither easily corrupteth nor soureth by age, and that of two sorts, one thin and white, another drier and read, etc. Than it followeth, I will tell you by your leave, not uttering this whole secret, but teaching you upon what true grounds it doth consist: But lest the strange obscurity of the name might offend you, which the fathers have covered under a shadow or dark kind of speech, I will most plainly and openly show it in his place: And yet you cannot away with them that give you good counsel, as also you will not suffer learned and excellent men, neither Gerard Dorne Doctor of Physic, whom no doubt God hath raised up unto us: This most excellent man is worthy of eternal memory, because that he by no injuries, neither perils, could be terrified, but that by his last Writings he hath made Paracelsus more famous, who doth excel with a most ancient gravity and authority, that at the lest he might help the children of learning, for whose defence, as a valiant Soldier, he contendeth by word and deed even to the death: the fellow and companion of that learned Physician Josephus Quirsitanus, famous in Physic, who hath excellently deserved for Physic, and in his books hath uttered many excellent philosophical Secrets unto the posterity, and opened many hidden spagirical Medicines, and would have brought to light greater things, if the ingratitude of some had not stopped his willing mind, and especially of a Perfumer, which goeth about to reprove many things, and to allow but few in his writing, and yet not able to show better; whereby it comes to pass, that through one man's ingratitude all feel loss and lack. Proceed therefore with courage, drive away those drones and sluggish beasts from the rack, so shall your head be crowned with perpetual praise. In the mean time, whatsoever we have gotten by many travels, and found out and learned with labour, we will here annex, praying our adversaries, that if they need them not, they will not condemn or slander them, or terrify others, which with willing mind would embrace these our labours, or else to teach them some better things; considering yet, that something in the mean time aught to be given and granted unto him, which for Physics sake hath put himself in so many dangers.  
After the great murder and fury of our Countrymen the French men, when I went with D. Charles of Chambray, D. of Pansay into Italy, travelling through Istria, Ragusium, Sclavonia, Macedonia, and Byzantium, I incessantly applied my whole study to understand and know some certainty touching the Philosopher's stone, or Chemical matters; but I could found no true Philosophers, only false Physicians and Chemists every where, which had either altogether none, or else very little knowledge of natural Arts and preparations; at the length (by God's good will) I happened upon a very learned man, Daniel Bishop of Dalmatia: Unto this most excellent man I directed my letters, the which, together with his answer, a little after sent to me, I will hereafter publish, wherein you shall see many philosophical points, delectable to be read and understood.  
At the length, when I had sufficiently searched over the East Countries, and could gather no certain point in natural Science, I determined to take my journey towards Germany, with the most courteous Prince Cabaneus Vydam of Chartres, still employing my mind to the earnest study of Chymycall Physic; and there I understood, that Kings and Princes were deceived by unskilful Practisers, which did utter and cell their sophisticate Chemical Arts, which they had begged and scratched together out of all corners, with a pompous show, deceiving the Princes of their money; whereby it cometh to pass, that daily a great number of Sophisters, and sophisticators do daily rise and spring up, through which, not only the most commendable Art of Alchemy receiveth great detriment, is oppressed and adulterate, and the Chemists themselves made hateful unto all men, consuming their life, time, and goods, upon vain works and practices, but also there redoundeth most great hurt and damage unto the Commonwealth; for there are many deceivers so crafty, that with a dissembled experience in the Chemical Art, and with feigned friendship, and great promises, they do craftily learn of others their cunning, which they challenge for their own, esteem of great value, and carry them about to be sold. As upon a time, certain knaves by craft got from me certain written books, and sold them for a great sum of money. Commonwealths and the Chemical Art should be very well provided for, if that such knaves might be punished and restrained by the Magistrate, so should the studious of the Art be less deceived, and in short space the true and pure Art would appear from those shadows and sophistications. Wherhfore, to the end that such as be desirous of the Art may have some pledge from me, wherewith they may make this Science more plain, I will shortly (God willing) set forth three books of the Philosopher's stone, written by divers Authors, whereof the first was drawn out of certain characters by a noble Britain, wherein all the dark speech's of the Philosophers are most plainly expounded, whereunto I will annex two hundred certain, infallible, and true philosophical rules, whereby those that do err and doubt, touching the matter of the stone, shall be confirmed. The second book is, Johannes de Rovillasco Pedomontanus, which treateth of the Philosophers Mercury, and how it is drawn, together with an Epistle of John Pontanus of the same argument. But there is a more certain excellent Treatise of an uncertain Author, which doth explain many doubts in that sacred Physic.  
And because that all nations, especially the Germans, have written books in their own language, I will also writ two books in the French tongue, for the help of such as are studious of Philosophy, wherein I will treat of many preparations and special Medicines tried by me and others, also of divers Elixirs of the Philosophers, extractions of Mercuries and Mercurial waters, of many and divers dissolutions, I will also add the interpretations of sundry Characters, wherewith the books both of the old and new Writers are written to cover and hid the Art; also the exposition of a certain Alphabet, without the which the work can hardly be understood: and two Treatises, the one of the virtues of the vegetal and mineral Oils, the other of the salts and properties of many vegetals and minerals; whereunto I will also join two Treatises of philosophical Ours, and of making of Vinegers, the which my labour and study, if I see it acceptable unto those that are studious of that Art, I will shortly set forth greater things, which many with their whole hearts do wish and desire; in the mean time, take in good part this little work. That which we have hitherto spoken, is spoken only unto those that do so deadly hate the Chemical Physic, which think nothing can be well or profitably taught in Physic that the old Harp soundeth not; as though that nature were not more than Galen, or that all the learning of Physic were to be drawn from the Heathen, or that they alone had published the Art, and established it with such sound arguments. Why do you not out of those Authors confute those excellent men which are followers of Paracelsus, amongst whom, that great Doctor Petrus Severinus a Dane is chief, who in his Idea hath opened the invincible foundation of Paracelsus Physic? Why do you not answer to the monarchy of the Trinity, of that learned Doctor and Physician Gerard Dorne? Why do you not confute the volumes of that famous Physician Turnesser, being confirmed with the truth of practice? But for your sakes, which daily call Galens doctrine unto examination, and with exact judgement do consider of it, giving place unto Paracelsus, acknowledging and exercising his preparations and practice, I do rejoice, and shortly more shall come out against the adversaries, which shall by't them better; in the mean time, with your word, deed, and writing, defend the truth from injury.  
Farewell. B. G.   

B. G. Londrada a Portu Aquitanus, unto the gentle Reader health.  
THis Treatise of Paracelsus (friendly Reader) came unto my hands by the gift of a certain noble Prince of Germany, and because it is sufficiently evident to be Paracelsus work, I thought it not good to reserve it to myself, but to publish it abroad, seeing there cometh no commodity or profit of hidden Treasure: This therefore, such as it is (loving Reader) embrace. But this one thing I would have you understand, that when you do minister those exalted Essences of Paracelsus, and his precious Oils, think not that they are to be ministered by themselves, but with some other mixture to carry or lead them; and they must be used, the stomach first being purged with some special Medicine of Paracelsus? as for example, if you will minister Oil of Vitriol, mingle five or six drops with an ounce of conserve of Roses, so shall you safely give it, the like you must judge of other things; use these happily.  
Farewell.   

One hundred and fourteen Experiments and Cures, of Philip Theophrastus Paracelsus, a great Philosopher, and a most excellent Doctor of the one and the other Physic, written with his own hand in the German tongue, which Conrade Steinberge his Servant found among other lose papers, and scrolls of Paracelsus.  
A Certain Baron being diseased with a wont grief, by drinking our Quinta essentia Mercurialis, cast out a stone downward, and became whole.  
2. A certain woman was long sick of the Passion of the heart, which she called Cardiaca, who was cured by taking twice our Mercurial vomit, which caused her to cast out a worm, commonly called Theniam, that was four cubits long.  
3. One Bartholomew had for two year's space a pain in his side, whom I cured by giving him the Oil of Vitriol in a drink comforting the stomach.  
4. A man that had his Navel standing out like to a man's Yard, was healed with a thread dipped in the Oil of Vitriol, by tying the thread hard about it every day. After the same sort I healed a great swelling, or over-growing of the flesh, called Parotis, which grew out of a woman's thigh, weighing five pound.  
5. A Soldier was shot through in the breast to the left shoulder with a two forked Arrow, so that the head stuck fast in the bone, the which I drew forth with my two fingers, and poured Kissed into the wound, and so he was healed.  
6. A Physician being astonished with a clap of Thunder and Lightning, so that he seemed to be sick of the (Apoplexia) or of the disease which they call Syderacio, and of us, blast or taking, was restored to his former health with Oleum auri in aqua Melissa.  
7. A young man which for three years had on his chin a great outward swelling or imposthume, with the often chewing of the herb called Persicarie, was cured.  
8. I cured hard imposthumes, swell, and crusty ulcers, and stinking in the nostrils, with our Medicamentum mundificativum, and with our Emplastrum Stipticum.  
9 A woman who was in manner consumed with the French Pox, was cured with a drink or potion of Essentia Melissa, and she lived eight years after.  
10. One had his stomach swollen and standing out bigger than a Pomegranate, and that without any pain, whom I cured with a drink or potion of oil of Vitriol.  
11. A boy of fifteen years old, falling down a stone stairs, had his arm and leg benumbed and void of moving, whose neck with the hinder part of the head, and all the back bone I anointed with this unguent.  
℞. Of the fat of a Fox, ℥. two. Oil of the earthworms, ℥. i. Oleum Philosophorum, ℥. ss. I mixed them together, and anointed therewith, and in short space no wound nor swelling appeared in him so hurt.  
12. One after an Ague fell into such a dead sleep, that he felt not himself being pricked, nor could open his eyes, nor speak any thing; he was sick of the Lethargi, whom I cured with the oil of salt.  
13. A woman that gave a child suck, having her terms stayed long before, at the length the menstruous blood ran apace out of her breasts, whereupon when she felt no grief or pain, I healed her by extracting blood out of the vein of the foot called Saphena.  
14. A boy having his finger eaten to the bone, with a disease called Impetigo or Lichen, I cured in short time with the oil of Lead.  
15. In a place where the bones were cankered and consumed, with good success I used Quinta essentia serpentum.  
16. A young man had his thigh made filthy with read bushes of the bigness of Grommell seed, which I cured with the water of Tartar and treacle.  
17. The growing out of the flesh in the fundament, as also A ni Rhagades, which are certain clefts or chaps in the flesh, I cured by the taking away of those fleshy parts by incision with Filum Arcenicale, and by the unction of Oleum Saturni.  
18. One that spit blood, I cured by giving him one scruple of Laudanum Precipitatum, in the water of Plantain, and outwardly I applied a linen cloth to his breast, dipped in the decoction of the bark of the roots of Henbane.  
19 One had two Pushes, as it were warts upon the yard, which he got by dealing with an unclean woman, so that for six months he was forsaken of all Physicians as uncureable, the which I cured, by giving him Essentia Mercurialis, and than mixed the oil of Vitriol, with Aqua sophiae, and laid it on warm with a suppository four days.  
20. One fifty years old, after he was healed of the French Pox, had every month the flux of the Emeroides breaking and flowing out as fast as the Terms do in a woman, whom I cured by purging him, first with Pillulae Pestilentiales Ruffi mixed with our Essentia Mercurialis, afterwards he drank oftentimes Aurum Diaphoreticum, but last of all, by giving him Crocus Martis in drink, he was perfectly cured.  
21. A Goldsmith of Stuburg, had his skull perished unto the innermost skin, or pellicle, which they call Meniux tenuis, which also swollen up, whom I cured by opening the skull, and by purging the skin or pellicle, as it commonly falleth out in the wounds of the head, with Vnguentum Fuscum, and afterwards with Balsamum Hiperici, and with the flowers of herbs appropriate for the head, applied to the place, painted in form of a plaster. But in the mean time he drank thrice every day of Vitriol, with the water of Basill and Lavender.  
Note that this disease is called Talparia or Talpa.  
22. A girl of the age of fifteen years, before she had her flowers, was very sore sick, whom I cured with the oil of Camomile, in the water of Melissa and Valerian.  
23. I cured a woman that for thirty years had a Canker in her breast, by giving her Essentia Mercurialis with the water of Plantain.  
24. A boy had his face and stones swollen, whom I cured with the extraction of Rhabarbe.  
25. One Ionas, falling in love with one Sabian, fell besides himself, whom I helped by giving him in drink, Lapidem, sive calculum microcosmi.  
26. The daughter of one Oliver, being very pale did greedily eat small stones, chaulk, lime, dust, and such like, (as they commonly do which have the longing sickness called Pica or Malachia) through the loathing of the stomach, whom I cured by purging her with Essentia Mercurialis, for the first vomit, afterwards for certain days I gave her oil of Vitriol to drink with the water of mint.  
27. One was sick of the Lousy evil called (Pthiriasis) whom I cured with these Pills.  
℞. Essentia Mercurialis, ℥. ss. Aloes Hepatica, and Myrrha, ana ℥. ss. Saffrana half a scruple, make thereof pills with the oil of Staphisagria, afterwards he drank a draught of the wine of Centuarie or Persicaria.  
28. A boy of eighteen years old had a tooth drawn, and three months after a certain black bladder appeared in the place of the tooth, the which I daily anointed with the oil of Vitriol, and so the bladder was taken away, and the new tooth appeared.  
29. A young Gentlewoman, called Ascania, had great pain in her head, and over all her body, because she had not the due course of her terms, who after she had often vomited, the pain abated: but when she could not abide any longer to vomit, I cured her by drawing blood out of the vein which is under the ball of the foot, and afterwards the terms had their natural course, and she was helped.  
30. I often cured the falling-sickness with Essentia Veratri nigri, prepared after our order.  
31. One that had the flux of blood by means of an Arter that was cut, I helped with Kissed Stipticum.  
32. A Knight being in an assembly was suddenly astonished, and diseased over all his body, as if he had had the Apoplexy, whom I cured by anointing the hinder part of his head with Balsamum Helenii, and Essentia Mercurialis.  
33. A man of the country being stung with a Viper or Adder, fell presently into a cold sweat, to the great danger of his life, who was restored to his health presently by drinking Theriaca nostra with strong wine.  
34. A woman who had not her natural courses, was troubled with a very sore Cough: the which I cured by opening the vein beneath the ball of the foot.  
35. A fat drunken Taverner was in danger of his life by a surfeit, who was restored to his health by letting of blood.  
36. A woman called Sabina, had a long time the flux of the belly, by reason of the looseness of the stomach, the which I cured by giving her oil of Vitriol with Conserve of Anthos.  
37. A man that was wounded in the pellicle or tunicle of the heart, was cured with Essentia solis.  
38. A young man being vexed with a continual and violent cough, I cured by giving him oftentimes the juice of horehound with our Oximell, and after that he voided a worm upward and was helped.  
39 A young child had after a sickness, a swelling in his breast, by reason of the abundance of humours, the which I cured only with Theriaca nostra.  
40. A certain man had a disease called Carcinomate, or Gangrena, the which was cured with Oleum Veneris.  
41. A certain woman was so troubled with a disease in her secret parts, that what moist or liquid meats she did eat, presently she vomited again, the which was cured with Oleum Margaritarum.  
42. One Elingus had a great pain in his stomach, the which was cured with Essentia Mercurialis Vomitoria, the which shortly after vomited a piece of flesh, wherein was hid a worm.  
43. One Vermundus was so troubled in his head and brain, that he staggered hither and thither, as though he had been drunk, whom I helped by giving him Pillulas Pestilentiales, with the which I mixed Essentiam Mercurialem, that caused him to vomit a hundred and fifty worms.  
44. A certain man was sick of the spleen, whom I cured with Crocus Martis, in the water of Tamaris, and Enula Campana, and by outwardly applying Balsamum gummi amoniaci.  
45. One was troubled with a corrosion or gnawing of the , whom I cured by ministering unto him Flores Veneris, in Wormwood-wine.  
46. One was troubled with pains in the stomach through weakness, who took Oleum salis in his drink, and caused him to have many sieges or stools, and so was restored to his health, as we have written in our book called Parastenasticon.  
47. A man that was troubled with the headache, I purged by the nostrils, casting in the juice of Ciclaminus with a syringe.  
48. Against the falling-sickness I gave often to drink the juice of the herb called Lanceola, the which is called Herba vernalis, or the less Plantain, with an empty stomach, for space of thirty days, mixing it with the extraction of the shaving of Ivory, and the blood of a Pigeon, (for the man, the male, for the woman, the female) in the Essence or oil of Craneum Humanum.  
49. In diseases of the eyes termed Catharacta or stilicidium, and called in the Greek Epiphora, and in swell and pains of the eyes, I have used Medicamentum sive Collericum nostrum, made of Tutia Magistralis, wherewith we did not only cure watering eyes, but also the great pain of the eyelids, and also where there was flesh growing over the sight of the eye, that it seemed to be passed the cure of those common Physicians that profess to be skilful in the eyes.  
50. A certain disease called Polipus, the which is a stinking in the nose, I cured with the oil of Vitriol, and the water of wax.  
51. One falling from a high place pissed blood, the which in short space I cured, giving him to drink one drachm of a powder of our invention with three ounces of the flowers of Tiliae.  
52. In the great scab I have often used this unguent, made of Mercury mortified, two drachms, Ceruse, one ounce, Euphorbium, one drachm, Staphisagre, Litarge, Sanders, ana half an ounce, mix them altogether with as much grease of a read hogg as will suffice.  
53. A certain man being long sick of the Pox, had two tumors and an ulcer in his nose, at the which every day there came forth great quantity of stinking and filthy matter, in whose nose I cast this decoction with a syringe.  
℞. Honey, four ounces, the juice of Calendine, common Salt prepared, two ounces, Aloes washed half an ounce, mix them together. Inwardly he was purged with Oleum Mercarii.  
54. In hard and knotty Imposthumes of the Gout, I used Amoniacum, dissolved in Vinegar, mixed with the oil of Turpentine; also oil of Crystal only disperseth and consumeth those knots, as I have oftentimes proved, or Crystal calcined with the oil of Turpentine, also the oil of Salt doth the same.  
55. In curing of pains in the mouth of the stomach, , and belly, I used the water of the flowers of Camomile, ℥. three Honey of Roses, ℥. i.  
56. One Johannes Baptista a fair young man was infected with the Pox two years through the filthy sin of the Sodomites, so that there grew a piece of flesh in the inward part of the neck of the great gut, with such extreme pain, that he was almost dead, whom I cured by sweeting many days, with a Malgamie made of Mercury and Jupiter, and opening his Fundament with an instrument called Specillum Ossicularium, and and laying an oil of Vitriol upon the said superfluous flesh, and afterwards I cured that flesh eaten away, with a Suppository Incarnative.  
57 One called Gallenus had lost his speech by means of a hole that he had in the palate of his mouth coming of the Pox, the which I cured with Mercurius Dulcis Diaphoreticus, cast in by a syringe, and so the flesh grew again and was made whole.  
58. One was troubled with great burning of the Urine, the which I helped in this order.  
℞. Dry-Roses, Pug. semis, Lin-seed, the seed of Cucumber, Gourds, Melons, Mallows, Puslane, Populeon, anaʒ. two. of the fruit of Alkakengi, numero x. fair water lb i. ss. make thereof a decoction according to Art, than strain it, and put thereto Trochiscorum Alkakengi, ℥ ss. white sugar, ℥ two. Camphire ʒ i. mix them, and cast it into the yard with a syringe or other instrument.  
59 One being sick of a Ptisick, which is an ulceration of the lungs, with a consumption of all the whole body, the which he took by the infection of his own wife, I cured with the oil of Perrelles.  
60. A certain woman had the course of her terms so long, that many times she was ready to give up the ghost, whom I cured with the oil of Vitriol in Plantain water, and ʒ i. of Carniola.  
61. Pustulaes' or Wheals in all parts of the body, and especially in the head coming of the Pox, I cured only with the Potion of Lignum vitae, or Guaiacum, and his purgative Salt, without any other outward Medicine.  
62. A Fistula being between the Testicules and fundament of a certain man troubled with the Pox, I healed by applying Oleum Arsenicale fixum.  
63. A Hernia or Rupter which some call Ramex, in the which the bowels fall into the cod's, I cured by the Extraction of white Sanicle digested in bread, and afterwards taken in drink, keeping up the gut or  with a truss made fit for the purpose, and laying upon the place offended, the Fesses that remained of the Extraction.  
64. Intolerable pains in the legs, Ex morbo Venereo, I cured with the oil of Lignum vitae, mixed with old treacle.  
65. A certain maiden through want of her monthly sickness was so vexed, that sometime thrice a day she seemed to be haunted with an evil spirit, whom I presently cured with the Extraction of Rhabarb, with the spirit of Tartar in drink with the water of Melissa arthemisii and Pulegii, in Oleo vitrioli.  
66. Pains in the teeth I cured by the juice of Nightshade, and Persicaria made warm in a Gargarism burying the herbs afterwards in a dunghill.  
67. I prepared a powder of the ashes of Rosemary, the which maketh the yellow teeth white, and healeth tumors in the Gums very quickly without blood.  
68 In tumors of the Uuula, Gums, and Jaws, I have used Oleum Vitrioli, in water of Persicaria.  
69. In tumors of Scrophulaes', or hard Imposthumes of the breasts, I have used the oil of Turpentine mixed with Misselto of the Oak in form of an Unguent.  
70. At Ingolstad a city of Germany, a certain man had the consumption of the Lungs, whom I cured with the Extraction of Consolida major▪ in bread.  
71. A certain woman, the which after childbirth was not well purged of her terms, presently fell beside herself, with other grievous pains in her breast, and reinss of the back, whom I helped only with the essence of Antimony.  
72. A maiden of ten years old, after bathing herself, fell into an Apoplexy, which proceeded of the Flux of gross humours into the vessels, and into the parts of the head, wherein consisteth the feeling and moving of the whole body, yet she snorted much in her sleep, and trembled all over her body, whom I cured with Oleum cranii humani, giving it with the spirit of Vitriol in water of Lavender.  
73. A young sucking child had his palate and lips full of Pustulaes', or wheals, called Aphtas, whom I cured by bathing them with a linen cloth wet in this water.  
℞. Consolidae majoris & minoris, ana, one handful, White wine, lb. ss. boil them together, and put thereto Sal Gemmae, ℥ two. clarified honey, lb. two. and make thereof a mixture.  
74. A certain woman, who wanted her natural courses, was thereby so tormented, that she abhorred all men, yea, her very companions, whom I cured by opening the inward vein of the arm, because I could not found the vein of the leg called Saphena.  
75. A man of threescore years, being full of melancholy humours, had crusty scabs over all his body, the which I cured with this Medicine: ℞. The juice of Plantain, Sempervivi, and Nightshade, ana: Oleum Lithargirii, as much as will suffice, make thereof an Unguent wherewith thou shalt anoint all the parts of the body.  
76. One was troubled with a distillation or Cataract of the eyes, whom I cured in this order. ℞. Tutia prepared, and put into a fine linen cloth, and dip or wet it well in Vino cretico, wherewith wash the eyes oftentimes, and they shall be helped.  
77. A certain woman after childbirth was troubled with great pain and chaps in her breast, which I cured washing them often with wine mixed with Oleum Saturni, and afterwards the child did suck.  
78. A young maiden being troubled with a grievous vomiting, that she could neither retain meat nor drink that she took, the  moreover swelled exceedingly, whom I cured by applying a plaster of the leaven of bread with the juice of Mint.  
79. A certain woman that three months after she was conceived, feared abortion, or birth of her child before the time, whom I cured with the Extraction of Rhabarb with the spirit of Tartar, and afterwards she drunk oftentimes Essentia Melissa with Oleum Solis.  
80. One Gotius had a bone out of joint for three days, which afterwards swollen marvellously, the which swelling I helped with Oleo Verbasci and Prunellae, otherwise Primulae, with the juice of Camomilla, and agrimony, and Oleum Petroleum, these being mixed together warm, I anointed the place being grieved, and so the bone was restored to his place again; than afterwards to strengthen and comfort the joints, I used the said Unguent mixed with Misseltoe of the Oak, and Consolida major, until the cure was perfectly done.  
81. A woman being almost dead of the Colic, I cured with the read oil of Vitriol, drunk in Aniseed water, and a while after that potion, she voided a worm and was cured.  
82. A certain man called Bartholomew, having carnal company with his wife, could voided no sperm at his yard, but only wind, the which by often using of Oleum Vitrioli with the spirit of Tartar in distilled wine, and afterwards the Extraction of Satirion he performed the act very well.  
83. A child of ten years old was troubled with a stone in the bottom of his yard, the which I cured by giving him Oleum vitrioli to drink in Aqua Aqualiae, and than I applied outwardly Oleo cancrorum with the oil of Turpentine, and so within one hours' space the stone came forth, and he was helped.  
84. A woman of twenty years old being married could have no children, who by the use of taking the Extraction of Satirion, she conceived, and within nine months she had a strong child, but lest that after her childbirth she should become barren again, and dried away with a leanness, I gave her to drink Oleum Margaritarum with Roman coleworts.  
85. A certain woman being troubled with great abundance of her natural sickness, had great swelling and pains in her hands and feet, and fell many times into a swoon, whom I cured by taking often the Extraction of Rhabarb.  
86. To cause nurses to have abundance of milk, I have taken the fresh branches or tops of fennel, and boiled them in water or wine, and given it to drink at dinner or supper, and at all times, for it greatly augmenteth the milk.  
87. One had in the arme-pit a sanguine Imposthume, upon the which Imposthume; I applied a linen cloth wet in man's blood being warm, and so in short time he recovered his health, not without great admiration.  
88 One called Ambrose, while he yawned, suddenly the lower jaw remained with great grief and pain, whom I cured with the decoction of Camomile, Verbascum Perforat▪ and such like, as before in Number 80.  
89 One was troubled three years with a disiness in the head, whom I cured within a month by drinking Oleum vitrioli in betony water.  
90. A man being vehemently troubled a years space with pains in the head, I cured only by opening of the skull, and in the same manner I cured the trembling of the brain, taking therewithal, Oleum salis in water of Basil.  
91. A certain maid for want of her monthly sickness, was swollen all the body over, and had read Pustulaes', which always at certain hours of the day appeared seven times, and vanished away with great pain of the stomach and swooning, whom I cured giving her in drink Essentia Splenis, extracted out of the spleen of an ox in the water of Melissa, Artemesiae, & Pulegii.  
92 I helped one of the Pleurisy, by drawing away blood of the inward vein of the arm one that side, giving him also in drink Spiritus Tartari; in Aqua Melissa, and anointing the outward part pained with oil of the Mouse of the Mountain.  
93. A certain woman having a corroding Ulcer in the left breast with great pains, by means that she had not her natural sickness, she had also in the right breast, neck, and arme-pit, certain kernels, and hard tumors, and chief the left arm was astonished or taken, to whom I gave sundry times a purgation of the extraction of Rhabarbe, and the oil of Gold, by the space of a month, outwardly I washed the breast with the decoction of the roots of Celandine in Wine; also I laid thereon pleggets wet with Oleum Veneris, mixed with Honey, and rolled it, and afterwards I laid it on our common Opodeltoche, and so she was perfectly cured.  
94, One Rosina was troubled with a quartane Ague the space of twelve months, with induration and swelling of the Spleen, whereof she fell into a kind of dropsy, which is called Ascitem, the which I purged, first with Essentia, and Trochisois Alhandali & Serapionis; the second day I commanded her, that she should lick in Diacubebe for the space of a month.  
95. One had a hard swelling in the flesh of his leg, caused of Morbus Hispanicus, whom I cured with Oleum Antimonij 3. ounces, Mercury mortified according to our order one drachm mixed into an Unguent.  
96. A noble woman was troubled with Empiema, the which is a spitting forth of filthy matter, whom I cured with Oleum Sulphuris drunk in water of Ciclaminus, Melissa, and betony.  
97. In grievous pains of the joints, I have used Oleum Vitrioli in water of Turpentine, or water of Wormwood.  
98. A Priest was troubled with the running Gout, and with great pain in his Kidneys, whom I cured only with oil of Turpentine according to our order.  
99 A certain Queen, through the retention of her Menstrues, had her tongue so inflamed and swollen, that she could not speak, and had a lameness throughout the whole body, and also fell besides herself, whom I cured by drawing blood from the vein called Saphena.  
100 A child of twelve years old, had suddenly a great swelling in his head, the which was soft, whom I cured in four days with this Medicine: ℞. Oil of Camomile, Tapsi Barbati, Hypericon, and mix them, and therewith anoint the tumour.  
101. A young man that was troubled with Spasmus Caninus, so that his mouth was drawn awry, I cured by anointing the reins of the back with Balsamum Helenii & Hederae, and by little and little drawing the place being awry, to his form with the gentle rubbing of my hand: Moreover, I gave him in his drink Oleum salis.  
102, One had an Imposthume behind his ear, the which I cured in purging him with our Essentia Mercurialis, and applying our Apodeltae.  
103. I cured the inflation and hardness of the Spleen, with my plaster made of gums, and Oleum Philosophorum, with the juice of Ciclaminus.  
104. A certain woman being awake, was vexed with Lithargia, so that her eyes were always shut, and if any had called her, she could scarce open her eyes, and no man could understand what she said, nor yet answer any man, the which woman was brought to her perfect health, only by the use of Oleum Vitrioli.  
105. A noble man in Carinthia was sick of the Plague, whom I cured by giving him every morning Electuarium Juniperorum, wherewith I mixed one scruple of oil of Vitriol.  
106. A Prince in Germany that was troubled with the Frenzy, by reason of a sharp Fever, whom I cured with giving him five grains of Laudanum nostrum, which expelled the Fever, and caused him to sleep six hours afterwards.  
107. A Gentlewoman of name was troubled with the suffocation of the Matrix, whom I cured with specifico nostro corticis ficus, being laid upon hot coals, and taking the fume thereof at the lower parts, and presently she was helped.  
108. A Lawyer of Augusta was long sick of the Colic, and was forsaken of other Physicians, whom I cured, by giving him Laudanum nostrum.  
109. A Barber of Argentine was greatly troubled with the head-ache, to whom I gave the oil of sweet Majoram to smell, and put a drop thereof into both ears, and as soon as it was done he was helped.  
110. A certain woman at Colmaria, was troubled with the Falling sickness, in whose nose I put the oil of Gargates, and within a little while after she recovered again, than I purged her with Elleboro nostro, and the next day I gave her certain drops of the oil of Cranei humani, who afterwards was troubled no more.  
111. A certain Baron was sore infected with Morbus Hispanicus, and miserably anointed with Vigoes' Unguent, and left of the school Doctors, whom I first purged with our Specificum Torpetum, and than I gave him Oleum solis & margaritarum, in aqua guaici rectificat. and so he was perfectly cured.  
112. Many that were troubled with the Quartain Fever, I have cured with our Turpeto, and also those that had the Pestilence and Pleurisy.  
113. A certain man of fifty years old was vexed with a cramp, that his head and neck was drawn down to his breast, and could not lift nor stir it, unto whom I applied Arcanum Magnetis, & Oleum salis, and so he was cured.  
114. One was troubled with a Palsy, whom I cured only with the Essence of Cheri, drawn with the Spirit of Wine.  
The End of the Experiments of Philip Theophrastus Paracelsus, a most Excellent Doctor of the one and the other Physic,  
enjoin thereto the praise of Jesus Christ, and farewell.   

B. G. LP. Penotus Londrada a portu sanctae Mariae Aquitanus, greeting.  
I Thought good (gentle Reader) to publish and make thee partaker of these four particular things, which if at the first sight they shall not seem to agreed with thy work and Practise, thou must remember to impute that unto thine Error and Ignorance, for a light Error doth mar a whole Work, which thou must amend by reading of Philosopher's Books. For which cause the say of Philosophers are much and long to be searched, examined, and thought upon, before thou canst get out the hidden meanings of them. If thou in reading Philosophers Books play the Sluggard, than thou canst never be perfect in preparing thy matters, and therefore I might not by the Authority of the laws of Philosophy, interpret all things openly, word for word to thee. Some things are to be left for Industrious wits, wherein to exercise themselves by studying and searching. Notwithstanding, if thou be not unthankful, all these things shall be opened and declared unto thee in my Galliae portu, where very many workings hitherto known of few, shall faithfully be set forth. In the mean season, know thou, that I am not the deviser of these particular things, for some of them I had of gift, and some other for money and reward came to my hands. To thee I give them freely, which use well.  
Farewell.   

A Treatise of certain Particulars, whereof the first treateth of the preparation of the Markasite of Lead, as well for the transmutation of Metals, as for the alteration of Man's body, etc.  
THe Philosophers Saturn, is properly the Markasite of lead, and indeed doth excel Sol and Luna, insomuch that Raymond saith, that in this inferior world, there is no greater secret than that which consisteth in the Markasite of Lead, insomuch that they which have throughly sought out the force and nature of it, have bound themselves together by oath never to utter those secrets of nature unto the end of their lives. For so much as his operation is of such kind, as truly it hath many and sundry uses, which being duly prepared, doth not only altar and change the filthy and corrupt humours of our bodies, but also can change and transmute by sundry experiments, Luna into Sol.  
Take of the Mineral Markasite of Lead, xii. pound, and grinned it into fine powder upon a Marble stone, as they grinned colours with Vinegar: being well ground and tempered, put it into a strong glass, and put thereon a good quantity of distilled Vinegar, and stir it well with a stick, and so let it stand in Balneo Mariae: than set thereon a blind head, and there let it stand eight days together, stirring and moving it every day six or seven times, than let it cool, and the Vinegar will be of a yellowish colour, the which ye shall pour forth into another glass, taking heed that ye stir not the feces: than put thereon more Vinegar, and stir it well with a stick, and set on the blind head, and set it in Balneo Mariae other eight days, as ye did afore, than pour forth the Vinegar being coloured into the other glass. And this order ye shall use so long, until you see the Vinegar not more coloured, for at the last the feces will remain in a white mass, like white earth.  

Distillation of the coloured Vinegar.  
THen take all that Vinegar being coloured, and distil it in Balneo until it will drop not more, and there let thy cucurbit stand three days with the feces, that it may dry well, than take it forth, and thou shalt found in the bottom of the glass a white matter, the which take out, for in that whiteness the redness of the Markasite is hidden, which being prepared, availeth much to make Aquam Philosophorum, that they call ardentem.   

The preparation of the Feces.  
Take the white Feces or matter, and put it into a distilling vessel with a great recipient very well luted, that the spirits go not forth, and set it in the hot ashes, and give it a gentle fire, and than increase it according to art a day or two, and there will come forth, first a white water, and than a read or golden yellow oil, the which is to be kept close with great care.   

The Feces to be taken again.  
Than take those Feces, and set them in a calcining furnace eight days: than take them forth and grinned them finely, and put them in a glass with a good quantity of distilled Vinegar, and stir them well together; that being done, set it again in Balneo eight days together, and stir it every day seven or eight times, the more the better, than let it wax cold and settle, and pour away the clear part from the Feces, but take heed that ye stir not the  or bottom. Than pour on fresh Vinegar, and set it in Balneo again, and do as ye did before, and than pour away the Vinegar again, and cast away the Feces, for they are nothing worth.   

The distillation of the Vinegar.  
Than take the Vinegar which you reserved, and distil it with a gentle fire, and in the bottom thou shalt found a salt, in the which remaineth all the force and strength. Than calcine the said salt again in a reverberatory, four and twenty hours with a great fire, than take it forth, and put it in the the glass wherein it was before, and put thereon fresh Vinegar, and set it in Balneo. And this thou shalt do so often until the salt leave no feces in the bottom: that being done, distil thy Vinegar as at the first, and thou shalt found it prepared, liquid, and clear as Crystal.   

Conjunctio spiritus corporis, scilicet olei & salis.  
Take the aforesaid salt, and grinned it upon a stone, dropping thereon his read oil by little and little: that being done, put it into a cucurbit luted with Hermes seal, and so set it upon a trevet, in an Athanor twenty days, and it will be fixed into a read stone, so that ye have the true government of the fire. Than take it forth, and grinned it upon a stone, and according to the weight put thereunto as many Letones of the Calex of fine Gold, and upon all these put on as much of the white water which ye distilled before the read oil, as all the whole doth weigh, and close it up with Hermes seal, and set it in ashes in an Athanor with a soft fire until it be fixed, but after it be fixed, there will appear many colours, the which will turn into perfect oil and true Elixir. Rejoice in this, but before ye begin the work, consider of it and pray.   

The second particular that is called Torpetum, sive Diaphoreticum minerale, purging without loathsomeness or difficulty, helping the Pleurisy, the Plague, and especially the French Pox.  
Take Leones à Dracone repurgatissimi one part, aquilae mineralis repurgatissimae twelve parts, mix them together according to Art, than put them into a cucurbit of glass, and put thereon twice so much of the liquor of read Colcathor without phlegm as the matter weigheth, and than nourish it in warm sand with a gentle fire three days, taking heed, that the matter ascend not into the head. That being done, distil it, that the feces may remain dry, than increase thy fire, that the sand and glass may be read hot the space of three hours: than let it wax cold, and take out the matter, and beaten it finely, and wash it with fair distilled water, until it have lost his sharpness, and that thou shalt do divers times till it be well purged: than dry it, and put it into a glass, and put thereunto the spirit of wine that it may be covered three fingers high, and set it on a fire, and thus thou shalt do three times, and than hast thou without any doubt a greater secret to heal his proper disease, so that within six days he shall be quite whole: the dose is about five grains in conserve of Roses, drunk with wine or Saccaro Rosato, aswell in the morning, as at night when he goeth to bed, and let the patiented sweat thereon two hours at each time. It is a most sovereign medicine against all contractions, and you use it, as afore, according to the nature of the disease. But the Patient must use it six days. If there appear any pustulaes, ye shall cure them by touching them with oil of Sulphur. Moreover those that have the dropsy, or such like moist diseases in the body are cured by giving them six grains, in water of Carduus Benedictus, letting them sweated thereon as is aforesaid, and keeping the order as is afore set down. Against the Pleurisy, ye shall give four grains in the said water. And against the Plague in Rose-vinegar. Against the Falling-sickness with water of black Cherries or Pionie. Furthermore, if any have had the same disease by nature, ye shall give them every day a little pill in Aqua Pionia, putting thereon six drops of the spirit of Vitriol. If I would show or express all the virtues, I should writ a book thereof, but that which remaineth I will show more at large in my book called Portus Gasconicus, with the order to draw the spirit of wine.   

The third particular called Laudanum Anodinum, the which is most excellent of all other secrets in asswaging griefs and pains in divers diseases.  
TAke Liquoris aquae inexpertis & inspissati ℥. two. and put thereto the spirit of wine, and set it in Balneo to digest, until it have drawn away the Tincture: than pour it forth into a clean vessel, and put on more, and so set it to digest again, so long as it will give any Tincture or colour. Than take the gum of Henbane dried in the sun ℥. i and draw away his tincture with the spirit of wine, as thou didst out of the liquor aforesaid, than take Diamber, ℥. two. and likewise draw away his Tincture with the spirit of wine, and keep it very close until such time as I shall show thee: than take Momia, ℥. ss. and draw away his tincture with the spirit of wine, and when thou hast done, mix it with the other, than take Crocus Orientalis, three drachms, and draw forth his tincture, and mix it with the rest, and every day stir it, and keep it in a warm place close stopped fifteen days; that being done, distil it in Balneo, and there will remain a little matter in the bottom, than put thereto a little of the Tincture of Diambrae, the which ye reserved afore, and so let it stand in digestion until it be thick, stirring it three or four times a day, until the smell of the liquor be in a manner consumed, the which will be in six weeks. Than take these that follow, the liquor of Coral, clear Amber, or Succinum, of each ʒ. i. Vnicornes-horn, six grains, Magisterium Perlarum, one scruple, Ossis de cord Cervi, half a scruple, Aurum Potabile, or his Tincture, half a drachm. All these being finely beaten and mixed in a stone or glass mortar, with the spirit of Diamber, put in with the residue being thick, and so stirring it sundry days afterwards, distil all the spirit of wine away, than put thereon the residue of the spirit of Diambrae, and when it is almost dry, put thereto Olei Succini, Olei Maci & Cinamoni, of each about one scruple. Than take one part, and reserve it for women without musk, for it hurteth them. But to the other part, for men, put in half a scruple of the extraction of Musk, made with the spirit of wine, and set it in a warm place that it may dry, and so keep it to thy use. Ye may give it in form of Pills, or dissolve it in some convenient liquor, the Dose, three grains, or six grains for those that are of strong nature. It comforteth much against the Colic, the Frenzy, hot Fevers, Arthritide, Podagra, the weakness of the stomach, the Yex, and comforteth against vomiting, provoketh sleep. Against the falling sickness, ye shall give three grains with the spirit of Vitriol and Essentia Camphora that is drawn with oil of sweet Almonds, the which is made in this order.   

The order to draw the Essence of Camphor.  
Take Camphor, one drachm, oil of sweet Almonds, half an ounce, macerate them in the Sun, or in Balneo, or in a dry warm furnace four and twenty hours, than draw forth his Tincture or essence with the spirit of wine, and put thereto one drachm of Laudanum, and two drachms of the spirit of Vitriol, and six ounces of the water of peony flours, and stir them together, and give thereof one spoonful at the time of the fit. It is a most excellent remedy against all uncurable diseases.   

The fourth specificum called Panchimagogon, the which doth purge in small dose all noisome spirits that are mingled with the humours.  
Take Specierum Diarrhodon abbatis, ℥. two. and draw forth the Tincture with the spirit of wine, and keep it by itself, afterwards take the Pulp of Colocinthides, ʒ. seven. Turbit, ʒ. v. Agarici, ℥. i. ss. Helebori nigri, ʒ seven. Diagridii, ʒ. vi. Foliorum seen, ℥. iiii. Rhabarbari, ℥. two. Elateri, ℥. ss. Beaten them, and mix them together, and put thereon Cinamon-water, the which is made in this order. Cinnamon l. i. stamp it grossly, than infuse it in white wine four and twenty hours close stopped, than distil it with a gentle fire being close luted, for with this Cinamon-water, or spirit of wine, thou mayest draw forth the Tincture of all the aforesaid drugs. Always provided, that ye keep them a month in a warm place to macerate, stirring them three or four times in a day, and at the end of the month pour forth the liquor, and put the feces into a Retort, and distil forth the oil and water, the oil ye shall rectify and reserve. The Feces that remain ye shall calcine, and make thereof a salt, the which ye shall put to the oil that ye rectified. Than take that liquor which ye reserved first, and distil it in Balneo, and in the bottom there will remain a matter thick like honey. Than take the tincture of Diachodon Abbatis, and pour it upon that thick matter, and stop well thy glass, and set it in a warm place eight days, stirring it every day. That being done, draw away the spirit in Balneo, until it remain thick like honey, unto the which ye shall put his oil that ye distilled, mix them, and let them digest, until it be so thick that ye may make thereof Pills, the which ye may do so soon as it feeleth the cold, for in the cold it will wax hard, and in heat it will wax liquid; the Dose is from one scruple to two scruples, where there shall be need of purging, put in the ponder of Licorice, for so it worketh without pain.   

Four principal Diseases whereunto almost all other Diseases may be referred.  
THe Leprosy is the first, whose badges all manner of Ulcers do bear, as Itch, scabs, Alopecia, scurffs, chaps in the skin, foulness, the dead evil, and such like diseases.  
To the Gout doth belong the colic, pain in the reins, Orexes, pain in the teeth, running gouts, painful flixes, pain of the head, Cephalea, and Hemicranea.  
To the dropsy are referred all manner of Fevers, Imposthumes, the Jaundice, and evil digestion.  
To the Falling Sickness belongeth Catarrhs, beating of the heart, cramps, giddiness of the head, Apoplexies, and Suffocation of the Matrix.  
If any of the princpall of these Diseases be healed, all the other inferior be also cured.  
For the cure of the Gout three things are required, that is, resolving, mitigating, and strengthening.  
Wherhfore, if thou be of any quick judgement, the four particulars before set down are sufficient for thee.  
The chiefest point of health consisteth in this, not to fill thyself with meat, nor to be slow in labour.   

Bernardus G. Penotus Landrada à Portu S. Mariae Aquitanus unto the singular learned man John Aquila, the hammer of the Ethnics, wisheth much health.  
NOt only in these our days (friend John) but also in the old time amongst the learned, this Proverb hath taken place, That Ignorance is the mother of marveling: Who in these days would not marvel to see men utterly voided of all manner of learning, to be preferred before learned men, and such as are most skilful in the Latin and Greek tongues, and those are to be embraced of Kings and Princes, and rewarded with most liberal gifts, and most famous and learned men expert in all the tongues to be rejected and contemned? You, which excel in judgement and learning will answer, That every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of light. Therefore God doth in these latter days stir up these Idiots and Empirics to stir up every Physician, that he should rightly prepare his own Medicines with his own hands, and being so prepared, with sharp judgement apply them to their proper diseases, that the seed of the disease may be pulled up by the Roots, and not to commit it to an unskilful cook. And therefore of necessity from hence must both the Theoric and the Practice, the reason and the work concur and join together, because judgement without practice is barren. The greatest number of them will answer, we know not your works and preparations which require so great and hard lalabour, we are now old and Doctors, we will not be made younglings, and Scholars again. If this answer might take place, the Jew, the Pope and the Turk would not change their superstitions, which notwithstanding we know to be most contrary to the sacred Scripture. But we sufficiently and daily prove by calcining, subliming, dissolving, purifying, distilling, congealing and fixing, by this most laudable Art of Alchemy, how the pure may be separated from the impure, and the corruptible from the incorruptible, and that which is venomous and deadly, be changed and made wholesome some and good; and as Paracelsus saith concerning this Art, we shall first consider that all things are created of God, for he created of nothing something, and that something is the seed of all things, and that seed worketh that effect hereunto ordained and appointed. All things notwithstanding are so created, that they shall come unto our hands, and begin to be in our power, but so as things not perfect, but to be made perfect, as things not finished, but to be finished. The matter in them truly is perfect, but the middle and last matters remain to the made perfect. As for example, God created Iron, Earth, and Clay, but not such as they should be, for the clay groweth, yet not like a Pot or other earthen Vessel: So he created Iron lying in a rude Mass, and hath given it so rude unto us, therefore we with our labour must make thereof shoes for horses, scythes, and spears. Even so is it in Physic, for that is also created of God, but not so that it should be utterly perfect, but as yet hidden under the earth, not purged from his unclean matter, but that which remaineth to be made perfect in it, is committed to the Chemist, that is, to the Physician to be purged and cleansed. For herbs, trees, stones, and iron, and whatsoever is seen with the eyes is no true Medicine, but is rude and impure, wherein as yet the pure part lieth hid. And therefore Alchemy teacheth to purge the Medicine, to dissolve it, and to separate things of contrary kind from things of the same kind, otherwise rotten things would be mingled with rotten, and the corrupt with the corrupt, and so conspire to one effect; so that of one disease many other should spring or arise. Briefly, every man loveth not that whereof he hath no understanding or knowledge, but flieth from it, contemneth it, and thinketh it not meet to be learned. The body only, careth for that which is outward, but the mind worshippeth his God. By how much more the knowledge or understanding of any thing doth increase or grow, so much the more is the love of the same augmented. For all things consist in the true nkowledge of them, and out of that springs all the good fruits that redound to knowledge. Knowledge also brings faith, for he that knoweth God, beginneth straightway to put his trust in him. For such as every man's faith is, such is also his knowledge.  
And contrariwise, he that doth otherwise work about nature, worketh like a Painter that painteth an Image, in the which is neither life nor strength, wherefore those which you call Empirics shall rise even before your faces, and take in hand and help grievous diseases, the cures whereof are impossible unto you, and you together with your consultations and reasonings shall be made laughing stocks. As lately B. in Germany it happened of a certain noble and famous woman which was vexed with the pain of the Matrix. Some Physicians said it was the gravel and the stone, but an Empiric passing by, affirmed that it was neither the gravel nor the Stone, wherefore he commanded a Remedy to be prepared for the Matrix, the which being done, she was straightways healed. O what a rumour was raised by and by of him, stirring up others also to rumours and tales, saying, that her husband doth contemn us, that will rather use the advice and counsel of an Empiric than ours. Yea, and others that seemed wiser did finally regard him that would every hour use the help of an Empiric man most unlearned. Mark, I pray you (my friend Aquilla) how the enemies inflamed with envy go about to oppress the truth: But at the last, will they, nill they, they shall be enforced to confess that that cannot be denied. But you may object unto me, He that speaketh all, excludeth nothing. For there be many worthy learned men, Masters and Professors of Physic, that do not deny or refuse this Art. In the which number are those most excellent and singular Masters, and Doctors, Petrus Severinus Danus which hath written marvellous things of this Chemical Art, that worthy and godly man Michael Neander, Professor of humanity, Theodorus Zuingerus of Basil, a man practised in this Art, and also Theodorus Brickmannus a Physician of Cullen, which both by word and deed daily excelleth with most deep judgement in these matters, whom I will never overpasse with silence.   

Hereafter followeth three Particular Treatises, the first of the Sulphur of Gold, and other Metals, than of Stones, and the Extraction of Coral.  
REcipe, Purged and fine Gold made in plates, ℥ i the powder of Pumice stone, ℥ iiii. lay them Stratum Superstratum, and reverberate it with dry wood five days and nights together, than take the powder and keep it in a glass. Than melt the Gold again, and make it in plates, and lay it Stratum superstratum as ye did before, and that ye must do until the Gold have lost his yellow colour, after take all thy powders together, and put it in a glass with distilled Vinegar, and there let it remain until the Vinegar be coloured yellow, than pour it forth, and put in more, and that thou shalt do so often, until the Vinegar be not more coloured, than vapour away the Vinegar, and thou shalt found an inpalpable powder in the bottom. If thou be'st wise, look where thou madest an end, there begin, the like is of other metals. But they are not to be reverberated so long, you shall have of silver a bluish colour, of iron a reddish colour, of copper a darkish colour: There is drawn out of Coral a read tincture. All which things are to be corrected with the spirit of wine, being often poured thereon, there cannot be a shorter or profitabler way found out for this. Iron plates for one time are of force, but after the first Cimentation they serve not more. His tincture being rightly prepared is used in stead of gold. If it be drawn out of the best steel, it will fix the Mercury of Saturn.   

The Second Particular is of the marvellous preparation of the Markasite of Lead, tincting water, or other liquor into his read colour.  
REcipe, Salt common prepared Vitriol Roman, ana lb vi set them in a fire of calcination ten hours, than take it forth, and beaten it to powder, than put it into a stone pot unglased, and give it fire 15 hours according to Art, than will distil forth both the oil and the spirit together, the which ye shall rectify in a Pelican, than being rectified, put thereunto the markasite of lead in powder, being in a strong cucurbit well luted, and than set it in ashes in a furnace, under the which ye shall set a burning lamp for the space of a month, and than the Markasite will dissolve into a read matter: afterwards take common fountain-water and pour thereon, than set it to dissolve in a moist place or Cellar, and the flower of the Markasite will turn like to a read Crystal: the which take to thy work. It purgeth the Leprosy, blood in Pleurisies, the Plague, Contractures, the lungs and liver, the quantity of one piece in greatness, doth serve to dissolve the same.   

The third particular, and the sum of the whole work.  
R. Album, Albius, Albo, as much as ye will, Aqua Solvens six times as much, and set them in Balneo three days, than take it forth, filter it and dry it: than again dissolve it, and that do three times, being dry dissolve it by itself, of the which solution, take three parts olei permanentis & incombustibilis one part, Aeris four parts, shut thy vessel, and in that heat nourish it, and in few days thou shalt have an universal medicine to expel all diseases. Rejoice, and give praise unto Jesus Christ.   

A Fragment out of the Theoricks of John Isacacus Hollandus.  
AMongst all things that were created of God, water was the first, whereunto God joined his proper earth, and of earth, whatsoever hath essence or life, hath his original. Therefore there are two manifest elements, that is, Water, and Earth; in which the two other lie hid, the Fire in the Earth, and the Air in the Water: and they are so knit together, that they cannot be separated. Two of them are fixed, as the Earth and Fire, two are flying, as Water and Aire. Therefore every element doth participate within other elements. Moreover, over, in every element are two other elements, one decaying, Putrifying and combustible, the other eternal and incorruptible, as the heaven: besides, in these natures lieth hid another nature which is called by the name of stinking Pheces, which hinder and take away the strength of the rest, so as they have very little force or none, and thereby make the other elements stinking and subject to putrefaction. There is also two kinds of Waters, the one elemental, the other of rain and riverwaters; as there is also two kinds of Earth's, one elemental, clear, shining, and white, the other black, stinking, and combustible. Like as also there be two Fires, one elemental and natural, the other stinking and combustible; the like is also to be said of the air. The base things are so mingled with the rest, that by and by they corrupt all things, so that nothing can continued long, for they bring death, and weaken all nature be it never so noble. This is to be understood of all things both vegetal, animal, and mineral. Therefore it is necessary by Art to separate the elemental nature from the corruptible, that the matter may be brought to a medicinal quality. There be three most subtle spirits in all things, that is, colour, taste, and smell, these fly away invisibly, the Philosophers call them wild spirits, because they are not fixible, yet the industry of the Artificer may fix them. They always grow in the bodily substance until they come to perfection and end. The herb therefore is to be taken when it is fully grown, and take heed that you lose none of those three spirits, as the ignorant use to do with their putrefactions and separations of elements. For none of those spirits consisteth of the three elemental elements: but God hath adorned elements with those three spirits, and of them the Fire is animal, the Water, air elemental, and no man, but God can separate them asunder. But the water of the clouds may be separated from them. Also all the feces may be separated from them which are mingled with them, which are the stinking and corurptible elements, and the four elemental elements may be brought to a crystalline shining: but these three elements, Fire, Aire, and Earth, are unseparable. My son, know this, that Mercury is the first of all things, for before time there was water, And the spirit of the Lord rested upon the water, but what was that water; the water of the Clouds, or a moisture which might be poured out? Not, but it was a dry dusty water, and God hath joined his earth unto it which is his sulphur, and so the earth congealeth the water, and thereof sprung the four elements included in these two, by the will of God. Therefore Mercury congealeth sulphur, and sulphur Mercury; neither can one of these be without the other, as also they cannot be without their salt, which is the chiefest means, by whose help nature engendereth and bringeth forth all vegetals, minerals, and animals. Wherhfore these three, Mercury, Salt, and Sulphur, cannot be one without another, for where the one is found, there the other are found also, neither is there any thing in nature wherein these three are not found: and of these three, whatsoever is in nature hath his original, and are so mingled with the four elements, that they make one body, and the salt is drowned in the bottom of the elements, for it is necessary that the salt should keep them united by his sharpness and dryness, notwithstanding it is a flying spirit, but because it sticketh in the bottom of the mixture, and is overcome of the fatness and combustible oil, in which it is found: as the yolk within the white of the egg, and the combustible oil liveth of earth with the salt and feces, and the salt is buried in the bottom of the feces of the combustible oil and earth, but by great force of fire. These three spirits whereof we have spoken, are said first to be separated from the mixture of the elements, which is the soul of all things, or their Quintessence, which holdeth together the whole mixture of the elements; for when the spirits are gone out, than the mixture is dissolved by itself and divided, neither is there need of fire to expel the salt from the earth; when the elements are separated from the feces, than is the salt also separated with it. This salt is unknown to the ignorant. Therefore salt is the means between the gross earthly parts, and the three flying spirits resting in the natural heat, that is, the taste, moist smell, and colour: which three are the life, soul, and quintessence of every thing, neither can these three spirits be one without the other, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one, yet three persons, and one is not without the other. The ignorant laugh, neither understand they these three spirits, when as they are tied to the gross, earthly fixed parts, and are made subtle, and their salt is joined and mingled with them, it must transform them altogether, and fix them into a Cristaline body, Diaphanes, and read of colour, whereof we will speak hereafter; he that knoweth not this salt, shall never bring any to pass in Art. The Philosophers call this salt a dry water, and a lively salt, but the ignorant thought they meant Mercury, but the Philosophers called the three spirits Mercury, and the earth Sulphur, which the ignorant understand not. Either of them cannot be without the other, neither is there any thing in nature, in which these three are not, and they are so mixed with the four elements, that they make one body and mixture. Whatsoever God hath created is in these three stones, wherefore all may be reduced into a Crystalline clearness by Art, given by God unto the Philosophers, for in the latter days God will separate all the unclean feces and corruption that is in the elements, and bring them to a Cristaline clearness, and redness of a Carbuncle. Afterward there shall be no more corruption, but they shall endure for ever. Do you think that all things, which God hath created in these lower parts, should utterly perish in the latter day? Not, not the lest hair of those things which God hath created, not more than the incorruptible Heaven, but God by his Will will change all things, and make them Crystalline, and the four elements shall be perfect, simple, and fixed in themselves, and they shall be all a quintessence. Demonstration of these things may be made here upon earth by Art, for whatsoever God hath created may be brought to a Crystalline clearness, and the elements gathered together into a simple fixed substance, which being done, no man can altar them, neither the fire itself burn or change them, but they shall continued perpetually as those things which have attained eternity.   

The Order to draw forth the Quintessence of Sugar, collected out of the Vegetable and Animal Works of Isaac Hollander.  
HEre will I show thee a great Secret, how thou shalt draw forth the Quintessence of Sugar, the which truly excelleth all Vegetable works, by means of his temperature like unto the incorruptible heaven, the which is neither hot, cold, nor dry, but most temperate, nevertheless compounded of the four Elements, but they strive not one with another, for they are so joined together, that they can never be separated one from another, but for ever remain simple and fixed in unity. But this heaven doth distribute and give unto the earth whatsoever is necessary for it, although that itself be neither hot nor cold, moist nor dry, the which like Effects hath the Quintessence of Sugar, the which in itself hath the four Elements, as gold hath: as gold is pure, so Sugar is impure, gold outwardly is hot and moist, inwardly cold and dry, and white: sugar is the contrary, for it is outwardly cold and dry, and inwardly hot and moist and read, and fixed both outward and inward. Neither is there any thing wanting, but that the inward quality may be brought, that his redness may appear outwardly, and that his Feces be separated, than is it prepared, and shall not need to be fixed, for it is fixed already, and doth retain within itself all outward and inward spirits, and whatsoever is Volatile it doth retain.  
Now what his kind is I will tell thee, and from whence he hath his Original, that is, even out of the read, but if thou wilt be further satisfied, read the three and thirty chapter of the generation of those things that grow in the Seas, and other waters, where we writ largely of the nature thereof. Here it shall be sufficient for us to show the order how to prepare it, and in what order it should be used in Medicine, and also to other things where it may be applied. His nature is to retain or hold all flying spirits, and to fix them into a stone, as shall be showed hereafter.  
First ye shall understand that ye cannot separate the Feces, except ye bring the inward parts outward, that is to say, that his inward dark golden colour do appear, the which when it is so distilled, his redness is seen, and this fire, passing the yellowness of his air, or his incombustible oil, than mayest thou first separate the Fesses from the Quintesscence. Take therefore hard and white Sugar, for it is not needful that ye travel much in dissolving and congealing of it, although there be much impurity therein, that hindereth not, but that the inward part may be brought forth, for it must be purged when as the redness doth show itself outward. Take therefore ten or twenty pounds of Sugar more or less as you shall think good, that being beaten, put it into a cucurbite of hard stone, and put thereon Aquavitae, that it may stand covered eight fingers, than distil it in Balneo with a strong fire, until it will distil not more, than let it wax cold, and pour on the said Aqua vitae again, and distil it again, and this shalt thou do six or seven times; At the last open the head and take forth the Sugar, which thou shalt put in a strong glass, and set it in fine sifted ashes, and put thereon the Aqua vitae, and distil it until the half be come forth, than pour on again the Aqua vitae which thou distilledst away, first being made warm jest the glass should break; Ye shall note, that the head would have a hole in the top, by the which you may pour in the Aqua vitae with a Funnel, this thou shalt repeat often with a strong fire, that the wine and the Sugar may boil in, and because the half part of the wine will come away quickly, ye shall presently put on the other part, for if ye should distil forth all the wine, the Sugar would burn through too much heat, because it must continually be boiling in the glass, and it would smell of the burning, for it hath always his combustible Sulphur, wherefore ye must always have half the wine in the Vessel, and when thou seest the half is distilled forth, make the same warm, and put it in again with a Funnel, and that thou shalt so often repeat, until the Sugar remain as read as blood, the which thou shalt perceive through the glass. Thou mayest bring that to pass in eight or ten days according as thou rulest thy fire.  
Note, that when thou perceivest the matter to be read, let it cool, and take away the vessel with ashes, and set the vessel in Balneo, and with a strong fire distil away the Aqua vitae until the Sugar remain dry, and when it will distil not more, yet thou shalt let it stand four or five days very hot in the said Balneo, that the Sugar may be perfectly congealed, than let it cool, and take out the matter or stone, the which will be like black Pitch, that is to be understood when it is congealed, than take the said stone, and put it into a great quantity of common water twice distilled, and set it in Balneo five or six days with a great heat slightly covered, stirring it every day five or six times with a wooden ladle, than let it cool, and take it forth, and let it settle three or four days, than pour of that which is clear into another vessel, and keep it close, than pour on those Feces the sublimed water as before, and set it in Balneo to digest three days, stirring it with a ladle as ye did afore, than let it cool and settle, and pour of the clearest part, as ye did afore, and put it to the rest, than pour on more water upon the Fesses, and digest it in Balneo as afore, and this you must so often repeat until the water be not more coloured, than thou mayest cast away the Fesses, for they are nothing worth, for the Element of the earth is with the Element of fire and water, neither can they be separated any more, but are fixed together. Make thereof a trial, for there will remain nothing but light ashes; It will burn like oil or fat, neither doth there any thing remain more than of oil or fat. Take the glass wherein is all the read of the Solution, and distil it in Balneo, or let it vapour away, if ye have store of distilled water, until it be dry, than let it cool, and take of the head, and pour thereon more sublimed water, and set it in Balneo again, and stir it about with a wooden ladle as ye did afore, than let it settle as afore, and pour out of the clearest part, and that thou shalt do so long, till there be no more Feces, than put it in a glass that may abide the fire, and boil or vapour it away so long, till there appear a certain scum on it, than take it forth, and set it in a cold and dry, or hot and dry place, and it will grow into a great read mass or lump, and transparent like a Ruby, or other Philosopher's stone, which if thou wilt bring to powder, set it in a warm dunghill in a large wide glass open, and let it vapour away, until it be come into a yellow powder like unto gold, and so thou shalt have the Quintessence of Sugar fixed, the which will retain all flying spirits. Neither is it sweet, but a heavenly taste, the which, if ye put it in your mouth, it will melt without any feeling. If it be winter or cold, thou shalt seem to feel a certain natural heat throughout the whole body, and shalt seem so temperate and light, as though thou couldst fly. If thou be overhot, swallow a little, and presently thou shalt cool easily, as though thou goest into a cold bath, and thus it worketh in heat, moist, cold, and dry, by an incredible Miracle: When ye will use it, drink it with rectified Aqua vitae, or Rose-water, Endive or Scabios, or by itself if ye will, and thou shalt see marvels: If any be diseased outwardly with Scabs or Ulcers, let him drink of this, and wash the sores with Wine, wherein this Quintessence is dissolved, and he shall presently wax whole most mraculously. If any be wounded or thrust in with any weapon, so that it be not deadly, let him drink ʒ i. of this Essence with warmed Wine, and wash the Wound with Wine, wherein the Quintessence is dissolved, he shall be presently cured, so that those which shall hear or see it shall be amazed thereat. It helpeth also the falling sickness, pestilence, and all such diseases as may hap unto man; if ye have Aurum potabile, ye shall mix lb two. with lb i. of this Quintessence in a glass, and set it on a Trivet, or in a dry Balneo 30 days in an Athanor, and they will be fixed together, and than it will work miracles in man's body; ye may also when you have drawn the Quintessence of any herb, coagulate and fix it with the same, as I said before with Aurum Potabile, and thou shalt see thereof Miracles. Furthermore if ye will have it to pass the helm, ye must put thereon as much Vinegar or Aqua vitae, and distil it, and again pour on fresh Vinegar or Aqua vitae, and draw it away again until the Quintessence doth ascend in a read golden colour, as we have showed in many places, how to distil those matters that are fixed by Vinegar, or Aqua vitae, for when it is distilled by the Limbeck, his virtues are augmented a thousand times, and will work strange cures: keep this as a secret, for it is a great mystery in nature.   

Here beginneth a manual or handy work, how the Quintessence may be drawn out of Honey.  
NOw will I open unto you a great Secret in the Vegetal work of honey, to wit, a marvellous nature, for it is drawn out of the most noble and pure part of the flowers. The nature of Bees is such, that they draw out the best of every thing, as in the Animal work is more at large described, wherein there is taught how to extract the nature of all beasts, and speciallly in the 84. Chapter. Wherhfore (my son) know this, that all that God hath created good in the upper part of the world, are perfect and uncorruptible, as the heaven: but whatsoever in these lower parts, whether it be in beasts, fishes, and all manner of sensible creatures, herbs or plants, it is endued with a double nature, that is to say, perfect, and unperfect; the perfect nature is called the Quintessence, the unperfect the Pieces or , on the venomous or combustible oil. Therefore you shall separate the dregss and combustible oil, and than that which remaineth is perfect, and is called the Quintessence, which will endure continually, even as the heaven, neither can it be dissolved with fire or any other thing. For when God had created all things, and looked upon them, they were all perfect good, there was nothing lacking to any; and therefore for love's sake I say unto thee, that God hath put a secret nature or influence in every creature, and that to every nature of one sort or kind he hath given one common influence, and to every one of several kinds their several influence and virtue, whether it be on Physic, or other secret works, which partly are found out by natural workmanship. And yet more things are unknown than are apparent to our senses: What! do you not think that an herb that is appointed for one disease, which it will cure, doth not contain in it many more virtues than are known unto us? Yes truly many more. This also I add, that if the Feces and combustible oil be taken away from this thing or herb, which in all things is the poison that should be taken away, that brings death unto us, and the Elements should be purified, and so burned together by Art, that they shall pass together by a Limbeck, and be joined together, as it were coupled in marriage, that it may root out all manner of disease from every thing, be it herb or living thing, or be drawn from his venom, as in the 14. Chapter of the Prologue of this Book is declared, and also in the Prologue of the Animal work, whereas the manner of drawing the Quintessence out of all venomous beasts, birds, worms, and flies, is plainly declared, that it may help all the griefs of man, but that specially is drawn out of the blood of man, and there is likewise declared, that there is no need of things without man or beast to help such as are infected. For every creature contains in himself the remedy of his disease, which remedy may be drawn without the hurt of man or beast, that the disease may be miraculously cured, as is there most excellently taught in the Theoric and in the Practic. Therefore I would writ this, that thou soon mightest understand what marvellous force is in Honey, which is taken out of all flowers, and gathered into one Mass, which truly is endued with sundry Virtues. For if God hath given unto other things the gift of healing, what than is there not in Honey, which is gathered out of so many flowers, and every herb endued with his own proper Virtue? Truly if it be brought to his height and excellency, it will work marvellously. Now consider what lieth hidden in this Quintessence, and esteem it not lightly, but keep it secret as the most excellent thing of all the Animal work, the which being obtained, you shall need no other Medicines to put away all the accidents of the body.  

CHAP. II.  
NOw I will set in hand with the practice. Take twelve quarts of the best Virgin Honey, and put it in a great earthen Vessel with a Limbeck well luted, and set it in Balneo, and lute a Recipient to the neck of it, and distil that which will distil of it in your Balneo boiling. My son, know this, that there is no common water in Honey, but only Philosophical and Elemental, for the element of Air doth first pass with the element of fire, in the which the air is contained, and the air when it riseth, resembleth the savour of Aqua vitae distilled, and at the first can not be known from Aqua vitae, neither by sight, neither by savour: distil it until there will not more arise, than leave the vessel in Balneo five days with a Limbeck and receiver, let it boil night and day, that the matter may be dried, than let it cool, and take it out, and take away the receiver and Limbeck, and that which is in the receiver pour into the vessel again upon the dry matter, and set it in Balneo, and cover the mouth of the vessel with a clean dish well luted, and let your Balneum be only luke warm. My son, understand that it may thus be done, for it is good that the fire be drawn with his proper air, so as a man would stay so long, for it would be of the greater force. The ancient Philosophers wrought in this sort, but the danger is, when the vessels shall be opened lest the water fly away, for it is as subtle as wine. For every time the air is to be drawn away, and again to be poured on, making putrefaction in a warm Balneo, but first it must be well luted, and a Limbeck being set on with a receiver, you must reiterate the work, until the fire rise like unto read blood. There is another method or rule of working found out in these our days, which is in this sort.   

CHAP. III.  
THey are thus drawn out, and the matter dried, as is aforesaid, than take common water, twice distilled in Balneo, and pour on as much as is sufficient, and set it in Balneo, cover the mouth of the vessel: but let not the Balneum boil, and so let it stand three days and three nights, moving it day and night with a spittle of wood: let it cool, and be poured out and strained. Than take a clean vessel and pour out that which is clear, and pour upon the feces fresh distilled water, as you did before, and set the vessel in Balneo, and do as you did before: let it be cleared and put aside with the first water, and put on again fresh water distilled, and set it in Balneo as aforesaid, and do this so often until the water be not more coloured, for than have you the fire separated from the earth, but reserve the earth or feces until I tell you further what you shall do with it, for there is yet a combustible oil in it.   

CHAP. FOUR  
TAke the vessel wherein is the coloured water, and set it in Balneo with a Limbeck, and receiver well luted, and distil all the water with a boiling Balneo, and let the matter be well dried and cool, than take away the Alimbeck, and let the vessel remain in Balneo, and pour on the water again upon the matter, and make a fire, and set a dish upon the mouth of the vessel, and let it stand so in Balneo three days, every day moving it with a spittle of wood three or four times, than let it cool, and be taken out and be strained. Than take a clean vessel, and softly pour out that which is clear into it, and upon the feces straightways pour on fresh distilled water, stirring it about with a wooden ladle, and let it stand to clear one day, and the feces which remain put unto the first feces. Than take a vessel, and set it in a boiling Balmeo until it be dry, and reiterate this work until there remain no feces in the bottom of the vessel, so shall you have the pure element of Fire: and the element of the Air also must be so often distilled, until there remain nothing in the bottom: and in this sort you shall have the pure Element. Separate than the water from the fire, and let it dry, so shall you have a clear shining matter like to camphor: keep the fire well in a glass, and the air with the water in another glass well closed, until you have your earth prepared.   

CHAP. V  
TAke all the earth with the feces, and draw out the combustible oil by a discensorie, that is, with two vessels joined together and luted, until the combustible oil do pass, which is profitable for all cold diseases, and other passions, which were too long to rehearse: if you desire not the combustible oil, suffer it to fly away. Than take your earth, and calcine it in a furnace of reverberation gently, until it be all white as snow, than take a great earthen or stone vessel, and put your white calcined earth into it, and pour out a good quantity of common water distilled, and stir it with a wooden ladle, and set it three days in a boiling bath, and cover it with a dish, and stir it every day ten or twelve times. Let it cool, and the vessel take out, and let it clear one whole day: than take another clean vessel, and softly pour out that which is clear, and upon the feces pour again fresh distilled water, and set it in Balneo, and do as you did before. Take it out again, and let it clear one day and night, and that which is uppermost clear, pour out to the first water: Than put to fresh distilled water the third time unto the Feces, and set it in Balneo, and do as you did before, and pour out the clear the third time unto the first water, than cast away the Feces of the third water, for they are of no value. Than take the vessel into which the water was put, and set it in Balneo, with a Limbeck and a receiver: and with a boiling Balneo, draw out the water until the matter be made dry. Let it cool, take away the Limbick, and pour in the water again upon the Earth, or salt, and set it one day in boiling Balneo. Let it dissolve, and clear, and take out that which is clear; and put in a little distilled water upon the Feces, and let it stand two or three hours in a warm bath: take it out, let it clear by the space of one hour or two, and pour out the upper part to the first water, and cast away the Feces, for there is nothing in them. Let the vessel be set again in Balneo with the earth or salt, and distil away the water until all be dry, and do as afore, reiterating the work, until that no Feces remain in the bottom, than drain away the the water from the earth, and you shall found a fair earth like Crystal: and so you shall have pure elements.   

CHAP. VI  
TAke a great glass that will bear the fire, and put into it your earth and your fire, and pour your air upon it, and set it to distil in a furnace, in pot or with sand or ashes, with a Limbeck well luted, having a hole in the uppermost knotty part, that a Funnel may be put in when there shall be need of Infusion: when as the humidity that it hath received be half consumed, than fortify your fire by little and little increasing it, until you see the water boil, and keep the fire in that state still, until it be consumed even to a pint. Take away the fire, let it cool, take away your Receiver, and open the hole of the Limbeck, and put in your glass Funnel, and pour in all the distilled water in the Recipient upon the Earth, and stop the hole of the Limbeck, and set the Receiver unto the neck thereof well luted, and distil again, and observe the manner aforesaid of drawing and making infusion, and do thus ten times. The tenth Distillation finished, let all pass together; for than the earth is made flying. So the air, the water, the fire, and the earth will ascend together by the Limbeck, and be brought into one substance which were in four. One together in nature, and now simple as the incorruptible heaven, yet are they not fixed: but notwithstanding they are so coupled together between themselves, that by no means they can be separated, but will continued one simple body for ever; even as the Crystalline and uncorruptible heaven, which notwithstanding is compounded of the four Elements. What think you of this my Son? Cannot this Quintessence help every disease that doth infect man through his most excellent temperature, whether it be in heat, cold, moist, or dry, for all are in it that he may distribute unto every one that which is necessary, even as the heaven, when need requireth, giveth unto the earth all things, as coldness, heat, or moisture: And yet it is neither hot, cold, moist, nor dry, but of one simple essence, and that endued with such a nature, that it giveth unto every thing that which is necessary: In like manner doth this Quintessence. Therefore my Son rejoice, and give the Almighty God thanks which hath opened these things unto the Philosophers.   

CHAP. VII.  
NOw my Son, if thou wilt bring this Quintessence yet to a greater perfection: Take a great Circulatory, or Pelican, that is, a glass that hath a great head like to a Limbeck, and in the top of the head a hole, by the which the matter may be poured in by a Funnel; let the hole be stopped; out of the head cometh forth two arms bending round unto the belly, by the which that which doth ascend up may fall down again by those arms of glass into the belly of the Pelican: This is the form of the Vessels that distil one into another, or Pelican. 1. Take than your Quintessence, and put it in a Pelican in ashes, but better in salt prepared and dried, and make your fire like unto the extreme heat in Summer, and the Quintessence will rise like unto a read Oil, and fall down again by the arms of the Pelican; and by often ascension, the Quintessence will wax thick, that it will tarry in the bottom and rise not more; than fortify the fire that it may ascend and descend again; than keep the fire in that heat until it ascend not more, but rest in the bottom; than make your fire stronger, that it may ascend and descend again, and keep the heat in the same degree until it rise not more. 2. Observe this manner in augmenting your fire until the water be fixed, and the glass be read hot four and twenty hours together; if the Quintessence do not than ascend, it is fixed, and brought unto his highest virtue; and take it out of the glass, being yet hot, for if it be cold, it will wax hard, so that you must break the glass; for at the fire it doth wax liquid, and being set open in the air, it doth congeal, and peirceth every hard thing, as Oil doth any dry leather, and in colour is like unto a Ruby, and through shining like a Crystal, it giveth light in the dark, sufficient to read by. What dost thou think of this my Son? are there not many strange bodies created of God? Truly he hath endued the Philosophers with no less gifts; for they that can look into the secrets of nature, shall see it to be of an incredible operation, for this is gathered by the Bees of the subtlest part of all Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, and at that time, when Flowers break out and Trees bud. It is worthily called the Philosopher's stone, for it is fixed and liquable as Wax, and as the mineral stone transmuteth the impure metal, so doth this altar diseases. Hereby it doth appear, that this doth bear the bell amongst all vegetals; whereas it being yet in his grossness and impute, it is but of small value for any use in Physic, by what means so ever it be boiled or scummed, but doth always retain his nature; for it consisteth of all the fruits of the earth, plants, and trees: Whereof one herb is hot, another cold, another dry, another moist, one astringent, another laxative, some corrosive, others venomous; and so divers herbs have their divers qualities. 3. It cometh to pass, if it help one disease, by and by it hindereth another; for every thing worketh according to his property, when as there is separation made in the body; and of this separation it engendereth blood and other humours: And they are likened unto Gunpowder, which so long as it lieth still there cometh no hurt of it, but if it be brought unto the fire, it straight uttereth his secret nature, and is kindled with a venomous fire, which cannot be quenched with water; for the cold and dry, hot and moist, do strive amongst themselves, a wind is stirred up, that breaketh all things that is near unto it. The like happeneth unto Honey, that when it cometh to the region of the Liver, that it should be there separated, than it showeth his nature to pass up, and swell with wind, that it is no marvel, if that through contention the veins of the Liver be broken, as oftentimes it happeneth, whereupon Imposthumes are caused in divers places, and bringeth forth such inflammations, that the veins are easily broken; although many do greatly commend Honey, but they are not the children of Philosophy, neither do they understand the nature of it: But when it is brought to a simple, fixed as Wine, than is it the chiefest Medicine amongst all the vegetables, neither is the like unto this found in all the world. Give God thanks, and be liberal unto the poor. The dose of this is one grain, and it must be taken every morning with an empty stomach, likewise in the evening, until the end of the disease. For every disease will be cured in short time, even after the same manner, as the Mineral stone maketh his projection upon metals: Praise God, and labour diligently.    

The manner and order how to draw the Quintessence out of the Herb, called Rose solis.  
NOw my Son, I will teach thee the greatest mystery or secret amongst all vegetable things, whose force and strength hath been kept secret amongst all the ancient workmen, and they have bound themselves one to another by Oath, that they should not utter, in their books or writings, the strength of this Herb, which is called Rose solis, and in the German tongue Sindawe. Whosoever therefore hath not the whole vegetable work, he cannot attain to the strength of this Herb; for in that work is comprehended all the force of medicinal things: And this work of vegetables is not come to the hands, but only of the ancient sworn Artificers, which were skilful in the liberal Arts. But now my Son, I will open it unto thee with adjuration, that thou shalt keep this hidden knowledge secret. First, my Son, you must understand, that this Herb is the Herb of the Sun, upon the which the Sun spreads his beams and influences, as he doth upon Gold in the veins of the Ours; and he poureth out his influences more upon this Herb, than upon any other which is created of God, as it is evidently known of the ancient Philosophers, and this Herb doth so fare surmount all other Herbs which spring out of the earth, as the Sun doth all other Planets in the Heaven, and hath greater force and power of influence than any other thing created of God in the Firmament. So this herb doth excel all others in virtue, and therefore this herb is decked with another colour, other leaves, and stranger shape than all other herbs. And his nature is such, that the hotter and drier the country is in the time of the year, and the heat of the Sun, and the more that the Sun doth heat and burn him, this herb is the more moist and filled with dew, insomuch, that upon one branch will hung above a thousand drops. Make a trial, and strike this herb with a slender twig, that the drops which fall from it may fall into a large glass vessel, and you shall see the vessel filled with a marvellous dew, and if the Sun be vehement hot, those branches in short space, that is, within the space of half an hour will be more full of dew than before, and if you strike the dew twenty times with a rod, yet it will again be laden with drops; it were enough if we did see no other miracle than from whence this dewy humour should rise, which in so short space doth so abundantly flow from it, and how much the more the burning sun doth scorch up the other herbs, so much the more is this moist, and filled with drops, even as though it had been sprinkled over with water, hereupon may we gather his marvellous qualities, and judge that there is some secret operation hidden in it; if thou do keep this water thus gathered in a glass, therewith thou shalt cure all the diseases of the eyes, whether they come of Rheums, or of Inflammation: It helpeth moreover all the pains and diseases of the heart, it cooleth the Liver, and stomach that is inflamed, and doth mitigate all the pain of the head that cometh of heat, and driveth away all dreams and Fantasies: It is good also to kill the Canker and the Wolf, against the biting of Venomous beasts, against Poison drunk, if it be taken by the mouth, it helpeth also the Pestilence, it is good for many other diseases which were too long here to rehearse.  
This herb hath the colour of the sun, for his colour is read dark, divided with yellow lines, and his shape is like a Star, and his proportion like a heavenly Planet, and consisteth of seven branches, in the outward part broad, near the ground narrow, and it is as though it were heavy, of a tender substance, outwardly hot and moist, inwardly cold and dry. The left side of it is cold and moist, the right side hot and dry, and it is most temperate as gold. Wherhfore his Elements cannot be separated one from another as in other herbs, but it may be purged from his Feces, for his fixing letteth that the Elements cannot be separated, for the fire will ascend with the air by the Balneum, as we will hereafter teach. The earth may be separated from his Feces, and the Feces likewise from the fire and air, although it hath not many dregss. Some Latin Writers call it Lingua avis, or Birds-tongue; some call it Solaria of the Sun, of Lunaria it is called the Moon; the Fleming calls it Sindow. But the old Philosophers have kept secret the qualities as yet for the marvellous effect it worketh. And it is marvel, saith Arnoldus de Villa nova that a man should die that eateth every day some of it in his gross substance, what will it than work when it is brought unto his fineness, and cleansed from his Feces? It hath this great virtue in it, that if it be put into a glass, wherein there is poison mingled with wine, or any other cup that is poisoned, straightways the glass will fly in Pieces, but if it be a stone pot of Alabaster, or such like, the Wine will so boil, as though there were a violent fire under it, and all the wine will run out until there be nothing left in the vessel: Also if any man carry this herb about him, and hap on his enemies, they shall have no power to hurt, but contrariwise to show him all kind of duty. Also if any man be bewitched either in body, or in his art, that is in Cookery, Brewing, or Baking, or by any other means, this herb carried about him makes him free from the witchcraft. If it be also tied upon the belly of a woman with child, she shall straightways be delivered, although the child were dead and rotten within, as it hath been oftentimes proved by experience. This herb carried about one, or a little thereof every day eaten as long as it is used, preserveth a man from the Falling Sickness. Moreover, if a man be taken with the Apoplexy, that his mouth be drawn aside, and his speech and senses taken from him, they shall be all restored again, if the sick drink the juice of this herb strained, as hath been oftentimes proved. Moreover if it be hanged about the neck of one that is possessed of a spirit, so long as he carrieth that about him, he shall be quiet as a Lamb, and the power of the spirit shall be taken away. Make a proof, and you shall found it true. The bleeding at the nose is by and by stayed, if you hold that herb in your mouth. They that are wearied with travel, if they drink the juice thereof in wine, they are by and by so refreshed, as if they had not laboured or gone no journey, it doth comfort the Sinews, Muscles, Tendons, and all the whole nature. Wounds are also cured therewith, if it be drunk ten days together in Wine or Ale, if the wound be washed with the same drink, and bound up with a cloth wet in the same. The pain of the teeth, is by and by appeased, if that herb be laid unto it. All these things have been often proved and found true. If it will do such things whilst it is yet hindered with his gross matter, what will it work when it is brought to his perfection? My Son, know this for a truth that there is no herb that grows upon the earth to be compared unto this in strength and goodness, therefore take heed that you do not neglect it, but diligently remember and keep the secret close from them that are not of the nature of our children, and from the ignorant. For if this herb did not grow so plentifully, and the properties thereof were known, it would be more esteemed than gold or precious stones, for the Effects of the Quintessence are marvellous, as hereafter shall appear.  
Now there remaineth that we must teach how to bring this herb to his highest degree, and to his Quintessence. First, it is to be gathered, the same having his course in his own house, that is in the Lion, and the Moon behold him with a sinister quadrate Aspect. It is to be gathered whole, with roots, leaves and flowers, so that there be neither earth, dirt, nor other herbs mingled withal. Neither must it by amy means touch any water or be made moist. Therefore you must take heed that you gather it not in rainy weather, or moist weather: but rather when the Sun doth shine hottest upon it, gather great store of it, and stamp it well in a mortar of Marble, and put it in a Cucurbite of stone with a head and receiver luted, and set it in Balneo, and distil away all the water, until it be so dry like powder, and there will rise together with the water of the colour of most fine gold, which only happeneth in this herb, and in none other, and when there remaineth no more liquor, yet leave the cucurbite for three or four days in Balneo, and boil it night and day that all the moisture may be perfectly separated and drawn away, than let it cool, and take away the receiver, and stop it diligently, than take of the head, and take out the matter and beaten it in a Marble mortar into most fine powder that it may pass through a thick sieve, put this powder again into an earthen cucurbite, and pour on your water and air, and stir it with a wooden ladle, and cover the mouth of the cucurbite close with a tile, and set it in a warm bath by the space of nine days to putrify, every day stirring it with a wooden ladle four or five times, and cover the cucurbite again with a tile, setting a weight of lead upon it, at the nine day's end take your vessel out of the Balneo, and that which is in it, strain it into an earthen vessel glazed, and strain it hard until the matter dry. Than take this dry powder, and put it into his cucurbite, and cover it with a tile, and keep it in a warm place until I teach you what you shall do with it.  
1. The moist liquor which is drawn from it will be read, for the Element of fire is there present with the air and the water, put that liquor into a cucurbite of stone, and put on a head, and lute it well, and set it in Balneo with a Receiver well luted, and distil away all the water, with the air severally from the fire in a boiling bath, until there will not more distil, and the fire will pass away in the bottom, than take away the vessel out of the bath and stop it well until I teach thee what is further to be done.  
2. Than take again the stone cucurbite wherein your powder is contained, which I bade you before to keep, and pour on the fire and the air, and stir it well with a wooden ladle, and set it in a warm bath nine days more, and cover it with a tile, and stir it four or five times every day with a ladle as you did afore. And when the nine days are past, strain out that which is in the Vessel, and pour the liquor into a glazed vessel, the residue of the powder put into another vessel, as you did before, and keep it so long until I teach thee how to draw out the combustible oil.  
3. Than take again the Vessel wherein your fire is, and mingle your liquor with it which you keep in your glazed vessel, where your fire and air is, and set a head upon the vessel where your matter is, and lute it, and set it in Balneo, and set a receiver to the bill of the head, than distil out the water and air with a boiling bath until no more will distil, and you shall have in the receiver water and air, take them away, and take the Vessel out of Balneo, and you shall found remaining in the bottom like thick Turpentine, and that is the Element of fire mingled with many Feces. Now the fire is to be separated from the Feces in this manner, pour on your water and air upon that from whence you draw it, and stir it with a spoon, and cover it with a tile, and let it settle four days, and the Feces will fall into the bottom, and pour out softly that that is clear into a clean cucurbite, that no Feces pass; withal stop the Vessel wherein the Feces are, and set it by. But that Vessel that containeth the water fire, and air, set it in Balneo with a head and receiver fitted and well luted, and distil the water and air in that same degree. And when it will distil not more, take away the receiver: Let the vessel cool, and you shall found in the bottom your fire, which keep in his vessel well stopped, and pour in your water and air again upon the Feces, from whence you did draw them, and stir them with a spoon, and let it settle four days, than pour it out softly from his Feces into the vessel that holdeth your fire, so that no Feces be mingled withal, cover your vessel wherein your Feces remain, and set it up. But your Vessel, wherein your water, air, and fire, is set again in Balneo as I shown you, and distil away the water and air, for they two do always pass away together, and the fire remaineth in the bottom. Pour on the water and air again upon the Feces, and stir it with a spoon, than let it settle four days, (this is now the third repetition, whereby you have separated the water and air from the Feces,) and that which is clear pour out into the Vessel that holdeth your fire. Than put your Feces unto the first which I bade you keep, in the which your combustible oil is. For now you have drawn your fire out of your Feces: therefore distil your water with the air, and when it will distil not more, take away your Vessel, and you shall find in the bottom the Element of fire not yet pure, but foul and full of dregss, pour on therefore the water and air again, and stir it well with a spoon or ladle, cover it, and let it stand, and settle four days, than pour out that which is clear into another clean vessel, and set aside the Vessel wherein your Feces are. But the Vessel wherein your fire, water, and oil are, set it in Balneo to distil as long as it will distil, than take it out, and pour the liquor distilled into the vessel where your feces are, and do as I taught you to work with the feces, until you have your element of fire without any feculent or gross substance.  
When you have distilled away the water and air from the fire, and suffered it to settle four days, and that all be clear without any feces, than shall you have your pure fire. Therefore put all your feces together unto your first feces, where your combustbile oil is. Afterward take a great Cucurbite of glass, and put all your three Elements into it, and set it in ashes with a Limbeck and a Receiver fitted and luted, and kindle a gentle fire, first in your furnace, and increase it more and more, until the fire and air be passed, and that your Limbeck begin to wax red within. Than make the heat of your fire moderate, until all your element of fire be passed, and the head read like blood, and the water and air shall swim upon it like oil: by this means these three Elements shall be brought to their highest essence, and be perfectly rectified. Take away the Receiver, and stop it diligently, until your earth be prepared, and know, that in the dust and feces there remaineth yet a combustible oil, which you may extract by a discensory, if you william. It is good against the cold Gout, for Members benumbed, and Sinews too much mollified. If thou be weary of this labour, put this powder or feces into a reverberatory, that they may be mingled with a gentle fire, until it be as white as snow; which being done, put it into a large cucurbite of stone, and pour on a great quantity of water twice distilled, it is not material how much water you pour on, and stir it well with a wooden ladle or spoon five or six times, always cover it diligently with a tile, and after four days suffer it to cool, and let it stand four days and settle, than pour out the clear from the feces warily into another clean vessel, and pour on fresh distilled water as before, stir it with your spoon, and keep it two days in Balneo as before, than suffer it to cool and settle, and pour out the clear from the feces, and put it to the first water; do this the third time, and than cast away the feces, for they are good for nothing: All your waters that you have drawn, distil by Balneo, or, for the more speed, by ashes, that all the water may rise, and that there remain in the bottom a dusty matter, pour on distilled water again, stir it, and keep it in Balneo by the space of four and twenty hours, than let it cool and settle, and pour out that which is clear gently from the feces: Pour on again more common water upon them, and stir it, set it in Balneo ten or twelve hours, take it out, let it settle, and pour the clear unto the first water, and cast away the feces, they are nothing worth. Repeat this work so often, until there remain no feces after it hath settled. Than shall you have your earth rectified from all his feces, which you shall congeal and dry, that it may be like powder or dust: Than join that with your other elements in the glass, and it will strait resolve into his element, for the element of water is there present: set them all together in a furnace upon ashes, put on a Head with a Receiver well luted; the head must have a hole in the top, that with a funnel the liquor may be poured in, and always stopped safely. Make your fire in your furnace first gentle, afterwards greater, until that, that is fermented, do pass; but all is not to be drawn out, but about half a sextary of the liquor with the water, that the matter may remain moist; for if you should drive out all, it would congeal into an hard mass, and break the glass in the furnace. Than open the hole which is in the top of the Head, and with a funnel pour in that which is in the Receiver; but first it must be made warm, lest by pouring in the cold liquor the glass do break, but if you suffer the glass to cool, you may pour it in without any danger. Repeat this inbibition ten or twelve times, afterwards distil out whatsoever will be distilled, so long as any thing will pass by the neck of the Limbeck: For after this tenth distillation, the earth will be not more congealed, but will rest in the bottom like a read golden Oil. Inbibe it again, pouring on the liquor, and distilling it until all the elements pass together by the Limbeck, and that nothing at all do remain in the bottom of the vessel. Than give thanks to God for his marvellous gifts, which he hath distributed unto his Philosophers, and hath given them so great knowledge of things as they uttered in this work, which is altogether heavenly, and rather divine than human: For it is a great marvel in this life, that man's understanding can bring these inferior things to so great perfection that they have attained, even to the highest degree of virtue. Truly it is the work of the Holy Ghost, which hath put it into the minds of men. For I do affirm, that whosoever hath this herb so prepared, that he may help all the infirmities of man's body, whether they be curable or uncurable, except natural death, which is ordained before unto every man of God. Yea, this I dare be bold to say, that if a man do use daily the weight of one scruple of this Quintessence, or the Quintessence of Sugar, and potable Gold, wherein Pearls are dissolved, or the Quintessence of Selandine, that man by God's help shall not die before the day of the great judgement; for the humours in man's body can by no means predominate one over another, as in the thirty six Chapter of Vegetals is taught, where is treated of the Quintessence of all Medicinal things, and there it is showed, that by Gods help the life of man may be prolonged even until that day, voided and free from all diseases and sickness. And further, that man may be preserved in the state he was in at thirty years of age, and in the same strength and force of wit; and upon that do all the Philosophers agreed, that a man may continued in the same state as long as in an earthly Paradise. This is so plainly and at large showed in that Chapter, that will you, nill you, you shall be enforced to conceive it in your mind to believe it, and to confess it to be true: Therefore it is not needful to reason much of the force and qualities of this Quintessence, but whatsoever disease a man be infected withal, give him to drink with Wine so much of this Quintessence as a nutshell will hold, and in short space he shall be healed, as it were miraculously, according as the disease is, violent or gentle. But if you give this Quintessence to drink, mixed with the Quintessence of Sugar, with potable Gold, wherein Pearls are dissolved, and with the Quintessence of Selandine, within one day you shall cure all the diseases whatsoever they be; hereby it doth appear, that it is rather a divine work than human. Therefore give God the praise, and take heed that you do not utter this secret, for Tyrants would by that means prolong their lives, that they might bring to pass their wicked purposes, whereof both you and I should be the occasion. Therefore keep it secret, for it is one of the greatest secrets amongst all the vegetals, whereunto no treasure may be compared. Work therefore, and distribute liberally unto the poor, and God shall give thee eternal felicity.  
Virtue increaseth by exercise.   

The Spagyric Antidotary of the preparation and making of Medicines against gunshot, taken out of the Chirurgery of Josephus Quirsitanus.  
IT is an old and true saying of the Poet, that there is nothing more imperious than an ignorant man, which thinketh nothing well done, but that he doth himself, which thing, as it may be seen in many other Arts, ye● most especially in this, which is called the Spagyric Art. For we see every where certain men, I know not what they be, puffed up with a certain barbarous and foolish pride, which with great scorn inveigh against those Medicines which are drawn out of the metalline Ours: which notwithstanding it is apparent were in use, and had in great estimation with the chief ancient Physicians, as we have declared in that book, which we have set forth of the Spagyric preparation of Medicines. And what, I pray you, is the cause of this anger, or rather madness, but that (as they themselves confess) they know not the preparation of them? O happy Arts, if only Artificers might judge of them, as Fabius is reported sometimes to have said: Than are they unhappy, of whom the ignorant and unlearned fear not so rashly to give judgement, which never yet understood from whence, or why, this is called the Spagyric Art, which learned men of two greek words have so named; because by that Art a certain subtle and spiritual nature is drawn, gathered, and pressed out, wherein the force and effect of the Medicine doth chiefly consist; the great and incomparable commodity whereof, as it appeareth in many other diseases, so shall it chiefly be known in curing wounds by gunshot: As I trust (God willing) it shall much more happily be tried and found out, by the preparations of Medicines animal, vegetable, and mineral, and by other Essences drawn out of Mercury, Sulphur, Vitriol, Arsenic, Iron, Copper, Led, and Litarge, and also out of Antimony, and such other minerals, as also out of the gross and fat bodies of simple metals, of whom it is fare of, that the force should be so great (although the ancient Physicians have used them to cure Wounds and Ulcers, as their Writings do testify) as the force of their spirits, which may be called, as it were, their souls. But peradventure some of those backbiters will say, why are not we content with those Medicines and Remedies, which the learned Antiquity hath delivered unto us, and that Hippocrates and Galen, the ancient Pillars of our Art, and others, have set forth in their Monuments? why seek we new ways never heard of before, especially unknown to the Apothecaries? But some of us will answer, that the only remedy of Mercury precipitate, is the only remedy (to pass over other) which very lately they have begun to use in curing of Wounds by gunshot, and other malign Ulcers, were sufficient to answer this their question, yea, and to reprove their folly joined with intolerable pride. But if authority be asked for, I think Gesner, Guinter, Andernack, Severine, (to pass over a great many other) will be for us of great authority with the learned, as these slanderers; especially, because the learning of these famous men is confirmed by their learned Writings and Monuments, that those tongues might count it a great honour unto them, to confess themselves their Scholars. It were easy for me to bring forth many other arguments, if I did not see the folly of these backbiters to be so great, whereof truly I am ashamed, especially when I behold some of their books lately set forth, wherein, contrary to the purpose of the Treatise, strange things are enforced, that (as the old Proverb saith) the ointment seemeth to consist in nothing, as though they pertain to the purposed treating of curing the Gout, certain invective digressions I know not what of the beginning of things, of the original of metals and Philosophers stone (which of them is called Morosophocus) or did in any point seem to agreed with it. Therefore again and again I am enforced to cry out, O happy Arts, if only Artificers might judge of them. How fare unlike was the purpose of many old men, the which if they were ignorant of any thing, which they understood was known of others, even in fare distant Countries, they spared no labour to go see them. Plato inflamed with desire to learn those things which he knew not, went into Egypt, and after to Tarentum, to Architas, and over all Italy, to hear the other Pythagorical Philosophers: Apollonius Tyanius traveled through the kingdom of Persia, and passed over the Mountain Caucasus, and visited the Albans, Scythians, Massagets, and all the rich kingdoms of India; afterwards was carried unto the Brachmanes, and heard Jarehas in his chair of gold disputing of the hidden causes of things, and of the hidden mysteries of nature; from thence by the Elamites, Babylonians, Chaldees, Medes, Assyrians, Arabians, and Palestines, he returned to Alexandria, and from thence went into Ethiopia to hear the Gymnosophists, and to learn their secret and hidden Arts. This virtue is truly to be followed, and not the sluggishness of those slothful followers, which having scarce once moved their foot from their country fires, yet will disallow this Spagericks Art, and think not further labour to be taken in searching of the truth, when notwithstanding, that Art doth make open unto us the marvellous and hidden secrets of nature; neither in my judgement are they unworthily contemned of those, which with their manifold perils and travels have sought out those secrets of nature. But, I pray you, what foolishness is this, to forbidden us to use any other Medicines, than those which were known in old time? As though Rhabarbe, than which no Medicine is more in use this day, than were known to the old Physicians: Further, to what purpose is it, that they object unto us the Sulphury metalline venomous stinks (as they call them) by whose smell and drawn breath (for these are their contumelious words) they be almost strangled that come into the dens of those Cyclops? But is it unknown unto those slanderers and Sycophants, that the old Physicians made very many Medicines of most filthy things, as of the filth of the ears, sweated of the body, of women's menstrues (and that which is horrible to be spoken) of the dung of man and other beasts, Spittle, Urine, Flies, Mice, the ashes of an Owls head, the hoves of Goats and Asses, the Worms of a rotten tree, and the scurf of Mules, as may be gathered out of the Writings of Galen, Aëtius, Aegineta, Dioscor. Marcel. Plin. Serap. to pass the metallines, which it is evident they did also use. Truly, when I consider with myself the pride of these fools, which disdain this metalline part of Physic, which after their manner contumeliously they call Chymericam, and therefore can neither help their own, nor many other diseases. I call to mind a Story, peradventure known unto them of Herachto Ephesio, which being sick of a dropsy, despising the help of Physicians, anointing himself over with cowdung, set himself in the Sun to dry, and falling asleep was torn in pieces of dogs: but these are more than sufficiently answered unto these fools and slanderers.  
Now I will declare what is my purpose and scope in the Treatise; verily to prescribe plainly hereafter, not those things which are already common, or (as it is commonly said) known to blind men and Barbers, jest I might seem to imitate those that use to writ Rhapsodias, and heaps, but the method and way of preparing Medicines by Spagericks art, that pertain unto Gunshot, which I know are yet unknown unto many Physicians and Chirurgeons. And this I can truly confess, that I am induced for two causes to do it: First, to provoke those that are better learned, if they have any better Medicines to utter them, as also that I might specially help my country and mankind: unto the which (the more is the grief) there is too much need of those kind of Medicines in these most lamentable and cruel times, wherein it hath so long been blooded with domestical and civil wars; but to encounter with their slanders which cry out, that these kind of Medicines do not only require long and difficile preparation, but also that they are so dear that every one cannot easily use them. I have thought good therefore first to set down common Medicines, and than to come to those which I do far more esteem, as indeed they are far more excellent than the other, as by their preparation you may know. Albeit also I have determined to have consideration of the poor and common Soldier, and to set down them apart that shall help the rich.  
Therefore the Chirurgeons are to be admonished, that when they go into the wars, that they take with them these things ready prepared, which are to be had at most Apothecaries.  

Suppurantia.  
Vnguentum Basilicum, of both sorts. Vnguentum Macedonicum. Tetrapharmacum Galeni. Vnguéntum Resumptivum.  
The emplaster of Mucilages which may be dissolved with oil Olive if need be.   

Detergentia.  
Vnguentum diapompholygos Nicolai. Vnguentum viride Andromachi. Emplastrum divinum dissolved with oil of Roses. Vnguentum Apostolicum Avicennae. Vnguentum Egyptiacum of the same.   

Sarcotica.  
Vnguentum Aureum. Vnguentum ceraseos Mesuae utrunque. Emplastrum de Gratia Dei & de Janua.   

Cicatricem inducentia.  
Vnguentum de Minio. Desiccativum rubrum. Emplastrum de cerusa.   

Venenum attrahentia & res extraneas.  
Vnguentum fuscum Nicolai: Vnguenta Magistralia of the Physicians of Florence described by Weckerus. Vnguentum de calce viva.   

Repellentia & astringentia.  
Vnguentum de bolo common. Vnguentum Rosarum Mesuae.  
OR for the said intentions, Medicines may be made which need no other than common preparations.   

Suppurantia.  
Take of new Butter and oil Olive, ana ℥ two. wheat meal cleansed from his bran, ℥ ss. fair water ℥ iiii. boil all together.  
Or take the leaves of Tussilage and Mallows, ana M. two. roast them under ashes, and mingle them with butter.  
Or take the juice of the roots of Lilies, first roasted under ashes, ℥ iiii. of the grease of a hen, goose or swine, ℥ two. with oil of Linseed or Olives, the yolk of an egg and a little wax, make an ointment.   

Detergentia.  
Take of honey ℥ iii of bean meal, and barley meal, ana. ʒ. two. boil them with wine to the height of an ointment.  
Or take of Plantain leaves, and Smallage, ana M. i Read Roses, P. two. Read wine ℥ viij. boil it to half; strain it, and dissolve in it of read Sugar ℥ two. Turpentine ℥ i Meal of Lupins and Orobus, anaʒ i Aloes and Myrrh, anaʒ ss. boil it again, putting to so much Wax as shall suffice to bring it into the form of an ointment.  
Or take of the juice of Plantain and agrimony, ana ℥ two. Rose honey, ℥ iiii. of the root of Ireos and Bean meal, ana half an ounce, mingle them toward the end with Turpentine ℥ i make thereof an ointment.   

Sarcotica.  
Take of Manna, of Frankincense, anaʒ two. of Meal, of Fenegreke, and Orobus, anaʒ i let them be wrought with honey and the yolk of an egg.  
Or take of Sarcocolla dissolved in milk, ʒ iii Mastic, Olibanum, anaʒ i Liquid pitch, and Turpentine, ana ℥ i mingle them, and make an ointment.   

Epollotica.  
Take of white chalk ℥ two. of ashes of burned leather ʒ iii work them with oil of Roses.  
Or take of quick Lime so often washed in water until it have lost all his sharpness ℥ two. of Terrae Armeniae, ℥ i boil them with oil of Myrtles. Of  Lead, burnt Stibium, Cadmia Pompholyge may also be made Medicines most fit for that purpose.   

Ad venenata vulnera.  
Take of the juice of Anagallidis purpureae, of Cyclaminis, ana ℥ i Sulph. Vivum mingled with man's spittle, ℥ ss. mingle them  
Or take of Litarge, ℥ two. Galbanum ℥ ss. Greek Pitch, and Turpentine, ana ℥ two. oil as much as shall suffice. Or take of oil ℥ iiii. of Sagapenum, Mumiae and Amber, anaʒ iii Frankincense, Mastic, anaʒ two. of the best Terrae sigillatae, and and read Coral, anaʒ i. Pitch ℥ two. Wax as much as shall suffice to make an ointment. Or take two Onions, of the leaves of Vincae pervincae scabiosae, Resini of each a handful, roast them under the ashes, and put thereto of treacle ℥ ss. and with Turpentine make an ointment.   

Ad ambusta.  
Take of the juice of Onions roasted under ashes, ℥ two. oil of Nuts ℥ i mingle them together.  
Or take of the leaves of black juice stamped with Plantain water M. two. of oil one pound, boil them together with ℥ iiii. of white wine, until the wine be consumed, than put to as much wax as shall suffice to make it a salve.  
Or take of Lard melted in the flame ℥ two. and pour into it the juice of Beets and Rue, the cream of milk ℥ i Mucilage of the seed of Condoniorum, and Tragacanthae, ana half an ounce, mingle them.   

Repellentia, & sanguinem cohibentia.  
Take of the juice of the leaves of Woodbine, and of Oaken leaves, ana ℥ i read Roses, ʒ. i. Boli Armenae, & Sanguinis Draconis, anaʒ two. oil of Roses, ℥ iii Wax as much as shall suffice.  
Or take of the Pulp of Apples boiled in milk three ounces, of Mucilage of the seeds of Psilii and Cydones, ana ss. ℥. of the juice of Bursae Pastoris and Poligonum, ana ℥ i of Acaciae, and Sanguinis Draconis, anaʒ iii of Terra Sigillata half an ounce, oil of Myrtles, ℥ iiii. white Wax as much as shall suffice to make an Ointment.  
BUt these Medicines following are not so much used among the Apothecaries, neither known unto the Chirurgeons, yet most profitable for wounds by shot and all other, whose fit preparation the Spagyric art doth partly declare.   

Suppurantia.  
Take of the root of holy Oak, and Lilies, ana four ounces, Beets with the roots, M. i fresh Butter half a pound, Worms prepared in Wine, three ounces, yolks of Eggs, xii. the marrow of a Calf, of Turpentine, ana five ounces, Oil olive cleansed from the Feces, lb i stamp those that are to be stamped, mingle all well together, and digest them in warm dung, one month after press it out, and with a fire on ashes boil it to the substance of a salve.  
Or take of the juice of the herb Tussilage and Oxalidis, ana, three ounces, fat dry figs, 20. Frankincense two ounces, Rosin of the Larix tree, ℥ i ss. grease of a Goose and a Hen, ana, ℥ two. fresh Butter half a pound, Olei visci pomorum compos. lb. i all mingled together, let them boil in a double vessel luted with Luto Sapientiae for the space of six hours, and strain it warm, and set it again in the Sun, or boil it to a fit substance, these Medicines do quickly move matter, and are anodine very commodious for Wounds by Shot.   

Detergentia.  
Take of the juice of Centaurie and Celandine, ana ℥ iiii. of honey, ℥ iii of flowers of Verbascum, p. two. of Frankincense, Myrrh and Mastic, ana ℥. ss. oil of Turpentine, ℥ vi. good white wine lb i putrify them all in warm dung, and boil them as before with a fire of Ashes until the wine and juice be consumed, and it be brought to the form of an ointment, than put to one ounce of this ointment, ʒ i. of Mercury precipitate dulcified, if there be need of greater cleansing.  
Or take Visci herbarum saniculae, Pirolae, Aristoloch, and vincae pervincae, ana ℥ two. of Turpentine washed ℥ iiii. Crocus veneris half an ounce. Balsami Tartari, ʒ two. Sulphuris Antimonii, ʒ. i. ss. set them upon a fire of ashes, until it have the substance of a salve.   

Sarcotica.  
Take of the Mucilage of the seed of Fennigreek, two ounces, of the juice of hounds-tongue, Persicaria, and the great Cumfery, ana one ounce and half, oil of Frankincense, and Myrrh, ana, ʒ. three Oil of Hypericon simple, two ounces, Turpentine washed with white wine, two ounces, let them stand in the sun, or at a soft fire until they wax thick.   

Vnguentum de peto.  
Take of the juice of Petum lb i Turpentine five ounces, of common oil of Hypericon eight ounces, good white wine half a pound, digest all eight days, after seethe them until the wine be consumed, than put to Colophonia and Wax, ana, iii, ounces, Mumia and Amber anaʒ. two. melt them again at the fire, and make an ointment according to Art.  
Take of the juice of the Petum and Cumfery ana four ounces, oil of Turpentine lb i flowers of Hypericon and Verbascus, ana M. two. Apples of an Elm tree, three ounces, the buds of the Poplar tree four ounces, the spirit of Wine lb i. ss. digest all these in horse dung, or in a warm bath, in a glass vessel well stopped one whole month, than wring it out and strain it, and put to it of Frankincense, Mastic, and Myrrh, ana, two ounces, Sanguinis Draconis, half an ounce, Mumiae, ʒ vi. Turpentine half a pound, Benzoini one ounce, circulate them together in a Pelican eight days, after with a moderate heat distil away the spirit of Wine, and there will remain in the bottom a most precious Balm.   

Cicatricem inducentia.  
Take of  Alum ℥. i. Crete Vitrioli, ʒ iii Crocus Martis, Crocus Veneris, anaʒ two. mingle them and make a powder, which you may use by itself, or mingled honey.  
Or take of Bole Armeniae prepared after our manner, ʒ two. calx of Eggshells half an ounce, the juice of unripe Damasons three ounces, boil them with a soft fire to a perfect substance.   

Ad Venena.  
Take of oil of Amber and Turpentine, ana one ounce, oil of Juniper ʒ two. Nettle seed, and the root of Gentian, anaʒ two. Oil of Sulphur Vitriolat. ʒ i ss. read Coral, ʒ i mingle them together.  
Or take of the juice of Pentaphillon, Scabeos and Rue, ana two ounces, Olei Sulphuris Rubei, ℥ i Oil of Myrrh, ʒ two. Colophoni and Gum of juice, anaʒ vi. mingle them.   

Ad ambusta.  
Take of Lard molten and washed in water of Nightshade, two ounces, Olei Saturni half an ounce, mingle them.  
Or take the juice of the roots of Henbane, and flowers of read Poppy, ana one ounce, Salt-Peter ʒ i. Mucilage of Seminis Cidoniorum; ʒ iii and with oil of Camphire make an ointment.   

Repellentia & sanguinem cohibentia.  
Take of Bole Armenia prepared after the Spagyric manner, two ounces, Crocus Martis and Crocus Veneris, ana one ounce, mix them with oil of Roses.  
Or take of Colcotharis Dulcificati, ashes of Frogs burned, ana half an ounce, mingle them with the white of an Egg.  
There be made other Remedies for the aforesaid intents, the making whereof we have described in their proper places, which I commit to the judgement of the skilful Chirurgeons to use wisely, as the disease and party affected doth require. Now there remaineth to speak of drinks for wounds, before we teach the preparations of Medicines.   

De potionibus vulnerariis.  
These potions for Wounds, although they drive not out the humours downwards, yet prevail they very much to cleanse Wounds, because they cleanse superfluous humours, and the blood from all filth, and by a certain marvellous quality wherewith they excel, they knit the broken bones, and help the sinews that are hurt by Wounds, and helping nature, they at the last fill the Wound with flesh, and close them up without using any other remedy: when as I saw in Germany, the marvellous and almost incredible effect which came by the use of these potions, even in curing desperate Ulcers, I thought it not meet to pass over the mention of them, and that so much the rather, because I knew the ●se of them in time past was allowed, but now, through the negligence of Physicians: to be almost grown out of use. Also I have experienced those potions to be taken, not only as Medicines, but also as nourishments, and to help all the passions and incommodities whereunto Wounds are subject. The Simples whereof the Medicines are made, are these:  
Cyclaminus, Consolida major, Consolida media, quam Sophiam nonnulli vocant, Sabina, Galanga, Vinca pervinca, Centaurum, Ophioglosson, Betonica, Aristolochia, Veronica, Agrimonia, Verbena, Serpentaria, Persicaria, Artemisia, Lilium convallium, Zedoaria, Pyrola, Sperma ceti, Cancri fluviatiles, Nux vomica, Astaci, Mumia, Macis, Bolus Armena.  
You shall much better draw out the strength of those simples than the common sort, if you put them into a tun of white Must, and digest them there two months, or if you cut the green herbs very small, and wring out the juice of them into a Pelican or blind Limbeck, or circulate them three or four days in Balneo Mariae. This last way is most convenient for them that are forbidden the use of Wine, especially if they be wounded in the head. The distilled waters of them be also good, if they be taken dryly by themselves morning and evening, with dose and manner convenient: Or if white Wine be delayed with them (if it be granted to the wounded.) Here followeth the composition of the vulnerary potions.   

A vulnerary Potion to be given the first seven days.  
Take of both Conferies Veronica, Showbread, ana, M. i Astacos purged num. iiii. white Wine two measures, circulate them in Balneo three days, strain it, and give every morning one spoonful.  
Or take of the eyes of Crabs in powder ℥. ss. Mumiaʒ. two. Bole Armenaeʒ. i. ss. the Herbs of Agrimoni, Ophioglosson, Veronica, and Showbread, ana, M. i Sperma Cetiʒ. i. infuse them in white Wine a whole night in Balneo, take of this two spoonfuls morning and evening if need be, it putteth away the inflammation very much, and helpeth the burning.   

Potions to be given at other times of the grief.  
Take of Macis, the eyes of Crabs, Zedoaria, ana, ʒ. three Mumia, Gallingal the less, ana, ʒ, two. Nu●is vomicaeʒ. i. ss. beaten them grossly, and put them in a glass vessel, pouring thereto of white Wine one measure and a half, macerate them in a soft heat two days, the dose is one spoonful in the morning, and as much at night; the force of this potion is so great, that it cannot be sufficiently commended.   

A Potion apt for poisoned Wounds by gunshot.  
Take of the flowers of Vinca Pervinca, Lilium Convallium, ana. p. i Galanga, Zedoaria, ana, ʒ. two. Mumia, and Bole Armenia, ana, ʒ. i. Sperma Cetiʒ. ss. white Wine two measures, digest and circulate them in Balneo four days, the dose is one spoonful morning and evening.   

A Potion vulnerary, where the bone is broken with gunshot.  
Take of A●istolochi, Showbread, Adder's grass, both Conferies, Geranii, ana, M. i Savin M. ss. Maces, Zedoaria, the eyes of Crabs, ana, ℥. ss. Mumia, Gallingal the less, ana, ʒ. i. ss. being cut small and bruised, and the other things brought into a gross powder, boil all in a double vessel four hours with one measure of Wine, use it morning and evening: This Medicine is much better than so many splints, wherewith many are tormented.   

A Potion for the Wounds of the head.  
℞. Of flowers of Lilium Convallium, Betonie, ana, p. i Gallingall, Macis, ana, ʒ. iii Persicaria, Selandine, Vinca Pervinca, Veronica, and Centauri, ana, M. ss. Macerate them as before, and reserve them to your use.   

A Potion for wounds of the breast.  
Take of the juice of Verven, Betonie, Veronica, ana, ℥. two. Cinnamon water lb. i. macerate them.   

For Wounds of the stomach.  
Take of Bole Armenia ℥. ss. of both the Comferies, ana, M.i. Gallingalʒ. two. temper them with Wine as aforesaid, reserve them to use. Divers descriptions of Potions might be made of the aforesaid simples, which I have left to the judgement of the expert Physician; notwithstanding this one thing I will add, that the use of them hath many opportunities to cure Wounds by gunshot, as also the Canker, and all malign, desperate, and eating Ulcers, of all which the Physician shall take very great profit, if he prepare the Potions with the Essence of the vulnerary simples spagyrically extract, as we have taught in another place.   

A brief declaration of spagyrical Medicines.  
FOr as much as now remaineth to declare the Spagyric preparation of those simples, which pertain to the cure of Wounds by gunshot, we will use the same method we have before used, whereby this our Treatise may be the plainer.   

Suppurantia sunt igitur & Anodyna.  
Oleum ovorum. Oleum butyri. Oleum resinae. Ol. visci pomorum compos. Oleum hyperici. simpl. Olea omnium axung.   

Detergentia.  
Oleum myrrhae. Oleum mastiches. Oleum terebinthinae. Oleum mellis. Viscus centaurii. Viscus vincae pervincae. Viscus aristolochiae. Sal foecum aceti. Balsamus martis. Crocus veneris. Mercur. praecipitat. vulgaris. Mercurius praecipit. dulcific. Oleum guaiaci. Balsamus veneris. Balsamus Saturni. Balsamus tartari.   

Sarcotica.  
Balsamus hyperici. Oleum thuris. Oleum sarcocollae. Ol. mannae. Viscus consolidae utriusque. Viscus cynoglossi.   

Epulotica.  
Calx testarum ovorum. Calx testarum limacum. Bolus armenae praeparatae. Alumen adustum & praepar. Crocus Martis. Creta Vitrioli flava. Oleum salis tartari. Oleum talci, quae etiam cicatrices decorant.   

Repellentia & sanguinem cohibentia.  
Oleum visci pomorum simplex. Oleum Martis. Crocus Veneris. Colcothar simplex. Colcothar dulcificatum. Bolus armena praeparata. Calx testarum ovorū. Calx testarum limacum.   

Ad venena.  
Butyrium arsenici fixum. Praecipitatus dulcificatus. Balsamus tartari. Ol. Mercur. corporale. Oleum antimonii. Oleum sulphuris vitriolatum.   

Ad ambusta.  
Oleum ovorum. Oleum lardi. Oleum butyri. Aqua gammarorum. Aqua spermatis ranarum. Aqua florum papaveris rubri. Viscus rad. hyoscyami. Oleum Saturni, ejusque Sal. Oleum Lithargyri.   

Attrahentia.  
Viscus aristolochiae. Viscus corticis med. tiliae. Succinum praeparatum. Magnes praeparatus.   

Sunt rursus illorum simplicium singula, quae singulis partibus vulneratis conducunt, ut, Ossibus corruptis.  
Oleum myrrhae. Oleum caryophyllorum. Oleum Tartari foetens. Oleum vitrioli. Oleum sulphuris simplex. Oleum sulph. vitriolatum. Oleum antimonii. Sulphur rubicundum antim. Oleum salis. Oleum Mercur. sublimati.  
Nervis vulneratis. Oleum cerae. Oleum juneperi. Oleum Euphorbii. Oleum ovorum. Oleum terebinthinae. Oleum sulphuris terebinth.  
Carni putridae, ac corruptae. Sal fuliginis. Sal urinae. Sal tartari. Sal mellis. Oleum frumenti. Oleum mellis. Oleum sulph. acidum. Phlegma vitrioli acidum. Phlegma aluminis acidum. Balsamus Martis. Balsamus Veneris. Balsamus Mercurii. Balsamus tartari.  
But because regard is always to be had of the noble part, in whose action the life doth consist, there be certain Medicines, which being given can defend them.   

Roborant enim.  
Cerebrum. Oleum succini. Oleum salviae. Oleum cario phillorum. Spiritus vitrioli.  
Cor. Aurum vitae. Tinctura auri. Essentia margaritarum:  
Hepar. Tinctura Bals. natural. Tinctura corallorum. Oleum Martis.    

The spagyrical Preparation of Medicines before rehearsed.  
THe dregss of Wine or crude Tartar brought into powder, put into a Retort of glass or earth with his Recipient, make fire by degrees as is done to the making of strong water, there will rise great plenty of white spirits, which will turn into water, and thick stinking oil, separate the oil by a Funnel, and keep it to your use.  
But the Salt of Tartar you shall draw out of the Feces (which they call the dead head) which are left in the Retort. Those you shall dissolve in warm water, and after filter that which is dissolved twice or thrice, coagulate it at the fire by vapouring away the water, and the salt will remain in the bottom of the vessel, which if you again dissolve and coagulate divers times, you shall purge it clear like Crystal.  
This Crystalline salt if you put it into a glass, and set it in a Wine cellar or other moist place, within few days it will resolve into a clear oil, very excellent to cleanse the spots and ulcers of the face.  
Take crude Tartar lb two. Salt-Peter, Salt of Soot, of the Feces of Vinegar, ana four ounces, Calcis Vivae, six ounces, all broken very small put into a vessel not glazed, but well stopped. Calcine it twelve hours, dissolve that that is calcined in warm water, and distil it by filter, after coagulate it, and cleanse it again, repeating three times your calcinations, dissolutions, and coagulations; than put all into a Limbeck, and put on distilled vinegar that it be covered four fingers. Distil the Vinegar in Balneo M. and there will come forth a sweet liquor, than pour on the Vinegar again to distil, this do so long until it be not more sweet but sour, as when you poured it on first, and so rise in the Limbeck. Than distil all in a strong fire by a Retort, and there will come forth a hot oil, the commodities whereof can scarcely be declared.  
After the same manner if you will, you may distil all the salt of Tartar by a Limbeck, whereof you shall make a most excellent and wholesome oil.  
Vinegar being distilled by a Limbeck, the Feces remain in the bottom of the Vessel, which first dried, afterwards with a violent fire, if they be driven out by a Retort, there cometh forth a very read and sharp oil. Than if you do again dissolve the dead head or Feces in warm water, filter, and coagulate it, the salt of Vinegar will rest, in the bottom, the which is very profitable for all eating Ulcers.  
Soot brought into fine powder, dissolve it in distilled Vinegar in Balneo, and separating all the mensture, that which remaineth in the bottom dissolve and coagulate again, so long till it come to white Salt, which in a moist place will dissolve into oil, very apt to cure the Gangraena and all malign ulcers.  
Bole Armoniac made into fine powder, dissolve it in the sour phlegm of Alum, than separate the phlegm by Balneum and pour on other. Do this three times, and than the Bowl will be turned into a very fat oil, which with a very soft fire is dried, and brought into powder most apt to staunch blood, wheresoever it break out.  
Take of Cloves beaten in powder one pound, simple water, or Aqua vitae, which is better, six pound, infuse them to digest in Balneo or dung four days, than put them in a Limbeck with his Refrigatorie, distil it according to art, and separate the oil from the water by a funnel, and keep it for your use. After the same manner shall you draw the oils of Sage, Juniper, Amber, Turpentine, Myrrh, Frankincense, Sarcocolla, Mastic and Euphorbium. We have written another better way to draw oils out of the foresaid things in the Spagyric preparation of Medicines.  
Wheat being put into a Retort with the spirit of wine, digest it eight days, than distil it with a violent fire, that which is distilled pour again upon the dead head, digest it again, and distil it again, if you reiterate this three times, there will come forth a most excellent oil for Gangrena and Carcinomata.  
Take of the flowers of Hypericon small cut two pound, oil of Turpentine i. pound, yolks of Eggs, 20. Aqua vitae half a pound, mingle them all together, and let it putrify in hot dung one whole month, than wring it out, and set in the Sun two months.  
After the same manner is the Balm of Visci pemorum made, or with oil Olive, first purified in Balneo.  
Take of the flowers of Hypericon, one pound, of the Mucilage of the root of the great Cumferie, four ounces, flowers of Camomile, Verbascum, ana, p. two. Oil of Eggs and Turpentine, ana lb ss. Aqua Vitae one pound, Myrrh, Frankincense, Mastic, Mumia, ana two ounces, Read Sugar vi. ounces, putrify all in dung one month in a vessel diligently stopped, than wring it out, and circulate it in Balneo three days, afterwards with a soft fire boil it to the substance of a Balm.  
Take of the leaves of the Misselto of the Appletree cut small two pound, put them into a Vessel of glass, putting thereto Buds of the Poplar tree half a pound, oil of the grease of a Badger, and of Butter, ana four ounces, Turpentine vi. ounces, oil of Worms two pound and a half, good white wine two pound, digest all well stopped in very hot dung two months, than press it and circulate it, and with a soft fire boil it until the liquors be consumed, there cannot be found a more excellent Medicine to assuage aches and pains.  
The juice of the leaves and roots of herbs you shall purify until it be clear, pouring to it so much Aqua vitae, and digest it in Balneo in a glass 15. days, than separate that water by distillation, and there remaineth in the bottom the slime or muslage of the herbs.  
Steep the leaves and roots of herbs in common water filtered, or that which is better, in white wine eight days, than let them boil three days with a soft fire under them. Than wring them out and purify it, than boil them with a soft fire, until they come to the thickness of honey, which we call the slime of Mucilage. By this rule you shall draw out of both Comferies, Cynoglosso, Centaurie, Vinca pervinca, Aristolochie, the root of Henbane, and the middle Bark of Tilia their Mucilage very profitable for the foresaid Medicines.  
Out of the flowers of read Poppy or their juice you shall draw a water by a Limbeck very profitable to cool.  
The salt of man's Urine hath an excellent quality to cleanse; It is made thus, First, the Urine is to be filtered, than coagulated, after with distilled Vinegar dissolved, and again coagulated, these must be reiterated three or four times.  
Melt Wax at the fire, and boil it with Wine till it be consumed, do it so long until it crack not more; take lb. i. of Wax thus prepared, Alum calcined lb. ss. Sage leaves M. i put all into a Limbeck with his Receiver, and distil it with a mean fire: First there will come forth a gross oil, thick, hard, and white, which must be distilled again as before, and three times reiterated, and so you shall make an excellent oil of Wax for all griefs of the sinews: In like manner is the oil of Rosin and pitch made.  
Out of Honey you shall first draw an excellent water by Balneu●, afterwards you shall put unto the dead head, or feces that are left, sand or flint stones calcined, that the matter boil not up, which you shall drive out by a Retort of glass, giving fire by degrees, and so you shall distil a yellowish clear oil, together with a gross impure oil; let all digest again four or five days, after distil it again by a Limbeck in sand, and there will come out a pure read oil swimming upon the water; this water is sour, almost like Vinegar distilled, and is very good against the Gangrena; but the oil which burneth like Aqua vitae hath marvellous qualities, especially if it be circulated certain days with the spirit of Wine; for the spirit being after separated, there remaineth a sweet oil of pleasant savour, good for Wounds by gunshot, and eating Ulcers.  
Out of the feces which remains is drawn a Salt, first being calcined with a fire of reverberation, dissolving it with his proper menstrua, or common water distilled, filtering and coagulating it three times: It is good for all rotten Ulcers. This Salt you shall mingle with his proper burning Oil according to art, and you shall reap greater commodity thereof than is lawful to be spoken.  
Take of Honey not separated from his Wax lb. two. Tartar made into powder lb. i. let them putrify together in dung fifteen days, and distil it by a Retort, and there will first come a clear water, than a yellowish; put these again upon the dead head, and putrify it again other fifteen days, after distil it again, and this do three times, and you shall have an excellent oil of Honey.  
Take Butter first melted in white Wine, and than distil it with a mean fire, and there will distil out an oil greatly swaging pains and supplying: So shall you make oil of Lord and all greases.  
Take a hundred yolks of Eggs first sodden hard, put them into a Cucurbite, and make fire by degrees, first there will come out a water, after a yellowish oil swimming upon the water, last a thick oil: The water is good for all spots in the face, the oil to appease all griefs and aches.  
Boil Creveses in water of Orpine in a double vessel well stopped one whole day; after distil it, pouring the water three times upon the feces, than let it be kept, it is very good for inflammations, burn, and the Carcynomata.  
The sperm or seed of Frogs is gathered in the month of March, and is distilled by a glass Limbek, and thereof is drawn a water very commodious for inflammations and burn.  
Eggshells, or the shells of Snails, are reverberated in a sharp fire three days, until they be brought into a very white Calce; but if they be sprinkled with Vinegar whilst they are calcined, the Calce will be the lighter, and apt to work his force.  
Mercury first washed and prepared, according to Gebers prescription, dissolve with the double weight of common Strong-water, than distil it four times, and pour it so often again upon the feces, and so it is brought into a very read powder, out of the which, being reverberate at the fire, and drawn away, the spirits of the Strong-water, which otherwise would move great pain; but it were better, if it were washed with the phlegm of Alum and Vinegar distilled, and the water of Eggs, for by that means the sharpness is taken away.  
But it is better to prepare Mercury with often sublimations, and to fix it being quickened again, and purged from his filthy earth and superfluous humidity, with the water which we have described in the book, by me published, of the Spagyric preparation: But if all men do not understand that description for the dark words of Art, it shall not be incommodious to fix the Mercury with common Strong Water, three times poured on and drawn away, and to bring it into a read powder, and that with a sufficient violent fire, that all the sharpness and venom of the menstrew may be drawn away, which shall much the better be done, if this water following be mingled with it, and by often distillation separated.  
Take of distilled Vinegar lb. two. ss. the phlegm of Alum lb. i ss. calx of Eggshells ℥. vi. distil all till it be dry: Take of this water lb. iii of Mercury precipitate as before lb. i mingle all well according to art, distil it by a Limbeck, pouring the water again unto the feces three times, last of all, drive all out until it be dry, and there will remain a powder in the bottom, which grind upon a Marble, and put it into a Limbeck, pouring on the water aforesaid, which you shall three times distil from the feces as before: Lastly, the Mercury precipitate must be circulated with an alcool of Wine 24. hours: than distil away the spirit of Wine that the matter may dry, than pour on new again, and circulate and distil it as before, and that do four or five times, and than you have attained the perfect preparation of Mercury, whose qualities cannot be sufficiently commended in curing of sundry diseases, especially of the Pox, whether it be taken by the mouth, or applied to the place grieved.  
Make Amalgama with ℥. iiii. of Mercury crude, and ℥. i. of the best Tin; spread this upon a plate of Iron, and set it in a moist place, and all will dissolve into oil, it is also made with Mercury alone, and a plate of Tin.  
Mercury, as the manner is, three times sublimed with Salt of Vitriol, at the last is mingled with the like portion of salt Armoniac, and again sublimed three or four times, all that sublimate is dissolved into oil, out of which the spirit of the salt Armoniac is to be drawn away; circulate all with the Essence of Wine, and distil it so long, until the oil have lost his heat and sharpness, and the Armoniac be separated.  
It is also reduced by itself into an oil, with a very soft heat of an Athanor, by long distance of time.  
Sublime Mercury so often, with the simple Calx of Eggs well prepared, until it be utterly extinct; to this mixture pour Vinegar distilled, alcool sated, that it may cover it four fingers; distil the liquor from the feces four or five times, until the Mercury be come into a very read powder, which you shall circulate with an alcool of Wine in a Pelican eight days, separate the alcool by a Limbeck, and there will remain in the bottom, the most precious and sweet Balm of Mercury: It healeth all desperate Ulcers, and also carbunculam in vesica, and greatly helpeth these Wounds by gunshot. All other preparations of Mercury, and the manner of using it, you shall gather out of the book which we lately set forth.  
Upon the filings of Iron often washed with salt water, pour sharp Vinegar, that it may cover it four fingers, set it upon warm ashes eight days, every day moving the matter, and separating the Vinegar which will be coloured, and pouring on again new, and that so long, till the Vinegar be not more coloured, which being vapoured away, take the powder that remaineth in the bottom, and sublime it with a like portion of Armoniac; the same sublimate you shall return again so often upon his feces, and sublime again until there appear the colour of a Ruby; than cast all into scalding water, that the salt may dissolve them, by and by put to cold water, and the Balm of Mars will rest in the bottom like the calx of Gold; pour away the water, and put to fresh again, that the Balm may be made sweet.  
Of this with the spirit of Wine alcolizat by circulations, you shall make a read oil, most excellent for all inward Hemeroides, or Issues of blood, and to strengthen the bowels, if one drop be mixed with conserve of Roses, or Confery, or given with Wine.  
The filings of Iron first well washed, you shall calcine with the flower of Sulphur, or dissolve with Strong Water, than pour on very sharp Vinegar, and set it in a warm place certain days, than reverberate it with an open fire, as Art commandeth, one whole day, gathering always the flowers which remain above, until all be converted into a very read and light powder.  
After the same manner you shall make the Balm, Oil, and Crocus of Copper, out of the which, with the four flame of Vitriol, circulating all artificially, you shall draw a bluish Vitriol, whose qualities we have described in another place.  
Out of Saturn calcined is drawn a sweetish salt in Balneo with distilled Vinegar, pouring it so often upon the Feces until it draw not more: The menstrew evaporated, the salt remaineth in the bottom, which by often dissolutions, and coagulations, is made Crystalline, and afterwards easily dissolved into oil, being set in a moist place. But if you circulate this Crystalline salt in a Pelican, with the alcool of Wine fifteen days, and after take away the menstrew by distillation, and put to new Wine and circulate it, putting to a fit dose of crystalline salt of Tartar, you shall make a Balm sweeter than Sugar, which will marvellously prevail against all malign Ulcers and diseases of the eyes.  
Decoct Antimony made in powder, with a capital Lie pre-prepared of Tartar calcined, and Soap ashes, and quick Lime, the space of one hour, than let it cool, pouring upon it a little Vinegar, and there will appear a certain redness swimming upon it, which you shall gather; than again let it boil for one hour or two, again let it cool, and gather that which swimmeth up; do this so often, until there appear not more redness; for it is the Sulphur of Antimony, which dried at a soft fire, you shall keep it to good uses.  
Mingle Antimony with Sugar and Alum, and put all into a Retort of glass, make a soft fire for four or five hours, afterwards increase it, and there will come out an Oil read like blood: It is also done with Mercury sublimate, but great heed is to be taken, jest any error be committed in the degree of fire.  
Boil Sulphur prepared with oil of Linseed, with a very soft fire, and it will be like blood congealed: Let the matter cool, put it into a Retort, and give it fire, and there will distil out a very read oil of Sulphur: It is also done, if you mingle Bran with your Sulphur and distil it.  
Take of Sulphur Vivum P. i with which mingle, with a soft fire, so much pure Vitriol melted, that it may be one body; distil this by a Discentory, and there will descend a read oil into the Receiver.  
If lb. i. of the flower of Sulphur be mixed with two. or three lb. of oil of Turpentine in a dry heat, the flowers will dissolve into a read oil; than the menstrew rightly and artificially separate, circulate the rubin of Sulphur with the Alcool of Wine eight days, and you shall have oil of Sulphur that hath the qualities of the natural Balm.  
The sour oil of Sulphur is made by Sulphur, by setting it on a fire, and hanging over it a bell, or a large glass head, to keep the vapours which are converted into that sour oil.  
Put Vitriol beaten into powder into a Cucurbite, giving it a fire of the second degree, and there will issue a sour water, which is called the phlegm of Vitriol.  
Take the Feces which remaineth in the bottom of the vessel, which is called Colcothar, stamp that, and if you mingle flints withal, with a violent fire, there will come out a read oil.  
It is also made with the simple Colcothar, driven out with a violent fire three day's space, and there will come forth a very hot oil, which is made sweet by circulation, with spirit of Wine tartarizated.  
But if the Colcothar be dissolved in warm water, and the redness in it separated, and the water evapourated, the Colcothar will remain sweetish; that which remaineth, the redness being taken away, is called Creta Vitrioli.  
But if Vitriol be drawn by the ninth, a Limbeck pouring on always the liquor upon the dead head, and after circulating all by the space of eight days, you shall have the spirit of Vitriol, very profitable for many things.  
The phlegm of Alum is made like the phlegm of Vitriol.  
But Alum is prepared, if the phlegm be five times poured upon the Feces, out of which it was drawn and distilled, last of all dry out all the phlegm until it be dry.  
Make Brine of Salt, into which cast hot burn stones that they may be imbibed, those stones so imbibed, put into a Retort, giving fire by degrees, there will comeforth a very hot oil of Salt.  
I said before, that there was great force in Butyro Arsenici fixo to cure all venomous and Malign Ulcers, it is made in this manner: Mingle crystalline Arsenic first sublimed, with only Colcothar (which doth keep back his poison) with like weight of Salt of Tartar and Salt-Peter, put all into two glasses, and fix it, giving fire the space of four and twenty hours, first very gentle, than of the highest degree: You shall found the matter very white fixed, resembling the colour of Pearls, which dissolve in warm water, that you may draw the Alcaly from it; and the powder which remaineth imbibe with oil of Tartar, or of Talcum, which is better, and dry it at the fire, and do this thrice: again dissolve the matter in warm water, that you may take away his salt, and there will remain a very white powder and fixed, which will dissolve in a moist place into a fat oil, which is anodinum like Butter.  
Out of Talcum rightly and artificially calcined is drawn the spirit with distilled Vinegar. This is dissolved into a precious oil, being set in a moist place.  
Take of the juice of Aristolochia Rotunda, and Savin, ana, three ounces, Serpentaria, two ounces, spirit of Wine one pound, circulate them first the space of 24. hours, than distil them, of this water take lb i of Elect Magnes made into powder four ounces, circulate them together, and distil away the water from the Feces, reiterate this three times, and by this means you shall obtain the preparation of Magnes.  
But because (as we have said) the noblest parts are to be strengthened, and the heart, the principal organ of life, must always be defended, these preparations following are to be used.  
Take of Theriaca of Alexandria, two ounces and a half, the best Myrrh, one ounce and half, Saffron ʒ two. the spirit of wine six ounces, mingle all these, and in ashes with a very soft fire distil it, circulate that which is distilled in Balneo eight days, and than distil it again. This water hath a most excellent quality against the Plague, and all venomous things, and doth marvellously strengthen the heart.  
We have showed the extraction of the tincture of Gold, Corals, natural Balm, and the essence of Pearl in the Book which I wrote of Preparation; it now resteth for us to speak of the Gold of Life, which all shall know to be the most excellent and extreme Medicine in curing all diseases, which do but consider the singular excellency of Gold in the cure of the Leprosy.  
Aurum vitae is made many ways, for being calcined after the Spagyric manner, it is made light and spungeous, which cannot be reduced again, from which with distilled Vinegar is drawn a salt in Balneo, whose qualities by circulations with the spirit of Wine are so increased, that they seem to be incredible for the curing of innumerable diseases.  
Calcine gold made into thin plates so often with Salt preparate (by a Philosophical calcination) until it be made unpalpable, the salt by dissolutions being separate from the Alcool of gold, than calcine it again with very white sugared salt, and to this mixture pour of the spirit of alcoolyzat, which is proper salt, according to the precepts of Art, that it may cover it over oely four fingers, than set on fire, that the Alcool may burn, and this you shall do oftentimes, than pour on new Alcool of Wine, and circulate all rightly and decently the space of four days. Than separate the menstrew with competent distillation, and pour on new again, circulating and distilling as you did before, so often, until all the substance of Gold be carried out by the Limbeck: The Menstrew being separated as it aught, the Gold of Life, will remain in the bottom the most excellent, and best of all Secrets.   
FINIS. Omnibus sed paucis luceo   

A RICH CLOSET OF PHYSICAL SECRETS, Collected by the Elaborate pains of four several Students in Physic, And digested together; ViZ. The Child-bearers Cabinet.  
A Preservative against the Plague and small Pox.  
Physical Experiments presented to our late Queen Elizabeth's own hands.  
WITH Certain approved Medicines, taken out of a Manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English Abbeys, and supplied with some of his own Experiments, by a late English Doctor.  
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Friendly Reader.  
COnsidering the many sad inconveniences which hap unto Childbearing women, in their several months of bearing, and knowing myself to have come by that passage into this world, I thought it the duty of a Christian, to discover the helps and remedies that might be afforded them, both to secure their issue from abortment, and to enable them to go through their whole time, and to facilitate their birth, without danger of themselves or their issue; as also to set down their government or their Nurses after delivery, hoping I should do an acceptable service, to engage posterity, in this task; as also to set down Preservatives against the Plague and small Pox, with certain experimented Remedies fit for that purpose: and having, just as my last sheets of these two books were passing the Press, certain other Collections communicated to me, concerning some other approved Secrets, as namely, the Experiments of a great Navigator of this Nation, presented to our late Queen Elizabeth's own hands; with other chief selected Collections by a late Doctor of Physic of this Nation; I was unwilling to suffer two such pieces of very good concernment, to perish in obscurity under my hands; hoping, as they were carefully collected, and faithfully presented, they shall receive grateful acceptance, from your friend  
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The Contents of the several Chapters of the ensuing Treatise.  

CHAP. I What things are to be taken heed of in the first Months.  
CHAP. II. What is fit to be observed in the third Month.  
CHAP. III. What to be observed from the fourth Month.  
CHAP. IU. What to be observed from the fifth, sixth, and seventh Month.  
CHAP. V What is to be observed in the eighth Month.  
CHAP. VI What is to be observed in the ninth Month, wherein what Ointments, Foments, bath, suffumigation, diet, conveniency of place to be brought in bed is necessary.  
CHAP. VII. Sheweth what is to be done near the birth, and also how, and wherewith, the childbed woman's bed is to be furnished.  
CHAP. VIII. Sheweth to whom the seat 〈◊〉 ●ree.  
CHAP. IX. What the Midwife aught to do in the very moment of the woman's labour.  
CHAP. X. What is to be done when the Infant is come into the world.  
CHAP. XI. What is to be done if the Seconds break not readily, and what also after the Child is born, if yet the Secundines be retained, with Remedies approved for extracting them.  
CHAP. XII. Sheweth the way of eduction of a dead Child.  
CHAP. XIII. Shows, if the childbearing woman be costive, how she may be made soluble.  
CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the natural parts when the Child is born, Fomentations, Ointment, Girdle for the belly.  
CHAP. XV. What is to be done from the seventh, eighth, and ninth day of the woman's being brought to bed; under which is expressed an Ointment to dissipate Milk; as also when, and what Bath is to be used.  
CHAP. XVI. Shows, how to help the wring and gripe of the belly in childbed women, by outward, and inward Means, and Drinks.  
CHAP, XVII. Sheweth the government of the Nurse, and Cure of the Infant.  
CHAP, XVIII. Sheweth how to make a Bath for Children, by which means they may grow and increase.  
CHAP. XIX. Treateth of the diseases of Infants; together with the diseases and symptoms proceeding from the birth in women with child; as also against the gripe of the belly from the birth.  
CHAP. XX. Treateth of the Rupture of the Genitalss and Cod, which cometh from the difficulty of bringing forth.  
CHAP. XXI. Treateth how to ease the wind of the belly.  
CHAP. XXII. Treateth of Remedies against Itch in their parts.  
CHAP. XXIII. Sheweth how to help immoderate Fluxes of blood.  
CHAP. XXIV. Sheweth how to help the falling down of the Womb, from or upon the birth.  
CHAP. XXV. Treateth to remedy the piles after their birth.  
CHAP. XXVI. Treateth of pain of the breasts gotten by the Milk.  
CHAP. XXVII. Treateth how to cure Imposthumes in the breasts.  
CHAP. XXVIII. In the additional Observations. What is to be administered to the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh.  
CHAP. XXIX. Sheweth what is to be done for Infants troubled with wind and phlegm.  
CHAP. XXX. Sheweth how children may teeth easily.  
CHAP. XXXI. Teacheth how to cure Agues in Children.  
CHAP. XXXII. To help Worms in Children.  
CHAP. XXXIII. To kill heart-Wormes in Children.  
CHAP. XXXIV. To 'cause a young Child to go to stool.   
Certa probata tibi medicamina profero luci,  
Si non pauca placent, addito plura bona.   

A SHORT COMMENTARY, Concerning the Care aught to be had of Women which are with child, such as are ready to bring forth, such as are brought to bed, and also of Infants.  
SInce many sad and incommodious things are want to hap to women with child, and in bringing them into the world by ignorance and carelessness: I thought I should undertake a thing not unbeseeming a Christian Physician, if I should reduce, as it were, into a brief Comment, what things were fit to observe, as well in their time of bearing, as also in the birth, from which, being somewhat more instructed, they might better enjoy their health, preserve their offspring, and after birth better defend their bodies.  

CHAP. I What things are to be taken heed of in the two first Months.  
SO soon as the woman shall begin to be with child, which she shall easily know, by stopping of her monthly flux, without disease, or ancientness of years; she shall abstain from all vehement motions and exercise, whether she walk on foot, or ride on horseback, or in a Coach, or be carried in a Horse-litter; For where the body is too much stirred, the internal membrane of the Womb is either accustomed to be broken, or to be loosely resolved, and thereupon abortment presently followeth.  
To these things the woman with child must diligently beware, that she lift not her arms up too high, nor carry great burdens, nor repose herself on hard and uneasy seats: But instead of exercise, which may always in some precede before meat, she may walk on foot gently, or suffer her body and arms gently to be rubbed and stroked, or may stretch them forth with spinning or carding.  
Let her moderately use meat of good juice and easy concoction, and Wine not too strong and too sharp, but a little mingled with water, or if she be abstemious, she may use water wherein Cinnamon is boiled: But she may not feed on sweet meats, sharp, and windy; she must also avoid fasting, thirst, watching, mourning, sadness, anger, and all other perturbations of the mind.  
Her familiar friends must present no unwholesome thing to her, nor so much as name it, lest she should desire it, and not be able to get it, and so minister her an occasion of abortment, or the Child carry with it some foul impressions. But if she desire chalk, clay, or coals, let beans boiled with sugar be given unto her: or if she cannot get her longing, let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water.   

CHAP. II. Order for the third Month.  
BEfore the fourth month be ended, she must neither be let blood, nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine.  
But if too much blood abound, or some incident disease hap, which may require evacuation, you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification, and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arm, especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them.   

CHAP. III. From the fourth Month.  
When now the fourth month is past, blood-letting and physic is permitted, especially if it be gentle, and mild, such as best may agreed with women with child, and tender or delicate persons: And by Hippocrates precept may be conceded even until the seventh month.   

CHAP. FOUR From the fifth,, sixth, and seventh Month,  
FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is want, or aught from thence to be used, because the Babe being now become greater, standeth in need of greater nourishment and blood, and also can bear no commotion of physic.  
Although sometimes I have met with women, which have so much abounded with blood, that unless they had been let blood in the second month, they would have aborted in the third; others again, unless they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight month, they could not carry their great belly so long, or else would be delivered of a dead issue.  
But since these things hap but to few, they may not be granted to all, but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution.  
And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child, that they give not way to take any blood from the ankle bone of the foot, during the whole time of the woman's going, but in stead thereof, if the disease so require, an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock, or so much Cassia fistula, or of Syrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew, about the quantity of an ounce, with a little water of Cinnamon, may safely be taken a little before meat.  
But if the belly be bound only without any apparent disease, the broth of a Chicken, or of Veal sodden, with Oil, or with the decoction of Mallows, or marshmallows, Mercury, and Linseed, put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amiss, yet in a lesser measure than is want to be given in other Children, to wit, of the decoction five ounces, of common Oil three ounces, of Sugar two ounces, of Cassia fistula one ounce. But sharper Purgations, as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt, are altogether hurtful to great bellied women, or such as lie in childbed. But of fat Pork, which they call Lard, or the yolks of Eggs without salt, Purgations and Glisters are commended. But if she will not take a clyster, either for modesty or otherwise, because she was not accustomed to take it, one or two yolks of new laid Eggs, or a few Pease pottage warm, with a little salt and sugar, supped up a little before meat, will be very convenient.  
But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind, a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder, and mingled with Honey or with Sugar, made after the manner of an Electuary will do very well.  
But if the thighs and feet swell, let them be anointed with Oxphrodinum (which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and Rose-water) mingled with a little Salt.   

CHAP. V The eighth Month  
IN the eighth month, which is usually perilous, the better diets, rather than plentiest, will be most commodious. But as they must abate their diet, so their bodily exercise must increase. And because than women with child, by reason of the sharp humours altar the belly, are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength; they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon, or Aromaticum Rosatum, or Diamargariton, in the morning before meat, and sometimes they may ●ick a little Honey; even as they which loathe and nauseate their meat, may take green Ginger condited with Sugar, or the rinds of Citrons and Oranges condited; as also it is usual sometimes to take specifical Syrups. Moreover, let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthening of the Infant. When she is not fare from her labour, or bringing forth, she shall eat daily seven toasted Figs before meat, lest the seconds may be bound up; but if they shall be restrained and stay firm, they may be resolved: But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats, lest the child be born without nails.   

CHAP. VI In the ninth Month.  
IN the ninth month, being near their time, they must not be idle, neither sit much, nor stoop much, nor lie on their sides, so that the child may not well turn itself, but aught to lie with her face upward, neither shall she bend herself much, jest the child be enfolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds, by which means it oftentimes perisheth; but she must walk, and stir often, and exercise herself, rather by going upward than downward: Let her use light and easy meats of digestion, as damask-Prunes with Sugar, or Figs and Raisins, before meat, and also the yolks of Eggs, flesh and broth of Chicken, Birds, Patridges and Pheasants, and Fish living in stony places, with good broth.  
And such meats shall not only be convenient for this month, but also for the two succeeding months, that the natural parts by them may be dilated.  
Also astringent meats, and roasted meats, and also Rise, hard Eggs, Millet, and others of that kind will be very profitable. Baths of sweet water, with emollient herbs, used with intermission is meet: But the hot house, which they call a stow, is hurtful. After the bath, let the belly be anointed with oil of Roses and Violets; but the natural parts with the fat of Hens, Geese, Ducks, with oil of Lilies, and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek, boiled with oil of Linseed, marsh-Mallows, grains of Quinces, or with this which followeth.  

A Lineament.  
Take of Mallows, Of marshmallows, both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce.  
Of Linseed also one ounce. Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten; let them take three ounces of the boiled broth, of oil of Flower-de-luce, and of Almonds, of each one ounce, three ounces of Dear suet; Bath this from the rest, and anoint her with it warm.  
Also they may use, for fourteen days before the birth morning and evening, to bathe and moisten the belly with Muscadine and Lavender-water, that the child may be the more strengthened thereby.  
She may every day eat toasted bread, that nothing may grow to the child.  
The natural parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation.   

The Fomentation.  
Take three ounces of Linseed.  
Of Mallows, and of marshmallows sliced, of each M. i  
Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately: Let the woman with child, every morning and evening, take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stool, taking great heed, that no wind or air come to her in any part; and than let her wipe the parts so anointed with a linen cloth, that she may anoint the belly and groins, as at the first.  
Being near her time to bring forth, so that she be within ten days thereof, if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain, let her daily use this Bath.   

The Bath.  

Take of Mallows,  
Marshmallows, ana M. i  
Camomile,  
Mercury herb,  
Maidenhair, ana M. ss.  
Of Linseed four ounces.   
Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water, as may suffice to make a Bath therewith.  
But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat, nor higher than a little above her Navel, nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour, lest her strength languish and decay; for it is better to use it often, than to stay too long at once in it.  
But if she cannot endure to sit over the water, let her cherish her natural parts, with a sponge or with clotheses wet in it.  
A Laconic and sweeting Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful, though we think women may use it.  
After the Bath she shall always anoint her natural parts of her loins, her flanks, navel, sides, and other parts adjoining thereto, with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing, or cherish them with the fat marrow.  
And also sats melted sometimes, and rightly put up into the natural parts, with a sponge or glister-pipe, if the womb be hot and dry, and the party with child be of a lean and slender body.  
Fumes also used, applied to the womb, conduce to facilitate delivery.   

S●ffumigations of the genitalss, to facilitate delivery.  
Musk, Ambergreace, Gallia Moscata, Aloes-wood, put upon hot coals, and also sweet Herbs, Mint, Penniroyal, Calamint, Origanum, Majoram, are of a pleasant and grateful smell, and open women's passages, and draw down conception.  
But we must beware, that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils, but rather Balls of Galbanum, Assa soetida, Myrrh, or Rue.   

What Meat is most useful.  
Than Pottage of Hens, Capons, and such like are most in use; and I should advice them than to drink thin generous Wine allayed with water.   

What manner of Chamber, the woman with child should lie in.  
It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery, that the Chamber, wherein the Childbearing woman lieth, be temperate, and be neither too cold nor too hot, for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb, and this disperseth and digesteth the strength. In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth, the Chamber may be strewed with Willow leaves, and Vine leaves, and Rose-water, with a little Vinegar. In Winter, a high or upper Chamber, moderately kept warm, shall be convenient, which shall be kept warm with a continued fire, as is accustomed to be done in Italy, France, and other hot Countries.  
But this is expedient every where, that the natural parts, and those nearest unto them, be moderately rubbed with hot clotheses.    

CHAP. VII. What is to be done at the birth.  
THe birth being at hand, and pains oppressing them, it shall be fit, if the belly do fall down of its own accord, but if it be bound, it must be provoked with a gentle clyster; for the excrements being cast out, the womb and the passages, through which the Child issueth, are less pressed, and so the birth followeth more easy  
These things being well prepared, the childbed woman must be put into bed, if tender, weak, gross, and fleshly; but it aught to be made ready after this manner.  

How, and wherewith, the childbed woman's bed aught to be furnished.  
A large bolster made of linen cloth, must be stuffed with straw, and be spread on the ground, that her upper part may lie higher than her lower; on this the woman may lie, so that she may seem to lean and bow, rather than to lie drawing up her feet unto her, that she may receive no hurt.    

CHAP. VIII. To whom the seat may agreed and be fit.  
LEt the strong and lusty women be placed in a chair, which also must have the lower part not upright, but stooping a little, that the childbearing woman may sit, as it were, bending backward, clotheses, or close compassing garments, being cast about their backs.  
In this the belly, together with the whole burden, may sooner go down than in a bed; but it often cometh to pass, that the whole Babe lieth at the mouth of the womb, before that it shall get forth, more loosely and openly with the adjoining places, and by that means is compelled to stick longer there, from whence ariseth no small danger of life,   

CHAP. IX. What the Midwife shall do in the very moment of the birth.  
When now the pangs of childbearing women increase more and more, let the Midwife inwardly anoint the secret or natural parts with oil of Camomile, and white Lilies, nor let her set the woman in the seat, before she perceiveth the womb to be loosed and resolved, and the humours to flow over more plentifully.  
Moreover, she may not bring her to labour and struggling, before the birth show itself to her view; for they do but labour in vain, and do violently distorted and wrist away the strength of the labouring woman, that afterwards, when she shall have need, it will not be able to work it forth.  
But she shall sit fitly over against the woman in labour, and shall diligently observe on what part the birth moveth itself; for if it come the right way, she shall anoint and cherish the secret parts with odoriferous Oils; and if it declineth to the sides, she shall with both hands govern and dispose the belly, that it may fall to the mouth of the womb.  
And if the hand or feet show itself first, the Midwife, with a soft and gentle hand, moistened with broth of Fenugreek and Linseed, shall gently reduce it into the place.  
Certain women have the mouth of their womb so straightened, that without great help, scarce or never they can part with the child. And that cometh to pass by reason of divers causes; for either some strong heat coming from the natural parts, doth too much straighten the inward parts, or the Creature is to big, or the childbearing woman is to gross and fat, or the child is dead, who cannot by motion be furthering and helping to nature, or else cold for the most part in the winter, especially in young ones, who have a narrow passage of the womb, doth more astringe and bind it up; or sometimes heat in some is so dissolved, that their strength faileth them in the birth.  
Therefore when there appeareth difficulty in bringing forth the Child, Jesus Christ, the only preserver and saver in danger, is hearty to be called upon, that with his gracious favour he would be pleased to be Assistant to the wretched party in travel.   

CHAP. X. When the Infant is come into the world.  
When now the Child, or Issue, cometh into the world either with the head or feet, the Mother must be encouraged, that as much as in her lieth, she keep in her breath and restrain it, that by that endeavour she may put forth the Child. And the Midwife, in the mean time, must with he● hand gently compress and keep down the region of the womb, which is above the navel, and urge the Infant to the lower parts: And although the astriction of the womb causeth the bringing forth to be more difficult, the parturient woman is to be set in a Bath, in which Mallows, Faenugreek, Linseed, and Barley are sodden, and the sides, hips, and flank, must be anointed, with oil of Roses and Violets: let the thighs be well rubbed, with Oxysacchar. and half a drachm of Mint, and as much of Wormwood, be exhibited in drink to her: The woman bringing forth may gently be led to her bed; and they which assist her at her labour, must not look or gaze in her face, as such who are ashamed in their bringing forth, that after it, as it falleth out, she strive not to bring forth her young one with sharper pain.   

CHAP. XI If the Secondines break not readily.  
BUt if the Skin containing the young one, called the Secondine, because it is brought forth after the birth, be less easily broken, but stiffly resisteth, the Midwife must either break it with her nails, and laying hold on it with her fingers, cut it with a pair of Sizzers, taking care that the Child may be preserved safely in doing it: On the contrary, when the skins are broken or cut in pieces, if all the humours presently shall overflow before the child come forth, and the natural places shall be dried up, let Goose grease, with oil of white Lilies melted, be poured in warm, or the white of an Egg with the yolk be put up.  

What is to be done after the child is born, if yet the Secondine, or afterbirth, be retained.  
If the Child being born, the Secondines be as yet pertinaciously retained, sneezing must be provoked, if it come not voluntarily, putting Ginger or some other sharp thing up into the nostrils; or a scruple of Unicorns horn beaten into powder aught to be drunk hot in white Wine (in want of Unicorns horn use good Heart's horn, or Bezoar four grains) or the juice of borage exhibited in drink bringeth them down, because it easily moveth vomit, and they thereby are brought forth.   

Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth.  

Take of Sesely, Cinnamon,  
Of Myrrh, and of sweet Cassia, of each equal parts.  
Let these be exhibited with Mugwort-water.    

Another Receipt.  
Take powder of the Jet stone exhibited in Mugwort-water, or else about a drachm of the powder of Mallows seeds exhibited in hot water, or the suffumigations of Horse hooves.    

CHAP. XII. To draw forth a dead Child.  
IF the child be dead, an equal quantity of Rue, of Mugwort, Wormwood, and black Pepper, being each of them reduced into fine powder, and boiled in Wine, must be exhibited, or Vervain boiled in Wine, or Water, or Vinegar; or Savory bruised and tied upon the belly bringeth forth the Child, whether it be yet alive or dead; or Butter with Honey boiled in Wine; or decoction of Hyssop well dried exhibited in hot water: but if it yieldeth not, nor cometh away with these, let Rue, Mugwort, Oppoponax, and Wormwood dried, with a little Oil and Sugar, be laid to the groin, or the navel; and moreover, the skin of a female Snake put about the woman in the manner of a girdle. Also the stone Aetites, tied unto the thigh, after the Child is brought forth, aught presently to be taken away, lest the womb, after the Child be brought forth, come forth also.  
Moreover, sneezing alone accellerateth delivery, but it aught to be used with the mouth and nostrils close stopped, and Ginger, or some such thing, put up into them; for from hence a great force of the spirits is thrust thence unto the inward part.   

CHAP. XIII. How the bellies of childbearing women, being costive or bound may be loosened.  
IF the belly do not evacuate the excrements, the first days of her being brought to bed, bring a Fig, cut in the middle, into the form of a sharp tent fashioned like a man's Yard, and put it up into the Fundament instead of a Suppository; or else put a grain of Coriander, confected with Sugar, up into that place; or put a piece of Swine's flesh powdered, or Lard, brought into the same form, up into the same place, or frame a Suppository of white Soap, and apply it thereto.  
About four or five days after the birth, you may use a gentle Glister of half a pound of Salad oil, with a quartern of Barley boiled in broth, with two ounces of Sugar, with the yolk of an Egg, beaten together.  
But if at the eighth day the belly answer not their expectation in looseness, let three drachms of Cassia newly extracted, well confected with Sugar, be taken morning and at evening before supper in the manner of a bowl, and presently let her eat thereupon.   

CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the natural or secret parts.  
SO soon as the Child is born, let this astringent Fomentation be applied unto the natural parts.  

The Fomentation.  
Take of read Roses two pugils; a pugil is the quantity you may take up at once between your first three forefingers.  
Let them be boiled to a third part, in high read Wine inclining to a blackish colour, with a fourth part of water put thereunto, than put into the decoction a whole Egg, and let it be mingled together, and applied to the place, with flanen rulers, and kept on for the space of two days.   

Another.  
Take of oil of Hypericon four ounces.  
Of Rose-water two ounces.  
Of the juice of Solomon's Seal one ounce.  
Mingle these well together, and let the rulers dipped in them be applied to the secret parts.   

An Ointment.  
Let the belly be forthwith anointed with this Ointment, lest it become wrinkled or deformed, and that it may be thereby better strengthened, and may return to the old form.  
Take two ounces of Rose-water.  
An ounce of Myrtles.  
Half an ounce of Cats fat.  
These things aught to be melted, and mingled with the before recited Oils.   

A Girdle for the belly.  
After the Unction, put on a Girdle of Dogskin, well prepared by a Leather-dresser, and anointed with two ounces of oil of Myrtles, and one ounce of oil of Mastic, and half an ounce of oil of Hypericon mingled together.  
But it must be so large, as it may comprehend or compass the whole belly a little above the navel, even unto the natural parts, and must straight bind up the same, but without pain. And this will be fitly done, if it be sowed together with thread on the left side, and be put hot enough to the belly, and be compassed with four or five double linen clotheses, binding them with fit strings together, that the belly may be kept warm.  
But let linen clotheses, anointed with an equal proportion of oil of Myrtles, and oil of Hypericon, be applied unto the natural parts, from the second day until the seventh.    

CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed.  
Fix days being finished or passed, on the seventh day let the natural parts be fomented and cherished with this Decoction.  

Take of read Roses,  
Of Agrimony,  
melilot,  
And Camomile, of each one handful.  
Of the leaves of Hypericon,  
Of the leaves of Quinces,  
And of Myrtle, of each two pugils.   
Let them be boiled in read Wine thick and astringent, with a little water to a third part, and let the natural parts be fomented therewith morning and at evening before sleep.  

On the eighth day.  
It is convenient to put to the belly, a plaster made with the white of an Egg, and a little Pepper, and taken with flaxen rulers, or bolsters.   

On the ninth day.  
If this plaster please not, besmear a Dog's skin again with oil of Myrtles and Mastic, and apply it unto the belly, and it will avail and profit much, to keep it tied with swaddling clotheses unto the end of her childbed.   

A Lineament to scatter and disperse the Milk.  
That the Milk flowing back to the breasts, may without offence be dissipated, you must use this ointment.  

Take of pure Wax two ounces.  
Of Linseed oil half a pound.   
When the Wax is melted, let a Lineament be made wherein linen clotheses must be dipped, and according unto their largeness, be laid upon the breasts; but when it shall be discussed, and paineth no more, let other linen clotheses, dipped in distilled water of Acorns, be put upon them. But this I only advice them which cannot nurse their own children: And if swelling in them which give suck do arise from abundance of milk in their breasts, seem to threaten an inflammation, use the former Ointment, but abstain from using the distilled water of Acorns.   

When, and what Bath they must use.  
From the twentieth day, if it be a male Child, if it be a female, from the five and twentieth day, this Bath may be used.  

Take of Majoram,  
Of Penniroyall,  
melilot,  
Hypericon, or Saint John's wort,  
Of Millefoile,  
And of Pimpernel, of each M iii  
Of Bay leaves two pugils.  
Three ounces of Pomegranades rinds.  
Of old Bean meal five pounds.  
Of Barley meal two pounds.  
Of Cummin bruised and beaten into powder, lb. iii   
Put the herbs, small chopped, into a bag, but the beans, and Barley, and Cummin, one upon another severally: Let them be sod altogether in a great Cauldron, which may contain two parts of Water, and one of Wine, let them be boiled the day before she would use the Bath, and be poured forth into a tub, which must be well covered: The next day heat the water of the Bath; but they must take heed they sit not on the Bath too hot; but two hours will be sufficient to sit before meat in the morning, and at evening.  
But let the childbed woman sit on the bag, wherein the bran or meal is put, but not lower than the region of the mouth of the Ventricle.   

Another.  
Let a barrel, wherein the dregss of white Wine are yet sticking, be filled with river water, and let it be stirred to and from, that all may be well mingled together, than let the dregss settle, and boil in this water,  

Of Bay leaves,  
Of read Roses,  
With both the Comferies,  
Of Hypericon,  
Penniroyall,  
And Pimpernel, of each p. two.  
Of old Bean meal lb. v.  
Of Barley meal lb. two.   
Let the childbed woman sit on the bag, in which the meals are, or on another, which may contain the brans of wheat.    

CHAP. XVI. Against the gripe of the belly in childbearing women.  
THe gripe and gnawings of the belly, especially those which are contracted from the great striving and labour of the belly in bringing forth, and sometimes from a choleric matter contained therein, and sometimes of wind retained.  

Outward Remedies.  
Exceedingly therefore are useful Musk, and Civet outwardly laid to the navel; moreover, oil of Dill, chafed on the belly as hot as well may be endured.   

Inward helps in their meats.  
In stead of meat, the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best, being well sodden with a little Dill, and so taken.   

A Drink.  
For the drink, a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar, which they call Hippocras, which is made after this manner.  
Put unto water boiled, and hot, and drawn, unto ℥. xx.  

Of Cinnamon half an ounce,  
Of Sugar three or two ounces.  
Three grains of black Pepper.   
Mingle them well, and infuse them for six hours, and than strain them in a bag, which the Apothecaries call Hypocrates sleeve. Let the childbearing woman use this potion warm, but very sparingly; but if she loathe this, let her use thin, small, and clear wine, unless a Fever shall hinder her.  
A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine, of each two ounces, to mitigate pain by reason of flatuous humours retained.  
Some exhibit the jaws of the Pickerel, with Amber, and Ginger, ana. finely powdered to drink in white Wine.    

CHAP. XVII. The government of the Nurse.  
LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick, after let it be nourished with the Mother's Milk, which of all things best agreeth with it. But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it, a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen, neither younger than four and twenty years, nor elder than five and thirty, of a white and ruddy complexion, which is not infected with other vices, nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed, nor hath not long given suck; let her not have sore Dugs or Breasts, nor to big, but a large Breast, and moderately fat. Let her use choice meats of easy and light concoction, engendering good blood or juice; let her abstain from hot aromatical Spices, as Pepper, Ginger, Cardamome, and such like; also from Leeks, Onions, Garlic, Salt, austere and tart things: Let her avoid strong Wines, as also cold water: Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking, for that corrupteth the Milk, and begetteth in children lepry, or scurf, and other contagious diseases: Let her abstain from cares and vexations, and let her take heed, lest she provoke her menstruous disease.  
She must not sleep much, or be given to sleep, for that maketh the Milk phlegmatic; she likewise aught not to watch more than is meet, for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot, sharp, and distasteful to the Infant; she aught moderately to excrcise herself, especially her arms, to wit, either in sowing, spinning, or knitting, for by this means evil humours are consumed, as by ease and sloth they are augmented.  
Also copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth, and hurteth the Child, as that which chiefly retracteth and diminisheth the Milk, and maketh it of an unsavoury taste, tasting hot, and rank, or goatish, which bringeth no small inconvenience, and hurt to the Child. For which cause, in times past, Husbands were driven away from their Wives, and restrained from their companies.  
But if the Milk decrease, Poultices of Bean meal, and Rise, are meet to be used; also like paps made of Bread, with Milk, and Sugar, to which may be added a little Fennel-seed.  
And if the Milk be thick, it must be made thin, with slender diet, and subtle Wine, and Syrup of Vinegar, as also with exercises: But if it be too thin, and waterish, gross, and strong meats, and longer sleeps will be convenient and meet. For the corruption of the Milk, a little Mug vort grossly bruised, and put into a linen cloth, and so into broth, with a little Honey added thereto, will do very much good.  

The care of the Infant.  
And if the Child's belly be lose, the food aught to be more gross and strong, and her sleeps longer: But children may suck so long, as till they have brought forth sharp and great teeth: But if you suffer them to drink Wine, or strong drink, or other Potions, before they have toothed them, they will be corrupted; but when they have gotten these teeth, their arms, and back bones are gently to be rubbed after their sleep.    

CHAP. XVIII. A Bath of sweet water, very profitable for children, as by whose means they may grow up and increase.  
THey are, fasting, to be bathed in water before meat, for the space of a quarter of an hour, yet so, that the belly may first go down or be emptied, and than they are to be anointed with oil of Olives made hot.  
And it is not of little concernment, in what swaddling clotheses children are wrapped; for when they are not tied up at all, or the clouts are too lose, they are subject to Fluxes, Imposthumes, apt to be crooked backed, and other discommodities; but especially when their knees are too strictly tied and bound up, and their thighs left at liberty, they are lamed.  
When they cry, or feel pain, or will sleep, they are to be pacified, either by showing the breast, or by singing, or by rocking, either in Cradles, or hanging Beds, or by carrying up and down. But we must observe, that children may lie straight whensoever they lie down, and aught not to be covered too much, or hot with cover, nor yet with too few, lest they may catch cold. Moreover, let the linen cloth, wherein they are wrapped, be neat and clean, for children are offended, and infected by foul and filthy excrements.  
From three years of age till the seventh, they are to be educated gently and kindly, not to be severely reprehended, chidden, or beaten, for by that means they be made throughout their whole life after too timorous, or too much terrified, astonished, and sotted.  
Being yet in their first years, they are not to be compelled to going, for seeing all their bones are soft as Wax, and the body fall the heavier, they either become lame, or universally resolved in their feet.  
Food must be daily given them thrice a day, till they are three years old; for if they be much filled, they are subject and accustomed to be troubled with Convulsions, and other diseases.  
In the sixth or seventh year of their age, they are to be sent to school, and committed to the breeding and instruction of courteous and temperate Schoolmasters, who may not terrify them.  
Before these years they are not to be compelled or forced to harder labours; otherwise they will not thrive well, but stand at a stay, and keep little, or become Dwarves.   

CHAP. XIX. The Diseases of Infants.  
When as the Infant beginneth to grow sick, as for example, from a cold disease, the Nurse is to be nourished with hot and dry meat and drink, so that thereby forthwith it may grow well again; so also if it be taken with other diseases, as with an Ague, the Nurse shall use plantain water, and such like things, Paps made for children of crumbs or morsels of bread broken or sliced, are more wholesome, than made of meal or flour.  
Till two years old give them Honey often, for that keepeth them from Convulsions, and costiveness of the belly, and that the milk they eat hurt them not.  
When Infants cast up their milk, a Coral should be hung about their neck down to their middle; for it is useful for them in teething, and Ivory also is good for the same purpose.  

Diseases and Symptoms, proceeding from the birth, in women with child.  
Gripe and pangs come often upon women from their birth, for the womb, as a wild beast, by reason of her sudden evacuation and emptiness, by wandering up and down hither and thither, disposeth itself.  
Therefore the belly must be covered all over with Barley meal, and the white of an Egg, mixed together, with juice of Elder; also drinking of hot Wine wherein Cummin hath been boiled, is very convenient and useful  
Also Suffumigations of Styrax calamita, Frankincense, and Smallage seed, of each one drachm, will very much avail.    

CHAP. XX. Against the Rupture of the Cod and perinaeum, and the part between the rising of the Yard and the Fundament, which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth.  
TO help the Rupture of the natural parts, which ariseth from hardness in bringing forth, the powder of the great Comfery root dried, with Cummin and Cinnamon, are very good, put up into the womb.  
In some the wrinkled skin of the Cod is broken from the birth, so that there is but one hole between the womb and the fundament, and the same course, whereby oftentimes the womb goeth forth and is hardened; therefore the diseased parts must be cherished with hot Wine, in which Butter hath been resolved, until the Matrix be softened, and than it must be gently put up: after the Cod skin is broken in three or four places, it must be sowed up with a silken thread; presently let a linen cloth be put upon the belly, according to the largeness of it; lastly, let it be anointed with Tar, for the womb, by reason of the evil scent, is drawn in again. At last we heal the Rupture with powder of both Comferies, and Cummin, sprinkled upon them. But a childbed woman is to be put to bed, so that she may have her feet lie the higher; let her lie there eight or nine days continually, and let her take her meat, ease herself, and make water there.  
She must abstain from bathing so long as possibly she may, also from all those things which may provoke coughing, and from meats which cannot easily be digested: And for preventing this danger in bringing forth, let a long ball of linen cloth be made, and put up into her Fundament, and as often as the childbearing woman striveth to bring forth the Infant, let her strongly compress and keep in her belly, that no disruption or rapture be made in these parts.   

CHAP. XXI. For windiness or Colic of the belly.  
IF the secret or natural parts receive wind in, which being kept in brings forth pain, a Fomentation made with the decoction of Mustard or Onions, is vety good.  
Also sometimes in others so great plenty and abundance of wind oppresseth them, that they seem broken, or as those troubled with the Isiack passion, for whose ease, a Bath made of Mallows, Pellitory of the wall, and the like, must be used, and the belly often kept soluble.  
But she aught to stay the longer in the Bath, and when she cometh out of it, a plaster of the juice of Mullein, or Turnip, and Barley meal, must be laid on hot, and than let her use her Bath again,   

CHAP. XXII. For the Itch.  
IF those parts itch, so that women by scratching take away the skin, whereupon blisters arise, which greatly molest and trouble them, they aught to be anointed with the Ointment prescribed for burn.  
Take an Apple, Bol● armoniac, Mastic, Frankincense, Oil, hot Wine, Wax, and Tallow, and thus you may prepare it. Purge the Apple from the outward rind, and the core, and put it in a pot to the fire, with the Oil, Wax, and Tallow, and when it shall be hot, the Mastic and Frankincense, being reduced into powder, must be put in, and than being mingled strained through a cloth.   

CHAP. XXIII. For the Flux of blood.  
FOr those unto whom an immoderate Flux of blood happeneth, it shall be convenient to give the juice of Mugwort, Sage, pennyroyal, and of other herbs of that kind, made up into the form of a Syrup.  
Also Baths made for the same disease of the said herbs, are good; or by a plaster made up with Clay and Vinegar, which must be applied to the right side.  
If the Flux of blood come from the nostrils, it must be applied to the forehead and temples, having a respect to the contrary side: For blood useth not to flow out of the nostrils, unless a male Child be begotten.   

CHAP. XXIV. For the falling down of the Matrix from the birth.  
A Bath made of Mugwort, Flea-bane, Juniper, Camphire, and Wormwood, boiled in water; let the childbed woman sit in this up to the breast, afterwards let her be gently put into her bed, and let her lie with her feet drawn backward, that the Matrix may return into its place.  
The Womb being put into its place again, put powder of Penniroyall, of Galingale, Spikenard, Nutmegs, Avence, with oil of Nutmegs, and Penniroyall into a fine thin cloth, and in manner of a Ball or Pessary bind it up, and put it into the Womb, and shut up the orifice of the Matrix, that it fall not down again: But have a care, that it may pierce backward toward the reinss, and there it is to be bound up, but before that be performed, a plaster of Bay berries, of Mustard, Frankincense, and of Cinnamon, of each as much as shall be sufficient, being brought into powder, and being heated at the fire, mingled with Honey, and let it be laid to the back being yet hot, and bound up with a swath, wherewith the Pessary, put up into the Matrix, is tied.  
But let the woman brought to bed lie in her bed upward for the space of nine days or more, if need require, so that she may not move herself up and down, unless great necessity urgeth her; and such meat shall be given her, which may not easily pass through her belly, or may not often provoke her to make water: But now going abroad after her delivery, we must put on an entire garment that may keep it in, lest it go out again, unless it be when she maketh water. The third day we must make ready a Bath, and than, lest they should swell, powder of Ginger, Pellitory of the wall, and Cinnamon, of every one by equal parts mixed must be blown up.   

CHAP. XXV. For the Piles after the birth.  
We use to cure the Piles, arising from the fault of the bringing forth, with a Bath of Wormwood, Southernwood; Cinnamon rind, and the bark of Cassia fistula, boiled well in Wine; when the woman delivered goeth forth of the Bath, put Bombace, or Cotton, with powder of Aloes mixed with oil of Penniroyall unto her lower parts.   

CHAP. XXVI. Against pain of the Breasts, contracted by too much Milk.  
CLay kneaded with Vinegar, after the manner of a plaster, is available to astringe and keep back the Milk, but the place is first to be suppled with hot water.   

CHAP. XXVII. For the Imposthume of the Breasts.  
A Plaster of marshmallows, Mallows, Wormwood, Mugwort, and Swine's grease, made up according to art is very profitable; when the swelling is come unto the height, lay Nut kernels bruised to pieces unto it: And if the Imposthume break not, let it be lanced with a Launcet or Penknife, and squeeze it a little, lest by the sudden evacuation a worse mischeevious Imposthume may come upon it; and when it is broken, put in a linen cloth, twice or thrice a day, smeared with the yolk of an Egg and Turpentine, which strengtheneth exceedingly: And if the Imposthume chance to pass into a Fistula, put into it a root of black Hellebor dipped in Oil or Honey; or sprinkle powder of the colt-Bur upon it, for with these is every Fistula purged and destroyed, so as it be not between the bones; wherefore these Medicines are so long to be administered, until it die, and be dried up, and afterwards the Ulcer be cured.    

Some few additional Observations, concerning the passages in this former Treatise.  

CHAP. XXVIII. What is to be administered unto the Child, after it is born, for the first thing it taketh.  
ARnoldus de villa nova, a most learned Physician, writeth, that if you give unto a Child half a scruple of Coral finely powdered, with woman's milk, first, before it taketh any other thing, after it is born, that it shall never be troubled with the falling Sickness.  

Also,  
I know persons of good quality in this our Country of England (I presume, instructed by some able Physicians) who give unto all their own children (and advice all other women, where they are desired to be assistant at the birth) to exhibit unto the children new born, the first thing they take, a little Salt well mingled in a spoonful of Saxifrage, or Hyssop water, to prevent the trouble of frets, and other diseases in children following their birth.  
Conceiving also, as they suppose, they have some ground for their action, from the fourth verse of the sixteenth Chapter of Ezekiel, where the Lord, reckoning up the Midwife's duties about children, at that time of their nativity, thus speaketh.  
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, thy navel was not cut, neither waist thou washed in water to suppling thee, thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.    

CHAP. XXIX. For Infants troubled with wind and phlegm.  
MAny Midwives advice the Nurses, to give them a little pure Sugar-candy finely bruised in Saxifrage water, or Scabious water in a spoon, well mingled together.   

CHAP. XXX. A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily.  
TAke of pure Capon's grease, very well clarified, the quantity of a Nutmeg, and twice as much of pure Honey, mingle and incorporate them well together, and three or four times in a day anoint the Child's gums when they are teething, and they will break flesh easily, and prevent torments, and Agues, and other griefs, which usually accompany their coming forth.   

CHAP. XXXI. For Agues in Children.  
TAke a spoonful of good oil of Populeon, and put thereunto two spoonfuls of good oil of Roses, mingle and incorporate them well together, and than warm it before the fire, anoint the Child's bowing places, his arms, legs soles of his feet, and also his forehead, and temples twice a day, chafing the ointment well in.   

CHAP. XXXII. For Worms in Children.  
TAke of Myrrh, and Aloes, very finely powdered, of each a pennyworth, and with a few drops of Chemical oil of Wormwood, or Savine, with a little Turpentine, make these up into a pluster, and ●ay it to the Child's Navel.   

CHAP. XXXIII. For Heart-Wormes.  
HEberstreit, Skonkius, Hollerius, and other Physicians affirm, they have seen them in persons dissected: One in a Prince, another in a Citizen of Florence; and our London Physicians of late years have seen two in London (as appears in Doctor May's book of Mr Pennant of Saint Giles in the Fields) who died having a Worm like a Serpent in his heart.  

The Cure.  
Skonkius out of Stocherus affirmeth by certain experiment, that the juice of Radish, Garlic, and Mustard, killeth these Worms, which breeding in the chest of the heart, cause swoundings, Epilepsies, and many times death.    

CHAP. XXXIV. To 'cause a young Child to go to stool.  
CHafe the Child's navel with May Butter before the fire, than take some black Wool, that groweth between a Sheep's legs, and dip it in the May Butter, and than dry it, and lay it unto the navel, and it will procure a stool: This is also good for one in years, who can take no inward Medicine.  

Another certain Experiment.  
Take a good big green Mallow strig, and strip of the outward skin, and anoint the strig well with fresh Butter, and put it up into the Child's Fundament, and let it stay a while there, and in very short space it will procure a stool.    

Courteous Reader,  
I pray accept kindly of these few Additions.  
THis Treatise might have been enlarged farther out, by addition of other Experiments, but my Friend; being of the same opinion concerning Medicines, that Seneca the Philosopher was of Books: Non refert quanta, sed quam bona medicamina; hath confined them to their own limits, only with a few necessary Observations inserted.  
M. A.  
FINIS.    

Choice and select Medicines, collected by a Physician for his own private use, and Alphabetically digested by him, and from him communicated for public use.  

A  

For the Ache in the bones.  
REcipe. A pennyworth of good Aqua vitae, and as much of oil of Bays, and mix them well together warm in a Saucer, and anoint the place grieved, and chafe it well in (but not by the fire) when it is well dried in, wrap it up well.   

For all Aches and lame Members.  
℞. Rye, and Rosemary, ana. M. two. put them into common oil, and Malmsie, ana. one quart, let these things seethe half an hour together, than let the same Member be bathed therewith, being first chafed with a cloth very well, and after bathing wrap it up in a Lamb's skin the wool side inward; do this to bedward for the space of three weeks together; this helped a man which could neither stand nor go, Probatum.   

An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes, shrunken Sinews, strains in man or beast, it is incomparable, and will keep forty years, but it must be made only in May.  
℞. Mallows, groundsel, Strawberry leaves, Lavender-cotton, Birch leaves, Chickweed, Comfry, Parsley, Sage leaves, Bay leaves, Rue, Balm, Plantain, Sorrell, wild Briony, Betony, Wound wort, Caraws, Succory, Majoram, Lungwort, Camomile, Adder's tongue, Ox eye, ana. M. iii Chop these herbs very small, and beaten them in a Mortar, than take Rosin four pound, May Butter clarified in the Sun eight and thirty pound, Salad oil a gallon, Turpentine four pound, Frankincense two pound: Melt the Rosin and Frankincense together first, than put therein the May Butter, and the rest aforesaid, and twelve pound of Hog's grease, and half a pound of Verdigrease, and when all these are melted together, than put in the chopped and pounded herbs, and let them boil half a quarter of an hour, than carefully stir it a quarter of an hour after, and when it is cold, put it into pots close covered, and set them in a horse dunghill a yard deep for one and twenty days, than take them out, and put all the ingredients into a Kettle, and set it over the fire again, and boil them a walm or two, than strain it, and put thereto oil of Spike two pound, and stir it well; and when you use it, warm it a little in a Saucer, and rub it by the fire.   

To sergeant beyond-Sea- Azure.  
℞. Common Azure, and beaten it very well with Vinegar, and anoint therewith a thin plate of fine Silver, and put the same over a vessel full of Urine, set it over hot ashes and coals, and let it be stirred until it be like beyond-Sea- Azure: This is the best way, Mizaldus saith, he had this out of an old written book.   

To know good Azure and pure.  
Lay some of it upon a hot burning Iron, and if than it will not be burned, nor any little stone is found therein, than it is pure and perfect, and not sophisticate and adulterate: Mizaldus.   

For an Ague.  
When Jesus saw the Cross whereon he should be crucified, the Jews said unto Jesus, Art thou afraid, or hast thou an Ague? Jesus said, I am neither afraid, nor have an Ague: Whosoever shall wear these words, shall neither be afraid, nor have an Ague, Amen, sweet Jesus, Amen.   

For a Tertian, or double Tertian Ague.  
℞. A good quantity of Celandine, one spoonful of Salt, and the bigness of an Egg of Leven, and as much Allicant, or Spanish Soap; stamp them well in a Mortar, and make a plaster of them, and apply them to the Patient's feet, one hour before the access of the fit, add thereto four or five yolks of Eggs.  
℞. Of Aniseed water the best you can get, half a pound of oil of Vitriol, shake them well together, and drink one or two spoonfuls hereof one hour before the access of the fit: Probatum.  
This Medicine is excellent to cure all kinds of Agues that are.    

B  

For a short Breath.  
TAke the roots of Hollyhockes lb. i. dry them into fine powder, clarified Honey four pennyworth set these on the fire, and stir them well together until it come into the form of an Electuary, whereof let the Patient take often.  
℞. Of choice Manna called Manna Granata two ounces, flower of Cassia newly drawn half an ounce, Penidios three ounces, oil of sweet Almonds newly drawn half an ounce, the Lungs of a Fox finely beaten to powder two ounces: powder what is to be powdered, than mix them all together, and make an Electuary with Syrup of Hyssop.   

An Electuary for the shortness of Breath.  
Take a pint of the best Honey you can get, set it on the fire, and scum it very clean, than put into it a little Hyssop bound in a bundle bruised a little, let it boil till the Honey taste well of the Hyssop, than take it out, and wring out all the Honey, and put into it the weight of sixpences of Angelica root grated, or cut very small, as much of Elacampane root, of Ginger the weight of two pence, as much of gross Pepper, of Licorice eight penny weight cut very small, of Anniseeds eighteen penny weight, put these altogether after the Hyssop is taken out, and let it boil a walm or two on the fire, stirring it a little; than take it of, and put it into a glass or pot, and put thereto three spoonfuls of Aqua vitae, and stir it well together, and take it on a tufted Licorice stick, at morning about ten, and at four in the afternoon, and when you go to bed, letting it melt down out of your mouths.   

For a Bruise or Squat.  
℞. White Dasie roots, leaves, flowers and all, pound them, and strain the juice of them into strong March Beer, or Sack, and give the Patiented a good draught thereof: Or seethe them in Ale, and make a Posset thereof, and let the Patient drink thereof as of the former, and let him eat the leaves if he can, and let him sweated after.  
℞. Of Comfry M. i when it sprouteth forth the youngest leaves, wring them with your hands, and put them into fresh Butter out of the Churn unwashed into a Frying-pan, and hold it a good way of the fire, and so let it boil together till it be green, than strain it, and keep it for your use: Probatum.   

A Restorative for the Back.  
Take of stolen Ale two pound, of Germander half a handful, of unset Hyssop, and of unset Thyme, and of Clary, ana. M. i a branch of Rosemary, and a good quantity of English Saffron, a dish of sweet Butter, and a good piece of Sugar, than boil all together till half be consumed, than strain it, and let the Patient drink it morning and evening.   

For Aches in the Back.  
℞. Boar's grease, and Nerve oil, ana. p. ae, and as much Turpentine, boil them a little together, and anoint the grieved place downward therewith.   

For Bleeding at the Nose.  
Take a Toad and kill him, and take three Bricks, put them into fire, and than take out one of them, and put the Toad upon it, than take out another, and put him again on that, and when he is almost cold, take of the Toad and put the Brick into the fire; than take the third Brick, 〈◊〉 do so till the Toad be consumed to ashes, than take th● 〈◊〉 and put them into a Taffeta bag, and when any one blee● 〈◊〉 apply the bag upon the heart, and it will instantly stay the ●ing, either of the Nose, or any Wound,   

For Burning, or Scalding  
℞. A spoonful of Salad oil, and the white of an Egg, beaten them well together, and anoint the  place with it often, than take a linen rag, and wet it in the oil, and lay it over the sore, and keep it still wet, till you found the fire be drawn out of the Wound, than take away the rag, and anoint the place with a feather, and put Harts-tongue leaves to it, and so bind it up, and dress it thrice a day for two or three days, and after that but once a day, and this will cool it without any scar.  
2. ℞. The reddest Onion you can get, and take of the rind, and beaten the Onion with Bay Salt in a wooden dish, till it be made very small: than put it very thick upon the burned place, and renew it three or four times, and this will take out the fire, and than you may apply any healing Medicine to it to skin it.    

C  

For a Cough of the Lungs.  
REcipe. Of clear running water three pound, of good Sugar half a pound, with nine Figs sliced, half a spoonful of Anniseeds bruised, a spoonful of Licorice bruised, of great Raisins, having their stones taken out, one handful, of Maidenhair one pennyworth, boil these together till one half be consumed away, than strain it through a fine linen cloth, and every morning take two spoonfuls of it lukewarm, and you shall find present remedy: Probatum.   

For purging of Colds, Coughs, and comforting the Lungs.  
℞. Rhubarb two drachms, Sena half an ounce, Anniseeds one ounce, steep them in a pint of white Wine, and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy: set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night, stop the pot very close that no water come out, and in the morning, when it is bloodwarm, strain it, and take a pretty quantity of it, and put two drops of oil of Sulphur into it, and drink it fasting, and fast two or three hours after, than take a little broth and keep you warm.   

A Julep for a Cough.  
℞. A pottle of Spring water, and put into it ten branches of Hyssop, and two of Rosemary, Licorice clean scraped and thin sliced two ounces, of Anniseeds bruised two ounces, French Barley which, hath been cleansed in one water, boil these till half the water be consumed, than strain it, and put to it three drops of oil of Sulphur: take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough, this will loosen the phlegm, and 'cause you to bring it up easily.   

Another.  
Boil three sprigs of Rosemary, and as much Maiden Hyssop in two pound of white Wine, of Mace two flakes, of Nut-Neg two or three slices, Saffron six or eight blades, burn the Wine, and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy, and drink a good draught warm, mane & vesperi, and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon.   

For Canker in the mouth.  
Mingle the juice of Agrimony with raw Honey, and anoint the lips with it, and it will heal it: Probatum.  
Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips, only with good Roman Vitriol dissolved in spring water, and making it as milk warm from the Cow, with a stick and a linen cloth fastened to the end of it, he washed his tongue, mouth, and lips herewith every morning and evening, and cured him in short time.  
But if it be in an old man let run too long, that it eat still, and Vitriol, Salves, nor other waters will cure it, there is no other way to save this man, but to wash carefully his lips, or mouth, with a very little oil of Vitriol, to cauterize the veins, and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it. But this course must not be taken unless the Patient be in intolerable pain, and in a desperate case, for do it herewith never so little, yet this oil of Vitriol will gnaw, and by't, and put the Patient to great pain, that was oppressed with great pain before, unless you mitigate the pain by often & continual dipping of a linen cloth kept wet in spring water; after a very little time that you have anointed the cankered veins and places, with very little oil of Vitriol upon a feather as may be, and so let him endure the pain as long as he well can, that this may cauterize and sear up the veins the better, that so he may be cured, which otherwise will corrode and eat continually, although he may purge and vomit also, and so this at last will kill him.   

For a Consumption, and Cough of the Lungs.  
℞. Coltsfoot, Betony, Burnet, and read Rose leaves, ana. M. i of Comfry roots scraped and sliced; M. two boil all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle, than strain it, and set it over the fire again, than take a pound of double refined Sugar, and put it into it, and let it boil over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour, than take it of, and put it up, and drink of it six spoonfuls, morning, and evening, and at four in the afternoon.  
2. ℞. Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goat's milk, and give the Patiented mane & vesperi two or three weeks together, and this will help them, but first give the Patiented some gentle diet-drink to purge them, before you give the Saccharum and Milk: Probatum.   

For Colic, and pains in the back.  
℞. The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed, and cut it in pieces, and put it into a new pot well covered, and set it in an Oven where it may be dried and made into powder, of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught, and this will presently release the pain and give ease: Probatum.  
2. ℞. The decoction of Hollyhockes, mix it with Honey and Butter, and drink thereof blood warm: Probatum.   

For the Cramp.  
℞. The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary, and put them between every toe, and if you are much troubled with the Cramp, use it continually, and this will cure it.  
2. Anoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae, and this will help it: Probatum.   

For a Canker.  
℞.  Salt,  Eggshells,  Copperas,  Bones,  Verdigrease, Wormwood, and Rue, burnt, ana. p. ae. make powder thereof, and mingle them well together, and strew the powder into the Canker, and let no water come to it.   

Another.  
Take Hog-lice, stamp them till they come to an oil, and anoint the place therewith.   

For a Canker in the lips.  
℞. The juice of Agrimony, and mingle it with raw Honey, and anoint the lips with it, and it will heal them: Probat.   

A Water for a Consumption.  
R. Rose-water three pound, of Muscadine three pound, of new Milk a pottle, of gross Pepper one ounce, of Cinnamon two ounces, of sliced bread a penny loaf, the yolks of three new laid Eggs, of Sugar one pound: Distil all these as long as any water will come; take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting, and you will found much good.   

For the Cough.  
℞. Of the best Flores Sulphuris, one ounce and half, as much white Sugar Candie finely powdered, mix them together, and take as much hereof as will lie upon sixpences, mix them well in the yolk of an egg, and swallow it down; than walk upon it until you sweated, and keep yourself warm; and use it four or five mornings together, to take it, and walk after it.   

For a Cough, or shortness of Breath.  
℞. Of Aqua vitae or Aniseed water four ounces, mix it with white Sugar Candie finely powdered two ounces, boil it in a pewter dish, over a chafing-dish, till it be dissolved, and indifferent thick like an oil, and take a spoonful of this when you go to bed for three or four nights together.  
℞ Elacampane roots cut into small pieces, of Hyssop, Penniroyal, and Liquorice, ana M. two. seethe them in a gallon of pure spring water, till it come to a pottle, than strain it well, and keep it in a clean pot or glass close stopped, and use this every day thrice; First and last, and one hour after dinner, for seven or eight days.   

For a Consumption.  
℞. Three sheep hearts, slit them, and take out the string, and blood, and lay them in water to soak a night and a day, than wash them clean, and put them into a Pipkin, lay in the bottom of the Pipkin, stalks of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron; than lay the hearts on them, every heart being stuck with three cloves, and half a quarter of Sugar being put into every heart: Than stop up the Pipkin very close with paste, and put it in an Oven with household bread, and when you think it is sufficiently stewed, take out the Pipkin again, than every morning and evening take a spoonful of this Syrup.    

D  

For the Dropsy.  
REcipe, Half an eggshel full of the juice of Ireos, of Mellicratum four ounces, with powder of the best Rhubarb, half a drachm: Take this hot in a morning once a week. This is held for an excellent help.   

Another.  
℞. A lapful of green Juniper tops, chop them small, and take a great bathing tub, and put them therein, and set the Patient in the tub, so that he may not touch the water, wherein these tops were sodden, but put a cricket under his feet, and cover him well up to the throat; let him sweated so long as he is able, and when he cometh forth of the bath, take care he taketh no cold, but carefully put him into a warm bed.    

E  

For pains in the Eyes.  
REcipe, brown Fennel, white Rose-leaves, or other Rose-leaves, Rue, Vervain, Celandine, and Eyebright, ana p. ae. distil it, and keep the water in a Viol.   

For sore Eyes by salt Rheum.  
Pound Housleek M i in a mortar, and take the juice strained through a linen cloth, put it in a new laid eggshel, and put a quantity of white Sugar-candy to sweeten it: Set the Egg over some Emberss, and let it stand, and as the scum ariseth take it of with a feather; and being clear take it of the fire, and when it is cold, wash your eyes herewith ever and anon.  
Mr. Nepier commendeth Rulandi aqua opthalmica, to be the best for sore eyes, Pin and Web, of all waters.   

To clear the Eyesight.  
℞ Rain water of the clearest you can get one gallon, let it settle and clear by itself at lest one day and night, and after put it into a fair basin of earth glazed, or of silver, than put thereto of Roch Allom, the bigness of a Pigeons Egg, and and a quarter of as much white Coperas, and let them stand 24 hours well covered, than scum it clean with a feather, and drain it into another basin; than take away the scum, and the grounds, and so do it every 24 hours, till it be clear without scum or grounds, and when it is perfectly purified, put it into a full pint of the best Rose-water which is white, and put it into a good big glass, than set it in the Sun thirty days or more. Afterwards take it in, and wash your eyes with it three or four times in a week, when you are in bed, or oftener till you be eased; when you wash your eyes, lie upon your back, that it may the better soak into them, and if it be too sharp, than abate it, by mingling some spring water with it. The best time to make it is in April or May; but if need be at any time in the Summer.  
If you take the rain-water in glasses, or glazed earthen pans as it falleth from heaven, free from dirt, sand, or other filth, that will be much better.    

F  

For the Flux.  
REcipe, A Basin, and set it forth in the rain, and save the rain that falleth therein, than take a few Violet leaves, and boil them in the water, than boil some Almonds, but blanche them not, and make Almond milk of the same water; If the Flux be very sore, boil the Almond Milk, and put thereto a little Cinnamon, and Sugar, and drink it.   

For the Flux.  
℞. The neither jaw of a Pike, and make it into fine powder, and put it into drink or broth, and it will stop the Flux.   

For the bloody Flux.  
℞. An old Cock, and dress him, put into his belly of Sowthistles M. i and put him into a fair earthen pot, and put to it five pieces of Gold, four Dates, ten Prunes, and a quart of Malmsey; than close up the mouth of the pot as close as you may; than put it into a brass Pot with fair water, let it boil the space of twelve hours, but take care that none of the water come into the earthen Pot; and when the flesh is consumed from the bones take it up, and let it run through a clean piece of lochram; than put it up into a clean Gallypot, and when it is cold it will be like jelly; put two spoonfuls hereof into broth or other meat which the Patient useth to eat.   

For the bloody Flux.  
Seethe a good proportion of Plantain in fair water, till it wax yellow, and all the strength be boiled out of it, than strain the water, and heat a clean piece of Iron read hot, and quench it in the said water, do so nine times, and give it the Patient.  
2. Seethe a pint of Milk, and when it is boiled, put into it as much Alum as will make a Posset, of which mane & vesperi drink a good draught.  
3. ℞. That which is shorn from Scarlet, make it to a powder, and give the Patient half a spoonful thereof in a pretty draught of Tent, and use this five or six times.  
4. Dry the powder of an Hare, and give it the Patient, in read Wine, and it will help him.   

For the bloody Flux.  
Cut Hollihock roots in small pieces, and boil them in read Wine, strain it well and give the Patient; and if he have a Fever, or Ague, seethe the roots in water with some Plantain leaves, and let the Patient drink it.  
2. ℞. Yarrow, and Plantain, ana. p. ae. strain them together, and put thereto old read Wine, called Hollock, or Tent, strain it well, and let the Patient drink a good draught of it first and last, for three or four days together.  
3. ℞. Plantain, Ribwort, and Sheapherds' purse, ana. M. ss. stamp them small in a Mortar, than put thereto Bole armoniac, and Terra sigillata, and stamp them again, and lay it plasterwise to the forehead cold.  
4. Mingle Mint water with syrup of Mint, drink it cold fasting; this will stop both flux and vomit.   

For the bloody Flux.  
1. ℞. Hay well boiled, and keep it over the fire, and every time the Patient goeth to stool, let a wisp thereof be put into the stool.  
2. ℞. Two quarts of Milk, and boil in it of Sage four handfuls washed; boil these to a quart, than put to it a little beaten Cinnamon, and let the Patient take this blood warm, instead of other drink when he is thirsty.  
3. ℞. A Nutmeg, pair a great hole in it, and roast it in embers full of Sanguis draconis, and eat it all up: This was Colonel Hambletons Secret.  
4. ℞. read Bryer leaves, and boil them well in Milk, and sweeten it with Sugar.  
5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting.  
℞. Of the best Treacle one drachm, in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water, give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink blood warm, and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux.  
If the fumes of the head be not assuaged, let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water, and the yolk of a new laid Egg, and a little Salt, mix these, and drink it; this is also good for an Ague.   

An Ointment for the Flux.  
℞. Two pound of May Butter, or a gallon of Cream; if or May Butter, take Lunaria sanicle, Salomons Seal, Mouseare, Plantain, Adders-tongue, ana. one handful, stamp these small, and put them into the May Butter, and boil them half an hour with a soft fire, scumming it with a feather: If you use Cream, boil it till it come to an oil, which oil as it riseth take of with a spoon, and put your Herbs into it, as into the May Butter; when it hath boiled, strain your Herbs through a thin cloth, and let it stand till it be cold, after which, set it over the fire again till it begin to boil, than put it up in pots.  
This is also good for burning, scalding, or Aches, but especially for the Flux, for which, when you use it, observe this direction: Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointment, and melt it by the fire, and struck down the reins of the back till it be dried in, use this for seven days and nights together if your Flux continued.   

For all Fluxes of blood, and other Fluxes, pains in the Back or Liver, and for inward effects.  
℞. Cinnamon, Cassia lignea, Opium, ana. two drachms, Myrrh, Pepper, and Ca●banum, ana. one drachm, stamp them, and mix them with a little clarified Honey, and make it into a lump or mass, give thereof at night two round pills about the bigness of a ●●● in the pa● of a roasted Apple, and let not the party drink for two ●●res after; and if his pain and grief be never so great it w●● 〈◊〉 him within one hour or two, and perhaps 'cause him to 〈◊〉 ●oundly: you may give it two or three nights together in the Patient be strong, but if they be very weak, give it every other night three or four times; but if he be in extreme pain give it when you list: If the stomach be full of meat or phlegm, it will work less effectually. Probatum.   

A powder for the Flux.  
℞. Half ripe Blackberries, dry them, and make them into powder, give the Patiented a draught thereof in a little Tent, or old read Wine, in the morning and evening for five days if the Flux continued.   

A Glister.  
℞. A quart of new Milk from the Cow, and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire read hot, and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed; than ●ake the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet, and stamp it into the Milk, and mix it well together, and put it in a boulter bag warm; this you may use four or five times if need require.   

For Morphew, or Scurf of face or Skin ..  
℞. Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces, mix it well with as much black Soap that stinketh, and tie the same in a linen cloth, and let the same hung in a pint of strong wine Vinegar, or read Rose Vinegar, for the space of nine days; than wash any kind of Scurf or Morphew, either in face, or body, dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar, and rubbing the face or body therewith, and let it dry by itself: also drink the water of Strawberries distilled, or tincture of Strawberries, it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurf: Probat.   

To blanche the Face.  
℞. The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels, and a quantity of fine pure Sugar, still these, and keep the water to wash your face with every night.   

To smooth the Skin.  
Mix Capons grease with a quantity of Sugar, let it stand for a few days close covered, and it will turn to a clear oil, with which anoint your face.   

Morphew and Freckles.  
Anoint the face with the blood of a Hare, or Bull, this will take away Morphew, and Freckles, and smooth the skin.    

G.  

For the Gout, or Ache in the joints, knobs, or knots in the flesh. Probat.  
REcipe, Of May Butter four ounces, of Cummin seed beaten into fine powder, half a pound, of black soap, four ounces, of Rue, M. i of clarified Mutton, M. ss. stamp these in a mortar together, and put to it an Ox gall, and a spoonful of Bay salt, and fry them together till it be thick, than lay it on a woollen cloth, and apply it hot to the ache as may be suffered, and let it lie a whole week unremoved: Than lay on another as long a time, and so lay on a third plaster as long, which will be three weeks in the whole time; and this will give ease.   

For Gout or Bone-ache.  
Take of the best Aqua vitae one pennyworth, and another of oil of Bays, mix them well together, and anoint the place grieved therewith by the fire, warm the ointment by the fire, and than chafe the place till it be dried in, than cloth it up warm. Probat.   

For the Gout, or join-ache.  
℞. The juice of Sage, of Aqua vita, of oil of Bays, of Vinegar and Mustard, and of Ox gall, ana p. ae. put altogether into a bladder, and chafe it up and down with your hand for the space of an hour and half, and keep it for your use, and anoint the grieved place with it morning and evening.   

For the Gout.  
Stamp well lb three of walwort, than melt ten pound of May Butter, and put it thereto, and let it stand nine days together, than boil them half an hour over a soft fire, than strain it, and anoint the grieved place.   

For Gout or Bone-ache.  
Anoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composita by the fire, and let the same drink in; do this three or four times, and whilst it is wet, cast upon it powder of Olibanum, and sow a cloth thereon, and let it lie on for four days. Probat.    

H  

Hermes Tree.  
FIrst grind to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercury, with one ounce of clear Spring-water, than put a round vial glass, half full of Rose water, or clear spring water; than put therein your aforesaid Amalgame, than drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten, and after a quarter of an hour another drop, and so every quarter of an hour one drop, till you have dropped therein ten or twelve drops; than with a very gentle heat, on sand or hot embers, vapour the water away softly, and a brave tree of silver, shall grow in the glass to your admiration.    

I  

A Plaster to help any Stitch, or Imposthume wheresoever.  
REcipe, The roots of Hollihocks washed clean, and cut in pieces, M. i seethe them in fair water, until the roots be tender, than take out the roots, and put into the water, of Fenugreek, and Linseed, ana M i being first stamped or bruised, and seethe them together in the water, until the water rope like birdlime, than stamp the Hollihock roots before boiled, and put them to the Fenugreek, and Linseed, with a handful of Barley meal, and fry them together, and if need be, put to some Sheep's suet, and lay a plaster thereof to the sore, as hot as may be suffered; Let it lie twelve hours at lest, and than lay another to it, and within nine plasters it will work the full effect: It dissolveth the Pleurisy also in applying of three Plasters.   

For an Imposthume of the Stomach.  
Whosoever shall daily take in a draught of Ale or Beer, a spoonful of the powder of Matfelon, or Scabios, it will destroy any Imposthume within him. Probat.   

A good Oil to bring in joints which have been out seven years, to give strength to veins and sinews, and to keep them brought in, in their places.  
You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four days, with Oil of Camomile, than against the Patient goeth to bed, you must have two Neats-feets, or so many of them as may cover the dislocation, with the peelings round about: than lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place, as hot as the party can endure it, and in the morning remove them, and after with it anoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oil of Camomile, and than apply fresh peelings. This for certain hath brought in joint, that which hath been out of joint six years, and giveth strength to the veins and sinews, and will keep the joints in their first place; and the effect will appear in three or four dress.   

For the Black Jaundice.  
Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house, and put in Geese, and watch them when they dung: take their dung up with a knife, and scrape away the white about the dung, until you have a good quantity of it, than dry this in an Oven, make powder thereof, and drink of it morning and evening warmed in Ale, and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundice.  
2. Dry the gall of a Raven, and grate it into powder, and take a quantity of it in a spoon, temper it with Beer or Ale, and drink this fasting three mornings together: Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp, do away the husks, and bruise them, and put them in Ale, and drink this fasting, for eight or nine days.   

For the black Jaundice,  
℞. Of Herb Ambrose, Betony, Mugwort, ana. M. i three or four Dock roots clean picked, washed, and scraped, stamp all these together in a Mortar, till they be beaten indifferent small; than take Spicknard, Turmerick, and galangal, ana. p. ae. stamp them in a Mortar likewise, than put the Herbs into a clean cloth by themselves, and tie them fast with strings, and hung them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up, and after three or four days, drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart, and fast after it three hours, and do so the like when you go to bed.   

To make Hartshorn Jelly.  
℞. Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped, and a pint of fair water, one Nutmeg sliced, one race of Ginger, a branch of Rosemary, boil all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire, till it be very clammy, than strain it into a Basin, and put to it Rosewater and Sugar.   

For the yellow Jaundice.  
℞. Celandine, English Saffron, and powder of Ivory, seethe them in white Wine, and drink thereof eight or nine day's mane & vesperi.  
2. ℞. The Urine of the Patient, and drink it with the juice of Horehound.  
3. Seethe the juice of Camomile, Morrell, and Mouseare, in white Wine twice, and drink of it fasting.   

For the yellow Jaundice.  
℞. The pap of a roasted Pippin, and put as much powder of Saffron as will lie on a penny, and twice as much Hartshorn finely scraped, mingle them well together, and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg, and as much at going to bed.  
2. ℞. Of the inner rind of Barberry bark, and Goose dung that feeds on grass, and wash the white of it, and a little Saffron, steep these in Ale, and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting.  
3. ℞. Of read Nettle-tops M. i seethe them in a pint of Ale, and drink the same four or five mornings together.  
4. ℞. Alicant, or hard Spanish Soap, and a little stolen Ale in a Cup; rub the Soap against the bottom of the Cup till the Ale be white, than shave a little ivory, and let the Patiented drink of this first and last till ●e be recovered: Also take Celandine leaves, and put them into your Stockings next to your feet.  
5. Put a good handful of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine, boil them to a pint: in the winter use the roots, and drink thereof morning and evening.  
6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple, put into the place some sweet Butter, a little Turmerick, and English Saffron, cover it with the top you cut of, roast it tender, and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together.  
7. ℞. One pennyworth of Turmerick, of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. two. of Celandine M. i seethe the Celandine, and the bark, in Ale-wort, putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning, and when it hath stood two nights, draw it at the spigot, and warm it with a gad of fine Steel, and put to it the powder of the Turmerick, and drink of it first and last.  
8. ℞. The juice of Liverwort, and the scrape of Ivory, and of Saffron, as much as you shall think fit, of French Soap as much as a Chestnut, bind them all in the corner of a linen cloth, and swinge them up and down in fair water, till all the virtue be gone into the water, and give the Patient to drink of it.    

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For a lame Leg.  
REcipe. Aqua composita, and oil of Roses, ana. p. a. mix them together well, and anoint the grieved place with it morning and evening, but let the Patient first be well rubbed with a warm cloth. Probatum.   

For the same.  
℞. Oil of Exeter, oil Olive, and Aqua vitae, and Beasts gall, ana. p. ae. Mix them all well together, and anoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening, for the space of a fortnight; but always use to rub the place first very well with warm clotheses.   

For chopped Lips.  
Rub them with your sweat behind your ears, and this will make them smooth and well coloured.   

A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs, and Consumption.  
℞. Of Earthworms two pound, in a May morning, those with black heads are best, you may gather enough; put these in white Wine for three or four hours, than slit and wash them in the same Wine, and in another Wine, and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a cross, and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn, and so use them till they be so dry, that you may pound them, than searce it, and beaten it again till it be as fine as flower: than keep it for your use, which you must take twice a day, in the morning when you wake, and at four in the afternoon, as much as will lie on sixpences, or eightpence; take it in a spoonful of warm Broth, or mulled Sack, or Mace Ale, and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down: if you take it in mulled Sack, or Mace Ale, take not above four spoonfuls, use this for a month, but be careful of taking cold.   

To make a Laxative Whey.  
℞. One pound and a half of clarified Whey, Sena half an ounce, four penny weight of Anniseseeds, of Hops half a handful, of borage, and bugloss, ana. half a handful, Fumitory p. i seethe all these in the clarified Whey until half be consumed, drink of it two mornings together.   

A good Laxative for a Child.  
℞. Of Violets three handfuls (if you cannot get them, as much of the leaves,) seethe them in running water, from a pottle to a quart, than take of Almonds one pound, stamp them small, and temper them with the water, and make an Almond Milk of it, and let the child eat and drink of the Milk, and also if need require, of the water by itself with a little Sugar.   

To 'cause Looseness.  
℞. Goloquintida and mix it with Honey, and Bulls Gall, than apply this plasterwise to the belly, and this will do it: Also take Wool, or Silk, and dip it in the juice of Showbread roots, and Wine, and use it as you use a Suppository.   

For a costive by  Choler.  
℞. Of Mallows, Mints, Wormwood, and Violet leaves, ana. half a handful, seethe these in the water of the sick, and when they are well sodden, press out the water from the Herbs, and stamp the Herbs in a Mortar, and fry them in May Butter, or fresh Grease, and make a plaster of it, and apply it warm unto the belly, and change it once a day,   

For Rheum procuring a Cough of the Lungs  
℞. A quarter of a pint of good Sack, of Elacampane roots half an ounce, as much Licorice, powder them very finely, of the best refined Sugar half a pound, boil them together, till they rope in nature of a Syrup, than take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane & vesperi, and after as often as the Cough tickles you.  
2. Take Virgin Honey, and old Conserve of read Roses, ana. p. ae. mingle them well together, and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg, and keep warm after it.   

A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs.  
℞. A pottle of spring water, put into it of Oak leaves, M. ss. of Colt's foot, of Butter burr, roots and leaves, ana M. i of S. John's wort, Mousear, Maiden hair, ana p. i 3 or 4 Heart's tongue leaves, a little Liverwort, 6 branches of Maiden Hyssop, 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary, pick and wash all these clean, 16 Figs slit in two: Set this over the fire, and let it boil softly, till half be consumed, than take it of the fire, and strain it, and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss. and when it is melted, put unto it six or seven drops of oil of Sulphur, and put it into a glass, and shake it well, and drink every morning eight spoonfuls, which you must drink leasurably, that it may the better fall on the Lungs; about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much: this will both cleanse, and heal the Lungs, and stop the coughing.    

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A cooling Almond Milk.  
TAke Lettuce, spinach, Succory, Violets, langde Beef, Endive, and read Fennel, ana. half a handful, three spoonful of Anniseseeds, five whole Maces, and one Nutmeg cut into pieces, seethe all these in a pottle of running water to a quart, than blanche your skins, and beaten them with the cold seeds, and so draw it with this decoction, and put into it Sugar, and Manus Christi, to sweeten it.    

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A Water to restore Nature.  
TAke of good new Milk three pound, of read Wine one pound, the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs, having their whites taken out, beaten the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk, and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquor, distil this with a soft fire, take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day: this is rather to be used in Hectic Fevers than in other diseases, because they are always hot in the palms of their hands, and in the soles of their feet, both after sleep, and after meat, which show the consumption of the solid, and fleshy parts of the body.   

To restore Nature consumed.  
Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six hours, than take them out, and with four Dates, and a pint of Muskadine, or Alicant, make a Caudle therewith as followeth: Take of Rosewater one pound, a pint of Muskadine, boil therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Ox back clean picked, a large saucer full of good Currants clean washed, four yolkes of Eggs, six Dates, a stick of Cinnamon, and a good Nutmeg; make a Caudle of this with Sugar, and having so done, strain it, and drink thereof at morning fasting, and at four in the afternoon: it is singular good for a weak back, and decaying of nature.    

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For the French Pox.  
REcipe, Of Lignum vitae, lb i of Sarsaparilla, ℥ v. of Sena Alexandrina, ℥ iv. of Sassafras ℥ iv. of Bole Armon. ℥ i of Chalk, ℥ i of Hermodactilis, ℥ two. of French Barley ℥ two bruised, of long Pepper a half pennyworth, of Saffron one pennyworth, of London treacle ℥ i Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed, when it is to be boiled put in the long Pepper, Saffron, London treacle, Bole Armoniac, and the Hermodactilis: What is to be pounded, pound; and what to be bruised, bruise; let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot, close stopped: Than strain it, and with the dregss you may make a smaller drink for the Patient to drink at meat, or when he is dry; but of the fomer drink he must drink ℥ iiii. thrice a day: Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning, at noon, and at 10 at night: He must eat dried Biscuit, and great Raisins, and his meat must be mutton, dry roasted without Salt. The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice, before he drink the drink: viz. six pennyworth of Pulvis Sanctus, with ℥ i of Syrup of Roses solutive, well mixed in lb ss of white Wine, drink it blood warm, fasting two hours, and than take some warm broth.   

Another.  
Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa vitae, given at several times is very good in this disease.   

Another.  
℞. Of Diaphaenicon, ℥ two. as much è suceo rosarum, drink this in the morning at six or seven a clock with ℥ iv. of white wine, bloodwarm, for three four or five days: It is an excellent purge, and will give you six or eight stools within two hours. Probat.   

A Pesset good in all cold Agues, or Pestilential Diseases.  
Make a Posset with small Beer, with a quart of milk, as clear as you can, than take of Goat's rye, M. 1. when you have taken of the curd from the Posset put the Goat's rye into it, and let it boil a good while; than put three or four branches of Scordium into it, than take it from the fire, and cover it a while; than strain it, and give the Patient near a pint of it at a draught warm, an hour before his fit comes; than let him lie still one hour to sweated, or two, or longer if he can endure it, use this for three times; but let the Patient be careful he take no cold.   

The Plague Water.  
℞. Heart's horn rasped, ℥ i one root of Saxifrage, the stems and seeds of read Sage, Rue, Elder leaves and berries, read Bramble leaves, one root of Angelica, or the leaves thereof, tormentil the roots and Leaves, ana M. i two Oranges, English snake-weed the roots and leaves, Virginia snake-weed a small quantity, which is much better than ours, of Goats rue, ana, M. i Butterburr leaves and roots, and Pimpernel, ana M. ss. Scordium six branches, Marigold Flours, and borage flours, and Rosemary flours, ana M. i White Ginger ʒ two. dried Figs eight, old Ivy Berry's black, two spoonfuls, Walnuts forty, stamp them all in a mortar, and steep them twelve hours in White wine, lb two. and white Wine Vinegar, lb ss. than strain it through a fine strong linen cloth, and add unto it ℥ i of Bole Armoniac finely powdered, and a little Pomecitrine rinds one pennyworth, and distil it in a dry Still, and take morning and evening one spoonful. This is good for any Fever, ague, small Pox, Measles, or any Infection: If it purgeth, as it will if there be any infection, you must give the Patient two spoonfuls of this till it hath done his working.   

An Antidote against the Pestilence, by Dr. B.  
℞. Three pints of good Muscadine, of Rue, M. i of brown Sage as much, bruise and boil the Herbs in the Muscadine till a third part be consumed, than put to of Ginger ℥ ss. of Nutmegs thirty two, a pennyworth of long Pepper grossly bruised into the Wine, and let it boil one walm, than take it of and strain it, than put into it a pennyworth of Mithridate, two pennyworth of London treacle, and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water, drink one spoonful of this every morning fasting one hour after; but if the party be infected, than let him drink two spoonfuls, and sweated upon it.   

For the shaking Palsy.  
Take of Cloves two or three ounces, as much of Nutmegs, powder them small, and mix them with oil of Lavender, to make them fit for a plaster, spread it on Leather, and lay it to the nape of the neck, and wrists of the hands; Or as I have proved, Take three pennyworth of London treacle, a penny pot of Neat oil, a penny pot of Sherrie Sack, mix these three things together well, and eat a spoonful or two every morning fasting, and at any time of the day; after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonful, or eat it upon new white bread. This will help the shaking Palsy, and trembling of the heart, and make a man cheerful and merry. Probatum. I had the shaking Palsy by working in Mercury, no man more, and this in fourteen days cured me; God be praised.   

Another.  
Steep Mugwort in Rosewater, wash the hands therewith, and it will cure their shaking and trembling.   

To restore lost Speech.  
Lay a thin piece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice, and let it lie one all night.   

To restore speech to an Apoplectic.  
Beaten the Kernels of Peach stones together into powder, and give the Patiented a good draught thereof in Rhenish Wine.   

A Restorative Electuary.  
Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb two. of Licorice scraped, and bruised, ℥ i put these in lb two. ss. of clear water, seethe them well, and strain them, and put into their streining, of Mirabolans, Hebal, Citrine, and Indic. cleared from their stones, ana ℥ two. of Emblick and Bellerick, anaʒ two. boil them, press and strain them, than put thereto of pure Sugar, lb i and when they are boiled up to the thickness of a Syrup; add in the end of choice Cinnamon, ℥ ss. Cloves and Galingal, anaʒ two. of Nutmegs, num. two. of Fennel, and Aniseed, anaʒ i Make it into an Electuary, and put it up into a clean Box, agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it; as for the spleen, in a Tamarisk, or Ash box, or Jumper for phlegmatic persons, and so accordingly of others.  
In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members, viz. the Heart, the Head, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and Generative parts. It is first hot, than moist, after cold, and last dry.  
This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age, conservation of health, prolongation of life: it not only comforteth, but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past, keepeth back grey hairs strengtheneth the stomach, and giveth a good colour to the whole body.   

A Restorative good in all diseases.  
Take Elder flours, the Eve of S. John Baptist at Midsummer, according to the Planet which is Jupiter, or according to the Sun dial at twelve a clock: Dry these in the East, stamp and powder them, than take Borage water, and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer, dried and grated to powder, with a spoonful of the powder of the flowers aforesaid: Infuse them for 12 hours, in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drink for 15. days together. It restoreth old age, and strengtheneth the back. In fine, this is miraculous for all diseases.   

For the Rickets.  
Take of cream two pound, and boil it to an oil or take of unsalted Butter, lb two. take three or four good handfuls of Camomile, mince it small, and put it into the oil or Butter, and let it boil on a soft fire till the herbs became crispe, and that it be very bitter; than strain it, and anoint the child's sides downwards, and the bottom of the belly and thighs morning and evening: Also to give the child thrice a day half a dozen spoonfuls of ●arts tongue water, in which you have steeped seven or eight Cl●ves, and some b●own Sugar Candie to sweeten it: If the child mend not with this; ℞ Of shoemaker's shreds, two or three M. boil them in fair water, and take of the oil, and anoint the child, as before prescribed: If the child be not weaned, you must wean it, otherwise no Medicine will recover it: Also you must carry it as little as you can in your arms, but when you do, be stirring it, and make it try to use the legs, if it be of that bigness.   

Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae.  
℞. Mercury sublimate sublimed with ℥ iv. of Roman or Danisk Vittriol, Antimony crude, ℥ two. grind them well together an hour and half; retort these with sand half way up the body of the glass, with a gentle fire five hours, and than increase the fire by degrees, till with a good fire read gins to come (into an Urinal half full of water) which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white powder, which powder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone. Than make an extract of Zedoary, Cinnamon, and Galingale, ana, ʒ i and read Sanders ʒ two. with spirit of Wine ℥ vi. mingle this Extract with ℥ i of the foresaid white powder, and grind them together well, and it will dry itself into a read powder.  
It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter, this will give some five or six vomits; It also helpeth Agues and Fevers, Dropsy and divers other diseases, and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose, Probat per me T. S.    

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A Cerecloth for divers causes.  
REcipe, Of Oil olive, lb i. ss. read Lead, lb i ss. of white Lead, lb i Castille Soap ℥ iiii. Oil of Bayes ℥ two. Put your Oil olive in a Pipkin, and put thereto your Oil of Bays, and the Castille Sope. Seethe these over a gentle fire of Emberss till it be well mingled and melted together, than strew a little read lead and white, being mingled together in powder, still stirring it with a great spatter of wood, and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little, till all be in, stirring it still by the bottom to keep it from burning, for an hour and half together; than make the fire somewhat bigger, till the redness be turned into a grey colour. But you must not leave stirring it, till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as ●itch; than drop a little upon a wooden trencher, and if it cleave not to the trencher, nor your finger, it is enough: Than take long linen clotheses, and dip them therein, and make your Cerecloths thereof, they will keep 20 years; let your powder of your Lead be searsed very fine, and shred the Soap small.  
The Virtues of this Cerecloth are; Being laid to the Stomach, it doth provoke appetite, and taketh away any pain in the stomach; being laid to the Belly, it is a present remedy for the Colic: Being laid to the back, it is a present remedy for the Flux, and running of the Reinss, heat of the Kidneys, and weakness of the Back: It helpeth all swell and bruises, and taketh away Aches. It breaketh Felons, and other imposthumes, and healeth them. It draweth out any running humour, and helpeth him without breaking of the skin, and being applied to the Fundament, helpeth any disease there: It helpeth all old Sores, and will be made in six hours.   

For the Stone.  
℞. The Claws of a brown Pionie root, and the root, and Jet Beads, ana p. ae. dry the claws and roots, and powder them, and the jet also very finely, than mingle them, and in Ale or White wine drink a little of the powder.  
2. Peel a read Onion, slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine, let him lie six hours, than strain it, and drink of it twice in a fit, and it will expel the stone.   

For Stone, Strangury, and Colic.  
Take the inner rind of the young branches of a Hasell tree, boil them in small Ale till half be consumed, and let him that hath the Strangury, drink half of it at a draught, let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last, for nine days together, for it never fails.   

For the Stone in the Bladder.  
℞. Of Turpentine ℥ iiii. and burn it to powder, than mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water, and give it twice a week, in the morning to the Patient, and this will not only preserve him from the stone, but drive it out, if any use this but two months. Probat.  
2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drink it, and it will 'cause Urine to come.   

To break and drive out the Stone.  
℞. The juice or water strained out of Radish roots, mix it with White wine, and the powder of Turpentine, dried in the Suri, and so drink: This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone.   

To 'cause Urine and break the Stone.  
Take Parsely, and stamp it in White wine, than strain it well, and drink a good draught thereof, and this will 'cause you to make water, and break the stone; but you must use this five or six times. Probat.  
℞. Powder of Brionie berries, and drink it in water, wherein Water-cresses have been boiled, and it will both help you, and give you ease.   

For the Stone.  
℞. The blood of two Hares, as much Sheep's or Goat's milk, mingle them well together, and boil them in a new pot to a coal, beaten it to powder, and searce it finely, and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water, lukewarm, this will break the stone to dust, and make it come away. To try this, put the stone into it, with a little water bloud-warm, and in half an hour it will dissolve it into pieces.  
2. Take five Cloves of Garlic, and stamp, and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine, and so drink it. This being taken three times together is a sure Remedy.   

For the Stone in Reinss and Bladder.  
1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to powder, and drink thereof every morning with white wine, and a little oil of Almonds, and this will cure the stone of the Kidneys and Bladder, being given four ounces at a draught.  
2. Powder of Manati, which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head, being exhibited in the aforesaid manner, will do the like. The white for the man, and the yellow for the woman.  
3. ℞ Spikenard, Carraway, Fennel, anise, and Cumin-seeds, Cinnamon, and Galingale, ana, ℥ ss. Gromwell seed, and Liquorice, ana ℥ i beaten them all into powder, and take half a spoonful of this powder in Ale or Beer warmed, and after walk an hour before you eat or drink, do this four or five times, and you shall find a notable operation.   

A Posset for the Stone.  
Make a Posset very thin and clear with a quart of Milk, and put into it eight or ten roots of Althaea, and two Parsley roots, having their pithes taken out, and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean, so that no dirt be on it, and let them boil well in the Milk-Posset; than strain it clean, and let the Patient drink a good draught, put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat Brackish; this is a safe and admirable Medicine.  
2. ℞. The brains of a Magpie newly killed, and put it into a wine Glass of white Wine, and stir it well till it be throughly mixed, and than drink it, and this will presently 'cause Urine, and ease the pain.   

For the Spleen.  
Seethe the rinds, and keys, of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine, and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together, it doth much ease the Patient: when you drink this, anoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening, applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Spleen to the place. Probat.   

Another.  
Put of oil of Gold one drachm, into half a pound of Anniseseed-water, shake it well together every time you take of it, and take a spoonful at a time, and it will help you. Probat.  
Heat a pair of Tongues six times read hot, and quench them in white Wine; drink this nine mornings together, and this will help the Spleen.   

For Swelling of Arms, Legs, and Feet.  
℞. Linseed, Wheat, Bran, Brooklime, Chickweed, and Groundsel, anae. one handful, seethe them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick, than lay a plaster thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it, and it will help it with three or four plasters.   

For Sinews, and Nerves, cut asunder.  
℞. Of Earthworms one handful, put them in a cloth, and cleanse them well from the earth, that done, take Sack half a pound, and of Salad oil half a pound, mix them together, and infuse the Worms in this until they be suffocated, than stop the pot very close, and lute it well, and set the pot in hot horse-dung for eight and forty hours, till the Worms be rotten, than take them out and press them, and add thereto of common Oil half an ounce, of Venice Turpentine two drachms, than relute your pot, and set it on a soft fire for three or four hours.   

For Bruises, or strained Sinews.  
1. Anoint the place grieved with Aqua composita, and Neat-foot oil lukewarm, laying hot clotheses thereon.  
2. Stamp live Earthworms, and apply them to Sinews cut.   

For shrinking of Sinews.  
℞. Two Swallows nests that are ready to fly, of Lavender Cotton, the tops of young Thyme, the strings that run out of Strawberries, Camomile, and Hollihock leaves, ana. one handful; stamp the Swallows quick and the Herbs together, till no feathers be seen, than put thereto of May Butter one pound or two, and stamp it again to a salve, and let it stand again close for seven days; than seethe it the space of two hours with a quick fire, stirring it still; than strain it through a course cloth, and anoint the joints therewith, or an other place where the Sinews are shrunk, and use often to stretch out the joints and splint.   

For Sinews shrunk, and to suppling impotent Limbs.  
℞. Rosemary, Thyme, Parsley, Hyssop, Bays, Sage, Lavender Spike, Lavender Cotton, Balm, Camomile, Roman Wormwood, Brooklime, Smallage, Yarrow, read Nettles, Lovage, Herb Robert, Plantain, Rag-wort, Vervain, Adders-tongue, Daises, Nightshade, Comfry, Orpine, Strawberry strings, Violet leaves, Walwort, Amber leaves, Southernwood, Knotgrass, Vine tops, Valerian, Honeysuckle leaves, Polipodium of the Oak, Dill, Mallows, Perwinckle, Rue, of these one handful, slice them a little, and stamp them very small in a Mortar, with powder of Cloves bruised small, put thereto oil Olive, and Neats-foot oil, so much that they may swim, mixing them together, set it on the fire till all the strength of the Herbs be boiled out, and take heed it do not burn; than strain out the Herbs, and clarify it over the fire, than put to it a little Wax to harden it withal: this Ointment should be made between May and Bartholomewtide. Probat,   

To cure an old Sore.  
℞. Of fresh Butter one pound, put it into a pot in the month of April, than take of Violets, of Rosemary, read Sage, bugloss, Wormwood, Broom, Hyssop, Pennygrasse, Vervain, Selfeheal, Hypericon, and Speedwell, ana. one handful; gather them as they be ready, and put them into the pot with the Butter, and set them into the Sun until Michaelneas, than take it out of the pot, and beaten it in a Mortar, than make it up plasterwise, and reserve it for your use.   

For the Scurvy.  
Chop small the knotted place of a Pine Tree, and boil it well in Ale or Beer, that the steem may come out, and drink of it, and it will cure the Scurvy: This was Colonel Hamiltons Secret.   

To cool the Skin, and heal a Sore.  
℞. Of oil Olive one pound and a half, Wax six ounces, of Minium two ounces, Litharge of Gold two ounces, Ceruse one ounce and a half, Camphire one ounce and a half; first boil your Oil and Wax till it be melted, than take it from the fire, and put in all the aforesaid things, being beaten very small and seared, and stir them together till they be cold, and as occasion serveth anoint the sore place.   

To help pains in the Stomach.  
℞. Four grains of Mastic, Swallow them every night to bedwards; this preserveth the Stomach from all pains, and cureth the same.   

An Ointment for the Stomach.  
℞. Capon's Grease five pound, Origanum, Wormwood, the tops of Rosemary, Stomach Mints, ana. M. i and a few Buds of read Roses picked; chop the Herbs very small, and pound them in a stone Morter, afterwards boil them in the Capon's Grease, till you see the goodness of the Herbs boiled out, than strain them, and put so many more Herbs as aforesaid, and let them lie all night, than boil them all again, till the virtue of the Herbs be boiled out, than strain them, and take of Cloves, and Mace, ana. ℥. i beaten very small, and let it boil a walm or two, keeping it still stirring that it may not grow black, than take it from the fire, and put it into a pan, or broad dish, and stir it till it be almost cold, and put into it a pint of Aqua vitae, and a quart of the distillation of Vine leaves; this is good for any thing that lieth heavy upon the stomach, being anointed therewith.    


For the pricking of a Thorn.  
REcipe. Of Violet leaves one handful, of Mallow leaves one handful, stamp them together, and take a quantity of Boar's Grease, and of Wheat Bran one handful, set it on the fire in clean water, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the grief.   

To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh.  
Moisten the tongue of a Fox, and make it soft with Vinegar if it be dry, put this on the thorn, or any place where you would have any thing drawn out, and it will do it.  
2. Black Soap laid to it, will also do it.   

For the Toothache.  
Take of Opiumʒ i. distil it in ℥ two. of the best Aqua vitae, and hold a spoonful of this in your mouth, and it will ease you. Probatum.   

To keep Teeth White, and kill the Worms  
Take a little Salt in the morning fasting, and hold it under your tongue till it be melted, and rub your teeth with it. Probatum.    

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To take away a Wen.  
Take the powder of unslak'd Lime, and mix it well with black Soap, and anoint the Wen therewith, and this will waste it, and when the root is come out, anoint it well with Cyle of Balsam, and this will heal it.    
FINIS.   

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 facilenesse of providing the Medicines, with their approvednesse 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 found 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. etc. 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 agreed, that it is a pernicious and contagious Fever, and reckoned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia, chief 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 devil, or by thrusting a great company of people into a close, narrow, or straight room, as most commonly we see in Ships, common Gaoles, and in narrow and close lanes and streets, where many people do devil 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 lest have been conversant with such as have been infected therewith: But for the most part it doth come by receiving into our custody some clotheses, 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 prove 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. Wherhfore 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.  
A Vicen, 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, read toads, 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 etc. 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 than will feign 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. FOUR Shows 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 of 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 than how should the poor be relieved, and good orders observed: but for Children it were best to sand them far of 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 chief 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 clotheses 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, etc. 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 or 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 clotheses 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, Bay-leaves, 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, Juniper 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 found 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 than 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, tormentil 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 than 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 than 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 two. 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 Cardeus 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, ℈ two. Diambrae, ℈ i  
You must grind the Arsenike in small powder, and than with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water, you must make a paste, than spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long, and five inches broad, and spread it thick: than cover it with another cloth, and so quilt it together, which being done, fasten it in another bag of crimson taffety or Sarsenet, and so wear it against the heart all the day time, but at night leave it of: and here you must take heed, that when you sweated, you do take it away, for otherwise it will 'cause the skin to amper a little. There are some writers which do utterly forbidden 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. three Cloves, Mace, anaʒ. i Read roses dried, ʒ. three 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 than quilt them in a bag of Crimson Taffeta as aforesaid.   

A Pomander good in the Summer time.  
℞. The rind of Citrons, Read Roses, Nenuphare Roses, Yellow , anaʒ. ss. Storax liquid, Benjamin, ana. ʒ. i. Myrrh, ℈. two. Laudanum, ʒ. i. ss. Musk and Amber, ana. six grains.  
Powder all that is to be powdered, and than work them together in a hot mortar with a hot pestle, adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant 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. Read 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 dragagant, infused in Rose-water.   

A good Nodule for the Summer season.  
℞. Flowers of Violets, read Roses, and Nenuphare, of each one drachm, Read, White, and Yellow , of each half a drachm. Camphire, xii grains.  
'Cause all these to be beaten in gross powder, than 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, than wet a sponge in the liquor 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, than 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 than 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, than 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-Fennell, of either one handful: Seeds of Fennell, Annis, Coriander, of either one drachm.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of Water, until half the water be consumed, than 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, than 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, than 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: Sheep's tallow, six drachms.  
Boil them together on a soft fire until they be incorporated, than take it from the fire and add thereto Aloes cicatrine, 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, than stir them together until it be cold, and when you are disposed to have a stool, than 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, than 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 I 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, Agarick of the whitest, ℥. iiii. Myrrh, Mastic, of either two drachms: Saffron two scruples.  
Make these into fine powder, than compound them together in a mortar, with so much Oximell 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.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of fair water until half be consumed, than 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 liquor in a close cup, and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours, than 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 prove 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, than 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, than 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 than 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 aught to keep.  
FOr our diet as Hypocrates 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 aught to be of a facile and easy digestion, partly tending to a drying quality; as Cocks, Capons, Hens, Pullet's, 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 than 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 aught 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 alloy 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.  
Parsly, Lettuce, Sorrell, Endive, Succory, Sperage, Hop-buds, Burnet, Borage, bugloss, Thime, Mints, Hyssop, but in Winter, Balm, Bittanie, Thime, Marigold, Hyssop, Majoram, Mints and Rue are good. For your Salads take Pimpernell, Purslane, Mints, Sorrell, horehound, Young coal, Hop-buds, Sperage, Thime, Tops of Fennell, Tarregon, Lettuce, and Water-cresses 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 Sorrell and Vinegar is also good.  
All raw fruits are to be refused, except those which tend to sour taste, as Pomegranates, damask Prunes, Pippins, read 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. Shows 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, than before you go forth of your doors be sure to eat some preservative first, and than 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 than 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 than 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 than emptied, for it is a most dangerous thing.  
Eighthly, That all Inholders do every day make clean their stables, and 'cause the dung and fi●th 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 Flax 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, than to 'cause all the clotheses, 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 clotheses with some sweet perfume, than wet your temples, ears, nose, and mouth, with Rose-water and Vinegar mixed together, than 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 clotheses about you which you did wear when you were with the sick, and than 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 device 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 devil 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. Sheweth 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 lest 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 Carbunkle cometh out in the beginning of the sickness with a read colour, and yellowish round about it, and that it doth quickly come 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 than 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 complaines 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 clotheses, 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 hap 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 than 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, thirstnesse, 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 device, in helping nature to expel it, neither may you draw blood, if the party have a flux 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 flux in the beginning, but if it be extreme, and that it stay not the second day, than must you give some purgation, which may leave an astringency behind it, as hereafter in the cure of the flux 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 carbunkle to appear underneath the chin about the throat, than presently draw blood in both veins under the tongue, and immediately after that apply a cupping glass; with scarification 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 than apply Chickens rumps, or Hen's 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 bore place to the grief until the Chicken die, which will be within half an hour, and than apply another, and so continued 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 Vnguentum 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, than 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, than 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 at most, 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 than 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, than draw not blood on the right side; if it appear in the flank, than 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 than 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 found 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 than 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 scarification, 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, than apply Ventoses to the neck: If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart, than apply them to the shoulders: If in the emunctuaries of the liver, than 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 tormentil, Dittander, ana, ʒ iii Read  ʒ. ss. Fine Pearl of both sorts, ana, ℈. i Fine Bolarmoniack prepared, fine Terra sigillata, ana, ʒ. vi. Rinds of Citrons, read 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 Unicorns 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 than 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, than washed in Scabios water, and so dried.   

Another good Powder.  
℞. Leaves of Dittander, called Dictami cretici, Roots of Tormentil, Bittanie, Pimpernell, Gentian, Zedoiar, ana, ʒ. i. Terra lemnia, Aloes Cicatrina, fine Myrrh, Rinds of sour Citrons, ana. ʒ i Mastic, Saffron, ana, half a drachm. Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid, ʒ two.  
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, ℥. two. Venus' treacle ℥. two. Read Terra sigillata, Terra lemnia, Mithridate, ana ℥. i. Shaving of Ebony, And Hartshorn, Orient Pearls, Roots of tormentil, anaʒ i. Shaving of Unicorns 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, than take of the same Opiate, one drachm and half. Scabios water, Balm water, ana ℥ two.  
Dissolve the Opiate in the waters, and drink it warm, than walk a little upon it, and than go to bed and sweated.   

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, than fill the hole with good Venus' treacle, or Andromachus treacle, and Aqua vitae, than stop or cover the hole of the Onion again, and roast him in the hot ashes until he be soft, than 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 sweated upon it.  
Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials, if he chance to vomit it up again, than wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar, and than give him more of the same again, which must be proportioned according to the quantity vomited, for if all were vomited, than give so much more: (if less) than according to the quantity vomited, and if he vomit that also, than give him more, and so continued 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 sweated 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. tormentil, Pimpernell, agrimony, Bittanie, ana two handfuls. St. John's wort, Fetherfew, and Pionie, ana a little handful.  
You must mix all these herbs together, than 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: than mix them well together, and press down the Herbs close together with your hands, than stop the pot close, and so let it stand to infuse two days and two nights, than 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. Shows 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, than lay him into his naked bed, being first warmed if it be in cold weather, and so procure him to sweated, 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, than to defend the malignity thereof before he sweated, 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 i lemnia, Read , 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 than anoint the place grieved with Oil of Lilies; and than Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following.   

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

Another.  
Take the waters of Roses, Balm, Bugloss, Carduus benedictus and white wine, ana ℥ iiii. Vinegar of Roses ℥ two. Powder of read Roses, Cinnamon, Triasandalam, Diamargaritum, Frigidum, anaʒ ss. Mithridatum, ℥ i treacle, ℥ ss. Boil them together a little, and being blood warm, Epithemate the heart therewith, which being done, than procure him to sweated, and after sweat, and the body dried, than 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 Read , Read coral, Lignum aloes, Rind of a citron, ana, ʒ i Seeds of Basil, Citrons, anaʒ i Leaves of Dittander, Berries of Juniper, 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, than procure him to sweated, having a good fire in the chamber, and windows close shut, and so let him sweated three or four hours more or less, or according as the strength of the sick body can endure, and than dry the body well with warm clotheses, taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof, and than 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, ℥. two, Sorrel water, half a pint, Juice of Pomgranats, 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, Sorrell, Nenuphare, ana ℥. i. Juice of Lemons, ℥ i Sorrell water, ℥ viij. 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, than may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water, clean Barley, and Licorice scrapped clean and bruised, boil them together, than strain it, and unto a quart of the liquor 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.  
℞. Sorrell-water, four ounces, Burrage-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, than 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, Read 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, ℥ two. 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 Aquavitae, and so roasted in the ashes, and than 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 passed 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, than let him rest two hours and than offer him more, which you must do oftentimes, and but little at a time.  
And if after all this done he continued still weak and faint without any amendment, than give him another Cordial, as ye did at the first, and so 'cause him to sweated 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, than use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration, and than open it with some caustick 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, than 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, Pimpernell, 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 ℥. two. Syrup of Lemons, sour Citrons, and the juice of Sorrell, of either one ounce.  
Mix all these together, and give thereof as cause requireth.  
Than 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, than strain it.  
℞. Decoct. col. ℥. iiii. Fol. Sennae, ʒ. iii Rhab. elect. ʒ. iiii. Spicae. G. iii  
Infuse them together twelve hours, than strain it strongly, and add thereto these things.  
Sir. de Cichoriae, cum Rhab. ʒ vi. Oxisacchari, Simp. ʒ. two.  
Mix them altogether, and drink it in the morning refraining from meat, drink, and sleep three hours after, and than 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. three Rad. Fenic. licho. anaʒ. iiii. Passularum enucleat, ℥. i. Prunorum dammas. no. vi. Sem anis. Coriandri, Oxialidis, ana ℈. i. Sennae, Polipod. q. ana ℥. i.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half the water be consumed, than strain it, and keep it.  
℞. Rhab. elect. ʒ. two. Agarici, tros. ʒ. i. Croci. ℈. ss. Aquarum scabiosae, Borraginis, Card. B. anaʒ. iiii.  
Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place, than strain them strongly, and add thereto Sir. ros. lax. Mannae. Calabriae ana ℥. i. Decoct. col. ℥. two. 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, than take it from the fire, and let them stand infused together twelve hours, than strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir. ros. lax. ℥. i and than drink it as the other before.   

Another gentle purgation.  
℞. Aquarum scabiosae, Card. B. Aquae ad pestem, ana ℥. i. Rhab elect, ʒ. two. ss. Cinamomis, ʒ. ss.  
Infuse them together twelve hours, and strain them strongly; than 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, than 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. ℈. two. 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 Borag, 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. two. 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. Shows 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.  
Boyl them together a little, and than 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 two.  
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, than 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. two. 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, Plantain leaves, Strawberry leaves, Violet leaves, of either one handful: Purslane seed, one scruple, Quinse seed, one scruple and half. Licorice bruised, four drachms.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until the water be half consumed, than 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, than by giving of Cordials and by sweeting, 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, Annis, 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: than take Rose-water and strong Vinegar, of either ten spoonfuls, wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate, than 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 liquor being first warmed on a Chaffer and coals, and than 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 than take him away, and dry the stomach with a warm cloth, and than 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, than 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, than 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, than will the sick hardly escape death.   

Flix, how to stop it.  
You must first give the patiented 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. three Cinamoni, ℈. two. Aquarum Endiviae, Borraginis, ana ℥. two.  
Infuse them together twelve hours, than 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. two. misce.  
When you have given this confection, than 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 cord 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 flux whatsoever.  
℞. Conservae ros. siccae. ℥. i Pul. Rhab. troschiscat ℈. i. Térrae lemniaeʒ. ss. Lap. Hemattitis, Sang. Draco. Bolarmoni. anaʒ. two. 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 flux come in the beginning of the sickness, and that no botch, Carbunkle, nor spots appear in the body, than 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, than 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 flux come when the botch or Carbunkle 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. FOUR Sheweth 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 than 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 dregss, and so mix them altogether, and apply it, renewing it twice a day.   

Another, where no inflammation is.  
Take Vnguentum basilicon ℥. iiii. sour Leaven ℥. two. 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, than open it in the lowest part, either with a potential Caustick, or by inscition, but the Caustick is best, and when you have opened it, if no matter flow out, than 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. two. 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. ℥. two. Sal nitrumʒ. iv. sour Leaven ℥. three Honey ℥. i. oil of Camomile ℥. i. ss.  
You must shred and pound the Figs and Raisins very small, than commix it with the rest in a mortar, in form of a pultis, and use it.  
And when it is digested, than you must mundify it with a mundificative, to which purpose Vnguentum virid. or else Apostolorum mixed with Vnguentum basilicon will serve, and when it is clean mundified, than to incarnate and heal it up, do you only anoint or strike it over with a feather wet in Arceus linament, which must be melted 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 Sheweth how to bring the botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh.  
FIrst you must consider, that oftentimes the botch, or carbunkle 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, than 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 scarification, directly against the place where the grief is felt, and let it remain thereon a quarter or half an hour, than take it away, and presently apply the rumps of Chickens, Hens, or Pigeons to the place (as before hath been showed) that being done, than 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 lest, by feeling to be perceived, which commonly is effected at the second time, than use not 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, than wrap them in a coal leaf, and so roast them in the hot embers, than pound them in a mortar, whereunto add Ol. liliorum, Auxungiaepore. 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) than dissolve them in Aqua vitae, and being dissolved, than strain it from the dregss, 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, than fill the place with Mithridate or treacle, and some leaves of Ru●, than 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, than 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, than must you apply a Vesicatory to the place, in the lowest part of the grief.   

A Vesicatory.  
Take Cantharideses bruised in gross powder ʒ. ss. sour Leaven ʒ. two. 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 than 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 lest, give the Patiented some Cordial, and when it is come to a softness, and that you perceive it is imposthumated, than 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 continued always hard; now here you must presently open it, either with a Caustick or by inscition, for fear lest it strike in again, or at lest 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 ℥. two.  
Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half the water be consumed, and than 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 continued it half an hour together, and than 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 cloven asunder by the back, and so applied warm will suffice, which must be renewed so oftentimes as cause requireth, and when that is done, than apply unto the wound a digestive, made as followeth.   

A Digestive.  
Take Turpentine ℥. ss. Honey ʒ. two. 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, than mandifie, incarnate, and sigillate it, as in the Chapter before is showed you.    

CHAP. VI Shows 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, than presently give some good Cordial that hath power to expel the venom, as in the first Chapter of this Treatise you may found 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 sweated, if you may, and after his sweat, and the body well dried, than give him an easy Glister, the next day purge him with some gentle purgation, as before is showed you. And if by these means you prevail not, than small hope of life is to be expected; yet Petrus Forestus willeth you, first to give a Glister, and than within two hours after it, to draw some blood in the same side where the grief is, and to anoint the place grieved with Vnguentum resumptivum, mixed with some Oil of Camomile, and than 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. Sheweth 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 fare as you would have the sore to be brought, than apply the third glass, and let them all remain a quarter of an hour, than take away the last glass, but suffer the first to remain, than 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, than 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, than open the blister, and lay an Ivy or Cole leaf to the place, and upon all lay a plaster 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 heal 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, Lin-seed 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, than 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, than 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, than cut them very small with a shreading knife, and add thereto Oil of Camomile and Lilies, of either two ounces: Barrowes mort two ounces, Wax one ounce.  
Melt the Wax in the Oils, and than put it to the Herbs, and boil them together a little, than 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, than use all the means you can to bring it to supparation, as before is sufficiently shown you.    

CHAP. VIII. Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain, as also the cure of the same.  
THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal, and sometime with divers Pustulaes' or weals together, with a great burning and pricking pain in the place, which Pustulaes' 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 Caustick, 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 soul 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 than suddenly vanish away; but if it be read 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 Carbunkle.  
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 Carbunkle, and to rectify the air of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves, read 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 Rosewater and Vinegar is very good: these things being done, than 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 than pounded likewise, and than 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 lose and movable, and than 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, than do you mundify it with this mundificative.   

Mundificative annodine.  
Take clear Turpentine, ℥ iiii. Syrup of read Roses, ℥ i Honey of Roses, ʒ iiii. Boil them altogether a little, than take it from the fire, and add thereto 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 than use this following.   

Another Mundificative.  
Take clear Turpentine, ℥ iii Honey of Roses, ℥ two. Juice of Smallege, ℥ two. Barley flower, ℥ i ss. Boil them altogether saving the Barley, until the Juice be consumed, than 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 than incarnate it with Vnguentum Basilicon, and lastly sigillate it with Vnguentum de cerusa decocted.  
Sometime you shall found 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 Lillie roots, Onions, and four Leaven, of either one ounce. Boil them in water until the water be consumed, than 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, than 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 than 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. Lin-seed, ℥ i  
You must shred the herbs grossly, and cut the Figgs and roots small, than bruise them in a mortar, and mingle them altogether, than 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, than 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 lest.   

The Cataplasm.  
Take Mallows, Violets, Sorrell, Liblong, ana two handfuls, Henbane, a little handful ..  
Wrap them all in a ball together, and roast them in the ashes, than 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, than 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, ℥. three Baysalt, ℥. 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 sore come to suppuration, than 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, than 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. Sheweth 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, than shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes' 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 Pustulaes' 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 bloods 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 abdit is 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, be cause 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. Shows 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 read, 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 read, and that after they are come forth they do look white, and speedily grow to maturation, that he draweth his breath easily, and doth found 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 flux 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 than 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 flux or lask which doth so weaken and overthrew 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 read, with general pain, and great heat in all the body.  
If they come of choler, than will they appear of a yellowish read and clear colour, with a pricking pain in all the body.  
If they come of phlegm, than will they appear of a whitish colour and scaly, or with scales.  
If they come of melancholy, than will they appear blackish with a pricking pain.    

CHAP. III. Sheweth 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 than 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 ventose; to the loins, buttocks, or hams, which may boldly be used both before and after they do appear, either with scarification, 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 aught 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 read cloth, which may not touch the skin, but to have a soft linen cloth betwixt them both, and than cover him with clotheses 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, than 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: than take of the same decoction twelve ounces.  
Oil of Violets three ounces, read 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, than may you add one ounce or four drachms of Cassia newly drawn unto it, and when he hath expelled the Glister, than 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, than if the body be inclined to sweated, you must further the same by covering him with warm clotheses, 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 sweated and also in the sweat if need be.   

Eyes, how to preserve them.  
℞. Rose-water, Plantaine-water, of either two ounces, Sumack, two drachms.  
Let them boil together a little, or stand infused a night, than mix therewith half a spoonful of the oil made of the white of an Egg, than wet two clotheses five or six double therein, than 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 liquor again, and apply them, but if there be great pain and burning within the eye, than must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye: take quinse-seed, half a drachm, bruise it a little, than let it stand infused in three ounces of Rose-water a whole night, than strain it, and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at lest, or take of this water.  
℞. Rose-water, ℥. two. 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 cares, you must put a drop of oil of Roses warm into them before he sweated.  
For the nostrils, 'cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar, or else Vinegar, red-roses and  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, buglofs, sorrel, and such like are boiled, and for ordinary drink, small beer or ale is best.    

CHAP FOUR 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, than 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. two. Semen. 4. frigid. ma. anaʒ. ss. Aqua font. lb. iiii.  
Boil all these together until a third part of the water be consumed, and than 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, than 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. ℥. two. 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, than give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth, and than 'cause him to sweated 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, than 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 conserveses 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 Sheweth 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, than 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, than open them again as you did first, for if you do suffer the matter which is in them to remain over long, than 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, than 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 than boil them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chaffer and coals, until the juice of the herbs be consumed, than 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 continued 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 Pustulaes' are opened.  
Take Barley, one little handful, read Roses, a handful, read Sanders, white Sanders, of either one ounce: Saffron, two scruples, Salt, four drachms, Clean water, three pound.  
Boil 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 of themselves without any picking or scratching, have done very well, and not an● pits remained after it.  

When the Pox, after they come out, do not grow to maturation, how you shall help it.  
Sometimes you shall found 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, Figgs, twelve in number, Water, a quart.  
Cut the Figgs small, and boil altogether, until half and more be consumed, and than 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: than for the curing thereof use this order here following.  
Take Tamarinds, leaves of lentils, Mirtils, buds of oaken leaves, read Roses dried, of either all the handful.  
Boil 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, than wipe it dry with a soft and fine linen cloth, and than cast into the place some of this powder following.  
Take Frankincense, Mastic, sarcocol, and read Roses, of either two drachms.  
Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves, than 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 Plantaine-water, one ounce and half, clear Turpentine, three drachms, Camphire, half a drachm.  
You must first melt the wax in the oil, than 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 i● burn: than 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 souls 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 Ap●ham 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, read Roses dried, a little handful, Sumach, and Rybes, of either two ounces, juice of Po●granates, ℥. iii  
Boil them altogether, saving the juice of Pomegranates, until a third part be consumed, than 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 〈◊〉 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 Plantaine-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, than 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: than 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 clotheses five or six double, and apply them warm, and continued it until you may easily open them, and than 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 Vngula 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, than add thereto the gall of an Eel, one drachm, and let them boil together a little, than put thereto four scruples of white copperess, and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder, boil all together a little, than 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, than strain it, and anoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day, for three or four days together, and than you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with this water following.  
Take Vine leaves, two handfuls: Beane-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, than 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 bryony, 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, Beane-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 found 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 continued this order twenty days, for 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, than 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.  
Boil 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-Figgs, four ounces, clean water, four pints.  
Boyl all these together until half be consumed, than 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 brimstone and Ceruse, anaʒ two.  
Bring all these into fine powder, and than 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 hung them about the neck against the heart.   

I have also set down a read 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 days in the infusion before you use it, than pour the spirit clear of, 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 found 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 Galens own doctrine, all Alexiteries do in a manner, if they be used too liberally, greatly offend and weaken our bodies; how can we than think, that rank Poisons and Dilaetories, (such us Arsenic is) being applied, as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other, will no whit violate and waste our natural, vital, and radical heat? Galen libr. de ●mp. cap. 18.  
Nor did Galen, or any of the ancient Fathers and Professors of Physic, 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. Wherhfore, 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 agreed 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 agreed 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 not 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 Swoon, 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 aught 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 Pericles 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 Joabs embracing, or Judas 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, Marshes, 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, sweeting, bathing, lechery, and all other things that open the pores of the body, and enter thereby ill airs, which invenome 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 than 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 than 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 than when the blood is flitting too and from, the venom is than 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, than 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 Scarification, 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 passed all hope of cure.   

Another.  
Take two drachms of Juniper berries, of Terra lemnia ℈ i make both into fine powder, and mix it with Honey, and take of it as much as a hazel Nut in three drachms of honeyed water made up thus: Take a pint of Honey, and of water eight pints, seethe 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 sweated well; after your sweat is over, change shirt, and sheets, and all the bed clotheses 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 arme-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, Boyles, Plague-sores, Tokens, Shingles, Erisipella, and such like, etc.    
Thus fare Doctor Edward's Doctor in Physic and Chirurgery.   

Experiments tried by myself.  

For the Plague.  
TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales, called Ruffi, or of Panohy 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 Tri●●e water, or made up in Diascordium, fasting.   

Another excellent sweeting powder for the Plague.  
Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrerum, of Aromaticum rosatum, and of Cerusa Antimonii, 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 often an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence, but than 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 Annise-seeds have been boiled with bruised Liquorice. And if within 4. days the party amend not, or being recovered, take it again, open the vein Cephalick 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 read and blue spots upon the Patient's breast and 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 wheat-straw:) Than 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 Annise-seeds 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 found ease within twenty four hours, and such alteration in himself, as he will think he is delivered of a most strange torment. Than 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 not 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 chase 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; than spread fine flax upon it and the kernel, making it fast with a rowler, 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 Bloody 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 .   

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 sliminess, 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 Candie 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 read wine of any sort: And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats, (especially) Sheep's, 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 read. And when it is pressed with the finger, there will remain a sign or dint of the same, and than by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion. It speedily infecteth the inward parts, because such swell 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, than 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 a 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 soon 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 hung 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 vitae 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 Poultis 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 lose; 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 swell.  
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 Ptysick.  
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 Lameness of the thighs and whole body.  
40. Saint Anthony's fire.  
41. Gangrean, when the sore parts rot and mortify.    


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, Betonie, Vervain, agrimony, 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 seethe them till the half be wasted, and than take it down and strain it, and afterwards 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 annoyed 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 stolen Ale, lay it to the side hot, and when it is cold renew it again hot.   

Contra Surditatem.  
1. Betonica saepe injecta tepide, 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 clotheses, and than lay on the powder, and do so till it amend,   

Pro Canero & 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 Verdigrease, 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, fi fronti lacrymantis imponatur: & proficit, etiam ad oculum ictu percussum, & sanguinem emittentem, 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 suae dolorem oculorum non habebit.  
3. Eyebright juice, or water, is excellent good for the eyes.  
4. Anoint a read coal leaf cum albumine ovi, & quando is cubitum 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 spittle: 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 destruit Apostema.  
2. Drink water of Endive, Petty Morrell, with the pulp of Cassia Fistula.  
3. Take Scabios, read 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. Oats 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 stolen ale, & bibat tria coclearia simul. Seethe 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 beaten 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 bathe the face twice or thrice, though all the Pocks be pulled away, it shall not be Pock fret.  
Anoint often 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 Betonie, 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, read Lead, and oil Olive together; & fiat 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 Juniper, 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 liquor 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 Fistulaes'.   

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 read 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.  
Boyl your own water well, scum it, than take a quart of that water, oil of bays 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.  
Vnge renes, cum nasturtio & propria urina jejunus saepe, & juvatrenes.  
Coque mel & butyrum simul & unge renes coram igne.  
Seethe 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 Sena cod's 1d weight, and Polipody of an Oak, and of Annis, Id d 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, seethe them in a litte raw Milk, and put thereto a handful of wheat bran, and let them boil together, and than 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 read Wortes sodden, and burn them in a new pot, and than grinned 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 of the knots, and lay them to dry against the Sun, and make thereof powder, and cast it in the Wounds, and it will do as aforesaid.   

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

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  
Sterous ovis si misceatur cum aceto, & fiat emplaistrum, tollit varielas & verrucas.   

For Corns.  
Take Beanes and chew them in thy mouth, and lay 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 proscabie, 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 swell, and for itchings, and cleansing of divers sores.   

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

To destroy an Imposthume, 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, than 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 often 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.   

Oleum Nucum.  
Take Nuts whole, seethe them in water, and than break them, and take out the kernels and stamp them, and than wring them through a cloth, and that Oil is noble and mollificative.   

Vnguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra.  
Take Brocks grease, Swine's grease, Duck's groace, Capons grease, Gander's grease, suet of a Deer, Sheep's tallow, ana. p. ae. melt them in an earthen pan, than 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 potell. i. salviae, cuprifoliis nasturtii & modicum mellis, coque ad medium, & lava locum.   

Aqua pro alceribus.  
℞. Apii. Salviae, Sempervivae, ana. M. i pista & coque in una lb. 8. aquae currentis, postea cola & adde, ℥. iiii. Aluminis, Mellis, lb. ss. Bulliet alumen medicum, adde ℥. iiii. Camphorae & reserva.   

Capitis dolour.  
Coque Cumi● in malvazeto, & lava caput.  
Pista rorum, cum sale, & fiat emplastrum.   

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

Capitis dolor.  
℞. Rutae, ●oderae 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, etc. & lava cum decoctione ejusdem herba.   

Corvi albi.  
Attende eum eorvus habet ova, & unge ter vel quater cum melle, & pulli eorum erum albi.   

Ebrii.  
Qui prius biberit erocum quam ad potationem inierit, crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret.   

Acetum.  
 acetum redeat in vinum semen porri imunitte per duas noctes.  
Ova rotunda producunt gallinas, longa vero gallos.   

Pistula.  
Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata, vel succu● ejus in eam postta eam curat.  
Succus caprifolii naribus impositus, polypum recentem & ca●●rum, & fistulam curat.   

Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere.  
℞. Sume morellae & sedi & axungiae porcinae, p. ae. frixa & sup pou●.   

Contra exitum ani.  
℞. Vrticus, rubras pista, & in olla terrea coque in vin● albo ad medium, postea bibe mane & sero calide, & faeces superpone.   

Contra fluxum.  
1. ℞, Cornu cervi, & conchas ostrei, combuxe & da pulverem mane & sero 9 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 Plaster or Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly.  
Take Sanicle, Milfoil, and Bugle, ana, p. ae. stamp them in 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 brainpan be broken, for it will slay him, and therefore it is better in another place: This is a good and tried Medicine.   

Vnguentum 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 read and hot.  
Take Groundsell 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 than 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 erectione virgae, and for the mormale; no ointment worketh stronger than this.  
Take a pound of Swine's grease, one ounce of Verdigrease, 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, swell, and Mormales.   

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

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

Contra vemitum.  
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, stauncheth 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's turd burnt, and made into powder, blown into the nostrils.  
3. The juice of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding. Probat.  
4. Succus menthae & rutae mixtus curat fluxum narium.   

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

Freckens of the face.  
1. Grease your face with oil of Almonds, & bibe succum 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 Boars grease, & forma ●mplastri 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 seethe them well in Butter, than 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, seethe 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 Maimsie, or Muscadine, until one pint be wasted, than take it of the fire, and strain the wine from the herbs, than 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 of 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 sweated upon it, and so continued 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, Scabios, agrimony, Mugwort, Woormwood, Pimpernel, Dragon, Carduus benedictus, Rosa solis, Betonie, Marigold leaves and flowers, Centurie, Polipodium, Scurvy grass, of each a handful, wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry, than shred them small, and take the roots of Zedoary, tormentil, Enula campana, Angelica, Licorice, of each half an ounce scraped, and sliced, than 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 fire; 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, than 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 read 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 Caelidon, the weight of twelve pence, of Saffron one pennyworth, a race of Turmatick; 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, than 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, grinned 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 sour bread of the neither 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 read 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 lest, strain it, and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin, put thereto of the root of Enula 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, than 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 stolen Ale, two pints, clarify it, and boil therein of the tops of green broom a handful, than 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 bloud-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 ●eal, cut away the fat, and take a read Cock, scald him, and wash him clean, than let the Cock and Veal lie in water the space of three hours, seethe them with two pottles of fair water, and scum it clean: as the fat riseth, take it of, and seethe it till half be consumed, than put in a pottle of the best Claret wine, and let it seethe together till it come to a quart, clarify it with three or four whites of Eggs; let it run through a Jelly bag; than set it on the fire again, and put to it of Sugar a pound, let it seethe a little, than drink of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time, as often as you please.   

For the Green sickness.  
Take an Orange, cut of the top, and pick out some of the meat, than 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 Housleek a handful and a half, seethe them together to the consumption of half, than strain it, take of Alum two ounces, of white Copperis an ounce and a half, of Camphire two drachms, beaten all severally into fine powder, put all into the water, and let it boil a little, than put thereto of clarified Honey half a pint, and let it simper a while, than 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 found yourself troubled.  
Or take Lignum aloes, Riponticum, Eupatorium, read Sanders, of each two ounces, beaten 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 superfluous 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 abovenamed, and put them into a new Pipkin glassed, and having a cover, and put thereto five quarts of spring water, let all infuse four and twenty hours, than put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces, Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces, Carduus benedictus, read 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, than 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, than strain it without wring, 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 read 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 from, and as it mixeth with the water pour it of, putting more water to it, till it be all dissolved.   

To bring the Camphire to powder.  
In a clean Mortar beaten one Almond, than put in the Camphire, and beaten it to a fine powder, without which it will not come to a powder.  
Likewise beaten all the Cloves to a fine powder, than 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.  
Boil two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin, in a pint of Ale, about a quarter of an hour or better, than 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, than 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, than 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.  
Boil Venice Turpentine in Plantain water, than 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, than go into a warm bed and sweated 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 Oxymell 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 read 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 Annise-seeds 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, than strain it, and take a quart of the decoction, and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten, and let it boil a little over the fire again, till the Sugar Candie be melted, than take it of 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, than put it into three ounces of Rosewater, and stir it well in the Rose-water, than 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, Winde, 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 chafingdish 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, than take it of 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, Annise-seeds, 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, than put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar, dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction, than take it of, 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 stops 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; than take a new laid Egg roasted hard, take out the yolk, aend 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 than put them up into a white Cotten bag, and let the liquor drain out of them, put it up again twice upon the leeses, and than 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, than 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, than 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 Johns Wort three ounces, steep them three days in sufficient Wine, and than seethe them in a brazen Vessel till the Wine be consumed, than strain them, and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Johns Wort stamped, and steep it again three days, and afterwards add thereunto, of Turpentine three ounces, of old Oil eight ounces, of Saffron one scruple, of Mastic ʒ. ss. of Myrrh, of Frankincense, ana. ʒ. two. ss, afterwards put in the straining the space of a month, of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns 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, seethe 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 Watercresses 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, than 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 chafingdish 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 Johns Wort for ache and pain.  
Take a quart of Salad oil, put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Johns Wort 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, than put in a quart of Saint Johns 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 vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories.   

For the Courses.  
When you give Oculos cancrorum (truly called Lapides canor●●●●) 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, than of the other, it will sooner dissolve, you need but cover it with the juice or spirits, and after some few hours pour of the spirits from the powder.   

A Cordial excellen●t good for melancholy, 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, often proved with happy success.  
Take of Saffron half an 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 beaten the spices grossly, than put them, with half a pound of Sugar, into three pints of small ●innamon 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, than strain it, and when it is settled pour of 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 ℥. two.   
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 Agarick, of each six drachms, of Mastic four drachms, of read Rose leaves three drachms, let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder, and scarced, than mix them well, and beaten 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 read 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 read or black Cow.   

For the Gout, My Lord Denni's Medicine.  
Take Burdocks leaves and stalks, cut them small, and stamp them very small, than 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 clotheses in it, and apply it warm to the grieved place, warming your clotheses 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 than 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, than after it must be taken six days together, than 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 of 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-taile, of each half a handful, boil all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away, than strain it, and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy 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 Agarick, 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 Oxymell 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 scruple 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 manganesse of the body, purifying the blood from all corruption.  
℞. Of the roots of Monks Rhubarb, that is read Dock, and of read 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, than drink of this drink, for your ordinary drink, for three weeks at the lest, the longer the better, and make new as need requireth; it cureth 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 sweeting, 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.  
Boil 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 read Marble stone, with Vinegar, than 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 flesh 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.   
FINIS.   


The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet.  
WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Months page 1  
Orders for the third month 2  
From the fourth month 3  
From the fifth, sixth, and seventh month ibid.  
In the eighth month 4  
In the ninth month 5  
A Lineament 6  
The Fomentation ibid.  
The Bath 7  
Suffumigations of the Genitalss to facilitate delivery ibid.  
What meat is most useful 8  
What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lie in ibid.  
What is to be done at the Birth ibid.  
How and wherewith the childbed woman's bed aught to be furnished 9  
To whom the seat may agreed and be fit ibid.  
What the Midwife shall do in the very moment of the Birth ibid.  
What to be done when the Infant is come into the world 10  
If the Secondines break not readily 11  
What is to be done after the child is born, if yet the Secondine, or afterbirth be retained ibid.  
Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth 12  
Another Receipt ibid.  
To draw forth a dead child ibid.  
How the bellies of Childbearing women, being costive or bound, may be loosened 13  
What things are to be applied to the natural or Secret Parts ibid.  
The Fomentation ibid.  
Another 14  
An Ointment ibid.  
A Girdle for the Belly ibid.  
The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed 15  
On the eighth day ibid.  
On the ninth day ibid.  
A Lineament to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid.  
When, and whath Bath they must use 16  
Another 17  
Against the gripe of the belly in Children ibid.  
Outward Remedies for the same ibid.  
Inward helps in their meats ibid.  
A Drink ibid.  
The government of the Nurse 18  
The Care of the Infant 19  
A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children, as by whose means they may grow up and increase 20.  
The diseases of Infants 21  
The diseases and symptoms proceeding from the birth in women with child ibid.  
Against the Rupture of the Gods, and perinaeum, and the part between the rising of the Yard and the Fundament, which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth 22  
For windiness, or Colic of the Belly 23  
For the Itch ibid.  
For the Flux of the blood 24  
For falling down of the Matrix from the birth ibid.  
For the Piles after the birth 25  
Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk ibid.  
For the Imposthume of the Breasts ibid.  
What is to be administered to the Child after it is born, for the first thing it taketh 27  
For Infants troubled with wind and phlegm 28  
A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily ibid.  
For Agues in Children ibid.  
For Worms in Children ibid.  
For Heart-Wormes 29  
The Cure ibid.  
To 'cause a young Child to go to stool ibid.  
Another certain Experiment. ibid.    

The Table of the Cures for several Diseases.  

FOr Ache in the bones 33  
For all Aches, and lame Members ibid.  
An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes, shrunken Sinews, strains in man or beast, it is incomparable, and will keep forty years, but it must be made only in May 34  
To sergeant beyond Sea Azure ibid.  
To know good Azure and pure 35  
For an Ague ibid.  
For a Tertian, or a double Tertian Ague ibid.  
For a short Breath ibid.  
An Electuary for the shortness of Breath. 36  
For a Bruise or Squat ibid.  
A Restorative for the back 37  
For Aches in the Back ibid.  
For bleeding at the Nose ibid.  
For burning or Scalding ibid.  
For a Cough of the Lungs 38  
For purging of Colds, Coughs, and Comforting the Lungs ibid.  
A Julep for a Cough 39  
Another ibid.  
For a Canker in the Mouth ibid.  
For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs 40  
For Colic, and pains in the Back ibid.  
For the Cramp 41  
For a Canker ibid.  
Another ibid.  
For a Canker in the Lips ibid.  
A water for a Consumption ibid.  
For the Cough 42  
For a Cough or shortness of Breath ibid.  
For a Consumption ibid.  
For the Dropsy 43  
Another ibid.  
For pains in the Eyes ibid.  
For sore Eyes by salt Rheum ibid.  
To clear the Eyesight 44  
For the Flux ibid.  
Another 45  
For the bloody Flux ibid.  
Another for the same ibid.  
Another for the same 46  
Another for the same ibid.  
An Ointment for the Flux 47  
For all Fluxes of blood, and other Fluxes, pains in the back or Liver, and for inward effects ibid.  
A Powder for the Flux 48  
A Clyster ibid.  
For Morphew, or Scurf of the face or Skin ibid.  
To blanche the Face ibid.  
To make the Skin smooth. 49  
For the Morphew and Freckles ibid.  
For the Gout, or Ache in the joints ibid.  
For the Gout or Bone-ache ibid.  
For the Gout, or join-ache 50  
For the Gout ibid.  
For the Gout or Bone-ache ibid.  
Hermes Tree ibid.  
A Plaster to help any Stitch, or Imposthume wheresoever 51  
For an Imposthume of the Stomach ibid.  
A good Oil to bring in Joints that have been out for the space of seven years, to give strength to veins and sinews, and to keep them brought in, in their places ibid.  
For the black Jaundice. 52  
Another for the same ibid.  
To make Hartshorn Jelly. 53  
For the yellow Jaundice. ibid.  
Another for the same ibid.  
For a lame Leg 54  
For the same ibid.  
For chopped Lips 55  
A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs, and Consumption ibid.  
To make a Luxative Whey ibid.  
A good Laxative for a Child ibid.  
To 'cause Looseness. 56  
For a costive by  Choler. ibid.  
For Rheum procuring a Cough of the Lungs ibid.  
A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs 57  
A cooling Almond Milk ibid.  
A Water to restore Nature ibid.  
To restore Nature consumed 58  
For the French Pox ibid.  
Another 59  
Another ibid.  
A Posset good in all cold Agues, or Pestilential Diseases. ibid.  
The Plague Water 60  
An Antidote against the Pestilence, by Dr. B. ibid.  
For the shaking Palsy 61  
Another ibid.  
To restore lost Speech ibid.  
To restore speech to an Apoplectic ibid.  
A Restorative Electuary ibid.  
A Restorative good in all diseases 62.  
For the Rickets ibid.  
Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae 63  
A Cerecloth for divers causes. 64  
For the Stone 65  
For the Stone, Strangury, and Colic ibid.  
For the Stone in the Bladder ibid.  
To break and drive out the Stone ibid.  
To 'cause Urine, and reek the Stone ibid.,  
For the Stone 66  
For the Stone in the Ruins and Bladder ibid.  
A Posset for the Stone 67  
For the Spleen ibid.  
Another ibid.  
For Swelling of Arms, Legs, and Feet ibid.  
For Sinews, and Nerves, cut asunder 68  
For Bruises, or strained Sinews ibid.  
For shrinking of Sinews ibid.  
For Sinews shrunk, and to suppling impotent Limbs 69  
To cure an old Sore. ibid.  
For the Scurvy ibid.  
To cool the Skin, and heal a Sore 70  
To help pains in the Stomach ibid.  
An Ointment for the Stomach ibid.  
For the pricking of a Thorn 71  
To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh ibid.  
For the Toothache ibid.  
To keep Teeth White, and kill the Worms ibid.  
To take away a Wen ibid.    


A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox.  
What the Plague is 1  
Cause of the Plague ibid.  
Warnings of the Plague to come 3  
How to prevent the Plague 4  
A good perfume in Summer season 5  
A good perfume in Winter Season ibid.  
An excellent good preservative against the Plague 6  
Another preservative ibid.  
Another very good 7  
An Excellent Quil● or Bag 8  
Another Bag ibid.  
A Pomander good in the Summer time 9  
Another for the Winter season ibid.  
A good Nodule for the Summer season ibid.  
Another Nodule for the Winter season ibid.  
A Nosegay for the same purpose 10  
A Suppository ibid.  
A good Clyster 11  
How to make Raisins laxative ibid.  
A good Ointment to keep one soluble ibid.  
Good Pills to keep one soluble, and they do also resist the Pestilence 12  
Pills good to purge 13  
A good purging Potion ibid.  
A Purging powder for such as cannot take Pills 14  
Flours stopped, how to provoke them ibid.  
Issues commended against the Plague ibid.  
What diet we aught to keep 15  
What for your Pottage you may take in the Summer 16  
What exercise and Order is to be kept 17  
What Order Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Towns shall 'cause to be observed 18  
What you must do when you go to visit the sick 19  
The signs of the Infection 21  
Good signs ibid.  
Evil signs ibid.  
The means how to cure the Plague 23  
An excellent Powder to expel the Plague 26  
Another good powder ibid.  
A good Opiate to expel Venom, and to provoke sweated 27  
Another excellent good means for the same ibid.  
An excellent good water against the Plague, and divers other diseases, which is to be made in May or June 28  
Directions what the Patient must do after the taking of the Cordial ibid.  
A good defensative Unguent 29  
Epithemation ibid.  
Another ibid.  
A Quilt for the Heart 30  
A Cordial Julip ibid.  
Another ibid.  
A Julip to quench thirst 31  
A Julep to quench thirst, and to resist venenosity 32  
A good purgation in a strong body 33  
Another in a plethoric and full body ibid.  
A good purgation for a weak body ibid.  
Another gentle purgation 34  
A good Cordial to be taken after Purging ibid.  
Another good Cordial to be given where great heat is ibid.  
A good Cordial Potion ibid.  
What Symptoms often chance, and the manner how to help them 35  
For lightness of the head through want of sleep ibid.  
An Ointment to provoke sleep ibid.  
For raving and raging ibid.  
A good Sacculus for raving and raging 36  
An Aphtham to help it ibid.  
A good Gargarism for the mouth ibid.  
Vomiting extremely how to help it ibid.  
A good Bag for the Soomack 37  
Yex, or yexing to stay it ibid.  
Flix how to stop it 38  
Epithemation for the heart ibid.  
The general cure of a Botch when it appeareth outwardly 39  
A good Maturative ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Another where no Inflammation is 40  
A Digestive ibid.  
A Digestive Cataplasm ibid.  
How to bring the Botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh 41  
A good Maturative Cataplasm ibid.  
Another 42  
Another which is sooner made ibid.  
A Vesicatory ibid.  
When the Botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth always hard 43  
An Epithemation ibid.  
A Digestive ibid.  
What is to be done when the Botch strikes in again 44  
How to draw, a Botch from one place to another, and so to discuss him without breaking ibid.  
Epithemation 45  
How to know a Carbuncle or blain, as also the cure of the same 46  
The cure of the Carbuncle 47  
A Maturative Cataplasm ibid.  
Mundificative anodynes ibid.  
Another Mundificative ibid.  
When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and Inflammation 48  
A Bag good against it ibid.  
A Cataplasm 49    

The Table of the Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox.  

WHat the small Pox and Measles are, and whereof they proceed 50  
What the Measles or Males are 51  
The cause of the Pox and Measles ibid.  
To know the signs when one is infected, as also the good and ill signs in the disease 52  
How to know of what humours this disease cometh 53  
How to cure the Measles or small Pox 54  
A Clyster 55  
How to preserve the eyes ibid.  
What is to be done when the Pox or Measles are slow in coming forth 57  
Another good drink to expel the Pox or Measles ibid.  
Epithemation for the heart 58  
How to quench the thirst ibid.  
What is to be done when all the Pox are come out ibid.  
When the Pox, after they be come out, do not grow to maturation, how you shall help it 60  
How to help ulceration ibid.  
A very good Unguent for the same purpose 61  
For extreme heat and burn in the soles of the feet, and palms of the hands ibid.  
For to help the soreness and ulceration of the mouth ibid.  
For inflammation, and pain in the tonsils and throat 62  
Another ibid.  
How to open the eyelids that are fastened together with the Pox ibid.  
A good Collary for a Web, or Ungula in the eye ibid.  
How to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone 63  
For redness of the face and hands after the Pox are gone ibid.  
For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone ibid.  
A good Ointment for the same purpose 64  
For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone ibid.  
Running of the Ears how to help it ibid.  
For stopping of the Nostrils to help it 65  
For hoarseness remaining when the Pox are gone ibid.  
For filthy and moist Scabs after the Pox are gone ibid.    

The Table of the additional Observations.  

A Preservative against the infection of the Air and Plague, often approved by Pope Adrian, and many other of great rank and quality 97  
A Cordial water against the Infection ibid.  
Several opinions against wearing of Arsenic Annulets, as Preservatives against the Plague 98  
Causes of the Plague 100  
Signs of the Plague 101  
How the infection of the Plague entereth into a man ibid.  
The cure of the Plague 102  
Another 103  
Another ibid.  
Another ibid.  
Another for Botches, Boyles, and Tokens 104  
Experiments for the cure of the Plague 105  
Another approved Remedy ibid.  
A sweeting Powder ibid.    

The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions.  

THe Calenture 106  
To know the Calenture ibid.  
To cure the Calenture ibid.  
The Taberdilla 107  
To know the Taberdilla ibid.  
The cure of the Taberdilla ibid.  
The Espinlas 108  
To know the Espinlas ibid.  
To cure the Espinlas 109  
Camera de Sangre ibid.  
The cure of the bloody Flux ibid.  
The Erisipela 110  
To know the Erisipela ibid.  
To cure the Erisipela ibid.  
The Tinoso or Scurvy 111  
To know the Scurvy ibid.  
Preservatives against the Scurvy 112  
To cure the Scurvy ibid.  
Sennertus his Observations of the Scurvy 113  
A water to make a man see within forty days, though he have been blind seven years before, if he be under fifty years of age 115  
For the Web in the eye ibid.  
For the Wind in the side, that maketh the head swim ibid.  
Against Deafness ibid.  
Contra lupum veniens super oculum aut pedem 116  
Pro Cancro & lupo ibid.  
Pro oculis ibid.  
For bleared eyes 117  
Corns ibid.  
Apostema ibid.  
For a cold Stomach ibid.  
For the pain of the Stomach ibid.  
For wind, or gnawing in the belly ibid.  
For the small Pox ibid.  
For a stroke in the eye 118  
Bloodshed in the eye ibid.  
Pro oculo & aure ibid.  
For a venomed Sore ibid.  
To make a Swelling break ibid.  
For the squinsy ibid.  
For biting of a mad Dog ibid.  
To break a Botch ibid.  
For gnawings ibid.  
To increase Milk ibid.  
If Milk be thick ibid.  
A Salve for Botches, Wounds, and Sores ibid.  
Venena 119  
Pro auribus ibid.  
Caput-purgium ibid.  
For the bloody Flix ibid.  
For Stomack-Wormes ibid.  
For a Felon ibid.  
For the Reinss of the Back ibid.  
For them that cannot go upright for pain in their Back and Reins 120  
For the Stitch ibid.  
For the Stitch in the side ibid.  
To heal Wounds ibid.  
For swelling of Joints ibid.  
To knit Sinews, or Veins, that are kicked or broke ibid.  
Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur ibid.  
Verrucae, Porri, ficus 121  
For Corns ibid.  
For Warts ibid.  
For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly ibid.  
If men have any blood within them of any hurt ibid.  
Aqua pro scabie, tumore, & pruritu ibid.  
An vulneratus vivat, vel non ibid.  
To destroy an Imposthume, in what place soever it be ibid.  
For Warts 122  
Oleum Nucum ibid.  
Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra ibid.  
For the Colic and Stone ibid.  
Aqua propter ulcera & malum mortuum ibid.  
Aqua pro ulceribus ibid.  
Capitis dolour 123  
For Bones broken in a man's Head ibid.  
Capitis dolour ibid.  
Corvi albi ibid.  
Ebrii ibid.  
Acetum ibid.  
Fistula ibid.  
Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere ibid.  
Contra exitum ani ibid.  
Contra fluxum 1●4  
Plaster of Paris ibid.  
An virgo corrupta ibid.  
Ut dens cadat ibid.  
Pro cumbusto cum muliere ibid.  
A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaster, or Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly ibid.  
Unguentum genistae ibid.  
Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore Legs that be read and hot ibid.  
Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae, and for the Mormale; no Ointment worketh stronger than this 125  
Unguentum nigrum for Wounds, heating and burning ibid.  
Unguentum Rubrum ibid.  
Contra Vomitum ibid.  
Fluxus sanguinis narium ibid.  
Contra Sciaticam 126  
Freckles of the face ibid.  
To know if a man be a Leper or no ibid.  
For ache in the loins ibid.  
For a scald head ibid.  
Ad ornatum faciei ibid.  
If the Liver rot ibid.  
For stopping of the Pipes ibid.  
Two more of the same 127  
The Plague Water ibid.  
A Cordial water good for the Plague, Pox, Measles, all kind of Convulsions, Fevers, and all pain of the stomach ibid.  
For a child that hath the Ague 128  
For a burning Fever ibid.  
For the Jaundice black or yellow ibid.  
To bring down the flowers 129  
To stay the flowers ibid.  
For the Mother ibid.  
For the stone ibid.  
For a cold, cough, Ptissick, or any defect of the Lungs ibid.  
For a Stitch 130  
For a Consumption ibid.  
For the green sickness ibid.  
A special water for all Sores ibid.  
For the trembling of the heart 131  
For a Flux of the womb ibid.  
A Purging drink for superfluous humours, for aches in the joints, sinews, and for Agues ibid.  
A precious eye water for any disease of the eyes, often proved 132  
Tutia is thus prepared ibid.  
You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner ibid.  
To bring the Camphire to powder with the use 133  
If there be any thing grown upon the eye ibid.  
For any Ague ibid.  
To make Pills to cleanse the back 134  
A Bath ibid.  
For the cough of the Lungs and defluxions ibid.  
To cause a woman to have her flowers 135  
For the Cough of the Lungs ibid.  
For Cramp or numbness ibid.  
Fir a Cough, Wind, and a cold Stomach 136  
For a Cough, and a Consumption ibid.  
For a cold Dropsy ibid.  
For the Dropsy 137  
For an Ague ibid.  
To comfort and strengthen the joints and sinews ibid.  
For obstructions of Liver and Spleen 138  
For the Palsy in the head ibid.  
Oil of Saint Johns-wort for ache and pain 139  
For the knitting together and the strengthening of bones ibid.  
For the Courses ibid.  
A Cordial excellent good for Melancholy, 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, often proved with happy success 140  
A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordial ibid.  
Pills to purge phlegm and wind 141  
For the Gout ibid.  
My Lord Dennis his Medicine for the Gout ibid.  
Another for the Gout 142  
To stay the Courses when they come down too violently ibid.  
For the whites ibid.  
To keep the body soluble, and to purify the blood ibid.  
For the green sickness, or yellow Jaundice 143  
An Electuary for the green Sickness ibid.  
An excellent Powder for the green Sickness ibid.  
Another 144  
A singular purging Potion against the green Sickness, etc. ibid.    
FINIS.