MEDICINAL COUNSELS OR ADVICES: Written Originally in French, BY Dr. THEODOR TURQUET DE MAYERNE, Kt.  
Baron of Aubonne, Counsellor and Chief Physician to the late King and Queen of England.  
Put out in Latin at Geneva, by THEOPH. BONETUS, M. D.  
Englished by THO. SHIRLEY, M. D. Physician in Ordinary to his present MAJESTY.  
LONDON, Printed for N. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry near Cornhill, and in Chancery-lane near Fleetstreet. 1677.   

Licenced,  
Roger L'estrange. May 15. 1676.   

To Denzell Lord Hollis, Baron of Isfield, STEWARD of her MAJESTY'S Revenues.  
My Lord,  
I Did heretofore acquaint your Lordship, with my intention to write my thoughts and Experience, both of the Causes and Cure of the Stone in Humane Bodies: And that I did design to Dedicate that Book to your Lordship, as the most proper Altar at which to offer whatever I should produce on that subject; you having been not only the most Illustrious Patient I have had in that Disease, but also the most Generous too: For when some years since I was so happy to serve your Lordship not insuccessfully, upon that occasion, in the recovery of your health, your Lordship was pleased to take the opportunity (in a most Glorious Assembly) to give so obliging a Character, both of my Skill, and Care in my Profession, that had I not many former inducements, yet this alone were sufficient to challenge (as a due debt to your Lordship) not only my Labours upon that subject, but the Services of my whole life.  
Some part of that Treatise of the Stone, I writ some years since, and have yet lying by me; having had no conveniency to complete the same, by reason of the removal of my Habitation, and the constant Trouble the prosecution of my Right to a considerable Estate, hath engaged me in: For I find that a work of the nature of that Treatise, will allow of fewer Avocations, and requires a more easy posture of affairs, than I at present enjoy. Therefore be pleased, till I can make you that Present, to accept of this Book of Medicinal Counsels; which I shall not need to recommend to your Lordship, since the worth of their Author, Sir Theodor Mayerne, is sufficiently known to you. I put them into English for the public good: But I present them to your Lordship, not that you need Translations, (for your great Learning, and knowledge in most Languages, as well as your excellent Wisdom, hath been amply manifested to the world) but that I might take the opportunity of making a public acknowledgement of your favours to me, and attest how much I am bound to be, what I subscribe myself,  
Your Lordship's most humble, faithful, and affectionate Servant, THO. SHIRLEY. From my Lodgings next door to the steps going into the Blackfriars, by the side of Fleet River, near Fleet-Bridge.   

TO THE READER.  
IF you have ever been Sick, and have felt the incommodities of a Tourturing or Languishing Disease, I am sure you will conclude with me, that Man cannot enjoy a more useful and precious Blessing, then that of Health: For this gives us the true relish and delights of Honour, Riches, Knowledge, etc. All which without health, have more of bitter then sweet in them: And it were much more Eligable to die, then to languish out many years under the daily oppressing insults of some vehement and cruel Disease; which is in reality to die, and but supposedly to Live. How much reason have we then to praise God for giving the knowledge of that Divine Art of Physic to mortal men; And to Honour Physicians (as we are commanded to do) whose Office it is, to take care of preserving our Health; and when it is decayed, to restore us to it with speed, safety, and Pleasure.  
The Heathens were so sensible of these benefits, that they Idolised, and gave Divine Honours to Physicians; which thing we that are Christians do both renounce and abhor: But yet we must acknowledge, that a Faithful and Learned Physician, can hardly either be rewarded, or praised to his merit: And those men are most Ingrateful, and deserve not to enjoy even their own Lives, who despise either the Art of Physic, or its Professors.  
The Cultivators and Promoters of this Science, have employed their learned Labours several ways; some of them in writing Medicinal Institutions, others in Controversies, others in Comments, Notes, and Illustrations upon the works of Hypocrates and Galen, others in composing Methods and Practices of Physic. As also in describing Chirurgical Operations; others in Anatomy, others in increasing the materia Medica, by writing Pharmacopaea's, both Galenical and Chemical. But none have merited so much, (because of the utility which redounds from that way of writing) as those Authors which have writ Consultations and Counsels: For by this singular Artifice, (or way of writing) we are taught to effect that which is the most difficult thing in the Art of Physic, viz. The Application of general precepts, to particular Subjects and Persons: For the Art of Physic is long by precepts, but is rendered short and efficacious by Examples. And by this means we have the Knowledge, Learning, and Experience of industrious able Physicians, (which they have laboured all their life time to acquire) conveyed to us in Epitome.  
Of these sort of Writers is our Author, Sir THEODOR MAYERNE: (Chief Physician to his late Majesty, and his Royal Consort;) For whose abilities, let his large Fame, and almost constant success, speak: And I need say the less of him, because he hath yet living so many Testimonies of his worth and skill amongst the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom: I conceive this Book may prove acceptable to many; and therefore have put it into English, that many may receive the advantage; which is the wish of,  
Reader, Thy Friend THO. SHIRLEY.   

In this BOOK is contained,  
1. A Council or Advice in a Consumption, for a certain Nobleman. Written in French.  
2. Advice in a Consumption, for the before mentioned Nobleman's Son. Sent into France.  
3. Council or Advice in various disaffections of the Hypochondries: Written in French for a certain Gentleman, a Counsellor at Law.  
4. Advice in the same Disease, for the same Person. Given in French.  
5. Another Advice in the same Disease, for the same Counsellor. Written in French.  
6. Another Council in the same Disease, for the same Person. Written in French.  
7. Advice in divers disaffections, upon which followed a Gangrene of the Perinaeum, and an Ischuria, or suppression of Urine. Written for a Person of great Quality.  
8. Council in a suppression of Urine. For a Person of Quality.  
9 Advice for a Caruncle in the Urinary passage. For a certain Person of Quality.  
10. Advice in the Plague. Written in French.  
11. Another Council in the Plague. Written in French, and presented by the King's Physicians, to Lewis the xiii. the French King.  
12. A Council in the Constriction, or Stranguling of the Throat, proceeding from Melancholy Fumes arising from the Hypochondries: For the renowned Physician, the most excellent monsieur Bouvard, chief Doctor to the French King. Written in French.  
13. Another Council in the same Disease, for the same Person. Written in French, by the renowned Dr. de Arduynes, Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris, called St. james Hospital.  
14. Another for the same Person. Written in French.  
15. Advice against the Epilepsia, or Falling-sickness: For a Maid of Quality. Written in French, by a Physician whose name is not known.   

The First COUNCIL, In a Case of Consumption; for a Noble Person.  
Written in French.  
My Lord,  
I Give you thanks for your Charitable and Pious advice sent to me, and taken out of the last Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. It is very fit for me, who am now growing into old Age, the inconveniencies of which, are already incumbent upon me. The Inhabitants of this Kingdom being disturbed with Tumults, and I at a distance from my Lordship of Aubonne: In that place it would not have been difficult to have found a Sanctuary, where I might have took a farewell of the World, and there quietly have resigned my Soul into the hands of my Saviour. But perhaps it is otherways decreed by God's overruling power, to resist which, were impious and wicked. I know not if there yet remain such a happiness for me, (which the troublesomeness and incommodity of the journey, proceeding from the distance of the place, and length of the way, forbids me to hope) that I may yet enjoy your Company: But if God do grant it, it will be much to my satisfaction and content; if otherways, accept favourably of the friendly and kind propensity of my mind; and my desires to be near and present with you: I am ready by all sort of services to deserve your favour. But being separated from you by a fatal necessity, since I cannot assist you nearer hand, (for the honour you confer upon me, in desiring my advice) in the recovery of your health (which I wish to God you may enjoy better) though this present intemperate Wether doth not savour it; but rather puts a stop to the use and efficacy of Medicines; yet for all that, as improper as the Wether is, accept of, and follow the Council I here send you, the which I offer to you with an affectionate mind.  
I do not doubt but that Mr. de Gras hath exactly and throughly examined your Constitution in general, and the unequal distemperature of all your parts, both Natural, Vital, and Animal; and I do firmly allow of the conjectures, constituted by so Learned a Man, and one knowing in the Art: but since I have been acquainted with you from your Cradle, nay, with your Ancestors before you, the last fate of whom, was throughly examined and looked into by me. I suppose this affair ought to be deeper inspected.  
Your Illustrious Father, of happy memory, had the thread of his Life broken off before its due time, by a continual Cough, and an incessant defluction upon his Lungs: But as to what concerns yourself, (if I remember rightly) you are like him in every thing, both in your Mind, and in your Body, you had always weak Lungs, you wax Lean, (of which I have been an eye witness) and oftentimes also you did use to spit blood, though in small quantities: This I suppose, That as those parts which are weak by Nature, are subject to suffer by all sort of injuries, so the Lungs are so above the rest, both upon the account of their proper Texture, which is rare and spangious, as also by reason of their Situation, by which they easily receive the Morbiffick Causes, as well from the superior parts which lay over them, as also those which to their great prejudice are transmitted to them from the inferior parts.  
I do not deny but that the Stomach performing of its Office ill, the Mesentery filled with Obstructions, and the Liver generating acrid and thin blood, may (from the depraved condition of the aliment they afford) evilly affect the Brain and Lungs; whose Excrements, whether they are transmitted thither (from other parts) or Congested there, are yet very Liquid, as long as they remain in their state of Fluidity, which is common for all dissolved Tartars; but having gained a place, and being lodged in the Pipes of the Lungs, they Coagulate into a glutinous and mucilaginous substance, producing that Asthmatick and P●…isical disposition, or difficulty of Breathing, with which you are molested. For this mischief, viz. the Leanness and Corruption of the whole Body, is occasioned, and doth proceed from these Excrements, although there be no present Aposthumation, Vomica, or Ulcer, yet do these Excrements threaten the same effects, and no less mischievous.  
That you may receive relief, there is a necessity by a good Diet, to amend the Vices of the antecedent Causes, in their Fountains or Spring-heads, reducing by degrees to a better state, the depraved Faculties of the parts, in which the First and Second Concoctions are performed. Secondly, to hinder the Flood and defluction from the Brain, and that by strengthening, drying, and diverting to other parts, that humour, which otherways perpendicularly flows from thence upon the Lungs. Thirdly, repairing their Balsam, retrieving them from put refaction, by the source of Medicines endowed with a Balsamic power. And if in the course of doing this, in the mean time the Anacatharsis, or upward Evacuation happen to be difficult, or stopped, care must also be taken of that: And at last there must be Analeptick means made use of to refresh and restore the parts which are tending to a decay and Consumption.  
1. That you may attain this end, follow exactly the advice given you by your Physicians concerning Diet; which if I should particularly describe, this Council would swell into a Volume.  
2. Upon the account of the Brain: prepare Emissary passages for it, besides such as it hath naturally of its own: I do not disapprove of Issues in the Arms, but they are no way comparable to those which are made in the Shoulders upon the Region of the Omoplats, or Shoulder Blades, at an equal distance from the Spine (or Backbone) perhaps you will object your Leanness, to which I answer, That I have not spared those which have been extenuated, and I find them to be more efficacious than those made in the Neck, betwixt the first and second V●…tebra's. Wherefore omit not this remedy; and in this case, it is sufficient to put in, and closely press down five or seven Pease, applying a sticking Plaster upon them: I approve of the Plaster pro suturis, which is composed of moderately warming, and gently adstringent things, which doth powerfully strengthen and confirm the parts, and helps to suspend the defluction: The place of this may be supplied by a Capp or Coif, which I make of dried Bettony, Rosemary, Red Roses, and the Barks of new Pistacho Nuts, adding moreover yellow Amber, and the Seeds of Roman Nigil, with a few Cloves: Keep your Head neither too hot, nor too cold, but nevertheless, let it be so covered, that the cold may not offend it. I cannot forbear to press upon you the advice of Celsus, whose words are these; Nothing is so profitable to the Head as cold water is. Therefore he that hath this part infirm, he will d●… well, in the Summer time, to hold his head for a good while together, every day, under a large spout of Water, or to cause it to be Pumpe●… upon.  
Let your Capp be covered on both side with whited brown Paper, and quilted betwixt with Tow, or Flax; it is convenient to sum; with some Cephalick Powder, in the composition of which, there ought to be a larg●… quantity of yellow Amber: I know not i●… you ever have used to take Tobacco. You may make a powder of Colts-foot, the Bark of Pistacho Nuts, Rosemary, yellow Amber, and a twelfth part of Tobacco: To which, if the Lungs abound with tough Phlegm, and there be an Asthma, you may add as a powerful help, (and wonderfully beneficial) a little Orpiment, (for as D●…sconides says, it is very useful in these Diseases) you cannot be ignorant how it is to be made use of, to wit, in a Pipe, you may use it Morning and Evening, passing the smoke through your Nostrils, or only blowing it out at your mouth, as you shall find it to be most effectual.  
In favour of the Lungs, it is particularly advantageous to drink thin Metheglin, or Meade, not too strong, but well fermented or wrought, composed with Agrimony, Bettony, both kinds of Veronica, or Fluelling, and both sorts of Lungwort, Coltssoot, and a large quantity of julubs. This kind of drink if it be made right, is not unpleasant to the Tast. Wine is hurtful for you, but I doubt whether you can leave off the use of it: but if you can abstain from it, do. A Syrup made with the flesh of Tortoises, Snails, the Lungs of Animals, Frogs, and Craw-fish, all boiled in Scabiose, and Colts-foot water, adding at last Sugar Candy, will prove very useful. Lac Sulphuris is a precious Balsam, which may be taken in a rear Egg, with a few grains of Benz●…min and Sugar, or it may be made into Tabellets, with Sugar and the pulp of Marsh Mallow Roots: These sort of Medicines require to be used long, nevertheless, forbearing the use of them for some days; lest Nature being accustomed to them, should at last neglect them, though they are precious, as she useth to do other things. The unadulterated Balsam of Peru, either black or white (if you can procure it) taken to the quantity of four or five drops at a time in Oxymell, is highly conducive; also the Ruby of Sulphur rightly prepared, with the white Aetherial Oil of Turpentine S. A. but as this Operation is artificial, so the preparation of it should be committed to an expert Artist: The before said suffumigation promotes Expectoration: If the Phlegm be yet Tough, take care to prepare an Oxymell, with the Pectoral decoction, well clarified, Sugarcandy and Honey, made sharp with Oil of Sulphur: and this upon urgent necessity may be licked with a Liquorish stick bruised at the end.  
As to what relates to restoration or nutrition, persist in the use of Cock-broath, made with China Roots, and cleansed Barley, besides the use of the beforomentioned Syrup of Tortoises, but Ass' Milk, with Sugar of Roses, is to be used both Winter and Summer, and is very prevalent to this intention: I also advise you to change the Air; for the situation of your House is absolutely unwholesome for you: The next Spring go to Delft, and find out the House of your Noble Brother, nay, travel as far as Aurange, Lunell, Biterras, and Mompelier, staying in those places some Months, or longer. I have not time to say any more, but this one thing, if perchance any of your Relations come about you, have a care that they do not contract the same Disease in their Lungs. You ought to follow this my advice exactly in every particular; which if you do, undoubtedly it will prove beneficial to you for preservation. God prevent an ill Omen.  
Dated London, 1645.   

The Second COUNCIL. For an Illustrious Nobleman, Son to the former, inclined to a Consumption.  
Written in French.  
My Lord,  
APologies are remote from the busines●… in hand, and are needless: for yo●… are not guilty of any injury to me●… My Friends, and yourself above the rest 〈◊〉 them, aught to esteem me altogether of another mind, from the custom of those wit●… whom Compliments and Ceremonies is usua●… amongst their familiar acquaintants, (whic●… can hardly be practised by sincere minds.) 〈◊〉 at any time I admit any one into my intimat●… friendship, and addict myself to serve hi●… (which I have long since done to you, and devoted myself to your whole Family) 〈◊〉 never impeach them for being nice, or omitting of officious occasions, nor interpret any thing in the worst sense, being secured of their constancy; supposing business doth hinder my friends, or that there is some other great occasion, that is the cause of the intermitting of their writing to me; but if my pains may be useful to them at any time, I never deny it to them, greedily laying hold of all opportunities to deserve well at their hands, whensoever occasion doth offer itself, chiefly where I may be assistant by my Art, or Profession.  
I have long been afraid lest this Disease, which hath threatened you a great while, should at last break out into act. I was heretofore throughly acquainted with the Nature and Constitution of your Illustrious Father, and Grandfather, (who are to be reverenced by me upon many accounts) the depraved Constitution of whose Lungs, I could not so well alter, but that it hastened their fate. Their infirmities are descended to you by way of Inheritance, together with their great Endowments and Virtues. If you have done any thing which hath hastened this misfortune to fall upon you, it is unknown to me, and it were necessary that you acquainted me with it; for accurate instruction is necessary, that you may receive the full advantage and fruit of my advice. I particularly wish to be informed what kind of Tumour that was on your Breast, and what those acrid Medicines were, which your Physician writes you have made use of; and whether they were Mercurial or no: also the quality, and quantity of the matter you excluded by Vomiting, it were convenient to know whether it were purulent and stinking, or not. These things being well enquired into, are of great moment towards the Cure of your Lungs, which are the Basis and Original of your Griefs, a Consumption is but a finger's breadth off from you, and evil is threatened, unless you seasonably use your utmost endeavours to extricate yourself from the power of it, with which, to my sorrow I perceive you are already ensnared, I have often observed Aposthumes to break in the Lungs, some of them with good success, some of them with ill; God preserve you from them. Ulcers of the Lungs, because the Lungs are in perpetual motion, and are filled with large Vessels, and constantly receiving humours, both from the upper, and inferior parts, do difficultly admit of Cure; but all our endeavours must be made use of, and the success submitted to God, expecting from his will a happy event: You have already been under the Cure of Experienced Men of Art, which their own accounts testify. And amongst our rules, this is the Chief: If all things be done rationally, and success do not presently follow (the intentions and indications of Cure remaining still the same) we are to insist upon the same Medicines, without any alteration, unless something happen which absolutely compels us to it.  
But to satisfy your desire, because you expect my advice, I will, having begun, proceed farther, submitting my Council to the judgement and experience of those Learned men, under whose hands you now are, (I being at so great a distance from you) And in the first place I advise, as soon as the Wether shall be more temperate, That you try the Change of Air, experimenting another and more propitious one, without delay, being carried in a Litter, or otherways, so that the motion may not hurt you, beginning your Journey with the rising of the Sun, and getting into your Inn before Sunset. Travel to Volcas, Aurange, Mompilier, Bitteras, etc. breath dry Air, the heat of whieh you may easily temper in the House, according to the conveniencies the place allows: Galen, the Master of Physicians, used to send Consumptive Patients to Tabias', not that he might be rid of the care of them, but to dry up the Ulcer and Defluction, by drawing in of a more pure Air, endowed with a drying faculty, and a Balsamic power from the Plants which grew there.  
Some years since a Gentleman of these parts, called Mr. Cotton, who was in a confirmed Consumption, spit matter mixed with blood, and was extremely extenuated, being a mere Skeleton, covered with a dry skin. This Gentleman was sent to these parts, and upon his return, he was absolutely recovered; he liveth healthy with his Family, and is Father of many Children. I have seen (that I may discover the Efficacy of the Air in Diseases of the Lungs) a Gentleman, who having received a deep wound in his Breast, he was twice Cured thereof by making an Aperture in the opposite side, which necessity compelled to be made betwixt his Ribs: which Aperture became a Fistula; He travelled into Spain, where after five years' stay, the Fistula healed up; returning to his own Country, which was a cold and moist Climate, it opened again of its own accord: and he was healed again by going into Spain for the same number of years as formerly. From hence it will plainly appear to you, that the Air pervading all the Bronchia, or Pipes of the Lungs, and passing directly to the Heart, is more efficacious in exerting the force of its native, or acquired qualities and virtues, than any other sort of remedy whatsoever.  
The Second head regards Drink: If you can forbear Wine altogether, you will do very well to do so: for whether you drink much or little, it doth affect, and will afflict your head. I hear they make good Beer at Geneva; if you can get that which is small and clear; or else the Decoction of Barley well fermented, and without Hops, that may be commodious for you: which moreover you may render Medicinal by the addition of China roots, or the roots of the greater Canes, or Reeds of Narbon, and with Tro●…matick, or wound Herbs and Pectorals; amongst which the Male Veronica, Bugle, and self heat, are the best: If you leave your native Soil, and your own House, (which are not healthy for you to dwell in) there may be prescribed a weak Hydromel, or Meade, or else a thin drink made with Raisins, but well fermented, and impregnated with the virtue of the foresaid simples, and others as Pimpernal, the greater Comfory, AElurop, Plantain, Midlin, broad leaved Lungwort, (which is a Moss of an Ash-colour, growing upon old Oaks) These kind of Drinks rendered familiar and ordinary, and pertinaciously continued by their constant use work wonders; they being endowed both with a Nutritive and Medicinal Virtue. Arcaeus an approved Author, (a Spaniard) doth much commend Guajacum in Ulcers of the Lungs, and I know by experience it is very successful; nor is the use of it to be feared in lean bodies, for its accrimony and heat, (if you proceed by degrees to use it) may be tempered, by adding the larger quantity of Water, or it may be boiled in Barley Water: or else the Roots of China, or Reeds, are harmless, and without heat, dry sufficiently; moreover, do not descend from the necessary advice given you about Diet, by your Physicians.  
Cow's Milk is useful to condense and nourish well; but to refrigerate and cool, Ass' Milk is more efficacious; it detergeth, and cleanseth better, and carries off the watery Excrements by Urine, (to which intent also lignum Nephriticum conduces, being added to your ordinary drink,) add to this, that it leaves nothing untouched, but brings it away with itself, if only it pass well: And this your own experience will make out to you, there being this occasion given to make proof of its effect: Follow what your Physicians advise you; The force and virtue of the Milk will be augmented, if the Beasts feed upon Herbs, which are appropriate to your Grief.  
I commend Sugar of Roses, with which sweeten your Milk. I firmly hold upon this account, that a Syrup made with Vulnery Herbs, and Wood Tortoises, (in Narbon called Garrige) shell Snails, the Tails of Craw-fish, green Frogs, (of which you have plenty) will be of great use to you for the future, dilating'an Ounce of it with a draught of Milk. You may cast in a fourth part of Rose-water into the Decoction of the aforesaid simples, being clarefied before the Sugar is put to it: I would have to be added to the Tabblets of Sugar of Roses which you use, some truly prepared Blood stone: Harts-borne well and Philosophically calcined by the vapour of some Pectoral Water, and I approve of Crabs Eyes, prepared after the common way: Concerning the Lapis haematitis, or Blood stone, read what is delivered of its virtues in your Disease, by the most experienced amongst the Ancient Physicians Alexander Trailianus, cap. 1. lib. 7. Practicae, under the title of; Such things as are convenient for those which spit blood, from the defluction of an acrid humour; which I also think useful for those which spit blood by reason of an Anastomasis, and all sorts of Haemoptysis, proceeding from the Breast, let the Cause which produces it be what it will.  
A Cough is the most troublesome Symptom of these kind of Diseases; for it irritates and shakes the Lungs, and will not permit the mouths of the Vessels to close, nor grow together. Take care therefore to prepare Bec●…hical, or Pectoral Tabblets of an Extract made without the least burning, but performed with the vapour of water; let it be made of the best Liquiriss, macerated in the waters of Fluellin and Mullin: adding to it new made Penidies, Blood Stone, and Manus Christi, composed with Pearls and Corals: If you are not inclined to sleep, procure it by intervals with Art; take care therefore to prepare, either Diacodion Tabellatum, or use Syrup of white Poppies, dispensed as it ought to be; using them at the hour of sleep, and taking them in the Cream of Barley, beginning with half an Ounce, or three Drams, and so proceeding by degrees to an Ounce at most, if necessity require it; but have a care you use them not, if they may be spared.  
As to General Remedies, viz. Purgation and Blood-letting, let the use of the first be seldom, always avoiding strong Purges, for it is enough to use Laxative Ptisans, prepared with Senna, Tamarynds, Cassia, and Syrup of Cichory, with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarbe, sometimes adding new granulated white Portuguese Manna, all being well clarified. Neither omit letting blood, which let it be frequent, rather than much, according to indications: moreover, the revelling and derivative Medicines prescribed by your Physicians, are to the purpose, and therefore to be applied at convenient times, according to advice: As to the Issue which is in your Arm, I do not dislike of it, but according to my Judgement, I had rather have one made by burning in the Neck, betwixt the first and second Vertebra's, or two Issues made upon the Shoulders, betwixt the superior Angles of the Omoplats, and the Spine of the Back.  
Besides these, let Medicines be provided ready against the Paroxysm, that is, when the blood doth abound: in this case I do no ●…ess approve of opening a Vein in the Foot, than in the Arm, or let a Cupping-glass be applied to the region of the Liver: use Oxycrate made with Plantain water and Frog Spawn: Let Trochises, or little Balls, be made with Gum Tragacanth, dissolved in Plantain water, and compacted with a Powder, composed with half a part of Rock Alom, reduced to a subtle Powder, a fourth part of Harts-borne, calcined with fire till it be white; also a fourth part of prepared Blood stone, and coro●…ted Manus Christi, the weight of all of them. Hold these Balls in your mouth, and let them melt by degrees, and so swallow them; for they dissolve but slowly: The effect of Alon●… 〈◊〉 this case is very great, it may be given at ●…he hour of sleep, to the quantity of a Dram 〈◊〉 Barley Broth, several days successively; it may also be dissolved in Milk that is turned, ●…d become thin by Boiling in it Plantain, Mullin, Allheale, Pimpernell, Tormontill, and Vinca per Vinca, or Periwinckell, clarifying this Milk, by settling and adding Alom to it, that so it may be given with Apozemes, or juleps. I cite here this Experiment (taken out of our Authors) because by the prescribing the use of it I have gained honour and credit, especially in the ordering the use of it to a Noble Matron, afflicted with a desperate Haemoptysis, or spitting of Blood from the Lungs; ejecting from thence divers pounds for several days together. I ordered to bruise the tender Leaves of red stinging Nettles, and to give five Ounces of the juice pressed out of them, and cleared by settling; Twice in a day, (if there be added to this an Ounce of rightly prepared Syrup of Coral, the Medicine will be more efficacious.) And although she was then Threescore Years Old, weak and helpless, yet she was restored to perfect help for five years. You may put the Council I have given you into use: for now I have nothing more to say. If God grant you Life, it must be restored by proper Remedies, I shall always be ready to serve you, in the preservation of your Health, as far as my Experience in the Practice of my Profession will enable me.  
London, February 20, 1657. This Illustrious Nobleman is now living, Anno 1674. He is more than Threescore Years Old, a Bachelor, hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Shoulder Blades which stand off like Wings, showing by his Habit of Body, and all other signs, his native propensity to a Consumption, spitting Matter, perpetually afflicted with a Cough, only using drying Food, as Salt-meat, Herrings, and smoked Meats: finding moist Food to be hurtful for him.   

COUNCIL the Third. In various Hypochondriacal Distempers: For a certain Noble Councillor at Law.  
Written in French.  
WHen I carefully take under examination all those Symptoms with which you have been molested and tired out, and having also an Eye to your Temperament, I do constitute the root of a●… those Griefs with which you have been afflicted, to be in a Melancholy humour, not only ge●…erated in the Liver, and evilly separated or expelled, worse wrought upon in the Spleen (remaining to the hurt of the Stomach, an●… those parts, by which it ought naturally t●… be discharged) but also mixed in the Veins with the rest of the Mass of Blood, nay, extended as far as the Brain, which this offensiv●… Enemy of Nature, doth assault as an Organical part, upon whose temperament an alteration being made by it; from hence the Principle Functions of the Soul do act erroneously at sometimes: And from this humour, and from nothing else, is the Original of your forepassed Melancholy afflictions, returning upon you by fits; the settling of humours in the parts near the Fundament, (the malignancy of which humours consists in a Septick, and Corrosive Salt) hath begotten that great Ulcer, which is now turned to a Fistula.  
That troublesome heat of the Palm of your left hand, and the sole of your Foot, doth plainly show the power of the Spleen, affecting the upper as well as the nether parts; also the intense dryness of your Mouth; all which are induced by Sulphurous, Nitrous, and Vitriolate exhalations sent up from the Bowels: Moreover the Stupor and Numbness of your Arms & Legs, which affects you only by Periods and Fits, not constantly: to all which may be added the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or stuttering of your Tongue, returning by intervals; from these without doubt I say, is the Idea of your Melancholy afflictions: all which may be constituted to proceed from the Reciprocal flowing of that juice from the Spleen to the Brain, and contrary ways flowing back again; which oftentimes introduceth grievous Symptoms, as the Epilepsia, and others, insomuch that it is not absurd to make a presage from these signs, of the near approach of a Palsy, though I think the danger may be prevented, if you be but strong enough: let us omit the Cure of the Fistula, since it is almost healed: But lest we Triumph before the Victory be gained, we must allow the space of five or six Months, to expect whether perhaps any new budding of the Disease, do not cause us quite to lay aside our conceived hopes of a perfect Cure; for the Melancholy humour is not unlike the dispositions of the most sort of Poisons, which by the force and efficacy of Antidotes, are somewhat weakened, and the Tempest which they brought with them allayed, and the introduced Symptoms ended, so that Nature being restored to her former state, doth easily overcome what remains: Let us direct our aim then at this point, since in my judgement, any other method of Cure, though it may appear never so useful, will prove ineffectual for the future.  
I do not touch upon your Diet, being certain, that those to whose care you have committed your health, will not pretermit any occasion of either doing what is fit, or omitting what is inconvenient; let us proceed to remedies; of these I think it will be vain for the future to continue in the use of slight ones, which are usually prescribed, more for the comfort of the Physician, than the Sick; which are really adiaphora, or indifferent, they are innocent truly, but by being so, they afford no help: This Evil is to be plucked up by the Roots, otherwise it will be perpetually hatching, and producing a new Brood. Let Vomits lead on the first and main Battle, as well for their efficacious removing the filth of the first regions of the body, as also to remove by their specific efficacy (from which only the Triumph and Victory over Melancholy is to be expected) future impediments. Of these, I know none more prevalent, nor of less danger, than the infusion of Crocus Metallorum, made in Canary Wine, allowing an Ounce of this to a Pint of the Wine; of which if you are easy to Vomit, you may take the first time one Ounce, adding of simple Oxymel half an Ounce, and one Ounce of Cardus Beneditus Water: if you are hard to work upon, than you may take from the quantity of ten Drams, to an Ounce and half of it, though I think it safest to begin with a small Dose, except the vehemence of the Disease persuade otherwise. Vomit three or four times, nay more, making use of no other Medicine between: but if your endeavours to Vomit prove fruitless, the Stomach may be easily moved to it by drinking of Barley Water, or thin Chicking Breath, nay only with warm Water; procure this sort of Evacuation at least three times, allowing the space of two or three days between, after which, apply yourself, to Purgation, beginning with Elleborat, and Hypochondriack Apozems.  
If by rubbing and pressing hard with your hands, the whole Abdomen and the Hypochondries, there be found pertinacious obstructions there, it will be necessary then to exhibit some preparing Medicine for 7 or 8 days together, which being performed, the Purgation of the humour is to be administered again: If there be any occasion to open a Vein (from which nevertheless I expect little benefit) let the Physician that is present take care of that: I note this one thing to you, that I prefer the opening of an inferior Vein in the Malleoli, or Ankles, rather than a superior in the Arms, unless there be somewhat else that hinders it.  
The Body being thus conveniently Evacuated, the whole business of the Cure is to be directed to the use of Steel, in this Cure the chief Medicine: There are three Weeks at least to be employed about the foresaid general praescripts, and in the mean time, care must be had of that intense dryness of your Tongue, which is so troublesome to you, which I hope in a small time will be dissipated, from which no great danger is threatened; so that care be took, that the Body be cleansed from those hot, dry, and vitriolic juices, (of the nature of Canker of Brass) which doth induce this intense and unsatisfied thirst; in which case there is great relief found in the opening the Veins, situate under the Tongue, by which the heat of the Lungs and Heart is allayed, and the Brain effectually discharged; if you find the Brain to be possessed (with this matter) and if you find the continual Numbness of the Members to remain, together with an imbecility to move, apply a great visicatory to the Nuck of the Neck, and make two Issues in the topes of the Shoulders; The Head being shaved, put upon it Fernelius his Cataplasm, or some other Epispatick: Anointing the whole Backbone every day with Balsam of Earthworms, or Bats, etc. And when the Wether is convenient for it, go to the Baths of Borbon, or Aquense, which are not far from your House, and use to wash your Body with them, and let the whole Spine of your Back be dropped upon by these Waters.  
I do firmly believe your Panic fears will vanish, if you devote yourself to the use of Steel, by the virtue of which, I have seen many Melancholy persons delivered, the weakness of whose Limbs did declare, that they were already Paralytic: And among these, a certain Maid of Honour, committed to my ●…re the last year, by the Queen of Bohemia, who by the force of this Melancholy juice, had the motion of all her Limbs took from her, whom by God's assistance I restored to the Queen again, Merry, and enjoying a firm health, to the admiration of all those which had her in Cure before me, in whose judgement she was afflicted with a Palsy, I proceeded altogether another contrary, and yet common way, by the help of which she attained her health: For 'tis only old Dogs that are the best Hunters.  
But concerning your Fistula, I think it is not far from being healed, if your Chirurgeon may be credited, who is a most expert man, to whom, (which you before desired me to do) since I have lately writ, there is no need that I take up my pen again, that he may be further satisfied of my kindness.  
Outward Remedies are needless for the future, but lest I should seem to be wanting in my Care and Friendship, if there is any thing needful to dry and confirm the Cicatrice, use the Balsam of Sulphur, of which you have heard me spoke often, which will supply the place of all other Medicines which are fit for the part affected: you may apply Emplastrum Diasulphuris to the part; which since it needs some detersion and cleansing, upon that account it is convenient to use the solution of Crollius his Lapis Mirabilis, or another according to my judgement, of equal efficacy, consisting of pure Bolearmenick, White Vitriol, and Camphor, prepared according to Art: or you may well use the Mercurial Water described by Hartman; made of Mercury sublimate, freed from its corrosive Spirits by Tin, according to Art.  
When the fear of a Palsy shall be dissipated, and the humour bred in the Hypochondries overcome, and cut off; also when it shall only remain to employ our endeavours, that the Cure of the Fistula be made firm and undoubted; And that the birth of the same germinating kind of Ulcers, (in those lower parts subject to corruption) may be prevented, than the use of Mercurial Medicines taken inwardly, will be seasonable, which in convenient time and place shall be prescribed to you with necessary cautions; as also certain other exsicating Medicines, taken from the Classes of Minerals, and these such as promote a Diaphoresin, (or transpiration) at the pores, whose power and faculty is to discuss malignant vapours, and to hinder defluctions; These produce different actions, according to the divers distemperatures of the receiving parts; which Distempers they master and overcome, by their particular efficacious impressions: But enough for this time, and I will only subjoin an orderly description of certain Medicines promised above: If you please, you may make use of Mr. Favonius the Apothecary, who will be very careful in their preparation: If your Fistula be healed, and Cicatriz'd, that it may long remain so, it is necessary you go to Geneva, etc.  
In the first place prepare the Stomach for the space of two days before, that so you may Vomit easily.  
As, ℞ 

Of simple Oxymel, ℥ iij.  
Oxymel of Squills, ℥ i.    
Mix them for 4 Doses, taking them in a draught of Ptisan, at a large distance from Meals.  
Then, ℞ Of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum; made with Canary Sack (proportioning ℥ i. of the Crocus, to ℥ xuj. or a Pint of the Sack) take (I say) of this infusion philtered through a Papire, ℥ i. 

Of the water of Carduus Benedictus, ℥ i.  
Simple Oxymel, ℥ ss.   Mix them, and make a draught, to be given in the Morning, with observing a due and regular order, in the time of its Operation.  
Let this Medicine be repeated Thrice, interposing the space of two, or three days betwixt each time of taking, according to the strength and disposition of the Stomach; a regard being had to the Operation of the Medicine; If there be occasion, those that can bear the Operation well, may increase the quantity of the infusion to Ten Drams, or an Ounce and half.  
In the days between, it will be necessary to foment the Hypochondries, and region of the Stomach, with an emollient, inciding, and Opening Decoction: by this means, the humours which are to be discharged by Vomit, will be rendered fluid, and the Operation will succeed with the less trouble.  
After taking the third Vomit, a day or two being allowed for quiet, let there be given the following Apozem. 

℞ Of 

the Roots of female Fers,  
Cichory,  
Lion's Tooth,  
The Middle-Barke of an Ash-tree,  
the Roots of sharp Leaved Docks,   an. ℥ i.  
Marsh-mallows, ℥ ss.  


The Bark of Caper-roots,  
Of Tamariske,   an. ʒ x.  
The fresh Roots of Polypody, ℥ iij.  
Of 

the Leaves of Fumaterry,  
Germander,  
Ground Pine,  
Agrimony,  
Bettony,  
Of all the sorts of Maidenhair,   an. M. i.  


The Flowers of Cowslips,  
St. john's wort,   an. P. iij.  
Water-lilies, P. ij. ss.  


The Tops of Rosemary,  
Marjarom,   an. P. i.  
The Seeds of male Peony, ʒ iij.  
Of sweet Fennel,  
Of Corryander prepared, an. ℥ ss.  
Of Carthamum, fresh, full, and such as sink in water, ℥ ij.  
Raisins of the Sun stoned,  
jujubs, an. ʒ iv.  
Sweet smelling Apples, cut into bits with their peels on, N. iij.   Make a decoction of all these in a s. q. of water, in which was steeped before for the space of four hours, 

Sparkling Tartar of White Wine, ʒ vi.  
Clean picked Senna Leaves, ℥ ij.  
The small shing of true black He●…or roots, ʒ iv.   After a sufficient decocting, strain it; which reduce by gentle Boiling to ℥ xv. in which dissolve, 



Of the solutive Syrup of Damask Roses made with Agarick.  
Of the Syrup of Cichory, with a fourfold proportion of Rhubarb,   anʒ i. ss.  
Spirit of Vitriel, gut. xii.   mix them, and make an Apozem for three days, to be taken a Mornings, with care, and keeping within doors, either every day, or every other day, according to your strength: and this to be done three hours before you take any Broth.  
If it seem convenient either between, or after these Purgations, to open either of the Saphena Veins, let that be committed to the pleasure of your Physician which is present with you.  
Afterwards let the peccant juices be prepared again and again, and the obstructions of the Bowels powerfully recerated by this following Medicine: ℞ 

The Decoction of sweet seuted Apples,  
Nephriteck wood, adding a little 〈◊〉 ℞ iij.  
Small White Wine, lb i.  


Spirit of Salt,  
Vitriol,   an ʒ i.   Mix them exactly in a flat glass dish, then ●…resently drop leisurely into it, of Oil of Tur●…ar, made per deliquium, q. s. to extinguish ●…ll acidity, or sourness, add to th●…. 



Syrup of the flowers of red fluelin, with the Violet flower,  
Syrup of Cowslips,   an. ℥ ●…j.  
Cl●…on water, one spoonful.   Make a perfect mixture of them by long agi●…ating them together: Take of this Liquor 〈◊〉 v, for a Dos●…, twice in a day, at a good ●…stance from Meals, do this eight days together: which time being elapsed, repeat Purging, Thus. ℞ 

Clean picked and small cut Senna Leaves, ʒ iv.  
Choice Rhubarb, ʒ ij.  
The stringy fibers of true black Hellebor roots, ℈ iv.   To these being strained, pour such a quantity of the strained Decoction of Tamarynds and Tartar, as is sufficient to make the infusion for a whole Night upon warm Ashes, adding, 

Of Lavender flowers, ℈ i.  
One blade, or flower of Mace.   In the Morning after a gentle boiling, strain it, in which reduced to a Dose, dissolve, 



Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick,  
Portuguese Manna,   an. ℥ i.  
Spirit of Vitriol, gut. iv.    
Mix them for a Potion to be given in the Morning, with a careful governing of yourself.  
This being performed, your Body is sufficiently fitted for the use of Steel; the metho●… of taking which, was sufficiently describ'●… to you the first time: In the interim, Sir while you are at leisure betwixt making u●… of the prescriptions, and that will take up good space of time, (but absolutely necessar●… to the right preparing, of the peccant juice and the Cure of your Body) In the mean sp●… use these things which have a respect to t●… dryness of your Tongue: As a Syrup made with the white of an Egg, and Sugarcandy.  
Trochisch's of Liquoris, prepared from its Extract mixed with Sugar of Roses, adding a ●…ittle of the Mucalage of Gum Tragacant.  
The distilled Water of Milk, with the Syrup de Mucilaginibus taken by a Spoon, or put of a glass Bottle, or out of a phyol with a narrow mouth.  
The use of Rock Crystal truly prepared, with Conserve of Violets, or Water Lilies, is good.  
An injection into the jaws made with Barley water, and Milk warm from the Cow, either by itself, or adding a little Sal pru●…lla.  
Syrup of the Juice of the greater Semper●…uive or House-leek, boiled with Sugar, adding 〈◊〉 little of the same Sal prunella: see that you ●…se them by turns, lest Nature being too much accustomed to one, frustrate or reject ●…eir effect.  
I doubt not but those Symptoms which ●…hreaten a Palsy, will either be diminished, ●…r for the most part removed, by the before ●…rescribed Medicines, which Symptoms if they ●…ould persevere, though but a little, that ●…he fearful mind of the Patient may be satis●…'d; by the advice of the Physicians which ●…re present; let there be applied to the head being shaved, Fernelius his Cataplasm against Catarrhs, described in his Counsels, for divers days together: Apply to the hinder part of the Neck a large Visicatory, with which excite a Blister, which keep running a long time.  
Affix a couple of Pyroticks, or Caustics, to the superior angles of the Shoulder Blades, with which large Ulcers being made, let them be kept continually open with many Pease, applying upon them a strong sticking and drawing Plaster. Morning and Evening anoint the whole length of the Backbone with our Balsam of Batts, rubbing it very well in with a warmed hand.  

The Balsam of Batts.  
℞ 

The greater sort of Serpents, or Snakes, cut into pieces, their Skins being first stripped off, Num. iij.  
Butts, Num. xii.  
Very fat sucking Puppi●…s, Num. ij.  
Earthworms washed in White Wine, lb j●…  
Common Oil, lb iij.  
Malago Sack, lb iv.  


The Leaves of Sage,  
Marjarom,  
Bayes,  
Calaminth,  
Origanum,  
Penyroyal,   an, M. ij.    
Boil them (adding new Hogs-lard, lb ij.) 〈◊〉 the consuming of the Wine, and the falling ●…f pieces and putrilage of the Animals; let 〈◊〉 Fat be well pressed out, ℞ 

Of this fatness, lb i.  


Gum. Elemi,  
Tacamahaca,   an. ℥ i. ss,  


The Marrow of a Stag,  
An Ox's Leg,   an. ℥ ij.  
Of p●… Gum, Galbanum●… ℥ i.  
Liquidambar, gut. x.  


Butter, of Nutmegs  
Oil of Bays,   an. ℥ ss.   Mix them, and make a Balsam.   
I believe, and I hope, that the Ulcers which ●…ere caused by the incisions about the Fundament are closed, and confirmed by a Cicatrice: it happen to be otherwise, let them be ●…ashed with the dissolution of the Artificial ●…one, which is called Lopis Mirabilis; or ●…uch the Ulcers with Mercurial water made sublimat, delivered from its Corrosive Spirit, ●…d deadened by Tin: apply Balsam of Sulphur them, such as is described by Rulandus, 〈◊〉 put upon them a Led Plaster, with ●…alk, or Emplastruin Diasulphuris, which ●…dicines may be approved of as specificks Ulcers of the Fundament, and the circum●… par●…d.  
〈◊〉 there be any internal Symptoms continue, or bud again, these evils are to be remedied by Mineral Medicines, such as are mad●… of Mercury and Antimony rightly prepared which shall be prescribed by us, in their du●… time, according to the degree of urgent necessity.  

POSTSCRIPT. The use of the aforesaid Remedies.  
AFter your return into your own Country, about the beginning of the Mon●… of September, take care to have prepared 〈◊〉 you an Emollient and detergent clyster, addi●… lenitive Electuary, and honey of Dog Nettl●… let it be injected in a Morning about th●… hours before Dinner.  
The day after take the Purge prescribed and if you like the form of a Bolus, you 〈◊〉 add a Scruple of Mercurius dulcis truly prepared, observing to govern yourself, order in the working.  
The day following, begin the use of 〈◊〉 Apozem, continuing the use of it for eig●… days.  
Which being ended, purge your body aga●… with the same proportion of the Purge, or the Bolus.  
After which, if necessity require, proceed to the use of Steel, observing the Order laid down.  
If nothing do absolutely insinuate the use of this, than a good Diet will be sufficient, the particulars concerning which, you may easily gain the knowledge of. Omit not in the mean time the exercising of your Body, which is absolutely necessary for you. Also by intervals, at lest once in a Month purge your Body, taking the before prescribed Bolus, with Mercurius dulcis.  
Let the Infusion be familiar to you, or the gentle Decoction, remembered in the second Council, to which you may if you please, add half a pound of the filings of Steel, to four measures of Fountain, or Cistern-water: taking every time two Ounces.    

COUNCIL the Fourth. In the same disaffections of the Hypochondries; for the same Noble Councillor at Law.  
Written in French.  
WHen the P●…st had-now come three times to us, and yet no account was written to me concerning your health, I●… was possessed with careful and troublesome thoughts, by reason of the great and dreadful Symptoms described in your last Letter, upon the account of which I writ, and sent you my Advice and Council: But your last Letter hath expelled all my fears, which doth manifest, that the troublesome dryness of your Mouth, and all those Symptoms which were praelud●…, and fore-run●… of a Palsy, did wholly seize upon the unlooked for arising of an Apostbume in your right Cheek, which as well upon the opening of it by Mr. juis, as also at your Ear, did pour out laudable, and well digested Pus, (or Matter.)  
As to your Fistula's, heretosore so afflictive to you, they are shortly to be closed up with a Cicatrice, for they are now almost healed, by the accurate care and diligence of your Chirurgeon; for which, both from myself, and all experienced Artists, he worthily deserves praise, which I will publicly make known, whensoever you require it, although I am equally averse to admit, or impart adulatory expressions.  
Before your Sores can attain a perfect consolidation, the greatest part of the Winter will be passed over, and the subsequent Spring will be near at hand; at which time you will much better pass through that tedious course of Diet and Medicines which are to be made use of, than you can do in the height of Winter. Wherefore since it is necessary to preserve, and repair your life, that something be courageously taken in hand, and yet nothing urgeth to begin it now: my opinion is, that you Elect a proper time, in which, without interruption, you may prosecute the course of your Cure, and use your Medicines successively, in due orde●…, and with advantage; which if they be otherwise administered by fits, or broken intervals, and not with one steady course, although they be artificially and properly prescribed, yet they cannot have the least success: I advise (to complete the Cure) that as soon as Dr. Guenalt, etc. shall think fit, your Body be emptied by Purging, according to the method I have prescribed; from thenceforth you may safely be quiet, only studying how to repair your strength, as well by aliments of good juice, as by gentle Cordials, such as the Majestery of Pearls, red Corals, and Crabs Eyes, sometimes given in Broths, sometimes with the Confection of Kermes, and Syrup of Queen-Apples, procuring gentle Purgations betwixt while, with Laxative Ptisan, composed only with Senna, or sometimes adding Cassia, Tamarinds, and Manna, Clarifying all of them well, sometimes putting to the same quantity of the infusion, a double Dose of the Purgers, upon the account of cleansing. From the going through this course, to the time that remains to the Vernal Aquinox, I advise you to rest; but when that time is come, then apply yourself to the other course, nourishing your body afresh, insisting in the method I sent you before; according to which, having used the general remedies, the Prascripts of which you have by you, you are to make use of the Essence of Steel, which I send to you mixed, and prepared with my own hands: And in my Opinion this sort of remedy is so powerful, and so fitting for you, that if it agree with your nature, which I suppose it will not be repugnant too, I think the use of it is to be continued for threescore days together, according to the rules I have prescribed: This being performed, I hope your Bowels being strengthened, the humours will be amended, and the Collection of all the Causes of ●…he before past accidents being cut off; nay the fear of a recidiva, or relapse, which might happen upon closing up the Fistula in the Fundament, which though it be a thing to be desired, yet it is often full of danger, when nature of her own accord seeketh a vent: And this is confirmed by Cardinal Rich●…leus Arm, who possibly might have enjoy d a longer li●…, if the Cure of his Fistula had been prosecu●…ed with less diligence.  
In the using of the Steel, let necessary Purgations be interposed, having a care from henceforth of such as have Aloes in them, they irritate, and offend the Fundament, unless their bitterness be altogether taken away, which though it may be performed by Art, yet in my judgement it signifies little to attempt that thing, which hath less utility than Ostentation in it.  
Having taken your Essence of Steel (which ought not to procure any loathing to you) warm Baths are to be thought off, and the use of Ass' Milk, and of mineral Waters: but the place of these I believe will be supplied by the Steel. I wish I could be by your side to direct you; but whether that will be hereafter or no I know not, although I heartily wish that I may once again see my Country.  
The Steel sent to you, was prepared wholly and completely with my own hands; and by God's assistance you will receive more advantage from it, than from all the rest. God give it his blessing, etc.   

COUNCIL the Fifth. In the same disaffections of the Hypochondries; for the same Noble Councillor at Law.  
Sent into France.  
MY last Letters gave you a large account how to make use of the Steel, which as I suppose is the chief, and apt remedy to recover your health, it only remains that I send it to you ready prepared, which I now do: you are to receive seventeen Ounces weight of the Syrup, which that it may be tempered, and fitted to be used, according to the rule laid down in my former Letters, take order to have this following Syrup carefully made.  
Take sweet smelling Apples, commonly called Queen Apples, (with short Stalks) as many as you please, cut away their rind, afterwards draw a water from them in a double Vessel, in a boiling Balneo Maria, till you have got a sufficient quantity, pour the foresaid water upon the rinds, which have been first laid upon a Table until they are almost dry, add to them new Lemon peels cut small, distil this Water again by a Body of Belvee Earth, or Tin; or so that the Distiller may carefully avoid the breaking of the Vessel in a large glass Alimbeck, and head of the same Metal; put into the inward part of the spout of the Alimbeck, a Nodule or little Bag, made with fine Linen, and filled with half a Dram of Ambargreece, and six grains of Mosck: put the Vessel into a Kettle of Water, filled with Hay, or Sawdust. Make the joining of the Body, Head, and Reciver, fast with Lute, or Paste, made of Meal, Quicklime, and the White of an Egg; draw a Water from this by distillation; in which, with a gentle heat, dissolve as much white Sugarcandy, ground to a fine powder, as it can possibly contain, to make it of the consistence of a Syrup, of which take exactly twenty three Ounces dilute, and mix it with that quantity (of the prepared Steel) which I send to you, which is sufficient for you to use threescore days, which is the time prefixed by me. This Syrup is included in an Earthern Bottle, well stopped, and sealed with my own Seal, which Note, lest it be changed.  
I would willingly have sent you the whole prepared, but that the price of the carriage would have been insufferable: keep this as a Treasure for the recovery of your health, (which perhaps you will not attain too in the place you now dwell in) take it all, leaving no remainder of it; I wish I were nearer you, for my presence would conduce much for the right use of so great a Remedy, although you cannot want expert directors when you shall be in that vast City of Paris: Give me an account of the success, chiefly if the desire of recovering your perfect health, shall call you home, and hinder you from expecting the Spring, which assists the efficacy and operation of Medicines.  
As to the swelling behind your Ear (it is a thing of difficulty, and for the most part eludeth the force of Medicines) I hardly think you are in that condition now, that upon the account of that you need my advice, since I imagine this grief of yours is already past the declination; but if there do remain any stubborn hardness, let that be overcome by some Mercurial Remedies, which will advance the power of other Medicines, and efficaciously overcome the hardness. I do often make use of them; and I do find, if all hope of suppuration be gone, yet these do so rarify the humours, that nature is able to dissolve that humour that was congealed, into the form of perfect Matter: This (besides other Experiments) happened in two Pestilential tumors, of which one was under the Armpit, they retained their hardness for six weeks, though the Malignity was extinct; yet by the help of Mercurial Remedies, they were brought to a happy suppuration.   

COUNCIL the Sixth. In the same Disease; for the same Gentleman.  
IN convenient time, as the next Spring, a little after the Equinox, the general praescripts being before made use of, and by them the peccant juices carefully prepared and evacuated, then exhibit the Chalybeat Medicine. Continue the use of it (according as it ageees with you) for threescore days; observing necessary cautions: Wherefore let this number of days be so divided, that there be exhibited of our Steel Syrup, two Drams for six days, three Drams for as many days; four for xii days, five for xii days more, six for eight days together; seven for eight days. eight for eight days; let it be given in any grateful Liquor, whether it be in Clarified Whey, the water of Apples, of Fumaterry, Borage, Baume, or thin Capon Broth, Wine, small Beer, etc. or in the Restorative Water, of which, mention is made in what follows.  
After the taking of the Medicine, you must walk, or use some other gentle exercise, by which the body may be moderately warmed, without procuring sweat; but forbear Dinner for four hours, which may be sufficiently large, according to your Appetite, and the disposition of your Stomach easily to concoct meat of good juice: But let your Supper be sparing, not cramming in Meat before the former Food be digested; let your ordinary Drink be Oligophorick Wine (that is, such as will bear but little water) of a Brick colour, or a Flesh colour, very well diluted with the Decoction of cleansed female Fern roots, of Lentisk, or Mastic wood, and Nephritick wood.  
In the passing through the Chalybiate course, let your body be purged by this following Potion the days which follow, the xij. the xxiv. the xliv. the Lij. and the Lx. giving the draught four hours before any Broth, observing due Orders.  
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Fresh Polypody roots,  
Pulp of Tamarinds, an. ℥ ss.  
The clean picked Leaves of Senna, cut small, and sprinkled with well scented White Wine, ʒ v.  
The small strings of the roots of true black Ellebor, ʒ i.  


Tragee Commun.  
Cream of Tartar,   an. ʒ ij.    
Make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of the distilled Waters of Fumaterry, and Water Lilly flowers; add to the straining, 

Of choice Rhubarb ℈ ij. infused by its self in Baume Water.  
Of yellow Sanders, ʒ ij.   reduce them all unto a small Dose, in which dissolve, 

The solutive Syrup of Damask Roses with Agarick, ℥ i.  
Portuguese Manna, ℥ ss.   Mix them, make a Potion to be taken in the Morning.  
In the days betwixt, let the Chalybeate Syrup be dissolved in a draught of Laxative Ptisan, prepared with Senna and Liquoris, according to Art; do this every third day.  
Let the restorative Water be prepared of the juice of the pulpy flesh of a Calf, a Capon, 〈◊〉 Wether, the hart of a Lamb, and a Calf, distilled in a body and head; to which let there be added the juice of Queen's Apples, ●…ew Whey, and the Blood of a Golt Pig, a Lamb, a Calf, all agitated so long till they ●…re freed from the Fibers and Strings. Some Cinnamon and Mace; and let them be distilled 〈◊〉 a double Vessel; to the distilled Liquor ●…dd the fourth part of the strongest and best ●…d Wine, and distil it again: reserve the Liquor in a glass Viol., close stopped for use. ℞ 



Syrup of Queen Apples,  
Of the flowers of red Fluellin,   an. ℥ vi.  
Of Citron Peels, ℥ iv.   mix them, and drop into them as much Spirit of Salt as will make them moderately sour, add, 

Of Confection of Alkermes, ℥ ss.   Reserve it for Iulips, mixing ℥ j of this Syrup, with four of the aforesaid Water; to be taken five hours before Dinner, and two before Supper, those days in which you take the Martial Syrup: or if your Stomach be any way disturbed with this drink, betwixt the two Meals, than you may take it at the hour of sleep, chiefly if you perceive that the Spirits are low, or any inclination to swooning▪  
These things being performed exactly, and in order, there will be place for the usual strengtheners and renovators of the Body, and the Specificks against Melancholy: warmis●… Baths of fresh Water, Whey of Ass' Milk and perhaps Mineral Waters. All and every one of which are to be prescribed according a●… occasion shall offer, and according to the suc●… cess of the former.  
In the interim, let there be prepared by th●… hand of a'careful and expert Artist, the following Bezoartick pastils; than which the●… is nothing more precious to defend the Hea●… and Brain against the impulse of any sort 〈◊〉 malignant vapours.  

The Bezoartick pastils.  
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Harts-born Philosophically calcined by the vapour of strong White Wine, with the shave of juniper, Ebeni, and Rhodium wood according to Art. Harts-born Bezoar, prepared from Harts-born calcined to whiteness, with the strongest Oils of Vitriol and Salt, an▪ two Ounces.  
The Scull ●…f a Stag, and of a healthy man that was hanged, both prepared the same way, of each one Ounce.  


Of the Majestery of red Coral.  
Of Pearl,  
Of Mother of Pearl precipitated with Alom,   an. six Drams.  


Crabs Eyes,  
The black tips of the Thighs of the greater sort of Sea Crabs prepared,   an. one Ounce and half.  
The roots of Carlin Thistile, ten Drams.  
Indian Contra Yerva, half an Ounce.  


Cuchinill,  
The Oriental Bezoar stone,  
The Occidental,   an. five Drams.  
Of the Flesh of the Liver, Heart, and of the Back-bones of Vipers, taken at a fitting time, twelve Drams.  


Of Cloves,  
Of Mace,   an. one Dram▪  
Ambar-greese, two Drams.  
Mosk, half a Dram.  
Of the fixed Ceruse of Antimony, one part to five of the rest.    
Make a subtle powder of all of them, and taking a sufficient quantity of the strong Jelly of Harts-born, a little coloured with Saffron, adding a little of the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, made with distilled Treacle Water, make a Past, of which form Pastils of convenient shapes for use: let them be dried; and kept in a Box impenetrable by the Air, in a dry place.   
When the Melancholy vapours are oppressingly urgent; the Palpitation of the Heart, or other vaporous disaffections assaulting, let there be given ten, twelve, fifteen, or twenty grains, in Confection of Alkermes, the Water of a Stag's head, Treacle water, Wine, or any other Cordial Liquor.  
These things being exactly performed, this Noble Gentleman was Cured, though he followed his Pleasure, etc.   

COUNCIL the Seventh. In divers disaffections of the Perinaeum, upon which followed a Gangreen, and an Ischuria, or difficulty of Urine: For a Noble Person.  

The Description of the Disease.  
BEcause you are desirous to know the state of this Noble Patient, I will in few words, but in order open it to you, at his entreaty: Upon his return hither out of England, he often complained of heat in his Urine, and many times also of a stoppage of it; but taking of the Emulsions and Glisters you prescribed him, applying also of Candles, he was easily recovered; but he was continually sensible of a pricking pain (though not very sharp) in the left part of the Perinaeum, and this for two or three Months before this Disease, which continued till the Aposthume in the Perinaeum was broke.  
But about the beginning of the Month of April, this year 1620. when not exactly observing the l●…iet prescribed him, and also exceeding in the exercising of his Body, there was a certain stinking scent perceived in his Urine: This stink by degrees was so increased, that it was wonderful how such put refaction could remain so long in the Body without a Fever, Nauciousness, and other grievous Symptoms: Also at the same time, there was to be seen at the bottom of the Urine, a certain viscous matter, not unlike the Spawn of Frogs.  
The Month of May being past, when he traveled to the Alps to see his Lands and Possessions, he went on Foot up and down the Rocks, and contrary to custom, and above measure having overheated himself, he was invaded with Symptoms after a more grievous manner: When he was returned, I prescribed him Emulsions, and caused him to take Milk Glisters several times: I anointed his Reins with refrigerating Ointments and Oils, I have purged his body with gentle Cholagos, (or purgers of choler) and opened a Vein in his Arm: And because plenty of that stinking viscous matter was expelled with his Urine, I persuaded the use of Whey with Sugar for some days together.  
These things being observed, together with an exquisite Diet for xiv days, all things appearing fair and well, and the stench of the Urine seeming to be much abated, I was called to Sol●…durum; not long after my going away, the Disease sell a raging with more bitterness and cruelty then before; for there was not only a fierce Fever, and a continual suppression of Urine, but also a Phlegmon, or Inflammation did arise in the Perinaeum itself: Wherefore in my absence he was necessitated to send for another Physician. He insisted in the use of Emulsions and Glisters, and anointed the place affected with convenient ●…ls, he was forced also to make use of a Bath, by reason of the vehemence of the pain: In the mean time I returned, and found the Patient as it were in an Agony; for he was seized with a vehement Fever, frequent Soundings, Nauciousness, and loathing of Food, heat and retention of Urine, and all the eminent signs of Death: The inflamed Tumour in the Perinaeum was bigger than a Goose Egg, with extreme pungent pain, with a Tumour and hardness of the Cod and Yard: The King's Doctor, before my coming, had made use of discutient and resolving anodyns, but without success: Wherefore it was fit to procure digestion, and ripen the matter, which was effected by this Cataplasm, or Poltess. ℞ 



Of the roots and leaves of Marsh-mallows,  
Mallows,   an. M. i.   Boil and bruise them according to Art, and add, 

Of Wheat Meal, ℥ ij.  


●…aenugreeg Seed,  
Linseed,   an. ℥ i.  


Fresh Butter,  
Oil of White Lilies,  
Ointment of Marsh-mallows,   an. ℥ j, ss.  
Saffron, ʒ ss.  
Yolkes of Eggs, Num. ij.   mix them, and make a Poultess.  
Which was applied twice in a day warm. The xxix of May, the Aposthume was broke in the middle of the Perinaeum, upon the very Seam, upon which there flowed forth in a large quantity, such stinking and putrid Pus, (or Matter) that the whole Chamber was filled with a most incredible, nay, a cadavorous sent, (like that of a rotten Carcase) which continued for several days: for such was its Gangrenous putridness, that the whole Perinaeum being mortified, fell off, and there succeeded a very large Ulcer.  
Notwithstanding he applied such things as hinder putrefaction; I applied to the Ulcer my Ungnentum AEgyptiacum, with pleggets, and two Tents, of which one ascended towards the Scrotum, and the other was thrust downward towards the Fundament, I afterwards put upon it the following Poultess.  
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Meal of Lispine,  
Of Beans,   an. ℥ i. ss.  


The powder of the Tops of Wormwood,  
Of Scordium,  
Rue,   an. ʒ ij.   Boil them in simple Oxymell, and make a Poultess, to which, being yet warm, add, 



Aloes,  
Myrrh,   an. ʒ i. ss.    
But I cut off as much as I could of the dead flesh with Scissors and Knives, as often as I opened the Ulcer: I wiped away the Matter with Pencils made of Sponge, dipped in the decoction of Scordium, Rue, Wormwood, and Lupins, adding a little Salt: by which means the putrefaction went off by degrees, and that in three days time, and spread no further. Wherefore I omitted the further using of the Aegyptiack Ointment, and applied to the Ulcer a Linement composed with the powders of round Aristolock roots, the roots of Florentine Oris, Angelica, Aloes and Myrrh, with the Extract of Scordium, mixed with a little Yolk of an Egg; I did use the before prescribed Cataplasm for more than three weeks: for not only the Skin and Flesh of the Perinaeum were wasted and eat away by the putrefaction; but also much of the membrains were rotten, as without doubt were the Tunicles, or Coats of the Urinary passage, which we were fain to cut off, and take away; wherefore almost all the Urine did issue out at the Ulcer for a long time.  
About the beginning of june, that Pimple or small Tumour in the middle of the Yard upon the right side thereof, which was hard almost from the beginning of the Disease, became an Aposthume; and a little while after it also broke, but it did not penetrate to the passage of Urine; wherefore applying of Emollients, Digestives, and Mundificatives, it was with difficulty healed.  
Three days after the breaking of the small Tumour in the Yard the humour which was before spread through the whole Scrotum, fell down to the lower part of it, toward the Ulcer in the Perinaeum, and there made a hard extuberance, but by applying of Emollient Bags, Ointment of Marsh-mallows, and Melilote Plaster, the matter which was collected there, was by degrees evacuated by the Ulcer of the Perinaeum.  
The Ulcer being sufficiently cleansed from putrid flesh, and mortified Membrains, we made use of a Traumatick decoction, (or wound think) composed of Winter green, Ladies mantil, Sanicle, or Butter-wort, Sa●…acens confound, Mugwort, red Betts, all boiled in adstringent red Wine; after this manner, The Patient drank a draught of this three hours before Dinner, and another as many hours before Supper; we also injected it into the Ulcer twice a day warm; we also put in two Tents moistened in the same decoction, into the Ulcer, thrusting one of them forwards, the other backwards towards the Prostatas, at last we applied a doubled Linen Cloth, dipped in the same warm: We did not only pour in the decoction with a Syringe into the Ulcer, but also into the Urinary passage, both above and beneath; which that it might be done the more conveniently, we caused a crooked Pipe to be made to the Syringe.  
'Tis to be admired, that in this great and high putrefaction, the Sphincter of the Bladder did always remain safe and untouched, which appeared from hence, that the Patient, even in the height of his Disease, could always retain his Urine, nor did he ever let it go from him against his will. Nevertheless the Ulcer which went downward towards the Bladder, was deep, and touched the Prostatas, which I suppose were evilly affected heretofore; as often as he made water, it flowed partly at the Yard, partly at the Ulcer, but without any difficulty or pain: He used the foresaid Traumatick Decoction for three Months, so that by degrees the Ulcer was fully consolidated, nor did there remain any Fistula.  
Besides Topical means, general Medicines were made use of, and the strength being recruited by degrees, I gave him every other day, and sometimes seldomer, a little of the best Turpentine, by the benefit of which his belly was loosened, and the Urinary passages also cleansed: the Reins were anointed with Ointment of Roses, with Camphor, and there was applied a plate of Lead big enough to cover the Loins, and the Os Sacrum.  
Now God be praised, this Gentleman enjoys a perfect health, nor doth perceive any inconveniency of these great Griefs; he makes water freely, there being only left this impediment, that he is sensible of a certain painful itching in the place where the Ulcer was formerly; moreover, many times there appeareth a Branny substance in his Urine, and as often as he makes water, there appeareth one drop of a white, viscous, glutinous matter at the top of the Urinary passage, before the making of his water.  
This Gentleman desires to know of you what kind of matter this is, and from whence it cometh? I suppose this matter to proceed from the weakened, and not sufficiently strengthened Prostatas, and that it is as it were an Excrement of the Seed, by the benefit of Nature thrust out to the extremity of the Yard.  
He also inquires, why that painful itching when he makes water, should only happen after Supper, when he is about to go to bed, and is not perceived in the morning, or day time? I judge Nature doth in the night time, (which is the time she performs her chief Operations in) furnish that part which wants its Membrain, with a certain viscous, glutinous matter, to the intent to defend it from the acrimony of the Urine, that it be not hurt by it; but in the day time, by reason of making Urine often, that matter is washed away, and the part being yet weak, is vellicated and gnawn; if this be not probable, it seems so to me.   

The Answer.  
THat you would gratulate me concerning my lately bought Lordship of Aubonne, and wish my new Possession may be happy to me, is friendly done of you, most worthy Sir; whereas chiefly for this cause you propose a strict necessity of our mutual discourse sometimes, which hitherto hath been begun, and continued only by Letters betwixt us; which Friendship I extremely desire may be improved by our personal Converse: The great God allow me and mine a long and quiet lot, and grant we may enjoy your wishes▪ I think speedily, by God's assistance, to visit our possessions, the which are yet unknown to me: In the mean time I most affectionately return you my love for yours: and know that I am yours.  
Behold how propitious Heaven is to us wretched men, which as with one hand it afflicted our Generoas Patient with almost incurable Diseases, so with the other it raised him up again by the help and Operation of Remedies, by which (if ever) seasonable presence of yours, this excellent man was restored to life, and snatched out of the Jaws of death, and emerged from an Iliad of Diseases: The great and good God, the Author of health, perform your desires, to whom be praise; and let there be dedicated to yourself AEsculapius his Cock, the Hier●…glyphick of Vigilance.  
In those Bodies whose Urethra, or Urinary passage of the Yard, hath been long afflicted, and tortured by a cursed Caruncle, even after the flesh thereof is consumed, and the Ulcer healed and cicatriced, the part remains weak a long time, and is very apt to receive defluctions, and that chiefly in Plethoric, Sanguine, and Bilius Constitutions, and such as have movable humours, and use hard exercise, indulge their Appetite, and are little careful in their Diet. The King's Doctor, and you, did stoutly endeavour to prevent the Phlegmon, which perhaps might have been hindered, if the part had not been so extremely filled, and heaped up with humours, that it eluded the force of Remedies, and did upon that account manifoldly exceed, and surpass the power of digestion, and dissipation: The lower parts are moist, and near to the Excrements, whose putridness and stench useth to be very great, which was the reason that they were the sooner seized with the Gangreen; with that horrid stench which the Patient was afflicted with: If the feeble and languishing heat deserts the parts, there doth immediately follow a sudden deadness, (or cadaverous corruption) and dissolution of the subject. But by the Divine goodness these mischiefs have been already removed by you, the curing of which I certainly attribute to your Tranmatick Decoction, with which I am well acquainted, and have approved it by manifold experiments.  
There now remains three things, of which you require my opinion. 1. The itching in that place where the Ulcer was, and that chiefly after Supper, it being not perceptible all the day time. 2ly. The Urine's being filled with a substance like Bran, which it doth not pour out so constantly, but by fits. 3ly. The Purilent matter excreated which appeareth at the top of the Glans, at the upper end of the urinary passage, and cometh before the Urine, and is expelled by it.  
For the first, I do with you attribute it to the yet tenderness, and rawness of the part; which is scarce yet covered with a Cicatrix; and is of that tender and exquisite sense, that (being by the reiterated excretion of Urine in the day time, cleansed and washed from that Mu●…us substance with which the whole passage in the time of sleep was moistened, and as it were lined) this nervous body is easily hurt by the acrimony of the Urine, and is moreover irritated by the frequent solicitation of the expulsive faculty. To avoid this inconveniency, let the Cicatrix be confirmed by drying Medicines: make ●…erary Injections into the Urethra, adding to them the insipid Oc●…r of Vitriol thoroughly calcined, and also Sugar of Lead: let the Perinaeum be sumed (in a Chair with a hole in it) with Frankincense, Mastic, Sanderack, Amber, Aloes, Myrrh, adding crude Antimony, and also the Cinabar of Antimony, in small quantity.  
'Tis questionable whether the Branny substance proceed from the Kidneys, or, which often happens, by the length of the disease, it ●…th drawn the Prostratas into ●…sent; or whether the Bladder (by reason of the long distemperature, tumour, and solution of the continuity of the adjacent parts) be not afflicted with a kind of Scabb●…ness.  
As for the white viscous matter, it appears to be of the nature of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Pus, or corruption, and I suppose it to sweat out per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, thorough the thin membrane of the Ulcer; or to proceed from the ulcerated Pro●…ratas, grown hard at the bottom: which Glandules since they naturally contain an excrementitious slime very different from Seed, 〈◊〉 which matter is designed to line the urinary passage, that the Seed and Urine may be excreated easily, and without pain) if they be weakened, the quantity of this humour will ●…hen exceed more then usually, and it doth commonly impose upon many under the spe●…es of a Gonorrhaea: This Symptom will be ●…ured by the foresaid injections, and fume, to which if there be joined the Artificial use of Medicinal Waters, and at length we exhibit, ●…r a month or two, Pills composed of Turpentine, and Mastic, I hope we shall have ●…one all that is necessary for a perfect Cure. The history of this Disease is long, which God grant I may see an end of when I come 〈◊〉 you; if any thing remain to be done more, let it be performed by mutual ad vice; in the mean time, proceed to afford your assisting hands to this generous man Farewell.  
London, the 23 of january Anno 1621.    

COUNCIL the Eighth. In an Ischuria, or difficulty of Urine, proceeding from a stony disposition of the Kidneys: For a certain Noble Person.  

The Description of the Disease.  
THe Lord N. is of a hot and dry Constitution of Body, he is now entered his ●…xty third year of his Age; his Noble and Principle parts are yet sound and firm, except his Kidneys, chiefly his left one: He hath ●…een a Soldier, and followed the Camp from ●…s youth, and upon that account hath undergone much labour and trouble. From ●…ence it was, that more than twenty years' ●…nce he began to be afflicted with defluctions ●…on his joints: When the hot distempera●…re of his Liver, continually sending up va●…urs to his head, did not a little increase the ●…isease: Also upon the account of these ●…ins in his joints, and the Defluction, his excellence made use of the Advice of Dr. Rivi●…rus, and Dr. Quercetan, and other Physicians, and used their Medicines with som●… success; but for all that, he endured long an●… grievous crucifying pains, insomuch that a●… length it turned to the knotted Gout; and h●… was forced to keep his Bed for many▪ Week●… together: but in the mean space, the pai●… ceasing, besides his domestic and priva●… business, he took care also of public affairs and they also of the greatest concern, and b●… stowed great pains about them But becaus●… he had hitherto made use of his familiar Medicines, prescribed him by the fore-name●… Physicians, to defend him from the pains 〈◊〉 the Gout, (and to lessen the cause of the Disease) with good success; and found no sm●… advantage by the Issues which he had, h●… Excellency would not have burdened y●… with Letters: but that more than a year sin●… he being troubled with another Distemper, 〈◊〉 had required your Excellency's advice, a●… had found relief thereby; but that you m●… the better understand the business, I will expose it to your eyes in few words.  
june the xviij. the last year 1620. at sumptuous ●…east, he filled his Stomach wi●… Crude, and with fried Meat, and did dri●… Wine, contrary to his custom, refrigerat●… with Fountain water, he was taken with Nauciousness, and Belchings. But when 〈◊〉 found he was bound in his Body, about the xxij day, a little before Dinner, without the advice of a Physician, he took a little Turpentine, by the help of which he had two Stools: But what followed? about the beginning of the Night, his Urine was plainly and fully stopped; upon which, he was afflicted with sharp pains; Nauciousness, Gripes, and Vomiting. When I visited him upon the 23d. day of the said Month, I found him as it were dead with extreme pain: his Belly was extreme hard, and his Bladder, by reason of the plenty of Urine, was extended after a wonderful manner: I persuaded him to loosen his Belly with a clyster, and that he would admit of a Catheter to be put into his Bladder. But this Noble Patient was infinitely averse to this Operation, by reason of the narrowness of his Urinary passage, (which he said was natural) he desired I would try all other Remedies before I put in the Catheter.  
I caused him to take several Glisters, and prescribed him a Bath, with Emollient Roots, Herbs, Flowers and Seeds and such things as relaxed and eased pain; I applied also Bags, composed with the same simples, to his Belly; and also anointed the Perinaeum with Oil of white Lilies, and Oil of sweet Almonds; But when I had used all my diligence, and yet his Urine did not pass, the pains and other Symptoms were increased more and more, the xxvi day, about nine at Night, I exhibited to him a small Potion of three grains of Laudanum, Confectio Alkermes, ℈ i. dissolved in the Pectoral decoction, and a little Cinnamon water: by the benefit of this Medicine he slept quietly that Night, and his Water came plentifully from him in his sleep. But whether he voided at the same time with it, any small Stones, or Gravel, was not observed: But after a few days, we found in the Urinal a small Stone, porous, and of the colour of Ashes: From that time he was oftentimes sensible of pain, chiefly in the region of the left Kidney; but applying a Bag made with Marsh-mallow Roots, Mallows, Pelletory, Chamomil, melilot, and Emollient Seeds, and such as discuss wind, his pains remitted, neither from thenceforth did any grievous Symptoms afflict him. But from that time ever since, he hath voided certain small, red, hard, and rough Stones: also about xiv days since, in his last sickness.  
That which remains is, that he keeps an exact Diet: by intervals purging the first and common passages, with a Medicinal Wine made with Agarick; Senna, Rhubarb, cream of Tartar, and certain appropriated Herbs, prepared in the time of Vintage, after which, to wit, the following, or the third day after, he doth purge the Urinary passages with Turpentine: and often drinks a water made of the opening Roots, Saxafrage, and the like things, but never useth these, unless his body be first rightly purged: The Generous Patient desires to be informed, if the Turpentine is to be washed or not, because in this Practisers disagree: hitherto by my advice he hath used it unwashed; for to me it seems likely, that the subtler parts which go to the passages of Urine, are lost in the washing, etc. the 3d. of December, 1621.   

The Answer.  
AS to the material cause, the Stone and the Gout are the same kind of Disease, they differ only in Place, and in the condition of that juice which accompanies the Disease, that which passeth to the loose and weak joints, belongs to the kind of dissolved Salts: But that which seats itself in the Kidneys and Bladder, is like coagulated Tartar. Worthy Sir, you acurately describe those Symptoms with which this Noble Person hath had a sharp conflict, the abating of which, nay, if it were to be hoped for, (by the removal of the cause) that the Patient might be relieved from it, is your desire: the like I also wish with my Soul.  
The Knotted, and stony Gout, resuseth Medicinal helps: Now then let us only be solicitous concerning the future coming on of a suppression of Urine, from Gravel oftentimes impacted in the narrow passages, by which the discharge of Urine is hindered.  
The generating of the Stone is powerfully impeded, by procuring a revulsion of the viscid, slimy matter to the upper parts, and excluding them by Vomit, after liberal eating, and large drinking: Let this be done once in a month, or every other month, after Supper, that by sleep presently following after it, the Body may be refreshed again, and the Spirits recreated.  
About the last Quarter of the Moon, let his Body be purged with the pulp of Cassia, with Turpentine, and powder of Rhubarb: And for four mornings together after that, let there be given ℈ i. or ʒ ss of vitriolated Tartar, prepared after Crollius' way, described by him in his Basilica Chymica: after this drinking Broth seasoned with Salt, and rendered Medicinal with the Opening Roots, with the tender tops of Mallows, and stinging Nettles; let this Worthy Person ride, since by reason of the weakness of his Limbs he cannot admit of other kind of Remedies.  
From henceforth let his Belly be emptied, and his Kidneys tempered with Emollient and Cooling Glisters, adding to them Quercetanus, Antinephritick Electuary.  
The drinking the Mineral Waters will not be unuseful hereafter, unless perhaps it be a little inconvenient for the Gout, upon the account of stirring up a destuction: But I account it worth while, to buy with a small present inconveniency, a great benefit arising from thence.  
Let the parts in which the Sandy B●…ost is lodged, be fomented with Relaxing, Emollient, and Diuretical things; prepare a Semicupe, or half Bath (if the decay of the Limbs be not very great) adding to it very much Oil.  
To remove the rubs and obstructions stopping the passages, let there be given the before described Tartarus Vitriolatus in Pelletory water, white Wine, Oil of sweet Almonds, etc. The Liquor of Radishes prepared with Sugarcandy is excellent: nothing is more precious than Lapis Prunella, dissolved in common Ptisan, or Pellitory Water, adding a little Syrup of Marsh-mallows: The Conserves of common Mallows-flowers, and of Roses, prepared at a fit time, renders the passages slippery, to which let there be added a third part of powder of Liquoris, Gum Arabic, and the pulp of Prunes, mixed in equal proportions, and let this Noble Person take the quantity of a Walnut of it in a Morning, for five or six days, drinking a little white Wine upon it, and that before his taking the Monthly Purge, and the Dinretick Broth,  
Ease the bitterness of his pain as often as there shall be need by giving of Laudanum: I neither will, nor ought I to burden this worthy Person with more Remedies, the Omnipotent God grant that these Medicines may remove the cruel tortures with which this stout Commander is afflicted.  
Dated London, February the 17th. An. 1622.    

COUNCIL the Ninth. In a case of a Caruncle in the Yard: For a Noble Person.  

The Description of the Disease.  
THe Noble N. is of an excellent habit of Body, strong, and now is past the 37th year of his age, and is by Nature of a hot and dry temper: When more than xij years ago, he had contracted a Gonorrhoea by immoderate, and too violent Copulation, and had been afflicted with it for some time, he relateth, that a certain Night, in the act of carnal Copulation, he had a large efflux of pure blood, instead of Seed: From the beginning, (and truly for many years since) out of modesty he concealed his Disease, and almost quite neglected it, by degrees there followed upon it a difficulty of Urine, which for all that was sometimes more violent, at other times more remiss, according to his Diet and Exercise: But in the mean space, for many years this Patient could scarce ever make water without difficulty and heat: and in the time of making Urine, he felt also pain almost in every part of his Yard, and a Branny substance, did often appear in his Urine, and doth also still appear; he voids his Urine not in a straight line, but sometime on one hand, and sometimes on the other; also for many years there hath continually distilled by his Yard a certain purilent matter, but without pain, and sometimes, though not often, after the excretion of Urine, there hath followed a drop or two of Blood: Though his pleasure in Copulation be less than it was formerly; yet nevertheless hehath many Children by his Wife. Moreover, when the last Summer, by reason of public business, and that of great moment, he road Post a very great journey on Horseback, the disaffected part was so bruised and rubbed, and also the grief was so exasperated, that all the Symptoms which I have related were wonderfully increased; wherefore about the end of the Month of September, at which time I was called to him, I purged him divers times with Cholagogs', and the Patient used a Semicupe, or half Bath, as also I exhibited by 〈◊〉, the Syrup of Violets, and Marsh-mallows, with the water of the Opening Roots, that it might be as it were a vehicle to the Syrup, I commanded the Perinaeum to be ●…inted with an anodine lineament, and the ●…ins twice every day with a refrigerating Ointment, which Medicines were not made use of without advantage: his pain abated, and he began to make Water with less difficulty; when therefore all things were safe, (for I knew nothing yet of the Caruncles, or that it was a Disease inveterate) I did hope that I might return to my own Family, and what was further to be done, I left to the Patient and his Domestics to perform.  
Not long after my going away, when the Disease began to renew itself again, there was another Physician called in to advise: He again purged his Body with Cholagogs'; and with Syrup of Violets, and Marsh-mallows: he exhibited also with great success, Emulsions made with the greater cold Seeds, and sweet Almonds; when I was called again, (the pain still continuing; the sick person then discovered to us, that it was a Disease of long standing) it was agreed upon then by us, that I should search with a Probe, and a Catheter, what was at the bottom of this grief, or what was its cause: Wherefore the Body being repurged with Cholagogs', composed of the compound Syrup of Roses solutive, together with the Electuary of the juice of Roses; and the Catheter being put in, I found Caruncles in divers places, chiefly towards the left side of the Urinary passage; which Caruncles do even now so stop up the passage, and are so painful, that to this very time he could not search farther than the half way of his Yard; neither with the Catheter, nor with the Syringe, or could the Patient Probe, or feel any further with wax Candles; which instruments and Medicines he hath hitherto applied to himself with his own hands; therefore I could not hitherto make any Medicine reach any farther; though I doubt not, that a great part of the Distemper, nay, the root of the Disease, is hid in the Prostatas: For if the Urinary passage was exulcerated from the long continuance of that Gonorrhoea, and the Caruncles grew from that occasion, how much more reasonably may we suspect the disaffection and exulceration of those Glandules? Moreover the pain (although obscure) which the Noble Patient did feel more than two months since about his Fundament, as I shall declare afterwards, did denote some kind of Grief to be lodged there; for truly, as Hypocrates and Experience cause us to believe, Ubi dolor ibi & morbum esse, where there is pain, there the Disease is: His Urine also, the last Autumn, did many times flow from him against his will, and that whilst he slept; without doubt by reason of the Sphincters being hurt, which doth immediately adjoin to those Glandules, and the great pain which the Patient did suffer heretofore, proceeded from the Sympathy that part hath with the Prostatas.  
The Urinary passages being searched, and the Caruncles being discovered, we applied two Bags, composed of emollient, resolving, and pain easing Roots, Herbs, Flowers, and Seeds, and we anointed the whole Perin●…um with an anodinus, and Emollient ●…iniment: As also we injected an Emollient decoction with a Syringe, into the Urinary passage: But as I said before, the Pipe of the Syringe could never be admitted deep enough, by reason of pain; nevertheless, we hoped the Cure would succeed according to our wishes, but in vain: For when the Patient had moved his Body again with some violent Exercise for some days together, the Disease made a new assault upon him; by reason of which, not only the evil affection in the Urinary passage was exasperated, but also the Patient was invaded with a Tertian Fever: wherefore we were forced for a time to lay aside the Cure we had began of the Caruncles: We again purged him with the before prescribed Cholagogs', we opened a Vein in his left Arm; we ordered the best kind of Diet, to wit, cooling and moistening, and we gave him such things as are usually given to bridle and temper the Ebullition of yellow Choler. and to abate the acrimony of Urine; we anointed his Loins, as also the region of his Liver with a refrigerating Ointment.  
We injected with a Syringe into the Urinary passage, a Collyrium made of Mucilage of Quince Seeds, extracted with Rose, and with Plantain water, to which was added washed Ceruse, prepared Tuthia, Harts-born burnt, and prepared: These Remedies being applied for some days, the Fever, and that sharp pain in the Urinary passage did remit; but the Patient complained of a certain obscure pain about the Fundament, and about the region of the Prostatas, but applying of Bags made with the Flowers of Chamomill, Melilot, Elder, Roses, Wormwood, and the like, that pain did abate, at length the Patient himself put in a Wax Candle, covered over with Emplastrum de ranis cum Mercurio, and this he thrust in as far as he was able to suffer it, to the end that I might discover, if by this means the Caruncles might be mollified and discussed: for I durst not hitherto apply stronger Medicines, by reason of the exquisite sense, and tender feeling the Patient was endowed with: The Candles (which by no means ought to be hid) as often as I drew them out, were covered over with a viscid, and purilent matter; from which I conjecture, that the Urinary passage is exulcerated in divers places, which also the Noble Patient easily perceived when he put in the Pipe of the Syringe, or the Wax Candle; and this is what I have hitherto observed concerning this Worthy Persons Distemper, together with an account of the Medicines applied to him.  
Now it is enquired first, if that Branny substance which hath hitherto appeared in his Urine, do denote in our Noble Patient, a scabby Bladder, as Hypocrates will have it, 4 Aph. 77. I suppose, (but submitting to your Judgement) these Branny Scales do not proceed from the Bladder, but from the Urinary passage: for those which are afflicted with a Scabby Bladder, do not only let fall, or void a Fursurous, or Branny substance with their Urine; but their whole Urine is such, as Hypocrates testifieth: But in this Patient the Urine is not thick, but was always (excepting when he had his Fever) natural, and he voideth these Branny scales in very small quantities: wherefore these furfures are nothing else but Crusts or Scales, concreate and made of the purilent and viscous matter, procured by nature (as it seems probable) to the intent that it might be as it were a covering to the Ulcer which is in the Urinary passage, which Crusts the Urine, softens and separates from the small mouths of the Ulcers, and brings away with itself, when it flows forth.  
Secondly, It is enquired, if any Medicines taken at the Month, or other Topics, can extirpate the Caruncules, or heal the Ulcers in the Urinary passage? We have always thought it vain to try them on this Noble Patient.  
Thirdly, If Topics are to be applied, whether those which I have mentioned may be sufficient, or whether in this Patient, who hath so exquisite a sense, that he can scarce suffer a Wax Candle, covered with Emplastrum de ranis, as was said before? whether stronge●… ones, described by Andreus Lacuna, Alphonsus Ferrero, and others, be to be applied, w●… doubt.  
Fourthly, Whether or no some part of the Disease be in the Prostatas? Of this the Patient hath always doubted; but we never did and that for the reasons related before.  
Fifthly, If that purilent matter, which hath distilled by the Yard for so many years, be tr●… Seed or no? I absolutely believe it not to b●… Seed, but a vicious matter which falls thither from the superior parts of the Body: fo●… Physicians know, that the innate heat is extinguished, the radical moisture consumed, and the Body wasted by a long lasting Gonorrhoea nay by immoderate Coition, or Copulation but because this hath not in the least happen to our Noble Patient, (who hath always be●… of a strong and excellent habit of Body) it follows therefore, that this is not true Seed, but a vicious or depraved humour that flows out: I ascribe it to this therefore, that I might demonstrate some evil doth lurk in the Prostatas; and that the matter is supplied from thence: We may be assured, it doth not in the least flow from the Kidneys or Bladder, because the Urine was almost always clear, and laudably digested: (excepting the Branny substance which appeared in it) But the Patient objects one thing, to wit, that heretofore he felt no pain about his Fundament, and therefore there was no Disease there before? I answer with Hypocrates, That two pains at one time, and not existing in the same part of the Body, the more vehement obscures the less; since therefore the Tope, or head of the Yard, by reason of the concourse of Nerves, is of an exquisite sense, it is no wonder if the vehement pain in that place, (before we exhibited Anodynes, and Consolidating Injections) did obscure that other about the Prostatas, whose sense is not so acute: from hence it doth clearly appear, that the Collyrium and other Medicines, were not made use of without very great advantage, and there might have been much hope from them, could they have been admitted deeper into the part.  
Sixthly, Since heretofore the Patient many times found advantage in the use of Powder of Liquoris, mixed with Turpentine, it is enquired whether Spirit of Turpentine may be safely given to such a body as this, who is very Bilio●…s, or abounds with Choler?  
Seventhly, If the use of Mineral Waters alone, that is, without Topics, can cure this evil, as well in the Prostatas, as the Urinary passage? We always have doubted of it; for suppose that the Mineral Waters do greatly cleanse the Urinary passages, we do not believe they can in the least consume the Caruncles.  
Eighthly, If those Emollient, Anodyne Fomentations, which relaxed the Urinary passages, were exhibited according to reason or no? And if by the using of them the Caruncles could grow bigger, as the Patient would persuade us: Although the effect demonstrates the contrary to us.   

The Answer.  
I Have hitherto forborn either to write, or send an Answer to your Letters which came to me above a year ago, (most learned Sir) for that the Noble Person in whose behalf they were writ, put us in hopes a long time of his coming to us; which at length he confirmed by coming: wherefore since in your learned Letter you recount the History of the whole Disease with which he was afflicted, and require my advice (at this great distance) concerning what is to be done, I thought it needless to write those things, which things themselves I had an opportunity to perform, the Subject of them being at hand: And it was sufficient by way of Compendium, to do them to the Patient himself. Accept therefore of what hath passed here in our Land of Britain, and an account of what we have done with the Patient.  
The difficulty in, and the manner of his making Urine, did cause a suspicion, that there were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, fleshy excrescences, commonly called Caruncules, within the Urethra, or passage of the Yard; searching it with a Wax-candle, I found the grief, whose double cause being as they say unravelled ab ovo, or from its beginning, I sound its first rise was to 〈◊〉 attributed to the Gonorrhaea, in whose in●…ed ●…entigo, (or erection of the Yard) by Copulation the chord, as the vulgar call it, was broke; but to speak move like an Artist, the membrane of the Urethra was cl●…t, or chopped, and being by the inflammation, and force of the tumour contracted and made short, after that large haemorrhage or stux of blood, which usually follows such torcible endeavours, and violent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, avulsions or tearings of the parts, there remained an Ulcer, from which by degrees there grew a Fungus, or red spongy flesh, a preternatural tumour, which is a disease in me●…tu, (or in the passage) which can be taken away safely, and certainly by no other means, then by removing the superfluous flesh by Exoereticks, or gentle Corrosives.  
This Spongeous proud flesh is wont to ouze or sweat out a purulent s●…nies, or matter, which usually for the most part imposeth upon those who less accurately inquire into this disease, under the species of a Gonorrhaea: from hence those strings, and filaments of corrupt matter, which flowed forth with the Urine on both sides, at our first view; which matter (I suppose as you do) doth partly flow from the Prostatas, which have been offended, and for a long time afflicted with a malignant distemper, the destroyer of the native heat, and the underminer and weakner of all the actions.  
Having carefully weighed every difficulty, and chiefly the delicate and nice nature of the Patient, whose tender sense is such, that the slightest and easiest Chyrurgical remedies, are esteemed by him for most cruel torments, I applied myself to the business; and universal or general Medicines being premised, I consumed with a gentle Cathaeretick (applied with a Wax-candle) the whole Caruncle, and that with little pain in the harder sort of Warts, half the length of the urinary passage, the dimension of which was hardly so long as the breadth of three of his fingers: the nearness of the Neck of the Bladder, caused me no small trouble, when I was come to the end of the Caruncle; but chiefly that small ●…ubercle which gives way for the Seed to enter the Urethra, by the little mouth which opens itself in the Prostatas, whose bulk being increased by a Tumour, proceeding from the flux of humours, might have deluded an Artist of small experience, and persuaded him to have continued the use of the Corrosive longer.  
But take this as a secret from me, in the cure of a Caruncle, you shall procure it sooner by going slowly to work, than by being hasty: As often as the Lips, or Edges of the Ulcer shall be swelled by the irritation of Medicines, if they be fomented with lenitives, they will subside, and fall again, and (what is wonderful) the most pertinacious stops, or obstructions, will vanish of their own accord in a few days time.  
So it happened to our Noble Patient, who by the mercy of Almighty God, is now as free from this Chronic Disease, (which was almost converted into a habit, or nature) as ever he was in his life, as appears by the free passage of his Seed and Urine, also he Pisseth with a full, continued, and straight stream, who lately expelled his Urine by drops, and with much difficulty.  
The superfluous flesh, (or Caruncles) being removed, there remained a longish Ulcer, which in respect of the part is great; and the cause being malignant, we have again and again cleansed the Ulcer, and have hitherto with incessant labour, endeavoured to dry up, and bring it to a Cicatrice: But there is one thing yet remains after the healing of it, that is, to procure a solidity and hardness of the Cicatrix, which cannot be done either by slight, or few Medicines, or in a few days, in a Part, which is washed every day by the torrent and flood of the Urine: If public business would permit this Patient to remain longer with us, we would add a conclusion to the Cure; but at the time of his departure, he shall bring along with him both advice and necessary Remedies, which shall supply the want of our presence.  
Therefore by way of Confirmation, and that whatsoever remains in the Glandules, may be radically taken away, and that there may succeed no new infirmity, I advise, that the Body being artificially purged again, the next Spring he enter upon a Sudorific Diet, than which I suppose nothing more advantageous, both as to correcting the general cause, as also by strengthening and greatly drying the parts, to restore them perfectly.  
I have written what is further necessary more minutely, and particularly in my advice (which he brings with him) and at the present time of acting, the present face of things will direct you what is to be done first, and what last: The Soul of Cures are the opportunities of times, which to follow, and lay hold of the moments, is a thing denied to the absent.  
You will learn from the mouth of this generous Person, what arts I have made use of in fight against this pertinacious Enemy; with what prudence I have eluded the cruelty of the most dangerous▪ Symptoms, with what care and diligence I have mitigated their present fierceness.  
This Epistle would swell into a Volume, should I relate all. But lest I seem to envy the public good, I will commit to the Press my small Commentaries upon Caruncles, and my experience in this part of the Art, as soon as my affairs at Court will give me a breathing time, which imperfect faetus I willingly leave to be licked by more polished ingenueties, and such as are more experienced in Art: For I am not in love with my own labours, nor can I believe that I can produce greater, or better things than other men.  
That you may experiment our Exaeretick Medicine, I have sent you a little of it, which nevertheless is sufficient to take away four great Caruncles.  
I●… it perform its work but slowly, let not your mind d●…spond; for to work safely and pleasantly, is better than swiftly and dangerously: The effect of the Medicine will never prove vain; but you may accelerate it by adding of Mercurius praecipitatus; but why do I light a Candle to the Sun: receive this as a testimony of my kindness; if you desire greater and more solid ones, know that they shall not be denied you.  
I answer nothing to your Questions; if you require my Testimony concerning what you have advised, or administered heretofore to the Noble Patient, whoever calumniates you, let them learn to know, that Men experienced in the Art are to be believed, and I do aver, that you have done all things according to Art, etc.  
Dated London, February the 5th. An. 1616.    

COUNCIL the Tenth. In a Catarrh: For a Noble Person.  
Written in French.  
SIR,  
I Participate in the evils which happen to my Friends, and suffer by consent, or sympathy with them, chiefly if they be such to whose service I have devoted myself, my Genius compelling to do so: I hear that a troublesome Catarrh afflicts you, which by Day gives you some respites, but by Night is exasperated and very troublesome: The disposition of these sort of disaffections is, that they grow worse when the Night approaches, at which time Phlegm predominates over the rest of the humours.  
Now since your Body in general is sufficiently purged already, it remains particularly to cleanse your Brain; and afterward, by means of drying Medicines to strengthen it.  
To which intent I advise, that in the Mornings, two days together, and again every other day for some time, you use a Gargarism, composed of twelve spoonful of White Wine, four spoonfuls of Vinegar, three of Honey, and two of Mustard distempered, and as the custom is, ground together; let this Mixture be warmed, and take of it a spoonful or two, Gargarising with it, and carefully spitting out whatsoever Phlegm it draws from the Brain: Reiterate this Gargarism five, six, or seven times, until you find your head emptied, and made lighter; if there remain any heat in your jaws, that will be removed by Garguling with a temperate Oxycrate, or mixture of Vinegar and Water.  
'Cause to be prepared a Powder made of Mastic six Drams, Yellow Amber three Drams, Benzomin two Drams, Red Roses, and Coriander Seeds, of each two Drams and a half; fume those things you cover your Head with in a Morning, and at Night going to Bed, with this powder; or rather a Cap made of Tow, or Wool, quilted, and make a paper Coif to be worn perpetually, putting over it the foresaid Cap: 'Tis absolutely necessary, for the Cure of the present sickness, and to prevent greater dangers which are ready to fall upon you, that you defend yourself the whole Winter against the injuries of the Cold: In the Mornings use Frictions, or rubbings of the upper parts of your Elbows and Arms, and the whole length of your Backbone, with moderately warm linen clothes: Apply to your Pole, hot Bread newly drawn out of the Oven, and cut in the middle; or rather a Mornings, apply dry Cupping Glasses.  
All these things being observed, unless you go to Stool of yourself, your Belly is to be loosened, to which purpose Glisters are useful: But if you abhor them, than at the beginning of your Meal use Prunes, stewed with Senna: If my advice prove effectual to you, I shall be abundantly satisfied, etc.   

Precautions and Cure, Against the Plague cruelly raging.  
The Remedies. Prescribed by the common consent, and joint endeavours of the King and Queen's Doctors, and Physicians in Ordinary, in pursuance of their Duty; and directed to their Majesty's Apothecary, July the 6th. 1625.  
Preservatives against the Plague.  

The Medicinal Broth.  
FOr the King's Breakfast let him sup this Broth: Let his Majesty take Broth altered with the leaves of Woodsorrel, three●…eav'd Sorrel, Porcelan, borage, Bugloss, 〈◊〉, Baume, Pimpernel, the red flowers of Fluellin, the fruit of Barberies, shaving of Hartshorn: in ℥ viij. of the straining of this ●…et there be dissolved of the sweet Majestery of Coral, of Pearl, of each ℈ i. Crystals of Sor●…el, and of small Oster, of each ʒ i. mix them. If the Crystals be wanting, drop in as much Oil of Sulphur made by a Bell as will render it moderately sour: Let the King take this Broth before he come out of his Chamber, having first been at Stool; let him defer Dinner for three hours after it. If this Broth be troublesome to him, and his Stomach require change of Breakfasts, than every morning let this following be ready to be given at his Majesty's command.   

Jelly of Hartshorn.  
℞ Of the thin and broad shave of Hartshorn, made of the horns of a Beast newly killed, ℥ i. ss Spring-water, lb ij. boil it till half be consumed, not taking away the Scum: then presently strain it through a Tammy cloth, to which whilst it is yet warm, add as much as you please of Rhenish Wine, juice of Lemons, or Pomecitrons, a little Cinnamon-water, and a few grains of Ambergrease; it may be made of a yellow colour with two grains of Saffron, made into a little knob, by tying it up in a piece of Tiffany, which being moistened with the liquor, let it be often squeezed out: Let the Jelly yet warm be poured into a Murrhy, or a Chin●… Dish, and suffer it to congeal in a cold place.   

Another Jelly, more Cordial.  
℞ 

Rasped Hartshorn, ℥ i. ss.  


Flowers of borage,  
Bugloss,   an. Pug. iv.  


Celandine,  
Red Veronica, or Fluellin,   an. Pug. i.  
The tops of Baum, M. i.  
Fountain Water, lb ij.  
The best Rhenish Wine, lb ss,  
Boil it till there remains lb i. to which add,  
Of 

the Quiddenies of Mulberries,  
Rasberies,  
Currans,   an. ℥ ij.  
Cinnamon Water, one spoonful.  
Ambergrease, gr. iv.  
Oriental Musk, gr. i.    
All being melted with a gentle heat, pour it out, and put it into Murrhy, or else China Dishes, and permit it to cool for use.   

Biscuits of Pomecitron-peels.  
℞ Of fresh Citron peels, both the yellow part and the white, only removing the sour part, take lb i. boil it in Spring-water for the space of one hour, and removing the Vessel from the fire, suffer it to remain in infusion for xxiv hours, in an earthen vessel: pour off the water, and dry the Peels well with a clean linen cloth, beat them in a Stone-morter into a Past, and then let there be added a double proportion of Sugar dissolved in Rose, Orange, and Baume Water; boil it to the consistence of a solid Electuary, adding Ambargrease ℈ i. Oriental Musk, gr. v. Majestery of Pearls, and red Corals, an. ℥ ss. of Oriental and Occidental Bezoar-stone subtly powdered, and ground upon a Porphery, with Baume Water, an. ʒ i. mix them, and make Morsels, or little Cakes, like the solid Conserve of Roses: Let his Majesty take one, or two of them in a Morning for his Breakfast: Let the King drink upon them a Draught of well wrought clear Beer, in which hath been infused Pimpernell and Meadow, sweet, the flowers of borage, Bugloss, and the Tops of Baume.   

The Cordial Syrup.  
Cut off the Tops of the Stalks of Augelica cross ways, whilst they yet remain fixed in the ground, then fill them up with white Sugar-candy finely powdered, and stop them up with Cotten, and cover them on the top of that with Nutshells, and after two or three days, pour the Sugar which is dissolved into a Syrup, into a convenient Vessel, and let there be prepared a sufficient quantity of the Syrup this way, of which take ℥ viij. Syrup of Mulberries, Raspberries, and the sour Syrup of Citrons, an. ℥ iv. Ambargrease, gr. vi. Mosck tied up in a Cloth, gr. ij Oil of Sulphur, as much as is sufficient to give it a pleasant sharpness: keep it in a Viol close stopped for use, which is to be taken in a Morning, to the quantity of ℥ ss in the stead of the foresaid Prophylac●…icks, or Preservatives.  
Let him eat sometimes new Butter spread upon Bread with the Leaves of Sorrel, and three leaved Sorrel, and a little Salt, and let him drink upon it a Draught of Beer, with the infusion of the beforenamed Herbs.   

Tabella Hypoglottides, or, Tabellets to be put under the Tongue.  
℞ 

Of Bole Armenick washed in Rose-water, ℥ i.  
Sealed, Lemnian, and Strigoninan Earth's, an. ℥ ss.  
Harts-born, burnt white, ʒ x.  


Sweet Majestery of Pearls,  
Coral,  
Crabs-Eyes,   an. ʒ uj  
Bones of a Stags-heart, ʒ iij.  
Fragments of jacinths, emrod's, Crystals prepared, an. ʒ ij.  
The Stone called Lapis contra Yerva, which is prepared of the juice of the Herb in the Indies, ℥ ss.  
Oriental and Occidental Bezoar, an. ʒ i. ss.  


The roots of Zedoary,  
Tormentil,   an. ℈ v.  
Candied Citron-peels, ʒ ij. ss.  
Ambargrease, ʒ i.  
The best Mosck, ℈ ss.    
Let all of them be finely powdered, and made up into a Past, with the Mucilage of Quince-Seeds, extracted with Rose-water adding to these a double proportion of Sugar, of which make Trochises, and keep them for ordinary use, drying them with a gentle heat: Let them be held in the mouth, and swallowed by degrees, and let them be dissolved as often as his Majesty goeth by suspected places.   

Bezahartick Trochises.  
℞ 

Of the Crystals of Wild-Sorrel, of three-leaved Sorrel, an. ℥ i.  
Strigonian Earth, ʒ vi.  
Hartshorn burned white, The sweet Majestery of Pearls, Corals, an. ʒ v.  
Bones of a Stags-heart, ʒ iij.  
Roots of Contra Yerva, Tormentil, an. ℥ ss.  
The Hearts and Livers of Vipers, taken at a fitting time, ʒ ij.  
Ambargrease, ʒ i.  
The best Musk, ℈ ss.  
White Sugarcandy the weight of them all;   make of them all a fine Powder, which make into a Past with Baume, Roses, and Orange flower Waters, of which form Trochises, to be used as before, a portion of which may be acuated with a few drops of Oil of Angelica, or with that which drops out of the ripe Stalks (without pressing) when they are cut.   

The Pomeambar.  
℞ 

Of the best Labdanum, ℥ iv.  


Benzoin,  
Gum. Caranna,  
Stirax Calamita,  
Wood of Aloes,  
Angelica roots,  
Zedoary,   an. ℥ ss.  
Sweet smelling Reed, ℥ i.  


Rhodium Wood,  
Yellow Sanders,  
Juniper,  
Cedar,   anʒ vi.  
Lavender flowers,  


Oris flowers,  
Marjarom,  
Citron-Peels,  
Aurange-Peels,   an. ʒ xij.  
Cloves, ʒ vi.  
Ambargrease, ʒ iij.  
Musk, ʒ i.    
Rub the Rosins and Gums to a fine powder in a hot Mortar, bruise, and mix them altogether; and by adding as much as is sufficient of Balsam of Peru, make a Past, of which form round Balls, to be carried about and smelled to.   

The sweet scented Pestilential Liquor.  
Because the King hateth to smell to Vinegar, prepare this sweet scented Water following, to infuse the species in.  
℞ 

Of Oris flowers, lb i.  
the leaves of Marjarom, M. iv.  


Common-Time,  
Wild-Time,   an. M. iij.  
Basil, M. iij.  
Baume, M. v.  


Sage,  
Rosemary,  
Bays,   an. M. ij.  
Of the flowers of Elder, P. vi.  
Red Roses,  
Red Fluellin,  
Spanish Broom, Pipe-Tree, an. P. viij.  
Shaving of Cedar-wood, ℥ vi.  
Cinnamon, ℥ vi.  
Rose-water, lb xviij.   Let all the simples be very new and fresh, and put them in a double Vessel, or a Body and Head; and having poured upon them the Liquors, distil it according to Art, in a Balneo, with a Refrigeratory. Then, ℞ 

Of the roots of Butterburr, Enula Campaine, Gentian, an. ℥ iv.  
Winters-Barke, ℥ iij.  


Of the Roots of Angelica,  
the great Valerian,  
Master-wort,  
Carlin Thystil,   an. ℥ ij.  


Galangal, sweet keed,  
Zedoary,  
Wood of Rhodium,  
Juniper,   an. ʒ x.  


The leaves of dried Scordium,  
Baume,  
Lemon, Time,  
Sage,  
Marjarom,  
Rosemary,   an. M. i.  
Rue, M. ij.  


Dittary of Crete,  
Malabar●…hrum,   an. ℥ ss.  
Flowers of Elder, P. iv.  


Lavender,  
French Lavender both sorts,   an. P. ij.  


Orange-Peels,  
The yellow rind of Citrons,   ℥ ij ss.  
Cloves, ʒ xij.  


Nutmegs,  
Mace,   an. ʒ ij.   All of them being cut and bruised, sprinkle them with Malago Sack, afterwards put them in a Stone-Pitcher, and pour upon them, 

Of the before described Water, lb viij.  


Rose-water,  
Orange-water,  
Water of Jassemy flowers,   a. lb ij.   Put them to digest in Dung, or a Balneo, for the space of four days, strain some of it immediately for the King's present use: which Liquor may be made stronger scented, by adding some grains of Ambargrease and Musk.  
Our Lord the King may carry about with him, a Sponge dipped in this Liquor, and put into an Ivory Box, full of small holes.  
You may pour Vinegar upon the remaining Mass, and make another infusion for the Courtiers, adding a greater quantity of Lavender flowers, Citron-Peel, and Cloves: Also add Treacle and Mithridate, that it may become an Acetum Theriacale.   

The moist Fume for the King's Bedchamber.  
℞ 

Of the Roots of Florentine Oris, ℥ vi.  
Enula Campaine, Angelica, an. ℥ iv.  
Winters-Bark, Storax Calamita, an. ℥ iij.  
The inward Bark of Cinnamon, ℥ i.  
Sweet Garden-Reed, ℥ ij.  
Rhodium Wood, Juniper Wood, an. ℥ i. ss.  
Yellow of Citron-Peel, Benzoine, an. ℥ v.  
Zedoary, Galangal, an. ℥ xij.  
The dried leaves of Marjaram, Sage, Rosemary, Time, a. M. ij.  
Lavender-flowers, P. vi.  
Cloves, ʒ x.    
All being bruised and cut, put them in a Stone Vessel, and pour upon them of the best Rose-water, lb x. of the strongest Vinegar, lb ij. Let the Vessel be a fourth part empty, and put it in a Balneo, and let it infuse for three days, then take it out again for use: whilst it is in infusion, let he Vessel be covered with a Bull's Bladder, cast of this Liquor upon a h●… plate of Iron, and thus fume the Kings Bed. Chamber three or four times a day, every day. Or make with this, that which they call 
Cassolet is a perfuming pot, with fire under it.  Cassolets, to boil in a Corner of the Kings-Chamber; but than you may add stronger scents or perfumes, as Benzoin, Storax Calamita, Ambargrease, or you may pour this Liquor into a Spanish Cassolet, with silver little Balls, and so make it to boil according to Art.   

The dry Fume for the Court-Chambers.  
℞ 

The Wood of Rhodium, Juniper, Cedar, Pine, an. ℥ iv.  
Mastic, Frankincense, Sanderack, Colophonium, an. ℥ iij.  
Dry Balsam, Gum Caranna, Storax Calamita, an. ℥ iij. ss.  
Benzoin, ℥ x.  
Red Roses, Winter's Bark, The inward Bark of Cinnamon, an. ℥ ij. ss.    
Mix them all together, and make a gross Powder; strew some of it upon coals for a Fume.  
If you add ʒ ij. or ʒ iij. of Amber to the ●…foresaid Powder, though it will not be the gratefuller, yet it will be the more efficacious.   

Trochises to Fume the King's Shirts, and clothes.  
℞ 

Damask Roses gathered after the Sunrising, lb ss.  
Benzoin, ℥ ij.   Mix them, and make them into a Paste, by ●…ong beating them together in a Mortar; of which form Trochises to be dried in the ●…hade.  
℞ 

Of these Trochises, reduced to a Powder, ℥ i.  
Musk, gr. i.  
Civet, gr. iij.  
Caraman Balsam, ℈ ss.   Make Trochises with Rose-water, and a little Gum Tragacanth, to be dried and kept in a ●…ox close shut, to be used in the mornings.   

II. Trochises.  
℞ 

Trochises of Roses, ℥ vi.  
Powder of Benzoin, ℥ ij.  
Musk, gr. i.  
Civet, gr. xuj.  
Rose-water, as much as is sufficient,   Make a mass.   

The III. Perfume.  
℞ 

Very fine Powder of Juniper-wood, Benzoin, an. ʒ seven.  
Musk, ℈ i.  
Rose-water, q. s. with the Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth.   Make a mass.  
It will be convenient to sprinkle his Handkerchief with Aqua Angeli: let the settling of this Water be made up into pastils, for to fume the Chamber, Shirts, and other Vestments.   

Aqua Angeli.  
℞ 

Wood of Aloes, Storax Calamita, an. ℥ ss.  
Benzoin, ℥ iv.  
Nutmegs, Yellow Sanders, Cloves, an. ʒ ij.    
Boil them in Rose-water, such a quantity a●… may cover them four fingers; do this in 〈◊〉 close Vessel, with a gentle fire, in Sand o●… Ashes; continue the boiling for a day and 〈◊〉 night, then strain it, and add to it, 

Of the best Rose-water, lb iij.  
Orange flowers, Jessamin flowers, Musk, an. ℈ i.   Of the remaining mass, being warm, make pastils.   

The Balsam for the Nostrils.  
℞ 

Balsam of Peru, ʒ iij.  


Distilled Oil of Angelica, or if you have it, that which drops from the Stalks being cut,  
Oil of Citron-peels,   an. ʒ ij.  


Rosemary,  
Juniper, an.   ʒ i.  
Roses distilled, ʒ ss.  
Orange Butter, Jessamin Butter, an. ℥ ss.  
Ambergrease, ℈ iv.  
Oriental Musk, Civet, an. ℈ ij.    
Mix them all together as they should be, and by grinding them upon a Porphiry, make a Balsam, for the King to anoint with in a morning before he go out of his Chamber.  
Oil of Amber often rectified with Spirit of Wine, is excellent good.  
Mathiolus' Oil of Scorpions is very efficacious, if our Lord the King anoint his Pulses, and the region of his Heart with it, when he hears a Sermon, or admits a crowd of people to come to him.  
Let his Diet be refrigerating, and drying; let him change the Air, and avoid the concourse of people.  
Besides these Prophylactick, for the cure of the disease when it is present, have these following ready prepared. 

Aqua Theriacalis, described in the London Pharmacopoea, p. 12.  
Antidote Saxonica vera.  
Electuar. de Ovo, Vegetabile, ac Minerale.  
Pulvis rubaeus Pannonicus alter Pharmac. Aug. p. 114  
Pulvis griseus Caesaris, ibid. p. 3.  
Species Liber, ibid. p. 137.  
Diascordium Magistrale, Mayernii.  
Diascordium Fracastorii.  
Theriaca Andromachi.  
Londinensis Antidote, p. 91.  
Mithridatium Damocratis.  
Confectio Alkermes.  
Confectio Hyacinthina.  
Salts of Butterburr.  
Meadow-Sweet.  
Elder.  
Rue.  
Scordium.  
juniper.  
Pope Leo's Oil of Scorpions.  
Species for Emulsions, composed of Citron Seeds, Mustard Seeds, ●…actis ●…erlurum, or Milk of Pearls.    
Let these Purges be in a readiness. 

Tryphera, Persica Mesusi, vel johannis Damasceni, Pharm. Aug. p. 56.  
Pilul●… Ruffi.  
Mastichinae Fernel.  
Angelica Seeds, with other Cordial Herbs.      

Another Council or Advice in the Plague.  
Written in French, and presented by the King's Physicians to Lewis the XIII. the French King.  
The Curative Part.  

THese are the signs of the simple Plague, when it is alone, and it is joined with no other kind of Fever: a small Pulse, L●…nguid, low, unequal; decay of strength, Fainting, Vomitings, and Anxieties; but nevertheless, the heat is so moderate, that the Fever is insensible: there is no Thirst, no Pain, the Urine is like healthy peoples: But the sick dye in this gentle state of the Disease, contrary to hope and opinion.  
If the P●…st be joined with a putrid Fever, than there are these Symptoms, a most sharp pain of the head, drousiness, rave, difficulty of breathing, with a stinking breath, unextinguishable Thirst, loss of the Appetite, urgent Vomiting, burning heat of the inward Bowel●… with coldness of the extreme parts, turbid, confused, and flame coloured Urine; the excrement●… of the Belly extremely stinking.   

If the Plague be simple, let this Composition be made use of.  
℞ A new laid Egg, pour out the White, and fill it with Saffron, roast it under hot Ashes, till it be almost hard, than the Shell being taken away, beat the Egg with these things added to it. 



White Dittany,  
Tormentil,  
Angelica,  
Juniper-Berries,   an. ʒ ij.  
Camphire, gr. iij.   Mix them all in a Mortar, with the weight of all of them of the best Turpentine, or Mithridate.  
Let there be taken gr. xx. in equal parts of Spring-water and White-Wine, reiterate this Dose thrice in an hour, if it happen that the Stomach cast it up by Vomit; but after that hour is elapsed, give a simple clyster to expel the Excrements, in which oftentimes the Contagion is lodged; which being voided presently, procure Sweat by giving of the fol●…owing Water.  
℞ 



Of the roots of Sorrel,  
Gentian,  
White Dittany,  
Tormentil,   an. ℥ ss.  
Juniper-Berries, ℥ ss.  


Seeds of Carduus Benedictus,  
Citron,   an. ʒ ij.  
Old Mithridate, ℥ i.  
Shaving of Guajacum-wood, ℥ ij.  


Water of Sorrel,  
Meadow-sweet,  
Carduus Benedictus,   an. lb i.    
Let there be taken of the foresaid Water, two or three Ounces, with ℥ ss. of Syrup of Lemons, sustaining the sweet for 5 or 6 hours, according to the strength of the Patient, avoiding Sleep whilst it is breaking forth; in the interim giving the Patient slices of Citron to suck, infused in cold Water, the Berries of ever-green Thorn, and washed Cherries, and the like, that he may cool his Mouth.  
The Heart being thus fortified, the Excrements voided, and the Venom expelled by Hidroticks, or procurers of sweat; let there b●… given to the sick, Broths made with Sorrel Lettuce, Cichory; season his Meat with the juice of Sorrel; Oranges, Lemons; give foo●… often, but little in quantity, lest the stomach be burdened: Let Drink be allowed mor●… freely, for Thirst is hurtful: Let there b●… given Spring-water, in which is infused Liquoris, and a good many slices of Citron, no●… omitting to boil it: But our opinion is, Wi●… may be allowed (notwithstanding the heat) to defend the Heart, which is destroyed by often ●…aintings: But let the Wine be small and thin, and a little rough, according to the height of the Fever, if the Patient be desirous of it.  
Let his Sleep be little, and every hour to temper the heat of the Mouth, Gargule with simple Water, or diluted with a little Wine: in the mean time make the Patient cheerful, nourishing the hopes of health in him; for nothing is so pernicious in these kind of Diseases, as terror and fear is.  
Also let the sick be in a temperate place, letting in often fresh Air, by opening the Doors and Windows, which o●…ght to be towards the North: These Remedies, together with Diet so used, it is taken by many for an excellent thing to anoint the Armpits and Grain, with Oil of Scorpions, or Oil of Lilies, adding Treacle to it; and this to be done several times, to extract the Venom; by this ●…he Heart is defended, and freed from it.  
Blood-letting doth not seem necessary, un●…ess a putrid Fever be joined with the plague, with extreme pains, inflammations, anxieties, difficult breathing, a high Plethora, and other ●…he like accidents, which are the issue of ful●…ess: in letting blood, observe not so much ●…e quantity, as the measuring it by the te●…our of the Patient's strength and vigour: let this Medicinal Indication be a general Canon and Rule.  
Observe these few things; with whatsoever means the Disease is to be opposed, let it be done at first, before the Disease be confirmed, and have taken root: Begin with the Cordial Potion, giving of it thrice in an hour, if the Stomach cast it up again: At the same time cast in a clyster, and presently let blood, except something hinder, exhibiting a little after the Sudorific Water; so that these helps and remedies are to be administered in the space of six hours; letting blood procrastinated is unuseful, since it is better to let it alone, then to make use of it when a Bubo appears; for he that doth that, intends mischief, not to Cure.   

To Cure a Bubo.  
Many use only boiled Scabious, bruised and brought into the form of a Poultess, adding Hogs-lard to it: from the great power th●… is endowed with in these Diseases, it ha●… gained the name of (Casse bosse) the Cure 〈◊〉 Bubo's: To this Cataplasm some add Li●… roots, or Onions baked under the Embe●… to which being bruised, they add some Yoll●… of Eggs, Pigeons-Dung, and Leven, beati●… them all together with a sufficient quantity 〈◊〉 Oil of Li●…tes; afterwards they apply it warm, changing it every other hour: They add to every Ounce of Oil, one Dram of Treacle.   

To Cure a Carbuncle.  
To this purpose it may be sufficient to apply only Scabious or Sorrel, backed under the Embars, making it into the form of a Poultess, with Yolks of Eggs, and fresh Butter, to be renewed every hour: The leaves of Mallows, March-mallows, Pellitory of the wall, etc.  
The rest are wanting.    

Advice for the Constriction, or Stranguling of the Throat, arising from Melancholy vapours, proceeding from the Hypochondries. For Dr. Bouvard, chief Physician to Lewis XIII. King of France.  
Written in French.  
FRom the relation of the compression of your Throat. which is not fixed and stable, nor continual, and is without an Ulcer, Tumour, and Inflammation: And from your perceiving an agitation in the region of the Hypochondries, from whence acrid and hot vapours are carried to the Throat, (which is the Tube and Funnel of the Chimney) in the extremity of which there resides a Distemper which proceeds from another place, just as the Nostrils are exulcerated by acrid Phlegm, and Choler inflames and vellicates the Fundament in Bloody-fluxes, although the cause of those evils lurk in other places. We suppose this Disease is only a Symptom of an internal cause afflicting you, to wit, of the Hypochondries, Liver, and other adjacent parts, with a notable hot and dry distemperature, upon which account the Belly is bound, and all the Thin and serous humours are snatched into the Veins, there being lodged plenty of Choler, and other gross humours, in the chief Veins of the Mesentery, and the natural Caveties of the Bowels.  
This foundation being laid, it is easy to procure help by Diet, and generous cooling and moistening Evacuators: And if your recovery do not presently follow, according to wish, you must not therefore abstain from Medicines, (a word is sufficient to an understanding Physician.)  
Prescribe your Diet to yourself by strong refrigerators: I understand you have used weak mineral waters, such as Monfran (once or twice a year:) I hear to evacuate, you have frequently let Blood in your Arm: use Laxative Ptisans with Cassia and Senna, and other slight sort of Purge of that kind, with Syrup of Roses, and Peach-blossoms: universal Baths; and also use Milk, and clarified Whey, in which Fumaterry hath been insused; drink Asses-milk plentifully: persist in the use of these, according to the vehemence of your contumacious and habitual Disease, which otherwise no doubt will increase, and bring upon you worse Symptoms.   

In the same Disease. By Dr. de Arduynes, Physician of the Hospital of Charity at Paris, called St. james.  
Written in French.  
WE have been made acquainted with the Disease with which N. D. is af●…licted, which in my judgement is an offspring of the distemperature of the Bowels, whose office is to prepare the nourishment; from which Bowels, plenty of vapours ascend to the Head, which afterwards fall down to the Throat, and parts adjacent: The parts which are affected are the spaces betwixt the Laryngx, or Tope of the Wind Pipe, and the Bone Hyoides.  
To the Cure of this Disease, frequent and iterated Purgation is necessary, to be begun with this usual Ptisan following.  
℞ Of the common Ptisan made of the roots of Cichory and Bugloss Flowers, two pounds: in which infuse of Oriental Senna Leaves, ʒ ij. strain it, and prepare a Ptisan, of which take two or three Wine Glass-fuls in a day, one upon an empty stomach, another a little before Dinner, the third about four of the Clock in the Afternoon.  
This Purgation being performed, in the use of which you are to persist for five or six days, first the Basilica in the right Arm, then that in the left Arm is to be opened. Let Bathing follow this letting of blood, for seven or eight days; other Topical Medicines, as Oils, Poultises of Swallows-Nests, etc. are altogether useless; for having used the former Medicines, health will follow: If any thing remain of this Disease, it is easy to look to its specific cause; but in this case we are to be warned of the effect.   

By the same Person, for the same Person.  
Out of French into Latin.  
WE do collect from your Note sent to us, (in which the Symptoms with which the Noble D. is afflicted are related) that there is some lessening of the Disease; and that it did arise from vapours in the Head, whi●…h descended by the way of the Throat: And because there is less plenty of these dry vapours, from hence there doth not follow so great a distension of the part; but on the contrary, they being confined within their first region, from hence there follows a greater distension of the Hypochondries then formerly: from hence ariseth that kind of affection or Disease we call Windy Melancholy, which is now much flighter than it was: Nor is it needful to inquire, if there be a Phlogosis, or Inflammation or no, in those places; for this is certain, wheresoever adust Melancholy lurketh, there is always present and joined with it a distemperature, the reason is, that the presence of the vapours doth suppose heat, which stirs them up.  
But to the Cure of this Disease, the now prescribed Remedies are to be insisted on, afterwards proceeding in the use of the following.  
Let the beginning be with opening a vein, unless it have been performed already, and first strike the Basilica, afterwards the Saphena; in the intermediate time let there be constantly used Semicups, or half Baths, in which the Patient sitting, let him take the Decoction of Scorzonera, with the simple Syrup of Apples, not omitting Pimpernel: the third or fourth day after the Encathisme, or sitting in the Bath, this following Purgation is to be made out of hand.  
℞ The foresaid Decoction, lb i. in which infuse Oriental Senna leaves, ℥ i. in the straining dissolve clean Pulp of Cassia, ʒ ix. strain it again, and make an Apozeme, to be taken at three Doses, without the Syrups: adding to every Dose Syrup of Dodder, ℥ i. and so make an Apozem to be taken in the Bath.  
After the celebrated use of the Bath, let Bloud-Leaches be applied to the edge of the Fundiment: And after that, sit in a Chair with a hole thorough it, a B●…son of hot water being placed underneath it, that the Haemorrhoides may be excited by the vapours of it: which if by Nature's assistance you can cause to appear, it will be a good Omen. And afterwards persist in the use of altering Remedies, adding to them Capper roots, and Tamarisk wood: these things being rightly performed, send us back word, how the Patient finds himself then.  
The Patient was restored a little while after by using the Mineral Waters, and Cha●…byate Wine.   

Advice in the Epilepsia, or Falling Sickness: For a Noble Virgin.  
Written in French, by a Physician whose Name is not known.  
ALthough the Disease of this Noble Virgin, is called the Epilepse, and is noted to be fixedly rooted and confirmed, as having eluded and baffled many Medicines, yet I hope God (the chief Physician of Chronical diseases) giving his blessing, in progress of time she will be freed from it; and by changing her Age and Temperament, (which happens in Climacterick years, to wit, on the seventh year, by the help of the natural heat, grown more and more viget and lively) she will overcome that pernicious Diath●…sis, or indisposition: chiefly when Nature, at her appointed time, shall have cleansed the body of this Maid of its impurities, by the coming on of that Flux which is familiar to the Sex. And this is the rather to be hoped, for that those which have been by, and present when the Fits invade her, and have noted the signs going before, do deny it to be idiopathical but rather assert it to be produced by Sympathy, and consent of parts: That is, its Original is not to be derived from the evil Constitution of the Brain; but wholly from the inferior parts, chiefly from the Bowels, (with whom the Brain consents by affinity) from which gross vapours ascend upwards, chiefly in the time of sleep, which is stirred up from their proper Mine by the heat then going to the inward parts: And this is manifest from the pain which is perceived in the upper part of the Belly, before the assault of the Paroxysm, or Fit; and the turbulence, and want of sleep going before it, indicating the Bowels are filled or stuffed with vicious humours, (to which perhaps may be joined Werminous, or Wormey matter, a thing familiar to that Age) which first pour forth vapours, which procure those terrifying wants of sleep, and afterwards produce the Epileptical Insults, by obstructing the passage of the Animal spirits, and hence for a time intercepting their action, until those vapours be dissipated, or are transmitted to the inferior parts.  
Now since according to my judgement, the antecedent, and first cause of this rebellious and troublesome disease, is constituted and made by those depraved humours, and that vicious Minera, we may well hope they will be taken away, and their effects removed in time, by the Divine assistance and blessing: And that the rather, because perhaps all things have not been prescribed with a fit and due Method, nor Chemical Medicines made use of, by the help of which most pertinacious diseases are overcome; which sort of Medicines are to be rightly used, slighter ones having been first made use of.  
Let the first scope, or intention of Cure be to purge the Sink of the Body, by the help of the Emetic, and Purging Medicine, noted A. taking of it presently, in a double proportion of Breath; walking after it the space of an hour, to make it act the better; also taking several spoonfuls after it of Broth, (somewhat more than warm) till it begins to nauceate; by which the Vomiting will be the casier: If perchance the Epileptical Paroxysm shall happen whilst it works, that aught to be no cause of fear, since it is an effect of the commotion of the humours stirred up by it, which ceasing the Fit also will cease.  
Let the second intention be, to prepare the Morbific or offending humours with the Decoction prescribed for that purpose, and noted B. of which a draught is to be taken six days successively in the morning, two hours before Dinner.  
The third thing that occurs is, that the humours thus prepared, be excluded by the pargation, in the form of a Potion, noted with the Letter C. let her drink that two hours before she take thin Broth: Let her be allowed to Dine two hours after that; but in the mean time let her keep the House all day.  
Let the fourth scope be, to remove thos●… vapours w●… are the authors of the Epileptical Fits, ●…ne other place, by making Issu●…▪ in a conv●…ent place, to wit, in the inwar▪ part of the Legs; ●…so procure a constant Evacuation of the Ex●…rements of the Brai●… which otherways b●…ng joined to the vapour: arising from the lower parts, they are thereby melted, and prove mischievous; for bein●… become liquid again, and being first express●… or squeezed out of the Brain, they fall dow●… upon the Throat, and produce that Stertor, o●… Snorting, which is manifestly perceived bo●… before and after the Fit: we may obtain t●… delivering of the Brain from these Excreme●… titious humours, by making of another Iss●… in the Pole, which after full six months' m●… be permitted to be stopped up, making anoth●… in the Arm, if there be occasion.  
The fifth scope regards Specificks, design'●… 〈◊〉 strengthen the Brain, and marked with 〈◊〉 ●…ter D. the application of which is 〈◊〉 to the judgement of the Apothecary.  
●…f the Disease resist these Medicines, mo●… efficacious ones must be made use of, viz. Chemical ones, which are frequently used by the most excellent Physicians of our times, as Dr. Quercetan, and Dr. de Mayerne, and are marked with the Letter E.  
As also Peacocks-Dung must be used, which I look upon as a Specific remedy amongst these Medicines.  
If the Paroxysmes do continue, or are protected, there is to be given a spoonful or two of Rondeletius' Water of Swallows: also Rulandus his Aqua Benedicta, and for the cutting of Phlegm, which produceth the Snorting, there may be given one spoonful of Oxym●…l of Squils', or Sea-Onions, with the like quantity of Oil of sweet Almonds.  
Let there be joined to these Medicines, an exact rule of living, eating of the most wholesome food; let the Dinner be larger than Supper, which ought to be a good while before going to Bed, walking gently after it, that the digestion may be the better: let her abstain from all hot nourishments, Saeces, Spices, from all sort of Pulse, Parsni●…-roots, Cabbage, Garlic, Onions, Leek●…, Ch●…s, and other flatulent and vapourous Meats, and suchas are of difficult digestion: As to Drink, abstain altogether from pure and good Wine for some time, because it is a high incentive of these kind of Diseases: in the place of which let her use the Decoction of the Roots of China, Paeony, and a little Calamus aromaticus, and a few Leaves of Bettony: Let her avoid the Crepusculum, that is, the d●…wn of the day, and Twilight, and all external injuries of the Air; let her beware of violent exercise; Passions of the Mind, chiefly Fear and Grief; which s●… she avoid as much as is possible.  

The Series, or course of the designed Medicines.  
℞ 

Crocus Metallorum truly prepared, gr. v.  
White-Wine, ℥ i. ss.  
Cinnamon, gr. XV.   Make an infusion for a Night, and afterward●… add ℥ ss. of Sugar.  
Let it be boiled to the consistence of a thi●… Syrup, use it as is prescribed, and sign it 〈◊〉 ℞ 



Of the roots of Polypody,  
Cichory,  
Scorzonerae,  
Paeony,  
The Bark of Tamarisk,   an. ℥ ss.  


The Leaves of Bettony,  
Germander,  
Fumaterry,   an. M. ss.  


The Flowers of Lilies of the Valleys,  
Bugloss,  
Sweet Primrose,  
Leaves of Sage,  
Hyssop,  
The Leaves of Spleenwort,   an. P. i.  


Calamus aromaticus,  
Misselto of the Oak,   an. ʒ i.   Boil them for two hours in a sufficient quantity of Water, they having been infused a whole day before, afterwards strain them, and sweeten it with lb ij. of Sugar, and clarify it with the White of an Egg; Note it B. ℞ 

Of clean Senna Leaves, ʒ ij.  


Trochises of Agarick,  
The Bark of black Hellebor,   an. ℈ ij.  
Annis-Seeds, ʒ i. ss.  
Salt of Tartar, ℈ i.  
Spirit of Wine a few drops.   Infuse it for a Night in lb ss. of the former Decoction, upon warm Embers: dissolve in four ℥ of the Expression of it. 

King Sabors Syrup of Apples with Senna. ℥ i.  
Cathol oped. ʒ ij.   Mark it with the Letter C.  
If this Purge doth not work sufficiently, repeat it the day following, adding ℈ iv. of Confect. Hamach.  
℞ 

The Monpelier Powder called puler. de Gutteta, ℥ i.  


Misselto of the Oak,  
Man's Scull rasped,   an. ʒ ij.   Mix them, and make a Powder, of which take half a Dram, or ℈ ij. with ℈ i. of Sugar, and drink upon it one or two spoonfuls of Langius Epileptical Water, or Rondeletius Aqua Epilepticae Hirundinum. Sign it with the Letter D.  
Let it be used every Morning two or three hours before Dinner: But in the Evening, about the time of going to Bed, let her take one of the Candied Morsules following, or ʒ ij. or ℥ ss of it.  
℞ 

Of the solid Conserve of Roses, ℥ i. ss  
Candied Citron-peel, Bettony flowers, a. ℥ ss  
The aforesaid Powder de Gutteta Monspel. ʒ ij.  
Coral, White Amber prepared, an. ʒ i.  
Sugar, the weight of them all.    
℞ 

Aquilae al●…e Quercetani, that is, the white Eagle of Quercetanus; which is, Mercurius Dul●…is six or seven times sublimed, gr. XV.  
Rosin of Scamony, gr. V.    
Wrap it up with a little pulp of a roasted Apple artificially, and so take it.  
Let this Medicine be noted with the Letter E.  
Let her use these Medicines according to the Rules I have prescribed, as also the Peacock's Dung if necessity require it, at a proper time, which I am to acquaint you of.  
But I had forgot to tell you, that for the greater diverting of the diseasie bun●…ours, after the exhibiting the Purge noted with the Letter C. there is to be let out some ounces of Blood, from those veins about the Ankles of either of her Feet, which shall appear most Turged, or swelled: and this Bloud-setting being performed, the two Issues are to be made. 'Tis also very conducive, that a good Concoction be procured, and that vapours be suppressed; and therefore after every meal, let her take one spoonful of the following digestive Powder.  
℞ 

Biscuit bread, ℥ i.  
Powder of Corianderseeds, Caraway-seeds, an. ʒ iij.  
Red Roses, Red Coral, an. ʒ ss  
Sugar, the weight of them all.   Mix them, and make a Powder for the foresaid use.  
The Chemical Medicine consisting of Quercetans Aquila alba, and Rosin of Seamovy, or its Extract prepared with Spirit of Wine, according to Schroder, is the Calomelanos Turqueti: it is to be repeated every month, before every New Moon, either increasing or lessening the Dose of the Rosin of Scamony, or the Aquila alba, as it works more or less.  
These things being strictly observed, this Noble Virgin was delivered from this grievous Disease.    

ERRATA.  
Correct literal faults as you find them: And read p. 88 l. ●…2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
FINIS.   

A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS.  

Air.  
WArm Air beneficial for those in Consumptions, p. 9  
A Fistula Cured by it, p. 14.   

Apozem.  
To prepare Melancholy, p. 31.  
To prepare Phlegm in the Brain, p 132.   

Balsam.  
Of Batts, p. 36.  
Cordial against the Plague, p. 111.   

Biscuit.  
Made of Citron-Peels, p. 99   

Brain.  
How to free it when it is loaded with Humours, p. 27.  
To strengthen it in a Consumption, p. 6.   

Bran.  
In the Urine not always a sign of a Scabby Bladder, p. 83.   

Broth.  
Medicinal in the Plague, p. 97.   

Bubo.  
In the Plague the Cure, p. 118.   

Carbuncle.  
In the Plague, p. 119.   

Caruncles, vid. Yard. Cataplasm.  
Easing pain, and ripening, p. 58.  
Cleansing, and resisting Putrefaction, p. 59   

Ca●…teries.  
In Consumptions where to be applied, p. 5. 19  
In the Shoulders, p. 36.   

China.  
The Decoction in a Consump●…ion, p. 16.   

Conserve.  
Cephalick in the Falling-sickness, p. 134.   

Consumption.  
Hereditary hardly to be Cured, p. 12.  
Curative Indications, p. 4.  
Remedies, p. 5, 6.  
Diet, p. 7, 8.  
One in a Consumption cured by removing into warm Air, p. 9  
Strong Purges hurtful, p. 18.  
How to let Blood in it, p. 18.   

Decoction.  
Traumatick, p. 60.   

Diet.  
Sudorific useful after consuming the Caruncule in the Yard, p. 91.   

Dung.  
Of Peacocks in the Falling-sickness, p. 3 1, 135.   

Epilepsy.  
From the lower Belly the signs, p. 128.  
Indications for the Cure, p. 129, 130.  
Specificks for it, p. 131, 135.  
Diet against it, p. 131.   

Fistula.  
In the Fundament how to Cicatrice it, p. 28, 29.   

Fume.  
To dry the Brain, p. 95.  
Moist Fume in the Plague, p. 107.  
Dry Fume in the Plague, p. 108.   

Fundament.  
The healing of a Fistula there, p. 28, 29.  
Pain not always there where the Prostatas are affected, p. 85.   

Gargarism.  
Which draws Phlegm from the Head, p. 95.   

Gout.  
Gout and Stone, Diseases of the same kind, and proceed from the same cause, p. 73.   

Gonorraea.  
If that which drops out of the Yard be always Seed, p. 84.  
The use of Spirit of Turpentine, p. 86.  
If mineral Waters be beneficial in it, p. 86.  
If useful in the Gout, p. 75.   

Guajacum Wood  
The Decoction good in Consumptions, p. 16.   

Haematites.  
Its virtues against spitting of blood, p. 17.   

Hydromel.  
A Medicinal one in a Consumption, p. 7, 15.   

Hypochondries.  
A Fomentation against its obstructions, p. 33.   

Hypochondriacal Fits.  
What Vein to open in it, p. 26.  
Remedies against it, p. 31, 32, 33, 34.  
Signs, p. 121, 124, 125.   

Iscuria.  
Remedies against it, p. 71, 72.   

julep.  
A Cordial one, p. 52.   

Liquor.  
〈◊〉 in the Plague, p. 104.   

Lungs.  
Ulcerated hard to cure them, p. 12.   

Meath.  
A Medicinal one in a Consumption, p. 7. 15.   

Medicines.  
Proper in the Plague, p. 98, ad 119.   

Melancholy.  
The signs of it, p. 23.  
It rejects slight Medicines, p. 25, ad 45.   

Milk.  
Cow's Milk in a Consumption, p. 16.   

The virtues of Ass' Milk, ibid. Mouth.  
The cause of dryness of the Mouth, p. 23.   

Nephritick Wood  
It's decoction in a Consumption, p. 16.   

Palsy.  
The Cure of a spurious one, p. 27, 35.   

Parotis.  
Stubborn ones, how to ripen them, p. 47.   

pastils.  
Bezoartick ones, p. 53.   

Perinaeum.  
The curing of its Ulcers, p. 58, ad 〈◊〉.   

Phlegmon.  
Of the Perinaeum, p. 57   

Plague.  
It's Cure, p. 114, ad 119.  
If fit to open a vein in it, p. 117.   

Pomeamber.  
In the Plague, p. 103.   

Potions.  
Vulnerary ones useful in Consumptions, p. 15.  
Melanagogal, p. 50.   

Powders.  
Antiepileptick, p. 133.  
Purging in the Epilepsy, p. 134.  
Digestive, p. 135.   

Purgations.  
Drawing away Phlegm and Melancholy fro●… the Brain, p. 130.  
Malanagogal, p. 125.  
Ptisan Laxative, p. 122, 123.   

Scabios.  
It's effi●…cy in the Plague, p. 118, 119.   

Sleep.  
How to procure it in Consumptions, p. 11●…▪   

Sweat.  
How to procure it in the Plague, p. 115, 11●…▪   

Sulphur.  
The use of its Milk in Consumptions, p. 7.   

Syrup.  
Cordial, p. 110  
To prepare Melancholy, p. 45, 49.  
In a Consumption, p. 7, 16.   

Tabellets.  
To hold under the Tongue, in the Plag●… p. 101.   

Tobacco.  
The use of it in a Consumption, p. 7.   

Trochises.  
Bezoartick, p. 102.  
To fume the King's clothes, in the Plague, p. 109, 110.   

Trupentine.  
It's usefulness, p. 62.  
Whether to be washed or not, p. 73.   

Veins.  
To open under the Tongue, the usefulness, p. 27.   

Vomits.  
Their use in the Epilepsy, p. 129.  
in Hypochondriack Fits, p. 25.  
The use of Crocus Metallorum, p. 25, 30, 132.   

Vomiting.  
How to prepare the Stomach for vomiting, p. 30.   

Urine.  
The cause of Branny Urine, p. 83.   

Wine.  
Hurtful to the Epileptic, p. 131.  
to the Consumptive, p. 15.   
FINIS.